Author's Notes: For those of you wondering why I added Freddy Fazbear's Pizza to this story and why TD knows Freddy Fazbear, here is a filler chapter for that. Please note: I am entitled to my theories and my opinions and this theory is BEFORE the second game came out. Heck, I didn't know there was a second game until I found the trailer on YouTube. Also, no, the night-guard is not the main character from the first game.
Also, please note that there might be a few references to the second game in this.
Anyway, this is MY theory of the animatronics in Five Nights at Freddy's. If you don't know the game, I suggest you get it and its sequel/prequel. IF you can handle the game. FNAF, in my case, has lost its scare but FNAF2...I hate Bonnie in that one along with the Toy versions of them. In my opinion, the Toy versions are creepier than the old gang.
Chapter 23: Filler Chapter
60,000 Years Earlier...
Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where magic and fantasy comes to life for children and adults to enjoy...who knew the place had such poor maintainance. The place was falling apart and the night-guard had to endure six hours of nothing but darkness and the "company" of the animatronics while making sure his power supply lasted the entire night which, if it weren't for the animatronics trying to get into his office, would be easy but due to them trying to get in, it wasn't easy. Far from easy.
The night guard was on his third night and already, everything was going to hell. First off, he had to deal with the power going out due to a thunderstorm, resorting to him having to use the flashlight he brought with him. Second, he had no cameras or doors. Third, he was running for his life as he ran from Foxy the Pirate, the pirate fox screeching as he chased after him. Rounding a corner, he ran into Bonnie and fell onto his back before rolling out of the way of a lunge before getting up and locking himself in the closest room, the bathroom.
Catching his breath, he counted who had recently tried to kill him; Foxy and Bonnie which left Freddy and Chica. His cell phone began ringing before he quickly answered it.
"What is it?!" snapped the guard, in a whisper as not to give away his position.
"Uh...sorry. But um...if you see a poster with a Golden Freddy Fazbear on it, DON'T blink. Trust me, DON'T blink. Oh, and...sorry for calling you on your cell phone. The power outage kind of killed my chances of warning you before. Anyway, later." came the voice of the Phone Guy before a dial tone was heard and the guard had a stunned expression on his face before he looked at his watch.
3:30 AM
"Damn it."
He tenses when he hears a groaning noise behind him and slowly turns around and his flashlight reveals...Chica who screeches and tries to grab him only for him to duck and run out of the room and skid across the floor as he turns a corner and comes to the spare costumes room before he looks around frantically and spots an empty Freddy head and puts it on and stands perfectly still as Bonnie walks into the room and slowly looks around.
"He went that way." said the guard pointing to the other door.
"{D}Thanks." said Bonnie, his head twitching violently before his black eyes went green, "Really?"
Bonnie's eyes went black again and he left the room and the guard lets out a sigh of relief before he removes the mask and leans against the wall and looks at the mask.
"Okay, WHY didn't they give me an empty costume head when they hired me?! Do they intentionally try to get the new night shift guards killed or something?! I don't think this job is worth what they're paying me." muttered the guard before he put the mask back on and slowly walked back to his office, on alert for any of the other animatronics.
After not encountering a single animatronic on his way back to the office and making it in safely, he sits down in his chair and removes the mask and inhales deeply.
"Another way these things can kill you, forget stuffing you inside a suit, try suffocating you inside one of the masks! Geez, that thing weighs a ton! Okay, 4 AM. Wait, 4AM? Odd, guess I went slower than I thought...okay, situation check; still alive, two hours to go, find some way to keep myself safe...good. No power, no lights, low battery...bad. Okay, fifty-fifty chance of survival at the moment...I hate my job."
The guard gets up and looks down the left hallway and sees nothing before checking the right and again nothing and he sits back down before he starts rummaging through one of the drawers on his desk and pulls out a small fox-like doll and raises an eyebrow.
"When did this get here? I don't recognize this from any place here..." muttered the guard to himself as he looked the doll over, noticing the red gem hanging from its head and he shrugs before tossing it behind him and goes back to rummaging through the desk drawers before he finds an old pistol buried under a stack of papers and picks it up before noticing a note wrapped around the handle.
"To whomever finds this; I know not if I will survive despite this being my last night at this cursed place but I have learned a bit about the animatronics although I doubt I will be able to write it as I'm low power. The people who own this place are cheapskates for one thing. If you find this, use it, if it still works. Only one round will be left as I have fired the other five as warning shots and it only seemed to momentarily dissuade them from attacking. Not sure how to destroy an animatronic but, aiming for the head is probably the best bet..."
Blood covers the rest of the worn note.
The guard checks the ammo and as the note states, it only has one round left and he sighs before replacing it and emptying out the empty shells and keeps it ready but his finger off the trigger.
"Okay, self-defense. Good but only last resort as it probably won't work..."
The guard then goes back to waiting before he gets up again and leaves the office and begins looking for the power room as it had actually been a few hours since the power went out. After a few minutes, he finds the room and slowly goes in, his nerves on high alert and notices that the room smells, like rotting flesh and blood and has to cover his nose with his shirt to prevent himself from vomiting.
After finally finding the power box, he opens it and it sparks lightly before he looks at it closely and sees that the circuit breaker had been thrown and after a bit he fixes the power.
"They really need to fix this place." muttered the guard before he tensed upon hearing the chime Freddy played on the first night when he lost power one minute to 6 AM and he slowly turns around to see Freddy behind him, "Oh shit..."
Freddy's chime stops and silence fills the room as it turns completely dark, darker than usual. Footsteps are heard before...
*SCREEEEEEEEECH*
Freddy tries to grab the guard only to get hit with the butt of the pistol, staggering him and the guard makes a run for door only to be tripped by Freddy and he tries to grab the guard again, only to get kicked in the jaw and the guard gets to his feet and runs out of the power room and heads for his office, looks around for any of the other animatronics and quickly shuts the doors to catch his breath.
After recovering his breath, he notices something missing from his room.
"Hey, where'd that fox doll go?" said the guard noticing that the doll he had found in the drawer was missing from the place he had tossed it.
Storage Room...
TD is seen digging through a pile of parts and some old junk when he pulls out a small music box with a "DO NOT WIND!" warning on it and he shrugs before tossing it away and after a few minutes, he sighs and sits down.
"Great. Nothing in here to help me get back to my time. Can't believe this happened. One tiny miscalculation and I'm so far in the past, Mobians don't exist yet. Great." muttered TD to himself before he grabbed the music box, removed the warning and began winding it.
[FNAF2 (Five Nights at Freddy's 2) version- Pop Goes the Weasel]
TD looks around before the song ends and he spots a oversized Jack-in-Box...box and it pops open along with a tall black creature with a white mask, black eyes with tiny white pupils, red cheeks, and a huge smile on its face with red lips. It has long black claws and it walks out of the box and over to him before bending down.
"Uh...hi?" said TD nervously as it looked him over before pulling out a note card.
"Why are you here?"
"Uh...time travel...accidental..."
"This place isn't safe."
"No duh. I had to sneak by a animatronic bunny with black and white eyes to get here."
"Black and white eyes?"
"Yeah. Why? What's the matter?"
"He's being controlled."
"Same with the other three?"
The creature nods before pulling out another note card.
"I'm the Marionette, also known as the Puppet."
"I'm TD which is short for Tails Doll but I don't like it."
"I don't like "the Puppet". So, need some help?"
TD nods and the Marionette picks up the Music Box before putting in the hands of a small animatronic that was constantly smiling and held a deflated balloon in one hand. The Marionette then walks towards the door of the room and opens it, bending under the doorway before standing to its full height in the hallway and it slowly looked around and TD slowly followed him.
The Marionette slowly made its way towards a door with a "Employees Only" sign on it and tried the handle, only to find it locked before it bent down to where it was almost even with the doorknob and put one of its claws into the lock and began working on it before the lock popped loose and it opened the door, a loud creak emanating through the place.
"That's going to alert everyone and everything in here." said TD looking around nervously and the Marionette nods before he grabbed TD and threw him down the stairs and shut the door as a screech is heard which is followed by a thud.
TD gets up clutching his head.
"A little warning would have been appreciated." muttered TD as he dusted himself off and jumped when a hook broke through the door before a pained scream is heard and the hook is removed from the door by black claws. TD then proceeds to go further down the stairs as fighting noises are heard from the other side of the door. After a bit, he has to use his gem to give him some light to see.
The further he went down, the more the feeling of dread washed over him which was a first and the smell of blood and rotting flesh began to fill the air before he came to a small make-shift control room and saw a gold-colored animatronic bear sitting at a command console.
"Swarm the stupid Marionette you little brats! He's distracting you!" growled the bear into the console before a cleaver the size of a short-sword was embedded in it and the bear stumbled back before he turned around and growled at TD. The bear also had red eyes with tiny white pupils (1).
TD held two serrated daggers in reverse grips and glared at the bear before a phone in the room began ringing before it answered itself.
"Hey tough guy, remember me? Yeah you do. You kicked me out of my own body when you took over but guess what? I got stuck in the phone lines instead. Oh, and the fox in front of you...I don't know where he came from but I do know one thing, you're gonna get it! Hey, little guy with the gem on his head, beat the wiring out of that bastard for me will ya? I'd do it myself but...I'm kind of just a voice in the phone lines because my real body is being controlled by a darker personality I got from a...incident I witnessed a long time ago. Anyway, don't go easy on him but I would like to get back into my real body. Being stuck in the phone lines for 20 or more years is kind of boring. Oh, and the name's Golden Freddy Fazbear, or just "Goldy" for short. Kick my evil self's ass kid!"
The phone leaves a dial tone after a hanging up noise is heard and "Evil Goldy" growls before he finds the room darkened and he chuckles.
"You think that affects me? I've been down here for years since that stupid Marionette tossed me down here when I tried to kill guard! Darkness doesn't effect me you little freak!" snarled Evil Goldy before he got cut across the face, leaving a deep gash that went to the endoskeleton beneath, "Holy- you little freak!"
TD tries to slash him again only to find a hand wrapped tightly around his throat, choking him and Evil Goldy glares at him angrily.
"I'm going to kill you and then make you suffer like I've made these little brats suffer." snarled Evil Goldy before he felt a tapping on his shoulder and he turned around only to find a brown fist in his face, sending him flying and causing him to drop TD who gasps for air.
"Guess what? The little "brats" want a talk with you." said Freddy Fazbear as the lights in the room came back on.
"You brats can't do anything to me, I saved you from death. You OWE me!" snarled Evil Goldy.
"We don't owe you anything. You've made our lives miserable since you've been controlling us." said Bonnie cracking his knuckles.
"And it wasn't you who saved us. It was Goldy, you're not him." snarled Foxy walking into view.
"And just what are you brats going to do to me?"
"This." came Chica's voice behind Evil Goldy before she slammed a massive electrical cable into his back and he screeched in pain as the electricity coursed through him like crazy, causing his eyes to explode followed by almost ninety percent of his servos and finally, his head explodes in a shower of sparks and fire. Evil Goldy then drops to the ground and the power throughout the place goes out.
Office...
"WHAT THE F*K?!" yelled the guard in the office as he suddenly lost power to all systems before the power came back on and he sighed and put his head on the desk in annoyance.
With Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, and TD...
"Is he dead?" said Foxy tilting his head as he looked at the corpse before the same phone rang and then answered itself.
"Yes, he's dead and it looks like I'm stuck in the phone lines for a bit longer. Darn. Anyway, sorry you guys had to go through all that. I tried to stop him from gaining control all those years ago but he was stronger than I thought." came Goldy's voice from the phone.
"Would somebody please explain to me what is going on?" said TD as he finally recovered his breath and is massaging his throat lightly.
"I suppose you do deserve an explanation kid...uh, what's your name?" said Goldy.
"TD. Full name is Tails Doll but I don't like it."
"Right, well, TD you deserve an explanation. This began years ago, when the restaurant was bigger and there were more animatronics, I'm sure you've met two of them right?"
TD nods.
"Well, there were more of them and they were actually creepy, the newer models, never liked them as I was the only model they didn't scrap and I was also the first animatronic. I was kind of a standup comedy act but I actually had a lot more features than any of the other animatronics; feelings, personality, ideas, almost human as some would say. Well, anyway, the older models were left to rot before they slowly began fixing them and making them less scary until one night, a impostor using my spare suit, lured four kids around the back of the restaurant. I also had the unique ability to teleport when one of my posters were viewed but I could control it and well, one of the kids looked at my poster out back and I teleported there because I knew something was wrong but...I was too late and watched as the guy killed the kid and then ran off, unfortunately, I didn't catch as he was insanely fast and really agile if he could remove a suit quickly. The wind must have blown the head off as I found it a few feet away from the kids'...bodies. I felt really bad for them so...I gave them a second chance and put their souls into the repaired older models and when they woke up, luckily during the night, they panicked except for the oldest, well he still panicked but he calmed down the fastest.
I began teaching them how to handle their new bodies and lives but Evil Goldy began forming and I'd try to push him down, most of the time I'd do just fine but others, he'd surface for bit. Made it hard for me to even do my act. I was put into storage when he...made a guy go to the hospital with six broken ribs and a shattered arm. They wouldn't listen to him which I was glad for but he then forced me out of my own body one day, turning me into floating data but I somehow got into the phone lines and have been there ever since.
Now, Evil Goldy would try to get the four to be mean to the staff but they wouldn't listen to him and then one night he somehow did something to put them under his control, probably slight possession and made it living hell for them during the night and even harder for them during the day as they couldn't say anything without alerting the staff that they were kids and not the animatronics and I would try to warn the night guards whenever I could. And then, 1987 came around and Foxy, the youngest of the kids, was forced to kill a child and I was surprised that Evil Goldy did it during the day and I still am. Foxy and the Pirate Cove area were then shut down because of that."
"I tried to fight the possession but...I didn't win." said Foxy looking down and Freddy puts an hand on his shoulder.
"I tried everything to stop my evil self but nothing worked. Heck, he was only delayed by the Marionette when the Marionette tossed him down here after Evil Goldy tried to kill a night guard...who was found stuffed into a over-sized music box a few days later...yeah, the Marionette has some kind of bug or something that when the music box he has around stops playing, he gets weird but...strangely...its only adults he gets weird around if they wind the box and let it stop. Kids...he gives them gifts before gently taking the music box away from them. Teens...generally left alone unless they're "bad apples" and those usually get to see his face...don't ask because I don't know what he looks like under that mask.
Anyway, for years there was nothing we could do until you came. Heh, who knew that all we'd need is someone to find the Marionette and get down here to destroy that console he had."
"Yeah thanks." said Freddy.
"Okay, so...all of you are kids' souls in animatronic suits?" said TD a bit confused and they nod, "Was the killer ever found?"
"Uh...no." said Freddy rubbing his neck and TD sighs.
"Well...glad something came out of this. So, how old were all of you when you...died?"
"I was ten." said Freddy.
"Eight." said Bonnie.
"Seven." said Chica.
"I was five and Freddy's younger brother (2)." said Foxy.
"What were your names? Your real names?" said TD.
"Um...we've kind of forgotten our real names. I mean...we've been here for twenty or more years, putting on an act for kids during the day and playing those same songs over and over...and over..." said Freddy as his eyes widened.
"Uh...maybe you should stop the act and try something new?" said TD shrugging.
"Be better than doing the same stuff over and over." muttered Bonnie.
"Well, what about the guard? We've probably scared the crap out of him while Evil Goldy was controlling us." said Chica.
"We'll have to think of something I guess. Maybe, leave him alone for the next few nights?" said Freddy and the others nod.
"Well, I made this day, er, night better but how am I supposed to get home?" said TD before a portal opens up behind him and a large black claw-like shadowy appendage grabs him and pulls him in, the portal closing once he's in.
"Uh...we all just saw that right?" said Foxy as he rubbed his eyes and the others nod dumbly.
"Okay...we pretend that didn't happen but we keep it under lock 'n' key right?" said Freddy and the others agree.
After a couple years, the restaurant begins to regain business as the smell is gone but unfortunately, before a major renovation could take place, the restaurant was swallowed by a sink hole, along with the present night guard and the place was never dug up (due to the loss of too much money if a excavation was performed), leaving the guard to suffer underground and eventually rot yet the animatronics inside faired far better than the poor guy. Although mad that the guard's own employers would do such a thing, they could do nothing about it and they actually became friends with him before something happened in which he locked himself in the office and Foxy was found deactivated but no matter what they did, they couldn't get the guard to come out nor bring Foxy back online and so...they waited and waited and waited...for sixty thousand years...
END CHAPTER
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(1)I know his eyes aren't that color in-game but come on people, have some imagination. This is FanFiction, have some imagination here.
(2) Again, have some imagination.
The adding of TD explains the story with how he and Freddy knew each other in the previous chapter and TD is not involved in the theory behind the animatronics in FNAF nor is the ending of the chapter part of theory, the ending is part of the story.
Do NOTleave hateful or destructive comments because of this chapter. Remember, everyone is entitled to their opinions, theories, and ideas. This theory was made before Five Nights at Freddy's 2 came out and was later modified, as the author's own thought process, to include the Marionette and the old-old restaurant; in other words, the theory was modified to include bits of FNAF2.