Sister Location: The Dance with Death Redux

By: Risingear

Vincent Benedict started working at "Baby's Pizza World" after he got out of prison. As a former chop shop mechanic, he had the engineering experiences. Making him qualified to serve as one of their technicians. Even knowing his criminal past they gave him the job suspiciously without question. This place gave him the creeps but with few options, he takes it anyway to not violate parole. On the first night Handy, the helpful* makes himself known with his happy tone on the elevator.

"Welcome to your first day please enter your name!" The button displays a glitching mess on the tablet. Vincent tries to type in his name. "I would if you hold still, you glitchy shit!" Handy's screen fixes itself. "Eggs Benedict nice to meet you!"

Vincent flips his tablet off. "At least you got my last name right, you broken asshole!"

After exiting the elevator he walks into a small room filled with spare parts. The three large air vents on each of the walls in front of him. To his left and right are two consoles next to the large windows to dark rooms. Vincent hears a woman singing a song.

"To your left is The Ballora Gallery! Use the blue button to see if she is on her stage! Vincent pushes it. "Sure whatever Notsocleverbot"!

He pushes the button lighting up the other room. Showing the shadowy figure of a curvaceous woman right at the window. She politely waves at him in greeting. Even if freaked out by this he waves back anyway.

"Ballora appears to not be on stage! Please use the red button to give her a controlled shock!" The AI says in a joyful tone.

Vincent just shrugs the order aside, not thinking that would be a smart idea. "Fuck that, It's a catchy toon."

"~I hate my metal bones! My bones and gears creak in my chest! My chest forever cold! A cold and maddening descent! Descending down so far! Fall farther 'til there's nothing left! I'm left here in the dark. The dark! I dance to forget!~" The female figure known as Ballora sings.

Vincent gives her a round of applause. "That was a catchy little number! Ballora was it? You mind going back to the stage, please. It's just not classy to zap a lady now is it?"

Ballora jumps in shock someone is talking to her. "Very well sir. I don't recognize your voice. If I may be so bold about to ask your name?" She asks in a low calm voice.

Vincent gives her a playful wink. "Alright, I'm Vincent Benedict nice to meet you!"

Ballora takes a bow to the man trying to be a gentleman. "The pleasure is all mine, Mr. Benedict! If you can make the time visit me before you have."

Vincent gives her a smile "My spider sense has been going crazy the second I set foot here but fuck it! Sure thing I've never been able to keep myself away from a beautiful lady anyway!" Vincent flirts with the female robot he only just discovered is sentient. Maybe just to keep on her good side.

Ballora gives him a playful giggle. "You are far too kind!"

After Vincent turns the stage lights back on she is back to dancing and he gets a good look at her with smaller dancers. Noting her figure he begins to wonder how they managed to market her to kids. Vincent gives Ballora a playful wink before turning his attention to the wall on his right is as dark as Ballora's.

"This is The Funtime Foxy Auditorium please see if Funtime Foxy is on stage!"

Vincent can hear a rabid dog on the other side of the glass. "I hate you Handy!" He complains after listening to his dumbass AI.

Like last time he turns on the light. The shadowy figure of an animalistic figure clawing at the glass. With the sound of growling and crazed cackling by the window.

"Foxy seems to be taking a break, give her a controlled shock!"

Vincent's eye twitches as he shouts, "Yeah about that, please go fuck yourself! My uncle Jeremy told me stories of Foxy from back in '87! Foxy get on the stage please!"

Vincent can hear tapping on the window behind him. "Excuse me but your words are falling on deaf ears ." Ballora's soothing voice can be heard. "She has a hatred for the staff of this accursed place as do I."

Vincent seems disappointed to hear her say that." But we're cool right, Ballora?"

"I don't understand; your core body temperature is at normal human levels?" She asks being a literal-minded robot with not much experience with humans. Vincent chuckles because he finds it funny. "No I mean do you hate me?"

Foxy continues to claw on the glass, hissing like a savage beast. "YESSS!"

"Oh well, you have been kind enough to not zap me! So you've already made a great first impression." She muses out loud, working off zero knowledge of people. The robotic ballerina looks at him while still concealed by the darkness. She sees his relaxed behavior around her an anomaly. "I do have to ask why are you taking all this so well?"

Vincent takes a deep breath, not enjoying remembering his time in the big house. "I just got out of prison and it teaches you two things. One is not to show weakness or get eaten alive!"

Ballora now the mental image of Vincent getting eaten alive by other humans. "and the other lesson you've learned?"

Vincent chuckles with an unconvincingly happy go lucky grin. "That being locked up sucks some major dick! So I kind of understand being locked up myself." He says with his sympathies for her. "So can you convince Foxy to get on stage?"

"I honestly don't know."

*CRASH!*

Before Ballora can even try to talk to Foxy. The pink/white hand of the animatronic fox breaks through the glass and violently strangles Vincent. Close to blacking out Vincent finds the release button on her hand, sliding it off.

Vincent lays on the ground coughing and shaken before he starts screaming. "YOU ... YOU FUCKING FURRY BITCH, I TRIED BEING NICE!" He taunts Foxy by placing her removed hand on the glass. "I CAN TAKE CARS APART, AND I CAN TAKE YOU APART!" He is almost to push the shock button in a fit of rage before Ballora stops him.

"NO MR. BENEDICT PLEASE DON'T ZAP HER SHE'S BEEN HURT TOO MUCH ALREADY!" Ballora screams, begging for the mercy on Foxy's behalf.

Vincent does mana to calm down and remember his anger management classes. "You got fucking lucky bitch! Now get on stage or I'll zap your metal ass into oblivion!"

Foxy puts her other hand through the hole in the glass. "Hand!"The maniacal robot fox grabs her hand back from Vincent's grasp and vanishes into the shadows. Vincent turns the light back on to see Foxy on stage flipping him off. Vincent gives her a Two Bird Special in kind and backs away from the window.

"Good work Foxy seems to like you! Please use the vent to go into Baby's Playhouse!" Handy cheeringly says, almost like it's trolling him.

Vincent flips off the speakers Handy's voice comes out of. "Why a vent and not a door also ARE YOU TRYING TO GET ME KILLED?!"

Ballora taps the glass again to get his attention. "Baby's minions will try to attack you if you zap her so don't antagonize her."

Vincent gives her a thumbs up in gratitude. "Thanks for the tip. What can I expect from her anyway?"

Foxy laughs ominously before uttering in a beastly growl. "PAIN!"

"No, she won't hurt you at least not directly. Baby is talkative she'll warn you about how to survive this place, but it's only to earn your trust."

Vincent gives her a thumbs up as he crouches down next to the vent. "Thanks, Ballora I owe you one!" Vincent crawls through the vent to the not so well lite control room. In front of him is a large window like the others but with a much larger console.

"Use the..." Handy gets cut off by an irritated Vincent. "Yeah I get it already you cumdumpster, I gotta put on a light show!" He once again pushes light button but this time nothing happens.

"It seems the lights are out do you need help?"

Vincent punches the wall in frustration. "Not from you clippy!"

"I don't recognize you. You are new. I remember this scenario. However, it's a strange thing to want to do, to come here. I'm curious what events will lead a person to want to spend their nights in a place like this willingly. Maybe curiosity, maybe ignorance. There is a space under the desk, someone before you crafted it into a hiding place and it worked for him. I recommend that you hurry though. You will be safe there, just try not to make eye contact, it will be over soon. They will lose interest." The voice of a young woman says in a monologue.

Vincent is slightly startled by her before sighing in relief."Very poor life choices! I'm Vincent Benedict nice to meet you Baby. I can't see you but I hope your on stage because I don't want to zap you."

"You needn't worry I'm right where I need to be."

"Error in the system a emergency shut-down iminate so we can fix it! All locks and safe-guards will be temporarily offline!" Handy cheerfully warns as the lights go out on him.

"Oh, sure WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG!"

"They'll be coming for you! The one before you turned the cupboard below the console into a hiding place like I said!" Like Ballora said she would, Baby warned him again.

Instead of acting brave he does what she says. Hiding in the large hiding spot. He holds his flashlight to look though one of the many small holes in the door. He notices a blue eye looking right at him and the opens. Panicking he grabs the door and pulls it back closed. The blue eye moves to a new hole a green one joining it.

The two talk in unison in the voice of toddlers. "We know you're in there so please come out and play with us!"

The door opens up even faster this time. Vincent has no time to react as he looks at two robotic infants with blue/green eyes in front of him. His fight or flight response kicks in as he kicks one across the room.

Vincent laughs, a little embarrassed he got so worried about two toddlers. "This is maybe the only time I'll be cool with kicking a baby in the face!" He hops out of his hiding spot with a smug grin. "Got to confess you two had me scared! Now its my turn, Kick the baby!" He wind up his foot.

"Don't kick the Baby!" The little robot baby begs Vincent not to do it, but it doesn't help.

"Kick the baby!" He kicks the other one with a shit eating grin on his face like he's having fun! The very second the green eyed one hit the wall the power gets turned back on. "I can't believe I got scared over robotic babies!" "oh man, Vivienne is not going to let this one slip by."

Baby Has a mild freak out over the toddlers. "WHY WOULD YOU HURT THEM!?"

Vincent just shrugs it off with slight indifference."Hay I had to defend myself! No hard feelings right kids!"

"Were sorry!"

Vincent helps the little guys get back up, even patting one on the head. "Good don't let it happen again!"

"Power fully restored and systems online! Good job on your first day!"

Vincent immediately growns in disappointment at hearing Handy's voice. "And I was liking the absence of you! See you later Baby hope you don't hold this against me."

Vincent crawls out of Baby's Playhouse with any more shit coming his way. On the other side of the glass in Baby's room, a hand touches it remorsefully.

Baby starts to laugh with her voice gets deeper and much more masculine. Glowing purple eyes glow in the darkness an inches from the glass. Metal tentacles reach into the control room, grabbing the robot toddlers before they can fight back. "He has some fight in him, I love that in my victims!"

After exiting Baby's playhouse Vincent stretches his back after hopping out of the vent. "Now I know what a tv dinner feels like! Always wanted to say that." Ballora the ballerina back at the window looking at him with her face plates open but closes them before he notices. Taping on the glass to get him to notice her.

Ballora was waiting for Vincent to come back, if he comes back. "Mr. Benedict your not hurt!? I Heard the sounds of a struggle!"

Vincent stretches his back after crawling through an air vent. "I'm fine, just played football with the faces of Baby's goo-goo-goons!" He shakes his head at the lame joke he just made. "By the way, Ballora can you just call me Vincent? Sorry but I just don't do formal."

"Very well, Vincent will you still keep me company now all has been said and done?"

Vincent playfully winks at her again with a grin. "I gave you my word didn't I? I would come into the gallery but Handy sealed it." He says to the one friendly robot here.

Ballora nodes her head "I understand maybe in time. Why do you work here of all places?"

Vincent gets a very melancholily expression on his face. "I've made a lot of mistakes in my life! Mistakes that stopped me from being anything more then ... well, this! Really if a better job was willing to hire a former crook like me I'd have taken it! No offence!"

"No offence taken in fact now we have something in common. We both have no choice in being here. I sometimes wish I was never built!" She says like she is about to cry.

Vincent has often thought the same thing in the past, but hearing someone else says so makes him angry in a concerned way. "That's a stupid fucking thing to wish for Ballora! Life isn't about where you are it's where you go from there!"

Ballora leans back with her back to the glass, her permanent smile becoming very ironic. "But I never did anything to deserve coming to this horrible place!" She says like she is trying to come up with a valid example.

Vincent puts his hand on the glass, He can't do much to comfort her. "Trust me Ballora, people rarely have a choice on how their lives turn out, but you can choose how you react to it!"

Ballora puts her hand on the glass like him, she appreciated the gesture."But how should I react then?"

Vincent rubs the back of his head unsure how the respond to that. "That's up to you Ballora, I don't know what you've been through. However, I'll do all I can to help if I can!"

Ballora chuckles a little at a human treating her this friendly, she also remembers the knight shift is almost over."You may want to leave before the elevator shuts down for the night and thank you for your words! They really mean a lot!"

Vincent teases her by blowing her a kiss. "Anytime beautiful, see you tomorrow."Vincent runs into the elevator and heads to the ground floor above. Ballora is taken aback by being called beautiful.

"Beautiful? If only you knew the truth about me, Would you still think so even if you did?"

~Ground Floor~

On the ground floor, Vincent punches out and crosses paths with the night guard Jackson who is punching out also while high fiving Vincent. The two are old friends from before Vincent's chop-shop days and five years in jail.

A big tattooed meathead but a gentle giant with a black and white view on morality. This really tested there friendship during Vincent's old life because Jackson was the one who got the cops on his ass and put him in jail. After Vincent got out the two reconcile somewhat and Jackson even gave his recommendation on Vincents Resume to work at Baby's. "So Vinny how was your first night? Sorry, your first day had to be on a holiday."

Vincent painfully rubs the hand print of his neck and looks at him spitefully. "Nothing special other then that fox fucking tried to kill me! The Handy unit was a piece of shit, seems to be trolling me as it put me in harms way!"

Jackson is horrified by what he just heard. "Wait they attacked you!?"

"Just that fuck-head Foxy. Broke through the glass and choke the shit out of me! Next time she comes near me I'll rip her head off and shit down her neck!"

Jackson clenches his fist in anger, this has happened before. "I'll report that to the manager! You're not hurt are you, I do see a mark on your neck?"

"It only hurts when I laugh!" Say Vincent as he pretends to laugh.

Jackson chuckles at his old friend's mean spirited attempt at humor. "ok wise-ass get yourself home and I'm proud of you going legit!"

Vincent however, still holds some resentment for the guy. "You would just have me locked up again if I didn't!"

Vincent walks out to the parking lot with an angry look on his face because of Jackson. He knows Jackson was just doing what he thought was right but that can't stop him from resenting the fact his best friend sold him out and now pity's him.

Reaching his shitty car he drives away from the massive building miles away from town with the woods in between. While driving home he gets a call from his roommate Vivienne Raven. Unlike Jackson, her and Vincent have a more friendly relationship. He never seen her hold a job before but always having anything she wanted when she wanted. Her photo on his cell-phone is of a unnaturally pale skinned woman with jet black hair and dark purple/black victorian dress.

"~You're such a gorgeous nightmare! Oh man, it never let this feeling go away!You make me feel brand new yeah! We resurrect it's like I've come back to life~"

"Good work with your first night! When you make it back you have something special waiting for you!~" She purrs to him very flirtatiously, making the man sweat.

"Holy shit, whats she up to this time!" He thinks to himself, worried what crazy thing she has planned for him. "I still have rope burn from last time!"

"Well, I didn't hear you complaining the night before!" She complains in a mocked offence, like she heard his thoughts.

Vincent nearly drops his phone with shock. "H-How do you keep doing that?!"

"I'm a witch." She replies in a matter of fact kind of way.

Vincent laughs at what he assumes is sarcasm. "And Freddy Fazbear. Anyway, almost home anything you need me to pick up?"

"How about eggs I feel like some eggs benedict for breakfast! Hahaheha!" Vivienne jokes, implying she knows something she responsibly shouldn't.

"Hilarious." Vincent deadpans.

After picking up her eggs he makes it to her house. It sits on top a hill but looks but looks like a haunted mansion from an old Scooby Doo episode. After walking inside the inside is clean with the gothic decor. "I'M BACK FROM THE 8TH CIRCLE OF HELL!"

"Bring me back a snowglobe?" Vivienne snarkingly asks from atop the stairs.

"Yeah but the place froze over on the way home." He jokes right back at her.

On top of the stares stands Vivienne Raven wearing a loose bathrobe and wet hair clearly just out of a bath. Slowly walking down making her hips sway and her breast bounce. After making her way to Vincent. Knowing Vincent only thinks of her as a friend she grabs him by the hair and french kisses him. This is nothing new for them as it's not about love but simply pleasure.

"Was that the surprise?" He asks with a smirk.

Vivienne No this is for me! This is for you." She pulls out a large box that wasn't in her hands before. "Hope you like them!~"

Vincent opens the box, "Two taser a stun baton and a studded Riding might actually help out at work?" He gets a confused look on his face when he thinks about a certain kinky object. "Why did you give me a Riding Crop?"

Vivienne loosens up her robe, showing even more ivory skin. "You're a big boy, take a hint."

With a dog collar appears out of thin air on his neck in true Vivienne fashion she leads him though the living room they pass by a skinny Black puppet wearing a white mask seated on the couch next to a bucket of popcorn, with a soap about a vampire on TV.