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Part the Second: The Next Day and the Next Murders
The guard takes a look at the room, and unhooks a costume. The room itself is covered in mascot costumes, soon to be retired after the "unlucky" incident with the two workers. Unlucky my butt. I planned that well.
He gets dressed quickly, grinning in the mirror. He's in a costume almost identical to the one the rabbit was wearing, the only difference being that this one isn't bloodstained, though that's an understatement considering the amount of blood in a human body, and the fact that the rabbit lost almost all of it. Then he sets out, ready to begin his work. The work he's planned for so long.
All of his targets are here again, most likely because they begged their parents. He goes for the red-haired one first, catching him alone. "Hello."
The red-haired one squeals. "Oh my god, one of them's talking to me!" His smile is wide enough to explode off his face if he isn't careful, and he's jumping up and down. "My friends will never believe me when I tell them this."
The guard nods along, privately making a list of things in his head. He then extends a hand to the red-haired one. "I have a list of people I'm taking somewhere special, somewhere that nobody who doesn't work here has ever been before. You are on that list. Do you want to come?"
The boy doesn't even need a prompt. "Holy heck yes!"
He gathers his chosen ones, ignoring their names and giving them new ones in his head. The red-haired one is Excited. The blond boy is Knife. The girl with the guitar is Music. The brown-haired one is Fred. The girl with chickens is Egg.
None of these are even close to their real names, but that doesn't matter to him. Soon, it won't matter to them either; those are temporary names until they have their real names, their true names.
They're all excited, they're all naive, and they all think they're going to live to see the next day. None of them will. They have a new life to look forward to. And he will make sure they get to see it, all of it. After all, this is the opportunity of a lifetime. Eternal life, eternal memory.
Of course, they won't remember their old life. They'll have nothing to compare it to. But if it was him that was offered to, he would take it in seconds, memory or no memory.
He grins privately to himself as he leads them to the Safe Room.
Excited looks around as soon as they go in, muttering things to himself as he bounces on his heels. Egg seems more reserved about her excitement, but he can see it in her eyes. She's just as excited as the rest of them. Knife is the only one who isn't excited, and he should have expected that. Knife's father worked here, so of course he'd seen this room.
Music is strumming the air in nervous excitement, whispering the chords. "G, G minor, F…" Fred seems even more nervous and excited, fidgeting and flipping a coin in the air over and over.
He turns to them, and takes off his costume. "Well, children, we're here. Are you excited?" All of them except Knife nod, and he smiles. "You are? Blond boy, your father works here, yes?" Privately, he reminds himself to arrange an accident for Knife's father. It wouldn't do to have family members with the crew.
Knife nods, and looks at him with slight disappointment. "I thought you were taking us to, I don't know, the secret prop room or something."
"Never say never, child. That's exactly where we're going. Or, rather, where you're going. The rest of you aren't." He laughs, relishing their confusion. So naive. So innocent. He smiles at them, and grabs Knife by the arm. "You stay here while I take him there, ok? Feel free to play on the arcade machines." He gestures toward them as he says this, and walks out of the room, taking the blond boy with him.
When they reach the Parts and Service room for this location, he turns. "Are you ready for your new destiny, boy?"
Knife gives him a strange look, and he resists the urge to laugh. "New destiny? You didn't mention a new destiny. I think I'll keep my old destiny, ok?"
"No. That's not possible." He scowls, and pushes open the door, shoving Knife in and then walking in himself. He shuts the door behind him. "You must accept your new destiny, it's happening no matter what."
Knife backs away, and he has to stop himself from strangling the boy. "W-what do you mean? I d-didn't want this, I d-don't-" This time he lets himself grab the boy, dragging him closer. "H-hey! Let go!"
He laughs. "Boy…..welcome to your worst nightmare." He pulls out a knife, and Knife struggles more.
The knife comes down, and blood pools around him. He turns to the shelf of costumes, and picks off the Golden Freddy one. "Enjoy your new life."
He walks in clean. The children turn to him, except for Fred, who swears and shakes the machine. "Aw, c'mon! I had it! I totally had it! Go to hell, Pinky!" He raises an eyebrow, before realizing that the boy is talking to the game. He speaks to the ones who are paying attention, and Fred turns as well. "I'm back, children. The blond boy is back with his father." Or he will be soon, depending on when the animatronic wakes up.
The children are staring at him. Music speaks up. "Do we get to see the room, too?"
He shakes his head and walks over to the door, locking it. "No, my child. You don't, but you do get to see something else." He turns back around, and draws his knife out again. Before any of the children can react, he grabs Excited and slits his throat. The boy makes a small strangled sound (he can't help but think it's because he's so small) before he goes limp.
The children stare for a second, before scattering. Fred bangs uselessly on the locked door, and he picks him up next. It takes a second to dig the knife in, as the boy struggles quite a bit, but he does it, and Fred goes limp. He deposits the body next to the previous one, and goes after the two girls.
Egg is the first one he captures. For all her bragging, she's not that fast, and she's not that strong. It doesn't take very long to kill her. Music takes longer; she's very fast, and would probably be on the track team later in life if he hadn't given her a new life.
He steps back and looks at his work before going to the stage. It's nighttime, so it's not hard to take the animatronics off the stage. He stops by Pirate's Cove to pick up Foxy, and brings them to the room.
Less than an hour later, the animatronics are back in their places, and he is on his way.
The headline on the following day's newspaper read "Missing Children" and list their names. He doesn't read it. No need.
His work is finished.