A/N: All right, I think it's about time we get the ball rolling for Security Breach. There's only so many filler chapters I can write before everyone (including myself) loses interest entirely. But we're not gonna get into Gregory's misadventures just yet, because it would be negligent of the ghost kids to scout out the completed Mega Pizzaplex and make sure that Fazbear Entertainment actually fixed the major fuck-ups that they discovered.

Chapter 217 – Before the Grand Opening

It wasn't until several months later that Mike finally received a communication from Fazbear Entertainment regarding the Grand Opening of the Mega Pizzaplex. While a few of the younger and more impatient of his kids had started to get antsy about the lack of news from Fazbear Entertainment, Mike was honestly quite relieved that it had taken this long for them to reach out to him.

"The fact that it took this long means that they took implementing the changes we requested or demanded them to make seriously, and those kinds of improvements could take a lot of time to make," Mike had explained when Fritz had asked why he was happy it had taken so long. "If they had reached out to us about a month or even two after our first tour and told us that they were done fixing everything, I would've called bullshit immediately."

"They also finally put up a grand opening date on the Internet!" Charlie reported. "It looks like it's going to be open on the first day of August!"

"Are we gonna get a chance to look at the Mega Pizzaplex one more time before the Grand Opening?" Jeremy wondered, before adding, "It would be a great opportunity to get as much intel as possible, see what got fixed and what we still need to worry about."

Mike smirked. "Funny you should ask, Jeremy. The email I got from Fazbear Entertainment also just happened to invite me for one final tour of the completed Pizzaplex about 1 week before the Grand Opening. A final opportunity to review the corrections I demanded of the Pizzaplex to ensure that everything is to their satisfaction and to avoid potential complications."

"I'm surprised they even bothered to give you that invite, to be honest," Susie remarked.

"They probably did it because they know you're gonna show up at the Grand Opening," Gabe pointed out. "And the last thing they want for you is to point out major problems to the public on their Grand Opening and cause a major PR disaster."

Liz giggled. "The funny thing is, they're not even wrong."

"I'll gladly take Fazbear Entertainment doing the right thing any day of the week," Mike commented. "Even if it's purely just to cover their own ass, that's still a lot better than them fucking something major up."

"Wait a minute, so they're letting us visit the Mega Pizzaplex one week before it opens?" Cassidy realized. "But that's in three days! How long do you have to accept, dad?"

"They want an answer by tomorrow," Mike answered, before shrugging. "Not like it really matters. Is there anybody here who honestly thought I was gonna refuse?"

"Nah," Fritz answered nonchalantly, "there's no way you would've passed that up. It's just kinda surprising how fast things are moving, that's all."

"Well, since we don't have a lot of time, why don't you guys review all the major changes that we either requested or straight-up ordered Fazbear Entertainment to make?" Mike suggested. "That way, we make sure we cover all our bases when we visit the Pizzaplex one final time.

"We can't do anything about any problems that Glitchtrap and his possession victim cause," Charlie added, "but if we miss a fix that we ordered Fazbear Entertainment to make and don't catch it before the Grand Opening, that's on us."

"It almost feels like we're studying for a test of some kind," Susie commented with a frown.

"In a way, I can see that," Mike agreed, before his voice took on a more serious tone. "But there's a lot more at stake here than there could be for any simple school test. Both for you and for everyone else who visits the Pizzaplex."

Three Days Later…

Mike's car slowed to a stop in the parking lot outside of the now-familiar Mega Pizzaplex. The exterior had more posters and a few more decorations that made it look a little more polished compared to the last time they had been here, but overall the appearance of the Mega Pizzaplex hadn't changed significantly compared to the last time they had been here.

Of course, that didn't really mean much by itself. After all, the exterior of the Pizzaplex had never been the problem.

As Mike and the ghost kids approached the entrance to the Pizzaplex, the same representatives from last time, Mr. Raugelan and Mr. Leelurd, stepped out to greet them. "Ah, Mr. Schmidt!" Mr. Raugelan greeted him cordially. "A pleasure to meet you again."

"Good to see you too," Mike returned the greeting politely. No point in being rude to the messenger, after all. "It's been a long time since we last met, huh?"

"It has indeed," Mr. Leelurd replied. "Now, why don't we get straight to business? The sooner we can show you all the new improvements and changes you made to the Mega Pizzaplex, the better."

"I couldn't have said it better myself," Mike immediately agreed. "I'm quite interested to see what you've changed since I was last here. Of course, there were several changes that are non-negotiable, and I WILL be paying attention to see if they were implemented appropriately."

"We remember. And rest assured, those changes have been made as you requested," Mr. Raugelan promised. "That was the primary reason why the opening of the Mega Pizzaplex was delayed for so long."

"I figured as much," Mike answered dryly as they entered the Pizzaplex. The main entrance area to the Pizzaplex hadn't changed much, with the giant golden Glamrock Freddy statue still standing proudly in the middle of the area. Then again, there wasn't anything fundamentally problematic about the main entrance area, unlike several other parts of the Pizzaplex.

"I want to try a little something this time around," Mike telepathically sent a message to his kids as they walked into the lobby. "I want you guys to split up into pairs and investigate the various parts of the Pizzaplex on your own initiative."

"Wait," Liz blinked. "You want us to check out the Pizzaplex by ourselves? In pairs?" she asked for clarification.

"Yeah," Mike confirmed, before giving his explanation. "It's been a long time since Liz's mom visited our house, but don't forget her warning. You might not be able to depend on me all that much to stop Glitchtrap in the Pizzaplex. If that's true, and I'm going to assume it is, then you'll have to start doing things on your own. Which is why I want you guys to go out in pairs and check for yourselves to make sure that the fixes we demanded of Fazbear Entertainment were actually implemented. You can go in any direction you want and do it in any way you want, but I want you guys to figure this out for yourselves. I'll also be paying attention and we can confirm observations after we're done, but this is your first step in doing things independently. Cause I have a feeling you're gonna be doing a lot of that at the Pizzaplex when we deal with Glitchtrap."

"Oh, right…I completely forgot about that," Fritz mumbled.

"So did I," Susie admitted. "But it's super important to know."

The ghost kids quickly split themselves up into pairs. This time, they stuck with teams that they were familiar with. Gabe and Jeremy, Liz and Fritz, Susie and Cassidy. The only one left behind was Charlie, who decided to stay with and accompany Mike to protect him.

"I doubt that anybody will try to attack Dad while you guys are away," the former Marionette explained, "but I can't rule out that possibility entirely. And if that happens, I need to make sure that their attack fails miserably."

"Part of me almost hopes that Glitchtrap's possession victim IS stupid enough to attack me," Mike replied dryly. "Because if they attack me and fail, I can pretty much get them arrested for attempted murder right then and there, and that's basically an instant win condition right there. I doubt that's gonna happen though. For better or for worse, Glitchtrap seems to be more restrained than the original William Afton was."

"We'll check on everything important," Cassidy promised, and the ghosts flew off in their self-assigned pairs. Mike, meanwhile, asked Mr. Raugelan and Mr. Leelurd to show him the Fazcade, the location where DJ Music Man and the many ducts were located.

"Right this way, Mr. Schmidt," Mr. Raugelan offered with an extended hand. The three men (and an invisible Charlie) made their way to the Fazcade. While the room itself and the many arcade machines looked largely the same as they had the last time Mike had been there, there were some noticeable differences right off the bat.

The first was that the spiral staircase that connected the floors of the Fazcade now had two additional bars in the handrail that served as an additional barrier between the steps and the open rail. While it wouldn't necessarily stop children from climbing over the railway (which was probably impossible to completely stop), the additional bars meant that it was much, MUCH less likely for a small child to slip under the railway and fall to grievous injury or the death.

The more important change Mike noticed was that all of the duct entryways that children could feasibly access were now completely blocked. Apparently, Fazbear Entertainment had decided to bite the bullet and set up an array of metal bars very reminiscent of a jail cell with a net behind them at the entryways to the shaft passages, which would make it physically impossible for any child to enter. There were other shaft passages that remained unguarded, but those were more out of reach for children to climb into so Mike wasn't all that worried about them.

"As you can see," Mr. Raugelan gestured towards one of the blocked passageways. "We have set up multiple barriers that will prevent children from climbing into the duct passages. There are plans to either make these barriers more aesthetically pleasing or simply cover the duct passages entirely, but for now this is our current method to prevent children from climbing into DJ Music Man's passages."

Mike nodded approvingly. "Very good. And what about DJ Music Man himself? Has that experimental bouncer mode been removed?"

"It has," Mr. Leelurd confirmed. "The engineers who were going to implement the bouncer mode weren't exactly pleased to learn that their particular project was scrapped, but we simply redirected them towards other tasks after an especially vocal one got fired."

It took all of Mike's self-control not to roll his eyes. Apparently, Fazbear Entertainment were still assholes even when they were technically doing the right thing. "So what type of behavior does DJ Music Man display now?" he asked.

"For the most part, DJ Music Man stays on his stage and plays his music at all times," Mr. Raugelan answered. "He will now only leave the stage when he's brought down to the Parts and Services area for maintenance. Without his experimental bouncer mode, there is very little incentive for DJ Music Man to move from his post at the Fazcade."

"That's really good news," Charlie thought, and the expression on Mike's face made it clear that he agreed. With the experimental bouncer mode out of the equation, it sounded like the threat from DJ Music Man was lessened dramatically, if not outright neutralized. "That's one less problem out of the way. Hopefully everyone else will find similar good news in the rest of the Pizzaplex."

Meanwhile, at the Atrium…

Fritz and Liz flew into the Main Atrium from the Prize Corner, where they had just visited to make sure that the fire exits were still easily accessible to the general public.

"We can't really push open the exits to test them," Fritz commented regretfully, "but otherwise it looks like everything's the same. Fazbear Entertainment doesn't look like they blocked anything since the last time we were here."

"I'm still not sure how I feel about the fact that they lock the doors at night," Liz replied, before a smile appeared on her face. "But hey, the prizes in the Prize Corner look super neat and tidy now! They look WAY more organized than the last time we were here."

"That's cool and all, but I really want to see the stage now," Fritz pointed towards the stage at the other end of the Atrium. "We need to see if they made the changes to the stage Dad suggested, and if we're lucky, we might get to see the Glamrock animatronics!"

The two ghosts flew towards the main stage of the Atrium. As they got closer to the stage, they realized to their disappointment that the Glamrock animatronics nowhere to be found. "Aww, man!" the former Foxy inhabitant groaned in disappointment. "I was really hoping to see them again. Those animatronics looked so cool!"

"We might find them if we get a bit lucky," Liz reassured him. "But I can already see they made some changes to the stage!"

The former Foxy and Circus Baby inhabitants got closer to the stage. Sure enough, there was now a new plexiglass barrier that had been painted to match the rest of the décor in the Atrium, and even had a stream of lights at the very top of it. The barrier wasn't particularly high…but it was high enough that no child could feasibly climb over it onto the stage now without a LOT of help, and even then they would almost certainly get caught immediately now with how obvious it would be.

"Hey, there's some Rules lists tacked onto the side of the stage now!" Liz suddenly exclaimed. "Both right in the center and also to the left and right."

"Oh wow, you're right, Liz!" Fritz realized. "Those definitely weren't there before!" They floated up to the rules list in the front and read it. It was pretty standard as far as they could tell, with basic rules such as not climbing up onto the stage, not touching or feeding the animatronics, and not pushing or roughhousing with each other. The lists also came with a warning that not following the rules could risk serious harm to children, and that breaking them could come with punishments up to and including being removed from the Pizzaplex outright. It might not have been the most comprehensive rules list in the world, but it got the message across well enough.

"Well, at least the rules lists are there now," Fritz commented with a hint of satisfaction. "It might not stop some morons from breaking the rules, but at least they actually bothered to warn everyone now."

"But this is only a fairly minor problem that got fixed," Liz reminded her brother. "There's a LOT bigger problems the last time we came here. And we have to make sure that those got fixed, or else fixing the stage doesn't really mean anything."

Meanwhile, at the Cupcake Shoppe…

"Wow," Cassidy whistled as she flew through the Cupcake Shoppe. The place had been a complete and utter wreck the last time they had been here, but it wasn't the case anymore. "They really cleaned this place up nicely, huh, Susie?"

"You said it!" Susie was similarly impressed. "I honestly half-expected them to just leave the place like it was the last time we saw it and close it off to the public like they're doing with Roxy Raceway."

The snack center had indeed undergone a complete overhaul. The tables and chairs that had previously been filthy and thrown haphazardly onto the ground had been neatly rearranged, cleaned, and their irreparable parts replaced. There were even cupcake and cake-shaped decorations under the tables now, adding a thematic look to the Cupcake Shoppe that hadn't been there before. The myriad debris that had been scattered across the ground was also completely gone, and now the Cupcake Shoppe looked like a place that was fit to sell desserts to children, even if there was still nobody inside it and only the background lights were on to illuminate the area.

"I'm just happy this place doesn't look like a complete mess anymore," Susie commented as they left the Cupcake Shoppe behind. "You have no idea how mad I was when I saw just how much of a wreck this place was the first time."

"I guess they had plenty of time to clean it up over the past couple of months," Cassidy replied as they flew over to the Mazercise area, the other main attraction that had a Chica theme. "Remind me, what are we checking here again?"

"We're checking the Mazercise controls," Susie explained. "Remember how the controls used to be most complicated and stupidest thing ever?"

"Oh, right," Cassidy groaned. "I got a headache just from watching those Fazbear Entertainment guys trying to figure out how that thing was even supposed to work."

"Well, if they did what Dad wanted them to, then the controls should be completely reworked," Susie muttered as they got closer to the attraction. "Hopefully it doesn't take somebody with the brain of Albert Einstein to actually figure them out now."

"Oh, and we also need to check the vent, too!" Susie pointed out. They flew into the Mazercise room itself, which visually didn't look any different from the last time they were here. Using their natures as ghosts to their advantage, they flew above the walls and quickly located the vent opening in question. "Oh hey, Cassidy, look at that!" She pointed at the opening…which was now covered by a grate that definitely hadn't been there before. "They actually remembered to cover the vent now! It's blocked off!"

"Hey, you're right!" Cassidy exclaimed. "That grate definitely wasn't there before!"

Susie breathed a sigh of relief. "Okay, I'm really happy to see that grate there," she remarked. "Now anybody who stumbles into it while going through the Mazercise can't climb into it and end up somewhere unsafe anymore."

"But we still don't know if they fixed the controls yet," Cassidy pointed out. "We need to go to the control room and find the panel."

The former Chica and Golden Freddy inhabitants left the Mazercise and found the small room that doubled as the control office. When they found the control panel, they were shocked to discover how much it had changed. It was still located next to a TV screen that overlooked the Mazercise through a camera, but the switch and the arrows pointing in different directions were now completely gone. Instead, there were now simply 10 buttons on the control panel in two rows of five labeled 1 through 10, all of which looked like they could be pushed.

"They changed the layout of the control panel," Susie pointed out. "I think if we were to click a button, then it will automatically change the maze inside now."

"Only one way to find out, right?" Cassidy asked rhetorically. "Let's press a button and see what happens!"

"Hold on a sec," Susie stopped her. She quickly flew outside, making sure that nobody was around, and then went back to Cassidy. "Okay, go for it, quickly!"

The former Golden Freddy inhabitant pushed the button marked 3, triggering a whirring sound as the several of the Mazercise's walls began to shift and turn to create a new layout. In just a few seconds, the Mazercise's layout had now changed completely, although the entrances and the fire exit were still accessible.

"Hey, I think they figured it out!" Cassidy exclaimed.

"Try another button, see what happens!" Susie urged. Cassidy pressed another button at random, this one marked 6, and again the maze's layout transformed after a few seconds. And once again, the entrances and the fire exit were still accessible despite the changing maze pattern. For good measure, the former Golden Freddy inhabitant pushed the button marked 8, with a similar result."Okay, it looks like they actually did solve the Mazercise now!" Susie declared with a grin.

"Hold on!" Cassidy warned. "I hear something!"

Even though they were already intangible and inaudible naturally, the ghosts fell silent as they heard someone or something move outside the door. Susie poked her head out cautiously, making sure she was still invisible, and found herself staring at a security S.T.A.F.F. bot that had wheeled itself into the room. The S.T.A.F.F. bot flashed its light all around the Mazercise and looked at the office door for a few seconds with what looked like curiosity, before turning around and leaving."

"Crap," the former Golden Freddy inhabitant muttered. "I didn't think about how much noise we were making by playing around with the switches."

"We should probably stop messing around," Susie advised. "We figured out what we needed to here anyway. Hopefully everyone else is having the same kind of luck that we are."

Meanwhile, at Roxy Raceway…

"Man," Jeremy shook his head in disappointment. "This place is still a shithole!"

Gabe winced at the rather strong words from his brother, but he couldn't say the former Bonnie inhabitant was wrong. The Roxy Raceway area might have looked slightly cleaner compared to last time, but otherwise it looked like the same abandoned mess littered with debris and construction materials. And whether it had even improved at all was VERY debatable to begin with, given how dilapidated and chaotic the raceway room still looked.

"Well, thank God this place is still labeled as Out of Order and completely blocked off to the public," Gabe muttered. "Because otherwise this wouldn't be even remotely close to acceptable."

"I guess they never fixed whatever the problem with Roxy Raceway was," Jeremy sighed. "Kinda sucks, too. I bet it would've been really cool if they actually got it working properly."

There wasn't really anything more to be said about Roxy Raceway, so the two ghost brothers left the area and instead chose to investigate the Parts and Services area located underneath the Glamrock animatronics' green rooms. They sank into the ground and emerged into the Parts and Services area, which looked largely unchanged compared to the last time they had been there.

"Uhhh…" Gabe blinked, before asking hesitantly. "Is it just me, or were there supposed to be extra parts around for the animatronics? You know, replacements in case something malfunctions?"

"No, it's not just you," Jeremy shook his head. "There were supposed to be more parts lying around."

"Maybe they're not actually in the Parts and Services area itself?" Gabe suggested. "Maybe they're in some sort of storage area next to it?"

Jeremy nodded thoughtfully. "That's…not a bad idea," he realized, before turning to face a set of double doors. "I just realized we never actually checked what was down there."

"We should probably take a look before we go and tell Dad that they still didn't bring any extra parts over," Gabe suggested. His brother nodded in agreement, and they floated through the series of double doors. The former Freddy and Bonnie inhabitants found themselves in a warehouse of some kind, with several crates stacked together and various parts lying around. Gabe approached one of the crates and peered at the label on it. "Oh, wow!" he pointed at the label. "Look at this, Jeremy!"

Jeremy approached the side of the crate. "Glamrock Freddy parts," he read. "Wait, so there's extra Glamrock Freddy parts in this crate?"

"That's not the only crate with extra parts in it!" Gabe realized as he looked at another crate. "This one has Roxanne Wolf parts in it!"

"And the one I'm looking at now has extra Montgomery Gator parts!" Jeremy announced, pointing to another one of the crates. "I guess Fazbear Entertainment really DID take our suggestions seriously!"

Gabe wasn't quite as enthusiastic. "Yeah, but this isn't really all that great," he pointed out. "They don't have the parts organized and easily available to be used, like they did back at the pizzeria we used to haunt. They just have them all jammed in a bunch of crates like this. How is this supposed to be helpful for anyone?"

Jeremy rolled his eyes. "Of course Fazbear Entertainment didn't bother to take the parts out," he muttered. The former Bonnie inhabitant then brightened. "But hey! They did technically follow our suggestions! Even if they didn't do in the way we would've wanted. That's still better than nothing."

"You're right," Gabe reluctantly acknowledged. "But I hope we won't actually need any of those spare parts when we face off against Glitchtrap, because otherwise getting those parts out is going to be a pain in the ass."

The former Freddy and Bonnie inhabitant returned to the Parts and Services area, and floated back up to the main area of the Pizzaplex. The intel they had gotten so far was legitimately helpful, but it was far from ideal, and they hoped the rest of the family had more optimistic news to share.

Meanwhile, at Monty's Gator Golf…

"Are you satisfied with the improvements made to Monty's Gator Golf, Mr. Schmidt?" Mr. Raugelan asked positively as they left the golf course, the man clearly hoping for a positive answer.

"Well, I'm certainly happy with the fact that you added more railways," Mike conceded. "But it wasn't the golf course itself that truly concerned me, if you remember our last discussions."

"We were more worried about the upper levels of Monty's Gator Golf," Charlie mused. "The cable car ride and especially that shooting game."

Mr. Leelurd unknowingly vocalized Charlie's thoughts out loud, before offering, "We can take the elevator up to the higher floors now, if you'd like."

"I would like to see them now, yes," Mike affirmed. "There were quite a few major security risks with the upper levels that I'm hoping you guys fixed."

"I think you'll find the improvements quite to your liking, Mr. Schmidt," Mr. Raugelan reassured him as they entered the elevator that would take them to the upper levels of Monty's Gator Golf. The cable car ride itself hadn't changed much since the last time Mike and his family had been there, with only a few small decorations added here and there to enhance the swamp aesthetic a bit. Mike was pleased to see that a rules list with basic rules had been added to the ticket booth, as that had been the biggest complaint that he could think of regarding the cable car ride.

But what really concerned Mike, and what he had actually come up there for, was the special shooting game that was located just underneath the cable cars. He still couldn't believe someone had actually had the crazy (and dangerous) idea to have the cable cars fire actual golf balls, especially in an area where cable cars would be moving around in. "I'm just going to ask you this now. Did you replace the golf balls like I asked you to?" he asked curtly.

"We did," Mr. Leelurd confirmed. "We have replaced them with soft plastic balls very similar to the ones that can be found in the Superstar Daycare. Would you allow us to demonstrate?"

"Please do so," Mike requested. Mr. Raugelan and Mr. Leelurd made their way to two of the different guns scattered throughout the catwalks (which also now had additional safety rails), pointed them at each other, and fired. Two small balls flew out of each of the guns and collided with the other man, barely eliciting any sort of reaction from them. Mr. Raugelan then shifted the gun to point at Mike's stomach and fired.

Charlie winced as the ball shot out and collided with Mike, but the man barely felt any impact at all. He was fast enough to grab the ball out of the air, and true to the two men's words, the ball was indeed a soft plastic ball akin to something one would find in a playplace.

"Huh, it really is a soft and squishy ball now, huh?" Charlie commented. "That should be much less dangerous to fire than the golf balls from earlier."

"We've also added a large collecting basin to hold all of the plastic balls that will fall from the Hurricane-Hole-In-One bucket," Mr. Leelurd added. He pointed down towards the floor. Mike and Charlie peeked over the railways and directed their gazes down towards the lower floor, where there was now indeed a huge, wide, dark green-painted bowl that hadn't been there before. "This bowl that you see under us will collect any plastic balls that fall from the bucket," he explained, "collecting all the falling balls in one place and minimizing both the hassle of collecting them and any potential safety hazards."

"Very good," Mike nodded approvingly. "Happy to see that there."

"And they added one more thing too!" Charlie pointed out. "There's a safety net underneath us that wasn't there before!" The former Marionette inhabitant pointed out a safety net that covered the entire area underneath the catwalks made of ropes. The space between the ropes was big enough to easily let the plastic balls from the guns and the bucket slip through, but small enough that there was no way a human would be able to slip anything larger than an arm or a leg through. "I'm actually really surprised to see that," she commented. "I don't think we even asked them to put a safety net here."

"Ah, I see you've noticed the safety net!" Mr. Raugelan commented proudly. "The board decided to add this safety net as a later decision while they were implementing your requested changes, Mr. Schmidt. There was a concern that if children might fall over the safety rails, or fall off the cable cars, there would be nothing to protect them. This safety net will prevent them from falling to their deaths, and it will quite easily hold the weight of at least a few children on it without the risk of it breaking apart."

Mike raised an eyebrow. "Wow. I'm honestly surprised that you actually bothered to implement a safety measure without needing me to force you into doing it. I'm actually impressed," he acknowledged. "Whoever came up with that idea deserves to be commended."

"Yes, well…" Mr. Leelurd coughed. "When you exposed several of the Pizzaplex's safety problems, the board noticed one or two additional safety problems on their own and decided to fix them before they could become a problem."

"Can't believe I'm saying this, but good job," Charlie complimented. "This is probably the smartest thing I've heard from Fazbear Entertainment outside of their arguments for why shocking the Glamrocks is a bad idea."

"Well, I'm pretty satisfied with what I've seen here," Mike declared. "Let's move on to the rest of the Pizzaplex, shall we?"

A Few Hours Later…

Although they hadn't intended it to end up that way, Mike and the various pairs of ghost kids ended up all converging upon the Superstar Daycare as the final location that they were going to review. They had spent the better part of the last few hours exploring and investigating the Mega Pizzaplex, studying the various improvements and fixes. While they hadn't outright discussed anything with each other yet, the general agreement was that yes, Fazbear Entertainment had indeed implemented all of the major changes and corrections that the Schmidt family (through Mike) had either requested or demanded of them, depending on the severity.

But the Superstar Daycare was the one place none of them had checked yet, and its offenses had arguably been the most egregious out of the entire Pizzaplex. Even now, the Daycare Attendant still showed its ugly head in a few of their nightmares.

"Really hope they changed that thing," Gabe muttered as they approached the entrance to the Daycare. "Because otherwise that thing is gonna traumatize so many kids if it's still acting as crazy as it did last time."

"What's really sad is that the Daycare Attendant isn't even the only major problem," Susie added with a frown. "Who the hell thought putting power generators in the middle of the playplace was a good idea?"

"It's Fazbear Entertainment we're talking about," Fritz snorted. "We've shit on them so many times for their bad decisions that it's not even funny anymore, it's just sad."

"Well, it's the moment of truth," Liz commented as they approached the entrance to the Daycare. "Only one way to find out whether they actually fixed the Daycare's problems or not."

Mr. Raugelan and Mr. Leelurd pushed the doors open to the Daycare, and Mike stepped inside with the ghost kids following. The moment they entered the threshold, the ghost kids immediately split off to explore the play area. To their relief, they could immediately detect some changes for the better straight away.

"Hey, those holes in the floors of the playplace are gone!" Cassidy reported to the others, pointing to an upper floor of one of the towers. "There used to be a huge hole in the middle of the floor that you could just fall through straight to the ground!"

"Same here!" Jeremy called back. "The hole in this tower is gone now, too!"

Mike approached the towers himself and studied them carefully. "Well, it looks like you guys fixed the problem with the towers," he acknowledged. "There aren't random holes in the floors that lead straight to the ground anymore." He smiled humorlessly. "Glad to see that, because that was honestly an absolutely atrocious safety hazard."

"That was the easiest solution to fix, Mr. Schmidt," Mr. Raugelan commented dryly. "Your other demands regarding the Daycare were…shall we say, considerably harder to accommodate. Even if we were able to implement them successfully in the end, it took up a considerable portion of the extra delay to do so."

Mike shook his head. "I don't care how long it took for you to implement them," he replied curtly, "as long as you got the job done."

"See for yourself," Mr. Leelurd invited, gesturing with an outstretched hand towards the security desk. Mike and the ghost kids directed their gaze to where the Fazbear Entertainment representative was pointing, and they immediately noticed something very different. Next to and behind the security desk, right in front of the wall, were several pink-colored generators stacked together on top of each other, each with a wire that snaked out of their centers and disappeared into the wall behind them. The generators were more or less the exact same as the ones that had used to be within the playplace itself, suggesting that they had essentially taken the generators directly out of the towers and stacked them together next to the wall. "It took us quite a few months to completely rearrange the electrical wire systems that existed within the Daycare," he commented with a frown. "And we decided that the best location to place the generators was behind the security desk. Now, if the power goes out for any reason outside of its normal scheduling, it will be a simple matter for the security guard to go to the generators and turn the switches back on to fix the problem."

"That's a lot better," Liz commented approvingly. "Yeah, a kid could still sneak behind the desk to try and touch the generators, but at least the staff can easily stop them now. Before, you could have a kid just find the generators in the play towers and either turn the power off by themselves or even shock themselves by accident!"

"I vaguely remember them saying before that there weren't any better locations to put the generators," Jeremy mused, before adding with a scowl, "but that's obviously bullshit. I bet they just were too lazy to come up with any better solutions."

"Ideally the generators wouldn't be in the Superstar Daycare entirely," Charlie remarked, "but in the grand scheme of things this is a whole lot better than what was going on last time."

"That's great and all, but what about the Daycare Attendant?" Susie pointed out. "Is it still scary as hell or did they actually fix it?"

Mike vocalized his daughter's question out loud. "Where's that Daycare Attendant animatronic?" he asked the two Fazbear Entertainment executives. "The one that scared the hell out of me and would probably traumatize any kid it came across?"

For the first time, Mr. Raugelan and Mr. Leelurd looked at each other uncertainly…immediately tipping off the entire Schmidt family that there was going to be a problem somewhere. "Why do I have a bad feeling about this?" Gabe muttered.

"Well, Mr. Schmidt," Mr. Leelurd finally broke the silence. "I can assure you that we have reprogrammed the Daycare Attendant, and that his personality has dramatically improved for the better. He is much calmer and less aggressive compared to before, and our focus group tests have unanimously agreed that the Daycare Attendant's temperament is much better suited to be a caretaker of children in the daycare."

"That's nice and all, but I hear a "but" in that sentence," Mike replied coolly.

Mr. Raugelan winced, before finally admitting, "While the personality adjustments to our Daycare Attendant were executed practically flawlessly, there were some…unintended side effects. Nothing that would be harmful to children, I assure you!" he quickly added. "Just some physical alterations that are…less than ideal, but impossible to reverse without also reversing the personality changes."

"Just get to the fucking point already!" Fritz all but shouted, only not bursting the two Fazbear Entertainment representatives' ears because he was still inaudible.

Mike felt a bit annoyed at the sudden outburst, but he shared his son's sentiment. "Can you stop beating around the bush?" he asked impatiently. "If things have gone to shit, just let me know so I can judge if it's bad enough to put a stop to it!"

Mr. Leelurd sighed, before turning his head towards the entrance to the Daycare Attendant's stage. "Come on out, please, Eclipse!" he called out.

"Eclipse?" everyone repeated, completely lost.

The curtains to the Daycare Attendant's private room opened, and a figure leaped out and landed into the ball pit before anyone could get a good look at him. The Schmidts could only watch as the figure climbed out of the ball pit and approached them.

"WHAT THE HELL?" Cassidy exclaimed in disbelief.

The Daycare Attendant (or Eclipse, as Mr. Raugelan had named him) was in front of them, and he somehow looked even MORE terrifying than he had been before. He looked like a bizarre fusion of the Sun and Moon animatronics they had seen previously, with Moon's face but Sun's "rays" extending in all directions from his head. His body also seemed to have transformed into a mismatched fusion of Sun's and Moon's, with elements of both of their costumes now present on different parts of their body. To complete the disturbing effect, Eclipse's right eye glowed a pale white, while his left eye glowed a menacing red.

"I'm sorry, but what the FUCK?" Charlie of all people exclaimed, her usual decorum completely abandoned. "What am I even LOOKING at?"

"How is THIS an improvement?" Susie spluttered, her eyes flickering with agitation. "This is somehow even WORSE than last time!"

"God, I'm gonna have nightmares about this guy all over again," Liz muttered.

At the furious and disbelieving look on Mike's face, Mr. Raugelan quickly raised his hands to try and calm him. "Wait, wait Mr. Schmidt, please!" he pleaded. "I know this first impression is rather disconcerting, but please reserve judgment for just a moment! Eclipse is far better suited for the role of a Daycare Attendant than his original incarnations!"

"You have about 5 seconds to prove that before I lose whatever patience I have left," Mike growled.

"Hello there!" a new voice suddenly interrupted. Everyone's attention swiveled around to Eclipse, who was waving awkwardly at Mike. "Welcome to the Superstar Daycare. My name is Eclipse, and I am the one who takes care of the children here!"

Everyone fell silent as they processed what they had just heard. It wasn't just the words that mattered, but the personality behind them. Even though it had been several months ago, the Schmidts still clearly remembered the extreme, manic enthusiasm of Sun and the sinister, menacing aura of Moon. But the animatronic in front of them was almost a completely different person now. They could hear elements of both Sun's and Moon's voices in Eclipse, but Eclipse himself was now a much calmer and gentler entity than either of his counterparts. In fact, if it weren't for the disturbing look of the animatronic himself, they would even go so far as to call his voice soothing and comforting.

Mike blinked. "Uhhhh…nice to meet you," he replied after spending a few seconds to find his voice again. "Eclipse, right?"

"That's me!" Eclipse affirmed, still speaking in that calm and friendly tone as he extended a hand towards Mike, his movements already much less frenetic and extreme than those of his counterparts. "I hope you're having a wonderful day at the Mega Pizzaplex!"

"Yeah…" Mike answered as he reluctantly shook the animatronic's hand. To his surprise and relief, this wasn't followed by any sudden movements or jarring actions on Eclipse's part. Just a simple handshake that lasted for only a few seconds. "It's going well, for the best part."

"That's good!" Eclipse replied. "I know I used to give people quite the scare when the lights went out, but now whether it's dark or light out doesn't matter to me at all! I'll take care of the children in the Daycare the best I can, no matter what time it is!"

As if on cue, the lights had gone out in the Daycare, plunging it into the equivalent of night. Eclipse looked a little bit creepier now that his white and red eyes were glowing in the dark, but otherwise nothing seemed to visibly change about his mannerisms or behaviors. "Warning!" he declared, his voice slightly more energetic than before but otherwise not significantly changed. "It is now night time in the Daycare! If you're not going to be joining in nap time, I'm afraid I must ask you to leave."

"Sorry, but I'll have to pass," Mike answered in a noticeably friendlier tone. "But thanks for dropping by and saying Hi."

"The exit is right over there!" Eclipse pointed back the way they had come in. "I hope you have a wonderful day at Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex!"

"Huh," Cassidy commented as they left the Daycare behind them, looking way less scared than she had been when Eclipse first appeared. "This is…actually not that bad. I wasn't expecting this at all."

"I know, right?" Gabe replied, sounding pleasantly surprise. "Once you get past Eclipse's scary appearance, he actually seems like a pretty friendly, child guy. Which is something I never would've said about the OLD Daycare Attendant, that's for sure."

"I can't believe I'm saying this, but this guy might actually start growing on me," Fritz remarked.

"I think overall, this is 2 or 3 steps forward, 1 step back," Charlie concluded after thinking about the Daycare Attendant's transformation into Eclipse. "Eclipse certainly looks creepier, but he's not THAT much worse than Moon was. And his personality is way, WAY better now than when he was split into Sun and Moon." She shrugged. "I'm sure some kids will still get scared of Eclipse because of his creepy look, but all in all, I'd call Fazbear Entertainment's work on him a success."

"I honestly wasn't expecting perfect results from Fazbear Entertainment on every change we insisted that they make anyway," Mike admitted. "Is Eclipse's new appearance a problem? Yeah, admittedly, I could see plenty of people being creeped out by that. But he's not going crazy and grabbing people anymore or growling like a goddamn psychopath when it's nighttime anymore, so yeah, I agree with Charlie. I'd call that a win."

There was only one area left to investigate now, the basement underneath the Fazbear Theater. It ended up being a relatively anticlimactic conclusion to their investigations, being somewhat cleaner and more organized than before with new warning signs informing guests that the area was Off-Limits save for the emergency exit. As they returned to the main lobby, the ghost kids talked about the various observations they had made and the improvements that they had witnessed. They had all more or less come to the same conclusions, which Mike gave to the Fazbear Entertainment representatives.

"The Mega Pizzaplex looks like it's ready for its Grand Opening," Mike gave his family's verdict. "Most of the problems I pointed out the last time I was here look like they've been fixed. The only area that still seems like a complete mess is Roxy Raceway, and since you're keeping that closed off to the public I don't care as much about it. I can tell that the management of Fazbear Entertainment took my many criticisms seriously, and carried them out in a satisfactory manner. I didn't see anything that needs to be fixed that would delay the Grand Opening any further."

Mr. Raugelan and Mr. Leelurd both breathed an audible sigh of relief. "That's certainly a relief to hear," Mr. Raugelan remarked with a smile. "Fazbear Entertainment worked extensively over the past few months to correct the Pizzaplex's mistakes."

"And I'll give credit where credit is due, you certainly did so," Mike acknowledged. "Anyways, I think that concludes our business today, gentlemen. Have a good day."

The three men exchanged final greetings, and Mike turned and left the Pizzaplex with the ghost kids following close behind. On the one hand, they were quite happy with how much the Pizzaplex had changed for the better. After all the improvements they had made, they were much less worried about children seriously getting harmed from the faulty design choices of the Pizzaplex. It should be a much safer environment for them now.

Of course, the main issue was that "should" was the operative word here. Fazbear Entertainment could implement as many improvements and fixes as possible, and the Schmidts would give them credit for doing so even if it was for less-than-altruistic reasons. But Glitchtrap and his possession victim were still out there, and the Schmidts knew that they would be drawn to the Mega Pizzaplex eventually.

And while the safer environment of the Mega Pizzaplex SHOULD make their upcoming conflict against him easier…they knew full well that "easier" didn't mean the same thing as "easy."

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A/N: And there you have it, everyone! The Schmidts get one final look at the Mega Pizzaplex before it opens, and to their pleasant surprise, Fazbear Entertainment actually did make the proper improvements and fixes to the many flaws that once plagued its inner workings. Even selfish and greedy bastards can do the right thing with the right motivation, whether that motivation be an offer they can't refuse from one of the few people with genuine power over them…or a demon lord who will happily tear them to shreds if they fuck up tremendously or repeatedly.

I think the biggest surprise to most of my readers will be the early appearance of Eclipse! Yes, by trying to fix the Daycare Attendant, Fazbear Entertainment actually transformed him into Eclipse. Not necessarily the most elegant or perfect solution, given Eclipse's creepy appearance. But his calmer and gentler temperament will make him much better suited to oversee the Daycare Attendant, creepy appearance notwithstanding.

Next chapter will be the Grand Opening. I do plan on giving the ghost kids a chance to see a fully operational Pizzaplex and enjoy themselves…right before Security Breach and Gregory's misadventures start.

That's all I have for now, and I hope you guys enjoyed!