-You Can't-

Chapter 3: Happy Birthday !

Part 1 out of 2

There were the manager and some employees everywhere in the pizzeria, examining every animatronic and trying to understand why there was blood and mucus all over them. Mark was supervising the investigation while the animartronics were trying to keep their calm. Not the time to show them that they were alive. They would have been scrapped if they did so.

Freddy was standing on the stage, waiting for the woman to let him alone so he could breathe again. The woman was looking at his face, slowly examining its eyes. Freddy was tensed, of course. He wasn't very confident around humans. He was mostly scared by adults, but that seemed to be the case with every animatronic. He just shut his eyes when the girl turned around to look at Mike, shaking heavily.

When was she going to leave ?

Marionette was with Fredbear, near the Music Box, wondering. Mike was on the way to understand. He had emitted some theories that were horribly right.

The manager glanced at her without expression. "What are you hiding to me ?" he asked, more rhetorical than really wondering.

After all, like the other employees, he was thinking that they were just machines. Just robots. Just attractions.

She didn't answer, just staring at him with her white eyes motionlessly. Her plushie was by her side, staring at Spring Bonnie, alone and hiding in a corner while some employees were calling him.

The bunny was acting weirdly since the beginning of the day. He was... sadder. And he always hid behind walls, just as if he wanted to be forgotten. Marionette's plushie was curious, like always, and wanted to know why he was doing this.

"It's our birthday today." Fredbear said to it, as if he'd read its thoughts.

The plushie startled and stared at him blankly, lost in its mind. Maybe, with the help of the other plushies and Marionette, they will be able to prepare a big birthday party ! Just maybe because Marionette's plushie didn't know if that was a good idea.

Soon, the manager and the employees left them alone and went into the Backroom, where they spoke about what to do.

Mark, tired, sat down and looked at everybody. "Listen, I don't know if we can... fix them."

"We still have the new animatronics." one of the security guards replied. "They look better than these ones and they are new."

"Indeed, people won't fear them !" A woman added and every employee nodded simultaneously.

The manager sighed and looked at the new suits beside his seat. They seemed more friendly, and they hadn't blood everywhere. They were their only issue.

The employees remained silent, waiting for Mark's decision about all that stuff. The manager stared at them and whispered: "Let's do this. Let's shut down the old ones now."

"No, Mr Frames." one of the employees interrupted. "We need to open a new place. It's on the works, but it will take some time. Maybe one year or even more."

"One year ? But what are we going to do until then ?" An employee asked.

Mark tried to think about a temporary issue but... he couldn't do anything else. He'd spent too much money on the animatronics to create new ones for only twelve months. What he was going to do was... Heartbreaking, but that was the only issue.

He cleared his throat and concluded in a very deep voice that: "We are gonna shut this place down."

Marionette was roaming around the place after the departure of the employees, glancing at the animatronics and listening to everything when something took her attention. Her plushie wasn't by her side anymore. She looked around the Dining Area only to find some plushies holding colorful balloons with written '1973' on them and hanging them all around the room.

"What are you all doing ?" She asked, amused, and Plushtrap walked towards her.

"Hanging some balloons for Springy and Fred's birthday !" He answered, very excited about the party.

Marionette raised an eyebrow and entered the room, looking after her plushie. It was supervising everything with some fake sunglasses and a red hat. Marionette laughed and approached her counterpart. "Where did you find these things ?"

"It was Springy's stuff." The plushie answered while giving some instructions to Plush Goldie. "I found them in the Safe room."

"Springy had that ?" The Puppet asked while laughing. It was very MLG. Her plushie had 'SWAG'.

"Yeah, but he didn't like wearing this. He just did during parties." Plushtrap said, sitting on his favorite chair next to Plush Mario.

Marionette smiled softly before turning around. She saw the three Freddles trying to hang a balloon on the show stage but without succeeding. She came toward them and took the balloon from their hands, hanging it with a joyful expression on her face.

The Freddles smiled in return and ran to the other side of the room, where Plush Chica gave them a new shiny purple balloon.

Marionette smiled like a mother would and turned to see Plushtrap looking at her. "Everyone gives help, as I can see."

"Except the animatronics. And Plush Mario intended you to help us... Just a bit." The Spring Bonnie plushie replied without looking at her.

"Was it ?" Marionette demanded before nodding. "Alright then, I'll give you help. What can I do ?"

'General' Plush Mario arrived as quick as it could and took a list checking what was left. "You can bake a cake or something, that's the only thing left. Plush Bonnie is recording the music, Plush Foxy is washing the dishes and Plushtrap is... Sitting."

"That's more than enough !" Plushtrap protested, on the defensive.

Plush Mario just sighed and glanced at her counterpart. "So could you bake the cake ?"

"Of course, I'm going to do this right now." Marionette answered before leaving the two plushies together. Plushtrap was saying that 'sitting was also tiring for a plushie' and Plush Mario was arguing that the others were all doing something except him. To that, Plushtrap sniffed and replied meanly: "You're not doing anything, for now."

"I'm doing something ! Supervising !"

Plushtrap smiled. "And I'm actually sitting on a chair, that's longer than you."

Plush Mario sighed angrily before leaving the rabbit plush alone, this one smiling hugely as he won the right to do nothing.

"And... Done." Marionette sighed of release when she put the cake on the table. "Finally. It took time."

"Indeed."

Marionette startled at the sound of the voice behind her back and turned around to see Freddy and Chica standing near the door and looking at the cake without understanding. She smiled nervously and tried to hide the cake from their view, but it was already too late. "Wha-What are you doing here, you two ?"

Chica frowned at the question and said without expression: "We smelled the scent of the cake so we came and... There we are."

The bear-like animatronic came closer to Marionette, trying to reach the cake but the Puppet pushed him away. "That's not for you. That's for Fredbear and Spring B."

Hearing their name, the two animatronics came into the room only to find an empty plate on the table. Everybody was already out. Spring Bonnie glanced at Fredbear, who was sitting next to him, and shrugged before leaving.

Marionette, who was hiding inside a closet in the same kitchen, sighed when she saw the two leaving as fast as they came and got out of the closet, holding in her hands the cake. She quickly put it on the plate and went as quick as possible to the Dining Room. Everything was nearly done.

The only thing that remained was the music show.

Plush Bonnie wrote the last musical notes of the melody inside its music book and sighed happily. Done. All it needed to do now was rehearsing everything, to make sure that everything was written correctly. It took its guitar and started to play the music when it heard footsteps approaching. As quick as it could, Plush Bonnie hid its guitar and the book, but a blue and huge hand had already taken the note book.

"That's awesome !" The voice said, Bonnie coming closer to his plushie counterpart. "Such a good music ! With great lyrics !"

The plushie blushed and tried to take back the note book but Bonnie pushed him away. "Give it to me ! I need to rehearse this !"

"Oh-Oh, let me try to do it." Bonnie cried with excitment. He took his guitar and started to play the music.

That sounded absolutely magical. Bonnie was playing so damn well the guitar that the song felt better than any other one in the world. But there was one thing that Bonnie couldn't do well: singing. He'd try but abandoned. Instead of that, he stopped playing and shouted: "FREDDY ! Come over here !"

Soon enough, Freddy and Chica appeared in the Backstage, glancing at him with confusion. Bonnie smiled friendly to them and showed them the book. They stared at it before coming closer and taking a look. Freddy had a smile. And he started to sing. Bonnie's smile grew while he played the music. Chica ran to her drums and played too. The song was really amazing.

"Fredbear's Family Diner, 1973, Today friends, it's your anniversary. Already 10 years, 10 years since we know you, And now our world rotates around you. We wish you all our wishes, Hoping that you'll be happy forever, Freddy Fazbear's crew is your family,"

"We be lovin' ye lads !" Foxy finished, enjoying the song and wanting to participate.

Everyone looked at him with confusion, Bonnie even stopping to play, and Foxy smiled hugely. "Me want be part of yer show, guys !"

Plush Bonnie smiled in return and nodded. "Okay, you'll say that last sentence."

"Where is he ?" Spring Bonnie asked suspiciously, searching all around the pizzeria and finding that the Dining Area was closed. He tried to turn the handle multiple times but the door seemed to be locked from inside. "Wha-What the hell ? Open this door !" He shouted, waiting for somebody to notice him.

"How are you doing ?" Goldie asked as he appeared next to him, staring at his hand and the handle. "What's wrong ?"

Spring Bonnie tried to turn the handle once more and sighed angrily before banging his head against the door and closing his eyes. He needed to keep calm. Self-control. "It's locked." he stated, looking at Fredbear's reaction.

The bear was trying to stand up but simply couldn't. His lack of endoskeleton was a real curse. "What can I do ? I can't teleport inside this room, strangely."

"Ow..." Spring Bonnie whimpered sadly. "What are we going to do now ? I've lost my plushie..."

"Me too."

Spring Bonnie glanced at him friendly and suddenly the door opened, making him falling to the ground. Everybody cried: "HAPPY BIRTHDAY !" and Fredbear startled, nearly having a heart-attack.

To be continued...

Alright, this is it ! The new chapter of FNaF: You Can't ! I've spent too much time doing whatever people do on holidays when a Five Nights at Freddy's comes out and I didn't write since... Loooong ago. I hope you liked this chapter !

Tell me what you think and thanks to Crazyloconutcase, BrunetteNerd and EmeraldKnight26 for their reviews, it's really appreciated ^^ I really hope that this chapter was good !

Circle of J.