We continued to walk down a dark hallway that was clearly taking us away from the school. There were no more colorful walls with pictures or murals on them. Now there were only concrete walls with a few toys and broken furniture scattered along the ground. The hall seemed to get darker and darker as we continued on.

"I wish I had a better light than this." The human said, referring to the small light on his GrabPack. My big pupils helped me see a little better in the dark than him. Something in the corner caught my attention. I went to pick it up and found it to be a hand for my friend's GrabPack.

"Hey, take a look at this." I handed it over.

"An extra hand for the GrabPack? I wonder what it does? Only one way to find out…." He switched out the green hand for this new red one I found. It was stuck with the thumb pointed up, the two middle fingers pointed out, and the other two folded back towards the palm. As if it were trying to mimic a gun. My friend turned around so that there was room to try out the new gadget. For there was no telling what it would do or the space needed to properly use it. Something bright red ejected from the pointed fingers when the man pulled its trigger.

"Oh, nice! A flare gun!" He rejoiced. "This will come in handy in these dark places. Maybe it'll even scare off some of the toys if they're not too friendly. Good find, Huggy." My friend praised me. Perhaps it wouldn't be as hard as I thought to regain his trust…

We kept going along the designated path, eventually coming across a door that said, "Restricted Access". The human quickly found a battery pack to power the door and in we went. On the other side, the space opened like a big mouth. My friend and I stopped and gawked as we found ourselves among a network of caves. What was even crazier was that PlayTime Co. had bridges and gadgets littered about so that their employees could navigate around the factory without being up on the customers' level. The smell of rusted metal filled the cave.

"Whoa! Where are we?" The man gaped, trying to take in the breadth of this environment.

"We must be underneath PlayCare. I would think there are tunnels and doors to reach each of the destinations in the dome from here." I surmised.

"This place is so big…. There's so much I never knew existed around here. They sure did a good job of keeping this all a secret."

We followed the nearest path. It ended up leading us up, down, and all around. I know I was thoroughly lost at this point. Were we even still under PlayCare now? I followed my friend down a long suspended bridge that was like a catwalk. We were almost to the other end when I noticed something down on a ledge to my left. It was Catnap himself! He walked up to a heap of toy parts that had been stuck together to form a human-like figure. There was even part of a human skeleton coming out from the top of it. The toys were mangled and twisted in weird positions. No doubt he had killed them for his masterpiece here. Catnap raised himself onto his hind legs and raised his front paws up to the sky. If we weren't careful, the feline would hear us. I reached out and grabbed the person before ducking low. He started to say "Hey!" but I muffled it out with my hand to his mouth.

"Shh, Catnap's down there." I quietly told him. We both peeked over the rail of the suspended bridge. My friend's eyes went big as he took in the scene down below.

"Looks like he's praising whatever that thing is." He said in a hushed voice.

"It's a shrine…of the Prototype." I answered him.

"If it's any semblance of the real thing, that's scary. The human admitted. "Let's keep going and hope he doesn't notice us."

"Be as quiet as possible." I warned. For I knew Catnap had excellent hearing. We tiptoed across the rest of the bridge. I had let the man go first with the light. There were a few creaks and squeaks of the metal underneath our feet that I thought Catnap might have heard. But his slender figure still stood tall in front of the shrine.

At the end of the bridge were three dropdowns. They were almost like oversized stairs how the metal boards alternated between vertical and horizontal. My friend volunteered to go first, trying to be as quiet as possible. He lowered himself down as far as he could go before letting go of the backboard and dropping to the horizontal one. We cringed each time he hit the bottom of the step. The thud seemed so loud in the quiet cave system. After he had made it all the way down, we stayed still and quiet. We had to make sure our noises had not alerted Catnap to our location. I noticed my friend's face went pale as he looked over toward the Prototype's shrine. My hope was that he was just nervous about seeing the shrine a little closer. But then he whispered something over to me.

"Hey Huggy, Catnap's gone!" He panicked with his hushed voice. "Do you see him anywhere?" I began to look around.

"Grah!" Catnap roared and slammed into the weird bridge-stairs structure. He hooked his paws around the railing and began to haul himself up. Did the cat just jump up here from his ledge? If I hadn't been so worried about my friend's safety, I would have been impressed with that high jump he just performed.

"I told you to leave PlayCare! I gave you a chance to save your own skin! But you didn't listen…" The purple cat made sure to sharpen his claws on the metallic structure. "And now you're going to be my prey!"

"Run!" I called to the human.

"You don't have to tell me twice!" He said as he turned and ran away. Catnap started to give chase. My furry body dropped down the tall steps and followed them. Thankfully, I was able to catch up with the feline. I wrapped my hands around his tail, yanking him to a stop. Catnap yowled as I proceeded to toss him off the bridge. His body crashed onto a ledge of the cavern down below. It lay there collapsed for a minute, thoroughly stunned from the impact.

"Ha! And I thought cats landed on their feet!" My friend had stopped to laugh at Catnap.

"Keep going! Get somewhere safe!" I called to him as I gained on his location. He looked a little confused, but kept running.

Just as I thought, Catnap was starting to come to. With a shake of his head, he looked up to spy our location with his small, purple-white pupils. They were eerie looking little things that floated inside big black eye sockets. A gurgle rose in his throat. The cat eyed the cave walls and bridges that surrounded the area. He then tilted his head, giving a little crack in his neck. It was his way of saying: challenge accepted. The feline proceeded to use his sharp claws to scale the cave wall. After a couple gallops up, he pushed away from it and caught onto the railing of a metallic bridge. Catnap hauled himself up and balanced on the narrow beam. He then jumped again and hung onto a pole that was high up toward the ceiling. His body rocked back and forth, gaining momentum. He finally let go and let himself fall to a platform below. As soon as he landed, he began running to the next platform's edge. He leapt upwards yet again, reaching for a rather high one. His claws missed the edge of his landing pad.

"Ha! You missed!" The person taunted again. But then Catnap reached out with his tail and looped it around the railing. Showing off his prehensile tail, the feline flung his body up against another cave wall. He slid down a bit before his claws found purchase. The purple cat then scaled the wall and made it to a high platform. His slender figure weaved in and out of sight as he passed by some stalactites. His physical abilities were mesmerizing. I shook my head and finally pulled myself out of that trance.

"Get running, friend!" I pushed at him with my yellow fingers. "Don't forget that he's still coming for us." The man took a gulp at the life-threatening reminder. We then resumed our run. "There's a door over there!" I pointed out. My gaze shifted up and saw a catwalk about ten feet above us. "Keep going and I'll be right back."

"Where are you going?" He asked as I jumped for the ledge. I was able to reach it since I was tall, not so much that I was a good jumper like Catnap. It certainly wasn't as easy as the feline made it seem. And I was nowhere near as graceful as him either. I struggled to pull myself up onto the platform. Gritting all my fangs together, I gave one big heave and got my body up to the new level. I stayed low for a moment, trying to catch my breath. But I couldn't stay there for long if my idea was going to work.

My body galloped forward as I followed along with the human down below. I was trying to gauge where Catnap would come down onto my friend's level. It was likely he would not pounce close to the man since he liked to taunt and play with his prey before catching it. With any luck, I'd be able to chew through the cords supporting the suspension bridge. That would hopefully send Catnap away for a bit.

The human finally came up to the door. He noticed a scan pad off to the right of the door. It was meant to scan the hand of an employee's GrabPack to ensure that it was only authorized personnel accessing this passage. My friend didn't hesitate to fire off his blue hand and match it up with the light blue outline on the scanner. A loading bar started to crawl across the bottom of the scanner's screen.

"Come on! Come on! Why are these things so slow when I'm being chased?" He complained. It was then that Catnap dropped down onto the connecting bridge with a slam. My friend flinched and turned around. His face went pale again.

"There's no more running for you now." Catnap hissed, readying his claws. Meanwhile, I got to work on gnawing through the cords that held the structure from above. The man tried to think of a distraction quickly. He put a smile on his face and began to clap his hands.

"What? What's this? You know I'm trying to catch you, right?" The feline seemed confused at this response from the human. One of those big eye sockets curled down, showing his perplexed nature.

"I just…wanted to take a minute…to appreciate…your awesome physical abilities." He stuttered out, trying to keep Catnap distracted. "All that running, jumping, and climbing you did there was amazing!" And he did sound genuinely impressed when saying so.

The purple cat blinked in surprise and gave a little scratch at his arm.

"Oh…well, it's really more of an instinctive behavior really." Catnap sounded flattered by the compliment. "I appreciate your kind words. Almost makes me feel a little bad about what I'm going to do to you."

"Wait a minute!" My friend called, holding up his hands. "Why are you even doing all this?" He shrugged with a single shoulder. "Why do you follow the Prototype? What's so great about him?"

"If you must know…" Catnap grumbled and rolled his eyes. But – surprisingly – he proceeded to answer the question. "The Prototype has saved my life on multiple occasions. I am indebted to him, so I carry out his wishes. The toys at this factory have turned on us – turned on me – so I bring him these traitors so they can be dealt with…permanently."

"So you help this guy kill people? Is that what you really want?" The human prodded.

"The other toys here turned their backs on me! Left me alone do die!" The purple feline's voice raised as did the fur on his back. "The Prototype is my only friend now. And his will is absolute. Anyone who opposes him will be destroyed. That is his one and only rule."

"He doesn't seem like a very good friend to me. A real friend wouldn't ask you to do such mean stuff like this." My friend tried to talk him down.

"What do you know? You're one of the traitors, too!" Catnap spat.

"I may not know a lot about you, but I know what real friendship is!" He argued.

"Enough talk! It's time I taught you a lesson…" Both paws raised and were poised to strike.

My friend took a glance up to find that I was almost done gnawing through the cords. I just needed a few more seconds. The hand on the door's scan pad had also completed by now. This unlocked the door, allowing us quick escape for when we had the opportunity. His GrabPack hand returned to its resting position in front of the user.

"S-stay back! I….uh, I have a bomb!" The human announced. Catnap cocked his head a little, unsure if he actually believed this. "Take this!" He shouted and fired off his flare gun. The sight of the little fiery object scared Catnap as it came near. The purple cat yowled as he jumped and arched his back. His weight coming back down on the platform snapped the rest of the cord. The bridge started to collapse under him. Catnap realized this and tried to leap toward my friend and off the falling structure. The human yelped in surprise as the feline was getting too close for comfort. He launched his blue GrabPack hand at the predator. It ended up smacking Catnap in the face and threw off his trajectory. We heard his claws scrape on the dangling bridge. But he could not find purchase and ended up falling to a cavern ledge down below.

His body collapsed as he mewed in pain. I dropped down next to my friend and chomped through the last of the material binding the other end of the bridge that was dangling toward the enemy cat. We saw the feline pick his head up in time to witness the rest of the bridge come down on top of him. He grunted in pain and stayed down. It looked like the metallic structure had split down the middle when it hit him. Catnap was not getting up anytime soon, that was for sure. We were free to run off without him following us now.

Down below, the purple feline looked up at us. His little pupils couldn't seem to focus very well in one spot for long. He was close to passing out. But he did manage to say a few words to us first.
"You two will pay for this!" Catnap panted. "Mark my words!"

We merely turned around and walked free of his looming presence. My friend and I laughed together as we passed through the door, knowing we had tricked the feline good.

"Did you see the look on his face when I shot the flare gun at him?" The human said to me.

"Yeah! And then when he realized the bridge was falling?" Our hearty laughs filled the cavern. If Catnap was not passed out by now, he would have likely heard it. I can only imagine the feline folding his ears back in annoyance with us.

Along came another doorway. We stopped on the spot as we read the word plastered above the opening: Playhouse.