Greeting: The Fazbears are getting ready for the monster army. Will Jenny's shield hold on?
There's a lot of things that could go wrong here. Let's find out if this is already too much to handle!
( Storm Jr. On the roof of Freddy's)
She had gone there to be alone for a while. Storm Jr. hadn't felt comfortable inside the pizzeria anymore.
The building was too cramped and agonizing, Storm Jr. had to feel as if she was free.
Her feet were hanging over the edge of the roof, she was sitting on the very edge.
Storm Jr. had been staring into the abyss for a while and thinking about life.
" Leslie has to be behind all this. Nothing else could make clouds this dark and eclipse the sun. The only thing is how do I prove it", she thought at the moment.
As soon as the creature, by the door, had gone away, Storm Jr. had gone to the roof.
Everyone had said not to go outside but Storm Jr. hadn't listened. Technically speaking, she wasn't on the roof or even outside.
Storm Jr. had been wondering if the monsters could see astral bodies. Storm Jr. was lying on Mangle's bed in the Kids' cove.
Hopefully no one would go there and try to wake her up from her sleep.
Storm Jr. couldn't explain it but she didn't want everyone to know exactly what had happened to her.
Marionette and so many others knew that she had received a new power, that was true.
Maybe Storm Jr. just wanted to at least pretend she had a secret. Many animatronics had come to her and asked for details but she hadn't answered them.
Storm Jr. knew it seemed stupid to keep it a secret even though everyone knew about it more or less.
She thought it was fun to have that special ability. It was useful, like right then.
She could be outside and enjoy the spooky atmosphere as well as think.
No one had believed her and it was annoying.
Storm Jr. was a part of their family but they didn't listen to her. Surely, she had been in the basement, longing for her boyfriend.
She had showed them that she had no life without Leslie. That was the reason no one believed her.
Nobody else had been suspecting Leslie, not that she knew of.
Maybe, she had been fooled by her emotions, just like before. Anyone else would have thought twice before following the voice in their head.
Storm Jr. had been an emotional fool and she had suffered the consequences. The difference was that Storm Jr. was sure she was right this time.
This was the Apocalypse, not just any apocalypse, the Apocalypse.
The seers had foreseen it, they said it was caused by Ornica's reincarnation. That was Leslie!
Storm Jr. knew how crazy it was but she could feel it. Just like she could see the clouds, she could feel she was right.
Storm Jr. looked at the roof through her astral body.
" Am I going crazy?", she asked herself with a sigh.
Storm Jr. glanced forward and started staring into the mist.
Storm Jr. realized it right at that second.
" Now, there's mist as well. Great!", she said sarcastically.
Storm Jr. also realized that the army could easily come through it any second. It was truly like a horror movie then.
She was on the roof so she could see further than the other animatronics. The mist was right above the ground and thick as stone.
Storm Jr. looked at it with widened eyes.
" What's that?", she suddenly saw something in the mist.
Storm Jr. hopped off the edge and floated closer. The figure was a human being, a very scary teenage girl.
It was standing alone in the mist. Its eyes were black and its teeth were sharp.
" It's one of them", thought Storm Jr.
She came to it and floated close to the ground. The figure was right outside the sight of the animatronics.
Storm Jr. came close to it and saw it looking at her. It had a grim expression on its face.
" Can it see me?", she thought.
The monster took a step closer to her and it made Storm Jr. gasp.
It could see her astral body. It wasn't possible!
The monster leaned forward, towards her. Storm Jr. wondered what it would do.
Suddenly, the girl pushed her face inside Storm Jr.
The monster's face was right inside her. The monster was looking at the pizzeria, not her.
Storm Jr. calmed down.
" No. It's just trying to see if the front of the pizzeria is empty", sighed Storm Jr.
She was floating next to the most cruel thing in the multiverse, it was creepy. Storm Jr. looked into its eyes.
She knew that monster from somewhere. The body was familiar.
" Hey! I know. She is gonna cuddle us to death with those cute, soft paws of hers.", Storm Jr. heard a voice.
It was in her memories. The girl was Alice!
The girl who had once chased Leslie to the basement and then got beaten up by Storm Jr.
She and her friends had been real bullies, ruining everybody's lives.
Right then, she was even worse.
Alice was looking at the pizzeria, waiting for something.
" I hope she is the army. Please be just you", begged Storm Jr.
Alice-monster looked behind it and saw a boy run to her.
" They are almosst here", the boy said with a hissing voice.
" Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. How many of us are here?", asked Alice.
Its voice was softer than the boy's but it was still scary. Its voice was like that of a crazy granny in a horror movie.
Alice sounded like the witch from Hansel and Gretel.
" There are thoussandss of uss", the boy hissed with his teeth screeching.
Storm Jr. liked neither the sound nor the number.
" Oh no! Thousands of those things. We need Faith and some basement animatronics", thought Storm Jr.
Both monsters were unaware of her presence and Storm Jr. was grateful for that.
She wondered if some different type of monster could have seen her.
Betsy and the messenger boy had had red eyes, where as these two had black eyes.
Storm Jr. guessed that it was a hierarchical thing or the monsters were different species.
Storm Jr. found herself thinking about whether genocidal monsters had species.
" I must warn the others", her mind caught up with the situation.
" They haven't killed anyone. Did we not make it clear enough?", the Alice-monster asked the other one.
" They're ssmart", the other one answered.
" Now, we will just have to kill them all", Alice shrugged.
That was a weird gesture for a monster.
The two ran into the mist using all four limbs. Storm Jr. floated back to the pizzeria.
She dove through the roof and through the walls. Storm Jr. didn't know how soon the monsters had decided to come.
Storm Jr. ended up in the main hall at first, it was really hard to know where everything was.
She had to float along the hallways to find her way to her body. As Storm Jr. arrived at the Arcade palace, she noticed it was full of animatronics.
" They have noticed it somehow. Why would there be so many animatronics here otherwise?", thought Storm Jr.
Then she floated through the curtains of the Kids' cove.
Storm Jr. smiled as she felt her body around her again. It was comfy like a new set of clothes.
She got control over her body as she opened her sweet eyes.
Storm Jr. stood up even though her vision was still blurry. It almost made her fall over but she kept her balance somehow.
Storm Jr. opened the curtains and pushed them out of her way.
" What's happening?", she asked Shadow and Eclipse who were in the Arcade palace.
She pretended not to know anything.
" Storm Jr. Good, you are here. We psychics felt the darkness rise. The monsters are here", revealed Eclipse.
Storm Jr. nodded, afraid.
" Are these guys going to help us fight those things?", Storm Jr. pointed at the basement animatronics.
One of them stopped and looked at Storm Jr. creepily.
" Fight? You want us to fight?", he asked her.
" I'll take that as a no", said Storm Jr.
The animatronic saw her look away so he continued doing his own thing.
Eclipse chuckled nervously and glanced at Shadow.
" They would be useful but we don't want to force them to fight", explained Shadow.
Storm Jr. looked at all the basement animatronics around her. Some of them were quite capable of fighting.
Most animatronics looked strong and agile as they had been fighters of the Legends.
Swords would stay in their hands if they held them. There were a lot of animatronics, many useful fighters.
Would they seriously stay aside and wait while others fought for their lives?
Storm Jr. realized how strong the animatronics were for real. They were weak only because they were afraid to fight.
She saw nothing more than cowards and irresponsible scrap metal.
She became furious for some reason, it made her angry to look at them.
" They are just going to wait in their cubbyholes while we risk our lives, aren't they?", Storm Jr. said angrily.
" They'll refuse to fight for freedom and love. What absolute cowards?", exclaimed Storm Jr.
Eclipse and Shadow were staring into her eyes.
" Storm Jr. Calm down. They don't have to fight, they were slaves and have suffered so much", Shadow pointed out.
" Slaves? You are right, they were slaves. That is a handy excuse to hide your true nature", said Storm Jr., nodding.
The other animatronics stopped doing what they were doing. They had heard Storm Jr. speak in a familiar tone.
She had said slave like a Legend would have said it.
Eclipse got very uncomfortable, the animatronics were scared.
" It's not an excuse, the life of a slave is hard", he claimed.
" A hard life, huh? Is that what you think?", chuckled Storm Jr.
She simply could not hold it back, she was so angry.
She had always pityed the poor slaves but now she snapped.
" Everyone's got a hard life. You, Eclipse, were forced to kill innocents without mercy. You witnessed the cruesome death of your parents.
Your mother, the only one that had ever loved you for real, died in front of your very eyes.
I know it hurt you more than anyone could imagine. Why don't I see you hiding behind a table in fear?
Shadow! You lost your friend Leslie. You were made to protect him and now he's gone. Aren't you scared of everything nowdays?
I don't see you cowering under a chair, whimpering like a wuss", Storm Jr. was speaking in a serious tone.
Storm Jr. glanced behind her and looked at the former slaves.
" I was forced to kill my boyfriend. He was the only one I had ever properly loved. You know what I did! I impaled him, knowing that he would never come back.
Do I look like I want to hide under my bed due to my miserable life?", asked Storm Jr.
The basement animatronics looked shocked. They were imagining everything those three had gone through.
" Do we hide behind poor excuses? Do we show fear when our friends need us?", asked Storm Jr. furiously.
" You know what I think! I think you never stopped being slaves. You still are nothing more than slaves!
The Legends made you slaves because you were too afraid to fight back.
You guys could have fought and probably killed a few of those bastards before going down! But no!
You were scared for your lives just like always! You might have thought you were scared because you were slaves. No! It's a lie!
You were slaves because you were scared and you still are. I see nothing more than a group of cowards, refusing to fight for freedom.
You didn't fight then, you won't fight now. You are slaves, slaves of your own fear and dread!
You don't care about us who are willing to sacrifice our lives for you. We almost died for you already and that's saying a lot.
You should have been the ones to free yourselves, not us", said Storm Jr.
" We don't want to die", said one animatronic.
" So sad. Well, you are going to die anyway! Your body will rust and decay sooner or later.
Do you want to die, knowing that you were a worthless group of cowards or knowing you were brave heroes?
It absolutely disgusts me how you have been playing with the children but aren't truly ready to fight for them.
Exactly what slaves would do.
You run away from the battle and abandon your friends when they need you most", shouted Storm Jr.
The animatronics could hear her every word and it hurt them.
" If you had any bravery hiding inside you, you would come and fight for the innocent children.
You would sacrifice your lives for the children as many times as needed.
There absolutely is no better way to leave this world than to protect your loved ones and the people who trust you", Storm Jr. began to look like she wanted to vomit.
" Maybe you want to die. After all, you have no one to live for anymore. We will not follow some suicidal wolf who has lost her boyfriend.
It's you who has a death wish, not us", some female animatronic said.
Storm Jr. launched at her and grabbed her shoulders. Storm Jr. got frighteningly close.
" That's it! I'm so tired of everybody thinking I'm some suicidal, broken wolf. You don't want to come?
Fine! Let your fear consume you and stay out of my way. I'm going to show you what animatronics are suppose to do in this situation", Storm Jr. said quietly.
She let go of the animatronic and walked back to Eclipse and Shadow. Those two were shocked, Storm Jr. hadn't done anything like that ever before.
They had seen her cry and laugh but that was new. Her speech had shook everyone's core. They looked at the floor and thought about joining the fight.
" It's for the kids. They deserve to live, you should know it", Storm Jr. said in a much gentler manner.
Then she left the room without waiting for an answer. Shadow and Eclipse looked at each other and the animatronics.
" Was she reading that from a book or something?", asked Shadow.
" Well, if some of the animatronics wanted to join us, they won't anymore", answered Eclipse.
They saw that the basement animatronics were staring at one another. What Storm Jr. had said had impaled their hearts.
" Are we really that weak?", thought one animatronic.
" We deserved to be slaves. Is that what's she claimed?", asked the animatronic whom Storm Jr. had attacked.
" I think that's exactly what Storm Jr. just said", her friend answered her.
The rest of the animatronics were talking as well.
" That is the way she sees us. We are pathetic cowards", someone gulped.
" She is right, they have had a hard life as well", Shadow heard one animatronic claim.
Eclipse's ears had drooped and he looked at the floor sadly. Shadow knocked Eclipse with his shoulder.
" You may be wrong, my dear friend", Shadow glanced at him.
Eclipse's ears perked up and he glanced at Shadow.
" Look", smiled Shadow.
Eclipse looked at all the animatronics, their expressions had changed.
" Are we really that pitiful? We shouldn't abandon those that saved us. We owe them our very lives", said the animatronic that had gotten attacked.
The animatronics seemed braver and more determined than before.
" I can't believe it. Storm Jr.'s furious pep talk actually worked", Eclipse couldn't believe his senses.
" We have been afraid for our whole lives. She was right, we should have fought back a long time ago", some animatronic claimed.
One animatronic grabbed a sword. It was the same one which Storm Jr. had attacked.
" Guys!", she told the others.
They all looked at her.
" We are afraid all the time, we should have realized that. We were made slaves due to our weakness, fear.
Storm Jr. might see cowards but we should learn to be better than that", she let out a sigh.
That female animatronic looked at the two male animatronics.
" That was a perfect description of us. We have refused to fight for too long. It's over now", she said with determination in her gaze.
She quickly glanced at the other basement animatronics.
" I know I speak for the whole group when I say we want to help you", she closed her eyes for a second.
" We would be more than delighted to have you with us", said Eclipse with a kind voice.
Those animatronics had not fought before. They were the ones that had been cleaning floors and working as Springlock's toys.
Right at that moment, they were staring at the two males and the one female.
She had truly spoken for the whole group.
" We refuse to be slaves any longer, that time has passed. Now, it's the time to stop pretending to be free and actually be free", she inhaled bravely.
Storm Jr. had completely changed the way those animatronics were thinking. The female animatronic cut her hand with the sword and raised the hand.
" We will give you our oil as a promise that as long as one animatronic stands, the children won't die", she said.
The basement animatronics as well as Eclipse and Shadow went to the main hall.
Storm Jr. had joined Storm and Willa.
" What's with the weapons? I thought you didn't want to fight", asked Willa.
" Seems like I opened their minds", said Storm Jr.
" Willa! They will fight alongside the rest of us. Your sister is a one good motivator. She made them change their minds", Shadow raised his thumb.
Marionette, Golden freddy and Freddy were so happy to have more fighters.
Everyone had come just in time to hear Marionette's plan.
Compared to attacking, defending was much easier to plan. Marionette explained all the different spots where the monsters might come from.
He also told them that those things were actual beast witches.
It came as a shock to literally everyone except Storm Jr. and Mike.
It was something that everybody had known deep within their minds but hadn't dared to think about.
" Beasts are good at messing with their victims so get ready for anything.
You might face your greatest fears in there but I know you all can get through them", said Marionette.
His expression showed them how much he trusted everybody.
It would have been a lie to claim that they weren't afraid. Something bad was coming their way and death was near.
Only crazies would not have been scared.
Marionette tried to be brave as he explained the plan to everyone. Some animatronics would remain inside and have spears.
" If any windows break, you must keep them out. Do not let any in!", Marionette wanted to make it absolutely clear.
He stressed the last phrase.
" Chica! I recommend you lead the guys who are inside. Felix too.
I know the front side is full of windows and it might be hard to keep everyone out", said Marionette.
" I think some of us who are outside should defend the windows as well", Bonnie pointed out.
" Do we need to do that, Jenny?", Marionette asked her.
" I don't know how strong the shield will be or what it will actually do.
The monsters should find it harder to break the windows or something along those lines", said Jenny.
" They won't last forever though. Protecting the windows is advised", she added.
" The guys outside have to remain near the pizzeria. Just so they can come inside if needed. The army could be large or it could small", said Marionette.
" Based on the books of witches' history, the beasts won't use the whole army now. They have all the time they need to kill us.
Remember that they have been waiting for this a long time, they are going to have fun above all.
They also love to play with their prey first. This first attack is about finding out what we can do", Jenny told everyone.
" We'll show them what we are capable of. If they are surpised, I'm proud", smiled Golden freddy.
" Remember to keep one ace up your sleeve. Less the monsters know, the better", Bonnie told him.
Marionette and the others discussed the attack for a while but then they had to go outside.
The army was really close, its scent was in the air.
Marionette glanced at all the animatronics around him.
The basement animatronics showed obvious fear. They were shaking.
The animatronics loved kids above all. It was pretty obvious.
They would fight to the last animatronic if needed.
" Come get some, you filthy monsters. We are waiting", thought Marionette, watching the thick mist gently move in front of his face.
Farewell: The army is not there yet.
Wait for one more chapter to come and then you'll see some fighting. Thank you all for reading this chapter.
I'm so grateful to be here to write for you.
Because: THE ONLY WAY TO LIVE IS TO WRITE.
