Summer, July 5th 2035, Thursday – I-15
1:25 PM
It had been about 3 hours into the car ride, one more hour to go before they would be in Salt Lake City. The two lady animatronics up front were listening to everything from their modern pop favorites to the 80's rock hits they were familiar with as members a band. Roxanne was keeping her car traveling at a steady 70 mph.
Gregory would put his headphones on connected to his iPhone or his own Steam deck whenever some songs were too "girly" for his tastes.
The pair would often tease him about this then Roxanne afterwards would put one of her favorite death metal albums, bass blasting rap or hard rock on full blast to get his attention. This worked, the kid found a new genre of music he liked aside from the 80's rock hes grown fond of since being around the band so much. Roxanne love's her 80's rock, but would love to perform other genres of music on stage, and although Roxanne was not built to sing like Chica, given she's the bands keytarist, Roxanne had been practicing with Chica acting as her vocal coach and had one hell of a range she developed on her own without simply resorting to a new software update for her voice box like technicians had suggested. She wanted to do this on her own without a shortcut, allowing her AI to learn it over time from practice and modulating her voice herself. She could sing anything from a soft ballad to the guttural screams and roars of death metal, Chica can as well, and both would love to do a duet at some point. At some point they plan to do a soft ballad together on stage, which Freddy was open to. But they distinctly remember him reminding them that if it was a metal song they wanted to perform together, Freddy wasn't exactly ready to have them perform it at the PizzaPlex or at a show for the kids because it might scare them away.
They stopped about 20 minutes ago at a rest area where Chica got herself another coffee, it was cheap gas station coffee, but it would do. Roxanne got herself a FizzyFaz from a Fazbear vending machine the rest stop happened to have, for free with her Fazbear Silver card. She then went up to the in store fast food restaurant also got herself a large burrito, sharing half of it with Gregory, getting him a bag of chips and a soda. Both girls, while at the rest stop center, took time sitting in the lobby to make phone calls back home when Freddy and Foxy texted them, much like worried fathers. Gregory also was texted by Vanessa, and he responded back to his mother as he finished up the meal. He had used the restroom then they were back in the car again.
Another song came on the radio, a decades old R&B hit, "Time" by a singer known for also working on songs for video games, named TJ Davis. It took Gregory by surprise for that random factoid told to him by Chica. Roxanne loved the song, while driving, she didn't even realize she was singing along with it. Chica and Gregory were shocked by the smooth tones coming out of her voice box going along with the song.
"Can we try to make it right? C'mon baby hold me tight. We can be together every night."
"Try to look into your heart, baby lets make a new start, do you want to see us fall apart?"
"Time keeps telling me to keep on waiting, but I just don't know how to carry on."
"I keep thinking that you might be missing me, but how can I tell when your gone?"
"You keep saying that you won't be staying, so why don't you understand?"
"Just stop playing me around, now let me put my feet on the ground without you."
Roxanne stopped going along with the lyrics when Gregory and Chica looked at her with their jaw's dropped.
"Oh..whoops." Roxanne said.
"You've been practicing more!" Chica then said excitedly.
"Holy crap Roxy! That was awesome! I didn't know you could sing like Chica!" Gregory said with excitement.
"Oh that was nothing Pup-Cup, just a new trick I've been working on." Roxanne said to Gregory, being humble.
"You should ask Freddy to let you sing for one of the band's songs! Or let you go up and perform a solo at the PizzaPlex or when your on tour again!" Gregory said with a smile.
"Rox, it wouldn't even need to be a rock or metal song ether. I think we now know which genre your voice would be perfect for. 90's R&B. I know Freddy would let you do it, since it's not metal." Chica said.
"Look guys I'm flattered but we all know 80's and 70's rock music is our thing, and the keytar is what I'm best suited for. This…this is just something fun I like to do on the side." Roxanne said minimizing herself.
"Roxy, that voice is beautiful just as much as your hair and tail are. Why hide it from your fans? The older ones would love it too, it would take them back to those days. Just like the 80's songs you perform with your keytar." Gregory said trying to encourage the wolf.
"I guess…but I think I'll just stick to saving it for our karaoke nights for now. Hey look were almost there!" Roxanne said as a sign for Salt Lake City passed them.
Gregory and Chica looked out the window and up ahead to see the city in the horizon. Chica also got the hint that Roxanne didn't want to keep talking about what she could do with her voice.
"So Gregory your going to love this place. There is SO MUCH to do. Probably even more than in our PizzaPlex." Chica said.
"Like what? I know your already eying restaurants Chica, but what else is there over there?" Gregory asked.
"Bus tours, massive, and I mean massive arcades that rival ours, zoos, karaoke bars, a luxury movie theater that brings you food and drinks to your seat and has full recliners. Something we don't have at the PizzaPlex, since our movie theater is small, but Freddy is working on it." Chica said in excitement.
"Oh we gotta take him to that fancy skyscraper restaurant we own." Roxanne added in.
"Skyscraper restaurant? That you own? There's a FazBear location out here?" Gregory asked.
"A few actually." Roxanne said.
"Yeah, we have some friends of ours who work the locations out here. You'll get to meet some of the other animatronics that make up the company while you're here. It's going to be so much fun! I haven't seen Rockstar Chica in forever." Chica said.
"Woah, woah wait a minute Rockstar Chica? There's yet another version of you walking around?" Gregory said.
"Well duh Gregory, while I am the one and only Glamrock Chica, I'm not the only Chica in general in the company. There's like 9 other cousins of mine working some of our locations. We don't talk about Toy Chica…she uh…she." Chica was about to finish until Roxanne finished for her.
"I tossed Toy Chica into a metal shredder at a warehouse the 2nd night of the PizzaPlex incident while you were in the hospital Pup-Cup. We had to go to that lab I told you about to help Vanessa, and she was in the way. I had to do it. She was not on our side and she tried to kill our Chica. Something I wasn't going to let happen." Roxanne said.
"You never told me that Roxy. Jesus." Gregory said.
"It was more of a need to know kind of thing, that's why Rox didn't tell you. Anyway. There's many variations of me still out and about, same goes for Bonnie and Freddy. But we are the only Glamrock versions. So that makes us special." Chica said proudly.
"Well, there is Cassidy in her new body she gained from your evil doppelganger you told me about. The one Monty had to fight that night." Gregory said.
"Yeah she might look like me, but she isn't me, she's her own chicken. I mean she even has her own hairstyle now, so no one gets her mixed up with me." Chica said.
Roxanne merged onto the busy off ramp leading into the city.
"First stop we make, is our hotel. Your gonna love it Pup-Cup, it is luxury heaven, it's big, it's the best and we don't have to pay a dime." Roxanne said as they we're almost there.
I hope you guys like this so far. I wanted to have a part where Roxanne get's to sing a little, I thought the song "Time" by TJ Davis was a good choice for her. Youtube link to song - /watch?v=eeLDwGO0hWU
