{I've been thinking about the upcoming Fnaf game. Figured I'd get some thoughts down, now keep in mind things might change later on once the game releases. Anyway OCs involved: Emma Goodwill! Marie is mentioned briefly.}

Emma walked into the mall and immediately hated it.

She promised Mike she'd check out this new Freddy's that opened up, which shouldn't even exist in the first place but apparently with Julie's death her iron grip on the freddy character's name was released and now there's fewer obstacles stopping other companies from making their own Freddy's franchise.

But still there were a few things Mike could do. For example if this new location was doing anything shady/illegal that could damage Freddy's name the archive could take them down easily. And that's what Emma intended to find.

Already she hated these knockoffs. They were the latest technology so they appeared much more human sized than the animatronics she's familiar with, and the bright neon colors were trying so hard to be retro.

And the name, the Glamrocks? Really? The rockstars already exist! Emma thought they should be scrapped just from concept alone.

But then again Kieth would think she's being too harsh. Guess he's right, she is biased against these wannabes.

She was just in time for some show, the crowd was filled with teens and young adults, she hated to admit it but this place had a few points in its favor. This wasn't a pizzeria, it was an entire mall dedicated to these guys. Sure there was the token arcade and a dining place, but other than that other stores that wanted to lay claim could settle into this new mall strip and get prophet just by being in the area. "Well played Glamrocks, well played" Emma crossed her arms as the lights went down signaling the show to starts.

"Now, put your hands together for the Glamrock Band!" A megaphone announces and the crowd goes wild. On the stage four animatronics, silhouetted by Smoke, appeared. It was a bear, a bunny, a chicken, and a fox. But they had distinct looks: bonnie looked to have his ears tied in a ponytail and styled to look like hair, Chica had a huge head of hair (or would it be feathers?) and foxy didn't look like a Pirate at all, he looked to have larger ears which reminded Emma more of a dog than a fox. But the main star of the show, glamrock freddy, steppes forwards revealing himself into the light.

"Are you ready to rock!?" He grinned and pointed out into the crowd with one hand, the other gripping a mic stand with a star pattern base. The crowd screamed and the animatronic looked to be eating up the attention. "Alright! That's what I like to hear! Hit in Leo!"

The other animatronics revealed themselves and the lights clicked to draw attention to the band. Emma took out her phone and snapped a picture of the entire squad.

The rockstars wouldn't be very happy about this.

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Emma was right, the rockstars didn't like this.

She had returned to the Archive after the show to get Mike's opinion on how bad the situation looked. The Rockstars were called over and looked over the pictures Emma had taken.

"Oh God oh Hell have we been replaced!?" Rockstar freddy panicked, while the others looked intrigued, or mostly disturbed by these new glamrocks, freddy was over here having a full blown panic attack. "We haven't even been active for two years!? Are we already outdated?? I thought we were doing well? Do the kids hate us now!?" He panicked as the Security puppet tried her best to calm him.

"Yar, we aren't getting replaced. But these new lookalikes don't sit well with me, or me bird" rockstar foxy pondered, his bird nodded and squawked in agreement. Rockstar Chica crossed her arms. "What's this other birds deal anyway? And what's with that hair? I think Chi-Chi would have a field day trying to clean up that mess of a due!" She paused, then quietly added. "But I am a little impressed at how long it is... think I can convince Mike to give me extensions?"

"Chica you look perfect as is, as we all do!" Rockstar Bonnie declared. He then huffed. "I doubt that bunny can even do a guitar riff." None of these comments seemed to calm down freddy, he looked close to histarics. Lefty noticed this and looked at Emma, he slowly raised a fist and shoved it into an open palm.

"No lefty, you can't break them... as great as that would be, it's illegal, you'd definitely get in trouble for that" lefty looked slightly disappointed before dropping his arms.

Mike soon came back into the room with Marion at his side, it was at that time rockstar freddy declared. "I don't want to be replaced!!"

"Nobody's getting replaced!" Mike strongly cut in. "This new company might be a 'bootleg' as you call it, but I will admit they're covering their tracks well. Other than character names everything else is pretty different. We can't shut them down just off of that. Best we can do is make them change their animatronics names."

"They already can do that, they used nicknames throughout the show." Emma mumbled, she already disliked the Glanrocks, but with how distressed they made her friends she outright hated them now.

"That's true, but we still have an ace up our sleeve. Emma, did you get any sense of something paranormal going on?" Marionette asked. Emma thought back to the concert, then slowly shook her head.

"No... everything was clean on their end. If they've got any skeletons in their closet they've done a good job at hiding them" mike thought before sighing and shaking his head. "Then there isn't anything we can do about them."

"WHAT!?" Freddy squeaked out in protest. "But- but they stole our thing! We're the rockstars! Rock is our THING mike!" The bear protested which caused Mike to look upset.

"That's true, but these guys can argue they're a different type of rock. They do look to be taking inspiration from the classics... or hard rock." Mike looked back to the picture on the phone. Lefty crosses his arms. "They're lucky there wasn't a glamrock version of me. Then I'd be taking heads."

"Lefty!" SP protested.

"I'm not sorry! I don't like clones of me!" The blackbear huffs. Emma sighs and picks up her phone, slipping it into her pocket. "I'll try to keep an eye on them... best I can at least that mall was a few hours away." And that was another point in the glanrocks favor, they couldn't be very good competition for the original cast since they're so far away.

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"I'll be honest, if I could get away with it I would sneak lefty in and let him have a field day with those wannabes" Emma complained into her phone. The girl on the other end stifled a giggle.

"I'm serious Marie! If you saw how freaked out Rock freddy was you would be upset too." Emma crossed her arms,

"True, True. But if this place isn't doing anything illegal what can we do? Best we got is to silently protest by refusing to shop there. Which isn't a problem for me since it's really inconvenient... unless they got one of those stores that brings in good quality toys from Japan then I'd consider it since gas is cheaper than shipping" Marie commented as Emma groaned.

"I have school and stuff to worry about, I don't want to have to worry about these glanrocks outshining the rockstars. But Mike can't do anything and there's no ghosts there at all!"

"Really? Not even that. Uhhh what's it called? That stuff that can make robots more lifelike?"

"Remnant"

"Yah that stuff! None of that either?"

"I didn't see it and those bots are definitely free of it, they might be programmed well and sound real but looks close enough and they're stiff. High quality technology though, must have cost a fortune" if Emma didn't hate these glamrocks with a burning passion she'd be impressed.

"Hm... man now I want to check them out" Marie sighed. "But I've got a bunch of collage work this week, can't afford to go out so far... oh! Oh wait hold on!"

"Hm? What did you get an idea?" Emma asked intrigued. She heard shuffling as Marie got out of bed and moved to presumably her computer since she heard typing.

"Yah I, okay so you know how Mal moved in with Damien right?"

"Yah?"

"I think they live closer to that mall! It's technically out of state but so are they." Emma was starting to get at what Marie was implying.

"Are you suggesting Malhare keeps an eye on the place?"

"He'd definitely be up for it. He's better at blending in than Wolf is for sure" Emma could hear the smile in Marie's voice.

"He's got discord right? Tell him to message me and we can figure something out" Emma nods, Marie Agreed and they both hung up. Emma didn't know the rabbit too well, all she really knew is he was some glitch ghost, but Marie trusted him and he was on good terms with mike, so Emma figured this was her best option. Minutes later she got a message from him.

'Heard I was needed for espionage? I'm in.' Emma types back.

'Good, you know that new Mall that opened up? Should be closer to your area.'

'Oh yeah that one! Had the freddy lookalikes in it?'

'That's the one. Mind keeping an eye out for anything potentially illegal or damaging to the Freddy's name?'

'Oh hell yah!'

Emma smiled. She hoped that with the tricky rabbits efforts these bootlegs would get shot down quickly.

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"They weren't that lively during a concert before" Emma commented while watching the video malhare had taken, it's been over a month since the mall had opened. Malhare had visited often and once he noticed some odd behavior he called in Emma to tell her.

"Yah and uh... well I don't know what to say about it."

Emma paused. Then slowly looked up. "What exactly have you been doing at the mall?"

"Well they don't do much! So I've been playing at the arcade- don't give me that look it's boring there all day! I gotta do something to distract myself. Besides the games there are fun and nobody here would care if I accidentally break one while playing so might as well right?"

Emma shoved her face in her hands and let out a loud, frustrated sigh.

"I forgot about passive remnant."

"...oh shit I can make that stuff?" Malhare blinked, then slowly tried to hide behind his ears.

"...no... no wait we can work with this." Emma slowly looked up. "If they act more human, then they're more likely to make mistakes. If they make a mistake then they can get shut down."

"True true... buuut they can also make the show cooler."

"Risk versus reward, they've gotta slip up sometime" Emma grins. Malhare chuckled.

"Wow, you don't hold any punches do you?"

"I really don't like those guys."

"Makes me appreciate that I'm on you good side then" malhare grinned.

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"...is he seriously doing that cliche 'sing for your crush' thing?" Emma looked up on the stage, Mal had insisted she come check this out. And immediately she knew what he meant. The animatronics were more fluid than the first show. She also noticed Glamrock freddy, whom they called Glenn on stage, was looking out at the crowd more, and then seemed intent on her once he spotted her. Emma has watched enough cheesy teen romance movies to recognize the cliche.

"Not sure why he seems so focused on you. Guess he has a crush?"

" Oh fun." Emma groaned covering her face with her hood.

"I mean it could be worse."

"Oh really? Enlighten me on how having the ego freddy clone hyper fixated on me could be worse?"

"He could jump off stage and sing some dramatic sarande" malhare grinned, Emma tried to hide in the crowd more.

"I think I'm going to say hi to them after hours" Mal admit, Emma looked up at him.

"You What!?"

"I'm pretty sure that fox is getting a sense of something going on, they're not dumb... at least he isn't. Figured it'd be better to get on their good side if they're going to be aware and alive." The man shrugged. Emma didn't like this idea, but he had a point. She paused in thought, then suddenly declared. "I'm going with you"

This caused the other to jump. "Wait seriously? I thought you hated those guys?"

"Oh I do. I just don't like the idea of you going alone"

"I can handle myself just fine!" Malhare huffed and crossed his arms. Emma blinked at him and he shifted on his feet. "But if you want to come with I won't stop you"

"Good. I'll try to find a hiding place.. or you can let me in."

"I can do that, the security room is all digital, it's not too hard to hack in and 'accidentally' leave a door unlocked" the man smirked mischievously.

Emma gave the same grin back.

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It was dead silent when Emma snuck in, Malhare had left a door unlocked and was waiting for her when she walked in. "I hope you don't mind, but I let the gang know I was bringing a friend." The rabbit grinned. Emma was about to respond when malhare raised his arms and cut her off. "Just wanted to make sure they didn't have any security protocols for uninvited guests. As far as I can tell they don't but I don't wanna take any chances."

"I wouldn't mind causing a scandal." Emma admit darkly.

"Yah But you getting in trouble just to take these guys down seems like a bad plan all around." The rabbit paused, then added. "Bedsides that bear seemed eager to talk to you." He snickered at Emma's unamused look. She sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose.

"Let's get this over with"

The two walked over to the stage. She spotted the animatronics lingering around, Fizz was playing his Keytar, Leo was chatting with Phos, and Glenn was the first to notice them. The bear was holding onto his star shaped microphone stand and quickly ran over when he spotted Emma.

"You! You're here? You're really here!" He seemed excited. But quickly collected himself and gave her his trademark Glamrock grin. "Were you just so excited to meet me in person huh?"

"Not really" Emma deadpanned, she relished the surprises look on the bears face when his ego cracked. She looked past him and spotted the bunny walking towards them.

"Oh! Your Malhares friend? I'm sorry about Glenn he's uh... well." The rabbit went quiet then shrugged. "He's... you know?"

"An egomaniac?" Emma deadpanned again.

"Well.. I wouldn't call him that..."

Malhare Meanwhile was trying very hard not to laugh behind her.

"I- you- you're the mysterious girl who watches over our show. How could you NOT be here to meet the spunky rockstar protagonist??" The bear exclaimed. Emma didn't understand, then internally groaned. He was thinking of all the classic stereotypes, apparently Glamrock freddy was convinced he was the star of some teen romance movie and that Emma herself was the mysterious love interest. Emma immediately wanted to punch him. But she held herself back.

"I came here to see what exactly you're like off stage. But I'm saying it now, you are NOT a rockstar." Emma glared then moved passed the stunned bear and walked towards the stage. Leo quickly jogged to catch up with her leaving Glenn alone with the digital rabbit laughing up a storm.

"...oh I see, playing hard to get then." The bear straightened and fixed his bow tie. "I see how it is. I'll just have to try a different tactic,"

"Oh my! Oh my god! PSHAAHAHA HAAA" malhare was nearly curled over from laughing hard the bear glared at him. "What's so funny??"

"You're so *wheeze* fukin DENSE! Oh my Goshahaha!" The bear turned up his nose and disregarded malhare as he went ahead to join the others. Malhare wasn't far behind, as soon as he composed himself.

Unseen by all was that someone was looking down from the glass sunroof. The figure wore a bunny mask. She tilted her head. Then grinned behind the mask.

"There you are~"