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“Travis can't shake the feeling that something eerily familiar is haunting him.” |
Alone Together is the second story of Tales from the Pizzaplex 8: B7-2 and chronologically the Tales from the Pizzaplex series's 23rd story. It was written by Kelly Parra.
Characters[]
Humans[]
- Hutchins Family
- Travis Hutchins
- Mr. Hutchins
- Mrs. Hutchins
- Travis' Grandmother
- Pedro
- Brett
- Marcus
- Mr. Middlefield
- Pat
- Marissa
- Mrs. Sullivan
- Pete
- Mr. Hadley
- Trish
Animatronics[]
Locations[]
- Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex
- Brighton Middle School
- Manor Hall Middle School
Plot[]
Travis Hutchins is a shy seventh grader who likes to work with his hands and finds it hard to make new friends. He likes to imagine a clear bubble around him, protecting him from other kids who he’d rather be ignored by. Travis was always shy but still managed to make friends. Once his mom left, however, everything changed. His dad had withdrawn himself and began hardly speaking to Travis, with the two eating dinner in silence. Without a parent to encourage him, Travis began pulling out of school activities and drifted away from his old friends.
Travis enjoys woodshop, as it allows him to lose himself in building things. For their big semester project, the class has to create something unique and out of the box in order to stretch out of their comfort zones. The teacher, Mr. Middlefield, lays out a bunch of ideas to help inspire the students. One of them is the Mechanical Turk, a large cabinet with a mechanical device shaped as a human figure attached that can play a game of chess against a human. Travis decides to change the figure to Sun from Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizzaplex. While Travis has never been there, he’s seen the animatronic (which he calls the Sunman) being advertised. Travis begins sketching the design, and during lunch he notices a new girl looking at him.
After school, Travis goes to the campus library and discovers that the only book about the Mechanical Turk is missing. Travis then attempts to visit his grandma, but she doesn’t answer. When his dad comes home, he looks through Travis’ notebook and decides to help him. Travis uses the computers at the school library and learns that the Turk was actually a mechanical illusion operated by a person hiding inside. He feels like he knows this already. As Travis sketches the interior, he has a flash of déjà vu. When he goes to his locker, he runs into the new girl but scares her off. His mind drifts during class, imagining himself working on the project but feeling as if he’s watching from a distance.
Travis returns home and finds his dad piling wood next to the work shed in the backyard. Travis excitedly tells his dad all the new notes he took. Travis has a dream where he’s working on the Mechanical Sunman. Suddenly, a fully built cabinet appears as Travis is surrounded by darkness. He finds the Sunman and Glamrock Freddy playing chess and dancing to music. The music speeds up and the Sunman whispers to Travis, “Why does it all seem so familiar?” All day Travis feels off, and when he goes to lunch the new girl is sitting in his usual spot. After school, Travis’ grandma is finally home. Travis explains what’s been happening to him and she suggests that he is being haunted by a ghost. She explains the five signs, and Travis notices a few lines up. Travis thinks the ghost may have died inside a Turk and wants help, and his grandma tells him that he’ll find his answers like she did.
When Travis returns home and looks at the Mechanical Sunman he and his dad have begun, he’s suddenly surrounded by darkness and heavy breathing as if trapped inside something wooden. He decides he needs to find the ghost’s body and makes his way into the school to look through the files. Sneaking into the library, Travis finds the password to the librarian’s computer and finds nothing on a missing student. He then looks through the CCTV network, discovering that the system was only recently updated and before it only just saved camera shots. Eventually, he finds an image of the woodshop class filled with projects, one of which is an unfinished Mechanical Turk with sunrays around the automaton’s head. Travis is taken back by the realization that he really is being haunted and begins to investigate more. The image is from two years ago, and two weeks later the Mechanical Sunman was taken away by school workers. Travis decides he needs a map of the school to see where all the storage areas are.
Travis prints a map out and spends the night hiding in the library. The first of the seven storage rooms he investigates is the janitor’s workroom, where he finds nothing. When Travis leaves he sees the new girl and decides to approach her. The girl, Marissa, is drawing a graveyard with skulls and bones and Travis figures she may be interested in helping, but she doesn’t want to. Travis spends the rest of the day looking alone, and when he returns home he sees the Mechanical Sunman half finished. This makes him feel guilty, and he thinks his dad is mad at him for barely helping. The next day, he hears his dad speaking on the phone but can’t fully hear him. At school Travis investigates the basement and finds nothing, but suddenly the lights go out and he struggles to breathe. He escapes to see Marissa talking to someone else, ignoring him.
Travis walks to the Mega Pizzaplex and the local baseball park. He sees a kid fall and get comforted by his dad, and Travis decides to tell his dad everything. When he returns home, however, he finds the Mechanical Sunman completely destroyed. Travis thinks his dad is angry at him, and he hopes that finding the ghost’s body will heal their relationship. He goes back to school and begins looking in the sheds, discovering one isn’t where it’s supposed to be. Travis finds it hidden behind some old bleachers and finds the Mechanical Sunman inside. He opens the door and finds the missing library book but no body. When Travis crawls inside, the door locks behind him and he finds the ghost’s body.
Travis realizes the dead body is his own and his memories flood back. Travis was a shy seventh grader who had chosen to build the Mechanical Turk with the automation as a Mechanical Sunman. One day, he decided to test out the nearly finished Mechanical Sunman. However, Travis had accidentally cut the wood too precisely, and the door became stuck. No matter how hard he tried the door wouldn’t open and he suffocated. Travis continued life as normal as a ghost, not understanding why his parents began fighting. Marissa is gifted and can see him, which is why she was freaked out. His grandma had passed in her sleep shortly after Travis went missing. She came back because Travis was thinking of her, and she knew he had to find his own answers. His dad talked and made dinner as if Travis was still there. He was on the phone with Travis’ mom, admitting this and also explaining that he looked into Travis’ old notebook and began working on his woodshop project in an attempt to feel better. It instead brought back so much pain, and he got rid of it. Travis feels relieved for the first time in a while now that he and his body can be together, knowing he will never feel alone again.
Trivia[]
- This story is similar to the Fazbear Frights story "Coming Home" . In both stories, the protagonist is the ghost of a dead child and is looking for something. Susie is looking for her long lost doll while Travis is looking for the ghost's body.
- The story is also similar the Fazbear Frights story "Find Player Two!". Both have the protagonist looking for a missing person (Amiee with Mary Jo, and Travis with the ghost) but it turns out that the person they are looking for died in a small cramped space.