Author notes:
IMPORTANT
Night 5 is here and Ruby gets up to her usual nonsense. I just wanted to say something first. I really don't mind suggestions for the story, I like getting them and I try to work them in if I can but please remember, I have already planned out a lot of this story so some things won't change and some things can't be put in because they just won't work. Please don't let that stop you from suggesting ideas but also don't expect all your ideas to be used. Also please don't threaten to stop reading or say that you will hate this story to stop me from doing something (and don't assume anything from that either, I'm just responding to a comment that was made that made me uncomfortable). In the end I'm writing this story because I enjoy it and I like giving fellow fans something entertaining to read. This will not be my last FNAF fanfiction so there will be plenty of opportunities for new stories and different plot lines. I just don't like being threatened in an attempt to change the direction of a story.
However on a lighter note I'm making it a personal mission to include all the weapon suggestions in the story in the end. I've got a lot of work to do ;)
So then, on to the chapter.
Chapter 9
Night 5
After squeezing as much sleep out of the rest of the day as possible Ruby headed off to work. She was curious as to what the animatronics would try next. Settling down in the chair she was hit with a wave of sorrow as she realized that 'Steve' wouldn't be phoning again (even though they were technically recordings). Why was she in the office then?
Her train of thought was effectively derailed when the phone rang.
Ruby stared at it in shock.
"Huh?"
The ringing cut out.
"Steve?" Ruby wondered hopefully.
What came out of the phone was definitely NOT 'Steve'.
Ruby covered her ears in response to the awful sound. When it finally stopped she stared at it with wide eyes for a moment, her jaw slightly slack.
Slowly a look of anger came over her features.
"When I get my hands on the idiot who thought that that was a good idea…" she growled. "Messing with my hopes like that."
Angrily she threw the mug that was on the table at the wall, the sound of the crash echoing eerily through the building. Taking a few deep breaths she finally remembered the murderous animatronics and pulled the tablet towards her while grumbling under her breath.
Everyone was out (minus the less stubborn Foxy). So she was dealing with Chica, Bonnie and Freddy again. She hadn't seen the ghost bear since that first encounter so she assumed it was safe to count her out too.
Pulling out a long scarf from her bag Ruby smiled in glee. She had had the perfect idea to make tonight fun after all…
Besides that crash that they had heard earlier, the night was rather quiet so far. It was putting the 'bots on edge. No glitter mines, no paintball guns, no manic security guard. No explosions. It was creepy.
Bonnie shivered as he wandered down the hallways. Without the constant activity it was kind of lonely now.
Suddenly a figure at the end of the hall caught his attention and he prepared himself for whatever craziness she had cooked up this time.
He…really wasn't prepared in the least.
He stared at the security guard who was wearing black again but had now added a scarf which hid her face and was standing in a familiar stance.
But she couldn't be…
Could she?
"You're a ninja tonight?!" Bonnie blurted out, disbelief beating all his other feelings.
Despite the scarf he knew she was smirking at him.
"Not just any ninja!" she declared, leaping to the top of a pile of boxes that really shouldn't have held her weight.
"I am the one and only food ninja! I bring about victory with the use of my edible tools!" she yelled so loudly that the others had to have heard her too.
Not a stealthy ninja then.
Bonnie was still staring at her in shock so he really was just a sitting duck for the cookie shuriken she threw at him. And yes, they were her exploding streamer variety. Swiping at the streamers he saw her turn around and run off laughing.
He wasn't smiling or feeling relief that the eerie quiet had been broken. He wasn't. Honestly.
Chica chased the security guard into the kitchen, her 'protect her kitchen' instincts kicking in hurriedly.
"Don't even try anything night guard!" the chicken screeched.
Ruby spun around on the counter she was standing on for some reason and gestured grandly at the room.
"The kitchen is the food ninja's domain yellow bird." She declared boldly, brandishing a frying pan. "Do you believe you can best me here?"
Chica (having lost sight of her goal entirely now) grabbed a frying pan as well and the two began to duel. Ruby was far more agile and took advantage of this by leaping onto and over counters. Chica was stronger though and as such could press her harder.
Finally Chica knocked the frying pan out of Ruby's hand.
"Ha!" Chica crowed. "I win!"
"Not quite!" Ruby countered, leaping onto another counter.
With a sweep of her leg she sent a pizza towards the chicken who naturally tried to catch it. No use wasting food after all.
And then it exploded. Chica blindly batted at the hot cheese covering her as Ruby cried out in triumph.
"That's cheating!" the yellow animatronic wailed.
Ruby wagged her finger.
"Ninjas focus solely on completing their missions. There is no 'fair' in this world."
She then proceeded to throw pepperoni and tomato sauce on her adversary and dart towards the door. "There, now you are one with the pizza Featherhead!"
Chica's outraged scream drowned out Ruby's laugh for once.
Freddy hadn't found the irritating night guard but he had found the murderous chicken. Now he remembered why he tried not to get on her bad side. She was sweet 99% of the time but the other 1%... Best not to think about it.
Finally he spotted the so-called 'food ninja' across the room he had just entered and growled.
She turned to him and waved. However the thing that caught his attention wasn't that she was painting on the wall with tomato sauce, but what was in her other hand.
His microphone.
"Put. The microphone. Down." He ordered.
Ruby looked from him to the microphone and back again.
"Oh is this yours Freddy?" she asked innocently.
He growled.
"Well I supposed I should return it then." She sighed in disappointment. "Almost as bad as me messing with Bonnie's guitar isn't it?"
Which she hadn't done yet he realised. It was kind of surprising.
Those thoughts went out of his head though when she threw the microphone at him.
Immediately panicking he made a desperate dive for it. Luckily he caught it just in time and breathed a sigh of relief.
"What were you thinking?" he growled at her. "Do you have no respect for other people's property?"
She then proceeded to pull out a remote and press a button. The microphone in his hands immediately burst into a cloud of glitter.
"Glitter microphone!" she hollered in glee. "I left your real one backstage."
Freddy pounced at her and she danced out of the way laughing.
Unfortunately, her foot caught on the leg of a chair and she tripped, her giggling cutting off. She hit her elbow on the ground and yelped.
"Stupid funny bone." She grumbled. "The very opposite of funny."
She was literally yanked from her complaining by Freddy when he grabbed her arm in a bruising grip and lifted her off the floor.
"You're not getting away this time night guard." He growled, nose to nose with her.
She blinked in surprise before she pulled something out of her pocket with her other hand.
Freddy stared at it. "A pen?"
She grinned before she pulled the cap off with her teeth. Without hesitation she jammed the pen into one of his joints and clicked the back of it.
Instantly his body was flooded with electricity. Shocked (literally and emotionally) he let go of her arm. She quickly skipped out of reach and waved the pen around.
"Taser pen!" she sang before running out of the room.
It was a full five minutes before Freddy could move properly again.
"She's starting to tick me off." He glared at the hallway she had disappeared down.
Ruby ran into Pirate's Cove sometime around 3 AM. Foxy lazily opened his eye and watched her try to breathe and giggle madly simultaneously.
"Having fun lass?" he asked with a smirk, taking note of the scarf.
She looked up at him and nodded since she still couldn't get enough breath to talk.
"And the scarf?" he asked.
Finally drawing in enough air she straightened up.
"I am the food ninja." She declared proudly.
"Are you now?" he chuckled.
"Yup. It was food ninja or food pirate but, well, I got something special planned for the pirate thing." She grinned happily.
"I'm sure you do." Foxy chuckled at the thought. "Driving them nuts again?"
She nodded but then her smile melted into a frown and she looked down for a moment.
"Ruby?" Foxy asked, sitting up.
He hadn't seen such a troubled look on her face before.
"What's wrong lass?"
She sighed and pulled herself up onto Pirate Cove's stage where the fox was sitting.
"I guess…I just…" her frown deepened as she struggled to voice her thoughts.
Foxy waited patiently, wondering what could be bothering the girl.
"It's that ghost bear." She finally sighed.
"Goldy?" Foxy asked in surprise.
"Yeah, her. Um, I didn't…hurt her did I?" she glanced at him and then back to the floor.
"It's just that I haven't seen her since. Not even a glimpse. I know it seems like I'm enjoying myself too much sometimes but permanent damage isn't the goal here." She paused for a moment again. "And well, I never exactly knew the ghost-Goldy, but I'm guessing she's a friend of the gang's?"
She looked up at Foxy again. He smiled gently at her.
"Don't worry about Goldy. You just gave her a bit of a scare and she's nowhere near as stubborn about this job as the rest of them so she'll probably only be out in a few days. It's happened before. Bonnie introduced her to firecrackers once. It…didn't end well." He grimaced at the memory a bit.
Ruby giggled at the thought.
"This been bothering you for a while?" he asked.
"Yeah. I didn't actually mean to hit her like that. Instinctive reaction." She frowned again. "It can be a bit of a problem sometimes. I get a fright or someone tries to surprise me and, boom. And the yelling part too. Short temper."
She waved at herself in general.
"Don't worry about it lass. Goldy will be fine in a few days and curious about what's been happening. Curiosity's always been her weakness." He chuckled as if he was remembering something funny.
Ruby smiled back at him. "Thanks. Needed to hear that I guess. Maybe I'll stop dreaming about it now."
She hopped off the stage and stretched before she paused and looked back at Foxy slyly.
Before he could react she had leapt at him and wrapped her arms around him in a hug.
"Don't stop being awesome." She grinned against his chest.
With that she was gone, leaving a slightly shocked fox behind.
Eventually he just chuckled and lay back down.
The three animatronics had finally cornered Ruby in one of the dining rooms but she didn't seem bothered by it in the least. She leapt onto one of the tables (clearly having a thing for higher ground) and brandished her new weapon.
'Where did you get candy cane nunchucks anyway?' Bonnie wondered to himself while Freddy growled at the night guard.
"And so, the final confrontation begins." Ruby declared, doing a very good impression of a narrator. "Will the food ninja survive her greatest trial yet?"
Chica rolled her eyes, clearly still miffed about the whole kitchen thing.
The 'battle' began and the animatronics started to hate ninjas a bit. She dodged, flipped and somersaulted past them, spinning and tossing her own attacks with dangerous accuracy. She seemed to have an almost endless supply of cookie shuriken and was also starting to throw little chocolate sauce bombs. Those nunchucks stung when they made contact as well and WHY did she know how to use nunchucks?
It was ten to six when things really got weird. They were getting a little desperate. This was their last chance and they weren't having any luck. Freddy seemed to be the only one who was getting even close to her. Bonnie was swiping at the streamers in the air in front of him while the pizza covered chicken stumbled into a table next to him, still growling.
Freddy made a grab for Ruby and actually secured a grip on her upper arm. It didn't seem to bother her though as she leaned forward and lifted something up to Freddy's eye level.
"A ninja never accepts defeat!" she yelled and the rather large sphere in her hand blew up.
Chocolate and caramel went everywhere. Walls, tables, floors and covered both Freddy and the night guard.
The bear stumbled back spluttering while Ruby wiped at her eyes. The silent aftermath was broken by the chimes signalling the end of her shift.
Ruby looked down at herself with wide eyes.
"Wow. That made more of a mess than I thought." She murmured, seemingly surprised by the chocolate-y destruction. Then she looked up at Freddy and had to cover her mouth to stifle a laugh.
The words bubbled past her lips anyway though.
"C-c-c-caramel bear!" she yelled and doubled over laughing. "Y-y-you look-k l-l-like s-s-some k-kind of-of sweet!"
She barely managed to force the words past her laughter.
Bonnie looked at the shocked bear.
Don't laugh, don't laugh' don't lau-
The rabbit animatronic stumbled back into the table as he started laughing too. Chica looked at him in shock but he couldn't help it. Always-composed-Freddy did look like a chocolate treat and it was brilliant.
Ruby was on the floor now, gasping through the gales of laughter.
"What the heck was tha-" Foxy cut off as he walked in, shocked.
One look at the bear though and he was using the wall to hold himself up while he laughed as well.
"Lass." He gasped. "What did you do?" he asked when he could.
Ruby was still giggling madly on the floor, chocolate and caramel covering every inch of exposed skin and clothes.
"Didn't-didn't mean t-too." She gasped. "Experimental still."
She finally pushed herself up and looked around at everyone. "That was fun."
Her eyes landed on Bonnie who was still laughing and grinned in satisfaction. Foxy chuckled again and steadied himself.
"That's it." Bonnie had finally stopped laughing. "I give up. There's no way we can catch her."
Freddy shot him a glare while Chica looked angry and worried at the same time.
Ruby was only just getting to her feet, wobbling slightly as she surveyed the room.
"Well." She frowned. "I'm hungry now."
Foxy snickered while Bonnie sat down heavily in a chair. Ruby looked up at the rabbit though and smiled brightly.
"We can still play though right?" she asked.
He looked at her in surprise. "What?"
"You're tons of fun to play with and a certain fox may or may not have mentioned firecrackers which has now piqued my interest.
The sparkle that lit up in Bonnie's eyes made the animatronics worry. And how did a chocolate covered teenager make that sound menacing?
She giggled at their expressions before picking up her bag. "I'd better run. I'm seriously starving now. Bye everyone. As always, it was fun. I look forward to the next time. Food ninja, away!"
With that she disappeared down the hallway, leaving an angry chicken, shocked bear, thoughtful bunny and amused fox behind.
"It's night six next." Freddy stated sharply, breaking the silence.
Foxy jumped and then glared at the floor. Bonnie seemed to deflate somewhat while Chica wrung her hands nervously.
"Yes, it is." A cold voice murmured from the corner of the room.
Author notes:
Yes, I know. Cliffhanger. I'm awful. But secrets will be revealed in the next chapter on Wednesday.
Now for the ideas I used, thanks to: The Purple Woman, Melaina, Teh Esprite, Jibanyan with Komasan, paige. m. bromley (note aspect will be used in another prank), Rayen Autumn King and the guest who suggested the exploding glitter microphone. Brilliant all around. Some ideas were tweaked but will probably be used again later.
Special thanks to Melaina for the food night suggestion. :)
Some of you guys are evil geniuses in disguise aren't you? These ideas jump start my imagination every time I read them. Until next time.
