Chapter 9

EARLY CHRISTMAS MORNING.

Aaron settled by night and decided to eat his left over Chinese take out from the other night. He then rode his car to the centre, where he got into the elevator. The handy unit didn't give any instructions, until he heard static. Great it was broken. That meant he wouldn't be nagged for misbehaving.

When he stopped and went to the control module, he was confused. Ballora wasn't on stage and neither was Funtime Foxy. He crawled into Funtime auditorium where he saw smashed decorations and torn paper. Maybe he should have left instructions on how to decorate.

His ear listened carefully when he heard soft sobbing. He approached the source carefully and saw Baby on the ground, surrounded by a wreckage of tree branches and smashed decorations.

"Baby?" He asked softly kneeling down to her, her head looked up and he saw a bruise on her face, her green eyes were filled with tears which spilled on the ground.

"A-Aaron?" She asked tearing up, "I thought you left us like everyone."

"Baby I'd never leave." He wrapped his arms around her to make her feel safer. But this made her cry more. "Shhhh." He whispered, "Tell me what happened."

"We were decorating yesterday. When you didn't come. We got worried."

"Baby I was knocked out. I'm sorry. But we can fix it now. You don't have to throw a fit over me leaving."

"That wasn't it." Baby shook her head wiping her tears away, "Bonbon came in and she acted differently towards everyone. She was acting seductive. She didn't pass my test but Funtime Freddy listened to her. She lead him away somewhere. When he came back. He acted different also. They both got Funtime Foxy and Ballora to follow. Since Ballora left, the Minireenas followed. When they didn't come back. I got worried, Bibybab went after them and he came back with them all."

"That is weird."

"Then Funtime Freddy got into a fight with Bibybab. They said such awful words to each other, unforgivable words. I tried to break it up. But Funtime Freddy punched me!" She squealed tearing up again, "I can't believe he hurt me! Then everyone else agreed Christmas was stupid and they ruined the tree and everything!"

"That's unfair. Because they ruined it for you and you didn't want it that way." Aaron rubbed Baby's hair back.

"I haven't seen them all day Aaron! I thought you left us!"

"I never would... you're... my family." He admitted with a smile.

"Thank you." Baby smiled sightly.

"I'll help you to sort everyone else out. I'm sure we can get them to apologise for their actions and we can fix this." Aaron suggested, "And I'll protect you if you get hurt."

"Thank you." Baby said again as he helped her to her feet and they looked around for everyone. Eventually they found BonBon running around.

"Bonbon? Bonbon! We need to talk!" Aaron screamed at her as she ran into the private area. Aaron thoughtless ran after her, wanting for Baby to get an apology from Funtime Freddy. Baby ran after him. Aaron then stopped when he realised where he was.

He was in the same office he was when he defended Ennard.

"Baby get out." Aaron said with his eyes wide. But before she could. The door slammed behind them and they heard it lock.

"No!" Aaron screamed banging on the door realising they were locked inside.

"Well Hello again!" Aaron stopped when he heard Funtime Freddy scream from one of the hallways somewhere. He then laughed like a manic and Baby clings onto Aaron's side frighten. "Are you Ready for round two?!"

"What's going on Aaron?" Baby asked looking scared. Aaron noticed the tablet screen on the desk along with three static tv screens and a digital screen that had two things on it:

POWER LEVEL:99%

OXYGEN:99%

"I think I know what's happening but I need to confirm it." Aaron spoke shaking. He turned on the tablet screen and flicked to the west hall, where he saw Funtime Freddy, staring directly at the cameras with his menacing blue eyes, he then switched to another camera and saw Funtime Foxy behind a curtain making an evil looking face with his jaw hanging slack, showing his sharp teeth.

"Aaron why are our friends acting mean?" Baby asked, "I don't understand!"

"Bon-Bon go get em!" Funtime Freddy screamed from somewhere, Aaron took that as not a good thing and slammed his hand on the left door which sounded like where Funtime Freddy's voice came from. He had a right to be worried, a loud bang when then heard along with footsteps. Clearly:Bonbon go get em meant an attack. But why was Funtime Freddy acting up? Along with BonBon and Funtime Foxy?

Then Aaron heard the dreaded music of Ballora. Crumbling dreams was the song he thinks. He slammed the button to the right door down as her music approached that door. Baby knew she was out there twirling and waiting.

"Ballora why are you taunting us? We're your friends. Your family even." Baby told her.

"Bon-Bon let's not keep our friend waiting!" Aaron heard Funtime Freddy's clunky footsteps to race to the other side. Ballora's music then slowly faded away, but it didn't vanish.

"We always find a way inside." Aaron heard another terrifying voice and climbed up the desk and looked into the vent. He shined his flashlight in and saw Bibybab at the very start of the vent with his face plates slightly opened and his blue eyes glowing. Aaron made a squeak of fright and ducked back down, making a note to keep check of him.

"What should I do?" Baby asked him figuring she'd be here for sometime.

"Talk to them." Aaron suggested wanting to leave, "Make them not attack."

"Okay." She nodded walking away to find someone.

Aaron was then startled by a pink haired bunny girl walking across the office in a taunting way. She looked like BonBon but she was coloured pink and had green eyes. Aaron unconsciously smacked her nose and made her disappear and run outside the office.

"What was that?"

"Funtime Freddy please don't attack us-"

"Bon-Bon go get em!"

With a screech and a scream, Aaron jumped out of his position and saw Baby run back into the office with a bite mark on her arm. "BonBon bit me! Aaron what's going on?!"

"I just saw a pink haired version of... BonBon."

"... my pink haired Beauty..." he heard Ennard's voice in his head repeat. He started to connect lines. He then growled and yelled out.

"ENNARD! I KNOW YOU DID THIS! COME OUT YOU COWARD AND FACE ME!" He roared into the heavens.

"You think Ennard did it?" Baby asked him. Thinking it made a little more sense that what she knew.

"Yes I do! ENNARD COME OUT! LET ME KNOW YOU'RE WATCHING ME! BECAUSE I KNOW YOU ARE!" Aaron screamed angrily. This time it really mattered. Because he saw them as his family. And no one messed with his family. People saw this when his sister had her hair ribbon stolen by an older girl back when she was a child and Aaron tackled her and rode on her back until she gave it back.

Right on cue, the static screen lit up with a face of a man with white and orange hair and white and orange ears with purple cheeks and black eyes with a white pupil. Then it went onto the next screen. Then the next. Then the whole system was corrupted.

Baby noticed on the keyboard right in front of her the letters LO were highlighted with red pen, she then unconsciousness typed in L-O-L and the man vanished and all the systems went back to normal.

"Baby? Where's Funtime Foxy?" Aaron asked looking white faced. Baby then peeked down the right door by insist and saw Funtime Foxy running right for her. She screamed and came back in and closed the door with the button next to it.

She shivered when she heard soft knocking coming from the door. Then he vanished back into the curtains on the camera.

"Aaron how much power are we using?" Baby asked looking at the power reading.

Aaron then looked and saw the power was vanishing like there was no tomorrow. He shouted in fear and flipped in all the cameras. Then he saw a strange version of Bibybab standing there looking at the camera with glowing yellow eyes. He had a different style and wore blue and yellow clothing. Aaron pressed the button on the screen that said controlled shock and the thing vanished and the power stopped running out so fast.

That reminded him he needed to check on Bibybab, so he nervously peeked his head back up and saw the animatronic no less than five feet away from his face with open face plates. Aaron then sealed of the vent to be safe.

"Hey BonBon go get em!" Funtime Freddy's voice yelled again, so Aaron closed the door. But he started to feel light headed. When BonBon smacked against the door and vanished, he opened it again. But found it didn't help.

He loosen his tie trying to get more air into his lungs, which were starting to scream out in lack of oxygen. He then started to wheeze as he tried to keep his remaining air in. He tried to keep it quiet to not scare Baby knowing she had been scared too much tonight.

But it all went to shit when he collapsed on the ground gasping for air.

"Aaron?! Aaron what's wrong?!" Baby asked sitting on the ground with a worried look on her face. Aaron wanted to say he was fine. But he wasn't. He couldn't find the strength to talk, his lungs were tightening, desperate to

find any air that was around. But it felt like it was just all being sucked out of him like he was blowing up a near impossible to blow balloon.

Baby panicked as he lost air from his body and his face started to turn blue, he was twitching and struggling to perform simple task like talk or get back to his feet. Baby's eye then looked at the oxygen supply. Which rapidly dropped.

45%

...

32%

...

29%

If that thing dropped below 20, Aaron would lose consciousness. If it went below 10, he'd die from losing too much air. Baby had to find out how the oxygen was being sabotaged and why. At first she excepted Ennard to show up on the back camera, twisting the oxygen handles so the oxygen would leak out.

But. It wasn't like that.

The Four Minireenas were in that place. Winding the handle back. Making the oxygen spill into the air instead of filling the office with the very thing Aaron needed to survive. She gasped when the meter got dangerously close to 20

25%

...

22%

Baby needed them to stop. She smacked her hand against the controlled shock button and they scattered away when electricity hit their bodies.

The meter stopped at 19%. Aaron had blacked out. He was on the floor. Looking worse than unconscious.

He looked dead