Who is V_A? [FNAF, Renegade AU]

Part three of Escalation and Revelation. Set a few weeks or so after the previous. The pre-timeskip part of "Promises that can't be kept" takes place before this, as does this 'Adelaide incident' that I keep talking about. The post-timeskip of "Promises that can't be kept" takes place a month or two after this.

Several days after Adelaide wrecked her havoc on the maintenance firm, Ness goes AWOL and only shows up to collect some rather concerning packages that she'd had mailed to the maintenance firm. To top things off, Faz Ent' had one of thier people, an email starting with 'V_A', get the virus off their system, but in the process, this V_A also accessed thier commands and locked them out of their own systems.

After being present for a shipment of thumbscrews, everyone decides that they must take action and find out what happened to Ness, and uncover the identity of who the hell this V_A is.

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Link to my other amino blog.

Previous parts:

Escalation (part 1): https://aminoapps.vertvonline.info/paigelts05/art/Escalation-FNAF-Renegade-AU-904724101

Revelation (part 2): https://aminoapps.vertvonline.info/paigelts05/art/Revelation-FNAF-Renegade-AU-904727335

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It had been a few days since Adelaide had been dealt with.

Daniel Rocha was still in hospital, but was holding steady, even though he was missing one of his ribs.

Anna, Steve, and Mark had been reassured multiple times that they are not at fault for any of this and are as much victims in that incident as Dan was.

Luis felt guilty for not being there, but knew that if he and Ness had been there, then things would have gone a lot worse.

Raha didn't like that she had to beat up her colleagues to get the masks off their faces and free them, but she knew it had to be done.

And a few days after that, Ness had fallen ill.

Despite having to close for a few days for everyone to recover, everything was going disturbingly well. Fazbear Entertainment even offered tech to get the 'virus' off their system. Anna felt forced to accept their offer, but made it known that if they caused problems with this tech , the world will know once again how slimy Fazbear Entertainment really was and still is.

Several days ed, and the date of the tech was getting closer. Anna was on edge. She knew damn well Fazbear Entertainment put the viruses there in the first place, but she couldn't deny the aid offered lest she look suspicious instead. Especially at this short notice. The day before they were to receive tech , Dan had recovered and was back at work despite being advised to stay home and rest, because the last thing he wanted to happen was to have Anna and Steve left alone dealing with Fazbear Entertainment tech . He had to be there for her.

Despite Ness having fallen ill a few days after the incident and not being around to help and Luis being jumpy as a result of her absence, everything went smoothly. The person from Fazbear Entertainment was this 'V_A' woman who was able to isolate the viruses and got them off the systems of CK maintenance, but didn't appear to delete them on their end.

With all traces of the viruses gone on CK maintenance's end, everything seemed to be going fine until it became apparent that someone from Fazbear Entertainment was still using the 'V_A' to run commands on their systems.

All of the Springtraps had been released from the systems, and one of the animatronics had attempted to eat a stray cat, and Anna was left taking care of a bunch of kittens, keeping them at home so they wouldn't also be hurt. Due to the increased violence of the animatronics, she had the bots stored and locked away in the basement, despite the dampness and leaky pipes.

"If they didn't want their animatronics to be damp they would have taken them back after they canceled work on these things." Anna said as she barricaded the door with the aid of Vincent, who had opted to see this through. Until this new issue was sorted, the only reason the animatronics would be let out is if the contractee had come to collect them.

Luis had tried to visit Ness a few times. He had organised a date and time to visit, but when the time came, she never seemed to be home. However, she always answered her emails when he sent them, even when he was outside the door. He figured she was simply too ill to have guests, but it was odd, given that they had agreed to meet up. This reminded him of how she had described Casey's condition when she had been posessed; never going outside, trying to get people to come around but flaking last minute, and only communicating via emails or text.

When Ness stopped responding to Luis's emails, everyone was worried. Initially, they feared that she had died, but it was a slight relief when she would sometimes come in to pick up packages that she had ordered. However, the contents of these packages were rather strange, and when she showed up she always looked so tired, as if she wasn't herself. This made them fear that the worst had happened, and that she really was no longer herself. When a parcel of thumb screws arrived within a week of some flowers regarding Brad - which was a term she still used to refer to Glitchtrap, as it's safer to talk about an abusive ex Brad than literally William Afton, especially when the man has ears everywhere - everyone knew they had to act.

Steven noticed that Ness's actions were not just exhaustion or being mentally broken, but confirmed Luis's suspicions that she was indeed posessed - the signs were clear: tired eyes, lack of control over basic motor functions, and walking like a puppet.

Luis knew that Ness was trying to call for help in a discreet manner. Her sudden absence followed by going unresponsive was a sign that something was wrong and he was kicking himself for not realising sooner; she had stopped responding to his emails is because she literally couldn't, and the reason why she couldn't is because that thing was not letting her.

They had to intercept her to save her.

So when Ness arrived out of the blue to pick up the thumb screws that she had ordered, Anna and Raha dragged Ness out of the shipping area and into the main office part of the maintenance firm before Ness could pick up the parcel.

At first, Ness seemed to try and fight back, but quickly fell unconscious, only to wake up a minute later with no recollection of how she got there.

"Ness, you've been ill for about two weeks, arranged to meet up with people only to flake last second, and you've been ordering all this weird stuff. We pulled you in because we figured that something wasn't right, and knew that if we didn't, you'd just vanish again. These are all signs that Cassey showed - which you told us about -  and we want to help you nip this problem in the bud before it gets worse." Anna said in a very calm voice. She was not only trying to comfort Ness, but also deduce what had happened.

"Thank you for dragging me in here - he panicked and left when he couldn't make me run," Ness replied, her voice oddly hoarse, "Brad - no, I'll just call him what he is - William was starting to get desperate. I don't know what I did, but it seems I was able to cue you into that something was wrong in time"

"Definitely. Are you ok? Did he hurt you?" Luis asked, panicked, but relieved that Ness was safe.

"I feel like I'm going to be sick, and everything aches. I'm sure Steve can relate." Ness looked around. Dan was covered in bandages, Anna and Mark had some small scars on their faces, and Steve's bruises has almost gone. Last time she saw everyone, they were all bloody and bruised. Now, they looked normal, or at least as normal as they could.

If Dan was back at work, then how long had she been out? How long has she been under Glitchtrap's control.

Steve nodded. "I assume you don't much of what happened then this past two weeks."

"Kind of," Ness replied, "After I fell ill and stayed in for a few days, he used that to gain more control faster. I know I received emails, but every time I went to reply, I wouldn't be able to. I was able to read them, but I wasn't able to respond once he took over."

"I - I'm really sorry if my emails were corny." Luis went red, "I was getting worried. And, the thing kept sending me red flag reports - I'm so sorry but I read them, so I've seen your search history..."

Ness chuckled a bit, "Don't be. Those emails were keeping me going. Even though I had practically no control over my body, knowing that you'd fight Glitchtrap for my sake really gave me hope. And, I've known since the first email that you've been able to see that stuff. the time I just searched the word 'help' after the compliance searches a while before I went AWOL? I knew you'd see it, and it may sound weird but I've always hoped that you'd snoop. You've always been my ticket out."

Luis smiled back and went even more red, but knew that they still had to get to the bottom of all of this, "You said you had no control over your body when you 'went AWOL', as you put it. Was there anything that he let you do?"

Ness looked down taking note of how tattered her clothes had become due to Glitchtrap not letting her have any modicum of control, even for sanitary purposes, "he'd let me order suspicious things online that he thought would help him control me, but I couldn't go outside without losing control over my own body. Cass's advice came in handy with staying in as much as possible to play damage control, but I feel he had too much control for me to act on most of it."

"It's ok," Luis said, "you're here now. A lot of stuff happened whilst you were ill. Apparently, the viruses are off our system, but I'm not convinced. Their tech lady also has access to our systems still, and has been running commands."

Ness went pale, ing the list of employee names that Luis had gathered several weeks ago, before the whole Adelaide incident kicked into its final stage.

"The tech they had us was this woman who went by 'V_A'. I'm pretty sure she's one of Dimitri's lot." Luis continued before being promptly interrupted by Ness.

"Who is V_A!" Ness shreiked in a panic. She was shaking, and everyone could tell that she was going to be sick.

Everyone looked at eachother.

"I just thought she was another member of Fazbear Entertainment." Mark said, looking at Raha.

"She seemed to be very knowledgeable about both computers and machines." Raha added, looking at Dan.

"Especially the legacy hardware. But then again, I wouldn't put it past staff of that place to know this stuff." Dan said, looking at Steve.

"She did seem more like she was used to programming the machines as opposed to building them though." Steve added, looking at Anna.

"Luis, we should check the list of names you sent me a few weeks ago. There were work emails attached to each employee, so when they set Charles up an employee , and maintained yours and Ness's s despite you not being employees anymore, they likely made new emails too. They probably have already used the under your names to get more access to our systems. I've got a bad feeling about this."

Luis nodded and looked at his phone. Everyone in the maintenance firm had had to change what email they used for more sensitive information as many emails were still getting leaked and their work emails were filled with crap from Fazbear Entertainment. This left everyone with two work emails and two personal emails to keep the compromised address away from the non compromised ones.

Luis opened up the scavenged data and quickly found what he was looking for, jumping to the employee data file and searching for 'V_A'.

V_A.

Job assigned to that email: tech . Division D.

She was certainly one of Dimitri's lot, so he knew what kind of chaos she was tasked with inflicting.

Then the next element in the row connected the name to the employee name and email address.

Vanessa Diego | V_A@...

Luis put his phone in his jacket pocket and sunk to the ground as he felt the blood drain from his face. He felt cold, but he was sweating like it was the middle of summer. He knew this was coming, but he didn't know he'd have to face it so soon.

Everyone was looking at him.

Anna crouched down and asked Luis "what did you find."

Luis could bearly bring himself to say it. He knew that this was just the Adelaide incident all over again. Ness and Steve were in the same boat. She had to know for her own safety, lest they had a repeat performance of last time.

"Ness." He managed to say. Ness looked at him, thinking he was about to tell her something, and Luis continued talking. "V_A is Ness's ."

Ness seemed more calm than what Luis expected. Everyone seemed more calm than he expected. 'No shit', he thought to himself, 'we have just done this with Adelaide possessing Steve, and "why else would Fazbear Entertainment had made an for her if not to use it to unleash this virus across our systems."'

He didn't realize that he had said that last bit out loud until everyone was looking at him.

"I figured," Ness said, "no wonder he was keeping me away from you guys. I understand if -"

"Can you get the credentials to the V_A ?" Luis said, knowing that if he didn't butt in, Ness would have started blaming herself.

"What?" Ness replied.

She was shocked that this was being brushed off so easily. No talk of betrayal. Just what can be done to help now they knew who the belonged too. It was a shock, but also a relief.

"Can you still get into the V_A . The data I got didn't have s, so I'm wondering if you're still logged in on your end - if you were even in control of the V_A at all. We could use it to get the virus off the systems ourselves." Luis confirmed that what he said was what he said.

Luis had just brought up the possibility that the V_A was used by a legitimate employee of Fazbear Entertainment and not Ness, much like how Luis and Charles had never used the s made under their names, but Ness knew deep down that even though that was a possibility, Glitchtrap definitely would have used her to access the V_A , even if just to try and cause a rift between Ness and her colleagues.

"I think so. I'm pretty certain I was used, and Glitchtrap is an old fart, so I don't know how much he knows about how cookies are used nowadays. He probably didn't log out either." Ness then smiled, "He didn't suspect that I tipped you off, and besides, we could always see if you could do something with that tracking software his goonies left on our computers."

She seemed almost proud of herself. She was able to communicate that she needed saving, and her friends, including her dearest, managed to save her, and not just that but she also had an IDEA of how to help. Even though this was only 'for now', it was enough.

"With a bit of luck, perhaps you're logged on still and I probably could make use of that software." Luis said trying to smile, "we can turn the tables if we start using that against them."

Ness smiled again and nodded as Luis opened his computer and made a right hack-job out of opening and logging into the tracking software that had been left on his device as a vestige of his part time employment. As he started to look more concerned, Ness's smile quickly faded into panic as she realised there was one little problem: the device had gone into sleep mode and/or was off.

"My computer is at home. I don't want to go back there. What if he's waiting for me?"

The room was silent. Due to Adelaide's recent defeat, there was reason why William would avoid the maintenance firm, but as soon as Ness left the relative safety of this place, who knows when he'd strike. Who knows when he'd next try and control Ness, and what he'd do. Ness didn't want to know and had grabbed Luis, holding him tight, and mumbling "I don't want to go back," over and over again.

"How about I go with you?" Luis suggested, figuring that two was better than one.

"Are you kidding me?" Anna exclaimed, knowing that if only one person went, that would be a recipe for disaster, "I'm going too, and were having at least one other person waiting outside. If anything goes south, we need to be prepared this time."

"That'd be better," Ness smiled, "could everyone come?"

"That would be optimal." Anna replied, "Me, Raha, and Luis will help you collect your things. Dan, Mark, and Steve will be waiting outside to help just in case anything goes wrong. Having people outside means that we can't all be trapped in one place."

"You seem to have thought about this a lot..." Luis seemed rather unnerved by how thought through Anna's plan was, "were you expecting something like this?"

"No." Anna bluntly replied, "I'm just using what we learned last time to give us the upper hand."

Last time.

The Adelaide incident.

During the past few weeks, Anna had talked to Dan - she lives with him, so of course she did - about what happened that day, and she talked to Mark about what little he ed.

Their responses were basically the same.

Steve was posessed. Steve shoved a mask on Marks face before overpowering Dan. Rest was history.

And she ed what happened to her the night before: went to the basement alone, got cornered by an animatronic and knocked down.

Every time she mulled over the events in her head, "if only there was someone to help" was repeated over and over again. So many situations where they should have put something off until other people arived, or should have done something before everyone left.

Anna hadn't been preparing for this in particular. She had been preparing for just a similar incident full stop.

"I want to know that I've done all I can to help. I can't let you walk into the same trap I walked into." Anna said, placing a hand on Ness's shoulder, "For all we know, he could very well be planning an ambush - good on you for trusting your gut there and speaking up - so we need to be ready for anything."

Ness nodded and seemed calm. Everyone wanted to help her. Everyone still saw her as a friend. They saw her issue with the Aftons as being something they had to help solve. They saw the fact she was susceptible to being controlled just as they saw Steve when he was posessed: they still saw her as one of their own: a friend.

"Guys," Ness's eyes watered up as she spoke, "thank you."

"It's nothin'," Raha said as she crossed her arms, "we're friends, aren't we? I see that look on yer face. We'd 'ave been up shit creek without a paddle whether you started workin' 'ere or not, but 'ey! You bein' here's given us a paddle t' use."

Ness then ed what Luis told her several weeks ago, well before the incident: that he'd have gone to investigate the old sites anyway. She always had a gut feeling that he was being genuine, and here was the proof she needed to know for a fact that these were the exact sort of people she thought they were, and Marks next word summed it up perfectly.

"We may be colleagues, Ness, but we're also friends. And when a friend is being hounded by a ghost, friends need to stick together to stop said ghost." Mark leaded on his mop as he spoke, "Whether that involves petty tresing, corporate espionage, or data theft to solve, we're in this together."

As he looked away for a moment, he mumbled, "and if they bring it up we can always use the fact the Botanist and Dimitri exist to bring up the murders."

Everyone heard and acknowledged the last part of what he had just said, and then carried on talking as if they hadn't. Nobody wanted to deal with that kettle of fish right now.

"So, you got any plans for your living arrangements? Just need to know so I can plan ahead." Anna then said, looking back at Ness.

"No," Ness replied, "that apartment is my home, but I don't want to be there alone anymore. I don't want all your effort today to be for nothing."

"I see," Anna sighed. Ness didn't want to be alone due to fearing William, and didn't want to be around others for the same reason. This would be tough, but luckily, someone else had already suggested an alternative.

"How about you stay with me?"

Luis had meekly piped up and looked like he was about to turn bright red.

Everyone knew Ness and Luis were a thing, but also knew the two were very nervous around eachother due to the recent circumstances of William Afton - usually just referred to as Glitchtrap - being able to control Ness as if he was possessing her. This arrangement was risky, but Luis had good enough parents for him to routinely them, so ensuring Luis was safe was mostly taken care of.

"I don't see why not," Ness agreed. She'd finally be able to move out of the apartment that over the past few weeks had caused her so much pain. Whilst it was nice living there prior to being posessed, being trapped in her own body whilst the filth of an uncaring possessors actions built up around her wasn't so nice. "I'll pack my things whilst I'm there. Get what I need today, get the rest later. I have a whole two months of rent paid in advance, so I don't see why I'd need to get everything in one trip."

'Two months?' Luis thought, 'she either paid in advance or William actually paid bills in multiple month blocks to reduce the amount that people would try and check in on Ness.' Either way, they could - as Ness said - get what was vital now and head back for everything else later.

"Right." Anna a clapped a single time before she continued, "That settles it. I'd say that dealing with this is more important, as it will help us with our system problem."

Anna decided to cut the work day short to help Ness move out. Everyone would be paid the full day, and as soon as Ness was moved into Luis's place and Anna had Ness's laptop in order to extract the V_A s credentials, everyone would be free to go home.

The drive to the apartment was silent, if a little awkward, but Anna knew that the awkwardness was less Luis and Ness in the back seat, and more of the fact that they were willingly entering a big danger zone and one wrong move could grant William control over Ness. They all knew this, and nobody felt like small talk, so they just kept their mouths shut as the CD player blared out a tune that sounded like it came from the 70's. Whilst Luis did have his own car - Ness too - they wanted to take up as few parking spots as possible and raise as little suspicion as possible; the last thing anyone in this town needed was for their day to be interrupted by not getting a parking spot only to then find that the reason why is because a local woman is posessed by a serial killer. Anna hoped that Raha, Dan, Mark, and Steve were having a less nerve wrecking trip.

Raha, Dan, Mark, and Steve were not having a less nerve wrecking trip.

It was about the same level as nerves, if not more. Steve had already been on the receiving end of full involuntary possession and feared that it may happen again if he wasn't careful. Everyone knew that Ness was posessed by William, and if he was so 'prepared and talented' as Adelaide claimed, then he feared that they'd be in for a tough ordeal. Mark was scared that something would happen and he was scared that perhaps taking off the mask wasn't all there was to breaking the control that was forced on him. Dan had almost died due to this involuntary possession and was scared he'd become a victim again. Raha was still torn between feeling as if her late arrival that day was for the better or worse.

Once everyone arrived, they parked up in the visitor spots and noticed that Ness's car was in one of the parking spots.

"She must have walked to the firm," Luis thought to himself, "I guess driving posessed is pretty dangerous."

"It is." Ness replied, "But walking through town with a cardboard box isn't suspicious? I'll never understand that rat."

Luis was surprised that he said what he said out loud, but not surprised that he had received an answer. He simply shook himself out of his daze and got out of the car.

Anna was the next to get out of the car, followed by Ness. The other four had already exited their vehicle and had walked up to meet them.

"Ok, first order of business, I think we've already decided on whose going in and whose staying out," Anna said trying to who volunteered for what, "can someone just remind me whose staying out here in case something goes down?"

"Me, Steve, and Mark." Dan replied, pointing at Steve and Mark, "we're not in a confined space so it shouldn't be too hard to deal with anything if she tries to mess with us again."

"And the rest of us are going inside, right?" Anna asked to which she received a unanimous reply of yes.

"Right, let's go."

As Dan, Mark, and Steve waited outside, Anna, Luis, Ness, and Raha headed into the apartment building and headed up the stairs. Ness had managed to get a first floor apartment, so they only had to go up one flight of stairs to get from the ground floor 'loby' - if you could even call the empty room with lockers at the back that - to where Ness lives. Once at the door, Ness handed her keys to Luis. She was shaking too much to open the door herself.

After a deep breath, Luis unlocked the door, and they headed inside the apartment. Once through the door, a terrible smell hit the four as they proceeded to the more lived in areas.

Discarded food boxes mixed with the smell of body odour, and it became apparent that Glitchtrap had been completely neglecting Ness's health.

"Ness, where d' you keep the bin bags?" Raha asked, bearly able to handle the smell.

"Under the sink," Ness mumbled as she looked around, finally able to see what had become of her home.

"I'll clean up a bit, you guys help 'er pack." Raha said as she Pulled out a bin bag and begun tossing all the food waste into the bag. The overflowing contents of the bins were tossed into the bag next as everyone else took up the next task.

"Seeing as we're just getting what you need now then coming back for the rest later, what do you need to pack?" Luis asked, "what clothes do you want to bring? Do you have a suitcase?"

"Yeah, I-"

Ness froze for a moment, everything went hazy, as if she was dreaming again. A rush of adrenaline was sedated by a mysterious something as her hands moved on their own and she turned towards the kitchen.

A quick tap on the shoulder and the haze was gone.

"You ok?" Luis asked, hand still outstretched near Ness's shoulder.

Ness nodded and turned back around, heading to her bedroom and opening her wardrobe. Some dust had settled on some of the clothes, but they were untouched by the stench of the rest of the house. She pulled out a very large suitcase from the bottom of the wardrobe and tossed it onto her bed. The zipper got stuck half way around as always, but she managed to get it open and flip the cloth "lid" so that she could shove things inside of the large canvas suitcase.

"What should I pack?"

Ness asked, looking at Luis for an answer.

Silence held stagnant in the air for a while.

"You're asking me?" Shock and confusion hung in Luis's voice as he responded, "I don't know? Pack what you like? What do you wear often?"

Ness didn't answer and just continued to look at him. Exhaustion had made itself at home under her eyes, and she probably wasn't going to chose for herself: when she offloaded a task, usually that was it. With a sigh, Luis looked inside Ness's wardrobe and then back at the suitcase.

"All of this could probably fit."

Starting from the left, Luis grabbed the clothes off their hangers and then rolled them each into a tight cylinder - or in the case of some bulky jackets, as tight of a cylinder as he could - before placing each inside the suitcase. Before long, the contents of the wardrobe was taking up about half of the suitcase, most of which being jackets.

Ness looked at Luis a bit shocked at how efficiently everything had been packed. Luis noticed the look on her face and said, "Look, whilst my family's lives in a small home, I had a lot of stuff that I had to keep tucked away. 'If there's no space for it it goes in the bin' they always said. Jokes on them, if I couldn't find space, I'd make it. They call their lifestyle 'fashionably minimalist', I call it dumb. But hey, it taught me how to pack things."

Ness opened a few drawers and let Luis pack the contents. T-shirts, jeans, and jumpers filled another near-quater of the suitcase, and then there was socks that made it a full quarter. Ness had stuffed her pajamas into a carrier bag and was starting on some other drawers too.

"Do you need help? There's space in the suitcase still." Luis asked tapping Ness on the shoulder.

"Um - uh - yes? no? Wait no!" Ness stuttered and slammed the drawer shut, her face a bright shade of red.

Luis felt his face flush a little bit too as he noticed a bra half sticking out of the carrier bag Ness had been packing; she must have been packing the contents of her underwear drawers as well as pajamas.

"I - I'll let you get on with that." Luis said as he went through the rest of Ness's clothes drawers and filled the rest of the suitcase. There were some clothes left over, but Ness stashed them in a swim bag alongside the carrier bag of underwear and pajamas.

All that was left to pack was trinkets, games, and jewellery. Ness had already gotten a few unfolded cardboard boxes out from under her bed and begun to fold them out into actual boxes. From under her bed, she also pulled out a box of packing materials.

"Here," Ness handed Luis a box, "could you pack up the games?"

Luis nodded and started on emptying the nightstand of any videogames boxes, gently stacking the boxes into the cardboard box. He figured it'd be safe to leave Ness in her room to pack - who knows what else she wanted to pack without anyone seeing - so he went around the rest of the house, which had been mostly packed and cleared. Luis had an easy time scouring cupboards, shelves, and drawers for all of the games, and as he organised the items in the cardboard box, he figured that if he added some packing material and then carefully packed the home consoles themselves, then they'd basically fill the box. He went back to Ness and got some packing materials before finishing this first box and grabbing a second. This one was filled with what he missed on his first run; board games, handhelds, and the controllers. By the time he had done, everything bar a few trinkets had been packed away.

He then went to Anna.

"We're almost done. Should we see if you can get the VA information off her computer now?"

"Yeah," Anna replied, "Just in case whatevers on this thing boots us out as soon as it becomes disconnected to the internet, I'll have to do this now."

Anna went to Ness, who had just finished packing her room, having clearly gutted every nook and cranny of the place to make sure that she didn't leave anything, and asked if she could access her computer to see if she could get the credentials of the VA .

Ness gave a quick "isn't that what we're here for?" And pointed to where her laptop sat on her now empty desk, letting Anna use it as needed.

As Anna worked her magic on collecting any and all information on the VA , Ness asked Luis to help pack the rest of the trinkets that were around the rest of the house as well.

The two then checked about the house to collect up anything else of Ness's that she wanted to take with her. They checked each room, opening drawers and gently packing away anything of Ness's that had been left behind.

"So much for making multiple trips" Ness smiled as she gently took an ornament off the mantlepeice and placed it in a cardboard box, wrapped and gently packed alongside other ornaments.

"We may have to make multiple trips for the boxes," Luis replied as he carefully took a framed photograph off the wall and packed it in a box full of other framed photographs. The apartment looked sparse now, only containing boxes and static furniture.

"I've got a car. We can use that." Ness replied as she placed the last ornament in her box and taped it shut. "And I should probably tell the landlord that I'm moving out. Guess that two months of rent'll still be worth something in the form of not being yelled at for ending the lease early."

The duo shared a chuckle as they packed the final boxes and sealed them with packing tape.

As they begun to cary the boxes into the living room, they heard a yell from Ness's room.

"I got it!"

Luis, Ness, and Raha rushed to Ness's room and much to their relief, they saw Anna looking rather triumphant, holding a USB stick.

"I've gotten all of the information and shit needed to remotely access Fazbear Entertainment's systems! We can figure out if there's a way to reverse the virus!"

The friends shared a high five and decided that they'd help Ness move out before heading home for the day.

Anna, Raha, Ness, and Luis ferried the boxes down, whilst Dan, Mark, and Steve decided to take the boxes to the cars.

It didn't take long, and when they were done, they headed to Luis's house where they unpacked the boxes and parted ways for the night with the exception of Luis, Ness, and Anna.

"I'll grab a blank computer and try them out. I'll give you a call and tell you the results." Anna said as she gave the duo a nod as as she too decided to part ways for the night.

"Alright. Tell us what you find." Luis replied with a nod.

As Anna waved goodbye, Luis and Ness looked at all of the boxes around them.

The duo spent the next while bringing in the boxes, and once all the boxes were inside, they begun unpacking the contents.

Then Luis's mobile phone rang.

It was Anna, so he picked up.

"It works! It works!" Anna exclaimed, her excitement audible despite the graininess of talking over the phone, "I've gotten the credentials to work! I'm going to see what's going on with our systems now - remotely of course, I'm not going there alone - just in case they shut this down, but I'm in!"

"That's great to hear!" Luis said, "now we can finally do something about all this and get our systems back."

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I hope you enjoyed my art and that you all have the day you deserve. See you again soon!

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