Chapter 4 - Mute

The long ride back was silent, though the radio was playing, both Travis and Liz were quiet. Travis had his eyes on the road ahead, not wanting the truck to slide on the icy roads, although he did glance at Liz, who was staring out of the window still holding the Toy Freddy plush.

Travis wanted to say something, anything to get what happened at the pizzeria out of their minds, but he couldn't find anything to say. That is, until Liz finally spoke in a quiet tone. "Do you think Bruce and the other guys will be alright?"

Travis gave her a warm smile, "If I know those guys, then yeah. Bruce is a pretty strong guy who can take care of himself, if they were in a ditch, he'd be calling me." He chuckled at that last statement.

Liz sighed and hugged the plush bear tightly.

"You really like that plushie, do you?" Travis asked, which Liz nodded "Toy Foxy gave it to me."

Travis nodded and the noticed the building up ahead, "Well, we're home." What was strange for where they live was in fact a pizzeria of their own, well, a pizzeria with apartments above the building itself.

Travis stopped the truck and nodded to Liz, who opened the door. The sign of 'Fazbear Funland' above the front door was a nice greeting for Liz, she felt safe in this pizzeria, it was not only her home, but a place where she worked as a waitress.

Travis became the manager after the last one sadly passed away from old age. Travis along with Bruce built the apartments sortly after he got the job. There were three sets of apartments, one was for Travis, the second was for Liz, and the last one was Bruce and his wife Lillian's.

When they walked in the building the place was dark, and standing by the dest was Lillian, who walked over to the pair.

"You're back, how was it? And where's Bruce?" Lillian asked, Travis bit his lip, "Yeah... Bruce's a little late and well..." He paused, "Can you take Liz to her apartment?"

Lillian looked worried, "Um, ok dear, but what's going on?" Travis sighed, "Bruce and I will explain later Lil, right now, I need to wait for Bruce at the back door."

Lillian nodded as if she understand, "Ok Travis, but you two better explain to me in the meantime." She turned to Liz, who was shivering from both the cold and the fear. "Liz? You look cold, how about you get into the bath and into some warm pjs, I'll make some hot cocoa if you like."

Liz nodded, "Sounds good." Both women left to the apartments, Travis sighed as he headed towards the back room.

...

"Goldie? Hey, Goldie wake up."

The golden bear animatronic moaned in his sleep as he heard his best friend Springtrap. "Trap?" The golden bear yawned, "What time is it?"

Springtrap rolled his eyes at the nickname but answered, "I just saw Travis, looks like he's back."

This caught Goldie by surprise, "Wait, he's back from the other pizzeria?" He then look at the clock, it read 12 A.M. "Weren't they suposse to be back a few hours ago?"

Springtrap nodded, "Yeah, at 8 P.M., that's what Bruce said. I wonder what's going on?"

Both Goldie (Golden Freddy) and Springtrap have been restored to thier glory with new clean golden suits and tell stories to the children. Springtrap's right ear has been stitched up by Lillian herself (though it was still cut in half), while Goldie had his eyes replaced, instead of black with white pupils they were now baby blue eyes.

"I think something's wrong, what's Travis doing in the backroom?" Goldie asked, which Trap was about to reply when voices followed by Bruce and the boys were passing by with some large crates on small carts.

But what caught both the golden animatronics by surprise was what in Travis's cart, an near broken animatronic bear.

"What was that?" Springtrap asked, watching as Travis and the others went to the parts and service room.

Golden Freddy only shook his head, "I'm not sure, but from what I can tell, those were the toy animatronics from the pizzeria that Bruce, Travis, and Liz went. And did you see that bear?"

Springtrap nodded in agreement, "Yeah, did you see how badly it looked?" Goldie nod and both bear and bunny went to follow.

...

Bruce and the others were working really hard trying to fix up the broken toy bear while Travis was looking over at the other toys. Goldie and Springtrap peeked from a corner, trying to be quiet while watching the event before them.

"Wonder why the toys are here?" Trap whispered to Goldie, who was watching as Bruce and one of the men (whose name was Thomas) opening up the toy bear to the endoskeleton.

"Not sure."

As the bear said this Bruce and Thomas both held the battered and broken endo from the toy bear, this caused everyone in the room to go quiet.

"Thomas, you got that extra Toy Freddy endo you found?" Bruce asked in a grim tone. Thomas nodded, "Yeah, this was the only one that I could find, boss." This caused Bruce to shake his head in disbeilf.

"I... I can't believe this... Why would Scott do this to an animatronic?"

Thomas, Travis, and the rest of the men nodded, "I say it's cruel." Thomas said, while another man (Nick) replyed, "It's disgraceful." And they began to talk at once.

"Ok, enough!" Bruce shouted, which hushed up everyone in the room, "I know what Scott did was... Unforgettable... But we need to fix up Toy Freddy and give a life that never got to have."

Everyone agreed and went back to their jobs.

From their corner Goldie and Springtrap looked at each other, "So, what do you think?" Trap asked, which Goldie shook his head, "We'll go and tell the others, I don't think there's anything we can do at the moment."

...

Freddy Fazbear was the first to wake up from sleep mode, he was both confused and surprise that the main room was quiet. "Shouldn't Bruce, Travis, and Liz be back from the other pizzeria?" He said out loud which woke up Bonnie the Bunny.

"What? They're not back yet?" Bonnie yawned as he glanced at the clock, "It's 12:30."

"And they were suposse to be back at 8," Freddy turned to his best friend, "Must've got held up in the storm or something?"

Bonnie was about to reply when Goldie and Springtrap walking in the main room, both had mixed looks on their faces.

Springtrap was worried while Goldie had a look of anger. "Brother? What's the matter?" Freddy asked as both he and Bonnie stepped down from their stage.

"Freddy, Bonnie, I need you two to go and get both Foxy and Chica, there's something that both Trap and I need to talk to you all." Goldie said.

Both Freddy and Bonnie looked at each other and then went to wake up both Chica and Foxy. Soon all six animatronics were sitting at a table, Goldie sighed. "Bruce and Travis are in the parts and service room, I assume that Liz went to bed because she wasn't with them."

Freddy nodded, "I was wondering about that, but what's going on? Why are they in there?" Goldie shook his head, "Listen, this might be a shock for you but Travis and Bruce brought the toy animatronics from the pizzeria that they were visiting from."

"What?" Chica asked with a shocked look on her face, Foxy growled "They be replacing us?"

"No they will not Foxy." All six saw Travis walking in, a grim look on his face. "Travis! We all thought you and the others were trapped in the storm?!" Foxy exclaimed, Travis smiled and grabbed himself a chair, "Yeah sorry about scaring you guys, we had a few... issues to deal with."

"Where's Liz? Ain't she with you guys?" Springtrap asked. This caused Travis to freeze, his smile was now gone.

"Travis...? Is Liz ok?" Bonnie asked with a worry tone, Travis shook his head. "No." As he said that, he was trying hard not to cry. "She's not going to be ok Bonnie, she's with Lillian right now because..."

He fell silent as Goldie stared at the man, "Something... happened... Didn't it?"

Travis nodded, "We were supposed to have a good time, to get Liz to smile again, but then..." He shook his head again.

"What happened?" Foxy asked, he had a feeling that he knew but didn't want to be right. There was a long pause before Travis wiped his eyes and took a deep breath, "Liz... She almost was attacked by Scott."

All six animatronics looked shocked as Travis said this. Freddy can only shake his head, "Then... Why are the toys here? What happened to Scott?"

Travis sighed as he explained, "Scott's going to prison, along with the workers who work for him. As for the toys, well, it's because we had to take them. Bruce and some of the guys are fixing up one of them, apparently Scott and the other toys have been bullying and toturing him for months."

"I knew it." Goldie said, "I knew there was something wrong, it was Toy Freddy, was it?" Travis nodded. "You and Bruce were pushing those crates into the parts and service room, and I believe that Toy Freddy was the only one without one." Springtrap said, which Travis nodded again.

"But what I gathered, only the Puppet and Toy Foxy were not part of the bullying, they both were only trying to protect Toy Freddy."

"So only Toy Bonnie, Toy Me, and Balloon Boy did this, as well as Scott?" Chica asked, which Travis nodded, "Yes Chica."

Just then Bruce came into the room, angering talking on his cell phone. From what Travis and the animatronics can tell, Bruce must have been calling the factory who made the animatronics.

And he was complety pissed.

After hanging up, Bruce cursed under his breath. Travis went over to him, concrened. "Boss, everything ok?"

The older man shook his head, "No, but I was right though," this caused Travis to raise an eyebrow. "About what?"

Bruce sighed, "Scott must've told those bastards to stop making endos and voice boxes for Toy Freddy."

"What?"

"We managed to save the last endo from there, but not a new voice box. I'm afraid that Toy Freddy's going to be mute until we get a new voice box."

Everyone gasped.