I was sitting in a dark room, out of the sight of anyone like employees or patrons. Me and Mangle were both huddled up in a corner, facing the center of the room as we waited for the day to pass, I was still trying to get used to what they edited on me. Soon remembering just before they changed practically everything inside me.
"Okay, you remember those tubes from the table at the other place," Goldy asked me as I sat on a table in a back room. "Yeah," I replied, seeing the bear grab some of the same parts from a drawer behind him. "Well, this is to help maximize how much force you can put out. The reasoning for making it was because Jason here would commonly mess up his hydraulics while doing stuff," He added, pointing to the large red vulpine that was leaning on the wall behind him, staring at everything in the room. "Personally, I think that the endoskeleton contributed to the problem. He weighs about half a ton so it has to do major pulling to do anything." I looked at him, wondering how the tan coyote managed to throw him with her feet like she did. "How did the coyote manage to throw him then," I asked as the vulpine looked over at me. "She was designed to hunt me down and kill me, but she didn't want to," He told me before staring off again. "Okay, then," I said, looking back over to the gold bear who was pulling out even more of the tubing.
"Alright, go ahead and lay on your side so I can get started," He told me, which I did, soon feeling him working off the plate on the back of my head. "Don't worry about anything," I heard the vulpine say behind me. "He's great at this type of stuff. The only person I'd ever trust to dig around in me and replace, basically, my muscle mass." "This will only seem like a second for you, so just stay there and relax while I do this," The bear added with a chuckle as I felt myself pass out.
I had woken up, barely able to move afterwards, but it wasn't long before I was able to move around again with what felt like way more energy than before. Another thing that Goldy told me about the tubing was that it was also made in a way that when it tore, it could rebuild itself only strengthened. So I guess that it isn't that bad, though, my body was a lot tougher in comparison as there wasn't near as much gel to make up the body mass under the rubber skin. Now, there was only a single layer that was only about probably half a centimeter thick covering the tubing and every other part of my body that he had worked on. I guess you could say I had a more 'toned' look, but that's weird considering that I'm a robot that isn't even supposed to feel emotions.
I was told a little more about the city, it was somewhere off in the pacific ocean -something I can't say I'm not fond of- which was developed after some non-sense happened that I didn't pay attention to. Damn my own impatience. But it was made after some powerful animatronics such as Goldy and the Marionette would teleport lost animatronics there so they would have a chance at survival and wouldn't be attacked by any people that see them. They would take supplies as well so that they would have some form of shelter and could build up the island. Apparently, they started this decades ago, so they've built up the island quite a bit, but it's almost anarchy. They have 'laws,' but it's not like other places. If you get into a fight, no one's going to stop it, they let you go until you're either both exhausted or one of you is possibly dead.
The door shot open with the red vulpine stepping in, accidentally waking up the purple rabbit in the process who looked at him and groaned an incoherent insult. "Come on, the customers all left. It's time to get to work," He said loudly, causing the rabbit to throw a wrench at him from the shelf behind him, causing the dark brown bear and yellow chicken to laugh. "Bonnie, I swear I will cause a repeat of our old 'incident,' The fox told him with a smirk. "Jason, fuck off already. I'm tired," The rabbit replied. "I didn't even come in here for you, so shut up," The fox said, kicking his leg with a chuckle as I stumbled to my feet with the vixen that was leaning on my shoulder groaning since I moved.
"Aw, why did you have to move," She asked me with a yawn. "It's time to get up," I replied, holding my hand out for her to grab. "Fine," She said, grabbing my hand and pulling herself up as I soon turned around to face the vulpine. He soon guided us out of the room and into the main room, letting Mangle sit down at the table as I followed him to the stage so we had an open space so he could teach me.
"Okay," Jason said, stepping a few feet away from me as he turned around with a grin. "Swing at me!" I looked at him hesitantly as he had his arms out to his sides waiting for me to do something. I ran at him, throwing my right fist at his jaw as I felt him grab my arm and then felt his right hand grab my throat, slamming me into the ground as his foot swept my feet from under me. "Fuck," I muttered as I felt my head spinning from how hard he slammed me into the floor. "We need to do a lot," He said, letting go of my neck as he stood up
He had me stand up, go back to my spot, and then would repeat the process for a long time as I felt myself grow exhausted from the several different ways he would slam me into the ground, one time he threw my arm over his head, slammed his other hand under my arm, and threw me over him as I got slammed into the ground with an audible groan. "Okay, let's try something else," Jason said, holding the bottom of his jaw as he was seemingly thinking of something. "How about you go relax for a minute as I think of something."
I stumbled to my feet, climbing off the stage and walking over to Mangle who was looking at me concern as I held my head. "Are you alright," She asked me, grabbing my arm as she helped me sit down in the chair and sat down beside me. Goldy was in front of us, chuckling lightly as he saw me sit down. "I told you that you'd get mauled by Soldier-Boy there," He told me with a smirk. "What does that mean," I asked him, holding the side of my head due to soreness. "Before we got put into these things, he was ex-special forces," The white vixen said from the end of the table as she was looking over at the kit who was playing around on the floor with her.
"Yeah," Goldy added. "Okay, now what the fuck does that mean," I exclaimed, a confused expression growing on my face as I looked between them. "Language, and it's a long story," The vixen replied while I shrugged it off. I felt Mangle wrap her arms around my torso tightly as she rested her head against my shoulder. "Okay, I've got an idea," Jason shouted from the stage, causing me to get out of the vixen's grasp as I stood up and walked up to the stage. When I got up I saw him stretching a bit as he twisted his arms around as well. "Okay," The vulpine began as he trailed on about the plan.
This went on for days, which soon turned into weeks as he kept training and sparing with me. At first, I had no idea what to do, but then he taught me how to grab someone's fist and quickly disarm or throw them into the floor. When he started teaching me, he tried to see how long I could last against him simply throwing punches at me. He threw a punch, I'd try to block him, when I failed to we'd restart. I felt our system grow into an algorithm, I'd go as long as possible against the vulpine, barely able to block or throw a punch at first, then I'd figure out how to block his punches back-to-back in rapid succession. I began rolling to my feet like the tan coyote did when he'd toss me somewhere and I'd run right back up to him and try again.
"Okay, I got an idea," Jason chuckled as he got back to his spot and I killed a bottle of water. "Ava, come up here real quick." The tan coyote got up from her seat and climbed up onto the stage, looking at the vulpine as she waited for what he wanted her to do. "I want you two to try and take me down," Jason said with a smile as I tossed the empty bottle to the floor and walked up beside Ava. "I feel like you underestimate me since you're having me fight with someone else," She told him with a grin as he shook his head. "I'm not going easy this time," He told her as he took off a leather coat which had metal braces along the wrist and visible hard spots along the shoulders and chest area, exposing several marks along his torso which matched large cuts and claw marks.
"Show off," Ava chuckled as she stretched her arms a little. "You want to wear that thing while moving around," He asked her as he tossed the coat over at her, causing her to drop it with a dull thump as it hit the stage. "Fair," She replied while I saw him ready himself. "Ready when you two are," He told us as I got ready to run at him. I watched as the coyote ran up at him and faked him out with a punch to his right, but the grabbed onto his neck and threw herself around him, attempting to pull him into the ground, but he grabbed her and tossed her back towards me. I spun out the way and ran towards him, sliding under his arm as he tried to clothesline me, pulling his leg with me as I kicked into the back of his leg, forcing him to the ground.
Ava ran up to him and tried to punch him in the jaw, but he grabbed her arm and threw her back once more as he got his leg free of my grasp, getting up and gaining distance between the two of us as he readied himself once more. The two of us finally stood back up, seeing a smirk grow on the vulpines face as he ran towards the wall and jumped up, sending his feet into the wall as he reoriented himself towards us and kicked off, holding both his arms out as I saw shock grow on Ava's face and we got thrown off the stage with the vulpine, slamming through a table as the others gasped at what happened.
"I still got it," Jason chuckled as he stood up and dusted himself off. I felt like I had got hit by a car, which, I technically did, considering Goldy did say he weigh half a ton. I heard Ava barely grunting as she was curled up holding her stomach to my left, though, it was understandable considering I felt the exact same way and was also partially curled up in a fetal position as well. "Did you have to break a table, though," I heard Goldy ask with a sigh as I saw Mangle run up beside me, rubbing my back as she tried to figure out if I was okay.
Goldy walked over to Ava and was asking her if she was alright as well. "I did not expect him to pull that stunt," She muttered as Mangle grabbed my arm and helped me stumble to my feet. "Yeah, he started doing it on me when I'd teleport out the way," Goldy told her. "Damn your tricks making him learn his own," She told him while I stumbled over to the table with the others and sat down beside the white vixen who supported me over here. "I told you I wasn't going easy on the two of ya," Jason chuckled, wrapping his arm around Claire as she held the kit. "Fair," I grunted out as Mangle rubbed her cheek on the back of my shoulder as she did all those weeks-well, months ago by now.
"I've actually been wondering something," The gold bear said, helping Ava sit down at the table as he soon sat down himself. "Why did you two run away when you did?" I thought for a minute, feeling Mangle's head move from the back of my shoulder and her hand replace it as I assumed she was thinking also. "Well," I began, thinking for a minute as I looked over at the vixen. "It's a long story, but, a while back; I had accidentally bit a kid. A month later, we got shipped off to another pizzeria where I met the vixen here, and we both became good friends," I added, looking over at her with a small smile as she leaned against my shoulder. "He was going to be sent back with the others he was originally with, but when he first came he was bad off," She told him. "He would barely do anything aside from sleeping supposedly. I managed to get him up and going again where we would hang out all the time before we even knew about him being forced to leave, but the night we found your place, we ran away before he did, because if he was he wouldn't have survived."
Goldy gave us a bewildered expression as she said that. "You would've most likely died out in the open also," He told us as I felt her hand grip my forearm. "It would have been better than me getting locked in a room for the rest of my life until I finally pull out my hook and slit my throat," I told him bluntly, earning an even more shocked expression while her grip around my arm grew even tighter. The others eventually started up their own conversations at the end of the table while I closed my eyes and rested my head against hers, feeling exhausted after having to practice fighting with that beast of a fox daily, though, it did keep me occupied so I wasn't thinking about the incident near as much as I originally was.
"Hello," I heard a voice say, causing me to look over, seeing the puppet that had brought us here walking towards the table from behind a group of booths that had separated this side of the room with another side which had arcades behind it. "Hey, Marionette," The others all said in various ways while he sat down beside Goldy. "How is he coming along," He asked the gold bear who sighed. "Fairly well, but he's exhausted right now," Goldy told him as I once again rested my head against the vixens. "Hey," The puppet said, tapping the table in front of me to gain my attention. "You should go lay down, you look absolutely decimated."
"Because we did," Ava said, still holding her stomach as she had her head laid on the table. "Jason pretty much knocked everything out of them for today," Goldy told the Marionette while I stood up with Mangle helping me as well. I stumbled while I leaned against the vixen, going towards the parts and service room that we stayed in during the day as I heard her mumble something. "What did you say," I asked while we managed to step into the room. "I really wish we could go ahead and leave," She said as I flopped down on the floor. "I know, but you heard what they said about that place," I sighed, seeing her sit down beside me and lean on me. "Well, maybe I could practice with you in an attempt to speed this up," She suggested, her hand moving over to my chest and rubbing it lightly.
I didn't want to see her get hurt or have to deal with what I was dealing with, but then again, she probably wouldn't be so bored as we waited here. "I can't stop you from doing that, but you know they'll have you get what I did," I told her, pointing to my arms while I looked over at her. "Ava could probably teach me as well," She said, her ears perking up a little as I realized I've accidentally made her want to do this. "I don't want to see you having to fight anyone," I told her, rubbing the back of her head as she rested it against my chest. She gave me a sort of offended look after I said that, causing me to sigh. "Why do you say that," She asked me while I continued rubbing her head. "I won't stop you if you want to, but I don't want to see you getting hurt. I don't doubt you would do good though," I said, trying to keep from offending her as I lowered my arm from her head and down to her back, holding her close to me while I rested my jaw against the top of her head.
"Okay," She replied, relaxing a bit as I rubbed her back lightly. "I'm sorry for getting a little mad there." "You don't need to apologize," I told her with a smile as I felt her purr into my chest a little. "I know you're just a little antsy due to not being able to relax." We sat there for a little bit before I felt her scoot down so she could lay down, causing me to scoot down with her and place my arm under her head as she snuggled up against my chest as she usually does. I soon fell asleep with the vixen in my arms while I felt her holding me tightly.