Chapter 3 – Black And Red Newcomers.

Once both animatronics had been covered Jen made her way out of the room, still in shock of what had just happened. To hide the evidence she locked the Parts/Services door, since she was the only one with the key. By now most of the children had gone home and all there was left was one or two families gathering their children and getting ready to leave. This was the same for Jen. She walked into the bathrooms just down the hallway from P/S and walked towards the taps. The bathrooms weren't anything to be proud of. Puddles of water remained on the counter next to the taps, and some on the floor. The floor itself was full of dirt. Jen walked up to the white plastic sinks and looked in the large mirror just behind them. What happened started to hit her, hard.

Jen had worked in this pizzeria for over 10 years now and during that time she had seen things so gruesome they still haunt her to this day. That was all part of the job. It wasn't like this until one day in 1987. The day when he killed them, five innocent children. Unfortunately Jen was there at the time, she was the one who found the children. This, of course, was weeks after they had been initially murdered. The bodies of the children were brutally shoved into each one of the robotic suits, since they weren't supposed to be shoved in there, their bodies were mutilated and mangled. To see the sight made Jen sick. In finding the children she immediately reported it to the boss and to the local police who were in the middle of the case. Due to the lack of evidence, she was the one to get the blame and nearly lost her job because of it. She would of as well if it wasn't for a young detective, who had been on the case since the children had been missing, backed her up with evidence. After that day it all changed. The animatronics would move by themselves, they seemed to be… Living. The worst of this is that they wanted revenge. And this revenge was on all the night guards that worked there. From then on, Jen started to work the day shift and any 'accidents' that happened were left with her to deal with.

Trying not to remember the past, Jen shook her head.

Jen: "Get it together.."

"But it was your fault. Just like in 1987.."

"No, they asked for it and they didn't listen."

"You trusted children with machines that can cause harm to their lives? You've seen the damage."

"I shouldn't have let them wear the costumes. I knew, knew what would happen. Why- why… why was I so stupid.."

She held her head in her hands for a moment then looked at herself once again. In anger with herself, she flung her fist at the mirror, shattering it. Shards of glass cut into her hand and a stream of blood started to flow down her arm. Small drops would fall and land on the bathroom counter. She winced in pain from the glass. Quickly, she pulled out each of the pieces of glass that remained in her hand, causing it to bleed even more. Once all the glass was removed she stuck her hand under the tap and turned it on, washing away the excess blood. She took some toilet paper and dried her hand, still as it bled. She then wrapped more around her hand creating a bandage for herself. For now, it would do. She then made her way to the main room where all animatronics were stood, lifeless on the stage and the last family was leaving. The main room was a mess, pizza was thrown on the floors, soda all over the table party hats knocked over and candy wrappers littered on the floor. Luckily for her, Jen wasn't the one who was responsible for cleaning up the restaurant. She slowly walked to the glass double doors that lead to the carkpark and took one final look back to P/S. With a sigh she went through the doors and headed to her blue car. Her hands were shaky from the mix of blood loss and the shock of what just happened. She unlocked her car and swung the door open, sitting In the drivers seat. The car was well kept, there was a fresh smell and the floor/chairs were clean. Jen closed the door and slid her seatbelt around her waist, then putting her hands on the wheel. She took a deep breath in, started the car and drove off making her way back home.

Meanwhile, the pizzeria was silent. The nightguard was in his office, the animatronics on stage. It seemed just to be a normal night after a normal day of business. That was in fact, correct, except from the back room which seemed to be different. It seemed to have, life. The two animatronics were still slouched over in the back, the sheet still over them. It stayed like this for a while, until there was a slight twitch underneath the cover. The twitches became more frequent all through the night, along with sounds of crying children, followed by their screams.

It was 6AM. The nightguard made his leave just as Jen pulled up in her car once again. She pushed open the doors, trying not to think about what she had left in the back room. She smiled awkwardly at the nightguard as they passed by each other with a quiet mumble which one could make out to be a 'hello'. Or maybe a 'help', who would know? She gulped and walked straight back to Parts/Services. She laid her hand upon the cold door and slowly pushed it open, bearing herself on what she was about to see. She looked over to where she had put the animatronics. They were gone. All that was left was the cloth lay out on the floor. She walked forward and looked around but there was no sign of them.

Jen: "Maybe someone found them… shit. I'm going to get fired."

There was a shuffle behind her.

?: "J-e-n…"

Jen: "huh?!"

Out of the shadows came two animatronics. One a black wolf fitted with red eyes and black hair, his belly covered in white fur while the rest of him was black. And the other, a red fox with black hair and piercings upon her ear. Jen stared at them for a while, again in shock. How was this possible?

Jen: "J-jacob? S-Skylar?"

Jacob: "Yep, look what you've done to us…"

Jen: "Im cant stress how much I'm so, so sorry. But, it was kinda your own faults for not listening."

Jacob: "Our faults? Are you serious? You're the one who decided to trust six year olds with something that can kill a person. So its reeeally our faults."

Jen: "Yes I know, I never should have done it. But you, you forced me"

Jacob: "Lies."

Jen: "Sure, when you threaten to get me fired."

Jacob: "You could have said no though, I doubt I would of said anything anyway." He grinned.

Jen: "I would kill you if I could"

Jacob: "But, you already did."

Jen: "Whatever.."

Jacob: "Now I need a new name, one for this thing. How about… Dark, since he's the colour black."

Jen: "It fits. And skylar, what about you?"

Skylar: "Uh, how about vixey?"

Jen: "Alright then, dark, vixey, how 'bout we put all this behind us?"

Dark: "Your acting as if our deaths were nothing…"

Jen: "I didn't mean it like that. But we have to move on now."

Dark: "Why? You can get us back, right?"

Jen stared at them both with a blank expression. She then put her hand to her face and let out a sigh.

Jen: "Your dead. I cant just bring you back"

Dark: "Wh-"

Skylar: "So were stuck like this forever?"

Jen: "Pretty much,"

The pair looked down to the floor, they were both in denial. They couldn't believe what they just heard, though it was true. Their eyes, somehow, started to fill up with tears. They could no longer see their family, their friends or anyone they loved. They were stuck in this place, forever. They both turned to Jen.

Dark: "Please, Jen."

Skylar: "I want to go home.."

They both lifted their masks, showing the mangled faces of the children, by now they were both unrecognisable. Jen stared at them both, her memories flooding back.

Jen: "no, no no, I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry. I could have saved them, saved you."

"But I didn't.."

"Its all my fault."

Jen broke down in front of them both. Thoughts and memories were flooding her head, playing with her emotions. She burst out through the door and straight to the manager's office were she took paid time off. Dark and Vixey watched as Jen exited the building, this would be the last time they would see her in a while. They stood there for a long moment, blank. With their new, animatronic, life ahead of them, they didn't know what to do. They could try and run, back to home, back to family but what would happen if they got caught? Where would they go? Thoughts and questions raced through their minds which was soon broken by a simple-

?: "Hello?"

The pair snapped back to reality and laid their eyes on the yellow chicken in front of them. She looked at them with a friendly yet confused expression. She then waved her hand in front of their faced.

? "Anyone there?"

Dark stuttered before saying: "Uh.. Hello"

The children never knew that the animatronics they once loved could speak, especially with their own thought. For all their life they saw the animatronics as 'just robots' but all that came crashing down before them.

Chica: "Hi! My names chica, or you can call me chica choo, whichever you please. And uh, are you new?"

They both had no words. They just stared at her, it was quite awkward really.

Vixey: "Y-you can speak?"

Chica: "We've always been able to speak, what are you talking about?"

Dark: "But.. your just robots, robots cant think"

Chica: "What? Are you malfunctioning or something. Seeing as your new I thought it would be too early for that."

Dark: "No, when we watched you, you were just robots, you didn't speak then, atleast not with the emotion you are doing now."

Chica: "Ey, what? You two are crazy."

"Anyway, we'll discuss that later, you must meet the rest of the gang."

She took them both by the hand and dragged them into the main room. To their surprise everyone had left by now, the pizzeria was once again shut. The time had flew, it seemed like just minutes ago it was still morning. That aside, they both stared into the main room. The four main animatronics weren't in their usual places, bonnie was sat on the stage tuning his guitar and Freddy was stood in-between some tables talking to foxy. They didn't seem like robots anymore, they seemed like people, animatronic people. As they entered the room the other three stared straight at chica and the two newcomers.

The brown bear was the first to speak, "Who are they, chica"

Chica: "Oh Freddy meet our new friends… uhh.. what are your names?"

Dark: "Mine's dark"

Vixey: "I am vixey". The red fox seemed to take much interest into foxy.

Freddy: "Oh, well hello there. The names Freddy and this is Bonnie and Foxy." He gestured toward the rabbit and the fox.

"I suppose you've already met Chica?"

The pair nodded, making eye contact with the rest of the animatronics.

Freddy: "I guess you work here now, eh? Well I hope you enjoy your stay, we'll be glad to get to know you better."

The two animatronics stood there for a moment, with no clue what they were supposed to do or say. This was until foxy walked up to them both, he seemed happy to have new people for the first time in forever.

Foxy: "Hey, dark and vixey right?"

"I guess your all pretty confused, eh?"

"Well come with me to pirates cove and we can talk about it."

The fox led the newcomers to Pirates Cove, where foxy was stood during the day. They all climbed up the stage and foxy closed the bright purple curtains behind them both.

Foxy: "So.. How did it happen?"

Vixey: "What, happen?"

Foxy: "You know, your deaths…"

There was a moment of silence between the three. Dark made a nervous cough and began to speak.

Dark: "Well uh, we asked that mechanic to make us these suits. Then we wanted to wear them, so she added springlocks. We kinda uh.. didn't listen to her and got crushed by the springlocks…". He lifted his mask to show him.

Foxy: "Jesus… Glad I was already dead before that.."

Dark: "Wh-what?"

Foxy: "Ah, she didn't tell you did she? Well back in 1987 we were kids, all of us, just like you two. We were young and naive back then. We were all approached by a golden version of Freddy, he said we were 'special' and if we followed him we could go to the 'vip area'. Of course, we went and followed, without question. That was the biggest mistake we've ever made…"

"The room we were led to was dark. We heard a door shut and lock behind us and shuffling in the darkness. When the light came on we were confronted by this man in a purple suit. He… he took out a knife. First, he went for chica, then bonnie, then freddy and lastly.. me. I had to witness my friends be murdered right before me, and there was nothing I could do. He approached me, I didn't know what to do, I wanted to fight but I couldn't. He then held the knife to my throat and told me to look at my friends. He said I would join them soon, I pleaded for freedom. But he just laughed a dark chuckle and slid the blade across my neck. I could feel nothing, my senses went dead all I could do was cough up blood and then my vision just faded."

"Then I just came back one night, and I felt… strange. And I met the rest of my friends once again. That's it."

Dark: "wow…"

Vixey: "Are you not, sad. Like what about your families?"

Foxy: "Of course I did, but what can you do? You just have to cope with that pain, and atleast I had my friends there with me."

Vixey was edging closer to the other fox, she seemed interested in him.

Foxy: "So uh, you better go and meet the others, make friends."

Vixey: "Can I not just stay with you..?"

Foxy: "Uh.. sure do what you want."

Dark: "Well I'll leave you two in here for some, heh, 'private time' if you know what I mean" The black wolf winked at them both and chuckled slightly. He then left the cove.

From then on Dark and Vixey made friends with everyone. In Vixeys case, I was more than friends with one of them, with foxy. A couple months later they both got together and that was that. Everything started to seem normal, and the past, well, stayed in the past.