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Roy would keep the franchise quiet for another two years. This would not happen again. This COULD NOT happen again! How could he protect the kids?

So he developed a solution, a new security system in the form of new, shiny animatronics, inspired by little action figures they had been selling years ago. But these guys were special. They were a new breed of robots with facial recognition software.

All of the original animatronics, now withered with age, were moved to the new location. With a plan in place, it was time to try once more.

Soon, the new and improved Spriggy FazSprig's Pizza started making headlines in local newspapers, headlines that just so happened to catch the attention of Liko.

Spriggy's was back? And without her? That was her idea. Her character. Roy was, yet again, trying to cut her out of the picture.

No, as long as these restaurants stayed open, Liko would always come back.

Then she saw the phone number to apply at the bottom of the article. Liko would go back, but not as an owner or a co-founder. She would go back in the one position that no one would suspect her, a lowly day-shift security guard.

And there it was. Buried in the back of Parts and Services mixed in with the old withered animatronics was the old Sprigatito suit. With the golden security badge on her chest, Liko used the hand crank to pull open the robotic mechanisms.

It was time for Spriggy to make an encore performance.

Five more kids.

Liko didn't know what felt better, getting back into the suit after two long years of waiting, or knowing how devastating this would be to Roy the next morning. She didn't even try to hide her crime this time, it just meant more blood on Roy's hands. He failed to protect the kids again. The restaurant had only been open for a few weeks, but Liko was sure this would get it to close.

Good. If she couldn't have Spriggy's, then no one could. Whenever a new pizzeria opened, she would be there.

But as she sat in her bunker, something else had started to linger in her mind. She had seen something strange. The old withered animatronics had been wandering around the building, spurred on by the Banette animatronic. It was almost like those old robots were trying to save the kids.

Save them? They couldn't obviously, but still. How were they moving?

It was almost like they had been given life somehow. Did Liko have something to do with that?

The following day, the news would report a security guard getting bitten by one of the animatronics during the day shift? Was that bite meant for her?

Liko's curiosity was now stronger than her bloodlust. She had to learn more, but how? There was no way she would be able to get inside another Spriggy's Pizza establishment. Heck, there was practically no way a Spriggy's Pizza establishment would ever open again.

She needed to create something new. Something brand new. She needed to create her own pizzeria.