I look around frantically, Mari seems scared as well. His eyes shine with fear. "Oh no." He whispers. "No, no, no, no!" He yells.

"What happened?"

"I've seen this before. In 1987, he did this..."

"Tell me what happened!" I yell staring at the zombie-like animatronics. They simply just stand there chanting the same phrase over and over again.

" 30 years ago, in 1987 the killer use a device and hacked into the animatronics turning them into his minions and forcing them to kill the night guard."

"Fritz Smith." I say.

"Yeah him. He used tge animatronics to kill a dozen of night guards. The pizzeria already had a bad reputation, this made it even worse. Shortly before Jeremy came to work there they manage to return to normal however their memories were altered. They thought Jeremy was the killer so they went after him for six nights, after that learn the truth. But during November 14th, 1987 Mangle still thought Jeremy was the killer so she bit off his frontal lobe. Only after the incident happened they realized Jeremy wasn't their killer. Fritz was. That night,Fritz the job in place of Jeremy. The animatronics realized that he was their murderer, so they helped each other turn up their AI. They tried their best to catch him but overall failed. He was fired the next day shortly after his termination he was arrested for his crime. But what doesn't make sense about this situation is that Fritz Smith is dead."

"What!" I shriek.

"He recently died in the mental hospital, according to what I heard the employees say. 6 months ago, I guess. He was so old, 89 years. He was sick, both his body and mind simply couldn't handle the conditions anymore. He was going to die eventually from these conditions however he was murdered before then. The day they found his body, dead on the floor of his cell, they learned that he was somehow stabbed to death. Blood was everywhere in the cell. They thought it was a suicide actually since he was holding the knife in his hand. The weapon that took his life away was a a large carving knife. They thought someone had smuggled it in so he could kill himself. We know that it isn't a suiciod"

"If he's dead, then who,'s the murderer?" Then the zombie animatronics start to move, "Mari, what the hell is happening?"

"The hacking chips still must be in their system. For goodness sake, thirty years and it still hasn't been removed. I removed mine right after I discovered it." He explains.

"Wait you-"

"I was hacked as well. But shortly after the sixth day I discovered it in my CPU and removed it." He explains. "The others must haven't remove it yet."

"Why aren't I being hacked?" I ask.

"There are two reasons why, first of all you don't have the chip in you."

"Describe what the chip looks like."

"Small, blue, has the words and letters 1B8W inscribed on it. Shelby?"

I suddenly try my hardest to open the flap on my back. "I have that chip in me. Help me get it out."

Mari immediately helps me open the flap and takes out the CPU. He removes it with ease. The small chip that Emily found in my CPU lies in the palm of his robotic hand. "He installed new ones into them and now you are immune. You must have the mode." He says monotonously.

"What mode?"

"The Demon Mode. It's a special mode that makes you immune to the hacking chip, Golden Freddy invented it so it wouldn't happen again. He installed me with it shortly before the restaurant closed. Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy has that mode. I'm guessing Winter, Odessa, Iggy, Cameron, and Peggie also has it, but all of them has the earliest prototype."

"Golden Freddy once told me that I had the final product."

"Your Demon Mode isn't such a curse as it seems. Turning you into a demon is simply an effect Golden Freddy added for his quest for revenge, but the Demon Mode is mainly for fighting against the effects on being hacked. Your immunity is just as strong as mine and the others. The only difference is that the 'Demon' part of you mode is stronger than others."

I grit my teeth, "Well, Mari. What the hell do we do now?"

"You're familiar with protecting them right?"

"Bingo."

"Put your skills to use."

"What will you do?"

"Find a way to remove the chip, your job is to distract them, protect the guards. When their artificial guard is down, I'll remove the chip and free them. But it's not going to be a very easy task."

"Why?"

"You see, the chip in them allows them to be controlled by the killer's bodyguards: Hallow, Henry, Zia, Lenny and Leon. However, let me let you in on a little secret. They each have souls, including Hallow"

"I know that. How did you know?"

"Peggie." Mari says simply.

I gasp. "He visited you as well?"

"Yeah, last night. Before we went to visit you. I kept my mouth shut because Peggie himself wanted to tell you that."

A warm feeling overflows my body. I smile a bit but immediately wipe the grin off my face. "What do we do now?"

"Use your abilities, your demon mode, your scream. Use them both. We need your powers in order to save Fred, Blu, Chi, Vixen, and BB."

"On it." I nod. I get ready to run out of the room but then I feel his hand on my back.

"Shelby." He says. I raise an eyebrow at him. "My name isn't really Mari." He then says. "My real name is Kendall."

I smile widely at him. "I won't let you down Kendall. We need to stop this once and for all."

If you see any mistakes in this chapter I am sorry. I am human and the reason for the typo is because for the first half of this chapter, I wrote it on my tablet via voice to text. We all know what a disaster that can be. Any other typos after this will be my fault entirely.