"Playtime Co. Security Lo 5.
Date: Unknown
"Entry to the front lobby breached by a former employee.
Identity: Alexis Salus
Age: 21
Occupation: Assembly Worker."
As the synthetic voice of an artificial woman spoke, Lexi's profile was being shown on the screen, along with her worker picture of when she was a teenager.
"Initiating Transmission." Then, after a static, it finally showed the entrance lobby of the factory.
"A tale like this always starts simple." A male voice was now beginning to speak. "A mystery about a toy factory whose staff all vanished a decade prior."
Then, the door was opening up, as Lexi appeared on camera. "Hello?"
"Well, almost all of them..." The voice then said with an amusing tone, as if he was waiting for her presence.
"Say hello to Alexis Salus or as she likes to be called by herself and to her accomplices 'Lexi' hehehe." The man chuckled as Lexi was exploring the lobby. "It was dusk when our little interloper broke into the factory. Its main lobby always provided a warm welcome for everyone who entered the Playtime factory..."
Static appears on the television as old recordings of the main lobby being filled with workers and children appeared on the TV in a few flashes. "...But these days, it is an old forgotten thing." Then another static appeared, with a date appearing on the border, but it was encrypted.
"So, you've got my warning. It's not too late to turn around. I just hope you're certain whatever you're doing is worth it." The voice of Leith Pierre said as the tape ends.
"Me too... I hope it is worth it." Lexi then glanced at the letter before putting it back into her bag..
"Of course Alexis ignored the warning, since she was deciding to 'correct' his mistakes." The male voice then chuckled. "After stealing a Playtime Co. GrabPack, once used by staff and invented by the elusive company founder Elliot Ludwig..."
"SO that's why I was not allowed to use those things...Why the heck did they allow that part?!" Lexi reacted to the image of the puppet's head being removed and bleeding out.
"Alexis then met our next creation... and it was none other than Playtime's dearest mascot: Huggy Wuggy." The image then showed Gabe, now carrying his new Grad Pack, walking towards the big blue himself.
"He loomed over the foyer with a wide vacant smile. Watching anything that appears in the lobby... and finally meeting our dear intruder."
"Completely slipped my mind that they made a statue of you a while back, big fella." Said Lexi getting a good look at the statue before she passed the front entrance, now onto the rest of the factory.
Once she had restored power she then headed back out to where she began. Once she passed the door she then noticed the Huggy statue was gone! Lexi looks around as she then says in worry. "Ah Huggy? Where'd you go?"
"Now weaker people would have left at that point and yet the intruder progressed down, kicking up pieces of the distant past in their descent." Narrated the strange man.
Rich then turned to Avery, as if he was exploding with anger. "Exactly! Nobody in this stupid company knows what they're doing. I swear, I haven't seen a single box in its place since they started flooding the storehouse with orphanage junk." He stepped out as Rich began releasing his rage on the air. Avery was seeing this and all he could muster was a deadpanned "Right..."
Rich was a bit calmer now, but no less angry about the situation they're in. "I get it, it's a nice program and all, on-brand, but it's just hard to be happy when Manufacturing is on OUR NECKS about it, 'cause we can't find stupid Huggy boxes!" At this point, Rich was exhausted and sat next to Avery, panting after his outburst.
Avery extended his arm to Rich, and calmed him down. "Rich... We are doing this not to please the higher ups, nor to Leech Pierre, and much less for the suit guys. We are here to make children happy, to give them a happy moment for their lives. And most especially, to give the orphans hope and kindness." He responded to Rich.
Rich heard all of this." He sighs. "You're right... You're right... It's.. It's for the orphans... I just wish there were less boxes. Anything less would be more abdicable. - I-is that even a word? Abdicable."
Avery shrugged. "I don't know. But if we insist for the higher ups that we need help in the warehouse, then our work will be reduced a lot. And Rich."
"What?" "Do you mind adopting one of the orphans in the Playcare?" Avery asked him. "I think...Maybe yeah, but only to give to them a happy life, a home."
Stella perked up and smiled. "Playing with toys when I was young was so magical. I could go straight from my bedroom floor to anywhere in the world. It was such a great feeling. And...Being able to work at a toy factory...Somewhere that can provide kids with that same experience...That's a pretty great feeling too!"
Lexi wasn't surprised by that, as she knew that Stella was a perky happy lady, always connected to her inner child.
"Human bodies just can't stay young forever. There's things though, like some trees that can stay alive even while being way older than a person! I mean, the oldest people to ever live are STILL younger than those! So I guess everyone is always young relative to something... Right?" Then followed by a recording of Stella in the interview.
Watching from a security camera Lexi's curiosity had gotten the better of her as these massive claws slashed at her as it not just pushed her back but the attack slashed out her face.
"AHHHH!" Lexi yelled as she held onto her left eye in pain as blood splats on the floor before the pain became surprising as she got a good luck at her attacker as it was none other than the life-size figure of Huggy Wuggy lumber through. His eyes leering down on the hapless human, and his mouth agape in a maniacal grin with yellowed, needle-like teeth roundabout dripping with saliva while his massive claws dripped with blood from the attack it had laid on Lexi.
"W-what?! Huggy You're!? How are you?!"
"Alive? Why yes." The male voice responded to Lexi's recording, following with a chuckle. "And this…This is where the fun began."
"Our Intruder stirred one of the factory security measures and he performed exactly as he was designed." An extremely blurred image appeared, but it was very hard to know what it showed. It looked like it had Huggy on it, eating something…
The recording of Lexi despite her left eye bleeding and trying to ignore any sort of pain then said. "I guess I'll just let myself out bye!" As she ran into vents hoping to lose her attacker.
"And so, our intruder scrambled through ventilation ducts with Huggy not far behind." The voice narrated as Lexi waltzed through the ducts. The recording then showed the map of the ducts, due to the lack of cameras in the place. "The ventilation in this place has always been a maze; it's impressive this intruder made it through at all."
The girl then hears Huggy a foot long away as Huggy enters her view while Lexi then said very ticked off. "Okay seriously what did I ever do to you?!" Until her back banged against the real door. "Why are you even like this?!" Demanded Lexi as she glared at the beast. "You're supposed to be that big, lovable goofball all the kids love!"
Huggy paid no heed still, he kept on slowly crawling to her. Trails of saliva hanging from his teeth. Just then the door Lexi leaned opened up as the girl fell after leaning on the door and onto the conveyor belts that took her all the way to a catwalk Lexi slammed onto the ground hard.
Lexi groaned in pain knowing that had to hurt but however she was lucky that she was able to outrun the monster that was chasing her.
"Eventually, she made her way into an open warehouse, narrowly avoiding a collapsing catwalk that set our dear Huggy plummeting into the depths below... or would be sending him, if..."
Huggy begins to slip, oblivion awaits below him. And as he limply slips off the rails, Huggy realizes that this was the end for him. He begins to free fall. Feeling the weightlessness of death approaching.
But however it pauses. Huggy then opened its eyes and wondered what happened? what could have stopped his fall, he looks up, and didn't expect even in the many years of his existence what could it be. Hanging by his Velcro paws, was a pair of Grabpack hands gripping him tightly, and the cord leading up from them, was none other than Lexi who was leaning back as hard as she could with her stomach pressed into the rails and his soles buried to the great's steel lip.
"...If our intriguing human hadn't stopped his fall, and proceeded to spare our hugging friend from his estimated death." The voice said in a much colder tone compared to his other narrations. The recording then showed the human girl struggling, and finally pulling Huggy back to safety.
Huggy brought himself back up and gazed up at the woman who just saved him. "Our giant hunter then decided to disobey the orders..." The voice continued, with bits of anger escaping from it... But then, he chuckled back.
"And ran away from her." The footage showed Lexi trying to catch his breath, while Huggy held on his arm and exited through the door, with his head facing downwards.
Lexi fell back onto the catwalk laughing at what she did knowing that it was one heck of a workout. "Now that's what I'm talking about, great teamwork and coordination back there." She got back to her feet. "Are you ok buddy?"
But when she looked down to where Huggy should be, he was nowhere to be found.
"Uh, Huggy?" Lexi wondered what the blue giant went as she saw no sign of him. Lexi shook her head as if knowing that Huggy would be fine but had to watch her back in case another chase would occur.
"But fate does not wait for the hesitant. She lingered on the catwalks for quite some time... finding an interesting tape."
"Final log. In relation: Experiment 1-0-0-6 "The Prototype". Coordination and cooperation is evidently within his skill set. As well as all other experiments of his type."
Experiments? Is this really a staff worker or one of the scientists that worked here?
"Though still missing, today's events are in no doubt in relation to him." Said the guy as he adjusted the glasses.
In the background he can hear noises. Loud but muffled sounds of banging and crushing. The lights flickered even more for each banging noise.
"His absence was a flaw in the scientific process, which should have under no circumstances been left unaccounted for." The scientist continued as he wrote down something on the notes.
Lexi then hears the noise of many multitudes of people in the background. They are screaming. And, for some reason... he heard a ripping noise?
"That's why I'm making this log, so the same mistake won't be made twice."
Even though there was only the scientist on the screen, she swore he could see the visage of a long fingered clawed hand in the background, and as he appeared, the screen began emitting static. She couldn't keep her eyes off of it.
The static cleared not a second later, but the metallic claw was gone. "Any future experiments will need to be contained and disposed of in a secure location."
A powerful bang was heard in the background, followed by a painful yell. Prompting to silence whoever this staff member is for but a moment.
It was as if he was afraid. "I'm not worried about myself. One breakthrough and I'll be back." He coldly said it as he slammed his hand on the table.
"Be back? What does that mean?" Asked Lexi in confusion.
"We must forge onwards in the name of science!" He then raised his fist to the camera, as if threatening whatever was doing... what was happening outside.
Just then something sounded like a door slamming open was heard. Something was coming for him. "Whether those beneath us understand it or not! End of-….!" Then he was attacked by a blue furry arm.
And then, silence, as the tape then suddenly ended.
Breaking this silence, Lexi spoke out into the surrounding nothing. "What…h-how did, wha….What happened to this place?"
"The truth of her search that awaits her..." He responded. "Eventually, the surprisingly competent ex-worker moved on into a room the public was never meant to see."
There was not a single footage of this corridor due to its secret nature... except a code appeared and after a few clicks, the footage hidden from the normal feed was shown.
"It wasn't a factory floor or corporate office, this place was different, and yet...Not even a hint of the missing staff." The footage finally appears, and Lexi ventures to find another hallway, but there was something different. The light dimmed slightly, and at the end was another oak door, but instead of traditional yellow an eerie red light glowed through the seams in the doorway.
Lexi had no clue what lies on the other side but her encounter has taught her to expect the unexpected. And it's not going to be a friendly one.
"At the end of a long hall, there was a room." Narrated the author The small room was dimly lit, but with dancing moving lights of red, pink, and purple in kaleidoscopic patterns. And at the back of the room there is a glass case
"And inside that room, there was a glass case." Lexi then approached it. "And inside that glass case... a doll."
But not just any doll. "Poppy." Lexi and the Narrator said at the exact time.
As the scene zooms out as the switches to Poppy now out of her case grabbing some medical equipment from the bag of her saviour attending to the unconscious Lexi's wounds as it is displayed on a tv.
"And we shall see what comes of it... won't we?" As some robotic hands tossed what appeared to be a toy spider onto a table and it had its abdomen already crushed. "Let's see if she can continue saving them."
Well that wraps the first part for Poppy Playtime: An Angel's Salvation The story so far so once in a while I'll make these to pass the time since it would be a waste to use a story so far am I right? But either I'm fortune to have this little story stick around for more of these amazing Story so far for my Poppy Playtime story.