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"So... what now?"
Vanessa, Gregory, and Glamrock Freddy have successfully gotten out of the Mega PizzaPlex with their lives intact, even if their minds aren't, but now they have to deal with the mental and physical consequences the PizzaPlex has left them and the problems that come with having an ex-homeless child, a former mind-controlled serial killer and a self-aware animatronic bear living together in the same house.

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Chapter 1: What Now?

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Gregory and Vanessa have a little chat, with mini interruptions by Freddy

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Italic represents a thought/something unsaid/implied

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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. 

Notes:

Sorta took a week because I wanted to make it longer but since im working on Windows Notes, I thought it was at least 3000 words but seems like its not and also because I couldn't really get more ideas on it so- uh here. Have this.

Chapters after this might get longer, I'm trying to make a backlog and also writing on Google Docs about the main plot with minor ones so that it might make things way faster,

This is not the definite definite chapter, it's about 3/4 of the way just trying to make it longer so you guys, girls and non-binary pals don't read it in less than 3 minutes .

Chapter 2: The Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Step

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Gregory witnesses a catfight from "responsable adults", and tries to figure out some things in his life.

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Itálica = thoughts / something unsaid or implied

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1 hour later

Gregory was having fun. The fight happening right now was just so hilarious, it took him all of his self-restraint (of which he had plenty) to not descend into maniacal cackles. The raising of voices made him decide to tune back in to see what in the world they were fighting about now

 

"...Officer Vanessa, we stole a car from the Pizzaplex, we must return it immediately-.", seems like they're still fighting over the car. Wow, super responsable adults they were, how they haven't crashed already was a miracle in its self. 

 

"Freddy, for the millionth time, no, I'm not going to return it. Fazbear owes me for that damn possession, and this is only the tip of the iceberg." Well, in her defense, she was right, the Pizzaplex owed her for the posession, the possession she never went in detail on.

 

Honestly, he didn't blame her. Imagine being posessed by some dude and being forced to do things you don't want to, like killing kids.

 

"Language, Office Vanessa. One hour ago, we committed a federal offense, this offense is grand theft auto that could lead to imprisonment from up to five years or more, a fine that could go from either a thousand to tens of thousands of dollars, as well as any restitution to the victim for any damage to the car or the owner's loss of use of the car-", Ok, he so didn't need to know that, and Freddy did do some of them as well, We also probably damaged bajillion dollor robots and he really didn't want to know the consequences of that.

 

"Freddy, we didn't need to know the crimes we apparently committed, besides we did way worse in the Pizzaplex and you certainly weren't complaining-"

 

"Gregory! I am disappointed in you. We committed those crimes for the sake of your survival. Besides, since you are a minor, you have some extent of immunity. Officer Vanessa is an adult that committed larceny willingly, she should know better than commit a felony because she feels slighted-" Ok, is Vanessa sure Freddy's just an AI, he literally sounded just like an adult that was lecturing a mis-behaving child, granted, having a severed head trying to lecture you did wonders for seriousness.

 

"I DO NOT FEEL SLIGHTED, I am merely taking what is deserved to me as recompensation", Gregory was really getting tired of their fighting, it didn't evern change into something else, just the same thing over and over again, said, "First of all, what the hell is a larceny, and second of all, why are you both fighting over the stealing of a car that no one is going to miss and the fact that the pizzeria from hell is like one hour back."

 

"Exactly, Freddy. Gregory is right. Even if I wanted to return it, which I don't, I'm not going to waste gasoline when we're almost going to arrive at my house." Wow. What a mood.

 

"Superstar, language. Officer Vanessa-"

 

 

"Glamrock Freddy Fazbear.exe, initialize lockdown of vocal sensors" Freddy was literally a living meme, his voice truly sounded robotic, but his eyes literally held exasperation and the slight frustration on not winning the discussion: "Initializing lockdown in 3...2...1... 100% complete."

 

"Finally, some peace and quiet", "That was super hilarious, Freddy looks so betrayed right now."

 

"He deserves it. Lecturing me about crimes, when he did quite a lot of them himself. What a hypocrite." "Both of you never answered my question, you know. What is larceny?", Vanessa looked at him through the rear mirror, "A larceny is basically the crime of stealing public or private property without being caught."

 

 

"Oh, so I committed larceny for stealing my fazlight, my fazerblaster, my amazing fazwatch, and my backpack, not to mention the things in the backpack and everything I stole when I was in the streets."

 

 

"... Nice job, kid", she sniggered.

 

 

"Thanks, I know"

 

 

They stopped talking because there wasn't a need to. The silence really was blissful. But after a few minutes, Gregory started to get impatient.

 

 

"Ugh, are we there yet?", asked Gregory.

 

"Jesus, kid. Impatient, aren't you?", answered an exasperated Vanessa,

 

 

"Hmph, why do you live so far away, then?" he asked, looking out the window where he could see skyscrapers and grownups heading out to who knows where.

 

 

"Because this was the only area that I could afford, kid. Being a security guard at Fazbear's doesn't pay you much, believe it or not. And, it's a pretty good area to live in. But apparently, I was living in a safe room above Fazerblaster for some reason. Ugh, damn Glitchtrap, he has the patience to mind control and manipulate me, doesn't he, but he's too lazy to get his fat ass out for a drive! I swear, if he didn't play the bills, i am going to-"

Ok, he really needed to stop her ranting before she crashes into a tree or something, "Vanessa, rant about that guy later and concentrate on the damn road"

 

"Hmph, fine. Besides kid, shut up. You're distracting me."

 

Gregory pouted "Whatever", saving that Glichtrap comment, what the fuck was Glitchtrap, for later when he heard Freddy doing a fantastic rumble of a laugh which startled both him and Vanessa.

 

 

"What the fu-", said the blonde security guard, "Officer Vanessa! Language!" Freddy replied, sounding scandalized, "How the fuck did you break out of the lockdown!"

 

"Language! The lockdown duration is of 3 minutes, Officer Vanessa" "Oh my god, I forgot about that-", Gregory just threw his head back and laughed but this time, his heart wasn't in it.

 

 

He hated feeling like this. He only felt like this when he began to hope, hoping that finally, he'll be able to stay.

But no, all those stupid adults wanted was either a cute baby or an adorable toddler.

None of them wanted a small feisty 9-year-old.

 

 

 

Still, he had to please, like always, so Gregory put on his best artificial smile, he hated pretending like this, it made him feel icky and wrong, daddy said lying was wrong, wrong wrong.

 

 

 

No

 

 

We don't talk about him.

 

 

Neither her.

 

 

 

"Gregory? You still there?", "Superstar?" Both Freddy and Vanessa Vanny had a slightly worried ting to their voice.

 

 

"Yeah, sorry 'bout that, just zoned out for a moment", he replied, making sure his voice didn't betray what he was feeling right now.

 

 

"...Want to talk about it?", answered Vanessa, keeping her eyes on the road, but still being attentive if Gregory wanted to elaborate.

 

 

"I...was thinking about everything, I know we already talked quite a bit, but I'm kinda out of it. I remember everything, but it's all hazy like it happened a long time ago", he responded, not technically lying, he felt like that, but it wasn't his primordial feeling.

 

 

"No, no, I get it. I still don't know how long I was taken over, and I'm hoping it hadn't been that long but..."

 

 

"But what?", he answered, hoping to take the spotlight off himself, while trying to figure out if Vanessa was a threat still or not.

 

 

"I'm seeing signs it's been at least a year or two-", "A year or two?!", now he started to feel bad , just a bit, regardless if it was her or that weird Him dude, he almost died to Vanny many times.

 

 

 

"You see, I don't remember that gas station being there before, and even more strangely, the Pizzaplex wasn't there when I still was in control of myself, because the animatronics were only just being planned.", Vanessa said, sounding sad. It wasn't something he expected, but he guessed it was valid. He didn't know Vanessa well.

 

 

 

 

Something not expected can end in your death, Greg. Remember that.

 

 

 

 

 

"Officer Vanessa", Freddy started to explain, sounding unexplainably somber for the happy-go-lucky bear he was, "I am sorry to inform you the Pizzaplex was constructed 4 years, 9 months, and 248 days ago."

 

 

 

Oh.

Oh, that's really sad.

 

 

 

 

"...What?" Vanessa said, sounding surprised and on the verge of, well something?

 

 

 

 

 

 

The unknown is dangerous, kid.

But sometimes, we need to jump into it, dangerous or not.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Freddy, being as oblivious as only an animatronic could be, continued, regardless of Vanessa's growing anxiety, "The Pizzaplex was in construction for at least a year or two. I am not sure, I am only aware of this because I overheard Management mention this to a few employees."

 

"So I've been under for at least 5 years, that's great, just great ", Vanessa answered to that, sounding not angry, but frustrated.

 

Frustration was never a good sign when talking about adults.

Because they always take it out on someone else.

 

 

"I am sorry to inform you about this, Officer Vanessa-", "Not, it's fine Freddy, don't worry about it, I supposed I needed to know."

 

Wow. He didn't give Vanessa enough credit. He would've lashed out at anyone if he found out he missed 5 years of his life because of a psycho. She didn't even lash out at Freddy. All prior observations showed that she was quick to anger if you questioned her, or didn't listen to her. But again, those observations were invalid, because of Rabbit Guy-

 

Oh, oh, he was so in trouble. He had been basing his opinion of Vanessa on Not-Vanessa instead of the real her. He was in the deep end now.

With no way out

 

"Gregory?", a voice said, snapping him out of his thoughts, "Sorry, it happened again."

 

Always apologize, even if you don't mean it.

Adults like it when you do.

 

"Don't apologize, I don't blame you one bit. I should be the one doing that.", and she surprises him yet again. Maybe this would be a good idea, after all.

 

Grumble

 

"Uhh, sorry 'bout that.", Gregory mumbled, embarrassed.

 

Vanessa shocked him, yet once again , he really should stop getting surprised by now, and laughed a beautiful, pearly laugh. Freddy did the same thing and laughed a low boisterous laugh.

 

Freddy sounded close to his laugh, whenever Gregory or his mother used to make him exasperated but in a humorous way.

On the other hand, Vanessa sounded free, without a hint of the problems that must be plaguing her, It sounded like...

 

 

 

Now that he thought about it, they both sounded just a bit like them.

Like his parents.

 

 

 

He shook his head, desperately trying to get rid of that thought which made absolutely no sense at all, "Sorry, I'm sorry, it's just that...pfft", Vanessa once again descended into a fit of giggles that sounded more composed than her previous laugh, but she still sounded like she would descend into laughter once again at a moment's notice.

 

Gregory pouted once again, but even he, couldn't stop a blinding smile creeping onto his face, trying to desperately ignore that feeling, that tight, warm bubbly feeling in his pounding heart.

 

"There's a hamburger place close to home. I remember it and it was pretty popular, at least when I used to go there. The apartment is just a few blocks away, now. We could drop our things there and head out to eat. It's more than obvious that the ice cream didn't fill you."

 

 

 

"Ok", he could wait a few minutes, he had resisted hunger for way more.

 

 

 

"Finally, after an hour or so, we're here!"

 

 

 

Gregory looked up and saw through the window, a quite normal apartment building, he had no idea which one was Vanessa's until she pointed it out, apparently, she could recognize her curtains. Why would she choose neon purple for a color, was beyond him. Now that he thought about it, there was a lot of purple in her "room" in the PizzaPlex.

 

 

 

"Why are your curtain neon purple?" "That's His influence, he's fascinated with the color for some reason."

 

 

"It looks stupid, I never imagined a serial killer liking the color neon purple", he said with the best poker face he could manage.

 

 

 

Vanessa just chuckled with a slight hint of exasperation in her voice and told him to come on. Gregory stuffed Freddy's head gently in his duffle bag, who winked at him, and gathered his things.

 

 

 

He didn't know what they might find in Vanessa's apartment, but he knew this.

All three of them could face it.

Together.

Notes:

Chapter finally here! After like a month of my last update, you all have chapter #2.

I am so sorry for the wait. It's thanks to the awesome website Milanote that I managed to structure my ideas. I will make modifications at the end because why not, I have satisfaction problems with writing.

Chapter #3 is in planning stages already, and what could be in Vanessa's apartment, I wonder (slight laughter fills the air)

Well, it's great to be back and I have a math exam on Monday.

Comment down below, it actually makes me write faster, why? I don't know

See you all in the next update or chapter,
Starlight M.

Chapter 3: Chapter #3 Update

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A few updates about Chapter #3 and a spoiler of some sort.

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Hello everyone!

Chapter #3 is fleshed out and I'm currently writing it! It's currently 380 words long and It's all over the place. 

It may come in the next couple weeks, but the max is another month. 

Why am I taking so long? Well, I'm writing Freddy' point of view. I'm used to writing humans so it's complicated to write an animatronic's point of view. This is the first time Freddy actively goes against his code and/or programming so... he may be questioning a few things that the mechanics at the PizzaPlex have told him.

Okay, I'm rambling. As you may remember Cassidy herself (TOYSNHK=Cassidy here and Cassidy is a she), had an appearence at the end of the first chapter. Two points of view will happen every 2 chapters, which means this chapter will have a different point of view in the end. All I will say about this new point of view is that this person has the same problem as Vanessa, just... they haven't been freed from Glitchtrap's influence. YET. 

I also updated the summary because the old one is more like the plot for the whole series. This one is more true to this story in question

Alright, that's all of the updates I have, and I'll see you all hopefully when the chapter's out.

If any of you want to chat, here's my Discord tag: Starlight Mayhem#0202

See you all,

Starlight M.

Chapter 4: Chapter #3 Update #2

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Hey everyone! 

About Chapter #3 - I'm almost finished: 1k words currently, 1k words to go. I want to make longer chapters, but that means it'll take longer for chapters to come.

I've also made a sort of log that will be fundamental to the lore of this 'verse, you'll see it more in Chapter #4

Why have I taken so long? Turns out preperation for midterms started the day after the first update of Chapter #3

I've just finshed the midterms a week ago, so my imagination currently is stuck in chemical formulas instead of how to express my ideas properly.

It's coming soon, though. I promise, really.

If any of you want to chat, here's my discord tag: Starlight Mayhem#0202

See you all in Chapter #3!

Notes:

I'm rewriting the chapter because I get random ideas, I always wanted to write a fan-fiction that included Tape Girl (she will be very important in the future) and also with refernences to other games like Special Delivery and Help Wanted. Cassiy won't be as impatient, she has learned after all. And I know it's short, It'll be longer soon, pinky promise

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