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The Orientation

Scrape.

It sat on a charging station that hadn't worked in years, its orange hands dangling like dead limbs. You strapped it on anyway. The harness felt wrong—too snug, too familiar. Two coils of blue and orange wire snaked up your arms. When you fired it for the first time, the mechanical hands twitched, then curled into a wave. Not yours. The pack’s. Like it remembered. Poppy Playtime Chapter 1

Not a machine. Not a settling pipe. A slow, deliberate drag of something heavy and soft against drywall. You spun. The hallway behind you was empty. But the poster—Huggy’s poster—was gone. In its place was a dark archway leading to the warehouse.

The poster was the first to change.

The air in the Playtime Co. lobby tasted like old paper and powdered sugar. That was the first thing that hit you—not the dust, not the rust, but a faint, phantom sweetness, as if the walls had spent years sweating candy. You’d been gone a decade. Now, the “Welcome” banner sagged like a tired smile, and the only light came from a dying emergency strip along the floor.

The balloon was gone. The name tag was gone. Even the dust seemed to have held its breath. The Orientation Scrape

The real shift had just begun.

You pressed it.

You ran. The GrabPack hands misfired once, twice. A vent. You saw a vent. Too small for him. You dove inside, the metal screaming as Huggy’s fingers punched through the grate behind you, missing your ankle by an inch.