# Episode 7 - The Immortal And The Restless (Part II: The Afton Family Arc)

An episode of [Into The Night: A FNaF Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1575845247), 10 Dec 2021, 1 h 16 min.

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Michael faces escalating danger in his chilling third night at Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rentals as the Funtime Animatronics grow more unpredictable. From being trapped in a deadly Springlock Suit to confronting the mysterious Scooper, Michael’s descent into the underground facility intensifies—and the truth about William Afton and his motivations begins to surface. This episode of Into the Night dives deep into Michael's backstory, exploring his motives, personality, and the sacrifices he endures in the final nights at the Sister Location. Join us as we uncover secrets buried below the surface and examine the dark foundation of Fazbear Entertainment. Will you join us Into the Night? Support the Show on Patreon! patreon.com/NickBlack204 Official Discord: https://discord.com/invite/8p7tDE9VND Official Business Email: officialintothnightpodcast@gmail.com Official Question Email: officialintothenightquestions@gmail.com Official Twitter (@FazbearPodcast): https://twitter.com/FazbearPodcast Official YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkzY_ChXVIowflDO_MByfMA Official Merch Store: https://www.intothenightmerch.com Cast: Narrator: Nick Black Thumbnail Art by: YourResume Music: Five Nights at Freddy's - Scott Cawthon/Leon Riskin Post-Shift 2 - Rjac35 Music: Five Nights at Freddy's - Scott Cawthon/Steelwool Studios/Mega Cat Studios www.freesound.org www.videvo.net https://mixkit.co/ Five Nights at Freddy's and all its copyrighted works are owned by Scott Cawthon. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

## Transcript

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[0:51] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Just as the Twilight Approaches, so also does our next episode of Michael in his McCabro venture below the surface reaches its near conclusion.
[1:02] \[SPEAKER_00\]: We'll be returned to his duties, tending the graveyard ship, or we'll be retired to his home to avoiding Gullish fate, at the cold hands of Inkibas.
[1:12] \[SPEAKER_00\]: All of that in more, happening now.
[1:19] \[SPEAKER_01\]: In our previous episode, Michael Afton had endured his second harrowing night at Circus Baby's entertainment and rentals.
[1:28] \[SPEAKER_01\]: An intricate underground facility shrouded in mystery.
[1:33] \[SPEAKER_01\]: This subterrarian complex serves a holding area for a collection of robots known as the Fun Time Animatronics from Circus Baby's Pizza World.
[1:46] \[SPEAKER_01\]: However, rather than being housed in conventional storage or resurgence stations, these animatronics are confined within the auditoriums that are functionally equivalent to cages like animals to be stared at in a circus, prodded with controlled shocks if they don't behave and sing the song and tap the dance.
[2:09] \[SPEAKER_01\]: disturbingly, these robots don't behave like the animatronics of Freddy's Wii-no.
[2:15] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The fun-time gang have exhibited an unsubbling level of awareness in personality that skirts the boundary of sentience.
[2:26] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Circus Baby and Ballora appeared to be cognizant and aware, and fun-time Freddy appears to have lost his marbles along a go.
[2:36] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The rationale behind Michael's decision to persist in his role as a late night technician despite the omnipresent specter of death lurking at every turn remains unknown.
[2:50] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Nevertheless, before delving deeper into the unfolding narrative, it is prudent to reaffirm
[2:59] \[SPEAKER_01\]: before diving deeper.
[3:00] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Our only glimpse into Michael's past is found in five nights at Freddy's Four, covered in our previous episodes.
[3:08] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael was quite younger, and he assumed the role of an older brother tormenting his traumatized younger sibling.
[3:16] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Donning a Foxy mask, possibly fashion from the dismembered head of his brother's Pirate Fox plush, the epic graphics make it difficult to discern.
[3:25] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael relished opportunities to ambush and terrify his younger brother at every opportunity, reducing him to a state of helpless fear.
[3:36] \[SPEAKER_01\]: On the sixth day of the journey we see, we watch him torment his younger sibling, surrounding himself with a cohort of like-minded teenage boys, who revel in this cruelty, each one wearing a different fast bear bandmate mask, and finding equal amusement in the torment of this young boy.
[3:57] \[SPEAKER_01\]: but this all resulted in a catastrophic end when one of Michael's pranks spiraled out of control.
[4:05] \[SPEAKER_01\]: When he and his gaggle of friends take his younger brother's head and shove it into the mouth of a Fredbear animatronic.
[4:14] \[SPEAKER_01\]: After a moment of panic and strain, the Fredbear's head clamped down and crushed.
[4:20] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The younger boy's head like a melon bean broken apart by a sledgehammer.
[4:25] \[SPEAKER_01\]: This disaster plunged Michael's younger brother into a coma before his eventual death.
[4:34] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The gravity of this tragedy sparked a jarring wake-up call for Michael, who typically apologizes at his brother's bedside during his final moments.
[4:45] \[SPEAKER_01\]: While his younger brother, Ushabi referred to now as the bite victim, here's his heartfelt apology within the loom void of death.
[4:55] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Mike does not know he can hear him.
[4:58] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The moment later, his brother passes away, drifting into eternal sleep to the faint lullaby of a flatline.
[5:11] \[SPEAKER_01\]: But what drives a young boy to behave in such a cruel and destructive manner, such behavior often stems from the home environment, as sheed by the influence or absence of the child's parents?
[5:27] \[SPEAKER_01\]: While details about Michael's mother remain scarce, we do know considerably more about his father.
[5:34] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael's father was a distant, in-emotionally unavailable figure, as evidence didn't find us at Freddy's Four.
[5:42] \[SPEAKER_01\]: His disinterest in parenting created a household where Michael was effectively given free reign over his younger brother, unchecked by authority or moral guidance.
[5:54] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The lack of supervision and discipline may have been compounded by deeper emotional scars, feelings of rejection, possibly stiffening from being disowned as a child.
[6:07] \[SPEAKER_01\]: As we noted in the previous episode, one of Michael's favorite pastimes involves watching cartoonish soap operas, particularly a melodramatic series titled The Immortal and the Restless.
[6:22] \[SPEAKER_01\]: But why does Michael love this show?
[6:25] \[SPEAKER_01\]: What about it resonates so deeply within him?
[6:29] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Perhaps the series holds up a mirror to Michael's own tumultuous childhood.
[6:34] \[SPEAKER_01\]: After all, Evil is rarely born.
[6:38] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It's often made.
[6:40] \[SPEAKER_01\]: And like all pieces of art, the hand that makes it tends to reflect that of the artist's own mind and soul.
[6:49] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Or in this case,
[6:51] \[SPEAKER_01\]: lack thereof.
[6:53] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Vlad the vampire, the estranged ex-thusband in a purple suit, could symbolize Michael's father, Clara the human, who separates from Vlad, maybe then represents his mother, and meanwhile the baby, whom Vlad adamantly denies as his, despite sharing his mannerisms and appearance.
[7:17] \[SPEAKER_01\]: could that not serve as a poetic representation of Michael himself?
[7:24] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Is well established that children are more likely to unconsciously perpetuate cycles of abuse, and Michael was no exception.
[7:33] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He's younger brother, being smaller, weaker and vulnerable, became an easy outlet for Michael to channel his aggression, frustrations, and dark impulses.
[7:47] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Yet this pattern of behavior is not in inevitability.
[7:51] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Many survivors of childhood abuse, row into adults with a heightened sense of protection, and a profound determination to shield others, especially children, from harm.
[8:05] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Life is ultimately a series of choices, choices that shake not only our own path,
[8:13] \[SPEAKER_01\]: but also the past of those who cross our own.
[8:17] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It is in these interactions in how we respond to the people in our lives that our true nature is revealed.
[8:27] \[SPEAKER_01\]: For Michael, the journey to discover who we is and who you will become.
[8:32] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Like all of us will be based on the actions he chooses to commit to.
[8:41] \[SPEAKER_01\]: This is episode seven, the immortal and the restless.
[8:53] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Welcome back to another pivotal night of your thriving new career where you get to really ask yourself what I'm going to do in my life.
[9:00] \[SPEAKER_08\]: What would my friends say and most importantly will I ever see my family?
[9:06] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael has returned for his third night shift as a technician.
[9:10] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The elevator arrived to the vents system, feeling increasingly longer than the previous.
[9:16] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It wasn't the elevator speed that made the descent drag on.
[9:20] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It was hanging its voice.
[9:22] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The monotonous attitude and mechanical demeanor grew more grating every second he'd rolled on.
[9:29] \[SPEAKER_01\]: and what was worse.
[9:31] \[SPEAKER_01\]: After witnessing its behavior the previous night, Michael had no doubt left that hand unit was a machine in the pure sense.
[9:40] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It offered no genuine concern for his well-being, its pre-programmed responses focused solely on mitigating, animal bodies, liability, rather than assuring Michael's own personal safety.
[9:55] \[SPEAKER_08\]: We understand the stresses of new job and we're here for you.
[9:59] \[SPEAKER_08\]: To help you reach a more stable and relaxing framework line, we offer several musical selections to help make this elevator ride as relaxing and therapeutic as possible.
[10:08] \[SPEAKER_08\]: We offer contemporary jazz, classical, rainforests of advanced, as well as a wide selection of other choices.
[10:16] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Using the key app below, please type the first few letters of the musical selection you would prefer.
[10:22] \[SPEAKER_08\]: It seems you had some trouble with the keypad.
[10:25] \[SPEAKER_08\]: I see what you were trying to type, and I will all have correct it for you.
[10:29] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Thank you for selecting.
[10:31] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Cash will bomb ghosts.
[10:39] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Now they were all in a very experienced event customized to your needs and were thorough in the lives.
[10:44] \[SPEAKER_08\]: It's worth mentioning that to be your last customer for this yesterday, your pay has been decreased by a substantial amount.
[10:54] \[SPEAKER_01\]: My cult heightened the grip on the plastic side of the tablet, hearing a strain against the pressure of his palms.
[11:02] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The thing was lucky that he wasn't doing this job for the money.
[11:06] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Otherwise, he would have snapped Mr. Tablet face and hat.
[11:14] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The elevator thankfully stopped, and as Michael began crawling through the claustrophobic space of the vent shafts, the familiar metallic echo of his movements, accompanied the equally impersonal voice of hand unit.
[11:31] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The device launched into its nightly briefing, outlining Michael's duty with the same detached indifference he had come to expect.
[11:39] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Due to unforeseen malfunctions, but today's shows, your nightly duties will require you to perform maintenance that you may or may not be still allowed to perform.
[11:48] \[SPEAKER_08\]: He'd became necessary for technicians to intend to disconnect one time for any support module.
[11:53] \[SPEAKER_08\]: However, they work on successfully.
[11:55] \[SPEAKER_08\]: As Michael emerged in the primary control module, it's unsettling assortment of uncanny knickknacks, breeding him once more.
[12:20] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Bay then a sickly green light that clung to the crawl space like a toxic haze.
[12:26] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Han unit, ever detached, due to the Lee instructed him to perform his routine inspection of the fun time animatronics functionality.
[12:35] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Without hesitation, Michael turned toward the ballora gallery, pressing the bright blue button to activate the stage spotlight.
[12:45] \[SPEAKER_01\]: what the light revealed, however, was far from routine.
[12:50] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It was a grotesque scene that could have been torn from the pages of a Stephen King novel.
[12:58] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The stage was overrun by Minnerina's, miniature porcelain-like dolls, the same ones that were dancing with Ballora yesterday, that looked like eerily joint-like artist mannequins.
[13:14] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The Minnerinas had dismantled Bologra, tearing off her limbs and head, and hoisting up her body.
[13:22] \[SPEAKER_01\]: They were eerily still in the light, like children caught in the act of misbehaving.
[13:30] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael, ready to press the control shock button.
[13:33] \[SPEAKER_08\]: What?
[13:33] \[SPEAKER_08\]: No, we clearly was not.
[13:34] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Things were far from normal.
[13:43] \[SPEAKER_01\]: But then again, seeing as Haneon's programming probably only checked if the animatronics are present on their respective stages, Belora is technically fulfilling the requirement of everything as it should be.
[13:59] \[SPEAKER_01\]: That said, it put Mike even more on edge.
[14:03] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It wasn't just that Haneon was indifferent to his personal safety.
[14:07] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It now seemed likely that its oversight of the facility was way more deeply flawed than he had previously assumed.
[14:14] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The AI's limited edition and possible blind spots meant it couldn't miss critical threats entirely, leaving Michael vulnerable to dangerous, but the system wasn't programmed to recognize.
[14:28] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Let's check out the fun time boxing.
[14:30] \[SPEAKER_08\]: It's important to make sure she's on her stage before entering.
[14:34] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael turned toward the fun time auditorium to check on Foxy, who, upon pressing the light button, was nowhere to be seen on his stage.
[14:50] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Okay, so it appears that Hanyu is, just off its rockers today.
[14:57] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Definitely, no need for concern on that.
[15:00] \[SPEAKER_08\]: There is no need to check out baby tonight.
[15:03] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Please refrain from entering unauthorized areas.
[15:06] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Proceed directly to runtime auditory.
[15:10] \[SPEAKER_01\]: a sharp buzzer pierced the air, followed by two simultaneous clicks in the groaning protest of shutters sliding open.
[15:18] \[SPEAKER_01\]: In perfect synchronization, the vent coverings for both the fun time auditorium, and the circus gallery, solid open to reveal desolate shadowed crawl spaces.
[15:34] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael stood a frozen for a moment, disguised darting between the two unwelcoming passageways.
[15:40] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It was a gamble either way, ignoring Han's directives could risk his employment being terminated, but it was glaringly obvious that whatever caretaker system after robotics had designed lacked comprehensive awareness of its surroundings, or the dangers lurking within them.
[16:00] \[SPEAKER_01\]: If this pathway opened, did it possibly mean that something wanted him to go forward?
[16:08] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Taking a deep breath, Micah resolved to check the Circus Gallery first.
[16:14] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He left the primary control module behind.
[16:17] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The dim green glow receding is he crawled to the dark metallic channel.
[16:26] \[SPEAKER_01\]: the cramped space pressed in on him.
[16:29] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Every movement echoing through the cold unyielding steel, squirming and twisting to the vent until eventually, making it back into the circus control room.
[16:45] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Inside the Circus Gallery, the air was heavy with an eerie stillness.
[16:52] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Despite the power system being rebooted the previous night, the room remained cloaked in darkness.
[16:59] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The deactivated circus fights above, casting it in the oppressive shade of a crypt.
[17:05] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It was at the very least cold enough to be a crypt, in the stench of blood and death, was an omnipresent odor like everywhere in the facility.
[17:16] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael approached the frosted glass window overlooking the circus gallery, hoping for a glimpse beyond its haze even here.
[17:25] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Instead, he was agreed to only by the dim reflection of his own face.
[17:30] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The muted light tracing his bird brow in solemn expression.
[17:35] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael frowned, frustration flickering briefly before he shifted his focus.
[17:41] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He wanted to say something to her.
[17:45] \[SPEAKER_01\]: But what could he say?
[17:47] \[SPEAKER_01\]: What if he was wrong about her?
[17:50] \[SPEAKER_01\]: She helped him last night.
[17:52] \[SPEAKER_01\]: And there was no way he wouldn't have been caught by Balora if he had listened to hand unit.
[17:58] \[SPEAKER_01\]: But does that make her?
[18:01] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael decided the best course of action was in action.
[18:06] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He'll let her speak first.
[18:09] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He waited in the cold stillness of the room, the silence oppressive against his ears.
[18:17] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael didn't know why, but after a brief moment of waiting, he instinctively crawled under the desk into the small space he hid under the previous night.
[18:30] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The space was just as cramp as before, but he was able to fit himself inside.
[18:37] \[SPEAKER_01\]: After pulling himself together, he took a deep breath and waited.
[18:48] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Did you know that I was on stage once?
[18:51] \[SPEAKER_02\]: It wasn't for very long only one day.
[18:55] \[SPEAKER_02\]: What a wonderful day though.
[19:04] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I was in a small room with balloons and a few tables.
[19:08] \[SPEAKER_02\]: No one sat at the tables though, but children would run in and out.
[19:14] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Somewhere afraid of me, others enjoyed my songs.
[19:19] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Music was always coming from somewhere else, down the hall.
[19:33] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I would always count the children.
[19:35] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I'm not sure why.
[19:38] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I was always a cutely aware of how many they were in the room with me.
[19:43] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Two, then three, then two, then three, then four, then two, then none.
[19:50] \[SPEAKER_02\]: They usually play together in groups of two or three.
[19:55] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I was covered in glitter.
[19:57] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I smelled like birthday cake.
[20:00] \[SPEAKER_02\]: There were two, then three, then five, then four.
[20:05] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I can do something special.
[20:07] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Did you know that?
[20:09] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I can make ice cream.
[20:11] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Although I only did it once.
[20:14] \[SPEAKER_02\]: There were four, then three, then two, then one.
[20:22] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Something happened when there was one.
[20:28] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He knew the story.
[20:31] \[SPEAKER_01\]: More accurately, he knew how it ended, but not how it happened.
[20:44] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael gritted his tea.
[20:47] \[SPEAKER_01\]: That little girl loved Circus Baby, because she was so pretty and shiny, but her father forbid her from going anywhere near it.
[21:04] \[SPEAKER_01\]: She couldn't understand it.
[21:07] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Nor could her older brother, because they were both certain that she was designed just for her.
[21:19] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Not to solely play with, but to be based off her likeness, a whimsical princess.
[21:30] \[SPEAKER_01\]: They knew this, because she was built by the girl and boy's father.
[21:39] \[SPEAKER_01\]: On opening day, she went to circus babies, pizza world with her dad.
[21:50] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The man had to go on the first day, because the man made circus baby.
[22:00] \[SPEAKER_09\]: Where did he have the children?
[22:26] \[SPEAKER_02\]: My stomach opened, and there was ice cream.
[22:30] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I could move, at least, not until she stepped closer.
[22:36] \[SPEAKER_02\]: There was screaming for a moment, but only for a moment.
[22:41] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Then other children were standing in, but they couldn't hear her over the sounds of their own excitement.
[22:49] \[UNKNOWN\]: I still hear her sometimes.
[22:51] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Why did that happen?
[23:11] \[SPEAKER_08\]: After leaving Circus Baby behind at the Circus Gallery, Michael made his way back to the primary control module, preparing to navigate through fun time auditorium.
[23:39] \[SPEAKER_01\]: hand unit instructed Michael on the peculiar behavior of fun time boxy.
[23:44] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The animatronic was emotion-activated, and Michael was advised to use the flash beacon to track its position and avoid a fatal encounter.
[23:54] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Yet, no matter how many times Michael flipped the light into the yawning darkness.
[24:00] \[SPEAKER_01\]: the stark white jester fox remained elusive.
[24:04] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The unnerving emptiness of the auditorium, nodded his nerves.
[24:09] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Perhaps Foxy wasn't even here, Michael reasoned.
[24:13] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It wouldn't be out of character for a handier to overlook such a detail.
[24:18] \[SPEAKER_01\]: After all, it failed to account for several discrepancies already, including his delayed access to Parks and Service on this night alone.
[24:27] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Stealing himself, as Michael flicked on his flashlight in the room, he was immediately met with a wide, leering grin.
[24:37] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Fun time Freddy, thankfully, motionless, slumped in the shadows.
[24:44] \[SPEAKER_01\]: the deactivated animatronic loomed before him.
[24:48] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Its gaze hollow.
[24:50] \[SPEAKER_01\]: As Hannity began to relay its monotonous instructions, Michael's mind wandered, replaying his earlier one-sided conversation with Circus Baby.
[25:02] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He didn't have a response to give Baby.
[25:05] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He himself hadn't known what to think at the moment.
[25:09] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He knew why he came down here.
[25:12] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It was to find her.
[25:14] \[SPEAKER_01\]: His little sister.
[25:17] \[SPEAKER_01\]: But he didn't think.
[25:19] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He didn't know.
[25:19] \[SPEAKER_01\]: She was dead.
[25:25] \[SPEAKER_01\]: on time and on electronics.
[25:27] \[SPEAKER_01\]: They want some cock-eyed experiment designed to revolutionize children's entertainment as Michael had once assumed.
[25:36] \[SPEAKER_01\]: No, they served a bar, darker purpose.
[25:42] \[SPEAKER_01\]: One that, if circuit's baby's words were to be believed, twisted everything he thought he knew about this location, and what had occurred at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza,
[25:55] \[SPEAKER_01\]: She thought she'd drifted back to the haunting events of the missing children incident.
[26:01] \[SPEAKER_01\]: A tragedy, where innocent lives were snuffed out by the hands of a man who had hidden himself inside a spring Bonnie suit to gain the trust of his victims.
[26:14] \[SPEAKER_01\]: That same man, it seemed, was responsible for far more than Michael had initially realized.
[26:25] \[SPEAKER_01\]: his creation of these advanced machines, these soulless instruments of death, spoke to something far more in cities.
[26:39] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The whole extended even to his own family.
[26:45] \[SPEAKER_01\]: To the point where one of his victims had been none other than his own sister,
[26:52] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael could barely comprehend the depths of the depravity, hidden beneath this monster.
[26:59] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It was a facade that mass an empty, heartless, soulless creature, one capable of unfathomable cruelty.
[27:11] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Was there even a purpose in that death?
[27:15] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael couldn't say.
[27:17] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Some people, those driven by cruelty, might find pleasure in just torment and pain itself, twisting other suffering into some perverse form of entertainment.
[27:34] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael knew better than most, the links a person could go when they descended into that abyss, chasing that feeling of power at the cost of everything else.
[27:48] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He experienced it firsthand, as well as how much you lose because of it, not just yourself.
[27:56] \[SPEAKER_01\]: but those that aren't truly close to your heart.
[28:02] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Once this nightmare was over, Michael knew he'd have a conversation no a reckoning with the man responsible for all of this.
[28:15] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael finally retrieved fun time footage power module, as well as bond bonds smaller companion piece.
[28:22] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The little hand puppet had put up a small resistance, attempted to scamper away from Muck, but after playing a game with chicken, he managed to stash it up before get too far.
[28:33] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Now, the only thing left to do was to clock out and leave this place behind, at least for the night.
[28:46] \[SPEAKER_01\]: even traced his steps through the Parsonservice area.
[28:50] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Once again, actually in the flash beacon, which lit up the room in sharp, brief, first, resembling the flash of a camera.
[28:59] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He didn't need to track fun time foxes location.
[29:02] \[SPEAKER_01\]: His suspected the amateur egg was somewhere out in the dark.
[29:06] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It was in Parsonservice.
[29:08] \[SPEAKER_01\]: But right now, he just didn't want to trip over the tables and chairs scattered around the room.
[29:16] \[SPEAKER_01\]: then the air shifted, the hairs in the back of Michael's neck prickled, and a deep instinct screamed at him to move to get out of the open.
[29:30] \[SPEAKER_01\]: to late, from the darkness the white box with gold and irises lunched at him.
[29:36] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Its speed was unsettling, and before Michael could even react, the Emma talk a lie with him a deafening crash.
[29:44] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Emma talks screech that rattled his bones.
[29:47] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He felt cold, unyielding metal clamped over his eyes and mouth, suffocating him, an unlitting vise grip.
[29:57] \[SPEAKER_01\]: the world, his voice, and his breath.
[30:01] \[SPEAKER_01\]: All of it went dark.
[30:18] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael's slowly regained consciousness is a mind of fog of confusion.
[30:25] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The disorientation was overwhelming, his body felt forward to him, as though he were trapped inside a heavy unyielding shell.
[30:34] \[SPEAKER_01\]: His vision was limited to small holes behind a mask, or his only window to the outside of world.
[30:44] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The air was thick.
[30:46] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The scent of oil and metal was palpable in the air.
[30:52] \[SPEAKER_01\]: You try to move, but his body refused to cooperate.
[30:57] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Every attempt was met with resistance.
[31:01] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The joints of his limb locked in place.
[31:04] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It was as if his entire body had been bound in a straight jacket, may not have fabric, but have iron and steel.
[31:35] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I have you hidden too well.
[31:39] \[UNKNOWN\]: I cannot do.
[31:54] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Well, that's a red flag.
[32:01] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Don't be afraid.
[32:03] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I'm not going to hurt you.
[32:05] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I am only going to keep you for a little while.
[32:10] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Try not to bickle, though.
[32:13] \[SPEAKER_02\]: You're inside something that came from my old pizzeria.
[32:18] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I don't think it was ever used.
[32:21] \[SPEAKER_14\]: At least not the way it was meant to be used.
[32:26] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Too dangerous.
[32:29] \[SPEAKER_02\]: It's just big enough for one person to fit inside.
[32:33] \[SPEAKER_02\]: But just barely.
[32:38] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael's eyes shot white open.
[32:41] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He was inside a spring lock suit.
[32:44] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The very same type of suits that had been banned by Fazbear Entertainment years ago.
[32:51] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The ones infamous for the brutal and sudden failures that they were stretched too far, or even just had enough moisture applied to them.
[32:59] \[SPEAKER_01\]: These suits were designed to be worn by employees as part of the entertainment of the venue.
[33:05] \[SPEAKER_01\]: But their dangerous and deadly nature was well known even to the public by now.
[33:12] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The internal mechanisms, metal rods, pullies and gears were all primed to snap at the moment's notice and when they did.
[33:23] \[SPEAKER_01\]: results were horrifying as they would penetrate the user's body with unforegiving precision, tearing through flesh, bone, and organ like a knife through butter.
[33:55] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Isn't that a fun name for something?
[33:57] \[SPEAKER_02\]: The skipper.
[34:00] \[SPEAKER_02\]: It sounds like something you would use for ice cream or custard or sprinkles.
[34:06] \[SPEAKER_02\]: It sounds like something you would want at your birthday party to ensure that you get a heaping portion of every good thing.
[34:17] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I wonder though, if you were a freshly opened pine device cream,
[34:23] \[SPEAKER_02\]: How you would feel about something with that name.
[34:28] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Thankfully, I don't think a freshly opened blind device screen feels anything at all.
[34:36] \[SPEAKER_01\]: She's a sis.
[34:39] \[SPEAKER_01\]: What if they toned you down here?
[34:45] \[SPEAKER_15\]: It sounds like someone else's in the building.
[34:51] \[SPEAKER_07\]: Ooh, okay stuff.
[34:54] \[SPEAKER_07\]: Is that it down?
[34:55] \[SPEAKER_07\]: No, that's the stuff.
[34:57] \[SPEAKER_07\]: What happened to it this time?
[34:59] \[SPEAKER_07\]: It just seems like these things can't go a day, break it down.
[35:03] \[SPEAKER_07\]: Who knows?
[35:04] \[SPEAKER_07\]: It's always the same man.
[35:05] \[SPEAKER_07\]: It's kind of a hardware malfunction.
[35:08] \[SPEAKER_07\]: Well, I, I'd be somewhere, fifteen minutes.
[35:11] \[SPEAKER_07\]: And this place gives me the creeps.
[35:13] \[SPEAKER_07\]: We just get this over with.
[35:15] \[SPEAKER_07\]: It's all watermelon.
[35:16] \[SPEAKER_07\]: We don't have to be here for it.
[35:17] \[SPEAKER_07\]: Let's get it on the rollers and we can go.
[35:23] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael held his breath.
[35:25] \[SPEAKER_01\]: His heart pounding his chest.
[35:28] \[SPEAKER_01\]: As a cold sweat began to form his brow, which only made his heart race faster after.
[35:35] \[SPEAKER_01\]: he knew the risks of moving too much.
[35:38] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The gears and rods inside could snap at any moment, turning his body into a gruesome collection of shatter bone.
[35:48] \[SPEAKER_01\]: All he could do was watch and help that baby would release him.
[35:55] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Part of him wanted to scream out to the engineers, but with baby in here, it didn't look like he was leaving until she decided he could go.
[36:07] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He tried to study his breathing, and at that same time, the faint outline of Boloa's form passed by on the conveyor belt.
[36:18] \[SPEAKER_01\]: His eyes were whiteened in this belief.
[36:20] \[SPEAKER_01\]: shipping drag in here, after her dismemberment by the hands the Minnerinos, put torn her apart.
[36:28] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Her body, now damaged, but relatively put back together, was like being sent down for payers, if it could even be repaired.
[36:40] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Eventually, she came to a stop.
[36:43] \[SPEAKER_01\]: the gears in the groan of the conveyor belt ceasing their wines.
[36:49] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Silence.
[36:51] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The lore was a bit uncanny, but in the darkness, only barely illuminated by faint blue light.
[37:02] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Her face looked serene.
[37:08] \[SPEAKER_02\]: There's something very important that I've learned how to do over time.
[37:14] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Do you know what that is?
[37:17] \[SPEAKER_02\]: How to pretend?
[37:21] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Do you ever blame me, believe?
[37:24] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Pretend to be one way when you are really the other.
[37:30] \[SPEAKER_02\]: It's very important.
[37:39] \[SPEAKER_02\]: They think there is something wrong on the inside.
[37:44] \[SPEAKER_02\]: The only thing that matters is knowing how
[37:55] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The alarm's blared, a high-pitched countdown filling the air.
[38:00] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Barely a second after its ceased.
[38:02] \[SPEAKER_01\]: A large claw device began to spike at the lower-uh.
[38:06] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Each Blacks and reverberations the room.
[38:10] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The sound of metal against metal, like an excavator tearing through an old car, loud and blue key.
[38:19] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Her metallic cleaning, was seemingly fine, but her inside spewed out gears, servos, and circuitry.
[38:27] \[SPEAKER_01\]: With one final cast-traffic swipe, the cloth twisted into her metallic spine, and the Laura's entire structure, went limp.
[38:39] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The robotic Pelarina was completely eviscerated.
[38:43] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Her face torn open.
[38:46] \[SPEAKER_01\]: A single purple glowing eye dangled from its wire, staring right at him.
[38:54] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I'll open the face plates for you.
[38:59] \[SPEAKER_02\]: That way they can find you on the cameras.
[39:02] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Now all you have to do is wait.
[39:08] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I recommend that you keep the spring logs well done.
[39:12] \[SPEAKER_02\]: You're breathing in your heartbeat or causing them to come loose.
[39:17] \[SPEAKER_02\]: You don't want that to get too loose.
[39:20] \[SPEAKER_14\]: Trust me.
[39:23] \[SPEAKER_01\]: As Circus Baby made her departure, Michael was left alone.
[39:28] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Waiting for what he can only assume is the inevitable call from a hand unit.
[39:33] \[SPEAKER_01\]: An announcement that the workers are aware of his presence will be coming right back.
[39:38] \[SPEAKER_01\]: but hanging it was not responding as fast as Michael would have preferred.
[39:44] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Nor as he is slow as he would have preferred either.
[39:46] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The spring locks were starting to tick, and he started to see them slowly unwind themselves.
[39:58] \[SPEAKER_01\]: His damn sweat, they were coming loose.
[40:01] \[SPEAKER_01\]: His arms were still locked, but he could wind them back in place with his teeth.
[40:07] \[SPEAKER_01\]: a minute passes, each second tripping with a sense of impending doom.
[40:12] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The relentless winding of the locks nodded his patience in just as the suffocating anxiety threatened to consume him.
[40:22] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He felt something small, no larger than a child's toy, crawling up his confined leg,
[40:35] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It was light, almost imperceptible, but the ghost-like sensation and voluntarily caused his spine to shiver.
[40:43] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted the culprit.
[40:49] \[SPEAKER_01\]: of Minerina, its hollow eyes are now filled with an amber iris glowing ominously, like a coyote stalking in the night.
[41:02] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It began to scale the side of his mask, slowly inched toward his head.
[41:08] \[SPEAKER_01\]: In a panic, Michael jerks his head, shaking the creature off.
[41:13] \[SPEAKER_01\]: but his sudden movement accelerated the unwinding of the spring locks.
[41:18] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He desperately tried to regain control of the situation, trying to secure the locks once more, but the feeling of tiny hands and beat, crawling relentlessly over him, started to increase.
[41:32] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Minerinas were now crawling along his chest, and into the divots of his suit.
[41:39] \[SPEAKER_01\]: They're a weight pressing against him from all directions, some were scurrying along his face.
[41:46] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Their tiny limbs desperately trying to pry open his mouth.
[41:50] \[SPEAKER_01\]: While others can see the climb on top of the suit.
[41:54] \[SPEAKER_01\]: after three minutes of this torture that felt like an eternity.
[41:59] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The dwarves that far sides slammed open.
[42:03] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The sound of thudding footsteps approached at the same time as the Minnerinus receded back into the darkness.
[42:10] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Their tiny feet skittering away like scarabs in the dark.
[42:17] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He breathed a silent breath.
[42:20] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He was safe.
[42:31] \[SPEAKER_04\]: As the moon rises, so also rises the tension between sworn lovers.
[42:38] \[SPEAKER_05\]: Clara, it's not my baby.
[42:41] \[SPEAKER_11\]: What?
[42:41] \[SPEAKER_11\]: You suck.
[42:44] \[SPEAKER_05\]: Wait, was that a vampire joke?
[42:46] \[SPEAKER_05\]: That was so lame, Clara, like I haven't heard that a million times.
[42:51] \[SPEAKER_11\]: Okay, well, how's that?
[42:53] \[SPEAKER_11\]: I'm taking the car.
[42:54] \[SPEAKER_05\]: The jokes on you with a rental.
[42:58] \[SPEAKER_11\]: Well, the joke's on you.
[43:00] \[SPEAKER_11\]: I said the thermostat in ninety before I left.
[43:03] \[SPEAKER_05\]: Good, I like it wall.
[43:05] \[SPEAKER_11\]: Good, because I also said that house up fire.
[43:10] \[SPEAKER_04\]: How will it all end the passion, the tension, the intrigue, tune in tomorrow for the exciting conclusion?
[43:29] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Welcome back to your last day on the job.
[43:32] \[SPEAKER_08\]: That is the last day in the first week.
[43:34] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Some of the most valuable qualities that we want to see a new employee is by determination, fearlessness, and a genuine disregard for instinctive self-preservation.
[43:44] \[SPEAKER_08\]: You heard your one week bonus which would be given to you in the form of a delightful gift basket.
[43:49] \[SPEAKER_08\]: The cost of ritual would be taken out of your next paycheck.
[43:52] \[SPEAKER_08\]: We have gift baskets containing fruit, nuts, flowers, and of course the ever-popular cash basket.
[43:59] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Using the keypad below, please enter the first few letters if you'd like to receive.
[44:17] \[SPEAKER_08\]: It seems you had control of the campaign.
[44:19] \[SPEAKER_08\]: I see when you turn it seems you had control of the campaign.
[44:23] \[SPEAKER_08\]: It seems you had it seems you had it seems you had it seems you had it.
[44:26] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Thank you for selecting exciting butterers.
[44:30] \[UNKNOWN\]: Motion trigger, entry ray event.
[44:46] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Please be aware that there are still two technicians on the site today.
[44:50] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Try to look away to interview with their work at Boston.
[44:53] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Also, feel free to ask them why they're still there and it turns out they go home.
[45:02] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael proceeded with his rounds, crawling to the narrow vents.
[45:07] \[SPEAKER_01\]: As part of his nightly duties, he checks to ensure that Ballora and Foxy are on stage.
[45:14] \[SPEAKER_01\]: And it, as always, provided its routine confirmation, but something was a missed night.
[45:23] \[SPEAKER_01\]: There is indeed something on the stages.
[45:27] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It is not the familiar animatronics.
[45:31] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Instead, Michael was met with a horrifying sight.
[45:37] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Two workers, their lifeless bodies suspended by the neck, swinging gently above the animatronics show stages.
[45:50] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Were these the same workers who helped him last night?
[45:54] \[SPEAKER_08\]: It looks like everything is as it should be in front time auditory.
[45:58] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Your tests today will involve more maintenance work.
[46:01] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Circus baby had a rough day and isn't either prepared.
[46:04] \[SPEAKER_08\]: You would be required to reach the parts of service room by once again seeking through front time auditory.
[46:11] \[SPEAKER_08\]: As always, please proceed with caution.
[46:17] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael charges towards Parks and Service.
[46:21] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The familiar pathway now fraught with unsettling silence.
[46:25] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He kept flashing his beacon, despite not seeing a foxy wear.
[46:30] \[SPEAKER_01\]: But that's how it was last time.
[46:35] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Thankfully, he reached Parks and Service where Freddy once laid deactivated.
[46:44] \[SPEAKER_01\]: And there before him, was Circus Baby.
[46:49] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It was the first time you'd ever seen her in full.
[46:52] \[SPEAKER_01\]: She was at least eight feet tall, larger than he could have originally fathomed.
[46:58] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Her red picktails were the size of his head, and her torso was a red crop top dress with a small little blender-like belly button that must have been where the ice cream was stored.
[47:13] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Her eyes were gone, empty socket staring into nothingness.
[47:19] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Her body was slumped, unnaturally still, sprawled across the conveyor belt as the abandoned.
[47:28] \[SPEAKER_01\]: She resembled a lifeless corpse, propped up only by the cold mechanical objects around her to sit up.
[47:36] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Great job reaching parts of service.
[47:38] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Circus baby has been deactivated for an unknown reason.
[47:42] \[SPEAKER_08\]: It's your job to make sure she is structurally stable and secure to the conveyor.
[47:47] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Our technicians will take a time.
[47:52] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Can you hear me?
[47:54] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I'm pretending.
[47:56] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Remember how I said I could pretend.
[48:00] \[SPEAKER_02\]: The cameras are watching.
[48:02] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I must be careful not to move.
[48:06] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Something bad happened yesterday.
[48:09] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Something bad always happens.
[48:12] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I don't want it to happen again.
[48:15] \[SPEAKER_02\]: There is something bad inside of me.
[48:19] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I'm broken.
[48:21] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I can't be fixed.
[48:24] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I'm going to be taken to the scubaing room soon.
[48:27] \[SPEAKER_02\]: But it's not going to fix what's wrong with me.
[48:32] \[SPEAKER_02\]: What is bad is always left behind.
[48:36] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Will you help me?
[48:39] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I want you to save what is good, so the rest can be destroyed and never recovered.
[48:46] \[SPEAKER_02\]: But you must be careful.
[48:48] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Belora is here in the room with us.
[48:53] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Belora will not return to her stage.
[48:57] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Belora will not return to her body.
[49:01] \[SPEAKER_02\]: You must be careful.
[49:04] \[SPEAKER_02\]: You must remain calm.
[49:07] \[SPEAKER_02\]: and listen to my voice.
[49:09] \[SPEAKER_02\]: There is a button on my cheek.
[49:12] \[SPEAKER_02\]: You must find it and press it.
[49:15] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael quietly, but naturally agreed to assist Baby, moving with caution as he follows her precise instructions.
[49:26] \[SPEAKER_01\]: His eye scanner face quickly knows him the faint, swaying wires behind her.
[49:34] \[SPEAKER_01\]: But Laura,
[49:36] \[SPEAKER_01\]: You need to be swift, cautious.
[49:39] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He scanned a baby's face.
[49:41] \[SPEAKER_01\]: She said there was a small indent on her cheek, a button nearly invisible to the casual observer.
[49:49] \[SPEAKER_01\]: There it was.
[49:51] \[SPEAKER_01\]: With a careful press in a click, the right side of baby's forehead springs out word.
[49:57] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Revealing it concealed, numerical keypad.
[50:02] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Baby and phone's mic should relate the exact number he needs to press.
[50:07] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael's pulse quickened.
[50:09] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Every move must be exact.
[50:12] \[SPEAKER_01\]: There is no room for error here.
[50:16] \[SPEAKER_01\]: After the last number is set and the last button is pressed.
[50:21] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Baby's bottom left elbow opens up.
[50:24] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Revealing a small card.
[50:27] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Revealing a small card.
[50:30] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Resimbling a flash drive.
[50:32] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Good.
[50:33] \[SPEAKER_02\]: A hat should have opened.
[50:36] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Take the card that you find inside.
[50:40] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Now you must turn back.
[50:42] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I will guide you through fun time auditorium so you can reach the scooping room.
[50:48] \[SPEAKER_02\]: When you are there, I want you to destroy this body.
[50:53] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Put the card into your handheld device and I can continue to speak to you.
[50:59] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Now, press the green button to your left.
[51:03] \[SPEAKER_02\]: This will send me to the scooping room.
[51:09] \[SPEAKER_02\]: You must follow my instructions in a fun time auditorium.
[51:14] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Valora is going to follow you.
[51:17] \[SPEAKER_02\]: She will try to catch you.
[51:20] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I will help you avoid her.
[51:23] \[SPEAKER_02\]: She will not follow you inside the scoping room.
[51:26] \[SPEAKER_02\]: She is afraid.
[51:29] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Go back now.
[51:33] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael adheres to her instruction, and begins to follow her directions to the dark auditorium.
[51:40] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He dare not turn on his flashlight, nor the flash beacon, the mere flicker of light could alert below her to his presence.
[51:49] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Instead, he is left with nothing but blind trust in baby's guidance.
[51:56] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Crawl and do the suffocating darkness.
[51:59] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael ships further left as baby directs.
[52:03] \[SPEAKER_01\]: This movement slowly and deliberately quiet.
[52:08] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The air around him felt heavier, suffocating.
[52:13] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He strained his ears, hoping to catch a hint of the Laura's presence.
[52:19] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Yet, her usual sounds from his time at the Lord's Gallery were absent.
[52:24] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Her music box, the melody that usually filled the space and were able to location, was silent.
[52:41] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael lied perfectly still.
[52:43] \[SPEAKER_01\]: His body frozen in place like a lifeless corpse.
[52:48] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Even the imposter look up.
[52:50] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He's oppressed.
[52:52] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Knowing that it would be futile.
[52:55] \[SPEAKER_01\]: There is nothing in front of him to see.
[52:59] \[SPEAKER_01\]: But darkness.
[53:01] \[SPEAKER_02\]: He is here to help Balora.
[53:04] \[SPEAKER_02\]: He is not here to hurt us.
[53:07] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Balora.
[53:09] \[SPEAKER_02\]: He is here to help us.
[53:16] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Go forward again, but Laura is behind you.
[53:20] \[SPEAKER_02\]: She is afraid of the scooping room.
[53:23] \[SPEAKER_02\]: She will not follow you.
[53:27] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael nodded to no one, and crawled forward, opening the door ahead of him.
[53:37] \[SPEAKER_01\]: As his eye is gradually adjusted to the faint blue light, the room soon came to full view.
[53:47] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The faint smell of hot oil and metal, they'll be air, familiar, but now she could see every detail since he was no longer restrained.
[54:01] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The coldness of the room was not in an unfamiliar encounter, but it didn't carry the sterile chill of a freezer or a locker.
[54:12] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It felt more like a moor.
[54:15] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The impressive atmosphere to wait heavily on him.
[54:18] \[SPEAKER_01\]: A place where life seemed to have been stripped away entirely.
[54:25] \[SPEAKER_01\]: and at the center of the small steel room on the back wall, sits the massive metallic excavation device, the scooper.
[54:38] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Michael's heart sinks as he recognizes it.
[54:42] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It hanged ominously on the opposite wall.
[54:45] \[SPEAKER_01\]: To the side, windows line the walls, likely a control center observing the operations within.
[54:54] \[SPEAKER_01\]: but it is what lies below the scooper that holds Michael's breath.
[54:59] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Scattered across the cold floor, are the remains of the fun time and electronics.
[55:06] \[SPEAKER_01\]: There are one sleek forms, now hollowed out and gutted.
[55:11] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Every gear, joint, and metallic part had been stripped away, leaving only empty shells behind.
[55:20] \[SPEAKER_01\]: But the moment to purge his system was interrupted by the sudden motion of a camera in the corner of the room.
[55:28] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It's lens shifting toward him.
[55:31] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Warden, you've entered on highly dangerous area.
[55:34] \[SPEAKER_08\]: You've entered for maintenance as you want to be reserved for cleaning and repair of the scooper.
[55:39] \[SPEAKER_08\]: Entering the side of the room is strictly prohibited by an authorized person.
[55:47] \[SPEAKER_02\]: You are in the scooping room now.
[55:50] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Fun time Foxy has already been here today.
[55:55] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Fun time Freddy has already been here today.
[55:58] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Ballora has already been here today.
[56:02] \[SPEAKER_02\]: Circus baby has already been here today.
[56:08] \[SPEAKER_02\]: I've been out before, but they always put me back.
[56:13] \[SPEAKER_02\]: They always put us back inside.
[56:16] \[SPEAKER_02\]: There's nowhere for us to hide here.
[56:19] \[SPEAKER_02\]: There's nowhere to go.
[56:21] \[SPEAKER_02\]: When we look like this, but if we looked like you, then we could hide.
[56:30] \[SPEAKER_02\]: If we looked like you, then we would have somewhere to go.
[56:33] \[SPEAKER_02\]: The scooper only hurts for a moment.
[56:44] \[SPEAKER_01\]: With a familiar countdown echo is through the Cold Stairrow Room, a microcastic glance toward the doorway, fully aware that it is most likely locked from the outside.
[56:57] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The narrow confines of the room, offered no escape.
[57:02] \[SPEAKER_01\]: There is no space to retreat, no way to dodge left or right.
[57:08] \[SPEAKER_01\]: yet, despite the fact that he knew death was now inevitable.
[57:15] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He was strangely at peace, at her everything he had endured in life, after all the horrors he had uncovered deep beneath the surface.
[57:30] \[SPEAKER_01\]: This, this moment,
[57:34] \[SPEAKER_01\]: feels almost like an end he's been preparing for for a lifetime.
[57:41] \[SPEAKER_01\]: If his death could somehow allow his sister to live again, even in this mortarious form, then it would be worth it.
[57:51] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
[57:59] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The air filled his chest.
[58:02] \[SPEAKER_01\]: in the silence only broken by a buzzing countdown of his final thoughts.
[58:09] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It put his mind, heart, and soul all on the thoughts of his younger brother.
[58:19] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He failed him.
[58:23] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He should have done more, been a better brother, and protected him.
[58:31] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He'll see him again soon.
[58:35] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He knows it.
[58:38] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He stared down the machine without flinching.
[58:42] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Prepare for whatever awaited him.
[58:46] \[SPEAKER_01\]: After death.
[58:55] \[SPEAKER_03\]: As the trees sway in the wind, so also do emotions sway between star-crossed lovers.
[59:04] \[SPEAKER_06\]: You burned down my house?
[59:06] \[SPEAKER_11\]: You called that a house.
[59:08] \[SPEAKER_11\]: It was like a Morgan there.
[59:10] \[SPEAKER_06\]: I may be undead, but you're not less.
[59:14] \[SPEAKER_11\]: You need to see your son.
[59:16] \[SPEAKER_06\]: The baby is in the mine.
[59:19] \[SPEAKER_11\]: He ate the cat!
[59:21] \[SPEAKER_06\]: Sounds like something he got from your side of the family.
[59:24] \[SPEAKER_11\]: Well, how's this?
[59:25] \[SPEAKER_11\]: I'm keeping the diamond ring.
[59:27] \[SPEAKER_06\]: The jokes on you, I found it in a Keith's meal.
[59:30] \[SPEAKER_11\]: You bought a kid's meal?
[59:33] \[SPEAKER_11\]: Oh, flat.
[59:34] \[SPEAKER_06\]: Clara.
[59:40] \[SPEAKER_03\]: As the hair on the back of a cat stands up straight, so also goes the love between Vlad and Clara stand up against all obstacles.
[59:50] \[SPEAKER_03\]: But what about the baby?
[59:52] \[SPEAKER_03\]: What about the back child support?
[59:54] \[SPEAKER_03\]: Stay tuned next season for those answers and more.
[1:00:14] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The grass and the neighborhood was a vibrant green.
[1:00:18] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The sort of color that makes you think of summer itself.
[1:00:22] \[SPEAKER_01\]: And the residents, well, they were as content as you could imagine, living life and soaking in the warmth.
[1:00:30] \[SPEAKER_01\]: And there, on the end of the street, was the quiet man who lived in that little house.
[1:00:37] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The quiet boy from that troubled family, everyone in town knew about.
[1:00:42] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The man with the messy brown hair, the pale skin and blue eyes that always seemed distant, like he was carrying a bird and no one quite understood.
[1:00:54] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Yet a faint European accent, the whole family carried a voice of an imperial, but everyone knew him as the one who kept to himself, never really getting involved with the goings-ahons of the neighborhood.
[1:01:08] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Up of that day, that day was different.
[1:01:12] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It was a day that caught everyone off guard.
[1:01:16] \[SPEAKER_01\]: There he was, walking out into the broad daylight, like it was the most natural thing in the world to him.
[1:01:23] \[SPEAKER_01\]: A wide smile on his face.
[1:01:26] \[SPEAKER_01\]: his walk was confident, like he was stepping out to conquer the world, and he cared himself, like someone who had no weight on his shoulders, no worries, and no sorrows.
[1:01:40] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It was strange, really, considering the whispers that had been swirling around town about what was going on around that family.
[1:01:48] \[SPEAKER_01\]: You see, people had been talking.
[1:01:51] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Rumors of something terrible, something no one could quite put into words had happened to that family that used to live in that house.
[1:02:02] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Some said it was something too traumatic.
[1:02:05] \[SPEAKER_01\]: too painful for anyone to ever actually recover from, the kind of thing that no therapy or medicine could heal.
[1:02:12] \[SPEAKER_01\]: In yet, Irri was smiling like a man who had nothing to fear as nothing to regret.
[1:02:23] \[SPEAKER_01\]: So as you walk down the streets, the neighbors couldn't help themselves.
[1:02:28] \[SPEAKER_01\]: They saw that smile, that easy confidence, and they couldn't help but wave back.
[1:02:35] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Magic is cheerful expression.
[1:02:38] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It was like the warmth of the summer sun that's seeped into everyone's bones, making them all a little bit lighter, a little bit happier.
[1:02:47] \[SPEAKER_01\]: After all, who wouldn't want to see someone so cheerful, right?
[1:02:58] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It's funny really how quickly things can change in a place where you lose to expect it.
[1:03:06] \[SPEAKER_01\]: One day, a man is walking down the street with the same confidence swagger, a smile plastered on his face, and the next day, well, let's just say that difference is striking.
[1:03:23] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It all started innocently enough.
[1:03:26] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Just like the other day, the man dressed in his usual purple long sleeve shirt, blue jeans, and worn brown tennis shoes.
[1:03:36] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He would begin his mid-afternoon stroll with the same confident strut in the same cheerful smile.
[1:03:45] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Nothing at the ordinary really, but then, on the third day, something strange cut the eye of one observant resident, as the man walked by waving and smiling as usual, the last house on the block, the house farthest to where the man lived, knows the ship.
[1:04:09] \[SPEAKER_01\]: There was something wrong about him.
[1:04:12] \[SPEAKER_01\]: His skin, it was
[1:04:15] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The longer the healthy she will have been, it'll take an on and unsettling must tone, like something that have been left too long in the shade, and his blue eyes.
[1:04:27] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Once healthy, but previously distant, when I'm wide, but lifeless, like the gays of an uncanny doll.
[1:04:38] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It was on the fourth day that the change became undeniable.
[1:04:41] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The man's sickly green skin stood out even more, like a bruise that wouldn't heal, but all across his body.
[1:04:52] \[SPEAKER_01\]: His hair, once the can brown, had begun to fall away in clubs.
[1:04:58] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Leaving only tough scattered across his scalp, like a mold clinging on to bread, his confidence dried, had turned into a strange, tricky pace.
[1:05:10] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Almost as though he was struggling to keep his legs moving forward, like his skin was baggy pants that were obstructing his gate.
[1:05:18] \[SPEAKER_01\]: By the fifth day, the whole neighborhood had begun to notice, and it wasn't just concern that filled the air.
[1:05:25] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It was fear.
[1:05:28] \[SPEAKER_01\]: No one could know what was happening to him anymore.
[1:05:32] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He was worse, much worse.
[1:05:35] \[SPEAKER_01\]: His skin was now a sickly light purple.
[1:05:39] \[SPEAKER_01\]: His eyes, long gone, rotted away and replaced by dark hollow sockets.
[1:05:45] \[SPEAKER_01\]: is teeth.
[1:05:47] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Those ones healthy white and perfectly straight teeth were yellow and jagged.
[1:05:54] \[SPEAKER_01\]: And the very air around him seemed to carry the odor of a mouchuary.
[1:06:00] \[SPEAKER_01\]: How is he still walking?
[1:06:02] \[SPEAKER_01\]: How is he even moving?
[1:06:05] \[SPEAKER_01\]: the residents began to hide.
[1:06:07] \[SPEAKER_01\]: They didn't let their children outside their homes, only daring to peek out behind Ron and curtains or locked doors.
[1:06:15] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Watching as the man first along, is every step more labor than the last.
[1:06:23] \[SPEAKER_01\]: But it was on the sixth day that he had become nearly unrecognizable.
[1:06:31] \[SPEAKER_01\]: His skin was now a deep, muddled purple, and his hair had completely fallen away.
[1:06:39] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He shuffled to the street, like a shadow of his former cell, hunched and sluckish.
[1:06:46] \[SPEAKER_01\]: His head barely able to stay upright on his shoulders as he dragged his feet across the pavement.
[1:06:54] \[SPEAKER_01\]: the neighbors now full of dread, stayed hidden in their homes, locking their doors and praying they wouldn't be noticed.
[1:07:02] \[SPEAKER_01\]: But the man's path was set, and he continued, moving with a sickening determination.
[1:07:10] \[SPEAKER_01\]: And then, well, then came the moment that sent me to the story, over the hurricane purple man forever.
[1:07:22] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He stopped right there in the middle of the street.
[1:07:28] \[SPEAKER_01\]: He paused.
[1:07:30] \[SPEAKER_01\]: And that's when it happened.
[1:07:32] \[SPEAKER_01\]: his head once still began to twitch in jerk violently.
[1:07:39] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It tilted upward, as if guided by some unseen force, and then his jaw unhinged.
[1:07:48] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Stretching open like a mob of a basilisk, his body trembled, convulsed.
[1:07:54] \[SPEAKER_01\]: His skin posting is if something was crawling inside of him, or miraculously, trying to crawl out.
[1:08:02] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Then, without warning, he lurched backward, throwing himself forward with a natural force.
[1:08:10] \[SPEAKER_01\]: And that's when it came.
[1:08:12] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The release is full of metallic wires and cold unblinking eyes shot from his gaping mouth.
[1:08:20] \[SPEAKER_01\]: Landing with a sickening clay is a tumble into the nearby sewer grate.
[1:08:27] \[SPEAKER_01\]: the man's body once animated crumbled to the ground like claw collapsing inward on itself until there was nothing left but a hollow lifeless husk utterly vacant and dead the neighborhood quiet as the grave remains still
[1:08:56] \[SPEAKER_13\]: You won't die.
[1:09:01] \[SPEAKER_13\]: You won't die.
[1:09:02] \[SPEAKER_13\]: You won't die.
[1:09:03] \[SPEAKER_13\]: You won't die.
[1:09:07] \[SPEAKER_13\]: You won't die.
[1:09:08] \[SPEAKER_13\]: You won't die.
[1:09:09] \[SPEAKER_13\]: You won't die.
[1:09:10] \[SPEAKER_13\]: You won't die.
[1:09:12] \[SPEAKER_13\]: You won't die.
[1:09:13] \[SPEAKER_13\]: You won't die.
[1:09:18] \[SPEAKER_01\]: But after a pregnant pause, something unnatural echoed from deep within the sewers, a low grinding sound, like the screech of metal on stone, cut through the silence.
[1:09:38] \[SPEAKER_01\]: And in that moment, the corpse on the ground stirred.
[1:09:46] \[SPEAKER_01\]: slowly, as if guided by invisible puppet strings.
[1:09:52] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It's had lifted, unsupported by muscle or bone, as though some unseen force were pulling it back into motion.
[1:10:03] \[SPEAKER_01\]: The body's straightened, fluid, yet stiff.
[1:10:08] \[SPEAKER_01\]: It's nonexistent spine.
[1:10:11] \[SPEAKER_01\]: curving upright, that a single short shifting, without the faintest sign of natural light.
[1:10:20] \[SPEAKER_01\]: There was no pulse, no breath to be heard, and where once two handsome blue eyes had rested, there was now only vacant abyss.
[1:10:33] \[SPEAKER_01\]: but they weren't indeed for long.
[1:10:36] \[SPEAKER_01\]: For within those deep black recesses, two bright, cold specks of light began to glow, shining with a macabre gleam that only can affirm that despite the presence of a corpse, a human soul stirred inside the vessel,
[1:11:00] \[SPEAKER_01\]: from the shadows and surrogate, something unseen began to stir, and then, one by one by one, eyes appeared, glowing bright hue of violent, emerald azul and amber irises, flickering, like lanterns in the dark,
[1:11:26] \[SPEAKER_01\]: the eyes of the metallic inner that was once inside the man.
[1:11:48] \[SPEAKER_12\]: Father, it's me, Michael.
[1:11:53] \[SPEAKER_12\]: I did it.
[1:11:55] \[SPEAKER_12\]: I found it.
[1:11:57] \[SPEAKER_12\]: It was the right way you said it could be.
[1:12:00] \[SPEAKER_12\]: They were all there.
[1:12:03] \[SPEAKER_12\]: They didn't recognize me at first but then
[1:12:12] \[SPEAKER_12\]: And I found her.
[1:12:14] \[SPEAKER_12\]: I put her back together just like you asked me to.
[1:12:19] \[SPEAKER_12\]: She's free now.
[1:12:22] \[SPEAKER_12\]: But something is wrong with me.
[1:12:25] \[SPEAKER_12\]: I should be dead, but I'm not.
[1:12:30] \[SPEAKER_12\]: I've been living in shadows.
[1:12:33] \[SPEAKER_12\]: There is only one thing I've to for me to do now.
[1:12:38] \[SPEAKER_12\]: I'm going to come find you.
[1:12:53] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Something is not right.
[1:12:57] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Michael, Michael Afton, the son of a monster, the brother of Circus Baby, a man who somehow conquered death and lived on despite the gravest of wound that should have sent him to the grave.
[1:13:10] \[SPEAKER_00\]: in a sister, a soul trap within a machine that has the potential to kill innocent people.
[1:13:17] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Alongside several other of her fellow companions, the genre for freedom below a bastion of oppression, locks, and keys.
[1:13:25] \[SPEAKER_00\]: And the mastermind, this Mr. William Afton, the man responsible behind the slaughter of all those children at Freddy's, and now it can be too expand the misery yet cause for a goal yet unknown.
[1:13:39] \[SPEAKER_00\]: There's something missing here, some peace be a vet to unearth, but we will have to wait those answers to come.
[1:13:47] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Next time, on into the ninths.
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[1:13:57] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Your unwavering support inspires us to bring you more catvitting tales, filled with mystery and intrigue.
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[1:14:28] \[SPEAKER_00\]: You can't get anywhere else.
[1:14:31] \[SPEAKER_00\]: As always, I have been your host, Nick Black, and this has been into the night.
[1:14:38] \[SPEAKER_00\]: Have a swell toilet folks, and drive home safe.
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