The next night I brought over ice cream, cotton candy and a scrapbook for the children. But I underestimated the influence the Marionette possessed.
Ring, ring, ring. Ring, ring, ring.
I picked up the phone, "Uh, hello, hello? See? I told you you wouldn't have any problems!" Shaun's voice said confidently.
"Did uh, did Foxy ever appear in the hallway. Probably not, I was just curious, like I said he was always my favorite," I reached over to where Foxy dug his hook into my flesh and shuddered, it still hurt.
"They tried to remake Foxy, ya know? Uh, they thought the first one was too scary, so they redesigned him to be more kid friendly and put him in Kids Cove to keep the toddlers entertained ...you know," I flipped on the monitor and checked Kid's Cove, where I found a badly damaged Vixen, "the hell?"
"But kids these days just can't keep their hands to themselves, the staff literally had to put Foxy back together after every shift. So they just stopped trying and left him as some kind of take apart and put back together attraction. Now he's just a mess of parts. I think the employees just refer to him as the Mangle," I closely examined her and found that she had wires sticking out of her endoskeleton and it was a hybrid of beauty and ugliness, one of her eyes was laying perfectly still on the floor, I was sickened.
"Uh ...oh, hey before I go, uh, I wanted to ease your mind about any rumors you may have heard lately. You know how these local stories come and go and seldom mean anything. I can personally assure you that, whatever is going on out there, however tragic it may be, has nothing to do with our establishment. It's all rumor and speculation, people trying to make a buck, you know ...uh, our guard during the day has reported nothing unusual and he's on watch from opening til , well anyway, hang in there and I'll talk with you tomorrow," I shook my head and sighed, "still in denial Shaun?"
I checked the monitor again, and saw that Mangle was gone, "uh oh," I turned off the monitor and saw Bonnie in the hallway, "must kill night guard."
I put on the Freddy mask and waited.
"Hey, Bonnie are you Ok?" I asked him.
"Must kill night guard," he replied.
"Are you Ok?" I asked him once again, then I saw it, his eyes they were silver, just like, oh no.
"Bonnie snap out of it, please," I begged him.
"He held his hand up to his face and screamed, "it burns!"
I checked Prize Corner and wound up the Music Box.
"Bonnie, I need you focus please," I told him.
"Fr-Freddy, what happened, I'm dizzy," he told me.
"It's Ok, you're safe now," I reassured him.
"Last thing I remember was puppet touching me and then, I can't remember," he shivered, "Freddy, Alex has changed he's not the same."
"It's gonna be Ok, Bonnie, I promise you," I said as I reached over to pat him on the shoulder.
"Thanks Freddy, um hey, is it OK if I stay here for now?" he asked me.
"Um, what happens when you find the guard?" I asked him.
"I don't wanna hurt him, he's my friend," Bonnie told me.
"Ok, then, wait here and make sure Foxy doesn't get in," I told him.
"Why not, Freddy?" he asked me.
"Because he thinks I'm Jeremy," I explained.
Bonnie started laughing, "you, you're him, hahahaha, good one."
I took off my mask, and the silver eyes returned, "you!" he shouted.
I threw my coffee mug at him, "Aaaarghhh!" he screamed, pushing me away as he wiped his face.
I put my mask back on and hoped that it would work.
Bonnie stumbled into me swinging his arms and punched me right in the face, it hurt like nothing I had ever hurt before.
"I WILL FIND YOU!" he shouted.
"See ya, Freddy, I got a guard to catch," he said as he ran off.
I took off my mask and started to breathe.
This wasn't a game anymore, this was life and death.
I heard a garbled radio signal and looked up.
I looked up and saw Mangle hanging from the ceiling, ready to pounce.
"Aaaargh!" she yelled as she tried to bite my face off, I struggled trying to push her off.
It took all my strength, but her jaws still brushed up against my hands, quickly I smashed her into the wall, and waited.
She lunged at me and bit my hand, causing it to bleed.
"Aaah!" I shouted, as I examined my now bleeding hand, and waited for another attack.
Mangle jumped at me, but I was ready, I side kicked her into the wall, and then hid under my desk, putting on the Freddy mask, and waited.
"Freddy, is that you?" she asked me.
I just sat down and stared at my hand.
"Listen, Freddy, I just wanna, oh what happened to your hand?" she asked me.
"I got into a fight," I explained.
"Did you win, did you get him?" she asked me.
"No, he got away," I told her.
"Well, you had better treat your paw, it looks damaged," she told me.
"Why are you doing this? Hasn't he done a good job and tried to look after you guys?" I asked her.
Mangle shivered, "I can't, my head, ahhhh!" she yelled.
"There, there, I told her, I'm here for you no matter what," I told her.
"I, I almost killed him, I, I didn't mean to, you have to believe me Freddy, please," she begged me with tears in her eyes.
I kissed her on the nose, "I know."
"It was Alex, this whole time, it was Alex, you have to help me Freddy, please," she begged.
"It's gonna be Ok, you're safe now," I told her, "but you need to go, I need you to be strong, see if you can reach out to the others."
"Please don't leave me Freddy," she begged.
"I'm not leaving you," I told her.
"How's Foxy?" I asked her.
"He's..." she began.
"Jeremy, is it? It's been awhile," Foxy walked out of the shadows.
"Vix, please help me," I begged.
"Stay out of this Neon, he's mine," Foxy said as he sharpened his hook.
"No, I won't let you touch Freddy!" she told him, "you'll have to fight me."
"Neon, please," Foxy begged.
"No, Foxy, I won't let you hurt him," she said.
"But, he's the guard," he protested.
"So what?" she asked.
"Ahh, I don't ahh," Foxy said shivering.
"Neon? What, what happened?" he asked.
"It wasn't your fault," she said, "Alex he tricked us."
Foxy's eyes glowed with hate, "night guard!" he screeched as he rushed me.
"Foxy don't," she said as she pulled his face back.
Foxy slammed into Mangle and came for me, completely controlled by the Marionette, a puppet to his will.
He swung at me as I ducked.
"Now I gotcha," he bragged.
Mangle started choking Foxy with her arms, trying to hold him down.
"Foxy, stop," looking at me desperately, "Freddy run!"
I ran off as Foxy shook off Mangle and rushed me on all fours.
I grabbed my flashlight and flashed it in his eyes.
It kept him in place as I ran as fast as I could.
I tripped and my mask rolled out underneath the show stage, where I saw the Toys looking at me with hidden menace, I crawled back.
"Jeremy?" Bonnie asked as he crouched on the floor, "please, please go, before, before," he said shivering.
"I KILL YOU!" he yelled.
"Let's get him cupcake!" Chica grinned.
Toy Freddy blocked the door and cracked his knuckles, "this is gonna hurt," he smiled.
Freddy punched me in the stomach, hard, I lay on the floor and moan.
Bonnie lunges on top of me and starts punching.
All the while, Chica stands in the back, laughing.
"Bring him to the back," she said, "I think he's had enough."
"No, please, don't," I begged.
"Some bots are just gold," she clapped and Max appeared.
Bonnie grabs me by the wrists and leads me into the backroom.
"This is gonna hurt," he warned me.
"Welcome to the family," Chica giggled.
Freddy drags out the Spring Bonnie suit and I looked on, paralyzed by fear.
Ding, ding, ding, ding. Ding, ding, ding, ding.
6AM
Yay!
The machines snapped out of their trance.
"Jeremy, what are you doing, why are you here?" Bonnie asked as he looked around.
"Guys, you almost killed me," I explained, catching my breath.
"No, I would never do that, you're my friend!" Bonnie said crying.
"It was Alex, he tricked us," Chica started.
"I wasn't in control," Freddy said, "please help me, help us."
"I'll never leave, l love each and every one of you," I said as I hugged each and every one of them.
