"I can't breathe... Michael..."
Susie's voice fizzled through the static.
"Michael... help..."
"I'm here!"
I shouted, slamming my metal fist against the burning door.
"We're getting out of this!"
Fritz's bitter laugh crackled.
"Still the hero, eh, Mike? Even when we're burning to hell?"
"Shut up, Fritz!"
Jeremy growled.
"She's trying!"
Tia roared from the other side.
"Damn it! We're not dying here! I won't!"
"Michael..."
A cold, hollow voice echoed behind me.
My circuits jolted.
"William..."
I whispered, turning.
There he stood.
Once the monster, the murderer —
Now, scorched, limping, eyes haunted.
Springtrap... no, William Afton.
"I... was wrong,"
William rasped, his metal body trembling.
"All of it... Evan... Elizabeth... you..."
My chest tightened.
For a moment, I was that boy again.
Michael.
The sister.
The daughter.
William knelt, coughing up black smoke.
"I tried to fix it... I tried... but it's too late, isn't it?"
I clenched my fists.
"No... no, we can still—"
But Elizabeth's faint voice crackled in.
"Michael... Sis, it's too late..."
I felt the walls crack,
but not just from the fire —
from something deeper,
like the world itself was splitting apart.
"I..."
William's voice shook.
"I'll stay here. Burn. Pay for what I've done."
I grabbed his arm.
"No. If you're staying... I'm staying too."
William's glassy eyes widened.
"Michael..."
Behind me, Fritz snarled,
"Oi! Don't you dare go sentimental now!"
Jeremy's voice wavered.
"We're in this together... remember?"
Tia bellowed,
"We either fight or die TOGETHER!"
Susie's voice, faint but fierce:
"I... I want to live... but not without you guys..."
Elizabeth whispered,
"Michael... we stay, right?"
Charlie's voice floated like a ghost,
"All of us... we finish this... together."
I swallowed hard.
I stared at William.
His broken, trembling form.
He looked up at me,
for once, just a man —
not a killer,
not a monster —
just a father.
"Alright..."
I whispered.
"Let's go out together."
William let out a rasping, almost-laugh.
"That's... my girl."
And as the flames surged,
as the world cracked open,
as everything shattered —
But we didn't screamed.
THE FFPS BURNS TO THE GROUND!!
YESTERDAY!!