The Fox's Pet

Chapter 8 - Electric Shock (Part 2)

After about ten minutes of crawling through a rusty, old vent, Penny crawled out with Luka and Victor.
"Anyone else wondering who would want such a big vent in their office? Like, seriously! You're sitting in a security office inside of a building filled with killer animitronics with your back against the vent! That's just a one-way ticket to Heaven." Victor remarked.
"More like a one-way ticket to Hell for you." Penny said, already regretting what she had said.
"Oh, am I a bad boy?" Victor smirked and laughed as Penny blushed with an annoyed look on her face. Penny slapped Victor's face as she gave him a death stare.
"Hmph." Was all she said.
"Ouch!" Victor got annoyed and smirked as Penny started walking away. Clearly he had an idea.
"Uuh, what are you doing-" Luka broke off as Victor pushed Penny over, making her fall to the ground.
"Ugh! Seriously, Victor?" Penny yelled as she sat up.
"That's called karma, Blondie." Victor cooed.
"Guys! Cut it out! We need to get out of here before that creepy psychotic fox gets us." Luka instructed. Penny quickly got up and peeked out of the left hallway.
"Coast is clear." She said quietly as she started walking down the dark, narrow hallway. Victor glanced at where Audrey was and froze. Audrey was gone.
"Uum, guys? Does any of you happen to know where Audrey went?" Victor asked slowly.
"What?" Penny asked in confusion as she stepped back into the office. She was, indeed, gone. Luka checked the cameras to see whether she's active but she was nowhere to be seen.
"Nevermind, let's just get out of here." Penny shook her head and started walking down the hallway again with the other two following close by. Penny started shaking, not from the cold, but from the image of Vera stuffed inside the animitronic. If only Penny didn't have this stupid idea of trying to find out what happened to the missing children. Now she had lost a friend forever. Victor slowly put his hand on Penny's shoulder and gently rubbed it, attempting to calm her down.
"Are you okay?" Victor asked softly.
"Why would you care?" Penny snapped as she slapped Victor's hand away and started walking faster. Victor sighed and watched as the only person he ever cared for abandoned him.

As Penny made her way to the double doors that would soon let her out, she started feeling bad for Victor. She didn't know why but she wanted to apologise. Penny stared at the frosted door handles for a second. Then pushed the feelings away and started twisting the door handles. Locked.
"Penny?" Luka said wide-eyed. Penny slowly looked up and saw a large endoskeleton hand holding the doors shut. Then she looked further up.There, just above the door, was the freaky, psychotic fox hanging on the ceiling in his endoskeleton form once again.
"Boo." Said Anti quietly yet creepily.
"S-stay away!" Penny cried out as she backed away into Victor who put his hands on her shoulder to stop her.
"Never." Anti whispered. His eyes weren't darting around as much anymore but Penny could tell he was more insane than ever. Slowly, the fox started climbing down the double doors with his head twitching. Penny reached into her pocket and wrapped her fingers around the keypad that she would eventually use to electrocute Anti, but she didn't take it out. There was something about the animitronic that screamed at Penny to just run.
"What do you want?" Luka called out. Anti's focus immediately shifted to Luka who took a step back in fright.
"Hand me over the girl. Now." Anti said in a monotone voice.
"No." Victor said in a stern voice. The fox thought for a moment.
"Fine," He said softly before exploding in pure rage as he snatched Penny away from Victor, "I'LL TAKE HER MYSELF!"
"PENNY!" Victor cried out as he watched in horror as Anti pulled himself up onto the ceiling with Penny screaming.
"Let her go!" Luka demanded. Anti just laughed as Penny struggled to get free. She suddenly stopped and looked at Victor who was frozen on the spot.
"Window." Penny said. Victor looked confused for a moment as he thought what Penny meant, but suddenly he realised.
"No we can't leave you here!" Victor yelled.
"Just go. I have a plan." She smiled. Luka knew that smile. It's the smile of Penny's cleverness that never seemed to fail her. He knew Penny had a plan and something told him that Penny will make it out alive. He grabbed Victor's shoulder and started pulling.
"Wha-" Victor started.
"Come on!" Luka commanded as he started running while pulling Victor along with him.
"Hey! No!" Victor's voice echoed as he was forced to leave Penny behind.

"Aww, they left you behind." Anti laughed.
"And for a good reason." Penny said coldly. Then, out of nowhere Anti dropped her to the ground. Penny landed on her chest and she slowly sat up. Her head turned rapidly towards Anti who was climbing down the wall onto the floor. She quickly stood up as the animitronic started walking. Anti was a tangled mess of wires and robotic limbs, as well as human ones too. Vera was still in there.
"Look at yourself. So vulnerable, so pathetic, so weak." Anti said emotionlessly. Penny just watched as the fox circled her like a vulture circling its food.
"Why did you kill her?" Penny asked, her voice trembling.
"Well, I couldn't just let her tell everyone what she had done!" Anti replied, "She was willing to help me."
"What?" Penny asked.
"Oh, the agony in her screams. It was so satisfying. Music to my ears." Anti laughed.
"What do you mean she was willing to help?" Penny was confused. Surely Vera was forced into helping him.
"I manipulated her! She was so naive. I told her I wanted to escape because no one would fix me. I told her those animitronics wanted to destroy me, so she destroyed them." Anti explained. Penny's eyes widened.
"She was the one who destroyed those animitronics?" Penny cried out.
"I wouldn't be able to. If I ever got caught outside of the Parts & Service room by them they'd-" Anti got interrupted by Penny.
"-electrocute you." Penny finished.
"Clever girl." Anti praised.
"But how did you manage to destroy Leo?" Penny asked. She was so confused, so tired of all of this.
"Well, he already used his up. Plus, his keypad is broken. And now I can do whatever I want." Anti explained. Then, without a warning, he pinned Penny to the ground with his hand on her neck, ready to strangle her.
"Get off!" Penny shouted.
"Say something nice." Anti said softly.
"What?" Penny whispered.
"Say. Something. Nice!." Anti repeated. Penny didn't know what to do, but suddenly an idea hit her. She slipped her hand into her pocket again. She was so ready to just electrocute the one who murdered her own friend.
"What's that in your pocket, Penny?" Anti asked. Penny slowly took out the keypad and held it infront of Anti's face. Anti's eye widened slightly as he got flashbacks. He didn't want to be electrocuted again.
"Scared, eh?" Penny smirked. Anti didn't say anything and just stared at the keypad.
"Oh, Penny. You really don't want to do this. Your father would be so disappointed!" Anti tried to convince Penny not to press the button on the keypad.
"Let's start off by you getting off of me." Penny said with a sassy smile on her face. The fox hesitated but obeyed the instructions and stood up.
"Come on, Penny. You wouldn't do this." Anti said nervously. Penny got up and stared emtionlessly at the fox.
"Say something nice" She said quietly like Anti did. Anti's eye just widened even more, "I said: say. Something. Nice!"
"You will regret this." Anti's eye narrowed as he growled. Penny pressed the button and watched as the fox fell to the ground. Electricity surged through him as he let out an ear-piercing scream filled with agony.
"Penny, burn it down! Burn everything!" An unknown voice echoed. It was the same voice Penny heard in the office when she took the keypad. As fast as she could, Penny took out a box of matches and started lighting every single one of them and throwing them around in random directions. The yellow flames grew and spread as they danced on the floor and the tables. Soon, almost the whole room was already engulfed in flames.
"PENNY!" Anti screamed as Penny ran out of the restaurant towards her two friends who were standing infront of the restaurant.
"Oh my God." Luka whispered as he stared wide-eyed at the burning building.
"Penny!" Victor cried out happily as he quickly pulled Penny into an embrace. Penny wrapped her arms around Victor's neck, almost crying from the events she had witnessed. Luka smiled at Penny, glad that she was safe.