Before Joy there was Hope
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Hopesong Pegasus is the newest member of the Smiling Critters gang. She is content with her life with her Smiling Critter's family and befriending the children in playcare. what more could someone ask for? Unfortunately, her life comes crashing down as the Hour of Joy descends on the playcare, and now she is left to pick up the broken pieces of her life in the lower levels of the factory. Will she survive? or will she succumb to the horrors trapped within the walls of the laboratories.
(There will be Dogday x reader later on, but it will be a minor pairing in the story)
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