*ka-thump* *ka-thump* *ka-thump*

Mike Schmidt's heart was racing inside of his chest, his breath ragged and hoarse as he turned down another dimly-lit hallway. He was extremely tired, but he couldn't stop. Not now.

Not when his life is in imminent danger.

Mike knew he shouldn't have left the security room, but he couldn't help it. He had to, in order to survive. They're gonna notice he's gone, and they're going to be coming for him.

His footfalls were coming down loud on the ground, which caused a slight echo that made it sound like that he was being followed. In fact, too much like he was being followed. He decided to take a risk and looked behind him. A decision which he immediately regretted.

In the quick glance he took, he saw a figure chasing him, the darkness of the hall blurring his details, all except the eyes. The eyes were lit, so he easily recognized that it wasn't the shadows that were following him, but one of them. He picked up the pace quite rapidly.

He saw up ahead that the hallway forked in two directions; one left and one right. Mike swore under his breath, knowing that only one of these paths will lead him back the the security room. The only place in this madhouse where he could hide. He had to take a gamble and decided to go left, but at the last second he changed his mind and decided to go right.

He realized as he turned down the hall that that split-second decision probably saved his life, for as he turned down the hall, out of the corner of his eye, he saw another pair of eyes coming down the left pathway towards him, at a much faster rate than the figure who was following him before.

'Why is he here?!' he thought as he began to run faster than he believed he had run before, 'I left the camera right on him. How did he know?' Mike thought that this would be the end of him, but then he saw just up ahead the glow of a yellow light. 'The security room!' he realized with the little bit of happiness that wasn't drowned out by pure terror.

He sprinted closer to the light and leaped into the room, hitting the door button on his way in. A big steel door came crashing down right behind him, which put a solid barrier between him and his pursuers. He rushed over to the other side of the room and pressed the door button there which closed the door leading to the other hallway.

Now in a state of temporary peace, he sat down on the floor and panted like a dog. He knew that he wouldn't be able to pull anything like that off again. Suddenly, he heard banging on the door in front of him. He chuckled lightly. "That's right." he announced aloud, "Now you can't get in here! I win!" His moment of pleasure was struck down by a sudden realization he had. The two who were chasing him were behind the other door!

Quickly, went to the back of the room, where his office chair was overturned, and his laptop was sprawled on the ground. He picked up the laptop and sat down in the chair, after turning it upright. He opened it up and he was looking at a stage with the curtains drawn shut. He knew the occupant of that place is now gone. He saw there was a battery symbol in the corner and saw it at 50% and steadily dropping. He expected this, considering the doors used up the most of the rationed power he was given.

He quickly began flipping through the channels until he reached the security camera that was positioned in the west hall, or the door on his left at the moment. There, he found the two that were chasing him. They were man-sized animatronic characters, one was a bear wearing a top hat and a bowtie, and the other was an anthropomorphic fox with an eyepatch covering one eye and a hook instead of a hand. "Freddie and Foxy." Mike mumbled to himself.

He then changed the channel over to the east hall or the door on his right. There were two more animatronics there. One was a bunny with matted, purple fur and a blue bowtie with white polka-dots, and the other was a chick who wore a bib that said "Let's Eat!" (He personally thought it was a duck, but he could never tell.) "And there's Bonnie and Chica. Perfect, now I'm trapped with no way out."

He looked at his power level and it had just reached 30% and was still dropping. He looked at the clock and it just said 5 AM. He wished it said the minutes, too. But, since it didn't, he just had to wait and hope that it will be six o'clock soon.

He kept checking to see if they were gone, but they never moved. It's as if they're waiting for the power to run out. "Wait a minute," he said to himself, "maybe that is what they're waiting for. Maybe, they're just waiting for me to die!"

Mike began to look around the room for some way out. He saw an air vent above him, but it was too high for him to reach. 'Man, I hope they never figure out to use the vents.' he hoped silently as he looked at the power level reach 10% and seemingly go down faster than before.

He started to shake the laptop. "Come on! Turn to six already! Please!" He began to shake it even more vigorously, as if he could make it go faster the harder he shook it. The percentage was going down very quickly. It now said 5%.

4%.

3%.

2%.

1%.

The screen of the laptop suddenly flickered off along with the lights. He looked up in horror as the doors had slid back into the ceiling, and four pairs of illuminated eyes stared at him through the doorway. The eyes slowly began to file into the room and slowed to an agonizing crawl as they moved to surround him. With the illumination of their eyes, he could see the ghostly faces of Bonnie, Chica, Foxy and Freddie all around him.

Then, they struck.

Wow. I scared myself writing that one. Anyways, hi, here's my new FNAF fanfic. You probably think that this will be a one-shot, due to how it was written. Well, as John Paul Jones said, "I have not yet begun to write!"

*ahem* Or something like that, anyway.

To be fair, the only reason I mentioned the vents in this story was because FNAF2 was supposed to make fair use of them, so I thought I'd be fun and mention them.

But now, you're probably full of questions, like "Why did you start in the middle?", "How did Mike get out of the room?" and "Did he just die?" The answers to your questions, and more, please stay tuned to see what happens!