Chapter 4: In Time You Can Remake
Three months later
Mike started laughing, "You want a raise? Are you serious? You have barely even worked this job for three months, much less long enough to gain a raise. James, I like you kid, but even still I have to think about the betterment of the company as the manager and owner of this Freddy Fazbears."
"Hear me out though, if I get a raise, it will be because of me doing a second job for you guys! Main Animatronic Mechanic and Supervisor. If they have any upgrades or major repairs are needed, I can take care of it. If I think there should be more animatronics, I run it by you, and if you say yes, I then make more animatronics. If I believe there could be more attractions, then I run it by you, and once again if you say yes, I will do it, as long as you provide me with the necessary resources. And also, yes, I do understand that I would almost always be here. But hey, if it all goes to hell, you can dump it all on me and I will be the scapegoat. It is a win-win, Mike." James said, causing Fredbear, who asked Mike to call her Goldie, to laugh in his head.
"Little one, don't you think this is gonna cause your Uncle Foxy to get mad at you for depriving yourself of sleep, again?" Goldie giggled, making James' face go pale, which only served to make Goldie giggle more.
"-ames? James! Are you okay? You just finished talking, and then all of a sudden you blanked out and now you look like you have seen a ghost." Mike said, now worried for the young adult.
"Oh, its nothing. I just realized how Foxy is gonna react when he realizes I am gonna end up depriving myself of sleep again by taking this second job, if you say yes." James said, beginning to think of something he can tell Foxy to keep him from getting mad.
"Oh, there is nothing you can say, little one, as Foxy is gonna be so mad he will refuse to listen, and you know it~!" Goldie giggled some more, making James face-palm and groan.
"Yes, you can have the job. I will pull some strings with the higher ups, but I need you to come back to my office in 4 hours to sign all the paperwork. Does that sound okay to you, James?" Mike laughed out, at James expense.
"JAMES!" Everyone could hear Foxy screech, which showed that Foxy figured out what exactly James taking that job entailed.
5 hours later
James closed the door to his apartment, walked over to his couch and landed face first onto it, his body hanging half off. "Halt! Identify yourself, intruder! I have 9-1-1 ready to notify, so if you don't tell me who you are, I will let the-" rang out a voice through the apartment.
"Shut uuuup! You know who I am, James!" James said, not even lifting his face from the couch, causing a notification to be sent to James' phone that something was notifying the police of an intruder "So, I swear if you notify the police over nothing Jameson, I will reverse all of the controls in your servos and joints for two weeks!" James almost yelled at the voice, which made it stop.
A small robot, the size of a boy, walked around the corner glaring at James. "James, if you do that, after those two weeks are up, I will make your time here a living hell for the two weeks after." Jameson said, which made James slowly look up at him.
"Who created you?" James asked, making Jameson nervous "Who went to the dump, searched for three days, and saved you? Who had to have their boss pull strings to keep you from getting scrapped?"
"You did, James." Jameson said kinda quietly "I'm sorry, dad." James immediately groaned out something about not being Jameson's father, and about Jameson being his brother. "I won't see you as a brother until you upgrade my body to a normal size!" Jameson complained, making James groan even louder.
"I will upgrade you when you grow up some more mentally, Jameson." James said, causing Jameson to pout. "That is exactly what I am talking about." James pointed at Jameson's pouting. "You need to learn to stop being a little child. I created the second full sentient and sapient AI when I was 10 and it is being a little baby. IF you decided to actually grow up and learn some responsibility, you could have a grown up body by now."
"Fine, I will prove to you I am grown up!" Jameson said, looking determined to get his upgraded body so he can't be called short-stack by James anymore, and so Cupcake couldn't either.
"And that just tells me your not, not yet anyway." James pointed out. "When your grown up, you shouldn't have to prove it. It should be evident in the way you act. Anyway, I need to get to sleep so I can work tomorrow, and you need to go finish your research assignment I assigned you to make sure your actually learning something." Jameson immediately got nervous and ran off, causing James to sigh in relief, and collapse back onto the couch.
Two months ago
James came home from work, and began pulling up public documents on the history of Freddy's Pizzaria while he has been gone, searching and checking case after case, eventually ending on the one about his fathers killers. 'I am sure it has to mention Jameson here somewhere!' James thought, before noticing a story about how some man found a deactivated and severaly damaged animatronic, before selling it to a landfill as scrap for hundreds of dollars. James could feel his blood run cold, as he got this gut feeling that something was wrong.
"... ms.. n hr m... Jms.. Cn her m... Jams.. Cn yu her m... James! Can you hear me?" Goldie repeated over and over until James finally could understand some of what she was saying.
"G-Goldie?!" James gasped, jumping when he heard her basically yell in his mind.
"Finally! James, I know where Jameson is, I had Freddy talk to Mike and he got Mike to pull some strings, and just saved Jameson, or whats left of him, from being permanently scraped! He is at mmmpph mmpph, mmmmpph mph..." Goldie droned on an on, James not able to understand any of it anymore, not even able to process the name of the scrapyard, upon learning the information that his creation, his brother, wasn't dead forever. Next thing he knew, he was already out at his car, getting in and about to drive off to nowhere, as he wasn't able to make out where Goldie had said he was.
'Goldie, where did you say he was?' No response 'Goldie?... Goldie?!... GOLDIE?!' James screamed in his mind to no avail. 'We must have lost mental connection for now! DAMMIT!' James hit the wheel as he mentally screamed out to the void... before he heard a whisper in response.
'J-e-r-e-m-y-'s J-u-n-k...' Whispered the voice, but it wasn't Goldie's, and the presence it left sure wasn't friendly.
'H-Hello? Wh-Who are you?' James said mentally, his mind filled with fear, causing him to stutter even in his mind.
'G-o t-o J-e-r-e-m-y-'s J-u-n-k... M-e-e-t t-h-e i-m-p-o-r-t-a-n-t m-a-n... F-i-n-d y-o-u-r c-r-e-a-t-i-o-n...' The voice replied cryptically, without answering James' question.
'Answer me! Who are you!' James mentally yelled, filled with confidence now against the voice, until he heard the blood curdling chuckle from nowhere yet everywhere resonate through his mind.
'A-l-l w-i-l-l b-e a-n-s-w-e-r-e-d w-h-e-n t-h-e a-n-s-w-e-r-s a-r-e n-e-e-d-e-d... G-o-o-d l-u-c-k...' The voice chuckled, before James could feel the presence that was causing him chills to recede, causing him to let out a breathe he didn't know he was holding.
'Great, now I have two ghosts down my back.' James sighed, before driving off to 'Jeremy's Junk'.
2 weeks later
"I think... I... am almost... done!" James said, as he screwed in the last bolt and then hit enter on his keyboard. Suddenly, the eyes in front of him opened, as innocent as they were years ago, and looked straight at him.
"Wh-Who are you?..." James heard a voice of that of a young child speak.
"Jameson, its me, James." James said with a small smile. "I saved you from the junkyard, brother." Jameson's eyes widened immensely, filling up with oils and cleaners, before jumping at and hugging James as tight as he could manage.
"JAMES!" Jameson's young voice ran out, happy to have seen his creator, friend, and brother again, after so long in a purgatory state. James couldn't help it and began to cry in joy that his young brother was back, his creation fixed.
1 week later, 1 month ago
"James?" Jameson spoke out. "Why not create another animatronic to help you with organization of... well... everything?"
"Because, Jameson, I don't have the parts. All I have left after fixing you is just a few optics, a motherboard and CPU, and some ram drives. I don't have any of the mechanical parts left." James said, as if it was obvious.
"James? Doesn't Chica carry around a fake cupcake? Why not create one like that with just a lot of processing so you can ask them to store and organize digital documents, and they can have me organize the apartment." Jameson said innocently, trying to help James.
"... Well then, your a genius." James said smiling, glad Jameson is learning and has figured out some clever ideas, and then he suddenly realized how terrible Jameson's rebellious stage is gonna be.
James walked up to the pizzeria for his night shift, the last one before he starts his second job at Freddy's: Animatronic Engineer, Repairman, and Supervisor, and the only one he gets to train the newest night-guard. He ended up getting more for his second job than originally planned, and it is causing him stress. In his toolbox he brings to and from work is a sleeping animatronic: Cupcake. And behind him is a small, young animatronic: Jameson.
"James, are you suuuure we should bring Cupcake? I mean, won't she just complain all night about being bothered?" Jameson complained, being a hypocrite without realizing it at the time. "And what is the point of me being here? This just brings up bad memories.." Jameson said the last part while holding a hand over his chest, and James picks him up.
"Its okay Jameson, nothing is gonna happen to you. I won't allow you to get hurt again, okay? Your my creation, and my younger brother, and it is my duty to protect you." James reassured Jameson, hugging him gently while carrying him into the pizzeria.
"Uhhh... James? Where are the others?" Jameson said, looking around the pizzeria, seeing the stage empty and cove open, also empty, before getting nervous.
"Its okay Jameson, they are probably all at the new part of the building. I mean, did ANY of us expect them to turn Parts and Service into a complete animatronic hospital with enough rooms that if the Toys arrived today, needing repairs, while at the same time the other animatronics needed repairs, they would all get their own rooms? I sure didn't, and I don't think you did. So its fine, they are just exploring. Let's go to the office." James said, comforting Jameson after he put him down and is beginning to lead him to the security office, toolbox in hand.
"But something doesn't feel right James..." Jameson whined out, getting paranoid and scared, causing James to laugh softly at his brother's antics.
"That's probably because you have your thumbs on backwards." James points out, before starting to laugh louder and louder as Jameson blushes and rotates his thumbs so they don't look broken, before suddenly they both hear a window shatter and they both tense up, going quiet. "W-We need to get to the security office and check the cameras." James grabs Jameson's hand and begins to drag him off to the security office.
A few minutes later
Bonnie sneaks down the left hall right after he sees the camera at the end of it's light turn off, signalling the security guard is looking at the other hallway, and he can go down the hallway without getting caught. He saw Chica go down the right hallway some few seconds ago, and knows she hasn't been caught yet because he heard the kitchen doors open gently and quietly swing shut, so he continues to stealth down the hallway. When he sees the light to the left hall's camera come on, as the screen changes from one area to another Bonnie ducks into the storage room, staying in the camera's blind-spot for a bit, his eye slightly peaking out of the doorway to watch for when the camera goes off.
Meanwhile
James is flipping from camera to camera, trying to find the shattered glass, and the intruder, every so often checking the halls, kitchen, and storage rooms to make sure nobody is coming down them. Suddenly, Jameson, who has been constantly talking about getting his new body, goes silent, and James stops flipping through the cameras. James had changed to the main stage, and everything was floating. James thinks out "Fredbear, is that you?", and he immediately gets giggles in response.
"No, but it is funny watching you squirm in paranoia, so I am not gonna tell you what is going on~" Fredbear teased at James, before Bonnie and Chica slowly entered his office, completely silent, and so did Foxy via the open vent that needs a new cover. All three of them sneaked up on James and Jameson, before the poked their backs and all three of them screamed "Boo!" in James and Jameson's ears, making them both jump so high that when they landed James' chair topples over with James in it, getting caught by Bonnie and Foxy, and Jameson lands on the ground and looses his balance, falling over into Chica's arms, while the animatronics laughed at the two surprised brothers.
"H-How? How did you guys shatter glass and fix it so fast, and the tables and chairs! Wh-What?! And better yet, why tonight?!" James asked, completely confused and still shaking from how surprised he was. "And for that matter, where is Jeremy? The shift starts in 15 minutes, and I am supposed to teach him how to do this stuff! He is the one that said he wanted to work with animatronics!"
"Well, we knew you would be getting here before he did, and last time we pulled a prank on you was when you were what, nine? So we decided to pull a prank on you, and we didn't shatter any glass. We used all of the intercoms except the ones right outside the two doors and the one in here, so as to cause it to sound like it shattered glass, but in reality, nothing was broken. And we expect Jeremy to be getti-" Suddenly, a loud CRASH interrupted a giggling Bonnie, and all the animatronics looked at each other nervously, and the camera goes black.
"Jameson, stay here. Chica, look after Jameson while me, Foxy, and Bonnie investigate what just happened." James told the animatronics, in a commanding tone, before walking down the East Hallway, signalling Bonnie to follow him and Foxy to go down the other hallway.
James was holding a flashlight and taser in hand, ready to shoot the taser's prongs at anything that moved that wasn't Bonnie, Foxy, or the missing Freddy. Suddenly, he could hear footsteps, really quietly, and the rubbing of jeans as if someone was walking. When James entered the main floor, he saw a shadowy figure standing near the doorway, and one of the two glass doors shattered behind him.
"Oh, James!" Said the figure, who James quickly realized was Jeremy, before immediately frowning, ready to question why Jeremy broke the door. "I just arrived and the door was already shatt- LOOK OUT!" Jeremy said, practically screaming the last part, before James spun around, and blindly shot the taser, hearing a loud zapping noise as the prongs hit home, and heard a metal weapon clatter to the floor, almost like a knife. Foxy just turned from the West Hall, having been checking the storage room before hearing the shouting.
"Jeremy, call the police, there was a warrant out for this man's arrest on the news today! He was wanted for child rape, murder, kidnapping, and grand theft!" James said quickly and urgently, recognizing his face as a wanted criminal named Samuel Cane. He quickly tied him up, and Jeremy ran off to the office to make the call with a company phone.
Author's Note: Hello! Thank you for all of the comments, and sorry for taking so long to continue!
Thank you to PrismMaster and User36925 for reviewing, and sorry for taking so many chapters to comment back!
If any real life people reflect Samuel Cane, I can assure you, it is merely coincidence. I had a dead line I set for this chapter, and if I hadn't quickly and randomly bs-ed up a name, I wouldn't have gotten it out in time. Thank you for reading up until now, and I hope you read the next chapter!
If anyone would like to volunteer as a beta-reader, that would be great! I would love to have a beta-reader for this story, especially one that can have my email and make sure I actually write! Plus, do remember, being my beta-reader means you get to see the next chapter earlier, and there will hopefully be less mixed tenses in sentences, like no more "realized it was Jeremy, before immediately frowning. He walked over to Jeremy, ready to question why Jeremy broke the door. 'I just arrived and the door was already shatt-LOOK OUT!' Jeremy says, practically-" Past tense, past tense, NOPE, not past this time, PRESENT tense! That is what the first draft looked like. I fixed all of the ones I saw before posting it. If anyone else notices it, please, let me know via PMs or in the reviews!