Sunday, December 23rd 2035

4:15 AM

Grand Pulse, Nightview Mountain

Afton Facility 1F – Lobby

Cue Theme: Kyrie – Parasite Eve OST

Time Remaining Island Self-Destruction 29:40'77

Time Remaining Until Missile Impact 20:00'00

Gregory and Cassidy walked into the lobby of the Afton facility. Destroyed and damaged from the earlier battle. Cassidy had her Origin 12 Shotgun with no rounds left, she would have to go hand to hand.

The completed ARP7 cannon was assembled near the front entrance of the room, but Rockstar Chica and her team from the St. George OAOS had to abandon it due to the impending self-destruct. They were among the many helicopters and planes leaving the island.

Gregory had Glamrock Foxy's high frequency blade in his hand.

"AFTONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!" Gregory shouted.

Afton was waiting at the top of the still intact stairs.

"I've been waiting for you both. It seems the moment of truth is upon us. I get to test out my abilities of the suit and kill you both. That is an absolute win for me." William said.

"You mean the suit Kellen made and you stole from us and violated with your supposed upgrades…" Gregory said.

"I would expect someone of less intellect to react that way. I must admit I'm impressed that someone of your intellect made it this far." William said.

"Gregory knows way more than he lets on. Don't write him off so easily Afton. Remember when you thought the same about me? Tell me. How did that work out for you?" Cassidy said.

"Hahaha, oh you still think you're clever. Just because you have inherited this mature animatronic body, that you were lucky enough to get because of me, does not make you any smarter, nor more mature." William said.

"Says the man whose wife and children left him. Clearly, your doing something wrong here. And for the record, I don't like being treated like I'm still a child. I've matured far more and far faster than you think I have William. I guess sometimes being a spirit stuck in purgatory for decades does that to you." Cassidy said.

"Well, no matter. Enjoy getting in your remainder of commentary while you can. Hurricane will fall under my control in 25 minutes. Even if I parish in body, my presence is eternal, living on in the brain cell of every human my nanomachines infect. I am merely here to celebrate the inevitable." William said.

"Oh so your now a parasite. I think that's the most accurate description of you I have ever heard." Cassidy said.

"Not a parasite, just a contingency plan to ensure my continued existence. I've lost everything else I hold near and dear, but in the end I still get to have the last laugh. Once it has spread enough, I can reset the world, in my image. Symmetry my friend." William said.

"Reset the world in your image!? No, your going to destroy the world! What makes the world what it is, is our differences. You want everyone and everything to be the same? Sorry that's not a world I want to be a part of." Gregory said.

"Tell me, the man that supposedly was doing this for his family, was that actually ever true?" Cassidy asked.

"Haha, well, I will admit. It was something I humbled myself with. But than I realized my experiments truly do matter more to me, as well as ensuring my continued existence. The family was only there to put on a display for when my reach extended well enough. You see world domination does need to be marketable to some degree. What better way to do that than put a picture perfect family on the world stage. Only I can guide humans down the proper path to peace." William said.

"So you were using them, I'd say I'm shocked, but I'm really not. Maybe you are much closer to being the real William Afton than I thought." Cassidy responded.

"Yeah, it's rather impressive, for a clone." Gregory said.

"What is this childish concept you are talking about? I am the real William Afton. The one and only." William said.

"You only think you are. I don't you realize just how much you don't know about yourself. We gained access to research papers from an unknown source, but they are valid. It turns out your prodigy, Vanny, had cloned you, and copied data from Glitchtrap to bring you to life. Note. Bring you to life, not back to life. This is not William Afton's original body, nor did your memories get directly transported into this body from his brain. Vanny only cherry picked Williams favorite moments from Glitchtrap when you were created." Gregory said.

"She also only added the knowledge regarding Fazbear, Henry Emily, science and Remnant, the basic memories of William. Nothing unique. Nothing only the real William would have valued enough pre-bite incident to remember." Cassidy said.

"That's preposterous. I will reiterate. There is only one William Afton, and that is me." William said.

"Can you even remember your favorite memories with your wife or what life was like with Evan before the bite incident? And I'm not talking about memories related to Fazbear. I'm talking about the home life of the Afton family in it's early days." Cassidy asked.

William was silent, almost awestruck. He actually couldn't remember anything about Evan other than the bite incident, his favorite clothes and foods. Nothing tangible that resonated with him deeply regarding him or the rest of his family was coming to him.

"Gregory, I think we managed to break him." Cassidy said.

"No…no it can't be. I AM WILLIAM AFTON. AND I WILL COME BACK. I AM ETERNAL!" William said as he powered up his suit.

He yelled as his suit's stylized led lighting turned bright purple.

Cue Theme: Give It All You Got! – House Of The Dead 4 OST

Time Remaining Island Self-Destruction 24:35'11

Time Remaining Until Missile Impact 16:22'55

"I WILL CRUSH YOU BOTH. And my name will forever be scarred onto the surface of this planet." William shouted. He slowly approached them as a purple glow emitted from the LED's on his suit.

"Everything, has been leading up to this. We can't fail Gregory! We can't let him win!" Cassidy said.

The FazArmor tried to analyze the modified FazArmor William was using for weak points.

"UNKNOWN – Analysis is Impossible" displayed on Gregory's HUD.

Williams visor displayed it's HUD, showing the power of the Remnant batteries he installed to replace the lithium ion ones was at 100 percent.

He then activated a feature that increases power output, and inserts a needle into his arm.

Activating Remnant boost….OK

"I can feel this power. I haven't even added Agony yet. This is just the start. Have at you!" William said as he unsheathed his own high frequency blade with a purple engraving on it.

"Gregory, warning battery level at 40 percent. Use some features wisely." FazArmor warned him.

"We can do this together. Don't be afraid, we got this." Cassidy said as she got into a physical combat stance.

"I'll show you true power, take this!" William was in front of Gregory in seconds bringing his blade down on him. He was seemingly faster than Jason was. Gregory managed to block the hit with his blade. Cassidy managed to leg sweep William, as Gregory tried to downward stab him after he went to the ground. But William was simply too fast and kicked up towards Gregory as he went down, hitting him in the chin of his helmet cracking the bottom of the helmet.

Gregory was dazed for a minute as William went to strike him again, Cassidy grabbed William from behind trying her best to restrain him to give Gregory time to recover.

"Unhand me you wench!" William shouted before grabbing Cassidy's arms and tossing her over him onto the ground. He quickly went to go stab her while she was down but she rolled out of the way in time.

Gregory managed to snap out of it and ran by Cassidy's side.

"So you both have a death wish? Fine. I'll grant that for you." William said as he charged at them winding his fist up. Gregory charged his fist slammer up as he charged towards William in response, with Cassidy joining him.

The three of them made contact. Gregory's fist and Cassidy's fist made contact with William, then as a result, sent William flying back into a wall, making a hole in it. William emerged, lightly dusting himself off and then cracking his own neck.

"I barely felt a scratch." William said.

"Damn it." Cassidy said.

"Now watch this." William said running up to Gregory at superhuman speed. Before Gregory could even react, William had him by the neck.

"Gregory, I'm accustomed to pain. I have felt it all my life, I can't feel any of this. But I know you'll feel this." William said, holding Gregory.

Cassidy ran for William.

"Put him down!" Cassidy went to go punch William and he forcefully backhanded her with his free hand, hitting her with superhuman strength that sent her tumbling on the ground. She was not getting up.

Time Remaining Island Self-Destruction 22:35'11

Time Remaining Until Missile Impact 14:22'55

"No…Cassidy!" Gregory managed to get out as William tightened his grip.

"Hmm….I wonder if Vanessa and your family can see this. If I remember, your FazArmor is linked to the glamrocks. If so I hope your watching Glamrocks. Watch what I can do to your boy." William said slamming Gregory to the ground forcefully making an indent in the concrete floor.

"Ahh!" Gregory cried out.

The Glamrocks could see the battle through their link to Gregory's visor.

"No…no…don't do it. Gregory you need to get out of his grasp. Fight him!" Freddy said looking through his HUD.

"No, don't do it." Chica said.

"Please…William don't." Mangle said wide eyed.

"Freddy, Vanessa, I'm going to make the boy feel a tremendous amount of pain before I kill him. Too bad, he probably would be a great source of Remnant." William said before stepping on Gregory's ribs with his super human strength.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Gregory cried out in pain.

"Don't hurt my baby! Stop!" Vanessa cried out.

Roxanne was teary eyed because she was angry, gritting her teeth. Freddy could see nothing but red.

"Oh yesss! I love the around of Agony!" William shouted.

Cassidy got back up and saw the position Gregory was in. Gregory was wincing in pain and tried to get up as William kept a knee on him so he could not get up. He managed to push with his enhanced strength from the suit to get William off him.

"Your not going anywhere!" As William punched Gregory in the face breaking the glass on the visor completely except for the camera component. Gregory's rib was bruised he could feel it.

"Let go of him!" Cassidy charged at William. William was forced to get up from the ground to deal with her. She did a diving kick at him, as he grabbed her leg and spun her around throwing her at a wall nearby.

"It's time we finish this." William said grabbing his high frequency blade.

Gregory managed to get back up and dodge William's swing, guarding with his blade. Metal clashed against metal.

"I won't let you hurt anyone else!" Gregory swung his blade, but William dodged then grabbed Gregory's wrist and slammed his knee into Gregory's chest.

The wind was knocked out of him as he dropped Foxy's blade. He was on the ground gasping for air.

"You know you put up an incredible fight for a child. I don't think I have ever had this much of a hassle killing a child. Cassidy was the most difficult but I think you have dethroned her in that department." William said walking up to him.

"Gregory get up!" Vanessa yelled into her radio.

"We haven't left you, were circling around the island. Where right here, just get up and fight back!" Fiona yelled.

Gregory struggled to move battered and tired, William grabbed him by the neck.

"Well…it's been fun Gregory." William said as he charged his fist up. The servos were winding much like Gregory's does during this attack, Gregory knew what would happen when it makes contact. The LED's on William's glove were glowing an even brighter purple as the tension charged up.

"No…god no….please." Vanessa said.

"Gregory!" Cassidy got up to run for William and Gregory.

"Good NIGHHHTTTT!" William's angerly shouted as his machine augmented fist slammed Gregory so hard in the chest, his heart stopped. The HUD on Gregory's FazArmor reported a flatline.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Vanessa shouted.

He dropped him on the ground.

Cue Theme: Mother – Resident Evil 2 OST

"So long Gregory Anderson." William said walking towards the exit of the damaged lobby. He wanted to watch the results of his missile outside.

Cassidy ran for the boy taking him into her arms.

"C'mon Gregory. Get up. Please. Just get up." Cassidy cried out.

"No….." Chica put her hand on her mouth, her tear duct injectors activated.

"It's not fair!" Roxanne yelled pounding her fist into the wall.

"No….seastar." Glamrock Foxy said.

"I'm sorry." Fiona said.

"You…can't take him from us….it's too soon." Mangle said with tears in her eyes.

"You were my superstar…." Freddy said holding Vanessa and Roxanne.

"I don't want to believe your gone…..I don't want to believe your gone…." Cassidy cried out.

Berry heard and saw everything back at Fazbear. Her hand was on her mouth, tear's coming down her face.

"YOU MONSTER!" Cassidy screamed out so loud it reverberated throughout the lobby.

William turned around.

"Why Cassidy? Why does this child mean so much to you? He caused this himself. If he only went along with the plans…." William calmly said.

"FUCK YOU! And fuck your plans!" Cassidy shouted.

"How dare you speak to the person that gave you a body." William said.

"Your not William and your not Glitchtrap. But you sure as hell are just as terrible. I was starting to get to feel how it was to have a family again, and you took that from me." Cassidy said.

"That is what you get for meddling in my affairs all these decades." William said smugly.

"You know if there is one saving grace. It's that at least I get to watch the military blow you up before I die." Cassidy said with tears.

"Hmph." William said as he ignored her and looked at the stars through a hole in the ceiling.

"Gregory, wake up, don't give up on me now….I can't lose you. Your like the little brother I never have had." The chicken woman teared up as she held him tighter.

Cue Theme: Sad Beautiful Memory - Yu Yu Hakusho OST

"Where am I?" Gregory asked. He found himself back in his regular clothes, his trademark blue stripped shirt, cargo pants and sneakers. It was…his old home in the Hurricane suburbs. It was intact and it was sunny outside. Everything was warm hued with bright colors.

His bike was outside near the porch as always. He was standing in front of the door when it opened. It was his mother, Mary Anderson.

"Mom?" Gregory asked.

"Honey, your looking at me like you've seen a ghost." Mary said. Mary was a slim woman that wore a pink long sleeve shirt, and tan pants with black Mary Janes. Her hair was in a brown ponytail and she wore glasses.

"How….how am I here? How are you…." Gregory teared up.

"We will get to that in a minute. Just come inside for a moment. I just baked your favorite cookies." Mary said.

"Remember how we kept saying we would get rid of this coffee table? Guess we decided to keep it haha." Mary said.

Gregory didn't know where he was but he sure as hell missed his mother so badly. He cut off her words when he tightly embraced her.

"Mom. I want you to come back. I miss you so much." Gregory told her.

"Gregory your already asking me for a tall order and I haven't even given served you your favorite cookies yet. I guess you haven't changed that much." Mary chuckled.

"Is that my boy I hear?" A large well built muscular man with hair much like Gregory walked into the living room. Bruce, was Gregory's father and the boy looked very much like him. Bruce wore a blue Fazbear mechanic shirt from Roxy Raceway and blue jeans with sneakers.

"D….Dad?" Gregory stumbled on his words for a moment.

"Who else would it be? Freddy Fazbear?" Bruce said with a hardy laugh.

"It's really you. Both of you." Gregory said tearing up.

"It is." Bruce said hugging his son.

"You sure have gotten taller since we last saw you. Are those cookies done yet dear? You know how much we love em. Ain't that right Greg?" Bruce said grinning.

"Haha yeah…I can't wait to have a bite." Gregory said with a smile.

"Gregory, hun why don't you sit down, I think you can spare a few minutes here." Mary said.

"A few minutes? Mom, Dad….I want to stay here for forever….I….I missed this. My old, normal life with you both!" Gregory cried out.

The oven bell rang. The cookies were done.

"That's what we need to talk about. Listen to your mother." Bruce said sitting in his favorite recliner. Gregory remembers it well.

"Hold on, let me get the cookies and we will talk all about it." Mary said getting up. She went over and got a tray of them from the oven.

"Gregory….." Gregory heard someone calling his name. It sounded female, familiar, but he couldn't tell who it was. He brushed it off as just hearing things. It seemed to him to be a normal part of being in this place.

"Here they are!" Mary came back with them in a serving tray and set it on the coffee table they were talking about. It was still just as worn as Gregory remembered.

Gregory eagerly took one, and took a bite. They tasted exactly the same as they always did. He scarfed it down.

"Okay so..let's…" Mary was about to say until there was a knock at the front door.

"Hold on. Let me get that." Mary said.

"I didn't think we were having company over today." Bruce said.

"Gregory…..please….I need you….they need you….come to me….please….I beg you!" A female voice could be heard.

"Rox….Roxanne?" Gregory asked.

"I….can't be without my superstar…" A male voice was heard.

"Freddy?" Gregory asked.

"Roxanne? Freddy? Gregory were not at the Pizzaplex. There not here right now." Bruce said.

"So how's Cassie? It's been awhile since you have seen her haven't you? You two still messaging each other in Fortnite or whatever it is you kids are playing these days? I know her dad is stationed at our Pizzaplex in San Diego for the moment, but it's a temporary job, he should be back soon, which means, hey you might see her in person again. " Bruce said.

"I…" Gregory didn't know how to answer, he hadn't recently kept up with his old friend.

"Bruce, look who stopped by." Mary said as she walked into the living room and a familiar face Gregory knew walked in behind her.

Dawkin, former head of the Salt Lake OAOS. In the flesh, wearing his civilian clothing, a hoodie, blue jeans and sneakers.

"Hey, didn't expect to see you here Gregory." Dawkin said taking a seat in the chair across from him.

"Dawkin? What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be out on a mission right now?" Gregory asked.

"Oh…sugar they didn't tell you yet….well that's a good segway into our talk we need to have with you." Dawkin said.

"Tell…me what? Vanessa didn't tell me anything." Gregory said.

"So Mary are we ready to have, the talk with him?" Dawkin asked.

"Yes I think it's time." Mary said.

Cue Theme: It's The Right Time by Daichi Miura - Parasyte OST

"Time for what? What's going on?" Gregory asked.

"Gregory do you know where you are?" Dawkin asked.

"Yeah….I think I'm starting to figure that out now. Afton….he sent me here." Gregory said with sadness in eyes.

"Dawkin how did it happen for you?" Gregory asked.

"Vanny. But…your m….Vanessa took care of her. But we don't have a lot of time to discuss that. Mary and Bruce tell him." Dawkin said.

"Hun….I know you miss us a lot….and we miss you too. But it's not your time yet. Besides. There is so much waiting for you out there that's not here." Mary said with a loving smile.

"I….do, I want to stay here so bad Mom, Dad. I feel so lost without you both." Gregory said.

"Son, you'll never be lost. We're always going to be watching over you. Look down and put your hand on your chest." Bruce said.

"Do you feel that?" Mary asked.

"Yeah…I do." Gregory tearfully said.

"We will always be there. Remember that." Mary said.

"Gregory you always have your parents in your memories and your heart." Dawkin said. Dawkin grabbed the remote on coffee table and turned on the flat screen tv in the living room.

It showed all the home videos of Gregory growing up with his parents then switched over to the recent ones in the last year he made with Vanessa adopting him and the glamrocks.

"But you also need to make room for new ones with the family that is waiting for you out there. Vanessa, and the others need you." Dawkin said.

"Gregory just listen…." Mary said. The TV turned on to a channel showing all the glamrocks mourning over Gregory, all the people whose lives he touched.

"Their…crying over me….Normally I'm the one crying over them….." Gregory said.

"They love you and miss you Gregory. That family, needs you. Your parents will be fine here. As will I. Something Fiona will learn too." Dawkin said.

"Son, your slowly turning into a fine young man. Vanessa, Freddy and that family have done a hell of job helping you get there without us. And you too on your own, have become stronger than even you thought you could. But their in trouble, and they need your help." Bruce said.

"She does too." Mary said as Dawkin flipped the channel to Cassidy holding Gregory's body.

"Gregory…..your the closest thing I have ever had to a brother….I don't want to lose you too. Your supposed to be here for us, for me." Cassidy said.

"Gregory….come back please….." Mangle was shown on the screen with Foxy consoling her.

"I need my pupcup to come back….I'll never get to help him pick out his first car when he's old enough…" Roxanne said.

"I'll never to get see his first dance at school, him graduating high school, getting married." Vanessa said.

Even Fiona was seen crying over him.

Chica and Monty were tearing up as well.

Gregory heard all their voices and they were becoming clearer.

"So Gregory. I ask you this. Are you ready? Ready to go back and stop the man that caused all of this?" Dawkin asked.

"Yeah….I am. My family and my other parents are waiting for me out there. I have to go, it's time I save them and save the home I love. But before I do…." Gregory ran up and hugged Mary and Bruce.

"I love you both so much…." Gregory said teary eyed.

"We love you too….and we will always watch over you Gregory. Now. Go. You don't have much more time or else you will be stuck here forever. We can't have that. I need to see my boy grow up and live this life to the fullest." Bruce said.

"Here's a cookie for the road." Mary said handing him one teary eyed herself.

"Gregory let's go. Let's get you back to your family out there." Dawkin said smiling.

Dawkin got up from the couch and with Gregory's parents walked Gregory out to the front door. Mary opened the door for him. This time the neighborhood from his childhood Hurricane home was gone, now it was a bright white light with a portal in the middle showing Cassidy holding him.

"So this is it." Gregory said smiling. He took one last bite of his mother's famous cookies.

His parents hugged him one last time and smiled on with tears, as Dawkin held the door open for him.

"Hey Gregory. You're a good kid. Keep it that way okay? And don't give Fiona too much of a hard time now. She's busy enough without me to back her up." Dawkin chuckled.

"Yeah of course. Thanks dude." Gregory raised his fist to bump it with Dawkin's.

"Tell her I said hi and…let her know I said that everything is going to be alright. She's doing a great job." Dawkin said smiling.

FazArmor Life Support System. Version 1.20

Shocking patient in 3,2,1

Clear!

"You bet." Gregory said smiling as he waved bye to all three walking through the portal. He could hear the sound of a flatline turning into solid beeps as he re-entered his home world.

Time Remaining Island Self-Destruction 18:35'11

Time Remaining Until Missile Impact 10:22'55