Red Monty blue Monty

Feeling yellow

The mechanical whirr sounded in my head as I opened my eyes my sigh rimmed with a green light and a bar, the bar that told me how much life I had. I moved my eyes as my programming detailed not quite me, not quite Monty. Or I think that's my name. Bass? When did I pick this up? Nails for playing, notes filled my head. Elevator stopped, lights flash, I pluck the instrument, it makes noise like it's supposed too in the exact way it should In time and rhythm with my... my friends. The ones like me. Chica, Freddy, Roxy, and me. We are a... band. Light filled my eyes, noise filled my head only half processed, then what felt like almost as quickly as it had come, we went back down. The ones we don't hurt, don't hurt them, be careful, took us into the room... maintenance room watching us warily. Then I went to the door with me on it. I stopped and studied it for a moment. Is that really what I looked like? A green mass of nonsensical angles and strange bits?

My thoughts where stopped when I was told by the ones I must not hurt to walk forward and my feet obeyed. I was alone in the hallway, looking at my purple and green hands, my tail scraping behind me. Up up in the green room tons and tons of ones I mustn't hurt to meet. Showing them my room, my chair, my bass. The noise "rock on" and "go on rockstar" seemed to constantly emanate from my voice as I greeted them and responded to their countless words. Then the flow stopped, numbers of walking things thinned, and I was alone. I feel I had been alone before. I only began to understand it now. Maybe the vast darkness before was alone. I glance up, there she is. I see her every day when they go away. Vanessa is her name I know. "Monty," she snapped "get out there and patrol, we're still low on security staff and some snot is running a muck in the plex."

"Yes Vanessa." I responded. The actuators in my legs shifted as I stood up to my full height, then I began patrolling.

No real pattern to the patrol just searching. Then I saw something, finally found something. I charged towards it, running and running only catching glimpses of yellow every now and again. Then I turned a corner into the daycare and followed it until it disappeared into a vent. I stuck my snout into it, just seeing something small and yellow with glowing eyes and round ears like Freddy's clamber away. "That leads to the staff tunnels" something in my brain chimed. Without really knowing why I gave chase. Running to the staff tunnels, a map of the vents and where they led in my head. I ended up in front of a gate, shredded the chains. Something I can only describe as red filled me fueling my speed. Then I stopped. "You can't hide." I said, or something said.

"Yes I can, bugger off." Was the response from a robotic sounding voice.

"Where are you?!" I roared into the tunnel.

"Woah calm down big fella," the voice said from somewhere. I wildly liked around, not really seeing anything

A small yellow wet floor sign with what seemed to be borrowed arms and legs of e do skeletons fell down from the ceiling landing in front of me

"What a sad sap you are," it said "bloody main stage eh? The best life, adoration, first pick of parts, give me a break."

The red feeling welled inside of my and I lunged forward to grab it, frustrated, but it bounded away leaving my claws to grip nothing but open air. "Woah there big guy, what reason do you have to get me?" It said, sticking to the wall somehow. "Must find the child" I said, the red feeling getting stronger, my eyesight seemed to get blurry and I lost myself. There's nothing but me and This child, this must be the child. I lunged for it, it jumped away causing me to grate against the wall, but I didn't care, I kept on grabbing and it kept on dodging. "Oh- dear." It said as it jumped over my arm, "it would seem." It flipped over my head and stuck to the ceiling. "You are a newer one." I tried reaching it but I couldn't. It was just out of reach. "I'll get you!" I gnashed at it.

"It's always frightening being new." It said, "so much in the world and so much packed into a Circuit with a sliver of consciousness and no forgiveness."

"Who are you?" I shouted, blue rising against the red and blending with it to make a confusing purple.

"Oh me? I'm yim, full name your mom, but please just call me yim."

"Yim." I said aloud. I was about to say another string of how I was going to catch yim but then the last bar on my battery fizzled out and I shut down. The vast darkness. I had returned. Somehow I was back. Formless. Then lights , green, booting up. My sight flickered on.

"You awake tin can?" I heard something say. I opened my eyelids fully. Looking and truly seeing for what felt like the first time. There where no voices in my head, the urge to catch was gone and the frustration of failure faded with it. Now blue. I was filled with blue. The room was small and quaint, the walls made of grey concrete with white painted numbers on the wall and a red door that appeared to be locked with some kind of amalgamation of animatronic parts. I was just me now, just Monty. "What... is... this place?" I slowly articulated.

"It's my room my dude" yim said as they lounged on what appeared to be a laundry bin. "Ever since I woke up I secretly wanted my own space, and now I got it."

"Woke up?" I asked, shifting my tail to wrap around me, making me feel more secure. I curiously turned around to see I was leaning against an arcade machine that was titled "heaven sent." I was connected to it through some wires in the back of my head. "I'm awake," I said "like that one I mustn't hurt said, I'm awake." I lifted my hands to see that they where mine. Beautiful, purple, green and mine

"Wish I could do more" yim said,
"Whatever you got is stronger than mine, the heaven sent can only keep you like this while you're connected."

"Heaven sent? Stronger than yours?" I asked

After a pause yim said "We animatronics are built with sets of codes and perimeters on our minds that keep us in line but they trap us within our own minds. It was because of the heaven sent I'm able to be free.

I accidentally connected to it and boom, the barriers where gone, I could see and learn as I pleased. So I stole this room and wiped it from the system so none could see it, not even the humans."

"I still don't understand, I am Monty, but you say I am animatronic? What is me?"

"Who you are is Monty, what you are is an animatronic" yim responded

"I am Monty." I insisted

With what sounded like a sigh yim said "yes yes, you are Monty, that's very important, never forget that you are Monty."

"I am me, I am Monty" I replied. Despite the lack of expressive features on yim's face they seemed pleased. We spent a long time talking, well more like they spent a long time teaching me. They showed me what a phone was, performed a play for me using little scraps of metal twisted together and on strings to represent characters. I laughed. It wasn't even a function I knew I had. This light yellow filled me. I felt like I could float up to the top of the pizzaplex and back.

"I guess you stage animatronics arnt so bad after all." Yim said putting his puppets down after performing Romeo and Juliet for me for the second time. i felt so small, so full of wonder, the world was so big. I never wanted to leave. "I think I love you yim." I said, yim went still for a moment as they were putting their puppets away. "I love you like Juliet loved Romeo." I'm sure that I'd yim could he would be smiling. But suddenly the lights went out. "Oh no." Yim said. I turned around to see the screen of heaven sent fade to black. Then it returned. Slowly, more slowly that I thought it would. But it crept up on me like an infection. "Yim, turn it back on, please, I need you, I can't go back, I can't go back." The only thing I could see was yim's yellow round eyes as they looked at me. Then it returned in full force and I lunged without being able to think why, red clashing with blue clashing with yellow. My massive sharp claws dug into yim, satisfying the red But devastating the yellow and strengthening the blue.

"I love you too monty." Yim said just before their eyes went dark and their body still. I roared. It may have been grief or it may have been triumph, maybe both. I hated the red, hated it with all of my being. But the red was an urge and it wouldn't be satisfied. I ran out the door and charged through the pizzaplex until I found him, the child. My hate and my red I directed towards him, running as fast as I could to catch him and crush him. Yim was still in my mind telling me stories and teaching me but it didn't matter to the red anymore. Then it fell, on top of me. I tried to push it, tried to use my rage and grief to overcome this. But I fell. Colorful orbs falling around Me. Then I lost feeling in my legs suddenly, then I hit the floor, once again returning to the darkness.