Poppy Playtime: Sins of science

by Lupingllogi111

Alex, a former scientist at one of the most successful toy companies in history receives a letter asking him to find his coworkers, who had gone missing in a mysterious incident that happened over ten years ago. He thought it would be easy. Little did he know, not only was the factory not abandoned, but the inhabitants aren't exactly keen on having visitors... (Everyone lives AU)

4. Chapter 4: One last game

"Come on, guys! We have to keep moving!"

Whines echoed around the room as the toys slowly gathered around Alex. He sighed, seeing their expressions.

"Listen, if you want to stay here, I don't mind. I'm the one supposed to be going playing those games. You can wait for me here. I doubt Mommy's gonna try to attack you while she's focused on me. And plus, I'm sure you'll be safer on your own."

The mini Huggies seemed to consider the idea, while Bunzo simply shook his head. "No way, human! I'm not letting you go on your own!"

Alex didn't want to go on his own either, so he didn't argue. One of the mini Huggies walked in front of Alex, shyly twiddling their fingers.

Alex knew the mini Huggies didn't want to risk getting hurt by Mommy, so the human simply sighed. "Hey, don't be shy to say you don't want to come. It's okay."

He then looked at the other 17 minis. "I suppose all of you are staying?"

They all nodded.

"Okay then." Alex walked up the platform and hit the last lever.

"Geez! Have you played these before? You're so good! "

"Heck yeah, we are!" Bunzo yelled, clapping his cymbals.

"Seems like you're ready for the final game... Statues! Follow Mommy down the stairs one last time! I hope you had a fun day in the Game Station! See you next time! "

The lights in the last minigame's sign lit up, but then there was a sound, like something had just jammed. Alex went to check and he found out the entrance to the last game wasn't open.

He simply rolled his eyes and used his GrabPack to pull the handle and move it, barely managing to make it slide.

"Alright, we'll be leaving now." Alex said to the mini Huggies. "Take care of yourselves and be careful."

As the mini Huggies waved goodbye at them, him and Bunzo returned the gesture, and turned to go down the stairs.

"We'll come back alive! I promise!" Alex yelled.

They didn't take long to reach the gate to the game, finding it closed. "What? How are we supposed to get in now?" Bunzo said.

Alex noticed a door to their right, but it too was locked. For the first time since he had arrived at this factory, he was met with a dead end.

"Don't worry. Maybe I'll be able to break down the door." Alex suggested.

Suddenly from the stairs, they heard a familiar growl, causing them to turn their head around. Ruby was running down towards them.

"Ruby?!" Bunzo exclaimed.

"I thought you and your friends were going to stay!" Alex added.

Ruby said something, but Alex didn't understand. "She said that she feels like she owes you one, human. She's coming to help us." Bunzo translated. "She also says that she's sorry for judging you before."

Bunzo raised an eyebrow. "Woah, that's something I've never heard her say before."

Alex chuckled. "Thanks Ruby, but I don't think you can help us here. The entrance to the game is blocked and the door to our right is locked."

Ruby simply walked to the door and jumped, hanging from the handle. She proceeded to insert her whole hand into the lock of the door, doing something inside of it until a click was heard and the door opened.

The mini Huggy looked at the two with a smug smirk.

"How did you...?" Alex said.

"I didn't even know she could do that." Bunzo confirmed.

Regardless, they entered through the door. It was another maintenance hallway that ended in another electrical puzzle.

Alex groaned, realizing that he had to use his GrabPack to get up and down to the two raised platforms. There was also a green outlet and receiver which changed the handle Alex could latch to.

Before he tried to do the puzzle, Alex noticed the cardboard cutout of what looked like a pug mixed with a caterpillar.

"Hey, that's PJ!" Bunzo said, jumping to hit the button.

"Do you want to play with PJ? " The cutout spoke.

While Bunzo and Ruby were occupied with hitting the button, Alex went to try and solve the puzzle. It took longer than what he initially thought, but he managed to solve it eventually, hearing a sound coming from where the door was.

"I think it's time we beat the final game." Alex sighed.

The group walked back to the hallway from before, and Alex took a deep breath, readying himself. They entered the room, and Alex found out it was a very long room that stretched far beyond what he could see.

There was a TV to his right, that began playing the tutorial to the game.

"Welcome to Statues! This advanced obstacle course is designed to test your physical endurance and strength."

"Oof, I have been neglecting that lately." Alex smiled.

"The rules are simple. The lights will turn off. You can move through the obstacle course at this time. However, when the lights turn on, you can look around but cannot move. You may move again once the lights turn back off. "

"Okay, that sounds simple. Where's the twist?"

"The lovable PJ Pug-a-Pillar will follow you! If PJ reaches you, your test is over! "

As the video said that, Alex noticed a face appearing from the hole next to it. It was the same face as the toy from the cutout from before.

He too seemed confused seeing Bunzo and Ruby standing next to the human. The toys simply waved at PJ causing him to smile and let out a sound that sounded like a happy bark.

"That's all. Good luck! "

And the tape ended. A familiar figure appeared behind the observation window.

"It was always so sad to see the kids go... They called me 'Mommy' because I was the closest thing they ever had to one. But they'd come for games, and never come back. They left Mommy to die alone. Mommy didn't deserve that! But you? You worked here. So if anyone deserves to die alone, it's you."

"No one has to die." Alex simply said.

Mommy didn't reply. Instead she eyed the toys beside Alex. "That's why, Bunzo and Ruby are not allowed to come with you this time."

"What?!" Alex and Bunzo yelled, with Ruby letting out an angry growl.

Mommy didn't reply now either. It seemed she wasn't too happy. "You have a minute."

"Human, I don't like this." Bunzo said worriedly.

"Do you think I liked any of the games I had to go through? I'll live, don't worry about me."

PJ seemed confused at the exchange between them. "You two have already helped me enough. Just go back to the Game Station and wait for me. And hey, if I don't make it, just know it was nice meeting you all."

Bunzo jumped onto Alex, his dead serious look betrayed by small water drops in his eyes. "Don't you dare die, got it?"

Alex nodded.

Ruby got on him too and let out a soft growl too.

"She wishes you good luck."

"Thanks, you two."

As the toys turned around, Bunzo turned to PJ and whispered something. "Don't go too hard on him."

PJ nodded with a confused expression.

Alex sighed as he saw the gate close behind the toys. He realized being alone in this facility sucked.

He didn't have too much time to dwell on it, since the lights suddenly turned off and PJ started chasing him.

He ran into the maze made of fake castle walls, carefully making sure not to get cornered. He stopped when the lights suddenly turned on, looking around. So far, everything seemed easy.

Once he exited the maze, he found a pit of foam cubes with monkey bars hanging from the ceiling. With no time to waste, and PJ hot on his heels, Alex jumped and used his GrabPack to hang onto the monkey bars, stopping when the lights turned on. He realized that swinging in the monkey bars while the lights were on didn't count as moving, so he stood there, swinging, while he waited.

On the next swing, however, he missed the shot and fell onto the foam pit, cursing to himself. Walking through the foam pit was slow and annoying, and he could swear PJ was going to catch him every time the lights turned on.

He didn't know whether it was Bunzo asking PJ to go easy on him, or the fact he was imagining the toy closer to him because of the stress, but he managed to get out of the pit and continue onwards without the toy being even close.

He found three paths to continue, labeled 'easy', 'normal' and 'hard'. Alex was almost sure that the easy way was a trap, but he didn't want to risk being wrong and go the hard way, so he opted to go through the middle tunnel. Alex crawled as fast as he could, barely managing to see if the lights were on or off.

The tunnel was hard to navigate, considering it was made for children and he was far from one, and the many turns and twists didn't help.

Nonetheless, he managed to exit the tubes and enter the last area. It was a deep pit with bigger cubes Alex could jump on. He turned around and didn't see PJ, but he wasn't going to wait and try to negotiate with a fifty feet long dog. At least not unless he was forced to.

He jumped from cube to cube, seeing the other end of the room just in front of him. But just when the lights turned on, he realized there was no way to escape.

What he supposed was the other exit of the room was blocked off by fallen debris. Alex's heart sank as he understood everything.

Mommy never had any intention of letting him go.

He panicked as he began looking around relentlessly, remembering not to move while the lights were on, as he still was inside the game area, and he didn't want to risk losing the little time he had before his inevitable demise.

He didn't see the observation window, but he doubted Mommy was going to miss how PJ killed him, so she was most likely somewhere close, and judging for the footstep sounds coming Alex's way, PJ was too.

The moment he saw the pug and caterpillar hibrid peeking from one of the tunnels, he knew it was over.

However, the moment PJ's eyes made contact with Alex's, the toy stopped. He seemed hesitant to keep moving towards him.

Regardless, it seemed that whatever Mommy had threatened PJ with was stronger than any doubt he could have, as he resumed his march and jumped from cube to cube with relative ease.

Once he landed on the side of the pit Alex was in, the toy began growling at him.

Alex closed his eyes, a small tear falling from his eyes. This is it, huh? Mom, dad, I'm going after you.

He waited for PJ to jump at him for a few seconds, but it never came. When he dared open his eyes again, he found that PJ was now looking upwards, away from him.

Alex let out a confused 'huh' before he heard the sound of something knocking on glass.

He looked at where PJ was looking and found that there was another window just above the blocked exit.

And behind it, desperately trying to make signs for PJ to let Alex go, were Bunzo and Ruby.

Alex couldn't properly hear what they were saying to PJ, but he couldn't care less. The toy seemed to have calmed down a bit, seeing two, hopefully friends of his telling him not to do what Mommy especially told him to do.

The human dropped onto the ground, letting a sigh of relief.

The moment didn't last long at all, since he heard Bunzo knocking on the window again. He was pointing somewhere at the ceiling.

As Alex squinted to see what he was trying to tell him, he saw a handle he could grip onto that he had missed before, simply because the lights on it were malfunctioning.

Without a second thought Alex fired both hands at it and began making his way up. He had a plan. As he stopped his ascent just in front of the two toys, he signaled them to move.

They didn't seem to understand because they just stood there and looked at each other in confusion.

Alex groaned and let himself descend a bit, letting some of the cable out before he began swinging.

That seemed to make the toys realize what his intention was as they leapt out of the way just as Alex threw himself feet first against the window, shattering it completely.

He fell onto the ground next to both Bunzo and Ruby, groaning from the cuts from the glass shards.

"Human!" Bunzo worriedly yelled, seeing the blood and his now slightly ragged clothes.

"I'm fine, I'm fine!" Alex quickly said, standing up and looking at the small toys. "What are you two doing here?!"

"Saving you! Ruby found a vent that led to this room, and when we saw that you were cornered by PJ, we had to do something!" Bunzo explained.

Ruby seemed to agree with him.

Bunzo was about to speak, but was interrupted when Alex suddenly wrapped both of them in a hug.

"I really thought I was done for." He half laughed, half cried. "Thank you both for everything."

The two toys looked at each other, clearly not used to someone giving them a hug, but they simply accepted the gesture.

"You know, I think no one ever hugged any of us like this." Bunzo commented.

Ruby let out a growl of confirmation.

That shattered Alex's heart, and only made him angrier at the whole situation. "I hope the people that did all of this to you are rotting in hell." He simply said.

The toys chuckled. After a few more seconds, they heard a sound coming from the play area. PJ was trying to climb up the wall to get to them.

"Oh no! I completely forgot about PJ!" Bunzo exclaimed, peeking his head out the shattered window.

The pug and caterpillar hibrid seemed very desperate to get out of the room, so much, that he was quite literally trying to jump up the wall to get to them.

"We need to help him get up here!" The rabbit said.

"But how?"

"Try your GrabPack!"

Alex leaned out and tried to think of something. The room had nothing that could serve as a rope, so his GrabPack was the only hope they had of saving PJ from Mommy's wrath.

"PJ!"

The toy looked up at Alex. "I'm going to grab you with my GrabPack and pull you up! You try and climb as you did before, okay?"

PJ nodded. Seeing that, Alex turned to Ruby and Bunzo. "I'll need you to help me pull."

"Okay!" Bunzo said, with Ruby adding another growl.

As Alex launched the hands at the toy and pulled, he felt his feet start slipping, but he didn't dare let PJ fall. The long toy, with the help of the GrabPack cable, managed to climb using a few loose bricks from the wall as a platform.

After a very long while of the three of them pulling, PJ was finally up with them.

The moment Alex let the hands of the GrabPack go, Bunzo immediately jumped onto PJ's back, with Ruby doing the same. "PJ! I missed you!" The bunny said, as PJ started running around in circles, clearly happy.

Once he finished, he turned to look at Alex, his eyes piercing him to his very core. After that, he licked his face once and threw himself onto him.

"Hey, hey! Come on, stop it!" Alex chuckled while PJ thanked him just like a regular dog would.

After he was done, Alex stood up and looked at the three toys beside him. "Okay, what now?"

"We get out of here!" Bunzo stated. "And fast! Before-"

"Where did you go? The game is over, you won!" Mommy's voice echoed. "Come back and Mommy will give you the code. Pinky promise!"

Alex froze. "Something tells me she's not going to give us the code."

"We run?" Bunzo asked.

"We run."

Immediately, the four began scrambling away. Making their way through a hole in the wall, they came across a big pit with a handle on the ceiling. The toys used a ledge on the wall that was barely enough for them to pass through, while Alex swung to the other side.

"Mommy knows the game is rigged, but Mommy just decided you won!" A high pitched laugh. "Come back!"

They ran through the hallway, finding a dead end. Ruby looked up and pointed at a handle for Alex to latch onto while her and Bunzo rode on PJ and climbed up.

"Mommy doesn't like cheaters! The rules are so simple! You die, Mommy and your little friends get to watch! " Another terrifying laugh. "COME BACK!"

The group passed a poster that showed the Long Legs family, before running up a set of stairs. "AAAAARGH! HOW DARE YOU DISOBEY ME?!" Her cheery facade had broken, finally revealing the anger Mommy had been hiding for so long "I WILL FIND YOU! I WILL FIND YOU ALL! And when I do..." A maniacal laugh. "Where are you~? WHERE ARE YOU?!"

"I'm scared..." Bunzo cried.

"Me too, buddy." Alex sighed. "Me too."

Another hole and another handle to latch onto. The toys used a nearby vent that connected to the upper side to move.

They kept running forward, but found a dead end. There was nothing except a vent. They began crawling through it, as fast as they could. Stealth was not in their minds at that moment.

There's gotta be a way to calm her down, Alex. You just have to find it.

God, why is everyone here crazy? What's next, a fucking satanic cult?

...

Shouldn't have thought that. Now it's for sure going to happen.

They kept advancing, running without daring to look back. None of them wanted to see what Mommy had in store for them.

Finally, they arrived at another place in this factory. The 'Water Treatment' area, used to treat the water that was sent to all the places in the facility.

They were on a platform where they could see the entirety of the plant, with doors to the left, right and forward, though that last one was inaccessible through their position, if Alex remembered correctly.

He also noticed that there was another TV and a paper laying next to the controls of the facility.

He decided to read it.

"

- Transfer Request -

Experiment 1222 - 'Mommy Long-Legs'

Subject - Marie Payne

"

Alex widened his eyes. Marie Payne? That's a person's name. Why did they write that?

Alex kept reading, feeling something was very wrong with that.

"

Abilities:

Mommy Long-Legs has the unique ability to stretch any of her limbs for several hundred feet. This includes her fingers, arms, hair, neck, waist, and legs. She's very hostile towards the staff, but is very motherly and acts warmly towards the other experiments. She is protective of them.

Problem:

The hostility is quickly becoming problematic, but perhaps there is a solution to put her in her place.

Proposal:

Mommy Long Legs would be perfect for facilitating everything with the children in the game station. She has the warmth that a mother should, and any rowdy child can learn to 'listen to their mother.' It makes sense that her seeing these children daily would improve her behavior, and it is very unlikely she will act out in front of the children. Have her transferred to High Security Maintenance immediately. Conditioning can begin.

"

Alex dropped the paper. He felt his heart begin to pound as realization hit him like a train. He remembered the note in Elliot's office, saying that they wanted to test things in things bigger than rats. Those 'things' weren't cats or dogs. They were people.

The toys were people.

He felt sick. Very sick.

T-They turned people into toys. For some reason, they turned people into toys.

And not only that, they abused, hurt, and mistreated all of them.

He saw the words again. 'Conditioning'. 'Put her in her place'. He let out a bitter chuckle.

And I helped.

He felt his ears start ringing and his limbs shaking. He had, even if it had been indirectly, helped those monsters he worked for turn people into toys.

That's why they needed scientists at a toy factory.

Alex breathed in, and out. Calm down, Alex. Maybe... those people weren't alive! Yeah, maybe they simply used people that were dead or about to die to give them a new chance! There was always that phrase in the adoption posters about 'giving children a new life'!

Y-Yeah, it has to be that!

...

Give children a new life?

"HUMAN!"

Bunzo's yell followed by cymbals clapping snapped him out of his thoughts. He couldn't break down in front of the toys. They had already gone through enough. He just had to keep reassuring himself that 'Marie Payne' was either terminally ill or dead before becoming the thing that was chasing them.

But deep down, he knew things weren't going to be as good as that. There had to be a reason she was hostile to the scientists. To him.

"Y-Yeah?" He shakily asked.

"What's in the paper? I've been calling you for a while now and you just didn't react."

Alex looked at it, grabbing it and keeping it in his pouch. "Nothing. It was just... erm... Adult stuff. Yeah!"

Bunzo didn't look too convinced.

"If you say so..." He handed him a VHS tape. "Ruby found this."

"Thank you." He said, grabbing it, happy to be able to distract his swirling head. "Where are the rest?"

"Ruby's trying to find a way to open the door to keep going, and PJ is helping her cross."

"Okay. I'll watch this and I'll help you. Just..."

"Human, are you sure you're okay?"

Alex simply sighed. "Don't worry about me. I'll be fine."

He didn't seem to be convinced, but nodded and walked away. Alex couldn't take his eyes away from any of them.

Which were your names before this? And the toy corpses...

He wanted to vomit right there, but he didn't even have the strength to do that.

Alex shook his head. He didn't want to think about it. At least he had some more information to deal with Mommy later.

He felt bad calling her that now.

Nonetheless, he inserted the tape into the player and watched the recording. It was a guy named Jimmy Roth that worked in the marketing department talking about his strategies.

The tape didn't have too much to note and Alex was definitely not in the mood to listen to an interview.

Deciding he was done for now, he noticed the controls of the platforms. There were two buttons, one to rotate the top platform 90 degrees and another one to rotate the bottom one 90 degrees.

He didn't see the toys standing on the platforms, so he decided to test the buttons. It turned out that making the bottom platform rotate would make the top one rotate approximately 45 degrees too.

A tricky puzzle, but nothing he couldn't solve. He didn't get his degree because of his pretty face.

"Human, we're back!" He heard Bunzo call from behind him.

"Did you find anything?"

"Ruby says we need a toy of me to open the door, and it looks like sitting in the scanner myself doesn't work." He explained.

"Where does the left door take us to?"

"We didn't check. We couldn't find a way to get there without falling in the water."

Alex turned to the controls, cracking his fingers. "Let's build the path then."

After a while of pressing buttons, he managed to get the platforms in the perfect way for them to walk to the left door, which contained a long set of conveyor belts carrying smaller versions of Bunzo toys. Alex couldn't grab them with his GrabPack because they were inside a glass tube.

He found out there was a platform that could be raised and lowered, and looking up, he saw a small hole where he could make a toy fall to him, if the big buttons with arrows signaling the direction of the conveyor belt meant he could change its direction.

"Meow, meow, meow, meow, buzz! "

Alex turned around and saw that the toys were occupied with a cutout of Cat-Bee. Seeing the toy again brought back unpleasant memories of that Huggy chase.

"To bee, or not to bee? That is the question!"

Alex wasn't keen on hearing anymore bad puns, so he got onto the platform and began working to get the toy.

He was disappointed to realize he could still hear the cutout, even from all the way up there.

After a long while of hitting buttons, raising and lowering the platform, and groaning from the annoying puns coming from the cutout, he managed to get a Bunzo toy to fall onto his hands.

He lowered it back down and groaned again, hearing the three toys still hitting the cutout button.

"Do you not get tired of the bad jokes?" Alex asked.

"We got tired a long time ago. We just heard you groaning at them and decided to annoy you a little bit." Bunzo laughed, making the other two chuckle as well.

Alex simply rolled his eyes. "You guys are so funny. Anyway, I got the toy. Let's get to that door."

The group made their way back to the control panel and tried to get the platforms to make a bridge to the right door, but it was a bit hard now that they weren't in their default position.

Alex heard Ruby asking something. "Translation?" He said.

"She asks why we don't try to make a bridge directly back to the Game Station." The bunny explained.

"Because it's impossible to do that. I don't know how they figured it out, but for what I read, it doesn't matter how many times we hit the buttons or in what order, the bridges simply won't make a path to the door."

"Oh."

After a few more minutes of futilely hitting buttons, Ruby groaned, jumped onto the panel and started hitting buttons herself.

She made the path for them in just a few seconds.

"You guys will never cease amazing me." Alex commented, walking down the stairs, ready to keep moving.

As they did, he couldn't help but notice Ruby glancing at the Game Station door with a concerned look.

"Hey, don't worry about your friends. I'm sure they'll be alright." Alex tried to reassure her. It seemed it worked, because she looked at him and gave him a small smile.

A pleasant change from the glaring from a few hours ago. Or minutes?

Speaking of that, how long had it been since Alex got into the factory? He remembered passing out when opening Poppy's case, but he didn't know how long he'd been out.

The only thing that made him unable to fall asleep, he guessed, was the adrenaline from being hunted down all the time.

He pushed the thoughts aside. He'd have time to rest later on.

Hopefully.

Poppy... Was she a person too? Why didn't she tell me?

Alex shook his head.

He let the toy Bunzo (the non-alive one) in the scanner, and after a few flashing lights, the door unlocked.

"Alright, let's get moving."

The hallway they walked through ended in another grated gate, with only a vent to keep moving forward.

As the group once again began making their way through the vents, Alex couldn't stop thinking about the note.

Is that why she's so angry at the toys for leaving her? But if she 'cared' about them, she wouldn't threaten to kill them. Did they turn a mother into a toy? I... Why do I keep thinking about it.

Just stop, please.

They ended up in a room with another TV and an electrical puzzle. Alex let the toys hit the Boogie Bot cutout button, but he threatened to break down its voice box if he heard it too many times.

He regretted it the moment it did a very bad robot joke.

He didn't have time for that though, as he began figuring out the puzzle. While he did that, he actually managed to find another VHS tape, which he would watch when he was done.

It took a long time and very precise timing, but he managed to do it after all. The lights in a room nearby lit up, which they saw thanks to a hole in the wall. They later heard the sound of the gate from before opening.

Before they kept moving, Alex inserted the VHS tape and the four began seeing what it had in store.

"The following is a pre-recorded announcement to address the many complaints regarding an alleged 'very, very big spider' crawling around in the facility."

"Oh, wait, I remember this announcement!" Alex exclaimed.

"The Playtime corporation wants me to remind you all that spiders that big... Do not exist, and if they did, quote: 'We would already be dead anyways.' End quote. Regardless, you can all rest assured the company's sending some specialists down here to have a look around and relieve the constant whining. Complaining seems to be everyone's primary contribution to this company. It's just a spider. You are all safe. Please, please carry on with your jobs."

"I remember it! Someone came and began screaming that they saw a big spider going around the vents!" Alex laughed. "I thought it was just a rumor."

"A very big spider? How? Is that another toy?" Bunzo questioned, before Ruby said something to him. "Oh!"

"Yeah, it turns out that it was most likely Mommy that had, God forgive me for saying this, 'breached containment', and was seen by people that had no idea of what was truly going on here, so the higher ups tried denying everything and making them forget about it." Alex explained to them.

The toys nodded in understanding, PJ seemingly not understanding the bigger words, but nodding regardless.

They made their way back through the vents, but just as they were about to reach the end, the floor below Alex broke and he fell down, out of the vents.

"Human! Are you alright?" Bunzo yelled.

"Yeah, I'm fine! Don't worry!"

"We're coming! Just hold on!"

"Don't you dare!"

The three looked confused. "You guys keep moving forward! I'll find a way back to the Game Station by myself!"

"Human, we're not-"

"I'm not giving you an option here. Just get back to the Game Station. And please, if you manage to find Poppy, let her out for me!"

Bunzo was about to argue, but held his tongue. "I hope you know what you're doing by trusting her, human."

"Trust me, I really don't."

"You're not good at reassuring, you know?" The bunny chuckled before jumping the hole and moving. Ruby followed, giving Alex a worried look, with PJ doing the same.

As the footstep sounds faded, Alex was once again alone.

Hopefully, he would manage to find Mommy and convince her to listen to him. He didn't know whether talking to her about the paper he found would make things better or worse, but there was only a way to find out.

Behind him, he saw really dirty white walls that led to a dead end. As he walked forward, he looked up and saw a handle he could grab. Maybe he would be able to go with the toys after all.

When he was below the hole, he saw that above the handle, there was darkness instead of the ceiling. He heard a sound coming from up there.

Hopefully it wasn't anything serious.

Just as he was about to fire his GrabPack hands onto the handle, he heard the same sound again, but a lot stronger.

"AAAAARGH!"

Before he knew, Mommy dropped from the darkness above, with Alex barely managing to jump back and out of the way.