Greeting: Hello, all you wonderful people. It's time to leave Freddy's crew and join Rachel's group.
It includes Rachel the rabbit, Doug the dog, Pete the pig, Bane the bull and Ray the raccoon. They are all characters by Nikson aka Nick.
He's a youtuber who also makes fan-games. If you don't know his stuff, go check it out. This guy's a god, I swear.
Enjoy!
( Rachel and Doug's. Pete the pig and some children. After the Beginning)
Their pizzeria was far away from Freddy Fazbear's. The animatronics, in there, barely knew the Fazbears.
Rachel had met Bonnie and Vixey a couple years earlier.
They knew one another but the rest of both groups barely knew each other's names.
Rachel's was in another state which had not been affected by the incident of the Grayson hill.
The animatronics knew that the other state had been closed off like another country.
They knew the basics of everything such as that the Fazbears had been involved. The animatronics had tried to ignore the sorrowful parts of the story.
Rachel had never fought in her life and neither had Doug.
They were scared of violence and for a good reason. It was nothing good, the animatronics tried to forget their mistake.
Ray the raccoon was only pretending to be a cowboy. He had his revolver that was only a prop.
Ray was the bravest of Rachel's crew. Bane the bull was strong but he had never fought either.
Unlike Freddy's, Rachel and her friends had no protection against the incoming attack. The Beginning had gone by but Rachel's pizzeria was still unaware of it.
Monsters were coming for them but right then they were still happy. The monsters would come sooner or later though.
Rachel's plan would not be as simple as fighting back. They would still need to deal with the kids just like Freddy and friends.
If only Rachel and her friends had been able to fight.
Their situation was about to be hopeless and horrifying. The only animatronic, able to fight a tiny bit, was Pete the pig.
He had punched a man once because the man had been drunk and trying to fight him.
Speaking of Pete, he was heading towards the Raccoon hut, the home of Ray. He had a group of children right behind him.
They were excited and a tiny bit scared.
Pete had a bandana around his neck. It was brown and tight. Pete's feelings were as tight as the bandana.
He glanced at the kids.
" Are you sure about this? What if he eats us?", asked Pete, scared.
The kids were not sure. Some tried to hide their giggling.
" The signs say, no kids allowed. Should we turn back?", Pete asked the kids.
" No. We are brave", said one boy.
The others wanted to continue as well. There were no toddlers around, the game was for older kids.
They were still young enough to play though.
Pete and the kids walked by the sign that told everyone to stay away. The walls were green and the speakers were making sounds.
There was bubbling and frogs coming out of them.
Ray's hut was in a swamp, it was a long corridor with warning signs everywhere.
The kids remained behind Pete, he was walking slowly.
They were almost at the hut and the corridor ended. The corridor turned left, there were green lights shining around the corner.
Then suddenly, a huge shadow appeared onto the wall, in front of Pete and the kids. A mighty voice spoke in an angry tone.
" Who dares to enter my swamp? Who dares to interrupt my good night's sleep?", the voice asked.
" M..me. Pete the pig", stuttered Pete in fear.
A raccoon came around the corner with his revolver in his hand.
" A pig? Just what I need. I am very hungry for some pork", said the raccoon.
Pete looked at the kids.
" What do I do? He will eat me", panicked Pete.
The kids looked at Ray as he came closer to Pete.
" If you wish not to be eaten, you must defeat me in battle. Otherwise, I shall wolf you down", threatened Ray.
The kids came around Pete and looked at Ray.
" Kids? Is that your best weapon, pig? You can't defeat me", laughed Ray.
The lights turned red and they could hear thunder in the distance.
" What can we do? Kids! You have to figure out something. How could we defeat such a mighty raccoon?", Pete asked theatrically.
Suddenly, Pete got an idea.
" Kids. You must use your weapon. Use our hands and tickle him to the ground", announced Pete.
It was the children's favorite part.
" No! Not tickling. I can't tolerate it", Ray was acting scared.
" Attack!", Pete said bravely.
The kids got to jump on top of Ray and tickle him. The sounds and the lights calmed down as the mighty raccoon was defeated.
" No. Not the tickle attack. Please, I'll do anything", begged Ray.
" Then let us into your hut, raccoon beast. Then the tickling stops", promised Pete.
" Okay. Okay", Ray's voice became more friendly.
The kids got off him and the lights turned green.
" You great warriors of the swamp. I greet you with respect", bowed Ray.
He took Pete and the kids to his hut and showed it to them. The Raccoon hut was amazing and there were arcade games in there.
The kids could play with Ray and help him do various tasks.
" I guess you'll be fine for now. You don't need me after all", laughed Pete.
The kids hugged him one last time before he left. Ray knelt down and hugged Pete as well.
" I'll miss you, Mr. Pig. You were fun", said Ray in a childish voice.
The kids laughed at him. Ray was so funny.
" Ray! You are not a child. Get up. That's no way for a cowboy to behave", Pete told him.
" Okay. Wait! I'm not a child?", wondered Ray.
Their conversation went on for a short while and the kids loved it.
Pete and Ray were so funny together. Ray could change his voice and embarrass Pete over and over again.
The kids were laughing and interacting with the animatronics.
After a while, Pete did leave the kids. That had been one of his shows.
Right then, he needed to hurry back to Rachel.
Before he left, Ray glanced at him.
" Good work, buddy. You did it again", mouthed Ray and raised his thumb.
Pete smiled at him. The kids had fun with Ray as Pete left.
Pete's tail wagged since he was so happy. Another show had gone by and he had had fun.
He walked by the office where the owner of the pizzeria was in. It looked like a security office since it had been one.
The owner had no real office but he liked the security one.
" Good work, Pete. The kids loved that. It was all in the cameras. I recorded it as well if you want to check it out", said the owner.
" Nick. I couldn't have done it without you. Nice work with the lights and the sounds. You might be even better at this than Jason", said Pete.
Nick was wearing a grey shirt and a pair of jeans. He grunted at Jason's name.
" Where has that little bugger gone? I might be better but this is still his job", snorted Nick.
" We'll find him. He has an explanation", promised Pete.
" He always has", Nick shook his head and sighed.
He had done Jason's job since he had had nothing else to do. If Nick hadn't been there, Ray and Pete would have been forced to cancel the show.
Jason would have ended up making children cry just by not doing his work. Right then he only had to worry about remaining as an employee.
Nick was kind but he hated lazy employees.
Jason hadn't sent him a message or anything so he couldn't be sick. Jason was just lazy, there was nothing else.
Nick thought about firing him right then.
" Well, anyway. I'll go to Rachel right now. Those drums won't play themselves", Pete told Nick.
" You should hurry. I can hear Rachel", Nick pointed towards the main room.
Pete's ears turned towards the stage.
" Come on, kids. Let's call him. Pete! Where are you?", he heard Rachel.
Pete took off. He was going to be late. Rachel was suppose to call him twice and then he'd show up.
That had definitely not been the first one. It might have been the second or the third one.
Pete was running as fast as his pig legs could carry.
" Where can he be? I don't want to play without my friends. Woof!", barked Doug sorrowfully.
Pete ran around the last corner and came from behind the audience.
" Here! I'm here!", Pete announced in a panicking tone.
The people looked at him as he walked to the stage. Rachel and Doug were at the front with their microphones and Bane the bull was behind them.
Bane's fingers were on the electric piano and he was looking at the drums, with no player.
Rachel was happy to see Pete.
" Phew! We don't have to cancel the show after all. You got Doug worried, Pete", she said.
" I'm sorry. Pigs can't run very fast. Ray wouldn't leave me alone either", explained Pete.
He meant his words for everyone in the room.
" It's okay. Come. Let's sing!", Rachel said happily and laughed.
The kids cheered as the background music came on. Pete grabbed the sticks and started playing the tune.
" Now. What could we sing first? Any ideas Doug?", asked Rachel in a playful manner.
" I want to play bones. Woof!", answered Doug.
Rachel and the kids laughed.
" Doug. You silly doggy. Bones are not a song. It's your food", giggled Rachel.
" How about something simple? Like Incy Wincy spider", suggested Bane.
Rachel and Doug loved the idea. The music changed to Incy Wincy spider.
" Everyone can sing that, right? Come on. Sing with us", Rachel encouraged the kids.
Then they all started singing Incy Wincy spider. Rachel loved to sing with the children.
Doug was right there with Rachel, he was so happy. Bane and Pete were playing their instruments behind the happy singers.
Pete was smiling but Bane had something wrong.
He glanced up at the vent, above his head.
He had heard something. The melody of Incy Wincy spider was familiar to him and he didn't have to pay attention to it. The tune couldn't block the noise.
" What? Are our vents broken? Nick should fix them", thought Bane.
He heard it again!
The others were too focused on singing to hear it. It was like breathing.
Very heavy breathing.
But it couldn't be. Why would anyone be in the vents?
Bane thought he'd tell Nick after the show. The song ended and Rachel had to choose the next one.
" Good luck, spider. I hope we'll see him later. So, kids! What next?", asked Rachel.
One kid suggested they'd sing If you are happy and you know it. Doug and Rachel agreed with the child.
So they started playing it.
Bane knew it too but not as well as Incy Wincy spider. The animatronics always started with Incy Wincy spider, everyone knew that.
While playing, Bane couldn't get the vent out of his head.
" Delicious things", a voice came from above.
Bane looked at it. The vent had just said that.
He might have heard wrong.
But if so, why could Bane see something in the vent. He saw a pair of eyes, peeking through the vent cover.
Bane's core was humming.
His playing was starting to go out of tune. He had to pretend he saw nothing.
He wished that nothing would come out of the vent. Bane was right underneath it.
He could almost feel breathing on his neck.
Bane looked at the thing and tried to breathe normally. Pete noticed that Bane was not in tune.
It was becoming more noticeable. Children grinned and stopped singing.
" Stop. Stop", Rachel couldn't sing any longer.
She and Doug stopped and looked at Bane. The kids covered their ears, Bane's playing was horrible.
Bane was not stopping, he didn't even notice that everyone else had stopped.
" Bane!", Rachel tapped him on the shoulder.
" Wha...what?", Bane shook his head.
Everybody was staring at him.
" Well, someone is a little bit tired", Rachel said in baby talk.
She spoke to the audience.
" Our little bull is floating to his daydream land", she giggled.
The people and Doug chuckled. Rachel and Doug were talking to the audience and no one, except Pete, paid attention to Bane.
Pete saw the fear in Bane's eyes.
" Bane. Are you alright?", he whispered to his scared friend.
Bane glanced at him.
" I'm not. The vent", Bane whispered to him.
Pete took a glance at the vent.
" What?", he shrugged.
Bane looked at the vent, there was nothing there. The thing had vanished and nothing was in the vent anymore.
" Nothing, Pete. I thought I saw... Never mind", Bane answered him.
Pete was worried, Bane was clearly afraid.
What had he seen? What had made Bane so scared?
Pete looked at the empty vent and tried to see what Bane had seen. The vent was pretty lit up, shadows didn't form any scary figures.
Bane didn't want to tell Pete what he had seen. Everyone would have thought he was crazy.
" Such things don't exist", Bane thought to himself.
" So! Can we go again?", asked Rachel.
" Yea. Let's continue", nodded Bane.
The animatronics continued with the song and Rachel clapped her hands constantly.
" If you're happy and you know it, jump", sang Rachel.
The tune was happy but Rachel was happier. She didn't even notice that something was wrong.
At the same time, things were changing outside.
There was a figure approaching the pizzeria. It was tired and wet.
It was raining outside and the figure had no outdoor clothing. It saw the pizzeria's lights and walked towards them.
Everyone was oblivious of the figure.
They were jumping with Rachel and Doug.
As the song ended, Rachel was exhausted but that didn't prevent her from smiling.
Doug was barking happily and jumping. Doug licked Rachel's face and made her giggle.
The giggling ended fairly quickly.
People noticed something that Rachel didn't. Rachel was smiling at Doug and he was smiling at her.
Suddenly, Doug's expression changed. He put his arms down and stopped acting like a real dog.
Doug looked worried and scared. It took a while for Rachel to realize that something was wrong.
Pete and Bane were staring at her as well.
Rachel's smile faded and she looked around. Most of the audience looked confused as Rachel glanced at them.
Three girls, in the front row, giggled at Rachel.
She smiled at them, pretending she was amused as well.
" Rachel is spaghetti", giggled the girls.
Rachel looked at Doug, seeking help.
" Rachel. Don't move", mouthed Doug.
He placed his left hand on Rachel's forehead and wiped it.
When Doug retracted his hand, it was red. Rachel's forehead was covered in red substance.
Doug smiled and looked at the kids. The girls seemed to think it was ketchup so Doug went with that.
" Oh look. Where did all this ketchup come from?", Doug let out a fake chuckle.
Rachel tried her forehead as well, her hand got red too.
" Ketchup just gets everywhere, doesn't it?", Rachel let out a fake giggle.
Doug looked at Rachel and did not smile. He had moved between Rachel and the audience so they could not see his face.
Doug was worried, really worried.
Despite the playful laughing, they knew the substance, on Rachel, was definitely everything but ketchup.
It was far far away from ketchup. Rachel felt the substance and it was familiar.
It was like something from a dream she had forgotten long ago.
Rachel wished it wasn't what she was thinking.
Based on Doug's expression, it was exactly what she thought. The warmth that had bled out of a human being.
Rachel could feel the warmth of the blood and so could Doug. Pete and Bane remained silent as they were too scared to say anything.
Doug could smell the metallic scent that rose from the blood.
" How did the ketchup end up on your forehead? No one has eaten pasta in here", asked Doug, glancing at the people.
Most of them were children, young enough not to realize the situation. The few older ones looked at Rachel in fear.
The blood was dripping down her face. She looked at it.
" I don't know where it came from. There's a lot of it", answered Rachel.
" Rachel! Go get some paper. We need to wipe that ketchup off your face", Doug told her.
" Yea! Right", Rachel ran off to get some paper.
Doug spoke to the kids who were waiting patiently. Doug was happy that they were easily tricked.
Perhaps the animatronics could get away with this.
" I'm sorry, children. We need to sort this out. But don't leave! We'll continue shortly", promised Doug.
Rachel came back with paper and wiped the blood off her face. Doug helped her.
As Rachel bent her head forward so Doug could clean the top of her head, she noticed something.
There was a puddle of blood on the floor, right where she had been standing.
" Hey, Doug! There's a puddle of it", Rachel told Doug.
He noticed the puddle too and was weirder out. The kids stood up to see the puddle.
" Did someone eat pasta on our stage? It must have been one of our friends", Doug explained to the kids.
" Well, no worries! I'll go get the mop. You can sing on your own, right Doug?", asked Rachel.
Doug nodded to her. Then suddenly, he felt something hit his head.
" What?", Doug looked up.
" The ketchup is coming from that vent, guys", one smart girl pointed out.
" It seems like it is. Weird", said Rachel.
Doug glanced at the children, they were not suspecting anything. Why would ketchup be dripping from a vent?
" Don't eat pasta in the vents, children. This is what happens if you do that", Doug told the kids.
Pete and Bane stood up.
" Oh no! Someone has been..I mean. Someone has done something bad. This is not easily cleaned up", said Bane.
He had meant to say that someone had been murdered in the vent. Pete took a closer look.
" We can't sing until this has been cleaned up. Look at this mess", he told the rest.
" Oh no. I'm so sorry, kids. We can't sing for the rest of the day", Rachel looked sad.
To the kids, it was like the end of the world.
They loved singing with Rachel. Pete poked the vent with his drumstick.
The fact that Rachel couldn't sing for the rest of the day, became the least of everyone's problems.
Pete shouldn't have poked the vent so hard. The cover shot open and then a man fell down. The corpse fell right in front of Rachel.
The man was hanging upside down from the vent with his feet stuck on the cover. His dead face looked into Rachel's eyes.
The sockets were empty, something had eaten his eyes. His arms had been torn off and his mouth was open.
The dark sockets of the eyes were staring at Rachel.
" I know what you have done", they seemed to say.
It all happened within a second. Rachel let out a horrible scream and fell backwards, towards the kids.
The girls, in the front row, shrieked and embraced one another. Doug let out a whimper of sadness and backed off.
The kids went to Rachel for comfort, they were safe behind her.
Ray and Nick had heard the screaming and came immediately.
" What?! What is happening in her... Oh Christ!", shouted Nick as he arrived.
Ray came and covered his mouth. The older children, with him, looked at the sight in terror.
Rachel burst into tears, she knew the man.
" Jason? Oh god. Poor Jason", cried Rachel.
Nick was staring at his employee in shock.
" So Jason wasn't lazy after all", he said to himself.
No one could move, the tension trapped them all. That was the end of ketchup, Jason was dead and everyone realized that.
The kids covered their eyes. The parents had been in another room but they came as well.
They were coming from behind Nick.
" No! Don't come here! You mustn't see this", Nick tried to push one woman back.
She would have gotten a heart attack if she had seen the corpse.
" What is that? Don't say it's a dead guy", asked one boy, behind Ray.
" It's a dead person. Jason is dead. What happened to him?", answered Ray.
Staff arrived and went to Nick who was the only one, able to move.
" Get him down from there", ordered Nick.
Some staff went to the kids and the animatronics to calm them down while others got Jason out of the vent.
The people and animatronics had stopped and wouldn't move.
Luckily, Nick was good at dealing with difficult situations. He got the situation under control fast.
Unfortunately, the horrors didn't end there.
Everybody heard a knock, someone was at the front door. Rachel looked in the direction of the door.
" What is happening?", she wondered in fear.
Nick took a step towards the door to open it but the woman let herself in before that.
The door shot open and everybody saw a woman, standing in the rain.
She was wounded but her body was tough. She came in with a serious expression on her face.
" Good evening", greeted the woman with a grim voice.
No one knew what to say. The end had come to their pizzeria.
Farewell: Is this woman a beast witch? If not, who is she?
That will be found out in the next chapter. I certainly hope you like these characters.
I want you to see how survival goes for some who are not as prepared and tough as the Fazbear crew.
THE ONLY WAY TO LIVE IS TO WRITE.
