When Jeremy and Reese walked into the attraction a minute later, they had giant grins on their faces.

"Well?" Jeremy asked. "Did you see it?"

"Oh, I saw it," I replied. "What is it, exactly?"

"Uh, an animatronic, dummy!" Reese replied. "I found it in a boarded up secret room in the '73 location!"

"But which character is it meant to be?"

"I'm not entirely sure. All I know is that it's old, creepy, and authentic!"

"Have you seen it up close yet?" Jeremy asked me.

I wanted to tell him yes, but I'm still not sure if he was really in the window. Or if Penguin was in my room...

"No, not yet," I replied.

"Well, let's go, then!"

Following Jeremy's lead, Reese and I went through the attraction and made our way to the arcade, where the animatronic was sitting next to the cabinet, just like when I first saw it. It wasn't there when I last saw it, though...

"It's even creepier up close," Reese commented. "I nearly had a heart attack when I first shine my flashlight on it, Man!"

"I wonder why it was in a secret room..." I said aloud to nobody in particular.

"Who cares?" Jeremy replied. "We found it, and it's going to make this place scary beyond comprehension!"

"Even though we don't know its name?"

"Well, I think I have some sort of idea," Reese cut in. "There was, like, some sort of label on its chest when I found it."

"What did it say?"

"Well, written in red and really large, it said "The RAT!".

"What kind of a name is that?!"

"I think it's a creepy name," Jeremy replied. "Which makes it all the better!"

"We're talking to one of the mechanics at the '97 location about possibly rigging this guy up for the attraction," Reese continued. "We're going to try and see if we can get him to, like, follow people around and sneak up on them and stuff!"

"So I wouldn't need to dress like a furry?" I asked.

"Not unless you wanted to!"

"Which I don't..."

"Perfect! Then I'll call Elena and see if she can fix Mr. RAT up for us."

"In the meantime, how about we talk to Mary about talking on the phone all the time when she's working?" Jeremy asked.

"She claims it's a friend of her who's going through depression and always needs someone to talk to."

"What friend? And why have I never seen him?"

"First, she claims it's a her. Second, she claims she's in Wisconsin."

"Hm. Well, she needs to understand she has a job to do and that she can talk later."

"Yeah," Reese cut in. "She can talk to Madison later."

"I think she said her name was Martin," I told him.

"Ah, whatever, man. Can we go eat something now? I'm craving a Big Mac or two."

"Sure, why not?" Jeremy said with a shrug. "While we do that, we can discuss this whole Mary situation more."

They then walked out of the arcade and towards the exit. I stayed for a few more seconds and looked at the animatronic known as The RAT. Who exactly was he? What was his purpose? Was he an older model of Blank? Was he a completely separate character? I'll definitely need to look into this more later.

But for now, it's lunch time.