As I entered the door, Mr. Fazworth shook my hand. Hey boyo! Did you get those repairs you wanted to do?
"Well Foxy and Chica are working, but Freddy and Bonnie are going to need a little bit more time.
"Way ahead of you boy."
He hung a sign on the door that said "closed for repairs. Come back tomorrow."
"Are you sure?"
"Of course me boy. I'm glad you want to do so much to help me keep this old coot like me going. Hey do you get hunger at night?"
"Well actionably sir."
"Tell you what anytime you get hungry, help yourself to whatever is in the break rooms or the kitchen. It's all on me."
"Gee thanks."
"Yeah well…I'll be leaven now to whatever you're going to do good luck at whatever."
I spent the biggest majority of the day repairing Bonnie and Freddy. It took a while but the work paid off.
"Aw…" Freddy said with a relived groaned. "It feels good to be able to talk without sounding like I'm hacking up a bird.
I was surprised how much Freddy actual sounded like Smokey the bear. I found it kind of amusing. Bonnie sounded like a mix between Bastila Shan from Knights of the Old republic Ariel from the little mermaid.
"Well I'm glad you guys are all fixed up. You know you guys are a lot less scary when you guys can actual talk."
"What makes you think we were trying to hurt you?" Freddy asked
"Well Jeff said that you guys would think I was an endoskeleton and apparently that is against the rules hear."
"Oh that explains why you were trying to press yourself up in corner that night a came to check on you."
"whoa. You saw me Freddy?
"Yeah you're not exacly good at hiding dude.
"But if you werien't coming to stud me in a suit, what were you doing?"
"Oh that, I saw the power cut off, so I was afraid you might have hurt yourself or something. I don't get why Mr. Fazworth doesn't get a more permanent power supply."
It was actual nice being able to talk to the guys knowing they would not try to hurt me. It also felt nice knowing I was more than able to keep the lights. I talked to Freddy for a while Bonnie wasn't talking much. She seemed troubled by something, but for some reason I did not ask.
"I did go ahead and decide to tell them what my mom said."
"Hey my mom told me about what happened…you know about that incident."
Freddy's eyes beamed "So you understood our music. You understood what we were trying say?"
"Yeah I knew something did not seem right about that song. Is there anything about it that you remember?"
"No all we remember is the fear. The fear and the fact that there was a 5th person that shared your face."
"Do your remember that your real names Michael?
"Michael…Michael…yes…yes I do remember. My name was Michael Frits I was born Oct. 31st .
"My mom told me. I also know that one of you two females was my mother's sister."
"Is there anything else you know mike. Something that can help us remember who we were?" Chica asked
"The only other thing I know is that whoever trapped you was trying to do something about artificial intelligence. Artificial life.
"The Joy of Creation…" Freddy mumbled. "I remember…he locked us in the suits tried making us do things. The pain…the Pain!
Freddy started making mechanical screeches and holding his ears. I tried claiming him down but it took several minutes before he'd finally be calm.
"It's okay Freddy." I said
"I'm sorry. I felt like I was reliving a nightmare. Tell me something Mike. Are We dead?"
I was taken back by the question. "I don't know. I don't know what to call your state of position. Yeah sort of. Your human bodies have to be dead. Yet it is like your spirits are bounded to those animatronics. I don't know how to explain it to a bunch of kids.
"We are not kids!" Freddy said "we may have been kids when we died, but are minds were far from dormant."
I bit my tongue "I'm sorry. I didn't think. "
"It's okay. Hey. Thanks for being our friend.
"Thank you for watching over me. I promise I'll do whatever I can to get answers. I think I'm as invested in this as you guys are now."
I settled in when my shift started oddly enough I didn't receive any calls from Jeff like I had expected. About a few hours in, so I went in to the kitchen to grab something to eat. All I could find was a couple of cold pizzas but eh it was enough.
All of the sudden, there were mechanical footsteps. Before I knew it, Chica walked into the kitchen.
"Oh hey." I said "Don't mind me, I came here to get a snack."
"I understand." Chica grabbed a slice of pizza and started chewing. I could not help but giggle.
"Well it's nice to know you stay in character."
"Yeah. I like food, but I wish I could remember what it tasted like."
"How can you love to eat, if you don't know what it taste like?"
"My programing…"
"Oh. As we ate we talked about different things. Chica talked about the kids she saw to and from the pizzeria, and I talked about school."
"You know what Mike, I think you're kind of cute."
I jumped back. "Uh…thanks?"
How awkward. I just got complimented by a robot.
I went back to my office. This time there was a blinking light on the phone. I clicked the message button, and I was a horrified what I heard.
Hello, hello? Hey! Hey, wow, day 4. I knew you could do it.
"Uh, hey, listen, I may not be around to send you a message tomorrow. It's-It's been a bad night here for me. Um, I-I'm kinda glad that I called you uh, when I did."
There was a distinct banging noise the same kind Foxy made the night he banged on my door
Uh, hey, do me a favor. Maybe sometime, uh, you could check inside those suits in the back room? bang bang I'm gonna to try to hold out until someone checks. Maybe it won't be so bad. bang bang Uh, I-I-I-I always wondered what was in all those empty heads back there."
It was then I heard that same familiar chime that same march that played every time Freddy came near. Then there were screeches ones that Chica and Bonnie made when their voices boxes were damaged.
"Oh no…" All of the sudden there was a loud screech before it turned to static.
"Guys! " I ran out of the office as quick as I could. I happened to find the gang on the stage talking to each other.
"Guys. Where is Jeff?"
"You haven't seen him?" Foxy asked
"Please be a hundred percent honest with me. Did you guys stuff him into one of those suits."
"Are you nuts?" Chica asked "First of all we don't do that kind of thing. Second o all do you know how hunched that guy is? He wouldn't be able to fit. Why do you ask?"
I lead Chica and Freddy to my office and played back the message. Freddy just looked at me in disbelief (at least the way robots could)
"Mike…we promise we didn't do anything like this. I mean think abot it. In order for that to happen, we would have had to all been in that office at the same time we could not have fit. And besides you fixed are voice boxes. There is no reason for us to make sounds like that."
I didn't think about it, but Freddy was right. "But then how…I'll be right back.
I headed back to Jeff's office. Oddly enough it was unlocked. I went inside. "Hello?" the lights were off and there were a bunch of tape recorders on the table.
"What on earth?"
I went over to one of the recorders and pressed play. There was that same bang bang I heard on the recorder. I went on to the next one. That one played that same mechanical groans." I went over to the third one. It played that same familiar march. It was then I realized. The whole thing was faked."
I couldn't describe how I felt. Anger, Frustration, annoyance. I went back to my office.
"is everything alright? Chica asked.
"It was a setup. The dude must have skipped town."
"Well he did say it was his last week."
"Well yeah, but when most quit, they give a note of resignation not fake their own death."
After saying goodnight, I sat on the chair my find flustered. Why would Jeff do something like that? Was it a sick joke? Was he trying to scare me? How was I going to explain to the boss that his old guard tried to fake his own death?
The only bright side to this was that I survived my 4th night
