Great Ridge Gang

Chapter 1 - Post Graduation (Class of 2018)

Hi, everyone! Time to start a new fic for FNAF. Like "Teenagers", it's going to be AU since I feel like it's going to be more fun. The animatronics (or anthropomorphic animals) simply live normal lives like everyone else, and after graduating from high school (at least for three of the main characters, since the other six already graduated the previous year), they all eventually get to the point to where they suddenly create a YouTube channel. (We'll call it "SmashTube" for the sake of the story.) There are quite a few inspirations behind this fanfiction, and I will point them all out in a bit.

Okay, so said characters include Freddy Fazbear, Golden Fazbear, Bonnie Roberts, Foxy Michaels, Kevin Davis (Springtrap), Marion Nette, Martin Jackson (Shadow Freddy), Steven Daniels (Shadow Bonnie), and Ryan Norrison (Spring Bonnie). I know a lot of you probably have questions about that last character, so if you want an explanation, go to YouTube, find the EthGoesBOOM video entitled "SPRING BONNIE PLAYS: Nightmare Before Disney (Night 9-10)", and skip to 3:50. That's what I'm going by.

Now, like I said, there are many inspirations behind this fic, so be sure to not accuse me of ripping off someone ;-).

These first three chapters are going to be the build up to their first video, including post graduation, and how their current lives are. Uploads will be on Fridays. Can't say every Friday. Since this is story is not going to have an ending as long as I have ideas for it, there's no need for me to rush each week to make sure the chapters are uploaded at a certain time, even though I already have nine chapters typed up at this moment. Just be on the lookout for Fridays period.

So anyway, without further ado, now I've finally got this long introduction out of the way (even though I have so much more to talk about), let's get into it, shall we?

June 15, 2018

"Yes, can I get a hot caramel macchiato and a double smoked, bacon and egg sandwich?"

It was just about half past eight on a bright, Saturday morning in the town of Fairfax, Virginia as an anthropomorphic, dark green rabbit was at the drive-thru window at ShineSpriteBucks, deciding to head there for his first meal of the day. It was still rather early in the morning, and the teenager had just finished performing his workout routine at the gym earlier. Of course, he had the common sense that it was not recommended for anyone to eat directly before exercising.

"Alright, sir. Your total is on the screen. Pull up to the next window, please." A feminine voice sounded.

"Alright, thank you."

Doing what he was told, he pulled up and patiently waited for his order, before going through the typical purchasing process with his credit card. After finally receiving his food after a couple minutes, he was on his way out, yet he chose not to return home just yet. He took his time glancing around his area to end up finding a shady tree nearby in the parking lot of a local grocery store. As he was getting ready to make a turn, he glanced both ways before suddenly noticing a familiar vehicle underneath another shady tree.

"...Really?"

Changing the direction of his wheels, he ended up going straight instead of turning left. Prior to that moment, he completely ignored the chances of him discovering a person that he apparently knew.

Pulling down his window upon meeting up, he called out his name.

"Yo, Golden!"

"..."

Hearing his name being called, the golden colored bear glanced out to his right to see Kevin Davis. Grinning a little in reaction, it was then his turn to scroll down his window. Luckily for him his car was completely silent in order for him to hear his voice since they were closed. The rabbit apparently never thought of honking the horn after all, but then again, his own method paid off.

"I forgot that ShineSpriteBucks was one of your favorite places as well. You have great taste."

"Hey, who doesn't like ShineSpriteBucks?" Kevin chuckled back. "So, you and Freddy watched your brother get on the bus for the final time this school year? I had to see my sister Stephanie off."

"Yeah, I waved him off and everything." He nodded. "He knew that he didn't even have to go today, since that's one benefit for middle schoolers, but that's basically the only reason why he went in the first place. Still, I had to hear complain about him not feeling like going."

"I see. I was the same way when I was his age. Stephanie only wanted to go because of friends." Davis elaborated. "It took her forever to get out of bed, but she had to force herself unless she wanted to miss the bus. So after she left, I headed to the gym immediately, and now here I am."

"Cool."

"So, what's Freddy up to?"

"I was gonna bring him with me, but he wanted to go right back to bed. I'm not even surprised if he's still asleep right now because he fell asleep at like, three something last night."

"Oh, so that explains it." Kevin confirmed, silence cursing the both of them for the next several moments. When those moments were up though, Kevin ended up being the culprit to break it, another question entering his mind. "What are you up to after this?"

He shrugged. "I'm not doing much. Since college is out for the semester (at least for me), there's only so much you can do. We're both not working today, so I've decided to just chill for right now and wait for Fredrick to get home. It is an early dismissal after all. ...But now that I think about it, I think Marion is working today at Papa Afton's today. Maybe after Freddy wakes up we can go get pizza for lunch."

"Sounds like a plan." The rabbit found no problem with the idea. "I guess maybe we can just hang around in town all morning before going there. The place doesn't even open up until eleven."

"Yeah, right. We'll go pick up a couple pizzas and save some for our siblings before we head back home."

Later on at another location, there was currently a conversation going on between two anthropomorphic foxes via 'ChatMe', an online video chat app that was rather popular among their age range.

"Okay, so you said you wanted to so me something?" The white vixen of the two recalled.

The red, male fox nodded in confirmation. "Yes. I figured you would at least laugh a little."

"Alright, show me."

With that being said, Foxy Michaels shared his screen, and within a few seconds, he was on the SmashTube web site. "Okay, before I type what you are about to see, did you wanna take any guesses?"

"...Hmm..." Val thought for a couple moments, which later turned out to be moments that were far too long that seemed like at least a dozen seconds.

"...10... 9..."

"Okay, okay." She promptly responded. "Umm... Is this about that ghost pepper challenge that's going around?"

"...Actually, that's what I was going to show you, but I changed my mind." Foxy admitted. "You would have been right, though."

"Well then, I give up." Val said with a sigh. "What are you about to show me?"

"Wait a minute."

Val watched Foxy's screen as she saw typing 'School Expectations vs Reality'. Within a dozen seconds, he found the video he was looking over, and Val paid close attention.

5 Minutes Later...

Foxy's initial prediction was correct. In spite of him making the educated guess of his friend chuckling only slightly, he definitely got a lot more than he bargained for when she laughed rather loudly, which to him was a good thing of course.

"Well?" Foxy smirked.

"Oh my god, that was hilarious." Valery Ramos responded, still recovering from the clip due to her own laughter. "I'm definitely gonna watch this a couple times. ...But, what made you look this up? It's June and you're watching back to school videos..."

"Meh, I found it by accident and just decided to watch it, anyway." Foxy Michaels defended himself. "I figured I would do something before I head off to work today."

"What time are you going to work?"

"I go in at twelve thirty and then I get off at five." He answered.

"Oh, well you have plenty of time, then." Val then chose to head back to the main subject of their discussion, but some other thought entered her head; more about her friend in general. "Hmm... You know, you were always a fun person."

"Thanks." He grinned at the compliment. "And?"

"Do you think if you did something like this people will like it?"

"...Doing what?" That was when he raised an eyebrow. What did she mean? Making some sort of SmashTube channel or something? "Fun skits like this? ...Hmm... Yeah, I could see myself doing that... Sort of..."

"Aw, come on!" Val complained. "You'd be great!"

"Look, the whole concept of making skit videos are not as easy as they seem. I know that for a fact. Like, some of these channels have a lot of subscribers for a reason. You know that they worked hard on something, and it's not just edits."

She sighed in defeat. "Well, at least I think you think that you have some potential in doing it..."

A couple hours later, Kevin and Golden, who were now accompanied with two more bears, Martin Jackson and Golden's brother, Freddy Fazbear, were now at the pizzeria, as it was just a few minutes past noon.

Marion Nette, a puppet like creature, was indeed working today. Although some would perceive Marion to be the most 'alienating' character compared to most of the citizens who were anthropomorphic animals, there were quite a few puppet creatures like Marion, which explained the reason to why no one thought too much of it at all, not like Marion Nette ever cared what people thought of him, anyway. It was 2018 for a reason. Why should have anyone been concerned?

The moment he heard the door open, he faced in the direction to find four of his friends wandering in. "Okay, what are you guys doing here?"

"It's a Friday and we want pizza. What do you expect?" Kevin played the 'common sense' card, yet he chose to elaborate on his intentions anyway. "Me and Golden were hanging around earlier, and he called Freddy and brought him here."

Martin raised a finger. "I just called Kevin to see what he was up to."

"Oh." He nodded in understanding as he stood behind the counter. "Well, where are Fredrick and Stephanie?"

"The kids have not been released, yet." said Golden. "And since we're already here, we're gonna get some and then bring some back home with us."

"What about your parents?"

"They're all at work except Kevin's dad."

"Okay, then. ...So, what do you guys want?"

As they began the waiting process after ordering, they all chose to sit at a table by the window. Using their spare time wisely, all four of them pulled out their electronic devices to do a variety of phone activities. Silence was beaming over them for quite some time, with none of them even turning their heads for a brief moment to watch other customers enter the pizzeria.

It ended up being Martin that dug silence's grave. "Y'all, take a look."

"At what?" Golden faced him.

"At Ryan's Tweeter. He posted a collage of pictures about his senior year in high school and tweeted 'I know I'm a week late, but it's still been a year since I graduated. Wish I can revisit the memories. ;-)'"

"Oh yeah, they were talking about you guys before I graduated last week." Freddy just remembered. "They told me that they really miss you all and the others."

"Well, at least you, Bonnie, and Foxy remained for your final year as the rest of us went to college." Golden took a glance at the bright side. "I still get notifications from people saying that we were always some of, if not, the most popular ones in school."

"Meh, I still don't know about it." Kevin shrugged at the public school assumption. There was rather a long history of how that came to many of their fellow students' minds. Even some teachers had to agree with them. Yet he, and possibly a few others that were involved, never really thought that was the case. As a result, it left quite a few unanswered questions. "Like,... what did we do?"

"Yeah, it's still hard to believe that of all people, we were talked about the most." Golden agreed. "I mean, me and Freddy switched schools when I was a sophomore and I guess over time we, as well as the rest of you started to notice us more, and the... nine of us went from there."

"It's really cool to see." Martin grinned. "I don't remember doing much at all. You think it's because of our persaonalities or something?"

"Well guys, I guess the thing is that our classmates started to like us individually until we all began to hang around each other often. I mean, we're clearly nine different people (including me and Freddy), but we still have quite a lot in common. And it's obvoius that it is not our personalities alone. I was homecoming king in my senior year, Ryan was Mr. Junior, Kevin was Mr. Sophomore, and Freddy and Foxy had a close race in their junior year before Foxy pulled out the win."

"...What about their senior year?" Martin raised an eyebrow.

"We wanted to give someone else a chance, and Bonnie never really wanted to be a candidate." Freddy informed. "He was more interested in helping others out. But at least Chica and Val both ran for Homecoming Queen... until both of them lost."

"I heard it was by a few votes."

"Yep. It was."

"Oh." Martin blinked. "Well for me, maybe it was because they see me as one of the strongest players in the school when it comes to football and basketball. They knew that Steven was my right hand man and he started to slowly make a name for his ownself. ...And I think when it comes to Marion, they just found him to be a creative guy. He's also smart like Golden."

"Yeah, they all kept calling me wise and that I'm easy to be around." The golden bear smirked.

"Well we all know what Ryan is always talked about. He's always been super friendly and likeable. I mean, I'm reading the comments now under his tweet, and everyone is commenting about the good times they had with him. Girls are saying that they miss him and everything." Kevin read.

"Never really thought we'd be A-List celebrities in school." Freddy joked with a bit of a laugh.

"...You know,..." Golden thought out loud. "after all that has happened, the nine of us are like a team in a way. I knew people were always saying that, but the more I think about it, the more I see why."

"I agree." Kevin bobbed his head up and down. "The nine of us make a great pack... When's the pizza gonna be here!?"

And there you have it! I'm sure you all have a lot of questions!

Firstly, for those of you who read quite a bit of "Teenagers", you might have noticed major similarites here. Freddy was the new kid in school, Ryan being one of the most likeable characters, Martin being fantastic in school sports, and certain people winning something in the homecoming court. You may have also noticed that the first day of this fanficiton is happening on June 15, 2018, the final day of "Teenagers". Even the names of some of these characters are exactly the same in "Teenagers". However, none of this means that this is a direct sequel. It's a different AU fic, so none of the characters are based on Tony Crynight. They all have the same designs in the games who are anthropomorphic characters.

The plans for next chapter are gonna include the introduction of a few more characters including mains, and a few relatives. It will all eventually build up to the point where someone thinks about the idea. You all can catch it next Friday when it comes out!

Questions:

1. Who do you all think will be introduced next?

2. Who's gonna bring up this whole YouTube idea?

I encourage all FNAF fans to review!