The Puppet Master

Scott was flipping through pages of his paper, so he didn't hear anything. He wasn't aware that Marionette was creeping up on him. "If you thought I was creepy before, well then you haven't seen anything yet Phone Guy." The puppet silently stated to herself. She stopped when her ears detected a yawn. Scott was bored out of his own mind, nothing to do, and nobody had moved and made there way to the office to get him. He set his paper down and looked around, as he did his eyes grew heavy with sleep.

"Ok nobody's moved since I got here, I think I'll be fine until it's time to go home." The man looked at his watch. "8:00, since Jeremy doesn't come here for another four hours, I think I'll take me a little nap." Scott said to himself. He moved a tablet out of his way, laid his head on the desk, closed his eyes, and fell fast asleep. He started to snore, hearing that meant this was the perfect opportunity for Marionette to have a little fun with him.

She snuck over to a drawer in the desk, and opened it up. After rummaging through it for a minute, and being careful not to wake the man up, she found what she was looking for; a ball of string, and a pair of scissors.

"Let's just see what happens when you wake up and find yourself as my puppet. The you can discover for yourself that sometimes opinions matter, and that pulling someone else's strings is not fun. Ha, ha, ha, ha." She silently evil laughed to herself. Taking the pair of scissors, she she cut four pieces of string, each one varied in length, and tied them to a wooden x like what other puppets have. After making sure they were nice and tight she tied the other ends of them to Scott's ankles and wrists. The day shift security guard didn't know anything was happening, he was just snoring away. Marionette then looked down upon her new puppet with strings and snickered. She tilted the wooden x to the right and raised up his left arm, then she did the same thing to the other before setting them down. "Oh this is gonna be so much fun." She thought.

Foxy had just finished beating Mangle in a card game when he thought about Marionette. "Hm I wonder how Marionette is doing w'th her revenge plot?"

"I'm sure she's doing fine, but if you wanna go check on her, please be our guests. We're not stopping you." Toy Freddy assured. The pirate fox, turned his head away and marched off. Not saying one word to the toy version of Freddy. He headed past the Prize Corner, and out of the corner of his eye he spotted the Endoskeleton emerging from the box. The animatronic paid no heed to the freaky, creepy, skeleton, and continued on. But he did shudder a bit.

Marionette was busy having fun with a puppet of her own. Moving him around, even standing up and taking a walk. Scott woke up when felt himself moving, then he realized that he wasn't doing it himself and he sure wasn't dreaming. So he screamed. "Ahhhhh! Hey what's going on?!" Phone Guy then noticed the strings attached to him, followed them upward, and pretty soon emerald green eyes rested right on the person he hated the most...The Marionette. All the color seemed to drain right outta his face causing him to cry out in fear again. "Ahhhhh! Marionette, what the hell are doing here, and what's with the strings on me?! Tell me right now!" He demanded, his eyes filled with both anger and anxiety.

The puppet just laughed. "Ha, ha, ha, ha. I've got you right where I want you Scott. Strings keeping you in place so you can't run away. Now I can take my revenge on you!"

"What do you mean by revenge? What did I ever do to you?!"

"The phone messages you were recording. I overheard what you said in your message about me. Apperently Foxy's your favorite, but not me, you said it yourself, I creep you out."

"True you do creep me out Marionette, but I'm telling you the truth; I just don't like you. I used to adore puppets with strings attached to them. Back when I was a kid, my parents entertained me with puppets to cheer me up when I was sad. Seeing them moving and jumping around just like they were real live people, but back when I first met you I was totally spooked and I still am. I've had nightmares about you for weeks and it always results in me waking up in my bed screaming. All because you don't have any strings." The guard admitted.

Marionette was completely speechless, and in total shock by what Scott had conffessed. But she tried to keep her spirits high. Finally she spoke. "Oh, wow Scott I...I don't know what to say. I never knew you liked other puppets, ones with strings. But just remember I still am one. A puppet, I'm alive and I have feelings to ya know. And even though I lack strings, do you think you could just try and give me a chance to show you that I'm not really that scary? And that you have absolutely nothing to worry about with me?" She asked. A whole minute passed before Phone Guy finally spoke.

"Well, alright, I guess we could give it a try." The puppets eyes lit up.

"Oh good to know. And I guess I should get these strings off of you then." She picked up the scissors, cut the strings and released him. After that she wrapped her arms around him and hugged him.

Foxy headed down the hall to the main office, but when he poked his head in the door he was completely shocked. He thought for sure Marionette would be having the time of her life with her revenge on him. But when he saw those two wrapped up in a hug, he just nodded and sprinted back to Parts and Service. The other animatronics were waiting. "So how was it? What did you see Foxy?" Freddy asked.

"Well lads, I saw those two wrapped up in a warm embrace. So I think they made up." Was the best way that Foxy could put it.

"Wow, and Marionette didn't kill him? Ah well, we still have the new night guard to look forward to tonight. We still have a chance to have a new playmate. So let's get prepared for tonight." Balloon Boy said.

The Puppet finally let go of Scott. "Thank you for giving me a chance, I really appreciate it. And I'll tell you one thing, I think the Endoskeleton inside the box along with me is even more scary then I am. And to tell you the truth; I don't like it, it creeps me out. So I know exactly how you feel about me." She chuckled. "Well I guess I should be getting back to my box, to get prepared for the arrival of Jeremy tonight. Thanks again for everything Phone Guy. I promise from now on I won't try to spook ya." With that she was off.

Scott went back and sat in his chair. He had gotten over his fear of Marionette, and he heard it with his own ears that she wasn't going to try and scare him. "Well that worked out good." He breathed in a sigh of releif. "Now what could I possibly do about that Endoskeleton she mentioned?" He asked himself. After a minute he chuckled. "Well I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it."

Hey guys I'm back, I really enjoyed writing this. It was a fun little experience Marionette had, even if this only ended up being two chapters.(And this one was shorter then the first.) But in the end it worked out good. Ok guys we'll see you next time. Keep smiling!