THIRD POV
Poppy was scared. She was scared because she didn't know what to do anymore. It had been a few weeks after the…incident and she along with her friends were in a cave. She didn't want any of this to happen. She just wanted the bad men to stop being bad. To have them stop taking her apart, to stop making others like her. She just wanted to be free, but now…now this place was really hell. She remembered how her father told her to be brave. She was able to find and help a few others like her, but couldn't do much else. She tried to be brave for the friends that she had picked up along the way. Doey, kissy missy, scout and some others. Their group was small only about 15 members. They had to move constantly to either look for food or avoid their enemies. The factory was a maze, prototype had become very active around Playcare and the upper levels. He along with some his followers would scan and search every area looking for the bodies and looking for others to join their cause.
Doey and Missy had left to go out. Doey doing it for scouting and searching for food. Missy…missy sometimes acted strange. Poppy knew that it was because she didn't know where she was sometimes, and would just start walking around aimlessly sometimes. Poppy didn't know how to help her or anyone. Why couldn't her father be here, why did she have to be like this, why were the bad men so bad so cruel so evil. Poppy thought about just running away, but didn't want to leave her friends behind.
"Poppy?" a voice was heard on the phone
"Yes. Ollie is that you?"
"Yes. Poppy its me. Hurry the bad group is coming. If they catch you then I don't know what they will do. You need to get out of there."
"B-b-but we don't have anyone. Doey left and we can't leave. Ollie what do we do."
"Hide Poppy. Hide"
With that Poppy ran to the others and told them to hide as best as they could in their area. They were squeeze and packed together, hoping that the bad men would go away. Ollie had told poppy and the others that Max was even worse than the bad men. He told them that Max was working for the evil man, and that he was taking toys and doing horrible things to them. Poppy was scared, and didn't know what to do. That is when she saw them. It was a group of three with one being a dragon thing, the other being Dog day, and the last one being a small fox-like creature.
"Hey Darren, I don't think we are going to find anything here."
"Don't be lazy, we need to look for anyone to help. That was what we were told to do"
"Easy for you guys. It takes me like a 100 steps to match just two of yours. I agree with James we should head back. Besides, Klein said he is making those tacos again. I really like his tacos."
"Seriously you guys, is this all you can think about. Food, and being lazy. Look there are others out here that don't have it as easy and as nice as us. We need to help as many as we can. That is our job"
There were chuckles from the group, when one of them said.
"Someone got a man crush"
"Yeah, you sound like Max."
"Oh shut up you two, and help me already"
This has happened before, and usually it was doey…all of the time it was Doey who was able to distract them. So that their group could move on, but without him. One of her group members backed too far in a corner and hit one of the walls. The sound echoed throughout the cave.
"Wait. You guys hear that?"
"Oh..please don't tell me it is the feral ones. I cant fight"
"That is why Max always has us go in pairs of three, idiot"
They got closer to where her and her friends were hiding. As they got closer, and closer to the spot one of the toys screamed.
"I CANT DO IT ANYMORE!" A small blue elephant toy ran out, and said
"PLEASE DON'T HURT ME. I-I-I…I CAN`T I CANT. I am hungry, scared, tired, and…and..I just want my mommy. PLEASE DON'T HURT ME"
Poppy, got in front of the other toys. She would be brave for them, like her father would want her to be.
The three of them, came completely in view of her. They were bigger, and stronger than them. Poppy knew that this was it. The Dragon toy came up slowly to them and said.
"Hey. It is alright, no one is hurting anyone. Look if you come with us, we can take you somewhere safe"
The fox-like toy came up further, with excitement in his voice and said.
"Darren is right. Look our group is having tacos today. They are really, really good. Come on"
"R-R…really. You aren't going to…to…hurt me? Or something?"
The three of them looked at each other in confusion.
"No. Max is pretty strict on hurting any sane toys. He is super nice, and kind and always knows what to do."
"O..okay I will go-"
Poppy came forward and stopped the elephant from going further
"WAIT! Y-Y..you guys are lying. Ollie told us what you are doing to the others. What kind of things, that Max is doing. I wont let you!"
"""Ollie!""" They all said together.
"Oh no this is bad. What do we do?"
The dragon came up closer to them and said.
"Look. Max told us that Ollie is the bad one. Have you ever met him? Has he actually helped you guys? Look just…I am not good at this, but just come with us. I promise nothing bad will happen to you. If you want to leave after then you can. I will make sure of it."
Poppy thought about what they said. Ollie, the bad guy that wasn't possible. Ollie was always there for Poppy, always calling her and helping her. Ollie couldn't be bad, he just couldn't. But now that she thought about it…she never knew what Ollie looked like. Never got to see him, and..
"Okay. We will go"
"Crafty!"
"Look, I am with Bubba on this. I cant stand being like this anymore. What is the worse they do to us. Kill us? We might as well already be dead living like this. We either die from hunger or we die some other way. If I am going to die, at least I want to know how I die. I mean come on you guys we haven't eaten in DAYS!"
"No one is dying. Look seriously just come with us."
Poppy looked around, and realized that her friends were slowly being convinced. So, she sighed and finally agreed to let them take her and her group away. Before leaving she left a note for Doey just in case.
They got closer to 'Safe Haven' It was the area that Ollie had told her Max controlled. When they got into a hallway leading to a kitchen area, the Fox-like toy ran forward. The dragon toy looked at her, and her group and said.
"We need to lower our defenses. Trust me you don't want to be on the end of them."
It didn't take long, and Poppy was finally able to see it. The place was big with actual humans, and toys running around. Helping each other, there were beds on the floor. Paintings on the wall, some little board that read 'Who is out' 'Who is in' and other things.
Poppy was confused, this didn't look at all like what Ollie had told her. But, one of the doors opened and out came a boy who looked like he was 10 years old. He had tan skin color, and short black hair that touched his shoulders.
The dragon toy ran towards him once he saw the boy, and said
"Max, We found some people. And, I guess you were right that 'Ollie' guy isn't a friend"
MC POV
Weeks, almost pushing a full month and I still haven`t killed that fucker. Every time I try to go for the kill, the prototype shows up. If I got for the Prototype, Sawyer comes out. I don't know how they were communicating with each other, but both were working together to keep me here.
Sawyer, and Prototype knew that I wanted both of them dead. If I kill just one of them the other would soon follow. It was annoying. Sometimes I thought about just killing Sawyer, damn the consequence but just couldn't do it. Our little group has grown a lot, with us being a family together.
Some of the adults were even playing on adopting some of the kids, when this was all back to normal. It was a good place we built here. I didn't want anything to ruin it. Which was why they could keep me here.
Anytime I left, one of them tried to attack this place. The defenses worked yes, but when there are a bunch of small and heavy hitters coming then it could only do so much.
I needed to find Doey or at least someone that could handled one of them. If I could get them to join then it would be an easy win. My 'heavy' hitters weren't really hitters, they were just kids that had no combat experience to speak of. Not only that but the humans weren't much better, we didn't have a lot of ammunition to waste on a possible victory. We need total victory.
I got out of my room, and the first thing I saw was Darren running towards me. He talked to me, but my only focus was on Poppy. Finally.
"Good job Darren. You should probably rest. Klein is almost done with the food"
"Got it" he saluted me and left. I don't know why he and the others did that, but I left it alone.
I walked up to Poppy and her group. They looked scared, and I knew why. That fucker was trying to get these guys to hate and fear me. Damnit, I wish I could just push through…but whatever.
"Hi" I said to them
"Hello" Poppy said, we stared at each other for maybe 3 seconds before two of the toys ran forward to me
"Is it true? Do you have food? Please…we are so hungry."
"Yeah, Poppy if it is alright with you then Hanna can lead them to our kitchen area. Help yourself."
"It isn't made…with…people right. You aren't eating the bodies" Poppy asked. I looked at her in confusion and replied saying.
"No. What God no, that is sick. No, when we got here there was food to last about six months. There isn't any of that sick crap going on in here. Come on"
We went into the dinning area, where everyone sat ate and talked. It was a normal day for us. I had some people on duty, which was watching the defensives making sure that nothing was going on outside. That group had already ate, I made sure of that.
A couple of Poppy`s group started to laugh with tears of joy. The food that Klein, my little prison guard chef, made was good really good. He was in charge of the food supplies, and what we ate. His team was small, but they got the job done.
I looked to Poppy sitting next to me. She didn't look as scared and nervous as she did before. The girl had double checked to make sure that the food was actually real, and was trying to be sneaky with looking around. I knew that she was doing it, but didn't do or say anything about it. I wanted her to see that this place was safe, that we weren't bad guys.
I looked at her and said.
"Poppy I think it is time we talked. In private"
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