Dolli Mae pulled the paper out of her pocket as she exited the Cove.
It looked like a combination for a safe, like the ones at home.
She tried to think of why a combo would be here, then remembered a safe in Henry's office.
Probably money or bookkeeping or something, but Dolli Mae was curious, and she knew that there weren't any security cameras in there.
Dolli Mae grinned.
What Henry and William didn't know couldn't hurt them.
She snuck into the office, hiding behind the frosted glass of the door.
Dolli Mae then looked around the room as she turned on the lights, but not before tripping over a stack of framed ad posters of them, more concerned as to where the safe went.
A poster.
Of course!
Dolli Mae grabbed the corner and pulled the poster of the Toy Animatronics advertising, 'Fun!', 'Food!', 'Rock!', and 'Play!', ripping it from the wall, a few children's drawings flying to her feet.
A safe.
Dolli Mae cracked her knuckles and reached, then groaned.
Too short!
A congenital dwarf who stood at four foot six, Dolli Mae stomped. Then she spied Henry's cluttered desk and pulled over a chair.
She unlocked the safe and opened it, expecting to find registers or money, but instead, found two guns.
She gingerly lifted one, confused. The weight in her hand confirmed that yes, this was a real gun.
Everyone in town had a set of guns, even Izzy, but why would Henry or William, outsiders, need guns?
And in a children's restaurant?
The lights went out.
Blinking, Dolli Mae threw her gold braids over her shoulder, the hallway dimly illuminated by twinkling silver stars.
She forgot about the nightly power cuts.
Uneasy, Dolli Mae tiptoed to the door and peeked through a crack and heard loud scraping noises, like metal dragging on tile and watched as a tangle of parts and wires came crawling past with a giggle.
The pile of parts stopped, pink fox head she didn't recognize swinging around. Dolli Mae held still, singular gold eye swiveling and landing on her.
The pile of parts lunged at her, trying to force broken fingers into the crack in the door just as Dolli Mae snapped it shut.
After some banging and squealing, the shadow rolled away from the frosted glass window and rattled away.
Dolli Mae grabbed a pistol and its corresponding ammo, hearing the metal snake-fox monster shift and hiss in the halls, then shoved the spare ammo into her pirate coat pocket.
She grinned, the reality of her situation not fully hitting her. Time to head to the new range.
Dolli Mae snuck through the hallways and entered the Lazer Tag arena, the mangle of parts having disappeared along the way.
She slammed open the doors, bright flashing lights and loud music bursting to life as programmed.
Dolli Mae's camo green eyes squeezed shut hands reflectively covering her face as 'Jerk It Out' by Ceasar's Palace blasted on overhead speakers, an announcer informing her of the round starting. The sound-proofed door slammed shut, the fox usually guarding it outside from behind a small curtained stage mouthing the announcer's voice via preprogrammed showtape.
Dolli Mae backed up, startled at the stinking animatronic lurching towards her.
"LET'S GO!" Foxy lunged, Vinnie's familiar prerecorded voice blasting from the speakers.
Dolli Mae ducked the incoming hook, then dove between Foxy's bare metal legs. Foxy clumsily turned, swinging his legs back over Dolli Mae to keep her straddled.
She held her hands by her head, watching the hook swing forward, giggling out, "Chase me, Big Boy!
Bam!
She kicked him from below with her thigh-highs and rolled away as he howled in pain at the unexpected but effective attack from below, the hook embedding itself just where her head had been before she had jumped out from under him.
She had four older brothers and two younger ones at home who needed disciplining!
Dolli Mae dodged behind a plywood dividing wall and Foxy followed behind, now growling with less ferocity.
He sounded almost….
Delighted.
Just as excited in the chase as he was, Dolli Mae gave an evil smirk. "Can't catch me, big boy!"
He howled indignantly at the taunt, then he narrowed the gold orbs embedded in his face, snout pulling into a grin.
Dolli Mae mirrored the expression on her freckled face, then ducked and dove under his legs again.
Foxy howled in pain, hook caught in the wooden panel and not releasing itself.
He swung his free arm at her, swiping the edge of her red jacket. Literally tearing away from him, Dolli Mae snatched her tricorn as she crawled into a standing run, slapping it back onto her head with a laugh as the ribbon trailed behind like a banner.
She dodged behind a painted dividing wall. She needed to start sniping. She patted around her coat, feeling the familiar bulge of a firearm. Dolli Mae held her breath, green eyes searching for a good hideout.
Mural, mural, ramp, ooh, crows' nest. She bristled, hearing another electronic howl from Foxy as he found her. He lunged with a grin.
Dolli Mae sidestepped and giggled despite herself as he hit the mural panel and crashed to the floor. "Oh dear, looks like ya missed again!"
She sprinted to the crow's nest and started climbing the ladder. Once at the top, she pushed it as hard as she could, disappointed in the fact that she couldn't ditch it because it was nailed in place. Oh well, robot pirates can't climb ladders very well. Just never underestimate the cunning of a pirate.
Or a fox, for that matter…
Dolli Mae laughed, happy to be the fastest girl on the track team and the sharpest aim in the state.
Bam! Foxy scrambled, faster than he should be on his fun fur feet. He dived under a platform, arm having been ripped off by the handgun's blows. If it weren't for her speed that was left unmatched by anyone, Dolli Mae never would've made it up here in time!
Dolli Mae squinted, then pulled the trigger, hitting him as he darted, ripping off part of his midsection, revealing metal ribs. She was in control. She had been since she'd jumped in.
CRACK-shot!
Again.
Foxy was coming closer, figuring out where his attacker was. Dolli Mae released the magazine and dropped it to the floor several feet below her, ready for her challenge.
Foxy darted closer as Dolli Mae shoved the new magazine in.
Cracker!
Boom CRACK! Her ears rang as she shouted to the red streak below, "Eat it, furbo!"
The bullet ripped his ear clean off, then she squeezed another bullet through his leg. He just wouldn't quit!
"Woah!" Dolli Mae was dangling from her ankles over the side of the crow's nest, not quite sure how that happened.
"Now I get to play take apart and put back together!" Foxy swiped with his only arm left, the hooked one, and snapped his jaws as the pink fox with a familiar girl's distorted voice crackled through the mangle of parts.
"Help!" Dolli Mae screamed. She pulled herself up to her new assailant's face, cheer skills at good use. A mess of old parts wearing a pink and white fox mask snapped its jaws at her.
Dolli Mae shoved the pistol in its left socket and blew its yellow eye out, straight to the other side. Its second head screamed and rocked violently as Dolli Mae shot again at the red Foxy.
"He's mine, you bitch!"
Maggie? The voice played over a static-filled radio as the maw of the metal beast flapped open and closed vacantly, then shook her toy. Dolli Mae screamed, less a cry for help, but one of war.
Dolli Mae had finished her rampage on Foxy, who lay twitching at her feet as she panted, adrenaline making her mind race. She released a deep, calming breath, not heeding the warning of static behind her.
Whoa!
Dolli Mae's world was very suddenly flipped upside-down by a screaming mass of metal.
"You bitch!" A voice like an annoying adolescent girl crackled through where a voice shouldn't have come from, "You killed him!"
Dolli Mae screamed and tried to squeeze off a round of fire but only heard clicking from the handgun.
Oh No!
She screamed angrily and kicked, completely flipped over, before being thrown against the darkened wall of the laser arena with a thump and an 'Oof!'
Seething, Dolli Mae stood and growled, mega-dizzy and realizing she'd blacked out for a second or two. Swaying, she tried to reload, then attempted to aim at the oncoming storm, but her head was throbbing and her eyes couldn't focus for shit. She turned around in hopes of running to the door just yards away.
"'Allo me lassie!"
Dolli Mae screamed as the hook from a red fox came swinging and lodged his hook into her eye socket, the one the Party City eyepatch was supposed to cover when on stage.
She was still conscious as she was dragged by Foxy's hook into a backroom, screaming in agony.