Author's Note:

This was just a fun one-shot we wrote with the help of the Discord server. Enjoy the extra upload! It takes place before FNAF 4 and after Spring is awake.

One-Shot 4

Mom

Ruby glared at Hedy for the fifth time that night, but the look rolled right off of her.

"Just finish it," the mechanic didn't look up from her own work.

The night guard huffed and turned her glare back to the homework in front of her.

"Whyyyyyyyyy?" she whined.

They were in a quiet room trying to finish their respective schoolwork (aka Hedy forced Ruby to finish hers) and the teen was mopey.

"You aren't leaving this room until that-" Hedy pointed at Ruby's stuff. "-get's finished. I told Freddy not to let us out."

Ruby let out a very dramatic groan and thunked her head on the table. Then she suddenly perked up and looked at the vents above them.

Hedy saw her. "Don't you fucking dare. I'll ask the building to loop the vents."

Ruby rolled her eyes. "I wasn't planning such a predictable escape. I hear someone."

Hedy frowned and looked up.

It was quiet for a moment before-

"Hey! Watch your elbow!"

"You kicked me!"

"Your face was in the way."

Ruby raised an eyebrow at Hedy. "I'm telling you right now, neither of those are my bots. They're all yours."

Hedy did not look amused.

"Stop pushing!"
"Are you seriously stuck? Spring is bigger than both of us and he doesn't get stuck!"

"Are you calling me fat?"

"...We don't get fat, you glitch brain."

"So one of them is definitely Toby. No one else would ask something that stupid." Ruby was staring up at the vents, definitely amused.

Hedy couldn't even argue with that one. She leaned her head back and pinched the bridge of her nose. She couldn't be dealing with this right now. She had a paper due.

Ruby climbed onto the table and walked over to the vent cover.

"Are we there yet?"

"Don't start that again!"

"This is taking forever."

"We should almost be there. I think. Michael could do this. It can't be that hard."

Ruby smirked and reached up to grip the cover. Then she yanked it down hard and twin shrieks echoed as two bots fell out.

Hedy didn't even flinch.

"Hello," Ruby smiled down at Mangle and Toby. "What brings you by?"

"...ow."

"I told you we were almost there," Mangle huffed, somehow maintaining some dignity even though she was sprawled across Toby. Her ears were pinned back too.

Toby just groaned again and squirmed. "G'off me"

Ruby met Hedy's eyes. "Your. Bots."

Hedy glared back at her. Whose legal responsibility are the bots? "Your job." She wasn't ready to be a single mother.

Ruby raised an eyebrow. "My solution includes superglue and tar."

Toby meeped while Mangle didn't look as bothered.

"Why are you two even here? I thought Hedy got Freddy to ban everyone?" Ruby asked. "Like the spoilsport she is. I was planning a chocolate night!"

The two bots glanced at each other as they sat up.
"We need you to settle an argument," Mangle said primly.

Ruby slowly grinned. "Ah. This is a Mama Hedy problem."

Hedy blinked and raised an eyebrow. "Excuse me, what?"

"My bots are my siblings," Ruby gave her a shit-eating grin. "You are the Toys' mom."

"Hedy's not my mom!" Toby sounded disgusted.

"Well…" Mangle mused.

Hedy glanced at Mangle, mildly alarmed.

Ruby settled down in her seat and settled her chin on her hands. "Well, Mama Hedy, go on. Teach your children conflict resolution."

"I'm not answering to that."

Ruby mock-gasped. "You want me to teach them? Me? The person who uses a bat for most conflicts and glitter for the rest?"

Hedy had to do a double-take. Where did Ruby get that popcorn? Okay, that was a bad response to a stupid nickname.

"Now hold o-!"

"Alright students!" Ruby spun around to face them. "Mama Hedy is on strike. What seems to be the problem?"

Mangle snickered, easily smirking at Hedy. Then she shot Toby a look.

"It was her fault!" Toby yelped.

"Hey! No, it wasn't! You're the one who picked it up!"

"If you didn't try to grab it, we wouldn't have a problem."

"What happened?" Hedy interrupted. "And what am I going to end up fixing tonight instead of working on my very important research paper.

"Oooh, it's the angry mama tone of voice," Ruby stage-whispered, still munching on her popcorn.

Both bots wilted under her glare.

"We found a glitter bomb," Mangle mumbled. "Toby was an idiot and picked it up."
"Then Mangle was stupid and tried to grab it," Toby grumbled.

Ruby whistled. "I see this ending badly. It's going to be brilliant."

Their guilty looks confirmed that.

"I lost my grip," Toby admitted.

"So did I," Mangle looked away.

"So you both threw it without meaning to?" Ruby looked delighted. "Who did it hit?"

They glanced at each other again. "Jeremy…"

"Oh, for the love of…" Hedy moaned, half in laughter.

Ruby started cackling, her popcorn going flying. "Please tell me it was one of the experimental ones I lost!"
Now they looked alarmed. "Experimental?" Mangle asked.

"Ruby," Hedy said.

"Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how to make glitter bomb-tasers." Ruby ignored Hedy completely.

"RUBY!" Hedy repeated. "Why on earth are those lying around?! And my brother better not be dead."

"It was going well. Except there was this little bug where the shocks wouldn't stop."

"That would explain why he kept twitching weirdly…" Toby whispered.

"What?" Don't laugh. That's bad. That's dangerous. Don't fucking laugh, Hedwig Lamarr.

"They're small shocks. And they do stop. Eventually. Please tell me this was on camera," Ruby pleaded.

Hedy was already flipping through the cameras.

Mangle looked horrified. "We left him in that blind spot… That means no one knows… He's going to kill us."
Ruby fell off her chair laughing.

Toby looked at Hedy pleadingly.

Mangle seized the opportunity, despite the promise of Jeremy's anger hanging over her head. And now she was about to make it worse. But could she really resist?

"Mama, is Uncle Jeremy going to be mad?" Mangle asked, putting on a childish voice.

Ruby's laughter turned silent it was so hard.

Hedy's fingers twitched.

Toby ducked, glancing around for Hedy's work bag and more importantly, her wrenches.

Ruby was just dragging herself upright and looked like she was going to make a comment, when Goldy's voice came from behind her. "I got at least a minute of him twitching on camera and I got ALL of this."

She was down on the floor laughing again.

"This night has been hilarious," Goldy giggled. "I've never seen Hedy pull that face before. I'm glad I removed her wrenches though. And so glad I locked Freddy in the closet."

Ruby shot upright. "You did what?" she asked in glee.

"Why?!" Hedy finally spoke.

"He was being a spoilsport," Goldy shrugged. "He almost stopped Foxy and Bonnie from their paint fight."

Ruby suddenly got an odd look on her face. "Goldy. My chocolate supplies were in there."
Goldy smiled sweetly. "I know."

"I love you so much," Ruby squealed. "I have to see my favourite chocolate bear!"

"What? Nono no. Ruby! We still…" Hedy trailed off. Was she seriously going to leave Jeremy out there? She glanced at her work and grimaced. Then at Ruby's.

Ruby jumped to her feet and ran to the door before spinning and giving Hedy a pleading puppy dog look. "Please? Chocolate bear Hedy. Chocolate."

Hedy didn't seem fazed.

Ruby decided to try something else. "I finished my work while you were freaking out already." She pointed at the schoolwork on the table.

"That's impossi-" Hedy cut off, looking at the schoolwork herself. She paused. "Were you faking not understanding it or somethin..." she said mostly to herself.

Ruby tilted her head and stared at her with wide, innocent eyes. "No. Why would you think that Hedy?"

Was she seriously whining that entire time just because she knew it annoyed Hedy?

One of these days, I'm going to kill her. Hedy mentally deadpanned. She felt confused alarm from the building and backtracked. No, not really. Stop taking everything I think literally!

Apparently not convinced by her assurances, the building unlocked the door behind Ruby. The teen glanced back in surprise before grinning. She waved cheekily at Hedy and threw open the door.

"Wh-HEY!" Hedy said.

"Chocolate bear!" Ruby yelled as she ran off.

A distant answering warcry sounded. "Batteries!"

"What the hell is going on tonight!" Hedy shouted. She wanted one quiet night. She wanted to work on her damn paper! Was that too much to ask? APPARENTLY. Fucking hell.

Mangle piped up after a moment of silence. "So it was Toby's fault right?"

"Hey! It was yours!"

"No it wasn't!"

"Uh huh!"

"Nuh uh!"

"Uh huh"

"Nuh huh!"

"MOM!" they both yelled.

"NO!"