After five years, things didn't change too much. In fact, they barely did. The animatronics were still inseparable, and that was the way they were going to stay. The kids loved the toy animatronics more each day. Even though Mangle became a 'take-apart-and-put-back-together' attraction with the pass of time, he still felt in home and kept his love towards kids. Mostly because Dustin kept coming, and he was one of the very few kids who, instead of dismantling Mangle, gave him a hug. That was the only different thing worth mentioning, though.
Noticing how there were no more battles between the robots, the staff started to think of repairing the old animatronics. The idea was never truly taken by the new manager, a man named Hiro, as it would be hard to repair them. Hiro was born in Japan, adopted when he wasn't even a year old. His full name was Erik Hiro, but he was almost never called Erik. He was not really tall, with short, curly, blonde hair, pale skin and blue eyes. Hiro was the opposite side of Leigh; he was nice to everybody, never showed hate directly and never lied. Hiro was always taking good care of the toy animatronics, he even amplified BB's voice box. Plus, he also repaired Mangle's distorted one. And whenever he could, Hiro took a look to the old animatronics and fixed some things here and there. Anything he could do to keep them stable.
One night, all the animatronics reunited in the game area as usual. Toy Freddy was walking around in circles as the others spoke to each other. The bear stopped walking around aimlessly, looked at Freddy.
"So? What do you think of Hiro? After a while, you should have changed your mind already."
"He's the best." Freddy acknowledged, managing to show a little smile. When Hiro first came, he never actually felt good around him. And it had been like that for two years. Freddy never trusted people, but the man changed his mind. "He's the first one to truly care for us."
"Aye." Foxy agreed. He crossed his arms as he firmly said, "If 'e leaves, I be leavin' too."
Mangle giggled. "Of course you will." he said sarcastically. Ever since Hiro fixed his voice box, he felt immensely happy whenever he spoke. For so long he had been speaking as clear as he could, which wasn't much, but now he could talk like the others did.
"He's going to be my best friend!" Toy Bonnie yelled happily, hopping onto the stage. "Today, he told me I was the cutest thing ever!"
"Isn't it because you are?" Toy Chica told him sweetly. During those past five years, something special arose between her and Toy Bonnie, like it happened with BB and BG. The blue rabbit blushed a little, responding with one of his little giggles.
Freddy looked around him. "Don't you find it amazing how things change? It's like yesterday we hated each other, and now we literally are like brothers." He looked up to a picture in the wall near the show stage depicting the old animatronics on the left, the toy animatronics on the right and Hiro in the middle, along with the Marionette and Golden Freddy. And Hiro was of course the photograph. He made the photo when the robots gained his trust. Another reason of why they loved him so much.
Toy Freddy walked to his older version's side, looked at the picture as well. "Things change before you can tell." he muttered, partially to himself, but letting the others hear.
"Wise words." a familiar voice said from the distance. It was the Marionette, who was nicknamed Daisuke by Hiro. His name was given to him in honor to his action of making the old animatronics understand the truth, thus it meant 'great help'. In fact, and even though they were still called by their real names, all the animatronics were given Japanese nicknames by Hiro:
Toy Freddy was called Katashi (firm), Freddy, Katsuo (victorious hero), Bonnie, Ken (strong), Toy Bonnie, Haru (sunlight spring), Chica, Ai (affection), Toy Chica, Akemi (brightly beautiful), Foxy, Shun (fast), Mangle, Yori (trust), BB, Etsuko (joyful child), BG, Minako (beautiful child), and Golden Freddy, Makoto (sincerity).
Putting Japanese nicknames to the animatronics helped Hiro feel in home. Those names also had a very important significance to the robots, as they were given by either an action of theirs or their personality or appearance.
Daisuke floated towards Freddy and his counterpart, who had just turned around to face him. "Just as you said, things will surely change again. Whether that change is good or bad, you'll have to decide it for yourself."
Daisuke's words were always wise, always managed to make the animatronics realize something. Freddy looked down, in understanding of Daisuke's words. "What we do now, will determine our future, right?" he asked. Daisuke nodded.
BB walked towards the three animatronics, all staring at the picture. BG soon followed. Those two couldn't be separated, not even five minutes. That was why Hiro put them together in the game area during the day. "I still don' get it." BB said innocently. Daisuke looked at him, ready to explain him anything he needed. "How can our actions change something that didn't happen yet?"
BG had the same question in mind, so she looked at Daisuke, who smiled. He appreciated BB's recent interest for things. He had been asking questions ever since he could say full sentences. Chica decided to be the one explaining it, however. She always said she was good at dealing with kids, even if she wasn't around them. "Look, I'll explain it so you can understand. Imagine you have food around-"
"Oh here we go." Freddy said quietly, giggling. Chica's examples always had to include food in them.
"And then imagine you eat that food now." Chica continued. "Then, you wouldn't have any more food, right?" BB and BG nodded at the same time. "So that's it. If you do certain things now, something will be different in the future."
Even if her examples were always with food, she always managed to get things clear. BB soon understood everything, thus making a realization expression. BG giggled, hugged him. She always did. It was her way of showing appreciation towards someone.
"But even if something changes, why would it bad?" Toy Bonnie said, coming off the stage and joining the rest. It just came across his mind why Daisuke said that they would decide if the change was going to be good, or bad. "We are the best friends, we are attended every day, we have a wonderful manager… What could possibly go wrong?"
"Maybe we have all that, but don't be too sure." Toy Chica told him. "Remember all that time ago, when you were so strong and secure, and at the end you almost get killed more than twice."
Toy Bonnie rolled his eyes, sighed, as Bonnie said, "I thought we forgot about that already. I don't like remembering myself doing all that…"
"Exactly." Mangle chimed in. "Why are we remembering this? Let's focus on what's important: our new life! We've been enjoying each other's company for five years, let's not start this now."
"Lis'en to the lad, folks." Foxy agreed with Mangle. And not only because they simply agreed on everything they said, but because Mangle was truly right that moment. "It be no fun for me to remember me past days."
Daisuke smiled again, looked up at the picture. He felt happiness grow upon him each time he saw it, each time he saw those happy expressions. And sometimes, he thought what would happen if the animatronics got separated. It was something we didn't want to know at all.
A/N: Yay, here we go! Alright, there are a few things I want you to understand:
- The Japanese names have a really important significance, actually. I did not add them because I'm currently obsessed with Japan, they will have an important meaning, and you will see it as the story progresses.
- The character Dustin will take a bigger role here. I never add something for no reason, trust me.
- After three or four chapters, the story might stop for a while. Why? Because I will already need crucial information from FNaF 3 to continue. This means that, upon arriving to a certain moment of the story, I will have to wait for the third game to come out to make the next chapters.
That's all. Enjoy the new story! ;)