What it is like Chapter 4: Welcome to the Fazbear Family

Mike heard crying coming from the pizzeria's restroom, when he entered he found in horror that Freddy was beating up Chica. He froze, not sure what to do.

Suddenly, it was daytime, Foxy had blood and pink-reddish chunks hanging in his mouth, while some of it dropped to the title flooring.

The pizza joint was in chaos, people running and screaming.

The motionless woman laid at the robot pirate's feet.

He stared at a small boy as customers ran for the door.

"Call 911!" A worker cried out.

"It's too late! She's gone!" Someone else announced in terror.

It was all black, as a cruel voice snapped. "You will do as I say, Fazbear!"

There was a pause, before Freddy's deep monotone voice replied. "I won't do it. Not of us will attack them like you did us!"

"Soon, the world will know what you've done!" Foxy's voice barked.

"Fine then, I'll just have to find a way to persuade you." The mean human said calmly.

Out of nowhere, Bonnie was hugging a frightened Chica on the stage, as Freddy was in someone's face with his fists clenched and Foxy was hidden in his cove.

It was nighttime, obviously from the restaurant having low lighting. There were sounds of commotion in the backroom.

"Quiet! You wanna get caught?" A teen voice tried to scold someone else silently from the employee's only room.

Strolling over to Pirate's cove, a pair of purple shirted arms appeared in view, the manly hands which came out the ends took hold of the curtains and yanked them open.

Foxy and Golden Freddy yelped in terror.

"F-Fred?" The golden bear whimpered in fright.

"It ain't Fred, laddie." The fox only could choke out.

"Hehe, the fox is right." The human male whispered evilly.

"T-that voice!" The yellow bear whimpered.

"I'm still here, kiddo," He teased.

The bear was trembling in fear.

The human hands jumped out and grabbed the yellow mascot, making sure to hold an arm around his throat. The human began to take him out.

"TOMMY!" Freddy shouted in fright.

"Did you hear that?" An different teenage voice squeaked. "Someone's here."

The rest of the animatronics were frozen.

The main bear jogged after the human with a death glare.

There was a deep as the steel door slammed shut right in Fazbear's face.

That only made Freddy madder.

"No! Let go of me! You monster!" Golden Freddy protested. Yet without a endoskeleton he couldn't fight his kidnaper.

There was a strange feeling of a smirk over the human's face. "Either you take out the trash, or you won't see your beloved brother until morning!" He chuckled with sinister joy.

"I'll make you pay one of these days!" The bear bellowed. He punched the door, yet it didn't do anything to it. He witnessed as the other door was closed.

"It's your choice, Fred," The male mocked him.

"Let's get out of here!" A male teenager called in fear.

A door was opened followed by a female shriek. "They moved! They're alive!"

"Come on! Let's get out of here!" The boy ordered.

There was the sound of running against the title.

A furious Freddy was back in the dining area in a heartbeat.

The teenage boy was having trouble with the door knobs.

"AH! The bear! It sees us! It's not happy!" The girl yelped.

"I'm trying to get the doors! But they're stuck!"

All of the sudden, Freddy was looming over the freshly dead corpses of the two teenagers. He saw on his paws their blood.

"Good work, there buddy." The evil human man praised him.

"We need to get out of here," Chica moaned.

"You aren't ever getting out of this restaurant," The evil male told her simply. "You'll scare the people and plus you'll rust in the rain. You can't ever survive out there ever again. It's best to stay put."

"It's best to stay put," Freddy seemed to say in a trance.

"Now, that's my bear buddy," The human replied with a smile. It was followed by the sound of flesh meeting a thin synthetic fur coated metal back.

"I'm not your friend, you animal!" The bear snarled. "Now get out!"

"AHHHHHHHH!" Mike screamed in fear as he awoke in his apartment to a blonde haired woman laying over him.

"Mike, Mike! Geez, calm down!" She called for him to come back to reality.

"Huh?" He blinked a few times. He looked up at her, seeing how concerned she looked at him. "Oh," He breathed in relief. "I'm good, I'm good."

She got off of him. "I'm scared for you, Mike." She said nervously.

The man sat up, on the couch.

"Ever since you took that night guard job at that pizzeria, you have been having day terrors."

"I know, I know. I-I can't make them go away."

"I had to let our neighbors know that they didn't need to call the police, again."

He blushed embarrassed. He held his face in his hands in a stressful way.

"What's going on there? What has you so spooked?" She wondered.

"Nothing, nothing has me spooked. Just…when you're up all night, it does a number on you."

"Maybe you should look for another job. So, you can work in the day and get sleep at night. Maybe that'll be better for you."

He sighed. "I know you care a lot for me, Kat, but…I don't know there's something about that place that draws me back every night." He tried to explain. He had decided not to tell her about the living animatronics because she would most likely call him crazy. He got her, he does want to lose her.

"Is there something you're not telling me?" She questioned.

"Please, it's hard to explain."

"Alright." She replied. "What were your day terrors about this time?"

"Oh the same old things, about my workplace and the tragedies that happened there."

"Wait? Tragedies? I heard about the missing five kids but, what else happened there?"

"…Never mind."

"Mike!"

"It's too horrible."

"How is that place still open then?"

"I don't know, but I noticed the inspections papers posted on the halls to the office. It seems like the pizzeria will close soon."

"Well, maybe it's for the best." She offered.

"Yeah, I'll have to start finding a new job soon." Mike groaned, tiredly.

"You seem very tired, honey. How about you call your boss and ask for a night off. Maybe someone else can take over."

"What?!" He seemed to be wide wake now. "What time is it?" He scrambled off the couch and entered the open doorway kitchen to find the wall clock. His eyes widened in shock. "It's 11:45pm! Oh man! I'm late!" He cried out. He rushed around for his equipment.

"Mike!" Kat called. She got off the couch and rushed to meet him at the door. "Stop, wait! Don't you need dinner?"

"I'll eat when I get there." He replied, being very distracted seeing that he was behind schedule.

"What does that mean?" She asked confused as he went for the door.

Unfortunately, when the man was gathering his things, he failed to notice the pocket the tablet was in was open and the device was falling out.

Kat gasped and lunged for the falling device and caught it in the nick of time, causing her to breath in relief.

The door closed, while Mike rushed to get to his car from outside.

She got up. "I wonder what Mike meant by he'll eat when he gets there…" She turned from the door and went back to the couch. "Who feeds him there? Pfff! That's silly, Kat! He must get fast food and eat at the restaurant so he isn't late!" She chuckled to herself, thinking she was so silly. There were no humans beside him there at night, plus he would get in trouble for using the restaurant's supplies. She looked down at her lap, seeing she had rested the tablet on her lap. "Why does Mike always take the tablet? He's supposed to watch for robbers all night. Why'd he need the tablet for his job?" She opened their tablet and looked around. "What? What's with all the cooking recommendations? We don't look up this stuff," She noticed the recommendations on YouTube. "Who else is using our tablet? I hope he isn't seeing anyone." She frowned in dismay at that thought. Against her own judgment, she opened up the photo gallery, wondering if they took any photos together. She gasped. "What?!" She had found a ton of photographs of Chica the Chicken and the other animatronics. They all seemed happy. There were a few of Mike grinning with the robot animals. "W-What is going on here?"

"Ah darn it!" The brown haired male exclaimed. He put his right hand back on his steering wheel. He had his backpack seated in the passenger seat. "The tablet fallen out! Chica isn't going to be happy about that." He sighed annoyed.

As he drove, he frowned. "I hope I can tell Kat what is really going on someday soon. I just hope she doesn't leave me for it or call me crazy." He moaned. He knew his girlfriend was feeling like they were getting more distance between them, especially after he took the night guard job at the pizzeria, but he could only wish that she would trust him and hang on a little longer so he could come clean about his strange new friends. "I'm not trying to hurt you Kat, please know that." He pleaded the air.

"I don't know why you're trying to get me to leave, but you'll have to try harder than that," Mike said on his second week of working at Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria to Bonnie who was standing at the closed steel door.

"So, you aren't scared of us?" The bunny asked.

"No…wait…how can you talk normally?"

"I'll answer you if you'd open the door so I'm not talk to a steel slab." He replied casually.

A moment later too both of their surprise, the brown haired night guard opened the door. He stared nervously and scared at the lavender robot.

"I thought you said you weren't scared?" The bunny teased with a playful grin.

"I-In the dark, you guys are creepy looking," The human answered unsure. He wasn't sure how Bonnie would take his answer.

Bonnie chuckled. "I guess we can be." He admitted with a friendly smile.

"H-How are you speaking normally? How can you not repeat your line from your performance?"

"Oh, we all can 'speak normally', but no guard had the guts to ask. It's not the best of night tales to tell, so if you don't mind me not telling you our story right now, we'd all appreciate it."

"O-okay," He replied.

"Come on, it's a scary story but it's nothing you should be afraid of." Bonnie had rolled his eyes in annoyance.

Soon, the power drain away, and the right door had opened as the rest of the building went dark.

"Ah, great! That stupid old generator!" The bunny barked. "It's always going out. It's a useless piece of junk sometimes. Maybe you should get your boss to get a better one," The robot suggested. His red eyes glowed in the dark, allowing the human to know where he is.

"A-Are you okay?" A sweet, robot voice called from the right.

Mike turned to find a set of purple glowing eyes went on him. "Oh, we're sorry if we scared you, Mr. night guard." The sweet voice said sincerely. There was a faint smell of pizza in the air.

"Chica, he can't see you! He can only see your eyes." The bunny called over.

"Oh." The chicken said, sounding like she just realized it. "Well, you seem very nice to us. I don't know why Freddy has us always scare the guards, when most of them seemed so kind."

"You know the reason, birdbrain," Bonnie told the chicken.

"So, what's your name?" Chica asked, ignoring the guitarist.

"M-Mike…"

"'M-Mike…'" She repeated. "Do you usual stammer?"

"N-no!" The man answered nervously.

"Then why are you doing it, Mike?"

"Because he's still scared by us. Or as he put it, he's creped out by our appearances in the dark."

"Well Mike, we didn't choose how we looked. Did you get to choose how you look now?"

"No…no one gets that choice. It's DNA's job." The guard answered calmer. He was surprised himself that he was getting calm. He guessed it was like talking to another human.

A sweet girl's giggle sounded and by the lower eye lids on Chica's eyes went up a little to hide the bottoms of her eyes, he guessed it was her who had giggled. "DNA has a job…That's funny…"

"Chica, why are you here?" The bunny questioned.

"Oh yeah," She said, seeming like she just recalled why she came to the office. Her eyes were back to their regular, relaxed position. She took some steps. "May I come in?" She asked the guard.

"Sure."

"Yay!" She squeaked. The chicken entered the room. Even though the building went dark, it did not seem to impair the robots at all. She came in the room and found the desk without a problem.

The smell of pizza was stronger, which made Mike's stomach growl.

"I thought you'd be hungry so I brought you a pizza." Chica announced kindly.

"A-A pizza? How'd you make pizza?"

"Oh, that's nothing," Bonnie cut in. Even though he couldn't be seen by Mike, he was now leaning on the doorway of the office. "That little chicken is so bright, she makes cupcakes too."

"The workers in the day like finding cupcakes." The purple eyed robot said modestly.

"Yeah, but the cooks aren't happy find they have less stuff to make the food for the customers every day."

"Well, maybe Mike can help us with that so no one is upset."

"Sure, I can think of something."

"Oh yay!" The chicken cheered. "I'll tell the others about our new friend, Mike-!"

"Schmidt…Mike Schmidt," He informed her.

"Alright! Our new friend, Mikey!" She sung in joy. She turned and skipped out of the office. "Oh Freddy!" She called distantly.

"Oh no," Bonnie moaned.

"'Oh no'? What's 'oh no'?" The male whimpered. He suddenly grew scared again.

Bonnie's eyes were hanging halfway down his glowing eyes. "It's Freddy. He's not the teddy bear kind at first." He answered knowingly. Then he shifted to his feet, turned and began to walk away.

"WAIT NO! DON'T LEAVE ME TO FREDDY!" The man pleaded out of fright.

Mike frowned. He remembered meeting Freddy Fazbear and Foxy as a worker for the first time. He wasn't ready for Freddy, after hearing Bonnie vague but true line about the bear's type.

Freddy was looming over Mike who was seated in his chair. It was needless to say, the human man was quivering under the bear's loathing, judgmental gaze. "H-Hi F-Freddy…I-I'm Mike Schmidt…the newest night watch at our fine restaurant…" The human choked out the comment, hoping the bear was not a crazy psycho.

The blue eyes narrowed on the small male. "So, Bonnie tells me you aren't running away like the rest and Chica says you are a kind human."

"I-I am…I-I don't give up on a challenge. I-I do my best to w-work through it…"

"You have guts, Mike." The bear replied calmly.

Suddenly power was restored to the building, returning lighting back, so the figures could see what each other was doing.

The guard could only guess it had been Bonnie and Chica who returned the power by messing with the generator in the basement.

The lead bear was standing, calmly, next to the chair where Mike was sitting. His judging eyes still burned into Mike's soul. "If you're brave enough to stand two weeks here, then I suppose I can welcome you to the Fazbear family." Freddy held out his paw to the man.

Mike nervously held out his opposite hand towards the paw which gently wrapped about his hand. The man was shocked at the softness of the unkept fur was.

"Welcome to our family, Mike," He congratulated the human with a smile and shake of his hand. Then suddenly, he yanked the male out of the chair and into his embrace. The friendly expression on the bear's features was gone in a blink of an eye.

The human tried his best to not fight or shake in the mascot's grip. He was afraid that doing so might set off Freddy for blood. He stared him straight in the dark blue eyes.

"If you ever think about hurting my family, then I'll make sure you won't leave this restaurant ever with your life. Is that clear?" Mr. Fazbear threatened being dead serious,

"Y-Yes sir…I-I won't hurt any of the animatronics, I promise!" Mike agreed.

Freddy smiled. He set the man down on his feet gently, and gave him a pat on the head. "That's a good man."

"You'll love him, Foxy and Golden Freddy," Chica's voice chimed as she approached the office from the left side with the last two animatronics. "He's sooo nice and brave like you, Foxy." She informed them. "He might have been a pirate back in the day." She giggled.

There was a sound of a male sighing. "Chica, I don't enjoy bein' the pirate of the group." The fox replied tiredly. "I just am the pirate."

"Oh goodie! Freddy, you'd met Mikey already!" The chicken smiled as the last of the robots entered the office.

In a flash, Freddy had scooped up the golden bear in his arms. "I don't want him meeting this human yet," He announced protectively. He started to exit through the left door way.

"But Fred!" The golden bear moaned in argument of the other bear. He seemed to be powerless to get away from the brown bear.

"Don't you 'But Fred' me, young man," The singer scolded the other bear. "You're too naïve. I don't trust him still." With that, they were out of hearing range.

"Silly Freddy," The yellow mascot giggled. "Don't worry about Freddy, he's a giant teddy bear when you get to know him."

"Who was-?"

"That be Golden Freddy who our friend just whisked away." The fox replied calmly. "They be brothers, not just species but from something deeper. Something we all lost."

Mike stared blankly at them. He was uncomfortable with the subject all the robots vaguely mentioned and then completely ignore it. He wasn't going to lie to him-self, he was frightened of the fox. He thought in the past, he had once admired the pirate fox for his pre-programmed bravery but now seeing the mangled, decayed fox he thought such admiring was imaginary. He only felt like he was in the presence of a predator.

"The name be Foxy, but I know that the humans had told you that. I have another name, which all has been forgotten." The two-footed fox frowned as he glanced at the ground.

"Aw, it's okay, Foxy. We all forgot our other names – well, most of us." The female robot comforted him. She smiled at the guard. "Golden Freddy's other name is Tommy and Freddy's is Fred."

"Oh, lass I wish you luck after informing this stranger of that. You know how Freddy gets."

"He'll be okay with it. There's nothing to worry about, Foxy."

"Um…hi there Foxy, I'm Mike Schmidt, your new night watch." The human decided to introduce himself instance of trying to figure out what they were talking about.

"Ahoy there Mike, it's a pleasure to meet you." The fox smiled at him.

"It's nice to know you guys won't attack me again," Mike smiled shortly. Then he frowned after hearing what he said. "Y-You guys won't attack me again will you?"

"No, no, don't be silly, Mikey!" Chica grinned. "That's all in the past. You're the first guard we been able to talk to who hasn't ran off in fear of us. I think this is the start of something new!"

The man recalled correcting Chica since that night to call him Mike, instead of Mikey. It's not that the guard had an issue with the nick name. He just thought it sounded childish to be called such since he became a man.

End of Chapter 4

Author's Note: Hope all my readers had great holidays this year. From Mavis Read to all my readers, here's a be-late holiday gift to all of you lovely readers. My only wish is for reviews from my readers so I know how I'm doing on this story. I haven't given up on this story just yet, it's just my brain has been dry of ideas until today. Also, check one my page for updates on the story as well if I forget to update in the author's notes. I hope you guys enjoy this chapter, I plan to work on chapter 5 today and hopefully get it out tonight or tomorrow. Feel free to ask please anything in a review, I read them all.