Disclaimer: I do not own FNAF!
So I wasn't too sure if you guys were actually looking forward to an April Fool's Day Special, but I am really busy with work recently since my school projects are nearly due and I really need to study for my common test which is coming in two weeks. I'm truly sorry if you guys have actually been looking forward to it but I was unable to write it down. :(
By the way, I've did some sketches of how I think the main animatronics in Arc 1 will look like in human form! You can check it out on my Deviantart account. Unfortunately, for some reasons, I can't type links into the documents, so you guys will just have to check it out yourselves. (The account's still A1t0aria, BTW.)
Regardless, enjoy this new chapter!
2nd Day: ? ?M
Christ's eyes opened to see a dark room around him. Confused, the brunette got up from what seemed like grimy tile floors and stood on his bare feet. Funny, he was still in his pyjamas... one which consisted of his usual shirt and shorts, of course.
He looked around. It was totally pitched black. Where was he?
Suddenly, a spotlight flickered onto a pile of red which caught Christ's eye. In shock, he turned towards the grotesque sight and saw a blond-haired boy lying in a pool of his own blood, a deep gash which went from his chest up to his neck. The blue eyes of his had turned dull as he stared into empty space, his life forced out of him.
Another spotlight shone in another part of the room and Christ saw the corpse of a black-haired, maroon-eyed child staring back at him with a petrified expression. He couldn't help but stare at the stab wound in his chest, which was leaking blood in time to his heartbeat.
He shook his head as the images etched themselves into his mind. What was this?! Why was he shown all of this?!
He was nearly about to lose it when he saw a third dead child, another black-haired boy but with golden eyes. There was a deep cut in his forehead, and his eyes were in a state of shock. However, everything fell apart when he heard a scream.
"Christ! Run away before he gets you!"
Christ whirled around to see a dark brown-haired girl screaming at him as she was being pulled back by someone in a Spring Bonnie outfit, tears streaming down her face. The ugly grin of the mascot made things even creepier as the person inside whirled the girl around and stabbed her in her gut, causing her to cry out in pain before she tumbled to the ground.
Christ's lips quivered as his legs began to shake. Suddenly, the brown-haired girl's name came back to him.
"CECILIA!"
However, everything disappeared into thin air and the world turned dark once more. The last thing he saw was a platinum-haired boy standing in the circle of corpses before two more children, a blue-eyed girl with a sickly look on her face and a brown-eyed boy in a striped shirt, laid at the side of the room, as if isolated from everyone else.
2nd Day: 10:00 PM
Christ awoke from his bed with a start as his eyes flew open, still slightly traumatised from his nightmare. His eyes were still wide opened, and his mouth was still gaped slightly. That girl... was she his older sister whom he wanted to find?
He groaned and clutched his head. What was that supposed to symbolise? Christ was sure that it wasn't just a dream - it seemed too real to be just one simple dream the mind made up for him.
His mind drew a blank. Christ didn't know what to think. But that was until a sudden thought came up to him.
"Did a murder happen at the pizzeria that I never knew about because I was too young at that time?"
He stared down at his bedsheets, his mind whirling like a malfunctioning carousel. He was at a loss of what to do.
The only thing he could probably do right now is to get ready for work at the horror attraction first.
2nd Night: 12:00 AM
"Hey man! Okay, I have some awesome news for you!"
"Yeah? Tell me."
"First of all," Phillips breathed excitedly, "We found some vintage audio training cassettes. Dude, these are like, prehistoric! I think they were like, training tapes? For like, other employees or something like that. So, I thought we could like, have them playing, like over the speakers while people walk through the attraction? Dude, that makes this feel, legit man!"
Christ chuckled. "Hoo, boy. Looks like you guys got a huge haul, huh?"
"But I have an even better surprise for you, and you're not gonna believe this!" Phillips took a deep breath before he dropped the bomb on Christ. "We found one. A REAL one!"
"You've found a real animatronic?!" Christ had heard of the horror stories circulating around the animatronics of the pizzeria about how they come alive at night, and he wasn't going to take any chances! "Where did you put it?!"
"...! Uh, oh um, gotta go man! W-well look, i-it's in there somewhere, I-I'm sure you'll see it!"
"W-wait, WHAT?! Hey, don't leave me hanging! Just tell me-"
"Okay, I'll leave you with some of this great audio I've found. Talk to you later man!"
"HEY! WAIT!"
Click.
Phillips Dyson had already put down the phone, and it was replaced with the audio that he had found.
Another male with a calmer and slightly more matured tone spoke. "Oh, Hello! Hello, hello! Uh, welcome to your new career as a performer/ entertainer for Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Uh, these tapes will provide you with much needed information on how to handle/ climb into/ climb out of mascot costumes."
Christ could only groan in despair and rub his own face when he realised that Phillips probably wasn't going to call him back. What type of friend was he?!
The trainer continued, "Right now, we have two specially designed suits, that double as both animatronic and suit! So please, pay close attention while learning how to operate these suits, as accidents/ injury/ death/ irreparable and grotesque maiming can occur."
He could only shudder. Wasn't that what happened to that poor guy back in 1985? The one who caused the Spring Bonnie accident and forced Fredbear's Family Diner to shut down?
"First, we will discuss how to operate the mascots when they are in Animatronic form. For ease of operation the animatronics are set to turn and walk towards sound, giving an easy and hands free approach to making sure the animatronics stay where the children are for maximum entertainment/ crowd pleasing value. To change the animatronics to Suit mode, insert and turn firmly the hand crank provided by the manufacturer. Turning the crank will recoil and compress the animatronic parts around the sides of the suit, providing room to climb inside. Please make sure the spring lock is fastened tight, to ensure the animatronic devices remain fit. We'll cover this in more detail in tomorrow's session. Remember to smile. You are the face of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza."
There was a click, and the phone call officially ended.
Christ was at a loss of what to do as he automatically turned towards the cameras and flipped through them, only to stare in horror when he saw what looked like a green animatronic on the screen in one of the rooms.
"Holy crap, is that Spring Bonnie?!"
He stared in awe as the magnificent, giant figure lumbered its way down the hall... towards where the security office was? When he realised that the animatronic was coming after him, Christ started feeling cold sweat drip down his forehead.
What was the animatronic going to do once it got its hands on him. Rip him into shreds? Maul him? Throw him into a pit of fire somehow? He didn't know, but he wasn't going to take any chances!
"Shit, shit, shit! What do I do right now? How do I divert its attention?!" Christ started panicking.
At that moment, he suddenly remembered something.
"For ease of operation the animatronics are set to turn and walk towards sound, giving an easy and hands free approach to making sure the animatronics stay where the children are for maximum entertainment/ crowd pleasing value..."
Christ zoomed back towards the cameras once more. "So that's what the audio button on the screen is for!" he smiled in relief as he pressed the button.
"Hi!"
The child-like voice echoed in the hall, sending creepy shivers down Christ's spine. However, just as he expected, Spring Bonnie, which had already headed out of the hallway, was heading back to where it originally was. Christ breathed out a sigh of relief.
However, it was a moment before red lights suddenly started flashing around him, and the siren blared noisily into his ears, causing him to scream loudly and nearly jump out of his swivel chair to run towards the exit. In a moment of panic, Christ pushed himself towards the maintenance system and stared at it. "Ventilation Error?! What?!"
As he began to reboot it, Christ glanced quickly at the cameras on the other side. "Oh crap, it's heading this way! Quick, stop blaring into my ears, siren...!"
Thankfully, the sirens stopped once the ventilation was back on. Christ quickly pulled off another audio clip, and watched the green bunny lumber towards one of the rooms towards the end of the haunted house. Still feeling a little queasy to the stomach, he quickly went to check on the vents.
"So... I must ensure that it doesn't get into the vents, or I'm so dead. Okay, gotta block off one of the vents first..."
However, he came to a pause when he saw two glowing white eyes stare back at him, the owner's face seemingly completely charred to black, as if it was in an oven earlier on set to broil. Christ stared at that 'thing' in utter confusion and slight panic before closing the cameras back so that he didn't have to see it again...
... Only for a burned Balloon Boy-lookalike to jump out at him and scream loudly into his face, causing Christ to scream and reel back in horror.
"NO! AAAH!"
The ventilation alarm blared loudly again as the illusion suddenly disappeared back into the darkness, causing Christ to open his eyes once more and glance around in confusion.
"Oh crap, crap, crap, crap! Ventilation?! I thought I rebooted that!"
Slamming the maintenance panel open, Christ quickly rebooted everything, seeing that the cameras were also starting to have errors. This place seriously needed fixing up... It was really difficult to breathe!
"Phillips was right when he said I was going to hallucinate if I don't take care of keeping the air going... Ugh..."
Christ checked the cameras once more, only to realise that the Spring Bonnie animatronic had already left the hallway. "SHIT! Where is he?!"
Spamming the buttons of each camera like a maniac, he only paused for a moment when he saw the glowing eyes of the creepy animatronic stare back at him in one of the arcade rooms. "No! Go back to the other end of the attraction! Bad boy!"
He hurriedly pressed the camera button which shows the other exit, and slammed the audio button. Quickly, he went back to where he previously saw Spring Bonnie and sighed in relief when he realised that it was heading towards where he was trying to lead it to. Christ wiped a bead of sweat off his forehead.
"... Only 4 AM? This is going to be a long night..."
2nd Night: 5:00 AM
"GRRRRRRRRRR!"
"WHAT!" Christ screamed out loud as a loud radio-like static sound blared through the speakers, snapping him out of his drowsiness. "Where the hell did they come from?! No, no, no! It's gonna come over at this rate!"
His eyes fell onto another pair of glowing eyes which stared at him from outside the window in the shadows, which startled him. What was a Toy Foxy-lookalike doing outside his window?!
It doesn't matter - he had more important things on hand! Christ threw the camera panel open and flipped through the cameras, briefly scanning through them. "WHERE IS HE?!"
However, he suddenly screamed when he realised something - was Spring Bonnie in the vents? That was really bad! Christ switched cameras and quickly spammed the button to close the vent which he saw the animatronic clambering through. The door slammed shut just in time, allowing him to flop onto the chair to breathe for a moment.
Christ panted from the huge chaos that just happened, and he sighed before pinching the bridge of his nose. How was he going to survive the next few nights like this? He may not be as lucky!
Even worse, he won't be able to find out where his sister had gone to - that animatronic is going to patrol the entire place outside, and he'd probably die once he takes a step out of this security office! What's so secure about a security office, anyways?! He was literally waiting for death in this place!
Should he just quit his job...?
He shook his head on that sudden reckless thought. He can't do that! He must at least try to do something about it!
It wasn't long before the clock struck 6 AM, and his shift was over. Miraculously, Spring Bonnie went back to his starting location and stopped there, just like a natural robot would do. Christ grimaced when he saw the animatronic in full detail - the endoskeleton was rusty and looked reddish-brown, which looked a little like dried blood. The animatronic was destroyed beyond repair, but was somehow still working.
Now how the heck did it happen, he had no ideas. Christ could only sigh as he decided to make a huge risk:
Investigate the entirety of the security office.
2nd Day: 7:00 AM
Christ stepped out of the attraction, a defeated look on his face. Why couldn't he find anything? Shouldn't there be some incriminating evidence available so that he could infer what happened?
But he guessed that it was pretty obvious why. They wouldn't want to bring down the reputation of the entire franchise again after thirty years... what type of good reputation did they ever have, anyway?
This was it. He probably wouldn't be able to face his father anymore. Christ brought his hands to his eyes, feeling so, so fatigued from tonight...
He thought that at least he would be able to solve the mystery of what happened to his sister and provide an explanation for his father. He was wrong.
But he really didn't want to disappoint his father.
"... Hey, is this Fazbear's Fright Attraction?"
Surprised, Christ turned towards a male who looked as if he were around his fifties even though he still looked very fit. The male had wise blue eyes which had crow's feet embedded beside them, greying brown hair, tanned skin and a serene smile on his lips. Christ could faintly see a scar on the man's chin, but it was not very obvious.
"Um... yes, but it's not opened to the public yet."
The male nodded in acknowledgement. "Hm, I see. That's kind of a shame. So, judging from your uniform, I assume that you're a security guard from this place?"
"Yeah...?" Christ wasn't exactly sure why he was talking to this man, but since he seemed pretty nice, he guessed that he should just be friends with him.
He raised an eyebrow. "Hm, nice to see a security guard of Fazbear's like me."
That caught Christ's attention. "You're a security guard?"
He smiled and nodded. "I was the last security guard from Freddy Fazbear's Pizza before it shut down. I just went there to earn some cash back when I was twenty, but I found out some pretty wacky stuff there, and yeah... Well, guess I'd better get going-"
"W-wait!" Christ suddenly yelled, shocking the middle-aged man. "Can you tell me what you know about the place? I... I need to know what happened to my sister!"
He looked back at Christ in confusion. "Your sister...? Hey... can I ask you, what's your name?"
"I'm Christ Delaney! And I'd be grateful to you if you can tell me as much as you know about the place!"
Upon hearing his surname, the male gasped in shock.
"... You're... the younger brother of Cecilia Delaney...?"
"...! You know her?"
The male looked down onto the floor for a moment as his eyes suddenly became slightly moist. However, he squeezed his eyes shut for a while before looking back up at Christ. He nodded at him.
"Yeah... I actually do know what happened to her... but don't get too horrified once I tell you what happened to her. Anyways," he said as he stretched a hand towards Christ and smiled, "Nice to meet you, Christ. I'm Mike Schmidt. Just call me Mike."