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Vanessa Diego [FNAF AR, Renegade AU]

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Published: Apr 07 2024

CK animatronic maintenance and R&D Robotics contract with Faz Ent has ended, but their stories are far from over.

Vanessa Diego used to work for Silver Parasol until she left in 2017 after the HW incident stole away the face of one of her friends, an eye from another friend, the sanity of her sister, and more harrowingly enough, partial control over her own body.

She told her friends that it was for thier own safety, and it really was: she didn't want to put them in danger by keeping the thing that had harmed them so much so close by, as she knew that whatever - or whoever - it was that had posessed her in such an unconventional way wanted her friends dead for their 'failure to properly harbour him'.

She started a new job somewhere else, that place being CK animatronic maintenance, but the she went on a camping trip a few days before, but got stranded by a storm when she tried to head back to the car park, so she kept her camp up and intended to just hold out, but she heard someone nearby fall and scream, so she found them - a man about her age, all on his own, and in really bad shape with a twisted ankle and some cuts from the undergrowth - and brought him back to her camp to patch him up. After he woke up and they had a small conversation, she realised that this was Luis: one of the guys who runs the maintenance firm she was due to start working for tomorrow.

She found her and Luis's first meeting to be cute, but wasn't sure why he never brought it up. Maybe he just didn't remember.

Though, she did get along with him very well, and him with her, so she started going out for coffee with him! She doesn't know what he calls it, but she calls it a date!

Though her new job wasn't all fun and games with William sitting in the back of her mind and all. Some days, William would force her to have the day off her normal job at CK animatronic maintenance to do her 'Faz Ent work', as William put it, because she had to go to abandoned Faz Ent HQs in order to have a 'propper meeting' with William on the man's own turf, and on one of these excursions where Luis had tagged along, William had tried to kill him, but with quick thinking, she did what she had to do to keep Luis alive: by 'attacking' him herself, only causing enough superficial wounds with two hits of a bat to trick William into thinking that she actually meant it, when in reality, it was the only way she could have kept Luis alive.

Later down the line, whilst she was working on some chip sorting work as a part of the contract that Faz Ent had made with CK animatronic maintenance, a virus got into the computer systems, and it wasn't William: he was already where he needed to be. It was Adelaide. With both Aftons in the systems, things started to go horribly wrong, and after getting a nasty shock from the servers when she was helping Luis clean them up, more things statred going wrong: Faz Ent seemed to be trying to kill them.

The Adelaide incident was the culmination of everything that had gone wrong so far. Ness just counted herself lucky that she hadn't been there for it.

Several days after that incident, William had made Ness ill in order to strand her at home and used her weakened state to effectively hold her hostage in her own apartment, only letting Ness leave the apartment to pick up deliveries from CK animatronic maintenance's office. He did this so she could use the V_A account to extract Adelaide, who had gone into hiding in the systems due to R&D robotics catching onto her next plan too quickly and leave the pure computer virus behind. Though going to the office to pick up deliveries was how Ness was saved: William went to pick up a delivery, and Anna and Raha were able to jump her, scaring William for long enough for Ness to take back over.

It was confirmed once again: she was posessed by William. Everyone knew that William Afton had been manipulating her somehow, and even though they had confirmed that he was possessing her several times, this just confirmed their worst suspicions: he had never left her head and knew everything.

Every time they had thought that Ness was safe to speak or even think, William had always been there. Leeching off of her body and mind. Playing along.

Ness then moved in with Luis for three reasons. 1: she could no longer bear her apartment. 2: safety in numbers and not wanting to live alone. 3: she loved him.

Somehow, aside from William occasionally taking over and the occasional mandatory visit to an old Faz Ent HQ, their lives were somewhat normal; Ness had been able to avoid killing anyone so far, and she seemed to have William under control. Ness and Luis had even gotten engaged. Everything seemed OK.

Until the late autumn of 2021. The worst month and a half of their lives.

It started when William finally took over Ness and spirited her away to the megaplex across the other side of the country: she had been kidnapped by a ghost. Then, he forced her to kill. But she always did everything she could to stall: she has plenty of wounds from attacking herself to buy William's victims more time. A month after she was initially kidnapped, Luis had finally been able to track her down: Faz Ent had many HQs, and they could be rotating her through any number of them to make it harder for the police to find her, but it was pretty clear to see where they had been holding her: she'd been at the megaplex the whole time. The police (mostly just Mike, Danielle, and Carl with the weight of the world on thier shoulders) couldn't get a warrant as there was not enough evidence even though they knew, and her sister was in a risky situation of mutual blackmail against Bill Blake, but despite the flow of information being slow and risky, Luis had found her using what little he had to go off of. Sylvia had also fed Luis what she knew about what needed to be done to save Ness.

And on the night Luis played the second arcade and was primed to play the third, William almost made her kill Luis. Twice.

She and Luis had been fortunate enough for Luis to survive both times, but it still terrified her how close to the wire it had been for her to wretch back enough control to give Luis a shot at defeating her in the east arcade early in the night, and how much begging it took for William to allow her to heal him after PQ3 didn't let him in.

Fortunately, less than a week later, a child named Gregory found Luis's notes on the arcades, and that combined with Sylvia beating the other arcades that had kept PQ3 locked, Sylvia and Gregory wound up in a mutually oblivious tango that ended with Gregory able to play PQ3, unaware that Sylvia was nearby and that it was her presence that let him in whilst Sylvia was terrified that the kid would take the coward's path and set the staffbots on her sister. But Gregory chose to save her and succeeded.

Gregory and Ness had mutual knowledge of eachother beforehand: Ness knew of the Clone 46 experiments, and Gregory knew of the original Patient 46. So it was no surprise that Ness had adopted this orphan who had been forced to live through her trauma.

A week later, Mike, Danielle, and Carl had managed to secure enough evidence to get the warrant they needed to raid the megaplex: a raid they'd been planning since Ness went missing. Whilst it went rather well on the evidence front, Ness, Sylvia, Gregory, Cassie, and Mike faced one life threatening situation after another. Though they seemed to be the ONLY group with such bad luck. Come six AM, those who wanted to face off against William stayed to descend into the deepest heart of the megaplex whilst everyone else evacuated. Of course Ness was amongst those who stayed.

The deepest heart of the megaplex was underneath Roxy Raceway. That is where Adelaide kidnapped Luis, used her control technology to turn him into a killing machine, and then sent him to attack them. Ness managed to take the feral assassin down and remove the control module, but she felt herself getting posessed, and that's when they met Gaz's deceased father who helped Ness thwart William's attempts. Then once the C location guards plus Gaz dispatched Daniel Discord, their former manager from their Freddy's days, Ness was finally able to confront William in a battle that took more of a psychic form, using the ghosts within to force the remnant William was using to rebuild his body to bend to the will of the people and force William to burn himself alive. Whilst Adelaide extracted William before it got too risky, the Burntrap body was now no longer viable, setting back William's plans.

After that, Ness thought it was over, but Faz Ent wouldn't let Ness go that easy. They sent Cheryl M., Todd C., and Charles Ramirez to kidnap her, and unfortunately, they succeeded and brought her back to the megaplex. Those three seemed to be trying to figure something out, and that something involved them cutting her skin open from sternum to stomach, but she was able to use the blood as a tripping hazard to slip away and hide in west Arcade where she found Freddy's head next to an arcade machine that was playing a short clip of Cheryl's ambush on Sylvia and Gregory.

Sylvia and Gregory had mobilised to save her, but also wound up getting ambushed and kidnapped by Cheryl, and it's a clip from that ambush that Ness had saw on the screens, but it didn't set the duo back and they quickly found a Ness who wasn't sure if she was alive or dead. When they were about to escape, Cheryl, Todd, and Charles Ramirez ambushed them and the trio wound up kidnapped and separated. Ness wound up stuck with Todd in the Fazerblast control room, but was quickly able to knock Todd out before he could continue with whatever faux-medical analysis he was trying to perform on her. She then met up with Sylvia, who seemed to have one of Adelaide's control modules on her chest courtesy of Charles Ramirez, but she also seemed to not be swayed by it. The sisters then saved Gregory, who had been forced into running a deduction by Cheryl. Gregory said something about Cassie dying trying to save him, so when the trio were about to escape for real, Sylvia stayed behind after detonating the remote demolition explosives she had been leaving about the megaplex (she'd gotten a gig at Stan's budget demolitions, the company the courts hired to demolish the megaplex, so Sylvia was only doing her job here), whilst Ness and Gregory used Sylvia's car to get to the hospital.

The next time Ness saw Sylvia was about 40 hours later, and Sylvia was with an unconscious but alive Cassie.

During Ness's hospital stay (she needed so much treatment not just for the wounds inflicted by the exec trio, but those she had sustained whilst under William's control too), William attempted to possess her, but to Ness's surprise, he was contained and suppressed: the ghost of her own dad, who had gone missing when she was very young, was possessing her, and had been since the end of the Raid.

Once everyone was finally able to go home, the nightmare wasn't entirely over. Ness beat herself up over it all until the ghosts of the victims William had killed whilst using her as a vessel told her in no uncertain terms that they knew that she was posessed and had done everything she could have and more to try and prevent their deaths; they'd all seen her stab herself to buy them more time to run, but in the end, the animatronics got most of them.

She was fortunately able to internalise this, and it helped her make one of the most important decisions of her life: when presented with the possibility of a literal human prison being used to contain William Afton - he'd escaped from Scraptrap, his own undead body, before so trapping a robotic body of his in a regular prison would achieve worse than nothing - Ness jumped at the chance to permanently keep William contained and out of the hands of Faz Ent. Nobody was exactly surprised.

When the day came, Ness, Sylvia, Cassey, the samurai ghost known as OMC, and Cassie all worked together to lure William into a VR game that Faz Ent used to train it's megaplex staff and trap him in a fourth Princess Quest game that Sylvia, Cassey, and Ness had put into the game. Cassie was able to lure William to where Ness was waiting, where she essentially consumed him, the Vanny avatar crushing him in her hands, Ness absorbing his ghost and trapping it deep within.

Thanks to a pair of control bracers (bracers designed for those posessed by violent ghosts to be able to keep the ghost from taking over thier bodies) and the constant effort of herself and her dad's ghost, Ness is able to live normally amongst the public and is happy with her role as the Warden.

She is able to live with Luis, and now Gregory too, and live the normal life she'd always hoped for.

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Luis Cabrera [FNAF AR, Renegade AU]

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Published: Mar 31 2024

CK animatronic maintenance and R&D Robotics contract with Faz Ent has ended, but their stories are far from over.

Luis Cabrera and Anna Kwemto started CK animatronic maintenance in 2017. In order to fund starting out the maintenance firm, Luis got a job working in IT for Fazbear Entertainment in 2016, and his employment time overlapped with the time that the HW project was in development, so he was working there at the same time as Silver Parasol was working there. That is how the network monitoring system got onto his device.

Luis quit working at Faz Ent in 2017 to work at the maintenance firm full time. After Ness started working at the maintenance firm a year later, Luis started receiving red flag reports from her computer. Because he doesn't have that kind of tracking shit installed on any computers at work, he looked into it and found that Ness's work laptop and his work laptop had the tracking software on it, despite both of them wiping the virtual machines they installed anything they needed for their Faz Ent work on.

When CK animatronic maintenance received a contract from Faz Ent, things begun to get concerning. The circuit boards that were sent through to be scanned and catalogued let Adelaide sneak into the system and it started with the animatronics sometimes attacking. When the attacks started, Luis had noticed Steve walk into storage, slightly dazed but he was going to get something, and followed him to make sure he was ok and able to get what he needed from storage, only to see Foxy rush at Steve. Luis pushed Steve out of the way in time, but wound up with a gash in his arm in the process of defending him from this would-have-been animatronic assailant.

And whilst Adelaide was chaos enough, William had also been able to slip into the systems using Ness herself as his attack vector.

Luis and Ness wete not present for the Adelaide Incident's main event. William had demanded that Ness check in at an abandoned HQ so he could get an official update on why she hasn't killed anyone yet, and Luis had gone with her in order to preserve her cover story. It wound up being for the best that Ness hadn't been near the maintenance firm at the time, as who knew what William might have done.

When Ness fell mysteriously ill in the aftermath, something nagged at the back of Luis's mind more than usual. Ness's first day had been delayed by a day though due to a hiking incident caused by a flood that got both CK animatronic maintenance and Ness stranded in the woods the night before, but he - despite Ness saving his life that night - didn't know that the lady in the woods was Ness: he couldn't remember due to his injuries, but he was too terrified to ask as being saved my a mysterious lady in the woods reminded him too much of the Yuki-onna folktale, and the last thing he wanted was for William to take inspiration from that slight similarity and pull out all the stops to control Ness to either kidnap her or make her kill him of he dared mention it. After Ness's illness was revealed to be just William himself taking over entirely, it made him not want to mention it even more, as it was perfectly plausible that William would do exactly what Luis feared he would.

When things seemed to be going well after Ness was rescued from William turning her into a shut in and she had moved in with Luis, and when Ness finally seemed to have everything under control, he told her about the hiking incident.

That night, William decided to strike: he took over Ness's body and spirited her away to the megaplex.

Luis immediately reported Ness as missing.

Luis went practically insane trying to track Ness down himself, as everyone mobilised at once to try and figure out what was going on, but progress was too slow for Luis's liking. Sylvia, Ness's sister, had taken a job at the megaplex all the way across the country in advance as a just-in-case measure, and with her having to privately contact Mike directly about any goings on, someone at the megaplex was clearly forcing her into silence. Then when Mike took the rest of the paranormal department to hurricane, it was pretty obvious where Ness was being held: the only thing between Mike and saving Ness was how impossible it would be to get a warrant.

So Luis went in himself, using the account Faz Ent still had for him in order to instate himself as a technician. He found the arcades William was using, and almost freed Ness, but the third arcade didn't work. An exec tried to kill Luis for finding out about the arcades and for almost freeing 'Vanny', but Sylvia saved him by tackling the man, causing the bullet to land in Luis's shoulder instead of in his head.

Just under a week later, Ness was saved by a kid called Gregory who had used the messages Luis had left behind in order to figure out that the rabbit lady was a victim of something and that the arcades would free her. He had been able to play the last arcade as Sylvia had dealt with the other linked arcades.

Ness being freed gave Mike the evidence to get a warrant to finally investigate the megaplex, but instead of just a rescue mission, it would be a full blown raid with everyone who had ever been hurt by Faz Ent getting involved.

During the Raid, right at the end when a small task force went to try and investigate under the Raceway, Luis amongst them, Luis was kidnapped himself by Adelaide, who was able to use similar technology to the masks she used back at the Adelaide Incident in order to control him. A control that was short lived as once he was unleashed, he dispatched a bunch of Endoskeletons before turning to attack Ness, from whom a single punch broke the control modules she had put in his back enough for him to wind up out cold enough for Ness to remove the module from his chest.

After the raid whilst staying in the temporary accommodation Mike had arranged for everyone who had cone from far away to participate in the Raid, Luis thought everything was over, but then Cheryl M., Todd C., and Charles Ramirez, a trio of Faz Ent execs, broke into the flat Ness and Luis were in and kidnapped Ness. Luis tried to stop them, but wound up getting shot in the shoulder for the second time in two weeks.

He wound up hospitalised again, and was drifting in and out of consciousness, unable to help anyone. He knew that Gregory and Sylvia had been able to save Ness, and that Sylvia had gotten herself left behind in the process, and he knew when Sylvia came back with Cassie thirty eight hours after Ness and Gregory got to the hospital, but the details surrounding everything were beyond him.

Once everyone was recovered and he was home, the final hurdle was Ness becoming the warden. He was terrified that it'd fail, but thanks to Ness now being also posessed by her own dad plus with her also having access to the control bracers, it went off without a hitch, though he does worry still.

So years later, whilst from the outside looking in things look almost the same as they were back in the pre-Breach incident days, everything has actually changed, and the final results were ultimately for the better, and he hopes that himself, Ness, and now Gregory will finally be safe from the horrors Faz Ent loves to throw around.

#2024 #art #artwork #fnaf #fnaf au #five nights at freddy's #renegade au #fnaf renegade au #fnaf fanart #fnaf ar #fnaf ar special delivery #fnaf ar emails #fnaf ar luis #fnaf luis cabrera #fnaf luis #luis cabrera #luis cabrera fnaf

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Steven Wilson [FNAF AR, Renegade AU]

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Published: Mar 24 2024

CK animatronic maintenance and R&D Robotics contract with Faz Ent has ended, but their stories are far from over.

Steven Wilson and Jim Campbel were childhood friends, but Jim drifted apart as they both grew older. Steve got into the IT field to try and find him again.

Whilst a great programmer, he tends to disassociate a lot. He gets everything done, but struggles to look busy. This made it hard for him to find a job, but a job found him instead: Anna Kwemto came to him in 2017 after seeing some of what he'd been able to do. She didn't mind how he'd zone out if he had nothing do, because as long as everything got done, everything was A-OK.

However, this did mean that nobody noticed, not even Steve, when Adelaide possessed him in 2020, allowing Adelaide to orchestrate the Adelaide Incident almost undetected.

The only changes made within the maintenance firm after that was 'nobody in the building after hours: everyone out at close' and 'just check up on Steve more frequently to make sure he's ok, especially if there's nothing to do, because even light conversation can throw a spanner into the works for a ghost trying to use someone as a vessel'.

However for Steve, 2020 was a very tumultuous time anyway, even without Adelaide making things worse.

It was around then when Faz Ent released their monthly obituary lists for all the dead employees, and Steve found Jim's name, 'James Campbell', amongst them. He couldn't cope with his childhood friend's death, even with help from Anna and co. And after the Adelaide incident, he felt like this was how Adelaide was able to possess him so easily.

In retrospect, he now knows that it was completely the case, as Jim wasn't actually dead at that time: the obituary list was a lie.

Jim actually died a few years later, some time after the various megaplex incidents, like the Breach, Raid, and Ruins incidents had all concluded.

After Steve thought that it was all over and he could try to start the grieving process.

The incident that really took Jim's life was a kidnapping. Several people from CK animatronic maintenance and R&D Robotics were kidnapped by an increasingly desperate Faz Ent, and Steve was amongst them. Faz Ent wanted to kill those who it kidnapped in order to harvest remnant in order to resurrect Adelaide, though they planned to keep Anna alive as she was to be Adelaide's vessel, just like the plans of the Adelaide incident.

Jim died by offering himself as a sacrifice in Steve's place to buy Steve more help, as Jim knew that help would definitely arrive, just not when.

Jim's sacrifice worked, as it brought enough time for help to arrive before any of the kidnapping victims could be killed, but Steve had now just lost Jim twice.

Many years on from all of this, Anna keeps close tabs on Steve's mental state, not because she's his employer, but because she legitimately sees him as a friend, and she doesn't want him to suffer. Especially not alone.

#2024 #art #artwork #fnaf #fnaf au #renegade au #fnaf renegade au #renegade au guards #fnaf fanart #fnaf ar steve #fnaf steven willson #fnaf steve #fnaf steven #five nights at freddy's fanart #five nights at freddy's #fnaf ar special delivery #fnaf ar emails #fnaf ar

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Raha Salib [FNAF AR, Renegade AU]

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Published: Mar 17 2024

CK animatronic maintenance and R&D Robotics contract with Faz Ent has ended, but their stories are far from over.

Raha holds the coveted title of most normal person at CK animatronic maintenance. She's not the daughter of some Faz Ent scientist (that's Anna), nor is she the childhood friend of one of Faz Ent's home-base IT and technician team (that's Steve), she didn't get posessed by a malicious entity either (that's Ness), and she doesn't have any relatives who almost died working at Freddy's in the 80's (that's Dan).

Whilst Luis and Mark come close to being normal, Luis has a crush on Ness and when she was kidnapped back in 2021, he drove himself insane trying to save her. And as for Mark, if it wasn't for his dyslexia, he'd have probably hacked every government organisation by now.

Raha has never driven herself to insanity, nor does she have some super advanced talent. She's just a skilled roboticist who Anna hired at face value who suffered a head injury between her interview and hiring, ... And had to fight against a mind controlled and posessed Anna, Mark, and Steve during the Adelaide incident a few years later.

The bar for normal is low, ok.

After the incident, she kept on doing her work as usual. The more mundane stuff, such as finding out that Ness had been kept in her apartment by William so grabbing her when she showed up to collect a box William jad made her order, and helping Ness move into Luis's house because Ness and Luis had been a thing for a while at that point and Ness had become terrified of being alone were the main things she'd cite as 'normal stuff', alongside sometimes having to punch a robot whilst having to drill the casing off.

After Ness vanished without a trace, she was the maintenance firm's main grounding rod of normal, because Luis was driving himself insane trying to find Ness, Anna was terrified, thinking that maybe her own familial ties to former Faz Ent scientists was what got Ness kidnapped, Mark was freaking out because of the masks and what if his mask wound up with him getting spirited away, and Steve was terrified that he was next as he had been posessed by Adelaide. Raha was the only one able to keep a level head. She couldn't stop Luis from going insane, but she was able to save everyone else.

After the Breach, Raid, and Ruins incidents were all over, if you asked Raha, she'd say that things were back to normal.

Because everyone was now here again. Everyone was still alive. This is her normal.

And she's still rather talk about the Adelaide Incident, Breach, Raid, etcetera than talk about her parents; they're not bad (well, her pops is a little bit backwards and senile, but her mum's great), but talking about them and especially how they met just makes her cringe.

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Mark Cho [FNAF AR, Renegade AU]

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Published: Mar 10 2024

CK animatronic maintenance and R&D Robotics contract with Faz Ent has ended, but their stories are far from over.

Whilst Mark is one of the best programmers of his time, his dyslexia made it difficult for him to code as a job because nobody would give him the time of day to take it at a pace where he could get the spelling of everything right, so instead, he applied for the role of a cleaner at CK animatronic maintenance back in 2017 when Anna was first setting up shop. Anna saw his hidden talents and hired him on the spot, figuring that one day, she may be able to help him achieve his dreams. Whilst he does spend most of his time making sure that the animatronics stored and maintained at CK animatronic maintenance are in top cleanliness condition, sometimes emergencies happen.

Emergencies that required all hands on deck.

When dealing with the first wave of Adelaide and William's virus that had swept through the systems in late 2019/early 2020, anyone who could code was on network duty, and anyone who could weld, drill, or otherwise manage the physical bots were on restrain and repair duty. Mark found himself working with Steve, Luis, and Ness to try and figure out what was going on with the virus in the network, whilst Anna, Dan, and Raha dealt with the bots and thier faulty circuits.

Feeling as if he finally found some people who were OK with how he coded, he asked Anna if he could do more coding things after the emergencies passed, and she said OK!

He'd take some programming tasks to help out Luis and Steve, and she'd take on any cleaning tasks regarding any rooms or robots that give Mark the creeps.

And whilst the events surrounding the Adelaide incident did traumatise him, he had a group of people to help him grow around what happened, and he does feel better knowing that he's not the only one with those pinprick scars from Adelaide's masks on thier face.

Now several years later, the deal still holds, and Mark enjoys being able to use his talents more, and has even been able to develop some things of his own in his downtime now he has the confidence.

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I have a FNAF theory, and I wish to share a compendium of all of it's evidence and logic with you.

That theory is TalesVRWorld!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13uEGSQ0DJQHxxYO1vbchTEBDibKXYKb9w0jZMBKOQ90/edit?usp=sharing

It's not my boldest theory (that would be my theory that FNAF 4 was a series of digital conciseness transfer experiments), and it's not my most on-point prediction (that would be multiple locations), and it's certainly not my most "Paige Wins by Doing Nothing" theory (that would be FNAF AR is in 2020 and Movie Mike is a Schmidt and NOT an Afton). BUT it is the one that I've had to put the most evidence in to support it, and you know what? It's pretty solid!

My AU uses this theory, as I initially made the theory after hearing Dawko's tales summary of Under Construction, and I actually turned the concept of Tales taking place in a VR environment into a major plot point in my AU in order for it to not mess with my own plans for the megaplex. That rolled into me realising that everything in tales DOES in fact make more sense if it all took place within a VR Environment that was created by Fazbear Entertainment. Setting Tales in a Faz Ent run VR Environment keeps tales within the world of the games, and it in and of itself answers many lore questions, so it fits the criteria for the only things that have been confirmed regarding how tales links to the games.

Those aforementioned 'links' are that some marketing makes the claim that it's in the world of the newest FNAF games (could mean SB era, could mean the Freddy in Space trilogy because 57 > 9 and Freddy in space is FNAF 57), and that it answers questions about the lore (and what I want to know is how Faz Ent got back on its feet after FNAF 6, and TalesVRWorld - before you look into everything else it solves - solves this with "with a lot of trial and error in the background where nobody could cause them real financial harm for their mistakes"). And with those two boxes ticked, that puts TalesVRWorld in the running for being a theory that could be canon.

Important note: The compendium is very unfinished. It's a Work In Progress, but I'm working on it!

And the most important bit: I made this compendium so that anyone and everyone can use this theory! For their own theories! For their AUs! So they don't feel as if they're using somebody else's AU if they want to incorporate the idea of Tales taking place in a Faz Ent run VR environment into their own AU, because now they can! Because it's not purely an AU idea, but a full-blown theory!

#five nights at freddys #fnaf #fnaf theory #talesvrworld #blinkie usage #blinkies #flashing gif #talesvrworld was created to promote creativity and old-style fnaf theorising #because I love the old theories that were bat-shit insane like the fnaf 2 moonbase theory #and I feel like plausible yet FUN theories are becoming a lost art

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[GORE] Fearless Knight [FNAF, Renegade AU]

Artwork: https://www.deviantart.com/paigelts05/art/GORE-Fearless-Knight-FNAF-Renegade-AU-1027254556

Story: https://www.deviantart.com/paigelts05/art/1027256606

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54220564

Published: Mar 1 2024

An all staff meeting and a pink slip. The higher ups are trying to kill everyone and hide their plans, but Officer Vanessa Sylvia Blake isn't about to let that happen. A quick tackle should have spelled freedom, but all the doors were locked: the only option is to survive until morning, and with a blackout in the daycare, letting the daycare attendant run rampant in its more homicidal form, Sylvia must put herself on the front lines of this battle to prevent it from taking any lives.

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Sylvia had been working at the Pizzaplex for over a month now.

Just a week or so longer than how long her sister, Ness, had been missing for. Ness had been gone for three weeks. She had been told half a week after her disappearance. That's when her mission went from scout and prevent to search and rescue.

Communication between herself and anyone else privy to her sister's status had been scarce, so it was no suprise that when she and Luis exchanged information on what had happened this past month, both sides were shocked to learn what they didn't know.

But that didn't matter right now.

The fact that she had omitted her time as a paranormal responder from her CV when she applied to this position, making her look disturbingly underqualified, didn't matter now either. She'd explained away her ability to fight with a half truth of its origins to most of her colleagues, but only a small few whom she trusted knew her secret of being a paranormal responder.

None of that mattered right now, as what did matter was surviving.

Her sister was somewhere out there being puppeted around in a bunny costume, the majority of the staff except herself had been laid off, and the staffbots and large animatronics alike were trying to kill everyone.

Not to mention the blackout in the daycare.

There wasn't time to have a meltdown when you had to focus on keeping a robotic moon at bay in order to protect your colleagues from certain death.

Behind the security desk should have been a safe haven, but somehow the light of the screen was not enough, so someone had to fight: and that someone was Sylvia. But she was not unarmed. She had a knife from the chef who had been collecting plates down here, and a tazer from an old guard who had ran here, thinking that this may be where his granddaughter would likely be.

The old guard's granddaughter, Rachel, went M.I.A in the day running up to this night, and was still missing. She was presumed alive but locked in.

There was no sign of the girl, but no sign of a corpse either. She hoped the kid would be able to handle herself. After all, she had her grandpa's level 4 security pass: there should be no need to come to a dead end like the daycare for anyone who needed to be running loops around this place to evade it's dangers.

And that was all the more reason to keep beating down the moon.

If she could keep it here during the hourly recharge cycles, she'd be able to give the kid a better shot at surviving to find one of many enclaves of staff who were fighting for thier lives just as she was.

The moon retreated for a moment, and no threats were present in the immediate vicinity, so she quickly shot Luis and the rest of the staff a message to warn them about the daycare attendant's behaviour, and that whilst she had been holding the robot back, that it may escape this hour or the next so to be prepared.

The lights had flickered off twice so far this night, so she knew it was nearing two AM.

The daycare attendant would be trying to escape again.

Seeing it use its pulley cable system to escape the confines of the daycare's play area arena, Sylvia broke into a sprint after it. Seeing it fly over the stairs, she placed a hand on the stair railing and vaulted up and over. She sprinted up the rest of the stairs like a wild animal and her boots continued to collide with the grass coloured floor until she came up to where the wall on her right became a barrier separating her from the daycare's lobby. She launched herself into a vault, clearing the low barrier with ease before she dashed over to the door, intercepting the daycare attendants path out of this contained enclave just in the nick of time.

She delivered a swift kick to the robots casing, jostling some parts but not detering the creature from attempting to pursue easier prey outside of the daycare. Another kick send the robot several steps back, but the ground she gained was quickly reclaimed by the advancing machine.

She had tried zapping the daycare attendant previous nights, but nothing ever came from it: the stun gun was for dealing with the staffbots and main attractions, and her combat knife wasn't much better against this foe. She could cut some wires on the back of its head to deactivate it beyond repair, but that would probably cost her her job. That would be something for when her sister was freed: not now. She had to think about what could be repaired.

She may have been armed, but with nothing effective against the daycare attendant, as even torches didn't do anything, she was effectively unarmed.

She was being pushed back into the corridor, and she saw the fountain getting closer out of the corners of her eyes.

But regardless of how much ground she was losing, she had one goal that kept her going: she couldn't let the daycare attendant reach the entrance lobby.

Nearby, she spotted a lifeline: a broom that had been discarded in the commotion.

Sacrificing some ground, she dashed over and snatched it up before immediately turning it on the robot.

It was as effective as a kick, but was far safer, and she could pull it off far more frequently.

Wood collided with metal as she fought off the animatronic, pushing it further and further back, and even into the daycare once more.

Her arms ached, but there was solstice in the hum of electricity as the lights switched on around her.

The moon hissed as he retreated back to the daycare. He would have turned back into the sun if it was not for the blackout in the daycare itself, but at least the rest of the building being lit up like Blackpool illuminations ensured that during the bulk of the hour, the daycare attendant would not attempt escape.

The first hour had not been so bad: she had managed to fight it back with her bare hands. This hour had been exhausting. Sylvia didn't think she'd be able to pull it off again.

So how was she supposed to handle this machine for another four hours?

Sliding down the railing and running back into the softplay area, she did a quick headcount, and everyone was still alive and no more injured than they were before the turn of the hour.

Breathing a sigh of relief, she returned to the usual fight: defending the security desk from the robotic threats.

It had just turned two AM, and the moon lurked back to the play structures, waiting for a chance to strike, and seemingly communicating with the main network to call upon the other animatronics.

Staffbots flooded through the open soft play area door, and despite the barrage of enemies, Sylvia knew what she had to do.

Using her broom and knife, she fought tooth and nail.

She slashed and stabbed at the staffbots, making the damage look as natural as possible, anything that could be brushed off as a natural snap of a wire. But her best method of pushing back the horde was sweeping swings of her broom. Again she had plausible deniability due to how the main animatronics acted during these hours. Blame the virus, blame Freddy or Monty, and excuse whichever would be more plausible to blame in the same breath because none of the animatronics can remain themselves unless they're in safe mode, and she'll be in the clear.

After all, they didn't decommission Monty after what happened to Bonnie.

Her thoughts were interrupted by a sudden sharp tremor in the floor and sound of plastic tiles being splintered by the impact of something large and metal. She pivoted on the spot to face this new threat, and saw a blur of green.

Claws slashed across her chest as she lept backwards, blood stained Monty's claws and she felt a stinging pain across her chest. But the wound wouldn't be fatal: she'd live, but need medical attention soon.

As she reached for her stun gun, an incoming staffbot forced her to divert her attention to eliminate it before it could get to her colleagues hiding behind the desk. She was quick in dispatching the enemy with the tug of a single cable, but as she turned back to face the larger threat, she found it was right in front of her.

As she unleashed an electric charge onto the animatronic, he attacked back. Unable to properly slash due to the unexpected charge coursing through his circuits, Monty used his might for a straight on punch instead, sending Sylvia flying into the desk. The back of her head connected with the edge of the desk. She didn't have time to scream before everything went black.

She wasn't dead, but she was out cold and down for the count.

Just over twelve and a half hours ago.

It was 1:30 PM.

Sylvia felt like everything was falling apart, everything was crumbling down.

"Everyone… Everyone but me… Gone?"

Two emails.

An email addressed only to the security team stating that most of the security team was being laid off and a notice that at the 11-something PM meeting today, more layoffs would be announced.

And an email addressed to only the security team listing everyone on the security team asside from herself, a list of everyone who was being laid off.

She sunk to the ground, and couldn't stop herself from shaking and crying.

"It's not my fault It's not my fault It's not my fault It's not my fault It's not my fault It's not my fault It's not my fault It's not my fault It's not my fault It's not my fault It's not my fault It's not my fault It's not my fault It's not my fault It's not my fault It's not my fault It's not my fault It's not my fault It's not my fault."

She repeated these words to herself over and over until they didn't sound like words, the loud music blasting from the other side of the wall did nothing to drown out her panicked mantra.

She heard work boots crash against the ground and turn into her office. "repairs to cabinet 46 - 2 are complete."

Sylvia knew what Luis meant.

Her voice was shaking, but she had to tell Luis what had happened. He wasn't security. He wouldn't be mad at her.

"Great, but we have bigger issues. There's a massive staff layoff happening regarding the night staff, and I'm the only one not getting the sack." She felt her voice shake worse than before and her throat felt dry, "I've got to hide. It's not my fault. It's not my fault."

Her mantra resumed, "it's not my fault," over and over.

Whilst she was curled up, she saw Luis check his phone. She didn't know how much time had passed, but when she saw his face turn to a grimace and heard him mumble "Shit -", she knew he had seen the email that had been sent to everyone.

"I've got to hide." Sylvia felt her voice shake as she mumbled to herself, "I don't think I can show my face."

"I'll help." Luis replied, his determination shining through. She guessed that this is what her sister saw in this man, "I think you should hide in the showers. If you keep the curtains closed and water on, nobody should bother you."

"But my uniform will get wet." Sylvia knew that Luis was full of odd suggestions - it was how he and Ness had made it this far - but she didn't quite understand this one, "then everyone will know I just hid."

"Not if you put the shower hose directly into the drain." Luis replied, quite confident in his solution.

"Then there'll be no noise, dumbass." Sylvia chuckled a bit. She didn't know that she could still laugh after what had happened, but she was glad that she did, "I'll just point it at the wall and stand on the other side. That'll work better."

She saw Luis nod, but before she went out, she had to change how she looked.

She pulled her hair out of her low ponytail and forced it into a much higher one in the centre-back of her head. She then placed her cap on her head and closed the back of the cap under the ponytail.

"It's not much, but it should be enough for me to slip by without anyone instantly recognising me." She tried to muster up some of her confidence, but she was drained.

The two then walked out of the office, and as they navigated the arcade, which was so full of customers with so few staff that it wasn't as nerve wrecking as she had imagined, they made it to the elevator. She silently signaled to Luis to refer to her as anything but her real middle name. She'd signed on as 'Vanessa Andrews', a fake ID that her father gave her to prevent hiring managers from suspecting either of them of their secret agendas: Bill of nepotism and whatever the hell his 'greater plan' was, and herself of corporate espionage.

She still used her real middle name when her colleagues asked what to call her, so they knew her by Sylvia. Now, she didn't want them to know who she was at all.

Once the doors were closed, she mumbled, "I think I know a route." She knew she sounded less like her brash self and more like a scared girl, but she didn't care.

She watched Luis pull up a camera map on his maintenance tablet and turn to her. "Point it out," he said in a reassuring tone.

The camera that was currently active was the elevator camera, and the image was about as clear as Fazbear Entertainment cameras could get.

The map was situated in the bottom right corner of the screen with camera information and status above it. Even though a quarter of the screen was usually empty - reserved for setting up a second camera to be displayed at the same time as the first in the top left - she preferred this maintenance UI to the fazwatch UI for many reasons. The two camera display being and the easier to use camera map being most of them. She hovered a finger above the screen and traced a line across the map, quickly set up the second camera to show the atrium before setting ot back to empty, and re-pathed her route, ignoring the safety in favour of a time save.

"That's the shortest way," she said as she pointed out the final route she planned, "but there are people here, here, and here. They might recognise me, but we've got to minimise the time we spend in the open."

"Right," Luis nodded as the elevator doors opened, "Let's do this."

The duo made a b-line for the nearest stairs - technically deactivated escalators, but what's the damn difference - and only looked dead ahead. Sylvia could already feel herself shaking and knew that if she looked off course even a little, she'd wind up checking around herself like a paranoid wreck, and with the creeping dread already threatening to take over, she didn't want to look even more suspicious.

By the escalators stood one of Sylvia's colleagues: a day guard. Whilst the night staff had been completely wiped bar her, day staff also had deep gouges to its numbers. This old man was one of them, but he didn't look like he knew it yet. Besides, having to put on a happy face whilst the world crumbled around you was probably why: his granddaughter had gone M.I.A within the Pizzaplex this morning. He was probably more worried about her than he was about this job.

She hoped he wouldn't notice her, but he turned to them and spoke.

"Why, you look pale. Is everything ok?" The old man asked. He was kind, and even though she considered him a friend, neither knew each others names. It was just 'old man' and 'blondie'. She secretly hoped that he was computer illiterate.

"I just feel a bit ill. That's all." Sylvia replied, feeling a lump in her throat. It hurt to hold back so much from this old man, but at least what she said was mostly true. Just… With some information expunged.

"Well, why don't you go and get some fresh air when your break starts." Old man smiled back.

"Yeah, I will." Sylvia nodded back. She felt her head spinning and knew that she should probably go outside, but given what was happening, outside would not be safe. She couldn't go outside. Not now.

Sylvia gave a hasty goodbye, practically certain that her cover was blown, but regardless, she and Luis dashed down the escalators and then immediately down the second set; the guard stationed at the lobby-atrium elevators didn't even get the chance to even spot them.

Once on the ground floor, the door that lead to the elevator to the locker rooms, laundry rooms, and loading docks was not too far away, but between them and that door, Sylvia knew she'd have to pass one more of her colleagues on this route, and right now, one of them was right in front of the door.

And it was a friend of hers too.

Even though she tried to sneak past her friend and colleague without a conversation, he started to speak.

"Hey Sill! What's with the hat? You doing ok? You look pale. I heard about the layoffs. Kinda sucks that they're letting so many people go, especially seeing as you just got transferred to that shift, but hey! At least you won't have to work at this dump anymore."

Shaking, she took a deep breath. She knew that if anyone would take this news well, it'd be him. After all, this friend was day staff, so was unefected, at least for now. Her heart beat echoed in her ears as she struggled to keep her voice hushed. "No, that's the thing. "I'll be the ONLY one on the night staff."

After a slight silence, the friend replied.

"Yikes, that sucks balls. I couldn't imagine being stuck here all night, let alone on my own."

At least he was sympathetic. Hell, everyone had been sympathetic so far. She considered the possibility that only the night staff were aware of the entire situation, however, any of the day staff that had a night shift would know. Even if one person knew, word could spread. She didn't know what she was more afraid of.

Once they finally arrived at the staff only zone, containing the kitchen, mail room, showers, locker rooms, laundry rooms, and almost anything else Faz Ent' wanted out of the public eye, Sylvia took a little breath. She couldn't breathe any deeper than that, so it'd have to do. After all, she couldn't relax. Not when it sounded like there was a war being waged in the cafeteria.

As they drew close to passing the doors, they swung open to accommodate a table that flew down the corridor and crashed into the wall. It bearly brushed hers and Luis's noses. Another step, and they'd probably be dead, or at least in critical condition.

She stared at the remains of the table in shock horror as she processed that somebody had torn a table from its fittings in the ground and had thrown it at full force out the door.

The adrenaline kicking in, the duo ran as fast as they could towards the locker rooms, and once there, Sylvia threw herself into a shower cubicle and whipped the curtain closed in the blink of an eye.

She hoped that her colleagues had the common decency to not barge in on someone they believed to be having a shower.

This is where she and Luis had agreed to part ways until the commotion died down.

She just hoped that her future brother-in-law wouldn't get himself killed.

But she still had something left to do. She tilted the shower head to the wall and switched the shower on, creating the illusion that someone was in here and having a shower.

She found herself retreating into the corner with each voice she heard. Some mentioned her name, all of them mentioned the sudden layoffs. She was scared of what may be being said, but she wanted to know.

She tried to listen, but could bearly hear a thing.

"Poor girl, are they trying to kill her?"

Someone felt… Pity?

For her?

She shook herself as tears fell from her eyes. Her throat burned as she tried to stop her eyes from betraying her, but soon she felt her breath hitch in her throat as she choked up more tears.

People felt sorry for her.

And she would rather them hate her.

She pulled her hair out of its ponytail and stared at the bobble, as if it would give her guidance.

'I'm not some weak defenceless child. I don't need sympathy. Please, just hate me instead.' she mumbled to herself as she subconsciously tilted the shower head from the wall and towards the centre of the shower. She let the cold water mask her tears and soak into her uniform, making standing up an unbearable chore.

She let herself collapse to get knees on the shower floor as she cried, hoping that the sound of the shower would mask the sobs and the water itself would hide her tears. And despite all the water around her, her throat felt strained and dry.

Thoroughly drenched with no more tears left to cry, she clawed her way to her feet and switched off the shower. She felt as if she had been staring at the wall for minutes before she opened the curtain and headed to the lockers.

She grabbed one of her towels and wrapped it around her shoulders, as if that would miraculously dry her, and she sat down on a bench and stared off into the distance. She felt that her hair had already thoroughly soaked the back of the towel, but she didn't care anymore.

She heard footsteps approaching, but they were not those she had been taught to fear, so she didn't care who it was.

"What happened?" She recognised her brother-in-law-to-be's voice anywhere. Luis had returned from whatever the hell he was doing whilst she was busy hiding. She appreciated that he didn't ask if she was alright though, as they both knew the answer already.

"Nothing." She replied, shaking from the cold and the fading adrenaline, feeling hollow inside, "I decided to give myself a cold shower. You know, try and clean all this away. But I overheard some people talking. They pity the fool forced to stay the night."

"You're not a fool. We both came to work here for a reason, and we're so close to achieving that goal."

Luis was as optimistic as ever, but she knew many things that he didn't, about this place, and about the Exec's involvement in turning Ness into Vanny.

"And then what." Sylvia replied. She could feel herself shaking even more, and she knew it was from fear, "Father isn't going to let me leave. Hell, he may even force me to take up her mantle. And besides, I was the second. Cass and I may have compartmentalised that thing whilst we thought of a solution to get rid of him, but clearly, even after she removed him from the game, he had already found someone to take over."

Her father, Bill Blake, her benefactor and manipulator, was forcing her to stay. Jeremy had been posessed by Glitchtrap before her, then it had posessed her, then it had been Cass's turn, and only then had it fallen to Ness.

From the look on Luis's face, she gathered that he was unaware that she had been through what Jeremy and Cass had been through. After all, how would she expect him to know? She had no scars to prove it.

"So Cass was the third." Luis replied, his tone accepting and ernest.

He had taken her word for it, and for that, she was glad. But she still felt like an imposter compared to them; the one who got away clean and uninjured.

"And Ness was the fourth. Jeremy sacrificed his face, Cass her eye. And what did I give? What did I give to be free? All I did was force him back and we split him up and forced him into Cass's tapes." Sylvia found herself yelling, not at Luis, but at herself. "If I gave nothing, did it even leave?"

"It left you alright." Another voice spoke from behind them before walking into view. It was a man with short dirty blonde hair, a sweatband on his wrist, and the upper half of his face covered by a visor. Sylvia could recognise her best friend and colleague, Jeremy the beta tester, from anywhere, and she assumed Luis recognised him too. He then continued talking. "Does it matter that you didn't have to give something? You forced him out."

Sylvia decided to stay quiet. She didn't want to concede, but if Jeremy, the guy who lost her face, told her that it didn't matter that she didn't have to sacrifice a part of her body to get rid of Glitchtrap, then it was probably something he wouldn't back down on.

"Where's the tough girl I met in coding class?" He asked.

Sylvia paused for a moment before she made her reply, she felt her voice shake with worry as she spoke the only other question she had on her mind that she knew only Jeremy could answer. "Why are you here."

"Well, I heard you yelling from … A while away."

"No, why are you here at all."

"I needed the cash."

Sylvia glared at Jeremy, and he shrugged.

"I'd tell the truth, but I can't in here."

Sylvia nodded in reply. She had already told him about the bugs, and she was glad he remembered, because she had almost forgot herself.

It was clear that everyone was on the same page.

Despite her hair still being wet, she tied it back in her usual low ponytail whilst everyone including her stood in mutual silence, waiting for someone to announce their departure.

Sylvia decided to break this silence and head over to her locker. She had to change out of her drenched uniform, which would make a great excuse to let everyone get back to what they were doing before.

"I'll stay here. I think I'll freeze if I go out there, and I can't exactly return to my post if I'm drenched, can I?" She opened her locker and was looking for her second uniform. "I'll catch up with you after I change though."

"Alright," Luis replied, "I'll see if arcade cabinet 46-3 is working."

"I'll help you dry off." Jeremy added, "I've got a hair dryer in my locker that you can use, and someone's got to pass you things and take things so you don't wind up changing into an equally wet uniform."

Sylvia felt rather dumbfounded, but quickly realized she was only a bit less soggy than she was when she stepped out of the shower. "Right," she nodded as she passed her second uniform and towel to Jeremy, who had just retrieved his hair dryer

Sylvia then turned to Luis. "I'll send a message to your tablet once I'm done here," she said as she gave Luis a nod before he left.

Luis nodded in reply with a "counting on it," before leaving the locker room to head to Fazerblast.

That was the last time she had seen or heard from Luis. After that, she begun her patrol, attended the later-than-what-should-be-legal meeting that turned into riot 2.0 where she had to tackle and physically restrain an exec to stop him from shooting the now former lead tech of the now disbanded service team whilst said service team easily annihilated a wave of staffbots. Then, she had headed to the daycare to ensure it had been evacuated of both children and staff before closing. And that was how she wound up in the daycare as the clock struck 12, and she didn't know if to curse her luck or if it was for the best.

After seeing the events of the day flash before her eyes, she had a horrible notion: she felt almost ready to accept defeat.

She tried to move, but she felt as if she had been pinned down in a dark void.

Breathing was a chore.

She couldn't die here: she had to keep fighting, to save her sister from Glitchtrap, and save everyone from this company.

She forced her eyes open, and could hardly see. Regardless, she pulled herself to her feet, using what little light she could see and her sense of touch to guide her. She felt as if she was thousands of leagues under the ocean, but as much as her body refused to keep on fighting, she pushed herself anyway despite the pain.

As she tried to survey the room once more to locate the enemy, her head pounded, and for a moment, it almost looked as if she wasn't in the Pizzaplex anymore: it looked like a castle. She looked at her hands, and they looked like she was wearing knights gauntlets, but then they looked normal again.

Even though she was heavily injured and her previous injuries were also coming back to haunt her, she was determined to pick back up where she had left off. She'd be damned if she was going to let the reason why she had been shoved into sick leave in the CPD paranormal department be the reason why people died today.

Even though the substance that had been injected into her during that ambush on that failed mission was distorting her perception of the world around her, she knew she could still fight.

From the structure of her surroundings, she knew who was who and what was where. She knew that the green clad baron in front of her was Monty, the jester was the daycare attendant, and the silver knight and cook behind her were the old guard and the chef respectively.

She knew how her condition effected her: each individual would only appear one way; once her mind decided what they would be to her, that apparition would never change.

She had seen the old guard before when she was in this state. She had seen Monty before when she was in this state. She had seen the daycare attendant before when she was in this state. She knew she could identify who was who, regardless of her condition.

Regardless of being able to tell people's apparitions apart or not, it was still easy to identify her foes, as the knight and chef were cowering behind the long solid backed desk, and the baron and jester were primed to attack.

And the robots would never cower.

She knew who her enemies were.

The baron and the jester will die.

Taking the knife in her hands like it was a sword, she rushed at the towering green clad baron, and as she struck the beast, she heard metal collide with metal. She let herself smile with a sense of satisfaction as she landed another swing, the clash of metal on metal a comforting noise: she was attacking the right entity. And so what if she was threatened with the repairs coming out of her paycheque, she won't even have a paycheque if she dies here.

The baron took a large leap backwards and roared, the robotic roar of the mechanical alligator not distorted by her condition. The angle of barron's face was not fitting the movements that he made: that snout of his always made his maw a bitch to keep track of. She knew from experience that she'd have to be extra cautious about Monty's mouth: she couldn't see it, and even the baron's hat was not enough of an accurate indicator. As the roar subsided, the barron charged at her and she made an upward swing with her blade to fend it off. Despite her illusions not even giving her a shield, she raised her off-hand as if she did have a shield, as her upward swing left her liable to be attacked and she didn't know how else to defend herself from the incoming retaliation blow.

Which may have been a mistake.

Invisible teeth clamped through illusory armour as Monty's jaw clamped around her arm, which was only shielded by the cloth of her work shirt.

The gator tried to pull her about, but she remained firm footed. She couldn't let herself get thrown off balance and she knew that if she wanted to keep not just her life but her arm too, she'd have to act now to get the gator's jaw from around her arm.

Knowing she had to be doubly careful as to not sever her own arm in the process of the stunt she was about to pull, she used the bite markings and blood to pinpoint where the gator's face would be in relation to the barron's, and in a single moment, she drove her blade through the barron's head, and therefore she had drove the knife through Monty's robotic shell. Whilst she still couldn't see the real world, only the hallucinations that covered its form, she knew she had landed the blow as the vice grip around her arm had gone slack and she was able to pull it out from where it had been stuck.

Despite the pain the series of puncture wounds in her arm caused her, she had to press onwards. The jingling of bells drew closer, and she saw the silhouette of the jester.

The lunar beast spoke, but she didn't understand the words it was saying as it danced around her. The bells on the jester's wrists jingled in a rythm as it danced about, and she let it circle around her; she just had to keep facing it, and she wasn't about to wear herself out running around it. If the jester wanted an opening, it'd have to make one, and Sylvia was sure that when it did, it'd open itself up to an attack from her blade.

She kept letting the jester run circles around her, as all she had to do was pivot to remain facing the beast. The jingling of the bells told her when the jester was about to rotate it's arc of movement the other way, and all she had to do was pivot about. It appeared to be a stalling match, and as the jester switched directions again, she was concerned as to what it was stalling for.

As she heard the cue for a change in direction again, the distance between her and the jester rapidly closed as she found it leaping at her and it's hands firmly around her neck. Breathing swiftly became impossible, and she thrust her blade forward to hopefully send the beast backwards.

Metal collided against metal, but the grip around her neck didn't falter. Sylvia's vision begun to grow dark, and she begun to see the Pizzaplex in its real state once again.

She saw something she didn't notice before. A length of solid metal sitting on the table next to her. She couldn't make out the shape, but it was shiny and looked hefty enough.

With what strength she had left, she grabbed the length of metal and swung it at the jester's head.

The grip around her neck came swiftly undone, and she could breathe again.

Before her vision re-distorted, she noticed the length of metal she was holding was a solid steel rod that was usually used in concrete supports. Once her vision re-distorted entirely, it became a silver club.

She kept the knife in one hand and the solid steel rod in the other. Now knowing which weapons were effective against whom, she kept an eye on both enemies at once and kept the appropriate weapon braced to attack.

The right returned to a stalling match as the jester trod circles about Sylvia whist she pivoted to keep it in her line of sight.

With a jingle of bells, jester rapidly approached again, and this time, she retaliated by whacking the metal rod against it's head. That seemed to do the trick: it retreated and circled from a greater distance.

As she kept her focus trained on the jester, she saw movement out of the corners of her eyes. She stepped back to try and get both that and the jester into her line of sight, but both rushed her at once.

With sharp reactions, she retaliated with grace, landing swing after swing upon the jester.

Once she had beat back the jester, the thing that she had seen in the corners of her eyes that had been lurking and lunging just out of reach finally dove directly in front of her and launched it's own attack.

Sylvia saw the green clad Barron with an armour claw ring on each finger slash her across the chest.

Sylvia's colleagues saw Montgomery gator's claws turn from white to red as he slashed her across the chest for the second time this night. The wounds were deeper than the first set and she was immediately losing a lot of blood.

Even though she was still standing, they worried she was good as dead.

Sylvia was in pain, but as long as she was still standing, she could fight. She would win. Even though her vision of the world was a distorted mess flickering between hallucination and reality, she would keep up the fight.

The Barron rushed her again and she continued the deadly dance, evading attacks and retaliating with her own as she fought through the end of another hour, keeping both robots away from the desk whilst the lights were out. Monty stayed, but the jester escaped outside the confines of the daycare. However, she knew everyone else was equally fit to hold off that machine, especially since she had worn it down. Only those on thier own would need worry, and she was certain that nobody would be alone.

It returned with the chime of the hour as usual, but lurked in the back, retreating further and further from her with each failed attack.

The Barron also joined the daycare attendant in temporary retreat, giving Sylvia some breathing room that she didn't need, as it gave her adrenaline time to dissipate and force her to face her pain.

Silvia's injuries were beginning to catch up to her and thanks to the respite, she could feel it; the bite in her arm and the slash across her chest were both hemorrhaging blood, and the bruises left by the daycare attendant's attempts at crushing her neck made it hard to breathe. The corners of her vision were dimming too, which was a terrifying sign.

Whilst her animatronic nemeses had been forced to retreat for now, she knew they'd be back before long. Her vision begun to grow darker as she surveyed the area, paranoid as to where the next threat would come from.

Something jumped out at her from the shadows in the corners of her eyes. And she slashed it.

In the murky darkness of her vision, she saw the jester holding what looked like …

A generator cable.

With her knife embedded in the cable, she realised her mistake as a surge of volts coursed through the fully metal blade and handle and into her body, sending her reeling backwards, clutching her electrocuted hand.

Just as she thought she saw something out of the corner of her eyes, the world went white as the live wire was thrust against her chest, sending her flying backwards. Her vision became fully clouded in inky darkness before she felt herself collide with the ground.

She couldn't see or hear, she didn't know if seconds had passed, or minutes.

Pain wrapped around her chest.

'Am I going to die?'

She hadn't felt fear like this since she was four, standing in a courtroom during a custody battle, screaming to the court that she had been threatened by her father to lie about her mother: the aforementioned threat having been Bill threatening to kill both her and her mother if she didn't comply and lie. Telling the truth that day made her at least braver than the judge, who gave Bill custody anyway as Bill had threataned him also.

The pain continued, but it wasn't the pain of a wound being inflicted. It was a stinging pain.

Stinging.

Like… Antiseptic?

She forced her eyes open, and dim lights greeted her. The face of a colleague was also in view.

She breathed a sigh of relief; she had lived.

Someone had dragged her to behind the desk and patched up the wound on her chest. She assumed they had taken care of the wound on the back of her head too.

After being able to see again, she forced herself up, clinging to the desk for support. She was determined to keep fighting. The old guard tried to tell her that she needed to rest; that everyone else could fight. But she had witnessed thier wounds. He'd netted a group of gouges on his arms and legs, and so had many of the others she had seen on the cameras before she begun her fight.

Her mind told her that her sister, Ness, would not forgive her if she died here. But Sylvia had already decided that she wouldn't forgive herself if she let anyone other than herself die here today.

Even though she was probably the most injured of them all now; the gash on her chest, the bite in her arm, the electrocution; she had already made up her mind. She would keep fighting. She had always fought to the end, even if failure was imminent. Ever since she was a child, she would never go down without a fight.

The distortions had faded, but that didn't mean she could see. The room was bathed in an inky darkness which concealed any foe that was lurking in the back of the daycare.

Sylvia could see her own drying blood on Monty's claws as they scratched the air in front of her face, barely missing by millimetres. She retaliated with the swing of a knife, clipping a wire and carving a gash in the thick plastic casing, but doing no real damage to the bot.

A glint reflected what little light was in the room and she ducked under the gator's incoming claws as the animatronic doubled down on its onslaught of attacks. Even the slightest signs would make or break this fight, and as she retaliated with another swing, catching casing and clipping a wire, she contorted her arm to allow herself to dodge another swing before twisting her blade in the robot's circuits before cutting through the wires that the blade had gathered upon itself with a spin to combine this attack with a retreat.

The gator glitched, sparks flew, and he convulsed, but he wasn't giving up the hunt just yet. Sylvia heard bells and knew that the gator's backup was joining the fray again, forcing her to dual wield the knife and metal rod once more.

The daycare attendant made a leap for her throat, gliding through the air with aid from the thin cables that gave it the illusion of flight, but she parried the attack with finesse, batting each hand away with her weapons before delivering a kick to it's very kickable faceplate, sending the machine tumbling backwards and tangling it in it's suspension cable.

Sylvia had no downtime, however, because as soon as the daycare attendant had been sent flying, Monty had recovered and charged at her, arms outstretched. She couldn't use the same trick on Monty; he'd bite her leg clean off. So she had to take a different approach to interrupt the threat. And she had little time to think as the gator was not even five metres away and could clear that gap in no time.

Pointing the knife she weilded to the sky, she bent her knees in a slight crouch, and as the gator closed the gap, she lept upwards, thrusting the blade through the bottom of the gator's jaw, sending shards of plastic scattering everywhere. She used the metal rod to bat away one of Monty's clawed hands. Pulling the knife out and throwing herself backwards was enough to evade the swing of his other claw.

Sylvia was back on her feet in seconds, and she observed the gator to assess what it's next move would be.

The gator lunged again, and this time, Sylvia thrusted the blade into his chest casing and pushed her body as close to the animatronic's as possible. His wildly failing arms did not bend to reach her, even as she twisted the blade and cut many more circuits in the process. She had tuned out the gator's growls for a while now, but suddenly, something was more lucid about them. She must have cut either the right wire or enough wires.

Once the gator stopped flailing, she dove backwards and heard that slight flicker of lucidity fade back into the mindlessness of a machine only coded to kill once more. Once again, Sylvia observed the animatronics, awaiting thier next move.

And the gator's next move was truly unpredictable.

Battered and shattered, with wires hanging loose and casing flayed to expose an unkept endo, Monty finally fled the daycare. Whilst Sylvia would have preferred to keep the gator here, she was loosing the strength to keep fighting. From the messages she had received from her colleagues, she assumed that the others were likely in a better state to be fighting him anyway.

Despite the gator's retreat, the daycare attendant seemed just as poised to attack as it did before. Sylvia set down the knife and brandished the metal rod as her sole weapon: it was the only one she needed now and the only one she could wield as the pain from being bitten flared up in no small thanks to the brief rest in the action caused by the gator's retreat.

As the daycare attendant charged, she braced to deflect. Its approach was swift, and as she deflected it's first grapple, she wasn't sure she'd be able to react to the next. As it's hands rushed to her throat once more, she swung the metal rod to meet and divert it's grip, but she already knew that the back swing from her previous defence had already eaten her window of opportunity.

And all of a sudden, it was as if someone had switched on a floodlight behind her. A white glare engulfed the room and her shadow streched out in front of her in pure black, and in the murky light, she saw the daycare attendant hiss and run into the darkness of the play structures, lingering far away from the desk. What was once a fight drive back the daycare attendant away became a case of simply watching it linger in the dark, unable to come too close to the desk.

Squinting, she looked behind her, and the old guard waved.

"Sylvia, we've gotten the screen working at full blast again. We should be able to stay in here until morning."

"Great," Sylvia sunk to the ground, exhausted, "as soon as I've caught my breath, I can get out there and help keep others safe."

"You're staying here." The old guard placed a bandaged hand on Sylvia's shoulder. "We can't have you just running out there and getting yourself killed. You've done enough."

He was right: the daycare looked like a battlefield with the remains of staffbots scattered about, broken beyond repair. A clear 'death awaits all ye who enter here' to any bot with the ball-bearings to dare try to approach. Monty's sunglasses were also on the ground, so she picked them up as a trophy of her decisive victory; the only bot who was immune to the Faz-cam-flash-bang based defences that Jeremy stated he was implementing at the meeting was no longer immune. A camera flash or a lazer gun zap would now blind the gator, making him easy pickings for her more well equipped colleagues.

Sylvia gave it all a moment of tense thought before conceding. "Fine," she huffed, "I'll just find another way to help them instead."

She could already feel the pain of her injuries catching up to her now that the adrenaline had had a chance to disperse. Her arms ached, and her chest stung. She was still surprised that she had taken a slash to the chest, and the electric shock of a generator cable to the chest, and she'd almost forgotten about the bite in her arm.

She grabbed a maintenance tablet and begun to check the cameras, flicking through until she found someone out in the open - those bunkered down blinding and picking off bots didn't need aid as much as those roaming.

It was Julian.

Sylvia grabbed a headset and tried to contact Julian. She breathed a sigh of relief when he picked up, even more so when she saw that Patty and Rachel were with them.

Patty had been transporting Staffbots by herself before the staffbots were turned on the staff, and with how they attacked in the cafeteria, where cooperation had been a required component in winning the battle and ensuring zero casualties, she'd wrote the solo flyer off as good as dead: unless you have a team who has your back, one mistake against a staffbot spelled death. It was a relief to see her alive, well, and leaving a hypocritical trail of destruction in her wake.

"Look, I'm too injured to help you out in person, but it'll be like I'm there. I'll be your eyes in the skies," Sylvia said as she traced the animatronics movements throughout the cameras, watching where Julian and co were, "Freddy's on your left."

"Alright, but what happened to you?" Julian replied, using Sylvia's directions to ensure that himself, Patty, and Rachel were able to evade Freddy's line of sight.

"Had to protect some guys stranded in the daycare from the Daycare attendant AND Monty." Sylvia continied to flick through cameras as she replied and smiled as she noted some fresh gashes in Monty's casing: he'd failed again and it seemed that casualties would be low, if not zero. She hoped for zero. "I almost died twice."

"New record!" Julian sung, making an accomplishment out of it for Sylvia, "you know, you remind me of my dad's friend, Mike."

"I remind you of my boss how?" Sylvia replied, not entirely caring that someone may have listened in and discievred that she's a paranormal responder and not entirely surprised that Julian specified Mike's identity as being Krasnyy's friend, because the kid probably knew a few Mikes.

"Well, you throw yourself in danger to protect others," Julian hummed, "and went to work at a Freddy's location whilst you should be on medical leave in order to find someone you care about who has gone missing."

Sylvia paused for a bit. She got put on medical leave after coming to work here undercover to try and prevent Ness's abduction, but other than that jig in the timeline, Julian had it right.

"Monty's to your right," She replied, warning Julian of the animatronic but not acknowledging his point, "I've got his shades, you can flash-bang him with your camera."

"Coolio," Julian replied in a singsong voice as he held the Faz Cam at chest height and snapped a photo of the gator, blinding it. Sylvia could hear the robots roar of pain over the cameras. "That's going in the cringe compilation."

"How damaged is he?" Sylvia asked, keeping the conversation topic mobile, "I can make out most of the gashes but I want to see which ones are new."

"How am I supposed to tell?" Julian replied befire visibly craning his neck. "Several gashes caused by a short sharp object. On the front and head. Dents from a mid-length blunt object. On the front but mostly arms. He's been hit with either a table or chair several times. On the back. Dried blood on claws and mouth, probably just yours still."

"The dents are new. Thanks," Sylvia replied before checking the cameras surrounding Julian for any more threats that may have been lurking just outside of his line of sight, "where do you plan on holding up anyway?"

"Lost and found. It's got a door and vent in so it's surprisingly hard to get cornered, but if I seal the vent and door from the inside, it's basically an impenetrable safehouse," Julian replied as he blinded Monty again to give himself, Patty, and Rachel a window to sneak past, "we can't really be doing with managing door power between everything else, and the power doesn't even last five minutes anyway."

"Good call," Sylvia replied as she flicked through the cameras between Julian's location and the lobby. Lost and found was always a pretty safe place. Block off the door from the inside and seal up the vent, and you only had to worry about the Daycare attendant, who could be easily avoided by pretending to be unconscious.

It was a good thing that the robots didn't know the difference between death and unconscious: they always just thought they didn't kill you hard enough when you got back up from being 'dead', and whilst she'd been told to teach the robots, especially the daycare attendant, the difference 'in case of a legitimate emergency', Sylvia was not going to give up this lifeline. It was all the same if they thought an unconscious person was dead or alive anyway; she'd bribed the techs to override thier usual obfuscated protocols that definitely facilitated kidnapping and/or murder with a new one that phones 911 and calls for an ambulance on company dime in the case of a 'dead body'.

That new protocol had already come in much more handy, as even when she failed to protect someone, the authorities arrived soon after. She'd had to lie to management about the nature of the calls and sometimes smuggle officers in using cleaning trolleys, but it had been worth the risk. She remembered the incident a few days ago as if it were yesterday: she remembered the blood on Freddy's microphone stand, seeing the body, and wishing that the child didn't push her out of the way of Freddy's wrath. 'It should have been me not her' cycled through her head over and over and she felt herself shaking.

"Syl you've gone quiet. Everything OK over there?" Julian's voice broke the silence as it echoed through her headset.

"Yeah I'm fine," Sylvia lied. Julian probably knew; he'd grew up around a whole host of people whose 'I'm fine' meant 'I'm not actively bleeding out so there's nothing to worry about'. This was nothing new.

"If you say so~" Julian hummed. She was OK enough. He'd heard ragged breathing through this own headset, so figured she was still stressed out about the incident from a few days ago. That also explained to him why on this night she went to the daycare to find Rachel's grandpa instead of joining the other staff in trying to find Rachel: she didn't want to be around kids lest she accidentally inspire them to protect others as she did. "See anything on the cameras?"

"No." Sylvia saw no robots and no distortion on the path between Julian and co and the lobby. With what she remembered of what Jeremy had told her, she had her suspicions as to why Chica was AWOL this entire time. "Coast's clear. Chica is absent."

"Neat!" Julian smiled. Sylvia heard the smile in his voice.

Sylvia watched on the cameras as Julian and co made a mad dash for and through the lobby, and before she knew it, the trio had made it to lost and found.

After ensuring that the escape routes were planned out and the room was secure enough, Julian radioed in "thanks Syl."

"No problem," Sylvia smiled back. They were safe. But she kept watching the cameras for what was probably the majority of an hour or more.

She kept her eyes on the screens like a hawk, and soon it paid off.

A distortion blipped on the screen and the camera she was looking at cut out: it was the camera that looked over the double doors that connected the lobby to the day care.

She radioed in, "one of the cameras has gone out. You picking up any interference?"

"Yeah," Julian replied, "nearby electrical equipment is picking up a lot of interference. I'll check what it is."

Sylvia wanted to object, but knew better.

He radioed back in quickly enough. Worry was not warranted.

"I stayed near the vent, don't worry. It's an adult woman, early twenties, civilian clothing, and it looks like she's carrying an adult man, early twenties, repairman's clothes, he seems injured. Bridal style carry. Can't make out much else but I think I should know them. Trust my eyes to not see straight at a time like this."

"Where are they headded?" Sylvia asked in reply.

"Towards the daycare. You might be able to see them from where you are in a minute." Julian took a quick breath before adding a following statement. "Assuming you can see alright after what happened."

"Yeah I can," Sylvia nodded as she replied as she tried to find the duo on the cameras. She had no luck, as one camera would always be out, and the adjacent ones were full of static.

But that means an EMP circuit is being used.

The dead camera marked exactly where the woman was. The static showed what other camera she was closest to.

Sylvia gave up on the cameras and looked up to the walkway. By using the dead camera and amount of static on the surrounding cameras, she knew the exactly where to look. And it didn't take long for her to recognise both the woman and the man whom the woman was carrying in her arms.

"I see her," Sylvia said as she saw her sister carrying Luis towards the daycare theatre. Her vantage point was low, a given since she was in the gladiator pit known as the soft play area, but it was undoubtedly them.

Her sister was carrying Luis.

A chilling realisation hit.

He seemed critically injured, and Ness was in plainclothes. Something bad must have happened, and as she took a quick scroll of the maintenance logs, she already knew that it wasn't the outcome that she had hoped for: in fact it was far from it. She cursed herself for her failure to consider that there may be more steps, but she had to focus on the task at hand.

"And when I follow them, I'll be following them alone," Sylvia said as she waited for signs of anything.

The old guard gave her a look that told her that he was worried for her safety, but he wasn't going to try and stop her.

"Relax, I'll be safe. I promise." She said as she pulled herself to her feet and watched the cameras like a hawk as one by one they reactivated as her sister left thier detection radius. Sylvia waited to see if anyone left the theatre, waited to see if and when she needed to strike, and she planned a safe and efficient path for when she did.

Sylvia already knew about the remnant extraction machines around the building. She knew one was in a room that was hidden from the public, and hidden from many employees too, but she knew it well. So if her sister wasn't free and Luis was injured, there was only one place she'd go: the secret room behind the poster, behind the balcony of the daycare.

She knew that the human staff were safely holed up in groups across the megaplex and had disasembled the endos and staffbots that could have caused them harm. She knew that Ness and Luis would be alone in the secret room - after all, Sylvia knew that secret room just behind the balcony of the daycare well. She didn't need to interfere yet. She didn't want to make a bad situation worse with her presence.

Yet before anyone left the theatre, somebody else walked in: an exec walked past staffbots and Monty as if they were nothing, and he was headed to the secret room.

There was no safe route for her to get there.

But she'd have to take the risk.

Knowing that taking a safe route could wait, she shoved her way past the robots and made her way to the theatre herself. Whilst she had no logical way of knowing where she'd need to go, she already knew deep down, from the start, that her destination was the secret room. She may make ample use of that secret room but she was by no means the only inhabitant, and some staff were in and out frequently enough as they had to find the cables stashed there. She knew, and had always known, that they'd likely go there, and she knew the reason too: Luis was alive at a price that Ness was willing to pay. She'd made the deduction ages ago, yet as she approached the door, the revelation felt new.

As she stepped through the hidden door and passed through the corridor, the fear was already palpable. And as she opened the door to the hidden room, she found a panic stricken Ness, shaking and clutching a vial full of sparkling black liquid, looking as if she was prepared to crush it at a seconds notice.

It didn't take a genius detective to figure out what had just transpired.

Sylvia placed a hand on her sister's shoulder, and in unspoken agreement, they silently snuck into the side room.

Silently, Sylvia watched as the exec aimed his gun at Luis's head. The man's finger was on the trigger, ready to pull; there was no trigger discipline here, and she knew the man aimed to kill.

She had to act fast and act now.

As she braced herself to tackle the exec, she took a deep breath and steadied her hands. Ready for the pounce.

"MOVE!"

The bellowing war cry left her lungs as Sylvia launched herself at the exec, pinning his arm downwards and pushing him to the ground.

A bullet ripped through the air, followed by a scream.

Keeping the exec pinned to the ground was an easy task, and getting the gun away from the madman was even easier. She swore she heard the snapping of bone at some point, but she couldn't care less. As she managed to finish restraining the exec by binding the bastard's hands with cable ties, she looked over at Luis.

Upon closer inspection, his state was quite clear.

He was alive, but not well.

Sylvia turned to Ness and nodded. Her sister needed to know that Luis was at least not dead. "He's alive, I'll take the exec, you take Luis."

After Ness nodded in acknowledgement, Sylvia dragged the exec out of the side room, and proceeded to drag him from the daycare back room to the atrium by the collar of his shirt.

Ness carried Luis in an infinitely more gentle manner.

Upon arriving at the atrium, Sylvia dragged the exec down the stairs and dumped him in sight but out of anyone's way before heading over to where Jeremy, Julian, Patty, and Rachel were sat. Her sister aproached the group too, albeit temporarily in order to leave Luis in capable hands.

As Julian got to work on patching people up, Sylvia decided to spark up a conversation with Jeremy.

"So, how were you managing to hold up in the cafeteria for so long?" She asked, glad that they did but curious as to how and why.

"Well," Jeremy smirked, "it all started when we all received that email you had a panic attack over. Management tried to sic Chica and a wave of staffbots on us, but we beat her back well before you got down to the locker rooms yourself -" he mimed punching something, "and we've had her shoved in a closet since then. She's been gorging herself on all the pizza favoured crap we shoved in there to keep her busy, but the door's still barred. And remember 11? You tackled that manager whilst the service team eliminated the staffbots. Bet the execs were banking on Chica as backup, but she was spared from our wrath cos she was still in the storage closet of shame. Cafeteria's been a safe haven ever since."

"Management sic'd Chica on you!?!" Sylvia was could barely keep herself from spiraling into a bizarre mix of panic and joy, "what?!"

Far more dire things than what she had imagined had happened. Fazbear Entertainment's plan was to eliminate the staff in two parts, but all the company wound up doing was handing over an opportunity to make a safe haven for those they attempted to eliminate. She smiled at how ironic it all was for Fazbear Entertainment.

"Yeah," Jeremy replied, "they said something about 'we were saving this for the 11 pm meeting but we'll use it now' or some crap, I don't remember. I just remember picking up a chair and going in swinging."

"Bloody hell."

"It was, if you were a staffbot. Most of the staffbots down there live in bin bags now. And seeing as we've all made it up here in one piece, you don't have to smuggle anyone out in a cleaning trolley again," Jeremy grinned, "well, I'll go see if Gaz is ok."

"And I'll go evacuate everyone else who hasn't made it here yet," Sylvia said as she stood up, "I hope they're ok."

"Of course they'll be ok. They've had your guidance and training!" Jeremy replied.

Sylvia shook her head.

"I'm still worried it wasn't enough."

She had a route planned. One that would land her at the daycare just as the time of the power surge rolled around so she could make her last stand against the daycare attendant and shoo him off from the guys stuck there. A fight she already knew she'd win, because she didn't have to stop him, only redirect him.

Everyone would leave this building alive. Everyone would live to see the dawn, and beyond.

And if someone didn't want that to happen?

They'd have to do it over her dead body.

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#2024 #art #artwork #fnaf #fnaf au #renegade au #fnaf renegade au #renegade au guards #fnaf vanessa #fnaf officer vanessa #vanessa fnaf #security breach #fnaf security breach vanessa #fnaf security guard #fnaf security breach #fnaf night guard #fnaf night guard girl #blood #mild gore

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The Vanessaswarm, finally compiled!

Paige Reblogging art to her main? It's cos I was a part of this collab! Vanessa Sylvia Blake is in the centre, slightly to the left. (And shows how actually just dark my art looks because I take photos of my traditional drawings)

This was really fun to work on, and I'm so happy to see it come to fruition.

The Vanessaswarm! (Group art collab with the Vanessaverse guys!)

[list of artists and creators under cut]

Including the Vanessas and art from:

@notsodailycake

@theinsanefoxwriter

@rinzay

FNAFgamer2023 (on YouTube and FanFiction)

@canton-can

@diabolical-purple-devil

@bewarebugbear

Me XD

Shadow Singularity on YouTube

@paigelts05

@shiningstarr15

@nadiawitch (thank you as well for the extra help in drawing another creator's Vanessa)

@sourapplesauces

@rolyat-insonia

gabstersabster on tiktok / GabstersHell on twitter

@velevetyy

@terrietont

@glamnessaau

@stripeixii (thank for your help with your art to draw two of the Vanessas!)

And thank you to the other artists for joining this collab: you_2_cool, whitered_kenny

#fnaf vanessa #fnaf #fnaf security breach #fnaf sb #collab art #art collab #vanessaverse #My Vanessa (Sylvia Blake) is the closest to the centre #she's also the only one who was drawn on paper and coloured in pencil.

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Daniel Rocha [FNAF AR, Renegade AU]

https://www.deviantart.com/paigelts05/art/Daniel-Rocha-FNAF-AR-Renegade-AU-1024677052

Published: Feb 25 2024

CK animatronic maintenance and R&D Robotics contract with Faz Ent has ended, but their stories are far from over.

Dan's story started with Fazbear Entertainment. His dad, Oliver Rocha, had been a technician at Circus Baby's animatronic rental service back in the late 80's, before Dan had even been born. Oliver had been lucky: he and another technician, Morgan Smith, had been ambushed by the animatronics, but they weren't killed: instead, they were strung up on the stages in order to trick the sensors. Morgan managed to cut himself loose before he could run out of breath, and saved Oliver too. Dan and his brother Tristan had only ever heard stories about Oliver's experience, and they knew that he wasn't exaggerating about what happened to Eggs. So Dan wasn't surprised when upon getting his first job in robotics at some generic factory that manufactured endoskeletons (that he would later learn were the Glamrock endos), he got into an accident after just under a year.

Dan's accident left him with large scars on his face and neck, and tremmors in his hands whenever he tried to use power tools, meaning he'd have to get his certifications again. His then employer wasn't going to help him; he knew as much as the man had left him bleeding on the ground after his accident, so he quit and asked his Wife, Anna Kwemto, the founder of CK animatronic maintenance, if she was looking for a mechanical engineer.

After the contact between CK animatronic maintenance and Fazbear Entertainment came to a premature close in 2021, the ghost of a woman named Adelaide ripped through the computer systems, possessed Steve, and used strange technology to mind control Anna and Mark, causing the Adelaide Incident. Dan only survived thanks to Raha arriving late due to taking her mum's car in for an MOT, which spared her from the start of the final phase of Adelaide's plan.

The incident didn't change how he saw his colleges, and they all helped eachother recover from the horrors they endured. Whilst it did set back Dan's recovery, Anna and everyone else did thier best to help him through.

By the time Faz Ent took the last of their animatronics back in 2024, Dan had managed to re-earn his power tool certification thanks to a collaborative effort from not just Anna and the rest of CK animatronic maintenance, but with the help of Smith&Tea Robotics and R&D Robotics as well. And more importantly, he had a support network who he knew would help him if he ever had such a painful accident again.

#2024 #art #artwork #fnaf #fnaf au #renegade au #fnaf renegade au #fnaf fanart #fnaf ar special delivery #fnaf ar #fnaf ar emails #fnaf ar sd #fnaf daniel rocha #fnaf daniel #fnaf ar daniel rocha #daniel rocha fnaf

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Anna Kwemto [FNAF AR, Renegade AU]

https://www.deviantart.com/paigelts05/art/Anna-Kwemto-FNAF-AR-Renegade-AU-1021472367

Published: Feb 18 2024

I started drawing the main characters my AU follows in the FNAF AR segment before the announcement of the end of FNAF AR being in service, so now some of my favourite characters are from lost media. I'm sad I was never able to play the game (my phone didn't support it), but I followed the story bits like an ARG, and found some of my favourite characters, so you can trust me when I say I'll be keeping these characters and their stories alive and running.

CK animatronic maintenance and R&D Robotics contract with Faz Ent has ended, but their stories are far from over.

After the contact's premature closure in 2021 prior to Adelaide ripping through their computer systems using a computer virus as her way in, Faz Ent took until 2024 to take the last of their robots back. By then, the Adelaide incident had happened, the Riot had happened, the Breach incident had happened, the Raid had happened, the Ruins incident had happened, William had been contained, and a couple of years had passed with a plethora of other incidents Anna didn't want to think about. Whilst Anna was only involved in the Adelaide Incident and Raid, her employee, Ness, had been at least somewhat involved in all of them, so they all lived in her mind. The only positive events out of those were the Raid and William's containment, which she always tries to think about whenever she's reminded of Adelaide's mind control attempts, William's kidnapping of Ness, Luis almost dying trying to free Ness, Ness and Ness's sister Sylvia almost dying multiple times, and the Faz Ent execs kidnapping of Ness. Even then, the Raid wasn't all closure and happy memories with the amount of times Ness almost died, and with Luis getting turned into what amounted to a feral assassin by Adelaide? She surprised herself with how well she was coping. And as for William's containment? Bittersweet.

Her mother always told her the best ending wasn't always happy, and now Anna knew what she meant. All her friends were still alive, sure, but nothing would ever be the same again.

But Anna Kwemto would make sure that she would always to everything she could to prevent any harm from coming to her colleagues.

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The Final Containment of William Afton [FNAF, Renegade AU]

https://www.deviantart.com/paigelts05/art/The-Final-Containment-of-William-Afton-FNAF-1019973107

Renegade File Server Location: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52491037/chapters/135909397

Published: Feb 11 2024

William Afton is being contained. Permanently.

The truth behind how William was finally contained and kept out of Faz Ent's hands is a story that Fazbear Entertainment frequently dramatises and frequency paints in a fantasy light, but such tales have little effect on either the public opinion, or the individuals involved.

The reality was down to earth and hectic, but Cassie, Cassey, Ness, and Sylvia make a great team.

Cassey and Ness's forced William into the game in order to weaken him, causing him to hide within Princess Quest 4 and get captured by the red king. Cassie and Sylvia solved riddles to find the collectables that the mimic was hiding from them in order to access the arcade and pick up William from the red king in order to take him to Ness in this weakened state. Then, Ness was finally prepared to take on the duty of keeping William Afton contained, acting as a human prison.

And even though Ness and Cassie didn't see eachother in person that day, they knew the other was just as happy as they were to have William contained.

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Desmond and Cassie had moved all the way across the country to live with Sylvia 'officer Vanessa' Blake in order to escape Fazbear Entertainment.

When a cardboard box that bore Faz Ent insignia arrived in the mail, Desmond felt nauseous; since his daughter's hospital stay after the Ruins incident revealed a chip in the back of her neck, he had known that when Cassie's sleeper side had told him many times that 'they will always find me, no matter where I go' meant that she had known from the start that Faz Ent had some kind of tracker implanted into her before she came into his care, but he never thought they'd actually use it.

As Cassie and Sylvia carefully opened the box, they found a VR headset, a game box, and a note addressed to Desmond.

After seeing the contents, yet before he read the note, he froze in a terrified daze; this was the VR equipment from his old apartment; the exact things that Faz Ent had sent him before: the VR headset, the external casing cracked from him lobbing it across the room, the controllers, hand prints visible where he had held them in a vice grip, and VR training game, that cursed game that had forced him to hand Cassie that mask.

He wanted to run away, he wanted to throw up, he wanted to go somewhere his former employer would never find him. He passed out.

Sylvia had been briefed on his experience with that VR training simulator prior to her discharge from the hospital, as Desmond being used to make the map bot function was a major part of the investigation into what Faz Ent had been doing in the ruins of the megaplex, so she wasn't surprised that he'd pass out at seeing the game again. She had also helped him move out, so she was aware that he had purposefully left all this behind at his old place, aiming for the police to pick it up.

Instead, someone at Faz Ent had sent it to his new home.

After making sure that Desmond was just out cold and nothing more serious, Sylvia and Cassie read the note.

U LN BIR AYEW QGI QUKK EWLS RGUA VYR UR UA VEUWD LBS BIB-CURLK.

RGUA FLNW UA RGW JWT RI GUA WRWEBLK XIBRLUBNWBR.

KWE RGW BWQ OEUBXWAA RLJW RGW XEIQB.

"This looks like a scrambled mess," Sylvia sighed as she looked at the mish-mash of letters on the paper.

Cassie shook her head. "It's encoded with using the keyboard letter to the left of the actual letter. Easy to decode once you know it, but enough to throw someone through a loop. I'll read it." Cassie cleared her throat before continuing, "I am not sure who will read this but it is brief and non-vital. This game is the key to his eternal containment. Let the new princess take the crown."

Some metaphorical gears turned in Sylvia's head as she processed the words as well as some rabbit shaped graffiti-like markings painted on the plastic cover of game box, so an addition made by the sender and not a part of th official print, and her eyes lit up. "I know this is going to scare the shit out of your dad, but I think you need to play the game. I think that Cassey T and my sister need you for something."

Cassie now bore the confused expression. "For what?"

"Remember what Des told us about that game. What is in it. We have reason to suspect that William will take refuge in here, hence these markings as a warning." Sylvia picked up the game box as she spoke and pointed to the rabbit graffiti.

"Yeah, the mimic is also in there. It's the thing that forced my dad to pilot the mask bot to hand me the mask," Cassie replied, "That training sim is the space that that weird short exec guy used to stick GGY, Clone William, and Mimic1 in the code blender so it wouldn't be found out until he downloaded it onto that endo I destroyed. Why would William hide in the same space as something trying so hard to copy and kill him."

"As I said, he's not actually in there yet," Sylvia replied, "I said he will be forced into there."

"Forced in?" Cassie inquired.

"He managed to possess my sister and her dad's ghost has been keeping him in, but she told me she has a plan." Sylvia grinned, "She'd get help from an insider to anonymously mail us what we need, and once the plan is in action, he will be forced to take refuge in there."

"And that insider is me."

A voice that didn't belong to Cassie or Sylvia spoke up, and the duo turned around to see Desmond standing and speaking in a voice that sounded wrong for him.

"I am Alistair. You may already be aware of me from my involvement in the VR environment. I could have shipped this in a blank box, but I needed my brother unconscious to fill you in on the details, as having any kind of paper trail from here on in will stop this plan from working."

"And this plan is…?" Sylvia inquired.

"Take the memories from the hand of the disembodied. Use them as the bait. Take up the mantle and lure the wizard into the witch's trap." Alistair spoke slowly and calmly, as if reciting a story.

"Cryptic," Sylvia grumbled, "Can you tell us anything else?"

"The hand may take up the wand and robes of the destroyed, but it is not wise enough to use it yet," Alistair replied, adding a final piece of information to her story, "it would be dangerous to say any more."

"Got it." Cassie said as she begun to set up the VR equipment.

"I get the gist; take what bad entity 2 has nicked to bait bad entity 1, and we can worry about the fallout later." Sylvia nodded as she begun to help Cassie.

By the time Cassie and Sylvia had set up the VR environment, Alistair had silently left and let Desmond wake back up.

"What's going on?" Desmond wearily mumbled as he pulled himself to his feet.

"We're on a mission," Sylvia answered, "Your sister filled us in on the details."

"That explains the pain…" Desmond grumbled as he rubbed the back of his neck, trying to soothe a phantom pain. "I'll assume that's why the box was used - so she didn't have to fight me."

Sylvia flinched at how Desmond described the whole possession thing. "… Are you OK?"

Desmond nodded. "Alistair and I don't always get along, but she needed to convey a message I guess, and by the looks of it, an important one."

Cassie nodded as she held the VR headset above her head.

"Time to grab some memories and lure an evil wizard to his death."

Once in the training simulator, Cassie knew that she'd get very little further direction from Cassey and Ness, and no further instruction from Alistair. She also knew that Sylvia was about as much in the loop as she herself was, so she'd have to rely on herself to find these 'memories' that if her interpretation of the mission was correct, the mimic would be hoarding.

If it was Mimic1, Clone William, GGY, or a mix of the three was yet to be discovered, but she knew that with the exception of the GGY component, it would likely see her as a traitor. Her managing to 'kill' clone William back in the VR environment before she could rendezvous with the other Gregory Getters branded her a traitor in his eyes. Her managing to destroy the endo the mimic had been downloaded onto in the real world during the Ruins incident branded her a traitor in Mimic1's eyes. Two thirds of it were likely against her, so she had two choices: appeal to the possible third segment, or the better options.

Allegiance against a common enemy.

With the mimic relegated back to code, and likely a disembodied hand if the mission briefing was being literal, William had gone from being the lesser threat of the two to being the greater threat of the two. With how her sleeper side had managed to drive the mimic back in a bare-fisted brawl back during the Ruins incident, she knew that it knew that she was a capable fighter who is skilled way beyond her years. She could claim a mercenary motive for her actions. Whether it'd beleive such bold-faced bullshit was another question, but she hoped it wouldn't come to that.

She hoped it'd see her as being indistinguishable from any other player. The other better option, and probably the best.

As she loaded into the lobby, she felt as if words were being injected directly into her mind, words that linked back to what Alistair had told her. It felt like someone was giving Sleeper further instruction on what to do, and in turn, Civ instinctively felt as if she knew what to do as well.

She needed to find a way to play Princess Quest 4. That is where Ness would be waiting for her to deliver William to her.

The note in the box had been to tell Cassie that she had to be the one to play the game, likely because of the message Ness wanted to send would only be able to reach someone like her, and Alistair had to deliver the extra details so she would have the preconceived notions necessary to fully understand the even more cryptic message that Ness sent.

Cassie received the message loud and clear.

She was ready to create the key and do all that was needed to let Ness enact her plan.

"He should be in there…. ETA NOW!" Cassie heard Sylvia yell. She was loud enough to get through the headset, and that's all she needed to hear.

It looked like the game was officially afoot.

She followed many cryptic hints for hours and hours, taking each doll from the disembodied hand that lurked, and after collecting the final doll from Fazerblast 3, a minigame that she was sure was the embodiment of the mimic's own want to eliminate William, if only to take the man's place in the world, she claimed her prize and returned to the main hub where she found the purple Faz-token that had now spawned in.

She knew exactly what to do with it.

After taking it from where it floated, she made her way over to the Princess Quest 4 arcade machine and inserted the coin that it needed to begin.

Taking a deep breath, she begun her part of this journey of leading the princess through the castle, making use of a teleport ability that felt very similar to typical VR movement mechanics.

As she played, she had some time to think: Princess Quest was not a Faz Ent IP. It was solely a Silver Parasol IP. One they released as an app and an arcade machine. It was a monument, a record, and an escape key. The fact a Princess Quest game was in this at all was a sign that Cassey T, Jeremy B, Ness, and Sylvia had managed to scheme their way into getting in on the development of this game.

Ness and Cassey were waiting somewhere on the other side of this game, ready to strike.

Heading deeper and deeper into the castle within the arcade, she noticed something odd.

"That looks like the room I'm in!" She heard herself exclaim as she saw a figure hunched over an arcade machine on the screen.

As she looked up, she saw that the room around her was dark. Looking around more, she saw the princess. An 8-bit sprite, as she expected, but it felt odd, but also as if it was meant to be.

On instinct, she directed the princess towards her and pressed the only interact key she knew of: the attack key.

Everything went white, but she felt nothing from it, and when everything cleared, she was in a place she didn't think the game expected her to be. It was dark, and the only distinguishing feature was the checkerboard floor lit by a golden glow coming from somewhere in front of her. In front of her stood Cassey Tapper, holding the glowing golden sword. Meanwhile, she also saw Cassidy hovering slightly behind the programmer.

Cassie looked around, and finally saw the ghost that had been possessing her hovering nearby as well.

"You must be Charlie," she said.

Charlie just nodded and pointed back towards Cassey.

Cassie nodded back and looked back towards the programmer who was possessed by the one William should not have killed.

"It's going to be up to you; you're going to be able to pick up where we left off." Cassey knelt down and held the sword out in front of her as she spoke, resting the point on the tile.

Cassie instinctively grabbed the hilt, and Cassey placed her hands over the girl's. She noticed that her hands actually looked like her hands, and her arms looked like her arms. It didn't feel like she was in a VR game anymore, but that her soul was somewhere else, temporarily in some kind of secret meeting place. Cassie turned her attention back to the sword; she had never welded such heavy weaponry before, only using knives and at most a machete. A sword, albeit virtual, was new, and even with Cassey holding it steady, it still felt as if it was going to topple, but she didn't panic. She smiled as the golden glow illuminated herself and the room she was in.

Cassey gave one last smile as she let go of the sword, letting Cassie be it's sole bearer, before she stood up and walked into the darkness.

Cassie knew that this was all the help that Cassey and Cassidy were able to provide; William knew them too well. But Cassie? The last time they met was on terms neutral to the both of them; the old man would not suspect a thing.

The screen went white again, and when that too faded, she was back in front of the arcade machine. The princess stood unarmed next to her. The sword was on the arcade's screen, and the words "take it" were below.

As she took the sword, she knew that it was for certain that her encounter with Cassey had not been in this VR world, but had been elsewhere, merely facilitated by the VR equipment. It was most likely that it had been a temporary digital consciousness transfer so that they could meet in secret and Cassey could pass her part of the torch onto her.

And now she was back in VR.

Cassie knew that once this was all said and done, Cassey, Jeremy, and most importantly Ness would have thier hands full with the finer details of William's containment. Whilst Sylvia was a part of that team, she also had the most experience dealing with the components of the mimic, having been involved in the Ruins incident. It was clear that Sylvia would be the bridge that kept the containment of William and the pursuit of erasing the mimic connected, and that from everything that has happened so far, Cassie could tell that Sylvia already knew her role. Why else would everyone at Faz Ent fearfully refer to her with all sorts of words that in some way meant 'Knight'.

The cavalier, the woman-at-arms, the duellist, the chevalier, the knight; all refering to this woman.

They also called her 'Don Quixote', though Cassie felt as if she and whatever exec had called Sylvia 'Don Quixote' and had called Luis 'Sancho' hadn't read the same book that she had. Faz Ent probably hoped that Sylvia's knights quest was simply the insane endeavour of a woman already driven to delusion, but Cassie had watched everything from the shadows, and despite Sylvia seeing a fantastical fantasy form of the world half the time - a condition Sylvia believes was caused the the remnant her bosses had sneakily injected into her system - she had managed to stay grounded enough in reality thanks to her friends and her drive to protect them.

And with Cassie taking up the mantle of the princess of light, she too would now need a knight at her side, as even if the Princess's Quest appeared to be the adventure of a single girl on the surface - a single player game - the player had always been there as a guide, as the knight.

This sword felt lighter than the one Cassey had passed her. She knew what she had to do.

She maneuvered through the game around her; the training sim that had become Princess Quest 4 was her battlefield as she slew foe after foe, fighting towards the core of the castle within this game.

First, she found a key. It opened the door she found herself next to, and through it, was a pit, similar to the one the princess had decended on the arcade machine.

She decended through the pit herself, slaying any monsters she met along the way. Once at the bottom, she found herself in a long corridor. The beasts were an afterthought as she made her way down the red carpet that lead out into what was both a courtyard and graveyard; the only place in this castle that was outdoors.

The puzzle was easy to solve; a simple case of lighting the torches in an incrementing numerical order. But she followed a different pattern and unlocked a secret basement underneath the courtyard. The chest held a familiar mask.

Whilst her dad had his father's retro Bonnie mask, the familiarity felt more visceral.

Sleeper must be the one familiar with this mask.

The door at the far end of the courtyard opened anyway.

The door lead to a grand corridor, devoid of monsters.

At the end, she met the red king. She traded her Vanny mask for the plush toy that William had hidden himself within. He had been holding William prisoner in this plushie form since he had fled here to escape the hand that lurked. It seems as if even though the mimic had been reduced to a hand, the destructive potential William saw within it terrified even him.

Then a door opened. To the elevator of the rental service warehouse. The ride didn't last long, as the walls came down and she saw that she was now inside a claw machine.

She knew this was her destination.

She saw Vanny outside, giant, yet to Cassie, not imposing.

She was finally face to face with Ness.

All that was left to do, was simple.

She handed the plush doll that William was trapped within over to the moon, who delievred it to Ness.

Whilst William had freed himself from his plush prison and had resumed his Glitchtrap form, it wasn't long lived as Ness crushed him in her hands.

Ness then looked over at Cassie and waved as she dipped into the darkness. She could tell that on the other end of whatever system was connecting them, that Ness was smiling.

Cassie waved back at her aunt, and she couldn't help but smile.

They had all done it.

Ness had captured and contained William.

Everything was on her terms now.

And as Cassie removed her headset and dealt with her eye strain and minor disorientation, she couldn't wait to see how this would all play out.

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