You briskly walk towards the restaurant, the cool air flowing around you. You wish you had brought a jumper, but the interviewer had said that the building was heated, so you had thought against it. Cars drive past on the highway that winds straight past the restaurant, speeding past too fast to register in your sleepy eyes. You look up and see a massive neon sign, picturing a lion and underneath the words "Alpha's pizzeria" in big, red cursive letters.
You walk inside and notice an immediate lack of heating. Great. You quietly walk around the pizzeria, familiarizing yourself with the layout of the restaurant. It seems to have a doorway cut off in a back room, evident by the lack of wallpaper. You wonder away from that area and find three animatronics on show stage. The tallest of the group is the lion, who you realize is Alpha. He dwarfs you in size, but the next one over from him is even taller and looks slightly...evil. His claws seem way too sharp for a pizzeria. You look over at the other person standing beside Alpha, a cat. She looks okay, being an animatronic. You walk down to the other end of the dining hall and find a curtained off area. You pull back the curtain and find a mess of wires and metallic limbs. On closer inspection you realize that it seems to somewhat humanoid.
"Must be repairing him or something" you say as you walk away. You walk down the hallway to a flickering light of the office. You silently sit in the office as the clock on the desk ticks to 12. This, your boss told you, is when your first shift in Alphas Pizzeria starts. You are just a night guard, checking cameras to make sure that no one breaks inside the pizzeria. Suddenly a phone starts ringing from somewhere. You can't seem to find where the source of the sound is coming from when it answers itself.
"Uh Hello? Hello! Welcome to Alphas Pizzeria! Congratulations for getting the job as a night guard. I don't have a lot of time to explain everything to you tonight, but just know this, if anyone, or anything, is at your door, press the door button. If you can't see them on camera, then check your door light to see if they are there. Other than that, have a great first night on the job!" the recording cuts out.
You start to freak out. What did he mean anything in your doors? You check the cameras a notice something is wrong. The lion, from show stage, it's gone to the dining hall. A scream escapes your lips and you drop the tablet. It drops to the floor with a sickening crunch.
You quickly pick it back up and notice a crack spread from one side to the other. Uh-oh. You check the dining hall and now the lion is LOOKING at the camera. You carefully look outside the doorway and see the silhouette of a lion at the end of the hall.
You quickly close the door and sit in the office waiting for him to go up to the door. You feel sweat drip down your head and onto your shirt. This is the most frightened you have ever been
"Knock, knock" That's the lion, knocking.
"Let me in night guard" the lion says.
"Just... go away! I'm quitting after this night anyway! Just let me live!" you tell the lion.
"I'm sorry to burst your bubble then." a voice says behind you. You turn around a see a wolf with a devilish grin behind you. You scream and jump away from him, curling up in a ball underneath the desk.
"Pathetic..." he says as he roughly grabs you before unlocking the door and letting the lion in.
"Ha! I win again!" the wolf taunts the lion.
"Only cause she wasn't paying attention to you." the lion tells the wolf. You slowly start to get away from them as they seem preoccupied with each other. You get to the doorway before the lion spots you.
"She's trying to get away! Get her!" the lion roars at you. You sprint down the hallway and run into another one of these animatronics.
"OH COME ON!" HOW MANY OF THESE ANIMATRONICS ARE THERE!" you scream at the new animatronic in front of you. He looks to be a golden version of the lion chasing you. Except for the fact he is missing an arm piece has seems perfectly normal.
"Got you, night guard!" he tells before he grabs you with his working arm. You struggle and get free before running away into what seems like a kitchen.
"Hey Night Guard!" a meerkat tells you.
"Get away from me!" you scream at the meerkat.
"Don't worry, I'm friendly!" he tells you.
"I don't believe you!" you tell the Meerkat before running away.
"Wait!" you hear the meerkat tell you before you are out of the kitchen and into the dining hall. You feel a large paw grab you and you hear a deep laugh behind you.
"You didn't think you could escape from us, IN our own restaurant, did you?" the lion says behind you. His grip tightens and he drags you to the Parts and Service room.
"What are you going to do to me?" you ask the group of animatronics around you. You note that the Meerkat isn't there.
"Well, we are going to stuff you inside a suit, because you don't seem to be wearing the correct uniform." he says and you look down at your plain white t-shirt and blue jeans.
"Can I come back tomorrow in the correct uniform?" you ask him.
"Nah, you would just quit. Anyway," he says as he grabs the suit, "Let's get stuffing"
All you feel is pain for a while afterwards, then nothing.
For eternity.