Welcome to chapter 3 everyone. Chapter 4 may take some time to come up, as I was using the FNAF wiki page for picture references of the hallucinations, their jumpscares and Springtraps positions in different locations...and the site was hacked :T Go figure :P Anyway, sorry if this chapter is kinda...blegh. I was writing the story, left and my computer went to sleep, when I came back, the computer had closed out everything...it even logged me out of the Steam Client...and I haven't saved anything, so...I kind of wrote this in a pissed off rush ._. Eff you Windows 10.
Enough of me typing your ears off. Enjoy this chapter~ Chapter title comes from the Song 'Salvaged' by NateWantstoBattle. You might also see a small Markiplier reference :3
|Salvaged|
I still couldn't seem to wrap my head around it. They found a real animatronic...a real working and walking animatronic! Not only that, but they left it in here with me! What if the rumors were true and that thing was going to try to stuff me in a suit? I mean, yeah, there weren't really any full mascot costumes with a possible robot or...whatever it was inside them that made them move...but still, the thought itself was terrifying. I still never got a good view of what it was either. All I knew was that it was some kind of bunny because I saw the ears the last night I was here, and it was in horrible condition...how they got it to work had to be some kind of miracle or something. The thing was so broken down, I was surprised it could move around the attraction without making some kind of noise. Speaking of the new addition to the attraction, I was currently watching it through camera ten once more. Two more minutes til my shift really started and the thing was just standing there next to the exit furthest away from me. It wasn't looking at me or anything, but its eyes were open and just gazing off somewhere...that thing was, seriously, just creepy.
The phone suddenly rang and I fumbled around with the tablet as it was jolted from my grasp when I suddenly jumped at the loud ring that echoed through the office. Once the tablet was in my hold and steady once more, I sighed and placed it down in my lap before finally answering the phone "Hello?"
"For today's lesson, we will be continuing our training on proper suit handling techniques"
You've got to be shitting me. I knew I was expecting a phone call, but what I wasn't expecting was the one 'answering' to be the voice recording from the training tapes. Did the guy seriously dial the office phone just to play the rest of these stupid recordings? Whatever...I should've hung up, but I didn't. Considering my current situation of dealing with a real animatronic, I wanted to learn more about what I was up against...kind of. So, it would probably be in my best interest to listen. Checking back at the camera, my hold on the tablet tightened as I tensed up.
"When using an animatronic as a suit, please ensure that the animatronic parts are tightly compressed and fastened by the spring locks located around the inside of the suit. It may take a few moments to position your head and toros between these parts in a manner where you can move and speak."
Right, got it. Animatronic and suit, learned that in the last recording. I tried my best to keep my focus on the recording, but my attention was fully on the animatronic that was staring back at me from camera ten. I could only see one glowing right eye staring back at me and...was that thing smiling? I mean, I couldn't really make it out, but I was pretty certain it was smirking...is that even possible? Then again...I saw it smiling last night when it was camera eight...Wait...why did the thing even move in the first place? The whole time I was waatching it, the thing hadn't moved an inch...so why now...? As I thought about it, I seemed to remember something from the recording last night...something about sound...these animatronics go to where they hear sound, right?
Is that the reason why? The phone ringing was probably loud enough to echo through the attraction, so maybe that caught this thing's attention...I said it at least twice and I'll say it again, this thing is, seriously, creepy.
"Try not to nudge or press against any of the spring locks inside the suit. Do not touch the spring locks at any time. Do not breathe on the spring locks as moisture may loosen them and cause them to break loose"
So, don't breathe inside the animatronic suits...got that too...why would anyone want to wear these things if we can't even breathe inside them?
"In case of the spring locks coming loose while you are wearing the suit, please try to maneuver away from populated areas before bleeding out as to not ruin the customers experience"
Well...at least they care to not traumatize the kids with suddenly bleeding animatronic...couldn't help but wonder how things would turn out in a situation like that. Probably not good for anyone, especially the company itself.
"As always, if there is ever an emergency, please go to the designated safe room. Every location is built with one extra room that is not included in the digital map layout programmed in the animatronics or the security cameras. This room is hidden to customers, invisible to animatronics and is always off camera."
That's...interesting, actually. Why didn't they have a camera in the safe rooms? You'd think they would just in case an employee tried anything shifty in them, like stealing or something worse than that...who knows? One of the employees could've been a pedophile and led a child or two in the safe room and no one would be the wiser...this was just...weird.
"As always, remember to smile; you are the the face of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza."
Assuming that was the end of the recording, the hung up the phone and gave a quiet sigh. Maybe I should listen to these recordings...it would be nice to learn more about the old pizzeria...the recording might tell me somethings that the internet knew nothing about. I pushed the chair away from the huge desk, taking the tablet with me as I went. I glanced back down at it and noticed that my new friend was gone. Just great...I started to randomly search through the cameras. When I came to camera nine, I gave a bit of a start and my heart skipped a beat or two.
Staring back at me on camera nine was the animatronic bunny...it was much, much closer to the camera than it had been when it was staring at me on camera ten.
The only thing I could see was the end of the hallway and then the shadow of the animatronic bunny with its glowing eye gazing back at me, this time it was the left eye instead...that's all I could see...I still found it strange that it could move especially since it moved while the establishment was quiet...I wonder...glancing at the 'Play Audio' button, I changed the camera back to ten and pressed the button this time hearing a child voice through the attraction saying 'Hi~'...it's still adorable. When I turned back to camera nine, the animatronic bunny was gone. I smiled a bit and turned back to camera ten...it wasn't there. My smile immediately vanished as I flipped through the cameras, looking for the thing. Coming upon camera seven, where some of the arcade machines where being kept, I tensed up again.
One of the arcades screens were on, but this one wasn't glowing blue like it usually would. It had this...face...? It was in black and white and two eyes were staring back at me...I'm getting tired of things giving me death stares. I just put it off as something the workers probably added while in the morning to give their customers a scare, because it sure as hell got me. I was so into staring at the arcade machine that I barely caught sound of something moving. I was quick to glance up and turn my head in the direction of the sound, to the left, but the moment I looked over there, something (I don't know what the hell it was) lunged at me and made the same hissing sound from yesterday!
The thing like...walked or slunked or something towards me!...I know slunked isn't a real word, but that's the only way I could describe it in my state of panic! It's mouth was wide open and I barely caught sight of another set of teeth inside it and the eyes! They were glowing white just like the animatronic bunny and when it attacked me, it just vanished, but that didn't stop the girly scream from passing my mouth and my heart from stopping in my chest. Once I was able to form words and realize that the red flashing in the room was the alarm going off, again, I screamed "What the hell was that?!"
When the initial panic passed by, I panted as I turned to the maintenance panel of the tablet and saw that the ventilation systems were out again...just like last night. Why was I not notified about the vents going out before the hallucinations terrorized me into a near heart attack state?!
I tapped on the error message and waited for the maintenance panel to tell me it was all fixed. When the red lights stopped flashing and the office quieted down, I knew the ventilation system was back to normal. I sighed and practically fell back in my chair. I reached up to wipe the sweat that had gathered off my forehead before remembering something...that animatronic bunny...fuck.
Turning back to the camera, which was still on camera seven, I saw that the animatronic was in between the two arcade machines and glancing up at the camera...wait...was it always there? I think I would've noticed him, even during my panic at seeing that...face on the arcade screen. I groaned quietly and rubbed my hands against my face after I set the tablet down in my lap. This place was really starting to get to me. When I looked back at the camera, I saw that it went black with the words 'Video Error' in red up in the left corner. Remaining as calm as I could, I turned back to the maintenance panel and pressed the error message.
I waited a few seconds before the message went away and turned back to the camera...to see that the bunny animatronic was gone. Groaning in annoyance I went through camera six...five...four...what the hell? What was that? It wasn't the animatronic rabbit, but there was...something hanging from the ceiling. It was dark, I could barely make it out...some kind of robot or something...with three eyes? That can't be right...when I tried to get a closer look at it, this sudden, loud static started to emit from somewhere.
I jumped out my seat and dropped the tablet to the floor, glancing around in a panicked frenzy "What?! Why?! Who!?" was all I could manage out at the moment as I looked for the source of the static. It wasn't coming from the tablet, it sounded like it was coming from outside the office. I turned my attention to the huge glass window in front of me and saw something peering over the bottom of the glass. Two pure white eyes gazing back at me as the static continued. What the hell was that thing and why was it making such a sound?! When I walked over to get a closer look, it suddenly went under the glass. I hurried over and look down, but there was nothing there...another hallucination? But...
Going back over to the chair, I picked the tablet up from the floor. It was still on the maintenance panel, but the ventilation systems were fine. However, the audio wasn't. I'll worry about that later as I needed to check on the bunny animatronic. I changed back to the camera tab, still on camera four, and there it was.
The light inside the mounted Foxy head on the wall was on and in the hall leading down, there was the animatronic bunny. He was peaking out from the hallway, looking up at the camera. It really was broken down and in ruins. If it could just stay there for a moment, I could get the audio systems back up. When I changed back to the maintenance panel, I heard the tell-tale sounds of the back door opening.
When I glanced up from the tablet, I caught the manager just in time as he walked into the office. It was six o'clock already?
"Hey there, trooper. How did it go tonight?" he asked. I sighed quietly and fell back into my seat "It was...eventful, to say the least. Ventilation error, audio and video went out, but...other than that...nothing much" I answered.
The manager gave a laugh as he went over to me "Well you've only got two more nights before we officially open up. You're still going to be a part of the attraction as the security guard though, sorry about that"
"It's fine, I don't mind"
"Haha, that's good. We just might have a security guard costume just for the occasion too. Can't have you be a security guard while wearing casual clothing with just a badge that says you're the guard" he replied, making me smile a bit. "Oh ah...I've been meaning to ask you...that animatronic you found..is that thing...supposed to move around the attraction?"
"Huh? Well, I remember last night you told me that you thought someone was in the attraction moving it around. Had the mechanic guy take a look at the animatronic and it seemed to have on some kind of free-roaming switch. He said he turned it off, but maybe there's some kind of malfunction with it. I'll have him look over it again. Where did you last see the animatronic?"
"Um...camera four...I don't know if it'll still be there though" I answered, trying my best to hide my worry. I just didn't like the fact that thing had a 'free-roaming' switch or that it could not be working.
"Thanks, Wade. Try and get some rest today before coming in. You look really pale and tired" the manager said, catching my attention as I gave a bit of a nervous laugh.
"Do I really?...Guess this place is just starting to get to me now"