Fnaf DarkSide: Beyond the Neon

Chapter 6: My Freind Baby

Friday, July 13th 1986

8:55pm

As Donnie entered the room, the door shut behind him slowly with a click. As it did so the room lit up and revealed a red and white shiny checkered floor that stretched out forward across the expanse of the room. Ahead of Donnie was a smaller mid-size stage with drawn closed sparkly red curtains. The curtains were adorned in silver retro stars that glimmered under the room's light. All around Donnie were tables that sat dormant and empty, awaiting a party of kids that weren't there. It wasn't until Donnie started to walk towards the stage that he noticed how cold it was in the room. Sure they were in the middle of summer, but no one cranked AC like this. This was definitely something else. Donnie stopped in front of the stage and looked up at it. It didn't occur to Donnie just how spacious the stage was until he was up close and personal with the thing. Donnie stepped back a little bit and looked around the room, looking for any signs of life. This whole thing was a V.I.P party right? Then where was everybody. Donnie wasn't a conventional party of people per say, but you'd think there would at least be staff on site. "Don't tell me this whole thing was some kind of nothingburger." Donnie hoped that wasn't the case. He'd come all the way for this thing and it had better work.

With seemingly perfect timing the lights in the room dimmed around Donnie. Lighting that seemed to have been mounted above the stage had turned on, spinning around to point down at the stage. A musical jingle began to play as the curtains began to slowly. Donnie walked a bit closer trying to get a look at what was behind the curtains, but all that was there was darkness.

"Huh?" He squinted and leaned a bit closer. Wasn't something supposed to be in there? Donnie began to feel a bit uneasy at the circumstances of the situation. Maybe it was just a malfunction? Maybe the system didn't start up properly?

"Golly, looks pretty empty to me." Donnie nodded in agreement to the feminine voice's observation. Wait, Feminine voice!? Donnie spun around quickly and jumped back in a mix of shock and slight terror. "What the hell!?" Looming over him was the grinning waitress animatronic he had encountered earlier on in the night. Her shadow cast a dark splotch over Donnie in the sea of light made from the show stage lights.

"H-how d-did you- w-wha-" Donnie choked out. He couldn't make heads or tails of how this massive robot slipped behind him in the middle of the show starting without him even noticing. "Hm? What's that matter? Did I scare you?" She asked innocently. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that. I just really like having messing around sometimes." She poked her plastic rosy cheek with her slim pale finger as she let out a mischievous giggle. "Say buddy, what's your name?" The robot asked, bending over and closer to Donnie's face. "D-Donnie-" he gulped a little. "Donnie Hardbrook."

The animatronic girl's eyebrows rose in mimicked surprise at the information. "My, what a lovely name!" She straightened herself back up and triumphantly placed her arms on her hips like Donnie had seen superheroes do in the comics he had read in his freetime. "My name is Rockin' Roller Baby! Nice to meet you buddy!" she reached out her hand quickly and enthusiastically spoke once more, "put er' there!" Donnie reluctantly began to reach out his hand towards the robot's. But suddenly, he remembered the ground rules he was told about before entering the room. Donnie quickly pulled his hand back and narrowed his eyes at the robot. "Hey uh, I was told that I'm not allowed to touch you. It's the rules." Even though Donnie was still skeptical and a bit startled, he tried to take a stand and assert himself a little. Baby tilted her head to the side in what Donnie assumed was her mimicking confusion. "Darn, that's the first I've heard of it. Can't a girl get a little info around here?"

It hadn't really occurred to Donnie until now just how oddly fluid and lively she was for a robot. When he had seen her at the beginning of the night, she sounded energetic for sure, but it felt like she had been going off a script and was a bit more robotic and clunky than she was now. Donnie was definitely weirded out by the sudden change in the way Baby had presented herself when alone with someone. Sure Donnie wasn't the brightest but he had seen enough horror movies to feel like something was off. Donnie looked up at Baby and decided to ask a question to get to the bottom of what was up with the robot girl. "There's no way you're a real robot right? Are you someone in an elaborate costume? Because I don't think it's even remotely possible for a robot to move that smoothly." Baby who had been facing away from Donnie, turned on her heel and spun around using her skates to face Donnie once more. "Haha! Of course I'm a robot silly. If I wasn't I wouldn't be able to do this!" a click and whirring sound could be heard from within Baby's chest. The sound was definitely robotic in nature and it was hard to make out just exactly what was going on. Suddenly, Baby's stomach opened up in a hatch-like style revealing what appeared to be a strawberry shake. "Taadaa!"