Ch 8
*Gasp* I fell to my knees and clenched my neck "I can Breath!" I panted, "I can move! I can Live" I grabbed the blue light making scorch marks on the floor. I stood up almost collapsing on the strange feeling of having legs again. "I'll make this up to you" I muttered to myself.
"Jacob! Where the hell are you?" a voice called from down the vent.
I debated whether or not I should answer.
"Dude seriously it's been 20 minutes your pizza is getting cold or is cold".
"I'm in here!" I yelled back
Nick's P.O.V.
"Why the fuck are you in the vents? I thought I told you not to go in there" I glared as he crawled towards me. I stood back to give him space to get up as he reached the exit. I noticed his blade was still drawn cutting small divots into the vents "I don't know I thought to explore the place" he said standing up and brushing his knees off, his blade still drawn.
"Did you find anything at least… except dust and dirt?" I smiled
"Nah nothing really" he tossed his flashlight up and missed it on the way down, I quickly grabbed it mid-flight. The blade nearly missing his leg.
"Are you on fucking acid!" I got the blade upright and continued my rant "One, you're an idiot! You know what this thing will do to you! Two, How did you miss that catch?" I retracted the blade and clipped it to the other side of my belt.
I walked over to the desk I watched from the screen. Foxy and chica had been talking with Banks at the table and Anthony was nowhere to be found. I pushed the button for the intercom "Banks, Anthony! break time's over back to work" I ordered.
I turned to Jacob still waiting for an elaborate comeback or excuse. Yet he just stood idle and strangely had not said a word.
Golden Freddy's P.O.V.
I stood there like a deer in headlights, not knowing what to do. should I apologize, should I run?
"Hey you alright?" he asked
I opened my mouth about to talk, then paused "ahh yeah I feel great" I smiled
"Are you sure you're not High? Seriously what did you find in there?" he joked.
What do I say, he doesn't seem to buy calm I'll be defiant "Do I look high to you?" I contested.
He smiled "No, But you're acting strange. And now's not the time. We have work to do." he looked at the old broken Bonnie on the table across the office.
"Now let's get back to work we don't have all night" he stood up from his chair and walked over to the table his hands behind him.
Nick's P.O.V.
"I am a Jedi Like my father before me," banks said igniting his blade in the dark hall.
"Banks cut it out" I smiled shaking my head at the cheesy gesture.
He stepped into the light and into the office withdrawing his blade and attaching it to his belt "what, you have to say that was cool tho" he said taking a seat on the office desk. I rolled my eyes and shook my head.
Anthony walked down the hall into the office "sup guy's" he casually said
All eyes turned to him with me giving the first question "where the hell have you been?"
"Ahh well, your assistant gave me the tour… and ahh" he paused at me glaring at him. "What she came on to me!" he got defensive
I chuckled and nearly broke out in laughter. "Dude, I don't have an assistant! She's just like all the other girls. An animatronic!"
His eyes got huge "Wha-What!".
Banks and I broke out laughing "it's not funny!" he yelled. Banks and I stopped "no kidding It's comedy Gold!" and the laughter continued.
"Ok jokes aside I didn't bring you guys to jack off. Anthony, Banks work on what I told you guys before we ate. Jacob, you need to reprogram her computers to recognize the new parts. Understood? Good."
Jacob looked at me as if I were speaking German. Sometimes I do without realizing it. It being my second language. "Something wrong son?" I asked
"Ah no, but can you refresh me on how to do that?" Jacob asked.
Banks and Anthony turned around facing Jacob with puzzled looks. "Your kidding right?" Banks razed his wrench to scratch his head.
Jacob looked uneasy and nervous from the looks everyone was giving. "Well ya but how can you forget you taught me," I said as I walked over to him and punched in a code. Ok now you see these are the old programming codes for each of her parts, you need to reroute the mainframe or brain signals to match the new codes of the parts Banks, Anthony and I are installing. Watch" I typed the old hip joint code in and replaced it with the new one and rebound the part to the mainframe. "Did I pass the test professor?" I looked at him with an unamused face.
He looked like he was about to shit his pants "ahh yeah S-Sure" He stuttered.
"Anthony you're in charge I'll be back," I said as I started down the dark hallway at a faster pace than normal. Bonnie came out of one of the party rooms as I walked by "hey what's the hurry" she said trying to keep my pace.
"Jacobs acting weird ever since he crawled in the vents, I want to talk to Mari about this," I answered.
"Yeah that definitely goes on the list of strange stuff that goes on around here," she said as we arrived at the prize corner. I knocked on the box and she instantly popped out making me jump back a few feet.
"Hi nick, how's the job been?" she asked leaning to the side of the prize counter.
"Ahh, actually that's what I came here to talk about."
she looked at me suspiciously. "What in particular?"
I leaned on the counter with my right arm "A Lot of weird shit goes down here and I want to know why"
"Hu, what in specific, because if I listed them you would be here for an eternity" she joked. I let out a small laugh.
"Can you tell me the history of this place starting with this photograph" I pulled up the picture I found of the old photograph on my phone and laid it on the counter turning it towards her.
She studied the picture carefully, bonnie came to my left to see the screen. "Well that's Mairusu, next to him is Henry, the creator for the old spring animatronics. He died about 3 years after opening, and the guy in purple is William he created the current animatronics." Mari explained.
"What's Spring animatronic?" I asked.
"Well, you've probably seen other pizza places have animatronic and suit mascots. A spring animatronic combined the 2. It was a far out idea but it worked… for a while at least. The way they work is, you need to put them in suit mode. you crank endoskeleton and cross beams back to make room for a person. The critical flaw of the design was the spring locks holding back the endoskeleton. If they failed you would be crushed. We found out when a female employee was killed in one"
What she said left a surprised and alarmed look on my face "so what about William?" I asked. Bonnie walked away in boredom
"Well he's got a complicated story, At first he was just the day shift manager and an old friend of Mairusu. The 2 distanced each other for a while but after the old Bonnie you're fixing killed someone, he stepped up and built the current models. Over time he started acting strange and later suspected of the killing of several children. What proved him guilty was when police did a sting op and he ran himself off the bay bridge"
I stood there puzzled "How many children," I asked
Mari looked at me "8… including me" he said glumly looking down at the ground.
My eyes got huge "S-so you're… Dead?"
"Yes, and so with the others. They don't remember because I Hold their memories and their pain. But They know what happened yet they act like they have always been that way. Self-aware robots"
I counted in my head "wait that leaves one without a body to inhabit" I said.
"Well not a functional one, no" she quietly said still looking down.
"So where is the 8th?" I mellowly asked
"She inhabits the spring Freddy in the back room. That's why she's dangerous" she looked up at me with a few tears flowing down her face.
"Is she dangerous because she's a spring animatronic?"
"No worse. If you had been viciously murdered and left in a closet unable to move would you share and take over someone's life to live your own?" she questioned.
I thought hard about this statement all to come down to the conclusion of "Yes if I was desperate enough… wait how do you get to this room?" I asked. She looked at me alarmed.
"You aren't going to volunteer yourself are you, because I won't let you!" she angrily said.
"No No! Not me, My friend Jacob went down the vents and ever since he has been acting weird. Could she…"
"You said yourself 'If you were desperate enough'" she quoted me.
I paused and put the pieces together, it all made sense. The cluelessness, the sluggish reflexes, and actually not saying a word while I yelled at him.
I looked up at mari "how can we fix this… I mean, I don't want to send her back but she can't stay in him… there's got to be a way". I slowly paced around the prize corner with my hands behind me. Then it hit me. I turned to mari with a smile
"What," she asked confused
"I have an Idea," I said raising my pointer finger to the ceiling
"And that is" she motioned for me to continue.
"When they decommissioned the suits, are they fixable?" I asked.
She looked at me with a look of disbelief "You have to be kidding Right? You would need to put her on while someone fixes her endoskeleton. You have a death wish, and that already happened once"
I stroked my chin and shrugged at her "well I'm not losing my friend without a fight" I smirked as I removed my flashlight gave it a flip and turned to walk back to the office leaving Mari with a face of confusion.
Mari's P.O.V.
He walked away down toward the office and could do nothing but stare at how he took the information with such a happy go lucky attitude.
I saw Bonnie intercept nick for what seemed like a few words and a kiss, then walk towards me.
"So what was that all about?" she asked
I rolled my eyes palmed my face. "When I first met him I thought he was strange, but now I realize he's Insane" I looked up at Bonnie.
She looked at me surprised and confused "well I know that he's a different breed of guy, and he talks to the point where you get lost. But insane How?"
"He wants to fix Goldey so she can live a better life" I expanded not telling the whole story.
Freddy came to the prize corner from seemingly nowhere "what about Goldey?" she said in an angered tone.
I let out a sigh "I told nick about us… and I told him about Goldey."
Her eye twitched "You told him about us! Why!" she yelled
I looked down nervously "Well… Nick told me one of his friends is acting strange not like himself after going into the vents… He thinks Goldey may have… possessed him"
"Well then what are your thoughts on this?" Bonnie asked with an agitated tone. Freddy stayed silent in deep thought.
"I… yes, I think she possessed him" I answered quietly.
Freddy looked up at me and stared me dead in the eye "which friend?" she scauled.
I could see the hatred in her eyes as she stared into mine. Bonnie scooted slightly away.
I gulped "A-ah… Jacob" I Studdard.
She slowly turned her head toward the hallway to the office "I'm going to kill that bitch… Again"
She took off at a full sprint, enraged.
Bonnie looked at me "So… are you going to stop any of this? Because she's probably going to kill him."
I thought about that for a second "I'll let it play out up until before someone gets hurt" I smiled
Toy Freddy's P.O.V.
I sat quite at my desk facing the back wall behind the security desk punching in the part numbers as I was instructed. The other 2 worked on the animatronic while Nick continued to look over the old schematics. He checked over his shoulder periodically to check my progress. I am hidden… but just for how long? I stood up from my chair and started to walk toward the hall. "I'm going to the bathroom, be back in a sec," I said my back to the hall.
"Goldey! You Bitch, I'm gonna kick your ass!" A voice yelled from down the hall. I turned around.
Freddy came running down the main hall straight towards me.
"I'm gonna beat you so hard you'll wish you never left the back room!" she yelled.
Nick's P.O.V.
Jacob stood 2 feet from my desk frozen as if death himself were charging down the hall. Anthony and Banks peaked out the right corner to see what the yelling was about.
I closed my laptop and ducked down under my desk as Freddy trucked Jacob, causing them both to slide over the desk, knocking the majority of stuff off, the fan hitting me on the head.
Freddy landed on Jacob pinning him down, repeatedly slapping him across the face.
"Get out of him you decomposing piece of shit" she yelled.
Banks and I went to go restrain Freddy. "Freddy!" I yelled. She slapped him again. "Freddy! Stop! You're just hurting Jacob" I yelled holding Freddy's right arm, Banks on the left.
"You of all people should know that's not Jacob" she glared at me.
"Can someone tell me what the fuck is going on?!" Anthony yelled and the room got quiet.
Freddy spoke up "In the back room there is an old animatronic who possessed him".
"I wouldn't have to take this body if I had a working one!" Jacob said struggling under Freddy.
"Get! Out! Of Him!" she snarled at Jacob's imposter.
He smiled "And I'll do just that"
A ghostly figure sprung out of Jacob and into Freddy. Freddy's eyes closed and nearly toppled over then catching herself. She opened her eyes, they were black with white pupils. Banks was working on getting Jacob to come to.
"Ha! How's it feel now you-" she interrupted herself with a spasm "you don't know your place, do you? You belong in the back roo-" she spasmed again "I spent years in there. Now it's your turn. You had your time on stage! And now you're Finished!" she yelled and another ghostly figure was expelled from Freddy landing itself in Jacob.
Goldey inside Freddy stood up and looked at herself "Finally, you don't know how good this feels" she said. She smiled at us and stood up the chair that had been knocked over and sat down.
Banks Anthony and I had gotten Jacob to come to "how you feel son?" I asked. He mumbled a bit then tried to sit up "wow wow wow, you've been through hell just relax, you're ok"
He looked at me sickly "no I'm not… Freddy in me I can tell… she's on a rant and it's giving me a headache.
Mari and Bonnie walked into the office "well I see you're having fun" Mari said unamused.
Goldey stood up from her chair "No No you can't! I won't go back!" she protested
Bonnie came up next to Goldey and sat down on the left side of the desk, her butt in Anthony's face as he was keeping an eye on Jacob. He noticed as I did she had something circular and long tucked in the back of her panties.
Bonnie slowly reached for it as she continued to talk "Don't you see you need to go back. It's too much for his body to handle." she took out the object… it was my flashlight. She pushed a button and the claw opened.
"Just think he may die if you don't" she reasoned.
Goldey wasn't convinced "I'm keeping this one. Freddy can have the old rotting piece of junk" she smirked.
"Sorry to hear that" Bonnie stood up pointed the flashlight and down Goldey fell.
I looked at Mari "ok Mari I need you to transfer Goldy back to her body and Freddy out of Jacob." I said. I turned to Anthony "go with Bonnie and get the old Golden Freddy out of the back room" I ordered.
"No need," Mari said to Anthony and Bonnie "I can do it from here"
She closed her eyes and with the movement of her hand caused the spirits float back to their normal bodies.
Foxy and Chica came into the office to help Freddy wake up. As did we with Jacob
Jacob's P.O.V.
I opened my eyes, I was on my back on the floor. Strangely Foxy and Chica kneeled over me. My head hurt I closed my eyes at the pain and felt my head… My eyes sprung open "Hair?! Why do I have hair?!" I looked at my hand, my eye twitched in anger and confusion.
"What's wrong," Chica asked.
"This isn't my hand," I thought. I tried doing a sit up like in PT, my first attempts were futile. It was twice if not 3 times as hard. I sat up, I felt a secondary movement on my chest. I looked down… "Why Do I Have Boobs?!" I yelled. Everyone in the room turned to me.
"Wait, Jacob?" Nick asked confused. Mari turned to Nick "you didn't tell me that He was still in there" she scolded.
"Well you can fix this right?" he smiled nervously.
She looked at him with a face of distaste "no I can't fix this I'm all out of energy. It will take till tomorrow night till I can swap the 2 back" she looked at me "so can't do anything about it. your Female until tomorrow night.
