CH6
"What? You can't be serious". "No really that's him!" I exclaimed. It was like watching old family tapes and give you chills when someone who has been dead looks into the camera. "Alright fast forward let's see what happened". Lines rapidly crossed the screen like an old VHS tape when it went static for a second and went back to normal. "Wow wow wow, go back. That was strange" I said. Jacob scrolled back and hit play this time sound played. It looked as if she were eavesdropping on someone in the study.
"Come on ed you built a mechanical marvel, you could make millions.". "On what, war and violence? I built Bonnie to take care of joey, not to fight in a war!". "He's all grown up and out of the house. You accomplished your goal, she did take care of him and now look how good of a job she did. He's following in your footsteps and becoming an engineer like you.". "Bonnie was made for children and that is what she loves. I can tell she isn't happy with joe gone. already decided to sell her to the family diner down the road.". "We could have gotten rich, ed. At least give me her schematics!". "No Will! We may have worked together on everything else but you had no part in this.". "But-". "No Affton! No! She will not be used for war. This is the last I want to hear about this". The door opened and a tall man with long slick black hair, wearing a purple shirt and tie stormed out of the study and the front door slammed as he left the house.
Jacob paused the feed. "Who was that?" Jacob questioned. "My guess is it's his partner. They were arguing over her blueprints and It sounded like this Affton wanted to make robotic soldiers." I said stroking my 5 O'clock shadow.
6:00 bells
"Wow, that was fast" I commented. Jacob got out of his chair and unplugged the damaged animatronic from my laptop. I continued to sit in deep thought. "Nick come on" Jacob motioned to the hallway. I stood up and packed up my computer. I was ready to leave the office when I saw the schematics and the drawing on my desk. "You're taking that?" he chuckled. "Well yeah, technically it's family property" I smiled innocently tilting my head as I folded them up and stashed them in my computer bag. I heard the front door open "Hello? Nick" someone yelled down the hall. "Mairusu, is that you?". I hollered back. He came around the corner and into the office. "I thought to drop by and see how you were doing. Who are yo-... is that the old Bonnie from the back room?".
"Ah ya, why," I asked. "She's dangerous, she killed someone 20 some odd years ago. And how did you get into that room? The only way that door would open is if it was opened from the inside" he explained. "Ya Bonnie told us the horror story. And we didn't touch the door, she just appeared in the main hall asking for help then she sparked out."
"So that aside, who are you?" he asked pointing to Jacob. "This is Jacob I called him to come over after old Bonnie broke down in the hall." I blankly lied. "Why did you call him?" he questioned. "Well Jacob is an electronics wiz when it comes to programming, and I'm a mechanical Grease Monkey and can fix just about anything. So are skill's combined should get her running properly again."
"If she attacks one of you… I can't say I can help" He warned. "We know we are perfectly capable of defending ourselves," I said patting my flashlight on my belt. He looked at it suspiciously as we walked out of the room and down the hall.
"You played that off well," Jacob said nudging me with his elbow. "But of course" I smiled mimicking the team fortress spy. We turned the corner to the front door, Bonnie and Freddy were waiting for us. "So how's the bucket of bolts doing?" Freddy jokingly asked. "Well she's pretty beaten up, but we got into her memory banks and the cool part is my dad is in it! Her first memory. There's a lot. so we'll be binge-watching that" I explained. "So you'll be back!" Freddy excitedly hugged Jacob. Bonnie and I looked at each other, "come hear you!" I said as I gave her a hug and a kiss.
Jacob and I walked out to my car and drove off.
Time skip to nick's house
Jacob and I walked into my house to find my family getting ready for the upcoming day. "Hi sweetie how was work?" she asked."ahh good, is dad still hear?"
"He's in his study" she answered. "Thanks, mom! Oh and Jacob, help yourself to the pantry" I said walking down the hall toward my father's study. I put my bag down and pulled out the child's drawing and schematics and put them in my pant pocket. I took a deep breath as I knocked on the hardwood door. "Enter!" he commanded. I opened the door and walked in. "ahh, Nick how was work?" he casually asked. "It was good… But ahh… that's not why I'm here.". "So what is the problem?" He questioned. "What did Grandpa Ed build and how and when did he die?" I asked. He looked at me confused. "Well…ahh gosh, I don't even know where to start on that subject. He built a various amount of stuff nothing too important, but he died about 20 or so years back in a car accident... " he explained. "Did he ever do anything with the pizzeria that I work at?" I asked. "No, I don't think he did I don't know-".
"Did you ever have anything to do with any of the animatronics or the pizzeria?" I interrupted. "What? No, I have never had anything to do with that place till your heroic stopping of a burglary!" He defended. "Are you sure? Then explain this!" I said pulling out the schematics and drawing putting them both on his desk already cluttered with other projects "the schematics are signed Edward Johnson, your father! and the drawing is signed by you at age 6!". He looked at the papers and looked up "where did you get these?!" he angrily asked. "Does it matter?... I found them in the arm of a broken and damaged animatronic.". He paused and leaned back in his chair "look my dad built her to take care of me while he was working because my mom had died and I was too young to stay home alone and he didn't believe in the daycare system. So she was practically my mom until I moved on to college. It was semester break my dad had given her away to the local pizzeria later to become that anime convention. He later received a call that she had been acting hostile to adults, so naturally, he was going to fix whatever was wrong with her. the next morning he was dead. Mauled to death. Bonnie had blood all over her, so she was decommissioned and new animatronics now take her place" he explained as I took a seat in one of the chairs. "Do you know why she attacked?" I asked. "No. do you?" he said raising an eyebrow.
"We don't know why exactly, but we have a hunch it was foul play" I stated calmly as a detective would. "You think it was sabotage?... and who's We?" he questioned. "You know Jacob right?". "yeah, the kid in your Comp Sci class," he said leaning back into his chair. "Yep him. Anyway, we downloaded her main systems to my computer and have been watching her memory feed, Watching you grow up in HD… Just kidding it's not in Hd but seriously it's cute that you wanted to be a Jedi when you grow up" I smiled. "Actually that's the only reason I listened to you about the flashlight. The idea reminded me of my childhood".
Jacob's P.O.V.
I was stuffing my face with as much cereal as humanly possible. "So Jacob, when did nick pick you up?" asked. "Mumph-mumph-mmh," I said with some cereal spilling from my mouth. Nick's mom glared at me. I gulped down my food. "I had a heated argument with my mom last night and I stormed out of the house and met nick at his work at midnight," I said wiping the milk running down my face. "So what did you do there all night?" she asked. I remembered what nick told me in his car "don't tell my mom anything…"
"Ahh it was boring, nick was drawing up something and I passed out after an hour" I lied. "So what does nick do at work?" she asked as she sat down in the chair across from the round kitchen table. "Oh, he sits in the security office down the hall from the stage and party rooms and checks the cameras to make sure that the place is secure. It's actually very dull" I answered. "So the animatronics don't move at all at night? Because I've heard some stories that they move" she interrogated.
"Well ya they move but they just kinda wander the place, and every now and then one peeks its head in to say hi but that's it." I casually answered. I was beginning to get nervous. "Jacob!" nick yelled from down the hall. "Oh thank god," I thought as I got up from my chair and hastily walked to 's study.
Nick's P.O.V.
Jacob hastily came into the study as if he were running from something. "Dude your mom asks way too many questions… oh hi " Jacob smiled. "Have a seat Jacob" my father glared "y-y-yes sir." he stuttered.
Time skip to school
We walked into the cafeteria and sat down at our usual table and waited for Banks and Anthony. I looked at my watch "wow, were early". "So did you think your dad meant it by telling us to get to the bottom of this?" Jacob asked. "My dad rarely jokes and this is a heavy personal matter, so yeah proba-". "Hey, Nick! How's the graveyard shift?" banks interrupted as he sat down in the seat next to me. "Well-ah it was good, a bit surprising toward the end tho," I said. "How surprising?" Banks asked. "An old animatronic booted itself up and creaked into the office… or it tried at least". "Ya and short-circuited in the hallway" Jacob pitched in. "we started to fix her and were continuing the repairs tonight," I explained. "Can I help?" banks asked.
"Hey, guys! What are we talking about?" Anthony asked playfully hitting Jacob on the back taking the seat next to him. "Well, how's repairing a broken robot sound to you?" I nudged. "Sounds interesting, tell me more" he sat back in his chair stroking his chin. "Well she killed someone 20 years back, specifically my grandfather also her creator, mauled to death. She was sold to the pizzeria and started to malfunction. My grandfather was called in to make repairs and she killed him later that night."
"We don't know much more. But the question is are both in?"
"Yep, I'm in" Banks blurted with excitement. "Good. Anthony?"...
"Oh Fuck ya I'm in. you guy's don't get all the action!"
