Chapter 11: The army from the shadows
After days of meetings, the owners of Fazbear's Land had decided that the restaurant would open again next year, due to some problems with the budget and many complains of many other families. Also, the repairs of the establishment would be prolonged as well due to Nightmare Freddy's rage attack yesterday. The animatronics were delivered to a safehouse where they will remain until Fazbear's Land will be functional again.
This produced an uneasy feeling of discomfort among the originals and the toys, though they were disappointed that they could not bring joy to the children for a while, they were pleased to have enough time to keep training, in order to keep the children safe from future threats.
Fredbear was worried that when they were to be transported to the safehouse, he wondered how Nightmare Freddy will join them. After all, his existence was revealed to the restaurant's staff the day he fought Razor, but they never suspected form him to be hiding in the Parts & Service room. When they were transported, Nightmare Freddy simply teleported to the warehouse to avoid been seen by the staff or any other human.
The following days the routine for the animatronics inside the safehouse is to simply been present when the staff comes to check everything in the mornings. Also, some of the animatronics have created weapons that they would use in combat.
So far, Nightmare Freddy possess a couple of ninja swords and a roped spear or kunai, Toy Chica possess four battle Sais, Fredbear possesses a bo-staff, Foxy possess a pirate sword, both Bonnie and Toy Bonnie use their guitars as weapons and Chica possess two sharped, silver steel fans.
Now, as the rest were talking or hanging around. Toy Chica was practicing with her Sais and she had managed to fuse her energy into her weapons so that she can fire pink energy Sais from her original variants. When she was done, she tried to find Nightmare Freddy but to no avail, then she found Toy Bonnie practicing with his guitar, not battle practice but merely music playing practice…for old times.
-"Hey, Toy Bonnie." Toy Chica greeted to her rabbit friend.
-"Oh. Hi there, Toy Chica. Is there anything I can help you with?" Toy Bonnie asked as he placed his guitar above a box.
-"Yes, have you seen Fred? I haven't been able to find him." Toy Chica said, and Toy Bonnie's expression was of concern.
-"Actually, yeah. He's in the back…but I'm not sure if he's alright." Toy Bonnie said concerned as he pointed the location of Nightmare Freddy which was one of the backrooms of the safehouse, Toy Chica nodded and headed to the direction Toy Bonnie had pointed out. When she reached the backroom, she saw Nightmare Freddy standing in front of the Toy Freddy doppleganger that the company made when the real one went missing.
Toy Chica was worried of how he would react to his copy, but when she got closer to him, he noticed that he was just staring at it.
-"Toy Freddy? Is everything alright?" Toy Chica asked, worried and afraid that her nightmarish friend will go nuts and destroy everything around after looking at his replacement.
-"Yeah…though I don't know how to call this. It's like staring into a mirror, or looking at someone that's wearing my old face." Nightmare Freddy said, without showing any unstable reaction. Toy Chica sighed of relief, but she noticed that Fred's expression showed concern.
-"Does it bother you? We can remove it and put it away, if you wish." Toy Chica offered but Nightmare Freddy turned his gaze to her and made what could be considered a smile on his broken face.
-"No, no. Not at all…I fact, I'd like it to remain visible for me." Nightmare Freddy said with confidence. Making Toy Chica looking at him with a confused expression, which made Fred chuckle a bit.
-"Well, I can use this as a reminder…until I manage to get back to my normal state." Nightmare Freddy said, making Toy Chica smile. After he said those words, awkwardness arrived making none of them sure about what to say next, they stayed like that for many seconds until Nightmare Freddy broke the silence.
-"Toy Chica…" Nightmare Freddy started, as he connected his hands with hers, making her blush.
-"…thank you. You stood by my side all the time since I returned to you guys. Without you, I would've been completely lost and unstable…you have my eternal gratitude." Nightmare Freddy said smiling, which made Toy Chica so happy that she wanted to cry tears of joy. Then she let go of his hands and placed her arms around his neck as she started to close her beak to his snout. Before she could kiss him, he backed away from her.
-"Damn it, why can't I never get him?" Toy Chica asked to herself, annoyed that she has been unable to lay a single kiss on the bear she loved.
-"Sorry, Toy Chica. But…not like this, please. I wish to kiss you as well but, not with in my current state." Nightmare Freddy said, and Toy Chica understood. He wanted to be the Toy he used to be first.
-"I understand. Don't worry, you'll be back to normal soon. Besides, once you get back to your normal form…you'll have a little gift from me waiting for you." Toy Chica said, winking at Nightmare Freddy before she pecked him in his cheek. Then she left the room, leaving Nightmare Freddy staring at the door to which she left.
Later, Freddy Fazbear was training with his arms surrounded by a light blue aura. He was now able to create weapons made of ice.
-"Freddy…" Nightmare Freddy said as he approached his original counterpart.
-"Nightmare Freddy. Is good to see you." Freddy greeted as he offered a handshake, to which Nightmare Freddy complied.
-"How's your training progressing?" Nightmare Freddy asked.
-"My progress is effective. I have become better at it…you have our gratitude, Fred. Without your training, we wouldn't be able to discover the ways to protect the innocent." Freddy said and Nightmare Freddy chuckled.
-"No problem. Tell me, I have not seen Balloon Boy in a while. He's not here either. Have you seen him?" Nightmare Freddy asked to which Freddy simply nodded.
-"Yes. Although the main location's closed for now, the owners have opened a small restaurant in a mall near this safehouse. Balloon Boy's there right now entertaining the customers alongside a female version of him. I thinks he calls her JJ." Freddy informed and Nightmare Freddy smirked, he was glad his little brother was somewhere safe and he was doing the thing he knows to do best, entertaining kids.
Then, a dark and evil laughter was echoing through the safehouse, every animatronic was trying to find the source of it, which was found in the main room. There, Shadow Freddy was standing. At his sight, the animatronics got into battle stances and Fredbear step forward.
-"You abominable monster! State your business or be destroyed." Fredbear said as electricity started to run around his arms and his eyes started to glow in a bright blue light.
-"Oh. Not much, actually. You see, I'm performing some experiments myself and I believe it's time to test one of them. And what better test subjects than you and your pathetic allies, Fredbear. Enjoy this little gift that I'll leave you." Shadow Freddy commented and then he vanished in a dark portal that appeared behind him. Once that portal was closed, more started to appear in the ground but these ones were of a fiery color. From these portals, demonic-looking endoskeletons emerged from them and started to growl at the animatronics.
-"It is time." Fredbear said as electricity surrounded his body and him and his friends rushed against the demonic endoskeletons, the battle had started.
Fredbear teleported behind one of the skeletons and grabbed it and shocked it until it exploded. Another skeleton tried to rush Fredbear but he was frozen by Freddy and then he grabbed the frozen skeleton and thrown into another upcoming monster.
Foxy trapped a group of skeletons inside a water ball and then he crushed them inside, but another one tackled him to the ground. Before it could do anything, the fox disappeared in a splash of water and reappeared the same way behind his opponent and kicked his head away. Toy Bonnie's fists started to glow with green energy and then he started to tear another group of skeletons apart, he noticed one of those about to strike Foxy but he concentrated his energy into one hand and a green goo-like energy ball was formed and he threw it to the skeleton, making it fall down. Mangle was standing against three skeletons who were about to rush her, but as soon as they step forward, Mangle turned around and from her back popped out two spider-like animatronic legs that started to sting each skeleton at an incredible speed until they were dismantled.
Bonnie used his telekinetic powers to crush and throw the skeletons that were attacking him. One of those escaped the rabbit's grip and he rushed to strike him but Bonnie blocked its attack and hit it in the chest so hard that it got through. Then a giant endoskeleton tried to crush Bonnie but he used his powers to shrink the berserker skeleton into the size of a spider and finally, he squashed it with his foot.
-"Oy! Great job, lad!" Foxy exclaimed and Bonnie nodded.
-"Likewise, where's Toy Bonnie?" Bonnie asked and he turned to his left to see a skeleton about to bite his face off but he noticed blue fingers emerging from the skeleton's chest. Then, a giant tear through the torso was made and Toy Bonnie peeked his head from behind the open torso.
-"Hereeee's Bon!" Toy Bonnie said as he finished to rip the skeleton in half.
Freddy was freezing and punching all the enemies he could find but he did not notice another berserker skeleton about to attack him from behind. But no harm came to Freddy because Chica threw her fans into the skeleton's head and chest and used her wind abilities to rip the skeleton apart. Freddy nodded to her and she simply winked at him.
Finally, Nightmare Freddy was slicing his enemies apart, then he created a fireball and threw it into another berserker skeleton and made it explode. He saw one skeleton jumping into the air and try to hit him from it but he used his roped spear to pull it back into the ground. Once done that, he stomped on its face…effectively crushing it.
When he thought he was done, another skeleton kicked Nightmare Freddy down and it was about to rip his face off but two energy Sais were stuck in its head. Fred turned to his left and saw that Toy Chica had saved him and she made a back kick on a skeleton behind her, then she teleported behind another skeleton and threw her Sais on its feet and she kicked it away, ripping its legs in the process.
-"That was…wow." Nightmare Freddy said and Toy Chica smirked before she caressed his chin.
-"Don't be so surprised, honey. I wasn't even starting." Toy Chica joked as she recovered her Sais.
With the last endoskeleton defeated, the invasion was stopped and the animatronics were victorious.
-"I'll admit. That was fun." Mangle said with a smile as she stood above a destroyed endoskeleton.
-"Yes. Though it was a bit messy." Bonnie commented.
-"We must enjoy this victory. But not let our guards down…if I know Shadow Freddy well, this was just the beginning of his attack." Fredbear said, and he was right. This little attack Shadow Freddy unleashed on the animatronics was what he said before he left the mortal world, a simple experiment. The big undead army he let loose on the safehouse was only a 1% of the real army he created…in the depths of the Underworld.
To be continued…