there's not much I can say about this chapter, but it is important enough till I cannot just remove it from the story.
no one commented on who Thomas is from the last chapter, so I guess no one has figured that out. *shrugs* oh well.
to HunterHero179: I'm sorry?... but did you think this story would be cheerful all the time? *sheepish smile*
to Spaceman: they could, and the idea is not bad either. but if they did Mike will recognize them right away, he did it with Freddy/Sean.
enjoy the story!
After Mike has gone home.
Freddy asks his friends if they are willing to hear about what has been troubling him since yesterday.
Chica shift uncomfortably, having a mix of anxiety and worry. Without knowing; Mike has unintentionally revealed parts of the truth to them already.
"We're humans aren't we?" Chica asks although it sounds more like a point out, she did not look happy about the though.
Bonnie looks angry and Foxy has shut himself out by hiding in the cove.
Freddy feels pretty sorry for them.. he nods slowly. "Yes." He almost jumps when Bonnie suddenly hits his fist against the nearest wall.
Chica walks over to the enraged rabbit, sitting her wings around his shoulders. "You alright?"
Bonnie gives her a look in sign he's fine, he turns to Freddy, asking in almost in a whisper. "How did we become.." He grabs his furry chest, feels the metal underneath it. "Like this?"
"..I don't know.." Freddy answers the distressed rabbit. Not the answer Bonnie wants, but all Freddy can tell him is: "All I know that after our death, we came to be as these animatronics."
"Our death?" Chica asks, looking horrified at him.
Spring is the one answering her. "Each of us has died, and somehow, it gave an animatronic life." He sits his hand on his chest. "I was once an entertainer for Fredbear Family Diner along with a man named Calam." Everyone looks at him with a mix of horror and curiosity. The only seems calm is Goldie, he's frowning as if what Spring have said rings a bell.
Spring did not want to force Goldie in remembering, but he feels compelled telling the youngsters about who he was before he became Spring the golden hare. "I was no one special really, simple someone doing my job and keeping children happy. Don't get me wrong, I loved my job." He smiles to them.
"How did you die?" Bonnie asks, giving him an uncertain look, as if trying to wrap that Spring actually has been someone else. Spring takes a deep breath and asks. "Remember my old suit?" Bonnie nods. "That's what killed me. It was..."
A Springtrap
"Malfunctioning." Spring says, pushing that horrible name away that his... Young man gave him in Fazbear Fright. He sure hope he's alright... no, he's getting off topic. Spring clears his throat and tells the other animatronics. "I died pretty quickly, and the next thing I remember; I was inside the same suit that killed me. However, I did not know that. As you probably already have realized." He eyes Bonnie, Chica and lastly Goldie. "Our memories are wiped clean for those events."
"And yet." Goldie looks up from his own pondering. "We are still the same." Everyone in the room, except from Foxy gives him a confused look. The golden bear steps forward. "I don't remember my human past, but I somehow just know that I'm still me, when I was human I mean." And signed; 'For no one taught me this.'
He eyes Spring. "You remember your past, but I barely can see any differences in you."
Spring gives him a small nod and Goldie turns to the three watching animatronics. "Our personalities, they are not programming, they are our human personalities. We are who we were as humans, even in these bodies!"
"The only thing that might has changed us a little is our experience we have learned over the years, but even a human changes a little over the years." Spring softly remarks.
"And somehow, you two makes this whole deal sound less horrible." Bonnie says with a weak smirk. He turns to Freddy. "My biggest worry was that knowing this truth of who we are would change us beyond recognition."
"Explains why you kept staring at him." Foxy remarks, jumping out from the cove, he's feeling calm enough being around the others.
Freddy glance to Bonnie, making the rabbit grin sheepish. "Can you blame me?"
The bear simple gives him a smile.
Chica let out a small sigh in relief, smiling to them. "I won't let this change who we are. Still.." She takes one of her wings up to her beak, thinking. "I wonder who I was before I became Chica, did I have any friends?"
"Your name was Jenna before, and your friends." Freddy smiles sits his paws on her shoulder and waves out to Bonnie and Foxy. "Are right here."
"Whaaat?!" Bonnie, Foxy and Chica yells in disbelief at Freddy.
"Are you saying that we were friends even before we became animatronics?!" Foxy asks with eyes almost twice as big in mere surprise of hearing this.
Freddy nods, trying his best not in laughing in his friends hilarious faces of disbelief. "Besides from being robot like animals; nothing has really change between us." Which Mike, once again unknowingly reminded him about when his memories got awaken. It really helps and keeps his sanity in check.
Goldie is right, they are still the same from before they became animatronics, the only difference though. "Only difference; we were only friends back then, not family."
He notice both Bonnie and Chica sights in relief, both notices it and blushing takes an awkwardly step away from one another, and Freddy's pretty sure the reason for this, those two still are trying figuring out their feelings for one another.
"So, um.. What was my name back then?" Bonnie asks, trying getting the kinda awkward air around him and Chica away.
Freddy smirks of the obvious feelings between those two, yet didn't comment on it and answers the rabbit's question. "Your name was Tim, and yes, even back then; you played on guitar."
"Swee- hang on, Tim?" Bonnie interrupts himself, sure the name did ring a bell, but beside from that. "Oh man~!" He groan drops his head.
"What's wrong?" Spring asks, getting worried for the purple rabbit. The worry is quickly replaced with a deadpan look as Bonnie exclaim excessively. "Why can't I get a better name?!"
"What's wrong with the name Tim?" Spring asks, not seeing the reason for all this whining.
"It is not cool!" Bonnie exclaim, but the only reaction he gets from his gold colored brother is a raise brow.
"I like it." Chica pipes in, giving the rabbit a sweet smile. "It suits you."
Bonnie looks at her, reddish spots appearing around his cheeks. "Y-you think so?"
Chica smiles. "Yup!"
"Oh okay, guess I can deal then.." Bonnie muse, eyes narrow at his brother rolls his eyes at him. "Oh shut it and tell us your human name!" He exclaim, feeling pretty embarrassed over what little scene he has caused.
Playing a little immature Spring sticks out his tongue at the purple rabbit. "It's Martin."
"I prefer the name Spring."
Spring laughs, adding smirking to his younger brother. "Good, for guess who named the suit in the first place!"
And Bonnie's turn to roll his eyes at his brother.
"What about my name?" Foxy asks, getting a little curious, yet he is still pretty uncertain about all of this.
Freddy turns to the fox. "Daniel."
"Did I like pirates as human too?"
"Pretty sure you did." Bonnie remarks, gives the fox a teasing smirk. "I see no other reason why you haven't gone nuts cost-playing a drunkball all the time."
Foxy shrugs "Programming?" Then realizes what the rabbit have said. "Hey!"
"Took you long enough figure that out, captain!" Bonnie laughs.
Freddy rolls his eyes at the two, remarks mostly to Bonnie. "Actually, programming has nothing to do with his performance. Foxy." He turns to the fox, smiling. "You loved pirates and playing as one even back then. Couldn't speak the pirate accent though."
Foxy grins. "I learned that through my voice recordings." Glancing to Bonnie as he remarks like that's obvious. "Oh of course you did, no way that's part of the programming." Foxy narrow his eyes at the rabbit, not really impressed. "Unlike you, all my performing was purely me."
"What's that suppose to mean mutt?" Bonnie asks, giving the fox a glare. "You think I played those stupid songs because I wanted to?"
"Your performance was pretty cheesy, just like your lines." Foxy grins, well aware how much Bonnie hates his old voice box. It made him sound like a dumb goofball. "In fact, you still sound a bit cheesy." He remarks, just to tick off Bonnie.
"Say that again! I dare ya!" And Foxy grinning runs away from an angry rabbit.
Chica and Freddy simple stands and watch the two chase one another around, not an unusual sight for any of them. Chica turns to Freddy, completely ignoring Bonnie trying to kill the fox. "So, what is your human name?" She asks the bear.
"Sean"
"I stick with Freddy if you don't mind." Foxy says and pretty laidback jumps away from the enraged rabbit. "Better than girly Bonnie." Another thing Bonnie hates, is someone making fun of his gender.
Foxy's not afraid of Bonnie, but do winch as both Spring and Goldie gives him warnings look of stop this instant.
Freddy, with a calm face, grabs the angry Bonnie and drags him away from Foxy as Goldie and Spring got him under control. "Would you stop trying kill one another?" He asks and the queue for Bonnie to calm the heck down unless he wants Freddy to hit him. Bonnie snorts but do calm down and Freddy lets the sulking rabbit go.
With that small fight over, Chica asks "How did Mike make you remember?" She is pretty curious of how Mike made Freddy remember his past.
Freddy turns away from Bonnie and eyes the chicken. "Well, you see..." He takes his hat off, clear sign he feels uncomfortable. "You remember Mike lost his friends as child?"
"Yeah, and apparently one of the old location was cause of it." Bonnie summon up, still sitting on the floor... he blinks, then jumps as his mind sits the pieces together. "Hold on!" He stares at the bear in disbelief. "Are you saying we are...!"
Freddy nods and Bonnie let out a small scream, taking his hands up to his head in pure disbelief.
Chica wraps her hands over him worried, while Foxy both looks worried and confused. "What's wrong?"
"Don't you get it?" Bonnie asks the oblivious fox, with an angrily gesture, he points of each one of them. "We are those kids!" And if Foxy has been in his disrepair state like in the last location, his jaw would have fallen off. With jaw wide open, Foxy turns to Freddy, but it is Chica who asks. "Is it true?"
All Freddy have to do is nodding.
Foxy shut his mouth, squirming in clear uncertainty of what to do next. Moments later, he straights a little up, asking the others. "Should we tell him?"
"I would prefer we didn't." Freddy cuts in before anyone can answer, the three others gives him a confuse look and he explains them. "I don't want to be the one telling him that his friends has been turned into animatronics, it will turn his whole world upside down."
"... Eh you got a point." Bonnie smiles sheepish, shrugging with: "Doubt he would believe us anyway."
"I don't like lying to my friends." Chica admit, gives Freddy angry eyes, but with a sigh, she says. "But in this case... I guess I can. Our situation isn't exactly normal."
"You said it.." Foxy muse from his spot.
The four looks at the two golden animatronics and Freddy asks them. "You agree on our choice?"
Goldie smirks as he cross his arms. "You four sure has matured over the years." Glancing to Bonnie and Foxy. "Most of you at least."
The two chuckle sheepish.
"By the way." He learns up against one of the many tables inside the party room. "Any ideas what the new room should be?" Goldie points at the still under construction room. "Another diner room?"
"No, that room is going to be a game room, a place the Toys will entertain the customers." Freddy says. The two golden animatronics gives him a confused look. "The four smaller animatronics." He explain and they nods.
"Are they like us?" Spring asks, turning his gaze to the Parts and Service. "You know.. sentient?"
"Oh yes, but.. um..." Freddy tries finding a good word for how the Toys have behaved in their former home. Unlike him and his friends, they didn't have anyone so seek guidance from.
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It was clear these newer animatronics didn't want anything to do with them. Still, seeing how lost they looked, Freddy felt they have to try. He turned around as movements caught his eyes, behind him came Chica. It was hard seeing how she felt as her eyelids were gone, mouth broken and she was lacking hands as well. She looked at him, then to the scene where the Toys stood, still in Sleep Mode.
'Worry, Toys.' Freddy signed to her, well aware she couldn't answer him. Still doesn't mean he just should ignore the chicken.
Chica looked at him for a few seconds, then gesture her handless arm towards the scene, her only way saying; 'Go to them.'
He nodded and went towards the scene. The Toys has just gotten active and Freddy could see that something was very wrong. Their mouths may be smiling, but their eyes weren't.
Toy Bonnie sat down in the corner, as far away from the others as possible, hugging its legs in self comfort. When Freddy came to close, the blue bunny eyes wide and before Freddy could do anything, it bolted over to one of the human sized air vents, in its only hope hiding away from what scared it.
Freddy felt sorry for Toy Bonnie, but he couldn't follow it through the air vent, he was too big. Turning to Toy Chica, it looked both frustrated and scared as its beak once again fell off.
Toy Chica left, leaving the toy looking bear alone on the scene.
Freddy walked slowly over to the sad looking and smaller bear, making a small wave. Toy Freddy shot him a glare.
Freddy eyelids went into a sad expression and signed. 'Help you.' He waved towards the Parts and Service where his friends were, then turned back to Toys Freddy and made a single sign. 'Family.'
But Toy Freddy pushed him away, opened its mouth as if trying to say something, but only the welcoming recording came out. Toy Freddy closed its mouth looking really sad, but when Freddy tried comforting it, he was again pushed away.
Freddy lowered his head, made one last sign. 'I'm sorry' and left the smaller bear to its own suffering.
This place might look happy from the outside and at day, but at night and for the animatronics, this place was nothing but suffering. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
"They are not like us, we tried helping them, but they did not understand." Freddy explains and Bonnie add with an angry but also sad frown. "Every time we tried communicate with them, they always mistook it for hostility." Glancing to the two gold colored robots. "You made it look so easy with us."
"...that's not good." Spring mutter, adding to Bonnie. "And everything looks easy when you know how to deal with a certain problem."
Goldie nods, still he have to know more about these 'Toys' "How did they act?"
"Act?" Foxy blinks, thinking of his own shows.
"Were they trying to play like kids?" Spring asks, remembering how these four reacted the first time they became sentience robots. "Or were they acting more like adults?"
Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy all looks to one another, but quickly made clear that none of them has any clue, what age the Toys are. For all they got from the Toys was an pretty aggressive behavior. Feeling pretty helplessly, they all shrugged and Chica mutter sad. "We have no idea..."
"Maybe when they wake up, me and Spring should look at them." Goldie suggest, adding with a soft smile. "We have quite the experience taking care of kids."
The four smiles, well aware what both Goldie and Spring speaks about.
"But can't we think about them after Halloween?" Foxy asks out in the blue, everyone turns to him. The fox gives them a sheepish grin. "What? This is the first time we celebrate Halloween for real, and I have really looked forward to it."
"I agree with the mutt." Bonnie says, turning to their leader Freddy. "It would be stupid waking them up when we're too busy for this holiday."
Freddy thinks about it for a few moments, then nods in agreement "Alright, after Halloween then."
"Dibs on carving the pumpkins!" Foxy cries happy and bolts to the kitchen, and to everyone's surprise, this time it is not Bonnie who chases him, but Chica. "I wanna carve some too!"
Goldie rolls chuckling his eyes and tells the two. "Calm down, there's enough for anyone."
Speaking about good timing. I'm going to write an Halloween chapter, just up to the real Halloween. I wonder that will happen to Christmas as well? we'll see.
Halloween chapter(s) the next time!