Freddy, Chica, and Foxy finally had the slaughterhouse in sight. It stood at the edge of the woods, just invisible from the nearby road due to the trees; the only way one could find it would be to already know where it was. The building itself was tall and decrepit with rusted metal walls and a tall barbed wire fence surrounding it. Several KEEP OUT and NO TRESPASSING signs covered the fence, but the now brown walls of the slaughterhouse itself were still littered with graffiti, some of which had probably been there for 20 or 30 years.

The trio had approached the building from the woods themselves, using the map BB gave them as a guide. They each wore a long, all black shirt and pants as well as three ski masks that Chica had gotten from her workplace. In their backpacks they each carried a flashlight and radio they could use if necessary, as they didn't get cell service out here. They also each had a metal baseball bat hanging from their backpacks and a few baseballs in the bags for melee and ranged weapons, while Freddy had a first aid kit he had stolen from the infirmary. He had feigned illness during his seminar that day, and used the opportunity to take several basic medical supplies from the infirmary while the nurse was out of the room.

Once they reached the fence, the three split up to look for any holes big enough for a person to fit through. Freddy went left and Chica went right, while Foxy stayed in the middle so he could see both the bear and the chicken. The plan was that once Freddy or Chica found a hole, they would flash their light twice at Foxy; Foxy would then be the one to climb through, because he was the skinniest of the three of them. The trio planned to complete the operation as silently as possible, not wanting to alert anyone who may be guarding the building of their presence; the radios and weapons they had brought were only if they absolutely needed them, since they knew they wouldn't stand a chance in a fire fight.

After Freddy and Chica went their separate ways to look for an opening, Foxy used this time alone to ponder his identity. In the past several weeks, he had come to the conclusion that he had no idea who he was, and Bonnie's kidnapping had only served to confuse him more. He had always thought that he might be gay, seeing as he had never been interested in girls, at least not romantically. As he had told Chica and Freddy, he had dated one girl in high school starting his junior year. She was a friend of Foxy's, an Anthro German shepherd named Katie; Foxy had asked her to homecoming, yet he only had the intention of going as friends. Katie, however, had interpreted Foxy's proposal as a romantic gesture, which she happily accepted; not wanting to upset her, Foxy just sort of went with it, and the two began "officially" dating shortly after the dance.

Foxy was snapped out of his thoughts when he saw a light flash twice about 20 yards to his left; Freddy had found a hole in the fence. Foxy quickly jogged over to where Freddy was standing, and they were shortly joined by Chica.

Freddy pointed his light down at the ground, gesturing to a small hole at the bottom of the fence that was just big enough for Foxy to slide through. Foxy nodded and removed his backpack and taking out a pair of pliers he kept in the glove box of his car. He put the pliers in his mouth and crouched down, preparing to crawl through the hole.

The red fox had almost cleared the fence when the base of his tail snagged on the barbed wire. He let out a small yelp, dropping the pliers, before quickly covering his mouth, yellow eyes wide with horror. He lay there silently, using his canine ears to listen for anyone that may have heard him.

Satisfied after several seconds of silence, Foxy leaned back and unstuck his tail before picking up the pliers with his mouth again and finally passing completely through the fence. Staying on all fours, the fox quickly darted to his left, towards the main gate of the fence. Freddy and Chica followed along the other side of the fence, though they were barely able to keep up; Foxy was fast.

When he finally reached the gate, he stood up and removed the pliers from his mouth, while Chica shined her flashlight on the gate. The gate had a large, industrial metal chain around it, tied off by a lock that had long since lost its key. Fortunately, much of the chain was rusted, and destroying it was simply a matter of finding the weakest link. After several minutes of searching with the help of Chica's flashlight, Foxy finally found a bent link that was already almost completely destroyed already. He placed the pliers around the thinnest part of the chain and squeezed. He heard a loud *pop* as the link snapped, allowing Foxy to slowly remove the chain from the fence, not wanting to make any more noise.

Once the chain was on the ground, Freddy pushed open the gate allowing himself and Chica to pass through and join Foxy. Freddy handed Foxy his bag, and the three of them then made their way towards the entrance of the building.


Ted was pacing around his room nervously. He had been instructed to wait for Foxy, since he would have to come back to their room at some point. However, it was midnight, and Ted had been waiting for almost 6 hours. Just as he was about to give up, Ted's phone rang. The small bear checked the caller ID to see that it was Chelsea. Ted pushed the green button labeled Answer and put the phone up to his ear.

"Hey, have you seen Foxy yet?" The chicken's voice was uneasy.

"No, I haven't. I've been waiting for about 6 hours now." Ted responded, "I'm guessing you haven't seen Chica either?"

"Yeah..." the bird responded, "Should we call Brad?"

"No." Ted replied flatly. "There's no reason to get him involved."

Ted was aware of Brad's plan to make Foxy feel vulnerable. The plan was to get Bonnie away from Foxy for a few hours on Tuesday, which was when Ted would try again to get Bonnie alone. However, Foxy didn't become vulnerable and defenseless as Brad had planned; the red fox had instead become brash and aggressive, blocking out everyone else, especially Ted. Things got worse when Bonnie stayed missing for a few days after that; Ted voiced his concern to Brad, yet the blue rabbit had simply said it was all part of the plan. Now, the fact that Foxy and Chica had both gone missing today as well had Ted worried. Was this really part of the plan?

"Well," Chelsea responded after a few seconds, "if they're not back by morning, I'm calling the police. Bonnie's been gone for three days now. I don't care if this is part of Brad's plan."

Ted sighed. Chelsea was right, but he still didn't want to seem weak in Brad's eyes. Becoming a brother of Tau Alpha Nu was all that he had for him at the moment, but he was starting to wonder if Brad's intentions were more sinister than they seemed.


Freddy pulled off his mask once he, Foxy, and Chica got inside the slaughterhouse. They were standing in the middle of a long hallway that was pitch black; the only source of light was Freddy's flashlight. The bear pulled out the blueprint that Foxy had procured from the library and shined his flashlight on in.

"We're right here," the bear whispered as he pointed to a small room at the bottom of the map, "and Bonnie is likely being held here."

Freddy pointed to a room in the back of the building.

"What makes you say that?" Chica asked, removing her own mask.

"That's the one room with locking doors according to the building plans," Freddy responded, "so they're most likely keeping him there for extra security. But in reality, he could be anywhere in here. If he's even in here at all."

"Well we can't waste any time arguing about it." Foxy piped up as he ripped his mask off, "I say we split up and each take a different path before meeting up at that room."

"Absolutely not," Freddy countered, furrowing his brow, "We're unprepared enough as it is, if we go anywhere alone then we don't stand a chance. At least right now, we may have strength in numbers."

"Who put you in charge?" Foxy snapped at the bear.

"Well, excuse me for being the one rational person here." Freddy replied, raising his voice slightly.

Foxy let out a low growl, clearly frustrated with Freddy's self-proclaimed role as leader. Freddy growled back, bearing his teeth slightly. Chica quickly stepped in between the two.

"Look, you two can fight for power later," she began sternly, "but right now, we need to focus on saving my brother. Freddy's right, we need to stick together. I say we start by heading-"

She stopped speaking suddenly when she heard a door open at the end of the hallway. The three of them looked at each other in a panic before running to a supply closet on the opposite end of the hallway as the opening door. Thankfully, it was unlocked, so Freddy turned off his flashlight before he, Chica, and Foxy crowded inside and shut the door.

They heard footsteps further down the hallway get closer for several seconds, but they suddenly stopped. After a few seconds of silence, they heard a radio switch on.

"Hey, boss," they heard a male voice say, "we have a problem."

"What is it? I'm busy!" they heard the other voice of the radio snap. Freddy looked wide eyed at his friends, who stared back in realization; there was no mistaking it, it was definitely Dr. Nero's voice.

"I heard some voices by the entrance so I came to investigate," the man answered, "When I got here I found three ski masks on the floor. I think we have guests."

Freddy's face paled. The masks. They must have dropped them when they heard the man coming.

They heard a metallic *clang* from the radio speaker, followed by a loud *thud*.

"I was afraid this would happen. I'll bet it's that Fazbear kid and his friends. Ok, I'll be right out. Keep an eye on Bonnie for me while I handle it."

The radio clicked off and the trio heard the footsteps get further away. After about 10 seconds of silence, Freddy slowly opened the door. Foxy tried to jump out and chase after the man, but he was stopped by Chica grabbing him by the waist.

"You idiot!" Chica whispered sharply as she held on to the fox, "You'll blow our cover."

"He's going to where Bonnie is being held!" Foxy snapped back as he unsuccessfully attempted to break free of Chica's grip.

"They already know we're here, so why does it matter?"

"Because they don't know exactly where we are yet," Freddy responded as he pointed the flashlight down the hallway, "and that still gives us a slight advantage."

Freddy began walking down the hallway, away from where the man had gone; Chica and Foxy followed him, albeit the latter much more reluctantly.


Bonnie woke up to find himself once again tied to the chair. He tried to inhale, but was met instead with a sharp pain in his muzzle; his nose was still broken from when Nero had knocked him out of the chair earlier.

The purple rabbit was just about to pass out again when he heard Nero's voice behind him.

"Hold still. This will be be much less painful if you do."

Bonnie didn't have time to think before being quickly turned around in the chair he was sitting in. He came face to face with Nero, who held a large, serrated knife in his jet black paw.

"W-what are you going to do to me?" Bonnie asked weakly as his eyes drooped; he could barely stay conscious for a few minutes at a time anymore.

"By now, they will have realized that you're missing," Nero answered as he spun the knife around in his paw, "so I intend to inform the University of my demands, as well as my current hostage situation. That's why I'm going to cut off your ear and send it to them."

Bonnie grew pale. Cut off his ear?! Even though Bonnie had no idea how long he had been held here, it couldn't have been more than a few days. Even still, Nero's mental state seemed to have severely degraded in that time; he had gone from feeding Bonnie to threatening to cut his ear off.

Nero licked his knife maniacally as he approached the smaller rabbit, causing Bonnie to panic even more.

"W-wait!" Bonnie pleaded desperately, tears filling his eyes. "Why do you need to cut off my ear. Surely you could just send a photo, or some of my fur, or something. P-please..."

"I need to prove that I'm serious." Nero hissed as he brought the knife up to the base of Bonnie's right ear. "I cannot show any weakness. I must prove how far I am willing to go. They won't be able to ignore me now."

Nero moved the knife up and down Bonnie's ear, looking for the best place to cut. All the while he did this, he had a look in his eye that somehow made him look even more insane than he already was. Bonnie closed his eyes, expecting the worse pain of his life...

But it never came.

Just before Nero was about to chop, the radio on his belt clicked on. Nero groaned as he picked it up and pushed the button on the side.

"Hey boss, we have a problem."

"What is it?" Nero snapped into the radio mic as he lowered the knife. "I'm busy."

"I heard some voices by the entrance so I came to investigate. When I got here I found three ski masks on the floor. I think we have guests."

Nero through the knife of the ground, making a metallic *clang* and kicked over Bonnie's chair in anger. The purple rabbit hit the ground with a *thud*, his head colliding with cement floor.

"I was afraid this would happen. I'll bet its that Fazbear kid and his friends." Nero grumbled in the mic before turning towards the doorway to leave. "Ok, I'll be right out. Keep an eye on Bonnie for me while I handle it."

He clicked the radio off and glared at Bonnie one more time before leaving.

"Try anything funny and you'll lose much worse than your ear."

The black rabbit stormed out of the room and slammed the door behind him.

Laying on the ground, Bonnie breathed a sigh of relief. By some stroke of luck, he had managed to avoid having his ear cut off in the nick of time because someone was here to rescue him. And from the sound of it, it was probably Freddy, Chica, and Foxy. As Bonnie pondered this, his vision become fuzzy. He must have gotten a concussion from hitting the ground so hard just a moment ago. He thought about their faces one more time before drifting back into unconsciousness.


"Get down!" Freddy hissed as he, Foxy, and Chica dove behind some crates.

The three of them had followed the path on the right in order to get to the back room. However, just as they entered a small storage room, they heard the opposite door open. Fortunately, there were enough crates and boxes for them to hide behind before they could be spotted.

"Come out, come out, wherever you are~" they heard a voice say, almost sing. "I'm not gonna hurt you. Much."

The trio recognized the voice of Dr. Nero, but something seemed...off about it. It was happy, yet somehow nervous at the same time.

Foxy went to stand up, clearly with the intention of attack the black rabbit, but Freddy held him down. He shook his head at him silently. This was not the time to get rash; they were only two rooms away from where Bonnie was probably being held.

After several seconds of Nero walking around the room, he began to approach the crates where the three college students were hiding, forcing them to look for an escape route in panic.

Fortunately, it was dark enough that the black rabbit wouldn't be able to see them unless he was right in front of them. Having been in a similar situation with Bonnie and Foxy just earlier that week, Chica knew how to distract Dr. Nero long enough to get away. She reached into her bag and pulled out a baseball, tossing it out of the room and down the hallway from which they had come.

The ball bounced loudly on the concrete floors before rolling away. The professor turned his head and followed the noise, walking out of the room. Wasting no time, Chica, followed by Freddy and Foxy, quickly stood up and slipped through the other door.

However, just when it seemed they were in the clear, Foxy's bat swung from his bag and collided with the metal door with a loud *clang*.

Almost instantly, the three of them were flooded in light from behind. They turned around to see Dr. Nero pointing a flashlight at them, a look of absolute fury in his eyes.

"What the hell are you three doing here!" he shouted at them as he advanced, pulling out a knife.

"Run!" Freddy screamed, but as soon as they tried to run away from the black rabbit, they were grabbed by three men; a large black-haired human man held Freddy's wrists behind him, an Anthro horse placed one hoof over Chica's beak and the other around her neck, and an Anthro pig had grabbed Foxy from behind, pinning the fox's elbows to his chest.

The black rabbit approached the three students and inspected them carefully.

"Dr. Nero, why are you doing this?" Freddy cried, trying to pull free. "Where's Bonnie?"

"Drop the 'Dr'. I'm not even a real professor." Nero spat in Freddy's face. "I would have thought that at least you'd be smart enough to figure that out by now, Freddy, unlike your idiotic purple friend."

Foxy snarled at this, but was met with a knee to his back by the bovine that was holding on to him. He fell to his knees before the pig kicked him in the back of the head; the fox collapsed to the floor, unmoving.

"The thing is, I have certain goals that I wish to meet regarding our social structure." Nero explained as he began to pace, "You recall my feelings about human-Anthro integration that I shared in the first week? Well, as I said, integration is impossible in my eyes, and I plan to eradicate it here at the university. They've refused to listen to me up until now, but with the proper leverage, I'm certain they won't refuse my offer. And fortunately for me, there are several humans in the area who share my world view, which is why we have formed a temporary alliance; we have the exact same end goal."

"But, Nero," Freddy began, still struggling to get free, "even if you don't want us to live with humans, what will segregating the university even do to accomplish that? There are still hundreds of thousands of humans and Anthros that live together all over the country, not to mention the rest of the world. What difference will it make if one college is segregated or not?"

"Because this college was founded as a beacon of false hope." Nero responded, "If people realize that integration is even impossible here, then they will finally understand that we should stop fooling ourselves into thinking it's possible anywhere else."

Chica, meanwhile, had finally managed to get her beak free, though the horse kept a firm grip on her neck.

"But, why Bonnie?" Chica asked fearfully, "he's never done anything to hurt anyone. Why did you choose him?"

"Two reasons," Nero answered matter-of-factly, "First, I knew that he wouldn't put up much of a fight, seeing as how weak he is. Second, my employer instructed me to get him out of the way for a few hours."

Employer? Freddy thought to himself. What employer?

"Why?" Freddy asked hesitantly, before wincing as the man twisted his wrists.

"He didn't say, but I didn't ask." Nero responded with a shrug. "Didn't really matter to me, to be honest. All I knew was that, if there was ever an opportunity to carry out my plan, now was the time. I could kill two birds with one stone; if I kidnapped Bonnie, then I would get all the resources I need as reward for helping him, and also the hostage I needed for my own plan.

"But YOU!" the black rabbit suddenly grew angry, "You decided to come here and ruin my plans! You could have completely jeopardized my entire operation. You decided that saving your precious Bonnie was more important than fixing our society."

"Fixing our society?!" Chica asked incredulously, "You're talking about going back to the days where discrimination was commonplace and regressing our society by almost half a century! Do you really think things would be better if you go through with this?"

"Shut up, don't act like you understand this!" Nero screamed as he slapped Chica in the face, causing Freddy to try and break free again, "You have no idea what it's like to see-"

Nero suddenly stopped speaking and collapsed to the ground as a loud *clang* was heard. Foxy stood behind him with his bat; he had managed to quietly grab it and sneak behind Nero when he has talking, as the fox had feigned unconsciousness when he fell moments earlier.

Freddy and Chica used this opportunity to fight back as well, as the henchmen were still caught off guard by Foxy's sudden attack. Freddy twisted his body slightly to allow himself to kick the human in the stomach, who promptly let go of Freddy's wrists. Freddy grabbed his bat and hit the pig who had been holding Foxy in the head, while Chica bit down on the hoof of the horse who had just tried to cover her beak again. The horse cried out in pain, while Foxy hit the equine in the face with his bat. With Nero and his henchmen finally subdued, Freddy, Chica, and Foxy sprinted through the door, desperate to get Bonnie and get out of there before they woke up.


Meanwhile, Bonnie had woken up from hearing all of the commotion two rooms over. His chair had been repositioned so that he was upright once again, and facing the doorway. After hearing several shouts and a sounds of metal on concrete, the henchman guarding the rabbit, an Anthro snake, went to investigate, unaware that his prisoner had woken up again.

The reptile cautiously walked across the room, bearing a pair of small knives. Just as he opened the door, however, he was met with a baseball to the face, thrown by Freddy. A loud crack was heard and the reptile fell to the ground clutching his face and screaming in agony.

Freddy, Chica, and Foxy burst into the room, looking around for Bonnie desperately.

"BONNIE!" Chica cried when she saw her brother, and the three of them sprinted towards the purple rabbit tied to the chair.

"Oh my God..." Foxy whispered when he shined his light on him.

Bonnie was in bad shape. His face was covered in several bruises and cuts, and he had a bad gash on the top of his head that looked infected. One of his ears had a long cut from base to tip that looked like it had been deliberately made. The rabbit's light muzzle was bent at an odd angle, and the barely conscious rabbit was wheezing. Bonnie's already thin face was now even more boney and pale; he looked like he had been starved. His once-purple fur was now a macabre shade of red as a result of being drenched in his own blood.

Bonnie coughed weakly before looking at the source of the light.

"F-foxy..." he croaked as his eyelids drooped, "Chica. Freddy. Y-you guys came for me..."

Chica knelt down beside her brother while Freddy went to untie the ropes that bound the rabbit to the chair.

"Of course we did, Bon Bon," the bird whispered has she placed a wing on the rabbit's knee. "Your my baby brother, I couldn't bear to let anything happen to you."

"Here, let me see that cut of yours." Freddy said as he finally pulled the ropes off of Bonnie's wrists, allowing his paws to dangle at his sides. "Foxy, give my more light."

Foxy obliged, still shocked at the state Bonnie was in. Freddy pulled the first aid kit out of his backpack before inspecting the gash on the top of Bonnie's head and his ear.

"Yeah, it's definitely infected." Freddy confirmed as he pulled a rag and a large bottle of rubbing alcohol out of the kit. "We need to get you to a hospital as soon as we get out of here, but I'm going to try to stop it from getting any worse in the meantime. Hold still, this is gonna hurt."

Bonnie cried out in pain as Freddy rubbed the disinfectant on his forehead. Freddy winced; it was worse than he thought. He had to work fast.

Foxy, meanwhile, knelt down by Bonnie and took Bonnie's paw in his own free one.

"Don't focus on the pain Bonnie," Foxy tried to soothe the rabbit, "Just focus on the sound of my voice."

"N-nero. H-he..." Bonnie whimpered.

"Yes, we ran into him. He told us everything." Foxy replied as he tightened his grip on Bonnie's paw. "But we're going to the police once we get you out of here. He'll end up behind bars, he won't be able to hurt you or anyone else anymore. I promise."

Bonnie tried to nod, but winced in pain again.

"Hold still." Freddy commanded as he finished disinfecting the gash on his forehead and picked up a bandage.

"Listen, Bonnie," Foxy spoke again after a few seconds, "I know this may not be the best time, but there's something I need to tell you."

Foxy sighed before continuing.

"I l-"

"YOU!"

Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy turned their heads to the doorway to see Nero standing there holding a large, bloody butcher's knife in his right paw that he had likely found somewhere in the slaughterhouse.

"Freddy, we need to go!" Chica cried.

"I need to tend to these wounds first, Chica!" Freddy replied as he finished tying the bandage around Bonnie's forehead. "Foxy, go stall Nero. Chica, give me some light."

Chica nodded before standing up and shining her flashlight on Bonnie's ear, still holding his paw with her other wing.

Foxy looked sadly at Bonnie for a moment before turning off his own flashlight and facing Nero. As soon as he locked eyes with the black rabbit, all of the emotions that he felt as a result of Bonnie's kidnapping and torture came crashing down on him. The concern when Bonnie didn't show up for lunch on Wednesday. The fear when Foxy learned his life was in danger. The rage at seeing the man he loved tortured and starved by an unstable madman who simply saw him as an expendable pawn in his insane plans. He gave a vicious, feral growl before charging at Nero on all fours, snarling and bearing his fangs. He had no intention of simply stalling Nero; he was aiming to kill.

Unfortunately, Nero had the same intention. All of his work was riding on this one moment, and he wasn't about to let some 18 year old pests ruin his plans. The rabbit swung his butcher's knife at Foxy, but the young fox was too quick. He attempted to sink his teeth into Nero leg, but Nero, being a rabbit, managed to jump out of the way. The black rabbit landed on Foxy's back, stopping him mid lunge, and attempted to bring the cleaver down on his neck. Foxy, however, sunk his claws into Nero's left leg, causing him to drop the knife; it clattered away from the two fighting Anthros.

"Freddy, hurry up!" Chica pleaded, "I don't know how much longer Foxy can hold out against Nero."

Having just cleaned the wound on Bonnie's ear, Freddy dropped the bottle on the ground, which shattered, spilling rubbing alcohol all over the floor.

"Just give me about 10 more seconds." Freddy responded as he pulled the final bandage out of his bag.

Chica looked over at Foxy and Nero. Nero had managed to get the knife back, and was attempting to use it on Foxy; the red fox was still managing to dodge, but Nero was getting closer and closer with each swing. Foxy yelped in pain when one swing connected with his right paw, leaving a deep gash and sending blood spattering everywhere. However, Foxy had managed to lure Nero away from the door, leaving and escape route for Freddy, Bonnie, and Chica.

"Freddy!" Chica screamed.

"Done!" Freddy announced, zipping up his bag. "Come on, help me carry him. He's too heavy for me to lift on my own."

Chica nodded and lifted on of Bonnie's arms over her shoulder, while Freddy did the same. Freddy looked back at Foxy, who was moving much slowly now that he couldn't place his right paw on the ground.

"Foxy, let's go!" Freddy called out, but Foxy still still too engaged with Nero to notice, now being more aggressive and biting at the black rabbit.

"FOXY!" Chica screamed, louder this time.

Foxy looked over at Freddy and Chica, the same look of rage in his eyes as when he was fighting.

"You guys get Bonnie out of here!" Foxy yelled back, although with a new degree of aggression in his voice that Freddy and Chica had every heard. "I'll keep him occupied! I'll be right behind you, I swear."

Freddy and Chica hesitated; Foxy was at a huge disadvantage, being unarmed and injured. They didn't want to leave him alone with Nero.

"GO!" Foxy roared as he lunged at Nero, sinking his sharp fangs into the rabbit's left arm, causing his to scream and drop the knife again.

Freddy and Chica looked at each other uneasily before nodding and carrying Bonnie towards the door; there was no convincing Foxy otherwise, and getting Bonnie to safety had to be their number one priority.

By the time Freddy and Chica had carried Bonnie through the doorway, Foxy had managed to pin Nero down, his good paw clenched around the rabbit's neck. The red fox bared his fangs just inches in front of Nero's forehead.

"You son of a bitch," Foxy spat in Nero's face, "I will make you pay for pay for what you've done."

Nero suddenly began to laugh maniacally, making Foxy squeeze his neck tighter.

"Don't you understand, Foxy?" Nero bragged as he continued to laugh like a maniac, "Neither of us are getting out of here alive."

At that point, he pulled a smaller knife, which he had kept hidden in his right sleeve, and sliced it across Foxy's face, just missing his left eye. Foxy recoiled in pain, allowing Nero to get out from under him. However, instead of going for the cleaver, the rabbit crawled over to the chair.

Foxy, covering his left eye, leaned over to see what Nero was doing. The rabbit pulled out a matchbook and lit a single match before dropping it of the ground. The fire caught caught in the rubbing alcohol that Freddy had spilled earlier, which had now covered most of the floor. Almost instantly, the entire floor caught fire; fortunately, Foxy was far enough towards the edge that the fire stopped about 10 feet from him.

Nero, however, wasn't so lucky. He was right in the middle of the fire when he started it, and had made no effort to get away or protect himself. The black rabbit screamed in agony as the flames licked his skin, igniting his fur and melting chunks of flesh off of his body. Still, in spite of his agony, he seemed to almost be laughing as he burned alive. Not out of humor, but out of relief, relief to no longer live in a world that, in his mind, saw him as inferior.

Foxy meanwhile, had tried to stand up, but was unable to stop coughing. As smoke filled the air, and Foxy's lungs, he began attempting to crawl towards the door with just his injured front right paw, still covering his eye with his left paw. However, as Foxy began to lose more and more oxygen, he began to move slower and slower. As he finally collapsed on the ground of the burning slaughterhouse, he looked back at Nero. He had stopped screaming.

Foxy's last thoughts before darkness overtook him were of Bonnie.

I wish I had told you sooner how much you meant to me. Now, I'll never get the chance.


Author's Note:

Wow guys, so sorry for the super late update! I've been super busy in the past week; I went out of town last weekend and then had exams and final projects before and after that, so I haven't really slept in like 7 days. Anyway, this was a tricky chapter to write, especially since it was kinda tough to get back into the swing of things after not writing at all for so long. That being said, the next few chapters should *fingers crossed* come a little sooner than this one did. :)

And, as always, thank you so much for all of the favorites, follows, and especially the reviews. I do read every review, and it really warms my heart to see all the kind words people have written about my story. To everyone who has left a review (and especially those who have left several): You guys rock! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Anyway, see you guys next chapter!

P.S. - The new image on Scott Cawthon's website gave me a legitimate jump scare when I first saw it. Not sure how I'm going to handle the actual game if that's the case.