Halloween is approaching. Mike, Rena and Thomas spend most of their time swapping ideas of what they could do to advertise this celebration at Freddy's. They came on many good activities for their customers such as carving pumpkins, a prize for best dress up and a scary, yet fun game of tag. They also wanted to make a small show. "A Halloween song the animatronics can sing every hour or so" Rena suggests to Mike, he can make such a song if giving enough time.
Mike too finds that as a brilliant idea "oh yeah! I think I got a good one in mind. You need to tell the customers on our page this show might not be suitable for the smaller kids."
'Is it that spooky?' Thomas asks through his notebook.
Mike smirks to him. "Sort of, I am thinking on basing it on the past Freddy's." Thomas frowns at the thought of reliving those past restaurants real horror. "I know, but I want to do it. Call it my twisted sense of therapy."
Thomas rolls his eyes and writes: 'whatever, just be sure to have the song ready so I can program the bots for the show' Mike promise he will but he can't help feeling a bit sad the animatronics can't do this show along with them. He can't and won't do much thoughts about this wish though. Soren and Hope will help the spirits back when they feel ready and Mike wants them both to be recovered from their past hardships. Speaking of which. "I will begin on the song right after my visit with Soren." Luck is really on that boy's side. He awoke from his coma not long ago and according to the doctors; he is recovering nicely.
"Oh yeah, I hear he should be healthy enough to leave the hospital soon right?" Rena asks and does look forward to that poor boy join them and hopefully, they can make life better for him. Mike nods that Soren indeed soon will be joining them, that is good news, something they clearly all can use from what happened to Jeremy. "Oh, I hope he can join the Halloween festivities." She quickly glances around and when sure the one she will talk about is too busy playing at the arcade, Rena tells the two boys. "I told Hope about our plans and I have never seen her so excited. I hope we can give both her and her cousin a wonderful day."
'We all could use an enjoyable day where only someone's costume is scary.' Thomas writes with a large grin on his face. The two others laugh at his silly joke before going back to the planning.
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Mike leaves Freddy's about an hour later and heads straight to the hospital. "Hey, Soren." He greets the young teen and takes out a plush he brought from Freddy's. "Don't know if you consider yourself too old for such things but…" He hands the boy the Goldie plush. "Here, and if it starts moving, it's probably Goldie. He did make the joke he would possess it for the laughs." To his joy, Soren quirks a smile at that stupid remark.
"Thanks." Soren takes the plush, it's the first gift he has gotten from before all of this mess happened. Mike's remark about one of the spirits might possess this plush- "Goldie isn't really going to possesses it, is he?" It's bad enough that one keeps visiting him as simply a spirit. Soren does not need to scare the doctor's further by his new toy suddenly starts to move around, he does still feel bad how his bad dreams made the lights flicker and scare those who are supposed to help him recover.
Mike takes a seat on the bed, smiling to the kid. "To be honest: I never know what Goldie will do, he's bit of a goodhearted troll." He has to struggle not to laugh from how weird it is when Soren's shyness gets replaced with a snarky teen. "Great... well at least now I can throw him at a wall." Mike shakes his head at Soren's remark. "Try not to do it too much. Can't have you reopen your wounds."
"Yeah..." Soren muses as he would like to leave this place. "I am getting sick and tired at this place. Hospital is the worst." Adding to Mike, one he for some reason has come to like really quickly. "And it's not the food I am talking about."
He thought that wasn't the case, if what Calem told them holds any clues then hospitals are filled with confused— some of them newly deceased spirits and Soren has the reluctant honor of being able to see them all. "Don't worry, you should be able to leave soon." He ensures the kid and after a moment of thoughts, Mike decides to tell him about what is going to happen after the hospital. "When the papers are ready you and Hope will become my wards, meaning I will be your stand-in parent until your uncle will be able once again."
Which Soren highly doubts will ever happen. Twisted One is too set on keeping William caged. "He only will the day the Twisted One will leave this world for good, and that day only happens when I and Hope are dead." Soren likes Mike and doesn't think he would mind have this guy as a stand-in parent but… "You shouldn't take us. The Twisted One will break you as it did to that other guy."
"We can't leave you two to fight it on your own." Mike points out, but Soren has other idea and the teen snaps. "Well, you should! People around us get hurt! People around me die!" Mike stares surprised at the anger coming out from this tiny teen, it's clear this has long been bothering Soren, it's like he expects people to turn against him but secretly cries for help that someone can protect him. That's what Mike gets from Soren's vibe and he might not be the best but he can't turn his back on someone who needs help, less so when he fully knows the pain when that help never comes. "We fought Twisted One once and won, we can do it again, Soren." The boy's dark brown eyes, once filled with anger and despair, wide slightly to then slowly, the anger fizzles out, replaced with tears. "I don't believe you…" Soren whispers and angrily dries away the tears. "You'll be better off if you left."
Mike puts his hand on Soren's, he wants to tell the boy he won't leave him alone in this but he's unsure how to say it, so he hopes the gesture is enough. Soren does not move for what feels like forever, then, very sudden he shifts so he leans up against Mike's right arm, crying quietly. Mike feels incredibly sorry for the boy, he can only barely comprehend the hardship Soren is going through, nothing compared to his own past hardship.
He hugs the crying boy, giving Soren the comfort he longed for and although he clearly has his work cut out with this boy, Mike refuses to abandon him, as he knows how much it hurt being alone and have no one to help nor knowing how to call for help.
At the corner of the room, Calem's spirit watches the somber scene, he does quietly leave as it's clear now it's not the time to speak and ruin this clearly important moment. The talk about Mike's new apartment can wait, it's not like Mike is going to be thrown out from his current sleeping quarters just because he delays in the search.
He wanders around the hospital for a bit, talking with a few of the spirits hanging around, he even goes outside and takes a seat beside the man Soren said could see spirits as well.
The elderly man was kinda weirded out by this but slowly just accepted him and returns back to sit and watch the nearby lake and the bit of wildlife residing there. Calam must admit that he too find this a bit weird, but more in a funny way. When he figures the moment between Mike and Soren has passed, Calem gives the elderly man a polite nod- which the dumbfounded man returns- and a somewhat amused Calem returns to the room.
As hoped the moment has passed and Mike leaves the room to give Soren the rest he needs.
Checking the hallway for unwanted eyes and when sure no living beside Mike are in the area, he steps into the realm of the living. "I am glad you and Soren are getting along."
Mike flinches slightly from Calem's sudden arrival, fortunately, the aware spirit was thoughtful enough to appear a distance from him. If Calem has done it right before him, then Mike would've jumped and probably caused a ruckus. "Me too, kid has a hard shell." He admits and glances back to the small teen inside the room. "Hopefully in time, he will get out from it."
Calem nods in agreement, he steps closer and says in a quiet voice in case a nurse is nearby. "I spoke with Martin and we both agreed it would be best I stayed close to Soren. You know, in case Jeremy told the Twisted One about the location." If they are lucky, then that won't happen from the beating it took from Martin and the others.
Oh… right, that is a large possibility Jeremy did that. Mike is sure the blond resisted as long as he could but Twisted One broke his spirit and had Jeremy under its control, so yeah… that black spirit probably knows Soren's location. "Maybe it's best we move him." Mike suggests but Calem shakes his head.
"No, I will keep the boy safe. Don't know how but I— and now Martin as well, we are the opposite of a black spirit." Calem explains, he knows that both he and Martin can fight the Twisted One and win. A hospital might be a place where a lot of people meet their end but it is also a place where lives are saved, it's a place of hope and sadness. So in a sense, a hospital is the neutral grounds for spirits, the Twisted One cannot gain strength at this place as Nightmare could in Fazbear Fright. A light spirit like him wouldn't either but there is an exception and that is the one he protects; one who hopes for a better life.
Footsteps further down the hall reminds him that he's not really something people want to see. "Oh, Rena found you an apartment but others want it so you better hurry see it's something for you." He tells Mike and disappears back into the realm of the dead.
"Thanks, Goldie." Mike says and leaves the hospital, way more at ease doing so now he knows Calem will keep Soren safe. "You better not tease him too much with that plush." He muses as he puts on the helmet with the thought he probably is going to hear about it if Calem did start messing with Soren in form of a plush vision of his animatronic form.
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Halloween is fast approaching, and Rena feels like she can't do anything other than tinker with the animatronics as she keeps finding bugs in the programming to the song Mike made for the show. Thomas is not doing better, but he caused his own overload of work since he wanted to build a scary Spring for the show, something about he refused to give those song lines to this form of Spring but the one he considered a monster. He didn't go into further details of what he meant and Rena figures it's something between Thomas and his father. So she instead puts her mentality on the program that will make the animatronics move and— well they should sing the song but apparently the computers in their heads do not understand that command and keep bugging the lyric and that in turn messes up the voiceboxes, making them sing nonsense.
"And it's right about now I would love you could just sing this without me messing up your robot brains…" Rena grumbles while once again has to put the song and the movement commands into Bonnie. They might've been ridiculously advanced with souls trapped in them, but without, well, Rena will say they aren't much different from an animatronic in an amusement park. Makes her wonder if those technician deals with this crap as well, sorta hope they do, it makes her feel better knowing she's not the only one suffering.
"What are you doing?"
Rena looks up from her laptop and explains the curious Hope. "I am making the animatronics ready for Halloween— remember the song Mike played for you not long ago?" Hope nods and Rena waves up to the slump over Bonnie, having a wire stuck in the back of his head which leads down to her laptop. "They are supposed to sing that song and perform as well. I do have a few problems but I'm not giving up." She smiles at the young girl. "This Halloween show will blow our costumers away."
Hope looks up to Bonnie, then at something besides the animatronic. After a moment of just staring, she turns back to Rena, musing much to the older girl's bemusement. "He said you suck out all of his talents with that wire."
Sounds like Bonnie talking, and Rena replies, aimed at the owner of the robot rabbit. "Well, it's not like you can do anything about it Timothy." She does jump in surprise when Bonnie suddenly jerks and the program codes on her laptop changes. Staring at the once again still animatronic, Rena turns back to the laptop and is not sure she should be a bit freaked out or laugh out loud by what the codes translate to if turned into words.
'You were saying? I might be—' The sentence stops there, it seems Tim lost control over his robot form at that moment. "Moron." She sighs deadpan and deletes this cheeky sentence Bonnie made into the coding. "You messed up my work."
Hope has no idea how to respond to this, she is still trying to get used to the main staff are used to deal with spirits even if none of them can see them. Looking at the grumpy spirit going by the name of Tim, he does not look happy that he couldn't keep the control of Bonnie, which confuses her greatly. "Why do you keep trying to possess these bodies?" She asks, Tim eyes her and replies simply. 'It's my body.'
"But… it's not your real body." Hope argues but for all of these spirits who keep on trying to possess the robots do not have the same point of view on what makes a body as the others have. For them, it does not really matter they are dead. Hope does not fully understand why, only that the spirits told they have been living in those animatronic for years and thus, well for Hope it sounded like the animatronics became the spirits home but that does not make much sense for her.
And Tim is not really helping as he says annoyed. 'Of course, it is. Been mine ever since I died.' And he returns back to stare disapproving at Rena have his robot body wired to her laptop.
Hope watched Rena do this programming but soon left as it was boring to watch all these numbers she did not understand on the screen. She walks over to the game room, joining other kids at playing around at the slide.
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