I'm back, and ready to get back into this. I've been a bit busy the past few months guys, but no more lack of updates. It certainly won't be multiple times a day anymore, but I won't let this go more than two weeks without updating. Here we go into night 3, and things just might start to pick up a bit here. You'll just have to read on and find out…
Feeling a heavy hand on her shoulder, Shadow sighed again and leaned backwards against Nightmare. At the creaking of Foxy's joints coming down the hallway, she turned to look at the confused animatronic fox.
"Lass…ye've worked at the pizzeria before? And ye still came back?"
Nightmare let out a rumbling warning growl, causing Foxy to take a cautious step backwards and flatten his ears. Sighing again, Shadow straightened up and rubbed her face.
"Yeah Foxy, I used to work at the pizzeria. 10 years ago. I was the weekend night guard. My friend that died there was the weekday guard. He died the night I decided to come get something I forgot…never believed him when he told me stories about what the night shift was like during the week. I came in the door…and Freddy was there. I screamed, which alerted my friend…I'll never forget him running down the hallway with panic in his eyes, throwing that tablet at Freddy's head…"
Shadow shook her head.
"I should have died there that night as well, but…I didn't. Instead, I found out things I never thought could be possible. I made a promise Foxy, to end the senseless slaughter of innocents…and I hope that you can help me. If you could change…maybe the others can too."
Smiling softly at Foxy, Shadow turned around and grabbed her coat from the closet.
"Anyways! I need to go to the store and pick some things up before my shift tonight. Plush, behave here at home with Foxy. Nightmare, I'll come to see you and Fredbear tomorrow some point. I want answers and I'm not leaving until I get them."
Nightmare chuckled.
"Very well little one. I'll take my leave. You seem to trust the fox, and I trust your judgement."
Nightmare disappeared into the dark with an evil laugh, making Shadow roll her eyes.
"Always with the dramatics…"
With a wave goodbye at Foxy and Plushtrap, Shadow walked out of the house.
11:30pm, Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria
Walking in humming cheerfully, Shadow shifted the bag on her back carefully, Plushtrap clinging to her head.
"What do you think buddy, will old Fazbear give me a break after this?"
Plushtrap chattered angrily, shaking his head. Shadow chuckled.
"Aw come on Plush, I'm willing to give the old bear a chance. Everyone has the potential to change."
Plushtrap snorted and shook his head again as Shadow walked into the main party room and placed the bag down. Walking over to the stage and climbing up, feeling the animatronics eyes on her, Shadow just smiled.
"I hope you don't mind me borrowing your cupcake for a second Chica. That candle looks just seconds away from falling off, I can fix that. Admittedly I'm not great with a needle and thread, but if I can manage to make two teddy bears, surely I can patch the candle…oh. Right. You can't move…blink once for no, twice for yes."
When Chica blinked twice, Shadow beamed at her and gently picked the cupcake up, pulling a needle and thread out of her pocket before going to work. Putting it back up a minute later, Shadow smiled again.
"There we go. No risk of the candle falling off now. Let's see…what else did I have to do tonight…"
Jumping off the stage, Shadow wandered over to the bag she had brought, humming to herself. Rummaging around in it, she eventually pulled out two oversized bowties and an oversized top hat. Placing them on the table, she turned around and leaned against it, looking up at Freddy and Bonnie.
"I couldn't help but notice both of your bowties were getting quite frayed and stained, as well as your top hat Freddy. It's up to you guys, but I brought you some properly sized new ones."
Looking at her watch, Shadow sighed.
"Looks like I need to get to the office. Like I said, up to you if you want the new stuff, I'll just leave it here."
Shadow grinned cheekily.
"See you later!"
Settling herself down in the office chair and handing the tablet to a chirping Plushtrap, Shadow propped her chin on her hand as the call started.
"Hello, hello? Hey, you're doing great! Most people don't last this long. I mean, you know, they usually move on to other things by now. I'm not implying that they died. Th-that's not what I meant."
Shadow snorted and shook her head.
" Uh, anyways, I'd better not take up too much of your time. Thing's start getting real tonight. Uh…hey, listen, I had an idea; if you happen to get caught and want to avoid getting stuffed into a Freddy suit, uh, try playing dead! You know, go limp. Then there's a chance that, uh, maybe they'll think you're an empty costume instead. Then again, if they think you're an empty costume, they might try to…stuff a metal skeleton into you. I wonder how that would work. Yeah, never mind, scratch that. It's best just not to get caught. Um…okay, I'll leave you to it. See you on the flip side."
Shadow rolled her eyes.
"I'm more worried about this companies blatant disregard for their employee's safety than I am for my ability to escape."
Looking at Plush, he handed the tablet back to her.
"If things are supposed to get 'real' tonight, why haven't any of them come to visit me yet…?"
Flipping through the cameras, she stopped on the main party room, smiling slightly. Chica was straightening Freddy's bowtie, with him rolling his eyes at her and Bonnie grinning and laughing at something. She swapped the camera to one of the hall monitors, not wanting to intrude.
"See Plush? I told you people could change. That goes for animatronics too."
Flipping through the cameras again, Shadow frowned and closed the right door. Soon, Freddy came into sight, trailed by Chica and Bonnie.
"Night guard. We wanted to come down to…ah..."
Freddy stopped, and scowled when Bonnie gave him a nudge.
"We wanted to come down and say thank you. We…may have misjudged you."
Bonnie pushed his way past Freddy, ignoring the annoyed growl from the bear.
"What he's trying to say, is we'll leave you alone now. You're welcome to come out if you want, but we can understand if you don't want to. We haven't really given reasons for you to trust us."
Shadow snorted.
"That's an understatement. You've spent the past two evenings trying to kill me. Emphasis on trying."
Shadow snickered at the angry growl from Freddy.
"Aww, come on Fazbear, you can't deny it. I'm not like any guard you've ever known, there's no way you'd catch me."
Chica and Bonnie exchanged glances and rolled their eyes, Chica muttering something to Bonnie quietly.
"No wonder Freddy doesn't like her much…they're too similar."
The glaring continued until Plushtrap chattered impatiently and climbed on top of Shadow's head, the small rabbit making a rude gesture at the bear in the window. Freddy growled and narrowed his eyes, but looked intrigued when Shadow put Plushtrap on the desk and started scolding him.
"I swear Plush, I come here trying to make peace and all you're doing is trying to stop fights. No, you can't go gnaw on his leg, no, you can't mess their wires up, and no, I'm not crazy! I'm going to send you back to Nightmare and Fredbear if you keep this up!"
Plushtrap made one last noise then crossed his arms and sat crossly on the edge of the desk. Shadow shook her head and chuckled.
"Silly little rabbit, you're too small to do more than annoy them."
Shadow tapped Plushtrap's nose.
"I can take care of myself buddy. Nightmare made sure of it. Pretty sure Fredbear still has the scar."
Freddy made a noise similar to that of a human clearing their throat. Shadow started, and turned to look at the animatronics in the window.
"Sorry…I forgot you guys were there. Not used to having an audience when I'm dealing with Plush. He can be a bit of a troublemaker sometimes…"
Chica smiled.
"It's alright, Foxy's a troublemaker sometimes too."
Bonnie frowned thoughtfully.
"Where is the old fox anyways? Usually he'd make a pass at the guard by now."
Shadow hummed.
"I got it on good word that he was going to be scrapped, so I convinced the manager to let me take him home to repair him. I'll have him back here fully repaired by Saturday morning."
Freddy raised an eyebrow.
"Why? Obviously you knew everything about what happens to the night guard when you took the job. Why take it, why offer to fix one of the same animatronics that would so willingly kill you? Why offer to fix any of us?"
Shadow sighed and leaned against the desk, pushing some of her hair out of her face.
"To show you not everyone is the same. Not everyone is looking to cause pain, and to hope, that maybe, you could change."
Shadow smiled ruefully.
"I came here as a little kid, I loved watching you guys perform. When I took the job as the weekend night guard 10 years ago, I thought I would be living in a dream. Instead, the day I came to get my coat during the week, I found out I was living a nightmare. The animatronics I loved were cold blooded killers."
Bonnie and Chica exchanged a glace, and Freddy lowered his head to stare at the ground.
"I watched a good friend die, and if it wasn't for some strange twist of fate, I would have died that night too. Coming to take this job, here and now, I didn't believe there was a chance you could change, but then I met Foxy last night. He let me hide in the cove and outright lied to you Freddy, but something he said made me believe there's more to this than I know. He said a male guard started this all…started what?"
It was Freddy's turn to sigh, shaking his head.
"30 years ago, an employee used one of the empty suits to lure 4 children to one of the back rooms. They were murdered, bodies never found and the employee never caught. All we knew was that the employee was the night guard. We were still young, had only recently been put online. We thought all the guards would be like him…so we decided to stop it. If they wanted to use the suits…well, who were we to deny helping them in putting them on?"
Shadow scowled and stood up, glaring at Freddy.
"People aren't all the same! Everyone has the potential to do bad, yeah, but not everyone is a monster! You've been killing innocents for 30 years. Many of them had families, or a future to look forward to, and you took that away from them."
Shadow looked like she wanted to continue, but paled when the building let out a dying hum and the power blacked out. With the sound of metal on metal, the door between her and the animatronics slid up.
*cackles* Cliffhanger! Remember to review, and have a good day!