Second Chance

' Chapter 1 '

The streets are cold. They're lonely, they're cutthroat. It's not a place for a child. Yet, there was a kid left to the chilling slums.

He wasn't born alone like this though. He used to live a fairly normal life, at least to him. Single mom raising he and his brother. He never met his father and he did not exactly remember his brother. He knows they were close, but he was so young, maybe around three. He felt a heavy guilt he couldn't jog his memory of his only sibling, but all he remembers of him is fuzzy memories and the aftermath of his disappearance.

His brother had mysteriously gone missing at their favorite indoor amusement park, the Pizza Plex. He remembered loving that place when he was younger. He got to meet every animatronic, his favorite being Freddy. When his brother had disappeared and was never found, his poor lonely mom was heartbroken. She'd lock herself away in he room for hours, she'd drink heavily, and she'd forget to provide food for the boy. It saddened him he couldn't fix his mother's mood no matter how much he tried.

He had an idea that perhaps, knowing where his brother was would help her find peace. The boy was fairly naive, but not stupid. He knew there was no way his brother was still alive. Still, if he could find some information it might just bring a smile to his mother's face again.

The boy left a note for his mom and ran away, determined not to come home until he found out what happened to his brother. Thankfully, or perhaps unfortunately, his mother never filed a report, so he was on his own. He had initially snuck into the Pizza Plex to find his brother, but he grew overwhelmed by the size of the place and did not even know where to start looking. It did not help a big panic broke out when Freddy had malfunctioned on stage.

Now security was after him and he had nowhere to run. Thinking on the fly, he decided to hide within the animatronics, the last place security would look. He figured he would only be able to pull that off with Freddy, since he had a stomach hatch. That and admittedly, the bear was the only animatronic he felt he could trust despite only meeting him years ago and for a short amount of time. Surely the bear would not remember him, but he sure remembered Freddy. And he knew the bear would help him.

He doubted the bear knew where his brother was but now his main priority was to escape.

While trapped in the Pizza Plex and meeting each animatronic in a less than friendly light, he figured none of them could possibly be of use to him, after all they're just animatronics and could not scheme something so complex on their own. The only animatronic he knew of but never got to meet was Bonnie, the last animatronic his brother was seen with. Unfortunately, Freddy wasn't of much help and wouldn't speak much about the bunny. Although an inconvenience it was to Gregory, he could tell it was a very sensitive topic to the bear, and he figured he shouldn't burn his bridges with the only animatronic that was protecting him.

He tried to see if security could help, if they had any reports or camera footage, but the blonde security guard Vanessa caught him before he could get the information and he had barely escaped her. Eventually he made it out of the Pizza Plex. He had regrettably grew a very soft spot for Freddy and wanted the bear to come with him, but Freddy begrudgingly declined and told him not to come back.

Now he was back to square one. Alone on the streets with no leads. Just perfect.