A/N: The amount of craps I give has officially hit the negatives.
The bulletin board had only been installed in the dorms for a couple of months, and already it had an urban legend floating around it. One regarding a job advertisement for a kid's restaurant called Pyron Kasai's Pizzeria.
The job looked innocuous enough: Night Guard Wanted, 12-6 AM, management not responsible for injury/dismemberment. However, rumors persisted that there was something seriously wrong with that place. From a combination of wanting to prove the rumors false and thinking that the animatronics looked pretty neat, Ruby signed up.
Surprisingly, the manager immediately gave her the job, most likely because nobody else even wanted to come near the position. She was asked to come down that very night, which she did.
The smell of dust and pizza hit her nose as she stepped through the classic glass doors into the pizzeria itself. The whole place was a cacophony of loud colors, mostly vibrant oranges and greens. She could spy the famous animatronics at a distance, their stage being directly across from the entrance, but didn't get a chance to look at them before a tired-looking man with dirty brown hair and grey eyes came up to greet her. Though he was young, mid-30's at most, he walked with a wooden cane in his left hand.
"Hello there, Miss. You're Ruby, correct?" She smiled and nodded, holding her hand out to him for a shake. "Yup, Ruby Rose! Huntress-in-training and leader of Team RWBY!" He didn't seem to hear her, as he just took her hand and gave it a light shake.
"I'm Mr. Kiin, the manager. Guess I better get you acquainted with your charges first..." He muttered, starting off towards the main stage without checking if she was following. He didn't need to.
When they reached the foot of the stage, Ruby got her first good look at the robots. There were three of them, two boys and one girl. The boy in front had short black hair and bright orange eyes, with a rather cocky smile on his face. He had both a guitar around his neck and a microphone in front of him, implying that he was the main attraction. The other boy was in back, 'playing' the drums along to the obviously pre-recorded music. His hair was black as well, but his eyes were an electric blue instead of orange. The girl at the guitarist's side was his singing partner, by the looks of it. Her long brown hair was in a braid, and her vibrant green eyes flitted over the non-existent audience excitedly. Unlike Penny, they were all very obviously robots, with metal showing on their major joints where their lower-quality fake skin couldn't bend to cover. Why they were still playing at 11:30 was anyone's guess.
Mr. Kiin casually pointed with his hand not on his cane at the robots, one at a time. "Pyron," he said, indicating the guitarist. "Carlos," the drummer. "Newt," the girl. "You'll get to know them well, believe you me." She didn't quite know what that meant, but didn't push it, as Mr. Kiin was already walking off again.
The next area had absolutely nobody there, which was kind of weird to her until she noticed the "Sorry, Out Of Order!" sign posted on the miniature stage. Without hesitation, Mr. Kiin went up to the drawn star-patterned curtains and pulled them back just wide enough for her to see. Inside was another animatronic, also a boy. His hair was very dark brown, and though he was turned off his ice-blue eyes were still wide open. Really creepy, actually. "Indigo," he stated bluntly, before letting go of the curtains. "He doesn't like to be watched. Remember that." Well that wasn't ominous.
Lastly, he led her to her office, which was the single dingiest place she'd ever seen. The previous security guard hadn't cleaned up after himself at all, as there was still fast food cups and wrappers all over the desk. Cobwebs littered the corners, as though nobody had been in there in years, and she noticed how Mr. Kiin idly swirled one around the end of his cane like he was making cotton candy.
"Doors, hall lights, cameras," he muttered, pointing at the two buttons beside either door and a scroll sitting on the desk. "You've got limited power; we run on a generator at night, and if it runs out the fridges will thaw." She smiled, confident that this job was simple as pie, and gave him a salute. He only blinked at her before checking his watch. "11:55, I'll be leaving. See you tomorrow." With that, he was gone, and she saw him leave out the front door.
With a grin on her face, Ruby leaned back in the old musty chair. This job would be cake! Who would want to break into a kid's place like this, anyway? The only problem she'd have was trying to pass the time for 6 hours. Maybe she'd try talking to the animatronics. Could they talk? All the music was pre-recorded, including the voices, so probably not.
After about 15 minutes of just sitting around, she picked up the scroll and flicked through the different cameras idly. Nothing, nothing, nothing...Wait. Was it just her, or was Carlos gone? Taking a closer look, she could see that the drummer's seat was indeed vacant. Not taking the time to contemplate how he could've moved, she checked the other cameras, only to find him standing in the backstage area, staring pointedly at the camera. She shivered and moved away. What the heck? Mr. Kiin hadn't said anything about them moving at night! Why would animatronics like these need to be able to walk around like that, anyway? They were just supposed to mimic singing and playing their instruments on-stage!
Hearing a loud rattling off to her right, she jumped in her seat and went back to the cameras. Great, now Newt was gone; at least Pyron hadn't moved an inch. After more searching that lead to her finding that Carlos had moved into the dining area, she discovered that the camera in the kitchen was audio-only, and that someone was apparently banging the pots and pans together. It was probably Newt; she wasn't going to leave the office to find out, though.
At least 3 hours passed like that, without either of those two coming too close to her, before she lost sight of Carlos on her cameras. A thought occurred to her, and her fist came down on the left light button, followed quickly by the door button as she saw Carlos' grinning face greet her. A minute or two later and she heard his footsteps echo off, followed by a maniacal giggling. She literally felt like she was going to vomit up her heart, he'd startled her so badly. She didn't know what they'd do if they caught her, but she wasn't too keen on finding out.
"Dum da dum dum dum~...Dum da da dum~..." When she heard that from her right, she didn't even check the light before hitting the door button. After a second, she flicked it on to see Newt standing in the window of the office, both hands against it like she was looking at a bakery display. She was grinning just like Carlos was, and her wide green eyes didn't blink once. It took her a whole five minutes before she wandered off, humming to herself again.
When the clock rolled over to 6, Ruby literally stood up and cheered. Feeling audacious, she walked out right past the main stage, where Newt and Carlos were both back in their normal positions. "You're gonna have to try harder than that!" she told them, not knowing whether or not they could hear her. Apparently they could, as both of them cocked their heads to the side, perfectly in sync, and grinned at her broadly. Her own smile froze on her face, and she quickly backpedaled out of the building.
A/N: Yup, I felt like making PFCN creepy as balls. Carlos is Bonnie and Newt is Chica, if that wasn't obvious. If you don't know who Pyron and Indigo are at this point, I pity you. I'll probably continue this, since I didn't get to use Indigo or Pyron, but I'm debating on whether or not to make the animatronics friendly eventually. Probably not.
