'Bus Ride To Thebes IL.'
(So last poll about posting my Fanfics chapters- this is the first chapter i'll post the rest. *AND maybe some Sneak peaks🫣🫣*)
Hunter, who faked sleeping, opened one of her dark brown eyes and looked around her mess of a room. squinting trying to see around her better
getting up and checking if anyone to hear if anyone was near. As Hunter held her breath. and only heard nothing, She walked through her messy room to the closet grabbing her own light blue space jam hoodie and put it on over her shirt
then grabbing a black backpack stuffing a few shirts some pairs of pants her sketchbook a pencil, a few of her wings of fire books. her eyes heaved, flickering closed then shot open once again. with a long yawn followed by it.
she looked around her room for her phone eventually finding it on top of the dresser.
Opening it up clearing notifications' then shutting it off. Hunter then stuffed her phone into her hoodie pocket. then Hunter grabbed a sticky note and wrote
"Don't worry I wasn't kidnapped or ran away- well yes- I guess I did- but, I'm fine! I'm taking the time to travel a bit I will be back in maybe a week or so? I PINKY PROMISE!! Sincerely, Hunter-"
as Hunter finished, she took a piece of tape and stuck it to her TV's screen, heading towards the window as she opened it,
tossing her backpack out first then she barely managed to squeeze her way out of the window little scratches lined her body and small amounts of damage on the windows frame.
she grabbed her backpack swinging over her shoulder, then she crept over to a corner of her home, a bunch of bikes tangled in rose vines from the nearby rose bush.
squinting at the bike pile, she then turned on her phones flashlight. sweeping the light over the pile she soon spoter her bike. it was large, and had this shimmery purple color
the cool breeze of the wind running over her face, through knotted hair was nice... It wasn't too busy at the time since it was nighttime. keeping close to the side of the street as cars passed with blinding lights.
she gripped the cold handles tighter trying to keep balance speeding down the hill into the car ridden street. riding her bike past small fast food restaurants, few gas stations, and buildings went by in a blur riding her bike into town, shortly she arrived at her stop, 'The Bus Stop'
pushing down on the break, the bike skidded to a stop. as she rolled her bike down and over to the bench. she then sat down next to her bike on the bench curling up slightly shivering. she pulled her hood over her head with a slight hum trying to keep calm,
the wind was cool and chilling. she reached into her bag and fished out black headphones, she then plugged them into her phone before placing the ear pieces into her ears. fishing her phone out of her pocket she opened Youtube.
scrolling for a playlist. she soon found one and began humming along to the music. but soon the sound of a bus wheeling into the bus stop interrupted her music.
pulling out an earbud, she glanced at the bus. before once again reaching for her bag and pulled out a small light blue coin pouch with dark blue cheetah print pattern on the sock.
walking over to the bus stepping on and looking back taking one final look at her bike and her hometown that she had grown up in. looking at the bus driver, he looked at her and smiled slightly.
she looked around spotting the ticket machine opening her coin pouch taking out four quarters and placing them into the coin slot as it spat out a ticket.
tearing the ticket out of the slot. she stared at the ticket in her hand. the man reached for the ticket before taking the ticket. the man asked "And what stop will this be for li'l lady?" tipping his head to her.
"Thebes, IL please." she replied, to what she believed was, 'too quickly.' "Alright lil lady." The Bus driver said, nodding his head.
she nodded back, before shuffling to the back of the bus, not even realizing she had been holding her breath. she exhaled sitting down in the back of the bus as it started up and rolled out of the bus stop.
she put her earbuds back in, playing the same playlist again. she hummed, her head bopping to the music and the bumps on the road.
she had managed to sleep through most of the trip to Thebe's, resting and getting most of her energy back. but eventually woke up when the bus was about half way there.
"well why's a kid your age traveling with no one with them?" the man asked, "I ain't a kid!" Hunter snapped,
"Well if you ain't a kid then what are you?" the man sked, "I'm a teen.." Hunter stated puffing out her chest proudly
"You running away or something?" the man questioned "NO!-" she snapped, inraged by the bus driver's question.
"Then why you leaving to Thebe's?-" the man asked, "Well- I- uh... I'm going on a tour-" she worded with few stutters
"Oh..? what tour?" the man questioned, "Playtime Co..." she murmured under her breath,
"Oh- well you do know about the rumors. right?" the man questioned, "What rumors?" She asked, head lifting and tilting to the side.
"Well about a month ago there- there was the recall of all catnap plushies and that a corpse was found at the late Elliot's estate." the man finished,
"Oh- maybe someone planted the body? and I'm sure there's a reason for the recall?- maybe something happened to their stack of catnap dolls?" she defended, "If you insist?" the man shrugged,
an hour had passed, until the bus slowed into a bus stop making it to its destination. "and we've arrived at your destination. Thebes Il" the man called.
Hunter stood up grabbing her backpack and tossing it over her shoulder. making her way to the front she tipped her head to the bus driver before stepping off of the bus.
she gulping silently glancing around the dreary town. she walked along the sidewalk keeping her pace slow yet quick enough to get away when needed.
soon stopping at a small park to star on her plans. like what to do when she got there. 'What the hell am i gonna even say!? they probably don't let teens enter or do a tour without adult supervision!'
groaning she pulled out her phone looking up the quickest route to Playtime Co and there it was the quickest root, and so she headed off in that direction-
and off into the woods...
After she had reached the front of playtime Co. she then looked up at the building in awe always dreaming of coming here for such a long time. looking around and checking the door,
creaking open into the dark lobby room, she opened the door wider to see the lobby room was mainly a mess.
but as she stepped into the building to see the large lobby room while the lights were all shunned and off. the front desk had no one standing behind it. she'd tumble over her own feet while looking around the dark area.
"Lets just hope no one hears that...?" she'd chuckle nervously while cautiously trying to be as stealthy as she could, she'd look around and huff a sigh.
"GOD DAMN IT!! I STILL can't believe I'm doing this..." she hissed, while rubbing her temples irritated.
"Okay OKAY... I'll be fine just stay out of sight, find a toy and get out like nothing ever happened..." she'd say to herself quietly as she'd glance around the room for a toy
her eyes locked onto a TV that flickered to life as a man started speaking
"Hi, My name is Leith Pierre, and I'm the Head of innovation here at Playtime Co. toy factory. If you're seeing this, then you're trespassing."
"Yeah, we play this little tape on loop whenever we close up the factory for the day."
"So. Trespasser, just to make you aware. . . While we pride ourselves primarily on our high-quality toys and excellent childcare, we also pride ourselves on our security."
"For example, this facility is full of hidden motion triggers which, once set off, will turn on the factory's emergency alarms and directly contact the authorities. And. . . That's one of the more tame aspects of our security system."
"No spoilers! So, you've got my warning. It's not too late to turn around. I just hope that you're certain whatever you're doing here is worth it."
She stared into the TV surprised on what it had said, shaking her head trying to get rid of that feeling "So there hidden motion triggers eh...? I can deal with that I guess" she muttered,
walking to the right of her, and into the gift shop, seeing no toy of her interests she left the gift shop and headed down a longer hallway into the main room.
where she met face to face with the statue of a tall blue plush-toy a yellow stripe between its eyes, with long limbs and velcro pads on its yellow mitten hands,
a large blue bow was around the oversized toy as its gaze seemed to follow her.
standing in the center of the room seeming intimating just standing there "Hmmm... I presume your The Huggy Wuggy..." she muttered to herself while walking away.
Soon she made her way to the "Make-A-Friend" room, She looked around feeling ready for anything until I heard a small chatter coming from one of the hallways
She ducked behind the conveyor hiding in plane sight as two Night guards were patrolling the area walked right past her. The moment they were gone she zipped for the hallway they had come from.
she wandered down the long and dark hallway for what felt like ages until she saw a flashlight coming from around the corner of the hallway
ducking into an office near her. She hid under a desk waiting for the loud footsteps to go away.
Eventually the heavy footsteps faded away down the hallway, she got up and headed for the door of the office until a filling cabinet caught her eye...
it was overflowing with files so she walked away from the door and came back towards the filing cabinet.
looking through the drawers she found a bunch of files with some kids picture's in the files. she dropped the files and look to the floor tensing as the sight of the files she trembled scared and concerned.
"There not making kids dreams come true there making kids nightmares by turning KIDS INTO FUCKING TOYS!?!!? ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?!” she hissed, shoveling the files into her backpack.
“Now this is low even for Playtime Co."
she stood up walking to the door, opening and shutting the door behind her. now she just wandered through the hallway again.
soon seeing the light from a night guards flashlight around the hallway she darted back to the main lobby and that's when it pounced...
the Huggy statue turned its head to her as it opened its mouth revealing two rows of sharp needle like teeth in its maw. It shrieked running at her while she turned back into the hallway. the statute then lunged at her but just missed by an inch
she kept running down the hallway reaching for the office until the Statue latched its arm onto her leg pulling her to the floor and towards it.
It turned her over staring into her soul for a moment before sinking its needle teeth into her arm, tearing off her arm and eating it in the progress as a toothy grin stared back at her.
she turned her head, trying to cover her gaze from the statue. as it attempted to tear her arm off but only got the hand while she shreaked in pain and horror,
while the statue went for my head until a small whistle caught the statues attention.
she looked to the sound of the whistling while a sigh of relief washed over her, when she saw a man with black shaggy hair glasses over his eyes,
a lab coat over a black shaggy turtleneck and brown jeans with black shoes on, was staring the statue down pulling out a small dart gun with a dart of some sort in the dart gun.
The statue backed down slowly still with the large mitten hands over her head most likely attempting to finish her off as a low growl sound came from the statue as its mitten hand came down whacking her in the head before the statue returned to standing in the spot on the stand from when she first saw It.
The man looked at her, smiling softly "I'm SO sorry about our guard dog..., let me help you out."
the man said as he lend a hand to help her up trying to be careful with her now torn and clawed up body, his shirt, lab coat, and hands were slightly bloody now,
as the man walked her back through the hallway from where the office she had tried to run to.
"hey we're are we going.....?" she'd cough out, resting her arm on his shoulder, the man just glanced over at her "we're going to fix you and make you better." the man replied, she looked at him with some suspicion but nodded trying to stay silent.
while the man continued down the hallway, with her clutching onto him like a lifeline.
The man continued down the hallway and deeper into the factory still allowing her to hold onto him with what she had left of an arm she suddenly felt slightly light headed,
her body fell limply to the floor with a thump as the man panicked. he moved her to the side of the hall blood trailed closely. he examined her body closely before sighing face cold like stone. "So kid..." the man spoke.
"Sawyer." she looked at Sawyer, "What..?" she asked confused "My name is Harley Sawyer, I told you my name so tell me yours. that's the respectful thing to do" the man replied,
"Uh... why...?" she asked lowly, the man simply turned his head looking at me as he lowered his glasses "Because I'm giving you a choice..." Harley replied coldly, "What choice...?" she Hissed,
Harley stared at her for a moment with a smirk forming on his face "This deal... work here and never go home getting to live or leave and be killed by our 'guard dog'..." Harley finished.
she stared at him shocked on what he had just offered her. "excuse me...?!" she questioned quietly at him, "ARE YOU GOD DAMN CRAZY!?!?!?!?" she'd finish, "the choice and truly simple.. so what do you choose...?" Harley asked,
for a moment she stared down at the floor and then back at him with a slight nod wrinkling her face "and what do I get out of this...?" she asked,
"let me think... well you get to live a job and a new permanent home" Harley finished with a slight chuckle,
"fine... I'll accept this 'Offer but I won't like it..'" she hissed lowly. curling up, her bloody stump of an arm around her legs, Harleys face lit up clasping his hands together.
"WONDERFUL! I'll get the prosthetics started! and I'll have White assign you to a room!" Harley finished, rushing out of the room.
as some minutes passed until a young man entered the room with short ragged light brown hair with a black shirt under a white lab coat, tan jeans black formal shoes dark misty blue eyes a deceptive smile plastered on his face
he bowed a bit and tried taking her hand. but she had pulled her hand away in the moment he did. "You are Dr. White right?" she asked tilting her head which was throbbing,
"Yes indeed I am" Dr White bowed, "... can you grab me, my backpack it's in the lobby room... please?" she whispered keeping her head low,
Dr White stared at her for a moment then nodded heading to the lobby room disappearing behind the corner. A few minutes went by as she sat in the chair slumply until a light thud came from the hallway
Dr White appeared from behind the corner carrying her bloody bag.
she stood up shakily latching onto Dr White with what she had for a hand as he walked her further down the hallway. A shiver ran down her spine as she stepped into the operating room where Harley stood seeming contempt,
"Alright we'll put you under anastasis and this procedure will be done quick like that" He exclaimed snapping his fingers enthusiastically,
Hunter nodded and approached the operation table, sitting down then rearranging herself to lay down. Harley approached the table with a oxygen mask as he put it over her face, while she drifted off to sleep...
Hours had gone by now.
Hunter groaned slowly sitting up, placing her hand onto her head as she panicked, her left arm was made of yellow plastic covered in colorful shapes and patterns
while her right hand was only made of the same yellow plastic, and the patterns were mainly the same. glancing back to her left arm she tried moving her arm. "This is weird..." Hunter observed,
"You'll get used to it eventually." Harley responded, as he did an awful job at sounding comforting.
"Well I'll send you to a room to rest and ill tell you what your doing here tomorrow." Harley finished, stepping out of the room as Dr White stepped in again,
"So i guess ill be showing you to your room..?" Dr White sighed, "Come on now.." Dr white said extend his hand,
pushing his hand away with her new metallic hand and sat up pushing herself off of the operation table following him to the room Harley spoke of.
Being directed to a hallway with other doors most likely leading to other room until Dr White stopped Infront of a door
"Here we are.." Dr White said opening the door to a colorful child like room with a bed on the right side of the room and a small desk on the left side along with a bookshelf filled with some kids' book's.
Hunter stepped into the room as Dr White shut the door behind her. flopping onto the bed resting her head on her arms falling asleep.
Hunter had been woken up hours ago, her and Harley. moved over a catwalk with muliable vats of Play-Dough and putty.
"This is where we make our 'Doey Dough' and 'Party Putty' which isn't released yet because where still working some things out with the products."
"like with the 'Party Putty' it has Little to no problems but- It doesn't have a mascot yet- and who wants a toy with no mascot?" He chuckled,
". . ." Hunter stayed quiet for a , "Why what?" he asked,
"Why do you have all those files of kids and why are they 'Assigned' to different toys...?" she asked lowly, as she could tell that Harley was deadpanning her.
"Oh those are just the toys those kids have. to keep track of the kids information and what toys they have. that's all" Harley said in a surprisingly soft voice, "Harley's statement seemed believable but not fully. I'll keep an eye on him."
"You'll be assigned to take care of the Subjects... sense you know to much. and if they kill you. well~ I guess we'll find a new one" Harley said without looking up from his clipboard.
"What.. WHAT SUBJECTS!!! ARE YOU SAYING I'M DISPOSABLE!!!" she cried, "I guess- but yes. yes you are NOW SHUT UP ALREADY!-" Harley raised his voice to a yell,
"To me it seems like you can handle that?" Harley responded more impatiently, Hunter crossed her arms and pouted, "FINEEEEEEEEEEEEE-" Hunter whined,
"but if ANYTHING happens it's YOUR fault.." Hunter hissed, "alright.." Harley said crossing his arms,
"It's a deal now run along to your room to sleep for the night you start downstairs tomorrow." Harley finished ushering Hunter away and back to the room Harley had assigned Her to before.