The Story and Timeline of Five Nights At Freddy's (And the fanverse)

Dittophobia (1996)

Seven-year-old Rory wakes up just after midnight to see his previously locked and closed doors open. He is woken up by some small, unidentifiable noise. Then, Rory sees a sharp pirate's hook come out of his closet. He is frozen in fear as monsters approach his room. From the closet, a rotting fox-shaped creature with multiple rows of jagged teeth creeps into the room. From the right, a decaying yellow chick with sharp teeth and claws sends its bright pink cupcake into the room first. From the left, an equally disturbing purple-blue bunny makes its way into the room. They slowly make their way to Rory's bed and he finally attempts to flee. That's when a mutilated brown bear with even sharper teeth shoots up from his bed and attacks him.

Rory wakes up and takes comfort in the soothing hiss from his ceiling vent. He calls for his parents but gets no answer, so he assumes they're getting ready for work and goes to get ready for school. Rory enters the left hallway and goes to the bathroom, noticing his exhausted features in the mirror. He then gets dressed and goes down the right hallway, hearing the sound of a running shower. Rory assumes his dad has gone to work early and his mom is busy thinking about work. He makes his way to the great room and the kitchen at the end of the hall. In the fridge, Rory finds a slightly old bagel and a somewhat soft and brownish pear. Once finished, he cleans the room of smudges and crumbs since his mom is obsessive over them. Rory grabs his backpack but realizes the front door isn't there. As he searches for it, he begins to feel drowsy. Rory searches the entire house and only finds locked doors, so he does it repeatedly until he can no longer see sunshine through the thin shades covering the windows. He quickly gets ready for bed, closing all the doors.

Unbeknownst to Rory, he has been repeating the same night and day over and over again. One day, however, he finds that there's no more bagels in the fridge. Instead, Rory eats wheat toast that he has to scrape mold off of and a slightly shriveled apple. He once again cannot find the front door and does a circuit through the house in a drowsy state, however he picks up on a new sound. Along with the running shower, the hiss from the vents, and the hum of the refrigerator, Rory hears the sound of an engine failing. Suddenly, everything except the refrigerator's hum stops. Feeling tired and remembering not having seen the sunshine in the great room, Rory quickly gets ready for bed and closes his doors.

Rory wakes up feeling great and realizes he slept peacefully through the night. He discovers that everything in his room is dirty and falling apart. Rory also notices big footprints in the dusty carpet. He removes his dirty quilt and notices his bare legs are long and hairy. Rory calls for his mom, noticing his voice is deeper. He runs to the bathroom and looks in the mirror to see that he is now seventeen. His body is also bony and hairy. He returns to his room, finding only a few pairs of clothes that don't break when he puts them on. Rory notices a set of metal tracks embedded in the wooden floor as he makes his way to the kitchen. He opens the fridge and discovers it's a dispenser with rows of dry wafers. Rory then tries to find his mom, discovering that the door to her room and her bathroom are fake. The "shower" sound came from a speaker on the wall.

Rory then follows the tracks, going into his room. Another set runs from the closet to the bed, and another set runs from the bed to the left hallway. They eventually lead to a real door where he finds the monstrous purple-blue bunny. Rory looks inside through the holes in its body and discovers it's nothing more than a costume hanging on a flimsy metallic skeleton being moved by the rails. Rory returns to his room, finding the fox in his closet and the bear in a trapdoor hidden under a flap in the carpet. Finding the chick and cupcake in the right hallway, Rory searches his house for other real doors. Returning to the kitchen, Rory removes all the wafers and the dispenser parts. He discovers a tunnel-like enclosure leading to a metal door. Rory manages to shove the door down, finding a dark corridor behind it.

Rory gets a flashlight and makes his way down the corridor, finding gas tanks in metal racks lining the walls. The rubber hoses connected to the tanks all lead to the wall next to the opening he came through, being pumped into the house. Rory finds an old gray machine that isn't running and a small metal desk with a clipboard. Looking through all the notes, he discovers the gas in the tanks are hallucinogens in order to trick him into thinking life was normal. The wafers are freeze-dried sources of all nutrients a human body would need. The gas is also the source of the night terrors, as it's all an experiment to study the effects of ongoing fear in children. They wanted to know what would happen if a child faced the same horrors night after night with no real life during the day to balance the awfulness of the nightmares. Rory was the last of these experiments, and they were seemingly abandoned ten years ago. Rory returns to the machine, which he thinks is a pump, and unhooks it.

Rory then makes his way through a series of corridors, finding numerous rooms along the way. The first is an observation station with colored lights and a poster with a red pig-tailed girl on it. The next is a big dance floor with a stage. On the stage is a metal ballerina frozen in place. After this, Rory finds a breaker room. He attempts to turn the power back on, but nothing works. He then wanders through more corridors, finding two rooms. The first room is filled with animatronic parts. The second is Funtime Auditorium, fully decorated with a cracked and dusty shell of an animatronic pirate fox against the wall. Eventually, Rory finds the control module and begins searching the drawers. He finds blueprints labeled "Underground Testing Facility," and follows a path leading to an elevator. With no power, however, it doesn't work and Rory returns to the control module.

Rory finds a small battery-powered two-way radio and attempts to reach out to his friend Wade, remembering he used walkie-talkies a lot. Wade, who kept his old one due to being sentimental, manages to communicate with Rory. He explains that the police gave up searching after a year, but his parents still tried to find him using private detectives and a website. Wade fills in on things Rory missed, such as the birth of Rory's sister and Wade getting a girlfriend, and Rory explains what's happening. Wade suggests returning to the fake house, since it has power meaning it has a functioning generator. He expresses his frustration over the old radios being untraceable, telling Rory that cell phones can be traced in the present. Rory says goodbye and makes his way back to the house, looking for the generator. He discovers the hum of the fridge is actually the generator hiding behind gray rubber in a cabinet.

Rory begins to pull it out when a low and smooth voice from a middle-aged man comes from a speaker. The voice ignores Rory's questions and instead reminds Rory of all the things he hated about his past. Rory seemingly remembers running away due to how unhappy he was at school, with girls, and with his own parents. The man tells Rory this is his home now, where he is safe and secure. Rory believes he will be unable to fit in with the world now that it's been ten years, so he replaces the rubber and returns to the pump. He fixes it, finding a loose power cord, and as the gas begins pumping again he fixes the dispensers. Suddenly, Rory questions why he's standing in front of the fridge. He quickly gets ready for bed, unsure as to what he was doing. In the corridor with the gas tanks, in the ceiling above the pump, a tape recorder clicks. It then rewinds and clicks again, ready for the next time Rory wanders too far.

Rory later dies by escaping through the vent system later on.

P.s. I love this story because it solved Fnaf 4