The next day, Lily and Ethan went to sleep, and they woke up around the afternoon. They stood in Lily's apartment just talking, and then Ethan called their parents to see how they were doing.
(When Ethan was first in the hospital for three days, Lily told their parents that she had found him. They came to visit him, and when asked, Lily and Ethan explained that Ethan was in a terrible accident and he nearly escaped the crash with his life. He was able to travel so far, when Lily finally found him and brought him to the hospital. Although it was a little odd that an accident like that wasn't reported, their parents didn't ask anymore about it, since Ethan started coughing in pain.)
After the call went well, Lily and Ethan decided to rest up until it was time to go.
Mike had woken up at about the same time as Ethan and Lily. He was a bit distressed when he woke up, so he decided to take a walk. He wasn't sure where he would go, but he needed some time to think,
'What am I doing? Why am I just letting Lily go to that place alone? She shouldn't have to do this job by herself! Even if she's just watching to see if those animatronics are evil, which they are so far, that doesn't mean that she should be the only one going...'
Then Mike looked ahead, and noticed a certain place that he was about to pass by.
'This place is... the restaurant!' Mike yelled out in his mind, as he stopped walking when he saw Allen Alligator's restaurant right next to him.
He looked inside and saw people sitting in the waiting room.
'They don't know what lurks in there,' Mike thought, as he shook his head slowly.
Then Mike turned around and started walking back to the gun shop, as he thought,
'No one should have to get hurt by them... no one...'
When the sun had set, Lily and Ethan headed for the gun shop. They entered in and were greeted by Mike.
"Right on time," Mike said.
"Yup. So, let's get started," Ethan said, as he put a small suitcase that he was carrying on the table.
"What's in there?" Mike asked.
"It's my laptop. Of course, I did some extra tweaks, so I'll be able to access the computer cameras and see a bird's eye view of the restaurant with continuous scans so that I can pick-up movement. One of my finest works," Ethan said, as he opened the suitcase to reveal a laptop that filled half of the suitcase.
"Whoa! That's awesome... wait a minute, your going to hack into the security system of the restaurant?" Mike asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah. Neat huh?" Ethan said with a smile, and then he turned towards Lily and said,
"I'll be able to keep a better watch over you when you go there today. I'll be an extra set of eyes for you."
"Ethan, you don't have to that," Lily said, but Ethan insisted,
"No, I do. I know I'm taking a risk since I shouldn't be hacking like this, but I can't stand to sit here and let you risk your life. I'm your older brother, I'm suppose to protect you anyway I can."
Lily nodded, and then she hugged her brother, as he hugged back.
"Be safe okay? It's probably going to get rough," Ethan said.
"I will," Lily said, and then they parted from their hug.
"Be careful Lily," Mike said, and Lily looked towards him and nodded.
Time Skip- 4:00
Lily was doing very well, even when the animatronics came too close. Ethan was helping her over her phone too sometimes, since he could actually see a bird's eye view of the restaurant, and whatever moved was shown on the screen as a colored dot in a black background, while the walls were white lines. The animatronics were more active and about, besides Allen, who stood close to the stage and only went out around the family dining room. Lily kept an eye on him, but she had to pay more attention to the others.
"How's it going?" Ethan asked.
"Good actually. They all backed up," Lily said, as she noticed that the animatronics stood away from the hallways:
Slither stood near the bathrooms, Beatrice stood in the regular dining room, and Brenda stood in the backstage. However, when Lily checked the stage and the family dining room, Allen wasn't there. Lily quickly flipped through the cameras, and she didn't see Allen anywhere.
"Lily! In front of you!" Ethan yelled out from the phone, as Lily looked up and clicked on the center hall light.
Her eyes widened when she saw Allen standing near the beginning of the hallway, with a sadistic grin, and his dark eyes with the thin white slits. Lily, immediately, shut the inner door of the center hallway to block Allen out. She took a moment to breathe in and out from that nerve-racking moment, and then she said,
"Thank you Ethan."
"Oh gosh, thank goodness your alright," Ethan said, as he also took a breather.
"That was crazy right there. He moves quick," Mike said in the background of the phone.
-Bang! Click. BAM!-
Lily jumped a bit when she heard a very loud noise. She quickly checked the hall lights on her left and right, and then she started flipping through the cameras. She saw that Allen was just outside the middle hall entrance, looking towards the kitchen. Then Lily flipped the camera, and saw that Beatrice and Slither were in the same spot, but they were looking towards the kitchen.
-SCREEEEEE!-
A distant screech was heard, and Lily quickly flipped the camera towards the backstage room. Her eyes widened when she saw that Brenda was struggling against something in the darkest area of the room, which was just below the camera. Lily couldn't see what was going on, but she heard Brenda screaming out in rage of some sort, and the other unknown thing she was fighting was making inaudible noises. Lily flipped the camera to another room, when she heard more screeches, and she saw that Slither was fighting something in the men's bathroom, but she couldn't see what. Then Lily flipped the camera to Beatrice, and she saw that Beatrice was lunging towards something off camera, and was trying to bite it.
Lily didn't know what the animatronics were fighting, and then she flipped the camera to the kitchen, and she saw Allen. He was standing just outside of the door that was supposed to be locked, but the once locked door was wide open, and a few pieces of the wooden wall was chipped on the floor. Lily couldn't see into the dark room, but she could tell that it was empty. Suddenly, Allen's head turned towards the camera with irritation.
Lily gasped.
"What happened?" Mike asked.
"Lily be careful, there's a lot of movement all around," Ethan said.
Lily straightened up and gulped, as she checked the left and right hallways again. Then she opened the inner door of the middle hallway and turned on the hall light.
-Gasp-
Lily looked into the hall, and she saw a figure standing just behind the open inner door. He was large and pretty burly, with a few dark patches of dirt on his body and some smothered on his face. His body didn't look too bad, but his face was much more grotesque: he had a hole between his eyes, and his head was a little tilted to the side, seemingly unable to stay straight. His jaw stood open with a hole in it, and there was a hole on the top of his head, but a small black hat covered most of it. His left robotic eye was normal, but the other was permanently dark with a small white pupil, and he was looking downward.
Lily looked at this animatronic in shock and some fear, as she said his name in a near whisper,
"Freddy."
Freddy looked up and saw Lily looking at him. His more functional, normal eye widened a bit, as he looked at her in surprise.
"Freddy? What are you talking about Lily? He shouldn't be there," Mike said over the phone.
"I'm getting a signal from all around. Four... eight... eight animatronics, and one is heading towards the hall- Lily close the center door," Ethan said over the phone.
Lily wasn't entirely paying attention to her brother or Mike. Her eyes were fixed on Freddy, as his was also fixed on her. Then Freddy took a slow, creaky step forward, as Lily's hand, that was just above the red button to close the outer center door, started to tremble.
"Lily? Did you- Lily close the door! Hurry!" Ethan said more nervously on the phone.
However, Lily just couldn't press the button to close the door. It was as if her hand was frozen, paralyzed by shock.
"L-L-Lily..." Freddy said, as his voice glitched and his jaw twitched.
Lily's face paled as she heard Freddy call her name, but she stood looking at him, with her hand continuously trembling.
"Lily please! Close the door!" Ethan said in a more pleading voice.
Then Freddy started walking towards Lily, slowly, until he reached near the entrance of the night guard's room.
"L-Lily," Freddy glitched again to say her name, as her shoulders began to shiver a bit, and her breathing was growing more rapid.
"Close the door Lily! The OTHER ONE IS COMING!" Ethan yelled on the phone.
Lily's eyes widened as she looked just past Freddy, and he turned his head halfway around to see who was there. Allen the Alligator stood not too far down the hall, with dark eyes and a vicious scowl on his face. Lily was surprised to see Allen there, but Freddy anticipated that he was going to find him, and his expression was more annoyed at the alligator animatronic's presence.
"Freddy," Allen said in a gruff voice.
Lily watched, as Freddy's ears twitched upward.
"Freddy! You shouldn't be here. This is MY place Freddy. My place, my rules. Your not suppose to be out of the backroom. You or your band of broken bots. Go back NOW!" Allen hissed.
Freddy turned away from Allen, and looked towards Lily.
"She is a guard for this restaurant Freddy. She is in MY place Freddy, so I decide her fate. You will NOT interfere. She is MINE to deal with," Allen said, as he looked towards Lily and grinned, as she gulped.
Freddy noticed Lily's gesture of fear, and he became more angered, especially when Allen said that Lily was his to deal with. Then Freddy said, in his glitched up voice,
"C-C-Close...
T-Th-The...
D-D-Door!"
Lily snapped back into action, as she looked towards the door button and pressed it.
"FREDDY!" Allen screamed out, as he lunged towards him, and Freddy turned around with his fist ready just behind his back.
The door closed before Lily could see anymore, and she heard loud banging noises and screeches.
Lily quickly checked the two other halls and saw that no one was there. Then she quickly flipped through the cameras, and was able to see a little more clearly who was fighting who.
"Lily what's going on?" Ethan asked over the phone.
"E-Ethan... it was Freddy. It was really him! He's fighting with Allen the Alligator... and the others are here too. They're fighting the other animatronics," Lily said, as she saw the silhouette of a rabbit animatronic and the snake animatronic locked in battle, the back of a chicken animatronics struggling with the beaver animatronic, and a fox animatronic lunging at the bobcat animatronic as she lunged back.
"Oh-" Mike said, but was cut off by Ethan, who finished his sentence,
"Dang."
Lily continued to see part of the struggles, and heard the struggle between Freddy and Allen in the hallway until...
the clock ringed when it struck 6:00.
"It's six o'clock," Lily said, as she heard shuffling and movement outside of her room.
Then she quickly flipped through the cameras, and she saw the backdoor of the kitchen close back up, with the broken animatronics inside, as it locked again. Then she saw that the animatronics of the restaurant were in their places, with angry eyes. Lily quickly gathered her belongings and ran out of the restaurant, not before making a quick glance towards the kitchen.
"What the freak!" Ethan said, as he slammed the side of his fist onto the counter.
"Dude! Relax. This isn't technically my store," Mike said, with both hands just in front of him.
"-Sign- I'm sorry man. It's just, how on Earth are they still functioning? That's not even possible!" Ethan said, as he wiped his forehead with a white cloth from his pocket.
Lily stood sitting on a stool that was behind the counter leaning on her elbows with her hands on her face, as Mike and Ethan stood in front of the counter, more to the left of Lily.
"I know man, it doesn't make sense, but we can't lose our heads now. We're dealing with eight animatronics now, and we have to prepare for them tonight," Mike said, and then he looked towards Lily and saw that she looked stressed.
Ethan also looked towards Lily, and he felt bad for seeing her in such distress.
"Lily. If you don't want to go back, then don't. You don't have to do this. I don't want you to," Ethan said.
Lily removed her hands from her face and placed them on top of the counter. She breathed out, and then she looked towards Ethan and said,
"What's the point of running away now? So that someone else could get killed by them? So that one day if Freddy and the others get out they'll come for us? We can't do that Ethan, but maybe we could do something..."
Ethan and Mike listened more intently, as Lily closed her eyes for a moment, and then she opened them and said,
"We could close their doors... for good."
Ethan and Mike were surprised at what Lily said.
"You don't mean... to destroy the animatronics?" Ethan asked and Lily looked at him and said,
"That's exactly what I mean. But it may not be the same, and we'll have to wait until the end of the week to do so."
"Are you kidding me? We're destroying property, that's illegal!" Ethan said.
"Why wouldn't it be the same?" Mike asked Lily.
"Tell me you don't agree with this? Are you nuts?" Ethan asked Mike.
"Dude, I went back to that pizzaria for seven nights. You can't get any crazier than that," Mike said nonchalantly, and Ethan signed.
"Freddy and the others might be able to help us. Those other animatronics are monsters, but if Freddy and the others are fighting them, then maybe Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy... maybe they're not that bad. I mean, I talked to them, I got to know them before. They're not so bad," Lily said.
"Besides stuffing people in suits and trying to murder us," Ethan said, as he crossed his arms and closed his eyes.
"Yeah, but they'll be fighting those other animatronics, and if they turn against us, then we'll just take them out. Lily did it before, and they might get tired from fighting the other animatronics anyway," Mike reasoned.
"They're robotic humanoid animals, I don't think they can get tired," Ethan said.
"Well maybe they'll short circuit. Wait, who CARES for formality! Are you in or what? We can do this at the end of the week," Mike asked, as he looked towards Ethan.
Lily also looked towards her brother, waiting for his answer. Then Ethan signed and looked towards them and replied,
"Okay. But we'll have to see if Freddy and the other ones are going to help us or not. We'll have to watch their movements carefully to see what they'll do," Ethan said and turned towards Lily, and she nodded.
Ethan and Lily said their goodbyes to Mike, as they walked out of the gun shop. Mike stood alone, and he felt a little upset, hearing that Lily and Ethan were doing all the dangerous work and could get hurt. He signed and then he closed up the shop.
In family dining room of Allen Alligator's restaurant:
"RAH! SHE GOT AWAY!" -Brenda
"They got out!" -Beatrice
"WHAT ON THE EARTH IS HAPPENING!" -Slither
"You said they wouldn't get out Allen, YOU SAID THAT!" -Brenda
"How did they get out? I thought the door could only be opened from the outside?" -Beatrice
"Who opened the door? I didn't, you didn't, you didn't, and you didn't! We weren't even near the door!" -Slither
"SILENCE!" -Allen
"..." -Brenda, Beatrice, Slither
"We will see tomorrow. If they wander out of that room again, we will tear them APART! DO YOU HEAR ME FREDDY! WE WILL BREAK ALL OF YOU!" -Allen
In the room:
"I-I-I s-s-aw h-her." -Freddy
"Sh-She b-be a gu-guard h-here." -Foxy
"Must b-b-be caref-ful, she m-m-might have g-g-guns." -Chica
"W-We h-have b-bigger p-problems w-with o-others." -Bonnie
(From outside) "DO YOU HEAR ME FREDDY! WE WILL BREAK ALL OF YOU!" -Allen
"W-What do w-w-we do?" -Chica
"W-W-Wait u-until t-t-tommorrow. W-We c-c-come l-l-later." -Freddy
Who guessed it was them behind the door?
