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Alright, I've decided on the official update schedule now.

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Chapter 3

Night 2

Ruby settled in her chair and waited as the minutes to ticked by. Unknown to her, Goldy was watching with equal anticipation. Eventually the clock struck twelve, the game began and the phone rang.

"Uhh, Hello? Hello? Uh, well, if you're hearing this and you made it to day two, uh, congrats!" the voice sounded rather happy at this.

Ruby couldn't help the smile. "Thanks Steve. Think the 'bots made it to day two? I really annoyed Bonnie. His eye twitched when I came in earlier."

"I-I won't talk quite as long this time since Freddy and his friends tend to become more active as the week progresses." 'Steve' said a little nervously.

"Oh really? I guess my teasing didn't help much either." Ruby mused.

"Uhh, it might be a good idea to peek at those cameras while I talk just to make sure everyone's in their proper place. You know..." 'Steve' trailed off.

"Fine fine. I'm checking. Your concern touches me." Ruby flicked through the cameras. "Huh, Bonnie's not wasting any time I see. Aaaaand. Yup. In the closet."

Goldy had to stifle a giggle as Ruby chuckled at the rabbit's antics.

"Uh... Interestingly enough, Freddy himself doesn't come off stage very often."

Ruby raised her eyebrow. "Stage hog?"

Goldy couldn't stop this giggle and Ruby looked around the room suspiciously.

"I heard he becomes a lot more active in the dark though, so, hey, I guess that's one more reason not to run out of power, right?"

"Oh so they told you something hey?" Ruby frowned. "And yet they don't tell the helpless fifteen year old anything?"

'Helpless…Right.' Goldy rolled her eyes. 'I heard what you said to the manager. You traumatized the man.'

"I-I also want to emphasize the importance of using your door lights. There are blind spots in your camera views, and those blind spots happen to be right outside of your doors."

"Who designed this place?" Ruby muttered as she checked the cameras again.

Bonnie staring right at the camera really close up had her jumping and giving a yelp. She blinked before grinning.

"Alright bunny, that was a good one, I'll give you that." She chuckled.

"So if-if you can't find something, or someone, on your cameras, be sure to check the door lights. Uh, you might only have a few seconds to react... Uh, not that you would be in any danger, of course. I'm not implying that."

"Of course not." She muttered dryly. "You're a terrible liar Steve."

"Also, check on the curtain in Pirate Cove from time to time."

Ruby sat up just a little straighter at that.

"The character in there seems unique in that he becomes more active if the cameras remain off for long periods of time. I guess he doesn't like being watched."

"You know you just contradicted yourself?" she frowned, pointing accusingly at the phone. "If he doesn't like being watched he'd come after me FOR watching."

"I don't know. Anyway, I'm sure you have everything under control! Uh, talk to you soon." The phone call ended.

"Okay, bye!" Ruby called cheerfully, leaping to her feet.

"So…Foxy's joining the party?" she grinned. "Cool. Should make things more interesting."

As she skipped out the door with the tablet Goldy materialized.

"She wants things to be more interesting? Maybe Bonnie's right and she really is crazy." Goldy shook her head as she heard Ruby yell.

"Ohhhhh Bunny Boy!" was followed by an explosion, hysterical laughter and Bonnie crying out in surprise.

"Wonder what just happened?" she debated going to check before deciding against it. "Probably safer in my poster."

Meanwhile Ruby was doubled over with laughter while pointing a shaking bat at a rather dumbfounded 'bot.

"You should…you should see…your face!" she gasped out between bouts of uncontrollable giggling.

Bonnie was now covered in glitter. It stuck very nicely in his fur.

The rabbit was still staring at her in shock. One night she hits him, the next she covers him in glitter?

"What the HECK was that?!" he yelled.

She straightened up somewhat before withdrawing something from her bag and showing him.

"Gl-glitter bomb." She managed, still giggling a little. "Made them myself."

Bonnie looked down at himself. Well he couldn't say that they weren't effective…

"Here, have another Bunny Boy." She tossed the sphere at him before he could react and scurried into a nearby vent.

Bonnie swiped at the air again in an attempt to clear his vision. He was NOT going to admire her pranking genius. He wasn't. No matter how badly he wanted to know how to make that.

She called him old after all. And slow.

And he was supposed to stuff her in a suit and all…

Ruby was still giggling as she crawled out of a vent in one of the party rooms.

"Oh I am SO glad I brought those." She finally regained control as she checked the cameras again.

Her finger hovered over the icon to bring up Pirate Cove.

"Hmmmm. Steve seemed kinda confused about Foxy so…Better not bother him and see how things go." She nodded to herself, put the tablet away and jogged off to the kitchen with a plan already in mind.

Foxy hummed to himself as he relaxed in his cove. It seemed quieter tonight (minus the mildly concerning explosions) and the night guard FOR ONCE wasn't constantly turning his cove's camera on and off. Maybe this one wasn't too bad.

He wouldn't mind if she stayed except for, well, that thing.

He sighed, even if she was leaving him alone he was going to have to join in sooner or later. Hopefully later.

Hearing footsteps approaching (too heavy to be human) he stuck his head out the curtains and then did a double take.

"Bonnie?! What happened to you?" he asked, blinking rapidly as if that would dispel some illusion.

The purple rabbit looked up and scowled at Foxy. He was absolutely covered in glitter.

"You look like a unicorn threw up on you." Foxy stated bluntly.

"The night guard got me with glitter bombs." Bonnie muttered.

Well, if he didn't like her before Foxy sure liked her now. He started laughing.

"Yeah yeah. Just wait until she gets you with one. You can't see properly for like ten minutes. Why haven't you come out yet anyway?" he frowned at the end.

Foxy pointed in the general direction of the camera. He wasn't taking his eye off this walking disco ball anytime soon.

"Lass hasn't been bothering me so why bother her yet?" he chuckled.

"Hmph." Bonnie just sulked.

"You got distracted by those glitter bombs didn't ya Bon?" Foxy asked, seeing the thoughtful look on the other's face.

"What?!" Bonnie immediately went back to a scowl. "Of course not. Just annoyed that I lost her."

Foxy sighed and shook his head as he watch Bonnie stomp off. Everyone knew about his love of pranking (not that he found much time to do it anymore) and no doubt the night guard was giving him ideas.

Another explosion went off in the direction of the kitchen.

"I don't think I'm coming out just yet." He muttered to himself before heading back into Pirate's Cove.

4 AM rolled around and Ruby was crawling out another vent in the middle of another giggling fit.

"Ah, fans spread glitter so well." She giggled to herself. "I'll apologise to the cleaning crew later."

She looked around for any 'bots when a poster caught her eye. Well, when she looked before on the cameras it looked like a poster. Now it looked like a newspaper article?

Curious she went over to look.

"Kids vanish at local pizzeria – bodies not found? Huh?" Ruby's eyes grew wider as she read the article. "Missing kids? Someone used a mascot costume? At least they caught the guy, but…how'd he get hold of a costume in the first place?"

She felt uneasy all of a sudden and that feeling of being watched that she felt in the office suddenly intensified. Looking up she spotted another article further down the hall.

She walked over and started reading. "Five children now reported missing. Suspect convicted. But the bodies were never found… I wonder… Did the charges stick? Or did the bastard get off?"

She frowned at the thought and glared at the paper as if it could answer.

Looking around she spotted a third one.

"Please get better." She muttered. "Local pizzeria threatened with shutdown over sanitation?"

Ruby looked down at the carpets and inched a little further away from the wall.

She continued to read. "Foul odour? Blood and mucous? Likened them to…animated carcasses?! Oh no, they did NOT call my childhood heroes reanimated carcasses." She fumed.

Glaring around she spied yet another newspaper. Stomping over she started to read, still looking annoyed.

"Local pizzeria said to close by year's end." A sad look came over her face as she read. "Freddy's closed 'cuz of that bastard? 'These characters will live on. In the hearts of kids, these characters will live on.'"

Ruby gave a genuine smile at that. "Yeah, they hung around and Freddy's came back."

The smile melted into a frown however as she gazed around seeing no more newspapers. "But I wonder…that guy that did it…" glaring at nothing in particular she tightened her grip on Betty and continued down the hallway.

Once she was gone Goldy materialized in mid-air. She turned to look at the newspaper next to her sadly but then frowned and looked up at where Ruby had gone.

"Childhood heroes?" she wondered softly.

Foxy had finally been annoyed into helping by Bonnie's whines and he stalked down one of the halls in annoyance. At least when the guards stayed in the office he didn't have to go wandering around the whole building.

As he turned a corner he stopped. So did the guard across from him. She blinked in surprise when she saw him, then smiled and waved.

"Heeeeeey Foxy. Ready to join the fun?" she called down the hall.

He shifted his weight, he was faster than any of the others. Time to see what she was made of.

"Think you can outrun me lass?" he called.

Her grin widened when he spoke to her. "We'll have to see. There's a vent dead centre down this hall."

She pointed and he saw the one she was talking about.

"Think you can get to it before me?" she grinned cheekily and then took off.

So did he.

'Never thought this would happen. A guard running towards me.' He wondered as the distance closed rapidly.

She made it by the skin of her teeth.

Foxy huffed a bit in annoyance but mostly he was impressed with her speed. He could hear her panting from the vent.

"Wow, that was close." She laughed breathlessly. "You might need to give Bonnie tips."

He couldn't help but chuckle at that.

"See ya around Foxy. I got a bunny and chicken to annoy." The noises told him that she was headed away from the opening and soon he was alone.

She really was something. She hadn't even flinched when she'd just barely slipped by him.

"Hmmm, well, I helped out. I'm heading back to the cove." He muttered. "Wonder what she'll do to them next?"

By the end of the night Bonnie and Chica were utterly spent. They collapsed on the stage as the 6 AM chimes rang. Bonnie still looked like a unicorn had barfed on him and Chica…well she was somehow covered in flour from head to toe. Freddy stared at them in shock and then looked up at the night guard who was leaning against a wall near the front door.

She grinned when he met her gaze.

"Alright, I know about Bonnie and the glitter. But Chica, lass, how…Flour?" Foxy asked, sticking his head into the room.

"Don't know how but she made a bag of flour explode in the kitchen." Chica moaned.

Bonnie's ears perked up at the information but he bit back the question.

Ruby didn't look apologetic in the least.

"Maybe you should go get cleaned up… Before the staff arrive." Freddy suggested, still staring at Ruby.

Why was she still here?

Foxy was using the wall as support while he laughed as the rabbit and chicken trudged past him towards the bathroom.

"I'm guessing you're participating tomorrow Fazbear?" the guard asked when Foxy's chuckles had finally tapered off.

Freddy just narrowed his eyes at her. She smiled innocently and shrugged. An awkward silence descended on them. Foxy sauntered back to his cove and by the time Bonnie and Chica came back, clean, Ruby was still there.

The gang finally took their places as the door opened to the morning cleaners. To say they were surprised to find the night guard still there and breathing was an understatement.

"Morning!" she chirped at their confused expressions.

"Night guard?" one asked hesitantly.

"Yup!" she grinned.

"Why are you still here?" another questioned.

"Oh well I wanted to apologize." She continued to grin.

They still looked confused.

"There was a slight incident with glitter, so the place is kinda covered in it. And there's flour all over the kitchen."

They gaped at her in shock.

"Yeah so, sorry. It'll probably happen again too. But hey, better than blood and guts right?" she smirked at their expressions before heading for the door.

As she was about to leave she paused and turned back. "Almost forgot. See you next time Cottontail, Featherhead, Honeypot, Foxy!" she hollered so loudly that it echoed through the building.

Then she was gone.

As the cleaners slowly gathered their wits and began to check out the glitter and flour damage Bonnie complained in a whisper. "Why does she only ever call Foxy by name?"

Freddy just sighed in annoyance. With her there they hadn't been able to ask Goldy about the phone call. Now they were going to have to find time to sneak away during the day to talk to her. Hopefully the night guard didn't show up and bother them this time.

Ruby sighed in relief when she landed on her bed at home. It had been fun but still, three 'bots at once was a workout. Well, at least Foxy had left her alone, mostly. Except for that 'vent race'. But that was pretty cool.

She smiled up at the ceiling. Plus they didn't ignore her after her shift like last time so that was good. Progress right?

She chuckled to herself again as she remembered Bonnie's face when she unveiled the glitter bombs. Oh that had been funny.

Foxy didn't seem really into the whole chasing and killing the night guard thing though.

"Hmmm. And why does it feel like I'm being watched sometimes when I'm at Freddy's?" she whispered to herself.

She rolled over as her thoughts drifted back to the newspapers she had seen.

"They weren't there when I left." She murmured into her pillow. "There's something going on there other than sentient animatronics. But what?"

She stared pensively at the fabric of her pillow case.

"Maybe I'll find out something next time?" she hoped. "But in the meantime…"

She glanced over at her weapon of choice for the next night before smirking evilly.

"I'll keep things interesting."

Author notes:

And that's chapter 3. Hope you enjoyed.

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