It took me several deep breaths to get my courage back up. I had thought to text Riley to ask for Joseph's help, but then I worried that something out here would hurt him. Though that glass door wasn't much of a defense. Deciding against it, seeing that the only thing I'd seen that was any threat was that goopy whatever, I got to my feet, camcorder in hand and left the guard house.

The air outside was stale, heavy. It was a strange sensation feeling a pressure like a heavy backpack when you knew there was nothing there. I pointed the camera around mostly only able to see through the view screen on night vision. Because of that I then pulled out my nightstick and turned it on.

My first destination was the kennels. If the fox had ended up there then maybe the rabbit would too.

I made the short, hesitant trek toward section A. Down the aisle and around the corner to look at the kennels. Within the darkness was the moved form of the fox. It had moved to sit in the center of the caged area, eyes set straight ahead directly at me. Now, however, it didn't move. It sat there frozen in time with unseeing gaze glued onto my location. I moved to the side attempting to get out of its unsettling sight only to have the glowing orbs shift slightly. The hair on my arms rose with the realization that it was, in fact, watching me.

Now not wanting to get any closer to this thing that has murdered someone, I turned on my heel and rushed back down the aisle. I hadn't seen any sign of the rabbit down there so I wanted to go look back in the box. I had this stupid idea that it had ducked down and now I couldn't see it or something.

Stupid I know, but I'd rather think that it fell over than ran off like the fox.

As I neared section C, something dark zoomed back and forth in B. I turned the camera to it but saw nothing. Even with my nightstick I saw nothing. It might have just been a rat or even a cat. There were a few cats around here… yeah let's stick with a cat. Cats are cuter than rats and less deadly than a giant robo rabbit.

Arriving at the box, I again hesitated on getting near it. The edge of the door that latches it shut was bent. I remembered a text from Riley when I'd left for work earlier saying that Joseph had put a padlock on the box to try and keep anyone from getting into it. I made sure to zoom in with the camera at the obvious dent on the door. It bowed inward as if the door had been pulled open from the outside or pushed from the inside. I REALLY hoped it was from the outside.

Closer I crept until I could see in the box. The rabbit really was gone. The only two remaining inside stand asleep in place. Eyes closed and unmoving the animatronics were just overall very very eerie looking.

With a loud sigh I stepped back to look at the lock. It had been ripped off the door and lay on the ground beside the box. The bend of the lock was morphed strangely, the part that snapped looking thin like stretched out bubble gum.

"Looks like it got melted," I muttered, showing the lock to the camera. I put it in my pocket for Joe to see later and attempted to close the door. It didn't close, but hit the box with a loud crash and slowly vibrated open.

"Whatever… Stupid bo-" I ran into something as I went to look further. Stumbling back I looked up, dropping the camera and staring into the darkened, glowing pupils of the rabbit. "WAAAAAH! WHAT THE HELL?!" I stepped backwards tripping over my shoes. The fall stunned me, landing on my back and my head whipped back to hit the hard ground. My vision blurred, pain sparkling in my eyes like tiny fireworks of blocked out light.

I blinked several times. I knew full well that I was in danger and yet I couldn't move properly at the moment. Lifting my head to look up at the animatronic sent a dizzying shot through the back of my eyes and I had to lay my head back down. With my hand to my forehead I was able to sit up on my elbow and look up at the rabbit who had gotten closer to me.

Something hard came down on my knee, trapping me in place. I was awake then and screamed as I could feel my knee cap twisting under the weight of the rabbit's foot. Words didn't come to mind to yell at this thing. It wasn't human, I couldn't bargain with it. If I pleaded for my life there was nothing it could feel for me. "G-Get off!" I squeaked. "AAAH!" The rabbit put more weight on my leg as it stepped forward with its other foot. "N-N-NO! PLEASE DON'T HURT ME!"

I covered my face, fell to the ground and awaited more pain.

It didn't come.

Actually the weight from my other leg lifted.

I looked up and saw it had stepped back. Taking the opportunity I backed away, flinching when my leg popped and stopping to hold it to my chest.

When my eyes managed to find the robot again, there was something dark about it. The lit up pupils stared directly at me, but that wasn't what was looking at me. A dark, oozing figure was draped around the robot. Light brown orbs glowed in its face as it stared at me. The eyes were misshapen, one lower than the other and as it became more human-like I noticed that most of the body's proportions weren't right. One shoulder much higher than the other, an arm bent at awkward angles almost with the impression of giving it a second and third elbow, legs dangling strangely and bent and distorted. The entire thing's body wasn't right.

It reached a hand out to me, maw of black knifes for teeth extending as it tried to talk to me only for black goop to spray from its throat and collect back into mist around it. Those small fingers curled up as if it were trying to grab me or tell me to stand.

Then the words came out. Slow, painful, high pitched, and almost pleading.

"M…M… Mmmmiiiiiiiiike…"

The world spun around me and zeroed in. I blacked out.

*********

I woke up what I guessed to be several hours later. My leg was killing me, but I was able to bend it so I knew it wasn't broken. Standing up I found I could put weight on it. I scooped up the camera and limped back to the guard house.

Once inside I locked the door and leaned on it holding my knee as the pain throbbed strongly. I reached for my phone I stupidly left there and immediately called up Riley. No fucking way I was going back out there with what just happened. I wanted her to get Joseph and him unlock the damn door or call the police.

She answered yawning loudly. "Mikey… You woke me up…"

"Riley, I- GAH!" My knee buckled and I fell to the floor. "F-fuck…!"

Her voice sounded in my phone. I quickly brought it back to my ear. "What happened? You trip over your own big feet? Aaaaw did a big bad chicken scare you?"

"No, but a fucking rabbit did!"

"Huh?" She dropped her goofy act. "Mikey?"

"Th-that fucking RABBIT is walking, Riley! It fucking STEPPED on me!" I flinched again trying to force myself not to move my leg so much. "It stepped on my damn leg…"

"Oh god. Are you okay?"

"Yeah I don't think it's broken. Anyway I need you to call Joe. I don't have his number and I need someone to help me inside. Broken or not I really need to ice this. I mean, a thousand pounds of yiff just stepped on me. Oh, and let's not forget that those robots ARE TRYING TO KILL ME!"

"Calm down, Mikey. Maybe you just got attacked by someone?"

"Yeah. A DAMN RABBIT!"

"Stop yelling at me!" She huffed. "Maybe someone broke in and attacked you. Maybe you were just scared and saw things. No way the animatronics could just do that stuff."

I bit back my reply. She'd think I was crazy if I told her what I saw around that thing. Looking down I saw the camcorder in my hand. Still recording. "I've got proof it was those things," I told her straight forward. "I got it on video."