Al and Mike enter the abandoned building. It smells of dust and mold. Al looks around the lobby, everything is so familiar to him. The front desk is there, behind it is a bulletin board with news articles, announcements, and advertisements regarding Rowboatics Corp. There is a Candy the Cat plush on the counter; the blue and white fur and the red tie are smothered in dust. Al abandons Mike, goes into another room, and glances around. It's his father's office. He goes over to the vintage desk, sliding his hand on it as he goes around it. He sits down in the office chair. The chair his father promised would be his one day. Though that day will now never come. Al looks at the papers on the top of the desk, the desk his father never got to organize. Just a lot of documents and drawings made by Al of characters he wanted his father to make, which his father never did. Well except for one, the monkey. Al's favorite character that he, himself, made was a small brown cat resembling Cindy, Hershey, he think he named it; but like the others, his father said he would make her, but just put the drawing on his mess of a desk to get lost in papers. Al folds the drawing and put it in his pocket. He takes one last look around his father's office and then leaves to find Mike. Al looked around at the walls as he walks. Announcement papers, concept drawings, posters, and peeling wall paper is spreaded everywhere. Finally, he finds Mike in a room. He was standing above a torn dusty mattress. Surrounding the mattress is crumpled papers with writing, in which he can't read as it's in... French? Portuguese? Spanish? He can't tell, he isn't really familiar with alien languages. There are also empty cigarette cartons and what's left of canned food and condensed milk. Also a few empty water bottles here and there. "Was someone living here?" Al wonders, scratching his cheek. "I dunno. Wouldn't surprise me. Lots of people in this world, not enough cash or houses." Mike replies. Al turns towards a door that says "Supply Closet", he walks over to it and tries to open it. It's locked or budged or something. He yanks the door knob, the door gives out and swings open, a sad wooden creature wearing black falls out and lands, face to face, onto Al. He shrieks loudly. He throws it off onto the ground, panting heavily. Mike is roaring with laughter. Al glares at him, "Shut up."



"Make me!" Al rolls his eyes and looks down at the thing. It is wooden, as said before. The head is painted white. It has a frown with blue lips, blue tear streaks rolled down from his eyes to his chin. The chin was detached, giving it the appearance of a ventriloquist dummy. It has blue blush. The eyes and mouth are empty and hollow. Its face gives Al a gloomy feeling, he can't help but feel bad for the sad thing. It wears a black fabric t-shirt with three white buttons and a blue bowtie sewn to it. Coming out of the sleeves of the t-shirt are longer sleeves with black and white stripes. It's hands are white. It also wears black shorts, black and white striped leggings, and black shoes. "Cool! Can we keep it!?" asks Mike. Al hesitates. "No. It must have been one of my father's creations. This is its home, it belongs no where else but here." Al says smoothly. "Fine fine fine."



Al carefully sat the puppet onto the bed. "I wonder what his name was." "I dunno probably something stupid like Billy the Puppet, Pennywise or maybe Buffalo Frickin Bill!", Mike exclaimed, earning a chuckle from Al. Mike heads out of the room. Al follows taking one last glance at the puppet. They entered another room, in which was filled with conveyor belts and animatronic endoskeleton parts. The endoskeletons always gave Al the feeling of dread. How could things so terrifying be inside the adorable creations of his father. The two continue to a door in the back of the room. They go through it and gasp in astonishment. They're here. In front of them, slumped on the grounded. It's Candy the Cat, Cindy the Cat, Chester the Chimpanzee, The Penguin. Also here were his two best friends, Blank and the original Candy. Candy is a blue cat with a white face and belly and his inner ears. He has red rosy cheeks and a red tie. His eyes are a brownish orange. He is different now though. His right eye and the bottom of his bowtie are gone. The casing on the top of the right side of his head, his left arm, the top front of his right arm, the bottom of his belly, and the top front of his right leg is missing. Sitting next to him is his sister Cindy. She looks identical to candy. Except she is purplish pink, her body is more feminine and she wears a purple bowtie. Now her left eyes is missing. The casing on the side of her left arm, her left side, and the entire front of her right leg is gone. Then there is one of Al's favorites, Chester the Chimpanzee. He is a brown chimpanzee with a tan face, ears, hands, feet and belly. He wears green overalls and holds a red banjo. His eyes were brown. Now the majority casing of his face above his snout is gone. The casing on his left shoulder and right calf is gone. Next to him is The Penguin. He is black and white like a usual penguin, his eyes are blue and he wears a black tuxedo. He has a red bowtie. Now he is missing his eyes, his beak and half of his bowtie. And now Al looks at his two friends. First is Blank. Blank is a large tan humanoid that you can draw on, he has a big grin and brown eyes. The last time Al saw him he was missing the majority casing of the back of his head, the material around his eyes were torn, he had a hole in his chest,there were tears in his shoulders and his hand and the casing around his forearm were missing. Now his eyes are grey, 75% of the casing on his head is gone. His right forearm is now completely gone, along with the rest of the casing on his right arm, his left arm is now identical to what his right arm looked like the last time Al saw him. There is a large tear going up the left side of the front of his torso, he is missing the casing on both of his calf. Al isn't going to lie, Blank is absolutely terrifying now. Next to him is the original candy, a completely blue cat with a lighter shade of blue on his stomach. His eyes used to be brown. Now he is missing his eyes, his jaw and his entire right arm. The casing on his entire left arm right leg is missing. His entire stomach is gone as well. "Let's activate them!" Mike says. Al stares at him like he just threatened to blow the world up. "What?" "Let's activate them." he repeats. "No I don't think that is a good idea." says Al. "Wha- Why not?" Mike questions him. "It might.... Well..." "Oh Alexia, you still believe that this place is haunted don't you?" Al glares at him. "Fine, do it." Mike starts for the animatronics when the phone on the wall suddenly starts ringing. The two boys glanced at each other then at the phone. Al slowly walked over and picked it up, he presses his ear against the phone and listens.



"No response." Al spoke slowly. Suddenly there was a screaming voice in the phone. "GET OUT!!!" Al dropped the phone panicking and ran, Mike quickly ran in pursuit. "What was that?" Mike wondered. "I have no idea, we should probably go." Al replied "Where are we staying?" "My mom's house." says Mike. "Where's that?"



"Just get in your car and follow me." They got in their vehicles and left the parking lot.