- Were you looking for Fetch, the titular animatronic from the second book of the same name?
Fetch is the second volume from the anthological Fazbear Frights book series of the franchise. Written by Andrea Waggener and Carly Anne West with Scott Cawthon, published on March 03, 2020.
Summary[]
The Fazbear Frights series continues with three more bone-chilling, novella-length tales to keep even the bravest Five Nights at Freddy’s player up at night . . .
After years of being kicked around, Greg, Alec, and Oscar are ready to take control of their lives. Greg decides to put the controversial science he’s been studying to the test. Alec launches a master plot to expose his golden sister for the spoiled brat he knows she is. And Oscar, ever the miniature grown-up his mom needs him to be, decides to take something he wants . . . even though he knows it’s wrong. But as these three will learn, control is a fragile thing in the sinister world of Five Nights at Freddy’s.
In this second volume, horror master Scott Cawthon spins three sinister novella-length stories from different corners of his series’ canon. Each story comes complete with accompanying artwork from fan-favorite game artist LadyFiszi, who brings the horror to life in startling new ways.
Readers beware: This collection of terrifying tales is enough to unsettle even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy’s fans.
Plot[]
Fetch[]
High schooler Greg and his friends Hadi and Cyril break into an abandoned Freddy's and find an animatronic dog named Fetch that can connect to your phone to help you out in daily activities. Greg tries to activate it, but it doesn’t do anything, and they leave once they start to feel creeped out. The next day, Greg starts getting strange text messages from a mysterious number that reveals itself to be Fetch, and he soon realizes the animatronic is tracking everything he does.
At school, Greg gets to do an assignment with his crush Kimberly about REGs. (which is a real but controversial science and Fetch is implied to be one) He is excited and rushes home on his bike but is bitten by his neighbor’s angry dog (who had attacked him once before). The next day, Greg finds the dog dead in his backyard, with Fetch simply having texted “YW” (Your Welcome). Freaking out, he returns to Freddy's with his friends, where he explores a bit more and finds four deactivated animatronics before being chased out by Fetch. Once home, Greg looks into ways to get more money for his experiments, including texting his uncle Darren about if he could help with his “Magic Finger of Luck”. (Darren has a “lucky finger” which apparently brings him good luck when he uses it).
Greg goes to bed and when he wakes up, finds a finger outside of his house and begins to feel uncomfortable. His fears are confirmed when he learns that Darren is in the hospital due to a brutal animal attack involving his finger, which causes Greg to destroy and bury Fetch in anger. The next day, a friend tells Greg over the phone that Kimberly is looking for him, and as Greg is getting dressed to go meet up with her, he gets a new text from Fetch, simply saying “will retrieve”. Greg rushes to her house to warn her but her parents call the police because they think he is crazy and stalking them. After dealing with the cops, Greg goes back to his house and takes a shower. Once finished, he is horrified to find a corpse covered in a blanket, which he instantly recognizes as Kimberly. He checks his phone and finds one new message from Fetch, “CU” (See you)
Lonely Freddy[]
Teenager Alec has always bullied his little sister Hazel, thinking of her as a spoiled brat. Hazel’s birthday is coming up in a few days and she is planning to have the party at Freddy’s, so they head there a few days early to prepare. Once there, the kids see the “Yarg Foxy” plush toy, which both Alec and Hazel have always really wanted . They also discover “Lonely Freddy”, a robotic toy that is supposed to be a fake friend that can have simple conversation. After setting everything up, they go home and a few days later, the party starts. During the party, Alec is planning to finally expose Hazel as a brat by causing her to have a tantrum when she can’t win a Yarg Foxy ticket from a Ticket Tornado Game (He secretly removed all the Yarg Foxy tickets from the machine).
However, Alec’s plan fails when a Yarg Foxy ticket (that he missed) gets stuck on Hazel’s hair, which causes the two kids to get into a fight and ends in Alec damaging the toy and running off. After exploring the pizzeria, Alec finds a hidden room with a Lonely Freddy toy, who activates and starts asking him questions. They start innocent enough, but slowly become more disturbing. After it stops asking questions, the toy’s eyes glow, and Alec begins to lose control of his body. He tries to scream for help, but his mouth won’t make a sound. He relaxes and slowly regains control of himself as he hears his family nearby. Once he’s fully in control again, he heads towards the door of the room, but everything seems oddly bigger.
He runs to the Party Room where two kids grab him and throw him to the ground. Once he gets back up, he sees another Alec with his family, having a normal happy conversation. An employee comes and takes (real) Alec out of the room while (fake) Alec winks at him. Alec then sees himself in a mirror and realizes that he is trapped inside the Lonely Freddy from earlier. The employee then throws him into a dumpster filled with other Lonely Freddy toys and locks him in. Alec screams, but soon realizes that the screams aren’t only coming from him- they’re coming from the dozens of other Lonely Freddy’s, all with individual souls trapped inside of them.
Out of Stock[]
Oscar is a high school kid whose dad has recently passed away and whose mom works at a nursing home. Oscar learns that a toy he wants, the “Plushtrap Chaser” (a mechanical toy that is described to move in the dark and freeze in light) is going to be on sale, but he’ll have to go to school first. After school, Oscar heads to only store that still has it in stock and meets up with his friends Isaac and Raj, but they are disappointed when it is announced that the they’ve just sold out.
However, Oscar overhears employees discussing how somebody just returned an oddly realistic Plushtrap in a mangled box and that they won’t be able to sell it due to that. Despite this, Oscar sneaks past them and grabs the toy before running from Mall Security with his friends. Once they get home, they unbox it and notice that it has realistic looking eyes and yellow teeth, and after trying to play around with it, they find that it won’t turn on. A few days later, Isaac and Raj come over to Oscar’s house again and they discover a tiny outlet on the back of Plushtrap’s head, which gives Oscar the idea to charge the toy.
After that, a massive storm starts and Oscar’s mom calls to check on him, but they get into a fight just as the storm cuts the call and leaves the kids in darkness. They go to grab flashlights and when they get back, discover that Plushtrap is activated as it chases them to the bedroom. It’s about to attack Isaac when they remember the toy deactivates in light, so Oscar holds his flashlight on the toy, and while the power runs out quickly, they are able to get away.
The kids are eventually chased to the garage where they barely open the door and escape the house. Once outside, they remember a train is nearby and get an idea. They run to the tracks and barely dodge the train, but Plushtrap is frozen by the trains light and destroyed. They look back on the tracks and find the scattered parts of Plushtrap as well as a mangled jaw and human eyes. The kids go home, and the next day, Oscar helps his mom at the nursing home as well as apologizing for the fight and the story ends on an overall happy note.
Epilogue[]
A homeless man only referred to as Grim sees the Stitchwraith pulling pieces of the Plushtrap Chaser from the train tracks and stuffing them into a bag.
Later on, Detective Larson searches of Margie, owner of five cats. She inherited the house from a man who died, who also employed her as his son's babysitter. Larson finds himself in an empty room with a strange cupboard scribbled on madly with thick black marker. Larson shows Margie a picture of his most recent lead, leading to a suspiciously surprised reaction. Story ends as he starts to interrogate her.
Characters[]
Humans[]
Fetch[]
- Greg's Family
- Greg
- Hillary
- Steven
- Darrin
- Hadi
- Cyril
- Manuel
- Bergstrom's Family
- Kimberly Bergstrom
- Mr. Bergstrom
- Ms. Bergstrom
- McNally Family
- Jake McNally
- Ms. McNally
- Mr. Jacoby
Lonely Freddy[]
- Alec's Family
- The Party Preppers
- Charlotte
- Jimmy
- Jacob
- Gavin's Family
- Gavin
- Becca
Out of Stock[]
- Avila Family
- Oscar Avila
- Oscar's Mom
- Raj
- Isaac' s Family
- Isaac
- Jordan
- Mr. Deveraux
- Marilyn
- Dwight
- Thad
- Irvin
- Ms. Bestly
- Tonya
- Mr. Stanley
- Ms. Delia
- Connie
- Mr. Tallis
- Ms. Davni
- Coach Riggins
- Mr. Enriquez
Epilogue[]
- Everette Larson
- Margie
- Grim
Classic Animatronics[]
Electronic Toys[]
Other Animatronics[]
Locations[]
Fetch[]
- Freddy Fazbear's Pizza
- Greg's Middle School
- Greg's House
Lonely Freddy[]
- Freddy Fazbear's Pizza
Out of Stock[]
- Royal Oaks Nursing Home, a nursing home for the elderly. Oscar's mom works there, and she sometimes needs Oscar to help her there.
- The Emporium, an old toy store located in a mall. It is the last place that has a Plushtrap Chaser for sale; all other stores are out of stock.
- Toy Box, Marbles, & Rockets, Raj and Isaac go to these stores first to see if they have a Plushtrap Chaser, but they do not.
Trivia[]
General[]
- The book was released early during a book fair, allowing leaks to occur.
Fetch[]
- This story was the first one to get a colored teaser illustration.
- This story introduces a new dog animatronic named Fetch.
- Fetch is not an ordinary animatronic, as he is able to connect with modern day devices and hack into their systems, despite presumably being made in the 80s. It's implied that Fetch has a syncing device inputted into him that makes him connect to devices.
- Fetch, in this story, doesn't seem to be aware of what he did was wrong and was simply following his programming.
- If Andrew did possess Fetch during the story, Fetch's acts are most likely the cause of Andrew's rage and Fetch's programming corrupting his soul.
- This is the second story to have an ambiguous ending that's left up to interpretation, the first being Count the Ways.
- Fetch, after his story, returns and is mentioned multiple times in the epilogues, playing a very crucial character role in the overarching story of the Fazbear Frights series.
- In the third epilogue of the series, Fetch's battery pack was used to power The Stitchwraith. It was revealed that a soul of Andrew possessed Fetch between the events where Fetch got destroyed and when Phineas discovered him. Due to Andrew's rage creating the agony to actively power the Stitchwraith and inadvertently kill Phineas, this could explain why Fetch was so homicidal and dark. This could lead the fact that Andrew possessed Fetch during the events of the story by the same name making him a killer animatronic or just making him homicidal due to his programming. Andrew also explained in the fourth epilogue that he liked to just scare people, but not to intentionally kill them, this has a connection in the story whereas Fetch did not directly kill Greg, but killed his enemies and wishes.
- Greg regularly babysat a kid named Jake McNally. This most likely could be the same Jake featured in The Real Jake, and the Jake featured in the epilogues, especially since the story is confirmed to take place in the same timeline. Jake is also stated to be 4 years old in Fetch, as opposed to Jake being 9 years old in The Real Jake, implying that this story may take place at least five years or longer before the events of the epilogues.
- Cyril does some research on the pizzeria by finding an online forum for people who explore abandoned places, stating that the pizza chain closed down after an accident. Although it's not explicitly stated what had happened there, it can be assumed that this is the Missing Children Incident. Strangely, Cyril found this information on an online forum, as opposed to a news article or something more direct, implying that at the time this story takes place, the tragedies that happened at Freddy's were severely obscured and not remembered by many.
- Fazbear Entertainment, as well as the tragedies that happened there, would most likely resurface in a couple years since Detective Everette Larson in the epilogues is aware that several murders had taken place in the pizza joint.
Lonely Freddy[]
- This story was the final one to get a teaser illustration.
- The illustrations also has some inaccuracies to the text, with the Yarg Foxy being replaced with a random doll, and Alec having brown hair, despite being described to have blond hair.
- Most of the kids at Hazel's Party were left unnamed, except for Charlotte.
- Unlike most of the Fazbear Frights stories, where the animatronic targets one particular person or group of people, the Lonely Freddies have body-swapped with many other children, with several of them wandering around in the outside world within human bodies. This makes this the first story where the crisis is wide-spread, rather than being exclusive to the main protagonists.
- Lonely Freddy has a connection with the funtime animatronics, of how both types of animatronics are programmed to kill children and steal their souls for remnant. It is heavily implied that Lonely Freddy was obviously manufactured by William Afton, hence the fact that Lonely Freddy switched bodies with Alec. William programmed them to mesmerize and freeze the children into place for the children to answer any question the Lonely Freddy animatronics ask, after the question queue is over, the Lonely Freddy animatronics would body transfusion themselves to switch bodies, thus making the robot possess the kid, and making the kid possess Lonely Freddy. If this was true, this would mean that William Afton is snatching children's souls as experiments for gaining remnant, a supernatural source to make someone immortal.
Out of Stock[]
- Unlike the other two stories from the book, Out of Stock never received a teaser illustration of it.
- Like the game counterpart and Nightmare BB, Plushtrap Chaser can be stopped by flashlights.
- Plushtrap Chaser appears in the book's epilogue, where the Stitchwraith collects the remains of it, making this the second story to be integrated into the epilogue connected universe, the first being To Be Beautiful.
- This sets up a timeline of events, with the Stitchwraith epilogues taking place throughout late October/early November, due to Out of Stock taking place before and during Halloween.
- This would also mean the events of To Be Beautiful take place sometime in mid-October, since Sarah's accident was all over the news during the first epilogue.
- This is the second story to have a happy, uplifting ending. The first being Into the Pit.
- This story introduces the concept of Fazbear Entertainment not just being a family-friendly restaurant, now selling toys that many kids wanted.
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