"Darn it, not again…" Joel muttered to himself.
He had heard the sound of metal pieces breaking apart and ran to the Kid's Cove. As to be expected, the toddlers had taken apart Foxy, again. Two boys were hitting each other with one of Foxy's arms and legs, another was using the other arm to pick his nose, and a little girl was trying to feed Foxy's head pizza like a baby doll. The head, to Joel's discomfort, was still talking.
"Hey thethethethere kikikids! Wel-Welcome to the nenenenenew Frrrrrrrrrreddddy FazbearFazbearFazbear piiiiiiizaaaaaa!"
Joel reminded himself to stay calm, getting a hold of the kid's parents and asking them to get their kids to let go of the animatronic parts. While the parents of the boys acquiesced quickly enough, ("I'm so sorry, I was hoping that he'd behave!", "I'm sorry, I should have kept a closer eye on them!"), the parents of the girl did so reluctantly.
"What do you have against my daughter playing? It's not like you're not going to put it right back together for someone else's kids to do the exact same thing."
Eventually, while the parents were pulling their kids away, Joel managed to take away the animatronic parts from the complaining and crying of the children ("Hey, that's mine!") He and another employee carried the parts back to storage to put them back together later. Faz wasn't happy when he heard the news.
"Again? Why can't those stupid kids keep their hands to themselves? They did it with all the other animatronics? Heck, why can't their parents do something?"
Joel had heard this rant before, every time Foxy was taken apart. He waited for Faz to putter out, irritated at the answer that he knew was coming.
"So, what do you want me to do?"
Faz waved his hand dismissively.
"Just put the stupid thing back together and put it back into the Kid's Cove."
Joel sighed. "Alright." He was about to turn around when Faz continued his rant.
"Seriously, what is wrong with these kids?"
Joel shrugged. "They're just kids."
"Yeah, I get that. 'Kids will be kids.' They're going to destroy anything they can and stick it up their nose. I get that. What I don't get is why the parents just let them take the thing apart."
Joel didn't really know what to say at this, but he knew that he had to stick around until his boss let him go. Normally Faz liked to have someone around him when he ranted.
"Seriously though, what do the parents do when you tell them to take their kids away?"
"Usually they just do what I ask and take them away, but sometimes like today they'll want me to leave the kids alone."
"They expect us to just let the kids take the animatronics apart?" Faz asked incredulously.
Joel shrugged.
"They said that it's not like we're not going to put it back together again for someone else's kids to do the exact same thing."
Faz scowled.
"You know what? If that's their attitude, on second thought, don't put Foxy back together again. Just put the parts back out into the Kid's Cove and leave them there."
"You don't want me to fix it?"
Faz shrugged sarcastically. "It's like those morons said, 'why bother?'"
"What should I do if the parents complain tomorrow?" Joel was not looking forward to dealing with angry parents.
"Just tell them that that's what happens when parents don't watch their kids. Maybe then they'll stop breaking store property."
Joel did as he was told, ready for things to hit the fan the next day, but oddly, nothing happened. There were no complaints. The kids continuously took Foxy apart and put it back together again in bizarre ways, putting its arm where its head should have been and its head where its foot should have been, but that only made the kids laugh. Joel had no idea why, the thing looked creepy with how twisted it was, but still talking.
"Beeeeeeeeeee sure to play nice kikikids!"
Faz was as surprised as Joel to hear how things went, but was much happier about it. From that point on, he decided to make Foxy a permanent take-it-apart-and-put-it-together attraction. This was where Faz found a use for the old animatronics. He figured that if kids were so happy with using Foxy as a giant puzzle, why not add more pieces? Deciding that Freddy, as the face of the franchise, and Foxy, as the most popular character, should be left alone for now, Faz opted to take spare parts from Bonnie and Chica. At first he just took one arm each from the two, but then decided 'the heck with it', and took Chica's second arm and Bonnie's endoskeleton head.
The next day Foxy was in its most twisted and bizarre state yet. One of the feet had been lost, so the kids gave Foxy an extra arm for a leg, and then added another arm on the same joint. Where Foxy's head used to be, there was now a hand. Its left arm was missing a hand, but now had an additional arm (also without a hand) attached to the hand's original joint. On the right side, the kids had attached Foxy's head on another doubled up arm, sticking its bow tie in the middle, with the additional head attached to the end of another arm on the same joint. The Foxy head now only had a right eye, the left eye being put into the extra head. Incredibly though, Foxy could still talk, but only occasionally, as its voice box was now damaged. The employees, understandably disturbed, stopped calling the animatronic Foxy, and gave it a new nickname; the Mangle.