“Wh-what?! Are you SERIOUS?!” Distressed Simon and everyone else snapped up. “E-excuse me, but- uh- WHAT? We’re stuck trying to deal with HENRY, th-that surely comes FIRST, r-right-“
Sorry boys!
IT’S CANDY TIME!
“NO! NO, NO, NO!” Simon howled. “I DON’T- I DON’T- STOP THIS. I’M NOT DOING IT.”
S o r r y b o y s !
Henry meanwhile just snorted.
“Oh, for sure. You will do it. Have fun, I will look after the restaurant. Do not fret, I-“
Oh, no, you’re coming too.
“… what?”
Yeah, everyone!
Anyhow, send out the animatronics- and probably Ethan, seeing as he never leaves Evelyn on her own- to Candy’s.
Not sure what “work with” means, but I’m supposing the restaurants get exchanged somewhat.
Four animatronics and one guard in exchange!
So, who is coming-
Candy, Cindy, the penguin and Vinnie?
You know what, asker, if you’re still around, please do clarify, I’ll retcon this ask in specific to fit it.
Oh also, fair warning, I’m rather uninformed on the overall lore of FNaC, the only thing I remember well is the last game.
Jeremy was the only one who seemed excited.
“Candy’s? That is a pretty good place too!” Cheerful he said. “I think it would be great to have a cross promotion going on- we’re really similar after all!”
Simon was rocking back and forth, while Mike awkwardly tried to pet his shoulders.
The youngest one didn’t even seem to notice that anyone was distressed.
“Heck! I was even there a time or two!”
Marion petted him gently, not commenting however.
Everyone was staring at the door.
Well-
At least this would distract everyone for long enough that the situation they were in seemed less scary.
This felt familiar, this was chaos, this was busy work.
Jerry rubbed his hands, nervously.
Hopefully the new employee was nice.
Finally, the door opened.
Everyone instantly stood up to greet-
A young woman stuck her head through the door, looking sheepish.
“Hello? Uhm… is this the location?”
“Is there any other around?” Henry instantly asked back, only drawing a giggle out of her.
“Oh- yeah, I guess. Hello, I am Mary Schmidt!”
Everyone turned to Mike who looked as irritated as them.
The brown-haired girl- had no real similarity to him. At least in his opinion.
Scoffing the aggressive guard spoke up.
“Hey, fuckwit. Move it. If you stand in that door like that, a gust of wind might cut off your fucking head. Why are you standing in that door like that anyways?!”
“H-hey, that wasn’t nice! And I’m standing here because-“
Like on cue, she was shoved forward, as two colorful animatronics jumped inside, a blue and a purple cat.
“I’m Candy!”
“And I’m Cindy!”
The pre-recorded voices started playing, as both of them bounced and danced in the middle of the place.
“And we’re the cat-companions! We’re here to ensure you have ton and ton of FUN!”
Mary chuckled, slightly nervous. “Yeah, very nice, but you don’t have to-“
As they cat spotted the Phone Guy, both of them exchanged a look and moved squarely towards him.
Cats just knew if you disliked them.
“Hey boss!” Candy started.
“I- I’m not-“
“Oh, yes you are!” Cindy continued, grinning maliciously.
“You LOOK like a bossman!” Candy continued.
“Take good care of us, bossman!”
“Yes, be nice to us! We want to be good friends!”
For once it wasn’t Mike who’s knuckles were so tensed up that they were white.
“Y-yeah, uh-“ Simon forced out. “How about you do- me a favor and move back? That- that would help a LOT!”
“But booooooooooooooooooooooooooss-“ Both of them said at the same time, before Mary finally managed to get between them.
“Candy, Cindy, that’s enough! I’m sure you made enough of a good first impression- oh- penguin, stop!”
She had turned just in time to see the penguin repeatedly driving over Henry’s foot, who didn’t react at all.
Back and forth.
It wasn’t heavy enough to do instant damage, but it was getting there.
Before Mary could rush over there however, Henry had kneeled down and-
Whispered something.
Instantly the Penguin seized to move.
Out of breath and concerned the other guard picked him up.
“A-ah, thank you! How did you do that?! I never seen anyone-“
Kindly Henry smiled. “Why, I worked at Candy’s for a short while back in the old days. It was quite a lot of fun and I learned a few exploits.”
“Exploits…?”
“No worries about that. They are not supposed to have them anymore anyhow, so please do not tell, will you?” Still smiling he put a warm hand on Mary’s shoulder, who hesitantly nodded-
Before abruptly turning around.
“Wait- where’s Vinnie? He wanted to come along-“
“… Vinnie, you say?” Interested Henry looked around as well. “… how come he WANTED to come?”
“Oh- I guess because he’s my friend… at least I think he is…? He’s sometimes a bit difficult-“
The blue Marionette had slowly floated in, its arms and legs dangling and sliding over the ground, like he was being pulled forward by an invisible string, by a bad puppet master, who completely neglected the rest of this being’s body.
It was moving straight towards the actual Marionette, who was tensing up instantly.
Separating from Jeremy, Marion moved forward, being as tall as he could be-
And as Vinnie came to stand in front of him, it tilted its head to side the, far, far, its neck making an uncomfortable sound of metal scratching over metal, its head now being the wrong way around-
Then it snapped up, matching the Marionette in height, its eyes suddenly starting to shine-
It looked so…
… ANGRY…
But before either of them could do something, two people rushed up to drag their respective puppet away.
Jerry whined.
“Please- Marion… please, don’t be so upset-“
Mary was concerned too.
“Vinnie, please! Why are you acting up like this? Please be nice to our new co-workers…”
Simon was clutching his receiver.
“Th-this is gonna go terrible, huh?”
“Ah, fuck it. It’s going to be fine. We’ll survive.” Mike carefully put an arm around his partner’s shoulder, inspecting the whole group.
Mary seemed competent enough… it would probably not end up in absolute disaster.
Hopefully.
Mike just prayed this would go over as smoothly as possible.
(… I guess asks open for the Candy crew? I’m lowkey considering making them into my own AU versions, but more about that in the next post)
