Two Altair Chasers down.
... Make that all of them down, thanks Monty.
Some League Snipers are smacked away by chairs or trapped under them, but none are destroyed. The pressure is off Freddy for now.
The Rogue stacks the Blaster power-up with his Sword, letting him shoot a damaging version of the almost-sword beams from Night 3. He waits for an opening to attack...
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"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Gregory tries to run, but Monty grabs him, chuckling evilly as he holds him by his shoulders.
"Gotcha, little guy!"
Gregory then just turns his head to look away with a huff.
"Oh, a wise guy, huh? We will see how quickly that gets tamed when I-"
Cue something crashing into Monty's back, almost making him stumble.
"What the-"
Then another one, and another one. Whatever's crashing into him starts clawing at his back. Montgomery turns his head to look and sees that it's the endoskeletons. With a roar and a whip from his tail, he breaks the three into pieces.
But then he sees more Endos coming his way and just turns around completely, now holding Gregory by his collar, letting him hand in front of himself.
"You best look at them if you don't want them to claw you to bits!"
Gregory looks, paralyzing the Endos... after which he suddenly snatches Monty's sunglasses off of his face and aims the Fazerblaster at him.
"H-Huh!?"
Pew
"GRAAAHHHH!" , he roars, dropping Gregory as he gets stunned. Gregory now keeps the sunglasses on him just in case.
Chica then runs towards him.
"Time for some payback!"
"How about a pizza instead?" , Freddy suddenly asks, catching Chica's attention.
Cue a S.T.A.F.F.cookbot driving out of a door, carrying a steaming hot pizza in a box. One can practically see the glint appear in Chica's eyes as she runs off to ambush the robot and eat the pizza.
"PIZZA!"
Freddy looks at her go for a moment.
"Setting up a pizza to be done around 12 AM ended up being a better idea than I had considered."
"I honestly wouldn't have thought of it if Rodney hadn't called her Pizzabird a few nights ago."
Now Roxanne jumps forward, but Freddy intercepts her, more easily pushing her back now.
"Freddy, this is my chance! Let me through!"
"I cannot let you do that, Roxy. I am sorry."
He then pushes hard enough to knock her on the ground. Gregory runs to the showstage and then grins at Rodney, seemingly unaware that he's built up an attack of his own.
"Hah! Guess we've been conditioned enough to be able to deal with anything you throw at us!"
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.The Rogue looks Gregory dead in the eyes and proceeds to spawn in... something.
The rune (right side of the picture) appears behind Gregory, and the helmet (left side) in the Rogue's hand. "Let's test your luck, kid."
He clenches his fist around the helmet, which vanishes... as does the rune, with the Rogue's entire body now flashing red. He proceeds to rush Gregory head-on, swinging his sword and flinging Blaster shots everywhere.
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Gregory quickly presses the button to make the showstage lower itself, though he himself jumps off of the showstage to stay in the atrium. If he'd gone down with it, Rodney would've had clear and easy shots from above while Gregory would've had a limited space to move in.
Gregory tries his very best to dodge as much as possible, but even his luck and caffeine-boosted agility isn't absolute. Some Blaster shots strike one of his arms, as well as hitting the side of one of his legs, making him yelp in pain as he falls on the floor. There's clear blood coming from those wounds, so he's not just gonna be able to get back up like he's been doing so far. The Endoskeletons start to move in on his position as well.
"Hey! He's MINE!" , Montgomery roars as he starts sprinting, though Freddy grabs him by his tail and pulls him back in, making him topple over into some of, but not all of the Endos.
Gregory looks suitably afraid of Rodney now. He has the boy at his mercy. One clean hit to his chest or head and that'd be all. And even if Rodney doesn't do it, the Endos will, because if he looks at them, he wouldn't be able to react to Rodney's attack even if he can somehow still jump around.
Then, however, the lights go off in the Atrium, giving the animatronics (sans Freddy) some pause. A pair of hands appears at the edge of the hole where the showstage descended into.
"Bad children must be found..."
Moon hops out of the hole, rotating his head vertically before jumping at Gregory and grabbing him, now holding him up.
"Naughty boy... time for a time-out..."
Roxanne glances at Glamrock Freddy, getting ready to intercept the bear when he-
... wait, he's not moving. He doesn't even look nervous. What? Did he finally get to his senses, or...
"Yeah?", Gregory then says to Moon. "Well, the naughtiest boy of them all is standing right behind you!"
Gregory looks at the Rogue to make his point.
"He's been messing things up in the Pizzaplex, changing the building without permission..."
The boy grins.
"And he vandalized your daycare by removing the lightswitch. Don't believe me? Who else could've just made it disappear off of the wall completely?"
Moon seems to pause before dropping Gregory, head creepily turning to look at the Rogue and glowing red eyes seemingly piercing his soul.
"Yeah, if I'm only naughty, then he's a real bad guy."
Moon now fully turns around, growling, and then jumps at the Rogue, trying to grab onto his head and rip his mask from his face.
"Bad boy, bad boy! You must be punished!"
Roxanne's eyes widen. The showstage, the lights, Moon... they planned this.
Before she can try to stop Moon though, Freddy is already charging at her and succeeds in knocking her against a photo booth hard enough to daze her. With Chica eating and Monty trying to fight his way out of the endos he fell in, that leaves the way free for him to run back to Gregory to protect him before the remaining endos reach him.
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In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.As soon as things start to turn in the "Moon vs. Rogue" direction, the Rogue calmly enters something on his arm-device...
Moon briefly flickers. And nothing happens.
"Oh, son of a bi-" Cue Moon ripping his mask off. Rodney stumbles back, steadies himself, takes a deep breath...
He swings his sword and KSHEEEEEER
"Rules are made to be broken. Now does anyone else want to test me?"
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Vs. Tyraaxos
As Tyraaxos' flames were of a strange and otherworldly nature, Super Love was not fully able to manipulate them, and some of the fire licked her and her comrades, singeing their bodies.
Shiryu, Sporacles, and Megumin X got around everything fine, but Blackbeard wasn't so lucky. Thinking quickly, Tyraaxos imbued a malevolent, toxic essence into the flames, causing Blackbeard to essentially be 'poisoned' when he absorbed them, damaging him from the inside.
Thranix nodded. "Yeah, I'll take that." He stood up slightly to take the health kit and use it... however that would work.
As Megan continued to climb on her own, a tendril suddenly appeared and whipped her in the face, sending her skidding down the tower.
Zophiel tried to maintain her wall against the tower's onslaught, but she heard a roar from behind her, looked back and saw the fucking Gundam hurtling up towards everyone. Unable to form the words for this, her concentration broke, and her magical projections faded.
—
Tyraaxos reared up as Domon called for his Gundam, anticipating it to appear from above and attack. He ended up spending a Beat staring into the empty sky, before hearing the roaring engines from below and looking over the side.
"... Congratulations. You have surprised me."
—
"Hold fast, heroes!" bellowed Hadraniel as he conjured up a dome-shaped forcefield directly in front of the Gundam, letting it safely carry everyone up without anyone slipping off the sides or just getting splattered by the initial impact.
As the forcefield appeared, Thranix looked back and some primal fear prompted him to try and scramble higher up the tower. Naturally, with how large and fast Burning Gundam was, that wasn't happening, so he just yelped wildly as he got caught in the bubble.
Megan's skidding was interrupted by the collision with the dome. "Oof! Careful, Domon," she said half-teasingly and half-seriously, "That thing could give someone whiplash!"
Zophiel curled up into a ball and braced for impact, which was surprisingly softer than she was expecting.
—
Tyraaxos, still leaning his head over the side, shot a blinding beam of raw, unrestrained mana — the less common of the two breath weapons of a Crimson Tyrant, but no less of a threat than the other.
A second half to the dome appeared to stop the beam from simply vaporizing the climbers like kindling-paper in a flame, but this also resulted in the whole thing, Gundam included, being slowed down, barely able to reach the peak.
"... Hm." He then turned back to Domon and attempted to straight-up backhand him off of the Black Spire — before following that up with a dragon-sized right hook just to see if that would work.
1 round until Spire Apex
"The Stick has sentimental value. It's like an enormous, hideous teddy bear we can kill things with." -rikalous"... Shit." Domon was counting on the Gundam making it to the top right away, and ends up paying the price by getting decked by a pair of Gundam-sized claws, knocking him off the Black Spire and out of Hyper Mode.
As she, Safi'jiiva, and Dedede just ride along, Reyna looks over and sees Domon falling. "That's not good," she dryly remarks.
Christmas Party
Bernadetta von Varley slams open the building door, rushes in to grab hot cocoa and a blanket, and immediately rushes off towards any available unoccupied room.
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"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."And Moon is sent blasting off again (with the mask), crashing into one of the establishments on the third floor.
Glamrock Freddy now reaches Gregory and quickly puts him into his stomach hatch, which makes the endos stop approaching. He turns to Rodney.
"This is the final time I will request this of you. Just let Gregory go, and this unpleasant ordeal will be over for all of us."
"You've got to have enough dark emotion energy stuff for whatever you're planning to use it for by this point.", Gregory comments from inside Freddy.
Monty now breaks free and growls as he starts throwing endos around to make his way to the others.
"Out of my way, you lousy endos!" , he roars.
Chica, meanwhile, seems to be close to finishing her pizza.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Luckily for Blackbeard, he absorbs the stuff, but it's all sent to a dimension elsewhere, meaning that the actual poison is stored there and not in his body.
Zehahahahhaa! Nice try though! He compliments, before being rescued by the Dome. Shiryu likewise is, but cares too little to thank the responsible parties as both attempts to reach the Peak first. If it happens, Shiryu attempts to immediately just straight-up slash the Tyrant in the eye, banking on the surprise effect, while Blackbeard simply power-walk over to the roof.
Zehahahahahaha! Do your worst, I'll just drown it in darkness!
...
Christmas Party.
Grog
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterRodney glowers at Freddy. "I'd have let you go by now if you didn't see my fucking diary. I won't let you leave this place. The old man won't let me live if I let you go, now that you know the truth."
He spawns in his trump card.
This thing is comparable in size to DJ Music Man. And it's approaching Freddy, slowly, but intimidatingly.
"I've done the math. This thing's touch will kill you. Why not let it? It'll be over in an instant."
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.""It's not like I sought it out on purp-"
Cue the Acheron MegaSniper. Gregory immediately goes silent, its size reminding it too much of DJ Music Man for him to be snarky right now.
Freddy is concerned too, but then tries a bluff.
"It does not matter how powerful it is. I can outrun it." , he says as he moves back to prove his point.
Montgomery actually pauses upon seeing the giant, stopping his approach for a moment.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay."You fool!" Rodney cackles. "This baby can also just shoot you!"
The Acheron MegaSniper stomps closer, feeling neither mercy nor fear. It shoots a spread-shot of three energy blasts into Freddy's chest. The first shot, only one 'bullet' hits Freddy, draining a bit of power. The second, another single hit. By the third, it's close enough that all three shots hit like a close-range shotgun blast, effectively immobilizing Freddy with the damage.
And it's so big. As it gets close enough to touch, it won't even need to pull Gregory out to squash him and Freddy like a pancake.
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"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Chica finishes her pizza and turns back to the fight while Roxanne awakens.
Freddy gets hit all three times, letting out a pained gasp each time. Some sparks fly off of the parts where he got hit and his eyes briefly show static before he snaps back to it. But despite that, he finds himself unable to move.
"I... I cannot move!"
"W-what!?"
Gregory looks up through the camera feed at the hulking sprite getting closer and closer. He balls his fists and grits his teeth, and then...
He suddenly opens Freddy's stomach hatch and lets himself fall out.
"Gregory? ... yes, try to escape! Do not let him catch you!" , Freddy says, trying to encourage him as he stands up despite his wounds. Gregory manages to get a little distance away, though he limps to get there, just far enough that the Acheron MegaSniper can't crush them both with one attack. And then...
"Hey! Rodney!", Gregory calls out while turning to face him. "Leave Freddy alone! It's me you want!"
Freddy's encouraging expression disappears, slowly turning into a look of horror as he realizes what Gregory is doing.
"G... Gregory, wait, do not-"
"I didn't show Freddy what's in your diary. I'm the only loose thread. I'll let you get what you want, just... just let Freddy go!", he yells. He looks scared, some tears are forming in his eyes... but he looks absolutely certain of his decision. He closes his eyes and starts to shake in fear, anticipating the inevitable. The fact that it causes the Endos to start moving again doesn't matter to him.
"... please."
Montgomery, Chica and Roxanne just stare at Gregory for a moment. Freddy looks distraught.
"What are you doing? I am replaceable! You must not sacrifice yourself for me! Gregory, please!"
Gregory keeps standing in place. Perhaps Rodney may suspect that it's yet another trap, but what else do they have left at this point? DJ Music Man isn't going to suddenly come to their rescue, and Freddy sounds way to genuinely scared for it to be an act.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.The Acheron MegaSniper takes another step towards Freddy... and the lights go out. And the MegaSniper stops making any movement-related sounds. Just like the Altair MegaChaser from the second night.
Unlike that night, it doesn't disappear. Its own eyelights are still present, but when it makes the sound of shooting, its shots hit something mere inches away from it and stop dead.
There's a CRASH as it suddenly topples onto its back, and when the lights come back on, another animatronic, vaguely resembling Freddy (or perhaps more closely, the older version of Freddy that Gregory saw in the "Take cake to the children" dream),
is literally hovering in the air like an anime character, looking down on the Acheron MegaSniper. It rises higher up, then plunges down fist-first, smashing through the boss sprite and scattering it into bits of data which soon disappear.
Now down on its hand and knees, the black-and-red Freddy slowly rises up... and melts away, revealing someone where it stood.
A girl, who couldn't be older than Gregory. Dark brownish hair just barely reaching her shoulders. Blue shirt with an old, faded artwork on it advertising Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria.
Green security bracelet around her right wrist.
This is the dead girl Gregory kept seeing.
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"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."When the lights go out and the sound stops, Gregory slowly starts to open his eyes, only for them to shoot fully open when he hears a loud crash.
He then gets to witness Lefty's awesome annihilation of the Acheron MegaSniper, and his jaw just drops. So does the various Glamrocks', in fact.
And then the girl appears, and Gregory's eyes couldn't go any wider if they tried.
"... w... w... WHA-!?"
For the otherwise snarky kid to be this much at a loss for words is an achievement in itself.
"... did that flying animatronic bear just turn into a girl?" , Glamrock Chica asks.
"So... now what do we do?" , Roxanne asks. They then both look at Montgomery, who looks equally nervous.
"Well... we... uh..."
He takes a step back.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.The girl holds out a hand, and suddenly the eyes of Montgomery, Glamrock Chica, and Roxanne all turn into the black voids with white pinpricks that the Marionette has. Still conscious and aware, they lose control of their bodies as the girl does some twisty hand gestures and forces them to return to their respective signature zones.
Only then does she turn around to acknowledge Freddy and Gregory. "Hey, I'm Charlie," she says quietly, kneeling down and seemingly causing Freddy's damage to repair just by touching him.
"... How? HOW!?" yells Rodney, his Tarnhelm-granted invulnerability vanishing. "I turned the doors into loading zones! You can't get inside without passing through a door, and the doors are gone!"
"Yeah, that's the only reason I didn't show up to kick your butt on Night Two," Charlie boasts as she turns back to him, doing Kusanagi's finger wag taunt
◊. "Now that I'm here, there's no way you're gonna win."
Murmurs From the Land Forbidden, Rotten Vale - Monster Hunter Orchestra Concert 2020
「かかってこい!」
"Rrrrrrrrgh...!"
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"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."And so the three are sent running. Gregory still has that slack-jawed look of shock on his face even as Charlie introduces herself.
"... H... Hi?", he says, not really sure what else to say. Freddy, now repaired and able to move again, recovers much quicker than he does, though seeing as Gregory saw Charlie in dreams and assumed her to be dead, that's pretty understandable.
"I am Freddy. Thank you so very much for saving Gregory."
Gregory then takes notice of something.
"L-look out! The Endoskeletons!", he calls out to Charlie, who'll be able to see them charging in towards her. They'll stop moving if she looks at them, but they'll be extremely close to her by the time she gets the chance.
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In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Vs. Tyraaxos
AARGH!
The magic barrier didn't work, and Super Pamp, Love and Joka were damaged by the fire. And unlike Blackbeard, they were poisoned by it. Super Pamp gives Wisedom Fruits to his friends, restoring their health.
Quick! Let's go with the robot!
Super Pamp orders to climb on the Gundam. In this place, he plays again his guitar, preparing another summon.
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Three freaking ghosts!Charlie turns to see an endoskeleton right up in her face, and reminds everyone she's still a kid younger than Gregory by shrieking in surprise and fear. However, rather than run or cower, she throws a punch right for the face, strings wrapped around her fingers that will leap onto the endoskeleton's mouth and clamp it shut if she successfully hits. She will then swing it into the next nearest endoskeleton.
Rodney, meanwhile, snaps out of his anger and leaps at Gregory with his sword, sending a Blaster bullet with a midair swing.
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"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Both the punch and the strings hit their marks, and as such the Endoskeleton gets slammed into another Endoskeleton. None of the others move as long as Charlie looks at them though.
Gregory, distracted with Charlie, notices too late that Rodney is attacking him again. His eyes widen when the blast heads his way-
"NO!"
Glamrock Freddy moves in front of Gregory to shield him from the blast, after which he reaches out with his hand and grabs Rodney's sword mid-swing.
"Freddy!", Gregory calls out, worried. Freddy doesn't budge though, his mechanical hand still stronger than any human grip even when damaged by the boosted sharpness of the blade.
"Enough-"
Glamrock Freddy then pulls the sword out of Rodney's hand, throws it away behind him, and-
"Is ENOUGH!"
Glamrock Freddy throws a powerful punch, aiming to purposely strike Rodney in the face and send him flying. If that works, he'll show Rodney a serious glare.
"You have tormented Gregory for long enough!"
"... whoa."
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Charlie warps away from the endoskeletons and to Rodney's likely landing spot after that punch clocked him. "Way to go, big guy!" she says, complimenting Freddy, as she morphs back into Lefty and catches Rodney.
"Let's not make this... any more difficult," she says, her voice gaining the same raspy quality it had when Gregory first heard it - after his Security Puppet dream.
She wraps her arms around Rodney's waist and suplexes him.
Now standing over him, she starts just stomping on him with reckless abandon...
Only to stop suddenly mid-stomp. "Huh?"
"Gotcha." With a flash of a power-up equipping, Rodney brings forth another sword as well as switching to the Freeze Blaster, freezing Lefty solid before sending it skidding towards a wall. He then rushes in with speed that has increased out of nowhere and drives the sword through the animatronic/ghost/child/yes. "Die! Die! Die!"
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"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Once Lefty is getting attacked, Gregory holds onto Glamrock Freddy's arm as the animatronic tries to ram Rodney away from her with a body slam.
Of course, with nobody looking at them, the Endoskeletons start moving once more. Should the ram have been successful, Glamrock Freddy will try to grab Lefty's arm and start running, attempting to take both of the children to safety.
The Endoskeletons cannot catch up with them if they do, and since they are set in 'attack mode', they will then turn to Rodney instead before charging at him.
Edited by DevilPsyco on Dec 26th 2021 at 5:44:49 PM
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Rodney gets knocked away in the middle of preparing another stab. Lefty thaws out as they're running and slowly gets her own footing, running along with them instead of just being dragged or carried.
Rodney watches them go. His left arm claws, an X symbol appearing between his fingers, and with a sweep over his shoulder, the endoskeletons are deleted. He then rushes after Freddy, Gregory and Lefty with his enhanced speed.
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."

"Freaking crazy...", Gregory mutters to himself.
Freddy is forced to let go of Montgomery to defend himself against the blasts. He gets a bit of damage, but then knocks over a table and uses it as a shield against the blasts, after which he throws chairs at the League Snipers.
Montgomery tries to take this chance to get to Gregory, but he has to stop because of the Altair Chasers speeding around him.
Gregory's trying to keep up with the sprites, though eventually gives up on that and just tries to shoot them with the Fazerblaster. He has six shots before it has to reload, surely a few of them will hit, right?
Montgomery Gator does run out of patience before that can be made clear though, and he tries to force his way through the speeding Chasers, even if that means they'll crash into him and destroy themselves in the process.
Roxanne and Chica start to recover their eyesight.
The Endoskeletons get to move a good distance thanks to Gregory's former attempt to keep up with the Chasers.
Edited by DevilPsyco on Dec 26th 2021 at 2:57:36 PM
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.