Author Notes
Chapter 29...I really can't believe its this far already and its only in FNAF 2. There's so much more planned for this story still. Hope you enjoy. :)
Chapter 29
Night 5 Take 2
Ruby stared at her ceiling for a long moment, lying on her bed. She'd been in full 'cause havoc mode' so she hadn't really had a chance to think things through.
So…Hedy's Uncle Scott was Steve…Interesting.
She really didn't know if she should tell her about his unfortunate fate or let her find out for herself. Then again she hadn't asked. So perhaps it would be better if she just gave her the tapes if Hedy ended up asking?
Ruby ran a hand down her face and sighed.
She really hated being the bearer of bad news.
She groaned and flopped onto her stomach, burying her head in the pillow.
"When did my life get so complicated?!" she yelled into it.
After a few more minutes of fuming she got up to get ready. She had a blue bunny to torment after all. Couldn't start slacking off.
"She's so annoying!"
"Uh huh."
"All the time!"
"No kidding."
"It's just so…ANNOYING!"
"You don't say."
"Are you even listening to me Hedy?"
"Nope."
"Ahhhh!"
The mechanic rolled her eyes as she fixed the crick in Toy Bonnie's neck despite his incessant and never-ending whining.
Toy Freddy looked like he was already getting a headache and Toy Chica was glaring from a distance. Seemed the rabbit had annoyed everyone during the day with his complaints.
"I'm definitely going to get her tonight!" he yelled, springing to his feet.
Hedy sighed and rolled back so she didn't get trampled by accident. She really would make good on her threat of turning him into a toaster then.
As he stormed off and Toy Chica trailed behind him, Hedy slumped down in her chair.
"You okay?" Toy Freddy asked, pausing instead of following the others.
She nodded.
"Just been a…stressful week." She sighed. "I'd better get to the office. Almost twelve."
Toy Freddy nodded and walked off, looking back once as if he wanted to say something before leaving.
Ruby seemed to be calmer at least when Hedy wheeled into the office.
Moderately calmer.
Kind of.
She was throwing a glitter bomb up and down while she stared at the clock impatiently. She seemed to look forward to these nights more than the 'bots did.
As the seconds ticked by Hedy found herself getting restless. The silence was bothering her. She didn't know how Ruby could sit there like that in complete silence for so long.
"Hey, where did you put Balloon Boy anyway?" Hedy decided it couldn't hurt to try again.
He'd been missing for a while now after all. And she really wanted to fill the silence.
Ruby glanced at her and frowned.
"Who?"
Hedy felt like face-palming.
"The round robot that seems to have disappeared?" she explained through her irritation.
"Oh. He's…somewhere." She grinned cheekily.
She did face-palm this time.
Ruby snickered as the phone rang.
"Hello, hello? Hey, good job, night 5!"
"Yeah!" Ruby cheered along with 'Steve'.
"Um, hey, um, keep a close eye on things tonight, ok? Um, from what I understand, the building is on lockdown, uh, no one is allowed in or out, y'know, especially concerning any...previous employees." 'Steve' sounded very nervous.
Or at least more so than usual.
Ruby froze.
"Hmmm? Why would that be?" she had a suddenly serious glint in her eyes that gave Hedy chills.
"Um, when we get it all sorted out, we may move you to the day shift, a position just became...available."
Ruby's eyes narrowed on the phone and she fell silent, just listening for once.
"Uh, we don't have a replacement for your shift yet, but we're working on it. Uh, we're going to try to contact the original restaurant owner. Uh, I think the name of the place was..."Fredbear's Family Diner" or something like that."
"Original restaurant?" she muttered to herself, her usual violent playfulness gone.
"It's been closed for years though, I doubt we'll be able to track anybody down. Well, just get through one more night! Uh, hang in there! Goodnight!"
"Night…" Ruby mumbled with far less energy than before.
She sat and stared at the wall thoughtfully for a long moment until Hedy started to get uncomfortable again. Ruby just didn't seem…right, if she wasn't moving. And she usually took off right after the phone call to start causing trouble.
"Something…on your mind?" she asked hesitantly.
Ruby started, apparently having forgotten that Hedy was there.
"Not particularly." She shrugged and stood up, grabbing her bag.
She did seem kind of preoccupied though.
Hedy watched her leave feeling concerned and very out of the loop.
"That was odd." She murmured once she was alone.
Ruby stopped a little ways from the office and just stared ahead.
"Restaurant lockdown? Concerning an employee?" she mumbled to herself and rubbed a hand over her face.
The first thing that came to mind was the murderer of those kids.
"What exactly happened here?" she wondered.
She still had the feeling that she only knew part of the story. She knew about the murders and the management hiding the bodies. But…
"There's more to this…isn't there?" she whispered.
Clanking footsteps shook her out of her thoughts though and she got started on the night. She couldn't quite push the thoughts away completely however and the phone message stayed in the back of her mind.
"Would you stand still!?" Toy Bonnie yelled at her as she led him on a merry chase around the tables.
"Why on earth would I do that?" Ruby laughed back at him. "Come on bunny! You're too slow!"
She threw a paint balloon over her shoulder again and got him with pink paint smack in the face.
He screamed in rage as Toy Freddy tried to cut her off. She dived under a table to dodge around them and laughed again.
This was exhilarating. They'd upped the game it seemed, although it was still only the rabbit, chicken and bear. The Clown was taped up in his box and she'd hidden his music box in one of pirate cove's cannons while BB…
Well…
She snickered again as she dodged past Toy Chica.
"Come on!" she cried again. "Bonnie could do better than this on his own!"
Toy Bonnie growled.
"That outdated piece of scrap couldn't do anything!" He snapped at her.
Ruby stopped and turned to look at him. It was the first time that he'd openly insulted one of the originals in front of her.
"You need a real big attitude adjustment." Ruby snarled at him, the fire in her eyes giving Toy Freddy and Toy Chica pause.
Toy Bonnie just rushed forward and instantly regretted it when she jammed her taser pen into his neck joints.
"New doesn't mean better." Ruby snapped. "Just means that the more gadgets, the more things that can go wrong."
She decided to stop playing around and pulled her water gun out of her bag and aimed for the other Toys.
"I'm really sick of your superior attitude you cheap rip-offs." She growled before firing at them.
After a few moments the chicken and bear were both locked up due to shocks caused by the water. Toy Bonnie was twitching on the floor while his systems tried to get restarted.
"Shocking isn't it?" Ruby snickered at them before skipping away.
3 AM found her lounging against a wall fiddling with a glitter bomb. The Toys took forever to recover from a shock it seemed.
She sighed, getting bored.
"Come on!" she yelled, her voice echoing down the corridor. "Geez, the gang spoiled me in the game. They were way better."
Something caught her eye and she turned her head. Hadn't the parts and services room been closed a moment ago?
Curious and reckless as usual, Ruby stood up and went to explore. Inside was just as awesomely creepy as before with all the heads and animatronic parts. Her eyes were drawn to the wall where she had spray painted her own weird homage to 'Steve'.
She felt her mood drop again and sighed.
She'd been sad when she'd found out that he was dead before, but now…now she knew that he had a family…
"They must have missed you huh?" she whispered, sitting on the table and staring at the wall.
Her more depressed moods were few and far between nowadays but they were still there. The mention of death never failed to bring up the memory of her parents too.
She shook her head.
"No. I need to stay focused here." She muttered.
She stood up quickly and turned around. The last thing she needed was to be getting all depressed and nostalgic.
She left the room quickly, not looking back. Someone did watch her leave though. Or was that something?
"You're annoying!" Toy Bonnie screamed at her as she evaded them again easily and 6 AM struck.
"And you seriously sound like a girl when you scream Barbie." Ruby chuckled.
She'd mixed paint and water night together so the Toys were all a little glitchy from the consistent dousing of water. They also glowed in the dark.
"I love glow in the dark paint." She giggled as the originals walked in to see what had happened.
"We could hear him all the way across the building." Foxy grumbled.
"Thought a little girl was screaming." Goldy snickered.
"You're a terrible influence." Freddy told Ruby although there was a slight twitch to his mouth.
"You left the kitchen alone right?" Chica fretted.
Ruby just laughed and started snapping photos of the glowing and glowering Toys.
"Are you ever going to tell us where BB is?" Hedy asked, sounding tired as she surveyed the damage.
"Nope." Ruby sang and started giggling madly.
"You know…I don't think I want to know his fate." Bonnie whispered to Foxy.
The fox nodded. They loved Ruby but she really did scare them sometimes.
The Puppet fumed in his box. This nonsense had gone on for far too long. This night guard was more unpredictable than the others had been so they needed an equally unpredictable member on their team.
He gave a sinister chuckle.
He knew exactly what to do. The night guard would not survive night six. Not this time.
Author Notes
Well that was night 5. Next chapter up on Wednesday. Getting to the more hectic stuff soon.