Chapter 6: More Trespassing
"This is an awful idea! The worst idea you've ever had!" Damien hissed.
"Chicken." Ming threw back. The twins stood in front of the dark building, each holding a flashlight. It was midnight, and they stood in front of the side entrance to Freddy Fazbear's. A side entrance that Ming had shoved a wedge in the day before, so they could do exactly this.
"I change my mind. I don't want to do this."
Ming started making chicken noises at Damien. He pushed her. "I'm going home!"
"Fine! I'll go exploring myself. I'll prove it's haunted!" Ming boasted. "If you tell Mom and Dad, I'll bury your bear in the playground and never tell you where!"
Damien snorted. "I'm no snitch." He grumbled, walking back down the sidewalk home.
He would have stayed if he had known that would be the last time he saw his sister alive.
Ming laughed after her brother. What a chicken. She tested the side door. Yes! The wedge had worked perfectly, and none of the employees had noticed it was wedged open. She slowly entered the building, clicking on her flashlight and shining it around. She was in some kind of break room? She snuck into the next room. Ah. the party room. Now that's interesting.
Ming shone her light on the stage, beginning to film with her phone camera, and was disappointed to see that all the robots were on stage. Turned off.
"Maybe Foxy's doing something interesting..." After all, the robot had been out of order for a reason. Perhaps it still malfunctioned.
"Alright, we're heading into Pirate Cove to check out Foxy." She narrated for the camera. "So far, the robots appear ordinary... but appearances are deceiving. Let's see if Foxy really is trying to rip himself apart." She snuck up to the purple sparkling curtain behind which Foxy lurked. She was shaking a little, a bit nervous to get so close to the robot.
After a few seconds of hesitation, she pulled back the curtain... to find Foxy gone. The stage was vacant. Ming sighed, disappointed. Clearly, Foxy had been removed for servicing.
Suddenly, she heard footsteps. Somebody else was here! Ming quickly turned off her light and dove behind the curtain, her phone's camera lens peaking out through the crack between the curtain and the floor. Was it a ghost? A robot? An apparition?
It was a security guard in a purple uniform. Ming held her breath. She was disappointed, but she still didn't want to be caught. The security guard swept a flashlight around the room, then left. Good. He didn't suspect anything.
Once she was sure the guard was gone, Ming started in the opposite direction towards the Employee Only doors. Perhaps that was where Foxy was, being repaired or even stripped for parts. Maybe the yellow bear that had bitten her brother all those years ago really was still here somewhere, still with blood stained on its mouth.
Afton couldn't believe it. This girl was either incredibly stupid or incredibly ignorant and naive. Maybe she was all of those things. Maybe she wasn't... Maybe she knew...
He had noticed the wedge under the door when he had been locking up for the night. He hadn't put it there, and he knew no other employee would leave through this door unless they were taking out the garbage, which Afton had told the staff working there that day that he would take care of at the end of his shift. No, somebody who wanted to get into the restaurant had wedged the door, just enough that the lock didn't quite click. Had they thought he wouldn't notice?
He had decided tonight he would personally take the night shift, to find out who happened to be dumb enough to try and break into a restaurant that way.
Lo and behold, a girl that looked to be about 12 or 13 snuck in, flashlight shining brightly. There were cameras all over this restaurant. How could she not see them? She had her phone out, and looked to be filming.
She knew.
She was trying to uncover the rumoured haunting of the pizzeria.
Afton watched on the cameras. The girl was in the party room, her phone directed at the animatronics. They were being relatively well-behaved tonight. After all, it was barely midnight on a Monday night. They needed time to wake up from the slow weekend.
Then, clearly disappointed, the girl said aloud. "Alright, we're heading into Pirate Cove to check out Foxy."
Afton knew she was likely narrating for her video, but it almost sounded like he knew he was watching... and was baiting him...
He had to follow her. He had to stop her.
He headed for Pirate Cove. He would pretend to catch her and berate her for being here after hours. Maybe he would call the police on her.
He noticed the light that had been pouring from Pirate Cove turn off. Damn. She must have heard him coming.
Afton swept his flashlight around the room. There were only so many places the girl could hide. As he did this, he noticed a glint under the curtain of Pirate Cove. The girl was filming him. He knew it. She suspected him. Afton left the room and turned of his light, hiding around the corner to watch where she went. He had to get rid of her... permanently. She was a threat. He watched her head in the opposite direction, and trailed her quietly as she headed for the Employees Only door. There was no exit past that door, not even a fire exit or window. She would be trapped.
He grinned maliciously to himself. Fredbear. Good old Fredbear would do her in. The robot nobody knew he had. He just had to get her in the suit somehow.
Ming creaked open a door. Just a closet with cleaning supplies. The next room was more interesting, but more terrifying.
It was a security guard's office.
And it had a monitor with the camera to Foxy's Pirate Cove showing footage.
Ming gulped. She was so dead. If the cops saw the footage, she would get arrested for trespassing, at least. She had to figure out how to delete it.
She toggled the monitors. All it seemed she could do was switch cameras. There was no reverse footage button or anything like that. Maybe they didn't actually record anything? No that was stupid. Why have cameras that don't record footage?
"Oh, don't worry about that."