Great Ridge Gang

Chapter 5 - We Are GRG

Okay, so last chapter was the Great Ridge Gang's first ever video on YouTube/SmsahTube. Of course, we all know they celebrated, but now this chapter is going to be all about the editing process and such. Maybe if we're lucky, we get to sneak in on an upcoming plan for them. They need to record their first skit after all.

But yeah, like I said, not every chapter is going to be a video chapter. Since character development does exists, there's going to be a lot of that taking place to prove that there are nine different people who do not have the same exact personality, lol. They're all different. So in some chapters you'll see some character development as their channel starts to grow.

But for now, enjoy and tell me what you think in your reviews when you're done!

~KF

June 22, 2018

After celebrating their victory of recording their first ever video for their upcoming SmashTube channel, Golden, Kevin, Martin, Freddy, and Bonnie all decided to hang out at ShineSpriteBucks. All five of them brought in their laptops, headphones, and other electronic devices as they drank their beverages and ate their breakfast. One could have mad the obvious inference that they were working hard on the SmashTube video editing process. Sure, he or she would have said that they were taking the whole concept a bit too seriously, since the one reason to the whole channel idea occurring in the beginning was because of their popularity in school. However, as much hard work it seemed, they found it still fun nonetheless. After all, there were nine members of the Great Ridge Gang; the more people, the merrier.

One positive about the first video was because of the fact that it was not a skit. If it was, it would have definitely been more complicated. Still, it never meant that it was not that big of a deal.

"You know… Would you guys think that it's a good idea for us to make 'Great Ridge Gang' accounts on Tweeter and Immediagram?" Bonnie questioned. "I mean, it kinda does make sense after all, since we're already telling our upcoming subscribers to follow our solo accounts."

"...Yeah, that is a great idea, Bonnie." Kevin had to agree. "Now, if only we would have said that in the video…"

"We'll just include it in the description." Golden decided, taking another sip of his salted caramel mocha frappuccino.

"Do you think when we tell them to follow our social accounts, we should just randomly include a link above our heads about our group accounts?" Martin raised an eyebrow.

"...No…" Golden gradually shook his head. "That'll make it obvious that we forgot about it. We just need to make a mental note to add it in the description. ...You said you work at two in the afternoon today, right?"

"Yeah, so I don't have to worry about anything right now." Martin nodded, suddenly grabbing his phone to add more songs on his Pear Music playlist. Seconds later, he began to form a smile. "Yo, I just can't wait 'til we finally start our channel, though. Do y'all realize how many people will be like, insane about it?"

"It's like we're shocking the world. We're like, putting it to a complete stop." Bonnie compared. "I mean, the only people besides us that know about this are Ryan's folks, and they all did a pretty good job at not telling anyone. My entire family at home has been wondering why I was in such a good mood lately."

"And what did you say?" Freddy inquired out of curiosity.

"I just told them that I'm glad that summer is finally here." Bonnie chuckled a little, taking a bit of his croissant that he ordered. "I didn't even wanna tell 'em that it was gonna be a surprise. My mind was thinking, 'Okay, maybe I should at least tell Clyde that a surprise was coming up.' But, I decided no last minute."

"Okay, well just so that we're clear, you guys know what the plan is for today, right?" Golden checked for extra assurance.

"Yeah, we've already gone over it multiple times." Freddy rolled his eyes. "We work on this until we're done editing, let Martin leave to get ready for work, and for the ones that get off early are gonna work with us to discuss plans for our first skit."

"So, who gets off first?" Martin questioned.

"Steven." Golden answered. "As soon as we all meet up with him, we can meet Marion at Papa Afton's and we can go over ideas for our first skit as well as when and where we can shoot it at. Hmm… I think if we're gonna start shooting over the weekend, even if all of us aren't here, it's still possible, since there's gonna be different scenes and stuff. It's not like everybody is gonna be in the exact same scene or everything."

"But, how do we know that even though we don't even know what our first skit is gonna be about?" Freddy asked. "Not one of us has came up with an idea, yet."

"Okay, let's start now. Then, while we're all here and we'll come to the other guys to seek their opinions on it?" Kevin suggested, opening up a page in Google Docs. "...'Ideas for Great Ridge Gang Skits'. Alright, everyone. What do we got?"

"So, this is the list of ideas, huh?"

The group was now at Papa Afton's with Marion. Only at that point, Martin had to leave the group due to him needing to get ready for work in a couple hours at Vaulmart. Oh well. At least there were eight other members of the Great Ridge Gang that covered for him, so it was not a total loss.

"Yeah, we came up with quite a few." Freddy elaborated on the previous conversation from ShineSpriteBucks. "But, one of the hardest parts about recording videos are coming up with ideas for them. So it took us a while to think of some."

"I understand." Marion nodded, facing away from Kevin's laptop screen. "Now, do you guys want anything?"

"I think so, now that we're already here." Bonnie replied. "Let's get one supreme pizza for all of us, guys."

"This is on me. ...So," Golden went back to the main topic as he pulled out his wallet from his tan pants, subsequently making his way over to Marion. "Steven told us that he gets off at two in the afternoon today, so I guess when we leave here we can recruit him and we'll go wherever. I haven't been over to Kevin's place in a while so maybe we can all gather there and talk."

"Who gets off after him?" Marion questioned, watching Golden insert his credit card..

"Ryan gets off at four at Smith's. I don't think he has any other plans after that. Then you get off at five and Foxy gets off at six. So, it's kind of like a rotation like we're all employees in the workplace doing our job. Hopefully by the end of the day we'll know exactly what we need to do, because right now we're all putting together the finishing touches of the video and the channel."

"And it's gonna be uploaded right when Foxy gets off, right?" Marion was now giving Golden the receipt.

Golden shook his head. "No, he said that he didn't wanna keep everybody waiting, so he's gonna see it during his break."

"Well, maybe I should get a look at it myself during break, too."

"Golden, come here." Freddy waved from the table. "I think we have the right idea for our first skit."

"Be right back."

As he wandered back over to the rest of the group by the window, he stared at the only option Kevin had on his screen in bold.

"...'Types of House Guests'?" His head could not have helped but cock to the side a little.

"We already have the whole thing planned out." Freddy looked over to his left to grin at his older brother. "Everybody is gonna be available at some point during the weekend, so we're gonna shoot it from Saturday to Sunday in order to get next week's video out the way. Afterwards, we can start our separate vlog channel."

"That's the plan."

"Yeah." Bonnie nodded.

"We'll, alright then. But, where are we gonna shoot it at? I would say our house but I don't want it to be overused this early."

"But our first video was at Ryan's."

"How about this..." Freddy thought out loud. "We can shoot the skit and our place, plus the vlog video, and then we'll figure out where to go next."

Thinking it over, Golden Fazbear eventually agreed. "Alright, then. Let's just finish this up real quick."

"Alright, boys. Let's get to work."

Kevin, Golden, Freddy, Bonnie, and now Steven were all at Kevin Davis's household, finally discussing ideas for their first skit.

"So, we know that Marion, Martin, Steven, and Foxy are all off tomorrow, but the Fazbears are working in the afternoon." Kevin informed. "So, does this mean we're gonna shoot the ones that are off first before you two go to work?"

"If we're gonna shoot at the earliest possible time, yes." Golden answered. "You, Bonnie, and Ryan all work in the morning on Saturday, so we can take care of you all either after you all get off, or tomorrow. But even though Freddy will be off, I'll be working in the morning, tomorrow."

"So basically the first option fits better for all of us, right?"

"Perhaps so." Golden answered. "That's gonna be the plan. As for the video itself, me and Freddy will be the ones welcoming you all in and we all just rehearse our scripts. We'll finish typing the rest of our lines when everybody is off today. Got it?"

"Yeah." Bonnie nodded.

"I guess so." said Freddy.

"Now, let's talk about the vlog." Kevin decided that it was time to change the topic. "We have all week to do it. What we need to do is to pick the day where the most people are off and figure out what to do with the remaining ones that work."

"Well, we can all cross out Monday." Steven rolled his eyes. "Literally every last one of us is working that day."

"Tuesday?" Freddy raised an eyebrow.

"It'll be just me, Kevin, and Ryan off." His sibling responded. "As for Wednesday this week, Foxy is the only person who's off."

"Dang. He'll get the whole day to himself." Kevin said. "But, what about Thursday?"

"Yeah, I was actually already thinking about Thursday." Golden brought up. "Not everyone's off, but I figured out a way we can do the vlog. Me, Freddy, Kevin, Martin, and Foxy are off, but for the ones that aren't, our best bet to at least start shooting is around four, an hour before Marion has to best at work. We can state our introductions, see Marion off, and we'll go from there."

"Good. That'll be fine." Bonnie widened his eyes out of anticipation. "So, how is everyone gonna react when they see our first video?"

"OMG!"

"I miss you Foxy!"

"You guys are too funny!"

"This channel has so much potential!"

"I'm so exited! Like, I'm sharing this to everyone in my contact list."

As Foxy and Val were reading the comments at Foxy's house, the two had to laugh at some of them. At long last, the Great Ridge Gang had officially made their debut about a couple hours ago.

"So Bonnie, what did your parents say?"

"They were of course surprised and can't stop talking about it." He shrugged his shoulders. "Of course I got asked a million questions."

"And your brother?"

"...Oh, he kept complaining about the fact that I never told him in the first place."

"...Why?"

"Because he felt that he wanted to be 'in the loop' because he could have told his classmates during his last day of school." The bunny elaborated.

"But, we came up with the idea on that Sunday." Foxy raised an eyebrow. "And that's exactly why we didn't tell anyone. Some of his classmates could have had siblings that went to our school. Look at Megan and Rodriguez."

"Yeah, he said that he could have texted some of his friends. And then when I told him that it was going to be a surprise for everyone except Ryan's folks, he thought that I thought that he was too young to keep a secret."

"Ugh…" Foxy shook his head. "I don't have a brother, but if I did, I would have been quite annoyed if I were you."

"Meh." Bonnie shrugged with a smirk. "I'm used to it at this point."

Alright, so the majority of this chapter ended up leaning towards to the whole editing process, as well as plans future Great Ridge Gang videos in the future. And I've gone over on pretty much everything I wanted to so next chapter is going to be the next video, and it will be the group's first skit! How excited are you? It will be titled 'Nice Guests vs Rude Guests'. So clearly, you can see why humor is one of this fanfiction's genres.

So after the video chapter, there would be one more chapter before the gang finally starts to vlog so stay tuned!

Questions:

1. What do you guys honestly think of this whole thing?

2. Do you think the Great Ridge Gang would be a big hit on SmashTube?