Chapter 3: Take This Map, Stranger!

"RULEBREAKERS! RULEBREAKRS! YOU BOTH ARE BANNED FROM THE DAYCARE!" Sun beamed with frustration as he fetched Gregory from the jungle gym and shoved him out the double brown doors. "SECURITY ALERT! SECURITY ALERT! WOOO! WOOOO!"

Gregory winced as he hit the floor hard rubbing his elbows as Diamondhead was also pushed out before Sun closed the doors. Freddy saw the boys as he ran down the steps sensing that his friends wouldn't be too far behind.

"Gregory! Ben! I'm glad you both are alright!" Freddy stated as he ran over with thundering footsteps, but he stopped noticing Diamondhead on the ground. "Who is this?"

"There's no time, Freddy!" Gregory exclaimed as he quickly hopped into Freddy's stomach hatch as it closed around him concealing his body. "The others will be here soon!"

The doors to the second floor of the daycare bursted open as Monty ran in jumping down then standing up before he switched into patrolling mode. Roxanne and Chica came down the steps hunting around the pickup center calling out for Gregory while Freddy kept his eyes open hoping for a quick escape when needed to.

"It's almost 1AM. I need to get to a recharge station quickly!" Freddy urged himself as he looked at the alien.

Diamondhead noticed the light flickering as he heard snarling and growling coming from inside the daycare knowing it had to be Sun transforming back into his evil counterpart. His eyes widened with alert as he turned his head back to Freddy.

"Take Gregory and get out of here! Looks like that daycare robot wants a second round!" Diamondhead warned.

Freddy nodded and ran for the exit with Gregory holding on inside while the other robots noticed the diamond alien recognizing him as an intruder. They scanned his signature and their eyes flashed red with anger as they roared at him getting set for combat. Moon popped out of the double brown doors as he snickered perching on top of one of the doors.

"Intruders are just as bad as naughty children. Time to pay!" Moon exclaimed as he lunged for his assailant.

A first-person view of Moon is shown jumping for Diamondhead, but the hard rock alien launched a few diamond shards at the robot throwing him off balance as Moon landed on the floor groaning. Roxanne punches him in the back and Monty put both claws together giving a hard blow to the chest launching Diamondhead into a few vending machines as they short- circuited once the big alien hit them. Diamondhead rubbed his head before seeing his four adversaries starting to surround him as he puts his hands to the floor creating a big growing wall of green diamonds to close them off from him, but Monty breaks through the middle only to get a right hook to the jaw sending him away. Moon hops on top of the wall snickering before getting on Diamondhead's back as the diamond alien tried running around getting him off.

"I'm not a pony ride, you stupid puppet!" Diamondhead exclaimed as he bashed into walls as Moon held on tightly.

Diamondhead figured he was getting nowhere and quickly slapped the Ultimatrix dial for another form to take Moon on a wild ride with.

Ben's form started expanding from the sides as he took on a more circular body shape with yellow armor growing over his back and shoulders. His front body became more white in color with a black stripe going down his forehead with his green eyes remaining and the Ultimatrix dial on his chest. Ben became a rolling type of alien as he pumped his big fists into the air.

"CANNONBOLT!" The big ball alien bellowed before turning into his normal yellow ball form with Moon inside as he rolled around and bounced about the room.

"Ack! Stop! Stop! Ack!" Moon groaned as Cannonbolt uncurled his body with Moon in his right claw dizzy.

"No more free rides! Scram!" Cannonbolt exclaimed as he thrusted Moon into a wall as the evil robot groaned sinking to the floor.

"You think you're better than me?!" Roxanne could be heard as she came out of the diamond wall opening Monty made growling at Cannonbolt.

"Well, there's only one way to find out!" Cannonbolt answered as he ran going into ball form rolling straight for Roxanne, but she sunk her claws in his body causing him to cry out in pain.

Monty regained his vision before coming forward to punch Cannonbolt away as the heavy ball alien rolled straight into the gift shop throwing around plushie toys and clothing racks. Cannonbolt uncurled as he shook his body of the shirts as Monty came running punching the face of the ball alien twice before trying to lift Cannonbolt up, but Cannonbolt turned back into a ball crushing Monty under his heavy weight.

"Staff only!" Chica bellowed coming after the ball alien, but Cannonbolt simply turned direction rolling straight at Chica knocking her over easily like a bowling pin.

Roxanne came full force swiping a claw at the ball knocking Cannonbolt into a guardrail as the ball alien held his head. Roxanne pounced and swiped at Cannonbolt's face while the ball alien used his claws to guard his face. The ball alien reached for his dial turning it slightly to slap it once more.

Ben's dial expanded with four metal hinges digging into the chest as Cannonbolt started turning into a new metallic color and spikes started growing from his skin and armor.

"ULTIMATE CANNONBOLT!" Ulti. Cannonbolt exclaimed as he punched Roxanne off him with the female robot using her claws to stop her blowback by digging into the carpet leaving a ripped trail.

"It's time to pay!" Monty exclaimed as he got up, but his robotic parts and armor were broken through a little bit as he came back from his earlier blow blowing sparks from his body.

"You wanna pay? This VIP is about to roll out the red carpet!" Ulti. Cannonbolt declared as he turned back into a ball rolling very fast knocking Roxanne and Monty out of his way as they were sent flying.

Ulti. Cannonbolt used his ball form to hop in the black net separating the pickup center and the actual daycare to launch himself to the second floor before his timer ran out turning him back fully human.

"There's the exit!" Ben yelled as he quickly went through the double doors and shut them behind him as he breathed a sigh of relief sinking to his bottom.

Ben took a few minutes to breath from his hard battle as he noticed some robotic humming coming from down the hall. He would notice an individual skipping elegantly in a white rabbit suit with a blue ribbon tie around their neck and glowing red eyes. The figure skipped through the hallway to the daycare center as Ben quickly ducked behind the wall of the fountain. The figure skipped on the other side opposite to Ben so they didn't notice his presence. Ben looked up to see the white rabbit person enter the pickup center skipping as if they weren't heading into trouble. He took his cue and started making a break for it back to the atrium balcony.

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Ben made it out to the atrium finding a bench to sit down on and looked at the front lobby seeing the security bots roaming with flash lights after receiving reports of commotion in the Daycare. He wondered where Freddy and Gregory ran off to and how he was going to catch up with them as he started trying to fiddle with his communications function on the Ultimatrix.

"Take a map! Take a map!" A robotic voice beckoned Ben as he saw a blue pamphlet shoved into his face by a white and yellow robot with glasses on it's face and a black lowercase 'i' on the chest of it's yellow shirt.

"What the crud!" Ben exclaimed as he was backing up from the robot.

"Take this map! Don't get lost! Take this map!" The map robot continued with the pleading.

Ben snatched the map from the robot as the robotic map holder had three other blue maps in a special holder at it's left side. It thanked Ben for taking a map and then it decided to travel elsewhere in search of other customers. Ben opened the map and searched throughout the blueprints of the Pizzaplex, but he was suddenly pushed over very hard groaning as he hit the floor.

"Why am I the one always getting thrown around tonight?" Ben asked as he felt his head.

"A better question is…..why are you here after hours? I thought I told you to beat it!" Vanessa replied as she held a knee on Ben's back and slipped his wrists into handcuffs.

"Are you arresting me?" Ben asked as he looked back at the blonde security guard.

"You're not above the law, pretty boy. I'm taking you in and calling the police," Vanessa replied as she slapped Ben on the head making him yell in pain.

"I seriously don't have time for this!" Ben yelled as he used his strength to get up knocking Vanessa on her butt before he tried making a run for it.

"All S.T.A.F.F bots in the vicinity need to report to the second floor balcony of the atrium! We have an intruder on the run!" Vanessa reported into her black walkie-talkie.

Ben made his best effort to run for the stairs, but two S.T.A.F.F appeared from the Glamrock Gifts store and the Faz Pad along with the two roaming on the bottom floor rolling to the top surrounding Ben. Ben backs up and tries unlocking a form from the Ultimatrix as he has a hard time turning the dial and not being able to see what he is picking. Vanessa gets up and walks over ready to give Ben a piece of her mind before he popped the dial up to transform causing a green light to blind everyone else.

Ben's form started gaining more muscle as orange fur started covering his body along with black stripes appearing in random places. His teeth started growing sharper and his muscular hands grew black talons from them as he growled threateningly. This new creature resembled a tiger upon further inspection as his green eyes opened and the Ultimatrix symbol appeared on his chest.

"RATH!" Rath bellowed as he puffed his chest out and glared down the security bots surrounding him. "LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING OFFICER VANESSA, HEAD SECURITY GUARD OF FREDDY FAZBEAR'S MEGA PIZZAPLEX! RATH DOESN'T HAVE TO FOLLOW ORDERS! RATH DOES WHAT RATH PLEASES! RATH WILL NOT COMPLY WITH YOUR LAWS!"

Rath proceeded to break the handcuffs around him and put one of his talons through the face of a security bot picking up the body to throw into another one. He grabbed the last two robot heads and crushed them together as Vanessa backed up with wide scared eyes before shaking her head to get her nerves straight.

"WANNA ARREST RATH NOW?!" Rath offered as he held up his fists.

"You think a tiger is supposed to scare me?" Vanessa asked with her own glare back.

"RATH ISN'T JUST A TIGER! RATH IS THE TIGER! YOU DON'T WANT A PIECE OF RATH, LADY!" Rath boasted as he growled his angriest snarl.

Vanessa then smirked grabbing a small laser pointer from her belt and shot a red dot at the ground as Rath interrupted his own growls with astonished noises as he hunkered down.

"WHERE DID THIS RED DOT COME FROM?" Rath questioned as he reached a paw out for it, but Vanessa moved it all around him. "HEY! COME BACK HERE! NO, OVER HERE! I GOT YOU NOW! YOU CAN'T ESCAPE! COME ON! STOP MOVING!"

"Always works like a charm," Vanessa muttered as she also reached for her taser.

"LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING CURIOUS RED DOT DESIGNED TO PERK RATH'S INTEREST! RATH WILL HAVE YOU IN HIS PAWS SOON ENOUGH! JUST STOP MOVING SO RATH CAN GET YA!" Rath yelled as he covered the dot with both paws. "GOTCHA!"

"No, I got you!" Vanessa exclaimed as she shot Rath with the taser as the tiger alien screamed getting electrocuted before falling on his face.

Vanessa blew away smoke from her taser as a green light surrounded Rath before he turned back into Ben. Ben groaned laying defeated by the blonde security guard and he tried opening his eyes, but blackness soon won the battle drifting him to sleep.

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"Ben! Ben! Wake up! Ben! Come on! You gotta hear me!"

"Ugh….what time is it? I don't wanna go to school," Ben groaned as he was trying to come to until he felt a slap across his face instantly waking him up.

"School is the least of our concerns! We're trapped!" Gregory exclaimed as he looked around the office they were both trapped in.

"Did you have to slap me? Wait…Gregory, what are you doing here?" Ben asked as he was stunned to see the little kid.

"Uh….it's a bit of a long story. To keep it short, Freddy found two ways out of this place and when we tested one of them, I got caught by the officer lady," Gregory replied.

"I had my own run-in with her. I can fill the handcuffs on my wrists again," Ben stated as he felt metal cutting into his wrists despite the bandage he had on.

"What happened between you and her?" Gregory asked.

"She caught me in the vicinity and placed me under custody, but I managed to evade her until she outsmarted me," Ben replied.

Gregory checked around the room as both boys seemed to be in a tiny security office with small camera monitors for viewing the main atrium. There was also a locked door that led to a stairwell and a small vent leading into the Glamrock Gifts gift store as Gregory tried the door pulling on the lock, but it was no use as the knob only turned, but didn't open.

"We're locked in!" Gregory reported with his back leaning on the door.

Ben found himself seated in a swivel chair and saw a second pair of metal handcuffs around his wrists digging in making him slightly uncomfortable. He tried rolling around looking for more ways out, but a feed started coming in through a small walkie-talkie placed on the table with the monitors.

"I wouldn't even waste my breath, boys. You two aren't going anywhere," Vanessa stated as her voice came into clearance.

"Look, we aren't doing anything illegal," Ben argued.

"Is that really your best excuse? Trespassing and damaging property seem to be your main offenses, pretty boy, and it's been a headache trying to get that brat all night," Vanessa spat.

"Hey! You're the creep trying to get me!" Gregory protested that response as he pointed to the speaker device.

"Something's up. The animatronics are acting weird and I'm pretty sure they aren't supposed to be this hostile," Ben added.

"They are enhanced by security controls that are embedded into their systems. You would be surprised by the number of trespassers we have caught and turned over to the authorities. It's getting tiresome," Vanessa explained with a heavy sigh.

"So, we are just criminals to you?" Ben asked.

"You tell me a better reason for sneaking around here knowing it's closed down. You both are waiting there until the police arrive and that's final. There's no escape," Vanessa replied.

Suddenly, static filled the audio feed until another female voice came through the walkie-talkie, but it sounded way more mechanical and eerie than Vanessa's voice.

"Hehehehehehe….are you having fun yet? See you soon!"

"What the heck is that?!" Gregory exclaimed in terror as he backed up near Ben.

"We probably don't wanna know. Quick, find a key to these cuffs," Ben ordered.

Gregory looked around on the desk and tried searching through the paperwork piled on top tossing each sheet to the floor. However, footsteps could be heard coming down the stairs as Ben looked up seeing the same white rabbit figure from before skipping ever so elegantly before stopping outside the locked door waving to the boys inside.

"Gregory, hurry!" Ben ordered.

"What does this key even look like?" Gregory asked.

The door opened as the bunny lady giggled entering and her hands were up coming straight for Gregory. Gregory backed up as it seemed it was all over for him, but Ben used his free legs to trip the bunny figure to the ground getting a small irritated groan while the teen looked over to Gregory.

"Get going, Gregory! I'll hold this creep down!" Ben declared.

"I'm not leaving you!" Gregory protested.

The bunny crook got up and glared down Ben through the eyes of their mask before rearing back a right fist, but Ben pushed back so the punch hit nothing, but air. Ben got an idea as he nodded to Gregory.

"Get behind me! Push the chair when I say so!" Ben instructed.

Gregory got behind Ben holding onto the back of the swivel chair with shaky hands before Ben nodded to complete his plan and the little kid took a running start pushing Ben. The white rabbit noticed this before Ben put both feet up pushing them forward into the chest of their costumed adversary. The white rabbit crashed into the stairs as it groaned in pain while Ben got up from the chair.

"Sweet! Now, choose a transformation for me," Ben instructed.

"Seriously? I get to touch your watch?" Gregory asked with a shocked expression on his face.

"I can't see with these cuffs on me. You're going to have to do it," Ben replied. "Just push in the button and select one."

Gregory had a little fanboy smile on his face before dispelling it with the shake of his head and pushed in the main button as holograms came before him. He switched between XLR8 to Echo Echo to Chromastone to Jetray to one that he never seen before as he slapped down the dial for Ben to use this alien.

Ben felt his body becomingthinnerlike paper as his arms and body started becoming replaced by mere white bandages. Green energy pulses through the openings of the bandages as he started wearing a dark skirt with a yellow gold trim. He wears black arm and leg bracelets with green lines of energy running through them and they are fitted with the same yellow gold trim. He wears a bright green headdress with the same yellow gold trim and the Ultimatrix dial appears on his left bicep before he struck a pose.

"The Mummy? I haven't used this guy in years," Snare-Oh stated as he walked over to the vent shaft using his bandages to break open the vent door allowing Gregory to run through into the gift shop.

Snare-Oh crawled through as well as they ran into the first floor of the atrium, but the white rabbit criminal followed through an alternate door running for Gregory, but a stream of fire blasted the costumed criminal back leaving black scorch marks on the costume. Snare-Oh's eyes widened as he looked behind him looking even more shocked once he found out where the fire came from.

"Alan?!" Snare-Oh responded as green light overtook his form and he switched back to human.

Standing before Ben and Gregory, there was an alien made out of red molten rock and fire coursed through his veins as he had his own weird expression.

"Ben? Is that really you?" Alan asked.