Chapter 4: A Hero's Shadow
Bonnie and Chica were forced to leap into the water and landed on their feet, but Chica began to float in the air instead. Bonnie tried to keep his balance as they raced through the river that seemed to go deeper and deeper into the darkness, they could hear Plush's cries for help.
"Be careful Bonnie, it's important for you to stay on both feet, you see those springs over there, they can help you speed up!" Chica pointed out.
Bonnie saw what looked like glowing parts of the river, racing towards them he gained a boost of speed and could hear Plush's cries getting closer. Like the hills and mine cart rails before, the river itself had a few sharp bends and even ramps. It was hard to tell if they were going lower into the ground or eventually would rise up to the surface.
"Chica, how much farther is this river?"
"Not that much left, but we need to get to him quickly!" Chica said.
The two continued to hit all the boosters and could now see Plush up ahead. Plush could swim, but not when he was being dragged in rushing water. Chica managed to catch up to Plush and held out a gloved hand.
"TAKE MY HAND PLUSH!" Chica yelled.
Plush tried but the constant turning of the river was getting in the way. Chica then took off her wizard hat and held it out for him to grab. Plush's golden fingers were just a few inches from reaching the tip of the hat, when suddenly the river take a sudden drop and Plush falls down. Chica, being able to float, halted in the air.
"NO!"
"CHICA!" Plush yelled.
Bonnie came racing straight towards Chica and couldn't stop in time slamming into Chica and they both go falling down as well. Turns out they were falling down an underground waterfall and below was a pond. Bonnie stretched his arms behind him and fell faster towards Plush, grabbing him before they splashed into the pond, Chica of course floating next to it. Surfacing, Plush had to spit out water.
"Ugh...phew, thanks Bonnie." Plush smiled.
"No problem kid...well...my armor is soaked now." Bonnie sighed.
"Well we made it through all that...the village should be just up that little path." Plush said.
As they got out of the water, Bonnie finally decided to ask Plush the big question.
"So Plush, why do you look so much like Springtrap? He's my brother from my world." Bonnie said.
"Oh actually, my full name is Plushtrap, and Springtrap is my older brother here. I haven't seen him for awhile, he told me before he left that he was on some mission, secretly planning to kill Queen Mangle I believe." Plush said.
"Whoa...looks like we better give him some assistance then." Bonnie said.
Suddenly they hear a rumbling and the ground vibrates.
"What's happening?" Bonnie asked.
"This land commonly has a very small earthquake, it only affects this area, people have died in the forest from these earthquakes causing trees to fall on them. We better get going through this last tunnel." Chica said.
Chica absorbed herself back into Bonnie's head and Bonnie raced with Plush into the tunnel, up ahead were large rocks and falling piles of dirt. Electrifying his fists, he starts to punch through the rocks at incredible speed. Eventually he came to a uphill-like part of the tunnel and skated up with his jet boosters. Behind them, some of the tunnel was already collapsing. But Bonnie makes it in time when they blast out of a hole and into the air. Bonnie looks behind him to see they had exited the bottom of a mountain. In front of them were a few large buildings starting on one end of the village. Bonnie bounced off one of the buildings and landed on the ground safely.
"Phew, that was close!" Bonnie said.
He sat Plush down just as Chica materialized into view again.
"More like amazing!" Plush cheered.
"I'll say, you're definitely proving yourself as a true knight. But you still have more to do...but why not a break?" Chica asked.
"Sure, so everyone here knows you're a wizard right?" Bonnie asked.
"Yep, no worries. Though I'd flip up your visor just in case."
"Sure."
"Come on, let's go see if my friends are here." Plush said.
"Who would they be?" Bonnie asked.
"They are these 3 bears who are the brothers of Freddy."
Bonnie froze. So here Freddy also had brothers? Were they Nightmare, Fredbear and some extra bear?
"What do they look like?"
"They looked just like Freddy...only more nightmarish, they're about my height."
So the bears weren't Nightmare or Fredbear? Strange.
"Let's go get something to eat, I know you're hungry." Chica said.
"Alright, but I don't have the currency used in this time."
"Trust me, everything is free for a knight."
"Sweet."
Meanwhile back at Foxy's cabin, Foxy was enjoying a nice little nap, unaware of the sudden danger about to come. A knock came at his door and he woke up with a startle.
"Ugh...this is not a good time. It better be good." Foxy groaned.
Opening the door, he's suddenly shoved backwards by a golden knight. Foxy nearly falls onto the ground but manages to keep his balance and examines the knight.
"Who are ye? What do ye want?" Foxy asked.
"The name's Sir Springtrap, I'm looking for a purple bunny named Bonnie, surely you've seen him." Sir Spring snarled.
Foxy pretended to look confused.
"Um...not really lad. Maybe ye got the wrong person." Foxy shrugged.
Sir Spring grabs Foxy by the throat.
"DON'T PLAY GAMES! I NEED TO FIND HIM NOW! Mangle already told me that Chica has taken him away, no doubt she would've came here!" Sir Spring said.
"Argh, like I'm gonna tell ye."
Foxy swung his hook out of desperation to be let free but Sir Spring knocked his arm away before getting sucker-punched to the ground, it felt like a brick had slammed into Foxy's face. He sat there rubbing his cheek when Spring stood over him.
"You gonna tell me now? Or does this have to get ugly?" Sir Spring clenched his metal fists.
Foxy spat out a tooth before answering with a sigh.
"He's on his way to the castle, but I don't know where he could currently be. Maybe try the next village over, all I did was give him armor and Chica went with him. That's all that happened!" Foxy explained.
"It better be, I plan to find him." Sir Spring said.
"Whatever, now can an ol' fox get some sleep around here?" Foxy said grumpily.
Sir Spring slipped out of the cabin and into the forest. After his share of sprinting through the forest, he came across Sir Freddy who was just gaining consciousness.
"Hmm, it seems this bunny is much stronger than I thought. Then again, Freddy was always useless." Sir Spring shrugged.
Sir Freddy got up and looked around seeing Spring.
"Springtrap, where did the bunny go?" Freddy asked.
"Possibly to the village. I'm going to go look for him." Spring said.
"No way! I will."
"Oh really?"
Spring clenched his fists tightly summoning a blast of fire around his arms, Freddy immediately backed away.
"Nevermind, I'll just head back to the castle." Freddy said.
"I thought so." Spring snarled.
Spring then teleports away while Freddy decides to take the long path back. With Bonnie, he, Chica and Plush found a few stands with some food that Bonnie didn't mind eating. He was especially eager to eat a bag of carrots he found and more pizza. Plush invited them to eat over at the house that he shared with the three bears. Upon arrival, the bears were surprised to see him.
"Ah Plush, find anything interesting in the caves?" One asked.
"Well besides Wizard Chica and Sir Bonnie, nope."
The bears waved to Chica and then looked at Bonnie.
"Whoa...a real knight, in our house?" Another bear asked.
Bonnie saw that the bears did look like Freddy. They were brown with tophats, bowties and permanent black eyes with white pupils, but their pupils were different colors. Bonnie finally took off his helmet and wiped his forehead.
"Man, I'm surprised I'm not sweating in this thing." Bonnie sighed.
"Good thing huh?" Chica asked.
"Yeah, so how do you guys live here without an adult?" Bonnie asked
"I keep them safe." Chica cut in.
"I see, well I think we should eat already." Bonnie said eyeing the carrots.
Awhile later, Plush was chatting with the bears at his house while Bonnie and Chica continued to walk around the village. Many of the buildings were tall and expansive. But Bonnie could still see Queen Mangle's castle far in the distance. Many of the villagers waved at him and he waved back smiling big under his helmet.
"Wow...this place is pretty cool. Nothing amazing like my city, but still cool, no offense." Bonnie said.
"None taken, say Bonnie, do you believe your friends will forgive you?"
"I doubt it, the only ones who can would be Mangle, Springtrap and Foxy himself. I never did like the others much anyways. They were so boring, didn't appreciate what I liked to do. I think Spring was right though, it's much harder being a knight than just using the armor for boxing. I mean we almost died in those caves, we went for a mine cart ride, and I raced through a river trying to save Plush, I wouldn't have much courage or care if I was back home. This experience is helping me I guess." Bonnie said.
"Maybe so, and to be honest, wasting medieval armor for something such as boxing is pretty stupid I'll admit." Chica teased.
"Ugh...I get it."
They passed by a stand selling a few string guitars...it reminded Bonnie of his electric guitar back home. Now he wished he had it with him.
"I miss my guitar, I would love to play some music." Bonnie said.
"You ever tried string guitar?" Chica asked.
"Yes, when I was little...but electric didn't exist back then...unless."
Seeing the owner was occupied, he grabbed one of the string guitars and gripped it tightly. He thought back to what his guitar looked like, red, white and pretty big. He remembered all times he'd play for Spring who loved to hear him play. Bonnie's electricity powers began to sprang up and surround the guitar. A bright light consumed it for a few seconds, and when it was over, Bonnie and Chica gasped, the string guitar had turned into Bonnie's electric guitar.
"Whoa...it's my guitar!" Bonnie said.
"Interesting...maybe it could come in handy." Chica thought.
"It sure will, in fact I can even show how good I am, it even came with this pick." Bonnie held it up.
Bonnie was about to play a bit when they hear screaming coming from behind them. People were running around as one of the buildings had caught fire, someone in knight armor stepped out...a bunny.
"Huh? Who's that?" Bonnie asked.
Summoning the book, he flipped through a few chapters but didn't recognize this scene at all. Chica closed the book for him.
"This wasn't a scene in the book, but it's someone from it." Chica said.
Heading over towards the mess, Bonnie started to recognize the armor...and his heart skipped a beat. He looked at the cover of the book, the back at the figure.
"He's got the light blue armor...Chica don't tell me..."
"Yes Bonnie, I was hoping we wouldn't run into him, but with your interference in the story, the hero's role was switched to evil. He has turned into a shadow of himself." Chica said.
Bonnie watched as the armored bunny turned towards them, fists clenched and raised up. The hero of the book, Bon the bunny, was now an evil shadow creature bent on destroying Bonnie.
"So it's my fault?" Bonnie asked.
"Unintentionally, you didn't know." Chica rubbed his shoulder.
"No...I can't fight my own hero. He inspired me to wear the armor, to fight in it."
"Then again, he sent the wrong message to you. Your brother and your ex-friends say it's your attitude...and Bon here continued to lead you into that mentality. Being part of this story, I know Bon enough to know that he's likes to do nothing but piss off people so he can fight him, yet still does good by saving people. The book doesn't tell you the whole story, after saving the kingdom, not many people treated him with respect, so out of anger he managed to revive the queen and serve her. Now you must defeat him, which will at the same time...hopefully teach you the lesson everyone back home wants you to learn. It's fun to goof off and tease others when they do something funny, but to do it harshly and pick fights is someone you shouldn't be. It will only drive you insane. That's probably what your Foxy wanted for a long time, and never told you...he shouldn't have to. So fight it, fight your old self...which is what Bon is now." Chica explained.
Bonnie looked back at his "Hero", he could see inside the armor that Bon had large green eyes bent to look angry. Looks like he had no choice, but he figured Chica was right. Bonnie deep down wanted his friends' forgiveness. But even if it wasn't achieved, at least he tried.
"ALRIGHT BON, YOU BETTER STOP TERRORIZING THE TOWN! I CAN EASILY STOP YOU!" Bonnie yelled.
"Hmph, you're supposed to be the hero this time? Pathetic! You won't stand a chance! You'll be joining Queen Mangle before ya know it." Bon scoffed.
Bonnie growled...he longer needed Bon as an inspirational hero...his brother was more inspirational than this bunny could ever be.
"Try to hit me then." Bonnie said.
Bon nodded and sprinted at Bonnie with a fist, but Bonnie blocks the punch and the next before kicking Bon back. Chica stood up to the side with the other villagers. Bon tried again going for his face but Bonnie blocked it again before punching Bon twice in the face and then an uppercut. Chica thought Bon was rather weak, that or Bonnie's inner rage was taking over. Bonnie then summoned his guitar and electrified it.
"Bonnie what are you doing to it?" Chica asked.
"Just watch." Bonnie said.
Instead of ruining the guitar, it overcharged its power and Bonnie started to rock out on it. The music became louder and so strange to the villagers, but Chica was enjoying it. The faster and louder he played, the more power started to circulate around the guitar. Bon stood there confused before a large ray of energy blasted out of the guitar and crashed into Bon, his armor starting to crack more and more until it exploded and Bon in sent backwards and onto the ground in pain. Bonnie continued to jam on the guitar for another minute earning applause from the villagers. He could be heard all the way to the forest and at the castle where Queen Mangle woke up with a jolt.
"Who be making that strange noise?" Mangle wondered.
Just then Sir Freddy came in panting. Queen Mangle scoffed seeing Freddy's dented up armor.
"Hmph, I assume you lost to that bunny." Mangle said.
"I'm sorry my lord, but he was a lot stronger than I thought. And now he's wearing armor...I think Springtrap is still looking for him." Sir Freddy explained.
"It seems so, I guess I really did underestimate him. No matter, even if he makes it here, he won't win. Heh, I'm still not over that thing he mentioned about falling out of the sky." Mangle chuckled.
"But have you even seen him before? I don't recall ever seeing a bunny like him before. Maybe he did come from somewhere else." Sir Freddy suggested.
Mangle looked out her window at the sky, nothing but a few clouds. She then examined her armored claws for a moment before balling them into fists.
"If it's true, I'll simply find a way up there to stop people from coming. I would need to capture that wizard, no doubt she's helping him on his pointless journey, I look forward to pummeling this bunny and bring him to his knees." Mangle growled.
Sir Freddy looked a little unsure...but nodded. Back in the village, Bonnie finally ended his little tune and walked towards the defeated ex-hero. Without the armor, he looked just like in the book, blue with bright green eyes and some red blushes and freckles.
"Sorry Bon, but your days as a hero are over. You represent what I used to be towards my friends, but I'm gonna change...and you will deal with it." Bonnie growled.
Bonnie raised a metal fist but Bon only winced. Chica came over quickly.
"Bonnie he's not worth it, just let him go! He's back to normal."
"Normal for him, but not for me."
Chica still pushed Bonnie away while Bon still looked panicked. Chica turned to him.
"Bon, if I were you, I'd change your attitude before you get killed. You now have a lot to make up for after joining Mangle all these years. Besides, don't you think Mangle has only been using you?" Chica said.
"Huh?" Bon was confused.
"You'll figure it out, come Bonnie, we must continue our mission." Chica said.
Bonnie sent Bon a death glare before they left the village, hoping to tell Plush and the bears about their success later. Bon was left alone to think while the other villagers went back to their duties.
Back in Bonnie's world...
Springtrap woke up feeling the need to pee. He quickly checked the clock: 4:00 AM. Then he sprinted to the bathroom to settle his business. Afterwards, he walked back and got curious enough to peek in Bonnie's room...but Bonnie wasn't there.
"Bonnie? Brother are you okay?" Spring asked.
He saw that the bed was cold, so Bonnie had been gone for awhile. Then he saw the book laying on the floor.
"Huh? Why is this still out?" Spring asked.
Suddenly, the book began to glow again and turn without Spring's help.
"Huh? What the hell?"
Reaching the middle of the book, the portal opened again and Spring started to get sucked in.
"NO! STOP! AAAAHHHH! BONNIE! HELP ME! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"
But it was too late, Spring is sucked inside and the book slams to the ground, the glow fading away...
To be continued...
Looks like now Springtrap has been sent to the other world as well. How will this affect Medieval Springtrap? Will Modern Springtrap catch up with Bonnie? And where did Medieval Springtrap go to? All this including the final battle with Queen Mangle will be told in the final chapter! STAY TUNED!