Chapter 7 - New Plan

The stage began to descend, because of the darkness, Jack turned on his flashlight. The lift stopped going down and a door opened for them. They walked through the door into a poorly lit area. "This is the way to Parts and Service, just follow me." Roxy said and Jack nodded in response.

As they kept walking in the direction of parts and service, Roxy suddenly asked a question that surprised Jack. "So, what's the name of your friend again? That girl who is also lost here." "Oh, her name's Sarah." Roxy placed a hand on her chin, "Sarah... Why is that name so familiar to me..." She thought for a moment, before snapping her fingers after remembering, "Oh yeah! Sarah Williams, of course, I know her... She has one of the highest rankings on my raceway, I think I raced with her once, of course she couldn't beat me but I must admit... She has some impressive racing skills." Jack chuckled a bit before speaking, "She'd be very happy hearing that from you, she's a big fan of you and your raceway." She looked at him a bit surprised, "Really?" Jack nodded.

But then, the boy's expression was suddenly filled with sadness and concern as he remembered that Sarah was still missing. "I hope she's okay..." He said with sadness, which didn't go unnoticed by Roxy, it was quite amusing to her how much he worried about the girl. "You're really worried about her aren't you? She must be very important to you." Jack sighed before speaking, "Yeah... We have been best friends ever since we were babies, she's always been there for me, I really don't wanna lose her..." 'I can't stand to lose yet another important person to me...' He thought the last part to himself. "I honestly see her as something more than just a friend..." Roxy processed for a moment what he had said, she then smirked, "Hmm, do you have a crush on her or something?" She said with a teasing tone, the boy looked at her with wide-open eyes, "W-what?! No! Eww, no that's not what I meant!" He shouted with a hint of annoyance in his voice, "What I meant is that... I see her as a sister y'know? We are very close to each other and... She's the only one who stayed with me after all my friends left me..." Roxy raised a brow at the last part, "Huh? Why do you mean your friends left you?" She questioned him. The boy sighed before explaining, avoiding Roxy's gaze, "Oh well... Me and Sarah were part of a friend ground, but a pretty horrible thing happened to me not long ago and I guess they just didn't want to deal with my emotional mess, so they just distanced themselves from me..." She looked at him a bit shocked, she felt a bit of her robot heart shatter, she wasn't sure why she was feeling so empathetic towards him, but she just was. He suddenly felt a cold metallic hand touch his shoulder, bringing him closer, "Well, you don't need those losers when you have someone like me as your friend." She said in a soft-spoken voice, he looked up at her surprised, "...Do you really mean it?" "Of course! After everything we went through, It's more than fair to say that we're friends now." She said while playfully shuffling his hair, making him giggle, "Nice, I guess we're friends now." He said, earning a warm smile from the animatronic.


"And here we are, good ol' Parts and Services." Roxy said while pointing to the set of double doors in front of them, Jack grinned seeing that they had finally arrived at their desired location. Roxanne opened the doors, which led them to another set of doors with two big windows, she opened those doors and they finally made it inside Parts and Services.

Jack looked around the place with amusement. It seemed to be a high-tech room filled with equipment, but the thing that got his attention the most was a giant cylinder-shaped room in the middle of the place, the giant windows around it allowed him to see mechanical arms and a table inside it. Jack's curiosity was burning, he's always been fascinated by engineering and robotics, he wanted to understand how that whole place worked no matter what. "That's it, kid, you'll stay here until 6 A.M, Sun said that this place was designed to protect the technicians if anything went wrong, so it should be a safe place for you." She said while running her fingers through her hair, which was quite messy at this point. Jack looked at her a bit confused, "And what are you going to do now?" Roxanne was about to speak when her vision was blocked by a warning:

WARNING: LOW POWER: BATTERY AT 10%

She sighed, "I'll recharge now, my b-battery is at 10%, but after that, I'll find your friend." Her voice was glitching a bit due to the low power. "How long will it take?" The boy asked, "30 to 45 minutes, in the meantime... Try to find something to do, just don't ya set the place on fire!" She said the last part playfully, earning a chuckle from Jack who nodded in response. "Alright, good rest!" He yelled as Roxanne walked to a nearby charging station, she gave him a thumbs up in response.

Jack sat on the ground, unsure of what to do next. He looked around Parts and Services and decided he would explore the place a bit. He first went to the giant cylinder in the middle of the place, which he assumed was some sort of room to operate the animatronics judging by the mechanical arms. He also noticed an old computer near the cylinder, maybe that was what they used to make the operations.

He also noticed some other empty rooms inside the place, which he assumed were testing rooms for the animatronics. He kept walking around the place, a bit bored until he found something that piqued his curiosity. A cardboard box with the words "GLAMROCK BLUEPRINTS AND MANUALS '' written on it, he quickly opened the box, ever since he met the Glamrocks, he was curious about how they worked. Inside it, he found four blueprints, each one belonging to a Glamrock animatronic, Freddy, Chica, Monty, and Roxy. He sat on the ground and started to study the blueprints, the first one being Chica's.

And he sure was impressed, she had very high-tech technology. How could Fazbear Entertainment have so much money to build such a sophisticated machine? Chica not only had a special voice box, but she also could taste and eat due to an artificial stomach all, actually, all of them were capable to eat and even smell due to odor sensors installed on their noses, those features were apparently installed to make them even more relatable to humans.

The next blueprint was Monty's, and unsurprisingly, the guy was a beast, not only was he the strongest Glamrock, but he had special claws that allowed him to play the bass better, but he could also use them to tear apart anything.

Roxanne's blueprint showed something that Jack already knew, she had special eyes that allowed her to see movement through walls, this feature was installed to help her win races and to find lost guests, but she was also using them to talk to other bots through the walls, Jack laughed a bit at the thought of Roxy naturally talking to someone through a wall. But another fact that surprised Jack a little, was the fact that Roxy was also the fastest animatronic.

And finally, Freddy's blueprint showed that he had a special chest cavity that allowed him to carry birthday cakes and oversized pinatas. He also had special artificial vocal cords that allowed him to sing better than the other Glamrocks.

As Jack kept studying the blueprints, he noticed something else inside the box... A sort of polaroid picture. He took the picture and was a bit surprised by its content. It was a selfie taken by Freddy of the whole Glamrock Band after their first performance on the Pizzaplex! They all had smiles on their faces and seemed very happy, an awful contrast to how they looked now. But what confused Jack the most was one animatronic in the picture that he had never seen before, it was a blue bunny wearing the same glasses Monty wears, and he had a hand on Freddy's shoulder in the picture. Who could he be? And where is he?

Seeing how happy they were in that picture made Jack feel... Bad. He already knew that the Glamrocks were pretty much alive creatures, they could feel, think and relate to others. He thought back to what Roxanne had said to him earlier, about how she felt like a simple object, did all of them feel that way? Do they all feel a painful existential dread and Fazbear Entertainment simply chooses to do nothing about it? That didn't feel right for Jack. They were all normal before Vanny turned them into monsters... Maybe there was a way to save them? To turn them back to normal?

All night, Jack has been playing Vanny's twisted game of cat and rat, running from the animatronics, but maybe, he could turn the game upside down, he could save them, and put an end to Vanny! If he simply leaves the place by 6 A.M, nothing will change, more children are going to disappear and the animatronics are still going to be corrupted, but this time, he wasn't going to be just a bystander, he was eager to prove to Vanny that he wasn't going to be just another one of her victims, he would put an end to her little games once and for all, and save the Pizzaplex from her control.

Filled with determination, Jack started to think about how to save the Glamrocks. Even if he was good at fixing things, he had never dealt with such high-tech machines before... But there was nothing in this world he couldn't learn, so went up to that same cardboard box and picked up a bunch of manuals. He sat on the ground and started looking through the books, in an attempt to find any useful information to bring the animatronics back to their normal selves. He wasn't finding anything good until he found a manual called "SAFE MODE AND OTHER SECURITY PROTOCOLS" Seeing that the manual might be useful to him, he started reading it. After a few minutes of reading, he had learned some pretty useful information, the animatronics had something called "Safe Mode" which should, in theory, expel any malfunctions or viruses from their system, but an animatronic can only be restarted into Safe Mode at Parts and Services, so he had to find a way to bring them there. Jack paced around the place thinking of a way to bring them down to Part and Services. 'Maybe... I could somehow knock them out? But how do you knock out a robot?' He then remembered something from the blueprints, their personality chip was the most important part of their endoskeleton, in comparison to humans, that was their brain. Their personality chip is located inside their heads, and if it suffers a great impact, like a very hard punch, it will turn the animatronic down as a safety protocol. That meant that Jack could knock them out like you knock a human down, with a hard punch on the head. After knocking them out, he should have some time to bring them to Parts and Services and restart them into Safe Mode, Jack called that a plan, and now he just needed to somehow convince Roxy about it.

Speaking of Roxy, she had finally finished her recharge cycle. "Oh boy, I needed that." She said while stretching her limbs as she walked out of the charging station, she saw Jack sitting on the ground of Parts and Services, surrounded by a mess of blueprints and manual books, she chuckled at the sight. "Whatcha doing?" She asked while towering over him, to see what he was doing. Jack looked up at her, "Oh, I'm just learning how you guys work!" Roxy looked at the mess of blueprints and books around him, "You did... Quite a mess in here." "Heh, sorry about that, I'll clean it up later." Roxy started walking to the exit of Parts and Service, "Anyways, you stay safe in here while I go find your friend and-" "Wait!" Jack suddenly shouted and ran to grab her arm, she looked at him with a raised brow. "Roxy... I was thinking and... Maybe I could save your friends, I have been learning a lot about them and I think I know a way to bring them back to normal!" She sighed and pinched the bridge of her snout as she already knew where this was going, "Kid... Listen, I know you want to help but it's too risky for you out there, just stay in here, okay? I'm sure the technicians will fix them when they arrive, so you don't need to worry about this." She turned around and started to walk to the exit again.

"But what if they don't?" Jack said, making Roxy stop in her tracks, she looked over her shoulder at him. "What did you say?" "I said... What if they don't fix them? Fazbear Entertainment seems to not give a damn about you guys, I don't wanna sound pessimistic, but the possibility that they will simply do nothing, or even worse, replace them is pretty high!"

Roxy's expression turned into pure concern, Jack was right, it wouldn't be the first time that they simply refused to fix an animatronic and instead just decommissioned them right away... "Look, I'm just tired of being a bystander, you have been helping me all night, and I want to help you too! So please, allow me to help you." Roxanne found herself conflicted, she really didn't want to lose her beloved bandmates, the thought of them being monsters forever filled her body with anxiety. But she also didn't want to put the boy in any danger, 'What should I do?'

She turned to face him completely, she stared at him with hesitant eyes. "Okay, you win ya little punk." Jack's expression lit up, "But what's your plan then, hotshot?" She said while crossing her arms, Jack smirked, "Don't worry, I have everything figured out! We just need to knock them out with a hit on their heads, where their personality chip is located, we then bring them to Parts and Services where I'll reboot them into Safe Mode, that should bring them back!" Roxy raised a brow, "And do you know how to operate them?" Jack's smirk intensified and he placed both hands on his hips, "Pfft- I have fixed a bunch of things before! I mean, how hard can it be? Some high-tech bots are going to be nothing to me." He said with a confident tone, he was surprised by his sudden confidence, normally he would doubt himself, he didn't know where that confidence came from, but he sure loved it. Roxy placed a hand on her chin, considering Jack's idea, and seeing that it might actually work. "Alright champ, I'm in." She said while signaling for him to follow her, Jack did as so. "And remember, stay close to me, and please don't do anything stupid or dangerous while we are out here, okay?" Jack nodded in response, and they both walked out of Parts And Services.

"So... Who are we going after first?" Jack asked, Roxy thought for a moment before making a decision, "Chica... We'll save Chica first." Jack nodded, "Alright then, let's go, we have a chicken to hunt!"


A/N:

Hope y'all are enjoying this story so far, but I must say, things are going to get a lot darker (and violent) for our main characters in the upcoming chapters, so be prepared for a lot of angst.

The next chapter will be pretty big and will focus on a certain sweet but starving chicken animatronic...

Anyways, thank you for reading!