Chapter 3: The 2nd Night

Dipper ran out the front door of the pizza place and ran straight to the Mystery Shack with nothing but fear running through his mind, he kept thinking about what he saw and how he never felt closer to death in his life. He eventually made it to the mystery shack and burst inside while Stan and Mabel were eating breakfast

Mabel: Hey there's the late night watcher!

Stan: So how was your first shift?

Dipper just stood there not saying anything and letting his facial expression show how he was feeling

Mabel: Are you ok Dipper?

Dipper: Not really no

Stan: God you look like you've seen a ghost, which I guess shouldn't be surprising for me

Mabel: Did something happen?

Dipper: It's all true

Mabel: What's true?

Dipper: The animals…they come to life…they nearly killed me

Stan: Wait hang on, you're telling me that the rumours that Soos told you about are actually true?

Dipper: Oh yeah, it's more than true

Mabel: Did they say hi?

Dipper: I spent most of my night hoping that they wouldn't, however I did find out some interesting things about animatronics in my book

Dipper slammed his book down on the table and turned to the animatronics page

Dipper: Look it says here that back in the 1900's around when those things were being made a weird comet flew past and the next day they started coming to life, they were quite friendly at first but after a while they turned vicious. So after a while they just made a deal with the animatronics that they could only come to life at night which is when nobody's really around

Mabel: And it looks life Gravity Falls has one of the places that has that rule

Stan: Of course we would, there's always something weird going on in this town according to you kids

Stan got up and walked away from the kitchen to his room so he could get dressed

Mabel: So are you going to go back

Stan (in distance): He better go back, we need that money!

Dipper: Well I think I should, after all I still have things I need to find out

Mabel: Do you need someone to go with you this time?

Dipper: No

Mabel: Dang it

Dipper: Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go and lie down while trying to recover from what I have seen

Dipper went up to his room to relax after his experience while Mabel was still upset about not being able to go to meet Freddy Fazbear, later that day at 11:40 Stan was still up checking the store. Dipper came down the stairs in the uniform once again looking quite worried about going back

Stan: You're going back?

Dipper: Yeah, why do you think I shouldn't go?

Stan: That's not what I said, anyway good luck and try to come back tomorrow

Dipper: That's what I'm hoping I'll be able to do

Dipper than walked out the door to go to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, he showed up once again at the usual time and went to the security room and set himself up. He sat for a while reading the book when the phone rang again, Dipper went to pick it up but it went straight to voicemail

Voicemail: Uhh, hello? Hello. Uh, well, if you're hearing this, you made it to night two! Uhmm, congrats! I won't talk quite as long this time, since Freddy and his friends tend to become more active as the week progresses. Uhh, it might be a good idea to peek at those cameras while I talk, just to make sure everyone's in their proper place.

Dipper checked the cameras and everything seemed to be in its proper place so far

Voicemail: So, interestingly enough, Freddy himself doesn't come off stage very often. I heard he becomes a lot more active in the dark though, so, hey, I guess that's one more reason to not run out of power, right? I also want to emphasize the importance of using your door lights. There are blind spots in your camera view, and those blind spots happen to be right outside of your doors. So if you can't find something, or someone on your cameras, be sure to check the door lights. You might only have a few seconds to react…not that you would be in any danger, of course. I'm not implying that.

Dipper took a deep breath knowing that it was going to be another long night

Voicemail: Also, check on the curtains in Pirate Cove from time to time. The character in there seems to be unique in that he becomes more active if the cameras remain off for long periods of time. I guess he doesn't like to be watched. I don't know. Anyway, I am sure you have everything under control. Uhm, talk to you soon!

Once again all that was heard was the dial tone and the lamp buzzing

Dipper: So some pirate has decided to join us has he? Well this should be interesting

Dipper knew it has begun when he saw that Bonnie had already gone missing, Dipper found him standing next to one of the tables quite close to the camera but not moving. Dipper didn't really feel scared this time as he felt he would be ok, although he became slightly more scared when he saw a figure with glowing eyes standing in Pirate Cove. Dipper quickly found out that this was Foxy the Fox who he knew was out of order, he remembered how he was told to keep an eye on him from time to time even though why he needed to wasn't very clear.

Dipper: God I hope Foxy doesn't kill me…or at least doesn't bite out my frontal lobe

Dipper continued to watch the animals for 2 hours when suddenly he got another phone call, Dipper quickly answered it this time

Dipper: Scott?

Mabel: No it's only me

Dipper: What do you want Mabel?

Mabel: I just wanted to know how everything was going over in the haunted pizzeria

Dipper: Everything seems to be going well, I mean nothing's tried to kill me yet so that's a good sign

Mabel: Why would they want to kill you? Freddie Fazbear is one of the nicest bears around

Dipper: Not at night he's not

Mabel: You know if you want me to come down and keep you company…

Dipper: Mabel I'm fine, really

Mabel: OK but I still want to meet all of them

Dipper: I'm sure you do, I'll see you when I get back

Mabel: OK, bye late watcher!

Dipper then hung up and checked all the cameras again, now all of the characters were off stage which put Dipper on the edge once again. He felt more relaxed seeing that Foxy was still in Pirate Cove, it occurred to Dipper that he never really saw what Foxy looked like until now which to him was a surprise but looking at him now wasn't enjoyable. Dipper put down the screen but saw Bonnie standing right at the door, Dipper quickly shut it before he could get inside fearing for his life. He began to notice his power was on 25% and it was only 4:00 so Dipper knew he had to save a lot of power, he would occasionally check for Bonnie who became more active to the left side of him. After panicking for a while 6:00 came around quickly which was a big relief to Dipper. Scott came it at his usual time to see Dipper still quite shocked but a little bit more relaxed

Scott: You seem more relaxed than last time

Dipper: Well honestly Scott it was a much easier night this time

Scott: Well that's a first, but anyway you run along now

Dipper: Thanks Scott

Dipper got up and walked out, Scott then sat in the chair and looked at the door

Scott: He seems more smug this time, just wait until he sees night 3