I do hope you have been entertained thus far readers, and that last chapter was an interpretation by Dixie and I of how each animatronic acts based on the manner of each of the children's deaths, five in all. Are you ready to see what happens next? Continue on then readers, if you have the courage! :)

"That's a sad sob story and all…" Calhoun began firmly, though deep down she did feel pity for the children who had been brutally murdered. "… but this revenge shtick isn't solving any problems. You're killing innocent people, and two wrongs don't make a right."

Freddy eyes flashed brightly, his mouth opening slightly to reveal the endoskeleton's metallic teeth. A cheerful tune began to play from him, jarring in the grim atmosphere they were in.

"I- It's going to attack!" Felix screamed in an embarrassingly shrill voice.

Ralph growled under his breath. "I've had it with all this!"

He let out a yell as he raised his fist and ran straight into the large bear, tackling it with both hands. He screamed at the top of lungs as he wrestled with it, using one hand to keep its mouth away from his face while the other ripped and tore at the fur suit. Felix and Calhoun were shouting at him, and Freddy's mechanical parts whirred and hissed as they were dislocated from their home. The musical tune began to alter into a slower, disjointed version of itself. Ralph ignored it all, continuing to pound and destroy everything his fist touched.

He only stopped when a glimmer of gold shined in the underbelly of the bear, and Ralph instantly recognized it. Felix's hammer! With a grunt, he grabbed the tool and threw it out towards Felix.

"My hammer!" The handyman hopped over quickly and snatched it up, holding it against his chest protectively.

The other animatronics suddenly went ballistic, the three of them upon Ralph. Calhoun grabbed Vanellope, Felix quickly tapping her. A darkness left her, and the child shook her head as she snapped out of it.

"What..." She suddenly saw Ralph being attacked, Chika and Bonnie holding his arms while Foxy was lunging in for the kill. "RALPH!" She shrieked, Foxy stopping for a moment, distracted by how she was released from Golden Freddy's control. Calhoun, now healed from Felix as well, took this opportunity to shoot at Foxy as he went to attack her. Vanellope grabbed her hand, glitching her outside of Pirate's Cove and into the hallway. She glitched back in, shouting to Felix. "Go to the office and fix the battery, I have to save Ralph!"

Ralph growled as he punched Chika hard, her lower jaw breaking off and skidding across the floor. Vanellope rushed in, making a beeline for Ralph when she was grabbed by Foxy, twitching and sparking from being shot at several times.

"Do- o- o- on't lea- a- ave us..." Foxy whispered.

Vanellope narrowed her eyes. "You may be helping your friends... well I'm gonna help mine!" She glitched out of his grip, hurrying over to Ralph and clinging to him before glitching him to the hallway. As the two ran, the animatronics ran after them, their metallic screeching echoing through the halls. Ralph scooped up the child, Felix waving them on from the office. Ralph skidded to a stop and hurried in, before closing the door, a huge thud heard on the other side as all the animatronics shrieked shrilly.

"Are you two alright?" Calhoun exclaimed as Felix tapped Ralph's wounds.

"Yeah..." Ralph smiled at Vanellope. "Feel okay, kid?"

"Well... I still feel kinda funny... but I think I'll be okay."

"We have to check her code room when we return, Ralph. Traces of whatever got to her earlier may still be there."

Ralph sighed worriedly, scooping Vanellope up and hugging her. "They may have not been able to save their friends... and for that, I feel awful sorry... but I'm not going to let anything happen to us. We are going to get out of here."

Calhoun smiled lightly. "It's 5:02. We have less than an hour to go."

An HOUR?!" Felix started to hyperventilate, wringing his hands together. "How are we gonna survive another hour in this nightmare!"

Calhoun took his hat off and made him breathe into it in lieu of a paper bag. "Calm down, short-stack, we got your hammer back to keep the battery up, remember?"

Vanellope yawned, still being held against Ralph's chest protectively. "I hope Freddy and the others don't do this EVERY night. What if they get out of the game and wander around the arcade?"

"Eh, let's not think about that just yet," Ralph grimaced, not sure if he could deal with the stress.

"I agree," Calhoun nodded. "Let's focus on surviving the rest of this hour and getting Princess Cavity here back to Sugar Rush to survey her code. One thing at a time."

Vanellope rested her head against Ralph's forearm as he held her in his hand. "Ralph, what happened to me...? I... I remember they put me in the janitor's closet... and then everything went dark."

Ralph sighed. "They did something to your code... made you do and say things... like you were one of them. But don't worry... they aren't going to do another thing."

"I saw something... he looked like the creepy bear but... creepier. He was yellow, and had no eyes. He talked to me in a really deep, weird voice but I still understood him. He told me I was the key to his freedom." She gasped after a few moments, swatting the air. "I still see it, Ralph! I still see the scary faces and the words!" She hugged the cupcake toy to her, whimpering.

Calhoun narrowed her eyes. "Whatever it was that triggered that is still latched to her code even after Felix tapped her with the hammer. It's just going to manifest again."

"Jiminy, I hope that my fixing her didn't cause it to permanently attach itself to her code," Felix said worriedly, having calmed now.

"A golden bear?" Ralph raised a brow in confusion. "I hadn't seen that around. You sure that's what you saw, kid?"

The little girl started getting upset again. "Yes, I'm sure, I'm not lying!"

"Okay okay, I believe you," the wrecker said quickly. He was worried that any emotional outbursts from her would cause whatever it was inside her code to glitch her up beyond repair.

Calhoun studied the monitors again, her lips pursed in thought. "Look at this." Everyone went over to see what she was pointing at on the screen. A poster of Freddy was attached to the wall but something seemed off about it. "This used to be a normal poster for the Freddy that we've been seeing, but now it's different."

Vanellope glanced at the golden bear and whined, hiding her face against Ralph's chest. "That's it! That's the golden Freddy I saw!"

Vanellope turned, screaming when she once again saw Golden Freddy sitting in the chair. Now that all four had seen the poster, they all saw him, and they froze. It was staring right at Vanellope, speaking in a deep voice. When he disappeared in a flash, his roar was heard, and Vanellope began to glitch and scream as she had done the first time.

"No!" Ralph cried, going over to Vanellope. "Leave her alone! What do you want from her?"

Vanellope's eyes darkened, smiling eerily at Ralph. "Everyone will know our suffering... and we will know the joy of creation..."

Calhoun jumped as pounding was heard on the walls and doors, taking her gun out. Chika was trying to break through the window that Felix fixed, and Bonnie was once again tampering with the wiring outside. Suddenly, the west door flew open again, Bonnie and Foxy rushing in. Foxy grabbed Felix, and Calhoun cried out in horror as she shot at him. Foxy opened his mouth wide to devour Felix, and Bonnie wrestled with Ralph, trying to take Vanellope. Felix cried, bracing for the worst.

Then... nothing.

Calhoun stared in confusion as the animatronics stopped all movement. She shook her head as they began to stand up straight, their damaged costumes repairing themselves. She whipped her head over to the clock.

6 am.

Felix grunted as Foxy dropped him, and they robotically began to file out, going down the hall to their positions. They shielded their eyes when all the window and door covers began to rise and retract, letting in the early morning light.

"Thank you once again for your service to the Feddy Fazbear family. The night shift is now complete, and all systems have reset for open. I now ask the night shift to exit the premises in a calm, orderly fashion to make way for the morning shift. Have a wonderful day, see you tomorrow night."

The announcement sounded, and the core four looked at each other.

They had survived.