Silence.

There wasn't a sound to be heard, not even a voice to reassure him that everything was alright. If it wasn't for the fact that he couldn't move, speak, or see he was sure would've started panicking a long time ago. So he just sat there thinking, wondering if he was alive or not, questioning if he was still even an animatronic bear.

Maybe he was just scrap metal now, barely clinging to consciousness.

After all there was no Freddy Fazbear's Pizza anymore, he was sure the dangerous animatronics had been scrapped. All of his friends were gone…Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy…he…never saw them after his brother shut him down. He…had let them all down, but most of all…he let Bonnie down.

Bonnie...his best friend was hurt because of him…and then his brother used him.

He failed…and there's nothing he could do to fix it. All he could do now was remain there in his own mind and cry. Feeling the weight of his sorrow and regrets eating away at him…the dam finally broke.

He let the tears roll down his face and…

Wait…if he was scrap metal then how was he…?

The animatronic's eyes shot open as he quickly sat up in a panic. He put his hands up to his face and sat there in shock. He could feel the tears on his face…he even felt his face.

He was alive…Freddy Fazbear was alive.

It was too much to take in, questions came pouring into his head. Were his friends alive and how was he alive, was he still in the old pizzeria and was it all a dream? Shaking his head to clear it, he noticed the room he was in was much larger than any room in the old pizzeria. He had never been in anywhere with a room this large before. The room also looked brand new, as if the building was just built.

This definitely wasn't the old pizzeria…unfortunately that also meant that everything that happened wasn't a dream either. That only made him wonder where his friends were even more now. He knew he had to find them, but he still needed to figure out what was happening.

He looked down at his feet and noticed that he was sitting on a stage, larger than the one at the old pizzeria. Considering the fact that the room was filled with chairs and tables made him convinced that this was a new pizzeria. That wasn't the only thing that was new though, the animatronic bear felt different as well.

For the first time in forever Freddy actually felt clean, it was about twentyyears since he was last cleaned. He looked down at his own body and noticed that he wasn't as bulky as he was before. He even looked different, while he still felt like a machine he looked like he was almost real.

Freddy jumped off the stage and turned around in shock, he could never do that! Foxy was the only animatronic limber enough to move quickly without falling over. A small smirk quickly grew on his face and he did something he never thought he'd do.

He ran.

While he wasn't moving as fast as Foxy would it still felt amazing to actually be running. His smirk grew into a full blown grin as he ran down the hall. He was starting to wonder if the mechanics made a mistake and ended up putting his AI into the fox. He didn't care though, the excitement seemed to erase all the fears from his mind.

Freddy immediately stopped in place when he heard the sound of a door close and heard a quiet snicker. "I never thought I'd ever see you running around." He turned to see a human in a hooded jacket talking to him. "You used to be as slow as Chica and now you're running up and down the halls like it's normal."

He was temporarily blinded when the man turned the lights on. "You act like you've never seen bright lights before?" When his eyes adjusted he turned his attention back to the human who gave him a strange look. "Uh…you going to say anything or is your voice box busted?"

The animatronic wanted to slap himself, he completely forgot he had a voice box. "No I'm fi-" Freddy covered his mouth in surprise…that couldn't have been his voice. He always remembered his voice being old and soft, so why was it so young and loud now?

"Well…I'm not completely certain, but I don't think I got the voice calibration right." Freddy looked back at him with a 'you don't think?' look on his face. "Don't look at me like that, I managed to get everything else right."

He had to admit that the man was right, everything felt and worked like a charm. "Well…I guess everything else works, so thanks…uh…whoever you are?"

"Oh, I should've know you wouldn't have recognized me with my hood on." The man pulled the hood down to reveal a relatively young adult with light brown hair and blue eyes. "Recognize me now Fazbear?"

Freddy wasn't sure who it could've been, he'd seen many humans with the same hair and eye color this man had. Then he noticed something he didn't see before, the man's eyes had an unforgettable confidence behind them. There was only one man he knew that had shining blue eyes like this. "Mike is that you?"

"Whew…I was worried for a second there, I thought you'd forgotten me." The animatronic stared at the human in amazement, Freddy could've sworn that Mike looked…older. Everything about him seemed different from his hair to his clothes none of it was familiar to him. The man began tapping him on the head. "Uh…earth to Freddy, is something going on in there?"

Freddy brushed his hand away and gave the security guard a serious look. "You look different since I last saw you." The man stared at the animatronic with a plain look on his face, then he began to snicker at the bear until it grew into full blow laughter.

The animatronic glared at Mike and the man quickly noticed his unamused expression. "Why are you looking at me like that for?" He continued to grin at the bear's scowl as he walked past him and into a room that looked like an office. "You know people tend to look older after a couple years."

Freddy froze. "Years?"

Mike opened a cabinet and pulled a small styrofoam cup out of it. "Of course, it's been a while since you guys were active."

The animatronic watched him pour some kind of dark liquid into the cup. "How long is a while?"

He took a sip of the drink as he thought of the date. "Let's see...well it's been about two...three..." His face lit up and he calmly responded to Freddy. "It's been twenty years since the restaurant was shut down."

Freddy felt sick to his stomach as his vision began to fuzz up. "Did...you just say...twenty years?".

Mike continued to drink whatever was in his cup, taking longer sips of the drink now that he seemed to be used to the temperature of the drink. "Yeah, it's crazy to think that the last time we saw each other I was a teenager." He turned around to see Freddy clutching his head and staring into space. "Oh shit...hey Fazbear I was just joking about the whole asleep for twenty years thing."

Freddy turned to him with a glazed look over his eyes. "Great joke...for a sec...one I thou...ght you were..." His voice was slowly stuttering and his eyes were flashing on and off.

"Hey Freddy do you mind not shutting down?" The bear turned to Mike and gave him a weak smile before falling to the ground. "Well I tried..." He shrugged his shoulders and finished off the rest of his drink. After tossing his cup in the trash he grabbed Freddy and dragged him to an office chair. "Good enough, no way in hell I'm carrying you back to the stage."

Mike took one look at the animatronic before turning off the lights and shutting the door. "If that's how he reacted to being asleep for twenty years...oh boy tommorow is gonna a blast..."

Author's Note:

In a shocking twist, the title DOESN'T have the word remain in it!

Oh wait author's note..scuse me...*cough*

So a month after the first story was completed and I just now started the sequel...

I guess I'm a bit late?

Either way, I'm really excited to continue what I left off. The first story was pretty much born out of pure speculation of FNaF 3. So this is going to be different then the first story in a number of ways. Let's just hope I don't crap out in between now and the "ending".

...oh hi Mike.