Tony and the girls were having a blast having the entire pizzeria to themselves. They were examining themselves in their updated forms, with Tony doing his best not to let his mind run wild. Even in their daytime forms, they looked good.
"Hey, we don't look half bad." Bonnie said as she examined her reflection in the window. "Can't see a single joint."
"I'll say." Mangle said as she moved her eyes all around her body before putting them back in her sockets.
"Hope the customers like our new looks." TF said.
"So do I." Freddi said.
"What's not to like?" Tony asked with a smile. "You all look amazing, and you're all nice."
"Thanks Tony." Maria said, showing off a smile of her own. Tony smiled before he noticed TB staring down at herself. He walked over to her until he stood next to her, his hands in his pockets. "You okay?" he asked. TB's head slightly turned to look at him before looking back down. "You not liking your new look?"
"I...I was scared." she finally admitted.
"Scared? Of what?" Tony asked.
"Scared that...I wouldn't be turned on." she said. The others shifted their eyes towards TB as she continued. "Scared that I would go back into storage. Back into the darkness. Back to being...unloved." Her hand was over her heart, her eyes full of sadness as her ears drooped. "I know that I only have memories up to when I was activated after my first upgrade, but the mere thought that I wouldn't wake up terrified me." Tony's eyes softened as he felt his heart ache, while the others soon had equal sadness in their eyes. To have yourself turned on and off by a simple flip of a switch, your very existence in the palm of someone else's hand, was truly terrified.
"Did you all feel that way?" Tony asked as he looked over his shoulder at them all. No words were spoken, but he miserable looks on their faces said it all.
"And the worst part of it all," TB continued. "Was the thought of not seeing you again." TB's lower lip trembled and she looked like she wanted to cry. She kept staring at the ground before she felt a pair of arms wrap around her shoulders and looked up in surprise. "Wha?"
"If that happened, I'd find that switch and pry it out of whoever's hand turned you off before turning you back on." Tony said. "No way would I leave you, any of you, to that kind of lonely existence."
"Tony." TB said in hardly a whisper as the others all stared at him.
"You're all my friends. That's what friends do." he said. Silence filled the pizzeria as they all stood there. TB's eyes were wide before the welled up with something. Her lower lip trembled again before she reached around Tony's waist and hugged him while burying her face in his shoulder and cried. Tony just stood there and gently patted her back with a smile before he felt something wrap around his leg. He looked down to see BG smiling up at him while hugging his leg. He then saw a thin pair of striped arms wrap around him and TB, knowing who they belong to before the others all joined in on the hug. Everyone was smiling while they all had tears in their eyes, truly happy to hear that someone care so much for them after all the years of mistreatment and all the horrible things that were said about them.
"Tony." TB quietly sobbed. "Thank you!"
-1 hour later-
After the group hug, TB's fear disappeared and everyone scattered into their own parts of the pizzeria. Tony was doing something inside the office, while the girls were off checking their systems and newest upgrades.
"Okay, just set this up this way, aaaaand done!" Tony said as he clicked a few keys on his laptop. "Now, let's see here-"
"TONY!" Tony jumped from his seat and whipped his head to see Chica and TC smiling at him with big eyes.
"What? What's going on?!" Tony yelled.
"Bandages! Now!" Chica yelled while TC bounced in place.
"What? Oh, bandages? Okay." he said before he pulled out a roll. "But why do you-" The girls squeeled after they took the roll and ran off. "...need them?" Tony just stood there before he sighed and walked out of the office. "Seek, and ye shall find." he muttered as he walked towards the one place they'd be after they had bandages. The kitchen. He had his hand up and placed it on the door, but froze before he could open it. He couldn't move his body, or his lips at all. 'What?! Why can't I...Goldie? What are you doing?'
"Sorry Tony, but those two asked me not to let you in." she said. "So you go somewhere else and let them be." Tony's body went limp before he stared at the door and sighed, then turned and walked away.
"I'll go see what Mangle's up to." he said as he walked around the pizzeria. "Unless she's asked that she be left alone. Well, Goldie?"
"Nah, she's okay." Goldie said.
"Alright." Tony said as he rounded the corner and walked where Mangle would be. "Mangle? You here?"
"Yes, and no." she answered. Tony raised an eyebrow before he felt something grab his ankle and looked down. He sighed as he brought his leg up, with Mangle's soft hand connected to his ankle.
"Okay. Now where's the rest of you?" he asked before he felt a pair of arms wrap around him. "Nevermind. I know where you are." he said before he turned around to see her, without her head. He jumped before he groaned. "Mangle!" Mangle's laughter could be heard from below a nearby chair that her body was walking towards. It reached down and pulled her laughing head out before sticking it back to her body.
"That's still funny!" she said as her hand released Tony's ankle and skittered over to her, climbed up her body, and reattached itself to her wrist. "Glad you came. How do I look?"
"You look great." he said, making her blush.
"Thanks." she said before she hugged him again.
"Clingy today, aren't we?" he asked with a laugh.
"Just happy." she said. "TB wasn't the only one that was afraid to be turned off. We all were."
"Hey now." Tony said as he hugged her back. "Let's not talk about being turned off and such. Let's talk about other things. How are the new upgrades?"
"They're great!" she said as she released him and backed up. "Watch this." she said before she fell apart into even more pieces than before. "And it's even better. Try to take a piece and run." Tony looked at all the pieces before he grabbed her left foot and took off. He had it to his chest and got three steps before he felt it pull towards her, knocking the wind out of him. He looked back to see her grinning at him. "All my parts have a magnetic pull so those little kids don't keep running out of the area with them. The harder you pull, the stronger it pulls back."
"Cool." Tony said before he looked down at her foot, then back at her before a wicked smile formed on his lips.
"Uh, what's with that look Tony?" Mangle asked. Tony didn't answer as he raised his other hand near her foot. "Tony?" she said before he placed his fingers on the bottom of her foot and her eyes widened. "Don't. You. Dare."
"Tickle! Tickle! Tickle!" he said as he began tickling her foot. Mangle busted up laughing as all her parts began squirming on the ground.
"NO! STOP! T-TONY! HAHAHA! YO-YOU BASTARD! QUIT I-HAHAHA! SOMEONE H-HELP ME!" Mangle shrieked. Tony laughed as well while Mangle slowly pulled her self together and jumped him. The two of them landed on the ground, with Mangle pinning Tony to the floor.
"Oh shit!" Tony said as he stared up at Mangle, who glaring down at him with a grin while her foot reconnected itself.
"Tickle me, will ya?!" she said. "Let's see how you like it!" She then began to mercilessly tickle Tony's sides, making him squirm and thrash under her.
"ACK! NO! HAHA! MANGLE! UNFAIR! HA! YOU'RE ST-STRONGER THAN M-ME! HEEELP!" Tony yelled as tears of laughter quickly came to his eyes. Mangle grinned before Tony reached up and and tickled her sides. She laughed and squirmed as he tickled her back, both of their laughter echoing around the room. They then began to roll around the floor, trying to out tickle the other before they both seperated and laid on the floor, laughing and trying to compose themselves.
"That was a dirty stunt you pulled." Mangle said with a giggle.
"Well you jumping me like that wasn't exactly something I would call fair." Tony retorted. The both of them just laughed before Mangle rolled over on top of Tony, smiling down at him. Tony smiled back before he gently kissed her. Mangle kissed back as they laid there on the ground before Tony broke it for air.
"I'm glad you don't feel awkward around me anymore Tony." she said as she lay on top of him.
"Same here." he said as he hugged her.
"Little Tony's growing up." Goldie teased in his head.
"Tony!" Tony and Mangle perked up at Tony's name being called. "Tony! Where are you?"
"Over here!" Tony shouted as he and Mangle got up and dusted themselves off just as the sound of footsteps came and Bonnie came running in.
"There you are!" she said as she walked towards him.
"I'm here. What's up?" Tony asked.
"TB and I wanna play songs for you! Come see!" she said before dragging him away. "I'll return him later Mangle!"
"Whoa! I can walk! Hey!" he yelled in protest before looking back at Mangle. "I'll see ya later, Mangle!"
"Okay!" she said with a wave. "See ya later."
