Y/N and Stevie kept perfectly still while the sounds of muffled, metal footsteps moved further and further away from them. 

Eventually, the sounds disappeared into complete silence.

Y/N slowly got up, her breath feeling ragged in her throat.

Jeez, that was close! Is this how horror film / tv show characters feel? It's a nightmare (lol)! My spine feels like it's been nibbled to pieces by the pincers of a hundred thousand giant lobsters!

Stevie, in reverse, collapsed completely to the ground, groaning.

"What ... What's going on ... must be seeing things ... oh, I need a drink ..."

Y/N whirled around in an instant at hearing that.

No, no, NO! He's an idiot when he's drunk! Mind you, he's not much better when he's sober ... no, concentrate, Y/N!

Y/N helped (or rather pulled) a slightly swaying Stevie to his feet, where he stood, looking very ill at ease.

Y/N quickly decided that there was no time to waste, time was ticking on for god's sake!

"Come on, Stevie, we have to move. Those animatronics might come back and I don't fancy our chances: two against four."

Y/N reached for Stevie's hand but Stevie backed away from her, looking at her with an expression of fright and suspicion.

Y/N could hardly blame him though.

If Y/N had been in his position, she would have been suspicious of a mysterious girl that just burst in to save him at the last moment, and obviously knew about the whole terrifying situation.

Y/N sighed and tried to smile reassuringly at the scared, drunk Stevie.

"Look, Stevie, I know you have no reason to trust me, but we have to warn everyone that the Banana Splits have been sabotaged and thus have gone completely bananas! And not in a good way either.

Stevie was shaking a lot and his face was pale as chalk, expression verging on hysteria.

"D-Drooper tr-tried to KILL me ... KILL ME! With my own lollipop of all things!"

His eyes suddenly rolled back, eyelids closed, and he dropped to the ground like a sack of potatoes.

Funnily enough, the impact even SOUNDED like a sack of potatoes!

Y/N sighed again, this time in exasperation.

She'd had enough: time was being wasted and she didn't need this idiot falling down on her.

Y/N leaned down to Stevie's ears and did her best imitation of Drooper's voice.

"Hey, Stevie!"

Stevie instantly sprang to his feet, a slow scream coming out of his mouth.

Y/N quickly put a hand over Stevie's mouth, hushing him fiercely but quietly.

She'd reached the end of her patience with this moron.

Time for drastic measures.

Y/N gripped Stevie with the other hand and shook him firmly and quickly.

"Listen, you idiot! I don't have time for ANY of your silly shenanigans! I'm TRYING TO SAVE THE LIVES OF EVERYBODY HERE!"

Y/N quickly lowered her voice, flushing at her stupidity.

The idiots who made loud noises in horror films were usually the ones who got slain first.

Y/N would rather be not slain at all.

Y/N then lowered her voice to a hissing whisper.

"What I don't need is you fainting on me and being useless, so chin up ... or god help me, I might just decide to leave you behind, okay?!

Of course, Y/N wasn't going to really leave Stevie all alone by himself, but she had to break him out of his hysteria SOMEHOW ...

Stevie gulped nervously.

"Oh .... okay, then", he said faintly.

Y/N's expression then changed and she gave him a sympathetic pat on the back.

The poor guy was struggling to understand all of this in the first place.

Y/N then took Stevie's hand and pushed open the door, walking out with him.

"Come on, Stevie, we've got to get to the kids who're having their photos taken first ..."

Y/N suddenly stopped in her tracks as she looked up and down the corridor, and then flushed.

"Right ... the map ..."

Y/N then got the map out and began tracing the corridors' patterns with a finger.

Then Y/N traced the patterns again ... and then again.

"Confound it, where the hell are we?!"

This is so embarrassing.

Y/N was then tapped on the back and turned to see Stevie smiling nervously at her.

"Um ... follow me. I know where it is."

Stevie let go of Y/N's hand and walked forward, looking from side to side anxiously.

Y/N rolled her eyes, but then followed him down the corridor.

Even idiots can be right sometimes, I suppose. It's worth a chance.

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Y/N blinked as she and Stevie walked under yet another bright lamp.

They'd left the corridors behind and were now walking through a space that seemed to be made of darkened sets and the occasional bright lamp dangling from the ceiling.

Y/N coughed quietly but pointedly.

"Are you ... quite sure that this is the right way to the photo op?"

Stevie stopped and turned around, looking distinctly annoyed.

"Of course, it is! I know it is! I do actually WORK here, little miss Pushy!"

Y/N instantly bridled.

"Says the drunk who ..."

Y/N stopped talking as she suddenly heard two familiar voices close by.

"... Actually I'm a pretty big fan so I think I know-"

"Thadd ... let it go."

Thadd and Poppy! That means that the VIP group is near! We just have t-

Then all the lights all went out, just like that.

A little kid screamed.

Y/N was instantly tense.

What was going on? This hadn't happened in the film?

"Everybody stay calm", Paige's voice tried to reassure everyone in hearing range.

Then Y/N realised two things.

1. That scream hadn't sounded like either Harley or Zoe.

And 2. The scream had come from right next to her.

Biting back her laughter, Y/N elbowed Stevie in the ribs lightly as she lead him towards the sound of Paige's voice.

"... I'm sure it's just ..."

The lights suddenly came on again, full force, making Y/N blink and screw up her eyes for a moment.

"THE BANANA SPLITS!" Paige cheered.

Y/N half-heard the excited whispers and whoops behind her, as her heart stopped beating for a moment.

She and Stevie were very close to the Banana Splits, in fact they were RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM.

And ... directly in front of the last Banana Split that both Stevie and Y/N wanted to see right now.

Drooper.

Stevie whimpered a little.

Drooper's eyes flickered red and his fists clenched.

Y/N just facepalmed.

Darn my life!

Who knew that Stevie screams like a little girl, lol?

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