I do not own Sister Location.
"Seriously, something's wrong there," I said to Becca and Jeremy as we talked in the Main Hall, watching as children passed us by, chasing each other in what looked like a game of tag.
Fritz and his friends were in the arcade part of the Game Area, having a contest on who could get the best score in all the games we had there. I had just finished some minor repairs on the animatronics in the Parts & Service room. I may have been working for Mr. Afton at the time, but I was still a Freddy's employee.
"Why?" Becca asked. "What happened?"
"It's…hard to explain," I replied. "I think the animatronics there are similar to the ones here."
"How so?" Jeremy questioned.
"I think they're haunted, just like Freddy and the others," I said. "They were aware of what's going on around them, and I don't think it was an AI unit doing the thinking for them. Baby was completely conscious of the fact that I hadn't worked there before, even though she couldn't see me, not to mention the power at that time had been cut and she should have likely been down with the system at the time. She told me of things that had happened before, too, and gave me instructions on what to do when the power was out that likely saved my life. There was at least two other…things in the room with me, and they didn't seem very friendly."
"Have you seen anything like that with the others there?" Becca spoke.
I nodded. "The first night I worked there, Ballora and Funtime Foxy seemed angry at me when I shocked them, and last night Ballora noticed I was in her room and tried to talk to me as I was leaving. I didn't even know she could talk."
"And did you reply to her?" Jeremy asked.
I shook my head. "Something kept me from saying anything to her. I just felt like I was in danger if I stayed there… I honestly don't know what to think."
"Mike," a familiar voice half-whispered, half-spoke from the Parts & Service room.
I looked over to see Springtrap peeking out from behind the door and trying to motion me over to him. Becca and Jeremy stayed outside and talked while I entered the room. He was the only one active out of all of the animatronics back there, and I figured it was because he was in a suit with spring locks that didn't have an endoskeleton inside it to determine when it would be able to move around.
"What is it, Springtrap?" I questioned. He's never moved around or even taken the chance of being seen by anyone other than us since he became an animatronic, so it had to be serious if he was risking being caught just to tell me something.
"I overheard what you were talking about," he replied, "and I think I know what's going on. I'm just wondering what those animatronics you saw at the other pizzeria look like."
"Why do you want to know?" I asked.
"Just tell me!" he snapped, though he attempted to keep his voice down so no one outside of the room could hear him.
"Alright, alright," I responded, motioning for him to calm down. "There's Ballora, a white and dark blue or purple ballerina- it's hard to tell with how dim the lights are-, Funtime Foxy, a pink and white fox that kinda looks like a non-mangled version of Mangle, a purple and white version of Freddy with a Toy Bonnie lookalike as a right hand, and-"
"-a clown girl with red pigtails," Springtrap finished.
I nodded. "How did you know?"
Springtrap let out a chuckle. "You know how I said I used to work for a place that made robots?"
I nodded again.
"I was the one who built those animatronics," Springtrap continued. "That was before my job here at Freddy's, and before the merger with Afton Robotics Inc. The clown girl, Circus Baby as my colleagues would call her, was my first one, and the most difficult in design to build than the others. She was actually the one to cause my little pastime."
"You mean she-?" I began, only for him to cut me off with a nod.
"It was an accident, I swear it was, but a little girl got too close to the animatronic. Baby and the others were being tested with groups of children, and they were warned not to be alone with any of the animatronics just in case something unwanted happened. But that little girl didn't listen. Something went wrong with the robot when the little girl was alone, and an addition I was still working on malfunctioned. When she got too close to Baby, she was pulled inside and killed from the force of it. I didn't realize it until I went to do some repairs on her at the end of the day. I hid the body and cleaned Baby out of any traces of blood. Something just…snapped inside me when I saw it and made me want to know what it would be like to kill for myself, and it scared me. I was able to keep the urge under control with that anxiety, but the first death at my own hands started to make the fear fade."
I swallowed thickly. "So the animatronics at Circus Baby's likely have the souls of children in them as well?"
Springtrap nodded.
I sighed. "Even after death, you're still causing trouble for me, huh?"
He crossed his arms and huffed, sending me a half-hearted glare. He knew I was just joking with him. Still, I needed to find out what to do to help those children if their souls really are trapped in the robots at Circus Baby's.
