The Monty Within

"Ge-Get ready for a surprise!" Beware that this page may contain spoilers for related material. If you are new to anything, like if you have not played the games or read the books yet, please read at your own risk!

The Monty Within
Information
Appears in	Tales from the Pizzaplex 7: Tiger Rock
Author	Andrea Waggener
Genre	Horror
Pages	63
Chronology
Previous Story	Tiger Rock
Next Story	Bleeding Heart

“A new attraction at the Mega Pizzaplex leaves Kane's mind full of intrusive thoughts not his own.” — Summary, Tales from the Pizzaplex #7: Tiger Rock

The Monty Within is the second story in Tales from the Pizzaplex 7: Tiger Rock and chronologically the Tales from the Pizzaplex series' 20th story. It was written by Andrea Waggener.

Characters

Humans

• Kane's Family
  • Kane
  • Archer
  • Kane's mother
  • Kane's father
• Sienna's Family
  • Sienna
  • Sienna's sister
• Mr. Rivera
• Mr. Freeman
• Ms. Boyd
• Ms. Stockton
• Reg
• Candy
• Miles' Family
  • Miles
  • Miles' father
  • Miles' sister
• Lewis
• Frank
• Gerald
• Mrs. Patel
• Tank
• Jimmy
• Rowen

Animatronics

• Bonnie the Rabbit (Player Character)
• Foxy the Pirate (Player Character)
• Orville Elephant (Player Character)
• Roxanne Wolf (Partner)
• Glamrock Chica (Partner)
• Montgomery Gator (Partner)
• Glamrock Freddy (Partner)

Locations

• Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex
  • Atrium
  • Fazcade
    • Fazcade Tag-Team
• Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria

Plot

Kane is a high school senior with a lot on his mind. Between caring for his nerdy thirteen-year-old brother Archer, keeping his girlfriend Sienna happy, maintaining his status as his school’s star hitter, and finishing his senior essay, Kane has been rather busy. On top of all that, he’s also working on an extra credit project that doubles as a gift for Sienna in his woodshop class. Since it’s the one year anniversary since Kane and Sienna had their first date at the now shut down Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria, Kane manages to get a nice seat at the corner of the Pizzaplex’s dining room. He briefly explains the idea of his essay before handing Sienna a sloth-shaped onyx pendant due to her love of sloths and collecting them in many forms.

Kane finishes his senior essay, "The AI Within," just in time and reworks it into an oral report that every senior has to give at a senior thesis assembly six weeks before graduation. Using research spanning from the late 1700s to the 1990s, Kane theorizes that the left side of our brains functions similarly to a non-sentient computer while the right side is our sentience. He compares the computer side to an artificial intelligence that acts as word-processing and data-processing programs in our minds, making us productive. This is also where negative self-talk, as well as self-talk in general, comes from. Kane argues that without the right brain to balance it out, the left brain will act purely from the data it has received even if it that data is wrong or bad, and this is where many behavioral problems come from. Kane ends his theory by claiming that people would be able to live better lives if they were aware of this non-sentient part of their minds. After giving his speech, he’s disappointed to see that the majority of his fellow seniors have oversimplified and disagree with Kane’s theory.

Now with the essay done Kane still has baseball, exams, and Sienna to care for, especially since Kane and Sienna were going to be long-distance for college. All of this is why Kane is hesitant to take Archer to play air hockey at the Freddy Fazbear Mega Pizzaplex the evening after his speech, but with Archer’s friend out camping Kane decides to go. After seven games Kane spots a sign promoting a new game that lets you be your own partner. The game, Fazcade Tag-Team, is a virtual food fight game against another group of players on the opposite side of the Pizzaplex. Players get to pick their favorite Fazbear Animatronic and get partnered up with another animatronic that syncs with your brain. Kane thinks working with an AI partner that follows his instructions would be a fun way of acting out his theories.

While Archer picks out Bonnie, Kane decides to be Orville Elephant, an obscure Fazbear Entertainment character from Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator. Archer is partnered with Glamrock Chica while Kane gets Montgomery Gator. Kane uses his skills from baseball, as well as learning from the other players, to do shockingly well in the game. Eventually Kane realizes that Monty is mimicking his moves and begins studying him. He also takes notice of a glowing golden circle above his head. Kane realizes that whenever he concentrates on Orville’s actions Monty will glitch and freeze, and when Kane lets Orville go idle Monty will move freely and mimic Kane’s gameplay. As for the circle, Kane notices that the light pulses ever so slightly, reminding Kane of the oscillations of brain waves. Kane is certain that the game is somehow using his biological AI.

Kane is unable to focus the next day due to the food-fight game, upsetting Sienna when she tries telling him about her frustrations with her volleyball teammates. Sienna decides to have a “solo sloth evening,” and with Archer out with his ill friend Kane takes the opportunity to return to the food-fight machine. Kane chooses Orville again and the game partners him up with Monty again, who seems to recognize Kane. Like yesterday, Monty freezes up when Kane is overanalyzing and is in the flow when Kane is. Kane turns his attention to the light above him and pounds on it to figure out what it is, but it ends up short circuiting all of the power in the game. He quickly leaves the Pizzaplex and grabs something to eat.

Kane tells his mother that he went out with Sienna to eat, but a voice in his head taunts him over the half lie, so he tells the truth. His mom comments on how stressed he looks, and when he tries to tell his mother he’s going to bed he instead says he's going for a run. Kane has to fight off the urge to run and destroy things throughout the house. After mocking his interests, Kane looks in the mirror to see himself wink. The next day, his bizarre thoughts judge everything he does during school. During their usual date at the weekend farmers market, Sienna complains about a new pimple on the end of her nose which the voice in Kane’s head says is bigger than Chica’s cupcake. Sienna finds a miniature sloth made of seashells, but Kane instead offers to buy skin cream to help with the zit. She buys the sloth herself and storms off, and Kane accepts that the voice in his head is Montgomery Gator.

The next day, Sienna refuses to pick up Kane’s calls. He makes his way to his Saturday game, and when the other team is up by one it’s up to Kane to save the game. Unfortunately, Monty is certain that the pitcher will throw a fastball, so he takes control of Kane’s body. When a knuckleball is thrown instead, it goes right past them. When Kane returns to school Monday, he struggles to keep Monty from attacking the school nerd. At lunch, Monty attempts to start a food fight with Jell-O. Kane fights against him, so Monty throws it at his face. Monty pours more food all over Kane, and Kane quickly excuses his actions as a social experiment. At practice, Kane tells his team it was to start a food fight. When Monty tells them he didn’t get to do what he wanted, Kane takes control and widely sprints away, with Monty adding a somersault.

After practice, Kane goes to the school’s shop to finish a cutting board that he hopes to give to Sienna, who had recently gotten into cooking. Kane wants it to be a sloth, but Monty thinks making it a sun would be more fun, and the two fight over a cordless jigsaw until the cutting board is nothing but wood shards and sawdust. The next day, Kane tries to leave Sienna a message but quickly ends it before Monty insults her. After a shower Kane tries to blow-dry his hair, but Monty grabs a razor to give him a mohawk. Kane knocks it out of his hand but Monty grabs a pair of scissors, and when Kane tries fighting against it he cuts his palm. After a trip to the ER, Monty leaves Kane alone until after baseball practice when he takes Kane to the school’s shop. Monty forces Kane to lay down on some plywood and turn on a self-feeding table saw. Monty tells Kane that he needs to go away, and Kane realizes that the saw is going to cut him in half. As the saw cuts through his skull, Monty triumphantly says "Rock and roll!"

Speculation

"I was the first! I have seen everything!" This section archives a lot of theories and speculation, which usually occurs from pre-release media, or just things that are still unknown, so please keep that in mind while reading. The page will continue to be updated with the most accurate information as more solid evidence is supplied.

• It is stated that one year ago, Kane and his girlfriend had a date in the "old Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria" and now it is shut down. This suggests two possibilities.
  • It took less than a year for Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place to collapse and be built over by the Pizzaplex.
  • Or more simply, Fazbear Entertainment runs Freddy's pizzerias outside of the Pizzaplex.

Trivia

• When the title of the story was originally revealed, it was mistakenly called "The Manshi Within".
• Numerous real world people and things are mentioned in the story.
  • Kane compares the left side of the brain to Alexa and Siri numerous times.
  • In Kane's essay he mentions Meinard Simon du Pui, Arthur Ladbroke Wigan, Roger Sperry, and Jill Bolte Taylor.
    • When discussing Taylor, Kane brings up her book, My Stroke of Insight.
  • When Archer's friend Miles falls into a bed of poison ivy, Archer goes over to his house to play Monopoly.
• Some of Monty lines in the story directly match what he says in Security Breach. For example, he says, "Run, run, run!", "Rock and roll!", and "Party time!" both in the story and game.
  • In the food fighting game, Monty says, "How can I lose? I'm so handsome!". This may be an allusion to his character in Fury's Rage, in which he says, "Ugh, how could this happen? I'm so good lookin'."
• Monty's partial possession of Kane is quite similar to how Glitchtrap attempted to transfer himself onto Jeremy's mind but failed due to Jeremy resisting his control, so he forces Jeremy to slice his own face off with a paper guillotine as punishment.