Die in a Fire (Across the Years Part Two)

One by One

Elizabeth eyed the lake. It had taken a while for her to find this place, but the news article had claimed that Fazbear's Fright was just a little way down the road, in the nearby amusement park. That meant that, if her father had escaped the fire as she was sure he had, he would more than likely have come here.

He had to have.

Come on. You're an Afton. You're brave.

And you can save him.

Taking a leap, Scrapbaby leaped from the shore and hit the water, sending a large, loud splash into the air as she slowly sank to the bottom.

* * *

Below the surface, the ruined version of Springtrap desperately swam through the water.

It had gotten stuck, trapped, and sealed down there by a very angry spirit. The spirit of a young girl with black hair and fury in her eyes.

Time was meaningless when you were fighting for your life.

Cassidy leaped onto the monster again, grabbing him by the throat and growling as she struggled, attempting to keep him down.

"Die, damn you!" Cassidy hissed. "Why won't you die?!"

Scraptrap, as she had taken to calling him, shrieked in pain.

Neither of these creatures needed to breathe. Neither needed to shield their eyes, or warm themselves.

Which was why they could be down here for so long.

Cassidy shoved Scraptrap into the rocky ground. "Just die already!"

Scraptrap just kept trying to crawl away from the one thing he was truly terrified of.

Cassidy sighed, releasing him and rubbing her forehead.

Why wasn't this working? She knew that spirits could be difficult to get rid of-hell, she was a spirit that was difficult to get rid of-but there had to be some kind of solution.

There was always heat and fire, but that was impossible in the bottom of a lake. And Cassidy wasn't about to leave Afton behind to go grab something, or drag him above the surface where he could be seen.

Other than that...electric shocks? No, that just stunned the suits.

Cassidy's only option was to make him suffer, to make him hurt until he gave in, and let himself be killed.

Unfortunately, when the spirit looked back, Scraptrap was gone.

* * *

Elizabeth gasped a little as her head broke the surface of the lake, still in disbelief over her luck. She'd found him, so easily? How was that even possible?!

As the scrapped robot pulled herself to shore, she pulled her clawed arm up, revealing an old, scrappy, rotted rabbit animatronic that was still stumbling away from something in fear.

Afton gasped, grabbing at the shore, pulling himself to freedom.

Elizabeth eyed him. "Father? Is that you? Are you there?"

Scraptrap looked over at the edge of the muddled water before shrieking and turning, running away as fast as he could, quickly disappearing into the trees.

"Father!" Elizabeth shouted, her one normal hand reaching out to him as he ran.

"What the hell did you just do?!"

Elizabeth froze, then turned to see a young girl with black hair, glaring furiously at her.

"Do you have any idea how difficult it's been to keep him captured?!" the girl yelled, enraged. "I have given up years to make him face justice, and when I finally have him where I want him, you wade in and ruin it?!"