Trapped

It had been a month since Junkenstein and Hayseed had their close encounter with Junkrat, both of them decided to stay hidden in the basement as they had enough food to last them. But even then, it still wasn't enough for them to feel save and after fifteen days, they went back up into the main house area and collected some small bits of sweets without any problems.

However, this was the start of the giant junker's rage…

One morning, close to the end of the month, Roadhog went to get some milk for his cereal only to find it empty; with a tiny hole in the corner of it. The masked giant growled loudly and slammed the door shut, causing the kitchen to shake and even a vase on the table to fall off the table and smash all over the place.

"Awwww fuck." He grunted under his breath, walking over to the mess and examining it. He then went into the garage to collect the cleaning supplies, only to find Junkrat making something. "Oh, you're up? That's a shock." He huffed, making the smaller and skinner Junkrat jump up a bit and look at him.

"Yeah, I was working on something; what are you doing here?" Junkrat asked, looking at him.

"The milk ran out and…"

"You're here to blame me, right?" Junkrat interrupted.

"NO!" Roadhog growled, scaring Junkrat; Roadhog saw and comforted the small friend. "Sorry… But no, I'm actually here to get the dust pan and brush; I broke a vase in my anger by accident…"

"Oh, I see." Junkrat said, passing over what Roadhog requested to him. "I'll come over in a few moments; ok Roadie?" He answered, Roadhog nodded and headed back to the kitchen.

Back inside the basement, Hayseed was pulling through the box for food items to put in their dinner; but Hayseed's craving for sugar kicked in and he began to dig deeper, until he found a rotten slice of apple. "Ewwww! Another one!" He gagged, grabbing it and throwing it out of their hideout.

Unknown to him, a sudden bit of web came flying from the side and being dragged off….

Hayseed explored for a few mintues before giving up. "No sugar…?" He whimpered, before he stared at the escape exit. "Um?"

Hayseed walked over towards it and lifted up the flap; only for it to slammed down by Junkenstein, who gave his friend a face of pure anger. "WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU DOING!? DO YOU WANT TO GET KILLED!?" He yelled, making Hayseed crouch down in fear and whimper.

"S-s-sorry Junken…." His eyes began to tear up. "I was getting hungry but we ran out of food.."

"What do you mean!? We have plenty of food!" Junkenstein groaned, pulling out a piece of rotten orange unknown to him; that was until he bit into it and his face turned green.

"Ur….Junk…"

Hayseed couldn't finish his sentence before shocked to see his friend spit out the rotten fruit and threw the fruit over the boxes. "Ewwwwww! What the FUCK happened to it!?"

"It turned rotten…"

"HOW!?"

"Maybe because we don't have a way to store them to keep them fresh."

Junkenstein sighed and hugged his friend. "I guess tonight is another food run." He sighed regrettably, worried for Hayseed's safety.

"Can we get sugar cubes tonight!?"

"Sure, anything for my best buddy."

"Your only buddy!"

Junkenstein chuckled and hugged him closer. "Yeah…"

Meanwhile upstairs, Junkrat happily skipped out of the garage and into the kitchen, pausing as he saw his best friend on his hands and knees cleaning up the last few bits of the vase; he carried the pan and brush to the bin and chucked it inside. He went outside and put the rubbish in the garden next to Junkrat's tire before returning, seeing his friend at the table staring at his new device.

"Roadie, take a seat." Junkrat smiled, the larger male doing so next to him, unable to take his eyes off the item on the table. "I see you've taken interest to my latest device!"

Roadhog raised an eyebrow, it just looking like a regular bear trap he has in his arsenal. "Um….sort of…?"

"Well, as you may or may not have been noticing, we are being robbed."

"I know that."

"Well, after doing some obversation, I've discovered that we might have a pest infestation."

"And how did you figure that out?"

"Firstly, only small things are being stolen, like matches, fruit, nails, etc; not tvs, our bike or even out clothes. Plus, the milk carton…" Junkrat then quickly got up and grabbed the dripping box, a bit more milk coming out due to his grab. "...Notice how it's a tiny hole smaller than my pinky fingernail?" He then held both his left pinky finger and milk carton in front of Roadhog, next to each other for comparison.

"Yeah?"

"Ain't it obvious!? We have rats somewhere in this house and we're gonna catch them!"

"And how will we do that?"

"With this!" Junkrat chuckled, pointing to the item on the table again.

"So…what is it?"

"Watch and learn!" Junkrat then placed a few nails on a panel of the item and it sprung up like a bear trap, but with an appearance of a bird cage; with a golden rust colour to it.

"Oh WOW!" Roadhog jumped up and gasped. "This will work!"

"And even better, if there are more than one~" Junkrat poured more nails into the cage via some of the holes, the extra weight cased more bars to appear across the other ones. "They'll just get trapped inside too if they try to help them! It's perfect!" He laughed, wiggling his fingers together in harmony.

"So, when should we set it up?"

"TONIGHT!" Junkrat chuckled.

The pair of them spent the rest of the afternoon setting it up, opening up the trap again, they placed the trap at the bottom of the fridge, in the shadows so it couldn't be seen.

"Um…what should we put to attract the pests into coming close to it?" Roadhog asked.

"Food, obviously." Junkrat answered.

"But what food should we use?"

Junkrat pulled out a sugar cube and placed it gently on the plate. "Here, it's sugar food, which anyone can be addicted to, plus it's light enough to not activate the trap." He giggled evilly. "Now, we should probably get to bed!"

Roadhog nodded and walked to the bedroom, with the hyper junker following him.

They soon got into their night clothes and laid down in bed, Roadhog laying on his side facing away from Junkrat as Junkrat laid down with his head resting on his left hand. "I tell ya Roadie, I bet ya that we'll catch those monsters tonight!"

"Ya sure about that?"

"Of course!"

Roadhog huffed, before closing his eyes and falling asleep. "And first thing in the morning, we'll exterminate them."

"But what if they're.."

"Jamison, we're not living with rodents; it's either we move or kill them."

That then just left the junker to sigh and nod. "Ok…" He yawned and passed out asleep.

A few hours had past, while the two giants slept in their bed; Junkenstein and Hayseed entered the kitchen through the same entrance as when they had entered last month, above the fridge.

Junkenstein gave Hayseed his own hook and rope, along with his own backpack; helping his friend put it on. "Ok Hayseed, I'm trusting you tonight to get food yourself. Think you can do that?"

"Of course!" Hayseed smiled brightly, hugging Junkenstein tightly. "I'll be on my best behaviour!"

Junkenstein pushed the fridge door open with all his might and the door opened to light up the kitchen with the blue light, he then took Hayseed's hook and hooked it to the rimmed edge of the fridge; making sure it stays in place. "Just in case…" He whispered, grabbing a piece of blue-tack (the size of a football to him) and putting it over the hook, making it to stay completely in place. "There, he should be safe…." He huffed under his breath and looked at Hayseed. "Ready?"

"Ready!" Hayseed cheered, hugging Junkenstein before he began his climb down the rope. "I'll be looking for new items for the house, to make things easier for us to live. If you need help, let me know!" He yelled, before heading off to the counters next to the fridge.

Hayseed slowly lowered himself down the rope, looking at all the shelves, staring at all the foods and drinks inside. "Oh…they're all so…." He began to drool as his stomach growled, pausing on the bottom shelf, filled with ham and cheese. "Um…." He ran towards them and began to start eating them, grabbing hand fills of the food items and munching on them. "These are amazing, I have to bring them!" He giggled, stuffing some more pieces inside his backpack and headed back for the rope. But when he got close enough, he caught the scent of something sweet. "Sugar…"

Looking back up, not hearing or seeing Junkenstien telling him to come back up and seeing that the rope went as low as the floor, Hayseed began to climb down the rope all the way to the floor and followed the scent of the sweet smell. Using the glow of his mask, he saw the shape of a cube and gasped happily, "A sugar cube!? My prayers have been answered!" He squealed happily, rushing towards it; but as he picked it up, the trap sprung into action and trapped Hayseed inside! Hayseed gasped and yelped in fright, looking round. "J-J-Junken!" He cried, tears peeking out of his eyes as he held the sugar cube close to his chest. "Help!"

Junkenstein, who was busy collecting matches overheard the screams of his comrade and rushed back to the top of the fridge. "Hay, I'm coming don't worry!" He yelled back, quickly climbing up the rope he left and looked down inside the fridge. "HAY!? You in there!?" He yelled.

"NO! I'M DOWN HERE!"

Junkenstein got terribly confused and looked down to see Hayseed's glowing face in the darkness, but also with the shine of metal. He gasped realizing what happened and panicked. 'Oh god, they know we're here, they've set up traps!' He worried, grabbing a napkin he took and using it to float down towards the floor safely, like a parachute; landing in front of Hayseed and the cage. "Hayseed, what happened!?"

"I-I-I…" He whimpered, shaking in fear but then was cut off.

"We don't have time for this!" Junkenstein huffed, squeezing his hand in between the bars and reaching out for Hayseed's. "Grab my hand and push as I pull, and hopefully we can get you ou-!"

But Hayseed, in a fit of panic grabbed his hand and pulled Junkenstein inside the trap with him, the extra weight from the scientist made the trap add on a few more bars; not allowing them to not escape now.

And if things couldn't get any worse, a sudden beeping nose started to come out from above the cage; allowing the two giants they knew to exist to hear it, making their blood freeze.

Meanwhile, in the middle of their sleep, Junkrat and Roadhog woke up suddenly to the beeping, Roadhog shocked and confused as the smaller of the duo quickly sprung up and beamed brightly in excitement. "Got them!" He giggled happily, kicking his leg and waving his arm.

Roadhog groaned. "Really?" He yawned, grabbing Junkrat's fake leg and arm and proceeded to put them on.

"Of course! If more entered the cage, an alarm system would awaken, making sure we know!" He chuckled. Soon, the limbs were attached and they both got up and ran to the kitchen.

As the two tinies sat in fear, Hayseed licking the sugar cube to try and stay calm as Junkenstein just sat there, shaking like a leaf. That was when the loud and thundering footsteps of the giants began to arrive, getting louder and shaking the ground more as they got closer. Instantly, Hayseed hugged Junkenstein and shook in fear as the giants got closer, one of them even slamming the fridge door shut and coating the room in darkness.

"Roadie! I got the cage!"

Suddenly, the cage keeping them trapped began to move and wobble about with them inside, sliding left and right, making them dizzy, holding onto each other tightly.

"I'll put it on the table and you can turn on the light, then we'll see what that rat brought in~"

Hayseed shook and stared at Junkenstein. "What do we do now….?" He whispered incredibly quietly.

"Play dead." Junkenstein whispered back, before falling flat on his face gently to avoid breaking his googles. Hayseed saw and did the same.

Roadhog turned on the kitchen light and heard the loud and exicted gasp of Junkrat. "Roadie, HOLY FUCK!" He gasped.

"What what!?" Roadhog asked, shocked as he sat down next to him and stared in complete disbelief with his friend, as right there in front of them were two, 6 centimeter tall humans that looked like Junkrat, one with white hair and wearing a lab coat and the other one in overalls wearing a mask. But they didn't seem to be moving. "Um…are they alive…?" Roadhog asked, looking over at Junkrat.

"I don't know…" Junkrat answered, gently poking his finger in between the bars and poked Junkenstein. "This one seems dead.." He then poked Hayseed, but Hayseed being quite ticklish, couldn't control himself and sniggered. "Not this one however~" He chuckled, continuing to poke Hayseed which caused him to burst into a fit of laughter.

Junkrat then opened the cage and reached over to pick up the tiny scarecrow, but Junkenstein saw in the corner of his eye and jumped up. "DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE TOUCH HIM!" He yelled at Junkrat, wrapping his arms round Hayseed and held him close to him. That was when he realized what he did and covered his mouth.

"Holy shit, it talks!" Roadhog gasped, pointing at them.

"Holy shit, they talk!" Junkrat gasped, his eyes widening and his smile growing large, worrying the two smaller Junkers. "They're so CUTE!" He looked over at Roadhog with massive puppy eyes. "Can we PLEASE keep them~?"

"No." He responded, the smaller men breathed a sigh of relief.

"Please? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!"

"Shut up! You're acting like a bratty child!" Junkenstein yelled at Junkrat, Roadhog slamming down his fist on the table, terrifying Hayseed into tears. Junkenstein went back to comforting Hayseed, "I'll…just shut up now…" He whispered.

"Roadie, please let me keep them?"

Roadhog huffed. "No, they're pests."

"But Roadie!"

"No, and that's my final offer."

"But please! It'll be a chance to be responsible to look after them! I'll don't need to destroy the back garden or sit around all day! I won't be lonely when you go for errands and…" He took a deep breath and breathed out, whispering. "…I've always wanted a pet…"

Roadhog thought, putting his hand to his chin and thinking. Junkenstein and Hayseed stared at him, hoping he'll let them go; while Junkrat stared at Roadhog with a hopeful begging expression.

"Sure, you can keep them." Roadhog smiled, patting his friend's shoulder.

"What!?"

"WHAT!?"

"What, really!?" Junkrat beamed brightly and hugged Roadhog. "Thank you so much!" He smiled, before grabbing both Junkenstein and Hayseed and cuddling them hold to his chest. "I'm going to take great care of you two! We'll have so much fun!" He cheered, staring down at them with the biggest grin he's ever had.

Hayseed stared at Junkenstein. "You ok Doc?"

Junkenstein looked at him back, annoyed and unamused. "Do I look ok?"

Hayseed shook his head and went to look back at Junkrat as he placed them back inside the cage and close it up again. He then carried them back to the bedroom followed by Roadhog and placed them on his bed side table.

They watched as Roadhog removed his fake limbs. Junkenstein then whispered to Hayseed. "Tomorrow, when we're left alone, we'll escape back down into the basement and collect our things to escape. Got it?"

Hayseed stared at him and nodded. "But…maybe we should give these guys a chance? I mean, they're probably not going to be as mean and cruel as Scary monster or THE witch…"

Junkenstein grumped at the idea and layed down. "Just get some sleep Hay, we have a long and…horrible day tomorrow…" He sighed, falling asleep just as Roadhog layed down and Junkrat was left staring at Hayseed who looked back at him.

"Night our little guests, see you both tomorrow…" He yawned, falling asleep with a smile.

Hayseed smiled in shock at his kind words and began to lay down and smile. "Good night giant rat…" He smiled, before closing his eyes and falling asleep.