"So now we just… wait?" Atem asked, staring at the gate set up. They had reinforced it with other supplies from the hardware store, now that they didn't care about getting yelled at by management. Worst case scenario Yugi got fired and Atem paid for the damages.

Yugi checked his phone for the time as he picked up the tablet, "Yup. It's only 10:30."

"Yugi now is not the time for Angry Birds."

"It's the camera monitor! Gosh if I wanted to play stupid app games I'd use my phone." Yugi glared at him, knowing Atem only made the joke because he knew how much Yugi hated mobile games. They hinged on getting you addicted enough to come back to play for five minutes every six hours or pay a ridiculous fee just to play for another five minutes. That's not how he liked to play games.

He flipped through a few rooms, unable to find his friends.

"Yugi," Atem's voice drew his attention, and his hand drew his attention to the doorway. There stood Toy Chika, Foxy and Lady Foxy, and Yugi watched as they struggled to have their spirits appear sooner than 11PM, "Yugi! We got the mask you wanted!" Chichi's animatronic held out its arm, where a hallowed out Fazbear mask hung. Yugi flipped off the generator and pushed the gate up and graciously accepted the mask, "Thank you guys so much!"

"You're welcome! Now get back behind the gate, everyone will be awake soon."

Yugi scurried back and re-secured the gate, "By the way, Chichi, I'm really curious- you and, maybe Zephyr got damaged last night, didn't you? How are you better already?"

"I've been taken apart and put back together enough times, I know how our bodies work," Takeshi replied. "Now that I can think straight, I can actually use that knowledge. I can't ever stay Mangled again!" He laughed proudly.

"Wow that's amazing, Takeshi!" Yugi exclaimed.

"Yeah, I know!" Takeshi puffed out his chest, but it was then that Chichi took the conversation back, "So what's the plan?"

"There's still seven left, so-"

"Eight."

"What?"

"There are eight animatronics left."

"Really? Two Bonnies, Three Freddys, Chika, and the Marionette…"

"And Balloon Boy."

"Balloon Boy? I've never seen-" "The Balloon Boy some how disabled the battery!" James's voice rang out in his memory.

"He disabled your electric fence…" Chichi hung her head in shame. "The Marionette was very angry with you after you saved Zephyr and me, so he sent Balloon Boy in. He can't physically do much, but he's good at messing with electronics."

"You mentioned that the Marionette was angry before, why would he be angry? Is this not what he wanted of me?"

Chichi was silent as a few tears began to pour down her cheeks, "I thought he was my friend… He said this isn't the salvation he wanted for us. He was worried we'd lose our connection to this world- he was worried we'd forget why we're here and leave. He wants us to all just stay here and keep killing, even though it's never going to give him his life or his mother back! It won't give any of us anything back!" She was sobbing now. Zephyr placed his hand on her shoulder and continued for her, "He's angry that we're ready to move on. He wants revenge on the guy who killed us and got away with it thirty-some-odd years ago. It never occurred to anyone that the guy would be so much older than anybody hired for the night watch, if he's even still alive. We know he was arrested, but we don't know what happened after that. That's not exactly something you talk about at a birthday party."

"We may have to save him for last, then. He is locked in the basement, correct?" Atem chimed in.

"No, the door was busted off its hinges last night." Zephyr replied. Yugi pushed back the image of it, and of that horrific smell hitting him for the first time.

"Can he move at all?" Atem's voice broke through the memory.

"Not a circuit. He kept yelling at me to fix him, but I'm not going to help someone who's yelling at me!" Takeshi folded his arms and looked angry.

"Oh but, we might be able to calm him down?" Chichi offered, wiping the tears off her face.

"How?" Yugi asked.

"There used to be a music box the night watch would play for him. It played a lullaby, he loved it so much that he'd stay in his box so long as he could hear it."

"A lullaby? Any particular one?" Yugi questioned as Atem pulled out his phone. Chichi began to hum what she could remember of the melody. A few moments later, it began to play a music box version of My Grandfather's Clock.

"That's it!" Chichi exclaimed, amazed. Atem made sure the electrical current wasn't running through the gate and handed them the phone through the space in the metal, "Take this to the Marionette. I doubt he will want to talk, and it will be very difficult to get through to him with seven others chasing us. But if this will give him some comfort, I want him to have it."

Takeshi stepped forward and took it with Lady Foxy's hand. He must have learned to use them extremely well while repairing his friends.

"What if the song ends?" Yugi asked as Takeshi walked away.

"It's on repeat. The battery should hold out until the end of the night."

"Okay… So-"

Yugi was interrupted by another voice, "Chika what's going on here?"

Chichi and Zephyr turned, and past them Yugi and Atem could see the remnants of Toy Freddy fade into a young girl with light brown short, almost boyish hair wearing a gray hoodie and baggy blue jeans with white untied sneakers. She was older than the other children, and seemed to be chewing something.

"There's no Chika here." Chichi replied.

"Fine. Chichi. Whatever. What are you doing? I know we do a lot of staring, but you're actually talking to the adults?"

Yugi decided to cut in, "Hi there, I'm Yugi!"

"I'm devoid of fucks to give. Nice to meet you. Not."

I wasn't expecting a 90s joke out of them… "We're just trying to do our job is all. We just don't wanna get killed in the process…" Yugi forced a laugh.

"Yeah? Why not? You guys seem to be such good friends, why not join us? I've got a suit with your name on it." Her face cracked into a wry smile, and her eyes seemed to glow red all of a sudden.

Yugi wanted to jump out of his skin, and he felt the blood leave his face. The image of James in the Freddy suit sparked into his mind once more.

Atem's voice broke into his thoughts, "We appreciate the offer, but no thank you. We were actually thinking that you might like to join us?"

"Join you? Why would I do that?"

"Chichi, Zephyr and Takeshi seem pretty happy with themselves. Are you happy the way you are?"

"Sure. Why not. Possessing an animatronic male bear was a goal I always aspired towards."

"You could get a new start like your friends here, if you want it." Atem kept his cool the whole time, but on the inside he was praying that he was going about this the right way. She eyed him carefully before glancing at Chichi and Zephyr. Atem now realized that what she was chewing was bubble gum, because she chose now to blow a rather large bubble until it popped and deflated onto her chin. She used her fingers to push it back into her mouth before finally responding, "…Can my name be Riley?"

"Of course. I like that name for you." Atem smiled warmly.

"Cool. Now what?"

"Now you've just got to remember why you're trapped inside Toy Freddy, and let it go."

Riley chewed her gum some more, then blew another large bubble. She was obviously in thought. "So like… I have to forgive my idiot friends for telling me that sneaking in here after hours was a good idea? And forgive them for screaming like morons when we found the asshole that did this in the middle of doing it, running away and getting me caught?"

"Yes. I doubt they were trying to get you killed. They let their fear get the better of them, and it cost you your life… I'm sure they felt awful, imagine being one of them."

"They didn't even try to come back for me!"

"Are you sure about that? And would you, if you had gotten away? After what you saw?"

"Hell yeah I-" She stopped herself. After a moment, her body relaxed, "You're right. We were just a bunch of stupid kids trying to be cool. I'm not sure if I'd even be able to bring myself to tell the police about it, because that would be admitting that I did something I wasn't supposed to… That alone means I have no right to hold it against them. …God what the fuck is it about you guys that lets me use reasoning all of a sudden? I'm starting to feel all mushy…"

Atem brought his arm up in front of his face when the girl began to shine brightly. When it calmed down, he noticed the Eye of Wdjat on her forehead.

"Wow… I really didn't think I could ever feel this good." She smiled, "Thank you."

Atem nodded, "You did this for yourself, you deserve to feel good."

"Hooray Riley! Welcome to the team!" Chichi exclaimed happily, and ran over for a hug. "Hey, Goody-Two-Shoes! Cut that out!" Riley squirmed out of the hug. "You know I hate that!"

Chichi giggled in response, "I'm just so happy for us! Let's go find the Bonnies! Be right back guys!"

"Ah, hold on! Everyone!" Yugi tried to call after them, but the children were too excited to listen. Yugi had hoped at least one of them would stay and play bodyguard. And he was getting worried about Takeshi, he hadn't come back from the basement yet…

Yugi decided to check the cameras. He finally found Takeshi in one of the halls not too far from the basement. He seemed to be talking to Chika, although without being able to see his spirit he couldn't even guess at what they were talking about. He didn't seem to have Atem's phone anymore.

"I need to go find Takeshi." Yugi decided aloud. He handed Atem the tablet and moved for the gate, "Yugi, don't. We promised we wouldn't leave this room unless we absolutely had to."

"He could be in trouble."

"He's fine, you can see him on the camera here. He's just standing there with Chika."

"They've gotten into fights before… I don't want him to end up like Chichi or Zephyr."

"Yugi, he said it himself earlier, he can just fix himself up. Will you stop fiddling with the gate and talk to me?"

Yugi already had the gate unbolted enough to slip under, "Don't worry. I've got my taser, I'll wear the mask. I'll be fine."

Atem rushed over and unbolted more of the gate, but by the time he undid enough of it for himself to get under Yugi was already gone. "Dammit Yugi," Atem swore aloud. He started towards where he remembered the bathrooms being, but heard a robotic noise behind him. He threw on his Freddy mask and turned around, flashlight ready. It was actually too dark to see anything this far from the office, so he decided to turn it on and had his hand on his taser, halfway taking it out of his pocket. He couldn't find anything though. He placed the taser back in is pocket and lifted the mask up off his head as he turned around and came face-to-face with Bonnie. He stared into Bonnie's glowing white endoskeleton eyes. He took a split second to wonder what happened to his actual eyes, before realizing he didn't actually care at the moment.

Atem very rarely felt fear so raw that he couldn't think rationally. He heard the mechanical sound of movement and quickly took about five steps back, now able to see that Bonnie had moved its arms to grab him. "Hello." He squeaked. He'd never heard his voice crack before. There was no spirit child to be seen. Yugi hadn't known how to get the spirit to actually show up, his only explanation was that it happens when they're ready.

Bonnie began to move towards him again, and Atem turned around praying that he could make it back under the gate in time.

But there was the dark figure of another bunny standing in front of the office gate.

He was trapped. His eyes kept scanning the room, his mind running through any and all possible escape routes. The scenario for each quickly played out in his head.

None of them ended well.

He was too terrified to even scream.

Yugi's lungs began to burn from running. He really wished he had learned how to navigate these stupid halls.

Finally he came up behind Takeshi, who was talking to a little girl. Yugi guessed that she couldn't have been any older than five. She wore a light yellow blouse and a light yellow floral-patterned skirt with white ballet-styled shoes. She had vibrant red, curly hair that reached halfway down her back and bangs that covered the top half of her large blue eyes. Yugi could swear that she was a doll, she even had the creepy-blank-stare factor.

"I thought we all liked to play dress up." She said, probably in response to the last thing Takeshi had said.

"No, not anymore. We've hurt a lot of people. I don't want to do that anymore. I don't think any of us truly do." Takeshi answered.

"I still have lotsa fun with it. Mary says the next one is mine." Her voice was monotone. It chilled Yugi to the bone.

"The Marionette doesn't know what's best for us anymore. There was a time when he looked out for all of us, but that time has passed. Now he just likes killing, and watching the killing. It's not right."

"The Purple Man dressed me up really pretty. I still want to dress him up too."

"The Purple Man is long gone. He probably rotted in a cell somewhere. We don't have to be afraid of him anymore."

"We don't have to be afraid of anyone. We just play dress up. Right… Purple Man?" The girl turned her head and looked directly at Yugi. Takeshi turned around and realized Yugi was standing there, "No! I know his eyes are a similar color but we can't even remember what part of that guy was purple! Yugi wouldn't harm a fly!"

"I want to dress you up like Bonnie!" Her face split into a smile that didn't reach her wide, now crimson eyes as she started running at Yugi. Before he could react Takeshi grabbed the Chika animatronic, stopping the little girl from advancing further. "Let me go! I wanna play dress up!"

"Yugi, run!" Takeshi shouted, but Yugi felt as if his feet had frozen to the floor. He only managed to stutter, "Ah, Annabelle."

The girl stopped struggling for a moment and stared at him. Yugi closed his eyes, since they apparently bothered her.

"Do you like the name Annabelle?"

He didn't get a response, and was afraid to open his eyes.

"I will call you Annabelle until you tell me not to. I understand you like to play dress up? Putting people into deadly suits is not dress up. It's murder. But if you want, you don't have to kill anyone ever again. You could forgive the Purple Man, and pass on. And wherever you go, you'll be able to play real dress up, with clothes and make up and other girls your age who love to dress up. Doesn't that sound fun?"

Silence. Yugi didn't dare open his eyes. He prayed that Takeshi was able to keep his grip on the girl, should she decide she didn't like Yugi's idea.

After what felt like an eternity he got an answer, "I wanna play dress up with dresses. I'm tired of the same old dress up. Okay, Purple Man. You don't matter at all anymore. I just want to finally play with my dolls again."

Through his closed eyelids Yugi could see the light shine from the girl. He opened them and revealed to himself another spirit bearing the Eye of Wdjat on her forehead. Yugi smiled at her, "If you'd like, you can move on without your friends. They won't be mad."

The girl looked up at Takeshi, who smiled and nodded. The girl responded by shaking her head, "I wanna help, like Taka!"

Takeshi laughed, "What is it with you and cute nicknames?"

"I'ma cute girl! Plus your name is so hard…"

Takeshi and Yugi chuckled. Yugi walked over to her and held out his hand, "My name is Yugi."

"That one's easy! Hi Yugi!" She reached out and shook his hand.

"Come on, let's go find my friend! I'm sure he's worried about me." Yugi smiled, and lead the both of them back to the main hall.

Atem held his hand on the taser, staring at Toy Bonnie through the eyes of the Fazbear mask. He began flashing the light at Toy Bonnie by the gate, while turning to Bonnie. Through the mask he could see that he had put it on too late- they knew who he was, and they were coming for him.

He pushed the mask up onto his hair and smiled the warmest smile he could muster, "Hey- hi, uhm, hello." His voice cracked a few more times before he finally found it again, "My name is Atem. I'm friends with Chichi, Zephyr, Takeshi, and now Riley. My friend Yugi and I just want you guys to be able to pass on and find peace. Wouldn't it be nice to get out of a place like this for once? Forget for once- you could do it for forever if you really wanted!" He hated his own rambling, a desperate attempt to beg for his life without saying so outright. It didn't suit him.

But he had never been at the mercy of anything so potentially outright violent and unreasonable before. He had never had an opponent that wanted to directly kill him for the sake of killing him, he always had a chance of winning the game and getting out of it.

But the animatronics weren't playing a game.

Unsure if James and Yugi had lied or if something else was going on, the flashlight didn't affect Toy Bonnie at all. If anything it had provoked the bunny into running at him. He jumped out of the way and watched him stumble and fall after missing his target. Atem ran for the gate, but felt the wind leave his throat when the force of his collar being pulled back choked him. He twisted to see over his shoulder. Bonnie had a firm grip on his shirt. Atem tried to slip his head out of the hole to remove the shirt, but the way Bonnie was holding it didn't allow him any room to do so. He jammed his hand into his pocket for his taser, but dropped it in his haste when he should have tried to have a firm grip on it first. What the fuck is wrong with me? He cried to himself. He writhed around and tried to look Bonnie in the endoskeleton eyes again.

"I can give you a name if you'd like, too? Do you like the name Robin?"

Nothing moved for a full minute. Atem began to wonder what happened to Toy Bonnie, but he couldn't see much from where he was and didn't dare try. Finally, a boy with buzz cut brown hair manifested near Bonnie. He wore a torn and bloodied faded white tank top and dark blue basketball shorts. Atem couldn't see his shoes from where he was.

"Yeah, that's a cool name. Is it really gonna help us get out of here though?" The child stared up skeptically.

"Y-yeah, the only reason the other four are still here is because they don't want to leave without everyone else. I'm sure you guys have become very good friends during your stay together."

"Yeah, not like we have a choice…"

"Well, they had the choice. And they stayed for you."

"We heard what we have to do though. We're not sure we're ready for that."

"Why not?"

"We're simply still angry."

"At who?"

"The Purple Man."

"Purple Man?"

"The guy who did this to us. We realize we may never have revenge, or even justice. But we're still angry."

"Well that's not going to do you any good, is it?"

"It's not about doing us any good."

Atem felt his feet come up off the ground, and his shirt began to choke him worse now that he hung there. He reached up and dug his fingers in between his shirt and neck, trying to allow himself some way to keep his air passage open. He gasped for air. His brain scrambled to find words that might convince the child to put him back down, "They don't want to leave without you," he choked out, "So if you stay here… you're keeping them too… You don't want to do… that to them, do you?"

"I didn't ask them to."

"What about… your friend? Can I call him… Morgan?"

"I'm a girl… Lucky you that's a unisex name."

"I apologize… I can't see the best right now," Atem forced a laugh harder than he ever had before.

"That's understandable. Bonnie, should you really be doing that? You're wasting time, and he could die before we even get him into the suit."

"Yeah, but… this is kinda fun… Why did we never try anything new before?"

"Those are the Marionette's rules. Although I suppose he never said they had to be alive for the suit…"

Don't tell me you were the sort of children that tortured small animals for fun… Atem gasped for air again, to no avail. His vision began to fade, and the voices of the children became muffled. He thought of Yugi wandering around this place with these psychopaths walking around, and allowed the thought to force his senses back online.

"Don't you want to see your… families again? Old friends? Pets? Don't you want to do something... besides wait for people to come… around to kill? Play sports? Go outside? Video games?"

He listened as the children began to discuss it, every second stealing his consciousness from him. Trying to talk had made it even harder to stay awake.

"I do miss video games."

"I quite miss being able to play basketball with my dad."

"We may not find your dad where we're going."

"Eeh he'd end up there eventually. And we could keep each other company until then."

"That actually sounds like a lot of fun. Can we really just stop being angry though?"

"Well, we just stopped being happy, right?"

"We were killed!" the speaker laughed.

"Yeah, but my point is, we can take control of what we want out of life. Er, death. I think Atem here is right, it's time we do just that."

"Good point. Okay, the Marionette can keep killing to himself. I'll be happy being happy for once in my death."

Atem only saw the bright lights for a second before everything went pitch black.