Great Ridge Gang

Chapter 2 - Boys on the Internet

Welcome back, everyone! As promised, I have posted the second chapter on the following Friday! Last chapter was an introduction, with the commencing of the buildup near the end. This chapter, we will be seeing new characters and side characters, before something finally motivates someone to come up with an idea of all nine main characters doing something together. From there, things can't go anywhere but forward!

Now, here's another thing I wanted to address. You know how in my fic "Teenagers" the birth order for the main characters are completely different than I would normally have it? In this, the birth order, oldest to youngest goes in the following order: Golden, Kevin, Ryan, Marion, Martin, Steven, Freddy, Bonnie, and Foxy. Be sure to keep this in mind. This might be brought up quite a bit later on and I don't want you all confused.

Now let's read on!

Note: When you guys see somebody mention, 'ShowMe', is basically this fanfiction's version of Skype. I wanted to tell you this beforehand so that you all won't get weirded out or something. Obviously I'm using fictional versions of popular social media apps. (There might be some you guys can figure out yourselves, too, like 'Tweeter' or 'Immediagram'.)

~KF

June 15, 2018

Later in the night, Freddy and Golden made it home hours ago, and Rodriguez was more than happy to make it back from school for obvious reasons.

Things could not have gone any better for the three of them as Foxy, Bonnie, and Bonnie's younger brother, Clyde, all ended up staying at the Fazbear household for the night. The parents of course did not mind at all, since it was not the first time it happened, and the Fazbears had been friends with Bonnie's family for a few years.

At the moment, everyone was in Freddy's room, with Clyde and Fredrick playing Mario Kart 8 on the Nintendo Switch while Freddy, Bonnie, and Foxy were either watching or glancing at the screens of their phones. Golden was at another location in the house.

Clyde blinked at the one of the many CPUs that were involved in the race. "...I know this is beating a dead horse and everything, but Nintendo wasn't thinking when they put someone Baby Luigi in the game. Like, babies can drive now? I shouldn't have taken the bus to school today!"

"It's Nintendo." Rodriguez simply stated. "Also, it's fiction. That's how fiction works."

"...Even when it makes no sense?"

"It's 2018. Why do you seem surprised?"

As the two continued on with their discussion, the young adults near were of course focusing on something else. Foxy Michaels in particular seemed to be having the time of his life, as he was seen attempting at his best to not burst out laughing. Yet, the snickers were still listenable, which drew the attention of Bonnie and Freddy.

As opposed to Freddy rolling his eyes, the former of the two chose to take a wild guess on what he was doing on his phone. "Girls getting flirty with you again?"

"At this point, I literally don't think they can help it." Foxy shook his head. "Like, I can not have a single photo without having a girl flirting with me in the comments. Some of them have no idea who I am. Weird, right?"

"And you have a nerve to respond?" Freddy raised eyebrow, his eyes remaining focused on his own screen.

He laughed a little. "I like to play along just for the heck of it; you should know me by now. I mean, they all know that it's not gonna happen anyway, so might as well make the best of everything. Besides, I bet this happens with your accounts sometimes as well."

Bonnie sighed. "He's not wrong. I just seen a comment like that yesterday..."

"I still remember that type where this girl named Madison who tweeted me what type of kiss I preferred." Freddy recalled. "...She actually goes to our school."

"What grade?" asked Foxy.

"She's going to be a junior when the next school year comes around."

"...What does she look like?"

"...Tall, skinny, tan colored panther?"

"...Oh I don't think I met her..." Michaels mumbled. "Well, I in particular happened to get quite a few of those tweets every once in a while. Oh, and apparently, most girls don't like it when us guys look at our phones in a middle of a boyfriend-girlfriend conversation."

"As if men are the only people that do this. But I understand. ...So anyway, me, Golden, Kevin, and Martin all got pizza today at Papa Afton's and Martin was looking at Ryan's Tweeter page to find a collage of pictures of him during his senior year... Lemme get to it." Freddy went to the college student's Tweeter page before his friends could have even asked.

"Hmm..." Bonnie stared at it, placing a finger beneath his chin. "You know what, I might do this myself. ...I need to find the best pics, though."

"That'd be a good thing to do." Freddy's head bobbed up and down. "So anyway, afterwards, we started talking about um... our surprise 'popularity' in high school."

"Oh, where do I even begin with that." Foxy immediately understood where he was coming from. "Those people were always talking about us no matter what we did. ...Hey, I forgot to tell you guys something. Gabriella stated on her vlog channel that she will be going to Japan soon."

"Oh, really?" His eyes widened as well as Bonnie's.

"Yeah. She will be leaving next weekend and she's gonna vlog there."

"That's cool." Bonnie smirked. "Isn't she like, our third friend who's doing a vlog channel on SmashTube this year?"

"I think so." He seemed almost certain. "More of our friends started channels too in the past, but over time they slowed down a little. ...So anyway Freddy, what else happened at the pizzeria?"

"Oh, nothing. We all just discussed about us being well known in school ever since we saw Ryan's tweet." Freddy concluded. "You know, like all nine of us? Everyone always saw us like a team or something. Really cool, isn't it? Maybe we can all get together and do something now that the three of us graduated last week."

"Cool..." Following silence staring them down for a few seconds, the red anthropomorphic fox out of nowhere changed the subject. "So is your brother working tomorrow?"

"He is and both of my parents, to. So, we're basically gonna be ourselves all day plus those two playing the game." Freddy's thumb pointed at his brother and his friend.

Unbeknownst to them, Golden had just came out from the bathroom when he heard most of the conversation. Thinking everything over in the process, his briefly scratched his head, turning on his heel to head for his room for the night.

June 17, 2018

KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!

It was now Sunday evening. And the sudden knocking on the door obviously startled Golden Fazbear, which annoyed him quite a bit. In spite of that, he had quite the feeling that it was something to be expected. Now that the moment finally arrived, he rose from his bed and headed for the door.

Upon opening it, he met a completely surprised looking Freddy.

"...Goldy, what did you just do?"

"Um..." He trailed off and shifted his eyes to the side for a moment. "...Well,... I-"

"Let's look at it on your laptop." Freddy decided that he already took too long for him to elaborate on what he apparently did, so he lightly shoved him out of the way, closing the door in the process. From there, he let his older brother search up the video on SmashTube and promptly clicked on it.

The video entitled 'High School Memories' was self-explanatory. Pictures and small video clips of the two bears, their friends, and other classmates from their school were shown in the video that was approximately five minutes long. They witnessed the events of their pep rallies, homecomings, proms, and of course graduation which occurred at the end of said video.

By the time it was over, of course Freddy could not help but smile. "Aw, that's really cool. How long did it take you to make this?"

"All weekend." Golden replied. "It took me some time with the editing process and all, but I know that Marion's the best when it comes to that stuff, but I wanted to surprise everyone including him. ...When did you hear about it?"

"Bro, you just posted it on Immediagram a few hours ago. I'm just now looking at your account and everything." He replied. "So how many views did it get?"

"Um, about a few dozen so far. And it already got a few likes and comments about it. Most are saying that they wish it was still going on just because of us. Pretty neat isn't it?"

"It sure is." It was suddenly the brown bear's turn to look away for a moment. "...You know, we have been talking about high school for quite a lot this weekend."

"You mean Friday?"

"Saturday, Friday, whatever." He shrugged it off. "We've always been talking about our school quite a lot since me, Bonnie, and Foxy graduated. And you know about everyone thinking that we're some of the best the school has ever had?"

"Yeah?"

"Yeah. And us three just had a conversation about a few our friends doing SmashTube channels in the past, but some of them stopped for a variety of reasons. Foxy even said that after he showed Val a video, she wondered what it will be like if he were to do a channel himself, but according to him he never really thought about it."

"I heard part of that conversation, but about Foxy and everything, it's knew to me." Golden remembered, not even caring to admit it right then and there. "But,... where exactly are you going with this?"

"...Well,..." Freddy formed a larger smirk. "if all of our former classmates at school miss us all, let's give them what they want. If they really miss us, we have to do something about it."

"..." Golden stared, still having no clue at all. "What are you saying?"

"...I think we should all start a SmashTube channel together."

"...Hmm?" He cocked his head to the side.

"A SmashTube channel featuring me, you, Bonnie, Foxy, Kevin, Marion, Martin, Steven, and Ryan. We can make a channel and... make funny skits and stuff like most of the videos we watch. We can do whatever we want."

After giving it some thought, Golden eventually started to form a smile. "...You know what, that's not a bad idea. None of us are in college right now because of summer, so we have a lot of time here. But if we're gonna pull this off, I know you know that it's a lot of work."

"I know that." Freddy was aware, explaining the one-second blank stare on his face with a blink, yet his mood came back in a hurry. "There are nine of us; way more than enough. We can put all our minds together and go from there. We can post a video every Friday and just be ourselves. I'm sure our friends and families would be interested."

"...Alright, I'm interested." His smile grew larger. "It's gonna be a big discussion. What we need to do is gather the gang up and talk about it, whether it be individually or in separate groups. We can start tomorrow and then we can all end up having a 'ShowMe' conversation."

"Got it. It's settled then. This is going to be a really big deal. We can tell no one about this because it's gonna be a surprise." Freddy suggested. "But it's not just gonna be for our school, it's gonna be for the site so that the whole world can see. I might have had some stage freight, but I think I can handle it, especially if there's really gonna be all nine of us involved."

And there you go ladies and gentlemen! So anyone that guessed Freddy was the one who brought up the idea was correct.

So now that the idea is finally out, the next chapter is going to be Freddy and Golden gathering everyone together basically, with all nine of them sharing a conversation, then we'll jump right into the recording process. Clearly, it will be a lot more going on and it might end up being the longest chapter of this story so far. I predict at least 3K-4K including both author's notes.

Questions:

1. Do anyone you know have a YouTube channel? What is it based on?

...Man, I really wanted to add a second question in there but I couldn't think of anything. Oh well. Hope you guys liked this chapter! I encourage everyone to review!

See ya next Friday!