RUIN - The Real Ending.

Carrot Cake

   "Roxy.."

   "Cassie. Cassie...welcome back Cassie."

   "You remember me?"

   "Your special day..I remember your special day. Do you still like carrot cake? It has been some time since I saw you last. If I remember correctly, it is in the 11th, I remember because you are number one..twice. Have you booked your party? I'm sure your friends will show up this time."

   Roxy, my idol, best friend, favorite character, and..only friend. She was right in front of me. She refused to attack me unlike the others. And she even remembered me. I held her hand as she spoke, trying my best to comfort her, or maybe to comfort myself. I had the perfect chance to deactivate her. How could I be expected to do such a thing to such a precious soul?

   Don't think..just do it.

   Gregory knew how much I looked up to Roxy. I stared, zoning out beyond Roxy's face that awaited some kind of response from me. How dare Gregory ask me to do something like this so carelessly. Like he didn't even realize how hard it would be, but I was already so close to saving him, she was the last node..

   "Cassie..what are you doing?"

   I jammed the fazwrench into the activation system in her eye socket. Tears began to pour down as I realized what I had done. It wasn't fair.

   "I'm sorry.. yes I love carrot cake. Roxy I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."

   "Happy birthday Cassie."

   After a few glitches and electrical jolts, Roxy stopped moving and fell back onto the cold hard floor. She was completely deactivated. Her along with all of the other security nodes, it was finally over. Only one thing left to do. Gregory.

   I forced myself to walk away. I felt like a monster. Something I'd never recover from. I struggled towards the direction of which I assumed was the start of the sinkhole. The back corner of the raceway where a maintenance door was ripped off, and left a long staircase down underneath. I needed to focus on Gregory. He meant everything to me. I love Roxy and I could never forgive myself for what I did, but there's no turning back now. I needed to keep pushing forward.

   Helpi alerted me that he could be no help in the sinkhole. The V.A.N.N.I. network coverage zone couldn't reach as far as I was about to go. I was on my own completely. Every step I took down the stair case was followed by sniffles that I tried to calm. Those sniffles however turned into tears, which then turned into an entire cry and semi panic attack. I tried my best to silent myself as right now was no time to cry. It was just so heartbreaking.

   The end of the stairs led me into some kind of basement looking area. Actually I don't even think it was supposed to be a room or anything at all. The ceiling and structures of the building were collapsing downwards, leaving hanging concrete pieces and metal wires everywhere. I walked through as much as possible, and found what looked to be an old elevator. It didn't make sense that it could even be down here, it was the only thing that actually worked and wasn't completely destroyed. It was my only other option and I decided to go down. Gregory was somewhere deeper and farther down than I was now, so this was really my only choice. I stepped inside and clicked the button.

   The elevator music struggled to play as the elevator looked like it could be a million years old. It didn't matter anyway, the faint music that was audible was muffled by my cries. After a long ride down, the doors opened to a large cave filled with broken metal beams that held the entire Pizzaplex's foundation together. It was hard to see through my teary eyes, but I forced myself out of the elevator and towards the only opening I could see. There was a massive bronze Freddy head, one I've never seen before sitting sideways on the ground. It was crushed by concrete pieces and rocks as was everything else, but allowed me to reach a small hole in the rock. It looked like a tunnel, almost too perfect to have been an accident. Gregory must've been involved in this somehow, maybe he tried to escape but just dug himself deeper..literally.

   The tunneling cave led me into a nearly pitch black larger cave. The only light was coming from some like of glowing mushroom looking thing on the ground around the corner. As I stepped around the corner, they looked radioactive or something. Definitely not about to touch whatever it was. The further I went into the cave the more I found. The area grew wider and I heard running water from in front of me.

   "NO!! No no no no!! Come on!! Stupid flashlight!"

   My flashlight went out, no more light for me I guess. It wasn't needed at the time however because in front of me now were multiple glowing waterfalls, coming from somewhere high above me, too far to see. Just like the strange mushrooms, the water itself had a weird glow in the dark effect to it leaving em with an uneasy feeling. The waterfalls flooded the ground below me and I had to wade through about 2 feet of standing water. A lot of things were going on down here that I couldn't wrap my head around, but one of the strangest sights I've noticed were the presence of real life trees growing out of the rock. Dead trees don't get me wrong, but trees regardless..all the way down here, there was somehow life.

   I wanted to go back. To somehow crawl back up through the caves and back to Roxy to find a way to bring her back, but I knew I couldn't. Gregory was so close.

   I entered a room filled with boxes and shelves, it was somehow connected to the cave all the way down here. Someone would have had to build it for a reason right? At the end of the room was a long hallway that led me through flooded rooms that were broken down and crumbling. Suddenly I heard a sound from the next room disrupting the eerie silence.

   "I am the Candy Cadet. Come get your candy here. I have candy all day. Everyday. Candy candy candy...candy."

   A strange robot looking machine was on the floor glitching on and off. It's colorful lights sparked as its metallic voice sounded strained with every word it spoke. The robot was on wheels, slightly shorter than me unlike any of the animatronics which allowed me to not feel threatened by it. Just as I thought it had finished it's last sentence before short circuiting and deactivation forever, it spoke again.

   "Now I will tell you a story.. about a mother and a little boy who lived alone in a cabin in the dark woods."

   Was this old thing really telling me a bedtime story right now..

   "There was a monster in the woods, but the mother caught it and kept it locked in the basement. The monster made scary noises at night, but the mother would tell the boy not to worry because it would never get out. Then she would sing the boy a lullaby to sleep."

   I should really go. This thing is literally broken, not worth my time.

   "One day, the monster stopped growling and instead, learned the lullaby. The next day, when the mother went out to find food, the monster sang the lullaby from the basement. The little boy heard the lullaby from the basement and opened the door."

   I shivered as it finished it's story and shut off for good. There was something off about it, the story was too..random. It must've meant something..