Pop Goes the Balloon

Job 1x3 - One Pissed Off Bird

"What about hide and seek tag?"

Just to make sure she wasn't charging after you, you take a look at the watch's location for Chica. She was indeed at that trash can, though Bonnie's icon was right beside her. You watch as the two icons slowly move towards the bakery. Looks like Bonnie saved you.

With a sigh you continue to the raceway. You weren't sure how pissed Chica was, but best-case scenario Roxanne would help. And even then, Bonnie could handle her. You stop at the Fazpad Cafe entrance. Like many other nights the lights in the cafe remained off. With quick check of your phone, you look through other ongoing issues in the plex, seeing if anything was wrong here.

Stolen phones, a STAFF bot or two malfunctioning, some criss-crossed wires, crosstalk, or other minor issues but nothing in the Fazpad. You continue on, going through the employee entrance that led to the walkway above Roxanne's domain.

Roxanne's area was the 'Raceway', named after her. One of the largest areas in the plex, it was effectively her 'home'. Its mainstay was a large go-kart course that she consistently dominated (even when staff asked her nicely to lose once in a while for the kids). Another section was stylized as a large sandbox, the likes of which were inspired by aliens and the 1947 Roswell crash. Kids would often dig, find 'treasure' [coupons for other things in the plex] and build sandcastles.

Surprisingly, cleaning sand out of the animatronics wasn't actually a problem. Of course, the gritty stuff could get stuck but like sand-in-clothing they could feel when there was a problem. And even then, getting the sand out was nothing a leafblower couldn't fix.

Currently, part of that area was under construction, Roxanne deciding she needed to spruce it up. She didn't care much for aliens, clearly. Though the Raceway was connected from the main hall you preferred the employee entrance. It gave you an aerial view of the area, giving you a look over at the whole enclosure.

Before you could take a step into the raceway however, something grabs your attention. A ping from your watch.

'The Avenger challenged you to a duel!', Chica wrote in a text. A second later another one came in, this time from Bonnie. 'It's true!'.

...A duel? Nevermind the raceway or Roxanne, you dial Chica on the fazwatch, video call.

"That's right, (Y/N)!" She declared without an introduction.

"Hihiihi, (Y/N)!" Bonnie shouted. He grabbed Chica's arm, putting himself in the video screen. He looked as he always did, a purple animatronic rabbit, though holding his face way too close to the screen to the point you couldn't make out anything but glowing purple eyes.

"Hey Bonnie." You replied. "(Y/N)! Did you see the muffins Chica baked for me? Ohhhh they're soo cool! They're gonna be so good in the clinic!" He said, cheerily. He spoke in his usual high-pitched, cartoony voice. He was always happy to see you.

"Yeah I-"

"Oh, you should try one! After the duel!"

"Okay, okay, what duel?"

"Move out of the way you big bunny." Chica said, pushing him out of the way. You could see Bonnie standing behind her, ogling the muffin like it were a jewel.

"I just spoke to the Avenger, and she said she challenged you to a duel! Said that you took my, I mean, her trash away, that she was, uh, going to throw out! And now we...she wants to make things even."

"You want me to duel the Avenger?"

Duel, as you understood meant take-10-paces-and-shoot, take-swords-and-stab-each-other or even joust. None of those sounded particularly inviting, let alone safe. Maybe she meant with the laser guns? Where did Chica even learn of 'duels'?