Summer, July 28th 2035, Saturday
8:00 AM
Hurricane, Pizzaplex 2F – Rockstar Row
Roxanne woke up in her Pizzaplex apartment behind her storage room and green room. Her internal alarm going off in her HUD. She turned it off, getting up from the bed, lifting up the red comforter that had her trademark black explosion design on it. As usual she was in her form fitting black short shorts and black sports bra as her lounge attire.
She grabbed her iPhone off her nightstand for any new notifications, texts, missed calls or news alerts, laying back in the bed scrolling through as her tail twirled around to the side.
A couple of messages fans sent her or photos she was tagged in of her and the bands performances the past few days. Another few from the last couple 18 plus dance nights where she met some fans face to face.
Then got ready to hop in the shower.
She put her phone down and set her feet down on the floor, promptly walking over to her dresser with a large mirror in it.
On her bed, she laid out her underwear and bra but also a form fitting zip up black suit she would use during special events in the raceway when she was a guest driver for a race. She also had black boots and black gloves. She wasn't planning on getting dressed up to go out somewhere today, no, instead the wolf had some work to do, and it had nothing to do with her main job entertaining guests at the Pizzaplex.
Instead she would be putting her mechanical skills to use today. Roxanne was the gearhead of the band, programmed to be mechanically gifted when she was built by Fazbear, to fit her racing and tough girl persona. Although this was part of her programmed skillset, it was not utilized much back when the old CEO of Fazbear Entertainment, Jason Tyler was running the company. Roxanne's manufactured life at the time consisted of performing in the band for their guests, signing autographs, meeting guests in her green room, racing on her track, doing mock interviews, photoshoots for marketing at the time and promoting her raceway.
She never handled the go-kart repairs, since technicians hired for that took care of that.
Even though she knows the components in and out, could do the work herself if given the opportunity and the tools, she was not permitted, and at the time the Parts and Services techs had a programmed block on her so she could not work on the karts off hours. The fact her raceway had multiple fully decked out garage bays was a tease for her back then. However, her 2033 Subaru WRX STI sedan she owns today, was used for her marketing photoshoots over the years, and it was the one thing they allowed her to build and tune herself.
Today, she is now not only one of the people that has a say on the marketing team, with her own office at HQ, but has taken over the mechanic's supervisor's office at the back of Roxy Raceway, with the techs reporting directly to her. She usually is at the office for about 20 minutes at a time on a normal day, when there is intermissions during events at the raceway, she still will come out to greet fans in between. A lot has changed since. She never thought she would be someone's supervisor, have her own apartment behind her green room, sleep on a real bed with a re-charge pad under it, or actually get to own and drive, on public roads, the car that marketing had her take photos with over the years.
When Freddy became CEO, he had an extra building added on to the back of the Pizzaplex, an enormous private garage shop with all the band members personal vehicles parked in it, like Freddy's 2035 Honda Odyssey van, Roxanne's 2033 Subaru WRX STI and her Hayabusa motorcycle, Chica's 2035 custom painted pink Honda Fit, Monty's 2035 lifted Ford F-150 truck, Foxy's 2035 Chevy Silverado truck, Cassidy's Hayabusa motorcycle, and Bonnie's 2035 Blue Toyota Corolla XRS.
It's amazing to think the band actually owns their own cars now, can drive them on public roads, and legally were cleared to do so ever since Freddy became CEO.
With the exception of Freddy's van, Roxanne's and Cassidy's motorcycles, all these cars were for marketing purposes when Jason Tyler was CEO. The band did not get to drive them, and they were owned by the company. Roxanne however did get to build up hers while the company supplied the parts she wanted. The rest were built and tuned by the local custom car shop, each custom painted to match the respective animatronics' color's with their patterns.
Today, Roxanne is the head maintainer of all the bands personal vehicles at the Pizzaplex, including the one Parts and Services bus that is now parked in the large two floor garage and shop building. Garage and shop on the first floor with a basic bathroom. The second floor consisted of a kitchen, lounge, full bathroom, gaming and living room and shared sleeping quarters with 5 beds, with each bed equipped with a charging pad, for those long nights. Rarely, there are some nights where Roxanne does not want to walk 15 minutes across the large Pizzaplex back to her room, and would sometimes crash the night in here on one of the beds, taking her suit off and sleeping under the covers in her underwear since no one else was usually around, and this building was completely off limits to customers and the 2nd floor was limited to only staff with a greater than 10 security level with the exception of the Glamrocks and Vanessa, including Gregory. But this time she left some clothes in a cabinet in the large shared bedroom next to the bed she has now claimed as her second bed. Just in case.
This bus was last used during the Pizzaplex incident, when glamrock engineer and designer Kellen Allenby, had to go to the hidden lab behind the incident that happened the night before.
Roxanne also maintained the old Freddy and Friends on tour 2020 Ford Econoline van, which the band does use today when on-tour. She has managed to keep the old van rust free giving it an undercoat treatment every year. She has done a custom paint job in the painting bay to do away with the old cartoony images of the classic four animatronics and put the new glamrocks on there with the updated looks of Freddy, Chica, Foxy and Bonnie.
Foxy would also store his boat here in it's own large dedicated bay on a boat trailer.
With Mangle part of the gang now and living at the Pizzaplex, she too was able to get her own car, thanks to Freddy and Foxy, a 2035 Honda Civic Type-R, white. However, recently, it had issues with emissions and a check engine light and failed state inspection when Mangle took it to get an inspection sticker.
But she's not the only mechanically inclined member, her fellow robot and father Foxy, also knows his way around cars and anything gas powered, and sometimes is working on projects in the shop on his off time.
While the Fox and Wolf, father and daughter team, could fix almost anything with the right tools, they did not do much of their own repairs on their own robot bodies. While all the glamrocks could do basic fixes to themselves to get by in a pinch, they left this work to the techs at Parts and Services, and would rather book an appointment with them to have issues with their robot bodies fixed.
Roxanne ran into the bathroom, stripped off her clothes, hopped in the shower and thought about her pending projects that awaited her there today as she let the hot water of the shower hit her gray, artificially toned, soft curvy feminine body.
V's car needs a tune up.
Mangle's need's to get looked at.
Then she remembered.
Oh shit that's right I was supposed to spend time with Greg today!
Roxanne was supposed to hang out with Gregory while Vanessa was busy with some things at the PizzaPlex today, part of the reason Vanessa asked Roxanne if she could look at her car while shes here, since she will be here all day.
The wolf finished up washing her long hair, her tail, then jumped out drying off in a towel.
She put on her outfit. Zipping it up over her chest.
8:30 AM
Vanessa would be here at 9 AM. Roxanne had about 30 minutes to stop by Fazpad upstairs to grab a quick a coffee and a bagel. While coffee did nothing for her since she's an animatronic, she enjoyed the taste, and it would help power her battery when her artificial stomach processes it. Ditto for the bagel.
Chica would sometimes go stop at Fazpad with her on their days off or when they had some time in the morning before customers arrived to the Pizzaplex. Today though, the glamrock chicken woman was sleeping in, she wore herself out during last night's dance night when she ignored her low battery warnings because she was having to much fun then her battery saver kicked in and she passed out in Freddy's arms when he was nearby on the dance floor and caught her before she fell.
Roxy's sweet bear was always being hero for everyone.
That's my darling sweet bear…
Roxanne waited at her shop in the back for Vanessa to arrive, since the blonde said she could bring her car directly into one of the many bay doors instead of parking in the employee parking spot.
While she waited she put her silver hair in a ponytail. She then sat by the open bay door with her coffee in hand, while scrolling through Twitter, the sunlight light of the outdoors filling in the by.
Vanessa pulled up in her 2033 Honda Fit, Roxanne guiding her into the garage bay to get the wheels over the lift system. It was in the bay next to Mangle's Civic Type-R.
"Hey Roxy, so it's definitely due for an oil change. Just tell me how much I owe you after." Vanessa said.
"V, girl, your family, remember? Don't worry about it." Roxanne said.
"Sorry old habits from previous mechanics. I haven't been used to having a family mechanic yet." Vanessa said grinning.
She looked at Gregory.
"C'mon honey." Vanessa said.
Gregory got out of the car.
"Pup-cup!" Roxanne said.
Roxanne ran up to Gregory lifting him up and giving him kisses on the cheek as her tail wagged.
"Roxy stop!" Gregory laughed as Vanessa smiled looking at the scene.
"Hey it's been awhile since I've seen my favorite." Roxanne said smiling as she put him down.
"So Roxy, how long do you think it will take?" Vanessa asked.
"Since yours is just an oil change, and replacing some spark plugs, I'd say 2 hours max." Roxanne said.
"Sounds good. Thank's Roxy. See you later Greggy." Vanessa said taking off for her office as her heels clicked on the floor.
"So its just you and I for a couple of hours pup-cup. I wish we could do something more fun, but I got to work on this car. At least we can keep each other company." Roxanne said.
"Well actually that does sound fun, I wanted to learn how to work on a car. My dad, my real dad, I used to watch him work on his car in the garage, and it was really cool, but he's gone so I have been a little rusty with cars. I, miss those moments." Gregory said.
Roxanne was taken aback, sad to hear how much her pup misses those father-son moments. But also happy to hear he is interested in this stuff. Roxanne wasn't his father of course, more like a sister, but she admits, more and more, she is feeling less like an older sister and more like a step mother or a second mother to Gregory, after all she can't help calling him "pup-cup", as in her pup.
"Well pup-cup, your in luck today. I'm gonna have you get your hands dirty and help me work on this Honda L15 engine in your mom's Fit. And depending on how far we get, that other car there, is Mangle's new car but it's been giving her trouble lately and I have a feeling her exhaust sensor need's to be replaced. So you up for it?" Roxanne asked.
"You don't even need to ask!" Gregory said with excitement.
"Okay then pup-cup, put on this." Roxanne said giving him a kid mechanics suit he can put on and zip up over his clothes. They often used these at the raceway junior tech internship program.
1 hour later….after changing the four spark plugs, one for each cylinder.
They were under the car now, Roxy had the car on a lift in the air so they could walk under it.
"Okay Greg, pay attention. I'm going to take this 17 millimeter socket wrench that matches the size of the drain nut, which is a 17 millimeter nut, under the oil pan and turn it counter-clockwise to lossen it. Have that drain bucket ready because it's going to start squirting out the oil as soon as I loosen it. Got it?" Roxanne asked.
"I'm ready." Gregory said holding the bucket.
"Here we go." Roxanne said turning the nut, black oil started dripping onto into the pan.
"Okay I'm going to loosen it completely now, I'll grab the nut if it falls in the pan. We can't lose that nut, we will need to put it back on once the old oil drains completely." Roxanne said as she completely loosened it and the oil poured out into the bucket Gregory was holding. The nut when in the bucket, but Roxanne fished it out with the disposable blue mechanic's gloves she slipped on over her good ones, before the bucket was completely full.
"Here. Great job pup-cup." Roxanne said putting a rolling table underneath to set the bucket on so Gregory can free his hands.
They waited until it drained, then Roxanne retied the nut back on with the socket wrench clockwise. They took the tables out from underneath the car and the bucket and Roxanne went to the lift controls to set the car back down on the ground.
Once the car was back down, they put new 5W-20 oil in the L15 engine. 4 quarts with Gregory, getting to pour it in with the funnel Roxanne gave him to put in the oil fill opening on the valve cover of the engine, they then put the oil cap on. Once Roxanne checked everything over, she opened up the bay door behind the car to let the exhaust outside, sat in Vanessa's driver seat and started the engine. It fired right up, and she let it run for a few minutes to make sure it ran without issues. Giving Gregory a high five in the process. She then sat in the drivers seat to perform the oil maintenance reset sequence, to reset the oil reminder back to 100 percent.
11:00 AM
"We make a good team." Gregory said.
"We sure do kid." Roxanne said her tail wagging.
"So that's mom's car, we do Mangle's now?" Gregory asked.
"Yup, but first food." Roxanne said taking him upstairs to the garage kitchen using her ID card to let her into the door to the 2nd floor areas at the top of the stairs.
She made a foot long Italian sub, with everything on it, since the kitchen fridge was huge and well stocked, then split it with him in half. They ate talked got back to work. Roxanne texted Vanessa that her car was all set, Vanessa texted back saying she's glad and is still in back to back meetings, and Roxanne let her know how Gregory was doing.
Back to work.
They got to work on Mangle's Civic Type-R, after Roxanne plugged in her mechanic laptop into the car's diagnostic port under the dashboard, she was able to confirm, the oxygen sensor on the exhaust pipe is bad based on the report the car's engine computer was able to relay back.
Sure the robot could just take the same USB to OBD2 connector and plug it in the hidden USB port behind her neck under a rubber skin flap, to scan it herself using her advanced AI, but Roxanne is old school anyway and is very picky about what she plugs herself into. If anything since the Glitchtrap incident, the Glamrocks will never plug anything into themselves anymore unless it's the techs diagnostic equipment at Parts and Services, they even disabled their USB interfaces in their HUDs so they won't even work with something plugged in, unless it's time for maintenance at Parts and Services.
On the lift it went, and Roxanne took the sensor out, showing Gregory how to deal with bolts that won't come off on an exhaust pipe, by heating them first with a portable torch to loosen them, then trying to take them off with the wrench.
They decided to take a ride to the local auto parts store in Roxanne's car to get the right part for Mangle's car. It was a run ride and a nice day.
4:00 PM
They got the part and installed it, Roxanne was able to plug her laptop back into the car and erase the trouble code for the sensor, and now the car's check engine light is now off.
Vanessa was now finished with her work, and ready to head home.
"C'mon honey time to go home." Vanessa said.
"Mom, can I stay the night tonight? To hang with Roxy more?" Gregory said remembering his room at the Pizzaplex.
Roxanne's tail wagged with joy hearing this. Her tail was actually flapping against the side of the rolling table making a thud, she grabbed her tail containing her joy while smiling.
"No. Oh c'mon Greggy, of course you can. I can come back to pick you up in the morning. You have your other change of clothes at your room here right?" Vanessa asked.
"Yup." Gregory said.
"Okay then see you tomorrow honey. Love you!" Vanessa said embracing and kissing the boy on the head.
"Hey V, I'll drop him off tomorrow morning. No need to come in the morning to pick him up." Roxanne said.
"Okay that works too. See ya Rox!" Vanessa said getting in her car and heading home.
As soon as Vanessa was gone, Roxanne picked up the boy smothering him with love, kissing him again on the cheek and the top of his head.
They spent the rest of the night at the garage second floor, after Gregory got his change of clothes from his room back in Rockstar Row, and Roxanne picked up a few things from her apartment behind her green room.
They marathoned the "The Fast and The Furious" films back to back while making fun of them for how over the top they are in the lounge upstairs, Roxanne in her red tanktop and black shorts, Gregory in his blue monty shirt this time and black shorts on the couch.
When it was time to go to bed, Gregory initially slept on the bed next to Roxanne's in the sleeping quarters, but then crawled into Roxanne's laying next to her. She didn't protest.
She kissed on the boy on his forehead saying goodnight, as the lights went out, and her bushy tail acted as an additional blanket covering him.
Guess I really am like a second mom to you, not that I'm complaining.
I think I'm okay with that. My pup.
With that, she fell asleep with a smile on her face.