#fnaf steve

[stripeixii]

[paigelts05]

Steven Wilson [FNAF AR, Renegade AU]

https://www.deviantart.com/paigelts05/art/Steven-Willson-FNAF-AR-Renegade-AU-1034377986

Published: Mar 24 2024

CK animatronic maintenance and R&D Robotics contract with Faz Ent has ended, but their stories are far from over.

Steven Wilson and Jim Campbel were childhood friends, but Jim drifted apart as they both grew older. Steve got into the IT field to try and find him again.

Whilst a great programmer, he tends to disassociate a lot. He gets everything done, but struggles to look busy. This made it hard for him to find a job, but a job found him instead: Anna Kwemto came to him in 2017 after seeing some of what he'd been able to do. She didn't mind how he'd zone out if he had nothing do, because as long as everything got done, everything was A-OK.

However, this did mean that nobody noticed, not even Steve, when Adelaide possessed him in 2020, allowing Adelaide to orchestrate the Adelaide Incident almost undetected.

The only changes made within the maintenance firm after that was 'nobody in the building after hours: everyone out at close' and 'just check up on Steve more frequently to make sure he's ok, especially if there's nothing to do, because even light conversation can throw a spanner into the works for a ghost trying to use someone as a vessel'.

However for Steve, 2020 was a very tumultuous time anyway, even without Adelaide making things worse.

It was around then when Faz Ent released their monthly obituary lists for all the dead employees, and Steve found Jim's name, 'James Campbell', amongst them. He couldn't cope with his childhood friend's death, even with help from Anna and co. And after the Adelaide incident, he felt like this was how Adelaide was able to possess him so easily.

In retrospect, he now knows that it was completely the case, as Jim wasn't actually dead at that time: the obituary list was a lie.

Jim actually died a few years later, some time after the various megaplex incidents, like the Breach, Raid, and Ruins incidents had all concluded.

After Steve thought that it was all over and he could try to start the grieving process.

The incident that really took Jim's life was a kidnapping. Several people from CK animatronic maintenance and R&D Robotics were kidnapped by an increasingly desperate Faz Ent, and Steve was amongst them. Faz Ent wanted to kill those who it kidnapped in order to harvest remnant in order to resurrect Adelaide, though they planned to keep Anna alive as she was to be Adelaide's vessel, just like the plans of the Adelaide incident.

Jim died by offering himself as a sacrifice in Steve's place to buy Steve more help, as Jim knew that help would definitely arrive, just not when.

Jim's sacrifice worked, as it brought enough time for help to arrive before any of the kidnapping victims could be killed, but Steve had now just lost Jim twice.

Many years on from all of this, Anna keeps close tabs on Steve's mental state, not because she's his employer, but because she legitimately sees him as a friend, and she doesn't want him to suffer. Especially not alone.

[komomn]

Help Wanted : Bliss… ✨🔪🍀

[stripeixii]

So I mean, group therapy is going well...

[paigelts05]

Execution of a plan [FNAF AU]

https://www.deviantart.com/paigelts05/art/Execution-of-a-plan-FNAF-AU-893023558

Published: Sep 26, 2021

Renegade File Server Location: https://archiveofourown.org/works/23858029

Contains a plot that revolves around mind control and other scary things. After waiting for so long, Adelaide is finally able to execute her plan, taking over Steve's body and setting the stage for a process that some may call a ritual so that she may collect remnant in order to being herself back in someone else's body. I had so many ideas as to what I wanted the artwork for this story to be, but I decided to draw it from Mark Cho's perspective, as it required the least amount of background work because I am bad at thinking of backgrounds. I also got to do some funky stuff that made it look like the POV character could see veins in thier eyes: you know the trope and so do I, and I just think it's neat. =°•.🌹 Story 🌹.•°= °*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•🌹•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*° It almost felt like a dream for Steven Wilson; he was in his own body, but he couldn't control what was going on. Adelaide was using him as a temporary vessel and was passing for a normal - albeit tired - version of himself quite well, or at least well enough to make it to work without suspicion. Daniel Rocha felt nervous. He knew something wasn't right. Anna was not here, and Mark Cho looked like he was about to puke. It was only them in the break room, and none of thier colleagues were anywhere to be found. "I can't take it anymore. Where's Raha and Anna? They're usually here by now." Mark said, keeping his bucket that usually housed his mop in his lap just in case he did throw up. "Um..." Dan checked his phone. He had a text from Raha. "She had to take her mum's car to get MOT'd. She should be here soon." "And Anna?" Mark replied, still just as anxious as before. "I -" in this moment, Dan felt that he needed a bucket too, "I don't know. When I clocked in, I saw that she didn't clock out yesterday. We were all so tired I think I fell asleep well before she'd usually leave. I should have stayed awake to call her to make sure she was ok." Dan saw that Mark's skin somehow looked paler than his own, the tension of the situation made them both nauseousness, as Mark clutched his bucket, feeling more and more ill by the second, his nerves more than getting the better of him. Dan felt the same way, but he also felt that he would never be able to forgive himself if anything bad had happened after everyone left last night. They both knew something was wrong, but didn't know what to do about it. "And where's Steve? He's usually exactly on time, but he's running late. Is he sick? Dead?" Mark was getting more and more anxious, his head feeling more and more fuzzy the more he tried to figure out what was happening. "He clocked out last night, but he was the last to leave other than Anna. Do you think he actually left?" Dan felt like he had connected the dots a little too late. "Do you think..." Mark replied. His voice was shaky. He seemed like he was about to be sick. Before Dan could reply, someone else entered the break room. The best that Dan and Mark could do was act like nothing was wrong. "Hey Steve!" Dan said, his nerves clearly showing through, "When did you get here?" Steven Wilson didn't respond as he sat down next to Mark, effectively blocking him in. He simply dropped his duffel bag on the floor and pulled out a black and white rabbit mask: the same one that Mark found himself wearing way too often. Almost on instinct, Dan shot up and tried to pull Steve away as Mark screamed for help, but Steve didn't budge as he forced the mask onto Mark's face. Mark's screaming became muffled, but when Steve seemed happy with how the mask fit onto Marks face, the screaming stopped. Mark's body went limp in his seat. Steve tinkered with something on the side of the mask. Dan then begun to scream as he kept trying to drag Steven away from his friend, but all his efforts were for naught; Steve - more precisely the thing in control of Steve's body - wouldn't budge in response to Dan's attempts. Once Steve was done tinkering with the mask, he pushed Dan out the way with a crack, sending him flying and crashing to the ground. The force of the shove had not only winded him, but he felt like something had broken, and as he tried to clamber to his feet, Steve placed a foot on the back of his neck. "What did you do to him?" Dan shouted as he tried to free himself, only for Steve's foot to push him back to the ground. "The same as last time, and the time before," a voice that was definitely not Steve's but that of a woman came out of Steve's mouth, "And I'd recommend you stop struggling. Snapping your neck here and now isn't exactly part of my plan, but I'm no stranger to alterations." 'Same as last time?' Dan thought to himself, remembering exactly what happened last time. That must mean that ... The screaming, the pain. This has all happened to Mark before, and when he started moving again, he would be on that woman's side. He wanted to fight back, but he knew he was outnumbered and would be swiftly killed if he tried. "You... Monster." 'Steve's' face crept into a smirk, "I know," the woman's voice said, "But I'll be human again soon enough. Once I cause you enough pain, I should be able to use the remnant you produce to assume a human form. Now we just need to get you somewhere more soundproof and ensure that you won't escape." The weight on Dan's neck shifted as 'Steve' grabbed something out of the duffle bag before clamping something around his ankles so heavy and so cold that even though his jeans, he felt like he was going to freeze. "That should weigh you down and stop you from running away," the woman's voice came out of Steve's mouth once again, "And this-" Dan shrieked as 'Steve' grabbed his ponytail and pulled him up so that he was kneeling instead of being curled over in a heap. He tried to struggle to make 'Steve' let go, but the more Dan struggled, the more 'Steve' pulled, so Dan knew he had to give up. As he stopped struggling, the grip on his hair eased and he could look around the room, but he was only interested in knowing one thing. He could now see Mark: the mask was stuck to his face by seemingly nothing and he sat limp in his chair until he slowly got up, in a fashion similar to a puppet, and begun walking over to Dan. Mark picked up a section of the chain and shackles. He seemed to be untwisting them and laying them out to the sides so that 'Steve' could keep him restrained in the meantime. After the chains were laid out on the floor, he felt something click around his neck. It was heavy and cold, just like the shackles around his ankles. "Should hold it all together once we're done," the woman's voice continued, "and one final step." Mark grabbed one of his wrists and 'Steve' grabbed another. Moments later, cold and heavy shackles were locked around his wrists, and the chains were behind him. "There we go." 'Steve' finally let go of Dan's hair. Dan tried to get up, but the chains were too heavy. Having to curl back over so the shackle around his neck didn't suffocate him, he only realised this minute how much he was crying by the small pool of water on the floor. "Now, let's go somewhere safer for me," 'Steve' said, the woman's voice again spilling out instead of his. He and Mark grabbed Dan and pulled the terrified and restrained blond to his feet. Dan could bearly stand, let alone move, but that didn't matter to the creature that had taken control of Steve's body. She used Steve and Mark to drag Dan towards the basement door. Thier grip was too tight for Dan to struggle free, and even if he managed, he doubted he'd be able to get far. Once 'Steve' opened the basement door, Dan knew this was the point of no return. A wave of fear washed over him and he made one last ditch attempt to struggle free. But it was no use. 'Steve' didn't even seem to realise that Dan had attempted to struggle, but the grip around his arms tightened. Without a care for Dan's body, 'Steve' and the mind controled Mark dragged Dan down the basement stairs. Dan tried to make sure his feet were on the ground, but the two moved too fast, and his shackled ankles kept hitting the steps. Once at the bottom of the stairs, he saw that the basement had been heavily modified. It was no longer the animatronic storage room he knew. It had been transformed into something that resembled a church for a cult, with the room only dimly lit by candles, and an altar near the back. There was a woman behind the altar. Dan knew who this was. "Anna!" Dan yelled as he saw Anna Qwemto standing behind the make-shift altar. He hoped that she was ok. He hoped that she still had control over her body. She didn't respond. Dan then noticed the mask on her face and the dress she was wearing. A white bunny mask decorated with intricate gold patterns, and the dress reminded him of something, or more specifically someone. One of the women on the founders page of Fazbear Entertainment's website was wearing a similar dress. It was the ginger one, which must have been Adelaide. Adelaide had dressed Anna up as herself, but why? "You seem confused," the woman's voice came out of Steve's body again, "are you an idiot?" Dan didn't respond, but Adelaide didn't seem to be looking for an answer, as she continued talking far sooner than expected. "I have her under my control. Note the mask. Or did I somehow blind you back there." Adelaide continued to use Steve's body to speak, "I have calculated what would cause you the most distress so that I can extract the most remnant from you." Dan remembered something that Ness had warned them about regarding remnant: it was basically liquid ghost. Handling it was dangerous, and to produce it in vast quantities would require someone to die; the more painful and traumatic the better. Whilst remnant could be produced from a living host, the torment and trauma required was incredibly great to produce a worthwhile amount. Both options were bad for Dan. He begun to try and figure out what's going to happen to him, and now he knew he was crying. "Save your pain for when we kill you. You will die slowly at the hands of your friends, whose bodies are under my control, and I will turn the remnant you produce into blank remnant and use it to permanently inhabit Anna's body, and hopefully get rid of her too." Adelaide said again, now appearing above Steve like a puppeteer above a puppet. She seemed so confident in her plan, and the only reason she'd speak of it to her victim would be to instill more fear. And it was working. Dan was a shaking mess on the ground, trying to crawl away but ultimately being held in the basement by the heavy shackles. Adelaide could sense the distress of those she was controling as well - they were as much her victims and remnant sources as Dan was, but having that come as a surprise would be far more interesting to her. "I will finish the preparations," Adelaide gestured to the makeshift altar, "so untill that's ready, you will have to wait." Still shaking and sobbing, Dan couldn't react as Adelaide used Mark to drag him into a large crate. The lid had been re-attached to the crate by a hinge, and he could only watch as it was closed, and the click of what he presumed was some kind of lock sealed him in the dark. Minutes felt like hours, but the longer Dan waited, the more he realised there was one slim ray of hope: Raha had taken her mum's car to get MOT'd, so she hadn't been controlled or kidnaped. As of this morning, Raha was herself, and he hadn't seen her in the building yet, so she likely was either not here or on her way here. Raha was the only one left. He hoped that she'd get here soon. He hoped she would be able to put together the peices of this macarbe puzzle and figure out what's going on faster than he did. °*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•🌹•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°

[paigelts05]

FNAF- Remote possession experiments: in the field

Deviantart Literature Link: https://www.deviantart.com/paigelts05/art/FNAF-Remote-possession-experiments-in-the-field-886470299

Renegade File Server Location: https://archiveofourown.org/works/32744335

Published: Jul 22, 2021

***🌹[{Chapter 1}]🌹***

Ness had been getting a lot of headaches recently. She had been drinking plenty of water and getting plenty of sleep, even taking painkillers, but the headaches wouldn't go away. It didn't help that whenever the headaches flared up, she'd hear a growling voice. She figured it was just the resonating sound of power tools messing with her ears, and hearing the whirring of a drill at 3 am was normal for someone who stays in such close proximity to power tools so often, but she swore she sometimes heard it speak real words.

Sometimes, the headaches would be dehabilitating and she'd hear someone speaking to her, and other times, it was a light buzz. After her second day off in a week, her colleagues were getting worried and tried thier best to help, but to no avail. The headaches stayed, and all she could do was power through it.

Ness arrived at work, looking rather worse for wear, but her colleagues were also her friends, and whilst her headaches were painful, being able to be around them helped a lot more than bundling up alone at home.

"At least if I pass out, someone will be around to call an ambulance!" Ness joked about her headaches with Luis as she made herself a hot chocolate.

Whilst she'd usually have coffee, Mark had suggested that caffeine may be contributing to her headaches, so she decided to stave off the coffee for a while to see if it helped.

Sitting down in the break room next to Luis, she sighed. A total change of tone from her joking mere seconds ago, "you know, I've never had a headache go on for this long before, and I'd feel like a burden going to the doctors for this."

"You're not a burden," Luis replied, "It might be serious. We have insurance with the one doctor in this country that's actually affordable, and with this whole animatronic delivery situation, I'm sure she wouldn't mind running a check-up on you personally to check for ghosts."

"Your right. One of the animatronics could have brought a ghost with them." Ness smiled back, happy that her dearest was there to help her think straight when she couldn't. Happy that despite the incident, he still cared for her.

Then, the conversation topic moved away from her headaches, and onto more mundane things. Ness liked talking about mundane things; it took her mind of her current situation. It let her feel normal. These just-before-work conversations in the break room were the highlight of her morning and what got her out of bed, and she was glad she could simply just chat with Luis about anything and everything, no matter how mundane. She was glad that despite the incident a few days ago, they could still talk about normal things.

Luis checked his watch, and there was about two minutes before the two of them were supposed to start work. As Luis stood up, Ness tapped him on the shoulder.

"Hey, Luis. You're working on the servers today, right?" Ness asked, slightly nervous that he would think she had become weird and clingy after the incident that had happened a few days after they had both gone out together for coffee.

"Yeah!" Luis replied, "I'll be in the server cupboard if you need me. Hopefully I can figure out what's up with the network and hopefully get a patch rolled out so that that contractee stops seeing our emails."

"Do you want help? I could help?"

Luis froze for a second before smiling back, "Sure! Just be careful, the room is kind of small and it's cable spaghetti in there, but with two if us, it should make it easier!"

Ness was a general helping hand, sometimes working with Steven on maintaining code for animatronics they were storing, and sometimes she'd work on the code that kept the servers at the maintenance firm running, so helping Luis with the cable spaghetti was something well within what she could do. Perhaps helping with some of the hardware of the IT systems may help her with some of her other odd jobs around the maintenance firm. Perhaps it could help her get closer to Luis as well.

***🌹[{Chapter 2}]🌹***

Luis and Ness headded to the small server room. There was a desk outside that was originally going to be a temporary solution, but wound up being a permanent placement and Luis's workstation for whenever he didn't have to physically touch the servers.

He unlocked the door, and walked in.

"I'm just going to get set up, then I'll get what we need to do." He said as he picked up a few cables that had one end plugged in somewhere in the server room and plugged them into his work laptop, which he then took out to his desk.

After about a minute that was spent booting up the computer and logging in, Luis had found today's thing to solve.

"Right, so as I think I mentioned earlier, me and Steven are seeing if we can deal with that email issue. It really sucks that the people that hired us can read our emails. That's, like, a gross invasion of privacy if I've ever heard one." As he spoke, he tapped away at the keyboard, programming something. It wasn't a programming language that Ness knew, but she figured it was some kind of server code. "Anna said she won't try and take them to court because if thier legal team can get a guy off the hook for 12 counts of murder, then what the hell of a chance do we stand? And to be honest, I get where she's coming from. They'd totally wipe the floor with us. She's been talking about cutting off the contact early, and to be honest, umm..."

"You're hoping that they decide to cut off the contact before we do?" Ness replied.

"Kind of." Luis shrugged, "When they signed on with us, our contact with them said if they broke contract early for any reason, they have to pay us for the time remaining for storage and any work done."

"So that's why we're logging everything we do. I get it now." Ness replied.

"Yep, they pay a flat rate for the time in storage, and extra for repair work done beyond reasonable maintenance, and these suckers had passed the point of reasonable maintenance by day two. Anyway," Luis continued, "we also need to sort out the cable spaghetti in the server cupboard. I've been meaning to do that since I plugged in a new set of switches, and the system is full of static, so it's well overdue some physical maintenance, so give me a moment to commit this code so Steven can do his bit - and we can get started on that."

"Right," Ness nodded as she looked around the server room. It wasn't that small, but if you spent a while in there, it'd probably start to feel very small very quickly. The cables running across the ground like a bunch of sleeping snakes didn't help, as they had become quite the tripping hazard, but that was what they were solving today: getting the static out the system and switching out the cables for ones that could go in the cable runners around the edges of the room.

"Ok, first things first, getting this thing backed up so we can take it offline." Luis said as he did some things that Ness didn't quite understand on his computer, "Right, should be two minutes, and the servers will power off after the backup, and then we should be good to go. In the meantime, we should get the cables. Everyone knows we're doing this today, and Steve tends to work in offline mode anyway."

Luis stood up straight and headed towards the part of the building that everyone just called the 'storage zone' as that's not only where the animatronics were kept, but also where the storage cupboard for thier own supplies were. On the way, Ness had a few questions.

"You know, why do we have so many servers if this place is so small?"

"Well," Luis replied, happy to be able to talk about this stuff, "we use a bunch of Ethernet computers so we need ports for those, and mail server hosting takes up a bit. We also have databases for clients, contract records, the lot. Also testing the animatronics to make sure they work needs a whole isolated network to simulate a standard environment, so that's a whole physical tower for just that. Sorry about the oversimplification, I tend to ramble a lot otherwise."

Luis opened the door to the storage cupboard, which was a fairly large walk in cupboard, far larger than the server room, and started rummaging through some boxes before pulling out a box and handing it to Ness.

"Usually if have to make two trips to grab the cables and ends, but with you here, I don't have to leave everything open!" He smiled as he grabbed a second box and left the walk in storage cupboard. Once Ness was out the room, he closed the door behind himself and they headed back to the server room.

Once they were back, Luis placed his box down just outside the server room, and Ness placed hers next to his.

Luis then gave Ness a pair of thick rubber lined gloves.

"Here. You'll need these if we're going to be touching the servers," he said as he put his own gloves on.

Ness put on the gloves, and to her suprise, they fit perfectly.

The gloves had a rubber exterior, but were surprisingly comfy, and to her standards, weren't heavy at all.

"I didn't expect the gloves to be so nice." She said, still admiring the gloves.

"Well, I can't really stand the usual bittyness that happens to your usual work gloves after a while, so I usually have to shop around for specific ones and always wash them after use. It's a bit of a chore, but that's the cost of comfort, you know? Anyway, sorry about the rambling. Let's deal with this cable spaghetti."

Luis begun unplugging some cables. He seemed to know on instinct which ones could be pulled out, and which were secured in and would need a screwdriver to remove later. He then pointed Ness to the neighbouring server tower.

"That ones kind of like this one. Do you think you could unplug everything in it?"

Ness nodded and got to work unplugging the cables. Remembering which ones came out cleanly and which ones would need a tug and which ones would need to be removed with more tools than just her hands later was tough, and she worked pretty slow. Luis had already completely disconnected another entire server tower before she was even half way done.

She was beginning to worry that she was becoming a burden when Luis unexpectedly said, "Wow! For a first time, that's pretty quick. I remember when I first started working with servers. Even with smaller servers, it took me hours to unplug everything, but you seem to be a natural at this!"

Ness lit up at the complement and continued to unplug the wires until the only ones left were the ones that either could not be removed, or could only be removed after unscrewing something.

Meanwhile, Luis has unscrewed the more complected server, and tapped Ness on the shoulder to get her attention, "Do you want me to show you what needs unscrewing to get the rest of the cables out or do you think you can do it yourself?"

"Could you show me?"

"Ok. Now," Luis carefully removed one of the switches that made up the server. It had about sixteen ports in it, and was pretty large, "See these screws here? These are holding that back cable in place. And these ones here? These are holding these three in in place." He worked as he spoke, unscrewing the panels and carefully removing the cables, "Those are all the ones on this model that need a screwdriver to remove."

As she picked up a screwdriver, Ness nodded, "Got it!" Before going back to the server she was working on.

Unscrewing the panels that kept the cables in place took longer than expected. "Man, Luis makes this look so easy," she mumbled as she finished with the last switch.

Luis had already gone outside and when Ness walked outside to tell him that she had finished unplugging the server, he was tinkering around with a hard drive.

"Oh! I didn't see you there." Luis said, "I've been trying to isolate the current bugs, but couldn't find anything, so I'm just wiping the server drives. Everything's backed up - so even if I do find it, who knows if it'll be in the same place on the backup, and who knows what'll end up where when we put this back together. Oh, sorry. I'm rambling again."

"No no, it's fine! I don't mind you rambling at all. I... Um..." Ness replied, her face turning a slight shade of red, "I actually find it quite relaxing..."

It was a bit difficult to tell, but Luis had also gone bright red. Someone didn't mind his ramblings? It came as a surprise, but it shouldn't. Usually he'd stop himself, but it was only that: him stoping himself. Nobody had told him that his ramblings were annoying for years; but remembering when this habit of stopping himself started wasn't something he could do.

"S-so, umm," Luis looked incredibly flustered, "we just need to leave the servers be for a few minutes, uhhh, then we should probably dust them off, and - shoot, I forgot that other thing. Sorry. I usually do this by muscle memory."

"It's ok," Ness smiled, "Just show me what to do! I'm sure I'll pick it up just fine."

After the mundane process of removing the static from the systems, Luis decided it was about time the room was dusted again.

"I don't even know why we get this static build up. I've checked all the parts, and nothing is wrong. There shouldn't be this much static, but there just is!" Luis said as he ran the duster cloth over the tops of the solid server towers.

"I wonder if it has anything to do with the animatronics Fazbear Entertainment sent us." Ness replied as she dusted out the switch racks.

"Probably," Luis replied as he finished dusting the last network switch, "And we are done."

"So how do we plug them back in?" Ness asked, looking at the empty racks and deactivated servers.

"I'll show you" Luis said as he picked up a bunch of cables, "let's get these hard disks and switches back in place. I've already got a plan on how to wire it back up better."

"Should I leave you to it?" Ness asked, looked at Luis as he set out at placing the hard disks and switches in front of the server frames in a seemingly specific order.

"I'll get the first few things out of the way, If that makes you feel better." Luis replied.

"It will. I don't want to drop anything."

Luis nodded and finished arranging the switches in the cabinets and moving some of the cables that ran behind them.

After the switches were in place, Luis plugged a few cables in before saying, "now I'll definitely need help for the rest of it."

He handed Ness one end of a cable and held the other.

"I've already passed this one around the back. I'll probably lose it if I tried to do this myself." He laughed as he picked up his end.

"Which server?" She asked.

Luis pointed to a switch cabinet on the other wall. "Starting at zero at the top, fourth switch down, port 4A." Luis told Ness.

Ness nodded and plugged it in.

"Neat! Next one. It's closer this time, so I can just point.

He pointed at a second cable and this time, it was to be connected to a server.

"Ok, so this cable needs to go into that port there. I'll get this other one." Luis said as he passed a cable to Ness and picked one up himself, plugging it into one of the many ports on one of the servers.

As Ness was reattaching the cable that had been handed to her back into the mainframe, her fingers slipped, and an audible crack of electricity filled the air. She dropped the cable and reeled back with a scream, stumbling backwards into the door.

She seemed to be standing steady for a good few seconds before she sank to the ground.

***🌹[{ Chapter 3 }]🌹***

"NESS!" Luis let out a fearful shout, fearing the worst, but he felt slightly relived when Ness begun to cry.

"Thank goodness you're not dead. Are you ok?" He asked, hoping for a response.

Ness couldn't hear. From the moment the electrical shock caused her to fall back, her head had been filled with a voice that wasn't her own. A voice that called her 'Vanny'. When the voice wasn't trying to talk to her, garbled static filled the space in-between. She tried to scream again as she clutched her aching hand - the only thing grounding her in reality - only to find any attempt at a scream choked out by her own tears.

Ness was curled up in a ball, sobbing and clutching the hand she had been holding the cable in. Either the server was more full of static than they realised, or something else was amiss, but there wasn't really time for that right now. Ness was in pain and needed comforting. She didn't respond when Luis spoke, so whilst she was alive, he was starting to get worried.

Slowly, he approached her and crouched down by her side. "Can you hear me?" He asked. It was a stupid question, but he had to make sure she could hear him.

Between the strange voice in her head and the garbled noises in between, Ness heard a familiar male voice. She initially wanted to shut it out, worried that it was tricking her, but the voice belonged to Luis. He was with her moments ago. She focused on the pain, and realised that it had to be him. She had to let him know she could hear him.

"Mark, get a bucket! I think she's going to be sick!" Luis was panicking, as Ness's only response was a tear-choked 'uhhu'.

"What's a bucket going to do when she's curled up like that." Mark replied as he tossed the contents of the bucket he was using down the sink and rushed over to where Luis was anyway.

Ness heard another familiar voice, and managed to recognise it quicker this time - knowing that she wasn't on her own in the middle of nowhere, but was actually in fact in her place of work, really helped her ground herself back into reality - and as she tried to relax a little bit, she was worried that she was going to fall. She may have known where she was, but she still felt that moving at all would cause her to tumble into an abyss.

"Try and relax. We've got you"

She felt a hand on her back, and she was certain that it was Luis who had just spoken. She tried to relax, and as soon as her knees weren't digging into her chest, something plastic and hollow was pushed into the gap. After a long moment, she realised that the object was a bucket. Specifically, the bucket that Mark always carried around with him.

"Can you still hear me?" Luis asked, his tone slightly worried.

The voices of the people she knew were getting clearer as the voices she didn't want to know had begun to fade away, and Ness nodded, and let out a weak "yeah". Seeing this, Luis took a deep breath, and begun to talk in a less concerned tone.

"That's a relief. You were reattaching cables, and you just got a static shock. By the looks of it, it must have hurt a lot. If I knew you were that sensitive to electrical shocks, I'd have made sure you were wearing thicker gloves."

Ness meekly nodded back. She heard Luis, but her head still felt fuzzy. A different kind of fuzzy. A kind of fuzzy that starts in the head, but instead of staying there, it creeps it's way down towards the stomach, before coming back up, bringing everything that had been eaten that day back up with it.

"Should I get another bucket?" Mark said, half grossed out, half concerned. For a cleaner, he was pretty bad when it came to cleaning up these types of messes. "Should I get Anna whilst I'm at it. She'll need to know."

Luis nodded before looking back at Ness. She has been sick so much that the bucket was half full already. He sat down, and tried to see if Ness eyes were open. He tilted his head down, and found they were clamped shut. She was shaking as well.

His attention was drew away from Ness when he heard Mark yell "Anna! Ness is throwing up! Where are the buckets!"

"They're in the basement!" Anna yelled back before the two of them came back with buckets that had drips of water running down the side.

"You should have told me sooner," Anna said as she looked at Ness, "This looks serious. People usually don't throw up after one static shock."

As if to confirm what Anna said, Ness thew up again, and she was shaking even more than before.

Luis turned to Anna, "They sometimes do. You remember the lady who runs the other nice robotics company?"

"Given they're are only two nice robotics companies in the area, yeah." The two nice companies they were referring too was Smith&Tea robotics, and R&D robotics. Dispite all having similar goals, they somehow got along like a house on fire due to thier different specialties.

"Her husband has similar reactions to static shocks," Luis continued, "but he's not as scared as this."

"So you're saying Ness may be posessed?"

"Probably." Luis said before turning back to Ness. "Ness, can you open your eyes?"

Ness tried to open her eyes, but it was too bright. She slowly tried again, and soon saw the bucket she was clutching. She looked around at the floor, and saw that there were people nearby. It took a bit of work, but she soon found herself able to look around.

"Luis?" She asked, tears falling down her face, "am I - am I a monster?"

***🌹[{Chapter 4}]🌹***

Luis, shocked by the question, answered, "No! No, no no. What ever gave you that idea?"

Ness immediately burst into tears. She wanted to speak, but she couldn't again, but this time, it was due to how she was sobbing so much that any words that tried to come out all sounded like distressed wailing and blended into her crying.

"It's ok," Luis tried to reassure Ness. He was worried that his words were becoming hollow as he repeated that it was going to be ok, "take your time. It's ok to cry."

With a slight snivel, Ness looked at Luis and after a faint smile, burst into tears again. She had given up on trying to speak. She sobbed and sobbed, hoping that once she had sobbed enough, she would be able to calm down, but the tears kept coming.

Months of worries, fears, and terrors rose to the surface, and each was released with a flood of tears and an incoherent wail.

She cried for what felt like hours, occasionally throwing up. Mark and Luis were able to help switch the bucket out for an empty one, as having a bucket of sick under your nose isn't exactly going to help with recovering from being sick.

Anna had also fetched some water. Ness certainly needed some after crying that much.

Several minutes of tears later, Ness finally begun to speak. It was bearly audible, and mostly masked by crying, but they were able to hear most of it.

"It called me Vanny..." She managed to mumble before sobbing again.

The name 'Vanny' seemed to make her sick to her stomach out of pure fear. She begun to cry again, but soon spoke up again.

"The voice in my head..." Ness managed to say between sobs, "he keeps telling me to do things, and when I fail, he tells me I'm worthless, but then if I even fake succeeding, I'm a monster..."

Success and failure. This was clearly about the incident that happened a few days ago, and Luis knew it. Glitchtrap telling Ness to kill him, trying to kill him himself when she didn't respond, and Ness stepping in, feigning compliance. This would explain why the voice in her head would call her a monster. This also explained her bizarre search history.

"Look," Luis said, "you did the only thing to could do to keep me alive. We were between a rock and a hard place back there. You managed to get us out alive, even if it did mean whacking me over the head with a nail bat."

Ness smiled a little, but it didn't last long. Luis thought she made a good decision; he didn't think she was a monster for hurting him. But then again, if she couldn't get the relic back, she may eventually be forced to kill him.

"A family heirloom of mine..." Ness then mumbled, "we just call it the relic. He - that voice in my head - has it. And, he'll make me ... Hurt you guys..."

She burst into tears agin.

"I'M A WORTHLESS MONSTER!" Ness cried as she curled up again.

Luis looked at Ness and begun to approach her again, but someone grabbed his shoulder.

Anna then whispered to Luis, "I think that whatevers in her head is trying to make her feel like she needs to emotionally distance herself from us. Typical high school bullying tactics. Been on the receiving end of this a few times back in the day. What you need to do is make sure she knows you're there for her and love her for who she is. Whilst saying 'you are not a monster' is nice and all, you need to take a different angle."

"How do you know all this?" Luis whispered in reply.

"Because," Anna whispered, "when you've been assigned the weird kid since preschool, you know how to spot a victim because you've experienced a thing or two yourself. I've been meaning to ask you a few things, but right now we need to help Ness."

Luis nodded and resumed his movements, sitting down at Ness side.

"Ness. I know you feel really bad, but I know you had no choice back there. You've been playing damage control the whole time, and you've done really well. Nobody has died yet, even though you were directly ordered to kill people. I know it's hard for you, and I probably don't fully understand what you're going through, but I wouldn't listen to the creature that's trying to tell you that you're a monster."

Ness then looked up at Luis, and he swear he saw a small smile.

"I love you for who you are," Luis continued, "tough decisions and all."

***🌹[{ Chapter 5 }]🌹***

Ness looked like she was about to cry again, but before Luis could begin to worry about weather he had said the right thing, Ness had wrapped her arms around him in a big hug and was crying into his shoulder.

This came as a suprise, but a pleasant one. Now that he thought about it, this would be thier first proper hug. Whilst she had kissed him on the cheek or forehead a few times, this would be the first time they had actually hugged.

"It's ok to cry," Luis said as he hugged Ness back, "I'll always be there for you."

Luis felt Ness squeeze him tighter as she mumbled "thank you". He swore that he felt like his ribs were about to crack, but Ness was a strong woman, and the fact that her hugs were crushing him was taken as a sign that she was feeling a bit better now.

After a few minutes, everyone heard the tell-tale heavy footsteps of Steve running towards them.

Steve ran into the room, panting like a dog and almost collapsing on the ground.

"Hey, you know those boards I scanned in yesterday?" Steve took a deep breath and held his head in his hands, "The ones that let in that virus I emailed everyone about? It seems to have mutated. Nothing serious, but it seems like it's just looking for something specific."

Anna looked sceptical. Her expression was not aimed at Steve though, but at this virus that had made its way onto the system, "mutated? How."

"I don't know exactly, but it seems to be acting like a living being" Steve replied, "but it's moved itself a few times and left messages around. When I try to move it to the bin, it keeps leaving angry messages there."

"Strange." Anna huffed, "any luck contacting Jim? He better know what's up, given that he's actually a member of that company and all."

"No. He doesn't seem to be replying to me. He's usually not like this, but..." Steve seemed uneasy, and looked at Luis, Anna, and Ness.

It looked like Steve was about to be sick now as he ran off to the toilet without a word.

"I've had a hunch for quite a while that Jim actually doesn't give a shit about Steve since he started working at Fazbear Entertainment." Anna said as she watched Steve run off, "and he's only just realised he's being used. I'll go make everyone a hot chocolate. I think everyone needs an extra break today. But before that, Ness?"

Ness looked up and gave a weak "hu?"

"I need to see your gloves," Anna said, "You had just disconnected everything, dusted it, and begun reconnecting. The fact that anyone could have gotten shocked is really bizarre, but perhaps what Steve said may explain it."

Anna approached Ness and looked at the gloves that she was wearing. There was no damage to the glove. Then, she looked up at Ness's wrist and saw some markings that looked somewhat fractal-like.

"No amount of gloves would have stopped that static shock. It was not a normal shock." Anna said as she more closely examined Ness's new scar.

"What do you mean?" Luis and Ness said in unison.

"Well, Steve said the virus from the circuit boards was trying to find something. Ever considered it was trying to find someone?"