So.. hello there. This is the first fanfic I've written specifically for this site. How did I get inspired? TVTropes' Monsters Inc fanfic recommendations. I read all of them, so thanks to the authors of those (seeing as TVTropes is a wiki, it'll change in the future, so I'll list the ones I read here.. The APM series by DarkraixCresselia.. the An Unlikely Bond series by Crazybird101.. Randall's New Take On Life by randompotpourri.. Lost and Found but not Healed by BlackShuriken (thanks a lot btw, what has been seen cannot be unseen!)... I guess that this fic wouldn't exist thanks to those I just listed, and TVTropes' Monsters Inc fanfic recommendations..

Here's the deal with this.. It's basically the Monsters Inc film in an alternate universe, with some nice tech-related stuff.. sure there may be issues, this is my first fanfic and I haven't written any fiction in like two years.. So, read and review, and constructive criticism would be awesome.. Pure flaming however will end up in /dev/null so don't bother if you just want to flame me without giving me some improvement tips aswell..


Daniel didn't know what woke him up. He stirred quickly, and then heard a noise. He pushed himself up and realised two things. The first was that his wardrobe doorknob was turning. The second was that he had fell asleep with his iPhone in his hand. He quickly looked at his iPhone, unlocked it, sighed as he noticed the screen wasn't cracked at all, then as a quick test opened a random app.

It was pure luck that the app icon he touched was the Camera; by now his wardrobe door was open a crack, and he saw a shadow in the light spilling out of it. Not that he hadn't heard of these occurences before; but they had only happened to friends and classmates, stories told to him about monsters coming through closets, cupboards and wardrobes, and then getting scared by them. A monster that looked like it came straight out of Halloween waking you up and roaring in your face? Daniel had thought that everybody would get scared at that. And what descriptions these stories had! Stories of grey tentacled beasts, of multicoloured behemoths covered in fur, of reptiles with multiple limbs who could turn invisible... Daniel had only wished such a thing could happen to him in his ten years of existence, and here he was, ready to take a picture of...

He gasped as the... thing came into his bedroom, quietly closing the door behind it. Ten years of nothing, and now this? The monster came closer, and roared. Daniel couldn't help but scream, and at the same time he snapped a picture.

And just as quickly as it had appeared, it had gone through the door again. Daniel didn't bother trying to follow; he knew the stories well and those who did try to follow opened their door and just encountered what they usually saw. But he knew of the mysterious place a few of the stories mentioned as being behind the door. Some called it a factory, and others likened it to hell. Daniel had told his parents about all the stories he had heard; of course they didn't believe him. Adults never believed the stories.

But now he had something that could prove the stories were truthful. He quickly opened Twitter and posted the picture along with a short tweet: "This monster was just in my bedroom. Gone now. It roared at me. #soscaredrightnow" - and the hashtag was indeed the truth; he could not remember an incident where he had felt more scared. Daniel pressed the Home button, locked his iPhone, put it on his bedside cabinet and fell asleep once more.


OK, so that's the first chapter.. I hope you liked reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.. Regarding updates, I actually have all of this fic done on my laptop (just so I wouldn't end up abandoning it). Hopefully I'll add a new chapter at least once every week.. I don't know how popular this will be, and if I indefinitely forget to update this, don't take it out on me as everyone just forgets things, especially when they're pretty busy.