"Freddy!" Gregory called in worry, running up to the collapsed animatronic with the adults following behind. "Are you okay?"

"There you are. I was so worried. I waited and waited for you," Freddy said, relief evident in his glitchy voice. "I missed the hourly recharge, and have been trying to get down to Parts and Service. I think something is wrong."

"Let me take a look at you big guy," Mike said, kneeling down next to the animatronic. He pulled out his tablet and opened up one of Freddy's face plates to connect his cable too. Running a surface diagnostic, Mike said, "It doesn't look like there's anything too bad, just all your running around with you still at half power screwed up your battery and it'll need to be replaced. We'll need to get you down to parts and services for that."

"How do we get there?" Gregory asked. "And how will we get Freddy there?"

"It is down under the main stage," Freddy informed helpfully, his glitching getting worse. "Normally the stage lift takes me down there after every concert. That is really the only way I know how."

"Honestly that might be the easiest course of action," Mike hummed in agreement, disconnecting his tablet. "There's no way we'll be able to lug you through the back hallways without getting caught immediately. Even getting you to the stage is going to be difficult because I'm not strong enough to carry you the whole way and we don't have the proper equipment to move you."

"Can't you just use magic to move him?" Gregory asked, looking over at Dipper. "Surely there's some sort of levitation spell you can use on him…"

"Technology and Magic are very tricky to mix, especially on something as advanced as Freddy," Dipper reminded. "Yeah, I know plenty of spells I could use to lift him, but doing so would most likely short out his AI beyond repair."

"I've got an idea, though I'm not entirely sure it'll work," Mike said, turning his hand into taser mode. "I'm going to try and give you a little bit of power Freds. I won't use much as I don't want to risk frying any of your internal circuits, but hopefully it'll be enough to get you to the stage with your own two feet."

"I have faith in your abilities Mike," Freddy assured with complete trust. "You've always done all you can to keep my friends and me safe and functioning. I know you won't do anything to cause me serious harm."

"You might not think that if you knew what I did to some of your predecessors," Mike couldn't help but chuckle darkly. "But I'll make sure it never comes to that. Well… here goes nothing…"

Mike carefully placed his hand on the animatronics' chest, sending a jolt of electricity into Freddy. The bear spasmed for a moment before settling down as Mike's hand returned to normal. Freddy was no longer twitching as much and his eyes were brighter. The animatronic attempted to get up and, though his movements were a lot clunker than normal, he was successfully able to stand without any assistance.

"Thank you, Mike," Freddy said. "It seems you have given me a second wind. I should be able to make it to the stage myself."

"Now we just have to figure out how to activate the lift from this side," Mike replied, brow furrowing in thought.

"Use the door behind me," Freddy suggested, gesturing to the door in question. "It will take you to the rehearsal room on the other side of the building. You can look for a backstage pass and find a way to turn on the lift."

"Good idea Freds," Mike nodded. "You head to the stage. We'll meet you there as soon as we find a way to turn on the lift."

"Very well," Freddy nodded before turning to Gregory. "Good luck superstar."

"Okay," Gregory replied, giving the bear a grin. "I'll do my best."

Freddy began lumbering away as the rest of the group went towards the door. They snuck through the back hallways, carefully avoiding the staff bots and Roxanne who were patrolling until they got to the rehearsal room. It was fairly empty and it didn't take them long to find the backstage pass. Using the pass, they entered a large control room.

"Let's see if we can find the lift controls in here…" Mike said sitting at one of the computers, tapping on the keyboard, and changing the screen from static to showing lines of code scrolling past. "Xsoter!"

"I'm guessing this isn't just a case of someone leaving their computer running," Dipper replied, attempting to read the screen though he wasn't nearly as fluent in coding as Mike was.

"No… It's like Vanny said, William's expanding his influence," Mike said, scanning the code. "He's already spread into most of the system, but we still have some time before he's completely controlled everything. I guess with us here he's abandoned any subtly."

"Is there anything you can do to slow him down?"

"Maybe… give me a sec…"

While the adults were huddling around the computer, Gregory began exploring the rest of the room. Most of it was control panels that were way too complicated for him to begin to guess what all the buttons did, but he did spot a familiar Freddy head. Pressing in the nose, Gregory took the badge inside as well as some sort of weird disk thing that had the word "SHOWTIME" printed on it.

Almost immediately, an alarm started sounding through the entire room. The monitors all turned on at once, glitching with a rabbit symbol before an image of Vanny appeared.

"I'll see you soon!" Vanny promised sinisterly before she disappeared from the screens, showing Roxanne and Monty making their way to the control room.

"Gregory!" Mike shouted as he and Dipper jumped back from the computer they had been working on. "Did you touch something you weren't supposed to?"

"I uh… took the security badge!" Gregory replied, showing the others what he had found. "And also this weird old thing!"

"You don't know what a CD is?" Dipper said in disbelief. "I feel old…"

"If you're old then I'm ancient," Mike joked before focusing back on their current situation. "Luckily that disc is just what we need, but we need to get out of here before the other Glamrocks get in here. Come on!"

Mike went over to a vent in the floor with the other two gathering around it. Mike easily lifted off the grate and moved it to the side. Mike jumped down first, his animatronic legs letting him absorb the fall easily. Gregory dropped down next, Mike easily catching him. Dipper came last, letting himself get caught by Mike's wires as there wasn't really the space for him to roll.

"We can use that disc to run a showtime program," Mike explained as they moved through the halls. "And it'll activate the lift automatically. The only problem is the sound booth is on the top floor and the showtime program is going to immediately grab the attention of everything within the Pizzaplex. We're going to have to run for it as soon as we start the program, think you can provide us some cover Dipper?"

"Easily," Dipper replied with a firm nod.

With just the barest idea of a plan, the three of them snuck their way past where Freddy was waiting on the stage and over to the escalators. Making their way to the third floor they went to the sound booth.

"Be prepared to run," Mike said, getting ready to play the disc. "Things are about to get loud."

Music began to play and huge holograms appeared over the stage. Every robot in the area paused what they were doing and turned towards the stage. Dipper reacted immediately, pulling out all his mini smoke bombs and tossing them over the balcony to the ground below. The second they made contact with the ground, they began spewing a thick grey smoke.

"Dilata!" Dipper commanded, causing the smoke to expand rapidly and fill all three floors with a fog.

"Come on!" Mike commanded leading the sprint. Thanks to the more advanced functions in Dipper's glasses and Mike's eye, they were able to navigate through the fog with ease. They pulled Gregory along, helping him dodge and weave through the staff bots blindly searching for them. They made it to the ground floor with little issue, but as they were running through the central atrium, Mike heard the frighteningly familiar sound of an animatronic running straight for them.

"GET DOWN!" Mike shouted, immediately dropping to the ground and pulling the other two down with him. Gregory yelped at being grabbed but had been too surprised to resist. Dipper hadn't resisted at all as he trusted Mike.

Seconds after they dropped to the ground, Roxanne leaped over them, her jaws clamping down where Dipper's head had been just moments before. Metal claws screeched on the ground as Roxanne skidded to a stop.

"You can't hide from me, because I'm the best!" Roxanne said as she turned to them, her normally yellow eyes glowing magenta.

She leaped at them again, but Dipper used his magnet gun to send her flying backward. The three of them scrambled to their feet and ran as fast as they could toward the stage. They were nearly there when Roxanne charged at them again, but Mike used his wires to hurl several chairs at her, keeping her distracted and tripping her up.

The moment all of them were on the stage, Gregory slammed his hand on the button and the lift began to lower. The walls rose around them, growing over their heads as Roxanne came to a stop over at the edge.

"I'll get you next time," she called, glaring down at them before turning away.

"Okay, we should be safe for now, at least from the animatronics," Mike said, turning back to the others. "So we can just focus on getting Freddy fixed up an-"

"Mike! Behind you!" Gregory shouted in fear, pointing at something over Mike's shoulder. Mike turned around just in time to see Moondrop lunging straight for him.