A Vengeful Fox (A Five Nights at Freddy's 2 Fanfiction)

Chapter 5: The Real 'Souls' of the Animatronics

Bonnie 2.0 sneered as he and his friends approached the night watchman. Suddenly, his vision screwed up for just a millisecond, but when he was able to focus again, the security guard was gone. In its place were three floating gold words that read “It’s Me Assholes”. Bonnie heard roars of anger as the other animatronics gazed at where their prize had been a few seconds ago. Bonnie looked around and saw Foxy lying broken on the floor. That improved his mood slightly, as the two factions (the old and new animatronics) did not like each other, and only worked together because of their common goal. However, Bonnie was still mad enough to kick the office chair skidding across the room.

Steve glanced around, wondering what weird game the animatronics were playing at. They were all roaring in confusion and searching the room for him. The phone rang. Steve picked it up and held it to his ear.

“Hey, uh, can’t believe that actually worked. I never knew I could give them hallucinations too. Uh, you might be wondering what’s going on here, ahem, well I’m Golden Freddy, nice to meet you. It’s, er, been a long time actually. Um, you see, how this works is I was robbed of the ability to move upon my death, but I gained the ability to give, uh... people... thoughts. Anyway, as you’ve noticed, the animatronics can’t see you, funny story actually...”

“Why can this guy just never get to the point?” Steve muttered to himself.

“Alright, alright. I, uh, don’t know how much longer I can keep it up for though, so... hey, good time to improve your sprinting skills, right?”

“Wait, you can hear me? But all the other messages were recordings!”

“Yeah, uh, funny story that. Um, it appears that every time I try to talk about the true nature of this place, I get taken over. Oh right! Foxy! I’ve er, noticed that Foxy isn’t quite as bad as I thought so ah, I left him without a hallucination. In fact, all the other animatronics think he’s dead!”

“She,” Steve corrected. “Foxy’s a she.”

“Oh, my bad.”

“Okay, where are you? I’m not leaving without you.”

“I, ah, I’m in the Parts and Service room, under a pile of junk. In the Golden Freddy Fazbear suit.”

“Okay, I’m coming.” Steve slammed the phone down and sprinted, motioning for Foxy to follow. He dug through a pile of rubbish until he found some gold fur. He hauled it out and propped it up against the wall.

“Hey, glad you found me,” his voice was distorted and demonic, barely understandable. “Could you do me a favour? I don’t want to live like this, so if there was any way you could kill me...?” Steve gasped, then nodded. He couldn’t deny Goldie’s last wish. He pulled the mask off his head, ignoring the skull that fell to the ground. A few scraps of rotted flesh dropped off it, almost making Steve vomit. Steve couldn’t find any clue, and was about to tell Goldie such when he saw something. A small hard drive in the back of the exoskeleton head... Steve looked at it from behind and gasped. A few bits of old flesh fell off and Steve recognised them as part of the human brain. There was a wire there that they’d been clinging to previously.

“No,” Steve murmured. “It can’t be possible.”

“What?” Foxy inquired.”

“Look. His brain... was downloaded onto this hard drive!” Steve and Foxy exchanged a look. “There’s no curse or possession, it’s just computers and science. All of the animatronics have a human’s brain in their systems.”

“But I don’t have any of their memories, and he did,” Foxy pointed out. Steve tapped her head.

“But what if the brain wasn’t fully downloaded? What if you only received the ability to think and feel freely before the download was interrupted?” Foxy nodded slowly, at loss for words. “The missing children...” Steve pondered.

“So, uh, if you don’t mind. Could you, ah, yank it out? Kill me?” Steve nodded, sliding the device out. He dropped it on the floor and smashed it with his foot a few times.

“The hallucinations will have disappeared now,” Foxy reminded him. “You should get moving.” Steve sighed, nodded, then got up and left. Foxy lay herself against the wall and pretended to be deactivated.