Prologue

The First Night

Sora and Roxas are sitting down in the night guard office in the back of the restaurant, waiting for their shift to start at 12am. It was their first night there and they had been wanting a job here for ages, however they did want a day job, they just couldn’t as they had no former experience. As the clock was nearing 12, the phone over to their left started to ring, Sora picked it up, wondering who it would be.

“Hello! Hello hello! Welcome to your first day on the job at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. To get you settled in for your first night here, I have recorded some messages that will help you get through the week and make sure you are trained proper. Now, as of time I am recording these messages, I am finishing my last week of the job. As this place is a bit run down, we have to conserve power until we can renovate the place and buy a new generator. Now on your left and right, you’ll see powered doors, only close them if necessary. Now, just a warning, the animatronics like to roam around during the night, should be no big deal, Bonnie seems to be the most active actually, that may be due to how he interacts with the kids. But anyway, they should be no worries, since it’s dark, they’ll try to find the nearest possible person, in this case it’s you. So they may try to come into your office, just close your doors when they’re there. They’re not dangerous, we just don’t want any broken technology as we are on a low enough budget running 3 of these things already. You may see some other animatronics in the back room on your camera… Those aren’t active so you shouldn’t have anything to worry about. My shift is almost up here, so, I’ll talk to you tomorrow!”

The phone call ended and Roxas checked the camera to where the animatronics are.

“Great, we still have 5 hours of this, what are we gonna do?” Roxas exclaimed. “It’s not like we can get up and look around.”

Sora looked up from what he was doing.

“Roxas!”

“What?”

“That’s a great idea!”

Roxas looked at Sora puzzlingly.

“Well, what else can we do? Sit here for another 5 hours? I don’t think so.”

Sora stood up from his seat, grabbed Roxas by the collar, and pulled him up.

“You’re coming with me. It’s the reason we signed up here anyway. Don’t back out on it, what would Namine think?”

Roxas looked at Sora again. His eyes burning with annoyance.

“Well, Namine would probably be proud of me that I’m actually doing my job and not slacking off.”

Sora thought for a second.

“Technically, we are still doing our job. We’re checking on them.”

Roxas opened his mouth to say something but was interrupted by the phone ringing.

Roxas picked up the phone.

“Hello?”

“Hello! Just a quick warning, do not leave the room you are in, as it is a designated safe room and it’s possible for the animatronics to walk in and make a mess of the place if you’re gone. Now if there are any questions, just call me and I’ll be there to answer them in due time. Good night and I’ll talk to you tomorrow.”

The other end goes to static and the line cuts off. Roxas then puts the phone down and smirks at Sora.

“So. Who was right?” Roxas asks.

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“Uh… me. Duh! Well, I’m off to check on the back room. See you later!”

Roxas grabbed Sora by the neck and pulled him back.

“Where are you going? Even if you did go somewhere. I could see you in these cameras.”

“My point exactly. Bye!”

Sora wriggled out of Roxas’ grasp and ran off down the hall.

Roxas rolled his eyes and checked the cameras to see what Sora was up to. He saw Sora wandering around the main dining area, aweing at the animatronics on the show stage. He had been fascinated on how they worked since he was young back in 1987. They 2 brothers were only 3 then, but they still both were amazed at their slow movements of metal and wires. Roxas had stopped liking the animatronics when “the incident” happened.

Flashback

Roxas was sitting down at a table next to his twin brother Sora. They were both having a fun time at the restaurant. Sora was waiting eagerly for the next Foxy the Pirate act to come on. He had had enough of waiting for it so he decided to go over to the kid’s area where The Mangle was located. The Mangle was a build-up, take apart animatronic toy for the kids to have fun with. Sora wanted Roxas to come over with him, but Roxas didn’t want to so he just stayed in his seat and watched Sora play with The Mangle. As Roxas was watching Sora take it apart, he saw it twitch and one of its eyes light up. The Mangle then jumped up, all of the other kids ran away scared. Sora stayed in his spot, awed at the movement of the thing. Their parents tried to rush over as soon as they saw what was happening and tried to get Sora away. The employees working the shift tried to get over there to. Everyone was too late and The Mangle jumped at Sora, its jaw wide open with sharp teeth. The Mangle’s jaw locked onto Sora’s skull and closed. Biting off the frontal lobe of his brain. One of the employees managed to power down the animatronic and pulled it off of Sora. The other employees rushed to shut down all of the other animatronics, just in case they were soon to act up. An ambulance was called and the place was set to lockdown.

Please be ok, please be ok.

An employee turned to Roxas and Sora’s parents in apology.

“We are so sorry about this Mr and Mrs…”

“Strife.”

“So sorry Mr and Mrs Strife. Is there anything we can do? We will pay for the medical treatment, anything.”

Mrs Strife looked over at Sora worryingly.

“If he survives this, we’d like him to have one of your suits.”

The employee looked shocked at those words.

“I’ll just get the manager for you.”

Seconds later the manager walked out from the back room, looking upon the chaos of his restaurant.

“Now, Mr and Mrs Strife. I believe you had a request?”

“Yes.” Mrs Strife answered. “If our boy here is to survive, we’d like a suit of yours. Preferably the Silver one.”

Roxas looked down at Sora, blood all over the floor. He knelt down beside him. Sora was helpless, couldn’t do anything. Roxas looked around the room, taking in everything going on around him. As he looked into the back room. He saw a figure with a smirk on his face, hiding in the shadows. He walked out from where he was and turned off the last remaining animatronic. Freddy.

“That shall be arranged Mrs Strife. Will there be anything else?”

Roxas snapped back into attention as he heard the news of having a suit at home.

“Just make sure this doesn’t happen again. A lot of weird things have happened at this place.”

“Request accepted. What about for your other boy? Anything for him?”

She looked at Roxas. She only saw tears in his eyes.

“I think. Just a life time supply of pizza shall do it for him.”

The manager sighed, if he didn’t accept this request, they’d have to be shut down for good this time.

“I think, that’s a reasonable trade off.”

“Thank you.”

“We are so sorry about what has happened today. As you requested, it shall not happen again. We will get rid of these newer models, and go back to the older and less dangerous ones at a future date.”

Roxas tuned out again, again seeing the same man who turned off Freddy, this time slipping into the darkness.

Roxas. Roxas! ROXAS!

“ROXAS!”

Roxas jumped up from his seat, ending the flashback.

“It’s time to leave now, almost 6 am.”

“Oh, ok. Did you see anything interesting back there?”

“Well, I did see a broken down white animatronic that’s in bits.”

Roxas’ mind flashed back to The Mangle, broken and white.

“Oh, I wonder why it’s like that. Weird.”

“Probably spare parts. Oh well, let’s go.”

Sora and Roxas walked out of the room, Roxas still thinking about the day which will haunt him forever. After the accident, Sora couldn’t remember anything about that day, which was lucky for him, he didn’t have to go through the trauma that the rest of the family had to go through. It’s also the reason Roxas was here at this job with Sora. Sora wanted a job here, but he didn’t want him to be alone, just to make sure nothing like that happened again. But as they were leaving, he thought back some more.

Who was that guy I saw in the shadows… Did he have anything to do with it?