wow, this is quite the long chapter, I sure could feel it when I read it through. don't expect all chapters being this long, I prefer they stay as 2,000 as it makes it easier finding spelling and grammar mistakes.
this chapter goes a little into that knowing the truth of what they are might not be as wonderful as some would think. in fact, knowing he's human, Freddy is struggling with his own sanity.
enjoy!
Back at the restaurant, Marion stands before the bear's comatose body, watching it with glowing eyes. He can see something has change inside Freddy, maybe Mike has revealed the truth to this one. He can only hope.
"Has he woken up?"
The glowing eyes disappears and the puppet turns to the golden bear. "No." Marion replies.
Goldie sights, he's getting really worried. The meeting with Mike as the manager should've been simple, been away for a few hours but instead it turns into a whole day. The golden bear did begin fearing something might have happen to Freddy, and he has every right worrying for the kid. He and Spring has taken these four under their care from day one. Goldie made the promise he would do anything in his power to protect Freddy, Chica, Foxy and Bonnie when those people repaired him and Scott told him his plan.
Freddy might consider him as an older brother, but Goldie sees Freddy as his own son.
"Can't you wake him up?" He asks Marion.
"You know as well as I do, that only Freddy can make himself go back and forward his two bodies." Marion says, as always, looking as if nothing in this world bothers him. It greatly annoys Goldie, but he can't exactly force the puppet animatronic to activate his advancing personality disk.
"Beside, he will return in five hours." Marion adds in matter of fact. "That's how long the battery will let him."
Yeah... but getting forced back by a flat battery is not exactly a walk in the park, for even with his high pain threshold. Getting forced back is pretty painful. Goldie knows that as he tested this failsafe if the animatronic can't for some reason get back and human body runs out of battery. He don't want Freddy return like that, he don't want any of his family returns to their original body like that. "I wish I know where he is.." Goldie sure hope Mike and Freddy are alright...
Then, to his huge relief, Freddy opens his eyes.
"Freddy!" Goldie gasps in mere relief and hugs the brown animatronic. "You're alright!" The relief are quickly replaced by parental anger. He steps back, asking angry: "You have any idea how worried I was?! Where were you?!"
Freddy stares at him, and Goldie realize that Freddy isn't looking at him the same way he used to. Something has change.
"Freddy?" To his surprise, tears begins appearing in Freddy eyes, looking as if someone just have kicked his puppy.
"Goldie... the manager... the CEO.. they lied to us.. everything is a lie..." The younger animatronic says trough the sobs, truly upset, which is rare for him.
What is he talking about? Sure the management (except from Scott) were huge dirt-bags and threaded them like trash, but so far he knows, they haven't been lying what their whole purpose was in life nor they were build to be a family. For why else would they make Freddy and his friends like children when they became sentience?
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Goldie and Spring stood on their scene, knowing something was not as it used to be, for a lot of people in blue uniforms kept walking around in the place, seemly searching for something especially one of them seems desperate finding that something. But whatever they searched for, they never found it. When the place finally calmed down, and not long after the door was closed; their manager arrived. Not far behind was that creepy fella again, this time carrying a big box with the old man in wheelchair close behind. The two golden animatronics stared at the three men, not fully aware something was up.
They did get the suspicion something was when the creepy fella gave them a smug look.
His father in the other hand, completely ignored them. "How are those two doing?" He asked the manager.
"Doing just fine, the kids love them." The manager replied, stopped as the young man placed the box onto the floor. A somewhat awkward silence came, the manager cleared his throat. "Right, I will.. uh, let you get to it." And he left.
The young man watched the manager leave, somehow looking annoyed. "Are you sure this little shit will do it? Hiding them weren't easy you know."
"Maybe it would've if you weren't so careless in the first place and let one of them get away." The old man retorted, and opened the box.
Goldie and Spring stared at the open box, first, nothing came out. Then a kick from the young man, two long hands grabbed the edge and seconds later, a black puppet with a white mask with tear marking, rosy cheeks and a huge smile peeked up.
"Waky, waky little puppet." The young man smirked and grabbed this puppet around the neck, tried pulling it up from the box, but that was a stupid move.
"RUUAAAR!" The puppet lunged at the man with such force it almost broke his neck. The young man did not get scared though, rather, he seemed to get pissed. "Little shit!" And he kicked it off of him.
The puppet regained quickly its balance and was ready to lung at the man again.
On the scene the two animatronics stared shocked that this puppet actually was attacking a human!
Then, a sooth tune arrived in the room and the raging puppet went slowly limp, seemly calming down by the soft melody from the music box the old man held in his hands. The old man gave his son a annoyed look. "You be happy I got the music box with me." Glancing to the limb puppet. "He might have killed you."
The young man suddenly smirked evilly to his father. "Too bad I killed him first." He rose and kicked the puppet to a lying position, and then stepped on its chest. "Remember your place little puppet." He sneered gleefully.
"Vincent!"
The young man rolled his eyes, but did let the puppet go. "Whatever, he never was very fun in the first place."
His father gave him a angry look. "This is your fault I have to do this to him."
The man, named Vincent gave the old man a crazed and gleeful look. "I know, now." His smile grew wider "Be a good daddy and make sure the manager gets his little music box, can't have the boss becomes an unfortunate victim, now can we?"
And he left the scene, humming happy with himself.
The old man lowered his head in somewhat defeat, but did what his own son told him.
When finally alone, the two animatronics slowly approached the new animatronic, but the second the music was out of hearing. The puppet disappeared, much to the two others bafflement, they did not know this one could do that. They searched for it, but found no sign of this strange puppet. So they chose leaving it alone.
And ever since that puppet came, the two golden animatronics could literarily hear their manager come with that 'My Grandfather's Clock' melody coming from his pocket.
Beside from this strange puppet, and those people in blue, Spring and Goldie went on their lives as usual. They entertained the children at day and 'spoke' with one another at night.
One night, Spring stood before the four new animatronics, trying getting their attention, but like all the other days he tried; these guys did not react on him nor Goldie. In fact, they didn't react on anything. They only moved strangely on the scene, as if they don't even know they have a whole world around them.
The hare turned as Goldie nudged his shoulder. 'Not like us.' The bear signed to him.
'I know.' Spring signed back, ears bend down in sign of sadness. They came up as the hare asked with a titled head. 'Why?'
'Don't know.' Goldie replied with a shrug, giving the turned off animatronics on the stage a small look. 'Leave them.' He signed.
'Okay.' Spring replied with a nod. Both turned around to leave, then suddenly:
BONK
They turned around, surprised by the sound. At the stage; one of the new animatronics; the chicken's servos has gotten lose and now it was lying on the floor, eyes wide open.
Spring made a jump and signed to Goldie. 'Scary.'
Goldie gave him a amused look, then went over to the fallen chicken, wanted to get it back onto the stage. He grabbed it, and it moved from his touch. This time Goldie jumped, staring startled at the chicken slowly sitting up.
Then one by one, the three others began to move, or rather, they fell flat on the floor. Apparently none of them know how to stand without the help from locked servos. The brown bear hit its head and got a look of a child that hurt itself would get.
Goldie snapped out from his shock of these guys suddenly move and went for the first time into 'big brother' mode. He went over to the four, getting their attention by waving.
The four newly awaken animatronics jumped, all having a wide eye and open mouth expression and it wasn't because they were amazed.
'Don't be afraid.' Goldie signed, however quickly realized they did not understand for they kept staring scared at him. 'Don't know, language.' He told Spring and the hare replied with; 'Teach them.'
Goldie couldn't agree more, they needed teach these guys, for as it seems, they have an invisible wall between them. He knelt down before the scared four and began singing one of those cheesy songs from the show, it seems to calm the four down, allowing Goldie getting close and see if their awkward falls has damaged them.
His action of parental calmness calmed the four and Spring notice that these four were not acting like him and Goldie, could it be..?
He fetched some toys the children have left behind and placed them before these new awaken animatronics.
'What are you doing?' Goldie asked his friend and Spring signed back that he should wait. Goldie made his eyelids make a raised brow expression, but let the hare do whatever he was thinking.
The four new animatronics stared at the toys, the bear looked at the three others and they looked back, then the bear took one of the toys and began playing with it, soon joined by the three others. Goldie stared baffled at the action of these four, for watching them, he realized what Spring saw. Looking wide eyed at the hare, he signed baffled. 'Children.'
Spring nodded.
Well, if that was the case. Goldie snapped his fingers in front of them and the four child animatronics turned to him, giving him confused eyes. The golden bear removed the toys and began signing to them, well aware they wouldn't understand. But he kept making them watch him, for somehow, deep in his mind, he knew watching and patience will let them understand this new language. Maybe that's why the manager made these four like kids, so they would seek guidance from him and Spring? Must be it, so in other words; him and Spring were now official their family. Thinking about it, that didn't sound so bad.
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"He has realized the truth of our origin."
Goldie turns back to Marion, getting more confused, but also angry, seeing the smug smile on the puppet's face. "What truth? Never mind, it won't change one fact." He turns back to Freddy, taking the younger ones shaking paws. "Why do you think I care so much about you, Chica, Bonnie, Foxy as my younger siblings and Spring as my best friend? Because of the only truth I need knowing: we are family."
And Freddy broke into more tears, Goldie's not sure why though, but that didn't matter. All he knows that the bear needs a shoulder to cry up at. He hugs Freddy, just like he have done so many other times before he got taken away. "And nothing will change that."
He did not care what freak truth Freddy knows. All Goldie cares about is that all these animatronics in this building are his family and he sure hell will treat them like one. He steps back, staring right into Freddy's tearful eyes. "You understand?"
Freddy stares long at him, then, very slowly, he let out a breath and nods. "..I understand." Seems to relax.
That small action feels like a huge victory for Goldie. He smiles and gives the brown bear a brotherly scratch over the head. "Good we sat that straight, now."
Serious mode activated.
He looks both bear and puppet. "What truth are you two talking about?"
Marion lowers his head. "I cannot tell." Letting out a gasp when suddenly Goldie slams him into the wall; roaring. "You can and will tell me Marionette! Clearly you knew this was going to happen!"
His roaring wakes up the whole house, and a pretty startled Spring come running into the room. "Fredbear!"
Goldie ignores the hare, glaring black eyed at Marion. "Talk Puppet!"
"..I can't." Marion says, voice a bit louder than before, but still far from sounding distressed as he probably would be with this hostile treatment from the golden bear. "Believe me I wish I could tell you, but I can't."
"And why's that?!"
"Because of my curse."
Goldie blinks, his anger slightly disappearing in confusions of what Marion means. His eyes narrows. "What do you mean by 'curse'?"
"I can't tell you" Marion says, winching of Goldie letting out a frustrated roar at him.
"Fredbear!" Spring steps in between Goldie and the puppet. "You're hurting him."
It made Goldie let go of Marion and the puppet slowly gets on his slender feet, saying with slightly trembling voice. "My curse keeps me from telling the truth and everything about it. The strings cannot be seen, but.."
He shakes his head, seemly frustrated. "You think I want this? You think I haven't tried activated my personality disks? I don't want to be a puppet in this game anymore...!"
That made Goldie stop his glaring, in fact that made everyone in and outside the room freeze in surprise.
"W-what is he talking about?" Bonnie asks, looking back and forward from his friends to the humanoid animatronic. "Are you saying that you have activated your new upgrades?" He asks in clear surprise.
Marion walks outside the room, no one tries to stop him. The puppet sits down on one of the tables, only looking up as he says. "Yes, but as you clearly can see." He points at himself. "I am barely emotional, and trust me, I used to be a very-" And something seemly painful made him shut his mouth. Marion turns away. "..I used to..."
Freddy walks slowly outside the Parts and Service room, although no longer sure of anything anymore. His whole world has been turned upside down.
"Freddy? What is wrong?" Chica asks worried, she have never seen the so usual calm and collected bear look so... out of it.
"You look horrible." Bonnie remarks and walks over to their friend, feeling rather uneasy as Freddy refuses looking at them. As if the bear are scared of them, and he's rarely scared of anything!
"He has realized the truth." Marion repeat.
"What truth?" Foxy asks, like the rest rather confused of the puppet's words.
"I cannot tell.."
"Dude, not helping on the suspense." Bonnie growls, but the puppet refuses saying any word, so the rabbit turns to Freddy. "What is he talking about?"
Freddy closes his eyes hard, looking away, whatever this truth is, it seems very hurtful.
"Dang it, just tell us!" Bonnie got about enough of this!
Freddy finally looks at him. "If I do, everything you know.. It won't be the same anymore."
"And why's that?" Bonnie asks. To everyone's surprise, it isn't Freddy who answers the question, as he struggles explaining of how his mess of thoughts feels like.
"Everything you think is true is a lie " Spring says, making everyone look at him. The golden hare lowers his head, but continues. "Nothing will be the same, this truth will make you wish you died that day. But you won't die, these bodies won't let us, instead it will gnaw the sanity away. These bodies, nothing but a prison, this truth will rip you apart, the pain will not stop and leaves nothing but a mindless.. monstrous... killer animatronic behind... or.. at least that happen when I realized the truth." Spring shrugs rather careless, as if he merely speaks of the weather.
Everyone, except Freddy and Marion stares at the hare in horror.
"Y-you went insane?" Goldie asks in disbelief of this so cheerful hare had became a mindless monster.
Spring gives him a weak smile. "Yeah, and it didn't make it better that my body was breaking down as well. Used to a horror attraction... I have no idea how long this insanity held me, all I know that when I woke up one day. I was being rebuild. And seeing you." He eyes each and one of them. "My family, it gave me the strength fighting the insanity. And after a while I realized that this truth is a blessing in disguise."
"H-how can that be a blessing?" Chica asks, horrified that Spring went insane of the truth. She looks at Freddy, fearing he will lose his sanity as well. "Will Freddy go insane too?!"
Spring looks at the bear, expecting Freddy have the same broken eyes he had in the start when he realized what he truly is. But to his surprise. Freddy just looks.. upset.
"I'm not sure." He admits to the others, for it somehow seems the brown bear has gotten over the worst part already.
"What do you mean?" Foxy asks giving Freddy a worried look.
"Have you spoken with anyone about this?" Spring asks the bear.
Freddy nods slowly. "I spoke with Mike." Pretty sure he would've lost his mind if Mike haven't reminded him the good part of this crazy truth of him actually being human. Gave him give a reason to fight the crawling insanity and be happy he's still alive. Sure he is trapped inside an artificial body, but he's alive and able being around his friends and adopted family. He turns to his friends, like him, died under the knife of that killer and something made them possess their favorite animatronics, in some way; giving them all a new chance in meeting Mike again. "He made me realize that this isn't so bad.. I mean knowing what we truly are is pretty bad." He takes his hands up, looking at them, no longer feeling comfortable in this body. "I don't feel comfortable in this body anymore, so.." He eyes his friends. "I will probably stay in my human form for a while."
"Why?" Goldie asks, just as confused as the rest.
"Goldie- brother, I'm- I'm not sure if I should tell you." Freddy turns to his friends again. "Any of you, for it will be just like Spring said... I.. I'm not the same anymore!" He growls, taking his paws to his head. He isn't Freddy anymore, he's Sean. Being a human trapped inside a bear animatronic.
It is hard.
"Look, I don't want to keep this secret from you." He continues, trying staying calm, but that is also hard. He looks at his.. they aren't and yet still are his family. And their faces are in a horrified expression, making him feel really bad doing this to them. "Just know, if you hear it. You won't be you think you are anymore... and I... well.." He turns away. "I need time, figuring out who I'm really are..."
He looks up, of the sudden feeling of arms around his shoulders. It's Goldie and he gives him a weak smile. "Take all the time you need."
"Thanks, brother." Freddy smiles, even though he now knows they aren't real brothers. Well, he can't deny the bond they have formed over the years. Goldie is right, them being family is the only truth in this whole mess he can rely on.
He looks back at his friends, seeing them trying figuring out what to do.
Foxy is the first to speak. "What should we do Freddy?" He has always preferred following someone, and will find himself a bit lost if not having some kind of leader around.
The bear gives him a weak smile. "Continue on the show as we always do. The only change that I will stay in my human body."
"The humans will notice your original body is missing from the show though." Bonnie remarks, crossing his arms, not sounding annoyed. He just looks worried. "Should we make the excuse your "damaged" is bigger than expected?" He asks the bear.
"We have to, if Freddy chose staying in his human body" Chica says, looking at the bear with a look that says everything. She did not understand why he did this, but would support him none or less.
Bonnie nods slowly. "Alright, but you do know you can't stay in it forever. It needs recharging once and awhile."
"I know, I will go back each night. Letting it get recharged there." Freddy says and turns to Spring. "Can we talk later? About this.." What the heck should he call it? The knowledge they are humans?
Spring seems to understand nevertheless. "Of course." He nods to Freddy, willing to help the best he can with this issue.
Freddy nods, thankfully, for he needs someone to talk to and this time.. his friends cannot help him. He looks to them. "I'm sorry, for making this mess..."
"Just get better, we got you covered." Bonnie says, giving him a weak smile. Foxy and Chica simple nods in agreement.
Freddy smiles back, feeling truly thankful of his friends support. "Thanks guys." With them at his side, he's positive he can get through the mess this knowledge came with.
good thing Freddy has his family by his side. Spring weren't that lucky... whatever happened in Fazbear Fright, the hare doesn't like those memories.
and Marion is cursed, well I wonder who did it?
Marion: you already know who did it. you're the writer.
*push him out from the room* let me have my moment. anyway, if you have any questions I will of course answer them the best I can (without making spoilers) and if you just wanna ask the animatronics some silly questions, I am making small comics to those questions in my FNAF folder on my DeviantART site.
I should be easy to find. I have the same username there too. try and check it out and see if you have something you wanna ask my vision of the animatronics.
see you guys the next time!