Having returned from her small errand to a dark, empty front showroom, Dollface searched the second party room.
Nothing.
Nada.
Zip.
Zilch.
Zero.
Just tables.
No animatronics.
Just empty, sheeted tables
She needed to get to security though.
Ah-ha!
Dollface tried to remember the layout, and immediately recalled a grate in the next room over.
Perfect.
She just had to get to the other side of the arcade!
Wait, could she hear something approaching?
A deep, rumbling laugh left chills crawling up and down her spine.
Another laugh, now closer to her.
"Hi?" She turned, "Hello?"
Something yellow danced away in the corner of her eye with a set of footsteps from clumsy foam feet.
"Hello? Anyone here?" She walked up the aisle of tables with white cloth draped over it, towards the doorway to the next room. "Wah!"
The yellow bear's face flashed into her vision, right in front of her nose and uttered an ear ringing groan of static and grating gears.
Dollface jumped and ran in a dead sprint to the arcade room, only to meet the owner of the head.
Dollface screeched and dove behind an arcade machine, golden bear in hot pursuit. She dropped down behind an arcade machine and crawled forward a bit, hoping it would give up on its prey.
Silence.
All she could hear was her breathing and the ambiance of the building itself. Dollface collected herself, trying to place the animatronic.
She could vaguely remember a previous franchise….
Um, what was it?
BAM!
Caught off guard, Dollface screamed as the console was ripped from the wall and pulled over the eight-foot bear's head with a roar. She scampered on her hands and knees to the next and the next as each one was thrown away until she was pinned behind the whack-a-mole machine.
The bear roared in mechanical delight as she tried not to pee herself, glad she'd gone before they'd arrived.
It thump, thump, thumped around her as she whimpered.
It laughed like a beast, long, deep and slow.
She could hear what sounded like automated…
Breathing.
Yes, that was the word.
Breathing.
The game booth creaked and groaned as it was lifted then thrown against the wall with a crash, and Dollface screamed as she was lifted into the air, legs kicking. She pushed her hands against the fur plated face in an effort to stop its opening jaws from advancing as she was pressed against the cold tile wall.
"Please, just let me go!" Dollface squirmed, pressing her hands against the round cheeks of the bear. It menacingly snapped it's square jaws at her. She was being pulled closer, and her long legs were pressed against the greasy neon fur and the cold, tiled wall. Dollface gave up words and reason now that she could see into its secondary endoskeleton jaws, and began to scream uncontrollably as she squeezed her black eyes shut, the red lights in the bear's mask searing into her retinas. He pushed himself against her.
CRACK shot!
The bear dropped her onto the tiles, Dollface's back scraping the wall. It's segmented body turned, creaking and stretching unnaturally. The noise from deep inside stopped whirring and rumbling.
Dollface panted as she stared up at it, head resting against the cold, tile walls, legs tingling from the smeared floors.
Blegch! It puked with a lurch, warm blood dripping from its mouth and onto the floor, red soaking into its yellow fur, smelling like metal and rotten bodily fluids as it landed next to Dollface.
Dollface dry-heaved, watching it stumble and stagger away.
She crawled, once able to calm down, to the vent shaft.
It was too small for anything undesirable to follow her in, and at this point, escaping the scene of the smell was everything to her.
The building was ancient, making it give way easily to a few good kicks to the vent grate's rusty exterior. Now came the hard part, navigating the cramped spaces and staying oriented well enough to get to the security office by army crawling through it.
Good thing Dollface was small and skinny with a flat chest, narrow hips, and a pinched-in waist.