Five Nights at Freddy's 2: Mangled Soul
Chapter 4: A Dark Innocence
Day: 2
Mangle awakens with a start, slowly opening his eyes as he rested behind his personal stage curtain. He looks at a wall mounted clock and sees that it is barely 7 o' clock. He hadn't slept for very long, but he felt strangely energized.
He gets up quickly and walks outside of Kids Cove, and into the stage area. Toy Bonnie was sitting with his legs hanging over the stage, tuning his guitar. His ears were drooping down close to his eyes, and he seemed like he was thinking deeply about something. He hears movement and turns to his left, only to find Mangle. Bonnie frowns.
"Golly, you could have been more gentle when ya stepped on my head last night, Mangle," Toy Bonnie says as he rubs at a small scratch on his head. "It kinda.. hurt. Ya dig?"
Mangle stops in front of him. "Last night?" Mangle says, rubbing his head. "I don't really remember much of last night."
"What?" Toy Bonnie says, raising an eyebrow. Then he realizes something and opens both of his eyes fully. "Oh yeah... you're different than we are. Geez.. sorry, I forgot." He goes back to tuning his guitar, and plays a pleasant tune once he finishes.
"What do you mean?" Mangle says. "How am I different?"
Toy Bonnie stops playing and puts down his guitar as he looks at Mangle with an un-amused smirk, before rolling his eyes and saying, "Master Georgie has made it so you don't remember anything that involves your tether. It paid us a visit last night after our..." He pauses for a moment before saying, "Uh.. party, our party!" Toy Bonnie smiles.
"You had a party too? Oh man, now I really want to remember!" Mangle says excitedly. "If my.. 'tether' doesn't show up tonight, can I join your party?"
"You... already.. did?" Toy Bonnie says as if he was unsure.
"What do you mean?" Mangle says.
Toy Bonnie raises his finger. "Oh yeah! Master Georgie don't want you rememberin' the parties we have either." Toy Bonnie picks at his guitar.
"But why?" Mangle says, sadly.
"I dunno.. I mean, he lets everyone else remember... maybe it effects your tether in some way? It's the only thing I can think of, and... well, you having a tether is the only difference the rest of us don't have!" Toy Bonnie begins playing a chord from one of his songs.
Mangle contemplates and asks, "What if I told Master I don't like this idea?"
Toy Bonnie sighs as he stops playing his guitar again. "If you really wanna go and do that, go on ahead; but I don't think Georgie would really appreciate your input on the matter. Everything he does, he does for a very good reason! Go on and tell him, just know I wouldn't want to be in your shoes- uh... feet..?"
Toy Chica appears from out of the hall carrying her cupcake like usual. "Oh Donnie! Mangle! Good morning!"
Toy Bonnie's eye twitches. "For the last time woman! My name is Bonnie! Bonnie!" Toy Bonnie breaths in heavily. "Not Donnie Darko! Or.. whatever you call it!" Toy Bonnie folds his arms. Toy Chica just giggles, "Whatever you say Donnie!" Before going about her business elsewhere.
"Can you believe her?!" Toy Bonnie yells in outrage as she leaves. He pulls at his ears. "She's even loonier than the other Chica! All she does is talk about food and eating! Ugh." He lets go of his ears and they bounce back up to their usual position.
"Hey, Mangle," Toy Bonnie begins. "Between you and me? We are the only normal ones in this joint, and that's a fact." He lifts his eyebrow again. "If only Foxy was here..."
Mangle looks to his right, at Toy Freddy. "What about Freddy?" Mangle asks.
"Who even knows anymore!" Toy Bonnie says, putting his guitar down. "His voice box is completely busted, and he rarely ever moves when he's not entertaining the kids!" Toy Bonnie leans in close to Mangle. "The only people I can talk to during the day, is Chica, and Balloon Boy!" He pauses for a moment. "Balloon Boy can only say 'Hi!' and laugh!"
As if to prove a point, Balloon Boy laughs at Bonnie.
"Oh gosh! Oh golly! It's beginning." Toy Bonnie says, suddenly looking worn out.
Mangle begins to walk away, but Toy Bonnie grabs him by the shoulder. "Please, come talk to me after distracting the kids! Please! I don't know if I can handle food metaphors anymore! And that constant laughing!" Bonnie pulls at his ear with one hand and rubs his face in the other. "Just please! Promise me!"
Mangle smiles and hugs him. "Don't worry buddy! I'll come see ya!"
"YOU'RE HUGGING ME!" Toy Bonnie yells as he fights out of his grasp. Mangle quickly backs off. "Don't do that." Toy Bonnie says before brushing himself off and picking up his guitar again. "You should go make sure the baby is okay." He says as he begins playing, 'When the Saints Come Marching'.
The baby was the marionette, of course. But it was also the strongest one of them all. It's existence is what allows Golden Freddy to exist, and that extends into all the other animatronics naturally, since Golden Freddy is keeping all of the animatronics in line. Nobody can tell the marionette what to do, and it does what it wants when it's awake. So to prevent it from going on a killing spree, of both animatronics and humans, it's kept asleep with the music box at night. It cannot awake in the morning, but it never hurts to check just to make sure.
Mangle checks the box it rests in, and it was closed and sealed, but there was evidence that it had opened last night. As Mangle checks the room for more evidence, Toy Chica enters the room with him.
"Don't you worry Mangle! Mary is as snug as two pigs in a blanket!" Chica says happily as she giggles to herself.
Mangle could see what Toy Bonnie meant about food metaphors. He leaves Chica to watch the Marionette, and he heads towards the back room to say good morning to the older models. He can hear Old Chica talking as he approached.
"I almost had that... bastard!" Chica says. "If he hadn't been tethered to the fr-"
Old Bonnie, who was sitting right next to her, hits her on the shoulder as Mangle enters. Chica immediately stops talking.
Old Freddy gets up and walks over to Mangle.
"Oh, good morning Mr. Fazbear!" Mangle says happily.
"Good morning, Mangle." Freddy says as he lifts his hat and bows slightly before putting it back on. "Might I ask... what you are doing back here?" He says as he looks Mangle in the eye.
Mangles ears droop, he felt like had done something he shouldn't have. "I just want to... uh... say hi. Was I not supposed to?"
Freddy laughs. "Of course not! It's just.. George prefers that... you only hang around the newer models. Just like how he wants us to only talk to other older models."
"Oh, I'm sorry." Mangle says apologetically.
"It's fine! It's all fine!" Freddy says. "It's natural to feel attachment towards us, your tether has good relations with our 'friend' Foxy. And he has wiped off a lot on him. You act a lot like Foxy. Sometimes, to the point where you actually recite his old songs and stories, word for word!"
"Really?" Mangle says, surprised.
"You sure do!" Freddy says as he sees him out the door. "Uh.. go check on the baby!" Freddy says before closing the door. Mangle was sensing a pattern.
"Don't you worry Mangle! Mary is as snug as two pigs in a-" Chica begins.
"-I get it!" Mangle yells.
"Pancakes!" Chica yells randomly.
4 Hours Later
The bell sounds that announces that kids are showing up, so all of the animatronics get to their places. Mangle rushes to Kids Cove, ready to entertain.
The first kid to show up in the cove was the one wearing glasses that had shown up yesterday. Mangle was glad; he really liked that kid. His name was Peter, he had brought a small book today. His book was filled with drawings of all the Animatronics, some of them were really good!
"I drew everyone I could! You see this one?" He says as he turns to a page that had Mangle and Foxy together. "This one is my favorite!"
Mangle was surprised that he had not been punished for chasing after that girl yesterday. Had Master done something to make people.. forget? After entertaining the kids Mangle stepped outside of the Cove and the parents who he had seen yesterday paid no attention to him whatsoever. Mangle heads towards the stage and sees Toy Bonnie waving to the children happily as he played the best he could. As he sees Mangle, he beckons him to come over.
"Thanks for coming over Mangle, I was needing you." Toy Bonnie says.
Toy Chica leans over and giggles at the kids in a funny way, making the kids laugh but also annoying Toy Bonnie to no end.
As some of the children begin to leave the animatronics are free to wander around and entertain the kids, as well as talk to them. Mangle liked this the most, he loved speaking with the children about things. Most of the time he talked to them about fun activities, the outside, and the other animatronics. The children usually were happy to talk, and once they began it was hard for them to stop.
Mangle saw Toy Bonnie sitting among a circle of children exchanging secrets, talking, and other such things. Mangle could sense that Toy Bonnie loved having the children here, and he looked very peaceful and at ease among them. He laughed as he took out his guitar and played whatever the children wanted to hear, and sometimes making up his own stuff on the fly. He cracks a few jokes that make all of the children laugh, and frowns when they all eventually have to leave.
Mangle wanders in towards the front entrance and sees a security guard getting ready for his shift as the night guard. He smiles at Mangle when he sees him, and walks happily to the security room as he whistles to himself. Mangle was happy the new security guard was happy, but he also wondered what had happened to the previous one.
Night 2
Mangle crawls into his Cove and nods off to rest for a few minutes, he can hear someone enter his room. It was Old Chica.
"What are you doing Chica?" Mangle asks as he peers outside of the curtain. Chica looks at him and suddenly everything goes blurry for Mangle. When he comes to, his eyes are black and glowing, and he feels an insane bloodlust.
"About time Golden Freddy switches you over." Chica says roughly.
Mangle just watches her and smiles. He twitches slightly before saying, "What's on the menu tonight?! More... meat?" Mangle licks his lips. Chica smiles. "Good old Mangle..." She says softly.
Mangle heads out into the hallway, seeing Toy Bonnie on the stage. Toy Bonnie looks at him, looking slightly worried. "You really change at night, I hope you know that." Toy Bonnie says.
Mangle laughs. "Change? What do you mean? This is who I really am!"
Toy Bonnie frowns. "No, it's not." Before stepping off the stage. "It's how we really are. Not you, but us."
"Camera!" Mangle yells as he hears the cameras small beep, which tells them when the night guard is looking through that specific camera. Both Mangle and Toy Bonnie freeze in place, the night guard shines a light at them, which resets their programming, making them have to reset quickly before continuing on the chase.
"I'm heading for the vents." Toy Bonnie says. "I trust that you can get inside the room pretty quickly, no?" Toy Bonnie asks as he begins heading towards one of the party rooms. Balloon Boy rushes past him, heading for the vent on the opposite side. He says, "Hi!" As he runs past.
"Yes, I'll get in there. His flesh will be ours!" Mangle says happily, twitching a bit more. He begins laughing, but stops suddenly as he gets down on all fours and runs towards the security room.
The security guard was freaking out, he had no idea this would happen to him. He thought he had scored this job on sheer luck! He had heard about how bad the night guard job was at the old pizzeria, but this place was supposed to be different! A new start!
He frantically checks the camera, and sees two of the animatronics in the stage area, both looking directly at the camera. One of them was the white Fox he saw before his shift started!
"Oh... fuck..." He says breathlessly as he begins to tear up. "They are moving. They are moving!" He begins yelling and jumps at any little noise that occurs. He checks the camera again and sees that they have disappeared. Then he suddenly hears the sound of what sounded like a Jack in the Box.
"What is that?!" He yells, putting on his Freddy Mask. "What is that.. what is that..." He keeps repeating to himself quietly.
"The music box! I didn't wind the music box! Oh god, no!" He yells as he realizes what he's done. He raises the camera and switches to the Gift Shop camera only to see an animatronic exoskeleton without its suit on staring at him.
He hears movement in his room, and quickly lowers his camera to see Mangle, hanging upside down from the ceiling, staring at him. The guard freezes.
Just before Mangle has a chance to strike the killing blow, the Marionette makes itself known and leaps upon the security guard. Looking it dead in the eyes as it wraps it's cloth body around him like an anaconda, trying to squeeze the life out of it. The sound of a baby crying could be heard as a sort of white mist leaves the security guards mouth and flows into the Marionettes. The baby's crying slowly got deeper and more menacing until the man fell limp, his eyes a pure milky white. The Marionette twitches slightly before slowly turning its head towards Mangle, who by now had dropped to the floor and was looking on greedily for his chance to feed.
Mangle could hear Toy Bonnie yell from inside the vent. "Chica! The music box! Wind the music box!- Mangle! Get out of there!"
Before Mangle could respond, the Marionette jumps onto him, attempting to suck out his soul. The Marionette slams into him with enough force to break Mangles left eye socket, causing his eyeball to fly out of his head. The Marionette wraps itself around him, slowly beginning to bend and snap his metal ligaments. Mangle could begin to see white mist escaping from his chest area, but suddenly the Marionette stops and collapses, and the white mist painfully returns to Mangles body.
As Mangle collapses on the ground, he could see the Marionette quickly slide away, dragging its feet along the floor as it rushed back the comfort of the music box. It was under control again.
Mangle attempts to get up, but is unable to. His legs were bent and broken, and he felt very weak. Just as Mangle passes out, he can see the dark outline of Old Freddy, only he had glowing white eyes and teeth.
"What...?" Mangle says as his voice box glitches out, and he shuts down for the night. There would be no feeding for him tonight.
- Chapter End -
(A/N) A pretty major complaint I had from the older fic was how none of the animatronics really
had that much character development besides Foxy. So, I took this chapter as a way of beginning to develop what the different animatronics are like. The goofy-ish attitude of Toy Bonnie has also been mixed in with a slight Impmon (From Digimon Tamers) styled attitude that I think suits not only his looks but personality as well.
Mangle is interesting, I like to believe that during the day he is a happy-go-lucky, completely innocent soul, but once night comes that all goes away. Once night falls, Golden Freddy changes him into the killer George wants, but in order to protect the fragile state of the tether he must forget everything, or risk killing children during the day.
Toy Chica was fun. I got the idea of her getting Bonnies name wrong from a video I saw that was posted by none other than Foxy the Pirate Fox, and is basically what his mom calls Toy Bonnie. Since I'm trying to pass off Toy Chica as some sort of idiot, and maybe as someone who could provide some comedic relief, I figured it was perfect.
Toy Freddy is unable to communicate, and it can be assumed that what children hear when he sings is all pre recorded and he just lip syncs with it.
I wanted to make Balloon Boy creepy this chapter, but this chapter wasn't really about him. Saaaadface.
And, with that, thank you all for reading! And I'll see you all in the next chapter!
