I apologize again for not updating. I was busy finishing up another story to completion. But I have not given up on this one. I've just been more busy lately. Enjoy.

Germany:

"Oooo, such a nice hotel! That Angela must be well off financially," Andie said, as she looked around the hotel foyer that was just for them since Angela made it so after calling them to tell them to go there when she noticed they were heading to Germany.

"Yeah, she might be secured financially, but I'm not sure if her mental state follows," Ethan commented, and Sarah and Mike chuckled.

"I'm not sure if Angela would appreciate that comment after helping us out so far Ethan," Chica said, since the animatronics were able to roam the hotel as it was vacant of other customers.

"She started it," Ethan said with a shrug.

"So we get to stay in a hotel? That's cool. My dream has been realized!" Mousie said with a big grin.

"I thought you dreamed of being a figure skater?" Perry asked.

"Perry! Don't reveal that one!" Mousie said as she pointed at him with fury and he jumped away from her in fright.

As Dog and Foxy calmed the two, Lily was carefully observing her surroundings as her left eye glowed blue, almost showing that she was concentrating. Ethan noticed the glow, as did Freddy, and they both tried to approach her, but they bumped into each other.

"Oh, what the?" Ethan said with a little jump.

"Sorry about that. I didn't notice you there," Freddy said.

"Eh, it's alright. Excuse me," Ethan said, as he continued walking towards his sister.

Freddy was going to stay back, when Golden spoke to him,

'What are you doing? Go to her.'

'But her brother is there. I don't want to bother-' Freddy was interrupted by Golden,

'Stop being afraid of him, Freddy. You're just as concerned about Lily as he is, right? Go see what is going on.'

'... You're right. I am worried about her, especially after what See'er said,' Freddy thought, and then he started walking towards Lily and Ethan.

"Never thought I'd see the inside of a hotel, huh," Bonnie said, looking around.

"I know right? It's really fancy," Chica said, noticing the intricate designs and furniture.

"It's such a nice place right?" Andie asked with a smile as she wrapped her arm around Bonnie's arm.

"Yeeeah. Nice place," Bonnie said, as he pushed Andie's arm off of himself.

"Heeheehee~" Andie giggled, as Bonnie looked at her with one eye narrowed and moved away.

"Hmm," Sarah hummed, as she was standing with her arms in a contemplative pose.

"What's up, Sarah?" Mike asked her.

"I just think this is a bit... suspicious. Like, how did Angela know we were coming here? She called us and told us to come here, we didn't even tell her. And it just so happens that she has a hotel to let us stay in? I'm not sure if that's a coincidence or if she told the Seer to make us come here first on purpose," Sarah replied.

"When you put it like that, it does seem like too much of a coincidence, but I don't think Angela is trying to lure us into a trap or anything. It seems like she needs our help actually. But if she tries anything, we at least know that Lily can fight her," Mike replied.

"Hmm, that's true. Maybe I'm worrying too much," Sarah said, a smile gracing her face.

"Yeah, but your worry gives a different perspective, so it's alright," Mike said with a thumbs up and smile, and Sarah's smile widened.

"Aye. We need to be cautious when trekking on unknown territory, but you need not worry. We'll protect all of ye," Foxy said, as he took a few steps closer to the two.

"Heh. Thanks man," Mike said with a nod.

"Yeah. Thank you Foxy," Sarah said with a smile towards him.

"Of course..." Foxy said, and when Mike turned to talk to the others as Sarah watched him, he turned towards her and added,

"Anything for ye, lass."

Sarah's eyes widened a bit, as she turned to see that Foxy was no longer there.

"Hmm... Your eye looks okay, but why does it glow sometimes? That's peculiar," Ethan said, as he was looking at Lily's eye.

"I don't feel pain or anything. I noticed it does that when I'm concentrating or sometimes when it's very dark," Lily said.

"Huh, that sounds familiar," Ethan said, glancing towards Freddy.

"Yes, it's very similar. It's linked to our emotions, but also if we happen to be in a dark place. Mostly me," Freddy said.

"But she's not an animatronic though," Ethan said, in contemplation.

"... hmm," Freddy hummed as he walked closer to Lily and gently placed his hand below her chin.

"I do have an idea, but I'm not sure if it's right. It's more of a theory..." Freddy said, as his gaze was locked on her eyes, as Lily did the same towards him.

"Well let's hear it. What do you think?" Ethan asked.

"The eye contact she wears is artificial, and it works like a prosthetic for her eye which reminds me of how my animatronic body is like a prosthetic for my soul so... Maybe when Lily, you know, had died before... maybe now she can connect to it with her soul," Freddy said, as he noticed Lily's eyes widen.

"Woah... that's pretty crazy, but not unreasonable... hmm. Then we have to be careful. Wouldn't want your soul to connect to something and leave your body," Ethan said, as he just noticed the locked eye contact of the two.

Freddy moved his hand from Lily's chin and turned to Ethan, "I don't think you'll have to worry about that. Her body and soul will always be connected... basically why we were forced to become part of the suits in the first place..."

"Ah, sorry about that," Ethan said, rubbing the back of his head.

"It's alright," Freddy said with a nod, and Ethan nodded back.

'How peculiar... but it may work to our advantage, Lily,' Golden Freddy told her in her mind.

'How so?' Lily asked him.

'It's unnecessary to get into detail now. Only when you are in peril, than it will be important,' Golden Freddy said, and then he disappeared.

Midnight:

Everyone was resting in their respective rooms, as the animatronics mostly wondering through the foyer and kitchens, noticing how no one was there but it was very clean. Freddy, Chica, and Perry happened to be walking through the halls to make sure the sleeping humans were okay, when they saw something on the dark ceiling. It's eyes were glowing in red crosses.

"BWARK! Is that Kitcat?!" Perry said, as he jumped back in fright.

"Hey! Who are you?!" Chica said as she readied her fists.

"Calm down. Both of you," Freddy said calmly to them, and then he turned back towards the red crossed eyes.

"... A.3, is that you?" Freddy asked, as Chica and Perry grew surprised.

"Eeheeheeheehee! Why heeeelloooo, Freddy Fazbear and friends! It's been a whiiiiiile," A.3 said as she slowly descended the ceiling with her arms extended long until her feet were on the ground, and then they retracted back to her.

"It has. What are you doing here?" Freddy asked.

"Why... I live here. This is one of my houses of refuge. Well, hotel," A.3 said, her crazed grin clearly visible.

"How long have you been here? Did Angela send you?" Chica asked.

"Since you all arrived, and she indeed did. I had to make sure you guys were safe here, and that no one knows that any of you are here or work for Angela or that would be baaaaaad," A.3 said with a wide grin.

"How come?" Freddy asked.

"Becaaaause..." A.3 said as she walked into the darkest area of the room and closed her eyes, which made her almost invisible.

After a moment of silence, A.3 flipped down from the ceiling and was face to face with Freddy, while Chica and Perry were surprised.

"If you tell anyone that you are working for Angela now, then Lily will have to be taken away from you, and obviously YOU wouldn't want that riiiiight?" A.3 said, and Freddy growled.

"How about you tell me the reason why in my face instead?" They turned to see that the question came from Lily, who stepped out of her room.

Her expression was determined and strong, as her hands were clenched into fists.

"Gasp! Lily pie! You're awake!" A.3 said, almost as if she knew already, and then jumped to stand before her.

"Okaaaay, let me explain. You are now entering more dangerous territory and for Angela to continue to help you guys, you can't tell anyone that she brought you here in the first place, at least not now. It would make aaaall of your situations difficult since the other leaders will be more distrusting of her and she won't be able to access certain files and things. She's almost done harvesting the remaining documents. Get it?" A.3 said with her grin widening a little bit.

"Yes, I understand well. We will inform the others to keep quiet. Anything else?" Lily asked.

"How is your eye?" A.3 asked in a whisper.

"It's fine. Glows blue when I concentrate though, but I can see," Lily replied.

A.3 approaches Lily as she carefully observes her eyes.

"Hmmm... okay then. Welp, I gotta go report to Angela!" A.3 said cheerfully.

"One moment, I have one more question, regarding why and where would I be taken if the truth was learned too soon?" Lily asked.

"Here's the thing, Lily-girl, you actually are quite important to what Angela is trying to do against the leaders, and if you guys can't handle keeping quiet and working together, then you shouldn't really be going ahead in the first place. Angela definitely trusts you guys, but you do have new members. She just needs to be sure of them too," A.3 replied honestly.

"Okay, that's fine. Thank you," Lily said with a short nod, and A.3 jumped and disappeared into the shadows of the ceiling.

"… Angela is being very careful here. If she is we definitely should too," Chica said.

Freddy walked towards Lily and petted her gently as his expression was stressed from what A.3 said.

"… I'm not sure what importance I have in Angela's plan, but as long as we stick together I'm sure I'll be okay," Lily said to comfort him.

"I'll be sure to keep everyone in check, Lily. I'm not going to be separated from you in any way," Freddy said with determination.

"You've always had my back, Freddy. I'm very grateful for that, even when I shot you…" Lily trailed off.

"I deserved it. Don't worry about that. For now, let's just face forward," Freddy said, and she nodded at him.

"Come on guys. Let's tell the others. Lily, let your brother and the others know," Freddy instructed and the three agreed and went on their ways.

The Next day:

The ever-growing Midnight Fighters went on their way to a an abandoned factory that used to create molds for animatronics. They decided to check the place out for clues on where they should head next to the real factory so that they can find the locations of where the supplies are being sent.

"Hopefully we can find something here. Seems like this place was abandoned not too long ago," Ethan said as he checked some filing cabinets in the office that oversaw the factory conveyor belts, although most of them were empty.

"I find it strange how they had this kind of factory here just for that, but seeing as they made other stuff too, that makes more sense… besides it being for weapons," Andie said as she looked through newspaper clippings.

"…" Lily looked out the window at the whole factory as she thought she saw something moving in the shadows at the top section that led towards where they were.

"Hey guys, I might have found where they relocated," Sarah said, pulling out a document from within a drawer.

"Nice work, sis. Where are they?" Mike asked as he looked at the document with her.

"A more remote location, though you wouldn't know it well since it's underground, but getting there is a little difficult," a voice said from the doorway, as they all turned to see a tall hooded figure enter in.

Their clothes consisted of brown pants and black fur boots with a black fur jacket over a brown hoodie.

"Who the heck are you?" Ethan said, pulling Lily behind himself as he held onto his gun.

"Sorry about scaring all of you. I should have introduced myself at least but… that might have scared you anyway. I heard about a group coming from across the seas and breaking bad animatronics. I was worried about you guys, but you seem like reasonable people from what I've gathered from A.3," the man said.

"You know A.3?" Lily asked.

"Yes, my name is Luka Czar. I used to work with my uncle in the metal department, but I left a while ago due to… differences. I never really wanted to be a part of all this, but sometimes the family business tries to suck you in… I've been trying to avoid it though, but seeing as you guys want to put a stop to it all…" Luka removed his hood to reveal his face.

He had blonde hair that was curly in the front and straight in the back just reaching his neck, with green and blue eyes, and a beard with a few short hairs since it was regrowing, while he had a scar on the right side of his neck.

"I want to offer my support," He said confidently with furrowed eyebrows, which made the scar over the right brow more noticable.

"… Wait, you want to help us take down your uncle's business?" Ethan asked.

"I want to take down the animatronic part. The rest is just regular metal work. I just want to break the contract he has so that my family doesn't have to forge it anymore. A lot of companies helping with all of this are under binding contracts, and although some don't mind, there are those like me who want to break them. I'll help you guys find the place you are looking for, if you help me too. There's a meeting about to occur with some of the district leaders and one in particular. He's hosting a party, and I need to get in and try to get the documents I need from there. I need some help to get in though," Luka said.

"… This is a lot to take in, Luka. And we just met you. We don't know if we can trust you right now," Ethan said.

"Then I'll show you that you can. I know of places you seek here and the factory. The problem is you need a key from a different location to reach the lab. First we'll have to head to the twins location. It's on the way to the lab," Luka said.

"Lab?" Lily asked.

"Yes. That factory moved locations to cover over the lab that's underground of it. That's where they are building new suits and testing them out. Prototypes. And they may be turning to human test subjects next…" Luka said, as he looked downward and the others' eyes widened.

"Then we came just in time, huh?" Sarah said, and Luka nodded.

"Well, we'll need to make sure we can trust you, so this is a pretty good opportunity. Help us stop them, and we'll help you with that contract. Sounds fair, right guys? I mean, it's not like we weren't going to do that, but to break contracts would be better then taking out whole businesses. That… might be almost impossible if you think about it," Mike said.

"True… seems pretty convenient for you to show up now, Luka," Ethan suspected.

"Well, if A.3 spoke to him, we can only assume it's because of her," Sarah said.

"Angela?" Luka asked.

"You know her as well?" Andie asked him.

"Yes. She is… quite the character. And infamous as the most deadliest of us all. I also trained under her for a while," Luka said.

"Trained?!" Andie asked.

"Yes. Trained on how to live even when you die. I never experienced such vigorous training methods before… It's why I can face an animatronic too," Luka said.

"… You can face one? As she can?" Lily asked.

"Yes. She showed me how to do it. She said strength alone against them can only get you so far, so she showed me how to become stronger and to fight them. I was amazed, but I shouldn't be so surprised. Angela is very analytical and a beast when it comes to doing anything," Luka said.

"… Can you show us too?" Ethan asked.

"If you wish it, then yes. Let's take care of the lab and I'll show you everything she showed me. I know I can trust you guys since Angela trusts you. She has a way of seeing into people… just as with animatronics," Luka replied.

"How can she do that?" Lily asked.

"How can you, Ms. Lily?" Luka asked back.

"Hey, how do you know her name? A.3 told you?" Ethan asked, and Luka nodded.

"Oh! What's mine?" Andie asked.

"Hehehe. Sorry, she only told me Lily and Ethan's names. Said the first person to draw his gun would have been Ethan, her brother," Luka said.

"Aww…" Andie said.

"Aw what?! Angela didn't tell you our names?!" Mike said, offended.

"She has no respect for us! We helped too!" Sarah said, also offended.

"I'm sure she'd rather not speak your names. Possibly due to keeping you guys safe and your numbers unknown to the other leaders. Better to have the advantage of surprise," Luka said, easing their offense.

"Aww, so Angela does care about us!" Andie said with a smile, as Mike and Sarah were a bit skeptical but at ease for now.

"So what are your names? I'd like to know since I'll be with you guys," Luka asked with a warm smile.

"I'm Mike, and this is my sister. Sarah."

"His cool older sister."

"And I'm Andie! I'm not related but part of the family!" Andie said as the others smiled at her.

"Glad to meet you all. You all seem like good people. Let's prepare for heading to the lab. I know where it is, and I'll be glad to help you guys get there," Luka said.

"Alright, but first, we have a few other friends you'll have to meet," Ethan said as he opened the door nearby and Freddy was standing behind it with darkened eyes.

"Ah, yes. You have animatronic allies too. I'll be glad to meet them all," Luka said with a nod.

Freddy walked in slowly with skepticism of the blonde man, as he looked quickly to see that the other humans in the room were okay. From behind him and from the door opposite side of the room, the other animatronics entered and stood on standby, carefully observing the new member of the group. Lily could see their tension as she stood besides Luka and spoke,

"This is Luka Czar. He has offered to help us in exchange for helping his family out of a contract to offer supplies to build animatronics for our enemy. If we can help him, that would cut our enemies resources and give us the advantage. To prove his loyalty to our cause and the deal, he's going to lead us to the factory we are seeking where an underground testing lab is. We're going to head over there now."

Though the animatronics felt more at ease and less tension towards Luka, Freddy still remarked,

"Quite a coincidence since we haven't found anything here."

"I'm sure he speaks the truth. After all, A.3 was the one who told him about us, on Angela's order I assume," Lily said as she glanced towards Luka, who nodded.

"... Well if it was Angela, then I'm sure she wouldn't send anyone who would jeopardize our mission. Good to meet you, Luka. I'm Freddy Fazbear," Freddy said, as he offered his hand to him.

"Very good to meet you, Freddy. I've heard of Fazbear Entertainment before. Heard a lot of things," Luka said as he shook his hand.

"Hopefully not too bad of things," Freddy said, his expression softening while his grip grew tighter.

"... Heh, I'm sure there are worse things that have happened. Glad to know we're on the same page at least," Luka said with a small smile, as he also tightened his grip.

"Likewise," Freddy said, as both gentlemen hid their expressions of battle with their grips.

They both stopped suddenly when they felt a gentle hand tap them, as they looked away from one another to see Lily give them a quick look before letting the other go.

"It's time to go. Quickly," Lily stated as everyone began shuffling out behind her.

Freddy looked at his hand to see a few small cracks, while Luka had a small bruise.

'He's strong,' Each of them thought.

More to come tomorrow. I wrote a lot I just didn't post it yet.