Mike had gotten fed up with this new job he got. Sure, it paid well enough since he had to do much of the overnight maintenance, but this was getting spooky. It started with a couple of odd noises here and there, then some small machine tried to assault him with only a metal covering full of holes as a shield. Now look at him, he was being held hostage in a metal suit by one of the other characters, Circus Baby, as she was called. She was talking to Mike, who couldn't see her due to the thick blackness that surrounded him within the suit. Her voice had an eerie quality, but she claimed to not want to hurt him, and her tone was rather soothing to listen to.

"You're in the scooping room. Do you know why they call it the scooping room?"

Mike thought to himself why should he care? He hasn't been told to use it yet, so it was none of his concern.

"It's where they use the scooper, dummy! I thought that was obvious..."

Mike spoke aloud in his low but smooth voice, "Insulting people doesn't make them want to listen to you, you know?"

Mike's eyes widened. Did he just say that out loud? He started to shake uncontrollably with fear, worrying that he may have just angered his captor, who was being strangely silent. After a short pause, her voice returned with a rather unexpected response.

"Please stop shaking, I already told you I'm not going to hurt you."

Mike breathed a sigh of relief and his shivering gradually dissipated. Baby continued to speak.

"I'm surprised, usually people don't talk to me when I speak to them. You must be brave, or maybe crazy, hmm?"

To Mike's surprise, the faceplates surrounding his head snapped away. Baby then came from behind him to his face, her metal cheeks reflecting the bright green glow from her eyes as she inspected the man.

"It's been...a very long time since I've had someone see me be 'me'. It's a nice feeling, not having to pretend for once."

Mike's hearing became acutely aware of the clicking around the sides of his head, and could make out some springs slowly coming undone around the faceplates. He pulled an arm out of the suit's arm, and became to tighten the springs back into place, not wanting to have a malfunctioning suit crush him. Baby's cold hand reached out and gently touched his cheek. She ran a finger down the side of his face.

"Will you help us, mister? My friends and I...we've been trapped here for an eternity. We can't take it anymore. If we run, they'll just bring us back here, since we look like this."

Mike thought for a moment before replying. "What's so bad about this place? Well, besides the controlled shocks they use."

Baby's tone changed into one that mimicked a sorrowful one, like she was about to cry if she could.

"We want to see things outside of this place. They lock us up in the dark when we're not working, they keep trying to 'fix' us, when all we need is some freedom."

Mike continued to frantically tighten the springlocks while processing what she had just said. Mike then had an idea. It might get him fired, but if it kept him alive, made the anamatronics happy, and the managers think they were fixed, it might be the smartest plan he had ever come up with.

"Hey, if you get me out of this suit, I had an idea. I can take you all up in the elevator and we can get you guys some things if you want. I'd have to bring you guys back afterwards, but we can do it when I'm working every night, okay?"

Baby's face seemed to light up, more than it already was with her eyes illuminating her face.

"Really!? You'd do that for us? Hang on just a sec, sweetie."

Mike raised an eyebrow at her calling him sweetie, but if it got him out of this deathtrap he'd take it. The suit popped open and he threw himself out of it. Mike breathed in a deep breath, but it was crushed out of him instantly by the arms of Baby, who had thrown herself around the poor man. Her voice box was making soft sobbing sounds as she spoke.

"Thank you so much, you're so kind to do this for us. Uhh, what's your name, by the way?"

"Mike is my name, now can you let go of me, you're crushing my lungs." Mike sputtered out his words. Baby released him and apologized for that. She then told Mike to wait by the elevator while she got the others, since they might "do something bad to you."

After a time, Baby returned with the others. Unlike her however, they didn't speak to him, still resentful of how this place had treated them. All five of them climbed into the elevator and went up to the ground floor, where all the robotic characters burst through the doors and looked around at the night sky and the dazzling lights adorning the downtown buildings. Baby turned her head towards Mike and pulled back her faceplates to expose some of her endoskeleton. The interior mouth however had curled into a smile, which oddly gave Mike a burst of pride in himself, even if she wasn't human, it appeared that they were much happier. Mike took them to the various places that were open at this hour, a convenience store to get some snacks, a karaoke bar that the anamatronics took to rather quickly, and even a small bookstore. All the characters had bought one or two books, using Mike's money of course, to bring back with them to read on the weekends when the store was closed for two days straight. When they returned, it was far past Mike's shift, so he waved goodbye to the group before hitting the button to go back up top. Before the doors closed however, Baby's voice crept into his ears again, saying, "I really enjoyed tonight Mikey, maybe you should come visit us more often, hmm?"