So... on to the story?

•~~•~~•Chapter 2: The Job•~~•~~•

After Mike's friends disappeared, Mike was feeling quite lonely in his house. He had no one else to play with since other kids don't like him, and the only person he could talk to was his mother.

A few days later after the disappearance, little eight year old Mike sat nearby the window as he stared outside, pondering on where could've his friends gone to. Did they all left the neighborhood and moved to another location? Or did they get bored of Mike and started ignoring him? No, that's not possible. They were Mike's best friends, his ONLY friends so they couldn't have leave him so suddenly. As Mike thought about his best friends, his mother stood by the doorway and watched pitifully at her son.

She too wondered on what happened to her child's friends and felt bad for Mike. They only hanged out for five months and when Mike's friends vanish, she saw the same old Mike she once saw before he met his friends.

Sad...

Lonely...

And lost.

As she watched her son staring outside their window, she decided to cheer him up a little or at least take his mind off of this by talking with him.

"Mike." She spoke up grabbing Mike's attention, yet not a single word was spoken by Mike.

"Mike, sweetie, I know it's hard to not get to see your friends anymore," Mike's mom continued as she went near the boy, "But we should learn to move on, find other people to hang out with."

Mike still stared outside the window, never bothering to acknowledge his mother. His mom sighed.

"How about we head over to that pizzeria? After all, today is your birthday. Plus, I invited some of our relatives over for the party there." She said which now got Mike's attention as he looked at her. After a couple seconds of silence, Mike spoke up.

"Sure thing mom."

*At the Pizzeria*

When Mike and his mom got to the pizzeria, they were greeted by some of their relatives. Mike was given gifts by his cousins, uncles, and aunts and everything felt... normal.

As they partied at the pizzeria and celebrated Mike's birthday, Mike himself wasn't really enjoying the party knowing that he doesn't have his friends with him.

Mike was just sitting down on the table, eating some of his birthday cake as he watched his relatives either dance, eat or play. Boredom soon got over Mike which made him get out of his seat and wander around a bit.

He decided to go to Kid's Cove since some of his cousins are there and maybe play a bit. But as he walked there, he noticed the broken down animatronic who he now knows was Vixen laying on the ground in the corner near the cove. He also noticed that some of his cousins were messing around with it, breaking and placing pieces on different parts.

Mike felt a bit bad for the animatronic since it was being disassembled and assembled again only in the wrong parts and decided to go talk to his cousins.

"Hey guys, are you going to put it back together like how it was supposed to look like?" Mike asked as he went near them.

"It already does look like this." One of the kids said as he took off one of it's arms off and placed it on a different area.

"No, I mean like how Freddy looks like." Mike said as he watched his cousins play around.

"Well this isn't a bear." Another kid said as he took off a piece.

"Yeah, besides, this is a toy for children." Another one said.

"Hey, I'm hungry, let's go eat some cake." The kid who first talked to Mike said. The others agreed and they ran towards the dining hall to get some cake. Mike stayed there and just looked at the pile of mess which was supposed to be Vixen.

After looking at it for a while, Mike picked up an arm which laid on the ground nearby and decided to properly assemble the robot... even if he doesn't know how, but still, it was worth a shot.

"Let's see..." Mike said to himself as he placed the arm in what he thinks is the right spot. He began to assemble the animatronic and was actually having a bit of fun doing it.

"I wonder if this thing is on." Mike said as he placed an eyeball on the head... the one which had a fox face since it had two heads, one being a plain robot head. "Maybe there's a switch on this." He added as he began to look for anything that could turn it on. Soon enough, he felt a switch just behind the neck of the animatronic. Mike flipped the switch and sounds of gears whirring and metal moving was heard.

"It still works." Mike said aloud as he smiled a bit.

The animatronic looked around a bit as it's arm moved a little. Then it looked at Mike and tilted it's head to the side a bit.

"Hi!" Mike greeted cheerfully at the animatronic.

Vixen looked at him for a while before opening it's mouth...

Suddenly all Mike saw was darkness and then he heard a faint scream in a couple of minutes, calling his name.

"Mike!"

"Mike!"

"Mike, my name is Mike Schmidt." Mike said towards an employee of the pizzeria who works behind a desk near the entrance.

"Oh, so you're here for the job offering?" The employee, who was a female, asked.

"Yes I am ma'am." Mike replied as he stood in front of the desk. "So, who's the boss of this place?" He asked as he looked around to see some posters and drawings made by children. The female employee was about to speak when another voice spoke up.

"That would be me." A voice which belonged to a middle-aged man said as he walked towards Mike. "And you must be Mike Schmidt I presume?" The man asked as he raised an eyebrow.

"Yes I am sir." Mike replied.

"Please, no need for formalities, just call me Jim." The boss said as he turned and started walking. "Now come follow me Mike and I'll show you around." He said as he walked ahead. Mike followed suit.

Both of them walked and soon came to a large room filled with tables, rowed with chairs, and party hats with kids and parents eating and having fun. Nearby was a big stage that had three animatronic characters playing songs to the children.

"Here we have the Main Hall, where all the fun parties happen at this place." Jim started as he gestured around the place. Mike looked around and noticed the three animatronic characters that were singing on stage.

"Those three are Bonnie the rabbit, Chica the chicken, and Freddy Fazbear himself." Jim said as he pointed to each of the animatronic corresponding to their names.

"Hmm, they seem to make the children happy." Mike said as he took note of the children either singing along or dancing with songs played by the animatronics.

"I know, these characters hold a special place in the hearts of children and even some adults." Jim said as he started to walk again, Mike followed him as well.

"There's the restrooms if you need to go answer nature's call." Jim said as he and Mike walked past the restrooms. "There's the kitchen, where we prepare pizza to serve to the kids." Jim continued as they both walked past a closed metal door with a small circular window on it and a sign saying 'KITCHEN'.

"Here's the West Hall that leads to the security office." Jim said as he pointed at a long hallway that leads to somewhat a dead end. "Here's the East Hall that leads to the security office and storage closet." Jim added as he pointed to another hallway as they walked which also looked like it lead to a dead end.

"Here is Pirate Cove, where Foxy the pirate fox does his shows." Jim said as he gestured over at a small stage covered by purple curtains.

'Foxy the pirate fox? Sounds quite familiar.' Mike thought but his thoughts were disturbed when he noticed a sign in front of the curtains saying 'SORRY! OUT OF ORDER'.

"Um... excuse me, but why does the sign say 'Out of Order'?" Mike asked as curiosity got the best of him.

"Um... well you see, Foxy sorta... got a new jaw and it's still being tested to see if it works well." Jim replied as he continued to walk.

"Oh." Mike said although he wanted to here more of the story.

"Also, fun fact is that Foxy is the only animatronic that never changed here for he never got any upgrades and such. A few repairs and replacement of parts but he never got an upgrade. He's been here since 1985 I think." The boss said as both of them came in a room with heads of animatronics and a endoskeleton sitting on a table.

"Here's Backstage, well, not really back stage." Jim said as he showed Mike the spare heads. "This is where we keep the animatronics' spare parts." He added as he dusted off a Fazbear head.

"Geez, doesn't someone clean this room?" Mike asked as he noticed dust and some cobwebs around.

"Well yeah, but he comes in every week." Jim replied as he walked out. "Now let's go see the security office, the office that you'd be working in." He said as he and Mike walked down the East Hall to a small room which has two doorways, one leading to the West Hall and one leading to the East.

"Kinda small but we're on a tight budget right now." Jim said as he showed Mike in. As Mike examined the room, he noticed that each doorway had buttons saying 'Door' and 'Light'.

"What does these do?" Mike asked as he got closer to the buttons and pressed the 'Door' button, making a large blast-proof door close on the doorway, almost hitting Jim.

"Woah careful there, you almost squished me. The 'Door' buttons is for the doors of this room and the 'Light' buttons is for the light in the halls in each side." Jim said as he pressed the door button again to open it up and then press the light button to demonstrate what it does.

"But don't overuse these for it wastes power." He added as he pressed the button to turn off the light.

"What do you mean 'it wastes power'?" Mike asked as he gave a questioning look.

"Well, you heard me a while ago say that this place has a tight budget right? So, every time the pizzeria closes, the main power would be switched off leaving only the backup power that has limited time usage to power the place, mostly the security office." Jim explained, "So at night, don't overuse them... it gets pretty dark here without any light."

"Oh okay, so... am I hired?" Mike said, quite uneasy.

"That is if you want the job." Jim replied casually.

"Wait, so no résumés or certain skills to apply for this?" Mike asked again since jobs aren't handed out this easily.

"Nope. We just need someone to look over the place at night. How hard can it be?" Jim replied as he stood by the doorway.

"Alright, I'm taking the job." Mike said as he shrugged his shoulders.

"Great, your shift starts at 12:00 midnight and ends 6:00 in the morning. Don't be late on your first night." Jim said as he held out his hand and smiled.

"12:00. Got it." Mike said as he shook Jim's hand.

*Few Minutes Later, Mike's Apartment*

The time was now 7:39 PM, still far from 12. Mike was busy cleaning his closet and arranging his clothes. He has just gotten his uniform for the night shift and was about to place it in the closet with his other clothes until he noticed that the closet was just plain messy. But as he moved some shoeboxes out to have some space, he came across an old shoebox with crayon writings on the cover.

'Mike's Adventure Box' the writing said which sounded quite familiar to Mike but since his name is on the box then that must be his just that he forget about it because of his memory problem.

Mike opened up the box to reveal some very old toys, drawings, and pictures. He picked up one of the small toys and he realized that these were his childhood stuff.

"I can't believe I still have this." Mike said to himself as he tried to remember some of the memories he had, but the memories he saw were all blurry and vague. As he looked through his childhood stuff and tried to remember the memories, a picture caught Mike's eye.

He took the picture out of the box to see 5 children. One almost looked like him so he presumed it was him when he was a child, but the other kids were familiar to Mike yet he just couldn't put his finger on it. He decided to take out his wallet and place the picture in there so that he might remember them as he looked at the picture more. He then resumed to clean up the closet.

*11:53 PM, at the Pizzeria *

Mike arrived at the pizzeria a couple of minutes before his shift. When he got there, he saw a guy who has the same uniform as him waiting at the entrance.

"Ah, so you must be Mike, the night watch." The guy greeted as he went near him. "I'm Bill, the day watch." He said as he held out his hand to shake.

"Nice meeting you Bill." Mike greeted as he shook his hand. As they did this, Bill noticed Mike's scar on his head since Mike's cap wasn't pulled down.

"Eh, what's with the..." Bill started as he gestured over at his left eyebrow and made a line towards the top right of his forehead.

"Oh that..." Mike said as he pulled down his cap to cover it. "It's just a scar I got before... I don't know how since I can't remember." He added.

"Oh well, better start your shift." Bill said as he showed Mike some keys. "Here's the keys to the place, hope you have a good night." He added as he handed the keys to Mike and walked away, not before patting good luck to Mike.

"Alright, see you later." Mike said as he entered the pizzeria and headed to the security office. As he walked to the office, Jim was right about the place being really dark without lights. The only lights Mike saw was from the security office and some in the hall, one of which was a bit busted.

As soon as Mike got to the office, he sat down on the seat and noticed a tablet on the table. He picked it up to see that it was showing the camera feed of the main stage and it showed where the other cameras are. It also showed how much power was left in the building and the power usage. Apparently, the cameras uses power.

As Mike used the camera a bit, a phone rang which almost caught him by surprise.

-Chapter End-

Well, this turned out shorter than last chapter. And last chapter didn't get any reviews on whether or not to continue but I still continued.

If you guys (and gals) want to, you could review and tell me your opinions on the story or whether or not to stop right here and delete the story.

Anyways, this is LjDamz1119 signing off.