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or with the fact that they were now being encouraged to eat the remains of humans in order to survive.

They wanted to be free, and so experiments like Doey, Kissy, and a bunch of the Smiling Critters all agreed to team up and defy the prototype, while also protecting those they could.

Poppy agreed to join them, but she warned them the only way to stop the prototype was to destroy this entire facility, taking them all with it if it came to that.

The toys were naturally nervous, but they knew the prototype needed to be stopped.

Some speculated about what happened to Harley.

Maybe Leaf decided to turn him into one of his own creations so they could still use him.

Maybe he'd managed to get a hold of one of the Omni-Hands from the executives.

All things were possible, but for now, they needed to focus on stopping the prototype, and Poppy was going to be the one to do it.

At least, that's what everyone kept saying.

But Poppy was conflicted.

She cared deeply about these toys, but she also knew the prototype was right

and that they could never, ever be free.

She had to destroy everything.

But then what about all these toys who looked up to her?

Did she really want to kill all of these innocent children?

One day, the pressure just became too much and she ran away.

Poppy would wander the now hallowed halls of Playtime Co.

crying over what happened.

Occasionally, she'd find employees that had somehow survived the Hour of Joy.

One such employee was Preston, the one who Stella had gotten to help execute the plan.