MC POV
Poppy and I walked outside the room. I wanted to go somewhere private to talk to her, about our situation. I wanted to let her know that I wasn't the bad guy here, and that if we worked together we could defeat both of our enemies. Not only that, but I wanted her to be an executive for this company when it got fixed. When we got outside, by the caves I looked down at her and said.
"Poppy. I know you probably have heard terrible things about me. I know that. I just want you to know that none of that is true. I don't know if Marie told you, or anyone else did but I can use magic. With it I can give you and the others their bodies back. I can, we just need to destroy prototype and 'the doctor' Sawyer."
She looked down for a minute before saying
"What about this place?"
"Look Poppy. I..I made a deal with my rich new grandfather. I had him build a new place for the kids, with everything. NOT this place, where they will be trapped inside, and bad things happen. It is a mansion, open and good staff. This place…I don't know what will happen to it. If you want we can work at it together, and you can help? I don't know honestly. Just, I will leave that up to everyone on what we do with it."
"I-I…I want to destroy it everything. Blow this whole stupid place up. A-a-and..I want to be normal again. I don't want to be taken part again, or to feel less..I-I want to be human."
"Okay, I can do that. We can do that. Once everything is safe, you can leave and never have to see this place ever again. The mansion won't be done until December. I figured we can get everything done by then. I have a plan"
"What is the plan?"
"The plan is this, Sawyer and Prototype both hate each other but they hate me more. Whenever I try to fight one of them, the other one attacks safe haven. My plan is to use that. I will, with a team attack Sawyer, we will have people protect safe haven and I was going to ask if Doey and someone else could keep Prototype busy. No, they don't need to fight him or anything just distract him enough for my group to kill sawyer. Once that is done Prototype will be easy to take down."
"That…that might work. And Doey doesn't need to fight?"
"No. Just distract, if he can't then he can retreat back to Safe Haven and help with the defense. I just need someone to play defense while I run an offense maneuver."
Poppy walked around in a circle by me thinking about the plan. She stopped and looked at me.
"I have a question"
"Good for it. I am up book."
"This..how sure are you, that you can beat that guy the doctor?"
"Very sure. I have the omni-hand. Got it before the whole thing happened. With it, me and my team just need to get in and bang. He is out for the count."
"How will you fix us? I mean, I want to believe but-"
"Magic sounds crazy yeah?" Biting my hand to draw blood and using the blood to perform flame magic. I had gotten a lot better at flame magic, and with 'trick' magic in general. All the kids wanted me to show it to them constantly. Poppy was surprised by this, and her face lit up
"Okay..final question. How are you going to fix us"
This was something that I had been avoiding telling everyone. It was basically a flesh, necromancy ritual. And, necromancer wasn't exactly taken on being the 'good' side of magic. But I knew that lying to Poppy would set me back. Not only that but everyone needed to know. I sighed and said.
"Look Poppy. Before I start I want to make things clear. Magic isn't..well. it is a give and take. Something needs to give so that I can take. Does that make sense. If I want to make one toy, then I need the materials to make that one toy. Nothing can be created from nothing. It just doesn't work like that. That being said, to fix everyone some things need to happen. One I need biomass, and two I need their content" The last part was a lie, but I hoped it would make them feel better. To be honest I could force about anything on someone.
"What do you mean..by biomass."
"Welll…you see..hmm…I need meat? WAIT. Wait. It doesn't have to be human meat or anything like that. I just need biomass to make the body. When the body is made, I transfer the soul into that body."
"WHAT! What is the difference between that, and what was done to us?"
"The difference is that you won`t be toys. The body made will be human, or as close to human as it can be. NO more feeling less, No more feeling like how they say they feel. That is the difference"
"I-I…I don't know."
"That is fine. I was going to tell everyone anyway. I just wanted to find your group and let all of you know. You are the ones that decide how this goes down. I just wanted you all to have options and choices."
"Okay, but we tell everyone about this"
THIRD POV
Poppy didn't like what Max had told her, but she didn't want to lose this chance of being a normal girl again. She had dreamed about it for so long, had wondered what it would be like to feel again, fantasized about being..human again. She didn't want to be the reason that, all the others lost this chance.
She would tell them, tell them everything about what happened and the-
Poppy heard it. The sound of someone was running towards them fast. She looked and saw Doey enraged. He didn't stop, didn't slow down and when he got to Max he punched him on the side.
Max body flew and hit the hall. There was a snapping, breaking sound that Poppy knew all to well. She tried to get Doey to stop, but he didn't listen to her. Instead, he picked up Max`s body and continued to slam it down. On the ground, the walls, everywhere. It was a mess. Poppy was shocked. She messed up, that was their chance. What was she going to do? Max`s group would hate them, Doey would go into a deep sadness when he found out.
It was all ruin, Max was dead and they would be here Forever! Poppy cried, and when she felt a hand on her she turned. She saw Doey looking at her, he looked worried about her.
"Poppy, thank god I found you. I got your letter, did he do anything to you?"
She cried more. She cried, because this was all wrong. Nothing in her life was right. Her parents left each other, her dad, her becoming this and now when a little light had come it was been gone. Everything was ruin.
"Poppy. It is going to be okay. We can get the others, and leave w-"
"YOU RUIN IT. Max…ollie…it was a lie. Ollie lied to us, Max was helping us. He had a plan, and and he was going to fix us, and he…you killed him."
There was a scream, and Poppy saw that the some of the others were coming. Before long a whole group some from her group some from Max`s group. They looked from Doey to Max`s body to Doey again.
Poppy didn't pay much attention to it. She went inside, where it was safe, and she didn't have to be in his nightmare. However, she caught some of what happened.
Doey had found out about the whole thing. He found out that his family was okay, and that they were happy. He found out that he killed someone innocent, and that he had been the cause of a death that….his mom. Doey hated being Doey, the thoughts the different personalities. Sometimes he didn't know who he was. He cried to, constantly apologizing to the everyone.
The group gathered around Max`s body trying to figure out what to do next. But, then something happened. Max got up. Poppy, Doey, and everyone else were shocked. No one could scream or do anything but stare at Max as he got up.
His Jaw was broken, nose bent, his left eye was hanging from his face. His face was bruised. His ribs were facing the wrong back, with his back twisted. His arms were twisted, with bones coming out of it. And his one of his legs was facing the wrong way, with only one leg being 'normal' and 'normal' only meant that it wasn't facing the wrong way. The 'normal' leg had a visible bone showing. And the worst part was that his head wasn't forward facing, but was sideways.
Poppy had never seen something like this. Was…was this another nightmare. But, Max spoke normally like nothing was wrong.
"Well..shit. Guess I cant die here either. Well that is good I guess"
There was a disturbing, gross, nauseating sound that Poppy and everyone would never forget. As Max first snapped his arms back into place, twisted his neck back to face them, and started put his bones and other things back into place. The only thing any of them could do was just stare and watch it all happen. By the time it was done Max looked perfectly normal, like he had never been injured. Someone spoke up from the group that had been staring.
"A-ar..you okay?"
Max looked at them in confusion, and with a sigh he said.
"Well…I didn't want you guys to see that, but yup I am fine. Just-"
"Are you human?"
"You know sometimes I wonder about that myself. Anyway, it is all good. I am fixed, and we have need to get going."