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"So, what now?"
She stared at the young boy that looked no older than ten, "What?". The boy (Gregory, she reminded herself) responded, "Well, I survived 6 hours in a pizzeria with killer animatronics chasing me, a creepy ass-
"Language, Superstar!", interruped the detached head of an animatronic. "Sorry Freddy, I meant a creepy killer rabbit lady (she tried not to shudder at that), random messages with codes on them, a weird robot family around a table, disks that suspiciously sound like therapy sessiones that randomly appear in the pizzaria, and on top of all weird arcade games that had a creepy glitchy black and purple rabbits which screamed, now that was unnerving as hell- "Superstar!" Gregory coughed "Actually, uh- Vanessa, do you know what that was and also, what was your deal with chasing me back there?
She- she didn't quite know how to respond to that without telling the kid an insane pychopath from the '80's, obsessed with the concept of immortality, decided to copy his consciousness on some old circuit boards or something to control and manipulate people without the whole situation sounding something like a fever dream, sounding insane or straight out of a science fiction movie, "You could consider Him a anomaly or a glitch but actually He is a sort of alive malware for lack of time and a better way to explain it, and actually about the 'chasing' thing you mentioned, I really don't remember it at all, like chasing you, I have some blurry memories that barely tell me anything about what happened during those 6 hours, but I don't really know the whole picture aside from the arcade games and why the animatronics were acting- for lack of a better word- quirky during that time".
Gregory stared at her incredulously, but Freddy was the one who responded "But Officer Vanessa, the only one who had access to Parts and Services was-" "Yes I know Freddy, it was me in a way, it's complicated to explain, so I'll give you the whole rundown on who I was before this huge fiasco, I'm Vanessa Afton, I'm a former worker at Silver Parasol Games, where I worked as a beta tester, after that it starts getting fuzzy, but I do remember getting hired by Fazbear Funtime Service as a security guard, other than that, I only remember bits and pieces, and after that I don't remember anything at all but from what i'm guessing at is that I either was transferred by Fazbear Entertainment o I issued a transfer myself to work at the Pizzaplex as again a security guard, I have rudementionary knowledge at IT, so recoding animatronics from scratch and bypassing their safe modes and on top of all, firewalls? That's basically impossible for me to do without help. The one who actually hacked the animatronics was Him." "You really need to tell us the whole story about this 'Him' sometime, but anyway the real question is that you don't actually remember anything from these last few hours?" "Actually, I don't remember much of these last few.. days, well I hope its only been days, the only thing i remember recently (at least she hoped it was recently) that is rather clear was playtesting a VR game for the first company I worked with and also following and playing the tapes She left for me-". Gregory snorted "Really? Now 'She'?, but back to the subject, who's 'She' and what tapes?" Vanessa started stuttering a bit "I- I'm not sure about her identity, I call her Tape Girl because of some casette tapes she left in the games with messages inside for the next tester after her; but when I started playing the tapes I decided to try and find more about her, so everyday after I got off work, I tried to figure out her identity so I decided to enter the employees database to try to find her and I managed to narrow it down to two people: Gabriella and Tonya.
"But we'll get back to that later, the question is what about you? Why were you here after hours? I think I have an idea why and I'm 95% sure that your reason to sneak after hours was not to get some free quality time with the animatronics, right?" Gregory started stiffening "It's uh- complicated to explain" "Try me." He snorted "You do realize you literally chased me 6 hours around the entire place and I'm also 95% sure you are or at least were Vanny- (Now she was the one stiffening at the mention of her murderous alter ego), how do you expect me to trust you?" "If you didn't, would we be here eating icecream? Besides you beat the game, Vanny isn't around anymore." At least she hoped she was gone. "And you expect me to believe you that easily?" Vanessa started sighing "Look kid, I understand why you don't trust me, but believe me when I say that nothing connected, related or with the whole Fazbear Entertainment Company is a coincidence, if you were here that means you have something to do with this whole franchise, so 'fess up kid, why are you here?
"... I'm here because I wanted a warm plate to eat and a warm place to sleep-" Oh. Oh no "What do you mean by that?" She prayed to whoever or whatever was up there that his response was not what she was thinking "I- I'm sigh homeless, there are you happy now? "I- I had no idea, I'm so sorry-" "Save it, It's fine no use crying over it but now I'm curious, what do you mean by that?" Now she was confused "By what?" "You said that nothing is a coincidence, what did you mean by that?" Oh, curse her and her stupid mouth "Kid, we should be more worried about where are you going to live" "Well, in my box, of course now tell me-" No. No way was she going to allow that, not after almost killing the poor child, obviously not after him risking his life playing a game that finally freed her and the little girl with her- wait -now that she thought about it, where was the other child trapped with her, what was her name? Ah yes Cassidy. Wait no, concentrate on the present, you can track down the other kid later if you already had an idea now about her true identity and connection with Him "Yeah right, like I'll let that happen after you saved me kiddo-" Gregory pouted "I'm not five, don't call me 'kiddo'" She chuckled "Whatever you say kiddo, but I have an good idea, you're going to be living with me, no buts or complaining-" "WHAT?!" Vanessa snickered "Like it or not kid, you're stuck with me. Consider this repayment for freeing us-" Gregory looked astonished "Wait, US?! There was another person trapped with you? What-" She was beginning to hate her ability to speak her mind at all times "Yeah, long story kid, when we get back to my apartment, I'll tell you what I know about the whole thing-" "Promise?" "Promise."
"You better keep it or I'll shoot you in the eyes" with that said he took out his FazerBlaster "Gregory, please do not do that, it is unsafe to do so" "Ok ok Freddy, I was joking, or was I? Vanessa and Freddy stared at Gregory with unamused and with a hint of unnerved expressions on their faces "Ugh, no one can take a joke around here, can they? But anyway, returning to my first question, what are we going to do?"
"Well, I'm going to contact an old friend of mine that might give us some insight on what Fazbear Entertainment has been doing these days, hire a repair crew secretly for the animatronics- "Really!? They tried to kill me!" Vanessa sighed, she expected this reaction "Gregory, we're actually very lucky, it's Friday which means the PizzaPlex is closed for 3 days for scheduled maintenance, which gives us enough time to repair the animatronics and fix and clean the whole place, find out exactly what has been going on since my uh- possessment?, and actually get my- our life back in order."
"... Do we have to repair them?" "Yes Gregory, we have to because if I don't repair them, then I will obviously get fired and very probably banned from anything Fazbear related, and I will never be able to find out what exactly happened to me and by extention, you. I will not risk this."
"...Ok, but promise me, that they won't be dangerous anymore." "Of course not, I'll force activate their safe mode, it's designed for emergencies-" Gregory started groaning "That existed!? Freddy, did you know about this?"
"As Officer Vanessa said, that method is designed for emergencies-" "OH COME ON-"
The air rang with their laughter
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Golden Princess Quest Fight Sword Defend Control Light Lantern Dark Purple Evil Courage Bravery Anger Frustruation R E V E N G E
She observed the woman who was her former trapped companion, who had now finally broken out of HIS control liberating her as well in the process, a surprisingly friendly self-aware unpossessed animatronic and the young boy who had aided her staring at the sunrise. Yes, they deserved it, and even more happily so, she was finally making progress. HE was not as invincible as HE claimed HE was. After parts of HIM managed to escape her wrath, she now knew she needed allies to help her even if it means she had to wake some old friends from their well-deserved rest, After all, she was not the prideful blinded vengeful girl that attacked anything and anyone anymore who reminded her of HIM from the past, she knew better now. If she was to succeed, she would need allies to help her, dead and alive, peaceful or vengeful, and not commit the same mistakes again. She had to remember that not every single person with blue and purple was HIM. She would have succceded much earlier if she didn't attack the son of HIM. She found out too late though. He would be the first soul to awaken, he might not be happy but it was neccesary. She WILL SUCCEED this time. Yes, Afton may always come back but so does she.