Night 2

After what seemed ages of unbearable lectures and classwork a few days after the incident at the pizzeria, Liam returns back to his dorm exhausted. It is habit that he turns his phone back on after having it turned off for class. Following this habit, Liam takes his phone out of his pocket and turns it on. Also out of habit, he collapses onto his bed and lays the phone on a nightstand next to the bed.

After what seemed like at least 30 seconds, the phone vibrates.

"'New Voice Mail.' Probably just Mom wanting to know how the new job is."

Liam starts the playback of the voice mail, and the voice that begins to speak is not that of Liam's mom.

"HELLO?! Helloooooo? Oh. That was a beep. Whenever you listen to this message Liam, you need to know that we need you here this afternoon. Our animatronic Balloon Boy is now malfunctioning, and we'd like to have someone to fix him. Since you happen to be the only mechanic open right now, we need you here at 7 pm tonight. Don't dilly-dally around now. It'd be a shame if you got here late! Alright. That's all I got. See yah!"

"Shit." Liam was highly upset. It was Friday afternoon, and Liam had planned on doing nothing but chilling in his dorm for the remainder of the day, but that plan has been discarded now that Liam had been summoned to the land of crazy robots.

Liam takes a glance at the digital clock on his nightstand. The clock read 4 pm. "Great. It takes me around 30 minutes to get down there. At most, I could nap for 30 minutes. There's no point in that. I'll go ahead and head down there, even if I'm early." He puts his phone back into his pocket, grabs his car keys, and heads out the door.

The drive was long and tiresome. Having already been exhausted, Liam had to turn his radio up to insane volumes just to stay awake. After arriving at the place, Liam steps out of his car and lets out an enormous yawn.

The pizzeria had just closed when he got there. Parents alongside their kids were exiting the building. Tears could be seen running down some of the children's faces. Liam overheard one of these children.

"Why do we have to leave mommy? It was so fun listening to the animals!"

The mother had an exhausted look on her face as she replied, "The animals need to rest, sweetie. They can't do this all night."

Liam chuckled a bit and then stepped into the building. Liam was a bit more comfortable than the last time he stepped into the building this time. The place was brighter than before considering the sun was still out.

He went to the show stage. Luckily, the tool bag from the last time he was there was still where he had left it. Liam found it very surprising that it was able to stay there for the past few days and manage to go untampered with by kids.

Then it dawned on him. Liam had no idea where this Balloon Boy animatronic is at or what it even looks like. "It has to be called 'Balloon Boy' for a reason. I'll just look for balloons," Liam thought to himself. Liam looked around the room with the show stage.

Balloon Boy wasn't in that room sadly, and Liam let out a long sigh as he put on a headset that was attached into his cassette player. He started an Aerosmith tape that blared 'Dude Looks Like a Lady' and glared at Toy Bonnie in particularly and mouthed out the words "He means you."

He continued to wander through the pizzeria. He checked all the party rooms and the office he was dragged to by the girl from the other day when he decided to use the cameras to and look. He was very freaked out to see that the animatronic he had to fix was in the parts and the repair room with extremely disturbing and creepy looking ones.

"Ah, man. This sucks," he groaned while skulking off toward the destination of his nightmares. He was not looking forward to meeting these, but he figured it would be better to now since that is where parts for the others probably come from now.

He cringed as the door creaked open. He saw Balloon Boy seemingly staring at him from beside withered Chica. All of the old animatronics gave Liam a very sick feeling inside like he was being thoroughly examined upon entry to the room.

He shivered as he made his way to Balloon Boy. It was eerily quiet when a voice sounded, "Hello."

Liam screamed. It wasn't loud enough to get the attention of anyone still at the pizzeria, but it was enough to get the child animatronic to giggle.

"Are you laughing at me?" Liam gasped out as the animatronic never ceased its laughter. He cracked his back open and started messing with wires. "How is it not your voice box messed up? You won't be quiet. I can hear you over my music. I think it is your legs. Why didn't they just tell me the problem."

He dipped his hand into his tool bag and groaned as he realized something was missing. He yawned and figured he probably dropped it on the way there. He glanced over at the withered animatronics. They weren't so scary after you get over the missing limbs, messed up faces, and overall mess up ness.

He decided that just for a minute he would lean against the wall and close his eyes then go find that tool. He did just that. Unfortunately his eyes didn't open until much later.

-Time passes-

Liam woke to the feeling of something heavy plowing into him. A muffled 'ughf' sound escaped his lips as his eyes abruptly opened to see Balloon Boy laying across him. That wasn't the most terrifying bit though. That was the sight of four other animatronics staring over them. Liam tried to stay extra quiet.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Balloon Boy. I didn't see you the-," the animatronic bear stopped his words when he turned to see the younger animatronic laid over Liam. Although it somewhat looked like he was holding him down. Liam assumed Freddy had actually knocked over the child animatronic that now covered him.

"Well it looks like the young lad finally decided to strike on his own," Foxy said. Liam's thoughts were Holy crap these things talk off their programmed scripts and are plotting against me. "Let's let him be for this."

All of the other animatronics seemed to agree as they started to walk out after Freddy. Balloon Boy hadn't shut up yet with giggles. Liam pushed him off after the others were all gone.

"Shut up," he whispered lowly as he got behind the boy and pulled out wires from their appointed place. "Did no one come to get me? Now I have to hide. I don't want the other ones coming back and finding me."

Liam made his way to the back of the room and due to his thin frame he fit behind a cabinet filled with empty heads. He was pretty nervous but managing. All he had to do was last until 6 AM. The withered animatronics were out of the room; and Balloon Boy couldn't move or talk thanks to some wire pulling.

He let out a soft sigh as he tried to peep around a hole through some of the heads on the cabinet. He felt sort of safe until he started to hear the sound of loud metal footsteps. He breathe became jagged but he somehow managed to quieten it before the door slung open to reveal a very frustrated Foxy.

Foxy marched in angrily mumbling things about a flashlight before he noticed Balloon Boy. Liam stared nervously.

"So where did you put the lad?" Foxy asked as his eyes scanned over the room but then turned to a glare at Balloon Boy. "Not going to reply are ya now?" He growled as he held up his hook.

Luckily for the young boy, Withered Bonnie trotted in. "I really w-w-wish we coul-ld just get him with-out-out the mask-sk on, but, of c-course, that is against regu-regulation, and Fr-Freddy would have my hide i-i-if I went against-st that."

Foxy shot a quick reply at him, completely forgetting about Balloon Boy. "You could've got the lad, but ya tripped on yer own two feet. Too much rum for ya?" He walked over to the faceless bunny.

"H-h-he d-dodg-ged," Bonnie sneared. If he had had a face, his gaze would be deadly. Unfortunately, he could only look on with beady red eyes.

"We need to get ye voice fixed up, mattie," Foxy said with a mournful look at his old friend. Liam might have felt bad if he didn't know they were trying to kill him. Both of them were worse for wear and one could barely talk properly. Liam decided he would try to fix them up if he made it out of this, but only during the day.

Bonnie forced what was left of his face to look to the ground as Foxy placed his hand on his shoulder and said, "Come on! Let's go get that guard! That will help ya feel better!"

With that said gently wrapped his hook around the bunny's ear and dragged him into the hall. Liam stayed silent but was preparing himself for a very long night, but mused happily that they also thought the guard was a guy on sight with at she had on.

Hope you enjoy! Again I only own Liam and Cordelia.