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Chapter 11 – A lot to unpack
Moxxie followed closely behind Mommy long legs, as she made her way up to the front of the train station platform. Standing right before it laid panel with three levers on it.
Right before the console was a set of three doors leading into the floor, one to his right, one to his left and one just under the panel, all three doors appeared to be currently looked.
The door on his right had a sign showing the words ‘Musical Memory’. the picture itself was that of some yellow bunny creature wearing a green party hat with a pair of musical cymbals in each hand.
‘If it involves music, at least I might enjoy it.’ Moxxie thought to himself, hoping he’d get some enjoyment out of this experience.
The door right in front of him also had as sign, this one had the words ‘Statues’ written on it. The picture appeared to be of what Moxxie could only assume was a blue and purple dog.
‘What could that game even be?’ Moxxie pondered, the name didn’t remind of anything he played in his childhood, then again, he didn’t play many games in his childhood.
The third and final door on his left was one that seemed to catch his attention the most though. Mainly because the name on the sign read ‘Wack-a-Wuggy’ featuring a picture that contained two of the creatures he had previously fought, a blue one smashing another green one with a hammer.
Moxxie just had a sour expression on his face as he looked at the sign. It just felt like a reminder of his failure to complete his pervious assignment.
‘At the very least, I can blow off some steam.’ Moxxie thought. It was a whole lot easier to hurt something if you didn’t like it, something that didn’t come up much on assassination missions.
Taking his eyes off the sign, he turned back around to see his pink tour guide up by the lever panel, just above the ‘Statues’ door. The panels themselves appeared to have 3 small lights just above them, currently the two on his left were off and the third one was flashing red and beeping.
He watched as Mommy gripped onto the level above the red light and pressed pulled it down, as she did, he was quick to notice the light turning green. Moxxie could also tell she was excited due to her expression going wider and her body shaking, unable to contain herself.
A second later, a loud piece of weird music played across the Game Station, from what the imp assumed was an intercom system.
Immediate after, a voice began to come from the same intercom.
“Hi kids! Welcome to the Game Station! I'm Stella and we've got three super, duper fun games to play! These little tests show us just how crazy, strong and smart you are! Follow Mommy Long Legs down the stairs and we'll start by playing Musical Memory! See you in a bit!”
As the recording played Moxxie took another look at Mommy who seemed to become more exited as the voice continued. She even pointer towards herself dramatically once her name was mentioned by ‘Stella’.
‘Hah Stella, that…is a very funny confidence’ Moxxie thought to himself, being reminded of a certain Goetia swan who shared the same name.
“Ok, it’s been sooo long since I’ve heard that. Anyway, you heard what the voice said follow me.” Mommy said as she motioned her hand for him to follow and moved past him down towards the Musical Memory door.
As Moxxie followed her, he started to hear a clanking sound coming from the door to the room. Soon the loud clanking of moving metal was heard as it scrapped across the floor. The door appeared to have not been used in ages, as it struggled to open.
Moxxie covered his ears and gritted his teeth from the agonizing noise. Thanking himself once the sound rescinded and the door fully opened.
Mommy Long Legs in the meanwhile didn’t seem to be affected by the noise at all, she just gleefully smiled as the door opened, clapping her arms in excitement.
On the other side of the open door was a staircase that led down a little further to another area. Moxxie began to follow Mommy as she made her way down. As they started to approach the bottom of the staircase the first thing he was able to notice was how badly the place appeared.
The place hadn’t been up and running for a long time and it showed. A large part of the floor was stained with a weird black substance and several tiles on the ground were cracked. The biggest problem however was that one of the walls had almost collapsed and had a massive hole in it leading to another location entirely.
Looking around the room some more things he noticed was some old decorations depicting the yellow bunny thing he saw on the sign. This Included a poster that showed the bunny tapping his cymbals, with ‘Let’s Party’ written on it and the walls showed different pictures of the bunny in various poses.
Moxxie also noticed the way forward was blocked by a metal shutter door. It appeared to have gotten stuck halfway through opening, leaving a small gap in the middle.
‘Am I supposed to climb through there?’ Moxxie thought as he started to make his way forward. That was until he felt Mommy’s pink arm grip onto his shoulder, preventing him for advancing.
“Oh, that’s right, I almost forgot?” he heard Mommy say next to him, before turning to address him.
“I just remembered a special rule we must follow. Usually, we give a special piece of equipment to help during the second test, but it cases were the person doing the test is deemed too small we provide it early to help, to help with reaching. And with the way forward blocked we have the perfect opportunity to use it.”
Moxxie looked at the spider in confusion. ‘Special piece of equipment?’ He could only imagine what he was going to be given.
Before he could question what, she was talking about he watched her walk over to a small room, adjacent to the massive hole and turned the handle.
“I’m going to need you come in here, don’t worry this won’t take long.” She said addressing the small imp as she opened the door.
Soon after they both made their way inside, Moxxie began to scan around the new location.
It appeared to be something that almost resembled a classroom, with a few cupboards around the room. On the far side of the room was a massive screen with several chairs arranged in front of it and a yellow VCR placed into the corner next to the screen. On the other side of the room the wall a massive ruler was decorated onto the wall, along with a few decorations of the other toys.
The room appeared to be in a better condition than the outside, although it still wasn’t the best. While most of the overhead light appeared to work correctly, some of them would flicker. The room also had several toys and pieces of paper just littered around it, there were also more of the dark stains that Moxxie appeared to be seeing everywhere in the factory.
He watched as Mommy made her way other to one of the cupboards and began to rummage through them, before pulling out a few pieces of paper and siting down on one of the chairs, that faced the wall.
“Ok, Moxxie I need you to go stand by that big ruler picture on the wall and stand as close as possible. Usually, other people would handle this job, but since I’m the only one here your lucky enough to have me for this too.” She said, as she pointed towards where he needed to go.
Moxxie not wanting to make her upset or question her, he followed her command and went up to the wall. He placed himself in front of the wall, trying to make himself as straight as possible.
As he did, he watched as Mommy pulled a pair of glasses out of nowhere and placed them on her head. Moxxie could tell that judging by the fact they didn’t appear to fit her and the fact they were partially broken that the glasses didn’t originally belong to her.
Moxxie watched as she seemed to take a much more professional demeaner. “4 feet 4” He heard the spider mutter as she writes something down, before moving the paper away and placing the second one in front of her and began to look at Moxxie, with serious intent.
“Name?” She spoke, her cheery voice seemed to shift into a more professional tone, which Moxxie could only describe as like a teacher.
“Um, Moxxie” he replied really confused by her sudden shift and question, considering she already knew his name.
Between her pink colour, weird demeanour shift and the potential craziness, the spider was starting to remind him of that Pink Pie pony from that friendship show that Blitz would always watch.
Moxxie continued to stand by the wall as she wrote someone down on the sheet.
“Procter, that would be me” He heard her mumble again, before she looked back up at him.
“What toy are you again Moxxie?” She asked him confused, with her eyebrow raised, behind the broken specks.
Moxxie tilted his head at the question, not sure what he could say. She thought he was a toy. He did recall her mistaking him for some sort of ‘experiment’ earlier, whatever that meant. But Moxxie really didn’t know how he should answer the question.
“Um, I don’t know what you mean, Mommy” He replied as he rubbed the back of his head.
Mommy looked at him for a second before her head began to stretch out and make its way over to him, while her body remained seated. “You really don’t know?” Mommy replied, her expression shifted into a small frown for a moment, before she began to look him over, trying to find any clue to what he was. “I actually don’t recall ever seeing anything like you before, you’re not a Huggy or one of the dinosaurs, are you one of the critters perhaps?” She said as she continued to look him over. “What animal are you even supposed to be?”
“I’m a i-” Moxxie stopped himself before the word left his mouth, once he realised what he was about to blurt out.
‘I can’t tell her I’m an Imp, doesn’t matter who she was.’ Moxxie thought as he caught himself before he made such as huge mistake. Giving away that he was an imp would be a very bad idea.
‘I’ll have to tell her I’m something else to avoid her asking anymore questions.”
At this point he really did regret no putting on a human disguise, if he had hellhound shapeshifting powers or the Asmodeus crystal itself it wouldn’t be a problem, but he was kind of thrown into the mission without time to prepare a real disguise. Although it’s not like he thought the mission would require one, considering he was checking what he presumed was an abandoned factory.
He thought about for a few more seconds as he started to recall previous trips to the mortal world. On a few occasions when he had been discovered he was mistaken for a particular animal.
That seemed like the best answer to give her, seeing as others had already mistaken him for one, so it would be easy to believe (At least he assumed). He starts to remember that one mission on the beach, involving his Boss’s ex.
‘What did they think I was again?’ Moxxie thought, still having a little trouble remembering that day. Being stuck in a keg of alcohol and almost inhaling its entire contents, made it the details quite foggy.
He thought about for a few seconds when suddenly the memories flooded back to him, and he let out an annoyed sigh. He knew it was his best bet, he just hoped it wouldn’t cause any issues later down the line.
“I’m…. a possum” he tried to say with a straight face but ended up rolling his eyes, it was the only answer he had and so he was stuck with it.
He watched as she looked him in the eyes, Moxxie almost gulped thinking he had said something that upset her. Before she pulled her head back and shrugged her shoulders.
“Yep, that makes sense.” She said nonchalantly.
‘DOES IT?’ Moxxie thought, still surprised that it even worked. Did people really think he looked like that marsupial?” He began to look over his body ‘I don’t get it, is it the hair, the tail, my clothes?’ The Possum thought, questioning why so many seem to think the same thing.
Mommy meanwhile picked up the pieces of paper and began to walk over to another one of the wardrobe’s closer to the screen. Moxxie watched as she pulled out what looked like a yellow tape.
“Now that this is the papers are filled out, I need you to watch the video I’m going to show you. Can you please go and take a seat please?” Mommy said pointing over in the direction of the screen and the chairs.
Moxxie obeyed her and make his way over to the area. Glancing around, he saw many of the chairs were already occupied by broken and dismembered toys, It was honestly a little creepy, seeing so many toys like this. The chairs also appeared to come in a multitude of colours and designs, that resembled the toys that playtime co made.
Moxxie could judge by Mommy’s earlier comments and the size of all the chairs, that they were mostly likely intended for children.
As he continued to scan around for a chair, his eyes were drawn to greenish unoccupied chair with multiple colours on the back resembling scales. Moving around to the front he found that the seat itself had a black and white pattern resembling piano keys with a pair of green eyes and a snout on it. Moxxie on a second glance was able to notice that the chair was supposed to resemble a face, with the piano keys forming the teeth of the creature. It would have been cute if not for the current circumstances.
Not wanting to waste anymore time and upset Mommy, he took his seat and faced the screen in front.
He watched as the pink spider made her way up to the front carefully, seemingly to avoid hitting or bumping any of the chairs. Once she made it up.
She proceeded to insert the tape into the VHS. A few seconds later the sounds of VHS turning on began to echo thought the room, before the big screen flashed to life.
Immediately after the imp saw Mommy began to make her way over to the corner of the room. He heard the flick of a switch and all the lights turned off. Now the sole source of illumination in the room was the large screen.
“Ok, I need to go and get something for you, until I get back, I want you to watch the video. If have any questions afterwards, don’t worry Mommy will be back to answer shortly.” She said before she made her way out of the room, closing the door behind her.
Moxxie just turned around and looked back at the screen as it continued to make a buzzing noise and show static.
‘Is it broken?’ Moxxie thought, about to get up and try and fix it.
But as he was about to climb out of his seat, the static on the screen began to shift and between the buzzing and the static Moxxie began to hear voices as the screen started to become clearer.
Soon the static began to almost completely dissipate before being replaced by a screen featuring a red, white and blue background.
“What’s the time?” A female voice said from the screen, as the word appeared on the screen.
Soon the playtime logo began to fly from the background before stopping in the middle of the screen.
“PLAYTIME.” A bunch of children’s voices said on the screen, before the screen faded to black a moment later.
Moxxie at this point had seen this little opening before from doing research on the company. It was something that had appeared before most of their old product’s advertisements.
‘So, is this going to be another commercial?’ Moxxie thought.
His answer was given a second later once the screen return to an image of a big field. The field was a lovely emerald green, with a few trees dotted around in the distance. The blue sky was lovely and almost completely cloud free apart from a few, with the mortal sun shinning brightly on the fields. The entire thing appeared to be some sort of cartoon from Moxxie could see.
In the middle of the field was cartoon dog standing up on 2 legs, sitting on the field right next to him was a weird piece of equipment. The video soon cut to a closer view the dog, he appeared to be an orange colour with some weird sun pendent on his neck.
“Hey, everyone its DogDay and I’m here to give you this very important video.” The dog said, a massive smile on his face that seemed to almost cover his entire head.
‘Oh, wait that’s one of the critter characters’ Moxxie thought to himself.
Moxxie recalls they were a product of playtime go, a collection of toys known as the ‘Smiling Critters’, they had some Tv show if he could recall correctly.
“Today we’re here to show you the dos and don’ts of this very special piece of equipment that you’ll be using very soon, it’s called the GrabPack.” DogDay said excited as he pointed towards the device on the ground.
The imp was now able to get a better look at the ‘GrabPack’. It looked like a backpack; with a set of nozzles attached to either side of the device, the thing kind of looked like a gun to Moxxie, with a trigger. The only difference was that the ‘Guns’ appeared to have a set of hands on the ends of them. The one on the right had a red hand and the one on the left was blue.
‘That device and the hands look familiar, where have a seen that before?’ Moxxie thought to himself, he must have seen it while back at I.M.P headquarters, but he didn’t remember where exactly.
As he continued to observe, Moxxie soon noticed a small yellow chicken character with an orange star pendent walk into frame. He had a similar design to the Dog. The chicken had his arms crossed with a very cocky smile on his face.
“Wow, DogDay that looks really cool, let me try it.” The chicken character said, as he suddenly moved over and attempted to pick up the GrabPack.
“Woah woah woah, Kickin Chicken.” A panicked voice said, just as another new character ran into frame from the left side and got in between the chicken and the GrabPack. The creature was a blue elephant, with a lightbulb pendent around his neck. “While it does look fun to use, you have to make sure you know how it functions first, to avoid any accidents.” The blue elephant said as he turned towards the camera. Judging by the way he was speaking Moxxie assumed he was the smart one of the critters.
“That’s right Bubba.” Dogday said, as he walked over to the others. “If you wish to use the equipment correctly, you’re going to have remember all the safety rules and know to use it properly.”
The chicken look at DogDay before flashing him another of his cocky smiles and doing finger guns. “Oh, your right DogDay, there’s nothing cooler, then safety.”
‘At least someone’s smart’ Moxxie thought, relating to the fictional cartoon characters. So many times, at I.M.P he could recall trying to get everyone to be safer and they didn’t listen.
“So, what’s the first thing we have to learn Day?” Kickin Chicken said addressing his friend. As he starting to look at the GrabPack again.
“Well, the first thing you have to be aware of is putting it on correctly.” Dogday said as move over to help Chicken put it on.
“The first thing you have to be made aware of is that once its placed on your back, you must tighten the straps correctly.” Dogday demonstrated as he went behind his friend as the back was placed on him.
A few seconds later the device was attached to the yellow chicken’s back. “Wow, this thing is very light.” Kickin said in a very over-the-top exited manner as he jumped to get a feel for the device.
“Yeah, it’s not very heavy to avoid any potential injuries, but make sure that its attached properly, if you’re struggling to put it on yourself then make sure to get a grownup to help put it on.” The blue elephant, Bubba told while looking at the screen, Cleary addressing the audience once again.
“Ok, what cool things can we do with it?” Chicken said as both his hands began to shake in excitement.
“Well first we have to go over how the pack actually works.” Dogday said. Once he finished speaking, the scene transition, as the field began to disappear and was soon replaced with the interior of a house. The imp was able to make out a large assortment of boxes in varying sizes in the background.
Moxxie also started to notice that another character had made their way on into the frame, this one was green bunny rabbit, their pendent appeared to be a yellow lightning bolt.
“Hey, what are you guys doing?” The rabbit asked, who appeared to be female based of her voice. She was jumping around and didn’t look like she could stay still.
“Hi Hoppy, DogDay was just about to show us how to use the GrabPack.” Kickin said addressing the bunny, who was now discovered to be called Hoppy.
“Oh cool, can I learn to?” Hoppy replied just as excited as her friend.
“Of course you can Hoppy.” DogDay said, as he immediately snapped his fingers and a second GrabPack magically appeared on Hoppy’s back, in a sudden cloud of smoke.
“The first thing you’ll notice is that is that there are triggers on each side of the device to put your fingers into.” DogDay said as they both looked at the machines. “You’ll also noticed that the Packs have a hand attached to them, by pressing the trigger, that arm will launch off and attached to the whatever it grabs. Hoppy why don’t you give it a try and aim for that box.” DogDay then pointed at a box in the middle of the room.
The green bunny looked confused before moving the attached handle, which seemed to also move the attached hand. She aimed the hand at one of the smaller boxes in the room and as soon as she pressed the trigger the hand launched off with incredible speed with a wire attached to it, before latching onto the box.
“Woah, that’s cool” Hoppy said amazed at what she had witnessed.
“I know it’s cool, but you’ll know notice that the hand is still attached to the box, now you can do two things. To release the grip on the item simply tap the trigger again, Hoppy.” DogDay said to his rabbit friend.
Hoppy did as she was told, and it releases the grip and the hand pulled back towards the pack.
“Thats great work Hoppy, now Chicken I want you to do the same thing, only could you aim towards that box.” DogDay said as he pointed towards a much smaller box.
“Ok.” Kickin said as he fired off the GrabPack and it attached the same way to the box.
“Now I want you to hold down the trigger instead of just tapping it, like Hoppy did.”
Kickin did what he was told, and they watched at the GrabPack retracted like before, only this time the hand still had the Box attached and so brought it back to Kickin.
“Woah, that’s cool.” Kickin Chicken said, addressing his friends.
“Yes, by using the GrabPack you can bring smaller objects towards you.” Bubba said as he informed them on the functions of the GrabPack.
As they spoke another GrabPack hand launched from off screen, latching on to a small fruit bowl on one of the houses counters, before pulling it back. Everyone turned as the video turned towards a pink pig who was also wearing a GrabPack and was currently eating an apple from the bowl she had just grabbed. She appeared to be enjoying herself based on the loud crutches she took as she consumed her food. She was wearing a apple pendent around her neck.
“Piggy.” DogDay said in a happy tone with a mischievous grin and his hands on his hips.
The pig, now known as Piggy, swallowed her food before addressing the others. “Sorry, its just this item is soo handy in grabbing things.” She replied sheepishly (or piggishly?).
“Oh, it’s alright the device main purpose is grabbing small objects from far away and even can be used to carry objects.” Dogday said.
“Hey Hoppy lets try and move that very big Box.” Kickin said to his bunny friend as they both turned towards the massive box in the room.
Both sported a grin before aiming their packs at the big box. However, as they both aimed, they were interrupted, by Bubba.
“Whoa whoa guys, that is a very dangerous thing that you should never do.” He said holding up his hands to stop both. “Moving small objects is fine, but you must never try and move something this big, you could both get hurt if you’re not careful.”
“Oh, give me a break!” An arrogant voice erupted from out of frame.
All the critters in the room were caught off guard by the sudden appearance of the new voice, as another critter appeared on screen.
The character was a crimson red dragon, sporting a golden dollar sign pendent around his neck. He seemed to have a lot more going on with him design wise then the other critters. He had a pair of golden earrings, including one above his right eye, a pair of golden horns and massive sharp teeth. He also had a pair of wings and what the imp could see was as a little mascara on his eyes.
Moxxie was sort of confused about this new individual, he had seen the other critters while doing his research on the company, but he doesn’t recall seeing a dragon among them. The guy kind of reminded the imp of Satan, the lord of Wrath.
The dragon seemed to barge his way in to the room, which seemed to get a different reaction from most of the people in the room. DogDay seemed to be slightly nervous, with Bubba and Piggy looking frightened by his presence. But it seemed that both Hoppy and Chicken had annoyed looks on their faces.
Judging by their reactions, he wasn’t a liked individual or at least one with a bad reputation. Just by the way he entered Moxxie could almost feel the arrogance radiating off him, it made the dragon stick out compared to the others, happy go lucky critters.
“Oh, hey Simon Smoke, w-what are you doing here?” DogDay asked nervously, as he rubbed his arm.
The dragon now named Simon turned towards them. “Well, I came because I heard you were telling people how this cool this thing was. Only to see that you guys are talking about all the boring rules, instead of doing anything cool.” Simon replied annoyed at the group.
DogDay rubbed the back of his head. “Well, Simon we have to explain the rules, otherwise you might get hurt.” He said trying to be as nice to the rude reptilian.
Simon rolled his eyes before grabbing a new GrabPack out of nowhere offscreen “You critters are soo lame, let me show the kids how it’s done.” Simon said before aiming his GrabPack at the massive box, immediately after he pressed both triggers launching the hands towards the box and latching both on.
Simon turned to the others with a smile “This is how you do it.”
“Wait, Simon that’s dangerous.” Kickin said, his annoyance replaced with concern for the dragon, as he attempted to go over and help him.
“I know what I’m doing-”
As Simon spoke, he pressed down both triggers at once to pull the object towards them, however due to the weight of the box, it instead pulled Simon towards it, before the device launched him forward and he smashed headfirst into the boxes.
“OOF” Simon yelped before falling on his side, with both arms leaning behind him, including one of his legs. His face wasn’t visible, but you could hear him groaning in pain.
All the critters and even Moxxie himself recoiled at the injury. The imp was no stranger to getting hurt and had become guide adept at determining how painful something was and that dragon was going to feel it in the morning.
Moxxie watched the video as the other critters ran up to check if Simon was ok.
“You ok, Simon?” Dogday said in concern.
“I think he might be hurt, can someone go and get the first aid kit?” Bubba said to the rest of the critters.
“Don’t worry I’m here.” A new voice said.
The critters turned as a red bear walked into the room carrying a first aid kit and wearing a heart pendent. Before she walked over to Simon Smoke with a slight worry look on her face. She soon opened the kit and began to pull out a large roll of bandages.
“Thanks for coming Bobby.” DogDay said, relieved that his friend was here to help. As the others started to surround the dragon, Dogday walked towards the camera with a more serious look on his face, compared to his normal smile.
“Remember kids, always be careful when handling the GrabPack and NEVER grab anything too large. You don’t want to be an unsafe Simon.” Dogday said as the scene went back to show the others next to Simon. The dragon now appeared to be covered in multiple bandages cartoonishly covering most of his body, making it hard for him to move.
The screen turned back to DogDay. “But that’s not the only thing you should watch out for while using the GrabPack, grappling boxes is all fun and games.” Dogday said, as he reached behind his back and pulled out a plush of himself. “But you should also be careful to never aim it at another person. The pull from it can put the other person in danger.”
As DogDay finishes speaking another GrabPack hands launches from off screen and laches on to the top half of the plush in his grasp. Immediately the hand retracts ripping the plush the half leaving only the bottom half in the cartoon canines clutches.
DogDay seems to just look at the bottom of his plush still in his hands, his iris shrunk in horror.
“Oops, sorry DogDay” A new female voice says, apologizing to the dog, with a giggle at the end.
The video panes away from DogDay and towards a new figure which seemed to resemble a horse. The horse had a white fur along with a light blue mane and tail. Her hooves were also the same light blue colour. He also noticed that she was wearing a flower pendent around her neck, it had 5 petals with each one being a different colour, creating a rainbow. The one thing that stuck out about her (Literally) was the horn on the top of her head.
Moxxie believed that this was meant to be a unicorn rather than a horse.
“Oh, that’s fine, CraftCorn.” The dog replied seeming to have gotten over his shock quite quickly. “But remember to always to remember where you’re aiming or this might happen to you.” He said as he brought the bottom half of his plush still in his hands.
‘Ok, this took a dark turn.’ Moxxie thought as he continued to watch, I guess they had to be serious when it came to teaching how the equipment worked. Then again why would you even let children use it?
Moxxie didn’t have time to think as he watched that the scene transition once again. This time the scene was set in some sort of weird lab. An assortment of weird gadgets and items were strewn about in the background. The other critters all appeared to be waiting around in the background, just looking around the lab.
Moxxie was also quick to notice that Dogday now had a GrabPack equipped, while the rest didn’t.
“Ok, kids we got one more thing to show you before the end.” Dogday said.
Moxxie watched as the GrabPack on the dog’s back suddenly began to change as the red hand was suddenly replaced with a green hand.
“We get to show you guys a very new item added to the GrabPack, the green hand, using this hand you can touch electrical outlets which will hold and electrical charge for a few seconds.”
“Wait…what?” Moxxie said out loud to the tv screen, his face looked flabbergasted.
‘Did they seriously just give a bunch of CHILDREN an item that could conduct electricity?’ Moxxie thought, what the heaven were they thinking? That could cause an accident (if it didn’t already).
DogDay launched the green hand and used in on an octagon shaped device. Once it connected the hand began to brighten up with small sparks of electricity radiating off it.
‘That…. doesn’t look safe’ Moxxie thought, horrified that they were even using it.
“Using this while it’s charged will let you power up select power receivers that look like this.” DogDay pointed towards a triangle shaped device that looked like the octagon.
The triangle appeared to be attached to a large door, only just revealed as the video panned to it. Soon after DogDay fired the now charged green hand towards the triangle shape, causing hands green glow to transfer over to the triangle and the area around it began to light up.
The door it was connected to immediately began to raise, indicating the door was now power.
“As you can see by using the green hand I was able to power up this door and make it open.” DogDay said proud of himself.
At the same time all the other critters began to come over and observer the door opening.
“Wait, so we can transfer power using these, that’s really cool” The Chicken said, waiting for his chance to use the GrabPack again.
“Yeah, the number of amazing things we could create using this is astonishing.” Bubba said agreeing with the Chicken.
“We could design so many things.” The unicorn known as CraftyCorn said, also agreeing.
“Well guys you are all correct, however we have to go over a very important rule when using the green hand.” DogDay said once again going back to a serious tone, which caught the attention of all the other critters.
“Well, it’s rather two rules that are connected to eachother” DogDay said as he raised two fingers. “The first rule is that once a device is powered by the hand it won’t last long.”
No sooner had he finished talking the panel device by the door stopped glowing, causing the door to immediately fall with a massive slam, causing all the critters for be briefly bounce into the air.
“The second and most important of the rules is that while the green hand is charged you must never touch it. The electricity flowing through it can cause a nasty shock if touched.” DogDay informed them as he looked over to make sure they were all paying attention.
All the critters looked at DogDay with varying degrees of shock (no pun intended) and awe, just knowing how dangerous and how careful they must be when operating the green hand.
“Isn’t that right, CatNap?” DogDay said as he looked up above at the roof of the lab, they were currently in. The video then moved upwards towards where DogDay was currently looking. It panned up towards Cat, sleeping on one of the overhead lights, with his long tail dangling over the edge and almost reaching the ground. The Cat was a purple colour, with is hands and feet being a dark shade of purple and wearing pendent of a yellow crescent moon.
At the mention of his name, the cat appeared to open his eyes halfway and smile as he looks down towards DogDay, this expression implying he was still not fully awake.
A few seconds later, the cat began to wrap his tail around the light he was perched on and slowly descend to the floor, using his tail like rope. Once he reached the ground, he unwrapped his tail from around the light souce.
He slowly walked up to DogDay, still not fully awake with his hand almost dragging by his side and his body slightly slouched and proceeded to give a soft nod to his friend. A reaction that caused the dog to smile slightly wider.
“Thanks, that what I want to see, in fact why don’t you help show them?” DogDay said proceeded to snap his fingers again and another GrabPack magically appeared in a puff of smoke on Catnap’s back.
CatNap looked down at the equipment, his smile and expression not changing as he began to aim the green hand at the power outlet, before releasing the hand and obtaining a charge.
Once the hand began to glow with electricity, he stood still while DogDay made his way up to him and pointed at the super charged green hand.
“As you can see the charge is once again in the hand, while in this state it is important that you never allow it to contact anything else. It’s also very important that you always make sure that the hand itself is in good condition before you even attempt to use it.” DogDay said as CatNap stood almost completely still, letting the dog demonstrate.
At that moment, the red bear Bobby raise her hand up, Simon Smoke was still wrapped up beside her.
“I have a question, what happens if it isn’t in good c-condition?” Bobby asked nervously, she’ll already seen the damage it did to Simon and knew wanted to know if something worse could happen.
DogDay moved behind his back and pulled out another plush, this one was of CatNap. “I’m glad you asked, so we’ll give a brief demonstration.” DogDay said placing the toy plush down on the floor away from everyone else, before backing away.
“CatNap, would you demonstrate?” He said as a glanced back towards the toy laying in the middle room.
CatNap gave another small nod before launching the electrically charged green arm at the plush, once the arm had contact there was a moment where nothing happened. A second later the plush began to smoke before almost bursting into flames.
The critters just stood by as the fire engulfed the entire plush, while all the critters just looked at it, not even one of them seemed to say anything. DogDay then turned around back to the camera “And that is why you must make sure to never use the green hand improperly.” He said with a big smile, completely juxtaposed to burning plush behind him.
Moxxie…. had no words. This tutorial seemed to start out as a simple and fun way to show children how to use the equipment properly. But as it went on the imp began to see this dark undertone began to show itself, which only got progressively more unsubtle as the tape continued to play.
‘Kids were supposed to watch this, weren’t they?’ Moxxie thought to himself. I guess they really wanted to make sure that the children don’t mess and get hurt. But, as Moxxie had previously thought, why even bother giving it to them if they thought there was a potential for danger?
He made a mental note that the second he got home, he was going to investigate the apartment for any sort of danger that could befall his own child.
Moxxie was also starting to worry that something bade might have happened that caused the creation of this video. Did someone get hurt? He didn’t even know why he was trying to make sense of all this, his only concern now should be getting through the Game Station and getting on that train.
“Well, I hope you all enjoyed this video, sadly we must go now. But don’t worry some of us will still be waiting for you down in the Playcare once you’re done.”
“We can’t wait to see you.” CraftyCorn said.
CatNap nodded his head.
“You can tell us how much you enjoyed the Game Station when you’re done.” Hoppy said.
DogDay once again got in front of the screen. “Just remember, always be careful, quick the equipment and most importantly-”
DogDay moves out of the way so that the Simon Smoke was in the centre of the shot. All the critters soon turned and looked at the camera and pointing their fingers at the still wrapped up dragon.
“DON’T BE AN UNSAFE SIMON.” They all said simultaneous.
The dragon used looked around annoyed as he turned to each of them. “Hey, it’s not my-”
Before Simon could finish his sentences, CatNap had walked up to his side and opened his mouth up. In an instance a weird red smoke was produced from inside his mouth and blown into the dragon’s face.
Whatever the choice words Simon had for them was halted as he soon looked very drowsy, before his head slumped over to the side. His pupils seemed had vanished from his eyes as his expression stayed on his face as just went motionless.
‘What…. the…. Fuck?’
Moxxie was taking completely off guard by what had just witness the feline do, did he just spew some gas into the guy’s face. Did any adult with a functioning brain see the video before they had children watch it? Did he misinterpret who this show was made for? Was it not a kids show?
All the critters didn’t even seem to care about what just happened as they all just laughed and waved at the Camera, before the screen went dark once again, ending the video.
Before Moxxie could say anything else, he heard the door behind him begin to open as a pink hand entered the room, followed shortly by the flick of a switch and all the lights had turned back on in the room.
‘Seems like Mommy has returned.’ Moxxie thought, as he remained in his seat, not wanting to cause any problems as she made her way over.
On a quick glance he noticed that she was carrying something under her arm, before she placed it off on the ground, near the imp.
“Sorry about that, had a bit of trouble finding one in your size. But don’t worry Mommy found you one, it didn’t have a red hand attached so, I had to create a new green one in the machine.” Mommy replied happily, as she pointed down to the item she brought in.
It was a GrabPack.
It appeared to be just big enough for him to wear, that at least explained why she needed his measurements.
Moxxie continued to look at the item for a few seconds, the video he watched did have him kind of worried about what he would even require the device. But, following the instructions given to him in the video, his eyes scanned over the two blue and green hand it possessed, trying to see if they looked in good condition.
On a closer inspection, it appeared that device looked alright, it was just showing a bit of age, although that was to be expected given it probably hadn’t been used in 10+ years. The green hand however looked brand new, with a fresh coat of pain, that only just recently dried, giving claim to the fact that Mommy hand just made it.
“Well…. why don’t you put it on?” Mommy said, while she did try to sound nice, Moxxie could clearly hear a slight bit of impatience in her tone.
Not wanting to waste too much time, Moxxie made his way over and tried to pick it up, it was surprising light just like the video had said. The imp then moved it around, placing each of the straps around his arms as he tried to put it on, hoping that it would fit correctly.
As he fitted in onto his back, he saw Mommy make her way behind him and seemed to grab onto it, he then felt the thing become more fastened to his back.
“There it should be put on correctly, I’d move around a bit and see that it works correctly.” Mommy said.
The imp obeyed and started to do a bit of walking around the area, as he held on to both handles. As he did he also made sure to keep his index finger off the triggers, he knew the first rules about gun safety and this was no different.
It really did surprise Moxxie at how light the GrabPack was, while he expected it to be considering children supposedly used it, he didn’t expect it to be this light. He couldn’t even feel the tug of the straps on his shoulders, if it wasn’t for the gun like devices on either side of him being visible he'd forget it was even on.
All jokes and the creepy video aside, it was remarkable that this device even existed. It also made him at least be a bit more comfortable that he had something close to a weapon to use now, he doubted he would have much trouble getting the hang of the Pack with a little practice.
“So, how does it feel?” Mommy said, with an exited look on her face.
“This is amazing, this feels so good, I can’t even feel it, this device is so cool!” Moxxie said, his love for weapon like devices and equipment made crystal clear as he continued to go on about how much he liked it. An enthusiasm that Mommy appeared to enjoy as she watched the possum's enthusiasm.
“I’m so glad you like it; you’ll be able to test it soon, in our first game. But I’m afraid we must go over one last thing before we do that.” Mommy said, trying to temper the imp’s enthusiasm, at least for the time.
Moxxie turned towards Mommy after hearing it. “Ok, what do we have to do?” Moxxie questioned.
Mommy responded by handing him a piece of paper and a pencil, the words at the top reading “GrabPack Awesome Quiz”, with a bunch of questions labelled out underneath it.
“I’m afraid we have to do this little quiz first, only once you’ve done all the question correctly can you leave.” Mommy said, but as she started to explain she watched as Moxxie had already undone the straps of his GrabPack and had sat down at the desk and was already writing down on the piece of paper, smoke almost billowing off the pencil as the imp continued to go through the questions.
“Should be done in a few minutes.” Moxxie said, not even looking up, his eyes remained glued to the sheet of paper in front of him, as he blitzed (Not his Boss) through the questions.
Mommy just watched him confused, most of the children she had worked with didn’t like doing the tests, but here this one was going thought them without so much as a whimper.
Mommy smiled.
“Good, the sooner you get them done, the sooner we can get to the games.” She spoke.
‘And the sooner you'll be stuck here with me FOREVERRRR.’ Mommy thought, her smile turning more sinister with a glint in her eyes.
This one didn’t know what he was in for.