Chapter 96

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The scientists were silent as they carted Hoppy's corpse down the hallway. The others following behind with Dogday, Kickin Chicken, Picky Piggy, Bubba Bubbaphant, and Craftycorn. They made their way further and further into the factory, and up an elevator shaft, before entering a giant cavernous space, and bringing them all to a room hidden behind some fake rocks. "Alright, tie them down" one scientist says to the others as they start to tie each critter one by one. Each was on their own examination table, and the scientists were hovering over each of the critters. "Now we wait until they wake up..."

Catnap was staying with Bobby until she woke up, he couldn't leave the only friend he had left in this place. Who knows when or even if the others would be back. The thought broke Catnap's heart, and the way the scientists spoke of his name 'Theo' made chills go down his back. "I'm not Theo anymore..." he whispers to Moonlight whose in his lap, and Sunshine whose on the floor sitting and staring up at the two cats with its head tilted. Sunshine obliviously missed Dogday already as they waddled around whimpering a few times before Catnap had to shush them. "It's okay... he, and the others will be back" he whispers, not even convincing himself.

Hiding in the vents in Bobby's home is the figure who had attacked Hoppy. It lurks waiting for its next victim. It watches with interest at the red bear asleep on the red and pink bed, but it doesn't attack just yet because it had other plans, being as quiet as it could it crawls its way towards a train track, and starts to follow it out of the Playcare.

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