Chapter 4 – Curiosity Wakes the Dead

It was around 3:40am when Bonnie and Freddy had finished showing Chica around the Pizzeria.

"Well there you go Chica, so do you think your gunna like it here?" Said Bonnie in a jolly tone.

"Like? I'm gunna love it here! You guys seem real nice and this place seems so cosy."

Chica looked behind her to see a boarded off door located near Pirates Cove, with a sign just above it.

"P…P-Prize Corner, what's in there Bonnie? Why is it boarded up like that?"

"I have no idea."

Bonnie looked at the door with a confused expression.

"When that place was open, we were never allowed to go inside, only the kids surprisingly, and then one night we saw Mr. Fazbear himself nail some boards over it. Even Mike doesn't know what happened, Mr. Fazbear won't tell him."

Chica just nodded and smiled.

"Well thanks again for showing me around Bonnie, it means a lot!"

"No problem Chica! Do you guys wanna go see Mike? I bet he's bored out of his mind being sat in that little office for all this time."

Freddy nodded and walked down the hall with Bonnie.

"You coming with?" Said Freddy looking back at Chica.

"You guys go, I just want to stay back here for a little while… just so I get used to this place."

Bonnie got to the office and turned back to Freddy and Chica.

"Well c'mon Freddy you heard her, Chica don't take too long, you still haven't really gotten to know Mikey!" She said happily before wandering into Mike's office with Freddy dragging his feet into the office with her.

Chica then turned around to walk onto the stage where she would be performing with Bonnie and Freddy the next day. She took off a bunch of drawings from the walls that the kids drew, all of them showing their good times at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. The pictures all showed Freddy with a microphone and Bonnie with her big electric guitar, with a bunch of musical notes coming out of their mouths, Chica smiled, but then had a disappointed look on her face.

"What if these kids don't like me?" She said sadly.

Then something caught her eye, another drawing that was ruffled and dirty laying at the back of the stage behind the curtains. She picked it up and looked at what it said, she read out the poorly written words to herself.

"My… B-best friend, F-Foxy the pirate."

Chica was confused, she saw a picture of a boat and a child sat on the left hand side, with a hook on his hand, and to his right there was a tall red fox, with sharp white and gold teeth, and a hook like the little boy. She then realised who the fox was.

"That's the animatronic they were talking about? He doesn't seem that bad."

Chica looked over and saw the dusty purple curtains of pirate's cove, with a sign out at the front reading Out of Order.

Chica was curious about this other animatronic, she wanted to know what it did to be shut down. So she got off the stage and started heading towards pirate's cove, she looked down the hall to make sure Bonnie, Freddy and Mike couldn't see her, she knew they wouldn't want her going in there. Chica could hear Bonnie and Freddy laughing, probably at some stupid joke Mike told. She carried on heading towards pirate's cove, all the way with an uneasy feeling in her stomach.

"H-Hello?" She called out, but quietly so the other wouldn't hear.

"Is anyone in there?"

There was no reply. So she stepped inside the curtains and looked around. And stood in awe at what she saw, a large painting on the wall of a pirate ship, with Foxy at the front holding his hook up in the air, and a bunch of children at the back copying him, with the words above their heads,

We love our captain, Foxy the Pirate!

Chica smiled at this, and then saw on the wall to the right more drawing from children, this time all about Foxy, some with him telling stories to the kids, but one drawing in particular included Foxy fighting a black wolf animatronic, with the kids cheering him on. She then read the text above in a cheesy pirate voice.

"That be my treasure black tooth! Now give it back before I make ye walk the plank!"

Chica giggled.

"This… Foxy, the kids loved him, why didn't they just fix him?"

She bumped her head on something behind her sending it to the ground while she let out a groan in pain. She couldn't see what it was, it was too dark, she struggled to pick it up but eventually got it standing again, and she looked up to see what it was.

She stood back looking shocked and a little scared.

It was Foxy. A large fox animatronic with and eye patch covering his right eye, and large rusty metal hook on his left hand and tears and scratches all over his chest, his legs had no fur left on them, completely revealing his metal endoskeleton legs. He was deactivated, motionless with his eyes pure black.

"You scared me!" She chuckled.

Chica looked around to see if the fox would respond, he remained motionless.

"I know Mike said you had some problems, but these drawings… the kids, they loved you. They made a mistake deactivating you."

Chica then went around and saw a hatch on Foxy's back. She opened it up and had a look inside.

"I think this is how Mike woke me up, with this switch…"

Chica then moved her hand forward to flick the switch, but stopped herself.

"No, I can't do this, he's broken…. Bonnie will hate me…"

She hesitated, contemplating whether she should do it or not. She went with her gut feeling and flicked the switch and closed the hatch, proceeding to close her eyes.

Nothing happened.

Chica opened her eyes and had a disappointed look on her face.

"I guess he really is broken…"

Chica walked back to the front of Foxy and looked at his face.

"I really wanted to meet you too, you knew how to make the kids laugh, I don't get why they think you're so bad just for having a few glitches."

Chica then looked to the floor.

"…You're kinda handsome too."

She looked back up and still had no response from the Fox, she began to walk out of pirate's cove to go meet the other at Mike's office, until she was called back, by a deep and raspy voice coming from behind her making her stand motionless in fear.

"Why thank you, Lassie."