Warnings, swears and stuffs. Also, I kinda forgot to describe Henry, so just think of him as Kingpin. It works for his character.
When Cooper awoke, he found himself in a hospital bed. The bright white from the bedsheets, walls around him, and furniture crippled his eyes. His body ached. It hurt to blink. His back and ankle especially hurt.
He looked down at the hospital bed, got the bed remote and pressed the button for a nurse. Within a few minutes, a tall lady with strawberry blonde hair entered the room.
"Oh, lovely! You're awake!" The nurse was happy at the fact. She looked at his vitals on the monitor next to him, saw everything was fine and went back to talking.
"What happened?" Cooper sounded dead. His was voice deeper than the voice he used to talk to Vanny.
"Well, you've suffered some severe what seem to be stab wounds, and you've lost about one-third of your blood. She gently gestured to the hanging red bags to the left of Cooper, supplying him with fresh blood.
"You're lucky you have a common blood type you know." She said it as if it was a joke.
With the comment about stab wounds, Cooper's memory came flooding back. The child, the killer, Roxy.
"I know your whole body may ache right now, but don't worry. This isn't permanent. It's just a side effect from the lack of blood."
Cooper looked down at his body. He was covered in equipment from syringes to clamps on his fingers, and several tubes leading into his body.
"What did they do to me?" He asked, growing tired and needing more sleep.
"Nothing too extraordinary. You were put in for emergency surgery, and you got several stitches in your ankle and back."
"When can I go home?"
"Well, technically whenever, but the doctors recommend at least 3 days of resting here. Just so we can make sure your recovery is coming along well. You are in a serious, but stable condition, so I would stay. We may also need to perform a few more X-rays if that's OK."
"OK. Is anything damaged permanently?"
"Yes, but it's nothing too major. Your back wound had seemed to have cut a couple of nerves from your spinal cord. We don't think you'll ever be able to control your big toe again."
Cooper tried wiggling it. Nothing.
"Oh No, my big toe," Cooper said mockingly. "Whatever shall I do without thee?"
The nurse giggled at this comment.
"Could you get me some water, please? I'm very thirsty, and maybe a newspaper too."
"Sure." And with that, the nurse was off.
"Here you are. Make sure to get some rest afterwards." The nurse left the room.
"Thank you." Cooper began drinking and flipping through the newspaper. He stopped on an article about the mega pizza Plex.
The title read: Nightguard and animatronic in serious condition after fighting a civil war?
Cooper was pissed off. What? He thought to himself. He kept reading.
Freddy Fazbear's mega pizza Plex has been forced to shut down for three days after a prized animatronic, named Roxanne Wolf, and a Nightguard have been found mysteriously critically wounded by what appears to be each other. Fazbear Entertainment is yet to issue a statement on the matter.
No bunny corpse? Huh? No dead body of a killer bunny? Cooper was frustrated at the lack of journalism but kept reading.
It seemed as though an almost civil war of sorts occurred in the pizza Plex just last night. Security camera surveillance footage from the night of the incident had mysteriously gone missing, leading to fingers pointing and blaming the night guard. Speaking of which, A man named Cooper Hellustric is in hospital tonight in a serious, but stable condition, with reports that he had lost one-third of his blood, coming dangerously close to dying. That's one hell of a cleanup for the day shift janitors.
Cooper frowned at the pathetic attempt at humour. The security camera surveillance was missing? How is that even possible?
Cooper Ignored the shocking work and just fell back asleep. He needed that rest.
Until he got a call from his boss.
He picked up his mobile and all he could hear was shouting on the other end, and words and phrases like; do you know how much this will cost us? And, the amount of revenue we are missing out on! etc.
He told his boss to slow down and talk to him calmly.
His boss begrudgingly obliged and start talking quieter. "What the hell happened last night?"
Cooper was tired, sore and wanted to sleep. He wanted nothing to do with angry higher-ups today.
"Henry, I'm sorry but we can discuss this later, I need to rest right now."
Henry, turning more sympathetic replied, "When you get out of that hospital boy, there will be a serious chat waiting for ya." Henry hung up first.
Cooper then fell asleep.
Back at the pizza Plex, technicians were sifting through thousands of hours of deleted security camera footage. If the camera footage was not used two days after it was recorded, it would automatically get deleted. But manually deleted footage would also end up there.
"This is going to take years..." One of the technicians groaned.
"Get to it bud. We don't get paid for nothing." Another barked back.
After a while of silence, the first technician spoke up. "Roxy was there, right? She would tell the truth? Can't we just repair her first and then get the answers?"
"It's logical, but that's not what we've been asked to do." The other replied. "Besides, it'll take a while to repair her and Freddy."
Inside the protective cylinder in parts and service, Roxy lay dormant. She was strapped in, however, the mechanics fixing her felt as though they weren't exactly safe.
"Yeah, good, just uuuh, a little to the left... Yeah right there... Click it in... Yup. Good." The mechanics were nervous, there were only two of them, so they needed to be extra attentive when fixing the wolf.
"Alright, good. Voicebox repaired."
"Should we fix and repaint her casing first? She might get aggressive if we fix her programming whilst she looks like this... knowing Roxy."
"Ahh, good call. I'll get the spray cans and spare parts. Wait for me here."
Around an hour and a half went by before Roxy was almost fully fixed.
"Yup, OK just about a minute till this completes mate." The mechanic outside the tube said. "Get ready."
"Yep. How's she gonna act once the programming is restored? She's not exactly the friendliest animatronic."
"Dunno. But be ready for anything." The mechanic outside the cylinder could say that easily. But the mechanic on the inside of the cylinder would struggle to say that. "It's done."
The mechanic inside the cylinder nodded as he reached for the back of Roxy's neck and pushed a button, that released a cord that was connected to her forehead. The cord was ejected from Roxy's forehead, and began flying towards the roof.
Roxy groaned as she came too. She pat her head for a moment. She then jolted up, breaking her neck restraints, and began looking around frantically.
"Where's the rabbit lady? Where's Cooper?" She sounded incredibly worried and panicked.
"Woah, Woah, Woah, Easy Rox," The mechanic on the inside told the animatronic as he stepped outside of the cylinder, shutting her in. "Run some scans and diagnostic checks." He told the other mechanic.
"Cooper's in hospital. He's in a serious but stable condition and needs to stay there for a couple more days to heal. As for a rabbit lady, what? Like a female bonnie?"
Roxanne breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that Cooper was OK. She was also disappointed she had to wait several days to see him again.
"Now, what the hell happened last night?"
Roxy was nervous about telling the mechanics. She didn't know why, but something inside her told her not to tell them. She ignored it, however.
"There was a bunny lady, wielding a knife and she wanted to attack Cooper. He tried to call the cops but there was no signal. He then called me to help him, but the bunny lady stabbed me, then I blacked out."
She didn't mention anything about Gregory. She didn't know why, but she just didn't.
The mechanics exchanged glances and both looked back at each other.
"That's it?" They both said.
"What do you mean, That's it?" Roxy snarled back.
"I thought something more interesting would've happened." The second mechanic said. "Not just a psychotic bunny."
Roxy got mad at him for saying 'that's it'. She thought it was obnoxious for him to make fun of a situation where someone, especially Cooper, was seriously hurt.
She started to softly growl at him. Nothing too threatening. The mechanics exchanged glances at each other again and one of them pressed a button on the control panel.
Roxy yelped as she was electrocuted, and returned to a more 'neutral' state.
"Love that button." One of the mechanics said. They both laughed and began cracking jokes whilst they waited for the scans and checks to complete.
Fucking Bastards. Roxy thought to herself.
Soon enough, the checks had been completed and Roxy was sent on her way.
"Alright. Who's next? Freddy? OK."
"There's actually nothing here." The technician said in amazement. "You can't just delete a file from existence, it has to be somewhere?"
The other chimed in. "Shit."
"What?"
"What if Cooper has it?"
"How would he have it?"
"USB."
"Shit indeed. But he's a nice guy, why would he take it?"
"He's nice to humans, maybe not other animatronics."
"Is Roxy finished repairing?"
"I think so."
"Wanna have a visit? See if they got along?" The technicians were about to start playing detective.
"Sure."
The two technicians made their way down to Rockstar row. The place felt like a ghost town. Usually bustling with customers, now eerily silent.
"Is this how he felt on his shifts?"
"I dunno, if it was, maybe that was part of the reason."
They made their way to Roxy's green room. They knocked and waited for a response.
Roxy came up to the door and opened it. She was surprised to see the technicians.
"Hi Roxanne. We just wanted to ask a few questions about Cooper." The first technician said.
"Why?" Roxy said rather defensively.
"That doesn't matter. We just need to know how he acts around you guys, and if he's violent or not."
"Ugghhh. Come in." Roxy was annoyed at them to say the least.
The two technicians sat on her couch and began asking questions.
"How is he around you guys?"
"Oh, he's lovely..." Roxy began staring into blank space with a slight smile on her face.
The technicians exchanged glances and one of them snapped their fingers.
"Oh, Oh, umm uh, Yeah, he's... nice." Roxy started to look embarrassed. If animatronics could blush.
"OK, is he violent towards you in any way?
"No. Have you ever met him?" Roxy was getting defensive again.
"Yes." Both the technicians replied. "We've worked with him."
"OK. So care to tell us what happened last night?" the first technician said in an accusational tone.
Roxy told them the exact same thing she told the mechanics. The technicians seemed satisfied with that answer.
They thanked her for her time and walked away.
The first technician whispered to the other "I got it." And slightly opened his pocket to show a phone that was recording.
3 Days Later
"Right. What the hell happened last night Cooper? And before you answer, you'd best tell the truth. Your answer will determine whether you're fired or not." Henry explained.
"Jesus, no pressure." Cooper said worriedly.
"I'm waiting. Also, your shift starts in six minutes. If I don't fire you, I'll still count you as being late. Hurry up boy."
Cooper sighed. What else could he expect from Henry? Power-hungry bastard. I just got out of the hospital and you're threatening to fire me. show some sympathy, monster.
"Well. I was walking around the atrium. Doing my duties, checking everything. Until I saw a strange figure..." Cooper proceeded to explain everything about the night, in the exact same fashion Roxy had. Even leaving out the details of Gregory.
I can't lie to him. He's my boss. But technically leaving out details isn't lying... Chica, I hope you hid him well. Gregory, I hope you are safe, and they don't catch you and throw you out.
After Henry had listened to Cooper, he put in a single earphone and began listening to something. Cooper thought he could make out Roxy's voice, but he wasn't sure.
Several terrifying minutes of mixed facial expressions later, Henry told him, "Lucky boy. Go clock on, you've got..." He looked at his watch. "2 minutes."
Cooper thanked him quickly, then got his stuff and rushed to his locker, put his things away then went to clock on.
Cooper met Henry as he was leaving the lobby of the pizza Plex.
"Boy! I forgot to mention, You have 1 warning. 2 More and your out."
Cooper nodded, as he turned to go look for the animatronics, Henry again called out to him.
"The place was closed down today, there won't be much for you to do. So, like, I don't know, go just have fun or something." He left as he said that, giving Cooper no time to respond.
Cooper left to go check on the gang, more specifically Roxy and Gregory.