WELCOME TO TALLY HALL!

CHAPTER FOUR: Before the day starts.

 It was yet another quiet morning at the carnival for these five robots, and four of them were sitting on the stage, pondering about the same thing that they have always been pondering about: The Accident that happened 10 to 13 years ago! Ross was drumming a few beats until he stopped and looked down for a second then looked at Joe. "Hey, Joe." Ross randomly said. "Yeah..." Joe said, not looking at him. "What are you guys thinking about?" Ross asked. "Isn't it obvious from our curious but really sad expression?" Rob answered his question with another. Ross then looked back down because he knew exactly what they were talking about. "Oh." he then said quietly. The silence weighed down on the environment heavily until there were four knocks on the locked entrance gate. Joe looked up to see a man in his 30s with dirty blonde curly hair and a very familiar face. He wore a work uniform jacket on top of an orange shirt and he also had on black jeans with some white sneakers. "You guys are still thinking about the incident, huh?" the man asked. "Yeah, kinda. I just feel like something's off with it." Joe says as he got up from the stage and walked to the entrance, grabbing the keys as he walked past the employees' stand area. As he got to the gate, he unlocked it and let the man in. The other members stared at him. "Bora! You're back!" Zubin smiled as he ran to Bora and almost hugged him, but stopped and tried to be cool. Bora opened his arms for the hug, besides he already knew Zubin was gonna hug him because he goes through this every morning when he's on his shift.

"So, how did the night go with the newbie?" Bora asked Joe and Zubin as the three of them walked back to the stage. "Well, it was kinda rocky at first. But we-'' Joe tried to reply but got interrupted by Bora. "What do ya mean by 'kinda rocky?' You didn't go all Freddy Fazbear on them as you did with the others, did you?" Joe then jolted and stuttered. "U-uh... Well, we did at first, but - but - but..." Then Ross helped him out. "BUT it turns out that she's just a nice person who just wants to do something for once when it comes to her bestie and helping them out." Then Andrew completed the explanation. "And it also turns out that she played a song with us during one of our concerts, y'know the kid we brought up to the stage when we noticed how cool their guitar looked?" Bora then took a short breath, as if he remembered. "Yeah, now I do!" Bora exclaimed. The silence went on again. "So, we gonna practice again or what?" Rob asked suddenly. Zubin groaned. "Didn't we just practice last night?" Ross shrugged as if he had no clue. Joe then commented. "Hey, remember that song we did on Happy Monster Band? Practice makes perfect." Rob did a small cheer as Zubin agreed to practice. Bora watched as they practiced the same songs they were practicing last night. After the practice, Bora sighs with a bit of reminiscence and mourning, as if he remembers the times they were alive and playing those songs. What more projects could they have done if they were alive? What else could they have done to entertain their fanbase?

9:00 am, Bora decided to do a test on every ride in the carnival. He hears the sound of a skateboard stopping and being picked up by someone. He then looked to see a flat-chested, tall, tan female with black curly hair and different-colored eyes wearing a work uniform jacket with pins that logos of her favorite bands on it, the jacket was being worn on top of an oversized blue t-shirt with the design of a synthwave cityscape and it was tucked into some high waisted baggy jeans, she also wore some sneakers. She was wearing her guitar case like a backpack and had a bag full of breakfast in her right hand. "You came pretty early to help River for the noon shift, don't ya think?" Bora joked and the girl laughed. "I'm Lake." She introduced herself. "And I work the night shift." She continued. "Bora Karaca, volunteering 24/7 for the morning shift. But only to see these five goofballs." He chuckled after that. "Lake, you're here!" All five of them yelled excitedly. Lake slightly smiled as she walked to the stage and sat down on the edge of it to put down her stuff. "You actually remembered to bring your guitar!" Joe smirked, Lake then softly elbowed him. "Of course, I remembered! You reminded me last night." She smiled. "Well C'mon, let's see it!" Andrew said happily. Lake grabbed the case and put it over her lap, and unzipped the case to open it and reveal the beautifully designed guitar. "Whoa." The men said as they looked at the instrument. The guitar had the same design as the one she had was she was younger, it was the shape of a Squier Affinity Series Telecaster Deluxe and it had the exact color palette and artwork of the Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum album in the front and the artwork of the Good & Evil album in the back. "It looks like the one you used to have but larger!" Bora said while Lake picked it up. "Yeah, and there's another bit of update in the back." Joe was referencing the back of the guitar.