Summer, July 5th 2035, Thursday – PizzaPlex – Rockstar Row – Vanessa's New Office

10:00 AM

Gregory and Vanessa arrived at the PizzaPlex and made their way into Vanessa's new office located in Rockstar Row, right next to the door leading up to the backstage security command center up one floor. Her heels clicking on the marble tile.

Vanessa was in her business attire, black dress pants, black heels, Burgundy dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up at the elbows. She no longer wears the Fazbear guard uniform of her previous position, her days as Chief of Security for the PizzaPlex are behind her, she is no longer the head security guard. Vanessa is now the Vice President of Security Operations for the entire corporation.

"So you have not seen my new office yet have you kiddo?" Vanessa said as she put her keys in the lock and opened the door.

"Woah." Gregory said.

"Not only do I have my office at the HQ building in town, but Freddy had this one built so I could be closer to everyone." Vanessa said.

"Mom, I didn't know you had a gaming grade computer for your work computer or this big projector screen in here. God Doom would look awesome on that screen…" Gregory said looking at her setup. He also noticed a mid sized conference table in front of the digital projector screen.

"It would Gregory, but it's not for games. As the VP of Security now, I sometimes have to present information to the board about the state of our security systems and audits in the company. Speaking of, this is where today's meeting is taking place at 10:30, so I hope Roxy and Chica show up soon. I'd love to have you here with me Greggy, but I don't think the board wants you in here while we discuss some matters…" Vanessa said.

"Mom, I know, the break in at the warehouse…and that lady that looks like you." Gregory said.

"Yeah, I know Freddy told you finally. Elizabeth is that woman's name. She…I know her…let's just leave it at that for now Greggy. Anyway…" Vanessa said changing the topic.

Elizabeth…that's the little girl that was in my dream when I almost drowned at our family beach trip a few days ago….hmm…. Gregory thought.

Gregory then noticed Vanessa had the 3 Princess Quest games in her new office, their cabinet's completely refurbished no longer beat up or damaged, looking pristine. The Balloon World game from the theater are of the PizzaPlex was also here as well, again looking brand new.

"Is that…the Princess Quest arcade games and Balloon World? Mom, why do you still have those here? I thought you would have trashed them after the incident." Gregory asked.

"I don't know…I guess I wanted to keep them as a reminder of what I lost in the past 5 years since that stupid VR game…and what I never want to lose ever again…my humanity. Besides, I had Heather Emily from IT do a scan on all the machines hard drives and they are now free of Glitchtrap's malicious code. Also, it's a reminder of the boy that saved my life…you honey." Vanessa said with a smile. She embraced her son and kissed him on the head and cheek.

"Ick..stop it mom!" Gregory said giggling.

"I'm just saying kiddo, I wouldn't still be here if it wasn't for you, neither would Freddy or the others." Vanessa said letting him go with a smile.

"Helloooo! Knock knock." Chica said as she walked into Vanessa's office. The door was still wide open. Roxanne was right behind her.

"Hey pup-cup hows it going?" Roxy asked with a grin.

"Chica! Roxy!" Gregory said running up to the two animatronic women, both ladies embraced the boy.

"There you two are. I was worried I would have had to drop Gregory off with Sun and Moon in the daycare if I had to proceed with my meeting." Vanessa said chuckling.

"Mom, that would be considered torture, if the lights failed." Gregory said dryly.

"Moon's not that bad…cmon now Gregory." Vanessa said.

"Even if he won't hurt me anymore since he's no longer controlled by Glitchtrap, Moon still gets on my nerves. I got nothing against the guy but he can get really pushy. Yesterday I was on my way over to the FazBear theater to go see the new movie Roxy's dad and Mangle were going to be starring in. Roxy was going to go see it with me during her two hour break, but she was running late because of something at the raceway, mom, you were still in a meeting with Freddy and I didn't want to keep hanging at the arcade or my room you guys built for me. So I texted Roxy and told her to meet me down there. I went down to the theater taking a shortcut through the Daycare, chatted with Sun for a minute while Helpy and some maintenance staff were working on hanging decorations for 4th of July on the ceiling. Well Helpy accidently bumped into something and fell off his ladder…but he broke his fall on a beanbag..near the desktop computer system at the security desk that happened to have a browser tab open for the smart lighting control system for the PizzaPlex. I think Tammy from IT was using the computer for a minute then had to use the restroom, but forgot to log out of the smart lighting controls webpage. So it was wide open to access. When he fell, his butt bumped into the mouse and it registered a click over a button that sends a command to kill the Daycare area lights….you can guess where this is going. Moon kept trying to make me take a nap while the overhead lights were out, it was 10 AM, I was wide awake! I kept telling him I didn't need sleep. He was concerned for me but still like dude back off." Gregory said.

"I mean you do stay up late Gregory." Vanessa said.

"Yeah but schools out for the summer. I can sleep in now." Gregory said.

"Yeah, Vanessa, you should have seen it, Roxy was still tied up so I had to go in there to have a little chat with Moon to convince him to let Gregory hang with us while Heather worked at the desk to undo the light system override. I remember Helpy and the staff trying to explain to Moon that Gregory was wide awake and didn't need sleep. Eventually we got Moon to understand but he really takes his nighttime babysitting role seriously." Chica said.

"Oh I heard about it in an email last night Chica from Heather and Kellen…And Greggy you did already tell me this yesterday. That's his programming bug from his AI software. Sorry to get nerdy here Greggy, but unlike the Glamrocks, Sun runs on a different development fork of the Fazbear OS, since his CPU architecture is running on a different platform, not x64 like the Glamrocks. His AI gets handled differently then everyone else and because of this he has two SSD's with two separate OS installations on them, Fazbear OS Light and Fazbear OS Dark. Dark lighting triggers Sun's board to reboot and change the boot order temporarily, originally this was intentional by design but now it is seen as more of a defect given the fact that the Fazbear Dark OS is severely out of date with very Basic AI. So on this next reboot his Fazbear Dark OS SSD drive is booted first instead. And while Sun has his own AI on par with Chica or Roxy's here, Moon's AI is pretty well…basic because his software is so out of date. I think Kellen will be deploying a software update to the Fazbear Dark OS to upgrade the Moon AI. So that Moon's OS is aware of the system clock so he doesn't run his bedtime scripts during the day. Moon's OS should then always have a Network Time Protocol connection to the Fazbear time servers over the internet and won't be running his sleep protocols if his systems truly knows it's daytime. Phew..that's enough IT speak for me." Vanessa said laughing.

"Yeah that was way more then I was expecting Vanessa. But I think we can all agree Moon can be a little bit much to handle sometimes." Chica said giggling.

"Don't get us wrong we love the tech talk about your meeting is about to start V. Let's get pup-cup off your hands." Roxy said.

"Gregory you got your bags ready? Did you pack enough for a few days?" Chica asked.

"Yup I got clothes for days, my Steam deck, mom gave me some money, some snacks, iPhone charger, the essentials." Gregory said.

"I made sure he had everything, literally." Vanessa said.

"Okay then were off! See ya V!" Roxanne said.

"Whoa hold on there Roxy." Vanessa said pulling the wolf to the side.

"I know you like to speed Roxy…be careful with my boy riding with you. I don't need to say it twice. I know Freddy already warned you too." Vanessa said as a warning.

"Relax V, I'll go easy, just for him." Roxanne said keeping her fingers crossed behind her.

"Okay, love you Greggy. Text me when you get there." Vanessa said hugging Gregory and kissing him on the head.

"I will mom." Gregory said.

"Watch over him, keep him out of trouble, please." Vanessa said with a serious look of worry on her face.

"He will be fine with us Vanessa. I promise we won't let anything happen to him." Chica said.

"Yeah mom. I got two awesome big sisters here, I'll be fine." Gregory said as the girls smiled at him.

"Okay then have fun guys. Stay safe." Vanessa said as they walked out of her office with Chica helping to hold some of Gregory's bags.