Chapter 30

A/N: Alright, so this a chapter I made after binge-watching a bunch of Markiplier videos, reading some creepy stories, and playing FNAF (two guesses what I'm doing here)! Don't know why, but I did! Kinda nervous about posting it, but oh well.

I own nothing! Emerald is my friend's OC! I am very sorry for what happens to my mind when I do chapters for Halloween, things get weird.

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telepathy

'Bee's speech

Central City, Oct 31

Erica sat up in bed with a yawn, before immediately looking to her phone and checking the date. "FINALLY!" she shouted as her Lantern uniform appeared…except it was orange and black. Flying out the window citizens began looking around as random Halloween decorations appeared, as soon fallowed by every single city on the planet.

"Well folks, as you can see here, the infamous Halloween Santa strikes again, hitting here and every city across the world," the news reported.

-.-

Autobot Base

Ratchet got up with a yawn. He had the late shift last night at the hospital, and worked overtime due to a large accident. Turning a corner, he tripped and fell flat on his face. Picking up the culprit he glared at the jack-o-lantern smiling back at him. Looking up he saw the base was completely decorated for the holiday. "Emerald."

-.-

Batcave

Alfred walked down and stopped seeing the numerous decorations covering the vast cave. Sighing he just turned around and went back upstairs, no matter how many times he removed them, they always came back. At this point it was just best to let Emerald do her thing, she'll clean it up later.

-.-

Nemesis

Emerald flew in past startled Vehicons staring at the random decorations that suddenly appeared. Going into Megatron's room she grabbed his armor flew down the hall, glued it to the roof, hiding the rest of his clothes and leaving a Darth Vader costume.

Going to Starscream's room, she flew to New York, dressing some random dress shop's dummy in his armor, and leaving a pink, frilly, sparkly dress, a tiara, and hot pink stilettos in its place. Doing his make-up, she flew out, and went into Arachnid's room, tying a string to one of her legs, which attached to over sixty cans of Raid aimed right at her.

Soundwave looked over at the Lantern as she flew over and placed a party had on his head before flying off. The telepath shrugged, he was putting this on YouTube later anyways.

-.-

Central City

"Ready 'Bee?" Erica asked readjusting the wig to her costume.

"Why are you dressed up as Black Canary?" 'Bee questioned raising an eyebrow.

"Because it's what the kids wanted," she replied.

"Several of the others volunteered to cover for us when we have to leave for that meeting this evening."

"Great!" she grinned. "Now go hide, I don't want the kids to see you yet!"

Rolling his eyes, her friend took off, leaving Erica to go through the door where several excited kids were waiting for her. "Erica! You came!" a small girl in a wheelchair exclaimed happily.

"Since when have I been one to break promises?" she laughed ruffling the girl's hair. "Unfortunately, Jordan, I'm not going to be able to stay all night since my work has a meeting, however I do have a few surprises to make up for it." Pulling the bags she had off her shoulders, and looked at the several kids. "So, who wants to help me pass out candy and be the Justice League?"

They were all cheering and pointing at themselves, making the redhead smile. "Great, each of you take a bag. Now before we start I'd like you all to meet your first surprise. Come on out!"

A ceiling tile moved above the kids and 'Bee popped out. "Hi everyone!" Several squealed in surprise before looking up and grinning as the Autobot hopped down. "Geez, there are so many members of the League here, how am I to tell who is the real one?"

"We're not the real ones!" one of the kids said with a laugh.

"No? Really? I could've sworn you were the real Justice League."

"Nope!"

"How long are you going to be staying?!" another kid blurted.

"Well, I'm going to have to make sure that Black Canary there gets to her big meeting," 'Bee replied before doing a fake whisper. "I think we all know the trouble she gets herself into on her own."

The kids all nodded and laughed as Erica fake pouted. "Well everyone! Who's ready to start passing out candy?"

They all cheered and before long the group was going room to room, giving candy and gifts to the kids who couldn't get out of bed. Many were also taking pictures with the youngest Autobot, who proved to have a very dramatic flare for the kids dressed as villians when they pretended to defeat him.

Erica smiled as she watched, she and her mother used to volunteer here all the time, but after…the incident, she wasn't able to come as often as she wanted. She heard a loud beep from 'Bee's comm from where he was lying on the floor with a little girl dressed as Poison Ivy on his chest and several other kids dressed as villians standing over him. "Are you dead?"

He lied still for a few moments before popping up, making them all laugh in surprise. "Nope!" Sitting up he tapped his comm and grinned behind his mask. "Alright, let me up. Hey everyone! The next surprise Erica has for you is here, and I have to say, they all sound very excited to come visit all of you! So if you turn your attention to the front door!"

He motioned dramatically towards the door where Black Canary, Hal, Bulkhead, Green Arrow, Arcee, Flash, and Superman walked in.

"So kids, before we go, I have a quick question: which Black Canary is cooler?" He stood next to the real BC. "This one or," he jogged over next to Erica, "this one?"

"The first one!" one kid shouted.

"Traitor," Erica muttered, however she had a huge grin on her face.

"You're the best Ercia!" a boy battling lung cancer said.

"Thank you, Tanner, now, we're going to leave you in the very capable hands of the Justice League and I promise we'll visit again soon," she smiled.

He looked up and 'Bee who gave him a thumb's up from where he was before turning to talk with some kids who were tapping his arm.

"Nice costume," Black Canary said as she and the other heroes walked by.

"Thanks, and thank you all for coming, you have no idea how much this means for them."

"It's no problem, we're happy to do this," Arcee smiled as a girl dressed up like her sat on her shoulders.

With a final smile, she walked towards 'Bee who was talking in sign language to a group of kids, luckily she learned some so she could understand the conversation.

"You know sign langague?" one asked in shock.

"Yep."

"How? Not many people bother to learn it," another questioned in awe.

"Ok, you promise to keep this a secret just between all of us?"

The small group all nodded excitedly.

"Because, I'm just like you. I'm also mute, I only have a device in my armor I use to give me the appearance that I can speak."

"…Really?"

'Bee nodded, and Erica could tell he had a real smile behind his mask, not just one of the ones he faked to keep up his normal façade.

"Do you plan out everything you say before you go out?"

'Bee chuckled and shook his head. "They're just recordings I borrow."

"That is so cool!"

"When I grow up I want to be just like you!"

Bumblebee stood up and ruffled his hair. "You do that, I promise I'll try and visit again soon."

"Thank you!"

"No problem," he smiled walking towards her. "Ready to go?"

"Not like you to reveal secrets," she snorted as he blushed in embarrassment, he forgot she knew sign language.

"Yea, well…I know how difficult it can be not being heard all the time."

"Just when I convince myself I am a soulless redhead you say something like that and make me feel it again," she grumbled once they got into the elevator.

"Soulless huh? Well, a soulless redhead wouldn't bring me and several other heroes to see kids now would they?" he added and she could tell he was smirking.

"You're insufferable."

"You're the one who chose to be my best friend remember?"

"Ok dork, I'll give you that one."

-.-

Cave

"Computer secure room," Batman said.

"Secure."

"Do we believe there is a mole within the team?" Batman asked.

"I am convinced there is none," Aqualad answered.

"Sportsmaster could've been using his claim to drive the team apart," Emerald stated.

"His claim could've easily come by comparing notes with the other guys in the Injustice League," Robin said.

"Besides, if anyone was working with them, they would've betrayed us as soon as we fought against them," 'Bee stated.

"I'm not convinced," Red Arrow replied. "Sure you four and Kid Flash are above suspiscion, but I know Artemis isn't shooting straight. For starters, she's not Green Arrow's niece."

"Yea, she's actually related to—ow!" Robin stopped as Bumblebee and Emerald elbowed him.

"Artemis' relations may indeed make her a suspect, but she's still entitled to a secret identity," Optimus said giving a warning look to Roy. "Who I'm concerned about is Superboy. We still don't know all that Cadmus programmed into him. Conner could very well be the mole, but is not consciously aware of it."

"What about Miss Martian? She is Manhunter's niece, but he told Black Canary he has a few hundred nieces and nephews. And the first time he met M'gann was five months ago," Red Arrow added, "when she stowed away on his last trip from Mars to Earth."

"This changes nothing, I have fought side by side with these people, none are traitors," Aqualad said.

Bumblebee chuckled. "Geez Roy, with the way you're pushing this on other people, I'd say you were the traitor."

Roy just stared at them as his friends laughed.

-.-

"GUYS!" Emerald shouted flying after vanishing for an hour, probably someone trying to remove her decorations.

"What Corp is that?" Robin asked from where he, Bumblebee, and Roy sat on the couch.

"None! I just figured out how to change my suit in the spirit of Halloween!"

"Why am I not surprised?" 'Bee asked raising an eyebrow as he deactivated the datapad he was filing a mission report on. "So I know you've managed to decorate here, the Watchtower, my base, as well as every single city on the planet in the matter of 6 hours. So tell me: is there anyone who managed to escape your wrath?"

"Of course not! Not even Megatron and his warship were safe from me!"

"How—?"

"No clue! But anyways, where's everyone else?! Because I know of this awesomely creepy place we could go for Halloween!" she said.

"Wally, Megan, Conner, and Kaldur are at the Happy Harbor High School Halloween dance; and Artemis and Zatanna took off a while ago to get some extra patrolling in. Just not sure where though," Robin answered.

"Ok then! We can just go with the four of us!" she said with a wide grin.

"Where is this place exactly?" Red Arrow asked as he got to his feet.

"It's in Jasper," Erica replied.

"Great, home turf," Bumblebee said stretching. "We can just bridge into base, stop and get my car, and then I can drive us to wherever you're taking us."

"By the way, where are you taking us?" Robin asked as 'Bee commed for a bridge. The swirling portal appeared and they made their way through; Ratchet sat on his monitor typing away angrily giving Erica a silent threat as the teens chuckled at the fully-decorated base, and Optimus was nowhere to be found. "Have we heard of it?"

"Possibly," she smirked. "Ever hear of Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria?"

"Really? You really go there now?! Last time we were there, we were on the other side of the street in my car, driving by when you suddenly ducked and hid under the glove compartment! And it was sunny and seventy-five outside!" 'Bee growled as he started the engine and drove out of the base.

"Seriously?" Roy scoffed as he and Robin snickered in the backseat.

"It wasn't Halloween at the time!" she retorted, flushing in embarrassment. "My ring goes off every time I'm near it."

"And now that it is you're perfectly fine with going inside at night?!" Robin asked.

"Yep!" she said attempting to give directions to 'Bee who just waved her off and continued driving through the city he had memorized the entire schematics for.

"Here we are," he said parking the car in a nearby alley. Getting out of the car they walked across the street towards the run down, boarded up building with old posters hanging in the window with words promising fun times too faded to read. They went up to the door, and Robin pulled out his lock picks when 'Bee just flicked his wrist and the door opened. "Electronic locks. This place was pretty advanced back in the day; before the disappearances started that is."

"Disappearances?" Roy scoffed; leave it to Bumblebee to tell a spooky story when they were walking into an abandoned children's building that was creepy as pit from the flickering lights, old posters, and creepy sounds going off around them.

Between him and Erica, those two were the ones whose stories gave you nightmares for weeks afterwards; only because you never know how many of the details of the story were made up and how much of it was true.

"Yea, it was all over the news. A few years after it reopened five kids were confirmed murdered—though there is rumor of an unconfirmed sixth—the main suspect of the case was a security guard of the graveyard shift that dressed in one of the empty Fredbear suits, but due to the fact the bodies were never found and the arrested suspect never confessed no one knows," 'Bee said ominously and even Emerald felt a few chills go up her spine. "But then a few years later all the security guards that worked the midnight to six shift started to go missing. Freddy's was hiring a new one almost weekly because they either quit or just vanished without a trace. Some say it's the real murderer; others say it's…something else. And then things began to go wrong with the animatronics, so they closed down."

"Oh…" Robin said quietly.

"Blah, blah, blah," Erica groaned. "Too much chatter! I'm going to look around!" She ran off down a random hall to go explore. Roy and Robin shrugged going to look around themselves as 'Bee opened the door to start looking around Pirate's Cove.

Robin and Roy walked into the main area where the slowly rusting and breaking Bonnie, Freddy, and Chika stood. "This is a room of nightmares," Robin said immediately turning around as Roy grabbed his cape and yanked him back in.

"Come on, you've faced Joker and you're scared of three little broken-down animatronics?" Red Arrow chuckled as the thirteen-year-old hid behind him. He turned on his light and noticed a foul odor, the pitch-black eyes, and something dark dripping out of the mouths. "Ok, maybe you're right!" Both quickly turned and sprinted from the room looking for either Erica or Bumblebee.

Down another hall, Emerald peered into a room full with animatronic heads, as well as a few tables where it looked like the animatronics were put when they needed to be stored or repaired. Using her ring like a light she noticed there were lots of dark stains covering the floor, some of the walls, and even on the tables and a few of the heads. "…'Bee! Do you think you could come down here?" she called peering down the hall.

A few moments later she heard the sound of his armor clinking against the metal floors eerily, followed shortly by the bright blue glow of his eyes appearing at the end of the hall. "What is it?"he asked peering in. He activated the lights on the front of his armor and looked around. Deactivating his headlights, he pulled a black light out of his subspace and the room was practically glowing. "I see…go find Robin and Red Arrow. Make sure they don't come in here, I need to figure out what happened."

"Hey guys, what's—uh…what happened here?!" Roy asked feeling slightly sick as he realized Bumblebee's story might've been true after all.

"No clue, but y'all can keep looking around the rest of the building. Let me know if you find anything else," he said as he pulled out a small kit, making them wonder just where he was holding that.

"Well…then you might want to check the main room, it looked like they were leaking," Roy said as he eagerly stepped out of the glowing room.

Emerald dragged the other out and into one of the hallways. "Can we go?" Robin whined, he could withstand gore on a daily basis cause of his work in Gotham; but Batman didn't let him work on some cases, and those were usually the ones that involved kids, peadophiles, or serial killers—probably of his infamous, protective DaddyBats mode (as others call it, none ever to his face) that made even Joker run the other way—either way cases like that made him feel a little nauseous.

"No! Y'all need to stay here with 'Bee, while I start taking down the decorations! It is almost midnight after all!" she said before flying off.

"But Em—and she's gone," Roy said as the orange and black blur took off.

"Hey, she isn't here now to keep us here," Robin pointed out as he peered back into the main room…only now it seemed that the animatronics were now staring at them. Were they doing that before?

"True, but what about 'Bee?" Red Arrow asked.

"He's a Cybertronian, he can handle himself," Robin called as he sprinted away as fast as his legs could carry him. After standing there for a moment, Roy shrugged and ran out after the Boy Wonder; he wasn't going to stay longer than necessary.

Back in the store room, Bumblebee sat taking samples of the different spatter patterns around the room; which some turned out to be on the roof. After making sure the samples were secured in his subspace, he began taking pictures of the black light room. Noticing some light coming from inside a few of the spare suits and heads, he went over and opened one, only to jump back as a crumpled decomposing corpse in the shredded remains of a security guard uniform fell out.

"Guess I know what happened to the security guards…why did the police never check here? And who shoves someone in a mechanical suit in the first place?!" he said kneeling down to examine it closer, luckily the others left the room otherwise one might be puking; if not from the sight, then the stench. Sighing he took a few more pictures of the bodies as he opened more of the head and spare animatronics; he even had to try to reassemble the dismembered ones—hopefully he got the body parts right—as he found them. "One,two,three,four,five,six,seven,eight,nine…nine bodies, but ten missing guards…and where are the kids?"

He turned and saw that the glow from his black light revealed a trail going out into the hall. Picking it up he followed the trail to an office near the middle of the small pizzeria. A small laptop sat on a chair, there was a door on either side with a light button and a close button, a power monitor (weird) and to top it all off the place light up like a Christmas tree.

"Great, guess I found where they died," 'Bee grumbled snapping a few more pictures. Putting the camera away he snatched up the laptop. After a few frustrating minutes of pressing the on button, using his technopathic abilities, and smacking it, the computer finally turned on. "Wow…I didn't think that would work."

He flipped through the different security feeds, finding the many different rooms. The "corpse room" as he so eloquently dubbed it was clear, Robin and Roy weren't kidding about something leaking from the old animatronics—probably oil—the halls were clear, and he swung back to Pirate Cove after it looked like the curtain moved. Closing the laptop, he turned on the lights, which turned out to deactivate after you release the button, and then pressed the door buttons which held the door down as long as necessary. Opening the doors he looked at the power monitor which had the decreasing levels of power, apparently everything he did with the security cameras, lights, and doors took power from the limited supply.

"What moron designs something like this?" he muttered before his comm rang, making him jump slightly. /Sup?/

/Bumblebee?/ Optimus' both irritated and concerned voice came over. /Where are you?/

/Just stumbled across a case in some place Em dragged RA, Rob, and I to. I think they're still wondering around here somewhere—what time is it?/

/Eleven-fifty-five/

/Well then she's probably cleaning up all her decorations; and I haven't heard any whining from Robin in a while so I assume Red either knocked him out, tied him up, is trying to dispose of the body, or they left/

/What's the case?/

/Just an old cold case I've been looking into recently that has a few new leads/ he answered honestly; this case had confused him for the longest time, and still is.

/Need any help?/

/Nah, I can handle it/

/…Alright, just don't stay out too late/

/Dad, it's Saturday, besides the team's hosting a horror movie marathon tonight/

/I know, but I j—rry—'Bee? You're br—ing up—…/

/Dad? …Dad?/ Bumblebee raised an eyebrow and shrugged as all he got was static. Wouldn't surprise him if this was one of Emerald's and Robin's pranks to try to make Optimus panic. They were determined to get some sort of emotion from him in any way, shape, or form.

A loud clang sounded throughout the building, and 'Bee looked out into the halls as a sadly very familiar bad feeling he always got before something went seriously wrong settled in his gut. Going back to the cameras, he blinked as he saw the heads—and even the corpses—staring at the cameras (creepy), no activity in Pirate's Cove, Bonnie was missing from the main trio—Wait…what?

Flipping back he felt some of his energon chill at the sight of the missing bunny. Flipping through the cameras he spotted her…him…it? out in the hall not very far from the office he was in. Closing the laptop he poked his out and there he was staring right at him with glowing red eyes.

"…hi?" he said with a slight wave. The bunny just kept staring, but he noticed that it's head tilted slightly. "Ok…nice chat…" He turned to go back in when he suddenly turned back holding his black light. "You wouldn't happen to…" The bunny was glowing…or at least it's hand's, face, and other assorted joints were; as well as the stuff Roy said was leaking out of it. Putting the light away, he closed the door and checked on the other seeing the chicken—duck? It looks like a duck—at the window he slammed the door shut knowing that it would no doubt also light up like Emerald did around Halloween.

Sitting down in the chair he shifted through the cameras only to jump as he saw the bear staring at the camera, the duck-chicken was outside the bathrooms (did it have to go or something?) and the curtain moved to reveal the fox hidden mostly in the shadows minus it's demonic eyes.

"Well this is fan-fragging-tastic!" Bumblebee huffed as he flopped down in the chair. Going through the cameras he saw that the fox had moved, Freddy was still there, and the chicken was nowhere to be found. Turning on his door light he saw the yellow aft staring right at him. Slamming the door shut, he opened the other door to see the bunny was still there and closed the door. "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! IT'S ONLY TWELVE-FOURTY-FIVE! AND I'M AT EIGHTY-FIVE PERCENT POWER!"

He turned and checked the light again to see that Bonnie the jerk Bunny was still outside the door, but the chicken was gone. He opened the door and looked at the cameras to see that Freddy was gone, flipping through the cams rapidly he saw that the slagger was staring through a camera in the hall just outside his door. He popped his head outside and saw the bear turn to look at him slowly.

"Pit no!" he said slamming the door. He jumped as loud banging sounded on his door and he saw the fox running back to its area. "I hate this place!"

Sighing he leaned back, but noticed a flickering light on the old phone. Pressing it a recording began to play.

-.-

Mt. Justice

"Is everyone ready for a horror movie marathon?!" Erica asked holding several movies in each hand.

"Where's 'Bee?" Artemis asked.

"He has a case. He'll either show up later or go home," Robin replied.

"So how was your patrol?" Wally asked munching on a candy bar.

"Crazy," Zatanna groaned. "We were chased all over the city by the psychopath named Harm!"

"And he spoke in third person the entire time!" Artemis exclaimed.

"So what happened?" Erica asked.

"Well, he had this sword that you had to be 'pure of heart' for. Turns out his heart was pure evil, so he was able to use it," Zatanna explained. "Anyways, there was this girl dressed in white and all she'd say was 'secret.' She led us away from Harm, but led us to his house!"

"So he caught us, tied us up—you know the usual," Artemis added.

"Secret ended up undo my bonds, turns out she was related to the monster."

"She took us to the backyard where her grave was at! She was a ghost! A real actual ghost! Harm murdered his own sister!" Artemis growled.

"Anyways, with Greta's help we managed to defeat Harm, got him arrested, and now Greta's body is being moved to a proper grave," Zatanna said. "She can finally rest in peace."

"Wait…you're telling me you saw an actual ghost, and you didn't call me?!" Erica whined actually looking like she was about to cry.

"Sorry," they said.

"It's ok! By the sounds of it y'all were too busy with that weirdo to worry about that anyways!" she said with a grin.

"So how was that place you wanted to take us to?" Wally asked.

"Creepy as the pit," Robin shuddered.

"It was like walking straight into a scene out of a horror movie," Roy agreed. "That's actually where 'Bee is working on the case after someone discovered blood, Emerald!"

"Why blame me?" she said.

"Because you brought us to a place where people basically walk in and they don't come out!" Robin protested.

"Ok, ok, maybe I deserve that," she shrugged as she put a movie in. "But we can discuss the place later, right now, it's movie time!"

-.-

Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria

"Great, just great. So basic note is don't let them catch me. And I'm stuck here till six! So if these slagheaps don't kill me Dad will!"

Going to the cameras again he saw Foxy staring out of his curtains, Bonnie had moved out into the hall, Chika was back at the bathrooms, and Freddy was still being an aft at his camera. Closing the computer he jumped as a Golden Freddy was slumped in the spare stool with the same stuff leaking out of it before the lights flickered and it was gone.

"WHAT IN THE NAME OF UNICRON WAS THAT?!" he shouted running out into the halls. Freddy turned and looked at him, and he gave it a glare in return. "HI!" He turned around and walked back in, his power levels were now at fifty-percent and it was only one-thirty. "I'm done! This is insane! Emerald! I swear if this is some sick prank there'll be so many coffee bags in your room you won't be able to get out of bed!"

After his angry exclamation, he slumped down his chair. He checked the lights to see both Bonnie and Chika outside the closed doors. Going to the cameras he saw Freddy still outside, staring through the camera demonically, as well as Foxy standing outside his curtain and into the camera.

"Guess I'll hide in here till I can—duh! Hello 'Bee!" Smacking his forehead, he opened the door and stepped out to face Bonnie.

The bunny looked surprised—if that was possible—cocking its head in confusion. No night guard had ever dared stand up against them, they always ran in fear. The purple man still ran from them when he came to visit to this day. But then again, he did not behave like the purple man, nor did he remotely resemble him. He might be an exoskeleton, but it appears that he's already in a suit, not matter how strange it looks…perhaps he's a new one for the kids, Foxy was always saying he wanted a first mate. It has been so long since they'd seen some other kids to play with. Perhaps he would like to play?

'Bee thrust out a hand, attempting to access the android's systems; the rabbit did respond to his command to back up for a moment, but then—to his shock—it started moving back towards him, as if something else was controlling it. "Oh pit no!" Running back in he willed the door to slam shut behind him. It resisted him, it actually resisted him; tech that old always worked under technopathic control! This was something else; a Class A technopath could override his control, but the only one on Earth was Soundwave and he'd never bother with anything like this.

Going to the camera Bumblebee growled a series of very colorful words in numerous languages as he saw that none had moved; except for the fact Bonnie and Chicka were now standing in his window. And on top of it, it was only two in the morning and his power levels were now at twenty percent due to the consistent use of the doors, lights, and the cameras.

"I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead….ok…what will I do when the power goes out? Guess I'll make a break for it, and deal with them as they pop up," he exclaimed. Taking a deep breath he calmed himself down, pushed the chair back, knelt down, closed his eyes, and waited.

Thirty minutes later, the power levels reached the single digits. Taking a deep breath he opened his eyes and stood up just as the lights above him went out, the doors opened, and the music box began to play.

The animatronics looked into the dark security room where they had grabbed the spare exoskeletons so many times before. Except this time it was not a piece that needed to be put in one of the spare suits, but—according to Bonnie—a new animatronic, possibly. This idea was somewhat confirmed as they saw a pair of glowing blue eyes appear in the darkness.

Bumblebee looked as he heard music start to play and the eyes and face of the bear came in the doorway. Seeing his opportunity he charged past the bothersome bear, he could hear clicks and chitters that sounded strangely excited; did they think it was a game? Whipping around a corner he skid to a stop as he saw Golden Freddy, Freddy, and Chika. Turning around he saw Bonnie and Foxy right behind him. "If you think I'm going to give in like those guards, you're wrong!" he snarled getting into a fighting stance.

Golden Freddy shook his head at his friend's stupidity, he was not one of them. But he was no guard. "W-w-who ar-ar-are yo-u-u?" he ground out.

"I'm not an exoskeleton if that's what you think, and I'm no security guard either," 'Bee said hoping that it would keep him from getting horribly maimed like those other unfortunate souls he found. "Just a teenager."

"N-n-n-not an ad-du-du-dult?"

Bumblebee shook his head, looking behind the animatronics he froze as he saw five small, white figures with tear stained faces standing next to the animatronics; they were children. There was a little girl dressed in a short dress with a bow in her hair, a small boy with Bonnie ears, another boy with a little top hat dressed in yellow, next to him was a boy in a matching hat and had brown ears, and finally was the boy with an eyepatch and hook. He looked at the animatronics then at the kids. "You…you're them…the kids that went missing," he gasped staring at the ghosts.

The kids stared at him. He could see them? He could actually see them?! When they didn't want to be seen? …Maybe he could help.

"Yea…how can you see us?"

"Well, it is Halloween."

"It's actually the day after!" the boy with the eyepatch said.

"So who are you?" the one who represented Freddy asked.

"My name is Bumblebee, but you can call me 'Bee if it's easier," he answered smiling softly behind his mask.

"Like the superhero?"

"So you've heard of me?" 'Bee asked in confusion.

The girl nodded. "When he comes around he always tells us about the heroes of the world. You're his favorite."

"…Do you think you could help us be free?" another ghostly voice said.

Bumblebee looked behind them and saw a slightly older ghost dressed in a black shirt with white stripes at the sleeves and matching black pants, in his hand he saw a mask that reminded him of the one from Spirited Away, and there seemed to be a constant stream on tears on his face. Standing behind him was Marionette, the creepiest of all the animatronics he'd seen so far.

"Ok…so, can you tell me who did this?" he asked stepping past the animatronics surrounding him and kneeling down in front of the kids.

"It was the purple man," Bonnie said.

"Who?"

"The Purple Man," Golden Freddy shivered.

"What does this purple man look like?"

"Big."

"Scary."

"Purple!"

"Him!"

The animatronic Foxy was pointing down the dark halls towards a man standing there, and like the kids said he was dressed from head to toe in an old purple security guard uniform. "Bumblebee…I never expected to see an Autobot here, let alone you my boy," the man said with a sickening smile as he pulled out a knife. "Let's see if we can find one to hold you too. I'm pretty sure Springtrap is around here somewhere."

'Bee naturally stepped in front of the ghostly children, they'd suffered enough at this monster's hands; and while it may be against his code of honor, if this man wasn't leaving in cuffs, he was sure as pit leaving in a body bag. Behind him he heard the creaking of the animatronics behind him and the Purple Man backed up as he saw his previous victims.

Then, he just started laughing. "You really think these little pests can kill me?! If they could I would be dead by now!" he hollered with a grin big enough to rival Joker. "After I add you to my collection, I'll burn this place to the ground. With all of your corpses inside that is."

Bumblebee growled in anger; hearing something behind him he saw the kids, huddled against one another, looking at him with tear-filled frightened eyes. At seeing that, he felt something in him snap…

The Purple Man laughed as he saw the animatronics shrink back, they looked just as pathetic as they did the day he killed them; the Autobot looked no different…till he turned back to look at him that is. And those vibrant, innocent blue eyes that caught his attention in the first place were now dark, cold, and appeared to have changed to violet; he looked downright murderous…

No…he looked evil. This was not the same innocent child he wanted to shove in Springtrap to spend the rest of his days admiring; this was a demon, a monster. A monster who was out for blood; his blood.

The kids stared as the superhero lunged at their killer. The Purple Man dodged the punch, where he stood there was a large crater in the tile floors with cracks spreading out around it. 'Bee whirled around and gave a roundhouse kick, but he rolled behind his prey. Jumping up he jabbed the knife in his back, going for what looked like a gap in the plating. Judging by the pained growl, spatter of the blue fluid that appeared to be the boy's blood, and the fact that he was backhanded harshly back into a wall confirmed that he did pierce the strong armor. Lunging at him, he managed to cut his cheek as he stepped aside. He was forced to dodge again as the Cybertronian turned to punch him, he ducked under the arm, only to have a leg catch him in his gut. His target stood above him, unknowingly revealing the perfect spot to hit as he prepared to give him a nasty—hopefully deadly—blow. Pushing the teen off he stabbed his knife in at the armpit, where the armor was loose and more openly spaced for mobility.

The kids stared as their new friend was hurt trying to protect them, looking at each other they nodded and retreated back into their suits.

The Purple Man laughed as he pulled the knife out, a swell of energon fallowing. He quickly found another opening at where the leg and hip met and shoved the blade through and twisted, eliciting a both enraged and pained cry from his latest victim.

Suddenly he felt something grab his shoulder and hurl him off. Standing near the teen was the animatronic suits he shoved his previous victims in; only now, they weren't the cute famous animatronics: they had dagger-like teeth that barely fit in their mouths, long claws, and glowing red eyes. There was blood dripping off Golden Freddy's claws, and he saw why: on his shoulder, there was now several deep gashes. Foxy and Marionette lunged next, he barely avoided getting his head cut off by the dark animatronic, but a scratch did appear on his neck. Foxy bit his leg; he only managed to kick him off and run a few feet before Chika and Bonnie attacked. Luckily for him those two were slow, so he managed to get away with some scratches on his arms. Golden Freddy and Freddy stood menacingly at the end of the hallway; both Freddy's nearly took his legs off, leaving several deep cuts. Finally he made it, going into the secret room he saw Springtrap leaning against the supports. Hearing clanging he turned and saw all seven emerge slowly from the darkness, the glowing red and violet eyes giving away who was were.

Bumblebee stepped out of the darkness, holding the knife he apparently dropped somewhere while he was running. Despite his weakened state the boy still looked downright demonic, even more so now that he was covered in blood. The Purple Man barely had any time to dodge as he lunged and drove the knife into his side. The man ran towards Springtrap, circling around it he began cranking as fast as he could as he heard the animatronics move slowly towards him.

"I wouldn't do that," Bumblebee sneered. "I've heard those things had a habit of malfunctioning." The scout pulled out a pair of handcuffs. "I can't hold them back forever. Either you come with me now and pay for what you've done. Or they get loose."

"You won't have to do either! I'm going to finish this place once and for all!" he exclaimed going inside Springtrap. Closing it he grinned until he heard the old gears grind and break.

"Can't say I didn't warn you."

-.-

Mt. Justice, November 1

"Optimus Prime—18," the computer announced as he Zetaed in. He rarely ever used the Zeta beams, but due to the fact that Ratchet was doing maintenance on the groundbridge and Bumblebee hadn't come back last night, he decided to make a rare exception.

Going to the living room he saw the group lying across the room with the main menu of a horror movie on the tv. Erica was still sacked out, as was Robin whose arm was draped over her waist. Wally proved to have a snore that could give Bulkhead a run for his money as he slept off to the side; though his and Artemis' hands were touching. Only Roy, Connor, M'gann, Zatanna, and Kaldur were awake.

"Optimus!" Megan said excitedly hugging the Prime. "Happy belated Halloween!"

"Thanks, and to you as well," Optimus said with a nod as he scanned the room; no Bumblebee. "Is Bumblebee here?"

"He's not back yet?" Roy asked in shock.

"No, I thought he might've come here to join in your festivities," the man replied as the others began to stir.

"What's going on? Erica mumbled.

"Bumblebee's missing," Connor stated and the others immediately found themselves wide awake.

"WHAT?!" they all shouted.

-.-

Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria

Bumblebee groaned as he woke up, his head felt like it was hit by Bulkhead's wrecking ball. Looking to his left he saw Springtrap lying in a pool of blood in front of him, he attempted to shoot up, but pain shot throughout his body. It was then he noticed that not only was he missing his mask, his armor was covered in blood, and judging by the wounds that were still trickling blood steadily, most of it was his. When did he get those wounds? Last thing he remembered was the serial killer talking about burning the building with him and the rest of the corpses inside, looking at the kids, then…nothing. It was all a big blank, just like the several minutes before his death in the failsafe exercise.

Gritting his teeth he forced himself to his knees, by the time he reached them he was panting and the room was spinning; he probably lost more blood than he thought.

"Are you ok?"

Looking up 'Bee saw the kids next to him, their animatronics standing not very far off. "I've been better, but I've had worse," he grunted. "Foxy, do you think you could go get me the curtains from Pirate's cove?"

Slightly confused, Foxy ran off and came back only a few short moments later with the curtains. "What are these for?"

"Well, with your permission, I would like to remove your bodies from the animatronics and wrap them in these," he answered.

They all looked at him surprised, he could barely stand up himself, and here he was still looking out for them. "Yes, please."

It took a few minutes, but he finally managed to get to his feet. Limping over he went to Bonnie first. Opening the rabbit, he tenderly took the body and carefully wrapped it up, before doing the same with the rest; Marionette and Golden Freddy proved to be rather difficult, but eventually he managed to wrap them in the last of the curtains. He had been worrying he'd run out, but Primus seemed to be looking out for him and the kids, giving him enough to respectfully wrap them.

"What are your names?"

"I'm Francis Smith," the boy that was trapped in Freddy smiled.

"Christine Clave," Chika said.

"Ben Ottis," the boy with the bunny ears said sheepishly.

"Frederik Thomas," Foxy smiled.

"George Thompkins," Golden Freddy answered.

"Morgan Caple," the gothic boy answered.

"Well, I'm glad to meet all of you," he said with a smile. "I promise that I'll make sure that your families know what happened. You all can now rest in peace."

All the kids hugged him with their ghostly arms. "Thank you…" they said before fading.

"Please keep them safe," he prayed as darkness once again overtook his vision.

-.-

Mt. Justice

"WHERE IS HE?! YOU TWO WERE WITH HIM LAST!" Erica shouted at Robin and Roy as the pressed themselves against the wall cowering from the enraged White Lantern.

"That place creeped us out, besides the movie marathon was starting soon, we didn't want to miss it," Robin said.

"He can handle himself Erica; he has for the past several million years," Roy added.

Erica was about to continue shouting at them when Optimus stepped forwards from his conversation with Batman and Ratchet. "ENOUGH!" The entire room went silent and stared at the obviously irritated Prime. "Let's start with what we know. Where did you all go last night?"

"We went to Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria," Robin answered.

All the adults looked at each other, they'd heard the rumors about that place, if 'Bee was still stuck there, there might be a possibility they'd never see him again considering everyone who's disappeared there has never been found.

"And who left first?" Emerald raised her hand. "Ok, that means you and Robin left next?"

"Yea," Roy said rubbing the back of his head. "We felt like we were being watched, and after finding all that blood…"

By this point Emerald had snuck out of the room and base and way flying as fast as she could towards Jasper. Weaving through the tall buildings, she spotted a familiar yellow Camaro. Landing on the ground she peered in his car hoping that he may've decided to sleep in there so he could get right back to work when he woke up—it wasn't the first time he'd done that—but unfortunately he wasn't there. Creeping out of the alley she saw a bright violet car she was certain wasn't there last night. Going over she peered inside, but found nothing out of the ordinary, other than the pictures of a few kids…wait. It was the missing kids!

She flew over to the door, but stopped. Her ring was warning her of the evil of this place, peering through the glass, she thought she saw the glint of something in the halls, but she couldn't tell what. Now, she had to make a choice, stay out like her gut was telling her; or go in to help her friend, who could've been hurt, or worse…

Taking a deep breath, Emerald closed her eyes and flew inside. After slamming painfully into a wall, she opened her eyes and froze. There was blood spattering the walls and smeared across the floor…and some had the telltale energon blue of a Cybertronian.

She quickly flew to the nearest room and stopped once she got in; it was even more gruesome to see in person than she imagined there was blood and guts all around the gold bunny animatronic. Tearing her gaze away she looked to the other side of the room to find a picture that was not as welcome. All five of the terrifying faces she'd become familiar with, as well as a new one that would forever haunt her nightmares, had small, delicately wrapped bodies at their feet with notes lying on their chests along with a stuffed animal, one of each character. Blinking the tears away she found herself staring at the motionless body of her best friend lying in a pool of his own blood nearby.

Racing over she turned him over and bit her lip as all that came was a weak, pained moan. It was then she realized that he wasn't wearing his mask—he might've retracted it—and had some energon trickling out of the corner of his mouth, signifying some possible internal injuries.

A loud clang resounded throughout the building and Emerald immediately got into a fighting stance. She heard a series of footsteps rapidly coming her way. Constructing a giant mallet, she waited till a figure turned the corner and she swung down. The figure instantly fell to the ground, and she stopped her swing as it was just mere inches away from crushing him.

"EMERALD! WHAT THE HECK?!" Wally shouted peering out from under the mallet with wide, terrified eyes. Robin arrived next and pulled him out just as the rest of the team arrived to stare at the carnage around them.

Optimus and Batman ran in behind the group of teens and quickly scanned the room. Upon seeing his son unresponsive on the floor, the Prime ran over and began to call Ratchet.

"What happened?" Batman asked looming over the Lantern.

"I don't know," she lied. "When I got here there was blood all over the place. I flew in here and found all this."

Bruce nodded, she seemed truly shaken and wouldn't press further. And she was right, he'd managed to reach the footage, he saw what happened and how the man made a choice that led to his own death.

-.-

Autobot Base

Bumblebee's consciousness came back to him slowly. There was a lot of muffled tones, but the one he could clearly hear was an insufferable beeping that refused to stop; he just wanted to go back to sleep! Was that too much to ask?

Apparently it was because he felt someone poking his cheek a split-second later. If he had his modulator he would've groaned, but he just opened his eyes and glared at the offender.

Emerald grinned as she saw her friend's hazy eyes slowly open to glare at her. He'd been unresponsive for the past ten hours; turns out the stab wounds had indeed done their damage, the one under his arm nicked his subclavian, the one in his back cut through a few minor veins and arteries, and the one in his hip was nearly severed. He had to get a whole transfusion just to keep his spark going. Ratchet did mend the damaged arteries, and with Cybertronian biology, he'd be ready for another mission in two days. "Good to see ya back with the living," she joked, but she did notice something flash in his eyes. Fear?

Worry? …Sorrow? "You'll probably want this back." She handed him his modulator and he gave her a smile as he put the necklace on.

"What happened?"

"Well, you lost a lot of blood," she said and he just raised an eyebrow at her unamused.

"So maybe you could tell us what occurred?" Kaldur asked as the rest of the team followed. At hearing through the telepathic link he was awake they all rushed in to see how he was doing.

"I…I don't remember much. I was investigating the murders, when I got trapped in the office by the animatronics. A little two after in the morning the power went out and I made a break for it. Unfortunately they cornered me, but I realized that they had no intention of hurting me…I managed to appease them when the guy who murdered the kids appeared," he answered holding his head as a dull ache spread through it. "Next thing I knew I was in that room with stab wounds, the animatronics and the guy was in the spare suit he was planning to shove me in was dead. I managed to get up, remove, and wrap their bodies before everything went dark again." He obviously left out a few details, but they seemed to accept his answer. "Speaking of which. Where are they? I made a promise to ensure their families knew what happened and that they were buried properly!"

"Over here," Robin said slightly confused but he didn't question it, somethings about their friend didn't need to be questioned. Bumblebee detached the tubes and wires, and got up. Roy looped his friend's arm over his shoulder and let him lean his weight against him, as his legs almost gave out. Fallowing him into the adjoining room he saw six very expensive coffins. "They were given the best. Their families have been notified and the burials scheduled."

Superboy walked over and handed him a small chest with a little bright yellow envelope sitting on top. "We also found this when we were searching the building."

Taking a small box he saw a small thank you card scribbled in a child's handwriting to him. Opening the small gift, he blinked away a few tears as he read it, before setting it down and opening the box; inside was six small stuffed toys, one of each character, beside each one was a small little personal article from the children. Taking a deep breath, he closed the box with the note inside, he didn't want anyone else to read it; odds are Batman and his dad already did.

"Bumblebee?" Connor asked seeing a stray tear go down the scout's face as he read the note. They all had debated on reading the note, but the fact it had a child's handwriting stopped them. Now they couldn't help but wonder what that note said as the teen hid it away in the chest, forced himself to support his own weight, and left the room.

Though they thought they heard a barely audible: "Thank you."

A/N: alright so I don't own FNAF! I apologize for this, binging on Markiplier and getting into the game before writing a chapter probably wasn't my best idea, but hey! I got a chaper out of it for Halloween so it works! Though, it was far, far longer than I anticipated. Still sorry for how I get around Halloween, it brings out the dark, weird, creepy side of me.