Greeting: Hello, people of the world. Do the problems of this world trouble you? Well, you're lucky.
Time to enter this other world and see how Rachel is doing. She must be scared after what happened.
Enjoy!
( The main room. Animatronics and kids)
Nick and a few other employees had gone to check what the screaming had been about.
Everybody had heard Rachel and Doug's screams. The kids were terrified and hugged the animatronics.
Ray was a brave raccoon and his presence made the kids feel safe. They were huddling him.
" What do we do? We have never gone through this? What are we suppose to do in this situation?", Pete was panicking.
" Calm down, Pete. You're scaring the kids. Please, don't freak out", begged Ray.
" How am I suppose to not freak out? What is going on? Did the evil guy get our friends?", asked Pete.
Rachel and Doug answered the question by entering the room. Rachel's entire body was shaking in spine-chilling dread.
" What was that? Why did he?", Rachel was muttering.
Nick and Doug supported her and did their best to keep her still.
" Poor bunny. She has gone through so much in just an hour. A poor innocent thing", muttered one random woman.
Rachel heard it and got really sad.
" I'm everything but innocent. This is the day of my reckoning. This is the punishment I get for my mistakes", thought Rachel.
She stopped in her tracks and looked down. Doug tried to get her to move again but she refused to walk.
" Come on, Rachel. Do not get paralysed now. You'll worry the children, our little children", Doug whispered in her ear.
He had a begging tone.
" Why should I fight it?", asked Rachel.
Doug had no time to answer.
" Rachel!", one girl ran to her.
Rachel had seen her before. That girl had always been in the front row, she loved Rachel.
The girl didn't care about Rachel's mood.
Rachel saw the girl's relieved face and looked into her eyes. The girl went straight for her and hugged her tightly.
Rachel gasped a little and her eyes got wet.
" I thought someone hurt you", said the girl.
" Of course not", answered the teary Rachel as she bent down and hugged her back.
" You're alright. I knew you wouldn't leave us. You love us and we love you", the girl said happily.
It touched Rachel. It hurt her.
" Innocent girl's thoughts. Please, I don't want you to know my secret. I didn't mean it", Rachel thought by herself.
She stopped hugging the girl and her eyes were filled with tears fully.
" You let them down. How could you be with them? Wonder how it will hurt them to hear that you killed a man?
Such a disappointment", a little voice echoed in Rachel's thoughts.
" What's wrong, Rachel? Did I say something wrong?", asked the girl, looking into her eyes.
Rachel shook her head.
" No. I just... I just..", stuttered Rachel.
She was being stared at by tons of people. They would soon know her secret, they would kill her. Rachel was about to break down.
The girl was looking into her eyes.
" I just can't! I'm too evil!", shouted Rachel, breaking down.
She ran off, crying with her tears leaving a trail behind her.
" Rachel! Wait", Ray shouted after her.
Pete and Doug were shocked. Bane looked at Doug.
" Come on. Go after her, Doug. Don't leave her", he told the dog.
Doug nodded to him and ran after Rachel. Some kids joined the innocent girl.
" What's wrong with her?", asked one boy.
" Why did she run off like that?", asked one girl.
The girl, at the front, thought about Rachel's eyes when she had flipped. The girl turned around to face her friends.
" Let's go. Something is wrong with Rachel. We can't leave her", she told her friends.
The children followed Rachel and Doug to the basement.
Following the animatronics was easy. Doug's running was hard to miss.
Rachel's tear trail was leading the way and her crying was loud.
Rachel had ended up at the bottom of the stairs in the basement.
The basement was dark and peaceful. Unlike at Freddy's, the staircase was straight and not spiral.
Rachel was sitting on the last step, crying like a baby.
Doug had sat down too. He was on the fourth step, above Rachel. Doug didn't know what to do so he was just sitting.
The children came down the stairs.
Some were too afraid of the dark to go all the way down.
The girl was brave for Rachel and went all the way down.
Doug noticed the kids but was too sad to send them back up. The girl approached Rachel from behind.
She was walking slowly and listening to Rachel. Her crying was horrible to listen to.
Normally Rachel was so happy and never cried.
She was the happiest bunny in the world in that girl's eyes since the girl had never met Springtrap.
" Rachel. What's wrong?", asked the girl.
" Well, what do you think?! Jason is gone and he won't come back. A woman shot herself in front of me and my kids are driven mad.
So what do you think is wrong!", shouted Rachel.
She shouted it at the girl's face. The girl got scared and backed off a little.
The rest of the kids hid behind one another or Doug. Rachel's expression became worried as she noticed their reaction.
" No! Please. I didn't mean it. Please come back", Rachel begged of the children.
She tried to crawl up the steps. The girl backed off again.
" Please, don't go. I love you", Rachel fell to the floor.
She was crying harder than ever. The kids saw her agony and looked at her in pity.
The girl walked towards Rachel but remained careful.
" We love you too. We want to know why you're sad", explained the girl.
Then she said something bad.
" Is it because of what the woman said?", the girl asked Rachel.
The bunny raised her head and looked at her.
" She didn't say it. She was lying about it", Rachel was panicking.
The woman had said the truth in front of everyone but Rachel wanted them to forget it.
" Why did she say you were a m..?", the girl did not dare to say the word.
Rachel looked at the kid. She begged her to leave it be.
" You don't need to hear it. We can just be ourselves again. I can still sing. We can forget it. Please, I don't want to see you get hurt", begged Rachel.
The girl was not a toddler.
Death was a horrible subject but the girl wasn't stupid and neither were her friends.
" If we forget it, our moms and dads will bring it up. We can't just leave.
My mom told me once to confront my bogeymen when I had stolen some boy's doll. I had to face it", the girl told Rachel.
It shocked her. Rachel needed to face her sins, the girl was right.
Rachel just didn't want to tell the girl or the other children the truth. They were just kids, innocent and kind.
The girl did not have any idea of what Rachel had done.
Even a serial killer would have been shocked by what Rachel had done.
Plus, the girl didn't expect Rachel to be a murderer for real. Doug glanced at Rachel and she knew that he agreed with her.
" Please don't tell them, Rachel", mouthed Doug.
He was starting to get sad as well.
" No!", exclaimed Rachel.
" I refuse to hurt you. You have been my biggest fan for so many years. I won't break you now", Rachel told the girl.
" I don't want to be a monster in your eyes", Rachel looked into the girl's eyes.
The girl was afraid of what Rachel might tell her. She was not very old at all.
Even though she refused to admit it, she didn't want to know that Rachel had not always been a good bunny.
Even then, the girl was alerted around Rachel.
" What have you done? Why did you do it? We're scared of not knowing that. Do we need to be afraid of you?", asked the girl.
Rachel thought about that horrible night. The night guard's fear, his bloody outfit.
The animatronic head, crushing his frail skull. His screams and the way Rachel caused his death.
" Do you need to be afraid of me? Maybe. I don't know", Rachel's ears drooped.
The children did not like the answer at all.
They stayed away from Doug as well. Their best friends turned into monsters in their eyes.
Rachel would have wanted to prevent that but it was too late. She was sad and staring into the girl's eyes.
The girl was wondering if Rachel would attack her. Her hands were shaking and her eyes got wet.
" I can't answer your question. I can't undo what I did. I can never escape it, I can never leave it behind.
I thought I could but it comes for me. I'm so sorry. I didn't want to break the innocence of your childhood.
I didn't want to ruin everything", sobbed Rachel.
She gently grabbed the girl by the arms and petted them. The girl saw the look on Rachel's face, she was sorry.
Doug came towards Rachel and the girl. The other kids wondered if the girl was in danger.
The two animatronics got close to her and they looked strong enough to kill her.
" Please, let's go upstairs", Doug placed his hand on the girl's shoulder.
" Can't you just tell me? I'm brave enough. I'll love you even if I know the truth. I promise", said the girl.
Doug looked at Rachel.
" Please. We can't risk it. We can't do this to our kids", he said.
Rachel sighed.
" They know already. We might as well tell them that they are right", replied Rachel.
The animatronics were sitting on the same step and the girl was between them. The other kids came down more or less.
" What was that woman talking about?", asked the girl.
Rachel looked down.
" I don't know how she knew it. She claimed that she knew my secrets. I wanted to keep it a secret. It was just one night, nothing else.
We were younger and did not know much", sobbed Rachel.
" Nick had hired a night guard to watch us", Doug explained to the girl.
" A night guard? Who's that?", the girl was confused.
Doug thought for a second.
" He came here at night and was meant to make sure nothing would hurt us", clarified Doug.
" He loved us. He wanted to keep us safe", said Rachel.
" Like my mom wants to keep me safe", said the girl.
" Yes. Exactly", nodded Doug.
" That's why our mistake is unforgivable. We hurt him in horrible ways", sobbed Rachel, about to burst.
She recalled that night. The horrors, the screams, the suffering and agony.
" You need to be fixed. You'll be so pretty after this", she heard her own voice say.
She imagined what the night guard had seen. Rachel's glowing eyes in the darkness.
" It fits perfectly", Doug's voice was in Rachel's head.
The night guard had been screaming as the animatronic head had crushed him.
Rachel had tried to adjust it but it had torn the guard's skin off.
" He tried to help us, he paid for it with his life. He is gone because of me. He was someone's father, he had a family", Rachel was crying.
The girl gasped in fear. She was not as strong as she had claimed.
The girl saw Rachel in a new light, as a monster.
" You sent him to heaven? You did not just hurt him", asked the girl.
She had expected Rachel's mistake not to be that serious. Doug looked at the girl.
" We didn't know. You have to believe us. We didn't know. It was an accident", Doug felt horrible.
The girl's reaction had been exactly what he had thought. The children would never touch them again.
" We thought he was broken. People look so different in the dark. We realized the truth when it was already too late", Rachel told the girl.
" Bane noticed that he was a person. We got so scared and we.. we panicked", said Doug.
" What did you do to the man?", asked the girl.
Doug remembered how they had dismembered the body with knives and put it to the trash can for organic waste.
" We hid the man very well. No one noticed a thing, or that's what we thought", Doug looked down.
" Then we promised to never speak of it again. We couldn't let it destroy our fun. We loved you kids too much.
We would have been sent away if adults had heard of it. I couldn't have beared losing you, children", Rachel glanced at the kids.
" I didn't want to hurt that man. Every day, I wish I could go back and undo my mistake. I would do it for you, children.
You don't deserve to play with a monster. You should be playing with innocent bunnies, not with me.
You deserve more than me but I can't live without you", Rachel told the children.
The girl petted Rachel's head.
" She really meant that. Look at her", Doug told the girl.
The girl nodded to Doug. Her expression changed as she touched Rachel's face.
" It was not your fault. We forgive you and so does he. He will definitely forgive you", the girl hugged Rachel.
The other kids came to her and hugged her as well.
To finish it off, Doug wrapped his gentle arms around the whole group and hugged them.
Rachel thought about what the girl had said.
" He is dead, he can't forgive me. But if he could, would he? Would he forgive me my sin? I killed him and prevented him from seeing his son grow", thought Rachel.
After the hug, Rachel glanced at the girl.
The girl looked at the shocked Rachel.
" He will never forgive me. You may forgive me but he will never do that. I made him lose his life. All of this is my punishment", Rachel told her, looking into her eyes.
The girl looked at her with a doubtful stare. Smelling the agony in Rachel.
That was a second before the scratching began.
( Upstairs)
Pete, Bane and Ray were assisting the parents to help the kids. They were by the front windows, hugging the kids and offering them security.
That was all the animatronics knew how to do. The parents did not know what to think about the situation.
Some of them were talking about Rachel just like she had feared. For some of them, it was hard to believe a random woman who had shot herself.
On the other hand, Rachel's reaction had been suspicious.
She was definitely hiding something.
The rest of the kids were not as interested as the kids in the basement.
The children were more terrified of Jason's corpse and the fact that their parents were scared. The fact that the animatronics were scared was even worse.
" You won't let me get hurt, will you?", one girl asked Ray.
He drew his fake gun and showed it to the girl.
" I'll protect you like I protect my swamp. Anything that wants you must go through me first", he promised.
The girl was hugging him for security. Ray did his best to comfort the girl, she needed it. She was resting on his arms.
Lynn's words were still in Ray's head.
" Fear is bad. Whatever is here, mustn't have my children", thought Ray.
He petted the back of the girl's head and kissed her. Bane was holding two children on his lap.
He was worried about the kids but his thoughts were focused on something else.
" Ray. Should we make sure that the vents are empty? I don't want anything else getting in", he asked Ray.
Bane couldn't stop thinking about the eyes in the vent.
Ray looked at him.
" This pizzeria is pretty locked up. There are a lot of wild animals around and they have not gotten in.
Our building can stand its ground. That's what it was built for", answered Ray.
" But these were not wild animals. I don't know what they are or what they want but they are evil.
They want to hurt our kids", Bane sounded extremely distressed.
He glanced at the child on his right thigh. He couldn't even imagine what the human monsters would do to those innocent children.
" Let's not make quick conclusions. What kind of a thing would want to hurt something this small and innocent?", asked Ray.
Bane did not know the answer to that.
The girl on Ray's lap was so cute, Bane thought that no one should want to hurt her.
" All I'm saying is, do not let any more random people in", replied Bane.
The girl, on Ray's lap, was starting to break free.
" Hold on, sweetie. What now?", Ray asked nicely.
The girl was excited.
" Ray. Can't we at least let all those people in? They look cold", asked the girl.
" What people?", Ray turned around to look out the window.
The girl was right about the people. Ray saw them when he looked straight at them.
Bane looked out the window as well.
" Oh my god!", he said.
There were tons of people outside. They all had the same dead look in their eyes and saliva dripping down their chins.
Some of them were shaking in starvation. Bane shrieked when he saw one monster get closer.
Pete and the adults noticed them too after Bane had shrieked. Nick was worried that the window might break.
The monster hit the window but the hit had no effect.
" It's reinforced! They can't come in", Nick calmed everyone down.
" If they keep on doing that, the window will break eventually", he added in his own head.
Ray got over the shock.
" I don't think checking the vents will help anymore, my friend", he told Bane.
That gave Bane an idea.
" Nick! Go turn on the ventilation. We must block them!", he shouted to Nick.
His boss nodded to him and went to turn it on. The fans would stop the monsters.
The boy had gotten through but the others wouldn't.
Luckily, Bane was not panicking. He had to think clearly or they would die.
" Is there any other way of getting in?", he asked himself.
Nick turned on the ventilation and sighed in relief.
" Nick. Is it working?", asked the muscular man.
" Yeah! They will not get through those fans. The heater will keep them at bay", answered Nick.
Bane still had a bad feeling. He had forgotten something.
" The basement!", he shouted.
Nick got alerted along with Ray and Pete.
" Rachel and Doug are in there! The monsters can probably break in through the basement", Bane panicked.
Pete took off with Ray and they headed for the basement.
" Please, be okay, Rachel", begged Ray in fear.
The two male animatronics rushed in through the door and literally jumped down the stairs.
" What are those?", they heard Rachel's question.
Rachel and Doug were in front of the kids, staring at the monsters, peeking through the windows.
The animatronics protected the young ones with their lives.
" Get out of here! Those things want to kill you!", shouted Pete.
Rachel noticed him and Ray.
" What are they? What do they want from us?", Rachel was panicking.
Her legs wouldn't move. Pete and Ray came to them.
They needed to get out of the basement, it was a suicide to be there any longer.
" We'll figure this out later. Now, get out!", Pete pushed Rachel towards the stairs.
Suddenly, Pete heard a crack. A vent, by the floor, was broken. The ventilation did not work in the basement so the monsters got in through the vents.
" Hurry! Just move those rabbit legs of yours!", Pete hurried Rachel.
" What do you want? Why are you here?!", Rachel shouted to the monsters, coming out of the vent.
The kids and Doug were already by the stairs with Ray. Ray noticed that Rachel had to be carried away.
" Pete!", he came back to the pig.
" I'll carry Rachel upstairs. Stop the monsters!", Ray gave his friend a straight order.
The monsters were coming towards the animatronics. Pete ran towards the monsters as Ray grabbed Rachel.
Pete's mind was working on full power. He found out just how fast his mind could work.
He noticed a jerrycan on a shelf. There was gas inside it and Pete could make a spark with his hooves.
Without even thinking about it, Pete grabbed the jerrycan and opened it faster than light.
The monsters had slowed down since Pete, running at them, weirded them out.
Pete flung the jerrycan so the gas flew to the floor.
The monsters realized what he was doing and charged at him. Pete hit his left hoof to the floor and it created a spark that set the gas on fire.
The flames came out of the ground and made a wall between the monsters and Pete.
The monsters were separated from the rest of the room and couldn't come in. They tried but the fire made the monsters crawl back like wild animals.
" Pete! Let's get out", shouted Ray who had almost reached the stairs.
Pete ran to him but never reached him. As he was running, another vent opened behind him.
A monster came out of it and charged at him from behind.
" Pete! Watch out!", Doug tried to warn him.
Pete's legs were grabbed and he was pulled to the vent.
The monster's legs were weird and he looked like a spider, crawling on the floor. Pete was taken to the vent and his body vanished out of sight.
He reached out for something with his last strength.
Suddenly, someone grabbed his hand.
It was Doug who had launched at the vent as soon as Pete had been grabbed.
" Don't let go of me! I'll pull you back out", said Doug.
He was fighting the monster, attached to Pete's legs. Pete looked at him with a begging look on his face.
" The flames are going out. If you are still here, those things will kill you too", Pete told his friend.
" I will not let you go! We are friends. Don't go", begged Doug.
" You can't pull me out, there are monsters behind me. You must run out of here while you still can!", Pete told him.
Doug's grip was failing.
" I will never let you..", started Doug.
Then his hand slipped and Pete was pulled into the darkness.
" No!", Doug saw his friend disappear.
Ray grabbed Doug from behind and picked him up. The flames were almost out.
The monsters were hungry. The other vent was open and the monsters were pouring out of it.
Ray ran up the stairs with the monsters on his tail. He threw Doug out and jumped through the open door.
Then Bane and Nick slammed the door shut and sealed it with a hard, horizontal, steel pillar.
Farewell: That was an intense ending. Let's hope the Apocalypse ends soon since Rachel's pizzeria won't be safe for long.
We all know the Apocalypse won't end so soon. Rachel and friends need to come up with a plan to escape. THE ONLY WAY TO LIVE IS TO WRITE.
