FNAF, Metal Scales

by VoidDweller

Destin, and his frenemy Veronica, get stuck together at Fazbears' on the night shift. The thing is, both of them are turned into animatronics...on the first night, without dying. Destin soon finds a string of mysteries and follows them, he wants to know what's going on...Note: This is the old version, rewrite W.I.P.

10. Chapter 10

Hey! I'm back! Well, it's not like I've been gone too long. Anyways, I wasn't able to update on either Friday or Saturday, because, I had a Boy Scout campout those days (and I'm sore because we walked 2 miles through mud, uphill, walked across rock beaches, hiked a total of 11 miles, and I ran out of my 2 liters of water that I thought would be enough 5 miles in. It's a miracle I didn't faint on the 8th mile. No, it's a miracle I didn't faint at all, though I was stumbling on the last mile…), but, it's Sunday now, and hopefully, I'll get a chapter out today. Anyways, on with the story.

Chapter 10: Back to the Days of Old

I decided to step into the darkness, welcoming whatever was ahead. I looked around the corner, just to see a normal hallway. Nothing to suspicious.

"You're going in?!" Veronica whisper yelled.

"Of course, I'm going in" I whispered back.
"Is that a smart idea?" Whirlpool whispered.
"Maybe not but, I'm going in anyways, carefully" I whispered back to Whirlpool. I carefully walked into the dark hallway, it just looked like an abandoned warehouse to me. However, I've learned not to judge appearances. There wasn't much to the hallway, rusty metal doors, unclean floor, flickering lights, and one door at the end of the hallway. I noticed that beside this door, was a keycard slot. It didn't look like there was a keycard currently in it, sadly. I decided to look around, lighting up the tip of my tail (which acted like a flash light). I pointed my tail in front of me, looking around the bottoms of doors, until I found it, you know, if I did I find it.

Whirlpool

"Why is he always doing things like that?" Veronica asked, exasperated.

"No clue" I replied, bored.

"I mean, he's always making rash decisions!"
"Yep"

"He always is putting himself in danger!"
"Runs in the family" I sarcastically said, I had no idea if she heard me or not, considering she was ranting. That's when I heard something, the sound of metal scraping on the concrete. "Do you hear that?" I asked.
"What?" Then I heard it again.
"Shh" I whispered, moving behind the dumpster. Veronica decided to go under the other one, I was clinging the back of it, keeping my head down, and feet above the ground. I heard the scraping getting closer and closer, until I heard breathing.

Breathing? Animatronics don't breathe…unless, it's not fully an animatronic…I thought to myself. I stayed as still as possible, keeping myself close to the dumpster. I heard a scream from veronica, and the rapid sound of claws approaching her spot, it wasn't more than two seconds before I could hear the claws retreating. I had just run out of my hiding spot, trying to see where it went, and to my horror, the marks led straight into the building.
"Destin…" I breathed, scared for the both of them.

Destin

"Where could it be?" I asked myself. I pondered until I saw a vent on the ceiling. Hanging from the vent, was a card. I reached up and grabbed the card, pulling it from its spot. I walked back to the end of the hallway before sliding the card into the slot. However, I heard a scream from outside, and barely heard metal hitting concrete, then metal hitting tile, something was coming my way. I quickly slid into the room, closed the door with quick speed, and listened as I heard a screech and banging on the door. Something was out there, and I had a feeling that it had one of the girls with it.

"Shoot, what now?" I asked myself.
"Hello? Hello? Anyone there?" I heard a voice come through the mysterious phone I found one night on my desk.
"Huh? Crescent? How did you-"

"Never mind that, I'm seeing if this thing is working, so far, I've given out…one, two, ah, and you're the third one. Yes, three of these phones so far, if you look at it, there are four people, me, Rain, Zeke, and uh, you, so, yeah…have fun" Crescent's voice disappeared, as did the sound from whatever was behind the door. I face palmed, one, because of Crescent's annoying habit of appearing at annoying times, and two, for the fact that I don't have any communication between the three of us. Man, I can be so stupid. I looked around the room, seeing if I could find anything, when I found a light switch, I was surprised to see a clean room, and weird machines that looked like they had come from The Maze Runner. I wouldn't be surprised if they actually did. I looked at the desk, and picked up a folder. I looked at the pictures inside of the folder, inside it were all sorts of monsters, flowers, goats, fish, skeletons, dragons, and snakes. All with metal parts, and mutilated too. I shuddered as I recognized the last picture, it was one of a dinosaur. The same one from earlier.

I continued to look around, I found one last picture, one of an alien like thing. It was black, had slimy skin, metal claws, and alligator mouth, and a tail with a bard on it, it's teeth were also metal, and covered with blood. I nearly dropped the picture when I saw that detail, it also had red pupils and black eyes.
"Who would make such a thing? It's terrifying, whelp, now I know my fear" I shuddered and saw another door in the room, one that led left. I looked through the glass of the door, what I saw made me panic, inside of the room, was green gas, and a black and white figure, being hung by their arms from the ceiling. It was Veronica.

"Ooohhhh, no!" I shouted, angry and scared at the same time. I rammed the door until it caught the attention of a figure inside. It seems to be surprised and turned to something beside it. I then heard metal claws approaching the door, but, nothing came in contact with the door. Instead, something was coming into the room, via the vents. I panicked and continued the ram the door, after seven tries I slipped, and guess what? Something flew above my head, flew into the door, and caused it to fall down. I didn't waste a second running into the room, I covered my mouth and nose, grabbed my sister after shooting the puny chains, and prepared to get the keycard out. Fortunately, Whirlpool was a step ahead, and she opened the door, which, she somehow opened with another keycard. I ran out of the room, Veronica slung over my shoulders, and ran out into the hallway. I rushed past Whirlpool as she slammed the door and we ran out of the old building.

"Blow it up!" Whirlpool yelled as we got out.
"How?!" I yelled.
"Think about an exploding arrow!" Whirlpool instructed. I thought about an exploding arrow and how much damage it would cause, I then shot it, and covered the two girls with my wings. The last thing I heard before I blacked out was an explosion, and an un-earthly scream.

"Hey! Hey! Wake up! We're almost there!" I heard Whirlpool shout as I woke up.
"What?" I asked, rubbing my head. I was in a car, that was for sure, where were we? It looked like Nevada or Arizona. You know, with the barren landscape and all. "Where are we going?" I asked, still looking out the window.
"Duh, our wedding!" I snapped my head in her direction at the speed of light. Whirlpool, wasn't, well, Whirlpool… She was a human!
"What?" I just asked, so confused. "How long was I out after the warehouse incident?"

"What do mean?"

"And where's my tail, my wings, and my bow, where's my bow? Why are you human? And why are we getting married? I'm sorry, I'm so confused, I'm dreaming, right?" I rubbed my head.
"Um, you must have a small case of amnesia" Whirlpool replied. I looked in the front seat to see, none other than Crescent.
"Why is Crescent here?" I asked.
"Huh? You don't even remember your best friend's name? That's John, Jake"
"Maybe you're not remembering things right, who are you? Emma?" I scoffed. "That's Crescent, that's Veronica in front of me, you're Whirlpool, and I'm Destin" I rolled my eyes. "Seriously, did I go into a coma or something? How long has it been since the mutilated zombie, alien, animatronic incident?" I asked, a little annoyed.
"Jake, your kind of freaking me out" Whirlpool said.
"You know what, I'm dreaming, that's it. I'm dreaming, there is no other explanation" I shook my head, and opened the car door.
"Jake!" The three yelled.
"That's not my name!" I grinned as I jumped out of the vehicle. I was thrown out of the dream, and my instincts kicked in, making me roll to my left, barely avoiding a blade plunging into the ground next to me.
"Seriously! How long have I been out!?" I yelled, rolling forward. "And where's my freakin' bow?!" I yelled angrily. "You know what? Can you just stop trying to kill me, let me make a call" I said to the darkness, literally, a black cloud like thing with white teeth and glowing white eyes was trying to kill me.
"Yeah, Crescent? Yeah, um, I need an assist…yeah, I don't have my bow. Five minutes? I'm about to die, no take your time. Haha, just teleport yerself over here…no I am not talking like Foxy! I'm just a little embarrassed! Why? Oh, only because Whirlpool said we were getting married in my most likely cracked up dream state! Yeah, alright, bye" I hung up and looked at the cloud. "I'm sorry, I don't think we've met, where exactly am I?" I asked, looking around, it looked like I was outside of an old house.
"Who are you?" The darkness asked with its ghostly voice.

"Your neighborhood friendly dragon animatronic, at your service, well, not really. Why is the date 1983?" I asked.
"Because…that's the date?"

"Oh, you see, I'm from the future, I think, or I'm in another dimension. Tell me, is William Afton good?" I asked.
"He is most definitely not good, he killed them" It growled.
"Ah, you see, I must be in another world then, because where I'm from, he's amazing, and it's not 1983, and he's also my father, that too" I said, putting my finger on my chin. A light appeared behind me. "You mind telling me why I'm in another dimension?" I asked.
"It must've been some kind of survival instinct, teleporting you to another world, another time. Oh, and I can totally see a Desti-pool coming" Crescent grinned. "Also, I don't think you're going to die, and I took another five minutes to grab your bow, you know, in case you actually are about to die" Crescent walked off, waving behind him as he walked into a portal.
"You know him?" The cloud asked.
"Yeah, normally he has an annoying habit of showing up at annoying times, but, he's helpful. So, do you live here?" I asked, looking at the house.
"You…could say that…" I looked up to the sky, which was covered in dark clouds, thunder cracked and a heavy rain started to pour down.
"Come on, let's go inside" I offered and we hurried into the house.

"So, do you live by yourself?" I asked the now calmed down darkness, which was a more human like form now, but still keeping the formless black void of a body.
"Not really, there are…others" He said.
"Like one with rows of sharp teeth?" I mused after hearing the floorboards creek.

"Yeah" He said. I got up and turned around. Long story short, I shook hands with terrifying looking animatronics. They were pretty much the same exact animatronics, just scary looking. Well, okay, there was this creepy balloon kid and black Freddy thing, but other than that, nothing that different.
"So, do you like scaring the flip out of people?" The black Freddy asked.
"Um, not really, unless it's a prank. The animatronics at my pizzeria, are, a lot more, calm…" I replied. After I said that, I heard shuffling from the upstairs. "Is there another one?" I asked, walking to the bottom of the stairwell.

Time skip 30 sec. because of non-appropriate response

"You! Shall! Not! Pass!" I yelled, making a portal arrow, causing the three nightmares in the hallway to be teleported at least 6 miles away. "I've always wanted to do that" I grinned. "Hey, kid, you okay?" I asked, putting my hand on his shoulder. The poor kid was shaking, I couldn't just leave him here. "Hey, where's your parents?" I tried asking.

"He's always watching" The child said, still shaking.

"Hmm" I said. I could already hear more footsteps, and gargling from behind me on the bed. Not to mention, the glowing eyes coming from the closet. I ignored them and decided to just book it out of the house. I picked up the child and rammed my left side into the left door. I rolled, effectively dodging some claws, and sprinted down the hallway. It only took two seconds to get to the end of the small hallway. I booked it to the stairwell, kicked the small Spring in the face, knocking him into the next room. I ran down stairs, jumped, used my left foot to jump off of Nightmare Chica, basically did a Mario jump, and ran into the kitchen. I kicked the door, and did a sarcastic salute to the darkness. I then slammed the door shut, and ran into the dark woods, in the rain, in the middle of the night.

"This is a stupid idea, worse than running into a dark warehouse" I mumbled as I ran through the rain. I looked behind me, there was nothing there. I sighed in relief and kept running. It didn't take all that long to reach a building in the woods. It was run down and had a sign on it, but I couldn't read it. I shook my head and decided to take shelter from the rain inside that building. It can't be all that bad, right?

I sat against the wall, happy to be away from the nightmare house. I doubt that they'd find us here. *knock knock* I heard on the glass behind me, staring back at me, was none other than nightmare. My eyes went wide and I rushed to the elevator in front of me. I was able to close the elevator right before the animatronic reached us.
"Everything will be fine" I assured the child as we sunk down into the ground. I looked around, noticing some animatronics that I had definitely seen before. I shook it off, knowing that I couldn't trust any of them.

The elevator finally stopped and I crawled into the vent in front of me, I had to grab the child with my tail. I made it to the end of the vent, and for some reason, I felt like it shouldn't be this quiet. I looked around the module, looking at the three vents.
"If I were a pacifist animatronic, who would I be?" I looked at the mascots. "Not Baby, definitely not Ennard, Foxy? No, Funtime Freddy? Possibly? Ballora? Possibly…" I continued to looked around until I saw a keypad. I looked up at a mascot hidden in the shadows, it was a different kind of Foxy. "Heh, lol" I said, looking at the copy.

"Someone call me?" I heard a voice behind me, I nearly hit the ceiling as I jumped.

"Gosh, you scared me to death" I grabbed my shirt, the area around my heart.
"Your different" The animatronic Foxy like copy observed.
"Of course, I am, I'm Destin, the humanoid dragon animatronic, who believe it or not, used to be human" I grinned.
"You've been stuffed?"
"No, no, no, no, no, I was transformed into an animatronic. You know, crazy magic stuff" I clarified.

"Never heard that before"

"No, I wouldn't expect you would, you see, I'm from another dimension" I said.

"Are you sure? Are you sure you don't have a case of amnesia or something?" The Foxy copy asked, doubting me. I laughed at this, wiping tears from my eyes, tears of laughter, that is.

"Yes, yes, I am sure, I am very sure" I said after laughing. "Alright, so, where exactly are we?" I asked, wanting to know where we were.

"Huh? Didn't you see the sign?" The animatronic asked.
"I did see the sign, but it wasn't very readable" I mused.
"Well, it has been years since anyone walked in here" The animatronic clarified. She then put on a panicked face. "Hide!" She whisper-yelled out of nowhere. I grabbed the child and dove into the left vent, hoping I wasn't about to get the child hurt.

I crawled through the vent as quietly as I could, the child still hadn't said a word, nor had he opened his eyes, I could only assume that the child was asleep, since he was still breathing. I finally made it through the vent and quietly stepped out into the darkness. Light probably wasn't the best idea, it might alert someone or, something. I tip-toed across the room, I probably only got a fourth of the way before I heard music.
"Is someone there?" I heard a feminine voice ask.
"Nooooo" I replied, dragging out the 'o'. I slightly cringed as the music got closer.

"Drag?" The voice asked.
"Say what now?" I asked confused.
"How long did they scoop you?" The voice asked.
"Um? Scoop, like, ice cream?" I asked, I was so confused as I stood in the dark room.
"Drag? Did he clear your memory?" The voice tried again.
"I'm sorry, I have no idea who you're talking about, but my name is Destin, pleasure to meet you, uh…"

"Oh…my name's Ballora" I froze as I tried to silently walk away.
"Huh? Ballora you say?" I asked.
"Yes, why?"

"Oh, I was just…., wondering about someone else…someone from my world" I responded. We were both silent as I slipped into another room.
"Bon-bon!" I jumped a few feet into the air as an animatronic seven feet tall appeared.
"Woah! You scared me half to death!" I exclaimed, grabbing my shirt.

"Drag? You found a body!" The Freddy animatronic yelled happily.
"What? Alright, who's Drag? I'm from another one of these establishments, I have no idea who this 'Drag' is" I wanted clarification, and I wanted it now. The bonnie puppet on Freddy's hand pointed to a poster behind me. I turned around and my eyes widened. I front of my eye sight was the animatronic that was slumped over in the room when I first entered it, and it still had the amulet around its neck. I gasped and turned to Freddy and Bon-bon. "I know where your friend is" I simply said and made a following motion as I ran out into Ballora's room.

"Ballora! Come follow us!" Bon-bon yelled as we ran to the main module.
"Why?"
"He knows where Drag is!" Freddy yelled as we made our way into the module using a secret door. I slid through the right vent and into that room.
"Foxy! Lolbit! I know where Drag is!" I yelled into the darkness, before retreating through the vent, quickly hearing metal scraping behind me.

"Alright, that leaves, Baby, and Ennard?" I asked.
"Huh? How do you know about him? He's all of us combined" Foxy asked.
"Oh, there's in Ennard where I come from" I replied, crawling into the vent.
"What's with the kid?" Ballora asked.
"I'll explain later" I responded, crawling through the last vent, and into Circus control module.

"Baby?" I asked the glass, rubbing the back of my head. "Baaabbbyyy…." I drew out the name. I heard noises as if something was opening a secret door.
"Why, hello there" I said. "Follow me" I said, crawling through the vent, knowing she would take another way.

"Alright, what's this about?" Baby asked, and man, she was tall! She was almost twice my size.
"Alright, first of all, I picked up the child after having to go into a house when a rainstorm hit, there I met the nightmare animatronics" I told the group.
"Huh? Haven't we seen blueprints of those before?" Bon-bon asked.
"Yes, we have" Lolbit said, putting one of her fingers on her chin, looking skeptical.
"Let me guess, Afton?" I asked.
"Huh, why would our creator have anything to do with this?" Baby asked, as if defending the man.
"Something one of the nightmares' said, the man is evil himself, something along the lines of that" I replied, turning to the elevator. "My guess is, there is evil code in every animatronic he's created in this universe" I theorized.

"There is a legend, a legend born long ago" Ballora said out of the blue.

"Huh? Continue, please" I requested.

"About a wicked, a wicked man no-one knows, when un-raveled, six bodies of energy" Ballora replied.
"Uh-huh, also: those bodies found other bodies, the bodies started to move, some say they still walk those halls, staying from view" Lolbit tried to give more clarification.

"Yes, I've got a secret, a secret I'm here to tell you, that place was that very place" Foxy then spoke up.
"And all the stories are true" Baby finished.

"How are we going to get out of here?" Lolbit asked.
"Yeah? How are going to get out of here, we've tried for years" Foxy asked.
"Simple, has anyone tried the hidden fire exit?" I asked.
"There's a fire exit?" Freddy asked.
"Naturally, every building has a set of stairs built in case of fire, or if someone isn't lazy" I replied, looking at a map of the building. "It looks like it's by the ice cream scooper room" I observed. I got confused looks when I looked up.
"Why do you have a whole room full of ice cream scoopers?" I asked, tilting my head.
"What? No, that's the scooper, where animatronics are sent to, never mind" Lolbit clarified, cutting herself off in the process.
"Yeah…well, it's by that room" I said, ignoring the cutoff. "Let's get going" I said, walking out the secret door, and to the stair well.

"Aren't people going to notice tall animatronics walking around the streets?" Foxy asked.
"Not if we walk along the streets" I replied.
"Where are we going to walk then?" Baby asked.
"The woods" I replied.
"What?! They'll be filled with the nightmares'! They won't stop until they get that child!" Lolbit exclaimed.

"Where else, do we go then?" I asked.
"The sewers" Ballora replied.
"That, that could work" I said as we opened the door into the middle level of the building, one that led strait into the sewers. I wasn't a big horror fan, because, I didn't know that you never, ever, go into the sewers, and I'd soon find out why.

I could hear the squelch squelch noise as we walked through the dirty water in the sewer. I entrusted Lolbit with holding the child as I turned on my tail light. We then continued to walk further into the dark tunnel. It took forty minutes of walking before something actually happened. I could hear extra metal steps as we walked into the tunnel.
"Wait up, something isn't right" I said, suddenly stopping. We waited for a minute, but no sounds appeared. We walked for another minute and the sound re-appeared. "We're being followed" I observed. I looked around the dark abyss of a tunnel.
"Do you think it's the nightmares?" Baby asked.
"No, Foxy, can you name off the groups of animatronics?" I asked.
"Yeah, let's see here, the spring-locks, the toys, the old models, the new models, the misc., the nightmares, the funtime/circus, and the…draw-kills" Foxy said, pausing after the last one. I whipped around, pulled out my bow, immediately drawing an arrow back in the process, and shot right over Freddy's right shoulder. Something moved out of the way as a smoke trail came off of something that looked like a leg.
"Move! Move! Move!" I yelled, taking off. "Lolbit! With me! Foxy, with Freddy! Baby, with Ballora! Split up!" I yelled, turning right into another tunnel.
"How will they know where to meet up with us!?" Lolbit yelled as we ran.
"Their code will tell them where to go, plus they each will be able to track the others location, except us, lucky us, right?!" I replied as we ran. It didn't take me long to realize the kind of animatronic that was tailing us, one that had dragon-like movements. The only reason I could tell was because of the way an arrow reacted when I shot back at it. It seemed slower and more hesitant.
"Where are we going!?"
"Any place where there is a ladder!" I yelled.
"Won't that slow us down?!"
"I have a plan!" I yelled back.
"He's waking up!"
"The child?!" I asked.

"No! The water! Yes, the child!" Lolbit snapped. The child seemed confused, but comfortable in the female animatronics' arms.

"Quickly! You first!" I yelled as we neared a ladder. Lolbit scrambled up the ladder and I followed immediately after her. I shot and explosive arrow right under me, enough the blow up the ladder underneath me. I slammed the sewer lid as I jumped out, and I turned around to see a similar face.
"And here I thought, I was done was possessed animatronics" Mike Schimdt said.

"Why, hello there. Do you mind pointing us in the direction of the nearest Fazbear location?" I asked.
"Destin!" Lolbit snapped.
"What?" I asked. "Hey, do you mind taking this child back to your place?" I asked.
"You're leaving this child with some random old night guard?" Mike asked.
"Come on, I know you're a good person, plus, he's suffered from being in the Afton family" I replied.
"Fine" Mike said, taking the child by his hand.
"Before you go, I think you left someone behind" I added, taking a Goldie plush toy out of my backpack. "He'll always be there for you, if you're ever in trouble, just give him a nice squeeze" I said, patting the child on the head as he hugged the toy. Maybe there was more to the toy than met the optic.

"Just walk South down this street, you'll find it" Mike told us.
"Thank you, now, time to find your friend" I told Lolbit as we turned around, and walked South.

Well, sorry for the late chapter, had lots of school and scout stuff going on the past few days. I actually had to present a project with my patrol on Monday night, you know, just adding more stuff to my busy week. Well, it's done now, so, that's good. I'm getting into the writing part of my thesis paper, it's already three pages and I'm not even done with my first proof yet. We write the first proof first, for, some reason…anyways, I'll be spending less time on it know, since I won't be scouring websites, books, and other sources for citations and quotes. Just in case you guys wanted to know, my thesis statement is: The Biblical stories are more believable than their Greek counterparts as shown in their contrasting tales of creation, sin, and the flood. It's harder than one might believe, but I think I can pull it off. Anyways, that's it, again, sorry for the late chapter, and have a good day (I still want a hot tub time machine).