Mike's eyes widened with recognition, the all too familiar nightmare that so often tormented him, was now standing right there! His dull teeth had yellowed with age but mike could easily picture the same teeth sunk deep into his brother's skull. He took an instinctual step backwards, letting the heavy flashlight slid down in his grip to be an impromptu club if need be. Fredbear raised his hands in a gesture of peace though that did little to calm the panicking guard.

"S-stay back!" Mike said, holding up the flashlight with his good arm, his eyes flicking to each of the animatronics, he was very much in a fight or flight mindset now, backing up even further. Bonnie tried to reach out to calm mike, but the sudden movement set Mike off reflexively he swung the heavy flashlight it acted much like an aluminum bat, connecting with Bonnie's cheek and ripping his already faulty upper face plate clean off, exposing much of the inner endoskeleton face and small optics, bonnie shrieked and stumbled back, more in surprise than anything else. Chica squawked as Freddy pushed past her, slamming into Mike, knocking the wind out of him and sending the flashlight flying out of Mike's grasp. Freddy agressively pinned mike against the wall and let out a crackling roar right in mike's face, the young guard flailing wildly as he both tried to regain his breath with what felt like a hydraulic press on his chest and get free. Freddy angrily let out broken garbled words and static before raising his free arm up in the air, his hand balled up into a fist. Mike yelled, nearly in hysterics, beyond reason or logic at this point, pure terror filling his mind and body. He squeezed his eyes shut, waiting for the final blow when he heard a different set of static filled words.

"P̸̝̦̱̗̀͌͐̋̈́̀͊̐̅A̷̦̬̺͎̪̎͊̇̾͝͠R̶̠͐̽͆́̉̋̆͘T̷͈̭̙͕̹̰͇̜͋͊̃͜͠ ̷̤̦͈͉̃͜Ȍ̶̗̖̙̝̑̉͌͂F̶͔͕̋̈́̌̀̔̊̍́͘ ̴̛̦͖̪͓̼͌̋́̊͑̈́͐͜M̵̟̺̫͒͛̈́̽̚͠ͅE̸̺͍̯͚͎̰̖̅͌̉̇̇̂͋ ̴͖͊̽̑̉͂̄Ć̷̠̬̞͕͎̠̩̆̈́̈́͊͛ͅR̸̹͓̠̔͋̚̕Ě̸̢̼͚̝̯̫̱͐̈́̉͑̚͝W̷̛̜͊̏͌̊͋̎̃!̴̯͓͛͝" Suddenly mike felt a different pressure around himself and tentatively opened his eyes, seeing the mangle of parts wrapped around him one of her extra hands, holding Freddy's fist back. Mangle Glared at Freddy with both heads, all three functional eyes sending death glares at the bear. Freddy shrieked back and pointed at bonnie, who was being helped to sit down by Fredbear and Chica, while he waved them and Freddy off, picking up his face, holding it close. The mangle's second head looked at the first head and then mike, before nodding. The mangle slowly set mike down, but didn't let go of him, preferring to stay wrapped around him. Mike slowly caught up with the situation, doing his best to calm down, given his recent brush with death.

"I… I'm sorry, I didn't mean to" Mike said, looking over at bonnie, who sat silently for a few moments before nodding and then shrugging. Fredbear nodded and picked up the flashlight before setting it on a nearby table. He gestured for mike to sit and sat down across from the proffered chair.

"Please, sit." Mike knew while polite it wasn't up for negotiation. He attempted to sit down when the mangle squeezed him softly, letting out a soft static sound at Fredbear. The golden bear rolled his eyes and waved a hand dismissively. The mangle slowly untangled itself from around mike and went back up into the rafters, watching the situation closely with both heads, ready to intercede again if need be. Mike sat down across from the golden bear that had haunted his nightmares for years, doing his best to ignore the malice in Freddy's glare as the brown bear moved to stand back with the other animatronics.

"I'll appreciate it if we don't have any more outbursts, if you don't mind" Fredbear said, with mike nodding his assent. The golden bear nodded and took off his purple top hat, dusting it off absent-mindedly while looking pensively at the ceiling. "I do suppose I'm at fault for that though, even if I weren't in control of myself." his shoulders heaved as he sighed, a rather peculiar motion for a robot, though these past few nights had been anything but normal. "For what happened to your brother and no doubt the trauma you suffered over the years I'm… sorry, for what it's worth anyway." Mike nodded, surprised. He could hear the regret and melancholy in his voice. The bear's black eyes focused on mike and he stayed silent for a few moments before speaking again.

"Now before I begin this story, understand that it is fractured, and that is not a coincidence. I am intentionally omitting parts of the story that are not mine to tell, to get those you'll need to speak to the others. Fair?" Mike thought for a moment and then nodded, looking over at the others for a moment before refocusing on Fredbear. "Right, well years after the incident with your brother but before the shutdown…"

Fredbear checked his bowtie in the mirror, before grinning, he'd been 'retired' for a few years now, father had thought it best after the incident. And while father had let him off the hook for normal stage work though that didn't mean he'd let himself rot with lazing about… well not all the time anyway. He helped out where he could, bringing in boxes when they got a shipment of supplies, occasionally filling for a special event at the pizzeria, and then odd things here or there he thought he still did a pretty good job overall. Today he was filling in for the day guard position, mainly patrolling the back halls and parts and service, as their day guard had been sent home after Father had found him in the back office barely able to stay awake. Fredbear though Father had been entirely too light on the guard but then again, what Father said… he shook his head, he'd have to get the man to look at his processor later on to sort out these spacing out episodes. He walked out of the backroom, padding down the hall. As he reached the main area he looked up at the stage, seeing the newer animatronics that father had created after he had been retired, note to say while he hadn't wanted to retire, loving to entertain and be with the kids it did stroke his ego quite a bit that father had thought it best to build two animatronics to replace him. His brow then furrowed as he noticed they were using their default lines and their movement were jerky, like they were on 'auto pilot' as it were. His brown furrow deepened when he noticed Spring was gone, as she seldom left the stage during opening hours unless she had a some sort of mechanical problem. He carefully walked over to parts and service, frowning further when he found the door open, even if she was having some sort of mechanical issue he knew spring wouldn't have left the door open. As he walked in he stepped into a puddle of something, looking down his eyes illuminated a large puddle of blood and other viscera, he quickly moved now, following the blood trail out to the side alley entrance, meant for employees only. As he reached the door he found it open, rain coming down softly, a streak of lightning illuminating spring, her body open in it's mascot configuration, which had gone unused since the incident with himself being used to hurt the boy years ago. He also saw the new security puppet crawling inside, dragging a child in through the door, it's own body sparking and fritzing. As it made eye contact with Fredbear it let out a scrambled word, one Fredbear had wished he'd never hear again. "M̸̩̖͙̲̮̟̍͌̈͋̄̕u̶͚̝͆̆̆̈̈̚r̵̘̼͓͙̘̒̌̈́̀̉͜d̷͙̄ẹ̶͕̎̓͂̈̚r̵͎̞̰̹͈̅e̸͍̔̔d̷͈̱̱̹̂̄̀̈́."

Mike sat in shock for a few minutes as Fredbear finished retelling that fateful night then frowned. "Buth that doesn't answer my original question, how did their voice boxes get fried?" Fredbear nodded and chuckled a bit.

"to the point, and focused, just like father."He put his hat back on and held out his hands. "since that part isn't really mine to tell I'll give you the short version. The guy who killed the kid was the same guy who messed with their voiceboxes, though much later and Toy Foxy is a different story all together, but That man is too blame all the same." Mike nodded, another question leaving his lips almost before Fredbear finished speaking.

"Do you know who the guy is? And is he in jail?" Fredbear nodded in acknowledgement of the queries.

"We do know who he is and while he never went to jail, have no doubt when I say he is being served a punishment worse than death." Mike shivered as Fredbear said the fail words, the pure hatred and malice in his eyes the same as some of Mike's worse nightmares.

"Well what about the big red bull? Where'd he go? And what happened after the stuff you just told me? Mr. Fazzbear seemed to imply that while he did shut down, it was much later" Again Fredbear nodded before answering.

"Bulldozer, as that's his name requested to be retired and deactivated after Spring Bonnie was Retired and deactivated herself. The Puppet is still here, though it, or she doesn't tend to come out of her box anymore, and from what I understand has been adamant on letting herself rot away, but that's all I say on her as it's best if you get the story from the source. Now father while being a genius was and still is a quite naïve man." Freddy made a sound in between a pop and a growl, to which Fredbear waved him off. "It's true and you know it! At any rate he reinvested into the company, found investors and managed to salvage his dream again, creating bonnie and Foxy. After a few years of modest success and some damn good PR done by the investors They did a grand reopening after expanding the building here, with five new animatronics as well as a rebuilt puppet, as she… well, again it's not my place to say. The Reopening did well for the first few weeks, then another disaster struck, though instead of one dead child, it was four… they all were murdered by the same man that had struck once before." Fredbear was about to continue when Freddy put a hand on his shoulder, black… tears running down his and Chica's face, bonnie, currently still holding his face in his hands looked saddened as well, his large ears drooping.

"Sorry Michael, This is a sensitive subject and treading on territory that again isn't mine. But if I may…" He looked up to Freddy who nodded once, walking back over and patting Chica on the back. "I'll be skipping some important bits here, so again sorry but I want to give you as good a timeline as I can. After that incident the company was in shambles, Father was distraught, a place he'd called his dream had been repeatedly turned into a nightmare. He did his best to restore the originals with hwat money he had left and moved us all here to the the other side of town and open a new place, but the damage had been done, after years of declining sales and public backlash he was forced to shut this place down, though that wasn't the end of our troubles. The man returned, as deceitful as ever, no one had ever seen him in the act but… well anyway when he returned these three and foxy all wanted revenge. They were heavily damaged in the process but eventually they got him, cursing him to suffer the same fate as them. Father couldn't believe it at first, it took a lot of talking to all of us to assure him it wasn't his fault. But with the punishment of that man we vowed to never let anyone, especially a guard take advantage of us again. So we've done our best to scare them off, though you are the first that managed to seriously hurt himself, and while Freddy here doesn't seem to mind, Chica and Bonnie here wanted to make sure you weren't hurt and so they patched you up, which I think for the most part brings us to tonight and your… Treaty. This is the first time we have spoken to someone other than father in many years, and even he we seldom speak to as it reminds him of what he thinks is his fault." Mike leaned back, stunned at everything Fredbear had said. He stayed as such for a few minutes as he composed himself, now not sure if what he was about to propose was a good idea, even if Chica and Bonnie had already agreed.

"I… I want to help fix you guys, I'm a pretty alright engineer, not to toot my own horn. I know you guys have trust issues and rightly so, but if you guys are willing, I'm more than happy to give a go at getting not just your voice boxes fixed but a general upgrade, though I'd like to get your voices fixed first so you can have input on it. I hope I'm not being too insensitive or anything, I've never been good with people" He said, looking down at his hands, one free and the other in the mechanized brace he'd cobbled together. He looked at each of them before back to Fredbear, though was surprised when instead of Fredbear speaking bonnie stepped up to him, the two red optics staring at him for a few moments before he gave mike a thumbs up, handing him, his detached face, Fredbear raised his hands.

"Bonnie seems to be willing to be your tester, though I don't think you can do much worse than what has already happened tonight, so anything will be an improvement." Fredbear said, laughing as Bonnie waved him off, stepping very close to mike, almost looming over him, though mike doubted Bonnie meant to be, probably more eager to get his face back on and everything else working as much as possible. Mike nodded and stood up, walking to the parts and service room, Bonnie following behind. Mike also noted the sounds of the Mangle following them from above. He set Bonnie's face down gingerly, then had the large rabbit animatronic sit on the metal table. He then went thought the disorganized mess looking for tools. He was stopped as he felt a tap on his shoulder by bonnie who pointed to the mangle holding his battered red toolbox from his duffle bag he'd brought.

"Uh… thanks" The mangle smiled and the second head nodded. Mike turned back to bonnie giving him a look over. "Right, well I think the first thing I should do is give you a good cleaning and then do a proper damage assessment, then we'll focus on what we need to there." Mike looked up and bonnie nodded again, his ears twitching what mike could only assume was excitement. Mike had him move over to the mop area, cooping the hose to give bonnie a proper cleaning. Once he'd gotten the large rabbit into position he turned it onto a gentle spray, hosing off much of the dirt and grime that clung to the purple fur. He then left bonnie for a moment to go grab a bucket and soap from the kitchen. As mike opened the door the loud crash of pots and pans nearly gave him a heart attack, with Chica looking at him with much the same expression.

"Sorry Chica, I uh… just needed a bucket and some soap to help clean off bonnie." she nodded and let him into the kitchen, before walking over to one of the shelves, grabbing a bucket and handing it to him, fidgeting slightly as she did. Mike watched her for moment before carefully speaking.

"Are… are you alright Chica?" Her eyes widened and she made an odd crackling squawk before busying herself with other stuff, occasionally still peeking at him while he looked for a container of soap and a large sponge. Mike was surprised when he felt her nudge him slightly while he was looking under the sink; he turned to look back at Chica, seeing she had exactly what he'd been looking for.

"Thank you Chica" Mike took the proffered items from her, putting them in the bucket. He looked back up to Chica as she was still standing there, fidgeting again as well as swaying back and forth. As mike was about to ask if she needed something she picked him up and kissed his cheek, before quickly setting him down and gently but firmly shooing him out of the kitchen! Mike shook his head in disbelief and confusion before walking back into the parts and service, to properly clean bonnie.

"Alright bonnie, let's get you all fixed…"

And that's it for the long overdue chapter 6! To be honest due to all the stuff that's been happening in the real world I largely forgot that this fanfic existed until I started watching security breach stuff on youtube and got an email from fanfiction saying someone followed my story and was like "Oh yeah, my fanfic!" XD In other news I did start a discord that is largely unused, if anyone wants to join DM me your info and I'll get you added. Other than that please tell me what you think as the more engagement I get with this stuff the more I'm inclined to write. Well, that's all for now, Engineer out!