It could be easily said that Leslie Church didn't want to go back to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza that night, or at all in that matter! His teeth were chattering as he walked to the dark building and it wasn't from the cold. Like last time Johnny was there before, checking his watch several times before Leslie approached.
"M-Mister Fitz–"
"Ah! Mr. Church! You came! Good good, your shift is about to start so in you go!"
"I uhh, well actually Mr. Fitz I don't really want to work…"
"Not work! Need I remind you what your mother will do to you if you don't keep this job for at least a week?"
"No sir, you don't."
"Right, now in you go. After this night I will give you your own set of keys so I don't have to stay up this late. I'm usually in bed watching some Opera that I recorded."
Leslie said nothing, instead he gave a deep sigh and followed Johnny Fitz to the door which he unlocked and then quickly left. Yep, still had that creepy atmosphere as last night. He took his seat in front of the cameras and looked up at the screen. It was on the East Hall.
"I.. Better keep a close look on the animatronics tonight." Leslie flipped to the Show Room and….Chica was gone. "WHAT!? That chicken-duck thing is GONE!?" Leslie frantically flipped through the cameras to find Chica and saw her standing by the Restrooms. "No no no no!"
Leslie looked back to the Show Room and saw that Bonnie was now missing. He flipped through the camera again, desperately trying to find that lavender bunny. A weird, gasping could be heard from the right and Leslie looked, only seeing darkness. He got up from his seat and walked over to the lights, turning it on and right when he did so he saw the Bonnie staring straight at him, his mouth opened slightly. Leslie panicked, he froze on the spot and just stared at him, holding the switch for the light.
The gasping returned along with a small twitch of Bonnie's head before he started to walk into the room. Leslie screamed a little and tried to close the door, but Bonnie was already halfway in the room and he stopped the door from closing.
"No… No no…" He walked towards the east door and once he made it outside he bolted out of the Office into the East Hall and running into the kitchen hiding under the table. "This can't be happening. W-What are these things? I mean… They are animatronics, but they aren't at the same time!" He quickly covered his mouth once he heard loud footsteps approaching him along with a...strange laughter.
Leslie watched from under the table as a animatronic entered the kitchen. A large bear animatronic holding a microphone. "Oh Shit…."
Freddy walked past a couple of the tables walking straight to where Leslie was hiding. Leslie was so scared that he wasn't even breathing. Freddy stopped where Leslie was hiding and just stood there, for a good long time. Leslie wasn't sure what he was doing because he could only see the lower part of his legs.
Freddy then continued walking away from the table and Leslie gave a sigh of relief. That was until he heard a scream coming from behind him. He frantically turned his head and saw the horrid face of Freddy Fazbear staring at him with his cold, dead animatronic eyes.
Leslie couldn't help but scream while Freddy grabbed his leg and pulled him out from under the table and lifted him up, dangling him upside down.
"L-Let me go you animatronic bear! You have no right to do this!" Leslie cried out while banging on the bears metal chest. "Let me go!" He cried out again.
Freddy took Leslie Backstage where there were several animatronic suits laying around. Few Bonnie, and Chica heads and a empty endoskeleton. He kept hold of Leslie tightly as he continued to scream.
Leslie stopped screaming for a moment to see that there were more live animatronics in the room. Chica and Bonnie were there and a fox animatronic with patchy crimson fur and a hook hand and an eyepatch. Leslie blinked twice staring at the fox animatronic and then it seemed to smile then disappear behind an open door and then reappeared with….what seemed like to be a costume.
"Uhh, w-what are you doing?"
The animatronics said nothing, instead they watched as Foxy propped the lifeless animatronic up and opened the mouth of the suit and the endoskeleton.
"W-Wait!" Freddy brought Leslie closer to the animatronic and Leslie panicked more. "This can NOT be happening!"
As Leslie got closer to the animatronic standing there it looked like a blue bat and like Chica it didn't have any wings, but had hands. It also didn't have any teeth besides the two fangs poking down at the back of the mouth. It also seemed to be wearing a slightly torn tuxedo. His right ear appeared to be torn a little bit and his eyes were a raspberry red color.
All the animatronics were around them now, whispering something, something inaudible. Freddy flipped Leslie right side up and was now holding him even more tightly. He brought Leslie's head closer to the bat animatronic's mouth and Leslie struggled.
"Oh God no! Don't do this!" Leslie begged though it was like talking to a wall. It wouldn't listen… and it wouldn't budge.
Before Leslie knew it his head was jammed into the mouth of the endoskeleton. Pain surged his whole body, mainly his head. Blood began to escape from all the cuts being produced from the wires and rods inside the animatronic.
"P-Please s-s-stop!" He gasped and pleaded, blood repleted his mouth and poured onto the metal of the animatronic.
He was stuffed further inside his body soon becoming limp, but was still conscious and the pain was just unbearable. "N-No more…" He could no longer feel most of his body. The only part he could feel was his neck, surprisingly. Though that wouldn't matter soon.
The way his arms and legs were jammed into the bat animatronic contorted them badly, that one of the arms actually was torn from flesh and bone. Thankfully, he lost all feelings in most of his body he didn't feel it. The pain edged on… until finally he lost consciousness, and the last thing he heard was the giggling of children.
Everything was dark for a long time. A very long time. He could hear the music of the Trio in the Show Rooms and when they were done they would always come back to where he was and…. talk to him. The odd thing was, he could understand them now. Leslie wasn't sure how long… he was out for, but he was slowly waking up. The first moment he woke up it was just a dim light. Though, he could see just fine.
He moved his arms, they felt heavier and more...metallic. In front of him was Bonnie and he appeared to be smiling.
"You… Are awake?" Bonnie said.
"I… I'm awake? Wait, you can talk? Like talk normally?" Leslie said. The night he was killed was…. a blur, but he still remembered who or...what killed him.
"Of course we can. We don't talk to humans though."
"Wait, but I'm human."
Bonnie smiled again. "Are you?" Bonnie walked towards a mirror and motioned for Leslie to come towards him. Leslie complied and followed Bonnie to the mirror, albeit a little suspicious. Leslie looked in the mirror and blinked a couple times.
"Is that… an animatronic?"
"That is you. Leslie Church. A new member of the Fazbear family."
"New…...Member?" Then the realization sinked in. "NEW MEMBER!? I became a– but how!?"
"The night you died," Bonnie pointed out. "Your soul became one with the animatronic just like ours did."
"It, what!? But…" He checked his features. Touching the ears and his arms and even his nose. "This is real isn't it… Oh… My God." He turned to face Bonnie who was frowning now. "Why did you do it."
Bonnie said nothing instead he looked past Leslie. Leslie lifted one of his animatronic eyebrows and looked behind him to reveal Freddy standing there staring at Leslie for a moment before turning his face into a grin. Well as much as he was able to grin.
"Good to see you awake," The brown bear said and approached him. Leslie felt compelled to take a step back, but he didn't move. Just stared once again. "Forgive us for doing this to you…" The apology sounded sincere.
"Why did you do it? Why am I still living… in an animatronic." He showed Freddy his hands, like he other animatronics it only had four fingers.
"We called your soul back to the animatronic from which you were killed inside."
"Er, but won't I don't know… People find my body inside the animatronic?" Leslie said in a batlike screech. Bonnie and Freddy looked at eachother.
"I wouldn't be so sure. Your body is so dismembered that not even all of your body is in there."
"Eh!? What happened to the rest of it?"
"Better if you don't know."
Leslie rubbed the front of his forehead which he did when he was alive when he was thinking. "Okay okay, so I'm dead, but reborn I get that. Inside an animatronic. But er, my last question why did you do it?"
"We will tell you in time. For now, it's showtime." Right as Freddy said that the Backstage opened up and entered the Manager Johnny Fitz. He spotted Freddy first and told him to go back to the stage and prepare his next song. He told the same to Bonnie and left Leslie, leaving only him and the Manager.
"Well, looks like your operational now." Johnny said with a cocked head and a stroke of his chin. "I don't know why the other animatronics wanted you to work so badly, so I ended up fixing you up a little so you work and your voice box should be functional along with the protocols and safety measures of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.
Leslie said nothing. He figured silence would be the best thing at the moment.
"Anyway, I think you are Golden." For some reason that word made Leslie flinch mentally. "You can go out there with your comrades now." He gestured and opened the door for Leslie who walked out.
The bright lights of the Party Room and the jubilant laughter of children filled the room. The children quickly gathered around him as he left the back room and were touching his arms and legs.
His first instinct was to run away he never really liked children that much, but something inside him, a burning desire to protect the children above all else. He waved to the children and smiled.
The Manager came out and smiled watching Leslie with the children. "Good to see that you're getting along with the children already. Hey kids, this here is our new friend. His name is Wesley The Bat, make sure that you are nice to him."
Leslie looked back slightly with his new high-tech eyes and stared at Johnny. Wesely the Bat huh? Guess I'll have to get use to that name."
The children quickly dispersed when the fox animatronic appeared down the right. A show was starting Wesley guessed, a pirate show. From the number of children there at the show Wesley came to the conclusion that the fox pirate which he learned was called Foxy the Pirate from a few children walking by, that he was the most popular animatronic.
Wesley walked around the establishment, bringing pizza, cake and drinks to the patrons. It was pretty obvious to Wesley that the entire map of the establishment was wired into his hard drive.
"Hey I didn't know there was a new animatronic." Spoke an adult male voice. Wesley was attending to some children to look at him directly, but with his eyes he could see a wider range of the area and was able to see the man's appearance.
He was tall, and had a phone as a head and was wearing a security guard uniform along with a shiny copper badge that said. Freddy Fazbear Security on it.
"Oh, Scott, yes this is Wesely the Bat. He just joined up today." Johnny said.
"How come I didn't hear about this?" His voice seemed to be reflecting some fear.
"Oh well, I wasn't planning to make Wesley operational after the last establishment, but the animatronics seemed to want this one on for some reason so I complied."
"You mean they asked?" Scott said in slight disbelief. He looked back to Wesley, a sweat drop dropping from his forehead before looking back to the Manager. "I found it hard to believe that they asked.
"More like gestures and actions suggested it." Johnny responded and patted Scott on the back.
"You'll be fine Scott! No harm done in another animatronic is there?"
"Er–Uh… I wouldn't put money on that Sir…"
Johnny just laughed then walked towards the Office. Scott gave one more quick glance to Wesley before walking away toward the bathrooms.
After attending to a group a kid Wesley headed back to the kitchen to grab more pizza for a party of six near Pirate Cove, but before he entered Wesley noticed a man who was an awfully vibrant amethyst purple and he hide a wide, sickly grin plastered on his face. Even his security guard outfit was his shade of purple, the only thing that stood out was his badge and his eyes which were just white lights that were as luminescent as his smile. Even though Wesley was an animatronic he felt… an odd feeling around that man, if it even was a man.
"How come I never heard of you working again?" Spoke the Purple Man, his smile still as vivid, the uneasy feeling increased. The Purple Man approached Wesley, but not close enough for him to reach out to him.
"I wonder if you are like the others too."
What exactly did he mean by that Leslie wondered, keeping his robotic gaze on the strange man whose smile never faded for a second.
"I was wondering what happened to the Security Guard a couple of weeks ago. What was his name? Les Church?" The Purple Man looked up at the ceiling, pondering something. "Have you heard about that Wesley?"
How long was I supposedly dead? He said a couple of weeks. I wonder, if my family when they found out I died….Well, actually there isn't any evidence that I am dead, so I guess I'm just a missing person for now.
"I have only been operational today, I do not know of any missing Security Guard." Wesley responded. Though he was an animatronic his voice was smooth, almost human-like with not a lot of static or interference. The Purple Guy noticed that too, but didn't say anything.
"So it seems. Well, welcome back to the Freddy Fazbear Family Wesley. Hope you don't abandon us again!" He said, his painted white grin returning, even more ominous than before.
