Underground Research Facility B2 – Lobby
October 3rd 2035
3:30 AM
Cue Theme:
Resident Evil 2 OST – The Underground Laboratory
They had managed to take the elevator deeper into the underground research facility, a pristine white well kept medical facility reminiscent of a hospital. They were in awe of the facility existing below the old restaurant. Freddy and Roxanne were starting to have flashbacks of Jason Tyler's former hidden laboratory near the PizzaPlex. The layout of the facility was nearly identical.
"…It never stops does it…" Roxanne said under her breath.
"Looks like Vanny is continuing where he left off…." Freddy said holding his weapon.
This time Roxanne and Freddy switched the magazines on their handguns to anti-remnant rounds. They already knew what they might run into down here, if their shared experience back in May thought them anything.
Mangle did the same with her Glock handgun.
Meanwhile….
B4 – Master Security Office
"I KNEW IT! Chica….you will pay for this…." Vanny said. Vanny got on her headset to talk to her two remaining cohorts.
"Roxy, Monty report." Vanny said.
Faux Roxanne responded, sounding tired.
"We're here. Managed to subdue our friends that our little rats managed to turn against us." Faux Roxanne said.
"Where's Monty?" Vanny asked.
"He's fine. A little banged up but fine. Chica abandoned us." Faux Roxanne said.
"I am well aware. She's the reason the rats have made it further than they were supposed to. Forget her for now. You need to get down to me asap, I will have the Nightmare Animatronics prepped for shipment. Meanwhile, I have something else to stop these pests that are a real pain in my ass." Vanny said looking at the charging stations with human corpses inside whose internal bone structure was replaced with glamrock endoskeletons.
Back on B2…
Remnant Research Wing
Mangle, Roxanne and Freddy make their way into a remnant lab down the hall, well lit, sterile. They instantly recognized the silvery liquid in vials on the tables. Some of it was being stored in tall sub zero refrigerators.
"The reason our problems never seem to go away…." Freddy said.
Mangle had only heard of remnant because of stories Vanessa and Freddy have told her. She had never seen it in person before.
"See if you find anything useful, anything that might tell us where the Nightmare animatronics are, I'll take a look at this." Freddy said looking at files and folders in filing cabinets, Roxanne looking at the vials of remnant. She noticed they had names on them with ages….
This time, it isn't just kids….
Mangle naturally went to go check the computer workstations at the desks.
The terminal was left logged in, whatever researcher was using it, left in a hurry with all the random papers scattered at the desk.
She started looking through files, but one in particular caught her attention: "Development of Mangle 9-7-1987 to 11-14-1987"
"What the hell? What's a file this old doing here? Is this like an archive?" Mangle said to herself.
Fazbear Entertainment
Development Log
September 7th 1987
Our team had successfully developed a possible successor to Foxy The Pirate. After some unfortunate incidents, many customers were not fond of Foxy being a part of the family friendly atmosphere anymore and eventually pressure by the public was put on us to come up with a less scary replacement or at least supplement him with a softer counterpart to join him. Thus his more softer and feminine replacement was conceptualized. At the moment the team does not have a name for her. But she will be a white fox with pink accents, lipstick and rosy cheeks. Our art department is already is drawing up concept art for us.
September 14th 1987
The first parts have come in from the factory, but it appears some of the shipment is missing. If the shipment does not come soon, we may not have enough parts to complete the build on time for the October 3rd debut of the new model. We are trying to contact the vendor to resolve this.
September 21st 1987
The rest of our new female fox's parts have arrived, she will be beautiful and the children will love her singing. Since she is a pirate, much like her predecessor, she will have a pirates outfit but more like a dress of sorts.
September 28th 1987
We have built her, we are naming her Mary and we ran our first successful show test with the entire team down in the B2 testing area. She will be ready for the stage on October 3rd.
October 3rd 1987
Opening night was a resounding success, a testament to our cutting edge robotic technology for our time. The children loved Mary's performance and want to see her again.
October 4th 1987
Headquarters had stopped by for a visit to see the new model perform themselves. They were impressed, so much so, they now want to deploy Mary in one of the party rooms to entertain the children one on one, so every child spending their time with her, gets to feel special.
October 8th 1987
The first few parties with Mary went off without a hitch, until at the last scheduled party, a child sitting on her lap pulled her arm off by accident. Unfortunately the incident escalated. The other children found this to be entertaining and started taking off her limbs with force until she tipped over in the chair and broke down. Luckily parents notified us so we could remove her from the party and take her back to parts and service for repairs.
October 12th 1987
I had an argument with the owner of Fazbear Entertainment saying we can't let Mary be part of the private birthday parties anymore. It was too risky for her and the team would feel safer keeping her strictly for stage shows where children can't harm her.
I was threated to be fired along with the rest of my hard working team if I did not go with what the companies new strategy is. They wanted to keep having her deployed to the birthday parties, saying that a pull apart and put back together attraction is just what the restaurant needed. We know Mary is just a robot, but we worked hard on her and dare we say almost feel bad for her. We didn't build her just so children can violently tear her apart for some laughs. I tried to make my case, but ultimately Mary was to be a new take apart and put back together attraction.
October 14th 1987
HQ no longer wants her to be named Mary…to fit in with her new attraction, she will be called Mangle.
October 16th 1987
Mary…I mean Mangle had one of her legs torn off then plugged into her arm socket today. I know robots are not humans and can't feel anything…but it was a sad sight for us to witness. Another child then removed her head and kicked it across the room. We were not allowed to intervene.
October 18th 1987
We put Mangle back together again and she is currently sitting on the bench in parts and service. She is fully functional again but it is a shame we will likely need to fix her again soon. The owner of Fazbear, who also has an engineering degree and also owns another entity, Afton Robotics, wanted to take Mangle back to his shop to make improvements so she can withstand more abuse and wouldn't damage as easily. He picked her up today to take her to his shop.
October 25th 1987
Mangle was returned to us, but despite Afton's claims, children were still able to tear her apart like she was a rag doll. Our night guard, Jeremy, notified us that later in the night, he said he saw Mangle somehow walking on the ceiling. That should not be possible. We have not added any features of the such and furthermore the only way that would work was if the feet were magnetized and the ceilings had metal. We believe this could have been due to Jeremy running on only a handful of hours of sleep.
October 30th 1987
Another night guard has informed us they witnessed Mangle crawling on the ceilings and hanging from them after hours. Again, we are not around to witness this. We have asked the security department if we could observe the camera footage ourselves.
November 1st 1987
HQ has told us we don't need to repair her anymore since the children can now remove and attach whatever parts on her they would like and can leave her that way.
November 2nd 1987
Security forwarded us the footage. We could not believe it, some how, some way, Mangle has the ability to traverse areas on the ceiling. There is no know technology that can achieve this without use of magnets.
November 11th 1987
Jeremy, our main nightguard has suffered an unfortunate accident at the hands of The Mangle. We had no choice but to deactivate her until we can figure out how this incident happened.
November 12th 1987
Mary we failed you...you were not meant to be used like this….you have been scheduled to be scrapped, because that is the best option for you.
Report signed off by researcher Ken Clark on 11-13-1987
"Wow….so that's what happened to the original…me." Mangle said.
"Mangle is everything okay?" Roxanne said seeing her reaction.
"Yeah…I'm fine. I just found a file about the original me. The original Mangle." Mangle said.
Freddy walked over along with Roxanne to look at the file with Mangle.
"I didn't realize, the original me, went through so many awful things. At least now I know where my name came from…." Mangle said.
"This was during a time in the company, when…Afton had a large bit of influence over how operations were ran. Well before any of our models were created. I'm sorry you had to discover this Mangle." Freddy said.
"It's okay….if the original Mangle is still around and functional, maybe the best thing we can do, is put it out of it's misery. If Afton…put Remnant in the old endoskeleton for the original Mangle model, then I can't imagine the amount of rage and anger she must have within her. It would be for the best to find her and destroy her as well, along with the Nightmare animatronics once we find them." Mangle said with a determined look on her face.
But the wolf and the bear could see right through. On the inside her heart was hurting for her namesake.
Mangle knew she couldn't blame the children at the time ether for what happened, it wasn't their fault, they didn't know any better. They were just kids having fun.
It wasn't Jeremy's fault ether. He was just a guard doing his job watching over the animatronics.
But Mangle knew who was at fault. Afton.
Another file caught Roxanne's attention while looking at the Mangle one.
"Mangle, look at that one." Roxanne said pointing to the screen over her shoulder.
"Advancement of the Glamrock Endoskeleton by using organic components" the file read.
"Freddy…are they talking about our models?" Roxanne asked.
"Only one way to find out. Open that file Mangle…" Freddy said.