A/N: Well, my computer went into the shop on Saturday. D:
On the bright side, though, it'll be back on Thursday! :D
And this will be the last chapter before we proceed into Night(mare) 4.
Engineer sat at his desk with a hand-drawn layout of Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. He glanced at the notes the mercenaries gave him about each of the animatronics and continued to mark where each mercenary would be for the elaborate trap he continued to work on.
After 4 hours of planning, the Texan finally sat up from the desk and put the pencil he used to draw the blueprint behind his ear and walked out of his small room and into the hallway. He took one small glance at the blueprint, again, realizing that it could use a second opinion.
The Texan knew just who to go to and walked down the hallway, turning left around the corner going down the hallway towards Medic's office.
"Hey doc," Engineer greeted, walking through the double-doors seeing the German doctor writing something down in a file with Scout's name on it.
"Hello, Engineer." Medic replied, sounding exasperated and overwhelmed.
"Somethin' the matter?" he asked, concerned.
"No... Vell, yes." Medic answered reluctantly. He sat up and stopped writing on the papers to face Engineer.
"What is it?"
"It is about zhe Scout, he has shown some signs of being... delusional." the doctor explained.
"Doc, you sure you're suppose to be tellin' me this - isn't there the Hippocratic Oath?"
The doctor stifled a chuckle, "Vell, zhe don't call it a 'Hypocratic Oath' for nothing, right?" he joked.
Engineer frowned, not amused by the doctor's play on words. "Doc, I don't wanna invade Scout's private life."
"No, no." Medic dismissed his concerns with a wave of his hand. "I vas going to say zhat he was getting zhese nightmares about dead children and zhe pizzeria."
"That's sounds awfully familiar." Engineer commented, putting a hand on his chin. "Didn't we read about some kids at that Freddy Fazbear's?"
"Oh ja, zhe missing ones in zhat article." Medic reminded. The Texan's expression noticeably changed from the realization.
"Doc, I think Scout's dreams weren't just dreams..."
Scout sat down on his bed, now extremely exhausted after yelling at Medic for being careless enough to let a wild animal crawl into his chest when he was performing another heart transplant on him out on the battlefield. The 21 year old slammed himself back down on the bed, letting himself drift off to sleep.
"I remain..."
Scout felt his eyes open, but he couldn't see anything. The brunette searched the dark room for any sign of light, seeing nothing.
"God, where's a light when ya' need one?" Scout whined. He sat up and moved around only to have his head slam into a wall. The 21 year old fell backwards, not feeling anything as he slammed on to the ground. His head turned to the left and he saw a small bit of light peering under a door he couldn't see before.
Scout got up and moved towards the door. Before opening it, he put his ear to the door; hearing nothing. Scout slowly turned the knob and opened the door, entering the room.
The first thing the mercenary noticed was the light-bulb hanging from the ceiling on a chain which poorly illuminated the dusty room. Right below the light was a box filled with mascot heads.
Scout moved towards the box, seeing the boy robot he saw in his first hallucination; except this time without his hat or an endoskeleton. He also saw what appeared to be Freddy's top hat, a red guitar, and Foxy's hook.
'Were these the animatronics from before?' Scout questioned, mentally. He began to start digging deeper to try and see what else was in the box, but then heard footsteps approaching from another room.
The mercenary tensed and quickly sprinted out the door he came in. Deciding not to close the door, the brunette hid behind the wall.
The footsteps eventually got loud enough to where Scout could easily see the figure was in the other room. The footsteps then stopped and Scout then heard a bunch of stuff being moved, which was probably the unknown figure rummaging through the box. Scout inched towards the edge of the wall and peered his head around, seeing a yellowish figure searching through them.
"When the old man died..."
Scout turned around, seeing a metallic fist connect with his face. The mercenary's head snapped to the side and slammed into the wall, causing his vision to blur. He looked up and despite his dazed state and blurred sight, he saw an endoskeleton with sky-blue eyes staring at him. Behind the silver robot, the puppet figure he saw in one of his hallucinations stood proudly.
The 21 year old braced himself for another attack, but before anything else happened, the whole world was faded to static.
"Wake up, maggot!" A gravel voice barked. Scout felt saliva hit his face as his eyes opened to see Soldier standing over him with an intimidating glare.
"Ugh, just give me a few more minutes." The mercenary whined, "Or a caffeine pill or somethin'."
"The only caffeine pill you will get is my foot, and it will be injected into your ass!" Soldier shouted.
"Cool it, helmet-head." Scout said, groggily as he sat up.
"Helmet head? Why I oughta' make you drop down and give me 20, you radio-active maggot!"
"Will ya' stop bickerin' in there and get down the bloody medical office?" Demoman urged, impatiently. "We don't have all day, lads."
Soldier and Scout began to follow Demoman down the hallway towards the medical office.
"So, why do we need to get down to doc's office?" The 21 year old asked, "Oh no! Oh, hell no! I am not gettin' another freakin' heart transplant!" he exclaimed, clutching his chest.
"We're just going over tha' plans to capture those bloody machines, ya' pint-sized bunny." Demoman explained, giving Scout a teasing smirk.
The brunette's face lit up with redness and he gave the Scotsman a cold glare. "What do you mean, plans?"
"While you were sleepin' the rest of us were goin' over the plans." he explained, then casting a look at Soldier, "Well, we were until Soldier decided to call Medic a-"
"I think I know, Demo." Scout said, cutting him off.
"Anyway, toy-maker has got a plan constructed and he wants to go over it right now before we start headin' off to our jobs."
Scout's eyes widened in both surprise and confusion, "Woah, woah, woah... What time is it?"
"It is 21:00 hours." Soldier responded.
"Wait, it's gonna take us 3 hours to get to our job?"
"Well, one hour to go ova' the plans. Another hour to get to the restaurant, and another hour to set up." Demoman elaborated.
The three mercenaries entered the room, greeted by the 5 other mercenaries who stood in an oval.
"Zhere you are," Medic said, "ve've been vaiting for you."
"Yeah... Wait, where's hardhat?" Scout questioned.
"He is..." Medic paused, "-err... he is doing research on zhe effect of rubber ducks on animatronics."
Engineer walked down the hallway towards a tan colored door labelled "Administrator Room." As he went to go turn the knob, he was greeted by Miss Pauling, who opened the door before he was able to.
She nearly jumped in surprise at the sight of meeting, Engineer. "Oh, hello Engineer." She greeted.
"Hello, ma'am. I have to ask you a favor;" he started.
"What is it?" The secretary asked, sounding suspicious.
"Well, I'm askin' for permission to get online so I can do some... research on the restaurant we've been workin' at."
Miss Pauling gave a puzzled look, "Why do you need research?"
"Well," Engineer started, "I want to know more about the restaurant's history, if ya don't mind."
The woman let out a sigh, "Okay, but you're ONLY doing that, correct?"
The Texan nodded.
"Fine, but if we find you doing ANYTHING else there will be extreme punishment." she said, threateningly.
"Don't need to tell me twice, ma'am." Engineer responded, walking into the room and turning on a computer.
Engineer sat down in a wooden chair and logged on to the computer. As soon as it turned on, he was greeted by a desktop screen of R.E.D.
He clicked on the 'Saxtonet Explorer' and typed into the search bar, 'Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria.'
He then rolled his mouse over to the first website called, "Saxtonpedia: Find out about Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria" and selected it.
The first thing that popped up was a detailed article and next to it was a cartoon image of Bonnie holding a purple can of 'Bonk! Atomic Punch' saying, "Why not rock out with an amazing can of 'Bonk! Atomic Punch'?"
Engineer paid no interest in the image and looked back at the article:
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria has reopened once again in a new location. After undergoing serious issues such as animatronics being reanimated corpses, biting off people's heads (literally, not idiomatically), and missing children - the owners just continue to want to beat a dead horse (or as of recent investigation, some new evidence has lead people to believe it actually is a pony and not a horse) with a Fan O' War.
"I honestly don't know why people would take their children there, these things are death machines." said Charles Starch, a former regular at the restaurant.
A man going by the name of Gaben had said to us, "They should've stuck with 2 restaurants, 3 is just ridiculous."
While many have given this place bad news, Fazbear Entertainment has assured people that they are keeping a watchful eye on both the predators and the animatronics to avoid that incident from happening again. However, there is still a lot more work that needs to be done in order to regain the public's trust.
Engineer clicked out of the site, he had hit the jackpot of information and found out that Scout's dreams weren't just fiction, but it still appalled the Texan to read about all these horrid problems at a children's restaurant.
A/N: What is Engineer's plan? Will Scout tell his nightmares to the entire team? And most importantly: who the hell uses JUST the Fan O' War to beat a dead horse/pony?
