Getting to work, I remained in my car for a while trying to remember my dream. No matter how much I tried I couldn't recall anything. Apart from the animatronics and the pizzeria, nothing. The one thing that I had been able to recall was seeing the bunny with a missing face. The half-eaten look of the robot was the only thing I could get past the border of dreams.

After some time I finally gave up.

I got out of the car and went inside.

Riley stood next to Joseph's office door and smiled when I came in. "Mikey, there you are. Thought you'd come in earlier."

"Yeah. Sorry, I didn't sleep well." I yawned still feeling very tired. "What are you doing inside? You still got ten minutes on shift."

She smiled, pointing her thumb over her shoulder to the office. "Joe had me use something while on my shift. He gave me a little camcorder. Said to keep it with me to record anything weird."

"Anything happen today?"

"Nah. No one moved an inch. Foxy was just sitting in the kennels being all adorable."

"Only you could think that hunk of junk is cute, Riley…" I sighed which turned into a yawn once more. "Where's this camera?"

She pointed again to the office. "He's getting my video off of it and giving it a new battery. Lucky you cause he's gonna be here tonight. So if any of the big bad robots scare you then just go running into Joe-joe's arms and I'll set sail on the ship to a new world." Riley winked and laughed when I scowled at her.

"I don't like those jokes. I'm not gay." I walked passed her to Joseph's office.

"Ya hadn't hit on me yet, hansom," and she laughed again before skipping away to go home.

Now I felt my cheeks flare up. Stupid Riley and her stupid jokes. I ignored it and knocked on Joseph's door. "Hey Joe? Ya got a new camera for me?"

The dark haired man sat at his desk looking at his lap top. Macey's head popped up from behind his desk and she barked. "Huh? Oh, Michael. Yes I've got something for you." He passed a small camcorder across the table. It was blue like the tablet cover. "Keep this on all night. It's new so the battery should last. Take it wherever you go. Record everything and anything you see."

"Uh… isn't this a bit much?" I grabbed up the handheld device looking it over. The view screen flipped out and I found the power button. No need to turn it on now so I closed that. "Nice camera."

"It cost a pretty penny so don't break it."

Riley is more likely to do that, I couldn't help but think. "Still seems like a lot. The fox isn't gone or anything."

"It moved. I want to know how and why." Joseph looked up from the computer then, dim blue eyes stern.

I hadn't seen this kind of expression on him – really anything other than being awkward that is. "O…Okay." I looked down at the camera again, turning it on to look at the different settings. I could change the colors of the video, but decided not to. As I flipped through things, a light turned on and the screen was white. "No way! This has night vision?"

"Yes and it's very bright."

"Oh, sorry." I turned the light off, the camera turning back to normal. "Too cool."

"The night vision is for when you're outside." Well obviously. I wasn't stupid. "It also drains the battery. Be careful. Don't use it too much." His attention then returned to the lap top screen. "I'll be in here if you need me. The back door will be locked, but I left a key in the guard house for you."

Seemed legit. I waited but he said nothing else to me so I left for outside.

Once out there I flipped on the camera and began recording. I didn't know what to do. "Uh… The junk yard looks extra… junky today?" I muttered like I thought I needed to be talking while I did this. "Hey there and this is Mikey's tour of the trash heap!" I said, whipping the camera around to look down section A. "And down there is the magical moving mystery fox! OOOOO!" I laughed at myself and continues to the guard house.

Then I remembered that Joseph was going to be watching this and I felt like deleting what I'd just done. I actually was about to when a falling can made me jump. I recorded it tumbling down a pile of trash. It flew away from the pile and landed a few feet away.

Feeling even more stupid for being scared by a can, I turned back toward the house and froze. The door was open. It. Was. Open. I pointed the camera and ran over. The door wasn't supposed to be left open. That was a huge rule. If it were left open then bugs would fly in according to Joseph. I reached the door and pointed the camera inside. There was no one inside. I then began searching the room to see if everything was there. I left the camera on the table as I looked.

One thing I found was a shiny key. In sharpie on a plastic… something attached to the key that read "back door". So this was the key to the back door. How nice of Joe to go and label it since I'm too dumb to know where a key goes.

I sighed, standing and grabbing up the camera. Since it was the beginning of my shift, not much to do but look at the cameras. I sat down placing the camera further back so it could look at me and behind me. I thought it was the best use of when I'm not doing anything. Why record the screens when he'd already be able to look over them?

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Time passed slow. Nothing seemed to be happening. I continuously checked the tablet but no one moved. I sighed loudly. "Bored!" I would go sneaking around the junk yard but after seeing the fox moved I was truthfully too scared to go outside.

I flipped over to the kennel camera – A-2 – and about choked on my own spit. Two glowing orbs looked out at me. I felt a chill run up my spine and down my arms raising goosebumps. I couldn't take my eyes off those white, glowing balls. They vanished, and appeared again.

It. Fucking. Blinked.

I felt sick. I wanted to get help, but I needed to walk past section A to get to the back door. Past the two ton thing that just blinked at me.

Pulling up the tablet cameras again, I felt my heart stop. The rabbit was gone. It was GONE. The door to the box was wide open. I turned my eyes to the cameras on the main computer. I switched between C-2, C-1, and D-1. There was nothing. Where'd the rabbit go?!

A growl came from behind me.

It was the worst feeling I could imagine in that moment. A sickening feeling that had me wanting to cry and plead that it wasn't real. My entire body felt cold. Arms and legs numb, I slowly turned my gaze to the thing threatening me with that gurgling growl.

Behind me floated something dark. It oozed where it ended almost too soon. The blackness wasn't a solid form apart from the edges of the top of it in the shape of a head and shoulders. It was not pointed in my direction, however, it growled in the direction of the door. Blue lights glowed in its face – eyes? – and mouth opened in a sticky, dripping maw of jagged, black daggers. It growled again, mouth extending further and roared at the door. The creatures lower half was jagged, now coming more into view and solid. Threads of blackness dangled bellow it dripping blackness that faded to smoke and drifted back up to the creature.

I was speechless. Then I grabbed the camera and pointed it at the thing.

It noticed my movements and turned and roared at me.

I shrieked and fell backwards. I crashed to the ground, camcorder sliding away from me. When I got back up, the thing was gone.

"Wh-whaaaat the FUCK was that?!" I was shaking. That looked like something from a horror movie. Something that was so scary looking but at the same time just looked faker than using a green screen. The fakeness of it and how it didn't seem like it belonged was part of what made it so creepy.

I climbed to my feet and hesitantly opened the door. Nothing was outside. I pointed the camera around, flipping to night vision hoping to catch something before popping back inside and locking the guard house door.

Fear consumed me and I slid down the door to the floor, hugging my legs to my chest. I needed to find that rabbit. I needed to go out there and I knew it. I couldn't stay in the guard house, especially since whatever that was could get in here.