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Capítulo 21: Chapter 21: Fear

[Time skip: one week]

Carman had a twisted sense of satisfaction as he altered the disabled Gardemeks that Ryuzu draged into his hidden workshop. Taking a machine that the majority of Fontainians found comforting and saw as a source of safety and turning it into something that would cause fear amongst Vacher and his underlings brought a sinister smile from time to time as he pondered the looks of fear he would eventually garner if his plan worked.

With a slightly unhinged giggle, he added a music box into the chassis of the largest Gardemek. It was a pain to make, but using some tools he borrowed from Livre he managed to recreate, although a slightly off tune, version of a popular song from his former world.

After attaching the altered armor plates in the front of the Gardemek, he sat down with satisfaction plastered on his face, with this first prototype complete he could now start his revenge against Vacher. All he had to do now after the week of work he only had to wait for nightfall.

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.....

..

It was a normal night for Andre, while some of his older coworkers were on guard and looking out for a ln entity that people in their line of work had come to call "the Pale Lady."

Andre was not afraid, from what he had heard, the masked woman only roughed up individuals who picked a fight with her, if you just stood by and only tried to speak with her, when would only brush you off and knock you out if you tried to run. Unlike the fools that surrounded him who were thinking that they would be the first to catch or at least land a blow on her, he knew that realistically, with their level of training and lack of visions they had no chance of even see her coming if she put an ounce of effort into infiltrating the building they were guarding.

Andre was woken from his musings by the sound of a music box being played from somewhere. The others heard it to, it sounded fairly jovial, like something you'd play to a young child. Had a kid dropped their toy somewhere?

The captain sent one of the others to investigate. At best they would find an abandoned toy, at worst an unlucky baffon who had accidentally set the toy off when trying to sneak into their perimeter.

Andre looked around, shiverring briefly as a cool breeze blew through the alleyway they were stationed in. He heard the guy they had sent yell something about only coming across a deactivated looking Gardemek before suddenly going silent.

Andre was sent to go look for him alongside a few others in case the last guy had been ambushed, as they turned the corner, they found no trace of their teammate splitting up to investigate, Andre stayed behind.

Something in this alleyway was off.

It wasn't until he felt an unfamiliar presence behind him that he realized what, where is the deactivated Gardemek?

As he felt the presence behind him he quickly turned around and tried to stab whoever was behind him with the knife he kept on his belt.

The tip of the blade chipped and broke as it made forceful contact with the hard armor plating of a Gardemek. The Gardemek was tilting it's head down at him, the sound of a musicbox started playing once more and Andre realized that it was coming from the machine in front of him as he also heard another sound coming from the machine, the muffled, distorted, yet eerily recognizable sound of a child's laughter.

As the music started to reach a crescendo, pale blue lights began to flicker behind the lenses of the kameras that served as the Gardemek's eyes casting a chilling glow over Andre. As the fear built up in the man, he noticed that the construct has started to move slowly towards him, one painfully slow step at a time. This was nothing like the Pale Lady, this machine was like a panther playing with its prey before landing a fatal blow, and Andre was quickly reconsidering the choices that lead to him being in this situation. He wanted to scream, but his body didn't want to make a sound as the machine came closer, when it was mere inches from his face, the machine said one garbled word.

"..rrrRuuU-Nn-n"

Andre bolted without a second thought, he no longer cared about how much this job had been offering or how this would affect his reputation as a fledgling member of the underground, all he cared about was getting as far away from that machine as possible. Ruin Guards were destructive and deadly, but they were noisy and lacked any form of stealth. That Gardemek was so silent that he didn't notice it until it was right behind him.

He heard the screaming of his team and only further increased his speed, he only slowed down when he reached a main street. As his mind calmed down from the adrenaline, he realized that his life as a criminal was over and he resolved himself to get a real job. As he walked down the street he felt his heart try to jump into his throat as another large Gardemek turned from an alley and stated walking towards him. Thankfully it's kameras were not glowing, and it walked past him without issue.

While tying up the unconscious criminals Ryuzu turned to the large Gardemek, "You have a twisted sense of humor"

"Ah sorry, I'm still pissed about nearly being dissolved into a puddle, and scaring these a$#holes $h!#less is oddly cathartic. I'm also laughing because now I know what it's like being on the giving end of a creepy robot chasing humans." Said the Gardemek, it's voice still the garbled.

"So malfunctioning automatons were a frequent issue in your former home?" Asked Ryuzu questioningly.

"No, no. Back in my old home there was a game where one had to actively avoid or activate barricades to prevent these humanoid machines that were possessed by dead children, don't ask, from coming into the room you were confined in and killing you, that's what this is based off of." Said the Gardemek as it waver a hand over it's appearance.

"Speaking of, there's another thing I wanted to do." Said the Gardemek as it used it's hand to scrape a hand along the wall, breaking the plating to carve a message into the marble bricks.

[He sends his regards,Vacher.... the one you should not have killed]

It was very tempting to write "It's me" but in a world that hadn't been exposed to the wonderfully twisted world of FNAF, the missing context would have made the quote lose it's meaning and impact.

While detaching the now broken hand to put a new one in place the Gardemek spoke to Ryuzu once again. "So you think I scared that kid straight? You said he looked like a newbie, having only shown up in the past few days, since he likely hasn't done anything too horrible I let him off with only some soiled pants and trauma unlike these fools."

Ryuzu nodded her head, "It would appear so. I followed as he ran off, from what I could hear of his mutterings, he no longer cares about his credibility as a criminal and has sworn to turn over a new leaf, from the flinch he made when he came across another Gardemek, it would seem he is not eager to engage in any activities that would potentially earn their ire."

Nodding solemnly, the Gardemek turned towards the deeper alleys of Fontaine, saying one final thing to Ryuzu, "I'm going to head back, this model is not yet ready for looting and destroying hidouts, I'll leave that to your capable hands, Pale Lady." It said chuckling at the end as it disappeared into the shadows.

-To be continued


REFLEXIONES DE LOS CREADORES
Blasopher Blasopher

hey everyone,

Thanks for reading the chapter. Since everyone has been posting comments with FNAF animatronics it kinda put an idea in my head for some changes to Carman's original revenge plot.

Thank you all for the support you have shown to the story, every piece of advice and feedback helps keep me moving forward, sorry for the lack of updates in the past week, was celebrating some birthdays in my family, with including mine yesterday.

Thank you all once again and happy reading.

Capítulo 22: Chapter 22: Vacher's Delema

It had been weeks since what the dealers in the city of Fontaine had first encountered the being recently dubbed "The Brass Wraith." What was more troubling was that it left several messages whenever it attacked. It would have been fine if the messages were just simple warrnings to whomever came across them, but several had called him out by name, not any of the fake ones he used in his business, but the name he had worked so hard to bury and conceal.

Were the rumors that this wraith was a ghost like the ones from Liyue true? In the many deals he had done in the black market, it wouldn't have supported him that one of them had ended up killing a tourist. Heck he had to use his connections to cover up the disappearance of a merchant from Mondstat after they got into a freud with a local nobleman he had ties with. However if that was the case, he would have been several degrees removed from any potential offing of the kid.

The whole thing was only causing him further frustration after he found that his assassination attempt of the boy named Carman who had become a resident of one of his buildings was unsuccessful. Was he of foreign descent? That mad things a little more complicated, if he wanted to use the kid's disappearance to get close to the other new tenant, Ryuzu, he would have to divert some of his already limited manpower.

Flicking a coin between his fingers he wondered if he would have to hire new goons from the underground, however, many of the old mercs with good reputations had started to catch wind of the dangers working with anyone related to the Synthe business and either increased their prices or have decided to lay low and wait for the storm to blow over. Would he have to make a new persona?

There were many things to consider, for the moment, despite how much it frustrated him, Vacher decided to put his plans for Ryuzu aside and face the problem of the two figures that have been harassing him. The Pale Lady and the Brass Wraith.

Perhaps he could frame them for something like murder, as of yet, they have only attacked individuals whom the guards could easily identify as criminals due to the Synthe and other illegal goods they were guarding. With the consolation of his Synthe stores and the liquidation of the other assets they should be losing targets. It should be easy to set up a murder to occur in a building where he intentionally leaks Synthe connections too while also tipping off the guards. In doing this he can test to see where these two were getting their information from, and get the government to see the two as criminals rather than some enigmatic vigilante and force of nature.

[Carman 3rd person POV]

It has been a few weeks since he had started to attack Vacher's subordinates' drug dens. It was cathartic to him causing terror amongst the criminals, after a bit he finally felt his need for vengeance was somewhat satisfied. While he still wanted to make Vacher feel the same emotions he did after he realized he had nearly been dissolved, Carman was no longer feeling a strong sense of fear and anger. Now that he had gotten the short term goal of distracting Vacher out of the way it was time to review his plans.

Things were going well at the workshop with Livre, the Fidger spinners were getting more and more popular, with many kids who lived near the workshop having bought at least one each. Carman was getting a decent split of the profits every time a spinner was sold, and now he had gathered enough funds to start considering his options for education.

There were two options of middle class schools he could attend, one was geared more for training civilian engineers and the other a more militaristic approach. One would give him insights on how to solve everyday problems that civilians faced with engineering, and the other was designing weapons and soldier constructs. Both of them were appealing to him however he was sadly unable to take the General Electric approach and do both at the same time.

Shaking head to clear it, he thought about asking Livre for advice, which lead him to the papers on his table. They were the adoption forms that Livre had gotten from the courthouse. It had both Livre and the administration signatures from the clerk, all it needed was signatures from Carman and the orphanage who still had guardianship over him.

It had taken him time to come to terms with his feelings, the turmoil from his shower incident not helping the issue. However, Livre had proved time and time again to be reliable, the rapport they had built over the months working together, and from Livre teaching Carman all that he could wasn't for nothing.

Picking up a quill and dipping it into a pot of ink, Carman smoothly signed his name on the paper. He will see how things go from here, he believed that Livre deserved a chance due to everything he had done for Carman. All that was now needed to complete the paperwork would be to visit the orphanage in person.

-to be continued


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