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“Jessica leads a double-life from her friends and coworkers in the children's wing of a hospital.” |
Frailty is the first story in Tales from the Pizzaplex 1: Lally's Game and chronologically the Tales from the Pizzaplex series' 1st story. It was written by Kelly Parra.
Characters[]
Humans[]
- Jessica
- Jack
- Dave
- Unnamed Crash Victim
- Officer Manor
- Ramon Family
- Nurse Macy
- Nurse Colin
- Father Jeremiah
- Unnamed Boy
- Mrs. Willoughby
- Robert's Family
- April
- Billy
- Unnamed Old Woman
- Tina
- Blake
Animatronics[]
Locations[]
- Unnamed Hospital
- Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex (mentioned)
- West Wilson High School
Plot[]
Jack, an EMT, and his partner Dave desperately attempt to revive a teenaged boy after he drove too fast in stormy weather and crashed into a tree near a cemetery. Despite their best efforts, however, they fail. As Jack is packing up, he hears noises nearby and sees a short, slim, and frail figure hovering over the boy's body. He notices it moving something back and forth, and when he sees it with a knife he calls out to it, causing it to flee. Jack tries telling the officer on the scene what he saw, but they brush it off. Suddenly, the boy is alive again and Jack quickly rushes to his aid.
This figure was Jessica, a 14-year-old who works as a janitor in the children’s wing of a hospital. She used to be a normal girl who desired the best clothes, cool friends, the cutest boys, and above all else to be lovely. However, after “making a wrong choice,” Jessica abandons her old life. To make up for her mistakes, she began working at the hospital with the goal of healing people; by scraping off silver from a heart-shaped silver pendant and onto another person, that person becomes healthy once more. Jessica is even able to bring the dead back to life with this pendant. There is a catch, however: she notices that the more silver she scraps off, the more frail she becomes. Some of the hospital staff find her strange due to her quiet nature and frail body, with Nurse Macy and Father Jeremiah worrying for her well-being. Patients and hospital staff are puzzled to see bits of silver on the children’s bodies, as well as random junk that suddenly appears throughout the children’s ward.
Despite running away from home, Jessica continues going to school so people don’t get suspicious. Because of her appearance and quiet nature, she becomes the target of mean students, gossip, and pranks. One day, in Science and Engineering class, a new kid defends Jessica against her bullies. The two partner up for a project and the boy, Robert, explains that he moved to town recently due to his father getting a new engineering job. The two decide to make a mini rolling bot that carries items on its back and is controlled with a remote. After school Robert suggests visiting a junkyard for parts, but Jessica refuses and runs off with her pendant in hand back to her new home, which is a hidden mausoleum at a cemetery. At the hospital, Nurse Macy tells Jessica that most of the patients in the children’s wing have improved in some way. Nurse Macy has Jessica throw away an old fork, and while she does she meets a new teenage patient named April.
After hearing a patient talk about an angel who made him feel better, Nurse Macy hears a loud sound outside the room and finds a piece of a car muffler with Jessica nearby. Jessica goes to throw it away and Nurse Macy finds a trail of junk leading to the hospital chapel. There, Nurse Macy speaks to Father Jeremiah about Jessica, with Father Jeremiah believing she’s in need of a friend. Meanwhile, Jessica and Robert continue to bond while they work on their project, which they call the "Mini Bot 5000." Jessica had distanced herself from other people to focus on her goal, but Robert reminds her of her old life. Eventually, Robert asks Jessica out to prom.
In the hospital chapel, Jessica feels distraught as she is confused over whether she still has the same goal. Father Jeremiah offers to listen, so she explains that her goal was to help others to redeem herself from a bad choice she made in the past, but feels guilty that she is now trying to get some of her old life back. Father Jeremiah explains that it is important to balance giving to others and giving back to yourself. When Jessica leaves, Father Jeremiah spots a gear right where she was sitting. Jessica approaches April, and she tells her about her current life, as April likes to use it to imagine she’s well again. Jessica considers using the pendant to help her, but she decides to keep it so she can attend prom.
Later, Jessica tells Nurse Macy about her prom date and how nervous she is, and she offers to help by buying her a dress. The two bond well and Jessica picks out a perfect lilac dress. A week later, Nurse Macy decides to visit Jessica at the address she put on her work application to make sure she's alright, but discovers it's a fake address. Meanwhile, Jessica has a dream where a being with metal footsteps (which she recognizes) chases her and rips her limbs off her. The being takes her pendant away before the dream ends.
April's health declines heavily, which saddens Jessica as she had decided not to help her before attending prom. Nurse Macy confronts Jessica about the fake address, but an alert goes off in April's room and Jessica goes to pray. At prom, she thinks as she dances with Robert that she can be forgiven for her mistakes and feel happiness. Unfortunately, when Jessica goes to kiss Robert, grease appears on him. All the kids look at her in shock while others laugh at her and she leaves the prom, believing that she was wrong and doesn't deserve happiness.
Jessica returns back to the hospital as Nurse Macy and Colin go over April's condition. Brown liquid streaks down her face as metal parts fall behind her. They follow her as she goes to April's room and locks the door, before lifting her pendant and taking her knife out. Nurse Macy tries to call out to Jessica while Colin gets security, and eventually Father Jeremiah arrives as well. When the hospital staff open the room, they don't find Jessica but instead a pile of metal pieces with smelly grease dripping down from it. The window is locked, leaving the staff confused, and Father Jeremiah looks down at the pile in sadness and begins praying. Suddenly, April's heart monitor begins beating strong and healthy.
Speculation[]
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- This story appears to be connected to Fazbear Frights.
- The pendant that Jessica wears is eerily identical to the heart pendant from Fazbear Frights (specifically To Be Beautiful and the Stitchwraith Stingers), as they are both silver hearts that have healing properties.
- While it's possible that this is an alternate version or a completely separate pendant, it may be the exact same pendant from Fazbear Frights. If this is true, then Jessica is inadvertently using remnant on the children.
- The pendant not only has the power to heal sicknesses, but also resurrect the dead as shown in the beginning. If the heart pendant is made from remnant, it further supports the idea of William Afton using remnant to gain immortality.
- Jessica herself is also implied to have some sort of connection towards Eleanor, having a fear of the junkyard as well as random junk appearing throughout the hospital. It is possible that she is one of Eleanor's victims who suffered the same fate as Sarah; being turned to scrapped metal, but using the pendant to keep up a human appearance. This is supported by the fact that Jessica suddenly disappears from April's room after using what is left of her pendant, leaving a pile of junk in her place.
- The pendant that Jessica wears is eerily identical to the heart pendant from Fazbear Frights (specifically To Be Beautiful and the Stitchwraith Stingers), as they are both silver hearts that have healing properties.
- The nightmare that Jessica has during the story where an unseen robot chases her and rips her limbs off resembles the fate of victims of the mimic robot.
Trivia[]
- The story was presumed to be the second one in the book, but was instead made the first.