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Once again, thank you all for the lovely reviews and also for lots of patience! ^^

Dang finals...oh well, thankfully the school year is almost done so I might have more time writing this. But seriously guys, thanks a lot for being so patient. ^^ All right, onto the story!

August 1973

Much to Goldie's relief, Springtrap seemed to have forgotten the encounter with the frightened child. He had gone back to being his usual cheerful and talkative self. To his surprise, Goldie was actually glad that he began to ask more questions about the usual things. One of his most asked questions was why they always were onstage and not allowed to move around among the children.

To be honest, Goldie never thought about that and it gave him a lot of thought. However he didn't want to appear ignorant in front of Springtrap and merely told him that the humans probably haven't found a way to let them move around.

"Will they find a way to make us move?" Springtrap asked.

"Perhaps," Goldie answered. "It may be in a few days or in a few years."

"I hope we're still here when they find a way." Springtrap remarked.

Goldie gave a small smile and placed his paw on Springtrap's shoulder. "I'm sure we will still be here." He reassured his friend. "We're the mascots after all."

Springtrap merely smiled, satisfied with the answer that came from his friend.

A few nights later, the two golden animatronics had finished another day at the diner. The employees were wiping off the sticky substance of spilled soda and crumbs while others were stacking chairs from the table. Goldie and Springtrap stood silent and still on the stage, waiting for the stage curtains to close around them so they can relax and whisper among each other. However much to their confusion, the curtains didn't close. Instead several strange men came on stage and began to examine them. Goldie noticed Springtrap's eyes glancing over to him, filled with worry. Goldie gave a small smile towards his direction to reassure him that everything will be fine.

"You sure this might work, Bill?" One of the men asked.
"Sure it'll work." The man called Bill nodded his head. "We just need to do a few adjustments to these things and they'll be ready by tomorrow morning."

"All right then. Take them down."

Goldie froze when he felt the men unscrew several bolts, causing him to come loose. Without the bolts, he immediately fell to the floor with a crash. He heard another crash next to him.

He felt a flash of rage at the thought of them dropping Springtrap like he was nothing more but trash. Before he could do anything, he felt a something poke into him. He remained frozen as he felt them unscrew his bolts and wires. Suddenly he felt his body being opened up and the poking and prodding began. He remained still as the poking and prodding continued on. Questions arose in his mind as it went on for hours.

What were these humans doing to him? Were they doing the same thing to Springtrap? How was Springtrap faring? Was he all right? Was he terrified?

The thought of Springtrap being opened up and experimented on caused a feeling of outrage in Goldie. He wished he could call out for Springtrap and reassure him that everything will be okay, but if he did that then the humans might go into panic mode and disassemble them.

Finally after what seemed like the entire night, Goldie felt the humans close him up.

"That should do it," One of them spoke. "OK, time for a test run. Frank, Johnson, you two go first."

Two men stepped forward and went over to the animatronics. Goldie felt something poke into his side causing something to pull back inside him. He was stunned to feel himself being opened up again and his astonishment grew when the human climbed inside him. He felt himself closing and soon he was completely closed with the human right inside his body.

Goldie felt the human raise his arm and to his surprise his arm raised as well. The human took a step forward, he took a step forward.

The humans began to cheer and congratulate each other as Goldie was forced to walk around with the human. The human turned around and Goldie was finally able to see Springtrap walking around like him.

The other human must have climbed inside him as well.

"Well done boys!" One of the humans spoke. "This should bring in more kids and their parents!"

Goldie breathed a silent sigh of relief when the humans got out of him and left, leaving him alone with Springtrap. He waited for awhile before finally turning to the golden rabbit animatronic.

"Springs?" He spoke softly. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah…" Springtrap's voice sounded small.

Goldie crawled over to him and held onto Springtrap's hand. "Are you hurt?"

"No…" Springtrap answered. "But…it was scary. I didn't know what they were doing…until they…" He looked straight at Goldie. "Why are they going inside us? What's going on?"

Goldie slowly shook his head. "I have no idea…but…they mentioned something about more kids coming to the diner."

Springtrap fell silent again. Suddenly a flash of realization came to his eyes. Goldie was stunned when Springtrap stood up and went over to the curtains.

"Springtrap?" Goldie called out. "What are you—"

His eyes widened when Springtrap opened the curtains. "Springtrap!"

Springtrap paid no heed and to Goldie's complete disbelief his friend took a step down from the stage and was now standing among the tables of the diner.

Springtrap looked around, wondering if this was really happening. He took another step, then another. Finally after taking several more steps, a huge smile came to his face.

He turned around and waved to Goldie.

"Goldie! We can walk around the restaurant now! The humans allowed us to walk by ourselves!"

"Oh…" Goldie blinked. "That's…great…I think…"

"We can go among the children!" Springtrap was now filled with excitement and the possibilities of this newfound ability. "We can go their tables, walk around the tables…oh wow, this is amazing!"

Springtrap raced over to Goldie and gave him a huge hug. "I'm so excited for tomorrow!"

Goldie remained frozen in his spot, not sure how he should react to all this.

However, a strange warm feeling began to arise within him as Springtrap continued on hugging him. It felt nice, he had to admit.

"Goldie?"

"Hmm?" Goldie blinked.

"Are you excited for tomorrow?"

Goldie remained still for a minute. Then his arms raised and he gave Springtrap a small hug.

"Yeah…I am."