Entering the ennard section of this segment getting through the panels was somewhat easy due to the whole thing being right side up at least especially the reaction time and we moved from the breaker room to the second section the gear works and I kept an eye on ennard who was giving me a curious look. As sunset set gears back in I got a bit startled ennard suddenly spoke to me.

The mishmash of voices from fun times Freddy, foxy, and ballora was a bit odd as I glared at it.

“Why to hang around the human you don’t owe her anything so why go through so much trouble to help her” ennard asked.

“For one I do owe her for going to the effort of helping me clear this dang game and change the future. Though I’m surprised at you ballora going along with Funtime Freddy and Funtime foxy to become this monster... Or should I call you Clara afton funny you voted your daughter Elizabeth out of ennard when she wasn’t even aware you’re her mother? Or that you turned your son into a meat suit to escape this place” I said making ennard jerk back a bit as if shocked.

“How did you figure out my past!” Said ballora’s voice from the composite animatronic.

“In my world, the events surrounding Freddy’s is a video game series and people have been looking into the lore to find the story. That said are you even aware of how messed up you made beth after you kicked her literally to the curb? So you proved you are not the best mother by turning your only actual living relative mike your son into a zombie who died to stop you guys from claiming more victims. Or did you snap too when Chris died as will did? Cause let me tell you something you have made things worse isn’t that right molten Freddy” I asked narrowing my eyes.

“You would bring that up! Just who do you think you are” asked ennard enraged before feeling something slip between wires and grab something.

“A distraction while sunset finishes up,” I said my arm in ennard’s chest eyes glowing purple before yanking it out a blue glowing orb in my hand making ennard stumble back before I and sunset went to the pipe room to finish the level.

“What is that you yanked out of that pile of wires,” asked sunset looking at the orb.

“Mrs afton she needs to talk with her family while we try and keep going. Two more levels before the last section of the main game... We are going back to Chris’ room” I said as sunset put the pipes in order as ennard charged in only to be set on fire as we escaped to the hub and I tossed the orb which gathered data to form ballora who collapsed looking to be freaking out as William and Elizabeth gave a start.

“Oh God, you can manipulate the code!” Said will realizing what my glowing purple eyes meant before they faded back to green.

“So who the heck is the stripper like a ballerina?” Asked rainbow confused as she took in ballora’s design.

“Ever wonder what happened to Will’s wife and Elizabeth’s mother?” I asked making them blink before their eyes widened.

“Wait that’s Clara! How! I know she went missing a month before Elizabeth died but I didn’t think she became ballora!” Said will shock.

“Mom... Abandoned me by kicking me out of ennard” Elizabeth asked before she broke down sobbing as the shock registered what hurt about that action that drove her to insanity when she rebuilt herself as a scrap baby.

“It was the reason Elizabeth was able to be there to get killed by circus baby in the first place no one would be home to watch her and I can’t watch her all the time when I had work to do. Honey how in the world did you become ballora I looked for you for the whole month before I had to focus on Elizabeth’s funeral” asked will giving his wife a pleading look making vanny and the rainbooms shift a bit awkwardly at witnessing this.

“I honestly have no idea! Between being human and waking up as ballora it’s a massive blank. I just remembered getting surprised by something then massive pain and then waking up as ballora.” said Clara looking to have a migraine.

“Great so there’s an unknown mystery that’s been hidden for over 30 years,” I said pinching the bridge of my nose and I had the feeling it’s relevant to why the toy animatronics are back out in the real world. Did henry snap before pizza simulator or something?

So while vanny was busy with the cams... Wait what?

“The cameras work here! The hell there is literally outside this building in the game world why would the cameras work and have actual footage!” I asked narrowing my eyes as Will and the aftons snapped out of the argument that started up between Elizabeth and her mother.

“Don’t ask me but it’s coming in handy for recreating the various outfits your fragments wore and your own for me on my end of helping you when you’re given a body separate from sunset,” said rarity.

“Well will if I recall right you’re in the blacklight level of ennard’s section where the next tape is so first up meeting shadow mangle the third Shadow animatronic besides Shadow Freddy and rxq,” I said sighing.

“Shadow animatronics?” asked Will.

“Hallucinations of golden Freddy and toy bonnie as actual shadow versions. Rxq or shadow bonnie looks like a black silhouette of toy bonnie just with a full mouth of teeth outside the buck teeth and shadow Freddy is a purple version of golden Freddy. Shadow Mangle is likely Mangle as a shadow unlike back when the toy animatronics was active the first time in here the shadow animatronics are not hallucinations but REAL so we got two animatronics to deal with for the blacklight mode for mangle we have to do before we do ennard’s section... Which will be upside-down” I said and sunset jolted.

“What upside-down” shouted the girls.

“Yep meaning the pattern we did for the first round we have to do a mirror because the level will be upside down. Left is right kinda thing” I said shrugging.

“Oh hell I didn’t memorize the pattern I had to do!” said sunset.

“Good thing the cameras work then ill pull up the footage,” vanny said waving sunset over.

“Once you get that pattern memorized we will enter mangle’s blacklight level” I told her rubbing my face as gods was it exhausting distracting ennard for long enough to let sunset finish the level and pull ballora’s data out of the thing.

I was getting tired doing this for days on end but at least it will be over soon.

Vixen hugged me with toy chica as did vanny knowing how exhausted I must feel right now. It really sucked I haven’t been able to sleep since I got fragmented so it was taking me a while to realize that with each piece restored the more I just felt like sleeping but can’t. What a way to find out. Knowing my luck I’ll fall asleep once the last tape was found. Wait only one last section left for the main game before the party time ending for the game did it have any tapes? Let’s see after ennard’s level will be three tapes left. Let’s see got my core tape, the two in the prize corner, one in FNAF one, one in FNAF 3, the two in dark rooms, one in repairing chica, just got mangle’s was about to get ennard’s... Oh shit.

“We missed two tapes!” I shouted jolting as I realized what my tired state was missing.

“What!” Said sunset looking up at me.

“We missed two tapes in parts and service with Freddy and foxy! Near Freddy’s thigh and on the floor with foxy. How did I forget those two tapes” I said as now that I think about it that might have been a sign I wasn’t at my best. It wasn’t three tapes left but five! I was such a idiot.

“I’ll go grab them while you handle the cam footage” I said heading back and grabbing the missing two tapes releasing annoyed looking Endo version of me and a version of me who seemed pirate themed.

“Finally you got us why did you miss us when we were in plain sight” asked the Endo me.

“Try not being able to SLEEP at all when your fragmented and with each piece restored the more exhausted I feel Christ it took reviewing what tapes we gotten for me to realize we missed you two” I told them as we quickly returned to the hub.

“What! But won’t restoring us make you more exhausted! If you are unable to sleep why grab us” asked pirate me tapping her tricorne hat in worry.

Vanny quickly took notes of my apparent endoskeleton while rarity took notes on my pirate self’s outfit.

“Cause restoring me means before I start sharing a body with sunset I can get some much needed sleep to prepare for getting out of this place” I said sighing.

“Marie once we listen to those two tapes we are taking the next couple of days off to let you rest before we hit the blacklight levels at least” said sunset with a don’t argue with me tone.

With a sigh I agreed as we trooped into the tape room.

I can’t delete them. By creating a protected area to store these logs apart from the game, I effectively gave this thing a safe place to hide itself. It’s in here now. I may not be able to delete it. But i may be able to so something else now that it’s attached itself. I have an idea.

“Kinda short but nothing we didn’t know Already this is at least explaining why your fragmented though into these tapes makes a lot more sense” said Applejack adjusting her hat as my pirate self merged with me making my witch maid engineer outfit gain a captain coat and the tricorne hat in my colors at least to fit the color scheme.

“By the end of this I’m going to look like a very weird animatronic who can’t seem to stick to a theme” I said slightly yawning as the exhaustion grew as did my need to sleep.

We played the next tape.

They lied to us. They lied to all of us. They told us the whole point of this VR game was to undo. The bad PR done by a rogue indie game developer, who supposedly made up a bunch of crazy stories that tarnished the brand.

But that’s not true at all. In their haste to develop this VR game and clear their name , they sent us some things I don’t think they intended us to see. Such as a hard drive containing emails between Fazbear entertainment and a certain indie developer. Fazbear entertainment hired the game developer. Those indie games were designed to conceal and make light of what happened. This isn’t just an attempt to rebrand. It’s an elaborate cover up. A campaign to discredit everything.

“Yeah that sounds like Fazbear entertainment that’s been their system of operation since 1983 cover up the various murders and disappearences and make people think the franchise is totally safe. Vanny you discovered this before glitchtrap got into your head so hopefully you can avoid it when the game gets actually developed in the future” I said as my Endo merged making me feel more anchored and yet even more tired before I actually fell asleep finally. It was only two hours later did I wake up but it was a major improvement as I noted sunset and the others had already left as I gave the Afton’s a look as seems the argument resolved itself if the way baby and ballora we’re hugging was any indication.

That was before vixen, toy Freddy, toy chica and toy Bonnie suddenly vanished alongside the classics and left the Afton’s with me.

“Guess they started transferring to USBs at least since the last section is not really letting you interact with sunset if she doesn’t move quick enough to get through the maze” I said realizing what happened. Still going to be a hectic few days while I try to rest and recover from the lack of sleep previously.

Author's Note

Okay I know I'm just halfway done here for the arc but I can actually blame insomnia for the fact I missed two tapes it's been long enough since I'm working on this off and on that it slipped my mind if sunset and Marie grabbed the other two tapes in parts and services so you guys get tapes 11 and 12 bringing the tapes left to three apparently I was right about how many tapes were left just miscounted the chapters... Well I'm not sure if I mentioned the gallery tape when I started the story been long enough my memory of the early stuff has faded a bit. I'm going to check soon and if I did mention it well then I miscounted for the amount of tapes left at this point. Or just misremembered the locations and tapes I did already. So let me know so I can get my head back on straight for this story. I fear I gone and confused myself here