Ethan rounds a corner with his flashlight drawn and his friends close behind. He scans the empty hallway and moves forward quietly making sure each step is near silent. The last thing they want is to run into an animatronic as they have had a taste of that before. Brendan removes the walkie talkie from his pocket and whispers into it. "Henry, It's Brendan, we're in the hallway you told us to go to, now what?" asks Brendan. Brendan hears Henry pick up and shuffle through some papers mumbling to himself. "Uh there should be a red door directly at the end of the room labeled power station, go in there, all you need to do is douse the generator in gasoline. There should be a jerry can in there somewhere. I'll keep in touch if you need me." says Henry as he hangs up the walkie talkie."Only a little longer..." Henry whispers to himself rubbing his eyes. Ethan pulls down on the large handle to the power station. The handle creaks as the metal lock opens. Ethan pushes on the heavy door but it doesn't budge. Ethan quietly gestures for his friends to help him. They nod and take positions on the door. On the count of three, they all push as hard as they can. The door lets out a loud creak before it finally opens with a loud bang. "Who's There!? Oh Boy I've been waiting for someone to play with! How about you Bon Bon?" says a decrepit clown voice coming from the power room. Some of the lights in the room flicker to life showing a large atrium with a generator in the middle, cables lie on the ground spurting out sparks of electricity. The group looks up and sees a tangle of wires on the ceiling with an animatronic bear mask. The eyes of the mask are a bright red and the wires form into what seems to be a humanoid shape. Ethan runs over to the wall and hits the light switch to turn all the lights off. The room is shrouded in darkness as all the lights shut off one by one. Aidan slams the door shut stopping any light source from entering the room. "Oh Come on! Now I can't see! Oh I get it! Hide and Seek! I'm gonna count to ten. You better hide! One...Two" The animatronic begins counting from one to ten. The group quickly scatters trying to hide from the animatronic. "Seven...Eight...Nine...TEN! READY OR NOT, HERE I COOOOME!" The animatronic jumps down from the ceiling with a loud crash and rapidly starts pushing over carts and tables to find the teenagers. "I can't see you,but I can hear you!" says the animatronic lurking in the dark. Aidan crouches behind a large cart with his back against it. Aidan stays as close as he can to the cart to minimize his profile. Just as Aidan think's he's safe, his walkie talkie begins to sputter with the voice of Henry. "Aidan. Aidan it's Henry. Have you reached the power station yet? Do you read me?" Aidan quickly shuts off the walkie talkie before it can make more noise. "Oh I heard that one!" shouts the animatronic as it runs towards Aidan. Not knowing what to do, Aidan stands up and shines his flashlight in the animatronic's eyes. "Gah! That's bright!" shouts the animatronic as it falls over and tries to shield it's eyes. Aidan sprints to the other end of the room looking for a way out. Aidan backs himself into a corner with the animatronic directly in front of him slowly approaching him. "Finally, I've been waiting for a new puppet." says the animatronic."Hey you!" shouts Ethan as he runs up behind the animatronic and jumps on it's back. "Aidan! Go!"shouts Ethan struggling to take down the animatronic. Ethan rocks himself backwards pulling the animatronic to the ground. "Not Fair!" shouts the animatronic trying to shake Ethan off. Ethan pulls his hand close to the animatronic's face and wraps his hand around the animatronic's plastic eye. Ethan closes his hand and crunches the eye. The animatronic chops down on Ethan's hand with rage. Ethan's arm bleeds all over the animatronic which is still struggling to shake him off. Ethan lets out a loud scream as the animatronic draws blood from Ethan's arm. Ethan releases the animatronic running away holding his wound. Ethan trips over a toolbox and falls onto his back. Ethan crawls as fast as he can but the animatronic gets closer and closer. Before the animatronic can reach Ethan, a loud shriek echos through the room. Something jumps from a near by ventilation shaft and tackles the animatronic. Ethan shines his flashlight at the two animatronics. Ethan sees a large torn puppet animatronic with yellow eyes ripping and tearing at the masked animatronic. "No! More! Harassing! Children!" shouts the puppet animatronic as it rips the head clean off of the masked animatronic. Ethan quickly examines the room looking for the gasoline Henry told him to find. Ethan sees a lone jerry can sitting in the corner of the room. Ethan runs over still clutching his wound which is still bleeding. He picks it up and douses the main generator in gasoline as best as he can. "Let's get out of here!" shouts Ethan running towards the door. Brendan and Aidan follow close behind and open the large bulkhead door. They all exit the room and close the door with a loud clang.
Jack follows the faded signs in the empty hallways as he searches for the main ventilation unit. As Jack follows the signs he thinks to himself, "What about my friends? Can I just leave them? They probably all hate me but I can't just leave them down here. Then again knowing Aidan he might just kill me on sight. I don't know what to do. I'm lost" Jack stops walking and falls onto his knees. Countless thoughts rush through his head. It's like someone opened the floodgates of emotion in Jack's head. The thoughts overwhelm him and tears roll down Jack's cheeks. Jack was never very religious but his family was always Catholic. He begins to talk as if someone is watching over him, "I-I don't what I did to deserve this. I-If you are real. If there is a higher power watching over me...Please...Let me out of here. I c-can't take this anymore. I wanna go home...Please." Jack begins to sob as all the weight of his situation hits him like a freight train. Jack crumples to the floor crying.
Ethan, Aidan, and Brendan also make their way through the labyrinth trying to make it back to Henry. Aidan is in the lead with the flashlight with Brendan close behind and Ethan falling behind in the back. The small emergency lights slightly illuminate the hallway as they walk. Ethan falls against the wall clenching his arm, which is still bleeding. He looks back the way he came and sees a trail of blood. "W-Wait!" Ethan says his head starting to get dizzy due to blood loss. Aidan and Brendan turn around and see Ethan lying on the floor with blood seeping from his wrist. "I-I think the animatronic got my vein or something cause the bleeding won't stop!" says Ethan getting weaker and weaker. Aidan and Brendan run to their friends side, Brendan grabs his hand to comfort him as he realizes he might not make it. Aidan lowers his voice to speak, "Come on Ethan, we're almost there. Your gonna be alright...We'll get you back to your family." says Aidan comforting Ethan. "Don't lie to me Aidan." says Ethan laughing. "No...No...Ethan I can't lose you to. I-I already lost Sam a-and Jack. I don't wanna lose you too." says Brendan through sobs. "Brendan. Y-You watch over Aidan okay? Make sure he doesn't do anything stupid. I always looked up to you. So please don't let me down" says Ethan grasping Brendan's wrist. "A-And Aidan, promise me when you find Jack...Promise me you'll forgive him. Promise me you'll all leave her together and get home safe okay?" says Ethan his eyes burning at Aidan. "I-I don't know... What he did I can't just f-forgive and forget." says Aidan trying to hold back tears. "Promise Me! Please..." says Ethan getting weaker by the second. Aidan looks down and starts crying as he speaks, "I-I promise." says Aidan through sobs. "T-Thank you..." says Ethan. Brendan feels Ethan's hand let go of his wrist and go limp. Brendan slightly shakes Ethan. "Ethan? Ethan please answer me...Please." says Brendan crying not wanting to accept the reality of his friend's death. Aidan swallows and wipes his eyes and stands up. Aidan strides over and grabs the back of Brendan's shirt pulling him. "We have to go." says Aidan trying to stay strong. "What? No we can't leave him here..." says Brendan still kneeling by Ethan's corpse. "I said we need to go!" shouts Aidan pulling Brendan away. "Wait no! Ethan! Ethan answer me! ETHAN!" shouts Brendan as Aidan pulls him down the hall back to Henry.
Author's Notes: Wow that was really hard to write. Killing off characters is a lot harder than I thought but I did I think. This chapter was a little morbid so sorry about that I guess? Anyway that's all from me.