AN: Hey guys. I'M SOO SORRY FOR THE LATE UPDATE! I know it's been a while but I'm currently exams so there's not really a lot of time for anything and I wanted to make some progress on this story before I posted anything. So here we have it.

CHAPTER 10

"He broke into the apartment about an hour after you left," Sylvester explained as she gently cleaned up their cuts and wounds with the first aid kit she kept in her bag. Fortunately her son had not gotten any wounds other than a huge fright and their injuries had not been anything of too great concern. Unfortunately the same could not be said for their situation.

"Took me out before I could do anything by hitting me with that lamp you insisted we keep, you know the one I keep tripping on its cord?" Emmitt laughed but it sounded hollow. There was no time for joking and both boys seemed far older than they really were by the haunted looks they had in their eyes.

"I managed to hide Matti in one of the cupboards," Sylvester said glancing over at the boy who had cried himself to sleep and was resting on her jacket by the tools nearby, "We scruff led and he knocked me unconscious. When I woke up Matti was crying on my chest and the house was trashed."

"Why didn't he kill you?" she asked as she wiped her hands and sent a nervous glance at the barricaded door. The animatronics had stopped trying to break it down but the quietness they caused left her uneasy.

"I kicked his knife out the window during the scuffle and into the yard next door," the white haired boy moved to sit on the edge of the stage when a scrapping noise caught his attention which then caught hers.

"What the hell?" Emmitt asked looking ready to flee but Steel simply rested a hand on his shoulder.

"Relax he won't hurt you," she whispered into his ear before taking a step up to the bear.

"How do you know?" Sylvester asked coming to stand by her and kneeled to get a better look.

"Because one: he can barely move," she explained resuming her work, "And two: Call it a gut feeling."

"Good so when he rips them out, you can ask them what they were thinking," Emmitt snarled as he took a step closer. For a moment he said nothing but then his expression changed, lips thinning and eyes cold with fear as he turned his head to regard her, "So what are we going to do?"

Steel picked up the blowtorch, "Well first we're going to fix this guy up."

"Why?" Sylvester asked but reached for the tools anyway.

"Because he has every bit a right as us to join considering the bastard used him as a coffin for those kids," She explained, "And he might have some answers for me. Plus I don't think its fair just leave him like this."

"So we're going to fight?" Emmitt murmured glancing over at the three year old that rested peacefully and caught her eye out the corner of his own in the dim light.

"It's high time we stopped running," She said firmly after a few moments and the boy smirked, grabbing the soldering gun out of her tool box.

"In that case, pass me his processing unit and let's get started."

05:00

Steel was honest with herself, the repair work she had to do on the bear sucked. She hadn't been able to get all of the gunk out of the suit even with Sylvester's help so there were bits and pieces of the suit that had become all slimy and blackened, but at least he no longer smelled like death had farted on him. Emmitt hadn't been able to fully remove the delicate chip without causing the bear some pain but so it felt somewhat cramped between the three of them. She didn't mind. Not really. They had at least made progress, going so far as to begin repairing the metal in his face, arms and torso. There Steel had found something curious.

Golden Freddy had no endoskeleton.

Instead the metal in his suit had bended together like some force had been applied to it.

The little boy's scream as he was forced onto the body of the little girl already in the suit….

She shook her head, not wanting another nervous breakdown. She hadn't had one since her first or second night on the job and she couldn't afford to have one now. Wanting some way to distract herself from the memories, she was grateful when Sylvester placed a careful hand on her shoulders and frowned in worry.

"You ok?" he asked lowly as not to disturb Emmitt who delicately repairing the damage that had been done to Golden Freddy's eyes with a soldering iron and some needles. He worked slowly as to not make a mistake. She knew there were some especially soft wires in there and one mistake and Golden Freddy would never be able to see through his eyes again.

She nodded and threw down the cloth she had been using to wipe down her tools, "I'm fine. Just had a brain fart that's all."

"Did it hurt?" He smirked and ducked out of the way when she attempted to smack him in his arm, "So any clue what we're going to do with big and boneless?"

"I don't know," she sighed sadly, "without his Endoskeleton all he'll be able to do is lift his head around, which is the opposite of what I wanted."

He pouted for a moment and peered over at the animatronic, "Maybe we can build him a new one."

"No there won't be enough time for that," She sighed and walked over to the bear pointing to a piece on the side in the panel they had propped open, "We'd also need his schematics for that. See these clips? They're designed to hold in all the metal pieces for when someone wants to climb inside of them."

"You can wear these suits?!" he gasped in horror and she nodded sadly.

"Only the two from when this place was a family diner," she explained and reached over to the tab to check on the animatronics, "Which are Golden Freddy and a bunny called Spring Trap."

"Spring Trap?" Emmitt asked seemingly done with his task, "Who was he?"

"He was the Animatronic the bastard used to lure the kids into the back room before he stuffed the kids into Goldie here," She said neutrally before she sighed sadly and put a hand to her eyes to help will the moisture that built up away. She had clicked over the pirate's cove when she had noticed that some things had changed since the last time she had been in the main pizzeria hours earlier. The four animatronics had clamored themselves on and around the stage, having completely thrown open the curtains to show the old RED FOX ship that had brought fond memories to her mind, only a bit emptier and run down than she remembered. But that wasn't what really caught her attention were the animatronics the stood around the sign with their heads bowed like they had lost the world and had just given up trying. Instead of the usual notice one the sign that she had gotten used to were the words 'We're sorry' inscribed on the back with what she guessed was sharpie.

"You sure they want to kill us?" Sylvester said looking over her shoulder, "They look really sincere."

"Maybe," she whispered and jumped when the loud cheer of YAY! rang through the pizzeria, "It's time to go home. My shift's over. We'll see what we can do with him tomorrow."

06:00

"What home?" Emmitt asked as he scooped up Mattie who slept on in his jacket, "We ain't got one now remember?"

"I think I know of a place," she said and scooped up her tools. They pushed out the desk from the door and quietly made their way to the party room where Freddy, Bonnie and Chicka were already on their stage. She knew that their free roam modes had already been turned off but she was surprised to see the oily tears that ran down their faces again and paused.

"Steel?" Emmitt asked and she gestured towards the door with her head.

"I'll meet you by the car in a minute. There's something I need to do," she said. The woman waited until she heard the front door shut with a clink and carefully stepped up onto the stage. She moved until Freddy's nose was mere inches from her own and peered into the blue eyes she had grown up with. Eyes that belonged to a bear that had helped her with her homework and saved her from bullies. She sighed and gently reached out with the cloth she had in her pocket to wide at the tears that messed up his fur on his face.

"I saw your sign earlier," she said softly, "And I don't know how much truth there is to it, but I guess it's all I got and I'll need your help."

She moved onto Chicka and smiled gently when she saw the chicken's eyes follow her, "I don't know what changed since I was gone, or if you were simply like that from the start but I guess it doesn't matter now. All that I do know is that you thought the murderer was still working as the night guard."

She jumped back as a hissing noise came from all three. They began to twitch, heads sliding side to side as they fought their programing and Steel felt the hair on her neck rise at the black eyes Freddy suddenly sported. She needed to hurry up before they put her in a suit. Gripping the cloth tightly, she walked over to bonny but the rabbit was too tall for her to reach and she was forced to fetch a chair as they stopped moving. Their eyes however remained the blackness they had used to terrify her with. And quite frankly it was working.

She gulped, "Please calm down. You need to listen to what I have to say."

"You've been getting the wrong guy for the last seventeen years or so," she said when their eyes returned to normal and widened in horror as they seemed to realize what they had done and she wiped at the oil on Bonny's face, "That bastard left the pizzeria. And he's been killing more kids since. If you want revenge, then wait till tonight and meet me here. I'll explain everything." And with that she finished off the beloved rabbits face and returned her chair to its place before she made her way to the door. A sound echoed through the pizzeria the second she put her hand on it but she didn't turn around to face where it had come from.

"E..mi..k..o"

"Goodbye Freddy," She called back pushing the door open, "I will explain everything tonight. If you don't kill me first that is."

As she stepped towards her family, she noticed the manager pulling into his personal parking space to open the pizzeria for the day, and wondered when her life had suddenly turned into a sci-fi convention.