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Flames licked the walls as she staggered through the burning pizzeria. She glanced over at the molten bear trying to get into the vent, to no avail. At least he will finally rest. Along with the rest of them.
A robotic hand gripped her shoulder plate and slammed her into the wall. She struggled to get up, failing to control the grey bear in the fire. The tattered animatronic rabbit stood above her, his flesh showing through his burning green joints.
“There’s no escaping here, Afton, it’s over,” she heaved against his weight and tried to get up. He roughly held a hand against her chest cavity and held her back.
“You really thought you could save them, didn’t you, Charlotte?”
Her head snapped up. “Don’t call me that.”
Afton straightened up. “You know it’s true.”
“At least I could give them a second chance. And now they can finally put to rest, safe from the world and from YOU.”
He threw back his head and howled in laughter. She glared through the animatronic bear head, slowly becoming engulfed in the flames.
“You really thought it was that easy to get rid of it all? Oh, Charlotte.”
“I always come back.”
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Charlie.
Charlotte, you have to wake up, sweetie.
The party isn’t over, you need to come back here.
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Charlie jolted up and hit her head on the back of the door, letting out a sharp yelp.
“Wha-!”
Rubbing her head, she took in where she was with a sharp breath. A breath . She held up a shaky hand, a human hand, and gently placed it on the wall. What happened? Where is she? And why is she back to being a human girl? How is she back to being a human girl?
She was in a strange bathroom. It had a logo plastered on the back wall, hard to see among the decorated bins and other bags. It was an image of a bear, not unlike Freddy, but with markings on his face and an earring on his left ear.
She pulled herself up on the sink to look in the dusty mirrors. A small girl with black hair with purple ends and gleaming brown eyes stared back. She was wearing a dark purple shirt and red shorts, with a bright green armband.
She immediately looked away from it as waves of memories washed over her and she almost buckled.
She drew a hand through her hair in panicked thought. She was clearly in a Freddy’s pizzeria, but not the one she had recently been lying in, in a grey bear animatronic. She recalled the rabbit, and her jaw clenched. Burn in hell, piece of shit. Burn in hell. Or maybe he didn’t, because she was still here, not with them, or her father.
Charlie prays they have finally found peace.
She slowly straightened herself up, unfamiliar to the smaller, shorter body. “It’s okay, Charlie. You can get out of this,” she reassured herself. She slowly turned the handle of the bathroom door and let herself out to a wide, open area, decorated with tall neon lights and display cases. A sign read, “Rockstar Row”.
She glanced at the posters on the walls. There was an orange bear, a white chicken, a grey wolf and a gator. They said ‘ROCK!’, ‘JAM!’, ‘PARTY!’ and ‘DANCE!’. She recognised Freddy and Chica, though the other two are strange to her, only the wolf having a somewhat resemblance to Foxy, although having no pirate features. It’s then that she realised that she is nowhere near the time that she was.
These animatronics were completely unique to the pizzeria she had known for altogether too long. Her eyes flickered over to the rooms on the far wall. Each read a name and had a big window at the front. She straightened herself again, turning back to the room at hand.
Something slammed into her side, sending all the air out of her at once. A small robot wearing a security guard cap had rounded the corner. It rolled back in confusion, unsure what it had just bumped into. “ It can’t see me. I’m still dead.” Apparently being dead didn’t mean running into a metal object wouldn’t hurt. Charlie rubbed her arm and glanced back at the robot, who had turned around to leave.