Author's Note: Here it is folks, Chapter 10, this story is coming to an end, I don't like this story, I felt like I made a terrible horror story, and I feel like it needs to end, on this chapter, oh and for one last time folks, Chuck E. Cheese characters, songs, Munch's Make Believe Band, and anything that has to do with a CEC restaurant belongs to CEC Entertainment, and now the final Chapter of The Secret Behind THEM!
James was stunned. "H-how, a-are you?" "Heh, surprised were alive, eh James?" Jasper interrupted, in his actual voice. James's blood went ice cold, as he heard those words. "H-how does he know my name?" James thought to himself, as he shook violently, in fear. "Heh, you look like you've seen a ghost James, besides we all remember you, me, Chuck, Helen, Munch, and Pasqually, we remember you since you were young, and we even remember when you used, too take your brother Mike here too," Jasper said, as James's body began to shake more violently.
Jasper stepped forward, "I see you found our secret room, that no one knows about, not even the employee's know about it." James stepped back, not wanting to be near the animatronic with an axe in his paws. "No one has seen this room, and those who do... don't come back," Jasper said, laughing like a mad man. "W-what d-do y-y-you mean b-by that?" James asked, stuttering like a mad man.
"Well, when anyone, mainly kids come down here, they usually see a corpse of a dead child murdered... by us" Jasper began. "Then when they see the dead body, they try and escape, but we catch them, and kill them. Then, we take one dead body, and put in that machine back there." Jasper said, pointing at the machine with his axe. "That machine right there, is the machine we use every time we kill a kid, and do you know, what that machine does James?" James shook his head.
"Before I tell you what that machine does let me say, it was a shame we had to kill Mike, Josh, and John, we like them, but they found out, so we had no choice." James became furious, and was about to go over there, and beat the hell out of Jasper, but something kept him from doing so like he was afraid to do anything. "Now about the machine." Jasper began, "That machine there, is where we put our dead victims, and... that machine there, it grinds them up... into meat!" Jasper finished, grinning like a mad man. James felt like throwing up upon hearing what Jasper said.
"Then, we put the meat in those cases, and then secretly at night, we bring them into the kitchen, where they use that meat, as toppings, and people actually eat it!" Jasper stated. James threw up, upon hearing this, and fell to the ground, "W-why, w-would y-you d-do this?" James asked as he threw up. "We did this because our pizza is garbage, it's absolute crap, and we couldn't take it anymore, so we decided to add this meat, too see if it would change anything, and it seems like it did, after all why do you think the rating for our pizza with toppings have gone up?" Jasper replied, laughing like crazy once again, as James threw up once again,
"So... does... that mean... our-" "Yes, you're brothers were used and were eaten by our customers..." Jasper began walking toward James slowly, "Now, since you know our secret, it's your turn to join your brother." Jasper began to walk towards James, slowly, clinging the axe. James looked up and saw Jasper walking towards him, with the axe in his paws, James got up and began to run. "GET BACK HERE, YOU BASTARD!" Jasper shouted, running to catch up with James.
James ran up the stairs, as fast as he could, and ran out of the janitors closet, and out into the main room, dashing under one of the tables to hide under. As he was hiding underneath the table, he that the curtains on the stage where open, when they were shut before they closed, and he saw the animatronics get and start moving. "Oh god... I'm going to die." James thought, tears streaming down his face, "Please god, don't let me die, don't end my life here, I still have so much to do before I die!"
James was snapped out of his thoughts when he heard the animatronics speaking to each other, "Did you happen to see where James went?" He heard Jasper ask, "He's cowering under that table right there." He heard Munch reply, "Okay... thank you for telling me by the way, oh, and can you guys help me out?" He heard Jasper ask, his animatronic friends. "Sure." He heard them all reply, "Oh god, I'm gonna die, that's it I'm gonna die here." James thought to himself once again.
As James was panicking, an idea came to him, "If I'm quiet and fast enough, maybe I can dash under the next table, before those creepy-ass things can see me." James thought to himself as he prepared himself to dash under the table, and with a quick quiet gasp of breath, he quickly got onto all fours, and crawled as fast, and quietly as he could under the table. "I hope to god, that they didn't see me." James thought to himself, as he cowered under the other table. James suddenly had a vision in his mind of the animatronics flipping the table over, and dragging him down to the room, and put him in the machine alive.
James shuddered at the thought in his mind, "They won't find me, as long as they didn't see me, and I probably shouldn't panic, I should think positive." James thought to himself once again. However those thoughts were shattered, as he heard a table flip over, James started shaking wildly, and looked up, and smiled seeing that the table, he was hiding under had not been flipped over, the other one had been flipped over.
"Where the hell is he?" He heard the animatronic version of Jasper shout. "Look around, he's hiding somewhere, and make sure, you find him, and bring him back... alive." The Chuck E. animatronic said. As James, heard the characters walk away and begin looking for him, he put his head into his hands, and silently, began to cry.
As James was hiding under the table in the party room, below, Richard was taking a look around upstairs, for something that he would think would be proof, that this Chuck E. Cheese's was hiding something that it shouldn't be hiding. "Hmm, for a crappy pizza place, they sure are good, with hiding their secrets," Richard said to himself, as he continued to look around.
That's when Richard, heard something from downstairs, he heard the sound of something hitting the ground. "What the hell, was that?" Richard said to himself. Whilst Richard wanted to keep looking around on the second floor of the restaurant, he really wanted to know, what was down there. Throwing caution to the wind, Richard slowly began to walk toward the stairs and began to walk down the stairs.
When he reached the bottom of the stairs, he was quite surprised, to see the animatronics from the show stage, actually be walking around the restaurant, like they were alive. "What the hell, is this?" Richard thought to himself, as he continued to stare at the animatronics, who were walking around the restaurant. That's when one of the animatronics turned, and that's when Richard and the animatronic version of Helen Henny, made eye contact.
Richard was frozen with fear, as he stood there as the animatronic turned around and walked away. "M-maybe it didn't see me." Richard thought to himself, "There's always the slightest chance that she didn't see you." As Richard was thinking this, he was drawn out of his thoughts when he saw all five of the animatronics staring at him, with some sort of weapon in their animatronic hands.
Richard turned around, and dashed back upstairs, faster than a Roadrunner. "Where to hide, where to HIDE!?" Richard thought to himself, as he dashed around the upstairs area, looking for a place to hide. That's when he saw a gap behind one of the arcade machines. Richard dashed toward the gap and managed to fit in the gap, behind the machine. "Oh god, I hope they don't find me..." Richard thought to himself. Suddenly he began to think about the consequences, of being found by the animatronics, he saw himself, being beaten up, chopped up, eating him. Richard felt like throwing up upon thinking about it, but he knew he couldn't throw up because if he did, the animatronics would find him, and do all those nasty things to him.
Richard was snapped out of his thoughts when he heard the animatronics walk up the stairs. "Come out, come out wherever you are." The animatronic version of Munch said, playfully. Richard quietly put his hand over his mouth and nose, to muffle his breathing, in the hopes of being quieter. "Come on now, you can't hide from us, we know that you know about our secret James." The animatronic version of Jasper said.
"Secret what kind of secret, are they talking about?" Richard thought to himself, "Did James find something, that I haven't found yet... then if that's the case, as soon as they leave, I got to find James and fast!"
As Richard was hiding, James was still sitting under the table, cowering in fear, of being found and debating whether or not he should get out from underneath the table, and find Richard, and risk being found by the animatronics, or stay underneath the table, and wait till Richard comes downstairs and finds him. "Oh god, what do I do, what do I do?" James thought to himself, as he kept silently crying his heart out.
That's when he made up his mind, "I have to go out there, no matter what if I get found or not, by goddamn, I will find Richard, and tell him about what the hell is going on here!" James said to himself, as he crawled out from underneath the table and looked around, and was glad to see the animatronics weren't on the floor he was on, but was nervous, about them returning to the floor he is on, and him getting murdered by the animatronics.
James began, to walk around the dark, area near the stage, the only light being the glow of street lights, and a bit of the moon from outside, looking around, he saw nothing in the room he was, the only thing he did see, was the dining tables, and a bit of the play area, in the back of the restaurant. "Maybe, I should go check out the play area, and maybe I'll find something else in there." James thought to himself, as quietly as he could tip-toed over to the play area. As he tip-toed through the very quiet, and almost dead restaurant, he prayed that he was quiet enough so the animatronics wouldn't find him or walk down the stairs, onto the first floor, and see him walking towards the play area in the back. "Oh, god please don't make those horrible creatures, come down here and kill me, please god, I am begging you right now." James prayed, in his mind, as he continued to quietly walk over to the play area.
As James reached the play area, he silently began to inspect the outside of the play area for anything suspicious, besides the machine and that hidden room he had just found out about. "I wonder what else I'll find around here." James thought to himself as he continued to search, "Who knows, maybe I'll find a room full of human bones, maybe I'll find a room where rituals are performed, or better yet, I'll find a bunch of mutated versions of Chuck E. and his friends.. who knows?"
After searching around the play area, for what seemed like hours, James was quite surprised when he found nothing near the play area and was a little disappointed. "Aw, I really wanted to find something else," James said sarcastically to himself. That's when James, froze in his tracks as he heard the sound of footsteps.
James turned white, immediately upon hearing this, "Oh, god... where to hide, where to hide, where to HIDE?!" James thought to himself, panicking very badly. That's when James looked at the skytubes and an idea came to him. "If, I'm fast and quiet enough I think I'll be able to hide up their, till the animatronics leave the first floor, of this place." James immediately, climbed inside the entrance of the sky tubes, and very quickly, but quietly began to climb up inside of the sky tubes, once he was officially inside, the sky tubes, he walked over to the window's that had a view of the area where the show stage was, and peaked out, and was very happy that he was hiding inside the tubes, because what he saw, was the animatronic version of Pasqually, was walking around the area.
James brought his head, and body down below the windows, so the animatronics couldn't see through the windows, and see if he was in there. "Okay, I'm gonna be fine, they didn't see me, and I should be happy that they didn't find me." James thought to himself. Just, as James was calming down, James heard the sound of something being flipped over and knocked down.
James peered through the window, to see the animatronic version of Pasqually, flipping over the tables near the stage. "Thank god, that I moved from underneath the table that I was hiding under." James thought to himself, as he brought his head back down from the window, and layed his head down, on the cold hard plastic floor, of the sky tubes, trying to relax. "What time is it?" James thought to himself, as he brought his phone out, and was quite surprised to see that it was only thirty minutes after midnight. "Jeez, can't the night move on any faster, I wanna go home, and see my mom and dad." James thought to himself, beginning to tear up. "I wanna go home." James said to himself silently, as he put his head in his hands, "I wanna go home and see my mom, my dad, my friends and family, I just want to go home, please god, please Jesus, please end the night already, I wanna go home, please end this night, I'll do anything to have this night end."
James continued to cry for a while but eventually calmed down. "Okay, I need to calm down, nothing is going to happen to me, I am going to be completely fine," James said to himself, as quietly as he could, so the animatronics wouldn't hear him. James peered out the window again and saw none of the animatronics, near the stage or on the first floor for that matter.
"Okay, I need to go out there now, and find Richard, because who knows what the hell could have happened to him?" James thought to himself, as he slowly and as quietly as possible began to crawl out of the SkyTubes, and slowly and quietly began to walk towards the stairs, that led to the second floor of the Chuck E. Cheeses. James then slowly and as quietly as possible began to walk up the stairs. "Oh god, please don't let them be up here." James thought to himself, as he reached the top when he did, he peeked out and to his surprise, he saw that none of the animatronics were on the second floor of the Chuck E. Cheeses.
"Yes, thank god, they aren't up here." James thought to himself, once more as he slowly began to walk around the second floor. "Pssst, James over here dude." James heard a voice whisper. James looked around when he spotted someone hiding behind one of the arcade cabinets. "Richard, is that you man?" James whispered back to the figure. "Yes, it's me get over here, please." He heard Richard reply. James walked over to Richard and tried to squeeze into the gap. "James, I can't believe you made it up here, without that THING, seeing you," Richard whispered. James gave him a confused look, and Richard pointed behind him, James turned and saw the animatronic version of Chuck E. looking around for them. James turned around, and nodded, "Yeah, thank god I made it here huh?" James whispered.
"Yeah, thank the lord," Richard replied, whispering. Suddenly, James remembered about that basement, and machine, and decided to tell Richard. "Hey, uh Richard." James began, as Richard turned to look at him. "I uh, found something that I think you should know about," "What is it?" Richard replied, "Well, I uh found this basement, and in this basement, there's this machine..." James stopped, and looked down at the ground, "A-and, this machine, is used, by... the animatronics... and what they do, is when kids... go down there... they...kill them, and put them in this... machine, and it grinds... their body, into meat, and they use this "meat,"... for the pizza... and... people... eat... it." As soon as James finished, he and Richard threw up onto the ground. "Jesus Christ, are you serious?" Richard asked, eyes wide and face pale, "Richard, I would not be kidding about something like this, or I'd be laughing." James stated, looking serious.
Richard simply nodded, "Richard, I think what we need to do is get the hell, out of this place, and go to the police station, and tell them about what the hell is going on here, how does that sound bud?" James asked, looking at Richard. "James... is John-" Richard began, "Yes, John is gone, and his meat is.. well you know..." James looked down, not able to continue for a minute, "So, um Richard... what do you think about, my plan?" James asked. After looking down for a while, Richard looked and smiled, and said, "The plan sounds good James, anything to get back at those animatronics for killing our brothers, am I right?" James, felt some tears roll down his face and nodded in approval.
"Anyways James, I think we should move to the downstairs area of the place, because, I think if we linger here, too long, the animatronics might find us," Richard stated, cocking a thumb, too the animatronic version of Chuck E. who was turned away, and not facing them. James looked at the animatronic then the stairs, "Alright on the count of three, the both of us, are going to quickly and quietly, go down the stairwell, and wait on the bottom of it, okay?" Richard simply nodded, in approval.
"Okay, on the count of three." James began, "One... two... and... three." James and Richard quickly and quietly stood up and dashed, toward the stairs and down the stairs.
"Okay, there's step one out of the way." Richard said, when they reached the bottom, "Now, here's something that's gonna be challenging, we now have to find a hiding place." James said. "Oh, that should be easy." Richard replied smiling, "With, the other animatronics searching for us down here." James stated, as he cocked a thumb at the show area, where the animatronics were walking around, and searching for the two.
"Never mind, then." Richard, simply stated. looking at James, "So here's what we're gonna do, we're gonna go in there, when the animatronics aren't looking, and we are gonna hide somewhere, until it is safe, walking around the hallways again." James replied, whilst watching the animatronics carefully search. "Hey Munch, have you seen them?" He heard Jasper ask, "No, haven't found a goddamn thing yet, Jasper." Munch replied, James, snickered at the fact that a family-friendly character, that is Mr. Munch, would even say a swear word.
"What's so funny James?" Richard asked, "I just think it's funny that Munch just said, goddamn, when he's supposed to be a family-friendly character, you know?" James replied, smirking a little, Richard nodded, and they went back to watching the animatronics search for them, that's when Munch turned around, and they quickly darted their heads behind the wall. "Hey guys, I think I saw something move, over there" They heard Munch say, their hearts began to beat fast as they heard those words. "Well go check then, you never know, it may James and Richard." They heard Jasper reply.
Then, they began to hear the footsteps, of the animatronic, slowly began to walk toward, them. James and Richard, looked at each other, "What do we do?" James whispered, "We can't go back upstairs, and risk running into Chuck E." Richard began to think, and then said, "James, let's hide under the stairwell, and maybe it won't see us." James nodded, and they both dashed underneath the stairwell, silently praying to god, that Munch wouldn't find them, and kill them, and put them into the machine, where they would be turned into meat for the pizza, and they would be eaten, by other customers.
Eventually, they heard Munch walk out the door, and into the main party area. "Did you find anything Munch?" They heard Helen ask. "No, I didn't find anything Helen, I'm sorry." They heard Munch reply. "Well, then keep searching goddammit, and don't stop searching until you find those two goddammit, now go find them now!" They heard Jasper shout. James and Richard slowly turned to look at each other. "Jesus, that was close," James whispered. "Yeah, it was." Richard replied, "Hey James, I think we should stay here, for a while until the animatronic leave, because if we go out there now, we'll get caught." James looked at him and nodded, "I think that's a good idea, too stay here until they leave." Richard nodded, "Yeah, I agree let's stay here."
James and Richard ended up staying underneath the stairs for quite some time, just whispering to each other, hoping and praying that they wouldn't be found by accident by the animatronics. As they were sitting there, they couldn't help but shake the feeling, that daytime, and the opening of the restaurant won't be happening for a while. "Dude, what time is it?" James asked, "It's about three o' clock in the morning." Richard replied, "Oh great, it's the devils hour, where apparently demons come out... but I don't believe in that stuff do you?" James asked, and Richard simply shook his head.
"Anyways, I think we should leave here, and go out into the main area," James stated. Richard nodded in approval saying, "Yeah, I think it's a good idea, I want to get out from underneath this goddamn staircase, so let's go." Richard replied, as they peaked from behind a wall, and saw that the animatronics weren't on the first floor, "Coast is clear, let's go." James whispered as they walked into the main area, they looked out the window and saw only the lights of a few restaurants open, the streetlights, and the moon in the sky.
Suddenly, James had an idea, "Hey why don't I go try the door, and you stand guard for me, in case they happen to come down here." Richard simply replied, "Okay, whatever you say." James walked over to the door, and pulled on it, and wasn't surprised to see, that the door was locked, "No luck, huh Richard." James said as he turned around, and turned white, Richard wasn't where he originally was. "Richard, where the hell are you?" James whispered quietly, not wanting to shout, then he heard something, he heard the footsteps of the animatronics, and quickly and quietly dashed towards the SkyTubes, and climbed up them quietly.
"Hey James, come here." he heard Richard whisper, James followed the voice, and there he was, "Jesus Richard, I thought they got you." James nearly shouted at his friend. "Okay, just shut the hell up, or you'll attract them," Richard replied, as he and James looked out the window too see the animatronic version of Chuck E. walking around, with a machete in his animatronic hands. "What do we do Richard?" James asked, looking at him, "I say we find a weapon, and destroy these goddamn bastards, for murdering our brothers." Richard replied, whispering, with a lot of venom in his voice.
James nodded, grinning, "I think that's one hell of an idea Richard, let's head on down into the main area, and try and find some sort of weapon, and kill these goddamn demons." James replied, as Richard nodded, his head, as they climbed out from the SkyTubes, and began to walk around the restaurant to try and find a weapon, and that's when James came across something, a fire axe behind a strong glass panel, with the hammer sitting by on top of the case waiting to be used to smash the glass.
James slowly walked up the case, and grabbed the hammer, and slowly looked around and saw no one, but Richard standing right behind him walking around, James slowly and carefully brought the hammer back and drove the hammer right into the glass, causing the glass to shatter, into small and large pieces. James swiftly grabbed the axe, as Richard walked up to him, "Well, it's good you found a weapon," He began, "But, we should probably hide under the table, you never know, they might have heard us." James and Richard then, quickly dashed, underneath one the tables, just as they heard a voice boom, "What on earth was that?!" It was Jasper's, and he sounded surprised, they heard the sound of the animatronics metal feet, thump against the stairs, and as it's feet thumping against the ground, as it reached the bottom.
"Hmm, they must have found that fire axe, well better get the other's down here, since one of them, can now defend themselves, against us." They heard it say, "But they can't win against us." They heard the animatronics feet, thump once more, before they heard, it the sound go away, but it didn't go away in their minds, "Well, they know now." Richard sighed, "Don't worry, we have to get those creatures by surprise." James stated, "And as long as we take them out, silently and out of their sight, I think that we will be just fine." Richard simply nodded and was about to say something, when they heard their feet once again, which was more than enough to shut them up. "Alright, now they can hurt us." They heard Chuck E. say, "Be on the lookout and everything will be just fine, but make sure, you check you're surroundings as you walk, you never know where they could be hiding."
James felt nervous, "Oh no, we're pretty much stuck under here now." James thought to himself, as heard the animatronics begin to walk around and search for him and Richard. James quickly peered underneath and saw one of the animatronics, beginning to walk over to where they are hiding. "If I'm quiet and quick enough I can take them out easily." James watched as he began to get closer to him. James brought the axe back, waiting to strike, the animatronic got closer, and closer, and then James as quickly as possible swung the axe and heard the sound of it cutting through the animatronics leg, and heard the animatronic fall to the ground with a loud bang, as the animatronic hit the floor. James quickly without thinking brought the axe back once more and sent it flying again, and heard it hit the animatronic once again, James did this a few times, until he thought it was safe enough to look, and see what he did, and when he did look, he could see that he had hit the animatronic version of Pasqually, and he seemed to have many gashes in his animatronic head, it looked the animatronic was no longer able to function, or able to get them anymore.
James proceeded to pull the animatronic underneath, the table, "Psst, Richard, look I killed him." Richard turned around and looked at the animatronic and smiled, "Alright buddy, you did pretty good." Richard stated, and was about to say something else when suddenly, the table was flipped over, and above them was the animatronics, staring down at them, they were grinning a monstrous grin, as they stared at them. James and Richard's faces, turned white, as soon as they saw them, "Uh, no hard feelings right?" James asked, trying to see if they wouldn't hurt them, however just after he said that Munch hit James and Richard, hard on the head, with a pipe and the two were knocked out almost immediately.
As James began to rise out of his unconsciousness, he began to hear them talking, "Well, well, well look who's awake." James opened his eyes slowly, and saw the animatronics staring at him, "W-where am I?" James asked, nervous. "Why, you're in the room where it all started buddy." Chuck E. replied, as James looked around seeing that he was indeed the room, with that machine, that's when James noticed something, "Where's Richard?" James asked as the animatronics chuckled. "Why he's right here." They replied, moving away, to reveal Richard against the wall, tied up.
"What the hell, have you done to him?" James asked, not being able to shout due to his head being in a lot of pain, from being hit on the head with a pipe. "Oh nothing yet, but when we do, you will watch it!" Munch replied. James realized this and tried, to get up, "Don't bother wasting your energy, bud, your tied up, so don't bother trying." Jasper told him, walking towards Richard.
"Oh no, they are gonna kill Richard, I can't watch this." James thought to himself, as he shut his eyes, however, Munch walked over to him and slapped him and said, "Open your eyes, or we kill you." James nodded, and opened his eyes, and watched as Jasper picked up Richard, and walked over to the machine. James watched as Jasper, put Richard on the conveyor belt of the machine, and turn it on.
Slowly, the conveyor belt moved forward, into the depths of the machine, Richard struggled trying to break free of the ropes that bound him, or try and get off the conveyor belt, but after a while, he finally gave up and sat there, waiting for the machine to grind him up, and turn him into meat. James silently began to pray and hoped that Richard wouldn't be killed and that something wouldn't happen to him or Richard.
Then, as if the god's from above had heard him pray, the machine shut off, and the conveyor belt shut off. The animatronics looked, at the machine in surprise and in anger. "What the hell?" Jasper exclaimed, walking over to the machine, "Why isn't it working?" He asked, inspecting it. "Maybe, it blew a fuse," Munch suggested, whilst Jasper was inspecting the thing.
"Well, then let's fix it, so we can kill them," Jasper replied, hastily, as Chuck E. walked over to a box full of tools, grabbing a few of them, that he thought could fix the machine, however just as, Chuck E. began to unscrew the main panel of the machine, he was instantly electrocuted, by the machine, killing him instantly. The animatronics looked at each other, and back at the dead animatronic, "Well, I don't think we can use the machine tonight, so we'll have to, wait until tomorrow." Jasper said, pointing at the clock, which revealed it was, about nine-thirty in the morning, which meant that the employees, would be arriving soon.
Munch looked at Jasper, and said, "Are you sure, Jasper-" "I'm sure as hell goddammit!" Jasper shouted back, "Now, knock the two out, and clean up, we don't want this damn place getting shut down now do we?" Jasper and Helen walked up the stairs, whilst Munch walked over to Richard and James, Munch began to raise the pipe over his head, and was about to swing the pipe at James, and knock him out, when suddenly he stopped, "I... can't do it." The animatronic said, "I just can't do it."
"Can't do what?" James asked, whilst cocking an eyebrow, "I can't bring myself to hurt you guys." He said looking down, "Why?" Richard asked, "Here you were ready to murder us, and now, you're not, this is a trap isn't it?" Munch looked at the two of them, "I remember all the good times, that you guys and you're brothers used to have here." He began, "I remember how much you and you're brother loved it here, and I can't bring myself, to hurt you guys, I'm so sorry."
James and Richard looked at each other, and was about to say something when Jasper spoke up from behind, "So you won't kill them huh?" Munch turned around, to see the animatronic leaning against the wall, "If you don't murder them you big fatass monster, I swear to god, that I will personally dismantle you piece by piece If you don't kill them." Munch nodded, and raised the pipe, "I'm so sorry." He mouthed to them, as he whacked them hard on the heads, with the pipe, knocking them out immediately.
As James arose, he began to wonder, "Was this a dream, am I home in my bed, asleep?" However, when James opened his eyes, he saw that he was still in the same room, from last night, "Goddammit, when the hell am I gonna get out of here?" James said to himself, as he looked around, "Wait, where's Richard?" James realized, looking around not seeing Richard anywhere in sight, "Richard, where did you go?" James asked, hoping that he would get a response, "I'm right here, turn around, James turned around to see Richard laying, against the wall, "What are we gonna do James, were trapped down here, what can we do?" Richard asked, sounding depressed.
James shrugged, "I don't know what to do Richard, and I don't think we'll ever be leaving here." James began to feel tears, running down his cheeks, as he leaned against the wall next to Richard, "We'll never see our families again, we'll be ground up into meat, and we'll be heaven." James looked Richard "I don't want to die yet Richard," James began sobbing, "There is still so much, I still wanted to do." James continued sobbing, Richard looked at him, "James calm down, we'll get out of here, we just gotta-" "WE WON'T GET OUT OF HERE GODDAMMIT!" James shouted back, "WE'LL BE TRAPPED IN THIS HELLHOLE TILL NIGHT, THEN THOSE GODDAMN CREATURES WILL KILL US!"
Richard looked at him, "James, stop shouting crap that won't happen because we'll both think of something to get us out of here, we can do it, I know we can do it." Richard stated, soothingly, James turned to him, his eyes filled with hope, "Do you really think, we can do it?" James asked. Richard nodded, "Yes, we can do it, I know we can do it." Richard replied smiling.
"So what's the plan?" James asked, looking at Richard. "Well, let's see if we can inch our ways up the stairs, and shout as loud as we can and maybe they will find us and we will get the hell out of here," Richard replied, whilst James simply nodded in approval, smiling. James and Richard proceeded to lay themselves on the ground, on their bellies, and began to slowly inch their way towards the staircase, and they were moving pretty slowly, across the hard floor. "Man, this is gonna take forever," James said to Richard, as he faced, the stairs which were about twenty-five feet away from them.
"I know, but trust me, James, we'll be there before we know it," Richard said as they continued to inch their way across the floor. As James, was inching he couldn't help but think of the negative consequences, of what's gonna happen. "What if we get arrested." James thought to himself, "What if they don't believe us, and they think we are some teenage delinquents, trying to cause trouble." James felt worried, as he thought of this, he didn't want to get arrested for no reason, especially since he had and Richard had done nothing.
Before he knew it, he was in front of the stairs. "Alright, know we must inch our way, up the stairs, if we don't they won't hear us," Richard said to James, as James nodded. "Alright then, let's climb" Richard and James slowly, began to inch their way up the stairs, at first they found it difficult, but slowly got used to climbing the stairs, and eventually the two, managed to climb to the top of the stairs.
"Alright, we made it to the top of the stairs." James said as he looked over to Richard, "Now what?" Richard turned to him, "Now, we shout till someone hears us." Richard inhaled, and then finally shouted, "HELP, WE'RE IN HERE, HELP US PLEASE, WE DON'T WANT TO DIE!" James inhaled, and began to shout as well, "HELP PLEASE, HELP US, WE'RE GONNA DIE, HELP US PLEASE!"
"God, why did they choose ME, to clean up the vomit, on the floor." An employee said to himself as he walked over to the door, that said "Employee's Only," on it. "Why, did it have to be me, don't we have enough with, finding that chef animatronic dismantled under a table today?" He thought to himself, as he opened the door, and walked over to the mop, and bucket, but as he walked over to them, he heard shouting, coming from the walls. They were saying, "HELP US!"
The employee, looked at the wall, and slowly walked over to it, "Uh, hello can anyone hear me?" He asked he heard the voices reply, "YES, JUST OPEN THE SECRET DOOR!" "Where is this door located?" The employee asked, "ONE OF THE TILES, ON THE WALLS CAN BE PUSHED IN!" The voices replied. "Okay, if you say so." He replied once more, as he began, to push in the tiles, on the walls. Then when he ran his hand over the one that looked out of place, he slowly pushed, with little effort and a wall moved, to reveal to teens, bound in ropes, on their knees, staring up at him, with pleading looks in their eyes. "Please unite us, mister," James said, as he the employee looked at them in shock, and in fear.
"Who the hell are you two?" The employee asked, "Well, we're trying to find out why the kids, are going missing here, and we found out, what happened to them." Richard looked down. "Well, what on earth happened to him, and what sick man, did this?" The employee demanded in a high, and strict tone. James looked up and said flatly, "It was the animatronics." He said, "What?" The employee replied, "The animatronics would lure, them down in this room, and kill them, then they would put them in this machine, and it would grind the kids up into meat, where that meat, would be used for your pizza, why do you think the ratings for the pizza, have gone up."
The employee looked at them, "Do you think this is a game?" He asked, "What happened to the kids, and why were you two trouble makers down there?" "James told you what happened to them, and for us? Well, we got caught by the animatronics, and they locked us down there, they put me on the conveyor belt, and almost killed me themselves, go take a look if you want, we are not lying."
The employee looked amused, "Heh, okay I'll go look and see if this "machine" is down there." He replied as he walked down the stairs, "Bah, what a lie, there is no such thing, as that machine." He thought to himself, "We would have known about it."
However, as soon as the employee reached the bottom, his face turned white, as he saw the machine in all its glory, and saw the meat, in the plastic bags beside it, they weren't lying to him. The employee dropped to his knees, "Jesus, they were right." He said in disbelief, "No wonder, I thought that pizza was good, so does that mean, I ate a kid?" The thought made him sick in the stomach, and he threw up onto the floor. "No, it's no true." He said, tears rolling down his face.
Slowly, the employee reached into his pocket, and slowly dialed 911, and put the phone to his ear, "911, what's your emergency?" He heard the 911 operator ask, "Uh, sir I think I found the dead kids at the Chuck E. Cheeses." He said, "Okay, we're sending out police cars now sir, what happened to them?" He heard him ask, "They are nothing but Chunks of meat, the murderer, he ground them up in this machine, in this room we don't know about." He stated, started to cry again, "Okay sir, the dispatch will be there soon." The 911 operator said, "Now, do you happen to know who murdered them?" The employee was about to tell him that the animatronics murdered them but decided to look at the security cameras. "Uh, hold on sir, let me check the security footage from our security cameras."
He dashed from the basement, and into another "Employee's Only" Room, he walked in and opened up the security footage from last night, and saw that the animatronics, were just sitting there. "Whew, looks like they never did move." He thought to himself, smiling, then he saw something move slightly out of the corner of his eye, and turned to look at the security footage.
When he turned to look, however, his face turned white as snow, he saw the animatronics slowly walking off the stage, and onto the floor. "Uh sir, are you there?" The operator asked, "Uh, yes I am... and I saw who killed them" He said, "Who did it?" The employee paused, and took a deep breath, and exhaled, and said, "I think the dispatch should see for themselves when they arrive." He said, "I can't explain it." "Okay, goodbye." The operator hung up.
The employee walked over to the janitors closet, where James and Richard were, and slowly untied them. "Who are you two?" The employee asked, "I'm James." Said the teen with brown hair. "I'm Richard." Said the teen with, blonde hair. The employee nodded, "Alright so, how on earth, were you guys tied up?" He asked. James looked at him and replied, "Well, the animatronics did, after they knocked us out with a pipe, and the next thing we know, we're still alive."
The employee looked at them surprised, and what he heard, and said, "You guys got whacked on the head with a pipe twice?" James and Richard just nodded, "Alright, I'll call the hospital and have them take a look at you two, but first, I need you guys to tell me, what you're parents phone numbers are, and I'll call the hospital up for you guys right away.
As this was all going down, at the Chuck E. Cheese's, meanwhile, Richard's parents and James's parents were all meeting with each other at James's house. "I just, don't understand, where on earth are they?" Diane asked as she paced back and forth. "Maybe they went to Mars." Richard's father, Mark replied jokingly to Diane. Diane practically, whipped her head, around to meet Mark's. "You think this is funny huh?" She asked anger and worry in her voice.
Mark's head, shook back and forth, "No, I don't think it's funny Diane." He stated, "Just trying, to lighten things up around here, I mean jeez." Matt looked at his wife, and said calmingly, "Look, let's just call put up the missing posters, as we did for Mike, and let's see what that will do for us." Richard's mother, Tina turned to look at him, and stated, "Well, it is a good idea, but then again, have you guys gotten any reports, about your son?" Matt looked down and shook his head, "No, we, haven't gotten anything."
"Well, there you go." She said, "Chances, are Richard and James, went off somewhere, never to be found again. What the hell, is putting up posters gonna do?" She asked while looking at the room. Diana looked up, sighed, and spoke, "Nothing." Tina nodded, "Right, they won't do nothing." Mark lifted, his head up and was about to say something when suddenly the house phone rang.
Diane walked over to the phone, and picked it up, on the screen, it read, "Unknown Number." "Great, more goddamn telemarketers." She said, in her mind, as she was about to put the phone, back when suddenly more positive thoughts came to her head, "Maybe this call, will give us info about our sons." She said, in her mind once more, as hit the answer button, and put her phone to her ear.
"Hello?" She asked, into the phone. "Uh, hello is this Diane Conan." The voice replied, which turned out to belong to a male. "Uh, yes this is Diane Conan." She replied, to the man, "Well, I'm calling to tell you about your son James, and his friend, Richard as well. Her eyes, lit up as she heard him say, James and Richard. "You know where James is?" She said into the phone, as the other adults in the room, slowly walked over to her, to try and listen to what the man was saying.
"Yes, he is here at the Chuck E. Cheese's, him and his friend, are badly injured, and an ambulance is on coming here, to take them to the hospital." He replied, as Diane Conan, began to hear them, "What happened to James?" She said, almost sobbing into the phone, "I cannot tell you now, look come to the hospital, nearby, and I'll be there to tell you a brief description of what happened." He said, "Why can't you tell me now?" She asked, "Tambulancence has already, arrived, look just go to the hospital, and I'll meet you there in twenty minutes, I have some business to attend too." He stated, before hanging up.
As soon as he did, Diane put the phone back and rushed to the kitchen and grabbed her car keys, "Why are you grabbing, your car keys honey? Matt asked, as her wife, walked over to the door, "The hospital, and you are all coming with me." She replied, "Give us one good reason why." Mark replied, "James and Richard are there, and that's where we are going to go, so we can see them."
As the parents, began to get in the car and go to the Hospital, to see James and Richard, meanwhile the two, were currently sitting in their hospital beds, talking to each other whilst they waited for their doctor, to tell them if they were okay or not. "You know Richard, I wondered what happened to David?" He asked. "He's probably still complaining, and still hates you," Richard replied, as their doctor came in. "Good news, boys." He said, "You have received no permanent damage to your skulls whatsoever." Then he frowned, "The bad news is, those injuries will be there for a while." James and Richard, both sighed a breath of relief, they didn't care that the injuries would be there but we're glad they had received no permanent damage to their skulls when they got bashed on the head.
"Anyways, is there anything else, you guys need?" The doctor asked, looking at the two. "Well, we are a little hungry." Richard said as the doctor nodded, "Okay, we'll make some food for you two." The doctor said as he walked out of the room.
As soon, as he left James and Richard both looked at each other. "I don't think I'll ever forget this day." James stated as he looked down at the bed, "Nor will I forget what those, demons did to our brothers." Richard simply nodded, looked toward the window and said, "I don't think we'll forget about it bud, but hey, we gotta try right?" James looked down and fiddled with the sheets, "I don't know Richard." He replied, "This day, will forever remain in my heart, as the day, where we found the true secret, behind Chuck E. Cheese's."
Just as Richard, was about to reply, the doctor came in and brought some normal hospital food. "Here you go, boys." The doctor said as he put each tray on their lap, before walking out of the room, as James and Richard began to eat their food. "Mmm, this is pretty good," James said, to Richard after taking the first bite. "I have to agree with you James, this stuff, tastes pretty damn good," Richard replied, looking at him.
"OH MY GOODNESS, MY POOR BABY!" They both heard, a women shout, James and Richard turned, to see not only James's mother run towards, him, but James's father, as well Richard's mother and father. James and his parents, tightly embraced, James, as Richards parents did the same except with Richard. "Oh my god, we were so worried about you," Tina stated, as she cried tears of joy.
"Yeah, we were so worried about you two," Mark said as he tightened his grip on Richard. "Daww, I missed you guys too," Richard said, returning the hug. "Oh my goodness, James we were so worried about you and Richard, after hearing about what you two went through." Said, Diane, as she cried harder, then the day Mike went missing. "Yeah, we thought, we would lose... you as well." Replied, Matt, unable to think about the thought, that his and wife's son, would be gone.
"Well, I'm still alive aren't I?" James, asked smiling, trying to lighten the mood. Diane and Matt let go of their son and gently wiped their eyes. "Yeah, you still are." Replied Diane, smiling. "Alright mom, and dad, you can let go of me now," Richard said. "Aww, are we not allowed, to hug our own son?" Mark asked his son, not budging. "Well, I guess you are allowed, to hug me I guess," Richard said, as his parent's let go of him.
They all looked at each other in silence, when Diane spoke up, "Boy's... why did you guys sneak out?" She asked, looking at them. James and Richard looked at each other, and James nodded, they both slowly, turned back to Diane, and James spoke, "We did this because, we were getting suspicious at what the hell, was going on that Chuck E. Cheese's." James paused, and turned to Richard, who nodded and continued for James, "We, wanted to know why kids, we're going missing there. So we snuck out and hid in the SkyTubes until the placed, closed."
Richard paused, and James continued, "When it did, the nightmares began, as we were being chased, by the animatronics for finding out what happened. We found out they were murdering kids, including me and Richard's brothers." James paused, tearing up not being able to say anymore, James turned to Richard, "I can't finish this, Richard, finish for me."
Richard simply nodded, "We, were being chased around, by them, for what seemed like hours, until they finally caught us. They knocked us out, with a pipe, and dragged us downstairs." Richard paused, took a deep breath, and continued, "Where we woke up, and they put me on this conveyor belt, which was leading me closer, to the machine, where I would be ground up into meat, for the pizza, they served there."
Their parents were horrified, "Oh my god, that sounds awful, Richard." Said Diane, "Please continue." Richard nodded, and continued, "Well, there I thought it would be my end, when suddenly the conveyor belt, malfunctioned, and I ended up not being ground up into meat. But, however, it wasn't over, they soon knocked us out again, and we awoke in the afternoon." Richard stopped and looked down at his hospital bed sheets.
"What else happened?" asked Diane. "Well, that's it, we escaped, and here we are." Richard replied, whilst putting a hand on James's shoulder, "Hey, buddy are you okay?" He asked. James shook his head, he was no longer crying, but was still in despair, "No, I want my brother back, I miss him, he didn't deserve to die, in fact, he shouldn't have died." James stated as he looked down.
James looked up, too see his parents smiling, "James, we have a surprise for you, wait right here, whilst we go get it." James nodded, as he laid, back down. James turned to look at Richard, "Cheer up man, you're parents are probably gonna give you something nice." He said as James sighed, "It's hard to be positive since, I'm still you know, getting over my own brother's death."
Richard simply nodded, when suddenly, Richard had a shocked, expression on his face. "James, you should, uh turn around, and see what you're parents gave you." James turned to see a little boy standing there, he looked like he was about eight years old, he had a blue tee shirt, and green pants on, he had, white skin, brown hair, green eyes, and red shoes. "James, meet your new little brother, Aaron Conan." His mother said, happily.
Epilogue
The Chuck E. Cheese's was eventually shut down, and eventually, every restaurant that had animatronics were shut down, all around the earth, and replaced, with the new dance floor, that CEC Entertainment, was eventually going to release, and as for the animatronics? Well, they were sent to a junkyard and scrapped. "We, deeply apologize to the citizens of the town." Said the CEO of CEC Entertainment, when he visited, Livingston. "We have now, made something wonderful, better than animatronics, it will be our new dance floor."
As for the Snore's, the Conan's and Camels? Well, they all recovered, it took them a while, but eventually, they all got over it, and as for their children? James, and David, eventually became friends again, after David apologized, to James, for what he had done. Richard eventually got a new brother, as well, like James, his name was Mark. Whilst, this was over, James and Richard would have nightmares for month's on end, and their family and friends couldn't blame them. They had gone through hell, at that place, and they needed to get over it, soon, but eventually, things got back to normal, and things were eventually returning back to the way they should be.
It was a cool, August evening, and James was sitting on the couch watching TV, he was babysitting Aaron, whilst his parents were out. "Can't believe school is starting in two weeks." James thought to himself, as he grimaced at the thought of going back to school. That's when he heard footsteps, coming down the stairs, "James?" Aaron asked as James turned to him, "Yeah, buddy?" James asked, smiling, "Can we go to Chuck E. Cheese's?" He asked. "Sure, I ain't got nothing else to do," James said, as he went into the kitchen, and grabbed his car keys, as he walked over to the door, and put his shoes on.
"Alright, buddy, let's go," James said, as he opened the door, and walked into his car, Aaron following, and sitting in the back. "Oh boy, am I gonna have fun." Aaron said, "Yeah, I'm sure you will buddy." James replied as he opened started the car, and they began to drive off.
Eventually, in no time, they had arrived, and as soon as they did, Aaron rushed to get into the place. "Hey, slow down buddy, wait for me," James said, as he himself, got out of the car, and they slowly walked up to the entrance and walked, and were greeted by, music playing, kids shouting, and the delicious smell of their now human free, pizza. "Welcome to Chuck E. Cheese's." The employee, said, as she stamped both of their hands, and undid the red rope, and the two walked in.
"So, what do you wanna do bud?" James asked as he looked around. "Oh, can I do that?" Aaron said pointing to the screen above, the dance floor which read, "Time until next Live: 3:00." James nodded, "Okay then let's walk around, to pass the time." Aaron nodded, as they walked around, pointing things out every now and then such, as Chuck E. Cheese's now serving alcohol for adults, more games, and other cool things, such as, other pizza toppings, and how the music videos, are now only shown on the TV's, and there's only one floor.
Soon, before they knew it, there were only forty-five seconds, left, and the costumed versions of, Chuck E. and his friends were making their way over to the dance floor. Aaron ran over to the dance floor, and James slowly walked over to the dance floor, and stood on the side, watching. "Ahh, I remember when Mike used to that," James said to himself in his head, as the live began. "I remember all those times when Mike used to get so excited, to dance with them, and then to grab the tickets at the end, and be so happy, to dance with them, and be happy meeting them two, ah the good old days."
James continued to doze off, as the live went on, "Ahh, the day's when he danced, and the days when was still alive, ah, I wish you were still here Mikey, I still wish you were here, dancing with Aaron, I wish I hadn't let you out of my site, and none, of this, would have happened, but then again, it was because of all of this, good things happened." James smiled at the thought.
James suddenly was snapped out of his thoughts, when as he felt Aaron shake him, "Hey, James look at the tickets I got." He said, waving the tickets around. "Oh cool, Aaron." James replied, "Uh, James can I take a picture with Chuck E. and his friends?" He asked, "Sure buddy If you really want to." James replied. "But, can you take one with me?"
At first, James's first thought was to make some silly excuse but realized, he hadn't gotten a photo with brother, well with Chuck E. and his friends that is, and saw this as a good opportunity. "Sure, buddy." He replied, smiling at his brother, as he walked up to an employee, "Hey, my brother's want me to be in a picture with him and Chuck E. and his friends, so can you take the picture for me?" He asked.
The employee nodded, "Sure, I'll take a picture of you and your brother." She replied, as James gave her his phone, and walked over to his brother, who was standing in between Munch, and Jasper. James stood between Aaron, and Jasper, and James put one arm around Aaron, and one around Jasper. "Say cheese." The employee said, holding up the phone.
Aaron slowly smiled, and then James smiled.
Author's Short Note: It's over, it's done, the story has come to an end. I don't know, why this took me four month's to do, but I'm happy the story, is finally over, and now I can move on to another story, I may do another CEC story, but never again a horror story. But, I hoped you enjoyed this story, as much as I enjoyed writing, anyways, so long everyone, and have a great day.