Endoskeletons

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When the clock reached 3:00 am and the power was restored, Freddy left the recharge station to go back to Parts and Service. The Daycare Attendant was long gone, but he unfortunately dragged Chica away with him. Freddy had two objectives in mind- retrieve a weapon for Gregory and rescue Chica. He had three hours before the clock reached 6 am and Gregory could leave. Freddy let Gregory out of his stomach hatch so they could take the Stage lift out, but the elevator was already up, and there was no way to call it down.

"What?! Are you serious? How are we going to leave now? We can't get you back into Parts and Service to take the elevators!" Gregory asked.

"Well, there is always the Warehouse, but that place is dangerous. If the animatronics are compromised, they likely are as well. I am going to have to accompany you. Besides, I would hate to get separated again," Freddy said.

"Yeah, me neither," Gregory agreed. That's when he remembered the digital note that Freddy left in the Atrium hours ago. There was a note that required a four-digit code to access.

"Freddy... you left a digital note at the recharge station. One of them needed a code to access. I have it on my FazWatch if you want to see it. What's it for?" Gregory questioned.

Freddy shrugged. He, despite secretly getting his memories of his TRUE self back, still didn't know what that tablet was supposed to mean.

"I... do not know. That has been plaguing me for months! No matter now, we must keep you safe and prevent any more death!" Freddy replied with confidence. The two walked down the foreboding hallway of the Warehouse, leading to uncharted territory.

"Are you ready?" Freddy asked one last time. Gregory nodded his head.

The two carefully stepped past the door as it ascended above them. Past the door was a concrete-constructed room, built eerily similar to a parking garage. The room was cold and pitch-black. This room merely served as an entrance to the rest of the Warehouse. The Warehouse hallways were similar in design and color to the Utility Halls, only they were shorter, straighter, and narrower. Boxes, crates, and equipment lined the hall. Cautiously, the duo moved forward, into the darkness of the Warehouse. The air blowing through was cold and loud, contributing to an unnerving effect.

"This place gives me the creeps," Gregory shivered. Freddy nodded his head grimly. At the end of the first hall was a locked fence and some stacked metal crates. However, on their left was a vent shaft that Gregory could crawl through.

"A dead end?! How unfortunate," Freddy sighed.

"Now what?" Gregory demanded.

"I am afraid you are on your own, Superstar. Listen, there are a series of mounted-up buttons that will open slide-up doors. When you open the first door, they will await you. They have been sealed away for most of their existence," Freddy warned.

"I'll be safe! Don't worry..." Gregory promised. He jumped on top of the green boxes to reach the vent shaft. Before he crawled deep into the Warehouse, he turned around to face Freddy.

"I'll be fine. You'll keep anything from entering, right?" Gregory asked. Freddy sighed out of worry. His Superstar had rescued him, and now he was going into the depths. There was nothing he could do for Gregory, just like how he couldn't do anything for him while he was locked in Parts and Service. He couldn't do anything for his sister, and he was the reason his brother died. Freddy HATED being powerless, but there was nothing he could do, and he just had to accept it.

"I will keep you safe from outside threats..." Freddy agreed sorrowfully. Gregory crawled into the vents, the cold air and dim lights welcoming him without warm regards. Freddy was left in the dust. There was nothing he could do except stay out here and hope to God that Gregory would live.

"I'm sorry..." Freddy sighed to himself. He was trying to apologize to his family for being less than he should've. Instead of a good family member, he murdered his own brother, even if unintentional. He should've been closer to his sister or she wouldn't have gotten herself murdered by their father's creation. And he REALLY should have been more effective in dealing with his father.

However, he was now in this animatronic form, able to deal with William. The only thing he could do to remotely apologize is to send that rot of a human being to the depths of Hell.

"I am going to send you down, William..." Freddy swore. This time, he was not touching Gregory...

~~~

Gregory hopped out of the vent and walked down the hallway that was blocked off by the fence. He looked to his right and saw the locked gate, blocked off by a mountain of crates and boxes. Then, he looked at the wall ahead of him. This wall had a design of a kid and a strange, bare robot that looked like the Endoskeleton that Chica had inside of her. There was a button next to the wall, mounted up by a metal stick. Gregory clicked the small red button, and the wall was elevated into the ceiling.

"Okay, then..." Gregory sighed. Immediately, a chilling sensation ran down his spine. By opening that door, Gregory felt he had just entered a monster's lair. The blowing of wind grew stronger as he marched on. The further he went in, the colder it was. Gregory began to shiver. Fear and natural cold overtook him. But Gregory had to grit his teeth- he couldn't get caught now! He reached the end of the hall as he was blocked off by another Endoskeleton wall. However, this wall was different. There was a message on the wall painted in a red material that looked like blood.

"Huh? What's that say? 'Do you want to hear a story?'" Gregory read out loud. Keeping that message in the back of his mind, he pressed a nearby button that elevated the door. He was greeted by a small room, built with similar materials as the rest of the Warehouse, but there were some props scattered around the room. On the other side of the room was a button, a small kids' table, and an old box television. The walls were covered with flower decorations. The right wall from the entrance was another door. In the middle of the room, there was a tall, naked Endoskeleton, like the one on the wall and the one that Chica had. This robot was standing firm, but its head was sagging and its eyes were closed. The machine was currently deactivated. There was another one hunched up in a corner.

"Creepy! This is what you look like on the inside..." Gregory said. Suddenly, the Endoskeleton made a whirring sound, and the head darted up, eyes flying open and flashing bright red.

"Child detected. Scanning... child not found in guest database. Activate hunting mode," the Endoskeleton said. It had a deep, robotic voice which sounded much less human than the other animatronics. The animatronic turned to face Gregory, but did not move an inch.

"What? That's strange," Gregory uttered. He turned away, but the second he wasn't looking, he heard the sound of loud, metal footsteps. Immediately he turned to look at the Endo and it froze in its spot.

"They only move when I don't look!" Gregory realized. Keeping his eye contact on the Endoskeleton, he backed up against a wall and treaded around to get to the button. Feeling the bear icon, he slammed his fist on the button and the nearby wall moved to reveal another hall.

"Great! I've got to run..." Gregory muttered. He ran down the hallway instantly and the Endoskeleton began to follow.

"You will not be spared. You will not be saved!" the Endo cried out. Gregory reached the end of the hall and took a right. He ran into the end of that hall as well, where some plastic chairs, party hats, and balloons were being stored. A button was mounted up on a metal tower against the wall. Gregory pressed that button and another door elevated.

"Okay... where is the office?" Gregory asked himself. He walked down the hallway and the door closed behind him. He heard the Endoskeleton pounding on the door, but to no avail. At the end of the short walkway Gregory was on were two places he could go. One was a passage to the left, but that was blocked by another door. The other way he could go was right. Gregory turned to the right and crept down the hallway, waiting for another machine to jump out.

When he was no longer running and burning with adrenaline, he noticed that the Warehouse was VERY cold. His skin felt like it was going to harden so he couldn't move. The ventilation was roaring like a blizzard. This was ironically worse than the cold Utah streets at night.

"It's so cold down here! No wonder the Endoskeletons seem so angry," Gregory muttered. At the end of the hall was a storage room to the right. The gate to the room was open. Inside the room were an assortment of boxes, racks, and metal parts. Two full Endoskeletons were standing in the corner in front of the entrance, but neither of them were currently active.

"So... I'm guessing there's another button in here," Gregory muttered. He walked inside the room, in search of a red tower with the familiar flashing red Fazbear logo design on top. In the far corner of the room, next to a gray storage cart and a TV, there was a button. Gregory pressed the red button. He heard the sound of the door outside, but the Endoskeletons in the room both turned active. Gregory instantly ducked into the gray cart, hoping to avoid them the way he avoided Vanny.

"Child, you are here! I can hear you... breathing..." one of the Endos lowed. With cold sweat dripping down his forehead and his heart thumping like a hammer, Gregory held his breath, awaiting his fate...

~~~

Vanny was furious. Chica was now seen helping the boy after being re-activated, Freddy had escaped, Gregory was no longer in their clutches, and her Master wanted results soon. It was fifteen minutes past three, and there hadn't been any results yet. Usually, the child would have been caught by now, but Gregory was the last one needed, and he was evasive.

"You people are failures. ALL of you!" Vanny exclaimed as she paced the floor at her hideout in the Pizzaplex. Monty and Roxy were staring at her. Roxy was staring blankly and angrily, that her target DARE defy her brilliance. Monty was afraid of punishment.

"We had TWO animatronics helping the boy. Chica had finally been disposed of, and you'll meet the same fates YOURSELVES. Now... where is the boy?" the angry woman demanded.

"We don't know... he escaped us! Chica was too much of a distractor. We think he went down to Parts and Service," Monty said.

"So... that's how he freed Freddy, and that's how we haven't seen either of them for an hour. Maybe they're stuck down there! Good thing I broke the Service elevators..." Vanny mused.

"If they're down there, should we not deal with them? I still lust for blood..." Roxy questioned.

"No. If they're stuck in Parts and Service, the Endoskeletons will have FUN with them! They're going to end up as meat. But they're beholden to us as well!" Vanny replied.

"Wait... we succeeded. We got Chica, and those two have practically committed suicide!" Monty roared triumphantly. Vanny slowly stared at the gator animatronic like he grew a second head.

"Succeeded? You haven't succeeded in ANYTHING! You two should be scrapped for parts. Be gone!" Vanny demanded. Monty and Roxy left her headquarters to go back out into the rest of the Pizzaplex.

"You do understand... if you fail, YOU will bear punishment worse than them," the cold, raspy voice of Vanny's master spoke from the nearby computer. Vanny looked at the monitor and shuddered- the image of the golden bunny was staring directly into her soul.

"I have done EVERYTHING I could to find the boy! But he's just too strong..." Vanny exclaimed. She was trying to justify her own weakness in the situation.

"You have not. You let the duds do your bidding. Do it yourself," He demanded.

"It will be 6 am soon. This isn't enough! YOU want the boy because YOU want to mock him for escaping you! There's countless children that come here! What's stopping me from simply killing every guest?!" Vanny yelled. Immediately, she felt her throat tighten and close in on itself. She collapsed to her knees on the floor, trying to breathe but to no avail.

"You will DO AS I SAY. You will BRING ME what I want, and if you fail me, BOTH of you... BURN!" He shouted. Instantly, Vanny collapsed to the ground, as her chokehold was broken. The image of the golden bunny vanished. There was only one thing that Vanny could do to live- kill. It was either her or Gregory, and it was a decision that she could not risk messing up.

"I will no longer fail," Vanny swore. She marched out of her hideout and down the catwalks, to the stairwell that led back below...

~~~

Gregory was hiding in the cart, waiting for the movement of the Endoskeletons. Both of them, however, began to walk out of the room. Gregory heard their footsteps grow farther and farther away.

"Phew! Thank goodness..." Gregory sighed out of relief. He climbed out of the cart and crept to the gate of the room. Past the chain-link gate, he could see the two Endoskeletons walking into a small room across the hall. That was his chance.

Gregory made a mad dash out of the room, down the hallway. His footsteps against the metal and concrete floor echoed across the chamber. The Endoskeletons immediately noticed, and followed.

"There. The boy!" one of the Endos yelled. Two sets of metallic stomping joined the chorus of footsteps as Gregory dashed down the hall. He ran through the now-open doorway, hoping to find the Office.

"NO. Do not let him escape!" the second Endo roared. However, before he could get too close, the door behind Gregory began to close.

"Is there a door cooldown?!" Gregory muttered to himself. Thanking his lucky stars the Endos couldn't chase him down, Gregory continued onward. He walked down a hallway to the left of the doorway, then another hall to the right. Halfway down the hall was a button, but no door yet. Gregory pressed the button, then continued on. A minute later, he reached a locked door, but an unlocked room to the right.

"The office! Let's get the pass and leave," Gregory said. The Security Office was not what he expected. The room was pitch-black except for the desk, where a small light was. There were little toy drums in the room, which had a soft foam floor. There were plastic, toddler play-sets in the corners, meant to replicate playground slides. All four walls had decorations of Sun and Moon Daycare Attendants. In the middle of the room was a desk with two big monitors. On the desk was a small, Freddy-shaped badge container.

"The badge! Let's get out of here," Gregory sighed.

"WAIT. You must free me from my bonds!" an Endoskeleton voice called out. Gregory stared at the direction of the voice, which was coming from the end of the room opposite the door. Gregory pulled his flashlight out and shined it at the speaker. An Endoskeleton was laying up against a wall, with chains holding his arms tight. The chains were connected to the wall. Quickly, Gregory snatched the badge.

"How do I know I can trust you?" Gregory demanded. The Endo stared at him silently.

"Do you want to hear the Tale of Five? It is happening live," the Endo requested.

"Sure..." Gregory agreed skeptically.

"The father, the mother, two sons, the daughter. Each of them, met by slaughter. Two score and five years, have their souls yearned," the Endo began. Gregory began to feel uneasy, as if he was in a trap.

"The youngest son, hunted like prey 'till the fall of the Sun. In his nightly vision, the monsters were arisen. One day, his brothers tried to joke- 'It was a prank!' But the jaws of the bear bit like a shank. In his last night, he became his own Fright!" the Endoskeleton said. Gregory grimaced. 'Two score and five years,' meant forty-five years ago, which was when the Bite of '83 happened, a local freak accident. He grimaced at the thought of being crushed like the boy was.

"The father became insane, hate and anger overcoming the tame. Killings turned to creations. As 'life' followed, so did sorrow. The daughter was meant to stay away, but she refused to obey. Because she dared, by her father's own creation, she was ensnared!" the Endo continued. As he said the word, 'ensnared,' which was another word for 'trapped,' a shiver ran down the boy's spine. A set of red eyes in a corner of the room began to light up. He was feeling suddenly paranoid.

"The mother was furious. She knew of the father's nefarious. Three children she bore, two were no more. When she came to the father with her strife, in the heart she was met, with a knife. The eldest Son grown into a man, tried to end the killing of lambs. But as he tried to save the Daughter, he became the victim of slaughter. But the weapon used to kill, had a substance that wouldn't let him still. Not dead but not breathing, the Son swore to end the bleeding..." the Endoskeleton said. As he spoke, more and more Endoskeleton eyes lit up.

"Why are they turning on...?" Gregory demanded nervously.

"Pay no mind to my friend, for you MUST learn the father's end. The father was trapped by the ghosts, sooner or later he was toast. He used his suit to scare them away, but the suit turned on who by it had been made. Trapped in a rabbit for three years, the Son was looking for the Father but meeting no ears. However, the old friend had trapped the father every creation, in a maze of sounds and tarnation. The fire sent them all away, but the Father... is with us today!" the Endoskeleton said excitedly. As he finished, half a dozen of eyes lit up across the room.

"What's happening?!" Gregory yelled.

"To come back, the Father needs one more soul. Behold, our final creation! Welcome back, Gregory!" the Endoskeleton shouted. Suddenly, he rose from the ground, staring at his latest victim. The room plummeted into the sub-zero temperatures. That's when Gregory knew that he HAD to run. Behind him, he darted out of the door and made a right, coming out into the entrance of the Warehouse.

"I gotta get OUT of here!" Gregory shouted desperately. Seven sets of metal footsteps were clanging against the metal of the floor. Quickly, Gregory pushed the button into the tower. The door to the Warehouse began to close, once again sealing the Endoskeletons in their tomb.

"NO! I will not be trapped!" the main Endo yelled. He ducked under the closing door and tried to hold it up, hoping to get to Gregory.

"Oh no you DON'T!" Gregory yelled angrily. There was a cable that connected the button to the wall. With a nearby bar, Gregory severed the wiring, which caused the door to seal. With a fast collapse, a loud slam and a crack was heard. The Endoskeleton's lower body was severed off.

"NO..." it pleaded in a broken voice. Gregory opened the fusebox on the Endo's chest, and flipped the switch off.