I Forgot

by Waffles88

Summary:

The crew escaped with Ribbit and Queenie! Unfortunately they had to leave Caine behind, but don’t worry, they came back for him too! Unfortunately, the adventure isn’t over with leaving the circus, as the one who started all the horror is still around, and he wants Caine back to restart the Digital Circus and it’s horrors once again.

Notes:

It’s probably going to be a bit until next chapter because I started a different fanfic before this that’s still awaiting chapter three. I’m writing this just for fun because I need a break from my original story for a bit, and so why not start two fanfics? Idk, hope you enjoy it.

Chapter 1: Chapter One

The exit way just straight ahead, the real one this time, as the Digital Circus seemingly crumbled behind Pomni and the others. They had figured out finally how to undo Ribbit and Queenie's abstractions and with their knowledge, finally find the exit. Though, the others weren't done after they escaped. They were all thinking of what they were going to do to the person who trapped them for so long, making them lose years of their lives that they could never get back.

But just as they reached the exit, Pomni took a look back at the digital world for one last time, her eyes noticing Caine sadly watching them go. She felt a bit sorry for him, considering that he was just an Ai and couldn't come with them.

"What will happen to you now, Caine?" She asked, hoping he heard.

"I stay here, obviously. Don't worry, this place isn't really crumbling. The exit was designed and programmed to be this dramatic." He responded, trying to hide his obvious sadness at watching them go without him.

"Don't worry, Caine. You won't be alone forever like before." Kinger said, turning around, "We'll take you into the real world with us, just give us a few months at the least. I have an idea, and hopefully it'll work."

"Are you serious? We're seriously coming back here for an Ai!?" Zooble questioned immediately.

"We're not coming back in the game, Zooble." Kinger said, "We're taking Caine out of it."

 

Five month and three weeks after the escape

 

The group returns to the abandoned CnA building, a small animatronic version of Caine with them.

The group stayed in touch after the escape, not only to work together to make an animatronic body for Caine so he could escape the digital circus into, but also because they grew a bond after all that time in the circus. They kept their circus names as their nicknames towards each other so they could remember who was who.

"Do you think this'll work?" Gangle asks, "What if it doesn't work?"

"If it doesn't work then me and Ribbit just waisted five months of our freedom." Jax remarks sarcastically.

"Hush, Jax." Queenie scolds softly, "If it doesn't work out then we try again. Trial and error."

"So then if this does work, then who's keeping Caine? Are we just gonna rotate who takes care of him each week or something?" Ribbit buts in.

Pomni shrugs, "Maybe, or we could have Kinger and Queenie take Caine in most of the time, since Kinger has seven years of computer programming."

"We'll figure it out eventually, but right now we're going to retrieve Caine before he thinks we abandoned him." Kinger says, heading through the abandoned building towards the computer and headset test rooms he and the group had all left from. One computer on an abandoned desk was already on an running, showing the digital circus from the screen. In the middle of the circus sat Caine, as if he'd been waiting there for a while. Bubble was nowhere in sight. Having somehow heard the group's arrival, Caine looked in their direction, as if he were breaking the fourth wall for himself.

"Pomni? Gangle? Zooble? Jax? Ribbit? Kinger? Queenie? Is that really you guys? You really did come back for me? It's been so long since you left, I thought you guys weren't gonna come back for me. I thought you guys forgot about me." Caine says through the screen.

Kinger moves to the front of the group, the little Caine animatronic in hand. "Forget? About you? No, no! We found out a way to take you with us, out of the circus! See? I'll just transfer your code and memories into this animatronic body here, and then you're free from the game!"

"WOW! Really!?" Caine exclaims with excitement, "I get to go with you guys for real? No more being lonely?"

"Why of course, Caine. I can't just leave one of my greatest creations behind in a computer to rot!" Kinger cheers.

The entire group, except for Queenie who already knew everything, turns slowly to look at Kinger, expecting him to elaborate on what he meant by what he said.

"Uh, honey, I think you might need to explain to the others on what you said." Queenie politely pointed out to the oblivious Kinger.

"What? Oh, yeah, right!" Kinger coughs to clear his throat before continuing, "You see, I worked for the company CnA, also known as Caine and Abel. I was hired by a man named Abel to create some codes and stuff for the digital circus under the explanation of it being a silly kids game. Ultimately, I had coded Caine myself under a few directions by Abel and designed him a bit too. Abel seemed nice and trustworthy at first, and he was even a close friend of mine. But then… Then I discovered his little plan. He was tinkering with Caine's code, and making the circus to keep people trapped. I didn't want that, so I'd go behind Abel's back to change Caine's code again, and make it unchangable after that. Abel found out, and suddenly me and Queenie became the new test subjects for the new game. Hence the reason we got stuck, hence why Caine acts more human than ai, and why you guys got stuck instead of it being a normal game."

"And you didn't think that it was a good idea to tell us, why!? We could have had this Abel guy behind bars for kidnapping us!" Jax yells, Ribbit nodding along.

"Because I forgot, and because the police wouldn't believe us anyway. Abel is a great liar and manipulator, and how could we possibly prove our situation was real without trapping more people?" Kinger replies.

"Okay, enough with this arguing. Let's just get Caine into the animatronic and let's get out of here. I don't want to get caught and charged with trespassing on private property. I'm already trying to find a new job and can't afford a fine right now." Zooble says.

"Man, even outside of the circus and being free, you still complain." Caine jokes.

Zooble gives Caine the middle finger, being pleased that they're no longer censored, as Kinger sets up the animatronic body for Caine.

Chapter 2: Chapter 2

Notes:

Very short chapter just to update the fic, I ran out of ideas while writing. Probably won’t post much on this specific fic for a while I’m sorry 😭. (Not the best writing but oh well)

The screen of the computer that showed the digital circus changed quickly to a blue loading screen as Kinger took Caine's coding and memory out of the game and into a small grey memory card.

"This may take a bit, so prepare to wait a while." Kinger mentions. "What should we do while we wait? Want to play Poker? Maybe Charades?"

Queenie then pulls the game off Chess from her purse, followed by Monopoly. "How about some chess? Or Monopoly?" She giggles as Jax and Ribbit smile at her Chess reference to the digital circus. Poor Kinger was still trying to understand why Jax and Ribbit were laughing at the game of Chess when the upload finished on the computer. "Oh, Kinger! The memory card is done loading!"

"Oh okay!" Kinger says cheerfully as he skips over to the computer again and retrieves the memory card before walking back over to the Caine animatronic and installing the card. The animatronic takes thirty seconds to boot up, then the job was completed.

"Woah! I'm not in the circus anymore!" Caine exclaimed.

"Woah! Really? We couldn't tell!" Jax mocked before getting hit in the elbow by Zooble twice.

"Cut it out, Jax."

"Well ow! I can begrudgingly understand the first elbow hit, but what was with the second one!?"

"It was just because." Zooble responded with a smirk.

"Well, now that that's over and done with, why don't we all go out to eat? My treat!" Kinger asked cheerfully, "Where do you all want to go?"

"Oh, you're not going anywhere just yet, not with the ringmaster of my digital circus." A male voice said as he slowly opened the door behind the group.