Chapter 1

The beginning of something great

"And finally Mike Fazbear." An old and slightly overweight man says as he looks at the man he had just called up. He was the principal of the college Mike was about to finish, he was a nice man. Strict but fair and always striving to inspire the students to be the best that they could be. He was Mike best teacher and student so the young student had no problem in coming up to him and happily shaking his hand and taking his diploma.

Once he had his diploma he walked off the stage and sat back down and smiled his mind abuzz with many a thought about his future. Mike was a man of average growth and a slightly overweight body to go with it. He had very short hair on his head, about three millimeters all around. He also wore glasses that framed two blue orbs filled with life and aspirations. He also had a couple of notable scars on his face from some failed... experiments. One going over his eye and looking the biggest out of all of them. The rest weren't too visible, being very thin, but were still there none the less and made him look rather intimidating.

"Congrats man." A thin and lanky man says sitting next to him. This made Mike snap out of his mind and made him smile. "Thanks, Viny. I'm just glad that I'll finally be able to start on the big project." He said to which the lanky man smiled, his long white hair falling over one of his silver eyes. "And I'll be there to help you out Mike just like we planned," Viny said as he gave Mike a light punch to his shoulder, both of them were clearly friends even if they were quite different.

But after that, they remained quiet as they were shushed by the other students. As you probably see it was graduation day and both of the friends had managed to pass all the classes with straight A's. There were a couple of hiccups to getting those A's but they were geniuses each in their own field. Mike has gotten his degree in robotics and was truly gifted in said field, he was able to make any design workable, no matter how absurd which was proven by him rigging a batch of cookies with miniature explosives that exploded streamers at anyone dumb enough to grab it. He even managed to create a small scale perpetual motion machine, which was able to generate around twelve volts of power for an indefinite amount of time. This could really change the industry but the problem was that the machine broke down if it was enlarged or speed up so the applications were rather limited.

And then we have Viny or Vincent Kennedy. He has majored in programming and was the co-creator of the Shadow Sphere, the code name for the perpetual motion machine. He was in charge of the math for all the timings for the generator and was the person to run the numbers on how much power it can reliably produce.

In short, these two were geniuses and were awarded for their creation, having won several prizes for said creation and were also being pestered by many companies to join them. They denied all of them as they had grander goals set up before them. But those will be discussed further after the ceremony. Which, as a matter of fact, was wrapping up. All the students were called on stage and are standing there while the principal says his final words to them. "...And I do wish all of you to become the greatest people that you can and remember..." He waited for them to finish to which they all did enthusiastically. "...TECH IS OUR FUTURE AND WE ARE THE ONES TO CREATE IT!" They scream and after which throw their graduation caps up into the air and start to cheer along with their families as they start to clap.

The after-party lasted till 11 in the morning and it was a bit after that, that our two friends entered their shared apartment/planning area. The two graduates flopped down on their respective seats and were a bit drunk but still lucid. "So Viny ready to start our little plan?" Mike asked with a smile as he starts framing their degrees and setting them on the small table they have in their living room. The apartment was sparsely decorated and was... minimal to say nicely as the two young adults were living off of very little, the bare necessities. They had been saving up their money for over five years as this project has been in the works for a while.

"Project Fazbear?" Viny asks for confirmation to which Mike nods. "Hell yeah, bud. I ran the numbers and I think we can open up our first location a bit out of the city with enough space for two mascot characters." Viny says as he looks at a piece of paper on which he ran the numbers. "If there aren't any complications we may have enough to expand in about two years." He places the piece of paperback and smiles at him. "Still can't believe we went to a tech college to just open a restaurant chain."

"Heh, I know Viny, but we both know that we have far grander ideas for that then just a pizza restaurant." Mike sat up a bit and ruffled some papers on the nearest wall. "We want to create artificial life. Just imagine a robot capable to interact with a human-like it was a human itself."

"I know, I know. It's the reason why I joined this project in the first place. I really wanna see this through." he sat up as well and rummaged a bit for his laptop. "The only problem at the moment is that we need to think about integrating personalities and limitations."

"Yup wouldn't want an emo serial killer robot running around out there," Mike says with a chuckle picturing that as very funny.

"Heh yeah." Viny chuckled as he went on to start coding in the limitations and failsafes into the personality core. "So how is the mechanical part of the robots coming along?"

"They are coming along, but the amount of storage needed to store the program and the experiences after is creating a bit of problem as the correct storage amounts do not exist yet. I believe we'll have to figure out how to compress your main program later on so it takes up as little space as possible." Mike admits as Viny nods.

"On it pal, but I think we should go to sleep for tonight as we have a lot of things to do tomorrow in regards to informing the orphanage of our success." He says as he saves the small amount of progress he made and shut off his laptop. "We also need to visit them and soon."

Mike nods to that idea as he really missed their guardians. "Yeah it has been five years and I am really starting to miss those other rascals," Mike says as he finally starts to sort all of their papers and schematics into a freshly bought Folder and once he clears the table he lays back in his recliner. "Think they'll visit our pizzeria?" Mike asks as he gets comfortable.

"I sure hope so as it would be a shame for them to not experience our soon to be robotic children," Viny says as he gets comfortable on his couch. As the thought of robotic children made him smile.

Mike chuckles. "Yeah, our future bundles of endless joy." He finally covers himself in a blanket and snuggles in a bit more before finally saying goodnight to his lanky friend and falling asleep with Viny not too far behind.

Viny was floating in complete darkness and he knew what this meant. He hated it. He was then flung into an invisible wall and slid down to a white floor. He looked forward and saw his worst nightmare, a memory of something he wished he could have forgotten already. He begs for it to stop but the memory continues to play.

It was a normal day for Vincent who was currently running downstairs to get his breakfast. He was trailed by his younger brother, who had tripped before entering the kitchen but he quickly got up and sat next to him ready to eat.

"Good morning my rays of sunshine, did you sleep well?" She asks her voice motherly and nice to the ears as she was preparing some pancakes for her two children. "We slept well Momy," Viny says. "Yeah, it was amazing. I dreamt I was flying over a land made of cake and other pastries." The brother follows right after. The mother smiles and places their food down before them. "Sounds like a lot of fun." The mother says as she returns to her cooking while The adult Viny begs for the memory to stop.

Soon the memory visibly darkens as a man enters the house making the mother jump and made her walk over to the intruder. "Herold what are you doing here." She says with clear hatred in her voice. "I'm here to collect my kids." He says in a way that suggested he wasn't going to argue today. "The young Viny took his brother upstairs as soon she heard the name as they both feared their father.

Said father was an alcoholic and an abuser. He had that engraved in him for as long as viny could remember hence why he was happy that his mom won in the custody battle and took them away from him. Viny and his brother both hid in their room and deep into their closet as they continued to listen in on their parents arguing for what felt like hours. But what was odd was that it then suddenly stopped and everything was deathly quiet. Soon some footsteps could be heard and a door opened... their door.

"Come on out boys. It's time for you to come and live with me." He says as he approaches the closet and makes both boys try and hide deeper into their safe space. Once the doors open they see their dad covered in blood and they both realized what was going on. After that everything went black as the adult Viny was crying. Tears were streaming but he didn't move he just stared on forward and was deathly silent before he felt rage well up and he screamed at the top of his lungs.

His void turned red for a second before he calmed down and took in a deep breath as he held a hand to his chest. "W-why do you torture me?" He asks himself as he looks up to see a smiling clone of himself. "Because you keep on believing you can change. Murderer." The dark clone says his pure white smile stretching past a humans limits. But he doesn't get to look at it for long as he then wakes with a start and sweating badly.

He then curled up and started to cry on his couch which didn't go unnoticed by his friend which by now knew well what had happened. "Another nightmare Viny?" Mike asks as he walks over to his friend and places a hand on his shoulder. Viny nods as he calms down a bit. "You just rest buddy I'll stay with you until you do." He gives his shoulder a comforting squeeze before simply staying there and keeping him company.

"Man eight years and he is still having that nightmare." Mike thought as he looked at him. "Hope that our project helps him at least a bit." He continues on with a smile on his face as Viny falls asleep again this time with a smile.

He was worried about his friend. His nightmares were slowly getting the better of him and he was seeing the subtle changes in his personality. He was becoming more irate quicker. More frustrated and more closed off from other people.

We talked about it a long time ago and since then we made a deal that I would be his lifeline should he ever need it. Mike was proud of that and is even more proud that he has saved his friend from going down a dark road many times.

Mike sighs after he was sure that Viny was sleeping soundly and then goes back to his recliner. There he relaxes and smiles. "Goodnight old friend and sleep peacefully." He says quietly before he falls asleep and rests for the night.