Chapter 5: Conquer and Override

TRIGGER WARNING: Blood, Gore and a Violent Death.

Recommended Song: Venta Black - Unused SB version

Location: Parts and Service Area

Time: 6:43pm

'Where can I hide? Where can I hide? She'll be here any moment now.' Will thought feeling agitated and cornered.

After exiting the platform, the clone instinctively went to look for somewhere or something to conceal himself. He looked into the doors of the place he landed in but there was almost nowhere to hide. Vanny would tip over things like boxes or those creepy metal skeletons that hung about the room and find him easily. He was just about to give up as he entered one last room and saw the life size version of his plushie Glamrock Freddy who was currently shut down and standing upright. Furthermore, his chest section seemed to be open.

Will looked inside it: It was a grey space with some bulb-like things that were attached to it's ceiling and at the bottom was a round (but cushioned) metal base. It looked spacious but... could he actually fit inside it?

Flash

Will spotted a small, metallic item inside the chest cavity which shone for a brief moment under the fluorescent lights. He uses his right hand to feel around for where that something was and grabs it. He opens his right hand to reveal that he has...a Freddy Fazwatch! The exact one he wanted from that store earlier.

Before he can be happy about this discovery, he hears two voices chatting nearby and footsteps and they were closing in...

Once again, Will he didn't have a choice. He had to try to fit inside it or else Vanny would find him.

Swiftly, Will attaches the watch to his wrist and climbs inside the animatronic's cavernous space. He then turns around, now facing forward and curls himself into a ball position of sorts, tucking his legs as far as he can into the cavity before using his hands to pull down a small pulley handle he saw dangling just above. By pulling it, he shuts the compartment's hatch completely and it closes with a satisfying "click" noise.

Despite being in almost complete darkness now, Will smiles feeling relief. Guess there was an advantage to him being a small child, especially in this current situation. Now all he had to do was to stay in here for a while until it was safe to leave.

"Ok. Let's deliver Freddy back to his room with this. Then after that, we go get our drinks." one of them said happily.

They were different people, technicians maybe? Will scowled, feeling frustrated that so many people and things were interrupting his thoughts today, while quickly attaching the currently deactivated watch to his wrist and staying silent.

Abruptly, Will feels the ground shift from underneath as he feels him and Freddy being carried away by an unknown machine and hopes he doesn't fall out. Said "unknown machine" was some kind of automatic mechanical transportation trolley that was large enough to carry the weight of both of them. Usually it was used to transport goods around the Pizzeria in secret tunnels but sometimes, it would also carry animatronics too if they suddenly shut down in the middle of performances.

It felt like forever to Will but eventually, he felt the movement stop and a door shut as the unknown machine left Freddy wherever he was supposed to be. Will breathes a sigh of relief, knowing that it was now safe to leave and tries to open the hatch by using the same handle to open it. He pulls it upwards. It doesn't work. Will tries again. Nothing.

Will's expression turns into one of cold fear.

I'm trapped...

Will took a deep breath. This was bad...He was going to be stuck in this cramped space for god knows how long until Freddy Fazbear woke up. Still, it wasn't like he was going to suffocate (since the inside of the bear was well-ventilated oddly enough) or starve (as he had eaten free food earlier).

Yeah...Will tries to think good thoughts, I'll be out of here soon.

More time passed...He didn't know how much time though. It was dark and his legs were starting to feel cramped in this space.

How long more do I have to be here...I feel...I feel...like this is familiar somehow.

Will looks around nervously when suddenly, he feels a sharp sensation in his head.

"Ugh." he groaned.

Another visual plays in his mind but this time, the memory is more vivid.

An elderly man runs down a hallway feeling true fear for once in his life. He enters an empty, damp and dilapidated room, hyperventilating when he sees 5 white, small humanoid figures before him, blocking his only exit.

"Murderer." they cry out, "Murderer."

His eyes are full of fear until he sees a mechanical Golden Rabbit standing in front of him.

'That's also familiar...' Will thinks.

The man grins wide, his teeth bared. He has an idea now and quickly, he winds up some kind of mechanism that opens the Golden Rabbit and allows him to enter it.

Finally fixing on the suit onto himself, he stared at the figures and laughed at them. It was a cruel and ugly laugh was downright mocking and then...a single drop of water fell.

In an instant, ironic twist of fate, the suit that the man sought refuge in unexpectedly transformed into his everlasting punishment which began with sharp springlocks piercing into his entire body in an instant.

Will felt it: The moment they entered his body. It was extremely painful and the pain...it was spreading everywhere.

"AHHHHHH!"

"AHHHHHH!"

Will screams alongside with the elderly man, experiencing the exact same feelings he had of being stabbed by a thousand needles and it's not of his own free will. It was almost like he was being forced to mirror the man's movements and words and feel what he felt. But why?

'This must be a nightmare. I have to wake up.'

Will shakes his head and opens his eyes but they go wide in horror upon witnessing what was on his arms. They were covered in bizarre wound patterns of dots and lines that circled all around his wrist were bleeding out, the skin tearing apart to reveal bits of blood and muscle underneath.

Looking at his kneecaps, similar wound patterns had developed there as well.

All over him, Red liquid was trickling down his body. Some of it even staining the inside of his shirt.

The visual continues:

The Elderly man was now in unbearable pain. However, it wasn't too late. He thought at least. Struggling to take the accursed suit off his body, he used his right hand to try to reach behind to undo one of the claps there.

Will mimics what the man is doing, unable to control his hands anymore.

However, that's when the second phase of pain began.

CRACK!

The metal of the suit clamps down on both of his nimble fingers tightly, shattering their bones.

Will screams in complete agony and horror, witnesses and FEELING his own fingers breaking and bending forwards and backwards in ways they shouldn't be and even more RED started to emerge from their joints.

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

In an instant, the jagged edges of metal and plastic endoskeleton within the suit were forcibly driven straight into the man's own body. Every organ in his body was crushed or severely damaged and beyond saving as his flesh didn't resist and the metal was pushed further in, compressing him.

As this occurred, Will convulsed extremely violently within the confines of the cramped space.

Worse his lungs were horribly crushed as well, blood and metal filling them. The man however did not die and he couldn't breathe, now gargling on a pool of his own blood.

Will could barely breathe. He felt like he was suffocating now, more blood was starting to spill and his once blue shirt was now blood red.

The man's blood and guts fell grotesquely from each gap in the animatronic and he was sobbing at this point. He thrashes around, madly trying to wail for help but he can't.

Tears fell down from Will's brown eyes as he felt the man's his despair and agony and then, his mouth moved on it's own too...crying out (for what felt like forever) the thoughts, screams and words that the dying man could not utter as blood had filled his throat.

"Someone! Help! HEEELP!"

"AHHHHHH. ARGH" Will coughed, his voice going horse from all the wailing and yelling he was doing.

"Help help. Someone! Get this off!"

At that moment, the last part of the animatronic activated: It's mechanical head and eyes spring forth, compressing his cranium to a pulpy mess and popped out his eyes, severing them from their optic nerve.

The Eyes of the Elderly man were Hazel Brown. Just. Like. His.

At that moment, Will finally understood what that ugly feeling in the pit of his stomach was, the very same feeling which told him to run:A very strong fear of Death.

Trapped within the insides of a metal confine, the clone passes out from experiencing a traumatic memory...

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Location: Parts and Service Area

Time: 7:34pm

"Vanny, did you find him?" Mr Afton asked from her Smartphone.

"I'm sorry Mr Afton. I went to the Parts and Service room to find him as I assumed he went there but...I couldn't find him. At all. Even though I searched everywhere..." Vanny bowed her head, "Still, he's not escaped. The mall is on lockdown until 6am. He can't get out. Even with the emergency exits".

"What a pain," the Gold Rabbit seethes, "the Soul Transfer procedure should have been so simple...Why did that damn clone have to overhear us...!"

If William still had hands, he'd be tapping one of his fingers on the table or stamping his feet in frustration. "If my Vessel is trapped in here until 6am, this is our only chance to find and capture him before the lockdown lifts!"

"Vanny, give me access to the entire Pizzaplex system." William orders her, "I should be able to help you locate him from there".

"I understand. I'll get you into the network."

"Excellent." The Gold Rabbit icon flickers, it's expression changing to a wider, more demented grin, "I'm going to conquer and override everything in this mall".

CHAPTER 5 END

Chapter 6 Title: Security Breach(ed)

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Gregory/Will is fine. He just had an intense hallucination.