Like Clockwork

A Steampunk-Esque AU Five Nights at Freddy's Story

Chapter Two: The 'Family'

Michael groaned as he felt some on place a cold rag on his forehead; while it felt nice, he wasn't sure what happened. Did he make it to the manor? Or was he was jumped by thugs, and the patrolling officers find him? He slowly opened his eyes, wincing at the bright lights.

"Freddy!" An unfamiliar female voice yelled loudly. "I think he's awake!"

"Of course he is," A young male voice said, as if that was obvious. "You are loud." The female voice growled in annoyance.

"Watch it Bonnie!"

"Hey, Hey," A deeper male voice said, a tint of an accent in the voice. "Stop the fightin', you two." Micheal pushed himself up and rubbed his eyes.

"Huh...?" He asked slowly before his eyes adjusted to the light and he saw the three animatronics, one bird, one fox, and one rabbit. His jaw dropped as he wondered if he was hallucinating this. "W-What?"

"Hello, sir~!" The yellow bird chirped happily. "My name is Chica, and these are my brothers, Bonnie and Foxy...Who are you?"

"M-Michael..." He said slowly. "W-Where am I?"

"Oh, you're in our room! There's a lot of rooms here." The rabbit said, rubbing his nose. "Father says the manor was built a looooooong time ago, and that's there many many rooms, and many places to hide."

"F-Father?" The three nodded as a large bear animatronic stepped into the room, followed by a small puppet like doll. Michael made a small squeak sound as he looked up at the bear before his eyes rolled back into his skull and he fainted, collapsing back onto the bed.

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"What happened?" The rabbit, Bonnie, asked slowly as they all looked at the passed out young man.

"Maybe he was still tired?" The red fox, Foxy, asked innocently.

"I hope so..." Chica said softly before there was the sound of footsteps and the older man found them. "Father!"

"There you are," He said. "I was looking for all of you..."

"We're very sorry for worrying you, Father." Chica said, standing up and adjusting her pinafore. "But we found him, and we've been trying to wake him up and make him feel better..." She gestured to Michael and the older man paused, though it was brief and almost unnoticeable.

"How...?" He started to say, careful to seem surprised that the man was in their room. Luckily, they seemed to buy it, as the doll like puppet handed him the folded piece of paper. The man slowly took it and read it silently. He was admittedly bemused by the headmaster's letter about Michael's talents in the academy; clearly the headmaster didn't pay any attention to the students and was making things up, though he paused as he saw the bit about Michael's history. The headmaster admitted that not much was known about his family, other than his grandfather was one of the more well known bankers in the cities and that his father vanished into what seemed 'thin air' after the child was born. He remembered the papers having field day with theories about what happened. "Interesting..."

"What is it Father?" Bonnie asked, making the man look up.

"Ah, it is a letter from the head teacher from the academy he was from." The man said and pocketed the letter.

"Academy?" Foxy asked. "Father, what's that?"

"It is...a special school..." The man explained slowly. "This academy is a military, training future guards for the Royal Army..."

"Oooh..." The man nodded before sighing before the bells rang through the halls, signaling that it was midnight. The man sighed and rubbed his temples. "Father, are you alright?"

"Yes, yes, I am fine...Just..tired." He lied. "Please keep an eye on him, and we will see what happens in the morning...but you may also roam around the halls if you wish..." His 'children' nodded and man left the room and walked back to his office, this was not happening the way he wanted to happen; that young man shouldn't have survived that. And for another thing, what was that dumb rabbit thinking for dumping him in the back rooms, he thought he had said to place the body in the library so he could attempt the spell to give his son another chance at least, but the yellow rabbit must have misheard him. "That idiot needs to learn to listen..." He sighed sadly as he closed the door to his office and locked it, before heading to his desk and winding a music box. As it played, the older man slowly took out a pocket watch and looked at the photo inside; the older man sitting with a younger child, both smiling slightly at the camera. The man sighed sadly and looked up at the ceiling, closing his eyes. "Matthew...my son..." He sighed sadly. "Why did they do that to you?"

"Father..." The ghost of the child managed out before sighing; it didn't matter if he was loud or quiet, it seemed like his father couldn't hear him or see him. The child turned and left the room and wandered to the end of the hall where he heard the robots arguing.

"Shoo!" Chica said angrily, shoving Bonnie, Foxy, and Freddy out of a room. "I can take care of him!"

"B-But-"

"No buts!" She said. "We can handle it!" The spirit raised an eyebrow and decided to enter the room while the bird was making her points. The child entered, and saw the puppet like doll sit next to the bed where a human male was laying, a small cloth was haphazardly was on his face. The puppet sighed softly before looking up.

"W-Who are you?" The ghost blinked in surprise.

"Y-You can see me?" The puppet looked confused, but nodded slowly. "Oh my..." The child beamed.

"Why is that so surprising?"

"No one has ever been able to see me..." The child admitted softly. "I have been stuck floating around here since I was..." He trailed off and the puppet raised an eyebrow.

"Was what?" The child was quiet for a few moments.

"...It was an accident..." He started slowly as if he was remembering the events. "They didn't mean to..."

"To what?" The puppet was both confused but curious to understand what happened.

"They didn't mean to have killed me..."

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And Chapter Done! :D

We get some Backstory, Michael meeting the bots (briefly), the interactions and the reasons behinds actions. And we see the ghost child (For this AU, the FNAF 4 Child is not the puppet; it will be explained in a later chapter, so don't worry yet.)

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