My Night At Freddy's
Chapter Seven: 4:00 AM
I was really starting to feel the fatigue from what had happened to me so far on what was supposed to be a quiet night at Freddy's. So far I had crushed Foxy, shorted out Chica, and pulled the plug on Bonnie, but Freddy had still not done anything. He just stood there on the stage, remaining in exactly the same position that he had been in all night, and I was certain of this because I had been watching him like a hawk since my confrontation with Bonnie. The only tool I had left was my flashlight, since I had used my coffee and knife earlier.
The clock down in my office could barely be heard striking 4:00 as I remained standing there, and then I started to wonder why I was doing that. The only good that waiting there would do was let me know when he became active, and then I would have nothing to use when he came after me, so I decided to be active for once instead of reactive. Now by this time I had been in almost every room at Freddy's, and had used up just about all the resources. In fact, the only room that I hadn't actually been into was Pirate Cove, so I walked toward its open archway while continually looking back at Freddy.
Heading into Pirate Cove after taking one last look at the large animatronic bear on the stage, I ducked inside the archway toward the little stage where Foxy had always done his show. I remembered sitting on the little chairs around the stage with my friends when we were kids, and how we all the whole pirate act. Back then I never would've guessed that one day I was going to have to kill Foxy during a life or death battle with the entire Freddy Fazbear Band. I also couldn't help but think about how insane this whole situation was. It was like something out of a bad movie, or one of those indie horror games on the internet.
Whatever my situation was like, I was still stuck in it for another two hours. So I walked onto the Pirate Cove stage, and off to the side where the audience wouldn't have been able to see, there was a little back area with some maintenance supplies. Nothing more than a few hand tools for fixing Foxy, as well as some spare parts, but what caught my eye was a roll of duct-tape. I knew from experience that all of these characters were incredibly strong, but even they would've had trouble breaking out from a few dozen wraps of tape around their arms.
Leaving Pirate Cove and heading back into the dining area, I was happy with my latest plan, and was all set to put it into motion. However, this was not to be, as I was halfway across the dining area when I noticed that Freddy was gone. Of course he was gone; how was I so deluded to think that he wouldn't come to life like Frosty the damn Snowman the moment I turned my back on him? Strange thing was that I didn't hear any footsteps or movement either as I looked around to see where he was. Now I felt like a complete idiot for somehow losing track of a seven foot tall animatronic bear, so the only logical thing to do was go back to the security office.
Grumbling to myself as I went back down the hall and crouched under the broken shutter, I started looking at the monitors as I tried to think of how I was going to handle Freddy, but then I froze in place as the monitors went dark. Then the overhead light went out, leaving me in total darkness as I heard the working shutter to my right suddenly retract up into the ceiling. Now even the low hum of electricity flowing to my light was silenced, and literally the only sound in all of Freddy's was my own breathing.
Thankfully I still had the flashlight, and I was reaching for where I had left it on the desk, when a sort of musical chime reached my ears. There was also a strange kind of flickering light coming from the right, so I looked and had to rub my eyes to confirm what I was seeing. It looked like a pair of eyes and a mouth that was flickering along with the musical chime. This went on for a few seconds, but then the music stopped as the eyes faded, leaving me in darkness once again. So I picked up the flashlight and shined it toward the door just in time to see the large animatronic bear coming at me.
I stumbled backwards as Freddy tried to grab me, but it was tripping backwards over Chica that saved me from him. This character was moving a bit faster than Chica and Bonnie, but not as fast as Foxy, so I was able to escape by scooting under the broken shutter and into the hallway. I expected Freddy to have to go back around since his body was bigger than Chica's, and therefore too big to fit under the broken shutter. But then I heard a metallic screeching from behind me as I was going down the hall, and I put my light beam back there just in time to see Freddy lifting up the shutter so that he could come after me.
It was a lot harder to move around the restaurant now that I only had to flashlight to guide me, but I managed to get across the dining area. There was no time to rest as the large bear ran out from the hallway, effortlessly throwing tables out of the way with one arm as he chased after me, and forcing me to run away the only way I could, which was onto the stage. There was nowhere left to run once I was up there, so I turned to face my pursuer, when the noise suddenly stopped. I turned around, passing my flashlight's beam across the dining area, but Freddy was gone. The trail of overturned tables ended just one row before the stairs that led to the stage, but there was no sign of him.
Was he playing with me? Did a cheap animatronic bear from a run-down pizza shop even have the capacity for such things? I spun around in case he was behind me, and checked in all directions a few more times before I stopped. What was I doing? There I was, standing in the middle of the stage like a rabbit waiting for a mountain lion to pounce, and this was not the way to survive against an enemy who was stronger and faster than me. What I needed to do was think, and the first problem had to solve was not being able to see Freddy sneaking up on me.
Why couldn't I see him? Because the power was off. And how did the power go off? Of course! The only way that the power could've been turned off was if someone had flipped the main circuit breaker, and all I had to do was turn it back on so that I could see what was happening around me. Freddy Fazbear was also still out there, and I was quickly learning that he was more dangerous that all three of the others combined. If he was capable of shutting off the power and being stealthy, then he could've been capable of almost anything.
Either way, I had to get the power back on, so I quietly moved back down the stage stairs, and continuously shined my flashlight around as I headed for the only logical place for the breaker box to be located: The janitor's closet.