Surprise! I've come around to finally start revising this story since it is my first (and amateur) story. Now that I've gotten slightly more comfortable in my writing, I'm going to do a bit of revising and polishing for this story to make it more enjoyable (and less cringy) for me to look over and be more proud of. I hope you all will continue to enjoy reading this and as always:

-I do not own FNAF nor do I own the characters, they all belong to the great man Scott Cawthon!

-All credit for the splash art goes to xNIROx!

And a couple more things I've decided to add along...

-Foxy isn't in a state of disrepair, neither is the cove. Both are functional and open to the public.

-The small random room that Mangle stayed in that was in the original story has been removed. I don't see it fitting anymore, and as such, I've decided to cut it out and replace it with something more relevant to FNAF 1's layout.

Now then, let us begin...

Chapter 1

~A Man's Despair~

*BANG*

"Oh god!"

*BANG*

"Please!"

*BANG*

"Stay away from me!"

Mike cowered in his chair as he watched the left office door dent slightly inwards while an enraged animatronic bashed against it violently. Everything inside the room shook as the fox animatronic began beating against the metallic door even faster. Mike brought his legs into a fetal position as his heart rate, and breathing became erratic. In the corner of his eyes, he watched a black silhouette pull away from the doorway. Then, there was an eerie silence. After waiting for a minute for something to happen, the guard slowly unfurled himself. With a shaky hand, he turned on the left light to see if the animatronic was gone. The button clicked, and the hallway light turned on.

"Night guard..." a robotic voice growled as the face of a red fox suddenly appeared under the bright light.

Almost immediately, Mike screamed in terror before flinging his body backward, away from the doorway. The chair fell along with him as he crashed onto the checkered tiles, but he ignored the pain. His entire focus was towards the infuriated pirate fox known as Foxy.

"Open this door now, or else I'll gut yer innards like a bloody whale!" The animatronic threatened before banging its hook against the glass. Although the whole window shuttered, it held firm, which only caused the pirate to growl in further irritation. Then, in a flash, the animatronic ran back down the hallway, leaving behind a terrified man.

Mike stared at the glass window with frightened eyes before slowly composing his breath. Taking a second to wipe the dripping sweat from his forehead, Mike shakily stood up and turned off the left office light. With a heavy sigh, the man leaned down to pull the chair up from the ground before sitting right on top of it once more. The guard then reached towards the metal table in front of him. Grabbing the small tablet device, he brought it closer to his face and clicked onto a camera titled "CAM 1C". Mike sighed in relief when he saw the curtains were closed, making him relax against the back of the swivel chair.

Reaching over to his left one last time, he allowed the left door to rise back up in order converse what remaining power he had left. Suddenly, he heard a pair of footsteps approach him to his right, prompting him to close the right door as soon as possible. The steps halted right at his window, making Mike's breathing increase again. Feeling a little anxious, he stared at the dark window before deciding to turn the light on.

The light fluttered on, revealing a giant chicken animatronic giving the poor man a deathly glare. Its magenta eyes pierced through his skin like daggers, making him shiver uncomfortably.

"C'mon Mr. Guard-," Chica said in a southern feminine accent, "-don't be rude. Let us in. The sooner you do it, the quicker this can be!"

Stricken with fear, the night guard stuttered out, "N-N-No! Leave me alone!"

"Na-ah! No can do mister for we have a score to settle with you!"

Mike shook his head in confusion and in also desperation as he said, "Score? What did I ever do to any of you?!"

Chica intensified her glare before replying back, "Open this door, and maybe I'll tell you!"

Mike could tell this discussion wasn't going to go anywhere, so he turned the right light off before going back into a fetal position. "Oh dear god, I'm going to die tonight..." He whispered to himself as he hugged himself tighter. "Why did I come back here? Why did I have to go back to this forsaken place?" He began to whimper a bit louder as he felt a tear form in his right eye. "Why does this stupid place have to exist? All I wanted was a job, alright!? A fucking job!" Mike screamed out in frustration as he banged his fist against the side of the chair.

"Hey, no cursing in the workplace! If Freddy hears you cursing, he'll make you regret it!" Chica yelled from her side of the window.

The guard was just about to give a rebuttal, but then his heart sank into his chest when he didn't see the point. He unfurled his fist and took a second to look down at the tablet to see if Foxy hasn't come out yet. As soon as he checked the screen though, he nearly choked back a sob when he saw the time and battery life. There was only 5% battery left, and it was just 4:55 am.

"Please…" Mike begged himself as he shook the tablet in disbelief. "No, please no! I-I-I just came for some money…"

"I'm going to die here, aren't I? W-Why did I take this stupid job? As he let a couple of soft whimpers, he gazed down at his hands as his tears blurred his vision. 'Why… Why did you have to work here? Please-please don't tell me this what happened to you…"

Mike suddenly broke into a sob as he tried to repress his thoughts about her. He couldn't let his guilt trip him up now; his life was in danger. After a minute of crying, he could hear the heavy footsteps coming from the left hallway. Ignoring the tears in his eyes, the guard slammed his fist into the left hall door button, and immediately the office door *Swooshed* straight down. Mike held his breath before returning to his weeping. "I-I-I-I got to hold it together! I-I have to do it for her!" The guard said to himself as he desperately tried to hold back his tears.

While the grown man was trying to control himself, he failed to notice two dim lights gleaming through the air ventilation grate located just behind him. The two golden eyes stared somberly towards the guard, watching him weep in solitude while also listening to his muttering. As the man sobbed to himself, the unknown figure watched in silence as a single thought came to its mind.

"M-M-i-I-kK-e-E-y-Y…"

The guard's sobs suddenly became silent as he heard something get closer to him. Mike blinked for a moment, contemplating on what he had just heard, only to scream out in complete shock.

*BANG*

The sound of a heavy fist banged itself against the left door, causing the guard to stare towards it in horror.

*BANG*

"Come out, come out little 'ol night guard!" A scratchy yet masculine voice said on the other side. Just then, Mike spotted a large shadow enter the view of the left window; Mike nearly skipped a beat when he saw two bright magenta eyes stare right at him. "I can see you in there!"

*BANG*

Mike's breath grew even more unsteady as he could see slight dents coming through the left door. Having been scared out of his mind, he quickly shuffled his swivel chair back, only to run it right into the back wall.

"Where do you think you're going, Mr. Schmidt?" Chica's voice called out behind her doorway before a loud bang was heard once more.

*BANG*

Mike stared at the purple silhouette in both confusion and horror before deciding to look towards the other doorway, only to find a yellowish figure staring right at him as well. Mike's heart dropped in an instant while his body shook profusely in fear. In a desperate attempt to calm himself, he glimpsed downwards at the security tablet he still held the only thing that could save him now. In that very instant of looking, there was nothing but an eerie silence as the shaking guard stared down at the flickering screen.

The tablet screen lit up part of his face, revealing several tears beginning to well up in his eyes. The tablet said there was only 3% battery left, and it was 5:03. He had nearly a whole hour left to go before he even had a chance to escape.

Mike didn't hear or touch anything as he dropped the tablet out of his hands and slowly looked up towards the office's poster. There, illustrated in the poster, stood the three main animatronic members, and each of whom just awkwardly stood in their place. However, in his delusional mind, he could see them all staring right at him, taunting him with maniacal grins.

"There's nowhere left for you to go, Mr. Night Guard." Chica mockingly said on her side of the door.

"It's time to accept your fate, boy…" Bonnie growled as he brought his mask closer towards the office window.

Then, as if on cue, both animatronics slammed their doors before saying simultaneously, "You will pay for what you did to her."

The guard froze up. Both voices echoed inside his mind for a long second, bouncing around until finally, his guilt came back to him. He didn't understand who, or why these animatronics were so mad at him; it was his first day on the job after all. None of that mattered now, for there was only one thing on his mind now: his lost girlfriend.

Both animatronics continued to bang on the doors, but Mike paid no attention to either of them; his mind was too distant at this point to even register what was going on around him. Instead, he just sat still, staring blankly ahead, as precious memories rushed through his head. It didn't matter if the memory was good or bad because the only thing he cared about any of them was the fact they had the girl he once loved. The girl who depended on him, who cared for him, who too loved him. The girl who he betrayed because of his selfish reasons…

The memories suddenly became altered as it all went back to that night… The night he last talked to her… The night she had left him… The last time he had ever got to hear her grief-stricken voice…

"Ab-Ab-Abigail…" Mike sobbingly said as his voice choked on the name. Succumbing to his guilt, the night guard began to sob into his hands as both animatronics halted their bangs. They watched as Mike's sobbing grew louder and more erratic than before. His crying was prominent in the darkened pizzeria, and for a second the animatronics just stood in silence as they listened to his voice.

"Oh god, Abigail… I-Is this what happened to you?" He could already picture it in his mind; a young yet bloody body mangled up inside an animatronic suit; limbs are dangling off limply while her fingers made the occasional twitch. "Oh…my… god…" Mike whispered as he brought himself back to reality. "I-I'm going to die..."

For a second, Mike sat utterly still. There wasn't much he could do now. He was dead, and there was nothing that could save him now. Taking one deep breath, Mike managed to shed one last tear from his eye. Then, he shut them both closed and opened the two doors. With a sudden whirr of metal, the doors disappeared, revealing the two hulking animatronics.

Not daring to open an eye, Mike finally said in a somber voice, "J-Just do it already, kill me. At least I can finally be with my family again… At least I can finally be with her…"

Suddenly, the sound of a dying generator echoed across the darkened pizzeria. Mike opened his eyes once more and found himself consumed in utter darkness. Both Bonnie and Chica seemed to have moved out of the room and were walking away, leaving the night guard alone in the dark office. Not daring to move or breath, he sat still while a couple of fresh tears continued to fall from his eyes. Then, he heard an unknown pair of heavy footsteps approach him on the left side before stopping right at the open doorway.

The guard slowly shifted his gaze towards the doorway, silently dreading what was about to come. Suddenly, the dark room lit up from the light of two animatronic eyes as "Toreador March" started to play from the lowly lit face of Freddy. The eerie tune echoed through the office, and each passing second caused Mike's heart to skip a beat.

Finally, the tune ended, and both eyes were soon swallowed in the dark pizzeria, leaving only the swift beating of Mike's heart and his heavy breathing. He closed his eyes once more, expecting something to grab hold of him while he was cowering, but nothing happened. Aside from the sound of rumbling off in the distance, the place was silent. Mike slowly opened his eyes to see what was going on, but his heart immediately stopped when he saw what was in front of him.

Standing right before the terrified man was Freddy Fazbear himself, grinning menacingly at the night guard. The animatronic watched as Mike's eyes widened and his mouth fell open. Satisfied with seeing the man's fear, the bear screeched as it leaped forward.

"Run."

Mike then felt his mind going blank as he planted both of his feet in the center of Freddy's chest before giving a hard push. The momentum created by his force allowed the guard's chair to just barely roll out of Freddy's lunge before ramming itself against the hard office wall that stood behind him. Without even batting an eye, the man leaped up from his chair as the bear repositioned itself so that it can block off both exits. However, Mike's basic instincts told him to dive for a door, and he did so. The guard threw his body forward, just underneath the bear's arms, before sliding right past the animatronic entirely. In a last-ditch effort to keep the guard from escaping, the bear hastily blocked off the right entrance of the office, granting the panicking man a clean exit on the left side. Mike pushed himself off the floor and clumsily got up before making a mad dash towards the left exit. As Mike ran through the door, he suddenly heard a bellowing voice thunder just behind him.

"Foxy! He's making his way up the left hallway!"

Mike felt his legs grow lighter as his muscles tensed up and quickened their pace, causing the guard to enter into a full on sprint as he entered the main dining room. He noticed that both Bonnie and Chica were standing next to the backstage door, who both saw Mike running into the room. As the man ran, he noticed some rustling coming from the purple curtains as a familiar accent spoke out.

"What did ye say, Fred? I didn't catch ye from in 'ere-..."

As Foxy said those last couple words, he poked his head out from the curtains and noticed Mike staring right back at him with an expression of terror. The fox's calm look soon changed into anger as it gave out a screeching scream, prompting the man to run to his right towards the kitchen and right hallway entrance. Mike could hear the clattering of their heavy but swift footsteps as they came up behind him, causing Mike to lean his head forward a bit more while pushing himself to run even faster. Running right past the right hall and bypassing the kitchen doors, Mike took a hard left towards the restaurant's entrance.

"Bonnie! Chica! Cover the front entrance!" Freddy shouted just behind Mike as the man ran as fast he could towards the glass doors.

Both Freddy and Foxy were in hot pursuit behind him, pounding down hard on the tile floor as the two tried reaching out to catch their escapee. Mike grew closer and closer to the glass doors, and at this point, he didn't care if he had to crash through the glass to escape. The guard didn't want to die like this. However, as he was just ten meters from his freedom, the guard noticed a flurry of yellow and purple fur blocking off his escape route, causing Mike to sprint instead right.

The guard entered the bathroom hall and dashed into the furthest room. Ignoring the signs as to what bathroom he was running into, he hid inside the darkened room. Mike paid no attention to the sound of animatronics' footsteps entering the hallway as he came to a complete halt near one of the mirrors. Mike exhaled softly and tiredly as he stood completely still, listening intently to the animatronics thudding against the floor just outside of the room he was in. His heart was pounding in his chest, prompting the man to drop down into a kneeling position as his mind finally came back to a sensible state.

Mike felt a rush of mixed emotions rage inside himself, most of which consisted of fear and terror. The man could do nothing but pray as he listened to the animatronics pounding away the stall doors in the opposite sex's restroom. In a desperate attempt to relax, Mike clutched his hand across his upper chest and felt something small dangling inside his shirt. Reaching down past his uniform's purple collar, he quickly yet gently pulled out a hidden necklace. Figuring there was no means of an escape, the man clutched the small carving inside his hand against his chest. Finally, he gave out a heavy breath before feeling himself tear up.

"Jesus Christ… I knew something was wrong with this place after you disappeared." Mike said lowly as if he was speaking to the carving itself. "Is this how you went Ab-Abigail? After I-I told you… You let them take you… Dear god... I'm so sorry Abby. I shouldn't have left you… Not like this… You didn't deserve this…" Gasping for another breath, he felt his tears beginning to fall as he started rocking his body slightly. "I'm going to die. This is it. I'm going to die the same way you did. Oh god..."

Feeling hopeless as ever, Mike raised his head up towards the nearest mirror to get a look at himself. He looked into the reflection and saw something peculiar approaching his shoulder from above. It had white fur clinging onto what looks like an animatronic paw, but the rest of its arm had no such hair. Instead, it had nothing but exposed beams and wires, some of which were dangling hazardously from the metallic bars. The paw drew closer to the guard as if it was reaching out to touch the man.

Mike, not knowing what the hell the thing was or belonged to, gave out an audible scream as he fell off his knees and crawled back into a nearby stall door. The hand flinched back at the man's sudden cry before receding as quickly as it could back through the rather large hole in the ventilation. The man was left gasping for breath as his heart pounded rapidly inside.

"It came over from 'ere, gang!" Foxy said just outside the bathroom entrance.

Mike peered over towards the entrance while maintaining a frightened expression as several pairs of footsteps could be heard entering the darkened room. Then, Mike watched in silent horror as several pairs of eyes came around the corner, granting him a slight vision of the animatronics' silhouettes. Mike clasped a hand over his mouth to silence his breathing, but it didn't do much.

"He's over there!" The animatronic blurted to his companions, causing the rest of the eyes to peer over towards Mike's spot.

"Bingo," Foxy said as he rushed over to the guard with his hook raised high.

If his body allowed it, Mike's heart would have dropped when he watched the pirate running right towards him. Shaking away his tears, Mike gritted his teeth as he lunged up from the ground. Mike sensed that he just barely dodged Foxy's hook as he felt cold air blowing just behind his neck. Not wanting to give up just yet, Mike charged towards the only exit, which had three other animatronics standing in the way. Mike bent forward with his right arm blocking his face as he ran straight for the entrance, praying that he was strong enough to get through. Unable to see, the man's teeth gripped even harder as he continued running.

"Please." Mike thought in silence as he felt his body crash into another animatronic.

"Gotcha!" Chica yelled out loud when she felt her hand grabbing hold of the man's collar. In a sudden and strong yank, Mike could feel his body being pulled back from whoever he crashed into. "You're not going anywhere, Michael." Chica then said as she forced the man to turn around and face her.

Mike could see the chicken's endoskeleton teeth sitting just inches away from her fake white beak teeth. To some children, it would appear as if the chicken was giving them a broad grin, but to Mike, it felt as if she was giving him a deathly smile.

"Nice work lass!" Foxy congratulated as he came up behind the man.

Before Mike could even struggle inside the animatronic's grip, he then felt a blunt metal object crash down against his forehead. Mike's head immediately began to throb in pain as Mike winced his eyes from the feeling. Mike then felt his legs being dragged across the floor as the pain was slow to recede. The guard tried his best to relieve the pain, but the throbbing feeling it caused made him both uncomfortable and limp, granting the animatronics an easier time to take him away. For what felt like several minutes, Mike felt his body being dragged across the smooth floor, farther and farther away from the restroom he was in and out into the open dining hall. He could hear the animatronics' giggling, particularly Foxy's and Chica's, as he was being dragged in front of the wooden stage.

"What - we - have! The - sucker - came - for - work - we - to - him! He - this - to -!"

Bonnie's words were being cut off in between words as Mike struggled to keep his mind together, but alas the strike from the pirate's hook left him defenseless. Mike was completely exposed. It didn't take long till Mike could hear the backstage door creak open, and once he heard it, he knew that this was it. He was a goner now.

Suddenly he felt his body come to a halt as Chica, who had been dragging him the whole time, too came to a stop. Mike was able to recollect his thoughts for a couple of seconds as he heard the animatronics mumble to themselves. He couldn't understand their words due to his throbbing headache, so instead, he focused on trying to move his arms and hands again to see if he is strong enough to move again.

Mike stared down at his hands while focusing as much as he can on moving them. At first, he could see one of his fingers twitch, but then it stopped pulling. In a sort of fit of frustration and desperation, the guard tried wiggling himself out of the chicken's iron grip, which drew the attention of the animatronics.

"Well - Well." Though Mike still had trouble understanding what he was saying completely, he continued to catch several words. "Look who - to - up - his -. What - you say Foxy? Want to go get - and show - - surprise?"

Slowly Michael's hearing became more evident, and he was beginning to comprehend what they were saying once more.

Foxy replied back in excitement as he said, "That sounds like a grand ol' plan Freddy! I'll go get the lass and show her our catch!"

"Mhm," Bonnie said with a nod before commenting. "Sounds like a good idea you two. What about you Chica?"

From what Mike could tell without looking, he felt the yellow animatronic raise her other hand in a sort of 'I'm not sure' gesture.

"I'm not sure you guys. Shouldn't we just wait till after we stuff him? Maybe then Mangle won't feel as blue as she does if she doesn't see it happen?"

"What do you mean Chica? Of course, she'll want to see him suffer! You remember what he did to her!" Bonnie replied back.

"Who are they talking about? I don't know any Mangle…" Mike's thought ran through his head as he tried lifting his head up to get a better view of the animatronics. This motion, however, caught the others' attention, causing them all too quickly shut up before peering down to see if the guard was waking up.

"Foxy," Freddy then said aloud, "-go check on her will you? Just to make sure she is ok? Once this is over, we'll then show her."

The fox gave a clear response as he said, "Aye aye." Mike then could hear the pirate walking out swiftly, while the three remaining animatronics looked at each other.

"You both know what to do. I'll grab the suit while the two of you hold the guard down." Freddy then said in a calm and collective voice, much to Mike's horror.

"Sure thing Freddo!" Bonnie replied back pleasantly whereas Chica gave only a silent nod.

Mike was beginning to panic once more as he felt the yellow chicken grip her other hand on his left shoulder while moving her other one off of his collar and towards his remaining shoulder. The man could also hear Bonnie leaning over towards his lower end of his body before suddenly feeling two large hands grip on his legs. At this point Mike could finally move his hands again, and as soon as he discovered that he immediately started to flail his arms around in a wild panic.

"No! No! No! I'm not ready to die!" Mike spontaneously screamed out loud as he began to shake his body between the two animatronics violently' grasps, but alas both of them held on tightly as they started to lift him up entirely off the ground. The man only panicked further as there was no ground beneath him, but it did not matter. The two animatronics weren't letting go anytime soon.

Once he was lifted up high enough, Mike could see something laying across a metallic table just to the corner of his eye. Glancing over nervously, he noticed the tall brown figure of Freddy standing over a sizeable animatronic suit that laid motionless. It had a light grey color to its fur and had several canine-like features showing: from its tail appearing like one to its snout and ears looking almost like a grey wolf. At this point, his eyes bulged outward terror as he caught sight of the wolf's endoskeleton teeth showing off between it's mockingly smile. Mike was about to give out a loud cry, but he was interrupted when he heard several fast beating footsteps coming up from outside the room. All of the animatronics glanced over towards the door as they too listened to the sound, and they were surprised once they saw Foxy burst through the door in rapid haste.

"Freddy! Bonnie! Chica! She isn't in the cove!" Foxy blurted out as the three others looked at him in both surprise and concern as well.

"What?!" Both Bonnie and Chica replied back worriedly as they looked towards each other and back at Foxy.

"What do you mean she isn't there?" Freddy asked in a bit of a worried tone of his own.

Foxy was about to explain when everyone, including Mike, heard something clanging in the ventilation right above him. It took him a second to register the noise, but suddenly memories of the mysterious white paw sticking through the vents came to mind, causing him to shake around even more.

"Oh god! That-that thing is coming towards us!" Mike thought as he shook his body the best he could, but still couldn't get loose.

The thing kept getting closer and closer to the group, causing the animatronics to look towards each other before looking back towards the rumbling sound. Then, it came to a complete halt just a top of them all. For a second none of the animatronics moved as they stared at where they last heard it move. Finally, Bonnie glanced over at Freddy with an expression of confusion before opening his mouth to speak.

"Is that-?"

*BANG*

Immediately the animatronics flinched at the sudden sound.

*BANG BANG*

The thing repeatedly beat against the vent, causing a dent to protrude out from the thin metal.

"What the... lass?" the red fox whispered to himself as he took a quick glance over towards the struggling guard.

*BANG* *BANG* *BANG*

*CRASH*

A flurry of white fur, metal, and wires suddenly came dropping down from newly formed hole, catching everyone off guard.

"M-m-I-i-C-c-H-h-a-A-A-e-e-E-L-l-L!"

Time felt like it slowed as Mike froze up from his struggling to look straight up towards the falling thing. He instantly saw metal and wires alike falling directly towards him, and several white paws that looked exactly like the one he saw in the restroom just a few minutes ago. However, that wasn't what caught his attention the most. Instead, it was the two golden eyes that were staring right at him inside the mask of a white vixen. The last thing he did before feeling himself succumb to his panic was to think of one name before fainting.

"Abigail..."

Congrats on reaching the end of this chapter! I hope you've enjoyed this slightly more polished version and please leave your comments on how you feel about this change in writing.