Tales from the Pizzaplex: B7-2

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**B7-2** is the eighth and final installment of the anthology book series: *Tales from the Pizzaplex*. Written by Andrea Waggener and Kelly Parra with Scott Cawthon, it will be published on October 3, 2023.

## Summary

***Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this collection of three chilling stories that will haunt even the bravest player...***

*How do you know what's imagined and what is not? ... After spending most of his life trying to become an animatronic, Billy wakes up in the hospital to an entirely new reality. Travis can't shake the feeling that something eerily familiar is haunting him. And nightmares make Rory's days and nights blend together until it's hard to tell what's what. In the world of Five Nights at Freddy's, reality can be worse than you could ever envision...*

*In this eighth volume, Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon spins three sinister novella-length tales from uncharted corners of his series' canon. In the world of Five Nights at Freddy's, everything comes with a price to pay.*

*Readers beware: This collection of terrifying tales is enough to rattle even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy's fans.*

## Plot

### *B7-2*

After the events of B-7, Billy wakes up in the hospital. As he gets his bearings, he remembers everything that happened to him. A nurse arrives and gets Billy comfortable before the doctor arrives to inspect him. For reasons he had yet to understand, Billy's body had survived being crushed by the compactor. Billy also noted that he could feel things despite his prosthetic limbs, like the nurse holding his right hand and the blanket that covered his legs. He was also barely able to speak despite not having much of a tongue anymore.

The nurse explains that he was found by the owner of the junkyard, who was a birdwatcher. A rare bird happened to be on the hood of the car Billy was in, and they had found him barely alive. Several surgeries had to be performed on Billy due to his organs being damaged. Some of his robot parts, which were described to be a singular piece with portions of his flesh on them, had to be removed, but things like his prosthetic limbs were irreversible. The police had also gotten involved and found out that Doc had been behind Billy's surgeries. They raided his old mental hospital, finding some body parts, including Billy's right arm, frozen in a fridge.

As the days go by, Billy continues to recover more and more. He starts eating normal foods and re-learns how to walk with help from his physiotherapist. While new prosthetics were offered, Billy decided to learn to walk on his own, not wanting to be reminded of his time as B-7. Over the course of his stay in the hospital, Billy also gets visits from other people he knew, such as Dr. Lingstrom, the deliverymen who often came to his house, his old classmates Clark and Peter, and to Billy's surprise, his grandma. Despite being overwhelmed by his newfound freedom, Billy is happy to be alive.

One night, Billy wakes up to hear someone calling his name. Billy feels compelled to follow the voice. He comes out of his room, and goes into the elevator, arriving on a lower floor. Billy enters the room he can hear the voice in, noticing its coming from a cabinet. Billy immediately realizes what was calling him; his other half, which included all the robot parts that had been removed during his surgery with bits of his flesh still tied to them. Before he can do anything, he is caught by one of the hospital's security guards and is taken back to his room.

Despite not opening the cabinet, Billy being near his other half was all it needed to escape. The robotic remains made its way to Billy's room, leaving a trail of mixed blood and oil behind it. Through a previously defunct voice synthesizer, the robotic parts speak, wanting to rejoin with Billy, who it calls "B-7". Billy's other half claims that everyone in his life has failed him, that he was destined to become an animatronic. It tries coaxing Billy, claiming that it has his best interest in mind. All Billy can do is ignore the pestering, and he eventually falls asleep.

The following week, Billy is allowed to leave the hospital, being taken in by his grandma. Billy tried to his own likes and dislikes, rather than having his old preferences as an animatronic. Having been deluded for over sixteen years, Billy's development had halted according to the doctors, and he needed to get himself back on track. While initially uncomfortable in his grandma's home, Billy grows accustomed to her way of living and the two form a genuine bond. When Billy asks about his father, his grandma says the last she heard was that he went to work in Peru. Billy reintegrates into normal society, going to church on Sundays. He also befriends one of the attendees, Frank, and goes fishing with him. He discovers that Frank is an author, which inspires him to write his own book one day.

Frank gives Billy a journal, suggesting he write what's on his mind. He writes about his daily routine, noting an odd occurrence that happens every night at 9:03PM, his grandma chats with an unknown person over the phone. He also observes that his grandma has been getting weaker and her skin has been getting paler. One night, Billy is up late writing in his journal when he hears his grandma talking. Curious about the phone calls, Billy decides to ask her about it. As he makes his way downstairs, he discovers his grandma with his robotic remains; B-7.

B-7 was crawling on her body, but Billy's grandma was actively encouraging it. She understands that B-7 was lonely since being ejected from Billy, and that it wanted to get close to him through her. Billy tries to stop B-7, but his grandma says to just let it happen. However, as B-7 was nearly finished assimilating into her body, it stopped and tried to back out. Billy's grandma grabbed onto the parts that hadn't merged with her. B-7 had fallen into her trap. Billy's grandma reveals that she was dying from a terminal disease, so she wanted to do one last thing for Billy: free him from B-7 by taking B-7 with her. Billy's grandma wishes Billy well, encouraging him to live life to the fullest and be kind to others. Eventually, the moving stopped. Both Billy's grandma and B-7 were dead.

Billy called Frank to help him bury his grandma and the remains of B-7. Billy also accepted the hospital's prosthetics, which were colored to look like regular human skin. Clark and Peter took Billy in for the next two weeks while he processed everything. Eventually, Billy decides his next step in life; to go to Peru and find his dad. As he gets on his flight, he is uncertain of what will happen, but he knows it would be an experience to write about.

### *Alone Together*

Travis is a young boy in the seventh grade. After his mom had left the family, Travis and his father had grown distant from each other. He ignored the world around to him and was too shy to make conversation with other kids. One hobby he did enjoy was making things in his woodshop class. Travis had a project due in a few weeks, with the teacher setting up a few blueprints that kids could use for reference. One of these grabs Travis' attention; an 18th century machine called the "Mechanical Turk", also known as an "Automaton Chess Player". Travis gets an odd idea; to theme the Turk around the Daycare Attendant's Sun form.

Travis returns home, surprised to see his dad there. He tells him about his project, and Travis' dad agrees to help with him. The next day, Travis works on the Turk in his woodshop class, but he feels strange while doing it, as if he's having an out-of-body experience and only watching himself do the work. After the school day is over, Travis' dad supplies him with the wood he needs. Travis gets to work, only to cut his finger on the wood's splinters. Suddenly, Travis sees the cabinet fully built before him. He also realizes that he's surrounded in a black void.

Travis wonders the void, calling out to anyone that could help him. He eventually stumbles upon two figures in a circle: Glamrock Freddy and the Daycare Attendant in his Sun form. The two are playing a game of chess on a giant chess board, while also dancing to music playing in the background. Sun comes up to Travis, and whispers to him; "Why does it all seem so familiar?". Before he can process what Sun had said, Travis wakes up. Travis goes to school, feeling like he's forgotten something. During break, he heads to the spot he usually hangs out. He notices that someone else is sitting there; a girl that Travis had caught glimpses of on occasion. He believed had recently started attending his school. Travis works up the courage to greet her. Despite coming off rude, the girl lets him sit by her.

After school, Travis visits his grandma at her apartment, and tells her about the dream he had. Travis' grandma believes that it may be a sign that a ghost was haunting him, having been haunted herself before. She tells Travis how ghosts tend to linger around the place they died if their body is undiscovered. Ghosts could attach themselves to someone, giving them flashes of their memories. Travis believes that he was being haunted by a student who had previously attended his school, and that the ghost may be trapped in the cabinet of a mechanical Turk. Travis gets another flash of a memory on the way home, one where he is trapped inside the Turk's cabinet.

The next day, Travis sneaks into the library and uses the main computer to look at CCTV footage. Going back to around two years prior, a mechanical Turk with spikes shaped like sun rays sat in the woodshop classroom, only to be taken to storage two weeks later. Travis maps out all the storage areas in the school. As he's looking at the potential locations of the mechanical Turk, Travis runs into the girl and starts talking to her again, learning her name is Marissa. Seeing that she was uninterested, Travis tells her about his ghost hunt, although Marissa declines when he asks if she wants to join in. Travis skips class to search around the school but finds nothing.

Travis comes back home and continues working on his own mechanical Turk. Travis' dad is noticeably silent. As Travis heads to bed, he overhears his dad talking about him over the phone, assuming he found out that he ditched class. Back at school, the ghost's hold over Travis kicked into overdrive as he felt his chest tighten and a nearby lightbulb bursts. Travis sees Marissa, but she ignores him. Travis spirals, questioning why no one seemed to care about him. He ditches school and walks around town for the rest of the day, briefly seeing the Pizzaplex, but is unable to enter without a ticket.

Eventually, Travis decides to tell his dad about the ghost. He returns home to find the Sun-themed Turk completely destroyed. Believing his dad had done it out of anger, Travis doesn't confront him, instead opting to find the ghost's body and put an end to the haunting once and for all, desperately hoping it would solve all his problems. Travis returns to the school, searching the locations he mapped out, finding nothing. Travis reaches the last location, a shed on the school's field behind the bleachers. The rusty locks fall off the door, and Travis goes in.

Travis finds the mechanical Turk, which is also themed like Sun. Travis believes that the ghost had influenced him to base his theme his own mechanical Turk on Sun back when he first started the project. Travis goes inside the Turk, which locks itself. He thrashes, but the cabinet doesn't budge. Travis discovers the dead body of the ghost, realizing that the clothes he was wearing were just like his. Travis' memories come flooding back as he realizes that he was the ghost all along. Back when Travis' parents were together, he had built the mechanical Turk to impress them. Travis wanted to test it out, going inside the cabinet. He had locked himself in and he suffocated to death.

Marissa had somehow been able to see him and feared him. Travis had also been talking with his grandma's ghost, who had died shortly after he did. She had come back to push him in the right direction and make peace with his death. Travis' dad had built a replica Sun-themed Turk using his notes out of grief. But it had caused too much pain, which Travis' dad vented during the phone call Travis heard. Travis felt whole as he sat next to his corpse. With ghost and body reunited, Travis felt at peace, content that he would never be alone again.

### *Dittophobia*

Rory wakes up inside his bedroom (its appearance matching the FNAF 4 bedroom), knowing for certain he was being watched. In an instant, the four monsters hunting him appeared all at once. Nightmare Foxy stared at Rory from the closet, swinging his hook around. Nightmare Bonnie and Nightmare Chica burst from the left and right doors of Rory's room respectively. All three of them made their way towards the bed, with Nightmare Bonnie reaching for Rory first. Rory tried to make a run for it, only for Nightmare Freddy to shoot up from beneath the bed. As Nightmare Freddy bit into his wrist, Rory screamed and closed eyes, only to open them and find that the creatures had disappeared.

Despite the horror, Rory gets ready to go to school. While only seven years old, Rory had been keeping these night terrors a secret from his parents. Rory was a lonely kid in general, with only one real friend; a kid named Wade who he shared a clubhouse with. As he prepares to leave the house, Rory can't find the door out and doesn't remember where it is. Rory walks all over the house repeatedly but can't find the exit. Rory's mom, who was in the bathroom showering, was unresponsive when Rory called her. Rory spends so much time searching that he realizes the sun was going down, and he already missed school. Not questioning the events, Rory is content going to bed.

Rory woke up at midnight, hearing a sound from the closet and seeing that it was open. Nightmare Foxy's hook shot out from the closet as his glowing eyes stared menacingly. Rory also noticed that his two-bedroom doors were open, despite making sure to close them. Nightmare Bonnie and Nightmare Chica peered from outside the halls. Rory noticed another pair eyes in the right hall, belonging to Nightmare Chica's cupcake. All three of them prepare to gang up on Rory, as he tries to escape. Once again, Nightmare Freddy gets in his way and prepares to attack. Rory closes his eyes but opens them to both the appearance of daylight and the disappearance of his nightmares.

Rory calmed himself, taking in the hissing of the vent above his room that usually comforted him. Rory prepares to go to school, but like yesterday, can't find the front door. Once again, he searches the house until the sun goes down. Rory goes to bed, and the events from the previous two nights repeat themselves, as do the events in the morning. On the fourth night, there was a change in the cycle. No nightmares haunted Rory that night, and the only thing he heard was the sound of a failing engine. Rory was able to sleep peacefully and woke up to a new day. However, he noticed something odd about his bedroom; it was dirty.

Rory called out for his parents, startled to hear that his own voice was deeper. He went out of his bedroom, noticing that his hand was bigger as he opened the door. He went into the bathroom, shocked to see his own older face. Rory looked like he was about seventeen years old. Rory returned to his bedroom to try and process everything, noticing that a set of metal tracks were on the floor. He followed the tracks downstairs, checking the kitchen to see if his food was spoiled. Rory was surprised to see that his fridge was more of a dispenser. When Rory went to his parents' room, he found that the door to it was fake. So, was the bathroom door, which had a speaker playing audio of a shower above it.

Rory continued following the tracks, noticing they split in two; one end went to his room, and one went further down the hall. The one veering towards his room ended at his bed. The one down the hall ended at a door. Rory opened the door, only to find Nightmare Bonnie behind it. But he didn't attack. Rory noticed that the creature was strapped to the rails. He realized that none of these creatures were real and were transported to his room through the rails. He also found Nightmare Foxy at the back of the closet, Nightmare Freddy in a trapdoor under the carpet and Nightmare Chica at the end of the opposing hall, all of them now lifeless mannequins.

Rory went back downstairs to try finding a real way out. discovering the fridge had a hollow back that concealed a metal tunnel. He went down the tunnel, opening another tunnel to find a bunch of tubes of compressed gas connected to hoses, causing the gas to be pumped throughout the house. After walking past an old grey machine that also pumped the gas, Rory finds a desk with a clipboard of papers. The papers had hand-written documentations on him, with the earliest entry being a month after his seventh birthday. Rory realized that he was being experimented on, and that whoever was behind it wanted to study how fear worked in the mind of a child. Rory had been trapped in the cycle for over ten years.

Rory continued on, now in the heart of Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental. He travels to the Circus Control room, sees Ballora in the Primary Control Module and Funtime Foxy in the Funtime Auditorium. He also finds the elevator, but it doesn't work. Rory finds a radio, trying to contact Wade, and is able to reach him. Wade is surprised to reunite with his old friend, catching him up on everything. His parents had given up searching for him after a year, and that his parents also had another child in that time; a girl. Rory explains his situation and Wade suggests unplugging the house's generator and use its power to activate the elevator. Rory returns to the house and tries to find the generator, only to be stopped by Nightmare Chica.

The gas had reactivated, but with the knowledge that none of what he was seeing was real, Rory wasn't scared anymore. Rory walks past Nightmare Chica and finds the generator in a kitchen cabinet. But, as he's about to unplug it, a voice on a speaker from above told him not to disrupt. The voice says he is being taken care of, and that Rory wants to stay deep down since he ran away from home. Rory felt reassured by the voice, recalling how his parents never liked him for who he was and that he never fit in at school. Rory also worried that if he came back, his sister wouldn't like him either. The voice states that Rory was never alone, and that this place was his home.

Rory, realizing that he would never fit in in the real world, fixes the loose cord of the machine that caused the illusion to wear off. Rory went back to bed, ready to face the nightmares again. Meanwhile, the tape of Afton's voice rewound. When Rory remembered the truth again, the tape would be there to dissuade him from leaving, like always.

### *Epilogue*

Mimic walks away, still inside the costume containing Kelly's remains. Now all alone, Lucia recalls the springlock jester costume. She thinks if the Mimic got caught in it, it would finally be subdued. Lucia returned to the costume room. Before she could trap the Mimic, Lucia decided that the other costumes needed to be destroyed first to ensure the Mimic had no other suits to hide in. Suddenly, every costume in the room swayed back and forth.

Lucia realized this meant the Mimic was already in the room with her, waiting for the right moment to pounce. Despite the potential danger, Lucia continues with her plan. She finds that the Mimic inside of a gopher costume, whose arm starts to move. Lucia contemplates running, but realized that with the Mimic in the room, this was her only chance to complete the plan. Lucia hides among the costumes, with only one other costume aside from the jester being available. Mimic found the rodent costume and started to crawl through its mouth.

Lucia was getting suffocated like Kelly did, but she was able to get the zipper open and narrowly escape being crushed. While the Mimic was writhing in the rat costume, Lucia hid behind the jester costume, taking the risk of putting her head inside of it to get Mimic's attention. No longer inside the rodent costume, Mimic heard Lucia call out to it, and lunge towards her. Lucia got out of the jester just as the Mimic went in. As the Mimic was contorting to fit the jester's body shape, Lucia grabbed a metal rod and started pummeling the costume with the Mimic inside.

Despite the hefty force, the springlocks didn't activate. The Mimic started to crawl out from the jester's mouth, but Lucia used the rod to shove the Mimic back inside the costume. This was enough to activate the springlocks, with the Mimic trapped inside the convulsing suit. Vulnerable, Lucia found the Mimic's shut-off switch and flicked it. The Mimic had been shut down. No longer being hunted, Lucia began searching for a way out of the building. She had found a window in the women's bathroom that had less concrete blocking it than the others. After several hours of pounding, she finally broke through the concrete, and then the window's glass. Now outside, a nearby construction worker found her. Lucia was finally free.

## Characters

### Humans

#### B7-2

* Billy's Family
	+ Billy
	+ Billy's Grandma
	+ Dan
* Gloria
* Dr. Herrera
* Angie
* Alice Lingstrom
* Clark
* Peter
* Paul
* Frank

#### Alone Together

* Travis' Family
	+ Travis
	+ Travis' Dad
	+ Travis' Mom
	+ Travis' Grandma
* Pedro
* Donna
* Brett
* Marcus
* Mr. Middlefield
* Pete
* Marissa
* Trish

#### Dittophobia

* Rory's Family
	+ Rory
	+ Rory's Mom
	+ Rory's Dad
	+ Rory's Sister
	+ Rory's Grandma
* "Wade" / William Afton

### Animatronics

#### Nightmare Animatronics

* Nightmare Freddy
* Nightmare Bonnie
* Nightmare Chica & Nightmare Cupcake
* Nightmare Foxy

#### Funtime Animatronics

* Funtime Foxy
* Ballora the Ballerina
* Circus Baby

#### Others

* B7
* Daycare Attendant
* Glamrock Freddy
* Mimic

## Locations

* Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex
* Brighton Middle School
* William's House
	+ Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental
	+ Bedroom
* Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place

## Trivia

* On January 20, 2023, the book's cover is revealed. The title, however, was revealed as *B-7*, the name of the same third story from the second *Tales from the Pizzaplex* volume.
	+ On January 23, 2023, a Scholastic listing shows the real title, B-27. It is likely the cover was a mistake. An hour later, it was found that the name was B7-2 on overdrive.com.