Sharon sighs. The Cleaning Bot was beyond repair.
She sits in one of the chairs in the Control Room, facing the Bot, trying to find some way to not have to send it to the discard.
She sighs again, there was indeed no way to save him.
From what she heard, this Bot was the victim of one of Montgomery Gator's tantrums, who was still raging and destroying things in his green room from what she could hear from the security talking outside the room, in addition to the many cameras in the room that were showing the chaos that was established.
He had been like this since she arrived at the Pizzaplex, her manager wouldn't even let her change into her uniform or put her helmet in the locker, just handed her the toolbox and sent her to the Control Room to fix the Bot. More Bots would probably come for her to see.
Her Fazwatch beeps, a message from Chef Bot, there are deliveries to be made.
Her eyes widened, if she wasn't mistaken, from where she was standing, the kitchen was on the other side of the Pizzaplex. She would have to run a lot.
Quickly texting her manager, she turns to the Bot.
"I'm sorry, I won't be able to take you to the disposal, but your friends will take you." She puts her hand on the Bot's shoulder, requesting the discard service.
She takes her toolbox and puts the helmet on her head, opening the door and walking quickly down to Rockstar Row.
There was still chaos in Montgomery Gator's green room, but now the animatronic was outside of it, yelling something as Freddy tried to calm him down. She doesn't pay much attention, her only goal is to get to the kitchen as quickly as possible.
She starts to pass in front of his green room, she needed to take the door at the end of the hall, which would take her to the Atrium, coming out in front of the Roxy Raceway sign, and from there she would have to cross everything to take the elevator to the kitchen. It was a good plan.
Until something hit her head, knocking her to the ground, the helmet flying off her head and landing to the side.
"Superstar! Monty, you threw a golf club at Superstar!" Freddy screams when he sees her on the floor, the security guards had moved away to dodge the golf club, but as Sharon wasn't paying attention, she was the victim of the animatronic's rage.
"Huh?" the alligator animatronic looks and sees the poor mechanic on the floor.
"Superstar!" Freddy starts going to her, but stops when she suddenly raises her torso, sitting. She looks at her Fazwatch.
"SHIT! I'M LATE!" she screams, taking the helmet and her toolbox, getting up and running away, leaving everyone awestruck.
"She… Ran away?" Montgomery asks aloud.
"Monty, what you did is unacceptable! After I check on Superstar, we'll have a talk!" Freddy points at him accusingly.
"Okay, whatever."
The bear stares at him and makes a movement with his hands, demonstrating that he wanted to strangle the bassist of the band, but he holds back and sighs, seeing how Superstar was doing was the priority.
"Thanks for the help Sharon, if you hadn't shown up, Chef Bot would have scolded me." Arnold speaks while the two go to the kitchen, he was one of the new delivery men who would help Sharon with the deliveries.
"Yeah, nobody wants to be scolded by Chef Bot." She laughs, placing her hand on her forehead.
"You all right? I noticed you keep putting your hand on your forehead, do you have a headache?" he comes closer, noticing something "Hey, your helmet is dented, did you hit something?"
"It is?" the two enter the kitchen, encountering an unexpecting scene "Freddy? What happened?"
"Superstar! Thank God you came back!" the bear goes to her.
"Why all this commotion?"
"You ran away after you got hit by that golf club, I couldn't even help you!"
"Golf Club?" Arnold stares at her, confused.
"Oh, that? It's not hurting or anything." Sharon laughs.
"I insist, I know that Monty did not control his strength, let me take a look." Freddy almost begs.
"It's alright." To demonstrate, she removes her helmet.
Until she felt something dripping down her face.
She brings her hand to her face and touches it, then looks. She was bleeding.
"Oh." That's all she says.
"You're bleeding!" they all shout, going to her and gathering around her.
"I'll take you to the nurse immediately!" Freddy, without even thinking, puts one hand on her back and with the other hooks behind her legs, picking her up, who lets out a squeal.
"H-Hey Freddy! No need to carry me!" she grabs his neck, afraid of falling.
"Chef Bot, unfortunately her deliveries must be assigned to another delivery man." He ignores her.
"You don't need to inform me, take care of her, I don't want anyone hurt in my kitchen." He crosses his arms and Freddy nods, starting his walk to the nearest first aid station.
"Freddy, I can walk! Let me go!" Sharon protests.
"We're almost there, I already notified the nurse." He enters one of the rooms destined for first aid. Soon after, a man enters.
"I came as soon as possible, what's the emergency Fred-… My God!" the man exclaims when he sees the blood on Sharon's face "Sit her down here!" he points to a stretcher.
"I'm fine! It was just a scratch!"
"Honey, you're bleeding, it's not okay." The man stares at her, grabbing a flashlight and passing it over her eyes "Any dizziness? Disorientation?"
"No."
"Freddy, just to be sure, could you scan her head while I clean and bandage it?" he rapidly takes some cottons and bands.
"Can I?" Freddy looks at her, who sighs.
"Of course, just do it." She shrugs, it's better to do what they want to be able to go back to work.
As Freddy scans it, the man cleans her face and bandages it, until his tablet beeps and he checks out Freddy's scan.
"According to this, you don't have any concussion, just the actual cut. You are lucky." he concludes.
"I have a hard head."
"But I recommend that you do not drive for a week, just to be sure. If you have any dizziness, disorientation or the pain continues, you should go to the hospital immediately, understand me?" she nods in agreement.
"Don't worry Nurse James, I'll keep an eye on her. Many thanks for your assistance." Freddy speaks.
"It's my job." James smiles "If you excuse me, I kind of left half of my lunch on the table, I'm going to go and see if one of the Bots didn't put it in the trash."
"Of course, I'm sorry for disturbing you."
"It doesn't matter, accidents happen, especially in a place as big as this one." He smiles at her, leaving shortly after.
"Superstar, are you really alright?" Freddy asks when the two are alone.
"Yes, it only hurts a little." She looks at the bear "I… Thank you, even though you carried me without having to." This brings a laugh from the bear.
"It was an emergency."
"Now how are the deliveries? I was kind of banned from driving, and I bet you already sent a report to the directors about that by the time he spoke." The bear looks to the side, obviously she had guessed right.
"C-Chef Bot wouldn't mind, and we already have other delivery people, a week without you won't bring the apocalypse to the kitchen." Freddy says, she agrees "And also, I must apologize."
"For what?"
"It is unacceptable that one of our employees is injured. I was careless and didn't try to stop Monty. If I had been more responsible, you wouldn't have been hurt."
"I-I-I wasn't paying attention! I knew Montgomery was wrecking everything, I should have paid attention as I walked!" she moves her hands frantically "It wasn't your fault! Who should be here with a guilty face apologizing should be him, not you!"
"Even so, I am the leader, his actions are also my responsibility. But today was the last straw! I'm going to have a long talk with Monty!" he says "I need to go, but I'll still be watching you Superstar, don't do anything dangerous, and don't even think about driving your motorcycle!"
"Yes, I already know, I'll get a ride later, and someone that can take my bike." She rolls her eyes.
Freddy nods, starting to leave the room, until he turns to her and makes the universal "I'm watching you" sign, finally walking away.
What a beautiful mess you've got yourself into Sharon.
A day later, Sharon arrives at Pizzaplex with a smile. She hadn't taken a bus in years, and now that she has that restriction, she had to take one, and it felt amazing to finally be able to look around as she enjoyed the ride. It was also an advantage that her working hours were outside the congestion period, so the bus was relatively empty.
Humming, Sharon makes her way to the locker room. It would be a fun day for sure!
When looking at her Fazwatch, she sees that her tasks were simple, she would start with fixing the Bots at the Daycare. It seems they finally noticed that there weren't any Bots in that area other than the Comedy Bot who ran shows in the Theater, which was strange.
After putting on her uniform and picking up her toolbox, she walks to the front of the large Daycare door. If she was right, she could get to the Theater from there and go down the stairs to where there were some endoskeletons and paraphernalia. Making her way, she passes around the large structure of the Daycare, and curious, looks through the glass barriers, seeing children running and screaming with happiness, and in the middle of them, an animatronic with a design different from all. That should be the famous Daycare Attendant.
Smiling, she continued towards the Theater, not noticing that the animatronic had turned its head and stared at her for a moment.
"Done! Now we just need to go to the front of the Daycare so that you all can start doing your jobs!" Sharon announces when she finishes turning on the last Bot. There were three in total that she had found disabled in a corner, some with what appeared to be claw marks. She still wondered if Montgomery had attacked them, and if so, why would he come all the way to the Daycare to throw into a rage?
The four arrive in front of the large doors of the Daycare, Sharon watches them for a moment.
"I'll get new plates to replace the ones that are scratched, but for now you can do your jobs, I fixed everything inside, it's just the aesthetics now." The Bots nod "And if there is any problem, just call me, here's my Fazwatch and the communication channel." The Bots stare at her for a moment, looking confused "Wh-what is it? Why are you staring at me?"
The Bots seem to communicate with each other for a moment, until they turn to her and open their arms.
They were asking for a hug.
This gets a laugh from Sharon.
"Why do all Bots like hugs?" She gives them a hug, laughing. They let out a few happy beeps.
She breaks away from the embrace and feels that she is being watched.
She looks back, someone was staring at her, she could feel, but couldn't be entirely sure.
"Hey, little lady!" Someone speaks authoritatively, she looks and it was none other than Montgomery Gator, coming towards her in a threatening way and making a big noise with each step.
She widens her eyes and takes a step back.
"Little lady!" He practically roars.
The Bots stare at her, seeing that she was scared. They turn to the animatronic and signal for him to stop, which he does.
"What do you want? My business is with her!" He points to Sharon, who looks around, considering her escape routes "Let me through!"
The Bots beep in disapproval.
The alligator roars and attacks one of them, taking it to the ground.
Without even blinking, Sharon runs away, as she hears the roars and the desperate beeps of the Bots. She had just repaired them and would have to repair them again, if Montgomery would be merciful.
She enters the locker room, no animatronic can enter there, unless an employee verbally approves. According to the training, when an animatronic is allowed to enter, the employee must be specific that the animatronic can only enter at that moment, otherwise they will be able to enter and leave whenever they want, which would be a bad thing for employees who do not like them or a scared child, because some of them had the bad habit of following people.
She tried to calm her heart and breathing, she was safe now.
She waits a bit, the sounds of destruction seemed to have stopped.
She hears powerful footsteps outside, making her back away from the door.
When it seemed that he was already far away, she finally opened the door and just poked her head out, facing the corridor.
No sign of Montgomery.
She quickly makes her way towards the front of the Daycare, witnessing the aftermath of Montgomery's attack.
One of the Bots was on the ground, sparks were coming out of its body, the other two were still on, but their states weren't the best.
"Heavens, I'm sorry! I-I panicked and abandoned you all!" She says, going to them, they just make a sad beep and shake their heads, clearly saying it wasn't her fault.
"I-I'll fix you, I promise." She kneels in front of the fallen one, checking the damage "I'll need to take you to Parts & Services, I won't be able to fix you here. I'm going to need some help to carry you, and your friends are not in a position to carry you either."
A noise draws her attention, and she turns towards the door of the Daycare.
Everything seemed normal, she just heard the children playing outside the door.
Was it her imagination?
"Nerd?" a voice catches her attention.
"Roxy? What are you doing here?" She asks, as far as she knew, the wolf never came near the Daycare.
"I received a call for help..." she looks inside the Daycare and stops talking "W-well, what happened?" Was that fear in her voice?
"Montgomery attacked the Bots, I need to take them to Parts & Services."
"Okay, I'll take the dead weight." She indicates the fallen Bot.
"W-Wait, you can't!"
"Why not?"
"B-b-because you're Roxanne Wolf!" She points to the wolf.
"It's my name, but I don't understand why that prevents me from helping you."
"What if someone sees you? What if they find out I'm using one of the Plex stars to do my heavy work?" She was panicking.
"Is that really what worries you?" The wolf stares at her for a moment and then laughs.
"Do not laugh! This is serious!"
"Nobody is going to give you a lecture for me carrying a Bot, in reality we carry the Bots almost every day, who do you think takes them to the offices?"
"Other Bots?"
"And when there are stairs?" Sharon stops for a moment, thoughtful, until her facial features begin to change as she understands what she had said "It can't be. B-b-but you are the Plex stars!"
"But we're still able to lift twice our size, and we can climb stairs." She laughs at Sharon's disbelieving face "So you don't have to complain when we help you." She touches the tip of Sharon's nose and goes to the fallen Bot.
Effortlessly, she lifts it and places them on her shoulder.
"Let's go."
"Wait!" She puts herself in front of the wolf with her arms outstretched.
"What is it now, Nerd?" She huffs.
"A-A-Are you sure the coast is clear?"
"What?"
"Montgomery... Do you know if he's not around?" She plays with her fingers nervously.
"Did he really scare you?" Sharon looks away, she sighs "From what I see, he's in the Atrium, heading to Gator Golf. We can go slowly, by the time we reach the Atrium he will have already entered the attraction."
"R-right." The two start walking, being followed by the two semi-destroyed Bots.
During the journey, Sharon notices some visitors staring at the two, no wonder, it must have been very funny to see one of the stars of the Plex carrying a Bot like a sack of potatoes while being followed by a human and two other Bots in deplorable states.
"Nerd."
"Yes?" Sharon looks at the wolf, who stops in front of her.
"Do you know why Monty went after you?"
"No."
"Does it have something to do with him throwing a golf club at your head?" She points to her head.
"Freddy already spread all over the Plex about what happened, right?" This brings a laugh from the wolf.
"The moment they forbade you to drive the motorcycle."
"Typical of the bear." She sighs "Do you really think he wants to talk with me to apologize?"
"To be honest, he is not the type to apologize, he's very proud. But after the havoc Freddy made over your injury, I think he'll try to swallow his pride, but the way he's clumsy, it'll likely just result in him doing more shit." The two walk again.
"What kind of shit?"
"Well, chasing you like that should count. And also he can end up insulting you until he leaves you in tears, and if there's something he doesn't know how to deal with, it's someone crying. He usually makes the kids cry even more when he tries to get them to stop."
"I thought it was the Daycare Attendant who made the children cry."
"Ah yes, the Jester does, but that's because whoever designed him thought it was a great idea to make him look like a lunatic with that smile. The kids love Monty, but his personality sucks to deal with."
"And who has the best personality with kids?"
"Me, of course!" Sharon laughs when she sees the wolf puff out her chest "Don't you agree Nerd?"
"You're the best, sure."
"Do you really think so?" She nods "I can't wait to throw it in Chica's face! Hahahaha, check it out! I'm Nerd's favorite! Hahahaha!"
After that, the rest of the way Roxanne didn't stop pointing out her good points while Sharon laughed, finding the whole thing cute.
"Seriously, who would drink Sodaroni? Alan told me that even for a million he wouldn't drink a drop, but look, it's a lot of money. For a million I'd drink a can. And you Mapbot?" Sharon faces the Bot, who was standing in front of her table in the Atrium. She was during her break eating an ice cream while staring at one of the posters of the dreaded drink known as Sodaroni.
Mapbot shrugs.
"Yeah, it was a stupid question, considering you don't have a mouth. But if you did, would you drink it?"
The Bot ponders and raises a finger, ready to answer, but is interrupted by a powerful voice.
"Found you!" Sharon gets startled, looking at the source of the voice, Montgomery Gator, who was coming towards her in a threatening way.
"I-it's not me, right?" she asks Mapbot.
"It's you!" Montgomery roars at her, getting closer. She gets up from her chair and takes a step back.
Mapbot takes the lead and goes to Montgomery, who was now a few meters from the two.
"Map." It extends a map to the alligator, which tries to pass, but the Bot blocks it. The more he tried to get past the Bot, the more he was blocked by it.
"Get out of my way, tin head!" he roars at the Bot, pushing it and then looking to where Sharon was before.
She was gone.
"Why is everyone getting in my way?!" The animatronic roars, punching and taking Mapbot to the ground, until he hears the sound of the elevator arriving on that floor.
Sharon, who took advantage of the opportunity Mapbot gave her, ran to the elevator, and once inside it, she would be safe. If she tried to run for the escalators, surely Montgomery would easily catch up with her.
The elevator arrives, its doors open.
"Wait!" She looks back.
The alligator animatronic was running towards her with his back bent, arms out in front, claws pointed towards her, mouth open wide and making a loud noise with each step.
Without even blinking, she enters the elevator and presses for the third floor, soon after punching the button to close the doors, while the animatronic growls as it gets closer and closer.
"Close, close, close, close!" she says in desperation.
The door closes.
She sighs in relief.
Blam!
She squeals and recoils when she hears the knock on the door.
The elevator starts to rise.
"Apologizing my ass! He wants to kill me!" She finally releases the breath she was holding.
The elevator arrives at the third floor and opens the doors.
She leaves, taking a deep breath and trying to recover from her shock.
"Wouldn't it be easier for me to try to talk to him to end all this chase? After all, he's one of Plex's stars, he must have codes to prevent killing an employee and…" she starts to reason, but hears heavy footsteps and looks downstairs.
Montgomery was running, riding the escalator. His head was turned in the direction Sharon had been the entire time, his glare focused at her, ignoring every customer in his path. He had only one goal, and that was to get to where Sharon was.
"No, he wants to kill me." She says and starts running to the only place she knew she would be safe from that animatronic.
Walking quickly, she entered the Superstar-cade, quickly passing the arcade machines and the customers who used them, oblivious to the chase that was taking place. She arrives at a door where only employees can enter and enters, looking around and seeing her objective.
She quickly enters the security office and closes the metal doors, taking a deep breath, touching her forehead to the closed doors, feeling relief.
"What the… Sharon?" Annie's voice sounds behind her, facing the unexpected visitor.
"Oh, I didn't see there were people here! I'm sorry and..."
Blam!
"What was that?" Annie stares at the screens, showing the cameras outside the office "Why is Monty knocking on the door looking really pissed off?" She asks, hearing another knock.
"He's been chasing me all over Plex! Help me please!" Sharon stands in front of her, desperate.
"What did you do to him?"
"Nothing!"
More knocks on the door.
She ponders for a moment the best solution for that situation.
"Okay, get out that door while I distract him." She goes to the door that Montgomery was knocking on and makes a sign for Sharon to go to the opposite door. The mechanic quickly gets into position and when the blonde motions for her to leave, she opens the door and starts to sneak out, praying the alligator doesn't notice her.
Annie, seeing that she had left, opens the door, being greeted with the angry alligator animatronic.
"Where is she?!" he tries to enter the office, the blonde blocks his way.
"Who? There's only me here." She crosses her arms, not at all shaken by the aggressive attitude of the animatronic.
"I know the little lady with the glasses went here, where is she?" he growls.
"You know that the 'little lady with glasses' has a name, right?"
"Of course she has."
"Oh yeah, and what is it?"
"It's…" he lifts his finger, until he stops and gets confused. What was the name of that mechanic? Chica always kept talking about her...
Seeing that he was taking too long and obviously didn't have an answer, Annie sighs.
"You're a goner. And what do you want with Sharon to make a scene like that?"
"I…" he mumbles something unintelligible that makes Annie scowl.
"What are you mumbling about?"
"I'm trying to apologize!" he yells in her face, her eyes widen in surprise.
"Apologize? You?"
"I'm not a horrible Bot as you all like to call me." He sounds offended "Are you going to help me or not?"
"If you're trying to apologize, you shouldn't chase her like a murderer, you're just scaring her."
"I'm not doing that!"
"Tell that to the door you almost broke." She indicates the red door behind them, which was ajar and the latch was broken, in addition to its center being dented, obviously the animatronic had punched it.
"Y-you can't prove it was me!"
"Say that to the cameras." She points to the monitors inside the office, making the alligator puff. Sometimes he hated how the blonde always had an answer for what he said.
"Okay, rat me out later then, I don't care. I just want to apologize to the four eyes."
"With that attitude, you'll never make it."
"And how do I do it then? Clarify me." He looks at her, angry.
"Me? Talk to someone who knows her better. Now get out of here, I need to find the footage the directors want." She dismisses him with a wave of her hand.
That makes him puff, but he turns, heading to get out of there.
It was always like that, no one gave him answers, they just treated him like a nuisance.
He stops walking, thoughtful.
Hm, the idea Annie gave him wasn't that bad.
He just had to find out who would be willing to help him.
Sharon enters the Rockstar Row, a agreement was made for her to meet Roxanne during the break, she had asked to see her whenSharon arrived for work.
"Hey Nerd." The wolf calls, leaving her green room.
"Hey Roxy, what do you need?"
"I heard you needed a tour in the Plex, that you're getting lost a lot when called in places you haven't been."
"Yeah… We can say that." She scratches the back of her head, embarrassed.
"Well, it's your lucky day, I have the right person to give you a tour now." She takes Sharon's hand and the two start walking down the Rockstar Row.
"You have? Will you give me a tour?"
"Unfortunately it's not me. Obviously I'm the best choice, but this time I'm going to have to leave you in someone else's care." She speaks with a little shy pride of herself, which brings a smile to Sharon "And he's already arriving."
"'He'?" Metallic steps sound, steps that Sharon recognizes, they have been chasing her in her nightmares all this week "Wait, don't tell me that…" she widens her eyes.
"Yo." A voice calls them, who turn around and see none other than Montgomery Gator.
"Okay, I brought the Nerd. If you mess up with her, I'll break you." Roxanne points to the alligator, who rolls his eyes.
"Right." He looks at Sharon, who shrinks and stays behind the wolf. "Let's do this tour." He makes a point of trying to catch her arm, which deviates and shrinks behind Roxanne, acting as if she were her shield.
"Gatorade, where are your manners? Can't you see you're scaring her?" The wolf looks at him with disapproval.
"D-Do I really need to go with him? Can't it be Freddy?" Sharon asks Roxanne, but Montgomery growls when hearing the name of the bear, making her cringe even more.
"The bear is busy." Roxanne turns to her and crouches down, staying at the same height as her "Give Gatorade a chance, he's trying to apologize for what happened, he won't hurt you."
"You sure?" She looks at the alligator in the corner, who puffs with the question.
"Of course. If he does anything, call me and I'll break his legs and we'll run, deal?" She nods, still a little apprehensive.
Roxanne gets up and faces Montgomery, Sharon slowly leaves behind the wolf and is in front of the alligator.
"Are you ready for the tour?" He extends his hand, trying a less "aggressive" approach. Afraid, Sharon extends her hand and places it on top of the animatronic, who closes his fingers and makes her hand disappear. Sometimes she forgot how big and imposing the Plex's star animatronics were.
Seeing that now everything was fine, Roxanne says goodbye and returns to her green room, letting the two of them do the tour, but the alligator knew that she would be spying on them with those bizarre eyes of hers the whole time.
Ignoring the anger he felt at no one trusting him, he started walking, leading Sharon, who was still visibly nervous in his presence.
The two stop in front of Montgomery's green room, he clears his throat as if clearing his non-existent throat.
"Well, starting the… Uh, tour, and while we're here, this is Rockstar Row, where all the band's green rooms are." He starts, indicating each green room "But you already know here, don't you?"
"Well, Chica often takes me to her green room, and besides, I only know Freddy's green room from the inside." She says, nervously, until she sees the darkened glass of Montgomery's green room "I've always wondered why your green room is the only one we can't see."
"Ah, well…" he looks around, looking for an excuse "You know, I'm a rockstar, I like my privacy, haha."
"Really? I thought it had something to do with you throwing tantrums and breaking your parts all the time."
"N-no! It has nothing to do with it!" He widens his eyes, totally nervous. He was definitely lying.
Seeing the alligator's obvious nervousness, Sharon ends up smiling.
"I will pretend to believe." She remembers all the times she heard Kyle complaining about having to fix his endoskeleton, which were not few. The fact makes her momentarily forget that she was scared of Montgomery.
"It is the truth! My room is completely organized!" This brings out more laughs from her, making him huff.
"So we could get inside now?"
"NO!" He roars, making her back up a little. Seeing that he had scared her, he immediately regrets it "I-I didn't want to yell at you and…"
"Never mind, let's get on with this tour, my break doesn't last that long." She interrupts him, keeping a neutral expression.
"O-ok…" he scolds himself when he sees her turn around, waiting for him to take the lead.
He would have to watch his temper more from that moment on, otherwise it would send her running before he could apologize.
"Where are we going?" Her voice pulls him out of his thoughts.
"Well, one of the quickest ways to access the attractions would be through the Service Tunnels." He begins, taking the lead and heading towards the tunnels.
"Yes, but Freddy doesn't like me walking there alone." She says, following him.
"Huh? Why?"
"I don't know, he talked about "dangerous things", but he never went into detail or explained."
"Nonsense. The tunnels are not dangerous at all, they are made to facilitate movement between attractions, if they are there, they must be used." He puffs "Freddy is very annoying with everything."
"Yes, but to avoid another crisis of him calling me every three minutes, I don't use the tunnels."
"Is that why you're always yelling that you're late?"
"Yea…"
He couldn't believe that she simply complied with the bear's absurd order, it only harmed her!
"I'll show you that there's no problem in the tunnels, it will save you having to run all over the Plex." He speaks with conviction, the two entering the tunnels.
"If Freddy finds out about this, he'll complain."
"Screw the bear, if he comes to pick a fight with you, I'll beat him up!" That makes her look at the alligator.
"You don't like Freddy?"
"No, he uses this facade of caring about everyone but he only cares about that boy and keeps projecting it onto everyone."
"Boy?" Montgomery opens his mouth, but notes that he was talking about something the public does not know.
"Yeah… Well… You know…" he starts looking around, as if to help him with some idea. Seeing that nothing comes up, he sighs and stops, crouching down and staying at the same height as her "Look, can you pretend I didn't say anything? Let's just say this is confidential information and no one should know."
"Do I lose my job if I say something?"
"What? Y-yes, most likely." He gets confused for a moment.
"My lips are sealed." Her attitude leaves him thoughtful, it seemed that her job was very important to her "Could you just tell me why Freddy projects?"
With a sigh, Montgomery gets up and starts walking, she following closely, already inside the tunnels.
"He made the boy his protégé, helped him in moments… Dangerous. After the boy left, the bear became overprotective of every human that came near him, it gets on my nerves." The alligator lets out a growl.
"That explains why he keeps bugging me when I get hurt." She becomes thoughtful.
A sound draws the attention of the two, they stop and look where it had come from.
"What was that?" Sharon asks, the two go to the place and they see only a head of STAFF Bot on the ground.
"I think someone lost their head." Montgomery takes the head, looking at her smiling. Seeing that she didn't react, he huffs and puts the head in the disposal machine.
"What is that?" Sharon comes close and crouches, looking at something on the floor.
What was on the floor was something green and pink, the color completely faded, it looked sticky and slimy.
"Hmmm, looks like a… Piece of stale cake?" Montgomery gets confused "My scans must be malfunctioning…"
"No, you're right. Look over there, it's mold. I think it was a chocolate cake…" she looks at the piece "In my school days my teacher brought a moldy four-year-old cake for class, it looked like this. The question is, why is there a piece of cake on the floor in the middle of the tunnels?"
"The cleaning service is lazy." She stares at the alligator "What? It's a joke."
"I know." She smiles "I don't have anything to clean it with, but I'll tell one of the Bots later to clean it up here."
"L-let me call!" He takes the lead.
"Oh, thank you." she smiles more and gets up "Shall we continue the tour?"
Montgomery nods, extending his hand, more timidly this time, which Sharon takes.
"And now we're on the best attraction ever!" Montgomery announces, puffing out his chest, proud. They were in front of Monty's Gator Golf, the last attraction Sharon had yet to visit.
"Really?" Sharon stares at him. He wasn't that excited when he showed the other attractions.
"Really! We have a swamp in there. And mini golf! And lots of alligators!" He makes big movements with his arms, looking like a very excited child, which makes her laugh.
"I thought anyone who liked mini golf was a nerd."
"What? Who told you this? Was it Roxy? Sounds like her." He is at first incredulous, then growls.
"No, it wasn't her. Is someone from the internet." She laughs "But don't worry, I'm a nerd according to Roxy, so I like mini golf." She winks at the alligator, who stays still for a moment "Shall we go?" She extends her hand.
"O-Of course!" He accepts and the two go through the wooden doors with hanging vines, entering the attraction.
The first thing Sharon notices are the lights and alligators.
"Wow! This really looks like a swamp!" She exclaims, running to the wards and looking at the entire attraction "There's water running! That must be pretty hard to maintain!" She laughs.
"Well, the employees really aren't happy when they have to go in the water to retrieve the golf balls." Montgomery arrives beside her, who laughs more.
"Well, I can't disagree with you, this attraction is really amazing!"
"Better than Roxy's?"
"Hmm, I'm still not sure." She talks jokingly, but the animatronic is serious.
"I know how to change your mind. Come with me."
"O-okay." She agrees and the alligator goes ahead, going down the stairs and guiding her through the place to an area with tables.
"Monty's Gator Grub? Do you have themed food?" She asks looking at the sign. Montgomery already opening the door to the venue.
"Sure, we all do." She enters, there were two people and a STAFF Bot there, who stare at them curiously "She's with me, she's a mechanic." He tells them, they nod and go back to work. "Come."
"Going!" She follows the alligator, who opens another door and the two find themselves in a long corridor. As they round the end of the hall, she sees two doors.
"Here is the security office, any problem, just come here." He indicates, passing through the door and entering a small corridor with the doors with the security symbol "But my objective is this." Beside the office, there was another door, which Montgomery enters, with Sharon following.
The door reveals stairs, and the two climb them. When they reach the top, Montgomery opens the door and Sharon finds herself on catwalks suspended over the attraction.
"Before the fire, it was more difficult to access these, but after some complaints, they built the stairs." He explains "It's my favorite place ever."
"Oh, if it's such an important place, I don't think it should be here and…" she interrupts as her arms are held by Montgomery, who guides her to the center of the suspended pathway.
"Look over there." He points to where a large alligator head was, and Sharon looks.
The scenery makes her awestruck, the whole atmosphere, lights and ambient sound really was amazing.
"So, is the kart still better?" The alligator's question makes her laugh.
"Okay, you won, golf is better." That makes him puff out his chest proudly. "You just brought me here to convince me you're better than Roxy?"
"Yeah, well, no, of course not!" He gets embarrassed, making her laugh "The truth is…"
"What?" She tries to encourage him when she sees that he has stopped.
With a sigh, he takes her hands and makes her sit, doing the same, leaving his legs over the catwalk, and indicates for her to do the same. With a shrug, she does the same, finding it fun to be like that.
Montgomery tries to say something but fails. Seeing that he was nervous, she took his hand.
"You don't have to force yourself to say anything." She smiles, trying to calm him down.
"Well, the truth is…" He looks around, until he makes the sound of taking a deep breath "Look, I've been trying to apologize all week."
"Apologize? For what?" She stares at him, completely confused.
"For this." He points to her head, which had only a bandage now.
"My head? Huh?" She touches her head, still confused.
"Your wound. I threw a golf club at your head, you forgot?"
"Oooh, I really forgot. I don't even feel pain, then I usually forget." She laughs "Is that why you chased me all over the Plex?"
"Uh, well… Yes…" he is embarrassed.
"You know, I had the impression that you were a scary robot that wanted to, I don't know, devour me." She starts, looking at the people playing mini golf "You ran in a threatening way, screamed and destroyed the STAFF Bots, in addition to the reputation of being dangerous." Her comment makes him shrink a little "When Roxy said you were going to guide me, I was scared to death!" She laughs "But after spending this time with you, I understood that you are just misunderstood. A guy who plays mean but is cute on the inside." She ends up smiling at him.
"I-I-I-I'm not cute!" He protests, embarrassed. He opens his mouth to protest further.
"I accept your apology, too, it's already something in the past. How about we be friends?" She interrupts him.
"F-friends?"
"Yes, just like I am with everyone else. We can spend time together on my breaks. You could teach me how to play mini golf." She smiles.
Montgomery stares at her.
This was not at all what he expected.
"I-it would be nice…" He murmurs, looking away, embarrassed.
"Let's leave the past in the past. Friends?" She extends her hand to him, who stares at it.
Before starting that tour, she barely had the courage to reach out to him, always afraid. When he held it out, she always accepted it warily, with fear in her eyes. However, halfway through the tour he noticed that she began to feel more at ease, and now she was holding out her hand without showing any fear.
Now it was his turn to extend his hand with some trepidation.
No, she was willing to be his friend, he shouldn't be afraid to accept her hand.
With more conviction, he takes her hand, sealing the friendship between the two.
She smiles, he does the same.
"Who knew, now I'm friends with the stars of the Plex." She laughs.
"Don't let it go to your head." He laughs.
"I don't care about that, I just thought it was funny. Besides, if I let it go to my head, the DJ already has my permission to talk sense out of me."
"Wait, the DJ? Are you talking about DJ Music Man? The big guy?" He looks at her in disbelief. During the tour the DJ was on his break, so the two didn't see the big animatronic.
"Yes. We are friends, he gives me rides through the tunnels when I have to go there and fix a Bot." That just makes him even more incredulous.
"How did you do? He never let anyone near him but Freddy."
"Hmm, maybe the secret is to faint in front of him?" She gets thoughtful and then laughs when she sees the alligator's confused face "That's what happened when I saw him for the first time." She laughs "After I understood that he was a host, I apologized for the fiasco and we became friends. He texts me from time to time." She finishes.
"You are kidding me."
"I'm not, that's what happened!" She laughs at him "You can ask him!"
"As if he will speak to me." He snorts.
"How about the next time I visit him, we go together and he proves that what I said is true?"
"Ha, I just want to see huh!"
The two stare at each other for a few seconds, before bursting into laughter.
Montgomery looks at her while laughing, so that feeling was like having a friend.
"Thanks." He murmurs.
"For what?" She asks.
"Nothing." He looks away, making her raise an eyebrow.
"Can you just promise me one thing?"
"What?"
"Don't chase me around the Plex like that anymore, okay?"
The two stare at each other until they burst out laughing.
"I swear I won't do it anymore!" The two continue to laugh.
Yeah, it definitely felt good to have a friend.
Montgomery's tail wags, reflecting his happiness.