LittleGhostCat: Yeah, poor Bon indeed. But that's not even the biggest focus of the story. I'm not gonna spoil much, but let's just say that some people have a hard time forgetting the past.

QXR: Thanks... That's it, that's the response.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This chapter got rewritten a bit and I'm still not that confident in it. Oh well, I can always rewrite this whole dumpster fire of a story later if it doesn't turn out well the first time. Oh, and say hi to SpringTrap this chapter.

Writing Max on this website is a pain in the backside because writing "Mr." ends up with the name getting deleted... FanfictonNet devs PLEASE fix this.

[SPRIG, 6:20 AM]

SpringBonnie had been going over his memories of the time before everything went wrong and he got stuck sharing his body with William Afton. It was great back then, working with FredBear and entertaining the masses. Then 1983 happened and both him and Fredbear got locked up, years later William put Spring into suit mode and tried using him to [Bully] some kids. Spring didn't want to hurt anyone, but had to do something to protect the children. So, naturally, he released the springlocks and [put Afton in a deep sleep].

What he didn't expect was that Afton's ghost would haunt Sprig, turning them into the dreaded monster that people would call "Springtrap". At least he could keep William from going on another [bullying] spree, but having to deal with him was annoying. He was too exhausted to even break through the censoring program, not even to call Afton a [butt]hole. "Hey Sprig, wanna get outta here and scare someone's socks off?" he could hear Afton in his head, they could "talk" to each other without actually speaking. That nickname he gave annoyed SpringBonnie, but not because he hated it, he actually rather liked the name. It was the fact that Afton of all people is the one that gave him that name.

"No Afton, we are not moving from this spot." Sprig replied in his head. Afton may of retired from the [bullying] business, but he never stopped being a [Big Meanie]. The worst part was when Afton explained where babies came from, especially the part where humans [played patty cake]. It was so disgusting, more so than him describing the [sauce] dripping from his victims.

"Oh you're no fun. Can we at least mess with the nightguard during his shift?" Afton's unwavering drive to torture Sprig started to lose its punch after the [Birds and Bees] talk.

"Don't make me release the springlocks again," Sprig threatened. Any pain Afton derived from the springlocks were psychological, his nerves were long dead. Even without the springlocks, Sprig was getting better at reining in Afton with each day. Afton couldn't lift a finger if Sprig didn't want him to.

This was their fate, being moved from place to place and rotting away, even if they got a minor tune-up every now and then. Sprig waited to finally rot away into nothingness, but something would soon change that.

*SLAM*

The door to the storage room opened, and a purple bunny ran inside. Practically running into a wall before sitting down and sobbing. "Oh look Sprig, one of your replacements." Afton jested, angering Sprig by mocking him and the crying bunny.

Sprig didn't reply to Afton's comments, he just stared at the purple bunny. He would've tried consoling her, but he didn't want to go and scare someone. "Well? Aren't you going to try and comfort them?" Afton taunted Sprig, "What? Do you think you'll scare them? Come on, you know these animatronic FREAKS are just as monstrous as you.".

Admittedly, Afton had a point. The other animatronics were [weird] just as much as Sprig, so he moved to speak. "Hello?" he asked as the purple bunny looked up. "Miss Bonnie, right? Are you feeling okay?"

"Really? 'Are you feeling okay'? Sprig she's sobbing on the floor you idiot!" Afton laughed, actually speaking out loud that time. Confusing the purple bunny.

"Afton quiet, let me do the talking!" Sprig yelled at Afton before turning to the bunny. "Sorry about that, my 'friend' here tends to be a bit mean."

"'Friend'? After all this you're calling me a 'friend'?" Afton cackled.

"...Who are you?" the bunny asked, clearly confused.

"I'm Sprig, formerly known as SpringBonnie. The rude individual who keeps hijacking my voice-box is William Afton." Sprig explained. "I apologise for his horrid behaviour."

"Don't apologise, I'm the one that barged in here." Bonnie replied, wiping oily tears from her eyes.

"Yeah, and you cried like a little b-" Afton started before being interrupted by Sprig, who released the springlocks.

"WILLIAM BENEDICT AFTON, LANGUAGE!" Sprig scolded Afton with a fierceness he hadn't displayed before.

"...Woah, where'd you been hiding that all this time." Afton jested after a stunned silence, then he turned his attention to Bonnie. "Well? What are you still doing here? Go on, leave us to rot like everyone else did."

"What?" Bonnie started, "You were left to rot here?" Sprig knew what that tone of voice meant, she was starting to feel bad for them.

"Don't worry about us, William deserves it and I'm content with keeping him from hurting anyone." Sprig said to console Bonnie, "If you want to do anything for us, just come by and talk. It was nice talking to someone other than Afton for once.".

It was then that they heard a knock at the door, "Bonnie? You in there?" a voice asked.

[ETHEN D'KRAFT, 6:30 AM]

He had f##ked up, adrenaline and sleep deprivation made his mind go screwy and he popped off without the full story. Sure he wasn't fully in the wrong, the stuffing problem should've been fixed at least after the first guy instead of after several... but she was trying to make up for it and he just went and stomped all over that.

He left the repair room and headed through the dining area to find Bonnie, while Max went over to the stage to activate Chica. She knew Bonnie better than either of them, having actually been around for the things they went through. The most that max had were documents and reports and Ethen was just dumped into this with next to nothing.

When he reached the arcade, he saw a man he knew as Jack Daken being helped off the ground. His confused expression and the fact that he was on the ground to begin with was a good hint about what happened here. "Hey Jack, have you seen an animatronic walk by?" Ethen asked Jack, expecting the answer to be yes.

"No, I saw them run by, felt them too." Jack grunted while grasping his side, he then pointed to a door with a sign saying 'Storage'. "They went in there... What was up with that thing? Seemed kinda... Alive?"

"It's a long story, most recent chapter involves me screwing up." Ethen bluntly stated as he headed for the storage room.

When he got to the door, he started knocking on it. "Bonnie? You in there?"

He heard Bonnie's response from inside, "Ethen?"

"Look, I'm sorry about what I said earlier. I wasn't thinking straight and didn't have the full story." he started, "Max filled me in on what really happened..." Ethen opened the door to see Bonnie on the floor, streaks of oil running down their eyes. "I didn't know about the whole... 'suitless endoskeleton' glitch. That bit of context changes things."

Ethen couldn't get a good enough read on Bonnie's expression to tell what she was thinking, she just stared at him. He walked to her and sat down by her side, "Besides, last night and this morning prove that you're trying to make up for what happened, tha's a lot more than a some people can say. And it's not like I haven't made mistakes either." Sure, they hadn't lead to anyone's demise, but when someone wants to come back from their past it only makes sense to let them try.

Bonnie just stared back at him in an expression of disbelief. It made sense, someone going from angry to apologetic that fast would've been... weird? Is that the right word? Nevermind, doesn't matter. "If it's worth anything, I'll let you kick my ass as payback."

She flinched at that, he mentally facepalmed. The whole problem was started by him mistaking her for a violent monster, why would an offer like that do anything other than- WOAH. He felt himself dragged into a hug, and he was startled by it again. It was just like last night, he really should stop being so skittish with her. And to think he was just mentally berating himself for exactly that...

"Thank you." Bonnie whispered.

It was then that he heard a loud bang on the door followed by the mechanical voice of who he could only assume to be Chica. "Bonnie? Are you in there?" Even if Bonnie wasn't going to tear him a new backside, he had a feeling that the metal chicken would.

[CHICA, 6:40 AM]

Chica couldn't believe the gall of this new nightguard, calling Bonnie a 'metal freak' right after she saved him from another heywire animatronic. She was to focused on the nightguard that she didn't even process the implications of another Fazbear Entertainment animatronic having an 'endo glitch'. But she could go after him later, right now she needed to help Bonnie. Especially when the others couldn't, being missing and all.

When she got to the storage room door, she knocked on it hard. "Bonnie? Are you in there?" Chica yeled, worried for her friend. Bonnie was always the most fragile of the animatronics, so everything that happened undoubtedly hit her the hardest.

When Chica heard a surprised "Chica?" from the other side of the door, she burst in. "Chica, the others-" Bonnie started.

"I know, I also heard about someone calling us 'metal freaks' the same day you woke up here." Chica interrupted while walking closer, "Are you okay?" she said before noticing the unknown man by her side. "Who's this?"

"Well... He's the new nightguard, I met him last night." Bonnie explained. Chica stopped and stared at the nightguard, watching him buckle under the pressure as she started glaring.

[END CHAPTER]

I can just imagine SpringTrap just watching this drama from the sidelines. Sprig watching in concern while Afton is just thinking "Da##, I wish I had some popcorn right now."