Author notes:

Thank you for the interest you've shown in this story :) Makes me all the more motivated to write. I wasn't planning to upload so soon but these were my first reviews EVER so I couldn't help it.

sniperdog225: Thank you and yes, this story is probably going to be rather long. I plan to cover all four games eventually. And I just couldn't resist teasing Bonnie a bit.

Chapter 2

Night Guard Aftermath

Bonnie's complaints were now unintelligible after half an hour of yelling while the others simply watched. Foxy had actually come out of his cove to hear about this strange night guard. Now they were waiting for Goldy to arrive and tell them what she had seen in the office.

She always watched the guards' reactions to the phone recordings and told them about it later. It looked like she was giving Bonnie time to cool off before making her appearance though.

Eventually Bonnie's yelling tapered off to grumbling and he slumped on the stage clutching his guitar. Foxy rolled his eyes at the rabbit's dramatics.

"You can come out now Goldy." Freddy called.

The golden bear materialized in front of them. "Um, so how'd the night go?" she asked a little nervously, eyeing Bonnie.

"Terrible." The rabbit moaned. "She hit me with a baseball bat!"

He rested his pounding head in his hands as Freddy looked at the floating suit.

"So what do you know?" he asked.

"Well, she's weird." Goldy stated bluntly. "Her names Ruby and she took the whole phone conversation rather well considering. And then she seemed to take it as a personal challenge and ran out the door. That's when I went back to my poster. Oh, and she mentioned that Foxy's her favourite so I think she's been here before."

The animatronics shifted uncomfortably. The new night guard was an old customer, a child they used to entertain. Not the best thought.

"Well," Bonnie smirked weakly, trying to lighten the mood, "if her favourite's the fox then we know she's crazy already."

"Oi!" said fox glared at Bonnie heatedly. "I'm not the one that got bashed over the head by a teenage girl."

Bonnie glared back and opened his mouth to respond when Freddy shot them both a glare. Grumbling the two settled down again.

"What did she do exactly? You two look frazzled." Goldy asked curiously, looking at Bonnie and Chica.

"She found the vent system." Chica sighed. "After that she kept using them to disappear whenever we thought we were getting close."

"She's fast too." Bonnie complained. "Plus she keeps laughing at us."

"She sounded like she's decided that she's coming back." Freddy frowned. "You shouldn't let her get under your skin so much."

"But she's ANNOYING!" Bonnie whined.

Everyone rolled their eyes at that.

"Drama queen." Foxy muttered, heading back to his cove as Bonnie started up on his complaints again.

Goldy also disappeared out of hearing range leaving Freddy and Chica to deal with him.

As the fox animatronic sat on the stage in his cove he couldn't help thinking about the new night guard.

"She seems like a little spitfire, that's for sure." He chuckled. "Could be interesting."

He stared into the darkness of his cove.

"I'm her favourite huh? Wonder how long that will last." He muttered darkly to himself before he powered down again.

Later that day at the pizzeria, the lunch rush had just finished and things were relatively calm. The animatronics had been slightly distracted all day thinking about the new security guard and apparently so were the other employees.

Freddy was near a couple of them, just inside a doorway when he heard their discussion.

"You heard they found a new idiot to take that job?" Henry asked as he cleaned one of the tables with his buddy, Jerry.

The brunette with him jerked to a stop. "You're kidding."

"Nope." The blonde grinned, ever the gossip. "And on top of that it's a teenage girl this time. Heard she was only fifteen."

That surprised Freddy. He hadn't realised they were hiring minors. Of course it also made him feel even more uncomfortable about the whole 'stuffing into a suit thing'.

Jerry seemed to share his thinking.

"What?! Are they crazy?" he hissed.

"Probably. This place is still open after all." Henry sent a dirty look in Freddy's direction.

He never had liked the animatronics.

"When does she start?" Jerry asked, missing Henry's glare in his worry.

"Started last night. Think she's still in the world of the living?" Henry snickered.

Jerry stared at him in horror and opened his mouth to respond. However he was interrupted.

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm still alive and all." A sarcastic female voice came from behind them.

Freddy jerked in surprise as the two men jumped. None of them had noticed the girl's approach and she was now standing in the doorway of the room leaning on the doorframe. She was also sending them a rather menacing death glare.

How a fifteen year old was managing to look THAT terrifying was beyond Freddy.

"Uh, you're the new security guard then?" Jerry asked hesitantly while he threw Henry a 'you idiot' look.

"Yup. Didn't know I was the subject of the gossip mills already." The menacing aura suddenly disappeared and she smirked at the older men.

"Yeah, well we kinda go through night guards quickly so…" Jerry trailed off.

"Yeah." She rolled her eyes. "I can imagine. There's a lot left out of the contract huh?"

Jerry nodded weakly.

"Hmph. You won't last the week." Henry muttered as he picked up a box of trash and left the room.

"We'll see." She called after him and turned to grin at the remaining employee.

"Um well, then welcome on board. I'm Jerry." He held out his hand and smiled weakly.

"Ruby." She introduced herself as she shook his hand.

He looked around awkwardly as he tried to think of something to say. Ruby on the other hand laughed at his predicament.

"So have the employees started a betting pool as to how long I'll last yet?" she snickered.

Jerry looked at her in horror.

"Oh lighten up Jerry. I kind of figured out the danger when Bunny Boy started chasing me around the building." She doubled over with laughter as he started spluttering.

"You left the office?" he sounded utterly horrified.

"Well yeah." She looked at him quizzically as she straightened up.

"Why?!" he almost yelled in his panic.

"It was boring." She smirked at his dumbfounded expression. "Plus, sitting in a room with limited power? Uh no, it's almost as bad as dunking myself in neon paint and running around with a sign that says 'stuff me in a suit please'."

Jerry looked a little green. "Um you don't seem as freaked out as I thought you'd be…"

"I adapt quickly." She waved her hand.

Silence filled the room for a moment as Jerry seemed to process this.

"So, are you here to quit?" he asked carefully.

She actually looked insulted. "What? No! Of course not! There's no way in hell that I'm giving up so easily. They can't chase me off just like that."

Jerry stared at her in disbelief. "Then, why are you here during the day?" he asked.

"To give the manager a piece of my mind about the details he left out and maybe introduce him to Betty." She produced the bat named Betty and started swinging it around.

Ruby grinned evilly.

"I…see." He almost choked on the words.

Silence filled the air and Jerry fumbled for something to say again while she put her bat away. She wasn't the easiest to converse with it seemed.

"So how did your first night go?" he asked hesitantly.

She beamed up at him. "Awesome! But I think Bonnie hates me now. By the way, what's with his obsession with the closet? He was in there like twelve times last night I think."

"I don't…know." Jerry's head was still reeling from the fact that a night guard had just said that her night was awesome.

"Huh. Anyway I also got to see Foxy. That was cool. Haven't seen him since I was a kid." She grinned again. "Well, see ya Jerry. I gotta go make the manager pee his pants now."

With that she trotted off smiling maliciously.

Jerry watched her leave, still slightly in a daze.

Freddy watched calculatingly as she walked off. He could have sworn that she smiled at him across the room and winked when she turned around.

Half an hour later Ruby had reached an understanding with the manager. The sweet man had even given her a raise after she introduced him to Betty. How kind. He certainly seemed relieved when she told him that she wasn't interested in quitting, however he was less so when she told him that she hoped not to get blindsided like that ever again. Or else.

Humming to herself she strolled out of the quivering man's office and headed to the front door. She needed to get some sleep after all if she wanted to be at her best that night. As she walked she caught a flash of purple out of the corner of her eye. Stopping she grinned when she spotted Bonnie finishing a party room clean-up.

She really couldn't help herself.

She stuck her head into the room and hollered at him. "Bunny Boy!"

He jumped at least two feet in the air. Spinning around he shot her a glare that had most people going into cardiac arrest. She just smiled cheekily at him.

"Thought rabbits were supposed to be fast? You didn't even get near me last night." She teased. "Although, maybe you're just out of shape? You are getting on in years after all. No shame in that. Don't worry though, I'll show up every night and help you until there's some improvement."

She paused as she tapped her chin thoughtfully. "Hopefully. After all, I'm no miracle worker Slowpoke."

Before he could even process most of what she'd just said she was gone and sprinting down the sidewalk laughing hysterically.

"Old! She called me old Freddy!" Bonnie's complaints had returned with renewed vigour after Ruby's sudden visit.

It was starting to give Freddy a headache.

"Oh shut up Bonnie! I told you not to let her get under your skin." He growled.

The two were in the parts and services room so that they weren't overheard while Bonnie got this out of his system.

"Old and slow. How dare she?! I'll show her slow. Tonight I am going to catch her." He muttered as he paced around the small room.

Freddy sighed. At least he was motivated.

"Foxy's going to be out as well tonight." He reminded the rabbit.

Bonnie's ears went up. "Oh yeah. Won't that be a shock for her? Her favourite gunning for her."

The purple animatronic chuckled darkly.

Sometimes Freddy forgot about Bonnie's more vindictive side. He rolled his eyes. Strange though, how she seemed to enjoy bothering him the most. She hadn't made much of a move towards the others yet.

'Was it because he was the first to move last night, or because his quick temper made him an insanely easy target for teasing?' he wondered. 'Maybe a combination of both?'

Bonnie continued to rant while Freddy's thoughts turned towards the girl herself. He had a bad feeling about her. She was unpredictable. There was no telling what she was going to do next. She also seemed determined to stay if her cheery goodbye that morning was anything to go by.

Now she'd managed to rile Bonnie up which meant that he probably wouldn't listen… very…well…

Freddy face-palmed. How did he miss that? They had a better chance of catching her if they worked together but now Bonnie was going to go running off on his own without a doubt.

She'd already managed to split them up.

"Darn, she's good." He muttered as Bonnie stalked away.

Ruby flopped down on her bed with a satisfied grin on her face. Teasing Bonnie was so much fun. His face showed his expressions so well. Plus, if she had to choose she'd say that the bunny animatronic was a close second to Foxy.

She rolled over and reached under her bed, pulling out a box of old photos. Digging through it she found what she was looking for. Her fifth birthday picture. She always had her party at the pizzeria back then and she'd gotten to take a photo with all the animatronics. Ruby smiled fondly at the little black-haired girl happily grinning from between Foxy and Bonnie. Freddy was next to Foxy and Chica stood next to Bonnie.

It was one of her favourite pictures.

She sighed as her eyes dimmed in melancholy.

'Where did that happy kid go?' she wondered as she rolled over onto her back again and lifted the picture above her. 'And where did those sweet animatronics go?'

Foxy was her idol back then. She absolutely adored him and spent a lot of her time in Pirate's Cove. The adventurous pirate just resonated with her. A little too well sometimes considering she'd broken her arm falling off the mast of his ship once. Not that she was supposed to be up there in the first place.

Bonnie was always cool according to her. She loved listening to him play his guitar and she wasn't afraid to admit he was why she had learnt to play in the first place.

She hadn't spent as much time with Freddy and Chica but she still loved them.

She just couldn't figure out why they were trying to kill the security guards. Her arm dropped and she put the photo on her bedside table.

Then again…

A smile crept across her face. She did love mysteries. Grinning again she rolled over and settled down to sleep. It was going to be a busy night after all.

"So, what are we going to do tonight?" Chica asked after the place was closed up and they were back on stage waiting for the night guard to arrive.

"Catch her of course." Bonnie scoffed, giving the front door the evil eye.

Freddy sighed. "Try and stay calm this time Bonnie. She's pushing your buttons on purpose."

The rabbit huffed and he was certain he heard chuckling from the direction of Pirate's Cove.

"She's going down!" Bonnie growled.

'I'm not even sure he knows what he's going to do with her if he does catch her anymore.' Freddy sighed mentally. 'He just wants to prove that he can catch her.'

Chica huffed next to them. "I hate this job."

Freddy glanced at her and nodded sadly. "I know Chica."

Silence fell over the restaurant again as they waited.

Finally at ten to twelve the door opened.

She was wearing black again but Freddy suspected that was just to make finding her harder. As she closed and locked the door she looked over at the stage. Grinning madly again she waved at them.

"Ready to play tonight everyone? Who's going to participate this time?" she asked.

Of course they didn't answer but Bonnie was fighting the urge to glare at her.

She just chuckled.

"Well then Bunny Boy, Chikadee, Smokey. I shan't keep you any longer. I believe there may be a phone call for me in the office. Evening Foxy!"

She shouted the last bit so Foxy could hear before heading off to the office.

"Time for night two." Ruby murmured to herself, smiling.

Author notes:

Depending on the response to this story I might update every few days. Otherwise it will probably be weekly.