Chapter 1: Into the Nightmare
"Steven! Check out this cool game I found!" Connie called, opening up the door to the temple. Connie walked over to Steven, who was watching the gems fiddle around with a strange device that looked like a hybrid of a computer and a coffee maker. "Um, what exactly is this?" Connie asked.
"I have no idea." Steven replied.
"It's an experience amplifier. It allows you to experience a recent memory to a much greater extent by putting you to sleep and making you dream the experience. To activate it, you just press this big, black button." Pearl explained. "But at the moment, its effects from the experience carry out back into the real world."
"So we're trying to fix that." Garnet said.
"Oh." Connie said. "Anyway, check out this cool game I found, Steven!"
"What is it?" Steven asked, curious.
"It's a game called 'Five Nights at Freddy's 4'!" Connie told him, pulling out her phone.
"Cool! How do you play?" Steven asked.
"Well, I just got it, so I'm not really sure quite yet." Connie explained. "It'll probably tell us when we start playing."
Connie then tapped on the "New Game" button, starting the game. The screen showed a bed with a toy bear on it with text saying "Night 1". Then the screen switched to a child's bedroom with a clock in the top right corner that read "12 AM".
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The time in the game was at 5 AM, and for some reason, Connie hadn't seen any action whatsoever, other than the occasional… things that would appear on the bed. But just as Connie was about to finish the night, what looked like an animatronic rabbit that was heavily decaying and had two rows of sharp teeth jumped out on the screen, scaring Connie and Steven so much that Connie's phone ended up soaring through the air—and landing on the button that activated the experience amplifier machine. The gems watched as the machine began to glow a bright blue, then sending what appeared to be a bolt of light blue electricity towards Steven and Connie, making them fall asleep instantly.
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When Steven and Connie woke up, they didn't recognize where they were at first. But then they noticed something that made them pale in fear. They were in what appeared to be a child's bedroom.
The same bedroom that was in the game.