Subject: How about a quickie interlude instead?
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Posted on: 2015-03-19 21:06:00 UTC
"One Day at Freddy's" (unbetaed)
Doc sat stiffly on the undersized kid's bench. "This just feels so inappropriate."
"Lighten up, Doc! It's a birthday party." Vania took a noisy sip of soda. "You realize how rarely kids in our Nursery get to do normal stuff like this? Look at them!"
Mollie and Ollie, now officially eleven-year-olds, had invited some of their friends to the party. The kids were laughing and yelling, running back and forth from the arcade games to the table that held the pizza.
"Yeah, but . . ." Doc turned his gaze to the singing animatronics on the colorful stage. "Why here?"
Vania's face turned deadly serious, and she moved it slowly closer to Doc's until she was eye to eye. "Have you any idea?" She paused dramatically. "How much these parties cost in a real-world Chuck E. Cheese's?" She grinned.
Doc glared at her. "You know what I mean." He motioned towards the stage with his shoulder. "Those things kill people," he whispered.
"Doc, you of all people ought to do the research before making assumptions. Everything is fine." She lowered her voice. "The biting incident happens in 1987, and the kidnapping in an unknown June. We are safely in March of 1985, and have nothing to worry about but the grease content in this pizza."
Doc looked again at the jerkily dancing robots on the stage. "What if the kids play this when they get older, and it gives them nightmares that they were here?"
"Already done it."
Doc whipped his head towards the boy who had spoken. "Seriously?"
Chuck grinned around his mouthful of pizza, then swallowed. "Well? Keep your glazzies in your gullivers, it's just a bit of fun."
Doc sneered a bit. "Ugh. Why am I not surprised the Clockwork Orange kid has played Five Nights?"
Vania smacked him on the arm. "Doc! That's rude!"
Chuck gave an even bigger grin. "Oh, and is the poogly Floater afraid of the creepy dannies? Ha ha ha!"
"I think Freddy is the scariest!" A girl chimed in.
"No way, it's Foxy!" Mollie added.
"I find Balloon Boy unsettling," said another child (who happened to be a robot wearing a human disguise for the party).
The agents listened to the mounting debate in stunned silence. Finally, Vania interrupted the kids with a, "Guys, guys! Keep your voices down! Don't let any of the background canons hear a spoiler."
The kids hushed quickly, allowing Doc to quietly ask, "They let you play this crap in the Nursery?"
"It's fun!"
"We take turns!"
"I've gotten to night six in the first one!"
"I got all the way through the first two games!"
"I've found all the Easter eggs!"
As the kids began clamoring again, Doc and Vania folded their arms and laid their heads down.
"Sorry," Doc said. "I guess I was being over-protective."
"S'all right, Doc. I . . . wasn't expecting the kids to be quite this resilient. At least we know we're safe, with all these canon experts at hand!"
Doc smiled. "True!"
Then, a spotlight fell from the ceiling and crashed to the ground right behind them.
—doctorlit, who proposes the animatronics' AIs were corrupted when the facial recognition software viewed Agent Doc's face, and couldn't properly cope with the ugly.