His Formidable Return {Glamrock Freddy x Reader}

Chapter 10

It was hollow.

For some reason, the voices seemed to be getting louder, it was starting to hinder the usual routine. The thoughts were becoming more domineering, and the voice of the holder is seemingly shut out, underneath that raspy voice of something long forgotten.

Just, what was it?

"Vanessa?" her train of thought ceased to a stop when your voice echoed in her head. She turned to your direction; her eyes weary.

"Yes? Sorry, I wasn't listening." Vanessa dismissed her previous thoughts, the voices were simmering down—but she knows they're still there, lingering when silence comes. "Have you found anything yet?" she addressed, recalling the very reason why the both of you were communicating here in the first place.

You simply showed her your tablet, which was connected physically through a USB cord from the main computer in the security office. "Says here, there has been some disagreements in deciding the stage positioning. The technicians assigned passed the control over to Freddy to decide in the end."

"Really? Tell me something I don't know yet. Seriously." It seems that this so-called 'discovery' didn't impress Vanessa at the very least.

After the whole fiasco, you decided to take it into your own matters to investigate what really happened, there should be a programming error if so, right? Because, logically, the commands will have to pass through the technicians before it is approved, should the animatronics take liberty in editing a few commands.

If so, then the staff should've noticed this flaw right away before the animatronics got on stage, right?

Unless.

"There's no data pertaining to the commands entering the command queue after it passed onto the system, when the usual protocol follows the step-by-step sequence of its approval before the command is enforced in their programming." You insisted while tapping onto the long list of records which recorded timestamps of each and every action done to the system, whether it's systematical or manual in entry.

"So, you mean to say... the stage positioning protocols... bypassed the administration system?" Vanessa understood what you were trying to imply, but the possibility is far too stretched that it seems hard to believe something like this—is actually possible. "I mean, sure, technology could do anything nowadays but the systems have been very strict over the months. It's impossible to bypass security protocol with commands so crucial as that."

"Why? Are the admin staff the only ones who could approve of these commands?" you asked in return. Technology—specifically, programming, was never your field of expertise. However, your days with Vanessa and the animatronics—especially, Freddy, has taught you a thing or two on how these protocols and programming codes are enacted to fruition.