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Through it all, there was one lingering feeling. Liko wasn't done. She had gotten a taste of what it felt like to be unleashed, what it felt like to be free. Her husband's murder had unlocked something in her, and she wanted more.

Putting on the old hybrid Sprigatito suit, she lured children one by one to the back room of the pizzeria when no one was looking.

At first, she was cautious. She would lure them with promises of cake and cookies. She told them that one of their Pokemon had died. She would ask for help with her homework.

Stacy was the first. You never truly forget your first.

But where to hide the bodies? Liko couldn't sneak out, someone would see her. The bodies had to be hidden in a place where they would never be found, and where they would never leave the building. They had to be stuffed. Stuffed inside the animatronic suits. No one maintained those things anyway, except for her.

And so Stacy would be stuffed into Ducky. Frank, Jimmy, and Gareth would come next. But it was easy. Too easy.

And with each little life Liko snuffed out, her lies got bigger. "Their house was burning." "They're just being kidnapped."

Until the final child where all pretense was off. Liko let herself get violent, too violent.

The body of Alison was far more bloody and broken than any of the others. Liko had let herself go too far. That one...

...that one, she shouldn't have killed.

With no more active animatronics left, she shoved the remaining body into the one suit that remained backstage. The long forgotten hybrid Ducky suit, now broken and discolored with age. Broken, like how Alison was broken, and how Liko's son was broken.

Newspapers reported on this disappearance, naming the whole thing as the "Missing Persons Incident." Local police would even charge Liko with the crimes after finding surveillance footage of the Quaxly suit luring the children away. But they couldn't convict her. There were no bodies and Liko's face was obscured behind the mascot suit the entire time. And so she walked away, free of all charges.

But Roy knew the truth. He knew that Liko had been the one who done it. So he threw her out of the company and shuttered the doors to the old pizzeria.