IV - Adapting to Differences.

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Mike must've noticed me sitting in the hallway, because he walked up to me. "What's wrong, Indie?" He asked me. Indie was a nickname that I'd earned while watching Indiana Jones with Mike, mostly because my name was Joni and his last name was Jones. And I also like Indie games more than most others, so my nickname became Indie. I looked up at him with my teary eyes and handed him the Game Boy. He flipped it over, inspected it closely and sighed.
"Where did you get this?"
"Chloe. She gave it to me."
He took a long, hard look at me and dropped the Game Boy on the floor beside me and helped me up. I reached down to grab it, but he kicked it into the darkest corner of the hall and shook his head. We held hands as we walked back to the office. As we walked back, my phone vibrated in my pocket, I took it out. 12:00 AM. It said on the screen. I hit done and checked my missed calls. I saw a missed call from Chloe, somehow. I ignored it and sat in the small office chair with Mike, super squished. Mike picked up the phone on the desk and dialled Fazbear Entertainment. I couldn't hear very well, but what I think I heard was some robotic girl voice. "Hello! You have dialled Fazbear Entertainment! People looking for jobs, dial 1. Employees looking for assistance, dial 2." He dialled two. "Which employee number are you?" It asked. He dialled 016. He put it on speaker and let it play.
"Uh, hello? Hello, hello? Hello uhh. Welcome to your new summer job at the new and improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Uh, I'm here to talk you through some of the things you can expect to see during your first week here and to help you get started down this new and exciting career path.
Uh, now, I want you to forget anything you may have heard about the old location, you know." Forget. Like that'll happen.
"Uh, some people still have a somewhat negative impression of the company. Uh... that old restaurant was kind of left to rot for quite a while, but I want to reassure you, Fazbear Entertainment is committed to family fun and above all, safety." Left to rot? I couldn't tell! Bonnie totally didn't look entirely destroyed and faceless at all!
"They've spent a small fortune on these new animatronics, uh, facial recognition, advanced mobility, they even let them walk around during the day. Isn't that neat? But most importantly, they're all tied into some kind of criminal database, so they can detect a predator a mile away. Heck, we should be paying them to guard you." I agree! You totally should pay things that like to murder our siblings to guard us! Great idea!
"Uh, now that being said, no new system's without its... kinks." Just minor kinks, right?
"Uh... you're only the second guard to work at that location. Uh, the first guy finished his week, but complained about... conditions. Uh, we switched him over to the day shift, so hey, lucky you, right?" I don't blame him for complaining. "Uh mainly he expressed concern that certain characters seemed to move around at night, and even attempted to get into his office. Now, from what we know, that should be impossible." IMPOSSIBLE? CUZ THAT HAZ NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE!?!?
"Uh, that restaurant should be the safest place on earth." SAFEST. PLACE. ON. THE. WHOLE. FUCKING. EARTH.
"So while our engineers don't really have an explanation for this, the working theory is that... the robots were never given a proper "night mode". So when it gets quiet, they think they're in the wrong room, so then they go try to find where the people are, and in this case, that's your office. So our temporary solution is this: there's a music box over by the Prize Counter, and it's rigged to be wound up remotely. So just, every once in a while, switch over to the Prize Counter video feed and wind it up for a few seconds. It doesn't seem to affect all of the animatronics, but it does affect... one of them." One of them? Which one?
"Uh, and as for the rest of them, we have an even easier solution. You see, there may be a minor glitch in the system, something about robots seeing you as an endoskeleton without his costume on, and wanting to stuff you in a suit, so hey, we've given you an empty Freddy Fazbear head, problem solved! You can put it on anytime, and leave it on for as long as you want. Eventually anything that wandered in, will wander back out.
Uh, something else worth mentioning is kind of the modern design of the building. You may have noticed there are no doors for you to close, heh. But hey, you have a light! And even though your flashlight can run out of power, the building cannot. So, don't worry about the place going dark. Well, I think that's it. Uh, you should be golden. Uh, check the lights, put on the Freddy head if you need to, uh, keep the music box wound up, piece of cake. Have a good night, and I'll talk to you tomorrow."
"I didn't get any of that." I said.
"I did." Mike said, checking the cameras. He pressed the Wind Up Music Box button at the prize corner camera. "Whoa! Interactive cameras?" I exclaimed. "Yeah, you can even shine the flashlight at them!" He said. It uses up the flashlight battery though." He said, gesturing to the pack of batteries on the desk, it connected to the flashlight and to the wall. "It's odd how this place works." I muttered. I looked at the two Freddy masks we had.... Where's the other one? It was here a second ago... Oh, I forgot it in the parts and service. There was a decision to make, weather I die and let him live, or he dies and I live. Oh. Shit.

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