A/N: Sorry for the delay in getting this chapter out, everyone, it's been a very busy past couple of weeks. As we all know, Mike unleashed his first strike from the shadows. And now it's time for his kids to follow-up on what he started. That being said, Fazbear Entertainment isn't going to just sit there and take the beating, and Mike's going to be the first person they cast suspicious eyes on…

SuperDescendant101: Thank you very much! My time is very limited, unfortunately (it took me 3 weeks just to write this chapter, and it's not even a particularly long one) but I'll try to give it a look whenever I have time.

RicAlbuquerque: I do have that still listed as a possibility, but unfortunately it might not be for a while, and there's a non-negligible chance that I might not have time for it at all. Unfortunately, my work schedule has become a lot busier this month, and sometimes the "filler" episodes take just as much research as the main FNaF-related stuff.

Atlinwynn: Cassidy would probably be all burned out and go "fuck this shit" by in-game 2 AM if she had to take on everyone's roles by the same time XD

Awesomesniper86: I mean, what they REALLY deserve is to be shut down completely, but Mike and the ghost kids can't let that happen yet unfortunately. So they'll have to settle for this for now.

Properman: Indeed. This is the best that Mike can give them. And while he's keeping the involvement of the ghost kids a secret, there isn't a single word said about Fazbear Entertainment in the article that isn't 100% true.

TU4Q: Well, to be precise, they brutally tore into the past version of Fazbear Entertainment specifically to AVOID completely fucking over the present version. But even with the condemnation shifted away from the present Fazbear Entertainment, they've got quite the uphill PR battle ahead of them to deal with…

FrostTheFrozenFox: Oh, Fazbear Entertainment will absolutely point a finger at Mike, evidence or no evidence. But Mike would be a terrible strategist if he didn't account for this possibility and prepare for it.

Jack0Lanterns: Nelson isn't going to be important to this story for much longer, he was just the perfect character to use for this scenario. And yeah, this was damn cathartic for anybody, in-universe or in real life, who was pissed off at how moronic and asinine Fazbear Entertainment is.

Qxr: Welcome to the fic! And yeah, Fazbear Entertainment really are that bad.

Deblod100: The problem with Vanny presenting herself as an ally that she doesn't know about Mike Schmidt and the ghost kids' existence, any more than they know about hers. As for Fazbear Entertainment, they can absolutely pose problems, but I don't think they'd be able to make anyone just simply disappear. They were able to make the night guards easily disappear because the night guards were alone, in an isolated environment without any surveillance, where the animatronics did all of the hard work for them and they could simply clean up the mess afterwards. They wouldn't be able to simply order an assassination on anyone who pisses them off. Not only that, but disappearing Nelson would probably be THE WORST possible thing they could do even if they could do it. An outspoken critic of Fazbear Entertainment suddenly "disappearing" after making his statements? Not only would that make Fazbear Entertainment look far worse than any attack on its past ever could, but it would get the police on their asses in a heartbeat for foul play.

Fnaffan418: I don't really intend to touch on shipping, but I can tell you right now that the kids would be grossed out, given that they're adopted siblings at this point…

AlchemyWriter: Unfortunately, Mike and the Schmidts can't reveal William Afton and the extensive knowledge they have about him to the public without facing a LOT of uncomfortable questions. They kinda do talk about him through the "Purple Guy" that's shown up in FNaF 2 and 3 though. As for Security Breach, I can't wait for that game either!

Dragon of the Ecplising Moon: Thanks!

Thanatos D.E.M.: Well, the Schmidts can't let Fazbear Entertainment fall completely, but yes, it's about time they got a thorough and merciless ass-blasting.

FireFlamerx9z: Yep 😊

Chapter 147 – Multi-Pronged Attack, Part 2

The temptation to immediately start bashing Fazbear Entertainment was there, and it was great.

Unfortunately, however, even this would require a disciplined approach, and an additional day's worth of careful planning.

Mike had ended his call to his kids with a very stern warning that under no circumstances were they to start attacking Fazbear Entertainment online before he could discuss with them in further detail. The man had returned in the evening shortly after the article had been announced, and the family had spent the night watching Nelson's TV interview before reconvening in the dining hall to discuss their next moves.

"So we're holding off on attacking Fazbear Entertainment right now so that more people can see and respond to what Mr. Nelson did first?" Cassidy tried to clarify with her question.

"Partially, yes," Mike acknowledged. "But more importantly, we're going to do things in a way to make sure that this doesn't come back to bite us in the ass later on down the line. If we're not careful, this can go wrong in a very big way."

"What do we need to do?" Susie asked.

"The first is that you'll need to create fake e-mail accounts and fake IDs," Mike explained. "Try to use different websites as you can. So maybe two of you should make a fake Hotmail account, a fake GMAIL account, a fake Yahoo account, blah blah blah. You're then going to use those fake accounts to come up with made-up identities and usernames so that you can go online to Fazbear Entertainment's discussion boards, Facebook, news chats, or wherever people are talking about Fazbear Entertainment to turn the public even further against them…but not so far that they're going to be calling for FE to be shut down completely."

"So we're going to be using fake names," Gabe commented.

"Not just fake names," Charlie replied. "Fake birth dates and ages, too. Possibly even more than that if they want more ID. We have to create identities to make sure that absolutely nobody can figure out that there is a Gabe, Jeremy, Susie, Fritz, Cassidy, Liz, and Charlie Schmidt all working together, even if Fazbear Entertainment actually bothers to go digging."

"Okay, now I can see why it'll take us a day to get this ready," Jeremy conceded.

"And it's not just your identities that you'll be hiding, but that of your computers too," Mike added. "For this month, I've purchased different LTEs on your computers so that you won't need Wifi to go online. While you're attacking Fazbear Entertainment, you'll be using data and NOT logging on Wifi. I want to make sure this absolutely clear. Do NOT log onto Wifi when you are getting to work on FE. If Fazbear Entertainment is seriously so pissy that they're going to be looking into the IP addresses of everybody who criticizes them, then they're not going to find jack shit."

Given how lazy and obsessive Fazbear Entertainment was about money, Mike honestly doubted that they'd bother doing anything beyond maybe banning them off any discussion boards they had control over. But being careful had never hurt in the past, and he certainly wasn't going to start now.

"This is gonna be so cool!" Fritz exclaimed eagerly. "We're going undercover like spies!"

"You mean like James Bond? I'm down!" Liz agreed just as enthusiastically.

"Let me give you an example of what I mean," Mike said, picking up Cassidy's laptop that he had brought with him from the living room. "And then the rest of you guys can make your own." He proceeded to open up a Google and make a fake GMAIL account for the former Golden Freddy child, and the rest of the kids followed suit before they went to bed.

The next day, the ghost kids opened up the online article again, and were pleased to discover that there were already several posts by many different people questioning or condemning Fazbear Entertainment's past actions, a few of them straight-up insulting the company for its past behaviors."

"I can't believe this!" one poster was exclaiming. "Fazbear Entertainment allowed this many people to die on its watch and didn't do a goddamn thing about it? There's no way I'm going to allow my son to work there, not after what I've learned!"

"This is absolutely horrible," another poster agreed. "Do these people not care about safety laws whatsoever? Bad enough that those poor kids got killed at a Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria, and they let their animatronics kill people without doing a goddamn thing about it?"

"Fuck these corrupt assholes!" a particularly vehement poster snarled. "I'm not giving these jackasses a fucking cent, and my kids aren't going anywhere near one of these establishments!"

"Wow," Fritz whistled as he read over the comments. "This guy's really going at Fazbear Entertainment's throat, aren't they?"

"He's not the only one," Susie declared, as she was looking at Fazbear Entertainment's Reddit page. "There's a lot of people pissed off at Fazbear Entertainment over here too."

"Are there any people trying to defend Fazbear Entertainment instead?" Jeremy wondered.

Gabe shook his head as he was reading over Fazbear Entertainment's Facebook page. "A few, but they're in the minority," he answered. "There's a lot of people angry about Fazbear Entertainment's terrible business practices in the past."

"And they should be!" Cassidy exclaimed. "I know we deserve some of the blame too, but Fazbear Entertainment could have stopped us as early as our first kill if they even bothered to try!"

"Let's get back on focus!" Charlie drew their attention back to the matter at hand. "Now that Dad and Nelson have gotten started, we need to keep their work going online. Have you guys all made sure that you're under fake names and accounts and everything?"

"Yep!" the other ghosts chorused, having switched out of their real accounts to log onto their fake ones.

"I've got a good one written up for Reddit!" Gabe announced. "I worked on it with Charlie this morning."

"Let's see it!" Liz requested. The ghost kids crowded around Gabe's laptop as he began to type. The former Freddy inhabitant had taken on the name of Fredrick Rowler, and was masquerading as a young adult in his early 20s.

"As someone who was thinking about signing up for a job at Fazbear Entertainment, I'm very concerned about what came out of this article," Gabe typed. "I'm horrified about the fact that Fazbear Entertainment let so many night guards die, and what makes it worse is that they didn't do anything about it and even tried to cover it up. Now, to be completely fair, this was a PAST incarnation of Fazbear Entertainment," he was sure to clarify. "A past version of Fazbear Entertainment that's been shut down and gone for over 30 years. And this is a new version of the company run by completely different people. Maybe whoever's running it now will be much better than the people who ran it in the past. Maybe they'll care about their workers and do everything they can to make sure that everyone is safe and happy."

Fritz let out a derisive snort upon reading this. "Yeah, yeah, I know…" the former Freddy inhabitant acknowledged with a roll of his own eyes. "It's all a bunch of bullshit, and we all know it. But I've gotta defend them at least a little here."

"It's so annoying that we can't just bash them completely," Susie complained, before sighing. "But yeah…I know why."

Gabe nodded empathetically before finishing his post. "Maybe the right people are running it for once. But given that there's already been scandals and delays even when they were making their video game, that's not a good sign…" He checked over his work and pressed the POST button to release it to the public.

The former Freddy inhabitant's words seemed to resonate well with the Redditors currently online, for barely a few minutes later he started to receive kudos on his post. Another Reddit even posted a reply with surprising speed, expressing agreement with Gabe's sentiments and his own skepticism over the integrity on the current incarnation of Fazbear Entertainment.

"Let me try next!" Jeremy exclaimed. Unlike Gabe, he opted to comment directly on the article page itself, rather than go on a different social media page to share his thoughts. The former Bonnie inhabitant had assumed the identity of a middle-aged man with children of his own.

"I remember Fazbear Entertainment back when I was a kid," Jeremy typed. "I loved seeing the animatronics and playing in the pizzeria. But after learning about how terribly Fazbear Entertainment treated its employees to the point of being a crime, I can't support them anymore. It's a real shame, because Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria really was the place to be as a kid. But in order for me to feel comfortable sending my two children to any facilities that they might open in the future, I need to know for sure that the new management is committed to the safety and well-being of both the children who visit them AND the employees that they hire to work under them. And given all the terrible things that they've already done, and the scandals they've been through even now, I need to SEE that improvement too. A written apology isn't going to be enough, not after everything they've done."

"Ooh, nice one, Jeremy!" Susie complimented as she and the others read Jeremy's statement. Jeremy merely nodded in thanks and posted his comment. Unlike with Gabe's there was no immediate response. It was a little disappointing, but not surprising. There was no guarantee that there would be immediate responses to their words, after all. They knew enough about how the Internet worked to recognize that.

With both Reddit and the main article page taken care of, the former Chica inhabitant decided to post on Fazbear Entertainment's Facebook page next. Like Jeremy, she was posing as an adult, though unlike her brother she was not pretending to have any children. "Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria was a place where children could have fun and play in a way that they couldn't anywhere else, and when I was a kid it was the best thing ever," Susie wrote up. "But everything that I've learned about Fazbear Entertainment from Mr. Edwarya has really messed up my perception of Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. I can't help but think about all those deaths that were covered up by the old Fazbear Entertainment, so much death and blood in the same place that kids like me were having fun in at the same time. My memories of Freddy Fazbear's Entertainment have been ruined, and I don't want it to be like this for other people. I want kids living today to enjoy Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria like I did. But if that's ever going to happen, then Fazbear Entertainment has to make sure that what they do is safe. And whatever they work on, they're going to have to do a LOT of work and spend a LOT of time to make sure that things like this don't happen again."

"Very nice, Susie!" Charlie approved.

"Let's hope it gets the message across," Susie replied, but she couldn't help but beam at her sister's praise as she posted on Facebook.

Cassidy, in the meantime, was already at work typing up her message for Fazbear Entertainment's Twitter page. She didn't particularly like the site, but it was one of the most popular social media platforms available, and she didn't need to sound overly intelligent to get her point across there. She was masquerading as a teen, after all, and teens didn't need to sound particularly intelligent. "Fazbear Entertainment's work ethics in the 1980s and 1990s sucked!" she typed. "They sucked so badly that a brain-dead monkey could have done a better job running their company and keeping its night guards safe!"

Liz let out a snort when she read Cassidy's post. "Isn't this what Dad told us all the way back then?" she asked.

The former Golden Freddy inhabitant grinned in response. "Yep!" she confirmed. "That's pretty much exactly what it is."

"This just sounds like your run-of-the-mill bashing, though," Jeremy pointed out. "How's that help us with our plan?"

"I'm not done yet!" Cassidy protested, before continuing her post. "This new version of Fazbear Entertainment can be so much better than the old one, but only if they actually put in the effort to try! They need to admit their mistakes when they make them! They need to have better security measures and ways to keep their employees safe! They need to take more time with their projects and make sure that they don't have any problems! And they can't be letting more scandals happen like this! Show us, Fazbear Entertainment! Show us just how much cooler you can be than the old one! #PasttFESucks #FazbearEmployeesDeserveBetter #SafetyFirst #DontBeLazy #NoMoreScandals"

Gabe and the other ghost kids stared blankly at her rather…unorthodox message. "Wow…" he finally unfroze, shaking his head to clear his thoughts. "Just…wow. I don't even know what to think about this."

"I mean…it's a Twitter post," Charlie commented, though it was clear she was just as baffled. "Those can be literally anything."

"Do you not like it?" Cassidy asked worriedly.

"No, it definitely gets your point across," Liz quickly reassured her. "And I think that it's good to have some variety in our messages. That way, it's even harder for people to connect all of our statements together than it already is."

Cassidy nodded and posted her statement on Twitter. With how volatile the site could be, there was no telling what could happen; she might get tons of likes and tweets over the next day, or her statement could get banned in 1 hour. But there was no way she'd know how successful she'd be until she tried.

As unconventional as the former Golden Freddy inhabitant's Twitter post was, it still adhered to the family's plan and their overall goals. Which was more than what could be said for Fritz, who inexplicably seemed to have completely deviated from their mutually agreed-upon goal.

"Fuck Fazbear Entertainment!" Fritz typed on the discussion board for another news site that had posted Nelson's statements. "How can we trust a company that's lied to us about something so important! So many innocent night guards died in the past locations because they tried to cover up all those deaths instead of actually doing something about it! Imagine how many people could have been saved if they'd sent a single employee to check the AI levels instead of just sticking their heads in the goddamn sad. The entire company can go straight to Hell as far as I care!"

"Fritz!" Charlie exclaimed, anger and disbelief clear in her voice. "What the hell are you doing?"

"Writing a post," the former Foxy inhabitant replied cheekily. "It's exactly what it looks like."

"We're supposed to be writing posts that will force Fazbear Entertainment to improve," Charlie scolded, wondering if he'd even been paying attention during that meeting after seeing this. "Not trying to shut them down entirely!"

"I know," Fritz acknowledged, "but then I got to thinking." He pointedly ignored how Susie rolled her eyes at this statement. "What if we have one person make a really inflammatory, pissed-off statement about how Fazbear Entertainment completely sucks and should go die in a fire, blah-blah-blah. And then someone else writes a different statement arguing for what we want to ACTUALLY happen, for Fazbear Entertainment to finally get its shit together?"

"That…" Charlie opened her mouth to protest, and then slowly closed it as she gave the idea more thought. "That's…actually…not a bad idea, actually."

"Right?" Fritz pressed eagerly. "It gives someone else here an opportunity to defend Fazbear Entertainment against a full-blown attack, and nobody will think that we're both secretly working together if we're arguing against each other."

"Holy crap," Liz joked, "Fritz actually had a great idea for once!"

"Hey!" the former Foxy inhabitant pouted as the other ghosts snickered.

"But seriously," the former Baby inhabitant gave him a more good-natured smile. "That is a pretty good idea."

Fritz smiled back at her. "Thanks," he answered gratefully.

"Post your thing," Gabe offered, switching over to the same website that Fritz was on. "I'll write a response."

Fritz did so, and Gabe waited a couple of minutes both to formulate his own response and to make sure that the timing wasn't too suspicious. "I understand why you're angry, but I think you're being too harsh on Fazbear Entertainment," the former Freddy inhabitant countered. "Now, don't get me wrong, the version back in the 1980s and 1990s was completely fucked up and beyond saving. Anybody with a basic sense of decency will agree that letting a lot of night guards die in your restaurant at night and covering up the deaths just to keep your own business running is scummy as all hell. I'm sure we can all agree that the Fazbear Entertainment of the past was one of the most horrible companies in existence and deserved to go out of business, no doubt about it."

"Amen to that," Jeremy commented as he read Gabe's last line, to various noises of agreement made by the other ghosts.

"But I'm a big believer in fairness, and in the interest of being fair, I have to point out that the Fazbear Entertainment of the past isn't the Fazbear Entertainment that released their VR game this month," Gabe continued. "As far as we know, the present Fazbear Entertainment hasn't committed any major crimes, or hiding any really dirty secrets." The former Freddy inhabitant scowled as he wrote this lie defending them. Even now, he still didn't feel comfortable defending Fazbear Entertainment when he knew full well that even this version was guilty of the same fundamental sins as its predecessor. But if they didn't want Glitchtrap's possession victim to succeed, this was the best of the bad options they had available. "I don't want Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria to die out completely. I had so many fun times there when I was a kid, and I want a new generation to share that same experience. But Fazbear Entertainment HAS to commit to safety and go above and beyond what the old version used to do. I'm talking about more security guards, better surveillance, knowing how the animatronics work, adding more safety features to the animatronics, making sure they cover EVERY base possible. Otherwise, they're practically begging for another tragedy to happen, whether it's with kids or with their staff. And that's the last thing that anybody wants."

Charlie smiled at Gabe as he posted his reply to Fritz's inflammatory condemnation. "Well done, Gabe."

"Thanks," the former Freddy inhabitant replied. He took another look at the posts that he and Fritz had mad before sighing. "I just hope that people will actually bother to read these and care about what's going on."

"We can't control how people will respond to this, or when," Jeremy pointed out.

"I know," Charlie acknowledged. "But that doesn't mean we won't stay vigilance. The best thing we can do, and really the only thing we can do, is to keep an active presence on all the social media that we're commenting on, and make sure to keep the discussion going. The longer we keep the pressure up on Fazbear Entertainment, the more people will take our side even if we end up getting banned."

A small smile formed on her lips. "And if Fazbear Entertainment is desperate enough to silence us, there's nothing stopping us from making more fake accounts…"

Cassidy smirked, mischief sparkling in her eyes. "We can just keep doing this over and over again, can't we?" she asked. "Even if they double down and ban all of our accounts when they can, we can keep coming back and driving the message home no matter how many times they try to stop us!"

"We can and we will," Charlie assured her. "As long as it takes for us to drill the message through Fazbear Entertainment's thick skulls." Her face darkened. "They made a mockery of all the hard work that my old dad poured his entire life into. Turned it into a cesspit of greed and corruption. They were able to get away with it thirty years ago. But they're not going to get away with it now," she vowed, eyes burning with fury and determination. "Not this time."

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A/N: Wooo, glad this chapter is finally over. To be honest, this was a rather hard chapter to write. The overall themes are fairly similar to last chapter's, and I struggled to write the MCI children's responses to Nelson's article without becoming too repetitive. And yes, I'm only writing responses for the MCI kids despite the fact that Charlie and Liz are there too. I couldn't come up with seven different things to write that were unique enough to warrant additional paragraphs, and the crime of killing the night guards was mainly the MCI kids. It's only fair that they get the main focus when it comes to advocating for making any future Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria safer, both for children and for any future employees.

I actually think Fritz had a pretty solid idea when it came to being the one person to outright bash Fazbear Entertainment, while allowing one of his siblings to counterargue for Fazbear Entertainment's improvement rather than its destruction. It's a good way to stir up discussion, both from one of his siblings and from anybody reading, and also a strategy to throw people even further away from the possibility that the ghost kids are working together to call out Fazbear Entertainment on multiple social media platforms and to sway public opinion to their plans.

I was originally going to have Mr. Avernus' and Fazbear Entertainment's response to these posts in this chapter, but I was starting to get burned out and figured that stopping here was the best way to go. Next chapter will feature our "favorite" company's reaction and Mike's response to it.

One last note: I'm working on the hospital wards again next month, and I heard it's gotten pretty busy lately. Don't be surprised if I can't maintain the "one chapter per 2 weeks" schedule that I normally try to adhere to as closely as possible.

That's all I have for now. Hope you guys enjoyed!