Fire spread across the room as familiar faces started to melt. The destroyed clown that was once the prettiest of the group, the living pile of wires that was everything and somehow represented that of a bear, the other bear that was somehow in condition to perform during the day, the rotten green rabbit who had started all of this…. and him. Micheal Afton, was ready to accept his fate, and more importantly, he was freeing the souls of those who have been ever tortured by his father's sins. As he took off his white bear mask, and let the fire consume him, he was overwhelmed with the unwanted memories of his past…
" E̷̸̶̷̴̶̸̥̱͑̾V̸̸̷̸̷̶̶͚̲̈́̋A̴̷̶̸̴̸̶̻̾͐͑Ń̵̵̷̸̵̷̵̴͉̩̮͑ WAKE UP, I'M SORRY!…"
"Freddy…?" Gregory said with a concerned look on his face, "Are you ok?"
When Glamrock Freddy snapped back to reality, he realized that he had been thinking about that night again.
"Yes, I'm fine. What's up Superstar?" Freddy asked. Realizing that he had already been fully charged, he stepped out of the charging station and opened his stomach hatch to allow Gregory to step out.
Gregory hopped out of Freddy's stomach hatch and stood straight while Freddy looked at his light-ish dark-ish brown hair and tannish pale skin. It reminded Freddy of when they had first met. Freddy had glitched out in the middle of a show and was unconscious for the remainder of the day. When he had awoken, he discovered that Gregory had somehow snuck into his stomach hatch. Ever since then, he had helped Gregory get around the pizza plex, as it was more complicated than just avoiding officer Vanessa with the other Glamrocks and Vanny roaming about.
Vanny had mysteriously appeared the same night as Gregory, and for some reason, none of the bots could see her, including Freddy. What he did know from Gregory's description of her, was that she was a white rabbit suit wielding a knife that was bigger than average size, that's all he knew of her. They hadn't even known her name until recently when Gregory found a secret room with the word VANNY written on the wall. Until then she had been simply referred to as 'The Rabbit Lady'. Freddy had assumed that she was the reason the other Glamrocks had been acting up the way they had.
But this time, Freddy had been reminded of someone else when he looked at Gregory, and for a second, Gregory's hair looked a darker shade of brown and neater than usual, not really 'neat', just less messy. His skin had looked more tannish than usual and his eyes went from bright orange-brown to black with thin white circles for pupils. His bandaids were gone and his shirt went from bright blue to a dull gray. His light khaki shorts became dark blue, his brightly colored velcro tennis shoes had changed to simple gray laced shoes. And his expression went from slightly annoyed and concerned, to almost terrified, with tears running down his face. This wasn't Gregory he was seeing. Freddy was being reminded of him again… Freddy's face started twitching at the sight and his eyes widened…
"Freddy! You spent 1 hour in that charging station and you're still low?" Gregory said, assuming that Freddy was twitching from low power.
When Freddy blinked, Gregory looked normal to him again, "I'm fine Superstar…" Freddy lied, "Just… haven't had maintenance done in a bit is all." It stung him inside when he lied to his Superstar, but it was what he thought was best.
"I think I found some!" Elizabeth said excitedly phasing through the locker door to meet up with CC. When she got to him, she proudly held up two of the small black circle chips with a smaller light bulb inside that became green when powered on. She gave it to CC and waited for him to try it out. CC stuck it to his cheek like a sticker and clicked it on.
When CC turned it on, the changes were almost immediate. His golden bear mask covering his face had been replaced with a simple pair of golden bear ears. His shirt stayed the same dull gray with the light gray stripes that it always was. Not everything about his outfit was the same as before. His once dark blue shorts were now a dull, grayish-blue pair of shorts with suspenders. His hair in the front was longer than he remembered, with dark golden tips at the very bottom. His bangs nearly covered his eyes, but he didn't seem to mind. At least he wouldn't be noticed by anyone nearly as easily as he would've been before. But more importantly, his frontal lobe, which wasn't even there before activating the disk, now looked to be in perfect condition, as if it had never happened. There was no longer blood dripping down his hair and usually covered face. Other than that, he looked pretty similar to before…
"My turn!" Elizabeth said, even more excited than before. She pulled out her chip as well. Elizabeth's chip looked a lot more different than the one she had found for CC. It looked like a proper circuit chip, with worn text written on a piece of tape on the chip.
" s"
Elizabeth studied the chip before sticking it to the back of her neck. Again, the changes took place almost immediately after clicking on the chip. Her outfit didn't change nearly as much as CC's had. It was almost the same as before. The only difference was that her shirt went from a bright pink button-up to a long-sleeved sweatshirt that was more of a dull reddish pink. Her bright light blue skirt came with overall suspenders as well. Her hair was dullish orange with blonde tips. Her eyes were bright green and almost glowing. One of her eyes had a square-shaped pupil, and her face had freckles from cheek to cheek across her face. Her hair was a bit longer and more neatly done, and her iconic red bow was still on her head. She had knee-high socks and no shoes.
Elizabeth laughed a little as she found it funny how easy it was to look normal. She tried to tie her orange hair into a ponytail only to realize she didn't have a hair tie. She sagged and gave a funny-looking frown only to sit back up again. "Let's go see the Pizza Plex!" Elizabeth exclaimed with excitement.
CC gave a small smile but didn't say anything. Elizabeth started to skip along as her hair seemed to float in the air revealing some red highlights in her hair. CC walked behind her at a much slower pace. They walked out of the dark colorful room into a bright LED-aligned arena.
A young boy with hazel hair and orange eyes that almost matched CC in clothes, but his shirt was blue and not black and gray. The boy shot lasers at a white chicken. The chicken was a larger animatronic with a few pink spots. "Oooo! That must be the new Chica!" Elizabeth said even more excited than she was moments before.
The boy turned his head towards the two as if he had heard Elizabeth exclaim. CC shrank back as the animatronic came closer and closer. The boy then ran towards the two kids hopping over the rail with little turbulence. He ran up to them, out of breath the boy asked "What are you doing here? I thought I was the only kid here." He put his hands on his knees to catch his breath. "By the way. I'm Gregory"
"I'm Elizabeth, this is my brother CC! He's not a talker so don't expect him to talk." Elizabeth introduced with a huge smile.
"Are you guys also getting chased by the wicked rabbit lady? I think her name was Vanny," Gregory asked.
"Vanny?" Elizabeth asked looking at CC with confusion only to get the same look in return.
"I'll take that as a no."Gregory sighed in defeat.
"Superstar, are you done in Fazer blast? The round ended three minutes ago, and apologize to Chica for me." Freddy said through Gregory's faz-watch.
"Yeah I'm done, there are more kids, I was just talking to them," Gregory explained with a bland boring tone.
"More kids! Oh my, bring them to me please," Freddy said, sounding a bit rushed.
"One of them looks like me but younger. And the other is a little girl," Gregory added.
"Come on, let's go," Gregory ordered. The two followed at a slow pace behind Gregory. Once they left the Arena a tall orange bear stood.
"There you are, Superstar!" He said, leaning down toward Gregory. He looked at CC and Elizabeth.
"Who are you Shiningstars?" He asked as CC hid behind Elizabeth. He couldn't help but feel something familiar about them.
"I'm Elizabeth and this is my brother Ev- CC! He's not much of a talker so don't expect him to talk," She repeated the introduction she gave Gregory.
Freddy stayed motionless, his eyes went wide and he tried to convince himself that it was just a coincidence. He looked down at CC who hid behind Elizabeth, he looked almost the same as…
"He's scared of animatronics," She added.
"Oh my. I'm so sorry Shinningstar!" Freddy said, trying to keep a calm voice, "I wish I could change my appearance to look more human for you! But sadly that's just not possible." Freddy apologized.
Elizabeth lit up. "That's not true! I have illusion disks. I only have two more, but I have this one!" She exclaimed with a smile as she pulled a familiar machine.
"Are sure that's safe?" Freddy asked. Elizabeth smiled.
"It's supposed to be just for souls, but I wonder what will happen if you give it to an animatronic without a soul," Elizabeth explained as she stuck the machine to his face. "Now this seems like an older model. So give me one second…" She said as she messed with the thing. A click could be heard that let her know it had been activated.
"Ok, well while you mess with that I'm gonna go-" Gregory got cut off by a nauseating ringing sound for a moment. "WHAT IS THAT SOUND-" When it ended, he regained his balance and looked up where Freddy had been standing moments before and was surprised at what he saw…
He(Freddy?) had dark brown medium-length hair that led to the back of his neck. He wore a white Freddy mask that looked like it would fall apart any minute. It already had a hole in the mask which showed a hot pink dot where his eye was supposed to be. The skin around was a darkish purple. He wore a blue button shirt with yellow overalls. It almost distracted the three kids from his rotting skin. His blue long sleeves were rolled up and black gloves perfectly covered all of the showing skin on his arm.
"Hey wait…" Elizabeth inspected him with slight suspicion. She suddenly made the connection, "YOU'RE the guy who worked at Circus Baby's…I think your name was Eggs Benedict, right?"
Michael cringed at that name, Eggs Benedict, it was an autocorrect error with the keypad a few years ago, but he figured it would be best if they didn't know who he was… "Yeah, that would be me…" He said with a slight edge in his voice.
CC made eye contact with Michael, he felt something was familiar about him… But he couldn't quite place it. There were several things that CC had felt this way about, most of which had been explained to him by Charlie, as he didn't remember much about his life. Mainly just the worst parts, almost all the memories he did have had two reoccurring faces. And for some reason when he made eye contact with this 'Eggs Benedict' guy, he felt he was staring right at one of them…
Mike felt a cold wave of terrible memories he had tried to suppress, looking at CC now… Michael knew that CC didn't recognize him, and he assumed that things were better this way as remembering may only bring conflict between them again. Even though Michael knew that CC had every right to feel angry,(if this even WAS how CC felt) he'd rather the two be seen as strangers for now…
Elizabeth looked at the two, not knowing anything about what was going on, "Well, I'm gonna go do what we came to do and that is to explore the new location!" She said with a sudden burst of energy. Elizabeth was always known for tolerating about 2 seconds of silence at the very most. She then swung around in a random direction and ran off, unsure where she was going to end up.
"Hey wait!" Gregory yelled, Elizabeth didn't stop running, but she did slow down a bit. Gregory ran to catch up with Elizabeth, leaving the other two behind. Once he did catch up, he said, "I'm bored of just standing around, and you don't seem to know your way around here too well. So I'll tag along for a while!" The two then ran out of view towards the ''Rockstar row'' section.
A long black slender figure sat slouched against the cold dirty concrete walls. The face was falling apart. It had white strips on the spork-like arms and the point legs. The purple tears dripped down its face and if it could frown it would be at this moment. A small dimly lit light flickered in its eyes.
"̶̶̶̶̶̙̀B̶̸̶̶̶͍̔ë̶̸̶̶̶͙́t̶̶̶̶̶̝͘ȟ̶̷̶̶̶̢a̶̵̶̶̶͚̋n̶̴̶̶̶̊ͅy̶̸̶̶̶̬̎.̶̸̶̶̶̯͝.̶̶̶̶̶̖͋.̶̶̶̶̶̖͝.̶̴̶̶̶͖̏"̶̶̶̶̶̣͂ it spoke in a torn-apart voice. Anyone who saw this would feel pity for it. ̵̶̸̺͚̺̳̞͖͑͑͑̾S̸̶̵̲̯̍͐͘-̷̶̷̱̝͕̦͌͝A̵̶̴̡̼̙͆͛̉̔-̶̶̶̛͙̈́̔̀͜V̷̶̶͖̱̗̏̅͘̕͝-̶̶̸͖͖̤̞̝̺̇͂̃͌̕͝Ẽ̴̶̶͍̣̫̗̃͠ ̶̶̷̬͚̮͚̏̉̏̓̏T̷̶̶͍̬́̃͒̕͜-̶̶̸̲̣̳͇͐̈́̐͂H̸̶̴͉̫̤͕̩́̀̈͋͜-̵̶̵̭̣͖̑̊̍͋̊Ē̵̶̵̪̝̬͍͆-̵̶̶̧̗̙͕̈́̀͠M̸̶̸̡̹̜̖̈́̀͑ ̶̶̶͈̯̞̪͆̀͌̈́̌͆"̴̶̸̢̛̺͚̀͂̊̍ it spoke once more. It repeated these words, taking a longer break each time.
Light footsteps approached. The footsteps almost sounded as if they were padded.
"̷P̷o̸o̶r̵ ̸C̶h̵a̷r̴l̵i̵e̴ ̸o̶n̸l̴y̴ ̷w̴a̷n̸t̶e̷d̷ ̴t̴o̸ ̸w̶i̴s̸h̵ ̷E̸̶̴͚̝̊̚v̷̶̵̺̞̏́ḁ̸̶̴͖͛̕ǹ̸̶̶̩̫̈́ ̶a̸ ̴g̵o̴o̴d̴ ̶b̷i̵r̶t̴h̶d̷a̵y̶" As Vanny spoke, her voice almost appeared to be sarcastic and mocking, but with her glitchy voice, it was hard to tell any emotion in her words. She lifted her mask revealing a cold set of glowing purple eyes.
Suddenly, Vanessa, a nightguard who looked to be in her early 20s, and had light, nearly bleached blonde-looking hair in a high ponytail, and the one who was dressed in the rabbit suit known as Vanny had collapsed to the ground. A large, purple and black, distorted rabbit-like figure known as Malhare stood behind the collapsed nightguard.
"A̶̷̶̶̶̶̶̶̶̺͈̻̩͋̑F̶̸̶̶̶̶̶̶̶̛͕̹̱̌͝T̶̵̶̶̶̶̶̩͒͛̕Ó̶̵̶̶̶̶̶̶̶̶̶̶̶̶̧̫̝̯͎͂̏̑̍̕N̶̴̶̶̶̶̶̻̜̏̌.̶̴̶̶̶̶̶̶̶̨̩̳͇̻͗.̶̸̶̶̶̶̶̶͇́̀̑̔.̶̸̶̶̶̶̶̶̶̶̶͉̼̉͒̊͋̋̌.̶̵̶̶̶̶̶̶̶̶̳̼̺̍̔̚̚"̶̸̶̶̶̶̶̶̶̶̶̢͔̯̟̫̣̍̈́̚" The broken voice stated coldly with no emotion. But there was some emotion there, very little, but HE could tell he was getting to Charlie. And he felt very satisfied with himself. He showed this with a wide, wicked grin.
"̴̳̊ ̸̚ͅA̸͇̚w̵̪̆,̵̭̆ ̸̼͝l̷̤̀o̵̻͐o̵̺̍k̶͇̀s̵͖̎ ̷̯͌l̸̯̄i̶̺̕ḱ̶̩e̵̬̍ ̵̗͂y̴̙̽o̶̥͂u̴̟͝'̶̑ͅr̵̘͋ḙ̷̔ ̴͔͛s̴̠̃t̸̫̐i̶̤̇l̵͙̏l̴̙͝ ̴͈̋ḫ̵̕a̴͕͐t̸̻̄ë̷̡́f̵̓ͅu̶̟̍ļ̷̆ ̷̥̋ä̶͙́s̸̗͊ ̸̞͂ă̵̩l̶̯̃w̸̱̅a̸͖͆ỳ̶̱s̶̪̿!̷̜̈́ ̶͙̂W̷͕̅h̸͔̎a̴̢̐t̷̲́'̸̛͖s̶͉̏ ̴̟͊ẅ̶ͅr̵̠͆ö̵̢́n̸̤̓ġ̶̲ ̸̰͋l̷̥̕i̸̪͘t̵̖̄ṱ̸̈́l̸̤̑e̶̩͗ ̸̡͒Ç̸͑h̷̛̥a̷͖̎r̸̗͝l̵̦̂i̸͘͜e̶̞͌?̷̮̔ ̷̰͆"̷̪̆ Malhare teased with a mocking tone to his glitched out voice. "̵͈͠ ̴̫̍S̵͍̏p̵̩͐e̵͕̐ã̶̝ḵ̸͑i̶̹͘ń̸͙g̴͕̐ ̷̼̾ö̷̻f̷̺̈ ̸̩̍ŵ̸͙h̴͙͝ḭ̴̕c̶͖̑ḧ̶̦́,̸͔̏ ̶͓̚w̵̡̿ḣ̴̤a̵̠̾ẗ̷͓́ ̸̦̈́d̶̯̑ȯ̷̠ ̷̛̹y̸̤͂o̷͚͂ṵ̴̉ ̵̰̚t̷̻͒h̸̺̓i̸̬͠n̴͙͝ǩ̷̥ ̵̬͛ơ̴̢f̷̡̀ ̴̲͂m̵̠̐y̴̻̕ ̵̪̿l̷̪̂i̵̝͝t̵͉̀t̵̗͛l̶̰̆e̴̱͑ ̵̳̅p̴̼̍u̴̩̿p̷͉̂p̶̖̓é̷͔t̸͕̀ ̷̲̓h̶̩̉e̵̬͛r̵̰̔e̶͈͝?̴̠͝ ̶͈̿"̴̩́ He said, gesturing down to Vanessa, who was barely waking up at this point.
Vanessa's eyes were no longer that bright purple with glowing red pupils, but now they were dull green with normal black pupils. She looked extremely tired like she hadn't gotten sleep in several days or even weeks, other than that, she didn't seem to think this to be abnormal. She simply stood up and started to leave the room. She was stopped dead in her tracks by what felt like a giant hand grabbing her by the bottom of the neck down, only there was nothing there. Her body was forced to turn around, Malhare was on the other side of the room, clenching his fist toward Vanessa. When he clenched it tighter, Vanessa felt the restraints on her body tighten. As he lifted his hand, Vanessa found herself several feet above the ground.
" ̴̬̕A̵̩̍n̸̙̈́ḋ̵͎ ̷̬̈́w̴͍̽h̵͈̔e̶̅ͅȓ̷̗e̴̫͠ ̴͓̀d̶̖͠õ̴̺ ̵͖̄y̶̠̓o̷̮̔ű̸̦ ̶͉͘t̴̠̑h̸͇͗i̴̙̋n̵͔̈́k̴̗̉ ̴͕̊ÿ̴̝́o̸̡̊u̷̱̐'̸̥̌r̴̿ͅe̶̫̿ ̴͎̓g̶̜̈́o̵͕̾ǐ̷̤n̶̡̐g̶͍̀.̵͚͝.̶̱͝?̷̦̓ ̸̼͐ " Malhare questioned her. He didn't turn towards her, but she could still feel his eyes lock onto her. Vanessa stayed silent, mainly due to his tight grip on her chest that was making her barely able to breathe. He loosened his grip on her, eventually dropping her about 5 feet to the ground. ".̴͙̒.̸̼͆.̵͖͝Ḭ̶͒ ̵̏͜Ń̴͎e̵͈̕v̶̖͋ē̷͜r̸͙̅ ̸̥̿s̴̥͠ḁ̵̑i̴̗̊ď̶̫ ̵̱̽y̷͙̽ô̶͈u̵̫͠ ̴͉͛c̷̱͘o̷͎̅ų̵͠l̷̩̀d̵̪͗ ̵̺̽l̵̮̋e̵̜̿ä̴͔́v̸̢̐ẻ̸̫,̸̣͑ ̴̝̌d̴̖͂i̴̤̔d̸̗̋ ̵̛̼Ḯ̷ͅ ̴͇̉n̷̗͆o̷͚͛w̷̬̏.̶̠͐.̴͉̀.̷̲̕.̵̭͑.̴́ͅ.̶͍͒?̵̨̎" His voice seemed almost impatient with her. She still said nothing in return, she didn't even bother getting back up, she just stayed on the ground and waited to be addressed…
Suddenly, Malhare was tackled to the ground by a small child that looked to be the age of about 6 or 7. They had short, curly black hair that stopped at their shoulders. They wore a greyish-yellow undershirt with black shorts and matching suspenders. There was blood staining their clothes and the shirt had tears in the sleeves, and they had a dark yellow bear mask that had cracks. The eyeholes of the mask revealed a set of dark red pupils. "Ā̵̵̵͓͕͊R̶̶̸̡͖͊̆Ê̶̷̶͕͚̎ ̴̸̵͎͑͝ͅY̵̵̵̯̩̿͝Ỏ̶̸̶͉̬̚Ù̶̷̵̘͈̒ ̴̸̵̙̘̓̔Ȑ̴̴̴̭̝͝E̸̵̴̠̤̔̈́A̸̷̶̘̹̔͝D̴̵̸͍̿͑͜Y̸̷̶̪͇̊̒ ̴̸̸͈͖̀̇T̷̸̴̯͕͛̕O̷̸̵͇̙̚̚ ̸̷̸̤͔̏̒Ǧ̷̴̶̢̩̕Ó̵̴̷͔̤͒ ̷̴̷̡̱͛́B̸̸̴̤̗͒͠Ã̸̷̸̡͍͆C̷̸̸͇͆͐ͅK̷̷̷͕̗̓̑ ̷̶̶̡̭͒̽T̸̶̶͚̙̀͝Ọ̴̴̷͕͌̓ ̴̴̶̳̯̊̋H̵̶̶͔̹͐̄Ḝ̷̴̵̳͋L̶̴̶̛͎̦̈Ľ̶̸̴̳̙͊ ̶̷̸̼͚͊͒Â̸̶̸̩̦̆F̸̷̴̫̯̋̅T̴̵̵̛̲̈́͜O̷̸̸͖̹̓̐Ṉ̸̷̴̨̀́?̷̴̸̨̟͒̀?̶̸̸̭̖̉̋?̵̴̶̤̭͆̈ " The child sounded furious with Malhare, they had all the right to be. The child then proceeded to violently pull on Malhare's rabbit-like ears, doing everything in their power to put him through any kind of pain. "D̷̴̵͇́͌͜O̸̷̸̗͚̔͒N̴̸̴̳͓̉̍'̵̵̷̣̟̌̔T̶̴̷̮̱̍̅ ̸̸̷̧̪͊̋T̴̸̸̝̲̑̓O̵̶̶̝̱̓́Ũ̸̶̵̙͠ͅC̵̷̶̘̳̐̔H̸̴̸̘̝̆͆ ̷̴̷͉̘̾̀M̶̴̴͇̼͛̇Y̵̷̶͙͔͂̾ ̴̷̴̢̛̱͊F̶̴̸̖̻̀̚R̷̵̶̩̥̓̒I̵̴̷̹̻̒͐E̸̷̸̯͉̓̔Ǹ̸̸̷͙̆͜D̴̶̷͔̖̈́̅S̶̶̸̰̗̍͘ ̴̴̶͍̱̓͊Y̷̷̵̦̹̋̈́O̴̴̸̦̬͆̕U̵̸̷͙͎̒͘-̸̵̷̦̯̓̊-̴̴̵͚̫̅͗ "