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From the very first thing He always remembered as a child was that he wasn’t the best at what he did, he was rebellious at times, and often spend days with some bad friends, but overall he wasn’t that bad in his mother's eyes.
speaking of that. he was born in a exact image of his father, but with his mother's eyes.
as the years went by for him he became more well-mannered, but still having that same rebellious attitude, at this point he had a new member to the family, a young boy, now he had two annoyances, his sister. and his younger brother, his sister was named Elizabeth, and his Brother was named Chris. his mother was called Clara, and his Father? well... we all know who he is, the infamous William Afton, or as his original name was, Dave-Miller, due to a incident that caused him to change his name from Dave Miller, to simply William Afton, there was also william's Friend, Henry, and his daughter and son Sammy and Charolette, whom were like other family members to him, but then there was his own siblings too. But over the years despite his personality and behavior, he somewhat tolerated them, he mostly left Elizabeth alone, and picked on his younger brother. Charolette was around his age too, so he may or may not of had a small crush on her, but he liked making fun of her small height, teasing her about it, while she teased him on for how unnaturally tall he was, it was a contest for them to see who could bicker the most about one another.
but yeah those two got it off easy, not so much for Chris, whom he picked on daily, mainly in his words to help toughen him up for the outside world when it came time for him to grow up, he does this too with Elizabeth, but less harsh and such and more teasing rather than with Chris, though due to their Father's abusive nature, he kept the two safe from the toxic man that was their father when william was on one of his bad days.
but there were moments where he remembered that he was nice on some days to him and her, one good thing that he remembered was when all three of them were in elizabeth's room one night while trying to not pay attention to one of William's And Clara's many Arguments and such, Michael had listened to Elizabeth talk about stuff, he remembered the conversation well. with him glancing up to her while Chris was fast asleep in her lap "you know mike? i read that some stars we see died many years ago... So! when your looking at the sky, you would practically be looking at the past! like time travel!" she would look at him with that big grin on her face as he played with his knife, rubbing one of his various scars he had on his body from the fights he picked with people in school, listening to her say "Can you imagine?! what if we go there, and ask one of them on how to time travel?"
he noticed Chris's eye lightly opening as he also listened to her talk "We would be able to change anything in the past! even the bad things! right...?" and do you wanna know what he said to her about that? it was this. "Elizabeth. That's the DUMBEST thing i have EVER listened from you." he said, in the most plain bored voice ever, with Elizabeth's response being "i know i know... it doesn't make any sense." she said, with Michael remembering how he changed his mind real quick about it "but... i wish it was possible." he said, remembering how eager Elizabeth was to hear his suggestion "really?! there's something you want to change mikey?" and his response was simply "a lot of things actually." and that was the last of it, if you asked him now, he would say "But especially i should of been a better brother...." but back then, he wasn't a good sibling to either one of them unless their parents were around. He always remembered being on good behavior when he, Elizabeth, and Chris went with Their Mother to watch their Father work at Fredbear's Family Diner, and eventually William's side business, Afton Robotics. that was when his Big brother role would kick in, while he was a bad brother at most times, there were some moments where he was gen nice to both Chris and Elizabeth, keeping them both safe and such.
that was when the first incident happened.
when Henry's Daughter and Son, Charolette And Sammy were found dead, Charolette, or as Michael called her to tease her, Charlie was found in a alleyway alongside the Puppet, and the older brother of Charlie, who's body was found also near the Puppet and Charlie's body, the Funeral was set and eventually more incidents happened, mainly the five missing children, whom no one knew where they were, but sadly we cannot focus on them just yet, but later on we'll get to that in this story, let's just focus on one person shall we?
though i will say this. that suit did go missing officially for a while when the new location, Junior's opened up. just a few days after the discovery of Charlie and sammy, two more bodies were discovered. two young boys, Jake And Andrew. and at the time, Michael didn't realize it. but those two incidents would be the very start of his father's descent into madness.
after the creation of Circus Baby, the children of the aftons went a bit more often with william to watch him work, Michael helped out with small minor repairs to a replacement of Spring-Bonnie after the suit had mysteriously vanished eventually after a certain bite incident. The Replacement was called Hare. though it could basically just be another spring-bonnie suit since there were quite a few that were made. this one though was made mainly to replace the oddly always missing main spring-bonnie suit, hm. i wonder why?
The Suit itself was supposedly bigger, leaner, and better than Spring-Bonnie was, around 9 feet instead of the 6'11 foot height that was the original spring-bonnie suit. Michael remembered that William told him that Spring-Bonnie was a prototype to what Henry and him were originally going for, and so Hare was basically Spring-Bonnie 2.0. instead of being a golden or brown color, the Suit was like a hare, white, with grey colorings in it along with handling that, Michael had to tolerate Elizabeth always talking about Circus baby and other things she learned about, which further made him less nice and more bad brother to both her and chris, but it became even worst when the first downfall of his family happened.
when his sister, Elizabeth was reported missing, and eventually declared as Dead due to a gas leak problem, it was not a good thing, Michael became more stressed, and more aggressive, and unawarely helped his father by keeping Chris scared of the animatronics, but he did it for his own reasons, mainly being a shitty person, for days on end he would keep tormenting him, eventually trying to bully him in the diner, leaving him locked inside for a few minutes before letting him go on back home and cry, and so with that success, he planned for one final thing, to make him truly scared enough to never go back, calling up three of his friends, and began what he recalls to be the worst moment of his life.
him and his three friends, he long since forgotten their names and faces, well... maybe not the names. but he did forget what they looked like. He was not even sure if they still remembered him for what he did, but back to this, he invited them on his little brother's birthday, and that, was when everything changed. after hours of nonstop teasing and such, Michael and his friends chased Chris into Fredbear's family diner, that had him cornered, he was on his knees, begging at them all, pleading for his brother and friends to stop and let him go "no please!" he said, with Michael simply saying "come on guys! let's get this little man a lift. he wants to get up close and personal!" he said as he and his three friends had picked Chris up, and started hauling him towards the stage, even as he kept thrashing about, begging for them to stop "no! i don't want to go!" he cried out, with the only reply he got being "you heard the little man! he wants to get even closer! ha ha ha!" Michael would remember saying as he and his friends went past the large shadows of the animatronics and there they were, right at the main stage, with the two hulking animatronics just doing their causal business.
Fredbear was giant and heavy in size, much more bigger and heavier looking then freddy fazbear was, wearing a purple top-hat, and bowtie, along with a light purple colored vest over a white shirt like prop, Black pants, and Green eyes, the clothing all of which was made just to fit onto the suit and all, while Spring-Bonnie himself had a bit of a change, sporting a golden brown like color, wearing a purple vest with stars over it, having three buttons, a black bowtie, and like Fredbear, also has Green eyes, but much more brighter and friendly looking, despite their overall friendly appearance, Chris was horrified, shaking and begging for them all to let him go, with Michael snorting lightly "hey guys! i think the little man said he wants to give fredbear A BIG KISS!" he said, as he and his friends lifted and shoved him straight into Fredbear's mouth, in his case this was the best michael could do to scare Chris from never visiting the pizzeria ever again, having him be right up inside the thing he feared the most, Chris was shaking and crying all the more, and Michael even remembered feeling some sympathy for him, but he regretted that the only thing he did along with his friends was simply laugh, but then it happened. after what seemed like minutes of shaking and crying, the laughing stopped as Michael and his friends all froze up and watched as the mouth on fredbear closed up, Chris's head being nearly crushed by the force of the jaw the moment Michael realizing something was wrong as he quickly ran up when-
CHOMP!
.....That was the bite of 83.
he couldn't remember what else had happened after that, all he knew was that his mind was racing with thoughts, screaming at his friends, screaming for his father, mother, henry, or anyone, and trying to get chris on out of the suit, holding and crying, saying that he didn't mean it, that it was just a joke, he didn't even know if his younger brother could hear them, when William had rushed on over to the diner, he had already call anything he could think of to help Chris, and soon enough he and william and Clara had watched as the youngest member in the afton family was in a coma. for weeks and days Michael had come and visited his younger brother, protecting him as best as he can, but when it came time for the doctors to tell him and his father and mother to pull the plug, he just lost it even more, his Father oddly enough was calm about the whole thing, even when michael remembered telling him about the whole thing, he just... looked more shocked than angry, the only thing he heard from his father was "Jesus Mikey...." but here he was, with his parents, and his father didn't even show the slightest hint of emotion, or he was simply hiding it, his mother couldn't muster up the courage to say her farewells, still thinking there was a chance to save Chris, but she rushed out crying anyway, Michael was the one to say his goodbyes first as he gently clenched his brother's hand "Can you hear me?" he asked.
No Response other than Chris's breathing steadying slightly, as if calming down from whatever dream he was having, Michael winched, trembling slightly between his tears and such "i don't know if you can hear me." again, no response, but chris's shaking body soon went limp, as if he was sleeping peacefully, he didn't know if his words were getting through to his brother, but he just hopes that he was listening to what he had to say with what time he has left.
"im sorry."
After that, he left the room, trying to calm himself as his mother tried to calm him down as he wiped his own tears, having his father say his farewells, he overheard him talking strangely to chris "You're Broken." his voice was calm, collected, and oddly blank, Michael noticed he was acting odd too, the other couldn't help but stay close by to the door when he got out and listened in "we are still your friends." was the next thing he heard, that was weird, coming from his father, almost like he was pretending to use that fredbear plush again like he used when he saw his father watching Chris through the eyes of that doll "do you still believe that?" this was odd behavior, even by his standards "I'm still here." Michael started walking away, only briefly hearing the last thing william told Chris was simply "i will put you back together."
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Throughout the heart-ache and many nights he spent crying, with his mother trying to soothe him, he started having nightmares about the very masks that he and his friends wore to scare Chris, the masks were alive, almost complete nightmarish replicas of Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy, there were others too, one of the human circus like animatronics, Balloon Boy, an odd girlish version of Foxy that was heavily broken apart, an odd nightmarish lankier version of the Puppet that henry made, a small plush of Spring-Bonnie with sharp teeth, burnt up versions of Bonnie and Chica, and finally, a nightmarish version of Fredbear, that soon enough became a black and yellow version of it, they were hunting him, punishing him for what he did to his younger brother.
he always woke up sweating, screaming, nearly crying, when he told his parents about the nightmares he had, his father suggested he should draw in them, to reflect on that, and his mother for once agreed with what william said, and so with that, he lend Michael his old book, to which he used it for his own personal journal and drawing book to reflect on the nightmares he had about the robots.
his friends eventually went missing in 1985, just two years after the incident with chris. Along with one other he didn't know about, that caused him to be even more stressed out, he remembered their names well, Susie, Fritz, Gabriel, and Jeremy, though for the other one, he didn't know, one of them was named Cassidy, he wasn't taking it well, his father on the other hand.... oh boy.
he looked so pleased with himself, like he did something he'd been dying to do for a while now. eventually his mother divorced william and moved away, causing him to be on more emotional stress, that was when he was getting older too, while still upset about what happened to his brother, he was slowly moving on from it, that was when William started going out more and more, one night when he came home he was very upset, like he had just lost a fight or something kind of upset, he knew that kind of feeling from when he was always on the streets in his younger days.
a few days after that, he had heard the news of another missing children's incident in the new Freddy Fazbear's pizzeria, the ones that had the toys animatronic, and unusally he saw his father was weirdly happy by it, he didn't question it, he found it better to just let him do his business, that way he wouldn't have to suffer that much from the beatdowns and abuse he had taken from his father
a choice he later on regretted the most of his life.
Years after that, his father asked him something odd, he wanted him to go out and find out what really happened to his sister, to put her back together, when he asked his father what he meant, he seemly snapped out of a trance, and told him it was nothing, saying that he hasn't been sleeping much lately. this is where things get a bit wonky but from what Michael remembers. before Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed down in 1993, he took the job there, mainly for the Free-Pizza. under the guise of Mike schmidt, since he was living alone at that time and wanted to distance himself from his father, chosing the nickname his sister gave him, and the last name of his mother, which was Clara Schmidt before she was married to william. anyway back to this. he spent 7 whole nights at the pizzeria, having survived against the main four animatronics, Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie the bunny, Chica the chicken, and Foxy the Pirate Fox, along with a fifth one of a withered down Fredbear suit with a missing ear and lifeless sockets, he always heard a faint "IT'S ME" in his head, followed by a childish giggle. he always managed to avoid it though, even if it sounded very familiar... many years later though he would realize that the one saying it's me, was his brother, one of the two spirits in the fredbear suit, trying to reach out to him. so while he had ignored the golden freddy's attempts to get him to look and get jumpscared, the same could not be said for the one giving him advice, Phone Guy, whom he called Scott, he heard his death in full on the fourth night, hearing an unwordly sound that most likely came from the golden Freddy suit, before in the fifth night he was just meant with a bunch of garbled up noises and sounds, before just surviving the night as normal, on the seventh night however. things were different for him.
he tampered with the animatronics, making them so aggressive that they couldn't think straight, even messing up their software to attack other objects, and even with eachother the more he tampered with them, the more he smelled of Odor from something that came from the suits, but he also tampered with them for another reason, to find out why they were attacking him, maybe it was something in their programming?
or maybe. there was something else inside of them. eventually after tampering with them for enough times, during the night, he was seen on the cameras checking the backroom, and finding an makeshift Freddy Fazbear suit with human eyes popping out, which were most likely Scott's remains, having tampered with that one too, he was only able to make it active enough to hear faint groans and such from it. before he also found another suit that originally came from fredbear's family diner, it was a reptilian animatronic, with three rows of spines, a long tail, black skin, blue, maybe red tinted eyes, sharp teeth, an grey underside, rips and tears in the suit, and stained blood on it, mainly around the chest, legs, arms, and head, it almost seemed like there was a human corpse inside of it, a full grown man perhaps?
before he had the chance to inspect it, he had to go back to his office and such to survive the rest of the night. apparently though, after that. he was fired. he was fine with that, he had enough money to finally go on that tropical vacation he wanted to go on, and had the free pizza he wanted, but for some odd reason he never had the chance to go on that vacation, after that little job he had, he went back home and for once in his life, his father was there, asking him what he's been doing, and he just told him about his job, and how the animatronics tried to kill him, he didn't know what his father's reaction was but he must of been curious enough to investigate further, when he asked his father why he was home, he said that he was gonna be living with him for a while.
and by god it was a short while, as started going out more and more, eventually missing for a unusual amount of time, he didn't know it at the time but something very deserving happened to his father, when he went and asked Henry if he knew where his father was, but he said no, and told him to try the other locations that he worked at, and so he found a job at his father's own job, Circus Baby Entertainment and Rental, as he was getting ready for his first day, while cleaning out his wardobe, he found a picture of his family, staring long and hard at it, having a frown on his face, sighing lightly.
but then he saw something that peaked his curiosity, A note.
He took the note carefully on off the picture, and read it, he always remembered how neatly his father wrote, but even for this it was a bit cryptic, and mysterious "Michael. i don't know if you'll ever find this, but if you did then that must mean that you found out what really happened to me, or at least, you figured out what i said to you, find your sister. uncover the truth, Free her. My partner, Jack can't do it because that's not in his expertise anymore, find her. do whatever it takes. do not make the same mistake again."
It was.... like he remembered, very cryptic, but on top with that and finding the old job, he figured he might as well just go along with it, putting on his Dad's old uniform, the purple like outfit he sported, along with a touch of his own style with some blue jeans and brown shoes, fixing his hair as he was going for a rick astley like appearance with the hair and such, before making his way on to Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental for his job, and to look for his father there.
and oh boy. was it an experience he'll never forget. he remembers it all, the hand-unit, the layout, the tasks, shifts, all that, and of course. the animatronics there, and there were quite a few, there was Funtime Freddy and Bon-Bon, Funtime Foxy, Ballora, Bidybabs, Minireenas, Bonnet, an bare endoskeleon like bear called Yenndo, another A.I like hand-unit called Lolbit that was originally an prototype design of Funtime Foxy, an clown like animatronic with rainbow like hair called Fruitloop of all things, yes he isn't making that up that was what the name said, an robotic dinosaur that looked like a cross between a Trex, Raptor, and Spinosaurus called Marty, who was apparently a Bounty hunter like actor. an off-colored more advanced version of chica and toy-chica, called Funtime-Chica. and of course. the star of it all, the one animatronic that was the first girl like animatronic created by william without henry's help.
Circus Baby.
That one, was the odd one, he remembered it all, on his first freaking day no doubt. after with hand-unit messing up his name, Seriously who picks Eggs Bendict? to seeing that this place has already been closed down, or at least this part, to then learning about the funtime animatronics and also learning how to use these... control shocks that kept some of the robots at bay, and instantly getting scared when there was no sign of Ballora nor Funtime Foxy in their stage, though that quickly changed with those control shocks, though. Funtime Foxy took quite a bit before being back on stage. he could of sworn that it was glaring at him too. he also checked on Fruitloop and Marty, and Marty. well. he had a bit of anger issues. he remembered that his window was stained with... odd liquids, and when he cleaned it off, the whole room that the bounty hunting dinosaur hybrid actor was in, was completely torn apart. as for Fruitloop well they were more normal, hopefully. Funtime-Chica was in the kitchen area, and had to be controlled shock several times before being brought back to her stage.
And then, he was to be directed to check on circus baby.
arriving through the vent, and trying to do what hand-unit told him, using a bunch of control shocks when she didn't show up, it was then that the first of many problems here arrived. hand-unit claimed that circus baby was all cheered up, but he didn't see any sign of her, but he couldn't do anything else but leave back, that was how his first night went, it was pretty calm... that could not be said for the other nights to come though sadly.
After watching the immortal and restless, he started fishing through his father's old stuff, he found some odd blueprints with some of the funtime members, mainly with freddy and foxy and Baby, it almost seemed like they were made to... hold children?! he had thought back to that time when he overheard his father saying to the dying chris that he'll put him back together... is... is that what he meant? no that... that must be a design flaw. there was no way that his father would do that... despite how odd and weird he can be at times. turns out though, he was dead wrong eventually but we'll get to that, for now let's go see how the next night went, all michael could remember from it was "Confusion."
it started after suffering with the angsty teen voice option of hand-unit, being stuck in the elevator, hearing movement above him, which in theory was most likely some of the robots trying to escape, but we'll get into that later, after waiting he just went right on in. he saw footage of Funtime Chica just. wandering off, before being forced back to her stage by another control shock as he started his shift for real now.
The Second night was like before, well... almost before. with checking up on the robots, and mildly getting freaked out when odd noises and gurgles and radio waves started playing out of nowhere when he gave ballora a control shock, it was like something... or someone was trying to talk to him. but it didn't last long, giving control shocks to the rest of the robots, and ironically not to Fruitloop who was pretty obdient, and crawling through vents, and having to suffer with hand-unit, when it came time to check back up on circus baby, that was when Hand-Unit started having problems, having trouble speaking, even when he tried to give another control shock. it was then he realized that Baby had other plans, with hand-unit saying that he'll be offline to restore power, that was when everything started getting freaky, the vents from the other areas opened up and his fear grew more, before it all went down to circus baby's voice "I don't Recognize you." her voice...... "you are new. i remember this.... Scenario." it was so... "however. it's a strange thing to want to do. to come here." he couldn't explain it correctly. "im curious to what events would lead to a person to spend their nights in a place like this." the only reason why he was here was to find his father. why else would he come here? "willingly. maybe curiosity? maybe ignorance."
her voice was... oddly familiar to him, he didn't know or why, but it felt so familiar to him somehow. she told him that there is a space underneath the desk. she told him to hide from the Bidybabs, he would be safe there if he tried not to make ant eye contact with them anyhow, after following her instructions, hiding from the bidybabs and making sure they didn't go to him, getting freaked out by their voice, and waiting for them to leave, Baby tells him that hand-unit WILL tell him that he was unsuccessful, and that he might hurry to ballora gallery and Fruity Land, which was where Fruitloop Resided, to restart power, and this my friends, begins this trust like relationship between Michael and Circus Baby.
he was then as baby predicted, informed by hand unit to do exactly what baby just told him, he Trasversed through Ballory's Gallery with ease due to following baby's instructions of going slowly instead of going fast, being told that Ballora could not see him, only stopping to listen to this odd song that she was singing that he only heard in the distance, but could fully hear now to be "Why do you hide inside your walls. when there is music in my halls? All I see is an empty room. No more joy on an empty tune. It's so good to sing all day. To dance to spin to fly away. is someone there? Is it time for the show? Is somebody there? Creeping through the Room? Up upon my stage which feels more like a tomb? No, Perhaps Not..."
As for Fruitloop? well it was a bit difficult. turns out that whole Obdient like manner he saw when he checked them the first two times was a ruse, they were a little shit. messing up his path, and making messes everywhere, he even heard a little child like giggle or two out of them, and their voice sounded nothing like a good behaved child, more like a trouble-maker who daily causes pranks and annoys the hell out of others "OI! WHO'S THIS LITTLE MAN?~" they had the same loud tone of voice as Funtime Freddy had, but more child-like, Baby gave Michael one piece of Advice, to Ignore. and so he did, not bothering to follow the noises or stop at any of the remark like "come on come on! LET'S HAVE SOME FUN LITTLE MAN!~" and with the small insults dealt in between, he had a feeling that funtime freddy was going to be far more annoying than Fruitloop was when it comes time to check on him. eventually he found a button that was made mainly for fruitloop, after pressing it, he was rewarded with Fruitloop getting shocked a whole bunch of times, before falling on down with a thud, with Baby's voice saying "oops~ little baby man needs a nap~ let's have him take his beauty sleep. keep going now."
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After going through there, he was at where he needed to be to restore power, freezing slightly when seeing the shadow of funtime freddy and bon-bon, he remembers saying that those two were the ones he hated the most. not sure why though. anyhow, after a long time of outsmarting and working to restore power, he had done it, and now he just had to make his way back to the main area... which means of course, going back through Ballora Gallery, there were quite a few close calls, mainly with the sudden arrival of Funtime Chica again, who was looking for food, and for Michael. before he managed to escape her, Circus Baby called funtime chica a "Poor excuse of a robot." and wished that she could dismantle her but her programming prevents that. this is why she wanted michael's help you see. to destroy anything that poses a threat to her plan. but we'll get into that much later, for now, he managed to get on out of there, completing his shift for the day.
Another day goes by and it was time for Night three. he checked up on the robots as usual after suffering to Hand-unit playing causal bongos. Ballora was apparently in pieces. and Funtime Foxy was nowhere to be found, the entire glass screen to Marty's room was complletely shattered, and Fruitloop was also nowhere to be found, he was told that there was no need to go check on baby tonight, and that he had to go through Funtime Foxy's Area to reach Funtime Freddy to apparently do some repairs on him and such. but instead of doing what Hand-unit says, he went straight to check up on baby and they kinda had a heart to heart, even if he didn't talk back, he just always liked listening to conversations anyway. she told him that she was on stage once.
though it wasn't for very long.
she tells him that it was only for one day, she was in a small room with balloons and a few tables, no one sat at the tables though, and there were children would run in and out, and that she would always count how many children were in the room, she never understood why though, anyhow she tells him that she counted until there was only one, a little girl. she pulled out ice-cream. and. that was that, she tells michael that she wasn't in. control of herself after that, the girl was inside her, her screams covered by the children rushing back inside, she said she could still hear her sometimes, and she wonders why that incident happened. his mind went back to the blueprints he saw, and he frowned, she loved kids, but. was a victim by his father. just like the others would be eventually. but he didn't think about that for now, or well. he did but only for a few minutes before he went on back to do what the task demanded him to do, which was to go past funtime foxy's area.
he was informed that Funtime Foxy was motion activated, for that reason alone the room has to stay dark. he was provided with a flash beacon to help him light his way, and while it was troubling at first, to try and evade the fox, that was his first meeting with Lolibit, who appeared on various TV screens, with the words "please stand by" seen on it, and of course, seeing her suit too, now there were two foxes running around, oh joy. he also encountered Yenndo and bonnet, the one thing he noticed from that one was that the eyes were Golden, and that it had both hands, while Bonnet was on it's shoulders, seemly waving at him. before he had to go through Marty's Area and... oh boy was it a nightmare to traverse, Trash littered the area, broken glass and such everywhere, and the lights in the ceiling were very Dim.
Baby came online, telling michael that she was watching him, and gives him another piece of Advice when up against Marty, always stay behind him. she learned how to outsmart the robot, even calling him a "big dumb child." at times, saying that he was the one that always mess up everything. as for what that everything is? well he would find out eventually but he did as she asked, always staying behind him whenever he saw the robot walking around, it was calling out, waving actual goddamn guns around, and saying what baby called was his catchphrase, being
"IT'S CHOMPING TIME!"
After evading him, by locking him in a freezer room afterwards, hearing his distorted and angered roars, he went on to where Funtime Freddy was located, and this was his first clear look at him, but there was something missing, Bon-Bon, he had to keep a eye out for him, while taking a small disc out of freddy too, and working on him, this was his first experience with Tampering with the animatronics as he was well known for. after doing what he did, he made his way back, seeing the freezer door was torn apart, and that Yenndo and Bonnet were nowhere to be found, hearing Marty's angered snarling and growling, he kept as quiet as possible, used the flash beacon as little as possible, but it was no use, he got captured and knocked out by fun-time Foxy, he was treated to a dream, seeing Circus baby delivering cup-cakes to children left and right, before getting an ice-cream, and returning to the main area, where there was a little girl, and in michael's mind he couldn't deny it, she looked exactly like his sister, Elizabeth. the same shirt, hair, and eyes, and even height, he had the mistake of watching what happened after, with baby's stomach hatch opening, a claw reaching out, and yanking the little girl right on in.
He awoke to find himself stuck in a spring-lock suit of some kind, which was later revealed to be Funtime Chica, having been deactivated by Technicians after several failed attempts of getting her to be more like the other bots. having been stripped of the entirety of her endo for repairs besides the joints and such in the suit, he was inside a very deadly trap. freaking out as he got flashbacks to the fredbear suit and such as he looked around, before Baby's voice came on, telling him to be still and quiet, telling him that he had been sleeping for quite a while and that they noticed that he never left the building last night, so this would make this night four now. she said that the cameras were searching for him, but they couldn't find him, she said that she had him hidden too well. with only her saying one more thing "i kidnapped you~" which caused him to be less trusting of Baby now.
even when she said to not be afraid and that she wasn't gonna hurt him, he didn't buy it. he froze even more when she said she was gonna keep him for a little while, warning him to not to move inside the suit. confirming that the suit he was in, came from her old pizzeria, saying that she think it wasn't ever used... in the way it was meant to be. which confused him even more. she tells him that he's in the scooping room, and asked if he knew why they called it that, when he didn't answer, she tells him anyway. after making dark jokes about it that were oddly moreso for coming out of a human, which confirmed his theory that Baby must be possessed by the little guy, but. fused within the A.I of Circus Baby. his thoughts were broken when she told him that it seems that someone else is in the building, and to be quiet as he listened.
he hears two Technicians arriving, his eyes widening slightly as he wanted to cry out for help, to tell them where he was, but remembering how badly springlocks react to moisture and that circus baby might be controlling the suit, he was forced to stay quiet, listening to them talking about bringing someone over, and learning that everything was all automatic, it was then figured out who was brought to the scooping room after hearing a bunch of whirring and other types of noises he saw who was moved to where he was right now, Ballora. he watched through the suit's eyes as Ballora was brought to the room, and he listens to the two guys walking off after seeing Fruitloop being pulled along too, who was. oddly enough in chains around it's arms and mouth, with smoke steaming off of their body. ah, so that's what happened to them. He hears Baby's voice once again. "There's something very important that i've learned how to do over time.. do you know what that is?" a quick shake of his head to confirm that he was listening to every word she was saying. "how. to pretend. do you ever play make-believe?" another shake of his head "pretend to be one way."
it feels like she was telling him something important, like another piece of advice maybe?? but what was it? "when you are really the other? it's very important...Ballora and Fruitloop Never learns... b u t i d o~"
a little giggle came from her as she continues "they think there is something wrong on the inside. the only thing that matters is knowing how... to... pretend." as she's finishing, Michael hears the scooper activating, he remembers that sound still to this very day, he flinched when watching Fruitloop getting scooped, only after two times the robot goes limp, eyes falling out, and hair a mess, before falling on down to the ground with a thud. then it was ballora's turn, something odd happened when it was ballora, he felt someone dying in her, like he felt a connection with her. just like how he did with circus baby, after three hits, she goes down, motionless and broken down just like fruitloop but it was different than that, he felt like it was someone he knew had just died. and that... that scared him. he got even more scared when the face-plates opened up, and started turning the dials as much as he could and can, as she tells him that she opened it so that way the techs can look for him on the cameras, and advises him to not have the springlocks loose. along with that, he also had to deal with the minnerinas too, eventually he was found by the others and allowed to go back home.
by then, he was questioning things, wondering what to do now, thinking back to what just happened, she wanted him to see what happened... but why though? that was all that went through his mind when he drove home, and decided after a long time. only two animatronics stood out of the rest of them, Circus Baby and Ballora. who were the only two that didn't seem to have pre-recorded voice lines. he knew he was onto something. so he decided to call his mother for the first time in forever, dialing up her number and bringing the phone to his ear, and waited... until. "hi im sorry i couldn't pick up your call today!" knocking was heard in the phone, followed by a familiar voice "let me in the house! please! please Le-" more knocks "let me in the house! it's me william!" more knocking "anyways, call me back tomorrow maybe and i'll hopefully be able to respond-" Wait.... what?
why was william there visiting her? why did he feel a connection to ballora who was the only animatronic there that reminded him of his mother. who used to sing countless lullabies to Chris. he also has a similar connection to Baby who reminded him of his sister who never shut up, but always wanted michael to know anything and everything. Michael thought more and more until the realization hit him. and he prepared to return underground the next day.
he spend the rest of the night just. thinking and preparing, but apparently while he was gone he found a box by his door, boxes of VHS tapes, after watching the immortal and the restless, he put in the tapes and watched them, it was apparently training tapes for new employees for the fazbear company, and learning that it's been altered in some shape of form, after the freddy, bonnie, chica, and foxy video, he saw more odd glitches and such in the tape, revisiting the accident, and actually hearing from Charlie communicating with him through the tapes, seeing text that she believes that his brother will forgive him, and that she thinks he deserves a happy ending, and that she loves him. he learned a bit more after that. and then. while the next day rolled around, after getting ready to go to work, he finds one more tape in his father's room, labeled "Confession." as he plays it, he was treated to listening to his father talk about how the bite wasn't an accident, that he believed that Michael was jealous of everything, and was selfish, he was then frightened to hear that the only way for William to. take some release. was... murdering. innocence children.
William Dave Miller Afton.... Caused the missing Children Incident. he was. beyond disgusted by his father's actions, and grew even more afraid by this statement "so michael. you better put this back right where you found it. all neat. and start running. because im going. to find you." he instantly turned off the TV, and brought the tape to Police, maybe it would help him find his father. and well... stop him really. but he still believed that he was down there in the sister location, so knowing that and that baby was showing him something, he returned to there later on to finish his last two nights.
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today, he was instructed by hand-unit to check on a secret office like area, and checked on Ballora and Funtime Foxy's areas, they weren't there, neither was Marty nor Fruitloop. when he arrived to the office, he saw three tv screens, and pressed in a code of a date that he guess, aka 1983, and saw cameras showing Chris's bedroom and hallway, his room was worn out and dirtied, like it had never been touched ever again, the room was closed off, and he noticed a very familiar plushie with a walkie talkie on it, the fredbear plush, he picked it up, and sighed slightly, before hearing movement, checking the cameras while doing tasks he saw Marty, a newly repaired Funtime Chica, and another animatronic that he didn't know of, looked like it was all wires and such and messy, but kept itself real hidden, they both tried to get into his office and he had to have the doors be closed. Baby told him that Marty was getting angry. more angry than ever, and that he would have to survive until 6 am unlike most of his shifts, but didn't bother to tell him about the other animatronic, and so he did as she instructed him, apart from diverting attention away from his office by using sounds to lure the two animatronics away, while also doing tasks on the cameras,
he also got rid of Lolbit too, tearing off a chip that caused her to control the cameras and screens and what not, with baby even saying "thank you for that." for a second he thought he heard another voice, a very familiar one "im still here!" was that....? he quickly checked the cameras, and slammed the door shut when that animatronic made out of wires and shit was right there, was it imitating his sister's voice?! what in the actual hell?! he lured away the animatronic with more sounds, and noticed that Marty was destroying the place, but also lured by the sounds, after this he kept doing what was instructed, and checking up on the camera's functions, until when it was about to hit six am, Marty wasn't taking it anymore. and neither was Funtime chica.
He wasn't fooled by the noises at all. he and Funtime Chica started banging on both of the doors, making loud noises and angry gestures, even clawing at the door, making the power go down more and more, before that other animatronic made out of wires and such, still hidden in the shadows, reached out, and grasped onto Marty and dragged the dinosaur robot into the shadows as it lets out one final shriek before silence. Michael watched the same thing happening to Funtime Chica as it lets out a pained shriek before being pulled violently into the shadows, with more glimpses of this unknown animatronic being seen. after that the shift was completed and he went back home to prepare for the final night of his week, he was gifted some exotic butters too, even though he would of liked to have the money, he was gonna get it tomorrow anyway. oh boy if only he knew.
Tomorrow came, and he was ready to finish this. driving on towards the sister location, and doing what he usually does, listening to hand-unit telling him that it was gonna be his last day. at least for this week anyway, to which he didn't mind that, humming lightly as he smiled a bit, hopefully he'll be able to solve this once and for all. he blinks slightly as he was informed that there were still two technicians working today, and was advised to avoid them if possible. he wondered how they would able to still come here to this place, they must be either very brave. or very stupid, just like him.
hand-unit says to feel encouraged to ask them why they are still here, and advise them to go to home as soon as possible. and that was the start of the many red flags he was about to get.checking the lights for ballora and funtime foxy, and froze upon seeing the two technicians from his fourth night, they were hanging with ropes around their necks, though their appearances were covered by the shadows, he saw blood dripping out of them, though seeing the death of his brother, he was used to seeing death now, even if it still messed him up, he noticed that the mask he saw on his other nights here, was now missing, where did it go? but today it seems he would have to check up on circus baby and repair her. he starts to walk through Funtime foxy's Area, using the flash beacon as he starts walking... and walking.. and walking, until he realizes something.... Funtime Foxy wasn't showing up. he stops for a moment, listening hearing nothing but his own breathing, there weren't any signs of them at all.... where was that fox?? he flashes another light, and keeps walking until he reached the door.
Hand-unit told him what was going on, and that the two Technicians will hand it from here, but before it can keep going, static filled the air, as Michael blinked, staring at the deactivated body of circus baby, before hearing the voice again, the voice of circus baby "Can you hear me?" he nodded his head "im pretending." ah. so she was pretending to be deactivated. smart. "remember how i said i could pretend?" another nod "the cameras are watching." for a moment he thought he saw wires from behind her, very similar wires.... hm... he wonder.... "i must be careful not to move." although tough to see in the darkness with his limited flashlight, he did see wires, why was that? was she damaged? "Something bad happened yesterday... Something Bad always happens... i don't want it to happen again." he looked around her, blinking as he listened "there is something bad. inside of me." he had two guesses for that, either his own sister, or the animatronic he saw on the night before... or both. "Im broken... i can't be fixed... im going to be taken to the scooping room soon... but it's not going to fix what's wrong with me."
He frowns slightly, he felt sorry for her almost. "What is bad is always left behind.... will you help me?" he thought for a long time, before nodding his head, and actually saying something to her for once. "Yes." he said tiredly, as for a moment, she was silent, as if shocked to hear him speak, as if he wasn't what she was expecting, his voice for that matter anyway. she finally replies back to him after hesitating for a moment "I....... i want you to save what is good. so the rest can be destroyed.. and never recovered." he nodded "i can do that..." he said quietly again, crossing his arms as she speaks still "But you must be careful, Ballora is here. in the room with us." he froze slightly, was she joking? he saw her get completely destroyed by the scooper, and was in pieces at one point. there was no way she was here.... right?
"Ballora will not return to her stage.... Ballora will not return to her body." that was... cryptic, but made him think more of the new animatronic covered in wires that he saw, and now that he thought about it, he did see some form of a mask on it's face... hm. "You must be careful. you must remain calm. and listen to my voice." she told him that there is a button on her cheek, and asked him to press it, when he did, something came out, and she told him to put in some numbers in there, she repeated the said numbers as he putted them in, and told him that a hatch should of opened, while she told him this, he heard odd breathing from everywhere, and some weird movement, like flesh and such, it was so weird.... what was wrong with her??? she tells him to put the card in his hand-held device, so she could continue speaking to him, to guide him to the scooping room to destroy her body. after pressing the green button and watching her go, he was instructed to follow her voice as he went out of parts and service.
She told him to go left. and to keep walking. and warns him that Ballora is going to follow him, and will try to catch him, and that She herself will help him avoid ballora. telling him that she will not follow him inside the scooping room.
and so he did. going forward, stopping, going forward and left, and keeps going, stopping. being quiet and silent as water droplets came down from around him, going forward again, and taking another left. and then stopping again, it just keeps on going and going.
He eventually makes it to the room, after being forced to stop when baby told him that ballora was in front of him, listening to her telling ballora that he was here to help. that he wasn't here to hurt any of them. saying that he's here to help them again. before being instructed to go forward again.
opening the door, and closing it, and was met with a sight, the remains of all the funtime animatronics were here, Freddy, Foxy, Chica Baby, the Bibybads, Minneras, Marty, Fruitloop, Yeendo, Lolibit, Bonnet, and... Ballora. she lied to him... "You are in the scooping room now." Baby's voice said after Hand-unit told him that he was in a heavily dangerous area. "Funtime Foxy and Funtime Chica has already been here today." she. "Funtime Freddy, Lolibit and Bon-Bon have already been here today." Lied. "Marty has already been here today." to. "Fruitloop has already been here today." him "Yeendo, Bonnet, Bibybads, and minneras have already been here today." how could she? his OWN SISTER?! "Ballora has already been here today." he couldn't believe it "Circus Baby has already been here today." wait.... what? "i've been out before. but they always put me back."
what did she mean?! what the hell does she mean?!
then he saw it, the animatronic made out of wires, despite being hidden still in the shadows he could see it clear as day, that cold eye staring deeply at his soul, the animatronic abomination that would soon be known to him as Ennard "they always put us back inside." it was tall, unnaturally and inhumanely tall, with wires and endo parts everywhere, eyes of various different colors hanging out, an stubby wired up tail too, shoulder pads belonging to funtime chica, with her speaker too added onto it's stomach and to top it all off now, a white mask with fruitloop's hat attached to the mask, with only one eye visible, as it opened and closed slightly, while the other eye was completely absent, covered in wires. with blood stains on it, wires faintly hang out from where the lower half of the mouth should be, overall it looked like a complete nightmare of everything Michael has seen in his time here. "there's nowhere for us to hide here. there is nowhere to go." it was a trap? "when we look like this." he trembled slightly, frozen "But if we looked like you. then we could hide." oh no.... oh dear god no please. "If we looked like you, then we would have somewhere to go." he shook his head quickly, no no no, this was a bad idea! they, they must be mistaking him for his father! that's gotta be right! he wasn't his father! not at all!!! "The Scooper only hurts for a moment." alarms came on for a second, it turned on and off, Michael couldn't think all he could think about was the shock, before he finally yelled out
"eLIZABETH NO! DON'T DO IT! IT'S ME MICH-" he was cut off, by a huge pain in his body, his insides getting ripped into, and tearing themselves out, he remembers pain, lots and lots of pain, and blood, and screams, lots and lots of screams, he doesn't remember much after that, feeling something going inside of him, his body shifting and morphing and adapting to the new changes, and. suddenly just like that. his body wasn't his own. but he was aware of it all somehow, they had used his body, buttoned up his shirt, and used his body to escape, they had seen sunlight for the first time, and went away, went back to his home, and for the only and very few times he was able to have control of his body, he had turned and stared at the mirror, and opened his eyes, which were a blinding violent purple, and heard Ennard laughed like crazy. for days on end, he wasn't in control of his body, he would only watch as Ennard used his body to walk around, with his neighbors waving cheerfully at him, oh how he wanted to yell and scream at them to run. there were small moments in the night where they were resting were that he was able to take brief control, he would draw the state and decay of his body, yes you heard me right, Decay, cause as the days go by, his skin slowly started decaying, getting darker, but of course, Ennard inside of him didn't notice, and neither did the people still waving at him. the next day, his hair started falling a bit, his skin getting a bit green, but only a few people noticed, and the robots were beginning to notice too, they were starting to get antsy.
and of course it only went worst, his skin became darker, his hair falling out more, and one of his eyes went missing, and his mouth started to change, he no longer walked cheerfully, the robots were getting more agitated, they were afraid. the neighbors around him no longer waved at him, but stared with concern and worry in their expressions, the next day it was even more worst, his shirt started decaying with him,and his skin started turning purple, his hair completely off, some of the neighbors were even hiding as he walked on by, both of his eyes completely messed up and gone, some wires started poking out of him too as Ennard made his body walk more and more, even as the decay kept going, some people even started hiding in their houses too as he kept going by, at some point he had ripped apart his shirt when the final day came.
something interested happened on that day.
He was limping, weakened and exhausted, his face drooped down, his arms up, his body more broad and such due to what was inside of him, everywhere hid away from him as he kept limping and walking, an emergency broadcast was even pointed out as it was the dead of night, Ennard using his body kept on limping, his skin was falling off slightly, revealing the robot parts in him and such, as they kept on walking until they stopped, he started shaking, his stomach throbbing, as if something was trying to break out of him, blood leaking still, until he couldn't take it anymore, his mouth opened and vomited out Ennard roughly, spatting him straight into the sewers, as he falls to the ground, lifeless, nothing left, he done it.... he may never know why his father did all of the things he did... but at least he was able to free his sister. maybe she can find peace one day.
But... somehow, a voice chanted in his head "you won't die." was that... Elizabeth? "you won't die you won't die" why was she chanting that? "you won't die you won't die you won't die you won't die" stop... stop chanting it, he freed her, he putted her back together... that was what father wanted.... "you won't die. you won't die you won't die you won't die you won't die you won't die" no... he can't die. not here.... "you won't die you won't die you won't die you won't die you won't die you won't die you won't die you won't die you won't die you won't die you won't die you won't die you won't die you won't die you won't die you won't die." there was so much out there left for him to do. "y o u. w o n 't. d i e." he rose up, breathing irregularly, his eyes opening, completely black sockets, with white dots in them, and he began his work,
for weeks on end he hid in shadows, slowly making his way back to the sister location, hiding from those who knew him, he had to fix himself, it was hard enough walking around looking like a actual corpse. he had finally made it back to the sister location, found the two dead bodies of the Tech guys, and dragged them somewhere to an area that looked closely like some form of infirmary, he used what he can, draining the blood out of both of the bodies, and taking their own insides and putting them into his own body, he couldn't even begin to imagine and recall how sickening it was for him to do that, he must of putted a lot of stuff in there, he knew for a fact he putted two hearts in him, livers, kidneys, lungs, stomachs, guts, all that stuff, he even gathered up his own insides and putted them in him too, and after all of that, and trying to get as much blood as he can that wasn't dried up, he sewn up his body, wrapping bandages around his arms covering the robot bits and such that were still on him, and wrapping bandages around his stomach and waist, and hiding himself once more after stealing the clothes of the worker, with the name-tag on one of them being "Fritz Smith"
He kept himself hidden, draining blood bag after blood bag, and changing name and going from state to state to hide from the cops due to the break-ins he went into from hospitals and such, using what money he had from both his job at freddy's and from the sister location to try to put his life back together, he started wearing masks to cover his face, more clothing to cover up his body, and started using air fresheners to not smell as bad, even after all of that and all the blood and organs and such he had inside of him... he still felt empty, he hid again and again, always moving. always hiding, since he was part robot too now he had to steal parts from cars and such to put into the small robot bits in his body, due to how advanced the funtimes were it was fairly easy to maintain due to how few parts of ennard were left in him, until one day. while walking around an new neighborhood under the guise of a new name, he discovered a pay-phone near the old diner that henry and william used to work at.
and he remembered. he remembered everything. did Henry knew how dangerous circus baby's entertainment and rental was? did he knew what had happened to his father.
Was he apart of the missing children incident too? was he that helper that his father mentioned?
he went to the phone, his face covered by the darkness, hiding his anger, and dialed a number, he waited, and waited until he got a voice-mail "hey there, it's william afton! i may not be around to come to the phone right now! but please check back in soon! i might answer tomorrow! as you know! we in the afton family! are always busy!" he hadn't called him in the house, he used his personal number, he always kept his phone with him, even when he was out, but atlas....
"Father.... IT'S ME, michael.... i did it.... i found it.... it was right where you said it would be.... they were all there. they didn't... recognize me at first but then.... they thought i was YOU..." a long sigh came out of him "and i found her... i... put her back together... just like you asked me too... she's free now." a pause, his voice sounded so metallic... and yet. so tired. "but something is wrong with me..... i should be dead.. but im not.... i've been living in shadows... there is only one thing left for me to do now.... im going to come find you...." his eyes glowed brightly, becoming a bright crimson red "i m g o i n g t o c o m e f i n d y o u . . . ."