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Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex was the place to be if you were a kid. The place was designed to be the coolest, most eye-catching place for a kid to be. It had everything; an arcade, laser tag, mini-golf, go-karts, a fitness area, restaurants, gift shops, and of course the famous animatronic stars themselves the whole thing was designed around. It even had a daycare for the younger kids, although the animatronic there had...room for improvement.
(They were still getting angry emails about the Naptime Attendant)
Unfortunately, while it was paradise for kids the same couldn't be said for their older siblings or cousins forced to tag along, either for birthday parties or for babysitting duty. There might have been plenty of attractions that they could participate in, but there was nothing simply for them. After many months of deliberation without anything to show for it, an intern had the genius idea of putting in a haunted house; people thought that the animatronics were a little creepy anyways, might as well put that to good use? They could even put it in where Bonnie Bowl had sat, well on the other side of the Pizzaplex from the Daycare where the younger children would be. Tentatively the idea was approved and they went to work.
Freddy himself...didn't take it well.
Between shows either Roxy or Chica or one of the handful of human staff members would see him staring at the large, white curtain surrounding what used to be Bonnie Bowl and the ice-cream parlor with drooped ears and a sad look in his eyes. As well as the star might have tried to hide his sadness from all the little superstars, kids were perceptive and not long after construction started the air of the Pizzaplex became tense. Nobody knew anything about what the new attraction would be like and there were no clues other than a large sign in the front with big bold letters that said "COMING SOON: DEIMOS' DREADFUL DUNGEON". Even as construction was wrapping the curtain stayed up. Finally on a chilly October Friday the Pizzaplex held the grand opening for the new attraction. To a crowd of excited children and some cautiously curious tweens the employees let the curtain down.
Where the smiling face of Bonnie once stood to greet guests there was instead the grinning face of a bat, beckoning the guests to walk into the large red doors of a dungeon. Signs were set up around the false brick of the dungeon exterior warning that the attraction was for children 10 and older. The lobby inside had many spooky decorations like eerie glowing LED lights peeking out from cracks in the walls and fake skeletons chained to the walls (including one poor staffbot chained to the wall via neck and dressed in rags to give the guests any information on the attraction if needed).
The star of the attraction himself greeted the guests in the lobby with a bow and a toothy smile. "Greetings and Salutations my friends, I welcome you to my abode. I am Dungeon-master Deimos," he said in a cheesy eastern-european accent. The new animatronic smiled at the pleased cries he got at the sight of him. He was modeled after a bat with a very heavy vampire theme and his design was sleeker than the Glamrocks; his frame was thin like that of the Daycare Attendant rather than bulky and his eyes had screens to let him narrow his eyes and allow for more expression. Deimos had a large black cape that he wrapped around himself with 80's shoulder pads to give him a more triangular silhouette. Under the blacklights there was a bright red trail like blood under his mouth and his purple waistcoat had a ribcage pattern that glowed brightly. His most striking features however had to be the fairly accurate three-pointed bat nose that sat on the end of his muzzle and the rather large ears that wiggled on top of his head.
The first run of the Haunted House was a rousing success with delighted shrieks emanating from deep inside the attraction. Deimos would stalk through the corridors of the dungeon and pop out at guests with a shriek and occasionally would grab at human employees and bite their necks while they faked a scream before pulling them into the darkness. His fangs were soft and made of soft resin so none of the humans he bit were hurt though some of the screams were more genuine than others, if only because his fangs tickled.
At 9pm, after they had let a good portion of guests go through the dungeon, it was time for the magic show. Deimos was literally made for the stage, bowing and gesturing dramatically while he did common stage tricks like pulling cloth out of hats or making three rings connect and disconnect. At one point he called up a volunteer, a girl about twelve. He grinned, flashing his fangs, and walked up beside her.
“Hello my dear, and what is your name?” he asked, leaning down a bit.
“Lacy,” she answered, smiling politely despite being nervous at being in front of the crowd.
“It’s a pleasure to meet you, Miss Lacy!” he grinned, then produced a piece of paper from the pocket of his waistcoat and held it up. It was a picture of a chicken that looked suspiciously like Chica, though it wasn’t humanoid. “Now for this trick I’m going to do something simple; when I point to one of the chicken’s body parts you say what body part it is. Do you understand?”
“Uh-huh,” the girl nodded, giving the crowd a glance. The bat pointed to the chicken’s head, feet, beak and tail before folding the paper up.
“Now Lacy, what body part did I not point to?”
The girl paused, considering. “The…wing?”
“Good!” he grinned. “Now hold up your thumbs and hold them together closely. Yes, that’s it.” The bat smiled as he put the ends of the folded paper on each thumb. Lacy furrowed her brow in confusion while some of the older teenagers in the audience giggled. Deimos turned to the crowd and winked before smiling at Lacy. “Now, I want you to say the part of the chicken’s body I didn’t point at ten times fast, alright? Go.”
“Uhhhh wing wing wing wi-” Lacy began before Deimos snatched the paper up and held it to his large ear like a phone.
“Hello?” he said casually and the audience and Lacy erupted into laughter. Deimos stood up and smiled proudly at the crowd, bowing as Lacy jumped off the stairs to rejoin her parents.
After the Pizzaplex had closed and the guests had gone, Deimos was getting ready to head out for the security check; there was a ring on his back that let him connect to a cable that allowed him to ‘fly’ around, a trait that apparently another animatronic in the Pizzaplex had as well, and like his new colleague he was recruited into doing security checks at night.
That suited him just fine; he was programmed to be mostly nocturnal like the creature he was based off of. The Dungeon didn’t open until 6pm and his magic shows were one of the latest performances of the day. Once security checks were done he would go to bed with the sun and recharge until it was time for the Dungeon to open.
Just as he was getting ready to head out he was approached by Roxy and Monty.
“Oh, Roxanne, Montgomery, it’s a pleasure to meet you. What do I owe for this visit?” he asked in a flamboyant manner. Monty sneered, huffing when Roxy elbowed him.
“We came to say hi and welcome you to the Pizzaplex!” Roxy said, her hand on her hip. “Freddy and Chica would have come, but they were closer to Bonnie than us….”
Ah, yes. Bonnie the Bunny, the animatronic who’s spot he had taken up. Deimos didn’t have to guess what the Dungeon meant for his predecessor.
“I see. I understand. I will give them their space for a while, though I hope we can be friends.”
Roxy smiled at him, then glared when Monty stepped up and looked the bat up and down. “You don’t look so scary to me,” the gator growled. Deimos’ eyes on their screens narrowed a bit but he smiled.
“Well of course not my friend, you’re quite the imposing specimen yourself! I wish they had made me with teeth and claws like yours!” he said, taking Monty’s hand and bowing. Monty blinked behind his sunglasses.
“Uh….Thanks…?” he muttered in confusion. Behind him Roxy covered her hand with her mouth, trying to muffle her giggles.
“No thank-yous necessary my reptilian friend! I’m sure the golf-course is the safest place in the Pizzaplex with you around. What ruffian would dare trespass when such an intimidating figure like you is protecting it?” the bat nearly purred. If Monty had the ability to blush he would and he awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck.
“U-uh yeah! I uh, suppose so!” the gator said. “Maybe you could come by sometime and I could show you how to play?” he asked, glaring at Roxy when she snickered.
The bat smiled and cocked his head. “I’d love to, but for now I'm off to do my first security run. I need to get a feel for the layout of the building.”
Roxy and Monty looked at him strangely and looked at one another.
“You’re doing security runs?” Roxy asked, tilting her head.
“Oh yes! I was designed to be nocturnal after all and our creators deemed that I was a good fit to help watch the building at night!” he nodded proudly, turning to show them the ring on his back. “I’ve been designed for flying on a cable, so it shouldn’t be too difficult with a bat’s-eye view,” he chuckled.
The two glamrocks grimaced. “You’re gonna want to watch out, newbie,,” Monty said, suddenly less hostile than just a moment before. “The Daycare Attendant does security runs at night too using cables.”
Deimos blinked at him in confusion. “Why does that warrant caution?”
“The Daycare Attendant is….” Roxy started before Monty interrupted.
“He’s a freak!” the gator sneered. “He’s a creepy little weirdo, he’s way too intense. I can’t believe they haven’t scraped the clown yet!”
“Monty!” Roxy scolded.
“Don’t act like you don’t think the same thing! Everyone knows about the complaints against him!” Monty snapped back.
Deimos frowned, letting the information sink into his circuits. He hadn’t met the Daycare Attendant so he chose not to judge them yet but it was good to be made aware of their negative reputation, just in case.
“I see. I will do my best to be careful, then. I thank you for your warning and for your warm welcome,” he smiled at them. “Please extend a hello to Freddy and Chica for me, would you?”
“You got it, newbie,” Roxy smirked with a thumbs-up.
“I’ll be on my way then. It was a pleasure meeting the both of you!” the bat said as the cord lowered to connect him to the ceiling. Before he ascended Deimos turned to Monty and smiled. “I’ll be looking forward to our playdate,” he purred as he rose to the ceiling, leaving the gator a flustered mess and Roxy laughing.