It was about 11:30 before I actually decided to get dressed and head out to the pizzeria, didn't want to be late on my first night after all.
When I got there the place looked deserted, there were no lights on what so ever besides the one street lamp at the edge of the parking lot which was barley enough light to allow you to see the front of the building. Once I pulled into the driveway I saw an old 76 Mustang parked close to the door and an oldish looking man standing beside it, I could only assume the man was Mr. Fazbear so I pulled up next to him and got out.
"Evening sir" I said, the man gave a small smile and a nod
"Evening, nice to finally meet you" He replied "So are you ready for your first night?" He asked, I smiled and nodded
"Sure am" I replied "Thanks for calling me back, you don't know how much I needed this job" I continued, the man just continued to smile
"It was no problem my boy, glad you were still interested in it" he replied "Now anyways here is a set of keys, there is a clean uniform and a flashlight on the office desk for you" he continued "And also I had a dayshift employee leave a message for you to help you out a little, he should explain everything better than I can" he finished, I nodded
"Alright, thank you sir" I said, Fazbear nodded before getting in his car
"Don't forget to lock up once you're inside" He said
"No problem sir" I replied
"Alright, then have a good night" Fazbear said before driving away, I stood there a minute before making my way to the door which was still unlocked and making my way inside.
After I was in I locked the door before turning around and facing the darkened pizzeria before me, it was so dark that I decided to pull my phone out so I could us the flashlight. Once I had my light on I started making my way through the very quite building.
As I made my way through I was looking around to get an idea of the place and there honestly wasn't anything too different at all from a place like Chuck E. Cheeses, tables and chairs, arcade games, rides for the smaller kids, a prize corner where kids cash in their tickets for prizes and of course the animatronic band on the stage.
I stopped in front of the stage and looked up at the frozen animatronics and as I did I started getting a weird feeling in my stomach, I shook off the feelings before continuing on my way.
While Brent was walking away he hadn't noticed Toy Bonnie's eyes start to follow him.
I had finally made it to my office and it was pretty wired for an office, first off there wasn't a door...it was just a big opening that led to the hallway, next was the fact that there were two open vents on the right and left sides of the room...and they weren't just normal vents either they looked like they could fit a person. Other than those two things there wasn't much besides some old looking monitors with some think wires coming out of them, a bunch of kids drawings on the wall and the desk that was cluttered with some paper balls, an old metal desk fan, the uniform and flashlight Mr. Fazbear was talking about and the tablet.
After I finished looking around I picked up the uniform and quickly changed into it before taking my seat in the desk chair, I picked up the tablet and started flipping through the cameras...everything looked fine...at first...that was until I noticed that the blue rabbit was staring at the camera which he hadn't been doing before...just as I was about to get a closer look though the phone started ringing and I gotta admit it scared the shit out of me.
"Holy hell!" I exclaimed before lowering the tablet to look at the phone, that's when I remembered Mr. Fazbear said that a day shift employee was going to be leaving me a message
( *Ring Ring* *Ring Ring* *Ring Ring*) the phone rang before a message finally started playing
"Uh, hello? Hello, hello? Uh, hello and welcome to your new summer job at the new and improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Uh, I'm here to talk you through some of the things you can expect to see during your first week here and to help you get started down this new and exciting career path." (I rolled my eyes at the "Exciting career" part)
"Uh, now, I want you to forget anything you may have heard about the old location, you know. Uh, some people still have a somewhat negative impression of the company. Uh... that old restaurant was kind of left to rot for quite a while, but I want to reassure you, Fazbear Entertainment is committed to family fun and above all, safety. They've spent a small fortune on these new animatronics, uh, facial recognition, advanced mobility, they even let them walk around during the day. Isn't that neat? -clears throat But most importantly, they're all tied into some kind of criminal database, so they can detect a predator a mile away. Heck, we should be paying them to guard you."
"Haha funny" I said sarcastically
"Uh, now that being said, no new system's without its... kinks. Uh... you're only the third guard to work at that location. Uh, the first two guys finished their weeks, but complained about... conditions. Uh, we switched them both over to the day shift, so hey, lucky you, right? Uh mainly they expressed concern that certain characters seemed to move around at night, and even attempted to get into his office." (Whoa what!) "Now, from what we know, that should be impossible. Uh, that restaurant should be the safest place on earth. So while our engineers don't really have an explanation for this, the working theory is that... the robots were never given a proper "night mode". So when it gets quiet, they think they're in the wrong room, so then they go try to find where the people are, and in this case, that's your office. So our temporary solution is this: there's a music box over by the Prize Counter, and it's rigged to be wound up remotely. So just, every once in a while, switch over to the Prize Counter video feed and wind it up for a few seconds. It doesn't seem to affect all of the animatronics, but it does affect... one of them." (As the phone guy continued talking a picked up the tablet and switched to the camera that he was talking about and sure enough there was a button to wind up the music box) "-clears throat Uh, and as for the rest of them, we have an even easier solution. You see, there may be a minor glitch in the system, something about robots seeing you as an endoskeleton without his costume on, and wanting to stuff you in a suit" (I nearly dropped my tablet in shock when he said that) "so hey, we've given you an empty Freddy Fazbear head, problem solved! You can put it on anytime, and leave it on for as long as you want. Eventually anything that wandered in, will wander back out." (A Freddy head is supposed to keep a bunch of robot animals from stuffing me into a suit?!)
"Uh, something else worth mentioning is kind of the modern design of the building. You may have noticed there are no doors for you to close, heh. But hey, you have a light! And even though your flashlight can run out of power, the building cannot. So, don't worry about the place going dark. Well, I think that's it. Uh, you should be golden. Uh, check the lights, put on the Freddy head if you need to, uh, keep the music box wound up, piece of cake. Have a good night, and I'll talk to you tomorrow."
And with that the phone call ended, I sat there trying to wrap my brain around everything he had just said about the animatronics moving and trying to stuff me in a suit...did I really just take up a job at a kids pizzeria where animatronic animals are trying to kill me? That definitely wasn't in the job description.
I decided to try and calm myself down by telling myself that he was only pulling some kind of bullshit prank seeing how I was the new guy. I sat back in my chair and rubbed my face before grabbing the tablet to flip through the cameras, the first camera I checked was the Prize Counter so I could rewind the music box, next I went to the show stage and almost threw up my lunch...both the rabbit and the chicken were gone.
I immediately went wide eyed as I quickened my pace flipping through the cameras, I stopped when I saw the chicken in the Main Hall came almost directly infront of the camera she was different though...she didn't have her beak or her eyes like she did on the stage. My heart was beating at a rapid pace, what the phone guy had said was true! Those robots are alive and they're out to kill me!
I continued flipping through the cameras until I found the rabbit ducking into the vent in Party Room 2...wait WHAT! The rabbit was climbing his blue ass into the vent!
Now my heart was racing a million times faster, I continued flipping through the cameras to make sure that Freddy hasn't moved from the stage and of course he was gone...I quickly flipped through the cameras and stopped on the Game Area cam when I saw what looked to be a chubby little boy holding a balloon and a wooded sign
"Tell me that's another one" I said to myself, as I was sitting there I noticed something...or better yet someone standing in the distance...it was Freddy "So that's where you went you bastard" I said before switching the camera back to the Prize Corner to wind up the music box, after I wound up the music box I switched the tablet back to the Game Area only to notice that Freddy was gone "Where did you go now?" I asked as I started flipping through the cameras.
As I was flipping through I started hearing banging the right vent, I lowered the tablet and saw the blue rabbit sticking his head out of the vent...I went wide eyed before quickly yanking the Freddy head off the floor and throwing it on. I wanted to desperately take it off seeing how the inside of it smelled like a mixture of sweat and vomit but I knew if I did the rabbit would surely kill me.
The rabbit crawled out of the vent and walked up the desk and came face to face with me as he squinted his robotic eyes
"Have you seen the naked endoskeleton that was walking around?" The rabbit asked, I was sitting there with my heart getting ready to burst out of my chest while not knowing what to do. I finally decided to just shake my head hopefully getting the rabbit out of there faster "Oh ok, if you find him help him get into his suit" the rabbit said before walking out of the office, when I knew he was gone I yanked the Freddy head off so I could catch my breath.
After I managed to catch my breath I picked the tablet back up and noticed I had left it on a room I hadn't checked before labeled "Parts/Service", I sat there staring at it a minute and immediately noticed that there was more animatronics in there!
"There's more of them?!" I quietly exclaimed, there was a bear which i'm assuming was an older modeled Freddy lying on the floor, I purple rabbit with no face or left arm sitting against the back wall, and a chicken and a fox leaning on each other almost out of camera view...they were all clearly in bad shape seeing how they were missing parts and had holes and loose wires all over them.
They continued to just stay still so I decided to switch the tablet to a different camera to see if I could find any of the others, right off the bat I found the rabbit in Party Room 3 he was standing in the back corner holding his guitar from the stage...guess he went back for it?
I continued flipping through the camera until I finally found the chicken in Party Room 4, she was standing in front of some paper plate dolls in a weird knees bent position facing the camera.
As I continued flipping through I stopped on another new camera labels "Kids Cove" and the first thing I saw was what can only be described as a mangled pile of animatronics parts with what looked like a fox mask? Not only that but it had an extra head and only had one eye...whatever the thing was looked pitiful.
After finding not only the chicken and the rabbit but the mangled mess of parts and not being able to find Freddy I started getting worried, I lowered the tablet to make sure he wasn't in the office waiting to scare the shit out of me and I shit you not I almost had a heart attack when I saw him leaning in staring at me
"There you are Mr. Endoskeleton!" He exclaimed as he started walking towards the desk, my eyes went wide as I started backing up "Lets go and get you dressed!" He continued, I sat there and thought about putting the Freddy head on but figured at this point that wouldn't work but I knew I had to do something as the beat inched closer and closer...I decided to do the only thing I could do...run.
I quickly got up and lunged over the desk missing Freddy and bolting out of the office
"You wanna play catch Mr. Endo?" I heard Freddy call "I'm gonna get you" he called in that kid friendly voice of his.
I bolted down the hall running past the rabbit in the process
"Get him Bonnie, we're playing catch!" I heard Freddy say
"Ohhhh I love catch!" I heard Bonnie reply, my eyes went wide as I dashed into the closest room and slamming the door behind me...what I didn't notice however was the room that I ran into was labeled Parts & Service.
I slowly backed up not noticing the giant bear lying on the floor and tripped over him, I fell hard on the floor and looked at the bear only realizing then where I was. I slowly started crawling back from the bear until my back hit the wall, once it did I heard gears turning I looked next to me and saw that the faceless rabbit had turned its head towards me and at that moment I was to scared to even scream.
As the rabbit and I were sitting there we didn't notice the bear sitting up, he sat up and looked at us.
"I see you made it away from the others" Freddy said, at that point I didn't know what to do and Freddy knew that I was scared "Don't worry we're not going to hurt you" he said trying to reassure me "I'm Freddy Fazbear...nice to meet you" he said
So I decided to write and release chapter 2 a little earlier than expected just to help kick the story off a little better. Hope you guys enjoyed the chapter and let me know whatcha think so far, your feedback does matter to me!