"Alright, this next one's back at the child murder furry restaurant," Slays said, as he began to take a nap. "You kids have fun,"
"Ooo ooo oooo," The monkey said.
"Dude, they aren't that bad,"
Blake (and the other Faunus for that matter) didn't know what the monkey said, but some part of them felt deeply offended.
Ring ring ring An old style rotary phone rang in a clean, low rent apartment. A young man, one the audience recognised as Ren picked it up.
"Hello?"
"Hello hello," The voice on the phone spoke, Glynda again. "Well, if you're hearing this, chances are you've made a very poor career choice," she chuckled.
"No kidding," Winter said. "That version of me nearly died way too much,"
"Ohmygod Ren, you're employed!" Nora cheered at the screen.
"I can see, Nora," Ren chuckled. "They may be small, but they're still eyes,"
"Yeah, but like, you've never been employed before!"
"That is true, you are a wealth of knowledge, Nora,"
"I know," The ginger nodded.
"Mhm," Ren nodded in response, Glynda cleared her throat.
"Anyway uhh… your first day starts tomorrow night, I'll explain more then. Good luck out there, and remember, you are the face of the New and Improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza," Glynda hung up the phone.
"You'll probably need it, heh," Jaune said.
"How did they rebrand after the whole child murder thing?" Yang asked.
"People forget child murder all the time, when's the last time you checked an Amber alert?" Qrow chuckled.
"Touche, Uncle Qrow,"
NIGHT ONE
12:00 AM
Ren was sitting in his office, this one far nicer than the one that Winter resided in, with a big hallway in the middle, and two vents to his left and right.
The phone rang, and he picked it up.
"Uh hello, hello hello?" Glynda said.
"...Hi,"
"Oh good, you can talk," The Manager cleared her throat. "Uh… I wanted to check up on you, to help you get settled in the New and Improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. You'll be watching over the place, making sure no one breaks, assisting any mechanics, and watching over the animatronics,"
Ren nodded even though Glynda couldn't see him, he flipped through the cameras to the show stage.
Freddy, Bonnie, and Chica again, though they looked shinier, plasticier, and way more kid friendly: rosy red cheeks, brighter colours, things that made it look less like they would kill you at a moments notice.
"You're probably not gonna need to worry about the new animatronics though, they're all equipped with the latest in facial scanning technology; connected to a criminal date base, able to detect a predator from a mile away. We should be paying them to guard you, heh," Glynda chuckled.
"That chicken's kinda hot," Qrow pointed.
"I wasn't gonna say it, but yeah I kinda agree," Tai scratched the back of his head.
"I… have some faith in this being better," Weiss smiled hopefully. "If these things are actually designed to be safer,"
"Me too, I do not wanna see Ren get torn apart by a bunch of Toys," Jaune said.
"I don't either," Ren said. "Believe me,"
"You'll only need to worry about er… one of them," Glynda cleared her throat. "Though we have a solution for that, just wind up the music box in the Prize Corner every once in awhile; it'll keep It in there,"
"Keep what in there?" Ren asked.
"Ehh… we don't really have an official name for it. Just keep the music box wound up, okay?" Glynda sighed. "You also may have noticed that some of the cameras don't work, specifically: Kid's Cove, and The Backroom, starting tomorrow you'll be assisting one of our mechanics who'll deal with that. Anyway, check those cameras, keep the music box wound up, piece of cake; have a good night, and I'll talk to you tomorrow,"
"Alright, goodbye boss," Ren said as Glynda hung up.
"What are you hiding?" Ruby squinted at the screen.
"She can't hear you," Yang whispered.
"She will,"
"You'll do perfect, Renny!" Nora cheered as she wrapped her arm around the boy.
He chuckled "Thanks Nora,"
"Well, I'm alone, might as well wander around," Ren shrugged as he stood up from his chair, and walked though the main hall of the building into the dining room: sparkly and clean, with the equally pretty, if slightly uncanny animatronics standing on the stage in the front of the room.
"Changed these a lot, glad I'm not gonna be spending a whole week with the old creepy ones," Ren breathed a sigh of relief as he walked over to the prize counter to wind up the music box.
CRANK CRANK CRANK
He swore he heard a soft "thank you" coming from within the box, probably just his mind playing tricks on him.
"Welp, that's creepy," Yang shrugged.
"Did you expect any less?" Blake side eyed the Blonde.
"Fair"
Ren turned around to go back to his office, and-
The Blue Bunny Animatronic had moved, specifically it was currently moving into the hallway seemingly not seeing Ren go to the Prize Counter.
"Weird…" Ren mumbled to himself, though not seeing any danger in the Animatronics doing what they normally did during the day.
Ren walked by the stage, Toy Freddy turned his head to look at him.
"I got a bad-"
The large bear robot sprinted off of the stage, Ren ran, Animatronics aren't meant to chase patrons down.
The main hall! Ren ran towards it and dashed into one of the party rooms, The Fat Bear Robot heaved as he lost Ren, deciding to trudge down the hall.
Ren checked the cameras to see Toy Bonnie in the 3rd Party Room, Ren was in the first.
"What *huff* the fuck was that?"
"Called it," Yang said.
"I'm starting to think they haven't been upgraded all that much," Weiss pinched her nose. "Dammit,"
Nora wrapped her arms around Ren as the Five Night Freddy version of him was in danger, Ren chuckled in response.
He got up from the floor, tiptoeing back to the dining room presuming that his office and the hallway were already occupied.
Toy Chica was off the stage, giving him both a place to rest and wind up the music box.
CRANK CRANK CRANK
He checked the cameras again, no one in the hallway to the bathroom, best to head there before any of the robots come to the dining room.
He entered the bathroom hall and saw…
Toy Chica without her beak for whatever reason, trying and failing to comb the three tufts of hair on her head despite them being made of the same plastic as the rest of her body.
Ren pulled a poker faced and walked into the Men's bathroom, he needed a piss anyway.
The rest of the night went off without him dying, before he knew it, it was-
6:00AM
"Woohoo Day 1!" Nora cheered.
"Let's make it five… assuming that he follows the standard five day work week…" Pyrrha mumbled off into a tangent about work weeks.
"Day one was… not very easy, but I'm sure you can make it!" Jaune smiled.
"...Thanks,"
The screen became static-ey as it faded out from the night into the day, set outside a one stories suburban house; specifically the garage.
Pietro Polendina stood within the open garage, the large man smiling as a purple suited Jacques Schnee walked towards him, a smaller smile on his face.
"Ooooo, Father!" Penny cheered.
"Oh, Father," Weiss grumbled.
"I look good, purple suits me don't you think?" Jacques asked his wife, who drank an entire bottle of vodka, and passed out while giving a thumbs up in response.
"Hello Pietro, what did you call me up at…" Jacques looked down at his watch. "Eight in the morning for?"
Pietro nervously laughed. "Sorry about that, I-I just wanted to show you something that could change Children's Entertainment forever," The larger man spread his arms out to emphasise his point,"
"It's truly alright, you've already got me hooked,"
Pietro smiled as he ripped the sheet covering his new creation: A Yellow beat animatronic, before Jacques could as any questions he turned it on.
It sprung to life, joyfully greeting the two men as It stood up.
"It's just one of those junky things we keep seeing in this world, what a rip," Qrow grumbled.
"Shhh, I bet it's gonna do something super cool!" Ruby declared.
"It's an animatronic, those… those have been a thing for awhile," Jacques deadpanned.
"Ask it a question,"
Jacques laugh-sighed: "What is factually the best colour?"
"We-hell, there is no real answer to that question, what your fa-a-avourite colour is, is all up to whatever's in your heart!" The bear joyfully explained.
Jacques looked somewhat impressed. "It can-"
"That's right, He can hear, speak, respond, see, etc."
"He's… perfect, this is huge," Jacques smile grew.
"Okay that is kinda cool," Qrow crossed his arms. "But I'm limiting the amount of things I think are cool to two,"
"Thank yo-"
"No, thank you. We are about to be some of the richest men on Earth," He extended his hand, to which Pietro shook it.
"So, Pietro created these robots, interesting," Ozpin hummed to himself.
"That's all it takes to impress him, Robo Furries?" Arthur grumbled to himself.
NIGHT TWO
12:00AM
Ren was in the office, the phone rang again and he picked it up.
"Uh hello, hello hello?" Glynda said.
"Hey boss, the Animatronics tried to-"
"They walked around, and chased you? Yeah they do that sometimes," Glynda said. "The Animatronics don't have a proper night mode, so they go towards people and try to entertain them,"
"Oh, that's-"
"Dumb? Yeah, I agree, we've tried fixing it; just try your best to avoid them bumping into you,"
"So they know it's an issue, that makes it so much worse," Weiss pinched the bridge of her nose.
"This version of me should've known to have some kind of failsafe for that," Pietro grumbled.
"But the profits, man," Qrow joked.
Glynda cleared her throat. "Anyways, you'll be assisting a Mechanic fixing the camera in Kid's Cove, you'll be assisting them with Parts and Services tomorrow," Glynda explained. "Y'know how the New Foxy isn't on the stage?"
"Foxy's never on the stage,"
"Well, yeah… New Foxy is in Kid's Cove now. His and the other Animatronic's old designs were deemed a too scary slash ugly for Kids, so we made them… especially Foxy super kid friendly,"
"Why are you telling me this?" Ren asked
"Well, Kids aren't really known for keeping their hands to themselves, so they would rip Them apart every day, Engineers got tired of putting Them back together, so the Company ended up just leaving it as a sort of 'Take apart, and put back together attraction, most people just call Them "The Mangle" now… yeah,"
"Strong ass kids," Qrow commented.
"I would not wanna meet the kid that just tears off the arm off of some 8 ft tall robot," Tai shuddered.
"Wonderful,"
"Oh, and before you go, we keep the Older Models in the backroom for spare parts. Sometimes Foxy likes to leave there err… if you see him just flash your light at him; those older models tend to back off when you hit them with light,"
"Good to know, thanks boss,"
"You're welcome, and uhh… try not to damage Foxy too much, he was always my favourite, heh,"
Glynda cringed as she thought back to her pirate fan days.
"Anyways, head to Kid's Cove now, keep the music box wound up, and have a good night," Glynda hung up.
"Welp, management's no help with the murder robots thing," Ren shrugged as he sneaked down the hall, into the dining room then into Kid's Cove.
The Phone Woman wasn't lying, that thing sure is Mangled.
The seemingly deactivated "Fox" animatronic looked barely held together, it was mostly an endoskeleton with way too many arms, three legs, and a second endoskeleton head; the only part of it that still had its outer shell on was its head and hands.
Ren-
"Boo!"
"Rah!" Ren fell to the floor as The Mechanic scared him.
It was Nora, looking to be in her 20s wearing a stained, grey tanktop and pants as her uniform.
"I am slaying in that!" Nora complimented herself.
"You sure are," Ren said.
"She isn't" Coco whispered to Velvet.
"Coco that's mean!"
"Asshole," He grumbled as he got up. "Do you know what you're supposed to be doing?"
"Duh, I'm fixing this camera, and you're making sure the killer robots don't kill me," Nora said. "Also keep the music box wound up, that's your job too,"
"You sure are giving me a lot of work,"
"Yeah, and I want it done in about 5 hours," Nora giggled. "Also take this," She passed Ren a tazer. "Use it as a last resort cause the batteries on it suuuuuck!" Nora whined.
"That is… very reassuring,"
"Sure is," Nora said, rolling her eyes as she began work on repairing the camera.
"It's like they're trying to get their employees killed," Blake commented.
"I mean, it's not like you have to pay dead people," Yang shrugged.
"Yang I swear to God," Blake smirked.
"I'm kidding!"
Ren noticed the hunk of limbs people called an Animatronic making radio-esque noises in small bursts, slowly lifting its head as it poised to.
BZZZZT
The thing seized on the ground, before going back to being deactivated as Nora zapped it with her own tazer.
"You probably should've done that," Nora said.
"I'm mentally preparing to go wind up the box," Ren explained.
Nora playfully rolled her eyes. "While you're doing that could you go fetch me some extra screws from the backroom? I'm running out over here,"
"Fine," Ren said as he left Kid's Cove and entered the dining room, quickly hiding behind a nearby arcade machine in the Game Area.
"Hi!" Greeted an Animatronic, at least Ren thought so, it looked more like a creepy marionette child, wearing a goofy propeller hat while holding a sign and a balloon.
"What?"
Without warning, the thing started laughing as loud as humanly possible, Ren gritted his teeth, as the only other thing he could hear besides the annoying laughter was…
CLANG CLANK
"Shut up!" He whisper yelled at the childlike animatronic, who continued laughing. Ren stood up and got ready to bolt for the Prize Corner.
He got a good look at the animatronic that walked up to him, the Old Foxy.
His chest was torn open, he was missing the fabric and outer shell on one of his ears, and the top left part of his head.
The Animatronic bent his legs back, ready to pounce when.
Click.
"RAAGH!" He covered his eyes in pain as Ren flashed him, bolting towards the Music Box, he nearly bumped into the box, winding it up as quick as humanly possible before once again bolting down the main hall.
"C'mon Ren, get outta there!" Nora cheered. "Don't die, that'd cost a lot of money to clean up,"
"That kid is so annoying," Yang squinted at the accursed Balloon Child.
"How long has he been abandoned for? He looks so gross," Coco pointed out the barely put together Fox.
Slays did not answer, for he was sleeping.
Jimmy made various monkey noises in lieu of an explanation.
Ren ducked into a Party Room, and stayed silent as he heard the loud, disorderly clanging indicating that Foxy had walked past.
"Thank God, now just gotta get those screws and get back to base,"
There was a vent in front of him that lead to the third party room, he was in the first again, he took a peek before crawling through.
The New Bonnie, with it's plastic-ey blue outer shell was standing around in the room, couldn't go in there.
He peered into the second Party room, empty, he looked around it, also no one nearby he did see New Freddy and New Chica, but they were gathered around Balloon Boy who was still laughing.
Ren silently ran into the second party room, looked through the vent that lead to the empty fourth Party room, and crawled through it.
Foxy had walked to the other end of the hall as Ren crawled through the vent, electing to look for him there.
Ren had his opening, to run out of Party Room Four and into the Main Hall, which had the door leading to the backroom at the closest end.
"Parts and Services" it was labelled, Ren gently opened the door.
"He froze for a bit, getting an eyeful of the broken, dirty and discarded animatronics on the ground.
Chica's jaw was broken and stuck open, Bonnie was missing his face and his arm, Freddy looked the most put together, though still was missing an eye, and was still dirty.
He tiptoed towards the box full of screws sat utop a box and grabbed them all, before quickly dashing into Party Room Three.
"Jeez, those things have seen way better days," Yang shivered.
"Were those take apart and put back together attractions too?" Blake jokingly asked.
"I would've had nightmares for weeks if kid me saw those," Taiyang said. "So hopefully not,"
Qrow snickered. "Mommy, why does Bunny have no face?" He said in a scarily convincing kid's voice.
New Freddy trudged down the hallway, just missing Ren who then dashed into the first Party Room-
The New Chica jumped at him, he just ducked out of the way from her. The Chicken Animatronic, who had now taken out her eyes and beak cornered her. Ren had no option except to…
BZZT
The Chicken spasmed on the ground as Ren bolted out of the party room and back into Kid's Cove.
"Yes! Go Ren!" Nora cheered as Ren zapped the weirdly sexy Chicken.
"I am never doing anything for you again," Ren huffed and puffed as he handed the screws to Nora,"
"'You're welcome' would've been nice," Nora chuckled. "With these I can finally finish up with this camera,"
"Good, then we wait out here for the next couple hours?"
"Pretty much…" Nora said as she continued to fix the camera. "We could do Parts and Services, but I don't wanna today," She sighed dramatically.
"Me neither," Ren chuckled, remembering the state of the Old Animatronics.
6:00 AM
"Another night down, only 3 more to go!" Pyrrha congratulated. "I'm sure Ren will do great!"
"I sure hope so, if he dies than that means this version of me will get all messed up," Nora pouted. "That'd suck!"
The screen began to glitch, before showing a yellow dog, running nearby a Freddy's Location, an unheld leash wrapped around its waist.
It bumped into a man, Jacques, wearing his purple suit.
He looked down at the dog, picked it up by its neck, the screen went to static, and then the dog was gone.
"Sparky? Sparky you there boy?" Both Jacques and heard Emerald shout, the suited man ran away from the scene holding something under his arm… something bleeding.
"Oh God he killed a dog," Yang deadpanned.
"The hell? That's so cruel!" Ruby glared at the CEO.
"I wouldn't do that, all my atrocities are impersonal!" Jacques defended himself.
"Sure…" Yang grumbled.
"He killed my dog, that's so mean…" Emerald pouted to herself.
NIGHT 3
12:00 AM
Ren was in his office, the phone rang again.
"Uh hello, hello hello?"
"Hey Boss," Ren said, sounding a tag tired.
"Hey! I just wanted to congratulate you on making it to day three! You'll be going to assist Nora in repairing the Parts and Services Camera," Glynda cleared her throat. "If you've gone in there… you uhh, may have noticed the older models sitting in that backroom. Those are actually from the previous location, we just use them for parts now. We were actually gonna repair them, but they were just so ugly y'know? And the smell, so we ended up just making the newer models super kid friendly,"
"Well that's not very nice," Ruby pouted.
"They tried to kill Winter last time!" Weiss argued.
"That's no excuse for hurting their feelings!"
"Ugh, you're the worst,"
"I can tell, Bonnie must've been a doner," Ren chuckled.
Glynda chuckled back. "Yeah… we didn't leave Old Bonnie in the best state, huh?" Glynda trailed off. "Oh, one last thing. Any rumours you've heard are… entirely false. I can assure you that whatever's going on out there has nothing to do with our establishment; our Day Guard hasn't reported anything wrong, and he's here from open 'till close. Anyways, hang in there and I'll talk to you tomorrow," Glynda hung up.
Ren began to sneak to Parts and services, looking in the cameras first to make sure the coast was clear and then rushing into the somewhat dirty room.
"Ah!" Nora shouted. "Oh wait, it's just you, don't scare me like that!"
"I wasn't *huff* trying to. What are we doing today anyways?"
"Well I'm repairing the cameras in here, and you're making sure that the Robo Furries and that Weirdo Puppet Thing don't kill us,"
"I get the hard job, and you get the kinda easy job," Ren simplified, making Nora chuckle while rolling her eyes. Ren then looked around and noticed. "Where are Old Bonnie, Chica and Foxy by the way?"
"I uhhh… there's like a 2 hour period where only the day guard is in the building, maybe he moved them?" Nora shrugged. "Iuono, those guys always creeped me out, better to not have them here,"
Ren sighed. "Hope I don't see them either,"
"Yeah, I heard they stuff night guards in spare Animatronic suits!"
"Not helping," Ren groaned as he left the room to go wind the music box, checking his camera to see that the hallway and Party Room One were clear.
"Day Guard Guy totally moved them," Yang said. "Calling it now,"
"He's gonna sic an army of Furries on you Ren!" Nora fear-mongered. "Oh the humanity!"
Ren chuckled as Nora protectively wrapped her arms around him.
Ren checked a couple more cameras as he crouched behind a table in the party room.
New Freddy and New Chica weren't off their stage yet, oddly enough, The Faceless Old Bonnie, and the Old Chica, her Jaw broken and her hands replaced with frazzled wires were wandering around the dining hall alongside their Broken Down Fox Friend.
Ren waited patiently, and eventually the Bunny and the Chicken walked down the hall into the third and fourth party rooms respectively.
Ren readied his flashlight, and rushed into the dining room, taking the fox by surprise as he shined the blinding light in his face causing him to recoil.
Ren took this time to wind the music box as much as he could, before dashing back into the main hall and back into the first party roo-
Old Bonnie was waiting for him, the red LEDs the Animatronic's endoskeleton had looked at him with pure hatred, like he was the reason he was like this.
It ran towards him, his arm outstretched then-
BZZZT
Ren zapped Old Bonnie, then pushed him out of the way as he ran all the way back to Parts and Services, the only safe area for now.
"That Bunny freaks me the hell out," Yang shivered. "Must've been one hell of a donor,"
"And what kinda spare parts requires you to tear open her jaw?" Blake asked in relation to poor Chica.
"Maybe they were being used as stress balls by the employees?" Qrow chuckled, as Jacques wrote things down on a comically small notepad.
"Hey," Nora greeted as she screwed the camera to the wall.
"*huff* Hey, I really gotta stop *puff* doing stuff for you," Ren collapsed into a sitting position.
Nora rolled her eyes. "Well you should've gotten a degree in mechanical engineering instead of a degree in nothing," I'm done fixing the camera anyway, I'll go next time so you'll stop whining,"
"It's not whining he nearly dies every time!" Nora argued with the alternate version of herself… that could not hear her.
"Thank you, you should probably take the monitor for when you go out," Ren said as he handed Nora his security monitor.
"Probably, I'd like to at least know if something's gonna bite my brains out," The two employees chuckled.
Nora checked the hallway, and the dining hall, waiting until it was clear before bum rushing straight for the latter room.
Turns out in her infinite caution, she hadn't noticed the enraging balloon child standing before her, before the little shit could start laughing she kicked it over and dashed for the music box.
She winded it up in what felt like seconds, eliciting what sounded like a small giggle from the box.
Nora paid it no mind as she rushed back to the hallway, then straight into Parts and Services.
"Yeah, fuck that kid"! Nora shouted.
"Man, you must have some really shitty luck cause I only saw that damn balloon kid," Nora huffed as she entered the room, stepping over the dusty, dirty Old Freddy.
"Pretty sure that gives you the shitty luck," Ren chuckled.
"Fair, I used to work dayshifts and that thing would drive me up the wall!" Nora threw her hands up in the air. "They could literally just have a guy give out those balloons, but nooooo they have to spend an ungodly amount of money on the single most annoying… grah!"
"Not having to see him in action almost makes this worth it," Ren chuckled, Nora chuckled too.
The rest of the night went off without a hitch.
6:00 AM
"Three nights down, two to go," Jaune cheered. "You're doing really well,"
"Thank you Jaune,"
"Our glorious leader, may God bless his name has graced us with compliments,"
"Wonder what weird thing's ol Money… manbags is gonna be doing next," Qrow mumbled.
Ol Money Manbags, aka Jacques was standing within the Freddy's location, it was the evening, and the only other person in with him was Emerald huddled over an arcade machine; poor girl looked like she had been weeping for hours.
"I have the absolute worst feeling possible about this," Blake shivered.
Jacques sauntered on over to the woman, straightening his purple tie as he moved behind Emerald.
"Hello,"
Emerald gasped a little as she turned around. "What do you want?" She said depressed.
"I found your dog," Jacques smiled, warm with a hint of fakeness.
"Wh-Wha?"
"I found him," He repeated. "I know where he is, follow me…"
"Of course you know where he is, you killed him!" Glynda motioned at the screen.
"It was never shown!" Jacques argued.
"He disappeared and then there was blood, this version of you killed a dog,"
Jacques sighed.
"I am so gonna die here," Emerald thought to herself.
Jacques lead Emerald to the saferoom, the same 2 golden suits sat inside, the same arcade machines, the same box of papers.
Mangle, or at least the version of her that hadn't been torn apart yet sat in the middle, Emerald stared it down.
The Fox crawled towards her like a dog, like her dog.
Emerald looked at it with unspeakable horror as Jacques snuck behind her and-
STATIC
Emerald was gone, and in her place was a bloodied Chica, sitting deactivated.
The theatre went silent, especially The Schnees as their Patriarch murdered a child.
"Holy fuck," Yang broke the silence. "Weiss' Dad was the child murderer the whole time?"
"I- Goddamn," Jacques went even more silent.
"Well at least they didn't show it," Taiyang tried to find some kind of silver lining.
NIGHT 4
12:00 AM
Both Ren and Nora sat in the office, the phone began to ring, Ren put it on loudspeaker so both of them could hear.
"Hello, hello hello? Uhh I just wanted to let you know that there's been an investigation going on into the Pizzeria, nothing serious, Fazbear Entertainment denies any wrongdoing," Glynda reassured.
"Of course they do," Nora said
"Of course they do," Mechanic Nora whispered.
"That's what I'm saying!"
"Just keep an eye on things and I'll keep you posted… Someone might've tampered with their facial recognition sensors, they work around children just fine, but with adults they just kinda… stare," Glynda cleared her throat. "That's actually Nora's job tonight, heh… try to fix the three main animatronics' facial recognition,"
"Are we-"
"Yes they're on the show stage, yes you're carrying them to The Office, have a good night… all of this should blow over soon," Glynda hung up.
"Ughhh…" Nora groaned. "You wanna carry 'em while I make sure they don't kill us?" Nora asked.
"Not in the slightest,"
"Me neither, random chance it is; heads or tails?"
The coin was flipped, it landed on heads, and Ren groaned as he was the one carrying the 300kg furries.
"I'll repay you Renny… probably,"
Ren chuckled. "You sure will…"
"Guess that means the plastic creepos are outta commission? Good," Qrow said.
"They look like their chest opens up to swallow kids whole, eugh," Yang shivered.
"That is… the most over specific thing on Earth," Blake said. "Do you kill kids, Yang?" Blake joked.
"Noooooooooooooooooo…" Yang looked shifty eyed.
Ren groaned as he carried his first Animatronic, The Fat New Freddy as Nora wound up the music box.
"God… I didn't think his design would actually make him this *ergh* heavy," Ren groaned.
"He's made entirely of metal, what did you think he was gonna weigh?" Nora teased as she flashed her flashlight around the dark building.
"Fair *huff* point," Ren said as he dumped the Bear in Party Room One after what felt like an hour of hauling. "Let's set up camp here,"
"Lazy…" Nora chuckled as she placed her toolbox on the table.
"You're doing zero carrying,"
"Cause that's your job," She smirked. "Speaking of which let's be sneaky about it this I'll take the legs so we can carry 'em quietly,"
"Oh thank God," Ren breathed a sigh of relief.
"You think this Nora would be more willing she is the Mechanic," Weiss scoffed.
"Well excuse me Princess," Nora said, Weiss grumbling quietly as she despised that nickname. "Mechanic is not 'machine carrier 2000'… I think,"
"Well clearly you don't know either you… you… I don't know you enough to come up with an insult," Weiss mused.
"I don't either… weird,"
They began to haul the… admittedly kinda hot new Chica, Ren wound up the box before grabbing the arms, and Nora grabbed the legs.
The thing was still heavy, and progress was barely faster, but faster nonthe-
"The hell is that?" Nora pointed out two red dots, red dots that were getting closer and-
THUD "Fuck, shoot it, shoot i-"
BZZT
The Faceless Rabbit fell to the floor as he was tazed, of course, Ren and Nora heard mechanical footsteps approach as they dropped the shiny chicken robot on the floor, barely even to the main halll with the four party rooms.
"Fuck!" Nora whisper yelled. "Haul it, fast as we can,"
"On it!" Ren and Nora grabbed the thing again and bolted as much as they could to the First Party Room, carefully dumping the Chicken next to the bear.
Nora collapsed to the ground. "I think… I think they know what we're doing,"
"Shit, we gotta think of a plan then…" Ren looked over at the tazer and flashlight now in Nora's hands. "And I think I have one,"
"Alright, it better be good,"
"Bad vibes, horrible vibes," Yang waved her hands.
"Ren please don't sacrifice Nora," Jaune begged at the screen.
"Yeah that wouldn't even work, children hate human sacrifices," The ginger in question grumbled.
Nora snuck from the hall to the dining room, hugging the walls and staying near silent in total darkness as to not draw the attention of the animatronics, even in the complete black they could tell she was absolutely shitting herself.
"Okay… O-Okay Security Guy is not trying to kill you, this is all so you can complete your job," She nervously twiddled the two tazers in her hand.
She waved her flashlight around erratically, sending the fox who was standing near one one of the dining tables seizing on the floor.
Old Freddy, A slowly reactivating Old Bonnie, and Old Chica noticed Nora's presence.
"Uh… yippe kai-" They were barrelling towards her at-
"Fuck DIEDIEDIEDIEDIE!" Nora hit the trigger wildly, hitting every Animatronic at least two… I dunno three times, no one was keeping track, not even Ren who was now dragging the Blue Bunny Animatronic through the dining hall.
"Thank *huff* you,"
"Fuck" Nora made a mocking imitation of Ren's staggered breathing. "You,"
Ruby let out a deep breath. "Ohthankgodshedidn'tdie,"
"That almost killed her you moron!" Weiss whined at the screen.
"I mean… it worked," Yang shrugged. "There were a couple better options, but it worked,"
"Now the tazer's out of juice, and they are definitely not gonna let that happen tomorrow night,"
"Yeah… yeah I know," Ren huffed as he carried the Bunny into the party room. "Still worked,"
"Yeah I know, I literally just did it," Nora got out her toolbox and got started on tinkering with Toy Freddy's Facial Recognition scanner. "Now for the part that isn't gonna almost ki- ow!" Nora zapped her finger on an exposed wire under Freddy's face.
Ren chuckled, Nora grumbled and then also chuckled.
"So, now that we're not being hunted… you wanna tell me your name?" Ren asked.
"Oh yeah… Nora, you?"
"Ren,"
"Neato, Renny… try not to nearly get me killed tomorrow,"
"I'll do my best,"
The rest of the night went off without a hitch… though Nora made little progress on actually fixing the facial recognition scanners.
6:00 AM
"Night's over, what weird child murdery thing is next?" Yang asked.
It was a party at Freddy's, the older models danced and sang on their stage.
It was nearing the Afternoon, very few people remained, one of these groups was four children… alone.
Something walked up to them, the yellow Bonnie Animatronic that was in the safe room.
"Hey Kids, it's me Spring Bonnie; how would y'all feel about a private party just for y'all?" The Bunny spoke, it was Jacques putting on an accent.
The children said something the audience couldn't hear, and followed Jacques, they followed him to the saferoom.
The children smiled, Jacques opened the door, and then the children were bodies on the floor, scattered across the saferoom.
"So that was the uhh… 'incident'" Yang said.
"That's still so horrible, even if we already knew it was coming…" Weiss whispered.
Jacques was especially disturbed at what he was doing, he wouldn't kill children, he'd just make their families exceedingly poor.
It then cut to grainy footage of two dark skinned legs sticking out of a dumpster.
Mercury and Emerald shivered at the implication.
Day turned to night… A music box tucked in the corner of the dining room began to open up.
A puppet thing, sporting a white mask, black body, purple tears and green dots on Its eyes It dragged each animatronic to the safe room, then it began stuffing the kids' bodies in the suits, one by one before it went outside.
It whispered something sorrowfully as it hauled Emerald out of the dumpster, through the restaurant to the saferoom and straight into Chica.
GIVE GIFTS GIVE LIFE
"That was cryptic, so that thing put those kids in the robots?" Qrow shivered. "Creepy,"
"Doomed them to a life of… suffering, poor kids," Glynda lamented.
"Why do I get the fat one?" Emerald pouted.
Pietro scratched the back of his head, nervous and ashamed for working with this version of Jacques.
NIGHT FIVE
12:00 AM
The phone rang, Ren picked it up as Nora sat on the chair behind up.
"Hello hello? Uh hey good job, night five!" Glynda sounded nervous. ""Hey um, keep a close eye on things tonight. The building is on lockdown, no one's allowed in or out especially concerning any… previous employees." Glynda cleared her throat. "Once we get this cleared up we may move you to the dayshift, a errr… position just opened up. We don't have a replacement for your shift yet, but we're working on it,"
"That's good I guess," Ren shrugged.
"Awww, but I liked nearly dying with you," Nora chuckled.
"Yeah, heh. We're gonna try to contact the original restaurant owner. Think they were called "Fredbear's Family Diner" or something like that? Been closed for years now though, probably won't be able to track anyone down. Well, just get through one more night, hang in there," Glynda hung up.
"I don't sound very, err… confident here," Glynda said
"Day Guard did something to those animatronics," Jaune mused. "Ah jeez, that's really bad,"
"Those original owners are probably me n… Jacques," Pietro mumbled. "Any version o' me that saw this happen wouldn't wanna be seen again,"
"Father, I'm sure Jacques seemed like a great person when you first met him… this version of him," Penny reassured; earning a "Hey!" from the real Jacques.
"Well that's… not good; I almost kinda liked this job," Ren mused.
"Yeah me too," Nora agreed, before both started chuckling "Kidding, I can probably find a job better than fixing these robots made out of dildo material,"
"Out of what?" Yang laughed.
"Yeah, I get to work at a job that doesn't involve them trying to hunt me down… speaking of which where are they?" Ren asked. "I don't wanna jinx it, but they'd normally be out by now,"
Nora looked at the security tablet as Ren flipped through the cameras, none of the Animatronics had moved an inch.
"Huh, not even the music box is winding down… guess they gave up?" Nora shrugged. "I'm gonna go make a pizza"
Nora left the office and went to the kitchen, Ren elected to wander around the restaurant, eventually stumbling on into the Dining Hall.
Despite everything he had gone through here, this being the last time he'd see this place alone was kinda sad, like he had formed a connection to the "Desperately trying to forget the child murder that happened here," version of Fredd-
"Hello, are you there?" A little girls' voice spoke, coming from the Prize Counter.
"That sounds like… oh no," Pietro realised that the voice sounded almost exactly like Penny, if she was made to be about 10 years younger.
"Who's there? It's two in the morning you shouldn't be here," Ren warned as he flashed his light at the Prize Counter, at the Pup-
Ren yelped as he fell backwards, was he supposed to be winding up the box this entire time?
"Hey, hey, don't panic, please!" The Puppet raised her hands defensively. "I-I have told the others not to hurt you, they will listen to me,"
"O-Okay," Ren nodded, still sitting on the floor.
"They are going to be closing the restaurant tomorrow, one last event will be held… a birthday," The Puppet looked darkly in the general direction of the Main Hall. "He will strike again, he will take more lives and turn us into these… things," The Puppet motioned to her spindly, black body.
"Who?" Ren began to stand up.
"I used to call him Uncle Jacques, he goes by Dave Miller nowadays,"
"The Day Guy? He did the-"
"Yes, but with your help we can make sure he doesn't strike. The Newer Ones are like animals, but with someone keeping watch on them in the day they cannot hurt anyone,"
"That… okay. I've been moved to the Day Shift anyway
"Soo… Jacques tampered with the Animatronics, and Ren is gonna be near them all day," Yang mumbled. "This can only go badly,"
"Oh, I'm sure he'll be fine," Jaune shrugged, not at all reassuringly.
"Renny will see a way through it!" Nora beamed.
"I'm sure this version of me would be thanking you if he could hear or see you,"
"He one million percent would!"
"So it's a deal then?"
"Yeah" Ren shook The Puppet's weird three fingered hand.
The rest of the night went off without a hitch.
6:00 AM
DATE: 11-12-1987
PAY OF THE ORDER TO: LIE REN
[$100/50]
MEMO: Welcome to the family!
FAZBEAR ENTERTAINMENT INC,
"Nineteen Eighty Seven, so this is the year when…" Yang put two and two together.
"The bite, oooo…" Glynda realised too, along with the rest of the audience.
The screen went to static again, before the party was one last "Child murdery thing"
Jacques was driving down a dark, rainy street, cleary drunk angrily mumbling something about how "His baby had been taken from him,"
"Father, why are you drunk?" Whitley asked.
"Son, this version of me has killed roughly 5 children, drunk driving isn't that bad in comparison," Jacques sighed, he hated this version of himself too.
She sloppily parked his car in the lot of a restaurant "Freddy Fazbear's Pizza" as always.
He stumbled towards the front door where he noticed.
An eight year old Penny… she was crying and while looking wistfully through the window before noticing Jacques, in his dishevelled purple suit.
"U-Uncle Jacques, is that you?" She hiccuped.
"Yeah, what's wrong, kiddo?" He said with false empathy, his eyes dripped with malice"
"Th-They won't let me in the party," She sniffled.
"Oh, don't worry Penny. I know a secret way in follow me,"
Penny followed the man to the back alley, and she was dead, her body rotting near a dumpster with tire tracks leading away from it.
"Oh God…" Pietro whispered to himself.
The other audience members went silent, not expecting to see this many of their friends just kinda… die like this.
Something began to float towards her… The Puppet from earlier, though without the tears or green eyes.
It was slowly but surely breaking down in the rain… it began to desperately crawl towards Penny in some desperate attempt to comfort the already deceased girl.
It broke down on top of her, cuddling the corpse in it's long, slender arms.
"So from that… Penny possesses the Puppet Thing," Yang broke the silence. "But… why? It doesn't make any sense for Jacques to do this,"
"I… agree," Adam spoke up, earning an odd look from Blake. "His atrocities against my people are all impersonal in nature, it's usually the fault of the people he hires," The Bull Faunus explained. Surprising most of the audience.
"What? I'm an educated terrorist," He crossed his arms.
10:00 PM
DAY ONE
Ren was standing in Kid's Cove, separating Mangle from the crowd of children that wanted to play with her.
Glynda was walking around the restaurant, generally trying to keep order in the dining room.
Unbeknown to Ren, who was trying to keep a crowd of children from ripping apart Mangle too badly, the "Fox" animatronic was slowly lifting it's head.
It made an odd noise, Ren bent over to see what it was putting his head in front of the fox and-
CHOMP
Nora vomited into a conveniently placed bag, Ren had a roughly 15 second existential crisis from watching his frontal lobe get bit off before chilling back down, and Slays finally woke up.
"Hey guys, I'm back, how was the film?"
"A lot more disturbing than the last one," Yang said.
"Jacques killed like six children," Blake deadpanned.
"Which I wouldn't do… personally," Jacques reassured.
"Oh cool, anyways put the next one in Jimmy, we're going to a less child murderey one,"
The whole theatre breathed a sigh of relief, a break from child murder is always a nice thing.