Save the Factory (Poppy Playtime Reader Insert)

Hallucinatory Confrontation

The massive group of You, Kicken Chicken, Miss Delight, Craftycorn, Dogday, and the toy critters of Bobby Bearhug and Hoppy Hopscotch walked down the hall to the Gas Production Zone, with you carrying the battery needed to finish the gas transference. As you were walking, you decided to bring up the odd behavior of Catnap you'd seen up to this point. The twitching and dialating pupils, the choice of taunting which he couldn't know, and the manner of speech.

"My point is, I think the Prototype may be manipulating Catnap and forcing him to do all of these things." You said as Dogday spoke up from Kick's back, "It could be the case. The Prototype tried to control the rest of us, but we never owed anything to him, so there was no way for him to easily reach into our minds." "But since Catnap was personally saved by The Prototype, in the early days, it felt like he wanted to repay him, before he began revering The Prototype as a god." Kick also mentioned. "After that, he became... different. Not too noticeable at first, but the signs were there." Crafty softly said as she shivered.

"Yeah, Hoppy even told me once she'd heard him ripping out his own voice box, but the people in coats never got around to fixing it." Kick darkly said. You held your own throat with your hand as Dogday spoke up, "That caused some permanent damage that lasted even to this day. While I was in captivity, a steam pipe once broke, and Catnap screeched before running off. He then later destroyed all the steam pipes around the cell block." "It could be that there's an adverse reaction when the red smoke comes into contact with steam. But I can only theorize about this." Miss Delight said as the seven of you finally reached the main area of the Gas Production Zone.

The lights still remained off, and the screen still displayed a lack of power. Turning on the flashlight, you took note of everything in the environment. There were the wires not only connecting to the console and the nearby battery socket, but there were also some leading to a service elevator. Advancing on the battery socket, the door to the right suddenly opened as Catnap crawled through the small space, making you drop the battery in fear as you backed up. "Get back!" Miss Delight called out as Catnap began filling the entire area with red smoke, and without any sort of protection, everyone was consumed in the mist.

Peeking open one eye, you saw that you were still standing upright, with a slight woozy feeling encompassing you. But you powered through it as you looked back to the others, seeing them in a similar state, save for Dogday. "Are you alright?" You asked as you ran back over to the group. "We're fine." Kick said as he held his head before looking around frantically, "But where's Catnap!?"

You then picked up on the sound of Crafty quivering in fear. Following her gaze, you could make out a much more nightmarish version of Catnap, with a lack of fur and pencil thin limbs supporting a hulking grey frame. Long black claws that resembled blades on Catnap's near skeletal paws, and his face. His white eyes nearly invisible with how dilated his pupils were, and a mouth curled into a twisted smile that stretched down to near floor level. You could feel the floor rumble with his approach, fear creeping up your spine the more you looked at this monstrosity.

"Everyone! Get to the elevator! Go, go, go!" Dogday suddenly shouted, breaking your frozen stance as you all began running to the service elevator you'd spotted earlier. Running to it, Miss Delight slammed her fist on a giant button, opening the gate and allowing all of you to get onto the lift. As you hit the button to go up, an alarm blared as the grated door shut back, and the lift began ascending.

As Catnap approached, he clung onto the grating as if he was ignoring the laws of physics as he followed you up from the outside, staring at all of you with wide, manic eyes. But he wasn't able to follow you up the whole way as he eventually came to a ceiling. He simply turned and began climbing the ceiling away as he faded from your view. You now had a moment to take as the elevator continued to rise, making sure everyone was alright once again before it came to a stop.