Chapter 2 ~ The Nightmare Begins
"Hello. Hello Helloo."
"Hello there," Alikki replied to the energetic tone. The voice was barely understandable, due to the static, but she made the attempt to hear what was being said.
"Uhh, I wanted to record a message for you to help you get settled on on your first night."
The girl smiled pleasantly, glad to be listening to something in the darkness of the room. "How thoughtful," she said with a smile.
"Uhm, I actually worked at the office before you. Am finishing up my last week now as a matter of fact, so, I know it can be overwhelming. But, I am here to tell you that there is nothing to worry about. You'll do fine! So, let's just focus on getting you through the first night... Okay, let's see, uhmm, first there is an introductory reading for the company, that I am supposed to read. Yeah, it's kinda a legal thing, you know?"
She scoffed in the cooling night air, "If it's a legal thing, why didn't that owner tell me?" Her eyes scanned over the screens while the voice continued to talk.
"Uhm, welcome to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, a magical place for kids and grownups alike, where fantasy and fun come to life. Fazbear's Entertainment is not responsible for damage, property, or person on the discovering damage or death has occurred. A missing person report will be made within 90 days and the death of a person will be cleaned with bleach and the carpets be cleaned blah blah blah."
Catching her full attention, she stared at the message screen, where the audio was coming from, her eyes widened with a mixture of fear and shock, "What?! Don't 'blah blah blah' me after saying something like that!"
"Now, that might sound bad, I know, but there is nothing to worry about."
"Bull crap," retorted the new guard, "Nothing to worry about? You just inferred that people died here!"
"The animatronic puppets become, quirky at night, but do I blame them? No! If I were forced to sing those same stupid songs for 20 years and never get a bath, I probably would be irritable at night too. So remember, these characters hold a special place in the hearts of children, and show them a little respect, right? Okay, so just be aware that the characters tend to wander a bit. Uhm, they have some sort of free roaming mode at night, something about their servers locking up, or they get turned off for too long."
"They come alive?" Alikki shouted at the screen.
"Uhm, they used to be allowed to walk around during the easy too, but then there was the bite of '87. Yeah, it's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, ya know."
"What the living hell? They killed someone?" Alikki raised her voice once more
"Now, concerning the only real safety during the night watch, if any, is the fact that if these characters happen to see you after hours, they probably won't recognize you as being a person. They'll most likely see you as a metal exoskeleton without its suit on... Now, since that is against the rules of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, they'll probably forcefully stuff you inside Freddy Fazbear suit. Well, that wouldn't be so bad, if the suit themselves weren't filled with crossbeams, wires, and animatronic devices, especially around the facial areas. So you can imagine that having your head being pressed inside would cause a bit of discomfort and... Death."
"Oh my God!" She screamed, her stomach now feeling a bit queasy.
"The only parts that will see the light of day will be your eyeballs and teeth that will pop out of the mask. Yeah they don't tell you these things when you sign up but hey see you first thing tomorrow. Uhm check those cameras and remember to close those doors only if they are absolutely necessary. Got to conserve power. Alright good night."
"Yeah, no shit Sherlock," the girl said pitifully and shook her head, "What the hell did I get myself into?" With the static erupting back into the room, after a short moment, it became silent. The eary echoes from within the building, along with Alikki's heavy breathing were now all that was heard. Her skin began to tremble, and she nearly jumped at every sound.
Looking at the screens, she pushed the buttons randomly , making her notice that some of them were changing the camera's location. She stopped once she noticed three familiar animatronics standing together in one room ~ the bunny, the bear, and the chicken. "How'd they get there so quickly? I thought they were in the main room," the girl questioned.
Suddenly, the camera screen turned to static, frightening her once more. She drastically pushed the buttons on the control panel again, ending up opening and closing the doors multiple times and switching through the multiple different camera's. her frantic button mashing stopped shortly, and she took the moment to breath. The left door was closed, as she had noticed, and she calmly searched for the button in which to reopen it. Pushing one towards the left side of the panel, a plight flipped on in the room ahead of her. She stared in awe at the narrow, empty hall, pushing the button again to turn the light off.
Pressing another button, this one near the center, she managed to open the left door, to her uncertainty. Immediately after the door was lifted, she heard a mechanical squeak in the darkness, making her jump backwards. Her head spun back to the console, and he hand slammed the button to close the door.
"Oh my God!" Alikki shouted, placing her elbows on the console and putting her head into the palm of her hands. 'This isn't happening,' she though, shaking her head from within her hands, 'this cannot be happening!'
There was another noise outside the door, bringing her attention back to it. She noticed that there was a light directly above the door, blinking a bright red, that she hadn't noticed before. Taking note of this, she looked back at the screens, and once more, discovered something new. There was a percentage in the bottom corner of one screen, and next to it read [POWER.]
"This place loses power?" Alikki exclaimed, "it seems like I won't stop getting surprised here." She pushed the button to lift the door again, then shone her flashlight in the doorway. She found nothing. "Good," she said softly, and began scrolling through the screens once more. "I only have 78% power left, it's 2:31... What time do I get off again?.. Did her even tell me?" Alikki shook her head. She didn't expect to be in the midst of murderous animatronic animals.
"How'd it get so late already?" She quarrelled, "I thought I arrived here at sic." She scanned the screens. The figures were still all in one spot, she noticed, staring at them intently. She saw nothing that made them seem remotely alive. Rolling her eyes, she changed the camera, which brought up a screen with a curtain, fully closed. A sign in front of it read [Pirate's Cove.]
"Pirates Cove?" Alikki asked aloud, "What's that?" She immediately shook her head however, and switched the camera once more. She noticed that the buttons she pushed seemed to have been in order. The top row of buttons viewed the rooms further away, the middle ones showed those rooms in the middle of the building, and the ones on the bottom row showed the closer rooms. The buttons to the far left of the panel opened and closed the left door, while the ones on the far right did the same to the right door.
A few hours quickly passed with no further disruptions with the machines. Alikki, now slumped over in her chair, with her eyes growing ever so closely to slumber. She cycled through the cameras over and over, glossing over every speck of every room. But nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary. None of the animatronics moved an inch since after the recorded message.
Her eyes closed. She didn't get too fear in her slumber, as a loud ringing was shortly heard, causing her to jump up. Deciding enough was enough, she grabbed her flashlight, and slowly crept to the door on her right. Squinting her eyes into the darkness, she tried catching a glimpse of anything, but found nothing. Despite her not seeing anything, she shouted into the darkness, "I know you're there! I can hear you!" Nothing replied. What would she expect. A friendly 'hello?'
She slowly lifted her arm with the flashlight, and was about to switch it on, before her hand was violently smacked, sending the light flying into the corner of the room. She screeched, and winced in pain, grabbing her hand, and immediately turned around to the console. But she didn't get far, before something grabbed her by the neck of her uniform. Whatever it was, it was strong, and cold.
It pulled tightly, choking the girl. Fearing for her life, Alikki thrashed around, flailing her arms behind, and managed to grab onto something, feeling like ears. Long ears, belonging to a bunny.
"Let me go!" She managed to shout out in fear, only to have the grip pull her harder.
An idea striking her, she quickly unbuttoned the shirt of her uniform, with her uninjured hand, and managed to slip out of it, along with the grip. The creature was sent back into the darkness with a thud
She quickly ran to the console, and shut both the doors. Stepping away from the left door, she searched for her flashlight, finding it near the left of the room. She ran to its location, picked up, and turned it on, shining it on her hurt hand. It cuts and scrapes, and multiple large bruises over the entirety of it. Shocked by the damage, Alikki didn't know what to do.
However, she didn't need to do anything, as shortly after, bells rang through the building, and the lights came to life.
