Children of The Dark (An Aphmau FNAF Crossover) [DISCONTINUED]

Chapter 67: The Turning Point

"What."

^^ That was a normal reaction to when your best friend tells you the place you currently stand on is gonna go up in flames.

"Kill me please."

^^ That was the edgy reaction to when your best friend tells you that the place where you stand will soon be dead and all. Siiiggggggh.

"Wot in tarnation."

^^ That's the dank memer, ignore him.

"Why me?"

^^ That was Aphmau's response, which granted, could've been better but she wasn't perfect all the time geez.

Realizing that two words wasn't gonna provide an explanation, Aphmau bolted out her next words. "What do you mean 'going up in flames?'" She demanded. "You ain't subtle Jin, just tell me."

"Look at this."

Right on the kitchen of the guys' apartment was a bundle of what appeared to be candles, and right next to it, a bowl of salad.

Max jumped for the salad.

Upon questioning looks, he simply shrugged, stuck his tongue out, and consumed more leafy green.

"There." Jin pointed to the candles.

"He's gonna blow us up with candles?!" Aphmau looked slightly impressed. "That's actually a pretty lit way to die."

Everybody in the room groaned.

Jin face-palmed.

"Are you serious?!" Max who'd been eating a bowl of salad sighed. "Right in front of my salad?!"

"Look at the label, will you?"

Aphmau shuffled closer to the bundle, and despite the fact it was covered in ash and soot (Like honestly didn't they clean stuff nowadays?), the label stood out in three blocky letters.

TNT.

"WHY DO YOU HAVE TNT IN THE HOUSE?" She flailed backward, smacking Max's salad

"JESS RELAX!" Max screamed back, fumbling for his salad, unfortunately dropping a few leaves. "Seriously?!!!"

"EVERYBODY CALM DOWN!" Jin shouted.

A few heads peeked out from the hallway.

"We good?" Ross asked meekly. 

"We good." Max send a thumbs up.

"Kay." Ross slithered back into the hallway.

"Mind explaining to me?!" Aphmau stage whispered.

"It's not going to explode." Jin said.

"That doesn't reassure me."

"Alright, here." Jin plucked up the device and tossed it from one hand to another. "The fuse has been removed."

"Ooo! Nice."

"Sly's got some experience with disarming bombs..." Jin seemed rather disturbed.

"YEAH I DO!" Sly shouted from a room elsewhere.

"So, believe it or not, Ross found this under our couch..."

"..."

Her face must've spoken because Max decided he wasn't having any of Jin's embarrassing social interactions.

"I think what Jin MEANS TO SAY IS." Max elbowed Jin in the stomach. "Is that this bomb? Was meant for us." 

"That doesn't reassure me in the slightest bit." Aphmau whined.

"Alright, here's something to calm you." Max said. "Nobody got hurt."

"Still doesn't reassure me." Aphmau sighed. "But I'm assuming we all know who was behind it."

Before they could even continue, Ross screeched.

"The Babadook." Ross called out.

"ROSS THE BABADOOK IS A CRYPTID!" Sky screamed.

"Even in these situations, you guys never fail to amaze me." Aphmau grinned.

"Life's too short to focus on the bad things." Max shrugged.

"...Dude that was like...deeeeeeeeeeeeeeep." Aphmau raised an eyebrow. "Doctor Max, giving the best life advice."

"Doesn't he always?" Jin poked Max in the shoulder. 

"So about this...bomb..." Aphmau looked at it still with caution. "I'm going to quickly assume something I really don't think is a good thing but is the only possibly reason for this."

Jin motioned for her to go on.

"You said this island is going up in flames..." Perhaps the realization hasn't fully set in before but it was coming in full force now. "Wait-"

"Now hang on!" Jin spread his hands out. "This is just outside speculation, this is the only evidence we have so far, but-"

"Dude." Max shook his head. "Lemme do it." 

Max set down his salad, but not before slurping up one last tomato.

"We need an evacuation plan if he actually does plan blowing this place up." 

"How do we know he wasn't just targeting you?"

"Cause you weren't the only one he decided to talk to." Max grumbled.

"WHAT?!"

"JESS LEMME SPEAK FOR FIVE MINUTES!"

"Sorry sorry-"

"He's been around this place, observing, and he also decided to pay us a visit."

"Did he try anything?" Aphmau frantically shook him. "Why didn't you say anything?"

"You were out cold when this happened." Max said. "We couldn't of contacted you even if we wanted."

"Oh."

"He warned us that if we interfered, we would go down with the rest of this place."

"Those were his exact words?" Aphmau asked, concerned.

"I don't do 'exact words' Jess." Max huffed. "But that's what he basically said."

"And." Jin jumped in. "We need to get everybody out of here."

"...how?" Aphmau choked. "That's almost an impossible task, nobody will listen-"

"But-"

"No! I know what we can do!" Aphmau's eyes were bright. "We can stop him-"

"Jess-"

"No, don't you get it?!" Aphmau shook her head. "We can stop him, he's vulnerable now! Evacuation will take too long anyway-"

"What do you mean he's vulnerable?" Jin asked quietly.

"Get everybody in here." Aphmau pointed at the couch. "We are having a long talk."

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