"Wait a second!" Anondos exclaimed angrily as we all started to eat. "How did you con us into pizza for breakfast again? It's not even 10 in the morning!" I checked my watch; he was right. It was just hitting nine. I looked at Mike, who didn't seem to care and was too busy trying to stay in-character for some reason. 'Freddy' looked shocked when Anondos yelled, hiding his huge eyes with his equally huge hands in mock fear.

"Oh, yeah." I replied with a shrug. "I guess I lost track of time and it's only been an hour. How 'bout that." I slowly bit into the still-hot pizza. I looked over at Tyler, who was already into his second slice. "So, I still never got my answer about Baby talking to me when she was turned off."

"She WHAT?!" Tyler almost choked on his food, coughing and punching himself in the chest until a stray pepperoni fired across the room from out of his mouth. Gross. "You're joking with me. I thought she was just saying your name when she was active. Wasn't that what you told Mr. A?"

Thinking back on it, I was cut off during that phone conversation before I could tell Alderson exactly what happened. He just asked me if Baby was talking and I ran with that. I probably should have filled in that one detail first thing.

"I guess that was what I told him, but I told Anondos about it first and I was really freaked out." I said, chewing more pizza.

"Please, tell me everything." Tyler said, putting his food down on a plate in front of him. "I'm not gonna let a nice new store like this go the way of the 80s."

"You people and your goddamn 80s ..." Anondos muttered.

"Okay." I replied. "It was just before I left, and ..."

After telling Tyler exactly what happened, he seemed to be in just as much shock.

"So you're sure she was powered off?" He asked. "You looked?"

I didn't tell him what else I happened to see on Baby.

"Yeah, she was turned off. I know I wasn't just hearing things." I replied. "If she's gonna kill me in my sleep, call someone to get rid of her today."

"Well, that's not really a bad solution, but there's something I'd like to ask you to try, first." Tyler said. "How do you feel about spending a night here? Not all night, maybe from like midnight to six?"

"Fuck you." I replied.

"That's the answer I thought I'd get." Tyler said with a sigh. "I wasn't here, so I can't say what you heard was in your mind or real. Did your security cameras catch it, maybe?"

"My what?" I asked. "Do I have cameras here?"

"You're supposed to." Tyler said. "Let's go in the back and look around. Can one of your friends call your family and get the kids in here? I'd like to see how she reacts to actual children."

"We're trying to figure out if she's dangerous, and you want kids in here?" I asked. "Kids I personally know?"

"We can shut her down remotely from the show console if anything goes wrong." Tyler tried to reassure me. "Please, sir? You have my word nothing will go wrong."

I looked at Anondos. He shook his head.

"Just do it, man." Anondos said. "I'm tired of just sitting around here all day. The kids'll be fine, me an' Mike'll make sure they don't get too close to your love doll over there."

"His what?" Tyler asked. I pushed Tyler towards the backstage door before the conversation could continue. As we walked into the hallway, I could hear Anondos talking to one of my aunts on his phone-namely because this was the aunt he always hit on despite her being married for almost 10 years now.

Not much later, five of my aunts and around a dozen kids filled the dining room. The kids all seemed amused enough, laughing and talking amongst each other while the mothers sat at a different table complaining about their lives. No one complained about the pizza or soda, but unfortunately the kids' interest in Baby was less than ideal.

Unfortunately, Baby wasn't doing anything worth paying attention to. Although she was powered-on, all she did was look left and right, turning her head to get a better look at the new people around her. Her eyes would flicker from green to blue once in a while, which bothered me but Tyler insisted it was nothing to worry about and he could replace them at any time.

You would think that after my constant rambling on and complaining about killer robots that I would have gotten rid of her days ago, but if Anondos thought I should mellow out, I'll mellow out for now. Just as some of the kids started talking about wanting to go home, Tyler grabbed one of Baby's show discs from the computer desk and placed it in the console's drive. The both of us watched on a monitor now mounted on the wall (that had been hidden in a closet which made me feel stupid for never checking out) and laughed as some of the kids jumped in fear when Baby started speaking.

"Hello, everyone!" Baby greeted the room. All of the kids turned to watch her, and not a single one cried; at least I have that going for me. Baby started to wave her left hand and move her right hand up and down, putting her microphone near her mouth. "My name is Circus Baby, and welcome to Freddy Fazbear's pizza! I hope you have plenty of pizza, because I have a great show planned for you today!"

I could never get enough of that voice. I smiled as Baby talked to the kids, seeing a few of them take a step forward to get a better look at her. Tyler had sat down in front of the show console, and was looking over the huge assortment of buttons and switches.

"We need to get you some light fixtures, and maybe some effects." He said. "I put in an interactive show, so we should be seeing that in three ... two ..." The two of us looked back at the monitor; I didn't know what to expect.

"Oh, Freddy!" Baby called. "Are you ready to play with our friends?"

"Well, I sure am!" A goofy, happy-sounding voice responded from nowhere. What the hell is this? I don't have a Freddy robot to do this bit. Is Tyler trying to guilt me?

Out of nowhere, Mike ran out on to the floor in his Freddy suit. I don't remember him leaving the dining room, but whatever made him decide to play along also made me decide to give him some kind of bonus pay. As the show continued, Mike did his best to mimic out whatever it seemed like Freddy would be doing; adjusting his hat, doing a little dance, and looking at Baby as if they were holding a conversation. Of course, Freddy's mouth couldn't move, but the kids didn't seem to notice or care; they were all fully invested in the show.

"How was your day, Freddy?" Baby asked, moving side to side as her pigtails bobbed up and down. "Did you have a fun time?"

"I sure did!" Freddy's voice replied, I assume from Baby's speakers. "Why don't you tell our friends about it while I show 'em all the neat stuff I did?"

As Baby started to sing about dancing, playing outside, and running around a playground, Mike did his best job in acting out everything she said. I was really proud of himself, especially for doing all of this on the fly. Looking around the room, I caught Anondos trying to chat up the same aunt that he had called. Baby seemed fine, the kids seemed fine, 'Freddy' was doing his job, everything was working out great. I almost forgot about Baby talking to me.

"So are you gonna keep giving me the runaround with her, or am I going to get an answer?" I asked Tyler, who was flipping through an instruction book that I had kept on the desk. He looked up at me and shrugged.

"I told you, we're watching her. I think maybe she wasn't completely powered down yet." He replied. "I don't see a problem. Maybe you interacting with her outside of business hours will help her."

"How?" I asked. "She's a robot. It's not like she's a human with a failing memory." I'm getting sick of these people just making shit up to humor me.

"Spend more time with her alone, and see if she keeps acting strangely." Tyler replied. "Since she's acting okay with kids, which is what you should be more worried about, maybe you'll catch whatever happened again when it's just you two."

That's the worst answer he's come up with all day, but I didn't want to get into an argument with Anondos again. Then again, spending time with Baby by myself and seeing what else she had that kids probably weren't supposed to see, if anything, would certainly be a fun time.

I've been wanting to look under her panties since the night I saw them.