Night 4

Liam had the box relocated to the pizzeria. Now it was in Kid's Cove. He had gotten out of class and came straight to the franchise. It was around 8 o'clock when he got there; he was a little late because of a lab. All the children were filing out of the establishment and leaving it empty. Mangle was watching the boy with interest as he opened the box.

"What is in the box?" she asked timidly.

Liam glanced over his shoulder at the yellow eyed fox and said, "A friend." He pulled a string and the sides of the box fell to reveal a new animatronic. It was sized and designed more similarly to the older models. It was a lizard. It had scale like fabric and was a very dark green. Its stomach was a lighter green, and its eyes were lime green.

"Wow," the fox said as her eyes widened.

"Yep," Liam said proudly. He tried to activated and waited as he heard a motor start to run. His mouth soon fell into a deep frown when the sound of the motor also fell. He looked at the green lizard curiously. "Why did it not work?"

Mangle inched closer. "Does it need to be charged or something?"

His blue eyes still stared as he mumbled, "Maybe so. A small jolt of energy might do the trick." He set up wiring into an outlet and plugged it in. His eyes started to brighten as the new animatronic's green ones did then they both dimmed. "I don't get it." He sighed in defeat.

"I'm sorry," the meek fox said. "It will be alright. You fixed all the older animatronics, and told the purple man how to fix me. I'm sure you'll figure this out somehow."

"I guess," he mumbled before smiling at the fox. "You look great by the way. It's great that the company let me buy the parts to fix you. I bet lots of children will come to see you even when you aren't a take apart attraction."

"Thank you," she said quietly. "I hope so."

The boy straightened up and stretched his arms into the air. "Well I guess I should be going."

As he made his way out of the door he heard Mangle say, "Tell Foxy I say 'hi' if you see him." Liam raised a brow but nodded as if to agree. He left the lizard suit in the cove with the pink and white fox.

The young mechanic had noticed a few things about the toys and older models. All of them seemed to have odd relationships with each other, almost like siblings but not. He found out most of this by listening to the older animatronics talking about the new models. Mangle just seemed to want to get Foxy's attention. Toy Freddy wanted to live up to the older bear's reputation. Toy Bonnie's mission seemed to be to annoy the daylights out of his counterpart. Toy Chica just wanted to learn things from the older chicken.

Although Liam definitely liked the original animatronics more, he didn't mind the toys. He thought Mangle was quiet and pretty cute. Toy Chica, in his eyes, was a sassy girl but made great pizza. He respected Toy Freddy although not quite as much as he did the older bear. Toy Bonnie was an obsessive girly bunny that scared him a little. Balloon Boy was a bit of a mean child. Liam had no clue what to think of the puppet.

He was interrupted from his thinking by running into a purple flash. "Watch where you are going!" The silver eyed man looked down at him in recognition, "Oh, sorry. Didn't mean to run into you, but while you are here, can I ask you something."

The boy's blue eyes blinked in confusion because of the man's abrupt change in temper, and he barley noticed that he had asked a question. He did give a small nod.

"Is it possible for someone to get in the old bunny suit that the night guard found in the basement? I heard some others talking about it, and they said it was." The man seemed a little too curious, but Liam didn't think much of it since he found the topic interesting, too.

"It is possible," he replied slowly, "but very dangerous. The spring locks are glitchy. One wrong move or breath and you are a human shish kabob. There is no coming back from it either."

The purple clad man smiled, nonetheless. "Thats nice to know. You know you seem like a pretty cool, kid. We should be friends and hang out."

Liam arched a brow and slyly asked, "Hangout over pizza?"

"Sure," Vincent replied. "Why not? We can hang out once my shift is over tomorrow. You seem to be one of the only people in this place that is willing to do anything but come to work then go to sleep. For a kids joint, not many people are friendly."

Liam had noticed that a fair amount of the employees were not overly friendly but not cold. He figured they probably just didn't care much for Vincent. Liam had no problem with the man, but he would have to admit his appearance was unnerving. Most of his clothes were purple which wasn't very odd, and the children probably liked his colored hair, but his eyes were just unsettling.

Their silver color stood out like a sore thumb. They look friendly, but to anyone looking hard enough, something not quite right could be seen hiding under the first layer of faux friendliness. Liam knew Vincent was a bit odd in this way, but being the cool laid back guy he was, he paid it no mind and gave Vincent a fair start by not judging him. The day guard had done nothing wrong so he wouldn't treat him as a criminal.

"Well the night guard isn't that bad," the man said shortly after. "She is funny."

"Cordelia?"

The man nodded before looking down at his watch. "Yea, her. Anyway I'm going to head out. My shift ended 10 minutes ago. See you tomorrow. We can get a beer or something with that pizza."

The man had walked off before he could clarify he didn't drink beer. He sighed and was going to see the older animatronics before he was again stopped, but this time by a hand placed on his shoulder.

"Hey there, Liam," the manager said brightly. "I was just about to call you in. I need you to fix a few things for me."

Liam wanted to sigh, but he held it in. "Alright. What you got for me, boss man?"

The manager then happily explained what he needed done, "I need you to find out why the lights in the Prize Corner are not working and why the one in the game room won't stop flickering."

"Yes, sir," Liam said with a smile that fell from his face the moment the manager turned to leave. He yawned and walked lazily to the Prize Corner.

He walked into the room and heard the soft playing of the music box. He flipped the light switch on to find they were actually working. His eyes locked on to the sleeping form of Marionette in the corner. Liam stopped the playing of the music box and waited.

After a few seconds without the music the puppet was waking and he immediately looked toward Liam. The animatronic said nothing just stared boredly at the boy.

"Um," Liam started uncomfortably, "I was coming to fix the lights or whatever. Looks like they are working properly to me though so…. I will just be leaving now."

"Wait," the raspy voice of the puppet called. "I feel obliged to tell you that I fixed the energy flow to this room. Someone had the bright idea to put balloons in the circuit board for this location. They melted. I removed them and the power started back."

Liam waited for a moment before replying, "Is that why you were out of the box and sleeping? When the energy rebooted, you got stuck."

He got no answer as Marionette ignored him and went back into his box. The puppet didn't dislike the boy; he just bored him a little. He understood why the older animatronics liked him. The boy was funny and nice to them. Marionette figured he would just hope, for the older models sakes, the boy stuck around.

The mechanic sighed and started his walk to the game room and glared at the the animatronic that automatically started giggling. Liam wanted to punch the laughing machine, but restrained himself and went to the circuit board. He found balloons melted to it in a few places.

"I didn't do it," a voice giggled behind him as he tried to scrape the melted balloons off. Liam glanced behind him to see a humanoid version of the balloon boy; he was scowling. "I would never waste perfectly good balloons like that. I knew someone was stealing them. I just don't know who."

The black haired boy was unsure if he should believe him since Balloon Boy was a pretty big nuisance at times, and the action of melting balloon to the circuit board was pretty annoying. The look on the child's face gave him the impression that this was, in fact, not his doing.

"Well," Liam started, "who do you think stole your balloons?"

Bright blue eyes glared up at him. "Maybe it was you? When you started showing up, they started disappearing. No one believes me though."

The mechanic rolled his eyes. "Would I really steal your balloons just so I could make an electrical mess that I have to clean up?"

The child huffed and started to shuffle off as he slipped back into his shorter more circular animatronic form. Liam ignored the animatronic's frustrated exit and tried to finish the rest of his work. It was taking forever. The place had been closed for a while and he was yawning from tiredness. He joyfully stretched up as he finished his work.

"Now to get out of here before 12," he said to himself. The chimes for 12 chimed at that very moment, and he paled.

Similar to his first night at Freddy's a tight grip wrapped around his arm. He was so glad it was again the night guard and not one of the out of control animatronics. She was again dragging him through the pizzeria at top speed, but not to the office.

"Do you have a death wish?" she questioned him heatedly. "You need to get out of here on time!"

"The pizza is just too good," he laughed despite the situation. He gasped when her hand tightened unnaturally tight on his arm. "Ouch! Alright. I'm sorry. Anyway where are you taking me?"

They entered the manager's room and she explained as they went through the door to the downstairs room. "I'm taking you to Springtrap. He doesn't have the facial scanners so he won't be dead set on stuffing you. All you have to do is not make him mad."

"Got it," he replied. "Keep the golden bunny happy and I'll live to see another day."

"Good," she stopped and let him continued down the stairs. "You can explain all of this to him. I've got to go do my job. I'll keep them away the best I can. Good luck."

His blue eyes watched her exit the room and heard the manager's new door shut. His feet rushed him down the rest of the way down the stairs. He was met at the bottom by the bunny. His silver eyes watched Liam coldly but curiously. "Why are you here?"

"I got stuck here again," Liam explained. "Cordelia said you might be able to help me."

The golden bunny's ears twitched a little as he stared at the boy. "I could," he said. Liam smiled. "But I want something in return."

Liam's smile dropped. "What do you want?"

"I want," Springtrap said with a grin, "to perform again. Convince the manager I am in perfect condition and let me out of this room. I want to be with the children again. It doesn't have to be everyday, but I want out."

The boy stiffened under the silver gaze that was upon him. He knew the spring lock suit had glitches. It wasn't bad, but needed to be seen to if anyone were to get in. If no person was in it, it should be fine. Liam just wasn't sure he trusted the spring bunny.

"I will." he replied. For now, it was the only choice he could make.

The bunny smiled and went back to where he sat by the wall. "Good." Liam sat on the opposite wall. The pizzeria was quiet. Liam figured the animatronics were giving Cordelia an easy night. He was staying silent as not to alert them of his presence.

He was forced to sit in silence for 6 hours with an animatronic bunny staring at him. When the 6 am chimes went off he literally leaped to his feet with joy and darted up the stairs. He was surprised he hadn't fallen asleep; that is part of the reason his bed was calling his name. He had all intentions of staying in until the last minute. He would barely make on time for his 11:30 Calculus class.

As he exited, the room a childlike giggle filled the room. Springtrap look up with a wide smile. "Hello, old friend."

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