Ch 10

Unravel my Reality

Freddy sat there, taking in the darkness of the parts room. He waited, knowing the time was near. The clock chimed midnight. Freddy picked his hat off the ground and dusted it off. He looked through the pitch black room and saw two red lights appear. Bonnie stretched his arms. The harsh glow of his eyes barely illuminated the room. Chica raised her head and stared at the small group. Bonnie began to laugh. It slowly became louder and echoed throughout the room.

"They're gone!" he yelled happily, "They are out, fired, kaput, terminated!" Bonnie jumped to his feet and began to dance out of the room. Freddy stared at him during his entire jubilant exit. He had never really hated them exactly, but they were often a nuisance. Chica rolled her eyes and headed down the party room corridor. Freddy glanced over to Foxy. The pirate hadn't moved yet. He just sat there, not moving nor blinking. He just stared out the parts room door as he had been all day. Freddy started for the door but he looked back at Foxy's eyes. The yellow glass that framed them was full of new cracks.

The puppet pulled open the plastic casing that lined his fabric body. He placed a wooden rod into his broken leg. He surveyed the others. Toy Bonnie sat in the grass barely attempting to fix himself. Toy Freddy leaned on a rock and stared sightlessly up at the night sky. His hat was caved in and most of the bulk that made up his suit was broken. Toy Chica tossed away her beak and pulled the bits of broken eye from her socket. But the Mangle... Toy Foxy... she was far from repaired. She was better than she was but over half the pieces that had constructed her were trashed. There were hardly any pieces of her suit intact.

"This is your fault..." Toy Chica muttered. Balloon kids looked over to her and hid behind the marionette.

"Whom are you addressing?" Toy Freddy inquired. Toy Chica clenched her fists and threw the plastic cupcake at Toy Foxy, knocking off her ear.

"That thing!" Toy Chica screamed. "This is all your fault!" Toy Foxy turned her gaze to the ground. Toy Chica's metal teeth grated against each other.

"If you hadn't killed that guard, we'd still be home!" she cried. Toy Chica shook Mangle back and forth furiously. Toy Foxy tried to speak but all that came out was static.

"She didn't kill him!" the puppet snapped. Chica glared at him.

"No, the blood loss did!" she shrieked. The Balloon kids covered their eyes and began to whimper.

"Now Chica, don't you think you're going a bit too far?" asked Toy Freddy.

"You don't get a say in this!" Toy Chica hissed. "She and you were the ones they didn't hate as much!" Toy Freddy blinked in surprise. Bonnie's remaining ear perked up.

"She was given a pass because she got broken!" Toy Chica cried, "You were just like the other Freddy so they liked you!" Mangle's eyes began to fill with cracks. The Balloon kids held on to the puppet's legs.

"And what did we get!?" Chica yelled, "We were pushed aside and treated like junk!"

"Enough of this Chica! Please just stop!" Balloon Girl screamed. The marionette looked down at the kids. As Toy Chica turned around, a shard of glass fell from her remaining eye. Toy Freddy removed his hat and held the broken prop to his heart, if he had one.

"I-i I'm s-so sorry-y" Toy Foxy croaked. Chica covered her eyes and began to sob. The puppet scanned the streets. The signs were familiar. He gave the Balloon kids an old stuffed animal and dashed down the street. Toy Bonnie looked at him until he vanished into the fog.

"Okay, this next song is called, "I can see clearly now the junk is gone!" Bonnie stood on the stage. He had been singing for the past hour. Freddy sat in a folding chair, forced to listen to every out of tune note. Chica had been trying to mess with the kitchen but all the supplies were gone.

"Bonnie, could you please take a break?" Freddy asked.

Bonnie stopped singing and looked at him. He raised his hand and rasped a static

"No!" The scratchy sound of butchered songs resumed. Chica took one step into the room and promptly left just as fast.

"Take me with you...," Freddy muttered. Bonnie began to dance along with his song.

" And while they burn I think I'll enjoy some pizza, and after that I'll ... " He was interrupted by a large phone hitting him in the head. It was the phone the humans had mounted to the wall. Bonnie turned to the hall and saw Foxy standing there. His eyes were cold and the glass had almost completely fallen of them.

"If you sing one more word, I'll mount your circuits on the wall" Foxy growled. Bonnie's motors whirred as he tried to raise a nonexistent eyebrow.

" One more word " Bonnie mocked. Foxy lunged at the purple rabbit. He dug his hook into Bonnie's lower jaw and began tugging on it. Freddy jumped on stage and tried to pull the two of them apart. Chica raced into the room and stared at the scene. The sound of a door slamming caught their attention. They all turn to the front entrance. There in the door, stood a rain drenched puppet with a crooked leg.

"I think it's time I had a word with you four"

"Did he abandon us?" Toy Bonnie asked. Toy Freddy shook his head. They were all perched on the rocks, using pieces of scrap to shield them from the rain.

"M-m-maybe hhhhhe went-t for he-help" Mangle hoped. The Balloon kids huddled under the shell of their plastic balloons.

"Is he coming back?" Balloon boy held back a sob. Toy Freddy patted him on the back.

"I'm sure he will, kid."

"Wait... they're alive?... oh well, as long as they aren't here," Bonnie grumbled.

"The new crew is ship shape?" Foxy breathed a sigh of relief. They were gathered in the empty game room. Even the endo was there.

"So, how are we all supposed to get there?" Freddy inquired. The puppet rubbed his forehead, deep in thought.

"What about Dan's car?" Chica asked. They all gawked at her.

"Is it sill in the drive way?" Bonnie asked. The group peeked outside and saw the small van parked in the corner of the lot.

"I will drive," the endo said. They all looked incredulously at it.

"Raise your hand if you knew it talked," Bonnie muttered quietly.

"Forget that," the marionette chimed in. "Me and him will go. You all stay here!"

The Mangle rubbed her teeth. The old red and brown dust flaked off them and blew away in the wind. She didn't want this to happen. She just wanted to be done with it. But why didn't it help them?

"Everyone duck!" Toy Freddy hissed. They all crouched down behind the rocks and waited for a car to pass by. Toy Bonnie's ear tucked back behind his head as he peeked over the boulder.

"Um guys, I think he's back," he called out happily. The gang scrambled out into the open and saw a sight that made them all smile. The puppet was there in the van. The endo waved from the driver's seat.

"Everyone in!" the marionette called. "We're going home!" They all packed into the van, tucking the rear seats down for space. The Mangle grabbed onto the roof and the Balloon kids began messing with the radio.

"Are we safe?" Toy Bonnie asked worriedly. The puppet nodded. Toy Freddy placed his tattered hat back on his head.

"I take it they weren't too happy to find out we aren't scrap?" he wondered.

"You'd be surprised," the marionette laughed.

Bonnie stood at the entrance of the pizzeria, holding an old book in his hands.

"What's that you have there?" Freddy asked. Bonnie shrugged.

"Just some book. Old metal bones dropped it on the way out," he handed it to Freddy.

"The autobiography of a yogi?" Freddy puzzled. The cover was a faded green and the pages were worn. Freddy flipped to a page that had been bookmarked.

"It is lamentable that the mass agricultural development is not speeded by fuller use of your marvelous mechanisms?" Freddy read aloud. The page went on for awhile about laboratory plant experiments.

"Why would it have this?" he asked.