The Puppet
The Key Hunt
Previous ChapterNext ChapterThe Puppet peeked around the corner, looking at the Security guard, it had been fun playing games at first, but as it turned out the games weren't made for thick fingers so Mangle could only play with one hand, The Puppet's hand's had limited motor skills, and Toy Chica was a sore winner so losing repeatedly to her had lost its charm fast, Withered Bonnie was still enjoying himself, as much as one who had just been murdered could anyway. The Security Guard was flipping through the camera at full speed. He seemed to be in a cold sweat as he went wild, Mangle had lost interest in the playroom first and was now hanging in one of the Party rooms in loud silence. Toy Chica was still playing arcade games by herself. The Two Bonnies were playing go fish on the stage, Balloon boy was walking back and forth from Party room to Party room, Toy Freddy was backstage, trying to get the music to play so they at least had an Auditory distraction, and The Puppet was staring the Night Guard down.
He didn't know why, as he had no reason to, but he really hated him, more than likely cause he'd been killed by the Purple guy, he knew who the murder was, but he had no proof. No matter how hard he looked he couldn't find the Golden Bonnie suit, nothing seemed to be wrong with any of the Cameras now, and the Investigation team hadn't found anything that was in any way proof of anything. All they had was a knife from the kitchen with no Figure prints or any trace of Magic having been used on it.
In fact, there was one single thing that was missing, and while it wouldn't prove anything on its own, and was now useless due to the Puppet breaking the lock, but the Key to the Spare Part's room was the only thing unaccounted for and Since the door wasn't locked with Magic it proved at least one thing, there was no way in Tartarus that a guy in a Bonnie suit could use a key while in the suit, and all the employees had been scanned before leaving, with meant that either the Purple guy had teleported out of the building or had hidden it extremely well, and since he was now going to be scanned every time he entered or left, there was a good reason to believe that if it wasn't here, it wasn't coming back.
"Alright, time to hunt for something that may or may not even be here, and if it is here and I don't find it tonight, I'm positive he'll at the very least clean, or dispose of it, by the time I can look again." The Puppet walked down the corridor, his footsteps no longer echoing so clearly what with the Mangle's Garbling in the area and Balloon Colt constantly saying Hello. he walked into one of the Party room's and looked around, this one was empty, with the exception of Balloon colt occasionally running into it, saying Hello, then running back out. It wasn't an ideal place to start the search, as there was little chance it was in here, but it was the Party room's or the Security room, and he didn't want to give the Guard a heart attack...yet. He Checked under the Table cloth, moved every plate, checked under every hat, and even tried the wall decoration's, finding nothing out of the ordinary, he moved to the next room, and the next one after that, The fourth room was the one Mangle was chilling in, it looked at the Puppet and waved.
"Come to join me?" It Garbled "It's quite Peaceful in here."
"Oh, no I'm just looking for a key."
"Hello." Balloon boy said as he walked into the room then walked back out.
"What is he doing?" The Puppet asked.
"I Told him the Party rooms were lonely so now he's saying hello to all of them repeatedly." The Mangle Garbled back "He's sweet but annoying as hell." Behind them, They Heard the Guard cheer loudly.
"Yes! I Found the Spare" the Hallway filled with the light of the Security guard's flashlight and they heard him scream and turn the light off, after a few seconds Withered Bonnie walked into the room.
"I think I scared him." He said with a wave "The Toys are trying to beat Toy Chica in a game."
"That's not gonna happen anytime soon." The Puppet replied "I'm just looking for the key to the Parts and service room.
"That's an odd thing to be looking for, isn't the lock broken now?"
"Yes, but it's the only thing not accounted for, and if we're lucky and find it, there's a good chance we'll figure out who killed y...the Child." The Puppet stood in awkward Silence Before Mangle chipped in
"I'm in!" It Garbled "Let's find that Dastardly no good doer and bring him to justice!" it Garbled as it swung its head around. "Where would it be?" It asked
"Well...it's either in this room or the Security room since a Security Guard committed the crime." The Puppet felt and hand on his face and the Mangle made him look at it.
"How do you know it was a guard?"
"Um...Withered Bonnie saw the entire thing..." The Puppet said awkwardly.
"It just happened so fast, and before I knew it..." Bonnie cut off as he stared into the wall, The Puppet wince slightly before Mangle moved past him and patted Bonnie on the back.
"Oh Bonnie, I'm so sorry you had to witness such a horrible event, oh and your poor friends in the room that still haven't woken up yet, oh you must feel so alone without them."
"I don't remember my friends well, but I know I miss them," Bonnie replied as the Puppet began searching, after a full search he was able to confirm the Key was either in the office or not in the building, he turned to his two companions and jumped at the ordeal in front of him, the room was now hosting all the Animatronic's in the Building.
"....so if we find the key, the Puppet can figure out who did it."
"Genius!" Toy Freddy said "Puppet you are incredible, so did you find it or..."
"Nope, it's either in the Security office, or it's been disposed of." The Puppet said with a shrug, so now I have to search the office, but we have the nagging problem of..."
"Oh yeah, that Exoskeleton is still in there isn't he?" Toy Bonnie asked, the Security guard staring hard at the Camera was watching them in the Party room in silence.
"We really need to do something about that guy." Toy Chica Agreed, "Costume being cleaned or not, he should either stay in part's and service, or put on a spare, but now he's just sitting there out in the open."
"Maybe we should just force him to wear one?" The Mangle asked.
"No, him flashing that light at us will mess with our facial scanners, and if he's wearing that spare Freddy head he's technically following the rules so we can't get him."
"Wait...facial scanners?" Withered Bonnie asked, "You have facial scanners."
"Well yeah, that way we can tell if somepony is a criminal." Toy Bonnie responded happily, before blinking. "Do...do you not have Facial scanners?"
"Bonnie I don't even have a face." Withered Responded, "I don't think I even technically have eye's now that I think about it, whatever you guy's have, I probably don't."
"I don't think I have a Facial Scanner." The Puppet said as he peeked out and looked at the Night Guard. "I'm technically only supposed to come out of my box once a day, so they probably didn't have it installed into me." The Puppet said as he looked at the large group in front of him. OK, Let's spread out here, Toy Bonnie, You and Balloon Colt go to the other party room's vent and take turns going in and out of the office, Toy Chica, you and Mangle do the same in this room, Toy Freddy, you and Withered Bonnie take the hallway, I'm going to climb on you, Freddy and you'll take me into the room, once I'm in leave and let the other's distract him, While I search the place Keep the...Exoskeleton distracted, I'll signal you when I'm done and one of you come to get me out, Got it?"
"Got it." They responded and The Puppet watched as his team split up, and waited in the room before having an afterthought.
"Hey Toy Chica!" He called to get her attention "Try taking your beak off before going in, don't want it falling off in the vent and getting dirty."
"Oh! Good call." Toy Chica said, doing this that, she turned back to him with a smile, and The Puppet nodded
"Oh yeah, you look great." He said as she got placed her beak on the table and crawled into the vent "If not slightly terrifying." The Puppet looked out the door and waited a moment, Toy Freddy moved forward and waited for his cue, The Puppet moved and got on his back as he moved
"Ready?" Freddy asked as he walked forward.
"Just go into the room and wait for me to get off." Toy Freddy walked into the room and the Guard shoved the Mask on at once, Toy Freddy stood awkwardly, the Guard was staring right at him, and there was no way for the Puppet to move unnoticed.
"Come on weird powers." The Puppet thought as he moved one of his hands and pointed up at the lights "Don't fail me now." The Puppet shot a small spark up at the light and the room filled with noise and the light's flicked off, immediately the Puppet dropped off Freddy and got in front of the Desk, His job done Toy Freddy turned and left, the Light's came back on and the noise went away once Toy Freddy was out, The Puppet sat awkwardly in front of the desk as the Guard clicked away on his tablet.
"OK, just gotta be quiet." The Puppet thought as he began moving, Balloon Colt watched this happen as he moved into the room and said loud and Clear
"Hello" The Guard Immediately put on the Freddy mask and hugged his spare Flashlight protectively.
"I hate you." The Guard said angrily as he stared Balloon Colt down, taking this opportunity The Puppet crawled behind the guard and looked in one of the opened drawers the Guard had found the spare Flashlight, it was empty, The Puppet closed it and opened the one below it, it was full of a thick layer of random junk, the Puppet looked at it hopelessly for a moment before he closed it and moved before the guard saw him.
"Dammit, I can't do this with the guard here, I could scare the guy, but I feel like he'd bop me with the flashlight if I got close, and the other animatronic's might attack if they think I'm being attacked...And there's no way that would end well."
As the Puppet sat there thinking the other's watch.
"What's he doing?" Mangle Garbled.
"I don't think he can search the office without causing a lot of noise." Toy Chica said as she watched him an Idea formed "Wait...noise! Mangle your Garble can cover up any noise!" The Mangle looked at her then smiled.
"Alrighty then," The Mangle said as it slithered down the Vent. The Puppet was trying to think of a plan when Mangle's Garble filled the room, The Puppet watched as the Guard put the mask and watched as the Mangle walked up to the desk and moved to the opposite side of the Guard, who kept his eye's on it at all times, this ended with the Guard's back to the Puppet, who opened the Junk drawer and dug into it, there was a lot of things in it, but nothing metal, the Puppet crawled in front of the desk and pointed to the opposite side, The Mangle moved there and the Guard followed, not daring to take his eye's off it. The Puppet opened the top Drawer and found nothing of interest, he was about to open the second drawer when thing's when wrong. the Guard had started to back his chair away from the Mangle and ended up tapping his hand on the Puppet's head. The Guard froze and so did the Puppet. The Puppet look up and the Guard looked down, Immediately the Guard Screamed and struck out with the Flashlight, hitting the Puppet over the head and knocking him to the floor, The Mangle reacted on instinct and let out a Caterwaul of a scream before fling itself forward and chomping down on the Guards' head, the Guard screamed as he tried to pull away, The Guard fell back on the floor and the Mangle spat the Freddy mask out, it looked down at the guard, who had laying unconscious on the floor, the Mangle turned to the Puppet who was getting back up.
"I'm OK." He said as he looked over at the Unconscious guard, the Mangle's teeth had managed to cut him in several places, but he'd live. The Puppet was helped up by the Mangle and he opened the last Drawer, "Pencil's and a note pad." he sighed in despair, I guess after all that happened yesterday it would be stupid to keep the key on the premises, but I hoped it would be here, he looked at the unconscious guard and patted Mangle on the back. "That's for the save my friend." he said as the two left the office, immediately he was swarmed by the others making sure he was OK, "I'm fine, I'm fine, now let's get moving, it's almost 6 so let's just move to our places and be done with tonight, mission failure I'm sad to say, but we tried and that's what matters to me, you all did wonderfully." as the Other's went to their places it was time for the unfortunate moment the Puppet hadn't been looking forward to.
"So...I guess I'll be sitting in the Part's and Service room all day?" Withered Bonnie asked before the Puppet could respond Toy Bonnie can running back down the hall with a bag.
"Here you go, Bro." He said handing Withered the bag "A Set of Cards, a few storybooks, a Yo-yo, and a few things from lost and found." He smiled "Me and Toy Freddy felt bad about you having to spend the Day locked up so we thought this might help you pass the time," With a Wave Toy, Bonnie turned back down the hall and the Puppet smiled.
"Hopefully that'll help you pass the time for now." The Puppet said as he opened the door "And I'm sorry you have to alone during the day."
"I'm fine with it," Bonnie said as he walked into the Room "To not be alone in here would require more lives to be lost, so I personally hope I stay alone in here until our Purple friend is caught." With a wave goodbye, Bonnie closed the door and The Puppet made his way back to the Box and got back inside just as he felt his legs leave his control.
-1 hour later-
"I sorry, but I can't stay here." The Guard said as he handed his Uniform in, his face covered in Bandages "I don't get paid enough to deal with almost having my head crushed." With that said the Guard left the Office and Will sighed as he looked at the Uniform
"Great, now I'm going to have to take the night shift," he muttered as he got up and walked down the Main Hall, The Puppet Glared at him from its box as he walked through the main area and into the kitchen, he walked through it and into a back room, he placed the uniform down and turned to the Emergency Key case, he Moved the sign indicating it as such and took out the Key he had hidden there the other day and smiled at it. "Alright my little friend, it was nice while it lasted, but some mook broke the lock to the Part's and Service room, and now your just Evidence against me." Will picked up a trash bag from the night before and opened the back door, whistling as he walked to the back dumpster, the Garbage Ponies could be seen down the street as he tossed the key into the bag and tied it shut before tossing it into the Dumpster and still whistling he walked back inside and back to his station to make the report that yet another Guard had quit.
Author's Note
These Chapter's keep getting shorter and shorter.
I've Already preselected all the Character's who are going to get murdered in this story but comment below on who you think will get iced next.
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