(A/N: First of all, I'd like to apologise for my horrendous attempt at incorporating the Puppet into my story. This chapter was written by the time everyone thought the Puppet was in the kitchen, so I based this off of that. Second of all, another apology for updating so late. I've had a fairly busy week at school, so that's why. Lastly, in the letter, I made the mistakes in bold and with wavy lines ~~like this~~ because you can't use strikethroughs on this site. Enough from me, I hope you enjoy :P)


Suspicious Activity

As I was getting into my car, I remembered that the locks on the doors of the place were back in use, so I ran back, locked the door and saw a note from the manager. Quickly skimming over it, I saw that it said something along the lines of taking the keys after I lock up and some other stuff I didn't bother to read. I put the note in my pocket and got into my car.

The trip home felt a lot shorter than usual. Before I knew it, I was out of the shower. I didn't even remember getting in. Thought consumed my mind. I had to shut that place down early. If it shut down by the end of the year, more people would've fallen into the trap and it'd be my fault. I thought of just dismantling them, but I didn't want legal issues or the risk of them retaliating. I had to be subtle, but I had no idea what to do. I was completely blank. Breakfast went by in the blink of an eye, and the next time I checked the time, it was 9:40 AM. When my train of thought was going in circles, I gave up and went to sleep, hoping that I'd get another sign, but after ten minutes of tossing and turning, I remembered that I had to charge my tablet, so I did just that and tried to get some sleep.

I woke up at 4 PM without a memorable dream. I felt like I needed an obvious sign and I didn't get one. I only had one more night to shut those animatronics down, but I couldn't find a way to do that. I was completely stumped. Perhaps dismantling was the way to go. Having a criminal record or the lives of at least 10 people? I decided to go with jail. Now I had to think of a way to dismantle them, but before I could do that my stomach was calling me. I saw that I ran out of food and that my apartment was a mess, just great. I made myself presentable and went out to buy some food. I got a whole bunch of raw materials, but I was so hungry I went and bought a takeaway to go along with that. I got to my apartment and stocked up my fridge and started cleaning up while thinking of ways to dismantle Freddy and his friends.

They were far too strong for me to rip them apart with my bare hands, so I needed some sort of tool to help me get the job done, but I literally just got home from the supermarket. Perfect. After cleaning the kitchen and my room I checked around for any tools to take those animatronics apart. I really wish I had to do maintenance around the place so I'd have tools at the ready, but no. I got back to cleaning and started sorting my laundry and emptying pockets when I found that letter that the manager wrote. I put it on my desk and finished cleaning up my apartment. I gave myself a break and had some time watching some TV. It was 10:25 PM, still a while until my shift. I remembered that I bought a newspaper along with the other groceries, so I decided to read it.

There was stuff about gas prices going up, lost dogs being found, but one thing that really caught my eye was the fact that crime rates were rapidly decreasing in the area and loads of arrests being made that week. It even went as far as stating that the area hadn't been that safe since January. I checked the newspaper publication date, Tuesday, 9th of November 1993. That raised my suspicions on the legitimacy of the manager's story. He told me on Tuesday that there were criminals on the loose. That manager must've thought that I didn't read newspapers.

This gave me a new thought, to shut the place down with legal evidence. That thought got shut down as fast as it sprung up, mainly because I didn't have enough hard evidence. There were only the recordings from the late phone guy, but I knew it wouldn't be enough. Then I thought of the smell of death coming from the animatronics, they could find samples off of them. It got revived, but I quickly forgot about it after I remembered that letter from the manager. Thinking there might have been some helpful information on it, I got it from my desk. The letter read:

"Hey, ~~if~~ when you finish your shift, remember to lock up! Don't want any ~~criminals getting in or~~ of our animatronics getting ~~out~~ damaged by criminals! Keep the keys, you'll need them to get back into the ~~pize~~ pizzeria. One last thing, tomorrow at 6 PM I need you here in my office, you need your well earned pay cheque! Hope you ~~surv~~ had a good night!

PS: Please excuse my mistakes, this was my fourth time trying to write this letter and I don't have a lot of time during the day."

I was beginning to think the manager thought I was stupid. A small part of me saw why he could think such a thing, because I was going back to a job where my life could end so easily. Another part saw him being in a huge rush, while a larger part saw him as thinking I was stupid, but the logical part of me saw him as being nervous. He clearly knew that the animatronics were deadly, the mistake of putting "if" instead of "when" showed that. The second mistake seemed like he was thinking of what to write, "any criminals getting in or out" or "any animatronics getting damaged by criminals" and he chose the latter, but he still had the first sentence in his mind. That happens to me quite a bit, so I didn't take it seriously. Third mistake was clearly a spelling error, but the fourth and last one wasn't. I was almost certain that "surv" was going to be "survived". I also thought nothing of it because of the first mistake.

I still hadn't found a way to shut the animatronics down. I thought of working overtime to figure things out. Thinking of time, it was 11:30 PM. I had to get ready for my shift, so I packed in my tablet, got the keys for the pizzeria and made my way to the place. Learning from my previous shift, I'd much rather be early than late. Some snooping around the place before my shift wouldn't hurt. Locked doors wouldn't be a problem, since I had a whole belt of keys.

I got to the pizzeria at 11:40 PM. 20 minutes to snoop around. Considering the size of this place, I had more than enough time. I unlocked the door and checked the floor mapping to make sure I go about this in the most efficient way. I left the door open in case I found anything useful to put in my car. I put my tablet down in my office and went on my search, heading to the show stage first and checking areas around there so I won't be in danger by the time that my animatronic pals start roaming. I checked the animatronics first to see if there was anything of importance on them with no luck. I moved to the dining area and searched under the tables. Just dust. I went backstage and checked in and around the spare heads and the Freddy suit. You can't see it from the cameras, but those heads there clearly have blood stains on them. I started to wonder why the manager only locked the outer door, none of the ones inside. Maybe to give the animatronics more room to move around?

I moved to Pirate Cove and searched around there and found nothing. Wasn't really expecting anything in these places but it was worth searching anyway. I didn't check the restrooms because it smelled like excrement. I went to the kitchen and saw this weird puppet looking thing pinned on a wall. There was a sheet of paper pinned next to it, saying:

DO NOT TOUCH OR COME CLOSE TO THE PUPPET, SIMPLY IGNORE IT AND ASK NO QUESTIONS

My curiosity got the best of me and I felt myself moving towards it. I felt a strange aura around me when I got near it. Something inside me told me to look somewhere else, so I did. Around the kitchen there wasn't anything important, but that puppet thing stayed in my mind. As I was exiting the kitchen, I heard a whisper:

Please stay

I turned around to see if anything was different in the kitchen, but again I found nothing. I had a feeling that this puppet was the one whispering to me. That strange aura I felt couldn't have been a coincidence. I walked out of the kitchen and checked my watch. I had 7 minutes left to check the rest of the place. I spent more time than I thought looking for clues, so I decided to pick up my pace. I walked briskly to the supply closet, but I only found cleaning supplies. I was hoping for that to hold clues, but I guess my hopes were crushed. I went into my office and got ready for my shift, but then I realised that I didn't check the manager's office. I must have missed it because it wasn't part of the floor plan. I went back to the kitchen, but I went straight instead of turning left to head to the workstation. I could hardly see the door until I bumped into it, it was so dark. My eyes took about a minute to adjust enough to notice the two locks on the door and spent another minute fumbling with the keys to open them. I got in and checked his drawers, files, some money, rules, but I finally found something that would help me shut the place down early: The animatronics' manual.

I checked for anything else that I could've used and found nothing, so I took the manual and locked the door. After checking the time, I saw that I had two minutes before my shift started. I wouldn't have enough time to read through everything so I went and put the manual in my car in case I forgot about it. After tossing it onto the back seat, locking my car and closing the front door, I decided to get to my office by going past the kitchen. I poked my head inside and noticed a faint glow coming off the puppet. I felt that same aura around me, this time from far away, and broke into a run without even realising it. That aura was driving me away, but the whisper pleaded with me to stay. This place was confusing me. I got to my office safely with only a little bit of breath to catch, so I sat down and caught that small bit of breath. Half a minute later, the phone rang.

This left me confused, wasn't the phone guy dead? Did he survive that? I highly doubted it. I even checked the Freddy suit while snooping around and saw the endoskeleton inside. I checked the cameras as the recording started playing automatically. Everyone was on stage and Foxy was behind the curtains, as I expected. However, the recording was a mess of robotic garble that I couldn't make out. I heard a mess of low pitch screeches amongst the garble. This made me feel uneasy, like the aura that that puppet gave off. It felt like the blood was draining out of my face and my hands, I started trembling uncontrollably and even blanked out for a second. After that I decided to cut the recording short and focus on my shift. I checked the cameras again. Foxy was peeking out, all the animatronics on stage were staring into the camera. Then the camera feed went offline. I knew at that moment that I was in for a very difficult night.