Hey, everyone, back again with FINALLY another chapter! Yeah, I know it's a weird, random, and kind of out-of-nowhere chapter to release after a long while of no new chapters, but just roll with me on this one.
"Hey, Foxy, I've got to tell you something cool!"
"Really? What happened?"
"I just looked, and a new update just came out for that one app that you, I, and everybody else in the pizzeria has been playing!"
Puppet said this to Foxy excitedly, looking hyped for the update. Foxy had been talking to Puppet over the past few minutes on various different things, and they had taken a break for a few seconds to check their phones. It was then that Puppet had interrupted it by telling Foxy of a new update to an app on their phones. This already got Foxy greatly interested, as a new update would mean new content for the game. With new content, he was bound to be able to occupy himself for some more time and forget the otherwise boring, quiet state that the pizzeria had been in lately.
"Oh, do you mean that Notice Me, Senpai? game we downloaded yesterday?" Foxy questioned Puppet, grinning ecstatically. "Great, I've been waiting for that game to update! I've been having a lot of fun looking at all the versions of Senpai, and-"
"Huh? No, I meant a different game." Puppet corrected Foxy.
Foxy's grin fell off his face. "You did?"
"Yeah, I did. That senpai game hasn't been updated for a long, long time, actually. I don't think it's been updated ever again."
"Oh. Well, uh...that's a little disappointing. I was having fun with that game."
"Okay, now try again. Remember, it's that game everybody here has been playing."
"Hmm...let me check my apps and see if that rings any bells." Foxy turned on his phone and began to look through the list of games he had downloaded onto his phone, trying to decide which one would be the game that would most accurately fit Puppet's description. "Is it NavQuest?"
"Nope, not that one."
"Then...oh, is it Hero Shooter 5000?!"
Puppet gasped. "Aw, that game is really fun! But no, I'm sad to say that it's not the app I'm talking about, either. I wish it was, though."
"Yeah, me too, but if that's not the one...is it Murder Mystery?"
Puppet paused for a few seconds, then shrugged. "Actually, I haven't checked that game for updates in a while. Let me take a look and see."
"It has to be, right? I swear it just got an update recently!"
"Let me see first." Puppet held up his own phone and fiddled with it for some time before stating: "Nope, not that one either. Hasn't been updated for a few days now."
"Aw, man! I was kind of hoping it would be. That game could use some updates to fix all the weird glitches."
"I agree. Anyway, do you give up yet? Ready for me to reveal what it is?"
"Okay, I give. What's the game you're talking about?"
"It's...Pokemon GO!"
Foxy exclaimed in surprise first, but then said: "Actually, I haven't even played that game in forever. I dunno why I got excited like that."
"Neither have I, but a new update came out today! According to the patch notes, new pokemon were just added!"
"Like what? Did they finally decide to add all the legendary pokemon to the game, or are they still postponing it?"
Puppet looked down at his phone for a second. "Uh...yes and no? There are a few legendary pokemon on this list of added pokemon, but most are just regular old pokemon and awesome stuff like that. They're like a whole bunch of circles and triangles and stuff!"
"Circles and triangles? They didn't just change the shape of some of the pokemon and leave it at that, did they?"
"Er...maybe? They did add little faces on some of them and called them things like Pichu."
"Oh, I see now. Well, it'll be exciting to explore the new update today, but something's been bothering me...where is everyone else?! Why aren't they here to join us and play the new update? Like, Freddy's closet is just over there! Let me go and find him!" Foxy marched over to the closet, opened the door, and peeked inside. The room was still unoccupied, with the rope ladder and the hole in the ceiling gone. "Huh? The ceiling is STILL blocked off?"
"Yeah, Freddy did it himself. He told me he was going to do last time I talked to him. Said something about getting away from everyone and getting some rest." Puppet mentioned.
"He did? Why didn't you tell me that you and him had that exchange with each other?"
"He told me to keep it a secret from everyone so nobody would stop him from doing so. He said I could tell you after he did it, though, so that's why I did it now."
"But then, why didn't you mention it to everyone else as soon as he did it?!"
"You never asked, so I never thought to explain it. You guys seemed distracted by other things, anyway, so I thought it might be better to stay quiet about it."
Foxy groaned loudly. Why would Freddy do things like this? Why would he want to avoid everyone? Had they done something to offend him, or was it just Freddy being Freddy? "Dang it, I knew there was a reason why I hadn't seen him. I thought he was only going to be up there for a day or two, but he's been up there for way longer."
"Oh yeah, another thing. Speaking of rooms and all that, I wanted to tell you about the status of your back room. I worked on it for some time recently, and based on my estimate, I might just be ready to come out of the oven, if you know what I mean. It might be delayed if anything comes up, but as of right now, it's almost ready."
"Is it now? Great, I can finally get my back room back! I'm hoping it'll come soon and not be delayed anymore, because it's been delayed enough as it is."
Puppet wagged his finger. "You shouldn't count your chickens before they've hatched, Foxy. This is just my estimate; a change of plans could come up at any time, and then I'd need to take even longer to finish it. And make sure not to count your...uh...I was going to say the name of your chicken, Foxy, but I forgot what his name was."
"Good question...come to think of it, I can't remember myself..." Foxy thought for a moment, trying to remember the chicken's name. "Was it...John? No...oh, it was Gregory, that's right! Although maybe I should name the chicken Georgia, since Gregory is female."
"Ah, Georgia! That was it."
"Okay, but enough of the chicken stuff. I say we turn on the game and get this show on the road. I just got the update installed; how about you?"
"I also got it installed. Let's boot it up."
They both looked down at their phones and opened the game. Foxy saw the loading screen pop up and watched the loading bar slowly crawl.
"Yep, it's Pokemon GO, alright. It's taking forever to load, as it usually does." He muttered, the long loading times being a thing that this game had. After a minute, it finally finished loading up. "There we go, it loaded! That was faster then usual."
"It loaded for me too. I'm surprised it managed to be more efficient this time." Puppet said. "We usually don't get very good reception in this place."
"True. Okay, so we just have to walk around and look for pokemon, right? Should be easy enough."
They began to walk around the pizzeria, heading out of the main room and into the small and then the big hallway, which gave them plenty of room to pace back and forth, looking for pokemon along the way.
"Hey, this seems to be a new feature." Foxy pointed out, noticing a difference in the game from the last time he played it. "As we walk around, we start collecting candy?"
"Yeah, one of the new update additions." Puppet confirmed.
"Cool. I'll have fun with it, then."
They paced around the hallway for another minute. Foxy kept his eyes glued to his phone, keeping an eye out for any pokemon on the map. So far, he had found nothing, but this was to be expected: pokemon didn't appear without a thorough search first.
"Earlier, I ran into this weird predicament." Puppet spoke up as he followed Foxy. "I was searching for pokemon, and I managed to spot a shiny pokemon in Baby's room. It looked cool, and I was hoping to catch it so I could brag about it, but I wasn't able to get to it, since the trapdoor to the room that leads into the vents was locked."
"Sounds like a disappointing situation. If I were there, I would've wanted to have a shiny myself."
They walked around for another minute, and as they passed the girls' bathroom, Foxy finally saw a pokemon appear on the map. It looked like a blob, with stubby, short arms, dots for eyes, and a wide smile. Foxy recognized it as a Ditto. Having read online to research all the pokemon that appeared in the game, he now knew every one of them and could recognize them if he needed to. On the map, the Ditto seemed to be sitting in the very center of the girls' bathroom.
As soon as he saw it, he yelled out. "I found a pokemon! It looks like it's in the girls' bathroom!"
Puppet raised a mechanical eyebrow. "Which one is it?"
"A Ditto, it looks like. Wait...a Ditto?! This is one of the harder pokemon to find! I need to catch it before it gets away!"
Foxy quickly ran into the girls' bathroom, starting the encounter with the Ditto. Using his phone, he saw it in the bathroom, and he swiped the pokeball so it flew towards the Ditto. Luckily for him, it hit the blob creature on the first try, and it flew into the pokeball and successfully caught it.
"I did it! I caught it! I-" Foxy cheered, beginning to celebrate...until a flash came from behind him, and he turned and saw Puppet holding his phone in Foxy's direction.
"Ha, now I've got a picture of you standing in the girls' bathroom." Puppet announced, smirking. He fiddled with his phone for a moment, then said: "And I just sent it to Ballora! Take that, Foxy!"
"WHAT?!" Foxy exclaimed, and he ran out of the bathroom at once. However, the damage had already been done. "Puppet, come on! Why would you do that?"
"Because you're not supposed to be in there, so I wanted to have a laugh."
"Is there a problem, Puppet? Are you saying that there's something wrong with going into the girls' bathroom?"
"Everything, voice!" Foxy grumbled. "I'm a guy, and I'm not supposed to go in there! Now that I did, Puppet has an excuse to laugh at me, and Ballora is going to yell at me later!"
"Are you so sure about that?"
Foxy paused. "...yeah, of course I am! I'm a guy for sure!"
"But are you?"
"I am!"
"But ARE you?"
"Okay, enough of this! Quiet down already!"
Puppet looked befuddled. "Huh? Foxy, where's that other voice coming from? I don't see anybody else here. Wait...is it that voice in your head again? Geez, you need to learn to keep that thing quiet."
"Don't worry about what it does, alright? I know it keeps speaking, but I promise that I've got the situation under control. Quit bothering me about it."
"Alright, then." Puppet fiddled with his phone, supposedly re-opening Pokemon GO, and then he exclaimed. "I just found a pokemon on my map!"
"Really?! Which one?!"
"It's over here!" Puppet led Foxy into the nearby auditorium, keeping his face towards his phone. "It looks like...some sort of cow thing!"
"A cow? Wait, do you mean a Tauros? Tauros is a bull, Puppet."
"Same thing, same thing." Puppet responded unattentively. "Hmm...I thought it might be a special cow, but it looks like a basic kind of cow."
"Special cow? Huh, good thought. Maybe they'll make a special cow pokemon in the future? One that's even more unique then the ones we already have?"
Puppet shrugged. "It's all their choice, but you might be right anyway."
"I might be. It's called a Tauros, though, okay Puppet? Not 'basic cow'."
"Hmm...actually, yeah, it does seem like a Tauros. Isn't there another cow pokemon, though? I think it was called 'Moo-milk' or something."
"You mean Miltank? Yeah, that is another cow pokemon. And it's not farfetched to think that they might add Miltank at some point. Good theory, I guess."
"True, true. Now let me see if I can catch this thing." Puppet walked over to a spot near some of the rows of chairs facing the stage and fiddled with his phone again. Foxy saw Puppet swipe his phone, trying to throw pokeballs. "Swipe, and...aw, I missed! I don't understand why, but I just can't get the hang of swiping the pokeball. I don't get why I'm never good at it."
"Really? Then let me try it." Foxy offered, because he noticed that Tauros was on his map, too, which gave him the opportunity to catch the pokemon himself. He triggered the encounter with Tauros and swiped the pokeball. Like last time, he caught it on the first try. "Alright, I caught it! Go, me!"
"Wait, what!? No, come on! I was planning to catch it!" Puppet protested.
"And you still can." Foxy replied, noticing that on Puppet's phone, Tauros was still there. "Tauros is still on your phone. Look."
Puppet looked at his phone screen and instantly snapped out of his frustration. "Oh, it is still there. Nevermind, then, I'm going to keep trying to catch it."
Foxy laughed in a friendly and yet boasting manner. "See, now both of us win. I get to catch a new pokemon, and you still get a chance to catch it yourself. It's a win-win."
Meanwhile, Puppet kept swiping his phone. "Dang, missed again...and again..." Puppet gasped. "I just ran out of pokeballs! Drat!'
"You did? Come on, don't you have any great balls or anything else in your inventory?"
"No, those pokeballs were all I had."
Foxy groaned. "Alright, then find some. There's got to be a place to get them around here, right?"
"Yeah, the poke-stations! We need to find one, fast!'
"Then let's look at our phones and see if we can spot one." Foxy looked at his phone and searched the map for any nearby poke-stations. Luckily, there just so happened to be one nearby. Foxy exclaimed and said: "Hey, I just found one on the map! Apparently, it's over at the front entrance to this place! Let's go!"
Foxy ran out of the auditorium, and Puppet, looking excited at the prospect of finding a nearby poke-stop, followed after Foxy.
"Here we are!" Foxy called as they entered the main room and went over to the front doors of the building. "It's labeled: 'Circus Baby's Pizza World'. Huh, I guess that means that this place was marked as a poke-stop, then. Neat."
"Oh, it is? Great." Puppet uttered. "I've got to say, it's really generous of the people who made the game to do that, especially since this place isn't even open."
"It's nice, alright. Now, let's see what we can grab." Foxy tapped the poke-stop on his phone and got an assortment of items added to his inventory. "Alright, it gave me more pokeballs! And...oh, I got an egg, too."
"I got some pokeballs, too! Now I can catch the pokemon!" Puppet declared excitedly, checking his phone. Seconds later, his smile turned into a frown. "Aw, the cow thing is gone."
"Sorry to hear that, man. Also, its name is Tauros, Puppet, and it's a bull, not a cow. Remember that.
"But you said that Moo-milk pokemon was a cow!"
"One, I did, but that's an entirely different pokemon. Two, its name is Miltank, not 'Moo-milk'. Three, it's not even in the game yet, so you couldn't have found it anyway."
"Aww, okay." Puppet sighed sadly.
Foxy went to the list of pokemon he had in his possession and scrolled through it. "Alright, got a good enough list so far. Hopefully, I can get one of my pokemon evolved, that'd be nice...woah!" Foxy had decided to check his newly-caught Ditto, and while at first he hadn't thought much of it, he noticed that the Ditto he caught was blue, which was odd; according to the sources he had checked online, Ditto was supposed to be purple. Then it hit him: if Ditto was different color, then that meant it was a shiny pokemon. "I just looked at my Ditto, and something just occurred to me...Ditto's blue! That means...Ditto is a shiny! I actually managed to catch a shiny pokemon!"
"Really?! Man, I'm so jealous! Shines are super rare!" Puppet shouted in awe.
"I know, right? And I didn't even have to search much to find it! Man, when I show Ballora and Baby this, they're going to be SO jealous. From what I heard from their conversations, they've been trying to find a shiny for WEEKS and still haven't found one!"
"What should we do now?"
"Hmm...well, nobody else is around, so let's go and tell Garbage! I want to gloat about this to someone!"
"Sure, but, does Garbage even have a phone with him?"
"I'd hope not, otherwise he'd have a way to call the police."
"But that means he won't know what Pokemon GO is, so he'll have no idea what we're talking about."
"Eh, let's tell him anyway."
A minute later, they were in the kitchen. Dinah was gone again, and Foxy could hear the tv buzz with noise in the break room, meaning that Dinah was back there watching tv. He didn't pay this fact any mind, though, as he was too focused on Garbage.
He opened the garbage chute and yelled down into it: "Hey, Garbage, wake up!"
A groan sounded from down below. "Oh, hey, Foxy. What is it now?"
"Guess what I just did?"
"Uh...you slaughtered another security guard?"
"No, but I caught something else: a Ditto."
"That one blob pokemon? Uh, cool. Can you toss your Gameboy down so I can look at it?"
"Yeah, su-" Foxy began, but he paused as he prepared to toss his phone down into the chute. "Hey, wait a minute! I'm not stupid, Garbage, I know you're just trying to get my phone so you can call the police!"
"Phone?" Garbage stuttered perplexedly. "What do you mean, your phone? Pokemon isn't on the phone, it's on the Gameboy."
"It is, though! There's an app on phones called Pokemon GO!" Foxy paused. "Wait, but the Gameboy was the console for the first pokemon generation! How long has it been since you played any Pokemon games?"
"Pokemon GO? Did I hear that right?"
"Yep, you heard it. It's a game on phones you can play that lets you catch pokemon in AR, or augmented reality."
"Wait, what?! I didn't know people could make games like that!"
"Yeah, they made the game a while ago!" Foxy said, and he looked at Puppet in bewilderment. "Wow, Garbage must've been out of the loop for a long time if he hasn't played any pokemon games since the first generation."
"That's true." Puppet replied. "Not only is he a grown man who probably only played pokemon games as a kid, but he must've been down there in the chute for a while, now, too. I think it's almost been two months since we threw him down there."
"Wow. Well, back to what I was saying! As you heard, Garbage, I caught myself a Ditto! Not only that, but it's a shiny."
"Oh, that sounds pretty cool. This game must be fun if you can go around catching pokemon on your phone. Can you trade the pokemon you catch with your friends, too?"
"No, you can't. Trading hasn't been added to the game yet."
"That's lame; I liked trading. I loved doing it when I played the Gameboy version. In fact, I think I'm going to stick to that version now."
"Huh, so you're a genwunner? Okay, you do you, then. Bye!"
"Later."
Foxy closed the chute back up, leaving Garbage all by himself.
"Come on, Puppet, let's keep playing." Foxy told Puppet, gesturing the marionette to follow him out of the kitchen. Puppet nodded and did so, as the two of them went back into the main room.
"So what now?" Puppet asked.
"I say that we try to battle each other." Foxy suggested. "But since they haven't fully added battles to the game yet, we'll have to control a gym first if we want to battle each other."
"We can do that, but first, I want to know what team you're on! I joined the purple one."
"...there is no purple one."
"Green!"
"Nope."
"Orange, then!"
"There isn't orange, either. There's only red, blue, or yellow. Valor, Mystic, and Instinct, you know. For my team, I joined Valor!" He laughed.
"Oh, that color was blue? Then I'll tell you that I'm on team Mystic!"
Foxy cringed a little. "Blech, Mystic. Hey, at least you're not on Instinct, though, so I can respect you a bit more for that. Instinct's pretty bad. I even heard from Baby that Freddy's on Instinct himself."
"Hey, I heard that, too. And...he picked Instinct? Wow. When he comes back, we need to talk to him about that decision."
"So, back to gyms! Let's go and find one. I'm sure there's one around here somewhere."
They left the main room and headed down the hallways again. When they arrived at the big hallway, Foxy saw it: a nearby gym.
"I found a gym we can challenge! And...it's in Ballora's room?" Foxy stated, and he and Puppet went over to the doors to Ballora's room. Foxy knew they would already be locked, but they could still access the gym from there.
"Hmm, then Ballora must own the gym." Puppet guessed. "Are you sure that we should try to challenge it, though? Won't Ballora get pretty mad at us if we take over her gym?"
Foxy shrugged. "Her loss, our gain. She can get mad all she wants, but that won't change a thing." Foxy looked back at his phone and pressed on the gym on the map, looking to see how tough it was. "Alright, just opened up the gym. Hey, looks like Ballora's part of Instinct, too!" Foxy grimaced. "Now we really need to take it over. We, as part of the other two teams, can't take this lying down. Let's do this."
"Okay." Puppet agreed. Both of them fiddled with their phones to take a look at the pokemon that was in the gym.
And Foxy found his jaw dropping to a floor at the pokemon he found in the gym. "What in the-?!" He blurted out. "She has a Gyarados, of all pokemon?!"
"Holy heck!" Puppet yelled. "With a pokemon as powerful as that, we might end up getting destroyed if we try to challenge the gym!"
"Then I'm not going to even try. I'm out of this one." Foxy took several long strides away from Ballora's door.
"Wait, you're just going to leave me here?!"
"Yeah, sorry. Have fun battling her, I guess."
Puppet groaned. "Great, I guess it's all up to me!" He fiddled with his phone again. Seconds later, he cried out. "Aw, no!"
Foxy came over, interested to know the outcome. "Let me guess...you challenged the gym."
"Yeah."
"And you got destroyed, didn't you?"
"Not just that...I got one-shot. Only one move from her Gyarados and I lost." Puppet whined, sour-faced. "Now I have to heal up again..."
"Sorry to hear that you lost, but at the same time, I can't say I didn't expect it. And don't you have any potions on you? You should've got some from the poke-stop. You can use them to heal your pokemon."
"Oh, that's right! Let me do that real quick." Puppet fiddled with his phone for another moment. "And tap that...and do that...boom! Alright, my pokemon are all healed up and ready. Do you still want to have that battle?"
Foxy shook his head. "I wish, but since there's no gym that we can control, we can't. They haven't added battling outside of gyms yet."
"Then...do you have any other solutions?"
"Hmm, I don't know. I'll see if I have anything on my phone that might work-" Foxy paused as he stared down at his phone. He had just thought of a solution. "Oh, wait, I know! There's a website on the internet we can use!"
Puppet looked interested. "Really? What does it do?"
"It simulates battling using the pokemon from pokemon GO! It's called Pokemon GO Battle Simulator. Here, let me show you how to pull it up." Foxy opened his web browser on his phone and went to a new tab. "Just go to the website, and once you're there, you can begin a multiplayer battle! You have to enter your username from Pokemon GO first, and then it auto-connects! Then, it'll find the pokemon you have, as well as the moves they can use, and put them in your inventory. Then you just have to connect to a server with someone else, and boom, you can battle! There's even a cool little feature where you can talk with your voice using the mic, and the pokemon will use the move if the microphone recognizes the move name! So, want to try it out?"
"Just did that! Connected, I mean." Puppet showed his phone, which was on the website. He had put in his username already. "Let's do the battle right now."
"Okay! So to do that, we have to press the button to begin a battle, and remember to select local multiplayer. It'll connect to nearby phones instead of all phones." They both did so, and seconds later, they connected. "Alright, we're connected! Now, we can choose the pokemon we want to battle, and once we're both ready, it'll begin! Get selecting." Foxy selected his Ditto and Tauros and hit the ready button. Seconds later, his phone showed that Puppet was also ready.
3...2...1...GO! The screen read, and the battle began. Puppet's pokemon was thrown out first.
"I chose my Pikachu!" Puppet revealed, as the pokeball opened on the phone screen and a Pikachu came out.
"Pikachu, eh? Good job catching one, but it won't help you very much if it isn't strong!" Foxy replied, grinning confidently. "Now, for my new catch! I'm choosing Ditto!"
Ditto, which Foxy had selected to be sent out at the start of the battle, was thrown out on the phone screen.
"Alright, let's begin! My move first!" Puppet said. "Pikachu, use water gun!" On the phone screen, the text simply said: Pikachu tried to use water gun...but Pikachu doesn't know that move.
"Puppet, Pikachu can't learn water gun." Foxy explained, a little unimpressed already.
"How do you know that?"
"Because Pikachu's an electric type, so of course it can't learn water gun. Also, the battle simulator said so, too."
"Uh...let me try that again! Pikachu, use ice storm!" Once again, Foxy's phone's screen repeated that Pikachu didn't know the move Puppet had called out.
"Nope, it can't learn that move either."
Puppet narrowed his eyes. "I swear, both you and this simulator are making these rules up. How am I meant to attack if I can't use any moves?"
"You can, Puppet!" Foxy groaned exasperatedly. "You just need to use the moves that your pokemon has! Look at your phone screen, it shows you the moves you have!"
Puppet glanced down at his phone. "Oh, yeah, it does show you. Huh, guess I was so enthralled with the microphone feature that I didn't even use the right moves."
"Okay, so what does it say? Which moves have you got?"
"Hmm...it says 'Thunderbolt.' Doesn't sound like a very interesting move."
"No, no, you should use that. That move is actually pretty good."
"It is? Oh, well, okay then. Pikachu, use thunderbolt."
This time, the screen read: Pikachu used Thunderbolt! A bolt of lighting was shot at Foxy's Ditto, which took damage. In fact, it was already at half-health.
"Woah, half of my Ditto's health already gone! Not too shabby!" Foxy said. "But...I haven't even started yet! Look!" On screen, the game said: Ditto's Imposter! And Ditto suddenly auto-transformed into a perfect match of Puppet's Pikachu.
"Wait, what? So you do you have half-health anymore?"
"Nope, because I had another trick! Watch this!" And suddenly, on screen, a berry appeared near Ditto and was munched into nonexistence, healing Ditto back to full health. "Ha! I even brought a held item to get heals!"
"Huh? Wait, but that's not fair! Held items don't activate that fast!"
"Hey, I'm not cheating, okay? It just did that!"
"Fine, then. Pikachu, use your tail and smash Foxy's phone!"
"What? That's not a move!" Foxy started, but was cut short.
At that very moment, the most dumbfounding and yet insanely coincidental thing happened: for a brief moment, the screen only read: Pikachu tried to use an unknown move...but Pikachu doesn't know- and before the simulator could finish, Foxy's phone suddenly snapped off and deactivated. Foxy stopped mid-sentence, about to try and claim that the move wasn't a thing, but now he was gawking at his phone. The fake move hadn't actually deactivated his phone...had it?
"What happened?" Puppet asked, curious at the silence Foxy was undergoing.
"Well..." Foxy mumbled, and he tried to turn on his phone, but it only showed a symbol of an empty battery on screen, one that Foxy recognized. "...oh, I see. My phone just died...it ran out of battery."
"Wait, it did? I wasn't actually expecting your phone to break."
"It didn't, it just turned off because it ran out of power. Though it's still an incredible coincidence, anyhow..."
"So you didn't charge your phone before we started this? Why didn't your phone alert you or anything?"
"Oh, uh...I saw it was low battery, but I thought I still had more time. And I turned off my notifications about low battery percentage because I was getting annoyed at them...woops."
"Ah, I see. That's easy enough to fix." Puppet said, calmly nodding. "I've got a charger in my room. We can go get it charged up right now."
"Alright, alright, let's go do that, then."
Foxy walked down the hallway towards the auditorium, and when he got to the room, he heard Puppet speak again behind him.
"Wait, I changed my mind! We can do it in here instead." Puppet cut in suddenly. "Not my room."
"Too late." Foxy grunted. For whatever reason, he felt compelled to go down into Puppet's room, especially now that Puppet had told him they were going to do so. "We're going down into your room."
"No, wait! I said I changed my mind!"
"Too late, Puppet." Foxy went over to the box, climbed on top of it, and started down the ladder. "To your room we go."
"Get back over here!" Puppet called, following Foxy down the ladder.
"Puppet, you invited me. It's too late to think twice on that."
"No, it isn't! I can decide differently if I want to, Foxy!"
"Not in this case, you can't." Foxy denied, and he got down to Puppet's living room and walked over into the central room of Puppet's box.
"How come? Also, I don't even know if I still have the charger down here. I said that without thinking." Puppet claimed, following Foxy over to where he went.
"It's around here somewhere, Puppet. You just need to look."
Puppet sighed. "Fine, fine. Which outlet did I put my charger into last time...?"
Foxy walked through the area and over to Puppet's computer room. "Can I log onto your computer?"
"What?! Of course not." Puppet refused, running behind Foxy again.
"But aren't we going to charge my phone?"
"In an outlet, Foxy, not my computer." Puppet pointed at the only available outlet in the room, which was right next to the couch. A grey-colored charger was connected into it, with a cord ready to plug into any phone. "It's right there."
"Okay, then can you put it on there for me? Here's my phone." Foxy handed Puppet his phone. The marionette took the phone and plugged the cord into it, the placed the phone onto the floor next to the outlet.
"Alright, that should do it. My charger works pretty fast, so it should take at least a minute to charge up your phone completely."
"Good, glad to hear that. While we wait, got any food? My systems feel like processing some more."
"I dunno, let me check." Puppet went over to his kitchen setup and opened the fridge, then gasped. "It's empty?! Drat, Bon-Bon must've stolen all the food from it again!"
"He really does seem to have it out for you."
"Hmph, I know. I wish he would leave me be."
"I wish he would, too, but then again, you kind of started the whole relationship. It's not entirely his fault."
Puppet muttered something under his breath, but said nothing else about Bon-Bon. He perked up after a second. "Oh, that reminds me of something. Hey, Foxy, I was meaning to ask you...do you wear boys' shoes, or girls' shoes?"
"I don't wear shoes at all normally, since my feet have claws on them and all that. But if I had to wear some...then I'd wear guys' shoes. Yeah, I know that my feet look a bit feminine with all the pink and stuff, but that'd be my choice."
Puppet stared down at Foxy's feet and gave them a perplexed look. "You're right, they do. Weird."
"By the way, Puppet...do you still have three toothbrushes in your bathroom."
"Of course I do. Why do you ask?"
"I ask...because like I said before, that's ridiculous! You don't have any teeth, and even if you did, you still don't need three toothbrushes!"
"I brush my mouth hole for the fun of it, Foxy! And yes, I do need all three! There's one for each day of the week."
Foxy facepalmed. "Puppet, there's seven days in a week. I told you that before."
Puppet didn't speak for a moment, then moved his body as if he was doing a mix between a shrug and a shoulder slump. "Right, right, seven days a week. Oh, what a world we all live in...wonder who decided that we should have that many days in a week."
Foxy tuned out and moved across the room, an entirely different goal in his mind then listening to Puppet. He saw the journal on the lectern, sitting in the hall next to Puppet's bathroom, and decided to read it. He went over, right over to the page that was open, and read: "Hello again, journal. Today I went and-"
"Hey, don't read that!" Puppet shouted out frantically, and Foxy yelped as he felt himself getting shoved away from the lectern.
"Ouch!" Foxy yelled. "Yeesh, that hurt. Why'd you have to push me that roughly?"
Puppet paused, then said: "Did I push you too hard? Sorry, I just don't like people reading my private things." He closed the journal on the lectern and went over to the kitchen area, going behind the bar. "Here, we can take a break. Want some tea?"
"Uh...sure." Foxy accepted, surprised at Puppet's sudden change of mood. He sat down at one of the stools at the bar as Puppet went over to his coffee maker. The marionette grabbed a nearby teacup, set it under the coffee maker, and activated it. It poured out hot tea, which filled up the cup. Puppet then took the cup and set it down on the counter near Foxy.
"Here you go, some tea. It's pretty hot, so let it cool if you need to."
Foxy looked at the tea skeptically. "This isn't Ballora's potty tea, is it? Her potty tea tastes awful."
Puppet shook his head. "Don't worry, I wouldn't give you that kind of tea. It's actually Arizona green tea."
"Is it? Oh!" Foxy grabbed the tea-cup and took a large sip. His taste receptors reacted positively, and even with his mouth burning inside, he still liked it. "Mmm, that's pretty good! Thanks for giving me some of this."
"It does taste pretty good, right? I added some sugar to it so it tastes better, too."
"Yeah, it does. Nice touch."
"Thanks. I'm happy to not be like all those lame people that never bother with sugar in their tea."
Foxy kept drinking and quickly drained his cup, then held it up towards Puppet. "Can I have more, please?"
"More? Okay, okay, let me get you another cup." Puppet took the empty cup and put it back under the coffee-maker, where it dispensed more tea. Then he went over to the fridge and did something else. "Alright, time to add the ice...hmm, don't remember the ice looking like that, but oh well...alright, it's all done." Puppet turned and handed Foxy the tea cup. "I added some ice to it to make it colder. Hope you like it."
Foxy, without a moment of hesitation, started to sip down more tea, not paying attention to the oddly-colored ice cubes he saw floating in the tea...and did a minor spit take.
"GAAH!" He yelled, as his taste receptors were overloaded with what seemed like spiciness. "That cup was spicy, Puppet! What on earth did you put in there?!"
Puppet looked surprised. "Wait, it is?" He took the tea cup from Foxy and observed the tea floating inside. "Hey, wait a minute...those ice cubes look a bit red! Dang, Bon-Bon must've mixed hot sauce with the ice cubes again. He did it one time before in an attempt to annoy me."
Foxy groaned, both in annoyance and in pain. "Ugh, makes sense for him to do that. He probably got offended by something you did and thought hot sauce would be a nice trick."
Puppet nodded, looking solemn. "He's just too much. I wish Ballora would give me that new security system I asked for, so I can stop Bon-Bon from breaking into my room."
"Yeah, I actually think that'd be a good idea now. I really do not appreciate him doing stuff like this."
"Really? Well, I appreciate your support, but how'd you benefit from the security system being implemented?"
"Well, so I can keep Bon-Bon under control, of course. It'd be great to be able to stop him from doing anything too drastic. Also, seeing him get zapped a little by an electric fence might be a little entertaining...no offense to him, but he's been a bit rowdy lately, so a good zap might get him out of the mood."
Puppet shrugged. "Hmm, yeah. I'd definitely find it funny, seeing him get knocked down a peg." As Puppet poured out the contents of the tea cup into his sink, Foxy thought for a moment, and spoke up.
"Okay, so how about we go back upstairs now? I don't want to bother you for too much longer."
"It's alright, but I do agree with us leaving." Puppet responded. "Let me go and grab your phone, and then we can head back upstairs." He headed out of the kitchen area and over to the computer room. Foxy saw Puppet remove his phone from the charger, then come back over and hand it to Foxy. Foxy took it contently, and was pleased to turn it on and see that it was fully charged. It was definitely a surprise that the charger had worked so fast, but it was a nice surprise, too.
With that settled, Foxy and Puppet walked over to the tv room and started up the ladder, heading upwards.
"Phew, finally back to the pizzeria." Foxy said as they exited the box and headed out of the auditorium and down the big hallway. "I'm kind of tired from everything we've done today, so I think it'd be good for me to go and take a nap for a bit."
"Wait, wait, before you leave...I say we have one last pokemon GO battle." Puppet proposed. "We didn't get to officially finish the last one, right? Let's do it for real this time around."
Foxy nodded. "Fair enough. Let's connect to the simulator again."
They spent a few minutes getting re-connected to the battle simulator website again, using their phones to do so, and once they were finished, another battle started up. This time, Foxy had the simulator send out his Tauros first.
"I've chosen Tauros this time." Foxy announced.
"Well, I've chosen a Rattata! I caught him just yesterday." Puppet replied, as on Foxy's phone screen, Puppet sent out said rat pokemon.
"Then let's go! I'm using Tackle!"
Tauros used Tackle! The screen read, as Foxy's Tauros tackled Puppet's Rattata and knocked off a bit of its health.
"Rattata, also use tackle!" Puppet commanded.
Rattata used Tackle! The screen read, as Puppet's Rattata did the same move back to Tauros and knocked off a bit of health there too.
"Tauros, use Sandstorm." Foxy's Tauros whipped up a sandstorm.
"Rattata, Sandstorm." The screen read that Rattata tried to Sandstorm, but didn't know the move.
"Puppet, your pokemon doesn't know that move. Use the moves that you actually have."
"Wait, what? Oh yeah, that's right, I need to use the moves I actually have..."
Huh, why does my Tauros have that move, anyhow? Tauros only learns that move by TM. Foxy thought, a little confused that his pokemon had such a move at its disposal, but decided to go along with it anyway. Sandstorm wasn't a bad move to have.
"Uh...Rattata, counter-attack with...whatever you feel like, I guess?" Puppet tried, but the screen only read that Rattata didn't know the move. In fact, it also read: Rattata got bored and fell asleep!
Foxy couldn't help but snicker a little. "Wow, your Rattata just went and fell asleep. How's that feel?"
Puppet grumbled in frustration. "Great, now what?"
"Now I win the game. Tauros, tackle again!"
Foxy's Tauros used the move again...and landed a critical hit, reducing Rattata to barely any health left. And then Rattata was buffeted by the previously-summoned Sandstorm, causing it to faint.
Rattata is unable to battle! The winner is Foxy! The game read, with victorious music playing on Foxy's phone.
"Ha! I win! I destroyed you at this game!" Foxy gloated in celebration. "Who's laughing now, Puppet?"
Puppet grumbled even louder. "I lost again?! Dang it, I can't win, Foxy! You beat me at all those other challenges we did, and now you beat me at Pokemon GO? Either I'm pretty bad at all this, or you're cheating somehow."
"No, no, that was legit. And I won! Good game, though. You did put in some effort."
"Well, that's something, I guess. Although it's not another case of two versus one, is it?"
"Nope, not this time."
"Yeah, he's not lying. I don't even know what dumb game you two are playing, and I couldn't care less about helping Foxy with it."
Puppet just shook his head. "Oh, nevermind. Go on and head back to your room."
"Great! Want to come with me? We can walk and talk before we say goodbye for the night."
"Sure, sure. I guess that's the least I can do, since you won and all."
A few minutes after they decided this, they arrived at Foxy's room and his cove. Foxy stared at his cove, already feeling partly ready to go in there, draw his curtains closed, and get more sleep. Sleep felt good, sleep allowed him to have entertaining dreams, and it altogether was a problem-less venture, unlike real life. As much as Foxy was annoyed with Freddy sleeping all the time and refusing to come out, he had to admit that sleeping had its merits.
Foxy approached his cove, and he surveyed it from outside, he saw the trapdoor again, reminding him of something.
"So, Puppet, you're actually planning to finish my back room's renovations soon, right? No joking around?" Foxy asked, very interested to know if his back room was finally going to be completed and ready.
"Yes, as of the current situation, I'd say that it's pretty close. Not too sure, but that's my estimate." Puppet assured him. "And also, since it's getting so close to being finished, I'll let you in on a little secret...I'll give you the exact number. As of right now, I'd say that it's...eighty percent done."
"Nice! Hey, eighty percent sounds like a lot. Are you sure I can't just check it out early now?"
"No, no, not yet! I'm not letting you see an inch of it until it's one hundred percent done. That's how I planned it, and there will be no exceptions to that."
"Really? Come on, are you sure?"
"As I said, no exceptions. If you get dust everywhere, the room will be ruined and I'll have to start over in some areas."
Foxy, despite thinking that it was ridiculous, nodded begrudgingly. "Fine, I'll keep waiting. Go on and do whatever you're planning on doing now, because I want to get some sleep."
"Okay, then. See you later." Puppet said, waving to Foxy as he turned and began to leave the room. "Oh, and stop cheating at all the games we play! It's not funny!"
"Bye! And I'm not cheating!" Foxy claimed, but Puppet had already left. "Oh, well, he can believe whatever he wants to believe." Foxy went into his cove, closed his curtains, and deactivated himself again. As much of a boring day it had been, at least the land of dreams offered more to him than reality...
"Foxy, you're delaying the inevitably for far too long. You must get to it soon."
He was back in the dimly-lit parts room again. And there was the cloaked figure, working at the table again. He was already accustomed to it by now, so he wasted no time stuttering or acting surprised.
"Delaying? Delaying what?" Foxy asked.
"The collection of the necessary items, Foxy. You need to get to it soon, otherwise, certain things may happen. Understand?"
"Well, I don't fully understand, but...sure, why not? I'll see what I can do, I guess."
"I'll take that as a response. Now that I've given you my reminder, you may go now. Sweet dreams..." For the first time, the cloaked figure let out a soft bout of laughter. Then it quit speaking and got back to work.
Foxy couldn't say for sure what it was about the cloaked figure that struck him as immensely unsettling or odd, but as everything faded again and he felt himself slip back into dreamland, it was the figure's laugh that stuck out to him most. It was so familiar to him, so strikingly close to something he had heard before, but he couldn't tell where he had heard it.
Still, there was something odd about the figure, that was for sure...
