You shuddered as you noticed what was in the boxes.

It was them

The teachers from your dream...

You and Tony looked at Colin who was whimpering while Tony tried to comfort him. Robin gulped as memories started to flood in his brain from his own hellish dreams, "Robin...those don't look like plates to me..." Manny mumbled as he stood behind you and Robin. "Me either..." Robin mumbled as he quietly walked over to the boxes and closed them, "We are not going to let this happen again....someone hand me some tape please..." Robin mumbled as he motioned Tony to help him hold down some of the boxes. Manny ran into the living room and brought back some tape and handed it over to Robin. Robin began to tape them closed and desperately hoped they would never come out, "I-It's all my fault..." Colin whispered. "No it's not Colin...you did the right thing...don't worry...maybe it wont happen. Maybe they're just here to-" Tony whispered to him before being interrupted loudly "WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT WOULD HAPPEN? I KNOW IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN BECAUSE I KNOW HIM WELL ENOUGH, I KNOW WHAT HE CAN DO! I WENT THROUGH IT!" Colin screeched which made everyone jolt back. "Colin...I know how you feel and he programmed you to do the same thing! But you didn't! You fought back! M-Maybe they'll do the same.." Tony said reassuringly.

"They are unfinished....They have no control whatsoever.....they only have one thing on their minds....and it's just going to happen and I can't stop it!" Colin said while tears were flowing down his cheeks. "Colin....we trapped them and they wont come out...nothing is going to happen...please calm down...it's going to be ok.." Tony mumbled as he hugged Colin. Colin sighed "T-Thanks..." he mumbled, everyone was confused but decided not to ask anything about it. "Wait...what day is it?" Shrignold asked "I think Wednesday...why?" Tony asked before Shrignold gasped "Come on Sketch, we have to go!" "Oh, I almost forgot!" Sketch said with a straight and uninterested face. "Uh what?" You asked "I agreed to go with him this week to visit Malcom...." Sketch grumbled "Oh....have fun!" You said while giggling as Shrignold had already been waiting excitedly for her. "It's been so long since I've visited him! Same for you Sketch!" Shrignold said "Shrignold, you visited him last Friday....it hasn't been that long..." Manny grumbled. "Anyways we're off! See you all later!" Shrignold said as Sketch had to hold his hand in order to fly with him. They both left quickly and slammed the door shut.

"She seemed pretty "excited"..." You said sarcastically "Very..." Robin mumbled before walking over towards his chair in the living room and yawning "Wait...I don't have school?" Manny asked while his eyes filled up with hope "Nope...you are free to nap all day long" Robin said with a small grin as he watched Manny smiled and run into his room. You giggled and sat down in the living room also and changed the channel on TV only to see static and listened closely to what was happening behind the static.

Harry woke up again to smell the horrible smell again. Apparently, it got worse as he fell asleep, he walked over towards the puppet and picked it up while trying to hold his breath. He had tried so many ways to get rid of the smell, he tried taking out more pins but it only made the smell worse and he had poked himself too many times from it, he sprayed anything that could make the smell go away but it just still stayed, he even tried to flush it down the toilet. "You have got to be kidding me..." He mumbled as he continued to try and hold his breath, the smell had reminded him of so many things...it reminded him of the old lessons, the hearts and glitter, the decaying, the raw chicken he and Robin hadn't noticed. He felt sick as all of it came back to him and finally gave up he breathed in and out and tried to not even acknowledge the smell until he realized what it was. Sleeping gas maybe? He noticed something again in the corner of the room and walked over towards it, another puppet. Thank god it didn't have the smell like the other one but he did recognize it was Manny.

He noticed a small letter was attached to him and read it out loud

"It's all your fault...you could've stopped this but you didn't...you are a coward...

And it's going to be your fault your friends die..."

Harry shook and grew angry at it until tears started to fall from his eyes

"I could've saved them...I really could...I could've stopped this....I could be with them right now but I'm not....its-" He paused. He looked up at the picture again and smiled as a voice in his mind spoke to him

Roy is just trying to get you down he wants you to cower to him...

but you won't..right?

He calmly sighed and sat down. "They are ok...they are going to be ok..." He mumbled, suddenly he noticed the air had been lifted and he walked over towards the Robin puppet. He picked out the remaining pins and needles and no liquid came out and the smell had disappeared, He picked up the Manny puppet also and looked at them both closely. He looked through the dresser that was in this room and found yarn, he had gotten an idea.

Days had gone by and the boxes still hadn't opened up which made Colin even calmer. Everyone was now enjoying themselves in the living room except for Sketch and Shrignold who still hadn't returned. Robin and Manny were looking in a photo album of all their memories together, even if Harry were in the pictures, it did soothe them. Colin and Tony were watching the TV closely. You could tell it was some cop show you had used to watch, you watched them all smile while you laid on the floor and stared at the ceiling. You began to feel uneasy, would Shrignold and Sketch ever come back? They'd usually be here by now, wouldn't they? You knew early in the morning you would have to get ready for work but Manny had fall break this week you knew because he had been talking about it for the whole weekend.

"I'm so glad I won't be going to school for a week! I'll get to sleep in, not have homework, and watch TV whenever I want!" Manny said with a wide smile. "Well, it sucks that you still have to work Y/N...but hey maybe you'll get your break sometime soon!" He said while getting up and turning on the TV and sitting down next to you. You listened to what was happening behind the static or at least acted like it while you listened to Tony and Colin's conversation.

"What are we going to do? I know they visited him but what if they disappeared?" Colin asked. "I don't know...what if we're next?" Tony asked also "W-Well if we're next then....we can't do anything about it really....we'll just have to use our time wisely.." Colin said. Tony nodded "Ok....but please Colin just remember..this is not your fault...it's his...not yours ok?" He said as he hugged Colin. You only smiled and wished Sketch and Shrignold were here to hear and see it too but you were glad Tony was helping out. He was the only one who could really calm down Colin or even understand how he felt.

You faced your attention to the TV and listened closely. It was some cartoon Manny had enjoyed very much but you couldn't understand why it sounded awful. People were hurting each other or at least that's what you thought, there was many adult humor jokes no kid would understand and the characters just seemed...insane. It sounded as if there was someone dying, "U-Uh...maaaaybe we should change the channel, Manny. I know this is your favorite show and all but... it's giving me the chills." You said while looking at him, you sat up and pressed a button to hope there would be a better channel but there was nothing else on so you sighed. "I-I'm going to head to bed...I do have to go to work in a few hours anyway..." You mumbled and you got up and dusted yourself off "We'll see you in the morning then...." Robin mumbled as you saw he was looking at the photo album by himself, he looked more exhausted and depressed than you have ever seen him. He looked fine just a couple of days ago, but you knew it had to be about Harry. It definitely was.

You sighed as you walked into your room and put out your work uniform on a hanger so you could change into it quickly in the morning. You set your alarm to something that could wake you up and not the whole house and laid in your bed and felt sleep drift into your eyes.

You heard your alarm and fell off of your bed as you tried to shut it off quickly. "Ugh...my ears..." You groaned as you rubbed them and rubbed your eyes, you glanced over at your uniform. You didn't want to go to work but you were basically the only thing bringing in money to this household ever since Harry suddenly went missing. You got up and changed into your uniform and checked the boxes and only to be relieved that they hadn't opened up, you saw Robin had fallen asleep in his chair though. You knew he hadn't been sleeping and he had been lying a lot about it, you decided before you left that you were going to at least do something comforting for him. You put a blanket over him so he wouldn't be cold and left the house quietly.

The hours felt as if they had gone by slower than usual and oddly you were made to stay until 10 pm instead of 8. You felt weird and anxious the whole time if something bad did happen, Manny would know how to call 911 right? You sighed and looked for anything you could do as you were going to have to wait for the next few hours.

Robin woke up to feeling warmer than usual, he opened his eyes and noticed there was a blanket on him. He took the blanket with him as he made his coffee and for anyone else who wanted it, he only liked this because it felt as if he was actually being hugged or comforted by the one he wished who could be here. It was strange for the house to be this quiet when it was only 12 in the afternoon, that's when he noticed Tony nor Colin were there. They seemed to be dormant but Robin guessed it was a good timing for a break from them for a while seeing how he was turning into an insomniac, maybe he'd actually get some sleep tonight.

He saw Manny was awake in his bed but didn't get up to say hello or anything, he just starred from his bedroom window instead. Robin continued to look at what Manny was doing until he heard a beep from the coffee maker, he walked over towards it while grabbing a mug and fixed his coffee before walking into Manny's room. "Are you ok Manny?" He asked while stepping into the room "Yeah...I'm fine...I was just looking at the sky. How are you?" Manny asked while turning around to face Robin. "I-I'm fine....but maybe you should come into the living room....it's actually quiet than usual..." Robin said with nervous laughter. "Ok!" Manny replied with a grin not noticing the blanket around Robin still.

They both walked into the living room and were shocked to find something wrong had happened.

The boxes were opened and they saw all of the teachers just standing in the kitchen, Robin and Manny were frightened a little and confused on how they got out and didn't bother walking anywhere near the kitchen until Manny walked towards the fridge. "M.....Manny....don't-" Robin mumbled before music came on and a spinach can opened one of their kitchen cabinets to present themselves. Robin softly grabbed Manny's arm and pulled him away from the fridge and only looked at the can who looked like it was about to speak. "Are you hungry? You look to be a bit hungry!" It sang while the two just stood there staring at it.

Harry had practiced over and over again on stitching and sewing them all together with the yarn he had. He laughed at himself for doing something like this, he'd only see Robin sewing or making things like this for Manny but he felt slightly comforted by this so he continued to sew them together until they looked as good as new. He sighed as he looked at both of the puppets and wondered "I wonder what they could be doing right now..." he put them away in the dresser along with the remaining yarn and felt tired again. He knew he'd always been a sleep deprived type but he didn't think he'd be going to be every few hours or so but he decided since he had nothing to do he'd just sleep away the hours until he eventually would have to wake up again.

He closed his eyes softly and laid down on his back, slowly he fell asleep.

He was standing in front of a machine, a machine he'd only saw once when he had worked with Roy. He didn't understand how it worked seeing how Roy controlled it most of the time. Buttons flashed randomly and there were static screens until he heard a faint sound, the sound seemed to be music and he pressed a random button and only one of the screens popped up something. He saw something horrific...he stumbled back as he saw his friend, no, his everything...was being killed slowly. An unknown figure was cutting Robin up and pulling out his internal organs. He cried out and smashed any buttons to make it stop but-

He woke up screaming. He felt as if he was drenched in sweat as he got up and looked at the ground. He didn't know what to do but his gut and his heart was saying 'go, before its too late'. Harry got up and grabbed his coat and scarf and walked out the door while leaving a small crack in the door just so the door wouldn't lock in on him. He ran and tried to remember the location of the red telephone booth, he checked his pockets and found the quarter was still there, thank God. He felt as if he was going in circles until he saw it across from him and ran for it and opened the door quickly.

He put in the quarter quickly and dialed the home phone's number hoping someone or that Manny would pick up.

But no answer.

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Finally, you saw the clock had reached 10 and it was time to go home. You smiled at the thought of it, you waved goodbye to your other friends and got in your car. You reached home but noticed no lights were on. Usually, by this time, Robin would be the only one up so there should've been a light on. You felt your anxiety crawl on you again as you walked towards the front door. You opened it and only heard quiet and couldn't see anything until you saw the kitchen light flicker on.

"O-Oh...no....M-Manny...Manny?!" You yelled as you ran towards the kitchen and ran towards him. He looked emotionless but also as if he was locked in a trance. "Manny....Manny...come on buddy speak to me..." You mumbled as you shook him slightly, you studied his face carefully. You saw blood was stained around his mouth and there were tear stains on his cheeks. His eyes looked awful, they weren't their normal color green, they almost looked colorless and dull. You looked at his cheeks more carefully, they looked to be puffed out more, so maybe that's why he couldn't talk.

"M-Manny...do you feel sick?" You asked hoping he would show something. He nodded his head slowly while also blinking slowly "C-Come on Manny...let's.. let's go to the bathroom...hopefully throwing up will make you feel better..." You mumbled as you helped him to the bathroom and rubbed his back as he threw up whatever was in his mouth into the toilet. He sounded like it was painful to throw up but you knew it was probably for the best, you got a washcloth and whipped his mouth with cold water. He cried quietly as you helped him "H-Hey...do you feel any better?" You asked softly, he shrugged his shoulders. "I.......I.....I don't know...my throat." "..I feel horrible....I'm a monster...." He said while crying into your shoulder as you hugged him "M-Manny...you aren't a monster at all....maybe we should get Robin...." You mumbled but that made him cry louder. "R-ROBIN! I'M S-SORRY!" He yelled while weeping, you knew something horrible had happened. You looked around for any signs and only saw the boxes had been opened.

Sudden memories came back to you, the dream you and Robin both had. You held Manny close as he continued to cry "M-Manny...it's not your fault....it's those stupid new teachers...." You said while blinking away a few tears before hearing the phone ring. You looked at Manny before getting up to answer it "Hello?" You asked but there was no answer but only dead air was heard. You hung up the call and looked back at Manny and knelt down to his level so that way you'd both be looking towards each other, you put your hands on his shoulders.

"M-Manny....I know what must have happened was scary and tough to go through...but please...do this for me ok?" You said as Manny waited for you to continue. "You have to be strong...you have to be...if I am not here...you're going to have to be strong and fight against them...ok? No matter what happens...don't let them hurt you or get near you....ok? You are going to have to be strong when I am not here....when you're alone...if you can't be strong for you...." You paused. "Be strong for those who love you....as long as you're still living...they're always going to be watching over you...ok?" You said while tears brimmed your eyes.

Manny whipped away his tears and nodded "O-Ok...." You both hugged again. Afterward, you and Manny sat on the living room floor "So...how do you feel?" You asked. "Like I said before...on the outside I feel ok...but my mind is just.....odd....it feels like I'm drowning...but only in my mind.....and in my thoughts..." He mumbled. This felt odd to you also, you had always known Manny for being happy, adorable, funny, and positive but, it felt as if that version of Manny had been shut off. It felt like you were talking to a clone "A...Are you comfortable enough..to talk? To talk about what happened? I understand if you aren't...." You mumbled while looking at the static on the TV.

He sighed "It was....so....weird...and unexpected. It's like being tackled...you never know when it'll happen, what will happen afterward, and what that one tackle might do to you...." He mumbled while you looked at him astonished by the words he had said. You'd never imagine him acting...older than he was. He had a confused look before returning to a relaxed face "I can't talk about what happened though.....it's.....it's very uncomfortable to talk about..." He mumbled.

You sighed as you and Manny laid on the floor and stared at the ceiling. "That must have been a pretty hard tackle then..." You mumbled out loud. "What?" He asked, "You know, the tackle thing you were talking about....that must have been a hard one for you..." You replied, "Why do you say that Y/N?" Manny asked. "You....just from this experience....it seems like it changed you...so much...you seem to understand things more...more than" You paused and tried the think of what his age was. "More than any third grader I've ever knew...it's odd....it feels like I'm talking to someone else...." You said while he looked as if he was impressed. "R-Really?" He asked sitting up and there you saw it, his old self was shining through the darkness of his mind. He looked a little happy by your compliment, you smiled at his smile and he giggled. You grew happy also by how he was growing happy too, bit by bit.

You both were a giggling mess on the living room floor. You both didn't know why though, maybe it was because you were both crazy or depressed from what had happened today. Maybe it could've actually been happiness coming through. You didn't care though, you were just happy he was giggling.

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