Hey, guys! Sooooo sorry for the long delay on this fanfic. I was busy working on my ongoing Hogwarts Mystery Chronicles fanfic, since there were a lot of chapters to the Hogwarts Mystery mobile game that I had to catch up on. But now that I'm all caught up, I'm going to be turning my attention to my other unfinished fanfics starting with this one. Thank you so much for your patience, and I hope the wait was worth it!
Chapter 16: Surprise Visit
"Guys, you're not going to believe it…but that El Chip animatronic is standing outside," Ozzie muttered out loud.
Not believing him, G looked through the peephole. Then he opened the door, revealing Chips. He had multiple cuts all over his body where clear liquid was pouring from.
"Hola amigos," Chips said, struggling to breathe as he gripped his side where a lot of clear liquid dripped from. "Sorry to drop in on you."
"How did you find us?" G asked while eyeing Chips suspiciously.
"You should know why," Chips said. "We animatronics can sense one another's presence, like an internal GPS."
"So you were able to sense…my presence?" Fredi guessed.
"Yes, and that's how I was able to find you," Chips confirmed, looking around the living room. "Nice place you got here."
But just as Chips was about to cross the threshold, G closed the door on his foot trapping him where he stood.
"Where are your friends?" G demanded.
"All dead," Chips answered bluntly.
"How?"
"Someone killed them. I didn't see who it was."
"Then what about these cuts you have?"
"I was attacked from behind as I was running away."
"Bullshit! If you were really attacked from behind, the cuts would be mostly on your back and not your chest. So you were clearly attacked from the front."
"Okay, okay, I lied! I was only testing you, since you bragged about being a Night Watch Repairman assistant when we first met."
"Yeah, and I meant it. So what are you doing here?"
"I'm here to deliver a message, from my friends' killer."
"And what's the message?"
"'I'm coming for you, Freddy.'"
Chips then suddenly collapsed through the door and onto the welcome mat inside. Ozzie immediately got up and helped Chips to his feet with Fredi assisting him. G immediately went to the box behind the bookshelves and took out the Repairmen gun.
"What are you doing?" Fredi asked G.
"Don't you realize he's setting us up?" G said as he closed the door and bolted it shut. "I bet that Happy Frog girl Hari used her knife to cut Chips up to make it look like he got attacked, just so we would let him in. And because of his animatronic GPS, his friends are probably on their way to kill us all!"
"No, amigo!" Chips moaned, looking up at G pleadingly. "I'm the only one left. My friends are all dead!"
"Liar!" G aimed the gun at Chips' head. "I should have killed you when I had the chance."
Just then, an abrupt knock came from the door. Ozzie immediately dragged Chips into the hallway connecting to Fredi's room, while Fredi cracked his knuckles in anticipation. G pressed himself between the door and the wall, then after nodding to Fredi he opened the door.
"Hands up!" G shouted.
To Fredi and G's surprise, the person who stepped through the door wasn't any of the Melody animatronics. It was a woman with blonde hair wearing a white jacket with a swollen wrist.
"What's gotten into you, Gregory?" the woman said, looking down at the barrel of G's gun with extreme confusion.
"Sorry, Vanessa," G apologized, putting the gun away. "I thought you were someone else."
"Are you in trouble?" Vanessa then noticed Fredi. "Who's he?"
"Oh, him?" G tried to think of an answer, but struggled to come up with something plausible. "He's my, um — "
"New roommate," Fredi claimed, holding out his hand towards Vanessa. "The name's Fredi."
"Fredi, huh?" Vanessa tepidly shook Fredi's hand. "I'm Vanessa, Gregory's adopted mom. But everyone calls me Ness."
"So this is the Ness girl Ozzie was talking about," Glenn realized. He was standing between Fredi and Vanessa, though only Fredi could see him. "There's something awfully familiar about her. Wouldn't you agree, Fredi?"
While Fredi was tempted to answer Glenn, he realized Vanessa was still staring at him.
"Is something over there?" Vanessa looked towards Glenn, who mockingly waved at her.
"No, just the air," Fredi joked, ignoring Glenn's presence. "Ozzie told me you worked for Fazbear Entertainment."
"That I did," Vanessa said like she was embarrassed about it. "At least they paid better than my current employer."
"Who is your current employer?"
Vanessa clammed up, until G put a hand on her shoulder.
"He knows about the Night Watch Repairmen," G said. "I told him about it."
"You did what?" Vanessa clenched her fists. "Gregory, you can't go telling strangers about the Night Watch Repairmen! Even if one random person knows, it'll be all over the news in a matter of days and that would cause huge problems for our discreet operations."
"I know and I'm sorry," G apologized. "But I had to tell Fredi because he wouldn't stop asking me."
Before Vanessa could respond, Ozzie emerged from the hallway covered in the clear liquid that was leaking out from Chips' body. He froze in place upon seeing Vanessa.
"Ozzie," Vanessa frowned. "Why do you have animatronic blood on you?"
"Animatronic blood?" Ozzie looked down at himself and tried to play it cool. "That's not what this is. I was tinkering with...an endoskeleton I found, in one of the dumpsters behind a Freddy's Cafe."
Not buying Ozzie's lie, Vanessa turned her attention back to G. "You are in trouble, aren't you?"
G took a deep breath and said, "Let's talk outside."
To be continued…
