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“ So what the fuck is he still doing here?” Roxanne folded her arms while looking down at Gregory who had made a place for himself to sleep in the staff tunnels with a large amount of Fazbear Brand™ Blankets.

“ I just want to know where he got all of these blankets from,” Chica whispered looking down at Gregory from over Roxy’s shoulder “ I hope he didn’t steal them, he could get in big trouble for that.”

Monty scoffed “ He pushed you into a trash compactor Chica, I really don’t think light theft is going to be much of a problem for him.” Monty glanced down at Gergory who was sleeping like he didn’t just murder three different robots the night before.

Freddy awkwardly chuckled “ Gregory’s a good kid, and he needed a place to stay. So I thought he could stay here while the pizzaplex is under maintenance for the next few days” Freddy smiled at his three friends who were all giving him mixed looks of worry on their faces. “ I’m sure you’ll all grow to like him too!! He is a super star after all”

“ I’m not raising a kid, do you know what that’d do to my street cred Freddy.” Roxy teased, looking over her nails to put and emphasis on how cool she was. “I would say I can see several problems with this, but…. You know.” Roxy motioned to Freddy’s eyes, which were still being bored from Roxy’s old model before she got repaired.

Monty chuckled “ Yeah and you aren’t getting any more hands from me.” Monty looked down at Freddy’s bored hands which the bear was awkwardly trying to hide. “,and did you really paint my nails blue? You know purples look way better on me.”

“ Where did you even get blue nail polish?” Chica grabbed one of Freddy’s hands to get a better look at the glittery nail polish that he was wearing “ and it even has glitter? You need to lend me this polish.”

Roxy rolled her eyes “ You can figure out where he got it later, we still need to decide what to do about the murderous child that he adopted.”

“ Superstar is not a murder!” Freddy defended while pulling his hand out of Chica’s grasp. “ He was the one who saved you all last night anyway, even if it did involve a bit of fire, the severing of a couple of limbs, and an acceptable amount of arson.”

“ Is there really an acceptable amount of arson?” Chica tilted her head to the side curiously.

“ Yes, there is an acceptable amount of arson, according to the police at least” Monty responded, nodding wisely as he spoke.

Freddy’s jaw dropped for a moment as he listened to Monty before following that up with “ Okay, we’ll get back to that later, but we really should focus on what we were talking about before.” Freddy motioned to Gregory “ I promise he won’t do anything dangerous while he’s staying here. At least give him a chance until the maintenance is over next week. Please?”

Monty sighed “ Damn it you know we can’t say No when you act all nice and himbo-esc.”

“ What’s a himbo?” Freddy asked, only to be quickly ignored

Chica gave a soft attempt at a smile through her beak “ Okay, but only till the end of the week. I guess I can make him some food… and make him seconds after I eat the first helping of it.”

Roxy let out a long sigh as she spoke “ Finnnne, but I’m not cleaning up after him, and someone else needs to potty train him”

Everyone paused for a moment to take in the fact that Roxy really had no idea how Kids worked.

“ Roxy what the fuck???”

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“ Freddy, where are we going? Can’t I just go back to sleep?” Gregory asked, doing his best to keep up with Freddy who was excitedly leading the way down one of the staff tunnels. “ Plus… I really don’t want to run into the others, they seem pretty upset about what I did.”

“ Don’t worry Superstar, everything's going to be okay… and they aren’t too upset with you” Freddy turned to look at Gregory as he stopped to open a door for him. “ Now are you ready to see the surprise I have for you?”

Gregory hesitantly stepped towards the door, his Faz-Camera raised “ I guess?” Gregory braced himself for whatever was behind the door as Freddy pulled it open. His eyes firmly closed as he flashed the camera out of panic.

From the other side of the door, panicked yells could be heard, all of the voices but one pausing for a moment as the camera flashed before quickly resuming.

“ Monty, what the hell? How do you accidentally set off a confetti cannon?” Roxanne screamed, doing her best to clear a mountain of confetti and glitter that was firmly stuck in her hair. “ How much confetti did you even put in that thing anyway??”

Monty growled in response as he angrily put confetti back into the cannon by the fistfull “ Don’t you dare blame me, I’m not the one who thought a confetti cannon would be a good idea, and for the fucking record…” Monty turned to yell something else at Roxy but he instead made eye contact with Freddy who was staring at him wide eyed “ … for the record, we can fix all of this in five minutes.”

“ Five minutes? You want us to fix this.. In five.. Minutes.” Roxanne’s voice trailed off as she also noticed Gregory and Freddy standing in the door. “ Make that four minutes.” Roxanne gave a weak smile to Freddy.

Freddy silently and slowly closed the door, trying to pretend that he didn’t just see what happened, Chica’s voice coming through the door just before it was closed as she yelled “ Okay, so bad news those weren’t mints they were glitter bombs”

Gregory and Freddy stood awkwardly together in the hallway for a moment, Freddy softly kicking some small pieces of scrap metal to the side while Gregory pulled up a game on his Faz-watch.

“... So do they accidentally do things like that a lot?” Gregory asked,his tone held a bit more excitement that it reasonably should have.

Freddy made a noise that was somewhere between a sigh and a laugh “ Not at all… they haven’t messed up too bad for a couple of years… weeks… days… Hours.” Freddy took what seemed like a deep breath “ I lied, superstar they do things like that all the time, it’s a wonder they didn’t burn the Pizza plex down by accident when they were not acting like themselves a few nights ago.

“ Oh well actually Freddy, Roxanne did-” Gregory was interrupted by Freddy before he could finish speaking.

“ Please do not tell me. I worry for their safety already.” Freddy softly smiled over at Gregory. “ And I worry about you too, so please don’t follow by their example”

Gregory looked like he really wanted to hug Freddy, but the door to the room was opened again by Chica who was, to put it mildly, drenched in glitter.

“ Welcome to the party everyone!!” Chica greeted motioning towards a small solitary table in the room surrounded by small metal chairs with a banner that read ‘ Sorry for Trying to Murder You’. “ Please help yourself to some food, and place some games with us.” Chica spun around and half skipped back into the room while Freddy led Gregory into the room

Gregory just looked around at the room almost dumbfounded, “ You’re throwing me a party because you feel bad?” Gregory looked down at a small stack of paper plates on the table that read ‘ Sorry : ( ‘ written in a very pink glitter pen. “... you even made personalized plates.”

“ You better not say anything about those plates, those gel pens aren’t cheap you know.” Roxanne growled in between bites of pizza, she sounded almost defensive as she glanced over at Gregory.

“ I thought you stole those pens?” Monty glanced over at Roxy while also taking a piece of pizza, pausing to flick a bit of confetti off of it.

Chica and Roxanne shushed Monty, motioning towards Gregory who was having his ears covered by Freddy. The bear giving Monty a stern look trying to signal to him that he should probably avoid talking about things like that when Gregory is still in the room.

“ Right, Right, sorry” Monty rolled his eyes before eating a whole slice of pizza in a single bite.

“ Anyway, would you like some cake Gregory?” Chica asked, motioning towards a cake that looked somehow both sad and almost delicious at the same time “ I made it myself!!!” Chica beamed with pride

Freddy clapped his hands together “ Good job Chica!!! This cake looks great!” Freddy cheered, nudging Gregory forward urging him to get a better look at the cake.

Gregory took an uneasy step towards the cake, “ Why are you all doing this?” Gregory asked looking up at the others “ I won’t lie these guys throwing a party like this feels more like a trap than an apology.”

“ Now listen here you little…” Roxanne paused, noticing the look of disappointment on Freddy’s face “ Listen here you little ‘rockstar’ that’s not why Freddy wanted us to throw this party.” Roxy looked over at Freddy with a small glare.

“ Can we just give him his gift and get this over with.” Monty commented, eating his fifth slice of pizza

Chica huffed frowning at Monty with her arms crossed “ Wow way to ruin the surprise.” Chica gave Monty an angry look as he shrugged, reaching for more pizza “ And save some pizza for me, I’m hungry too.”

“ Don’t act like you didn’t eat three whole fucking pizzas in the kitchen before those you tried to eat those glitter bombs” Roxy countered, using a piece of pizza to point at the chicken while Monty made a poor attempt at hiding his laughter

“ Listen they were red, it was dark, and I thought they were some kind of mint candy.” Chica made an attempt at defending herself that would have been stronger if she wasn’t spewing out little clouds of glitter every time she raised her voice.

Monty roared with laughter watching the clouds of glitter gather on the table, knocking over a few soda bottles as he slammed his fist on the table.

Chica turned away from Monty both embarrassed and annoyed “ Don’t laugh at me, at least I didn’t fire a confetti cannon at myself” Chica’s retort caused Roxy to start laughing before Chica continued “ And don’t act like you don’t have glitter pen ink all over your hair because you’re clumsy.”

“ Hey don’t insult my hair, the glitter really highlights the purple.” Roxanne stood from her chair angrily “ and at least I didn’t bite more than one glitter bomb, you bit into what? Three of them?” Roxy smugly folded her arms

Chica gasped with a very offended look on her face. “ If you must know, I was just testing the other two because they also looked like giant mint candies.” Chica stomped her foot on the ground

“ So uh, could we get back to talking about that gift??” Gregory asked, trying to get the conversation back on track. 8

“ Hold on kid, I wanna see where this goes.” Monty managed to say in between his fits of laughter.

Roxy kicked her chair to the side, ignoring Monty and Gregory’s conversation “ Why the fuck would peppermints even be that big?? Who the fuck makes mints the size of a fucking baseball??” Roxanne gestured to a glitter bomb that Chica had put next to the confetti canon while setting up the party.

“ We have wet floor signs with eyes in the pizza plex, large mints aren’t that far of a stretch.” Chica stepped forward gesturing at a wet floor bot that could be seen through a window, the bot slowly and awkwardly rolled out of view in response.

“ Why do the wet floor signs have eyes?” Gregory asked, watching the wet floor bot poke back into view for a moment to try and see more of the fight.

Freddy tried his best to step in between Roxanne and Chica to diffuse the tension “ Glitter bombs and pens aside, let’s give Gregory his gift now everyone!!” Freddy stretched out his arms and pulled Roxanne and Chica into a big hug with his arms around their shoulders, the two both making various noises of annoyance. “ Then we can eat some cake!!”

Monty stood up from his chair, he looked almost upset as he rushed over to join the hug. “ Hey if we’re doing a group hug to give the gift don’t fucking exclude me.” Monty flung an arm over Roxy’s shoulder, he looked annoyed as he pressed up his glasses and looked away from the group trying to act cool despite jumping into a group hug.

“ Sooooo what’s the gift???” Gregory sounded either impatient or bored no one was sure which it was.

Freddy beamed as he looked down at Gregory “ Well, we’ve decided, since your parents haven’t shown up, that we’d let you stay here at the pizza plex with us!!!!” Freddy’s eyes seemed to light up with excitement, he even did jazz hands trying to hype up the ‘gift’ “ You can stay in my room!!!! I have a couch that you could sleep on while I walk around the pizzaplex or charge at night!!!”

Gregory’s jaw dropped, he looked like he was about to cry “ Really? You’d let me stay with you??” Gregory couldn’t help but laugh; he was so excited. He ran over to Freddy wanting to join the group hug. “ That sounds awesome!!”

Freddy opened his mouth to speak but he was interrupted by the loud bang of a glitter bomb going off, covering the group in a shower of bright pink glitter. “ … Where did that glitter bomb come from?” Freddy asked, glancing in the direction where the blast of glitter had come from.

Monty coughed out a large cloud of glitter, “ Shit, sorry I picked it up and broke it.” Monty waved his hand in the air trying, and failing, to get some of the glitter off of it.

“ Welcome to the Pizzaplex, kid. Where there’s never a dull day.” Roxanne chuckled, ruffling Gregory's already very messy hair. “ Now who wants some fucking cake!!!!” Roxanne pointed to the cake in the corner of the room, it had somehow avoided being covered in glitter.

The group cheered, ready to ignore cleaning the glitter and eat some fucking cake.

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It was the morning after the party, Gregory woke up feeling well rested and ready for the day for the first time in what felt like years, but was most likely only a few weeks. Outside the sun was shining through the glass ceiling of the gallery, the cleaning bots had cleaned the hall, the maintenance workers had left a few hours ago, and Freddy was trying to rescue Mapbot from Monty and Roxy. Gregory jumped off of the couch and into the hall to hear what was going on.

“ Please calm down, Mapbot was just doing its job” Freddy pleaded trying to wrench the robot out of Roxy’s grip to no avail “ Who else will give maps to our guests when we reopen?”

“ You can put the maps on our reception counters like a NORMAL Pizza-plex” Roxy pulled Mapbot away from Freddy, hoisting the robot into the air and turning, ready to throw it into a trashcan like it was a basketball “ Now this spooky bitch is going in the garbage where it belongs.”

“ Please take a map” Mapbot yelled, somehow conveying it’s fear with that one repeated sentence

Monty stood and cheered from near the trash can “ Dunk it! Dunk it!” Monty bounced up and down with excitement, the floor around him rumbling with each bounce “ Dunk the Spooky bitch!”

“ Yeah! Throw it in the trash” Gregory cheered, alerting the group to his presence, where Roxanne used the distraction to throw the Mapbot towards the trash can. She missed the trash can entirely and instead launched the robot into Monty’s chest where the two were knocked a few feet back.

“ Super star!! I hope you slept well” Freddy’s worries about Mapbot vanished entirely as his dad instincts kicked in. “ Are you hungry? Would you like waffles? Or pancakes? We have seventeen different brands of cereal to pick from if you would like?”

Roxanne rolled her eyes “ Freddy you’ve known the kid for like three days, I think you’re getting way too attached” Roxy paused for a moment. “And he did try to kill us, shouldn’t you be a bit more worried about that?”

“ We also tried to kill him” Monty called, finally recovering from having Mapbot thrown into him. “But if he tries anything, he’s out of here got it?” Monty looked over at Gregory, with a look so intimidating that it even made Roxy take a few steps away from him.

“ aaaany way, kid you wanna go play some arcade games? Freddy’s been nagging me to try and spend time with you and all that shit” Roxy folded her arms, a look on her face making it seem like she really didn’t want to spend time with Gregory regardless of what the activity was.

Freddy’s face lit up with excitement, letting it slide that Roxy just said ‘shit’ in front of Gregory. “ Oh! Why don’t we go down to the raceway and race the Go-karts!!!” Freddy’s suggestion, while it was intended to be a kind gesture, made both Gregory and Roxanne visibly uncomfortable.

“ Why don’t we play laser tag in Faz blasters instead?” Gregory offered, making eye contact with Roxy, trying to signal that he was just as anxious about going back to Roxy Raceway again after what happened last time. “ I can be on a team with Roxy? So we can still spend time together and become friends or something??? I guess?”

“ Oh hell yeah, me and Freddy will destroy you two!” Monty yelled, his excitement visible even through his shades.

Freddy awkwardly laughed, “ Oh I guess I can team with you Monty, but what about Chica? And someone should act as a third party between Roxy and Gregory right?” Freddy fumbled with his words a little bit, but it was clear he either really didn’t want to be on a team with Monty, or really wanted to be on a team with Gregory.

“Oh. Okay yeah, me and Chica can team up and you three can be a team” Monty’s tone held a small twinge of disappointment. “ I’ll still destroy you guys though” Monty smirked, exuding confidence once again.

“ No way, me and the kid don’t need you.” Roxy pointed a finger at Freddy “ You, Monty and Chica won’t know what hit you.” Roxy gave a small thumbs up to Gregory who nodded in agreement with what she was saying.

“ Yeah!! Me and Roxanne can win just the two of us!! Just you wait” Gregory cheered, his confidence seemed to ease Freddy’s worries just a bit.

“ Well I guess if you really want you, but I make no promises super star. You two won’t win that easily.” Freddy smiled down at the two. Watching as Roxy grabbed Gregory by the hand and began to lead him down the hall.

Roxy power walked in the general direction of Faz-blasters with Gregory, ignoring that he was having a bit of difficulty keeping up with her. “ I guess we’ll meet you there losers” Roxanne walked through the door with an air of confidence about her. even though her hands were almost shaking once the door closed behind her.

. . . . . .

At Faz-blasters the group of animatronics, and Gregory had all gathered in the lobby, dressed in their vests and each of the Glamrocks had been given their own personalized Faz-blasters which looked like they were way better than the crappy hand gun model that Gregory had.

“ So are we going to play any special games? Capture the flag? Last man standing? Team face off?” Chica excitedly asked while she put on some goggles to stop herself from getting blinded by the faz-blasters while she played.

Monty adjusted his sunglasses, “ Team face off, once you get hit three times you’re out. That sound good to everyone?” Monty glanced back at the group, putting his shotgun themed “Monty-blaster” over his shoulder in an attempt to look cool while wearing the goofy looking Faz-vest™

Roxanne nodded, trying to figure out a cool pose while holding the twin race car themed Faz-blasters she was given. “ Works for me, but it doesn’t matter which game we play, me and the kid are gonna win.” Roxy smirked, glancing down at Gregory who was eagerly waiting for the game to start.

Freddy chuckled “ Then let’s get going, the games ready for us.” As Freddy spoke the doors to the laser tag arena opened, the instruction video playing on the monitors above them, Freddy’s team was directed to start on the left side of the arena while Roxanne and Gregory were sent to the right.
“ Hey Roxy?” Gregory tried to start a conversation with her, but she was off in her own world, mumbling to herself completely ignoring Gregory

“ You’ve got this, you can win this, you’re great at laser tag, and you’re great at making friends.” Roxanne took a deep breath, or what sounded like one since she can’t actually breathe “ Alright, kid let’s kick some ass.”

Gregory smiled up at her, readying his Faz–blaster and ducking behind a wall “ Yeah, let’s kick some ass.” Gregory’s response caused Roxanne to do a double take while laughing to herself.

“ Damn kid, don’t let Freddy hear you talking like that, he’d have to put you in time out.” The two laughed together as the countdown for the game to begin rang through the arena. The lights of the room flashing, red, yellow, and then green signaling the game had begun.

“ Please take a map” Mapbot called, somehow being in the arena and wearing one of the laser tag vests showing it was on Gregory and Roxanne’s team, it’s time on their team didn’t last long however as it was almost immediately kicked into a wall by Roxanne in her panic and riddled with lasers from Gregory’s Faz-blaster.

The two shared a horrified glance “ Remind to burn that fucking thing when this is over” Roxanne pointed over at Map-bot, “ and we’re not going to ask how it got in here, because I don’t want to know.”

Gregory nodded before the two warily left the area to actually start the game, both keeping an eye out for the terror that is Map-bot as they moved into the actual arena.

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Roxy and Gregory weaved their way through the Faz-blasters arena, ducking under the bridges, or jumping onto the top of one of the walls from time to time in Roxy’s case. Neither of them had seen the other team at all, but they were honestly more worried about Map-bot coming back rather than being hit by a laser or two.

“ Alright kid listen up.” Roxanne whispered, pulling Gregory into cover behind a small wall. “ Chica and Freddy are taking the high road, while Monty is on the ground floor heading right for us, if we aren’t careful we’re going to get ambushed.” She scratched a little map on the ground with her nails trying to come up with a plan.

Gregory listened patiently until he realized something “ Wait, how do you know exactly where they are?” Gregory paused, “ Are you looking at them through the walls? I through you guys couldn’t cheat in this game”

Roxanne chuckled “ Well it’s not cheating if it’s something I can’t control right?” Roxy gave Gregory a little thumbs up, before she looked up and seemed to see something right before Gregory's vest made a noise showing he had been hit “ Fucking hell they found us. Run”

Roxanne sprinted off into the maze that was Faz-blasters leaving Gregory behind to bob and weave between the barriers watching as the red lasers whisked past him, barely missing their mark.

“ I’m sorry Gregory, but I promised Monty I wouldn’t go easy.” Freddy called, he sounded like he had just given Gregory a new Mr. Hippo fridge magnet with how strong the tone of remorse was in his voice.

Gregory laughed as he dodged another volley of lasers “ It’s okay Freddy, I’m still going to win this.” Gregory boasted hoping to lighten the mood just before he spun around and made a lucky shot that connected with Freddy’s vest.

“ Good shot Superstar!!” Freddy cheered, sounding like he was a dad cheering for their child at a soccer game.

Monty roared in annoyance hearing this “ Freddy. Focus. Please.” Monty yelled, putting a pause between each of his words to push just how annoyed he was with Freddy, however his annoyance only grew worse when he was hit by a laser fired from wherever Roxy was hiding. “ Oh for fucks sake, look what you did Freddy.”

Freddy’s giggle upon hearing this was loud enough to be heard clearly even while Monty was yelling “ I apologize Monty I promise I’ll try harder from now o-” He was cut off by Gregory landing another well aimed shot bringing Freddy down to one more life in the game “ Oh wow you got me right as my cool down went away! I’m impressed!!”

“ Freddy, come on!” Monty yelled, stomping his foot as he fired his Faz-blaster in a few random directions, accidentally landing a hit on Roxy as she snuck through the maze, his anger fading just a little bit as he heard Roxy yell in annoyance.

From somewhere that Gregory couldn’t even see another laser hit the side of his vest, Chica’s voice ringing through the arena as she giggled to herself “ You boys better stop fighting, or I’ll have to carry this team myself.” Chica’s sounded like she was having the time of her life as she continued to fire well aimed shots on Gregory and Roxy, the two being brought down to their last life were having a really difficult time staying in the game.

On a large screen in the arena an announcement played saying “ Freddy-has-been-eliminated” in bold red letters accompanied with the blast of air horns, as Monty groaned, his anger levels rising greatly by the moment.

“ Nice one Roxy!!” Gregory yelled as she dove out from cover and hit Monty’s back with a laser before hightailing it away from the enraged gator “ Looks like we can win this after all!” Gregory cheered before watching a flurry of lasers barely miss him as Monty chased him down.

Roxy grabbed Gregory as she appeared from out of nowhere lifting him into the air with one hand as she ran as fast as she could back into the maze, just barely avoiding the barrage of lasers from Monty, who yelled a quick “ Where the fuck did she come from??” as he watched Roxy scoop Gregory up and run.

“ Wow kid, you really pissed him off.” Roxy laughed as she set Gregory down, peeking through the walls to try and find the best way to defeat Monty, a smile creeping across her face “ Hey kid you wanna see something really cool?”

Gregory nodded excitedly, really wanting to see whatever Roxanne had just planned.

Roxy pointed one of her blasters at a reflective material on one of the walls, as she fired the blaster the laser reflected off of, the material and, much to Gregory’s delight, hit the back of Monty’s vest enraging the gator so bad that he nearly knocked over on of the maze walls.

“ THAT WAS AWESOME” Gregory cheered, hugging Roxy his excitement so pure it made Roxy’s cool demeanor vanish as she returned the hug, as she crouched down to hug him back a laser from Chica flew just overhead barely missing Roxanne. “ Oh shit I forgot about Chica.”

Roxanne let out a loud laugh as she and Gregory began to move into the maze to avoid Chica’s fire from somewhere else in the arena. “ Sorry Kid but you swearing sounds so fucking funny.” Roxy wheezed, ducking into the entrance for one of the towards around the arena, motioning that Chica was hiding in the tower as she couldn’t stop giggling at Gregory saying ‘shit’

“ Oh come on it wasn’t that funny” Gregory pouted as he ran up the steps of the tower, although even he had to laugh a little bit about it hearing how hard Roxy had started laughing.

“ Wait, I have an idea.” Roxy whispered, in between smaller giggles trying to get her laughter to die down, she knelt down as she spoke “ Get on my shoulder’s we’ll end this game in style” Roxy giggles, her competitive nature being replaced by her just wanting to have fun with the rest of the game.

Gregory smiled so wide as Roxanne lifted him onto her shoulders. Cheering with glee as she ran up the stairs at a sprint, and as Roxanne kicked down a few blocks that Chica had used to block off the entrance to her room in the tower both Gregory and Roxy yelled what sounded like a battle cry as they charged in Faz-blasters blazing firing everything they had at the animatronic hiding in the tower.

However, they realized too late that what they were firing at was a decoy, a cleaning bot that had gotten stuck in the arena that Chica had used to keep them from noticing as she left the tower through the upper floor of the arena, and from Chica’s new hiding spot she landed a hit to Gregory’s vest, bring him down to zero lives.

“ Gregory! No!!” Roxy yelled, lifting him off of her shoulders as he made his fake death as dramatic as possible. “ I’m so sorry Gregory, I promise I will avenge you.” Roxanne whispered, being just as dramatic as Gregory was.

“ I see a light, I can see Freddy and Monty, Monty looks pissed” Gregory mumbled his eyes half closed as he reached into the air towards the roof of the tower. “ Roxy, I just wanted to say, before I go… bleh” Gregory’s arm fell as he ‘died’

"NOOOOOO" Roxy howled holding Gregory in her arms as she mourned his fake death. This touching moment couldn't last as she was hit by a laser. "I'm sorry Gregory I couldn't avenge you." Roxanne fell back with a 'bleh' just like Gregory had done.

"I WON!!" Chica practically screamed, " In all of your faces I won the game… wait who the fu-" Chica was cut off by the loud sound of a laser firing and hitting her vest bringing her down to zero lives as well.

Standing behind her was the one robot that had flown under everyone's radar the whole game. Dishing out victory for Roxy and Gregory just like it dished out maps. It was Map-bot holding a Faz-blaster triumphantly in one hand, while holding out a map in it’s other hand.

“Take. A. Map” Map-bot stared down Chica with a Faz-blaster still in it’s hand

“ Yo what the fuck?” Roxy sat up as she heard Map-bot right before the whole arena was covered in a bright green light signaling that Roxy and Gregory’s team had one the game, even if it was because of Map-bot’s ability to move undetected.

“ How the hell did they win???” Monty shouted as he and Freddy were let back into the arena.

“ Take a map” Map-bot called as it wheeled over to Freddy and Monty who exchanged uneasy looks.

Freddy awkwardly chuckled, “ So how did that thing get in here?” Freddy looked over at the others who all just shrugged unsure how Map-bot could have made it to Faz-blasters fast enough for them not to notice at all. “ Okay then we’re just not going to question it.”

“ Yeah, ignore that thing, and take in the fact that WE WON!!” Roxy cheered, raising her fists into the air, cheering as loud as she could, Gregory joining in, cheering as loud as he could as well.

Chica giggled watching the two celebrate together “ Didn’t you two have very dramatic fake deaths not even five minutes ago?” Chica asked, only slightly bitter that her victory had been cut short by Map-bot of all things.

“ Doesn’t matter, our team still won!” Gregory yelled still cheering with Roxy much to Monty’s annoyance.

The duo continued to cheer, while the other team eventually gave in and applauded for them, giving them the real victory of getting Monty of all people to admit defeat in any game. As they celebrated the lights of Faz-blasters turned on, the room became lit with bright lights so that they could escape the maze whenever they wanted to.

After a while of celebrating footsteps could be heard approaching the group accompanied by the light of a flashlight as Vanessa reached the group, incredibly angry “ Why the hell are you four just playing Fazblasters….” Vanessa’s voice trailed off as she looked down and saw Gregory, still in the Pizzaplex and just hanging out with the animatronics like the events of a few nights ago hadn’t happened. She pressed a hand to her forehead “ Freddy? Why is the kid here? I thought he would have left after getting rid of the rabbit lady or whatever.”

“ Officer Vanessa?... were you not the rabbit lady?” Freddy asked, looking to the rest of the group who all nodded having believed the same thing before. “ She looked suspiciously like you.”

Vanessa motioned to herself “ Do I LOOK like I was the rabbit lady?” She sighed not wanting to deal with this right now “ It turns out she stole my identity, even pretended to be me for a few therapy sessions, which is really fucking creepy, and did she know how hard it is to find therapists? Especially when she kept killing them?” Vanessa went off on a rant, her one day off of work was evidently not enough.

“Wow that was a bit too much Tmi.” Monty muttered gesturing over to Vanessa who had stopped her rant and was back to looking incredibly tired

“ And why did that sound more like an excuse for you to be here than an actual explanation?” Chica continued Monty’s train of thought.

“ Take a Map.” Map-bot speculated looking very profound.

“ Why the FUCK is that thing still here?”

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“ So you just adopted him?? Freddy, do you know how bad of an idea this is?” Vanessa motioned towards Gregory who was eating a burrito from El Chips and playing some random video game with Roxy and Chica. “ What do we do when people go looking for him?”

Freddy glanced at Gregory and back at Vanessa unsure how to respond to this “ Have I not informed the proper authorities like you Officer Vanessa?” Freddy sheepishly asked, tapping his fingers together awkwardly

Vanessa instinctively brought her hand to the bridge of her nose out of frustration “ Freddy, I’m a security guard, not an actual cop.” Vanessa sighed “ And I have been trying to find his parents if you must know.”

“ Well that’s wonderful news, I’m sure that his parent’s will be looking for him soon and they can find him here.” Freddy’s tone was almost hurt, but his smile grew wide as he looked at Vanessa who was considering just walking away, or maybe quitting her job altogether, she was still debating.

“Freddy. There’s a lost child, living in a Pizza-plex, with robots who tried to kill him two nights ago.” Vanessa did her best to put a strong emphasis on how bad of an idea this all was, motioning towards the camera’s that were pointed right at them “ They might even have you on video Freddy, what are you going to do when people start asking questions? Or when the Pizzaplex opens back up to the public?”

Freddy wasn’t actually sure how to respond to these questions, he had only thought a few days ahead “ While I’m unsure about what to do, I do know that we cannot just leave Gregory to wander the streets on his own” Freddy reasoned.

“ Which is why we need to turn him into the police? Or a social worker? Someone who knows how to handle kids and not a bunch of animatronics???” Vanessa sighed, taking a deep breath “ Look Freddy, I know you’ve gotten attached to the kid, but.. Is this really the best way to go about this?”

Before Freddy could respond Gregory spoke up, having walked over when no one was looking. “ Well it’s not like I have anywhere else to go.” Gregory mentioned “ and if it’s okay I’d really like to stay here, sleeping on a couch is way nicer than sleeping in a cardboard box”

“ You were sleeping in a WHAT?” Freddy nearly yelled, becoming a distressed father as he knelt down to make sure Gregroy was okay, and that he wouldn’t let Gregory sleep in a cardboard box ever again.

Vanessa knelt down with Freddy, while she knew Gregory was a tough kid and couldn’t handle himself she was still a little worried. She and Freddy spent a good five minutes asking Gregory questions and making sure he was 100% okay, and that he should know they wouldn’t let him go homeless.

“ So we’re keeping him right?” Roxy asked, spinning around in a stool that she was sitting on “ I mean, it’s the best thing to do, and I’d vote yes on keeping him.”

“Roxy he’s not a cat, we can’t just ‘ keep him’, but If he was I’d also vote yes on letting him stay here.” Chica motioned over to Gregory with a smile.

“ Now hold on, there are other ways to find a place for him to stay, that aren’t a Pizza-plex where he lives with robot animals” Vanessa put her hand under her chin trying to think of what to do about Gregory, knowing she wasn’t going to get the animatronics to let him go easily “ But I guess this place is the safest place for him, well with Freddy here is at least.”

“ Hey, we're not that dangerous… anymore” Chica protested folding her arms angrily

Roxy let out a laugh “ No, No, she has a point.” Roxy motioned over to a few tables in El Chips that had been demolished a couple nights ago by a blind Roxy. “ Most of us weren’t exactly child safe until last night, and even then we’re still unsure about Monty.”

“ Officer Vanessa, are you saying he can stay for now?” Freddy looked up at Vanessa with a look of hope in his eyes as he hugged Gregory.

Vanessa groaned, knowing she couldn’t say no to him “ Fine, fine, yes he can stay, for now at least.” Vanessa put a hand on the side of her head as she shook it, she was mostly thinking about how quickly this could get her fired, and get the animatronics decommissioned, or both, in no particular order.

The Roxy and Chica cheered, happy that their new friend/pseudo adopted child could stay with them, and that they didn’t in fact have to send him out into the world where he might have to sleep in a box again.

As her cheering quieted down Chica spun on her chair to face Vanessa as a questioning look crossed her face “ Hey Officer V. Why are you here anyway? Aren’t you the night guard? It’s only like 3:30 pm right now.”

“ Shit I forgot.” Vanessa spun around walking a few paces away from the group, pulling out her phone and calling someone, everyone was quick to listen in to what she was talking about “ Yeah it was just one of the cleaner bots, got trapped in Faz-blasters when maintenance was done this morning.”

“ What the fuck is she talking about?” Roxy whispered, as she leaned towards Vanessa trying to get a bit closer so she could listen a bit better to her conversation.

After a few moments Vanessa hung up her phone with a loud sigh “ And that’s why you need to be careful, the techs noticed you all playing around in Faz-blasters, they thought someone had broken in or a kid had made their way in here.” Vanessa looked over at Gregory in silence for a moment. “ You’re all So lucky that the camera’s are down right now.”

The three animatronics had a moment of realization as the glanced back at the security camera’s “ Fuck, I completely forgot about that those things are monitored all the damn time.” Roxy paused for a moment, debating on how angry Freddy would be if she flipped off the camera.

“ Please watch your language, you all have been swearing much too often around Gregory.” Freddy covered Gregory’s ears like he usually did when they swore and he could see it coming. “ You’re a worse influence than Monty, or Map-bot.”

Vanessa gave Freddy a confused look “ Freddy what the hell does that even mean? How is that a bad influence??” Vanessa paused for a moment to actually think about it “ Well I guess it’s bad for your health to be scared by that thing so often… maybe that’s why my doctor says I have heart problems, huh, and I thought it was just general stress.”

“ Who knew Maps could be so scary?” Chica giggled, taking a moment to look around just to be sure that Map-bot hadn’t snuck up on her again.

“ Speaking of scary, where did Monty go??” Gregory asked, being the first to point out that Monty, had in fact been gone since they left Faz-blasters

Vanessa quickly looked around " God fucking damnit. I can't lose another one." Vanessa began to quickly walk away from the group

"Officer Vanessa, wait for us, we'll help look!" Freddy lifted Gregory off of the ground and onto his shoulder as he walked after Vanessa "Wait have you lost other animatronics before?"

"We're not going to talk about it." Vanessa responded, the tone in her voice made it very clear that she did not, in fact, want to talk about it in the slightest. “ Now please find Monty before he gets himself into trouble… or breaks another desk”

Chica rolled her eyes as they followed Vanessa “ Calm down, this is Monty we’re talking about he wanders off all the time, but yeah he probably has broken at least one desk in the past ten minutes.” Chica shrugged, being so used to Monty’s behavior.

“ Hold on, I found him. He’s hiding in his golf course again.” Roxy called, looking through the walls again to see the gator practicing his swings “ See Officer V. You've got nothing to worry about.”

Vanessa gave Roxy a stern look “ Yes, let's all leave the super strong Gator who has temper problems alone with a golf club, because that’s not going to get anything broken.” Vanessa turned to continue her way down to Monty’s Gator Golf.
As the group approached Monty walked towards them, the golf club swinging side to side before he stopped and pointed it at them dramatically “ Now, who’s ready for some golf?” Monty smirked, “ Be warned, this is one game I know I’ll win.”

“ Damn, looks like someones still jealous that he got his ass kicked by a 13 year old.” Roxy chuckled looking over at Gregory.

Gregory laughed “ I’m eleven so it’s even more embarrassing.” Gregory taunted, knowing Monty couldn’t do anything to retaliate while he was up on Freddy’s shoulders.

Monty scoffed turning to Vanessa “ Don’t you try sneaking off, you’re joining us.” Monty pointed the Golf club over at her much to her annoyance. “ You’ll still lose horribly but you’re playing with us.”

Vanessa sighed, wishing she had just ignored the call from the techs while she slept “ Fine, I guess, whatever gets you all to behave.” Vanessa folded her arms with a look on her face that said both ‘ I don’t get paid enough for this’ and also ‘ I need so much sleep’ “ But if you rage quit again Monty, I’m leaving.”

“ Deal, now let’s play some fucking golf!!” Monty cheered, staying pumped for the golf, even while the rest of the animatronics only gave half hearted cheers along with him.

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Monty led the group through his golf course, tossing golf clubs at them with an air of confidence as he strutted through the dimly lit golf course, stopping at the first hole and hitting a hole in one like it was nothing.

“ Alright losers, it’s your turn.” Monty glanced over the hem of his sunglasses with a small smirk, leaning onto his golf club like it was a small walking cane.

Vanessa cracked her knuckles walking up to the tee as she put on a golf glove, like she had done this a thousand times, matching Monty’s energy by hitting a hole in one like it was nothing before turning to Monty with a small smile “ Well looks like I’ve still got it.” Vanessa walked past Monty while the rest of the group looked at her with their jaws dropped.

“ Wow, that was amazing, Officer Vanessa.” Freddy commented as he walked up to the tee next, before he hit the ball much too hard, sending it into a wall on the other side of the room where it was firmly lodged into the wall.” Oh, I guess with Monty’s upgrade I’m a bit stronger than I used to be.” Freddy chuckled, rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly.

Monty stared at the wall where the ball had been launched into with his eyes wide for a second before turning to Freddy “Yo, what the hell you could have killed someone with that.” Monty snatched the golf club from Freddy’s hands as he walked away from the tee. “I’m revoking your golf rights, for everyone's safety, and for the safety of my walls.”

“ Ironic for you to be worried about everyone's safety.” Roxy smirked, trying to hit the golf ball and missing entirely with her swing, she looked down at the ball growling at it. “ I hate this fucking game.”

Chica nudged Roxy to the side, doing her best to avoid having Roxy beat something down with a golf club. “ Monty, maybe golf wasn’t the best idea… so far we’ve all kinda been angry at the game.” Chica motioned to Freddy who was anxiously looking at the golf ball that was still in the wall, and then to Roxy who was angrily mumbling to herself and swinging her golf club like it was a baseball bat.

“ Oh whatever, you’re just afraid you’ll lose to me… again” Monty waved his hand in the air, trying to stay confident. “ Plus I’m sure they wouldn’t mind cheering someone on, Freddy mostly, He probably has a whole cheer routine ready.” Monty teased, but based on the look on Freddy’s face Monty realized he had just given Freddy some ideas.

“ Plus, I need to keep my title of the Monty golf champion.” Vanessa called, leaning against the railing that lined the paths in the area with a smug smile on her face. It was the least exhausted looking the group had seen her in weeks. “ Unless you think you can beat me this time, Monty.”

Monty growled and folded his arms “ It was one lucky game.” Monty grumbled, not noticing that behind him Vanessa mouthed the words ‘ more like seven games’. Instead Monty finished his rant by saying “ Besides, I know you cheated last time.”

“ Hey, I think it’s my turn.” Gregory walked towards the tee, trying to stop the brewing argument. Freddy cheered Gregory on as he hit the ball, watching it roll towards the hole stopping just a few inches away from it, much to Freddy’s disappointment. “ Damn it.” Gregory mumbled this just quietly enough for Freddy not to hear.

“ I’m sure you’ll get it on your next swing superstar” Freddy pat Gregory on the back trying to support him. Even though he knew Gregory was about to get absolutely destroyed by Monty and Vanessa for the rest of this game, and probably any other game of golf they played in the future.

Chica walked up to the tee, hitting the ball with as little force as she could to try and not do what Freddy had done before talking as she swung “ So Officer Vanessa, how did you get so good at golf?” Chica asked, watching her ball skip along the path landing a foot or two to the left of where Gregory’s ball had landed. “ I’ve never seen anyone better than Monty.”

Vanessa sighed, “ I used to play mini golf a bunch as a kid… it was something that didn’t involve my dad.” Tears formed in Vanessa’s eyes for a moment but she immediately snapped out of it as she shook her head to focus on something else “ I guess the skills never left, based on how thoroughly I beat Monty every time we play.”

“ Damn Monty, you’re gonna let her shit talk, you like that?” Roxy teased, ignoring Freddy’s protests of her swearing as Gregory walked over to take a second swing. She rested her arm over Monty’s shoulder as she leaned onto him, looking very smug. “ Or is she telling the truth?”

You could see the rage brewing in Monty’s eyes, even while he was wearing his shades. “ Well she’s not going to win this time.” Monty’s voice came out as a low growl, but instead of showing his anger further he simply brushed Roxy’s arm off of his shoulder as he moved towards the next hole. “ And that’s rich coming from you Roxy, You’re pretty shit at this game yourself.” Monty chuckled as he walked away from the group towards the next hole.

“ Freddy, look I did it!” Gregory proudly proclaimed as he finally managed to hit the golf ball into the hole. “ I think I’m getting the hang of this.”

Freddy scooped Gregory into a proud hug. “ That’s amazing Superstar.” The moment was so heartwarming, that even Monty said a soft ‘ awww’ in the distance as he set up the tee for the next hole.

“ Freddy, why the fuck are you so wholesome?” Roxy asked, she was only being a little sarcastic as she asked this, even if she knew Freddy had no idea what the word ‘wholesome’ meant.

After this the game continued as everyone had expected, Monty and Vanessa’s rivalry continued with both of them playing near perfect games, to the point that they both started going for style points while playing to try and one up the other. Chica and Gregory on the other hand player horribly, and the only reason that Gregory was doing just a bit better than her was because Chica had decided it was a good idea to eat candy while taking a few swings. Roxy tried to play and keep up with the others, only to give up after she nearly took out the eye of a cleaner bot who was trying to get Freddy’s ball out of the wall that it was stuck in.

“ Ouch, that would have hurt.” Roxy mumbled after she yelled an apology to the now slightly angry cleaner bot, as the cleaner bot gave her a cold emotionless stare. Making her feel even worse about nearly breaking the thing “ I’ll make it up to you, do you want, like, an autograph or something?”

Chica giggled hearing this “ Roxy, I don’t think the cleaner bot really cares about things like that, It’s not programed that way… I think” Chica tried to reason in between bites of her candy bar.

Roxy rolled her eyes and folded her arms “ Well, maybe I’m so cool I broke it’s code, bet you didn’t think about that huh?” Roxy teased , flicking her wrist into the air just to be a little bit extra with her confidence “ And it never answered so you don’t know tha- Oh it’s gone, guess you were right.” Roxy and Chica laughed together as the others resumed their game of golf, or tried to warn off other Cleaner bots in Freddy’s case.

Monty pushed a cleaner bot to the side less than gently as he made his way to the next hole. “ Alright, we’ve got two holes left so why don’t we make this more interesting?” Monty chuckled looking over at Vanessa who was thoroughly unamused. “ Whoever can make the most impressive hole in one, wins this game.”

Vanessa chuckled as she looked up at Monty, “ Okay, and if I win, you have to stop breaking fences for three days.” Vanessa stuck out her hand for Monty to shake, taking it back before he could shake it as she realized he could very well crush her hand by accident. “ And if you win, I’ll buy you those stupid golf clubs you want.”

Monty gleamed with excitement, “ Oh you’re on Officer V, I hope you got that raise you wanted cause those golf clubs aren’t cheap.” Monty boasted, Vanessa scoffed trying to act casual while also worriedly opening her phone to see just how expensive those golf clubs were.

“ Wait, what about me??” Gregory asked as he folded his arms, a little upset to have been forgotten. “ What do I get if I win?”

Vanessa and Monty paused for a moment, not sure what to offer Gregory even if they both knew he probably wouldn’t be making any trick shots, Freddy was the first to speak up “ If you win, why don’t you get a-” Freddy was cut off by Monty stepping in between him and Gregory

“Kid, if you win I’ll give you my shades.” Monty knelt down, lowering his shades towards Gregory. “ And you can keep them for as long as you want.”

“ Whoa hold on, Monty I don’t think you’re allowed to give those away.” Vanessa muttered kneeling down next to Monty, lowering her voice to a whisper. “ you know exactly why you can’t give those up.” Vanessa whispered, trying to change Monty’s mind, but his mind had already been made up

“ Nope, that’s my offer and it’s final.” Monty stood up putting his shades back on in a smooth motion “ Now let’s go play some golf.”

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Everyone stood across the lane from the last hole, Monty, Vanessa, and Gregory each with their golf clubs in hand, while behind them the other three animatronics had whiteboards so they could score the trick shots once they happened.

“ Should we make some rules for this or…?” Vanessa looked over at Monty, being too tired to make any rules for this challenge herself at the moment.

“ Oh I have a few rules!” Freddy called, the group could practically hear him mentally typing up a list of rules to list off. “ First we should play fair, no cheating at this game.”

Monty scoffed “ Freddy we can’t cheat at a game, our code literally won’t allow it.” Monty motioned to himself and the other animatronics “ And I doubt Officer V would cheat, she’s too much of a goodie two shoes.”

“ Yeah fuck you too Monty.” Vanessa called as she started to scroll through her phone, already mentally checking out of the challenge and wanting to focus on something else.

“ Rule number two is no swearing.” Freddy spoke before anyone else could swear in front of Gregory as well. “ Rule three is that the shot has to be a hole in one, and Rule four is that the ball can’t hit anyone in the face.”

Monty looked pretty confused at that last one “ Wait so if someone just happens to walk in front of our shot and it hits them we’re out and don’t get a redo??” Monty leaned towards Freddy with an eyebrow raised “ That’s kinda unfair”

“ Nonsense Monty, the rules are here to ensure everyone’s safety.” Freddy folded his arms with a proud look on his face. “ Rule five, No getting angry if you’re shot doesn’t work out.”

Roxy sighed as she pushed Freddy to the side. “ Alright no more rules, this is getting boring and Freddy is totally rigging the game.” Freddy tried to defend himself, but was silenced by a silent glare from Roxy as she motioned to Gregory who was the least likely to break any of the rules listed as far as Freddy knew.

" Just let them have fun, Fredster." Chica teased, using the nickname to further her teasing while she looked over at the others giving them a thumbs up " You guys are free to start playing when you want to."

Freddy tried to speak up while Monty stepped closer to the tee. “ Oh wait I have a few more rules, if you’d give me just a moment I can…” Freddy was interrupted by Chica shushing him so that Monty could focus while trying to make his trick shot.

“ That’s Chica.” Monty said as he took his swing, launching the ball far into the air, it hit the top of the plastic leaves on the fake leaves rolling along the canopy before falling down into the ball pit below, nowhere near where the hole was supposed to be.

Vanessa did her best to suppress a laugh “ Wow Monty, that was an amazing shot.” Vanessa tried to walk towards the tee so she could make her trick shot, but was stopped by Monty who gestured over to the ball pit where the ball had landed.

As Vanessa looked at the ball pit, one of the large robot gators did it’s routine leap out of the ball pit, on the top of it’s head the golf ball flew into the air, hitting the catwalk above before it was dunked into the hole, for one amazing hole in one.

Monty glanced back at his friends who were writing down scores for his hole in one, Chica gave him a 10, Roxy gave him a 9, and Freddy gave him a 7. Monty winced a bit reading Freddy’s score for him but he ignored it as he moved to give Vanessa her chance to make a trick shot.

Wordlessly Vanessa stepped up to the tee, taking just a few seconds to angle her golf club before hitting the ball hard enough that the ball made a soft whooshing noise as it flew into the air. “ Get ready, this is going to be a good one.” Vanessa commented, only half bragging about how good this trick shot was going to be.

As the group watched as the ball bounced up to the top of Monty’s stage where it bounced around on the top of the stage lights causing them to sway slightly for a rather impressive lights show before it rolled off to the side, vaulting off of the top of a trash can and up onto the catwalks where it kept it’s rolling momentum, bouncing around on the paths above like a pinball.

“ What kind of fucking magic do you two use to be this good at golf.” Roxy managed to say while she watched the ball roll down the catwalks above them, as it rolled off of the catwalk and bounced along the tops of the fake trees in the course.

“ Roxy! What did I just say in the rules?” Freddy folded his arms, sounding very disappointed in Roxy for breaking his rules.

Roxy scoffed, "Freddy I'm not even playing the game, how can I break the rules??" Roxy put her hands on her hips, the ball Vanessa had launched landing into the hole with a loud ‘plunk’ causing everyone to turn and look at it, Chica and Roxy already having a score of 10 written on their score cards.

“ Well you should still lead by example Roxy.” Freddy responded, writing down an 8 on his scorecard. Most likely hoping Gregory could somehow get a score of three perfect 10s.

Vanessa chuckled, “ That 8 is a little insulting, but I’ll take it.” Vanessa moved to the side motioning for Gregory to try his hand at a trick shot. “ Get ready for those three days of not breaking any fences Monty, you’re going to have to take the normal staff tunnels like the rest of us.”

Monty groaned “Nooo, that’s going to take forever.” Monty’s whining was mostly played up to get a laugh from the others.

Gregory giggled as he tried to line up his shot, Freddy standing over his shoulder not so subtly cheering his pseudo-son on. “ You can do this superstar I know you can!” Freddy clapped his hands together in a single, very proud, clap.

Chica and Roxanne giggled to themselves about something, as Roxanne whispered just quiet enough for Freddy to not hear. Freddy noticed them laughing and assumed the worst.

“ Chica, Roxy, I expected better from you, don’t laugh at Gregory.” Freddy folded his arms with a hurt frown on his face. Roxy’s mouth dropped as she gave Freddy one of the most offended looks he had ever seen her make.

Chica’s giggling died down just a bit as she tried to defend them “ No, wait hold on Freddy, that’s not what we were-” Chica stopped talking mid sentence as Roxy held up her hand in a ‘shush’ motion.

“ No, no, no. Don’t tell him, he’ll realize in a second” Roxy gave a slightly smug smile while Chica tried to hold back her laughter.

Monty turned from his own conversation with Vanessa, jumping slightly as he looked in Freddy and Gregory’s direction, keeping his silence as per Roxanne's request, so instead he just put a hand over his mouth, chuckling to himself while elbowing Vanessa.

Vanessa sighed, as she tried to warn Freddy about what was going to happen “ Freddy, before anything happens, please don’t accidentally kick the kid.” Vanessa warned, motioning to Freddy’s left.

“ Why would I accidentally kick Gregory?” Freddy asked while he looked to the left, and just as he looked all the way to the left, Map-bot lifted a map towards his face.

“ Please take a map” Map-bot stuck the map into Freddy’s face, the bot, not having any previous record of Freddy entering Gator Golf it assumed he was just new to the area.

Freddy gasped in shock taking a quick step back, the back of his foot colliding with Gregory’s golf club, and almost like a domino effect the golf club hit the ball off of the tee launching it into the air with an incredible amount of speed.

“ Aww Freddy, you messed up my shot.” Gregory playfully stomped his foot, while he wasn’t actually upset about the shot, he had to admit he did really want those sunglasses from Monty.

Freddy ducked quickly to avoid the rogue golf ball that was bouncing off of the walls like a pinball while he apologized to Gregory “ I am so sorry Superstar.” Freddy looked down at Gregory like he had committed a crime by messing up his shot.

The golf ball flew through the air bouncing from wall to wall, hitting the occasional against a metal pole, making a noise that sounded like a pinball bouncing around. However the group didn't have time to question how anything in the room was able to make that noise as the ball bounced up to the catwalks much like the other two trickshots that had been fired today.

After a moment of waiting for the ball to continue it’s chaos there was silence, even if it was just a few moments “ How the hell did that even happen?” Roxy questioned, still holding Map-bot over her head as a shield.

“ That definitely wasn’t normal.” Vanessa peeked out from her hiding place next to Roxy, hesitant to leave her hiding spot.

Chica nodded in agreement as her head rose up from the ball pit next to the group where she and Monty dove for cover. “ I swear the Map-bots have some sort of weird magic that they use because that’s the second time today they’ve caused something weirdly impressive.

“ At least no one was hur-” Freddy was cut off by one of the ball launchers from the catwalks going off, launching perfectly into the splash bucket, the alarm going off and the bucket pouring into the ballpit below, Monty shrank back into the ballpit watching the bucket tip over.

Out of the bucket the golf ball that had been launched fell forwards bouncing off of the stage and rolling along the ground approaching the hole, while it’s roll slowed the group looked at it holding their breath as the ball slowly rolled towards its goal, Chica and Roxy already writing an 11 on their score boards without breaking eye contact with the ball.

“ No way.” Monty gasped, peaking over his glasses to watch the ball

“ Go, Go, Go.” Gregory muttered, bouncing up and down out of pure excitement, already imagining how cool he was going to look wearing Monty’s sunglasses.

“ AInt no way that makes it.” Vanessa muttered, her sudden shift into a different way of speaking.

“ Holy shit, Holy Shit.” Roxy cheered, trying to look over Freddy’s shoulder to get a better look at the ball as it’s roll slowed down.

The ball slowed down even more but it was only a few inches from it’s goal, the cheers from the group growing louder the closer the ball rolled. Everyone's cheers, or shouts of defeat, growing to near scream levels as the ball was just an inch away,

“ Take a Map!” Map-bot cheered, as the ball finished it’s rolling, just on the cusp of the hole, after a moment of everyone’s waiting. The ball began to roll in the other direction, moving down the hill that the last hole was situated on. Everyone, including Map-bot, let out noises of disappointment. Vanessa set a timer on her watch as everyone did so, ready to enjoy her three days of zero fence destruction in the pizzaplex.

“ Awwww darn it, I was so close.” Gregory pouted, tossing his golf club to the side. “ I really wanted to wear those glasses.”

Roxanne softly laughed as she walked over to Gregory, ruffling his hair for a second before speaking “ Well you did great either way kid.” Roxy knelt down to be on eye level with Gregory as she gave him a big thumbs up.

“Yes! You did wonderfully Superstar!” Freddy agreed, also crouching down so he could give Gregory a hug, or what was more similar to an air hug as he didn’t want to accidentally crush Gregory.

Monty stepped forwards to say something, but was stopped by Vanessa who had elbowed him while giving the Gator a look that clearly said ‘ Don’t even think about it’. Monty scoffed and motioned to Gregory giving Vanessa a look in return trying to get her to back down on her stance. Vanessa responded by stomping her foot once and standing up straighter in an attempt to look bigger than Monty and to get him to back down on his stance.

“ Why are you two aggressively standing at each other? ” Chica tilted her head to the side, both intrigued and pretty confused by the silent exchange happening between Vanessa and Monty.

In the moment that Vanessa looked away from him, Monty quickly stepped to the side while taking off his glasses in a single smooth motion, holding the pair of glasses out towards Gregory “ Here kid, if you want you can wear them for the rest of the day.” Monty smiled at Gregory, but he also looked rather uncomfortable, even closing his eyes sharply as Freddy and Roxy looked up at him.

“ Wow really?” Gregory took the glasses out of Monty’s hand, hesitantly putting them on, with a large smile.

“ Yes, Really Monty? That’s very kind of you!” Freddy also smiled up at the Gator, who quickly avoided eye contact.

“ Yes Monty, how nice.” Vanessa spoke through gritted teeth, clearly not happy about this development, though No one but Monty seemed to understand why. “ Please take good care of those Gregory, they’re his last pair” Vanessa emphasized the last part of her sentence

“ Calm down Officer V. I’ll be fine as long as I’m off stage.” Monty shrugged his eyes still stuck half lidded “ Or playing Fazblasters, those pieces of shit are evil.”

Chica leaned forward looking at Monty’s face suspiciously “ So why exactly are those glasses so important???” Chica asked curiously, before she could get an answer however, the dim LED lights in the room quickly switched off.

“ Oh it must be time for the hourly recharge.” Freddy commented, pausing for a moment, to think “ Oh no I need ro recharge.”

“ How long have we been playing golf for?” Vanessa commented, glancing down at her Faz-Watch looking at the time, “ Oh are you kidding me? Gregory we should probably-” A voice from above quickly interrupted Vanessa much to her annoyance, even if she could hardly be seen in the darkness.

“ Naughty children you should be sleeping, it’s far past your bedtime.” The Daycare attendant cooed dangling down from above, their menacing smile gleaming down at Vanessa and Gregory with malice.

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“ Nighty Night.” The Daycare attendant called, jumping down from the catwalk above and onto the railing next to where Gregory was standing, “ It’s much to far past your bedtime” The Daycare attendant leaned down towards Gregory where Gregory stepped back so Freddy could lift him into the air away from the Daycare attendant.

“ Moony, what are you talking about, it's only 8” Roxanna asked, looking very uninterested to be talking with Moondrop, “ Besides, shouldn’t this programming bug be fixed by now?”

Gregory gasped “ You mean he isn't supposed to be like this?” Gregory asked, looking over at Roxanne with a relieved look across his face, or at least what looked like a relieved look on his face in the darkness of Monty golf.

Vanessa sighed, ducking away from the Daycare attendants' attempt to grab her “ No they’re supposed to be a calmer version of their sun form.” Vanessa took another side step avoiding the daycare attendant leaping for her again, much to their annoyance “ But the techs messed up their code, and now they just think everyone should be asleep… all the time”

“ Of course, all children who stay up are naughty children” Moondrop jeered, doing a small dance as they stood up and walked along the railing, most likely trying to lure the others into a false sense of security so he could attack one of the others. Most likely knocking them out and by some weird definition of the word making them fall asleep.

“ Well for the last time I am not a child, so you can stop trying to attack me.” Vanessa leaned back against the railing, having faith that Monty or Chica would defend her if the Daycare Attendant attacked her for a third time.

Instead Moondrop sat on the railing, looking mildly annoyed. “ You still must sleep, it’s important.” Moon tilted their head side to side, somehow still being whimsical even while being vaguely threatening.

“ Moon, she’s not a child, I don’t think you’re allowed to boss her around.” Chica tried to reason with Moon, even if the animatronic had no interest in listening to her “ Not that you should boss anyone around, it’s rude to boss people around.”

The daycare attendant held up a finger to shush Chica as they stood up “ I’m not going to listen to you rule breakers, these naughty children need to sleep.” Moon turned and lunged towards Freddy aiming to pull Gregory out of his arms in a surprise attack, however much to their annoyance Monty caught them Mid jump, holding them by the hem of their shirt like an angry kitten.

“Alright that’s enough of that” Monty walked a few steps away from Freddy who had already sprinted a few feet away towards one of the recharge stations. “ Go recharge or whatever Freddy, I’ll handle Moon until the lights turn back on”

Freddy started to walk away but hesitated for a moment, turning to say “ Maybe hand the daycare attendant over to Roxy, She’s good at keeping them under control” Freddy offered while walking backwards away from the group, letting Gregory out of his arms while whispering “ Please keep an eye on them Gregory” while he continued to try and find a recharge station.

“ Fuckin rude.” Monty hissed while dropping Moon into Roxanne’s arms, the wolf looking a little too happy to wrestle the Daycare attendant into leaving Vanessa and Gregory alone.

Gregory met back up with the group, giggling as Roxy hit Moon with a body slam, keeping the robot stuck on the ground under her weight while she talked with the group like nothing was happening. “ I’m hungry, we should eat when Freddy gets back.” Roxanne yawned, ignoring the Daycare attendant getting tangled in her hair while trying to escape from her.

“ Do you guys actually get hungry?” Gregory looked over at the other animatronics, excluding Chica, wondering what being hungry as a robot must feel like.

“ Yeah, most of us do at least.” Monty responded leaning back against a light post, his eyes closed as he awaited the lights to turn back on “ It’s supposed to be like some sort of organic fuel system, makes us more relatable to the kids when we can eat with them, or some shit.”

Chica nodded, probably knowing how the whole eating thing worked for them much better than the others did. “ It’s a system that most of us have, well except for Freddy and…” Chica trailed off looking at the ground for a moment. “ Or well, I guess Freddy’s the only one that doesn't need to eat.”

Gregory looked super interested in learning about how the others worked. “ Oh wow, that’s really cool! Is that why Freddy needs to use a recharge station and you don’t?” Gregory sat on the railing next to Monty, looking up at Chica intently.

" I think? I'm not sure how Freddy works." Chica awkwardly chuckled looking at Roxanne and Monty for help.

Roxy sighed, blocking a punch from Moon who was still trying to escape the hair trap that they had knotted themself into " Hey Greg, maybe tone down the questions. This is kinda weird to talk about" Roxanne pointed over at Vanessa "It's like if we asked Officer V. About how her guts work."

Vanessa uncomfortably folded her arms “ Please don’t do that.” Vanessa did her best to avoid eye contact at even the notion of them asking her about how her guts worked.

“ Hold on, did you just call the kid Greg?” Monty did his best to stifle a chuckle, as Roxy rolled her eyes at him.

“ Well Freddy has a nickname for him so I thought I’d try one too.” Roxanne shrugged, sighing as Moon began trying to gnaw their way through her hair to no avail. “ Can the damn lights turn back on already, this shit is getting really annoying.”

“ That’s what you get for being naughty.” Moon yelled with a mouthful of hair.

Chica giggled “ Don’t say that, no one’s being naughty here, and we don’t have bedtimes so you shouldn’t even be that upset.” Chica gave a thumbs up to the others like she had just given Moon some big revelation that would change the way that they act.

Moon just hissed something in response, sinking back into Roxy’s hair so they could continue their struggle to escape and get Gregory and Vanessa to sleep.

“ Anyway, what’re we feeling for dinner?” Roxy looked over at Chica, knowing the chicken already had a few ideas. “ When the lights come back on at least.” Roxanne looked up at the lights with an impatient scowl on her face.

Monty sighed, looking over at Gregory while Chica and Roxy talked about food. “ Hey little guy isn’t it hard to see in the dark with my glasses on?” Monty asked only half hoping that he could get his sunglasses back because Gregory couldn’t see in them.

Gregory laughed “ Oh yeah I can’t see shit, but these glasses are really cool anyway!” Gregory swung his legs back and forth “ It’s crazy I didn’t fall off of this rail when I sat on it.”

Vanessa gasped slightly as she overheard Gregory cuss, she definitely wasn’t expecting to hear Gregory say something like that with how Freddy coddled him “ Wow and I thought you were a good kid Gregory.” Vanessa teased, getting both Monty and Gregory to laugh.

Before Gregory could think of some sass response, Freddy’s voice spoke through his Faz-watch “ Good news, I’ve finished my charging cycle and the lights should be on soon!” And just like Freddy said, the lights flashed back on, much to Monty’s dismay as the gator stumbled back, his eyes screwed shut.

“ Oh for fucks sake.” Monty growled, grabbing the railing, a bit too aggressively, the bar shaking as he clutched it.

Vanessa tried to run forward, noticing Gregory begin to fall off of the railing “ Monty watch it.” Vanessa snapped as Gregory fell backwards into the ball pit with a loud crash’ as he hit the shallow ball pit.

Roxanne jumped up, leaping over the railing and into the ball pit to make sure Gregory was okay with a loud “ Monty what the fuck.” As she lifted Gregory out of the ballpit. “ What you couldn’t move away from the kid, I know the lights hurt but what the fuck…” Roxy turned to continue her rant at Monty, but as she spun around, he was gone.

"Monty?"

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Chica hesitantly made her way towards Monty’s door, being the only one of the animatronics brave, or dumb, enough to try and find Monty even with the possibility that he was having one of his outbursts. As she reached Monty’s door she could faintly hear the sound of the gator pacing back and forth in the room, the noise of him walking back and forth growing louder as the door to his room slid open and Chica peeked inside. Monty wincing at the sudden amount of light that flooded his room when the door opened.

“ Get out…” Monty’s voice was a very low growl, the tone of his voice alone enough to send Chica a few steps back in panic, unsure if she still had the courage to comfort Monty anymore. “ Just leave me alone.” Monty’s voice broke through the darkness, as the door closed, less threatening this time as his voice was full of guilt.

Chica took a slow step into the room, doing her best not to make any sudden moves, as if Monty was an angered cat. “ Monty, we’re worried about you.” She hesitated for a moment as she had to psych herself up to be in the room when it was in almost total darkness aside from a sliver of light coming through the curtain. “ I thought after what happened, you shouldn’t be alone, and you could probably use some company.”

Monty growled something in response, avoiding eye contact with Chica the best he could, regardless of how hard she was trying to make eye contact with him, to help calm the gator down better.

“ Gregory is okay, he had only a bruise or two after that fall ” Chica’s tone was light, almost like she was trying to change the subject to take Monty’s mind off of what happened “ I could get you some new sunglasses, and you could apologize if you’re worried he’s mad at you.”

Monty let out a loud scoff “ Why would you think that would be a fucking good idea.” Monty moved towards the corner of his room, the noise of several small objects being crushed as he moved away from Chica filled the silence before he continued speaking. “ I mean for fucks sake Do you even feel safe being in the same room as me right now?”

“ Monty what are you talking about, of cou-” Before she could finish what she was saying Monty hit the wall, a loud bang echoing through the room, making Chica flinch and throw her arms up in self defense. “ … Monty, please don’t do that, you scared me.” Chica tried to laugh it off, but both she and Monty could tell it wasn’t helping her feel any less scared.

Monty let our a hollow laugh, “ Don’t act like I don’t scare you all of the fucking time” Monty growled, removing his hand from the now slightly indented wall. “ I see how you act around me, I see how Freddy acts around me” Monty’s glare was unnerving even if he wasn’t looking directly at Chica

“ What? C’mon Monty you know Freddy trusts you.” Chica tried to softly smile, but her smile wasn’t quite enough to show that she trusted Monty.” I mean you two were basically built to be best friends” Chica giggled slightly, trying anything to get the mood in the room to lighten.

Monty glanced up at Chica, this quick glance piercing through the others' happy facade far easier than Chica had wanted. “Just stop fucking trying will you? I’m getting real fucking tired of everyone pretending like I wasnt just built as a replacement.” Monty’s practically hissed at Chica, his fists clenched so tight that they started to creak against his palms “ Don’t act like you don’t notice the way Freddy treats me like I’m a ticking time bomb. So afraid that I’ll just hurt someone again and Replace another one of his friends”

Chica had backed a few feet away from Monty, her hand pressed on the door, ready to make a break for it if Monty started to get violent, even if she felt incredibly guilty for even thinking about running now. “ Monty please listen, I’m sure he didn’t mean to hurt your feelings, he probably just worries because…” Chica’s voice trailed off, she knew no matter what she said it wouldn’t come out the way she wanted it too, and she didn’t want to make Monty angrier than he already was.

Monty let out an exasperated sigh, taking a step away from the now very scared chicken. “ You can’t even say why he worries? Are you fucking serious? I’m not fucking stupid Chica, I know why no one trusts me anymore.” Monty’s temper finally hit it’s boiling point, there was no way he would stop this rant now. “ You and everyone else still blame me for what happened that night, Big scary Monty, the only fucking reason that Bonnie could be missing.” Monty himself was nearly in tears now, his voice nearly breaking into small sobs as he yelled.

Chica didn’t say anything, she sat back letting the rant continue. Chica knew trying to talk him down wouldn’t work now, and any attempts to get close to him would probably result in her getting hurt, so she did the best thing she could think of and just sat back, so Monty could let it all out.

Monty was on the verge of breaking down, his strong and angry demeanor gone as he let all of his pent up rage out “ I don’t even know why I’m the one to take the blame for his disappearance, I didn’t want him to leave, he was my friend too.” Monty roared out a loud sob that made the glass in his room shake just a bit “ It’s not my fault they tried to program me to be jealous of him, but because of their fucking choices no one trusts me!”

Chica, reached out a hand but her advance was rejected swiftly by Monty who flinched away from her attempt at contact. It was clear he didn’t want to hurt her, but his rant was too far to stop now, even as Chica tried to get closer to help talk him out of it.

“ You want to know what the worst part about all of this is? I don’t even remember what happened that night, my memory data was deleted and there was nothing left from that night. I woke up in Monty golf with broken shit around me and that was all they needed to pin the blame on me.” Monty’s hands were wildly gesturing into the air to put even more emphasis into his points as his breathing hitched and his rant hit it’s tail end. “ Maybe they're all right? Maybe I did kill him, maybe I am just a miserable robot who killed one of his best friends, I hurt Gregory without meaning too, so maybe I jus-”

Chica hugged Monty, doing her best to give her all with this big hug. “ I know you didn’t hurt him” Chica whispered through her own tears as the gator began to sob as he slowly returned the hug. “ You shouldn’t blame yourself for this Monty, it wasn’t your fault.”

Monty returned the hug, trying his best not to crush his friend as he hugged her. “ I’m sorry, I’m so so sorry.” Monty sobbed, guilt

"It's okay, I know you miss him as much as I do." Chica let out a small sob in return, as she pulled away from the hug doing her best to smile up at Monty " But you're right we can't keep acting like nothing happened. We need to talk about it, it'll make you feel better... it'll make all of us feel better to get this off of our chests."

Monty nodded through tears, or whatever the robot equivalent of tears were. " Yeah that sounds nice." Monty took a deep breath trying to compose himself, not used to being so emotional.

The door to Monty's room flew open, causing Monty to shield his eyes with a loud scowl. Freddy stepped into the room with a relieved look in his eyes " You're okay." Freddy sighed completely oblivious to the annoyed look Chica was giving him.

"Freddy, you're supposed to be with Gregory." Chica shook her head as she spoke, her arms folded to really push how she felt " And don't be rude, of course I'm fine"

Chica opened her arms for a hug as Freddy rushed forward, but much to both her and Monty's surprise the bear moved past her and hugged Monty.

" I'm glad you're both okay." Freddy said as he reached out to pull Chica into the hug. A relieved smile across his face, knowing both of his friends were doing okay.

“ Looks like we’ve got a lot of talking to do.”

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Roxy, Gregory, and Sundrop, who was still stuck in Roxy’s hair, stood in the medical bay where Sundrop was putting a few rainbow bandaids onto Gregory’s arms thinking it would help him feel better sooner. Freddy was off with Chica talking to Monty, Mapbot vanished into the void again like it tended to do, and Vanessa had vanished the second they reached the Medbay. Roxy was absent mindedly checking her nails while Sun and Gregory very awkwardly spoke.

“ Just because I’m giving you bandaids doesn’t mean you’re unbanned from my daycare.” Sundrop giggled a little while pressing one last bandaid to Gregory’s arm, knowing they wouldn’t help him heal but they looked nice.

Roxanne laughed, “ Well you can keep him out of the daycare, after I get you out of my hair again.” Roxanne reached back to pull Sundrop upwards by the hem of their shirt. “ You remember how to untangle yourself right?”

Sundrop nodded, pulling at Roxanne’s hair as carefully as to not hurt the wolf animatronic “ It has been a while since I’ve gotten myself stuck in here! I should have brought my camera to remember this moment!” Sundrop gleefully clapped their hands together, only half trusting that Roxy wouldn’t drop them. “ I could have had something new to scrapbook about!!”

“ You’ve gotten stuck in her hair before?” Gregory watched in awe as Sundrop untangled themselves from her hair like it was nothing, dropping to the ground with a soft hop that caused the bells on their arms to jingle whimsically as they did a little pose.

“ Yup! Miss Roxanne has helped stop the other attendant from attacking the night guards a LOT” Sundrop spun their head to the side as the said the word ‘LOT’ really emphasizing just how many times this might have happened before “ Unlike you, she’s a good rule follower, and allowed in the daycare center!” Roxanned rolled her eyes in response to Sundrop's praise, this friendship was clearly more one sided than Sundrop had realized.

“ Aaany way, I’m fu****g hungry…” Roxanne paused glancing over at Sundrop with a soft glare as her cussing was interrupted by a squeaky toy noise. “ … that’s right, you have that weird profanity filter built in, funnnn” Roxy’s glare deepend a little bit as Sundrop turned to look at her with their ever constant gleeful smile.

“ Of course!! We can’t have the children learning how to swear” Sundrop gestured over to Gregory, who shrugged in confusion as he realized he was the child in question here. “ Beside’s squeaky toy noises are FUN aren’t they!?”

Gregory and Roxy made eye contact with a look that was very telling of how little they were going to enjoy hearing this squeaky toy noise censorship for much longer.

Roxy sighed before reluctantly shrugging “ I guess, plus Freddy really loves that profanity filter so I guess it’s not too bad” Roxy’s tone was so steeped with sarcasm that Gregory had to hold a hand over his mouth to prevent himself from laughing, while the sarcasm went completely over Sundrop’s head. “ Anyway, let’s go get some burgers or something from the Bowling Alley, I could use a slushie or something with dinner.” Roxy pointed Gregory towards the purple glow in the dark paint on the wall, showing a bunny with a bowling ball.

Sundrop seemed to shrink away slightly. “ Oh, well I guess I should go back to the daycare, I have so much cleaning up to do.” Sundrop began to hop away, the soft jingle of their outfit trailing them into the dim lights of the hallway.

Gregory chuckled as he watched the animatronic skip a few feet away “ Now hold on, what happened to drinking fizzy faz until our heads explode?” Gregory’s voice rang off of the walls as he called for the Daycare attendant, their soft yellow eyes glowing in the distance with excitement. “ I bet I can drink more than you!”

A gleeful onset of laughter rang through the halls as Sundrop raced back towards the group “ Oh boy! Oh boy!!” Sundrop cheered as they lifted Gregory off of the ground, spinning around with him for a few seconds “ That sounds like so much fun!!!” Their worries about Gregory vanishing at the idea of drinking fizzy faz and having fun.

Roxy smiled down at the two, she looked almost proud of the two for making up before she turned towards Bonnie Bowl “ In that case, let’s fu****g go, God D*mn it Sun, turn off that fu****g profanity filter” Roxy groaned in anguish at the sudden burst of squeaky toy noises cutting her cussing off every few seconds. “ And how is d*mn a word that needs to be censored??”

Sundrop just shrugged as they set Gregory onto the ground again, “ I dunno, it picks the words for me” Sundrop skipped after Roxy as she angrily marched up the stairs towards the exit to the staff tunnels, her footsteps echoing off of the halls as she stomped up the stairs.
The door to Bonnie Bowl swung open, cheery bowling music hitting the trio’s ears like a bullet as the staff tunnels were now echoing with very loud, slightly obnoxious, bowling alley music. The bowling alley was lit up with neon lights dancing across the tables, a new window between the alley and Roxy raceway had been installed that morning giving everyone a good look of the raceway as it was being built up, a few test cart racing along the track for their hourly automatic maintenance checks.

Gregory gasped softly as he looked out the window “ Wow, this place looks brand new.” He ran over to press his face against the glass and watch the carts speed along the tracks.

“ Hey, don’t smudge the glass, I don't want to clean that.” Vanessa teased, dropping a bag of food onto the table next to him “ You hungry? I grabbed some food for everyone while you were getting bandaged up?” Vanessa squinted at the several colorful band aids that lined Gregory’s arms now.

Gregory’s eyes lit up as he saw the full bag of food, the smell of the burgers within making his stomach growl loud enough to elicit a small laugh from Vanessa “ Thank you, Vanessa!” Gregory managed to say before he practically tore into the bag to pull out a burger and began to devour it without hesitation.

Roxy softly laughed as she made her way over to the table, setting down an extra large slushie in front of her chair before she sat down. “ Wow you’d think he hadn’t eaten all day with how he’s eating that thing ey Officer V.?” Roxy elbowed the now slightly annoyed Vanessa who sat down next to her. “ What? The Faz-flushie a bit much? It’s Roxy raspberry flavored. Can you blame me for getting the biggest size?”

Vanessa rolled her eyes as she smiled, pulling out a burger for herself “ You should get the smaller sizes, don’t overuse your free food privileges.” Vanessa commented while taking a bit of her burger.

Roxy let out a loud laugh while motioning over to the bag of food, pulling out some fries for herself “ Oh, my slushie is a problem but your family sized bag of food isn’t?” Roxanne teased, eating a handful of fries in one bite.

Vanessa hummed a reluctant response, too busy eating to actually speak to Roxy, who was now drinking down her whole slushie like it was nothing.

Gregory finished a few bites of his burger before looking around “ Hey, where’s Sun?” Gregory, leaned backwards in his chair as he looked towards the kitchen area trying to find the Daycare animatronic, before looking back to see a look of panic spread across Roxanne’s face

Roxy bolted from the table, her chair hadn't even fallen yet as she vaulted over a table yelling across the bowling alley "YO DON'T ACTUALLY DRINK FIZZY FAZ UNTIL YOUR HEAD EXPLODES." Roxy vanished into the other dining room in the bowling alley, several crashes could be heard from the room as she did so.

Vanessa groaned, muttering something to herself in annoyance, but she was far too busy eating to get up and actually help Roxy, however as noises of Roxy and Sundrop arguing in the other room filled the Bowling Alley.

“ No, No, No you’re ruining the fun” Sundrop whined, the sound of the bells on their arms began to echo through the bowling alley as they started flailing their arms, struggling to get away from Roxy.

“ You know I still don’t like you.” Gregory muttered as he looked up at Vanessa with a small glare, only made slightly less threatening by him continuing to shovel fries into his mouth.

Vanessa nearly choked on her burger as she held back a laugh at the sudden comment from Gregory. “ Is that so?” Vanessa managed to say in between coughs, not sure how to respond. “ I guess I can see why, with that… other woman, looking exactly like me and all.”

Gregory slowly nodded, giving Vanessa a look so stern it made her scoot away in her seat. Though the uncomfortable air hadn’t been enough to stop her from eating.

The tense situation at the table didn’t last long as Chica suddenly showed up, reaching over Vanessa’s shoulder, making the security guard jump, as she snatched up a burger for herself. “ Oh sweet food!!” Chica pat Vanessa on the shoulder trying to calm her down from the sudden scare as she continued speaking.

“ Chica, what the hell took you so long?” Vanessa asked, eager to change the topic away from Gregory not trusting her. “ I was starting to get worried.”

Chica rolled her eyes “Sorry we couldn’t comfort Monty faster??” Chica shrugged before pointing a finger at Gregory “ Anyway, Freddy wants you to head down to the theater hall, he said something about a surprise before he dragged Monty off.” Chica warmly smiled as she saw Gregory’s eyes light up at the mention of a ‘surprise’.

“ A Surprise?” Gregory practically leapt from his chair, memories of what happened the last time Freddy had a surprise for him still fresh in his mind, fueling his excitement. “ Well let’s go now!!!” Gregory was so excited that he abandoned the rest of his food as he grabbed Chica’s hand and began to sprint out of the bowling alley, dragging Chica along with him.

Vanessa stood to follow him and Chica, pausing to grab the bag her food, and yell for Sundrop and Roxy that they were heading to the theater which seemed to excite Sundrop as the flailing of their arms finally stopped and they cheered as Roxy angrily carried them out of the side room, looking like a bucket of soda had been dumped over her head as she stomped to the table and scooped up a second slushie to drink as she followed Vanessa.

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The group all stood together outside of the theater, having been made to wait outside for Freddy and Monty to finish whatever they were doing. Vanessa had nearly fallen asleep on a chair in a random corner. Gregory and Sundrop sat on the ground, drawing pictures on the ground with crayons and, much to Sundrop’s delight, googly eyes and glitter glue. Meanwhile Chica and Roxy had ducked into a nearby kitchen to rinse the soda out of Roxy’s hair, and gossip between themselves without having to worry about anyone eavesdropping.

“ Ooooh that looks really good.” Sundrop leaned over to look at the drawing the Gregory was working on, offering a few of their crayons to Gregory to make the drawing look even better, as the two happily chatted. Sundrop seemingly had forgotten about Gregory breaking the rules in the daycare before.

“ Okay who’s ready!!” Freddy called, pulling open the door to the theater with a dramatic flair, and what looked like a handful of glitter. “ We’re ready to show you the surprise!!”

“ Fu****g Finally” Roxy yelled from the kitchen, groaning in annoyance at the parental filter that Sundrop still had going. Glaring Daggers at Sundrop as she left the kitchen, with Chica giggling as she walked behind the wolf. “Sun, if you wanna hang out with us for longer tonight, you gotta turn that S**t off.”

Freddy frowned at Roxy, while lifting Gregory into his arms. “ I believe they should keep the filter on, children are still present.” Freddy gave a supportive thumbs up towards Sundrop before turning to walk into the theater “ But regardless, I’m sure you’ll quite enjoy this surprise Gregory.”

As Freddy walked down the hall with the rest of the group trailing behind him a few things weren’t right. A few of the storage rooms in the area still had their doors open, and there was even some wires still left on the ground that no one wanted to go near.

Freddy proudly stepped into the first theater room, revealing what he and Monty had done. Several chairs in the area had been removed leaving the center of the theater’s floor completely empty, while on the sides of the room some chairs had been unfolded, looking almost like a row of beds. Monty, now wearing cheaply made Freddy shaped sunglasses, hesitantly waved towards the group from the center of the theater, a game console plugged into an outlet in the ground, connected to the projector which was pointing down at the screen.

Several types of food and snacks were littered around on the ground, and a mountain of pillows had been amassed in one corner of the room. Vanessa looked like she was going to pass out thinking about how much they were going to take out of her paycheck when they saw the theater looking like this in the morning.

“ Well Superstar? Monty wanted to say sorry and….” Freddy was cut off by Monty snatching Gregory from the bears arms, a sharp look in his eyes as he held Gregory up like he was about to start the first scene of the lion king.

"Nope, this is my apology and I get to tell him." Monty snapped, but there was a light hearted tone behind his words even if he had just snapped at Freddy. " Well Rockstar, I wanted to say sorry for…. You know… and well we don't have to be friends or anything, but a big sleepover sounded like something you might enjoy."

There was a small awkward pause, tension hanging in the air before Monty kept speaking, turning Gregory around while still holding up to push his apology.

" I.. uh… also got some unreleased games from our gift shop… kids like you like games right?" Monty glanced up at Freddy. Doing his best to stay confident even if he felt like he was walking in eggshells. He let out a big sigh before continuing " Listen… I know I got a lot to fix, but…"

Gregory hugged Monty, a soft aww came from Freddy and Chica as they watched the hug.

" Thank you"

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“ Oh fuck you” Roxy yelled, angrily playing a game of Faz-Kart 8. “ How the fuck did you even get three blue shells in a row”

Gregory just laughed triumphantly as he raced into first place, leaving Roxy in the dust as he crossed the finish line, winning for the third time in a row much to everyone's surprise, and much to Roxanne’s annoyance, as the angrily took second place each time they played. She couldn’t complain too much however, as Monty and Chica were both horrendous at the game, unable to finish their first lap by the time that Roxy and Gregory had finished the race.

To the side Vanessa was reclined in one of the displaced theater chairs, making the most of the current situation before it came out of her paycheck. She was half paying attention to the conversation Freddy was trying to have with her, as she texted someone. Meanwhile Sundrop was laying on the ground watching the game on the big screen with wonder in their eyes, enjoying the game even if they weren’t able to play.

“ Can we please switch games? I’m fucking trash at this one.” Monty groaned, as he tossed his controller to the side. Not caring if it broke, because at least then he wouldn’t have to play Faz-kart anymore.

Roxy and Gregory just gave him a smug look, wordlessly and effectively taunting the gator as he scrambled to grab his controller again, with renewed confidence in his mediocre Faz-kart skills, before he crashed into the same wall for the hundredth time.

“ Why don’t I play a round for you Monty?” Freddy offered, moving away from Vanessa as she continued to only half pay attention to what he was saying. “ I’ve never played a video game before, it sounds fun!!”

Chica giggled “ Maybe that’s not the best idea, remember the last time you tried playing an arcade game?” Chica flopped onto her back as she spoke so she could look up at Freddy without having to turn around. “ … We never did get to finish playing Princess Quest 5”

Freddy awkwardly laughed, memories of the joystick to the arcade cabinet snapping off within moments of him touching it flooding back into his mind “ Oh… yes, maybe it’s best I don’t then, especially not with Monty’s hands.”

Vanessa popped up in her chair, reaching into her backpack“ Oh hey, speaking of your hands, I got that nail polish you asked for.” Vanessa held up a couple of abnormally large glasses of nail polish. “ Next time though, stick to your usual colors. I don’t get paid enough to grab the whole rainbow for you, even with the bonus you get me for doing this.”

“ OH! Officer Vanessa thank you so much!!” Freddy quickly moved over to scoop the bottles of polish out of her hands, excitement glowing across his face “ Why don’t we take a break from the games and I can paint everyone's nails!!” As Freddy spoke most of the animatronics, aside from Sundrop, moved over to sit near him while Gregoy and Sundrop had started playing Super Faz-brothers.

Vanessa groaned “ Don’t you go using up all of that, or at least save some black for me so you can paint my nails again." Vanessa called as she returned to texting, now with music to tune the others out as she pulled out headphones

" Wait, you paint her nails??" Roxy was a little offended as she spoke “ Why am I not a part of this? I run my own fucking salon”

Freddy shrugged, rummaging through the nail polish for his favorite shade of blue “ I don’t know, Officer Vanessa says it’s for ‘girl talk’ she’s a very big gossip.” Freddy chuckled, putting down the small container of polish for the others to dig through after he found his favorite color. “ You should hear the stories she has about the parts and service people, it’s quite entertaining.”

Roxanne huffed, looking pretty annoyed as she and Monty were practically fighting to get through the nail polish first. “ Well, I would have listened to those stories, If She Invited Me.” Roxanne gave a pointed glare towards Vanessa who gave the animatronic a thumbs up in response, too focused on whatever she was doing to actually care about why Roxy was mad at her this time.

“ Ooooh is this one glow in the dark???” Chica picked up a neon pink nail polish, looking at it with glee as she cupped in her hands, trying to see if the glow in the dark actually worked or not. “ That’s so cool !!!!!”

“ Haha take that.” Sundrop yelled, bright colors flashing across the screen as Gregory lost a stock, the two oblivious to the conversation behind them.

Monty let out a loud victory laugh holding dark purple nail polish above his head, just out of Roxanne’s reach as she clawed at him trying to get it out of his hands “ Nope, I got it first, you can get a different fucking color this time.” Monty flashed a large grin as Roxy relented her attempts to get the nail polish out of his hands, reluctantly taking a neon green that Chica had picked out for her instead.

“ That one glows in the dark too! So we’ll be matching.” Chica cheered as she ate a handful of popcorn she had somehow grabbed from a few feet away, her voice box somehow working in between bites of food.

Freddy nodded along “ And Green is a great color on you anyway Roxy! You’ll look like a real… Material Gworl?” Freddy glanced over at Gregory who was laughing so hard that he had begun rolling around on the floor, much to Sundrop’s confusion “ Did I use that correctly Gregory?”

Roxy leaned forward to put a hand on Freddy’s shoulder doing her best not to also laugh “ Please Freddy, never call me a material gworl ever again, and don’t learn any new words from Gregory.” Roxy paused for a moment glancing over at Gregory with a confused look crossing her face “ Wait I thought you were homeless how the fuck do you know what a material gworl is?”

Gregory shrugged in between fits of giggling, completely ignoring the game on the screen as Sundrop took the win, with a very loud cheer.

“ I’d be a material gworl if the techs weren’t such cowards, and let me have actual fucking money.” Monty growled, his anger towards not being paid completely off set by his desire to be a ‘ Material gworl’

Vanessa sighed “ Can we please change topics, this meme is outdated anyway” Vanessa called, having started listening into their conversation a couple of minutes ago, “ And we don’t pay you any actual money anymore because you spent it all on fucking golf supplies. When we Already give you free golf crap.”

Chica stifled a laugh “ Is that where those neon green golf balls came from?” Chica giggled as she did her best to stay still so she could focus on painting her nails “ You know, the onesI thought were from the Monty Mystery cereal? I think I still find bits of those things in my beak.”

Monty nearly grimaced at the thought of Chica eating his beloved golf supplies “ Yep, those were the ones.” Monty painted the last of his nails as she spoke, with a huff as the others giggled around him.

“ Oh hey what’s this game?” Gregory asked holding up a game with a large Bunny on the cover, dancing with glow sticks in his hands, the title reading ‘ Just Dance Dance Faz-revolution, Bonnie edition’

Vanessa glanced over at the game before her eyes widened, and she nearly leapt out of her chair “ No way, we still sell those things? I thought the DDR and Just Dance copyright strikes got all of those destroyed” Her eyes seemed to shine with excitement, much to everyones’ confusion. “ We should totally play, I used to be awesome at that game.” Vanessa called scooping up one of the now unattended controllers off of the ground

Gregroy nodded and put the game into the system, the projector going black for a moment before flooding the room with a burst of color as a bunch of bowling ball themed starts flew across the screen, and Bonnie came into view and a menu popped up with a list of songs from the 90s, most of them with the Faz prefix added to them.

“ WOW, look at all of those colors!!” Sundrop cheered, happily copying Vanessa and standing up waving their arms in the air, ready to dance like they had never danced before.

“ Oh my gosh I forgot about this game, I used to play one with the kids before my raceway got renovated” Roxanne reached for a controller stopping as she realized she should probably wait for a moment to dry the nail polish on her hands, “ I’ll join next game and fucking destroy you nerds.” Roxy boasted, sticking her hand out under a fan that Freddy just so happened to have in his chest cavity.

“ I’ll dance to the next game too! Freddy and I used to be the best at this game!” Chica smiled with a reassuring nod towards Freddy who was looking rather uncomfortable, along with Monty, who was intensely focused on the opposite wall of the room.

And with that the game began, with Sundrop somehow dancing perfectly to the game while Vanessa and Gregory both devolved into laughter, as their dance moves were nowhere near good, Vanessa had to stop and sit down as she was wheezing so hard with laughter after nearly hitting herself in the face while attempting to do a rather difficult dance move.

Most of the other dances went similarly, Vanessa and Gregory attempted to play but ended up devolving into laughter, Sundrop and later Chica played in perfect sync with the game, not getting a single score below 100, both having the time of their lives, feeling like dancing queens. Roxy did her best to keep up, and did reasonably well when she wasn’t laughing along with Vanessa and Gregory. Monty and Freddy spent most of their time sitting in the back cheering the others on, or laughing at their dancing skills in Monty’s case.

It was nearly 3 am when the game had begun to wind down, Gregory had sat down on a reclined chair and had fallen asleep during the one game that he took a break from, with Freddy and Monty having gotten him a rather large commemorative blanket that Monty stole from one of the gift stores.

Vanessa was sitting on the floor next to Freddy, trying to recover from the past three hours of dancing, with no real break. Needless to say she looked exhausted, but was too focused on playing on her phone to actually fall asleep. Sundrop hadn’t quite fallen asleep, rather they had started playing a hand held video game in the corner with rather scary focus.

“ Freddy! Monty! Join us for a game, we’ve got controllers open now” Chica called, as the most recent song faded out, she sounded incredibly happy as she reached out a hand to help the other two stand up and join her, Roxy, and Sundrop.

Freddy shook his head, “ No, I don’t think I should play… don’t want to break a controller or anything” Freddy dismissively smiled up at Chica “ But I’ll cheer for you and your amazing dance skills!!”

Chica frowned, but before she could say anything Monty spoke up “ OH What the hell, I’m not gonna mope all night.” Monty took Chica’s hand as she helped him stand, before he looked over at Roxy and caught the controller that she tossed at him, He paused as he strapped the controller to his wrist, “ Why don’t you just fucking play without a controller Freddy, can’t break shit when you don’t have shit.”

Freddy looked surprised as Monty turned to go pick out a song with Roxy, he honestly didn’t expect Monty to play the game with them tonight, especially not with the game’s mascot. Freddy took a deep breath, as he stood up “ Well if Monty can play then so can I!” Freddy called, much to Chica’s delight as she excitedly clapped her hands “ But if I play, then we’re playing Dancing Queen by Faz-Abba.”

“ Oh fuck yeah” Roxy yelled, clicking over to the very plagerized Abba song, with the four glamrocks all side by side, like they were about to perform one of their actual shows.

The lights and vocals fading in as the song began, the four of them all ready to dance their mechanical hearts out. The Bonnie on the screen now in bright blue glittery bell bottoms, and a sparkly blue blazer, and the starting dance moves all rolling onto screen, and just as all of the glam rocks moved to start dancing, the clock struck 4 am, and all of the power in the pizzeria shut off.

“ Oh dang it.” Freddy stomped his foot, turning to run to a nearby charging station, “ Don’t start the game without me, I’ll be right back” Freddy called as his loud footsteps filled the room, waking the sleeping Gregory, while Vanessa learned to the side to shine a flashlight on Sun so they didn’t turn into Moon, though the light from their handheld game was most likely more than enough to keep them as Sundrop.

“ Is the party already over?” Gregory asked, rubbing his eyes as he sleepily sat up, clutching the large blanket close.

Chica giggled as she sat down on the chair next to him “ Almost, we’re about to finish one more game” Chica reached over and gently pat Gregory on his head, the boy letting out a soft yet still very sleepy laugh “ You have fun tonight?” Chica asked, mostly trying to get Gregory to fall back asleep and not wake all the way up.

“ Yeah I did” Gregory yawned as he laid back down onto his makeshift bed “ Freddy’s really…. Cool…. Like… a dad, and…. Uncle…. Monty… cool too” Gregory’s words becoming a little bit of a jumbled mess as he fell back asleep.

The whole room, aside from Sun, had looked at Gregory. Almost stunned hearing Gregory refer to Freddy as his dad, let alone referring to Monty as an uncle. Monty had his hand held to his chest really living up to the uncle title as he looked like a proud uncle at a kids baseball game.

The lights had flickered back on by this point, Freddy hurriedly running back into the room with a very hushed yell as he called “ Okay, I’m here, let’s dance” Freddy paused as he noticed the look on everyone's faces

“ What did I miss??”

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Vanessa groaned as she sat up, her phone alarm echoing off of the walls of the now empty theater, as she looked around she noticed that the whole place had been put back together and there was no evidence of the party that had happened the night before. Even Gregory had vanished, most likely having been carried to somewhere that the day workers wouldn't see him.

Vanessa sighed as she turned off her alarm, looking down at the bright screen to see what time it was.

7:30

"Three hours of sleep… great." Vanessa grumbled as she stood up and stretched, getting ready to unlock the front doors for the maintenance people who most likely forgot their keys for the day like they always did.

She scrolled through her phone, making sure none of the animatronics we're around as she stepped into the main hall. The only noise in the large room was the sound of cleaner bots sweeping and vacuuming the floors until they were spotless.

Vanessa called an elevator, still focused on her phone when a new text came in from one of the technicians she was friends with, it read:

' Hey V, the camera systems are getting fixed today, you'll have the next few days easy just sitting in the office, thought you'd love to hear the good news'

Vanessa gasped reading the text, quickly walking away from the elevator that had just opened up for her, "Fucking hell, what the fuck do I do now?" Vanessa mumbled to herself sending a few texts in response, with a slew of questions wondering how the hell the camera's got fixed so fast.

“ Take a map” Map bot called, rolling alongside Vanessa as it tried to hand her a map, it looked a little worried as it noticed the look on Vanessa’s face “ Please take a map?”

“ Don’t worry about me, could you just open the front doors for me, I have other shit I have to deal with” Vanessa held up her keys without looking away from her phone, her palm open so Map bot could give her a map in exchange for the keys.

Map bot took the keys and with a quick “ Please take a map” It rolled off down the hall, getting a handful of maps ready to hand all of the maintenance people who were stuck outside.

“ How the hell does a massive glitch in our camera systems just vanish overnight?” Vanessa muttered to herself as she stomped down the escalators, moving towards the main stage so she could head down to parts and Services.

The elevator ride down to parts and services was mostly silent, at least until she actually reached the lower floor of the building, loud music could be heard echoing off of the tunnel walls, along with Roxy and Freddy singing along to a song.

Vanessa sighed, putting away her phone as she stepped off of the stage elevator “ they found a Karaoke machine, why does that not surprise me” She quickly jogged across the hall, throwing the doors to parts and service open, or at least tried to as the door automatically swung open for her.

Within the room, were the main four all crowded around a small neon pink karaoke machine, behind them Dj Music Man was swaying back and forth to the music as he hung out of the large tunnel that connected from the Arcade to parts and service, though he never had to actually go down to parts and service as he was one of the more secure animatronics in the building.

“ Oh! Officer Vanessa!! You’re awake, I hope you’ve slept well!!” Chica waved over to Vanessa gleefully, her cheery disposition a stark contrast to Vanessa’s irritated mood. “ Is everything okay? You don’t look too happy, would you like me to bake you some cheer up cupcakes?”

“ We don’t have time for that right now, we have a huge problem.” Vanessa folded her arms as the others quickly shut off the karaoke machine so that she could tell them what was going on. “ The camera’s are coming back online today, and we need to hide the child that you surprise adopted.” Vanessa pointed to Freddy who sheepishly chuckled

“ So what’s the big deal? Camera’s or not, you’re not gonna say anything about the kid right?” Roxy said while half glaring at Vanessa “ If you don’t say anything he should be fine.”

Vanessa groaned, pressing a hand to her head “ I’m not the only security guard here, and you know they do watch the camera feed right?” Vanessa gestured to the camera in the corner of the room they were currently in. “ If they see a kid who's not in the customer database, my boss gets notified, and we All get in trouble”

Music Man made a humming noise, or at least the best imitation of a humming noise that he could muster as it sounded more like a guitar being strummed. He raised his hands and signed out a ‘ Could we break the cameras?’

Monty nodded along as he watched Music Man sign “ Oh hell yeah, good idea M&M” Monty cheered as he hoisted his chair above his head, ready to go camera smashing “ Those fuckers won’t know what hit them.

“ NO!” Freddy and Vanessa cried out in unison, Freddy jumping up to stop the gator from tossing the chair up at the nearby camera.

Freddy sighed softly as he got Monty to put the chair down, “ If we break the camera’s then Officer Vanessa could get in trouble, and we need her help” Freddy motioned to Vanessa who looked irritated that Freddy was the one to get the animatronics to realize she was trying to help.

“ Why can’t you hack them?” Chica mused, not entirely paying attention as she tapped the side of her chair like it was a melody “ Like that rabbit lady did to us, but with Gregory”

The room was silent for a moment before Vanessa quickly turned to a computer quickly typing something out on the keyboard, “ Not a bad idea Chica, but I AM on a time limit” Vanessa called, motioning for one of the animatronics to join her by the computer “ If I could find the virus she used in your code, maybe I could re work it, with my mediocre coding skills.”

“ Is this safe to do, Officer Vanessa?” Chica asked as she volunteered to help Vanessa rework the virus “ I won’t go all crazy again will I?” Chica managed to finish her sentence before she powered down.

“ Officer Vanessa, weren't you an engineer on the Special Delivery project? So you must be good at coding” Freddy encouraged Vanessa while she was busy plugging a few wires into the robot chicken’s head before moving towards the computer again.

Monty tried to look at the computer over her shoulder, only to be incredibly confused at Vanessa’s work “ Well she looks good at it, because I have no fucking clue what she’s doing.” Monty and Roxy both chuckled as they peeked over her shoulders.

“ Shut up and let me work, go distract the-” Vanessa was cut off by the noise of the door to parts and services sliding open, on the other side was one of the maintenance people, incredibly confused to see the group all standing around in parts and services

“ What are you all doing down here? Did I interrupt your practice or something?” The person asked, as everyone awkwardly glanced at each other, not sure how to respond “ Well don’t let me stop you, I’ll just be fixing the elevators to your rooms, Oh! Freddy, if you could come with me, I could really use your help with your elevator.”

Freddy wasn’t sure what to say, until Roxy gently pushed him forwards “ Go on take him, he’s been dying to help you guys with something again. He practically lives to help people.” Roxy nodded to Freddy while giving him a very pointed look, as she whispered a quick “ We’ll hide the kid” into his ear as he gave the maintenance person a thumbs up.

“ Okayyy, we’ll let's get going then” The Maintenance person gave the others a suspicious look as they walked to the back of the room with a very anxious Freddy in tow, the second the two vanished from view the others sprang into action.

‘ The camera controls are in my room, I’ll distract them for as long as I can.’ Music Man signed at the others as he climbed into one of his large tunnels, music echoing off of the walls within as he tried to think of a good enough song to get the technicians dancing for a bit.

“ Go get the kid, hide him in your chest cavities or whatever, just don’t let anyone see him or we’ll both lose our jobs” Vanessa snapped, angrily typing onto the computer. Her progress on the code evidently not going very well.

Monty and Roxanne nodded, as they ran towards the elevator to Roxy’s room, before Monty paused for a second “ Wait, we’re robots, how would we lose our jobs?” Monty asked, looking back at Vanessa who looked up at him with a look of malice. “ Point taken, I’ll ask later.”

Roxanne was already in the elevator by the time Monty entered the tunnel leading to it, forcing him to lunge forward and barely make it through it, before the elevator doors closed and began swiftly arriving at Roxy’s room.

“ I’ll get the kid, you keep look out?” Monty called as he struggled to keep up with Roxy, who was speeding through her room and the hallway.

“ Why the fuck should I keep look out? I’m way faster than you are.” Roxy growled, holding back a laugh as Monty was forced to run through the maze of red rope leading to her room “ And you can’t even jump over that shit, you’d take way too long.”
“ Shut up, you can distract people better than I can, Since like half of the staff has a crush on you” Monty punctuated that sentiment with a not so subtle ‘ Blehh’ noise at the thought of people having a crush on Roxy, “ If they saw me they’d just go running to fix things faster.”

Roxanne rolled her eyes as the two arrived at Freddy’s room “ Fine, but if I have to flirt with anyone, i’m going to fucking kill you” Roxy glared at Monty, who was circling his way through the rope in front of Freddy’s room.

“ Okay okay, I’ll hurry.” Monty grumbled as the door slid open for him, swiftly yelling as the door shut behind him, leaving Roxy to hear a muffled ‘ YO KID WAKE THE FUCK UP AND GET IN MY CHEST’ followed by an equally muffled scream from Gregory

Roxy would have doubled over with laughter if it weren’t for the small group of Maintenance workers who had just walked into the hallway, she paused as the started walking towards them to mutter a quick “ Oh son of a bitch” before she waved at them, getting their attention “ Hey what’s going on? Did Monty break something else?” already regretting her choice in taking watch as the group began to flock towards her, eager for a conversation

“ PLEASE TAKE A MAP” Map bot cried, cutting through the group, with it’s tired screeching against the tiled floor, holding out a bushel of maps in front of its face, bobbing and weaving in front of everyone in the group to keep them all back “ Take a map” It turned and nodded at Roxy who was genuinely surprised to see the robot come to her aid.

Meanwhile in Freddy’s room

“ WHAT THE FUCK???” Gregory yelled, only to be loudly shushed by Monty who was standing in front of him with his chest cavity opened “ No offense, but I don’t trust you enough to do that.”

Monty made an offended scoff as he folded his arms covering the now wide open area in his chest. “ Wow, and I thought I was being a really good uncle to you?” Monty looked away, playing up how upset he was to hide the fact that he was actually kinda hurt by Gregory’s remark “ But I see how it is, you only trust the bear to carry you around.”

A loud bang came from the window, Roxy’s angry stare could be seen from the gap in the curtains as she pressed a piece of paper to the glass, a hastily written ‘ Hurry the FUCK up’ was scrawled across the paper, behind her the group of maintenance workers had started getting past Map bot who was hastily trying to stop them.

Gregory stared at the panicking Roxy for just a moment, before he looked back at Monty “ Yeah, a weird mob of random people isn’t going to get me to believe you.” Gregory shrugged while Monty groaned, a hand pressed to his face, which is when get got an idea.

Monty pulled off his signature sunglasses, pulling out a back up pair that he had ready this time. “ If you listen to me and hide before you get us all in trouble I’ll let you wear my sunglasses again.” Monty didn’t even have to finish his sentence before the glasses were snatched out of his hands and Gregory had hidden himself in the chest cavity, Monty paused as his chest cavity closed “We really need to teach you about not falling for things like that”

“ Wow Freddy, why don’t we have you fix things for us more often, those tools you have built into your hands are so useful… wait did you get new hands.” The maintenance person’s voice called from the now open elevator in the back of Freddy’s room.

Freddy awkwardly chuckled as he and the person rounded the corner, Monty panicking with nowhere to hide in the room, “ Oh well yes, Vanessa said I needed to repair my old hand model after an incident with… um… a large birthday candle” Freddy made eye contact with Monty who was silently freaking out, knowing he couldn’t open the door without the maintenance person hearing him. “ Speaking of Vanessa, we should see how she’s doing, go back to parts and services?”

“ Nah, Monty’s elevator is stuck outside his room, so we’ll head over there next and then see her.” The person responded, a faz-tablet in their hands as they read through the current status of the elevators “ Besides, she can be a real bitch this early in the morning.”

Freddy had to fight every instinct in his body to stop the person from cussing when he knew Gregory was still in the room. Meanwhile Monty was making as subtle of movements as he possibly could trying to hint that Freddy could break something in the back area to his room to distract the maintenance person long enough for him to hide somewhere.

Freddy quickly glanced around, trying to find something before the maintenance person looked up from their tablet and noticed Monty. Freddy took a deep breath and with a loud, pre recorded, static noise he swung his hand to the side and smashed right through a metal rack, causing tools to spill all over the ground.

“ Oh dear, that’s not normal.” Freddy feigned a worried tone as the Maintenance person wheeled around to see the now very broken shelf. “ I am truly sorry, I don’t know what happened.”

The person sighed, “ It’s okay, just help me clean this up and then we’ll get you back down to parts and services” They turned around and as Freddy stepped back onto a metal bar, Monty sprinted out of his door, using the crunching of metal to mask his escape.

“ Well that was weird.” Gregory commented, enjoying the chaos from his hiding place, “ But can I get some breakfast now? I’m really hungry.”

“ Food can wait.” Roxy grumbled as she approached the group, Map bot having chased off all of the people in the hallway with its constant rambling “ We’re gonna hide you somewhere first, before we get in trouble.”

“ Why would you get in trouble? We haven’t done anything wrong? Yet” Gregory asked as the three moved down the large hallway, hoping they could find a hiding spot somewhere in the atrium.

Monty sighed, “ We don’t have time to explain, and you really shouldn’t worry about it.” Monty muttered he kept his voice down as the group walked by a few people who were working on one of the cameras.

“ MONTY, get your ass down to parts and services with the kid, I think I’ve solved our problem.” Vanessa radioed, her voice loud enough that the two animatronics had to make sure none of the nearby maintenance people had heard her.

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Down in parts and serviced Chica had been released from the main chamber as she looked over Vanessa’s shoulder, watching the program initiate, and hopefully work on all of the camera’s in the Pizzaplex, for now at least.

“ Wow, I have no idea what any of that text means, but it looks cool!” Chica cheered as she gleefully watched the text scroll across the screen, and a map of the camera’s slowly lit each camera up in a new color, signaling that they had received the new programming.

Monty and Roxy ran through the door from her room, both of them ran at their full speed to reach Vanessa who had picked up a small camera, pointing it at Monty “ Alright, let’s test this shit out, show me the kid.”

Monty obliged, opening his chest cavity with an uncertain look, while Gregory waved at Chica gleefully, snacking on a piece of candy they had snagged from a random vending machine on the way down.

Chica hummed with an uncertain tone for a moment “ Monty? Did you forget to bring him?”

The room went silent for a moment, well mostly silent aside from Vanessa’s loud sigh “ Well we know the program works, but now I’ve gotta fix Chica, Great.”

Roxy shrugged, “ Well at least it works? So we know the kid won’t be getting in trouble. At least until they realize the camera’s are all bugged… So that’s, what, like three days before they notice.”

“ Well that’s all the time we need, I didn’t want to say this before but unlike the rest of you, I’ve gotten a plan all set up” Vanessa pulled out her phone with a smug smile, her smug attitude was quickly overshadowed as a loud, boom of music rang through the pipes in the hall and Music man came crawling through with a frenzies tune playing, almost like the sonic drowning music as he emerged from the wall.

One of his hands was extended, while two of his other hands were quickly signing, almost too fast for anyone to read ‘ They found him, They found him! They Found him!’ Music man signed as they pressed the back of their extended hand to the ground, unfurling their fingers to reveal what he was holding.

The group had all gasped in a mix of shock and horror at what was in Music man’s hand.

Monty was the first to approach Music Man’s hand, his voice quivering as he looked down at the nearly mangled animatronic, “ Bonnie?”

Chapter Text

Freddy softly hummed the elevator music as it descended towards parts and services, holding the hand he had detached in his chest cavity, so he didn’t lose it. The Maintenance person next to him was scrolling through their phone, they looked completely uninterested in the fact that Freddy had lost a hand, and looked as if they would much rather be anywhere else.

“ It was quite odd finding that old plush toy in the gears of this elevator, I wonder how it got there.” Freddy glanced over at the Maintenance person, who could not have cared less in that situation. “ I hope no children have been crawling through the vents again.” Freddy chuckled as he tapped his fingers against the railing of the elevator before it rattled to a halt.

The doors of the elevator slowly slid open to reveal a very worried looking Chica, pacing back and forth without taking notice of the now open elevator doors.

“ Ah hello Chica!! What are you doing up here?” Freddy waved at his friend, with a sigh of relief knowing that they didn’t have to worry about interrupting what Vanessa was working on.

Chica jumped slightly at the sudden approach. “ Oh Freddy, I… um… was just waiting for Vanessa to finish something.” She nervously looked at the ground, as Freddy and the maintenance person walked towards her.

“ Oh, is Vanessa busy? Well then I guess we’ll just have to wait here for a bit.” Freddy looked over at the uninterested maintenance person who just shrugged and turned to walk back towards the elevator.

“ Well in that case, I’ll go work on something else, ring me on my faz-watch or whatever when you fix your hand.” They called as the doors to the elevator closed, followed by a loud yawn as the doors finally shut.

Freddy turned back to Chica who awkwardly avoided eye contact, not sure how to explain the current situation to the bear as he rose an eyebrow “ So what is Vanessa busy with? I thought she was working on you?”

Chica awkwardly laughed “ Well she was and she got her program working on the cameras!! But also” She took a deep breath “ Well I’m gonna just come out and say it. The maintenance people found Bonnie.”

Freddy gasped, if it was possible his eyes would be welling up with tears as he looked at Chica in disbelief. “ Did they really? Did they really find him?” Freddy asked as Chica pulled him into as big of a hug as her robotic arms would allow her.

“ They found him, he’s going to be okay.” She whispered as Freddy all but broke down into a mixture of relieved and sorrowful sobs.

This moment didn’t last too long however as triumphant shouts echoed through the walls around them. Both Gregory and Vanessa could be heard calling the animatronics into the maintenance room.

Chica took Freddy by the hand as she led him into the main room as he continued to softly sob to himself. Roxy and Monty had already gathered by the main maintenance chamber as Vanessa had to keep them back.

“ Calm down, he’s still got a ton of bugs in his system.” Vanessa barked as she stood between the two and Bonnie. “ It’s gonna take some time before he’s fully functioning again, so just be gentle with him.”

As Freddy and Chica approached they heard a soft, slightly distorted chuckle “ Aw c-cc-ome on, V-vannnn-y-essa. I’m f-f-fine.” Bonnie managed to say through their series of stuttered and glitched vocals.

“ Bonnie please it’s so bad even your vocals are all garbled up. I think someone even messed with your coding.” Vanessa commented with a hint of annoyance to her voice as she scrolled through her tablet “ Try to avoid words with the letters B, S, P, V, and G. For some reason those letters are sending your coding through a loop.”

“ Wow that’s-s-s-s–ssssss, a l-lot of letter-rrrsss–rss” Bonnie barely managed to say before their voicebox died for a moment, a soft hissing noise came from in side their chest cavity before he let out a low sigh and the hissing faded.

“ That didn’t sound good.” Gregory commented as he took a slow step away from Bonnie.

A low discordant laugh came from Bonnie as they looked over at Gregory “ Aww don’t worr-rrrrry Kiddo, I’m d-oo-ooo-ingg-ggg, fine.” Bonnie had as confident a smile as he could as he turned to look at his other friends. “ Y-ou all sh-sh-shouldn’t worry either, I’m h-h-here aren’t I?” Bonnie laughed again as he looked over the worried faces of his friends, his face drooping slightly as his gaze settled on Freddy’s solemn expression.

Freddy didn’t say anything as the two looked at each other for a moment, but everyone could feel just how worried Freddy was about his friend.

“ H—---hey b-b-iggg b--b-b-b-bbbbear, don’t look s-s-so sssssad, You’re g-g-gonna, make me s-sssssad too.” Bonnie’s laugh was a bit less enthusiastic and just a little more distorted now. He tried to raise his hand and give his friend a big thumbs up, but the casing over his thumb was completely gone, causing Freddy to let out a wince as he saw the endoskeleton poking through Bonnie’s hand.

“ I’ll put in a work order and get you patched up Bonnie, you’ll be staying here for a couple of nights okay?” Vanessa mentioned trying to cut through the tension a little as she typed something down onto her tablet, putting it down as Mapbot approached with a folder in its hands. Bonnie excitedly, yet slowly, waving towards Mapbot as it rolled up.

“ Take a map” Mapbot almost whispered as it handed off the folder while waving to Bonnie with its free hand. Vanessa took the folder with a soft ‘ thank you’ to the bot before she turned and motioned for Gregory to follow her.

The two humans left the main area of the maintenance room, leaving the group of animatronics in almost complete silence. The only noise that could be heard was the occasional whirring from within Bonnie’s exoskeleton, and the constant hum of their cooling fans that were cranked up to max to keep his systems from overheating.

“ S-s-s-sssssoooo, anyone knowww, what happ–pened to me? I’m dddd-dddying to know.” Bonnie giggled as he leaned back with an almost whimsical smile on his face as he looked up at the others. “ The last th-th-thing I remembbbbbber, is G–gggggrumpy G-gator yelling, and then b-bbb-bbbooom I was out.”

Monty shrank back a little bit while the others took similar withdrawn stances. “ Well, we don’t know. Can’t even remember the night you went missing.” Monty admitted using all his will to avoid eye contact with Bonnie.

“ Oooohhh well, W-whatev-vann-vver happened I don’t care.” Bonnie paused for a second “ Wwwow, that one was wayy-wa-yyyyy less glitchy, I’m gettin bb--bur-better already, don’t you thinnkkk so R-Roxstar?”

Roxy let out an almost tearful laugh “ Yeah, you’ll be speaking full sentences in no time Buddy.” She flashed him a quick yet pained smile “ We’ll be singing Karaoke again before you know it.”

Chica nodded “ And once you’re able I can’t wait to paint your nails and eat tons of pizza with you Bestie!!” Chica exclaimed trying to lighten the mood as much as she could, Bonnie let out a out a loud laugh.

“ Let’s gggg-ggg-gggooo, I’m g-gg-ggonna eat so much!!!” Bonnie cheered, they tried to say something else but before they could Freddy knelt down and pulled Bonnie into as gentle a hug as he could manage.

“ I’ve missed you superstar.” Freddy choked back a sob as Bonnie gently, and carefully patted Freddy’s back for a moment before Chica also knelt down and joined the hug. The chicken being much less capable at holding back her own tears.

Bonnie let out a small sigh, “ Well I’ve m-mm-missed you g-g-g-g-guys too.”