Greeting: Last time, Bonnie and Marionette almost ended up being trapped forever.
Hopefully, none of that was in vain. At least they found out something.
Enjoy the chapter, guys and gals!
( The room in the basement. Marionette and the rest)
Bonnie had to sit down and take a deep breath. The amounts of suffering, she had seen, had surpassed everything else.
Nothing else had ever hurt her as much. Neither the massacre in the city nor the massacre at the Grayson hill had been worse or anywhere near.
Bonnie wondered why she hadn't gone blind in that tormenting place.
The Apocalypse witch's lair had been just flashing lights and screaming, louder than a million birds.
Based on all of that, Bonnie and Marionette should have been both blind and deaf.
There was no way all the lights and the screaming hadn't destroyed their senses.
That place had been somewhere between the mind and the soul worlds.
Of course, it made sense that it hadn't affected their senses in any way. Bonnie couldn't help wondering.
She wouldn't have been surprised if it had made them blind and deaf. Those sounds had sunk into her soul and tortured her from the inside.
Bonnie was still hearing every single one of them. They were stuck in her head and refused to leave.
Bonnie covered her ears to make the screams go away.
She looked like a lunatic, hearing voices in her head. Bonnie had to close her eyes as well.
" Maybe this will make them calm down. Let's hope so", thought Bonnie.
She wasn't able to make herself not feel anything though. A hand was placed on her back, she hadn't prepared for that.
Bonnie hit the hand to make it leave. It was like one of the hands that had grasped her. Bonnie retracted her legs and covered her head with her hands.
Maybe the hand wouldn't be able to touch her again.
Bonnie had been overreacting a bit too much in that situation.
" Bonnie. It's just me. Don't get scared", Chica told her.
Bonnie opened her eyes and glanced at Chica. She was smiling at Bonnie and looked friendly, not angry.
Bonnie calmed down and came out of the protection of her arms. She felt embarassed and looked away from her.
Chica sat down next to her. Bonnie acted like she didn't notice it. Chica's eyes were fixed on her.
She placed her hand on Bonnie's thigh.
" Bonnie. Look at me please. You don't have to be afraid. I just want to talk", said Chica.
She pulled the thigh towards herself to make Bonnie turn around. Slowly but surely, Bonnie looked at Chica who was smiling a little.
" Are you okay, Bonnie? You got out of there, you are safe. I don't know what you saw but I see it upset you", said Chica.
" It did. There were just so many screaming figures in there. I don't know if the Holy bible is right about there being a place called Hell.
I just know that the place, I went in, was really close to it. That place was a construction, made of agony and pain", Bonnie said to Chica.
" You don't have to go there again. It was a mistake to go there in the first place", Chica patted her back.
" I'm worried about the people in there. Marionette said the gates of the afterlife had been opened or something along those lines.
The nightguards were there as well as the other dead", Bonnie looked terrified.
" Well. I don't think we can help them now. If we stop this somehow, we'll free them as well, I guess", shrugged Chica.
There was not much she could say to make Bonnie feel better.
" Do you understand, Chica? If we die now, there will be no afterlife for us to go to. Our deaths won't be nice ones. It won't be peace and calmness anymore.
Those who die will be suffering for the rest of eternity. That includes us!", Bonnie explained to Chica.
Chica's eyes widened when she realized that. Death would not be peace anymore.
Death wouldn't be the end either. Death would be a curse and no peace would be found after it.
Chica was scared too.
" This is a dangerous game, we are playing. What if there is no way to win? The beast witches are not in a hurry to kill us.
They might have a point. By not hurrying, they are just making our death more painful and agonizing", asked Bonnie.
" There's always a way. Where there is a will, there is a way. Never forget that.
Freddy has said it many times too", answered Chica.
Bonnie glanced forward.
" What kind of way? Without Leslie, what do we have? How could we go against Black the cat and Elleroth?
Both of them are almost omnipotent and invincible", snorted Bonnie.
" The answer may reveal itself in time. I don't think they will attack us, not at least right away.
The Grayson hill showed that those two will rather let their pawns do the work", Chica was right.
" They'll come. Sooner or later, they'll come", Bonnie shook her head.
" We'll worry about that when the time comes. Before that however, we'll fight back. Let's not go down easily", Chica tried to wake up Bonnie's warrior spirit.
" How do we do that?", asked Bonnie.
" Let's go save people, we have Faith. We'll be our own flying rescue team. There are lots of people trapped in various places.
We'll find them and bring here. We can ruin the beasts' plans. If some other opportunities occur, we'll use them.
We'll do everything we can to make the invasion as hard as possible", Chica suggested in a determined tone.
Bonnie got a weird feeling. When she thought about rescuing people, she felt as if she had forgotten something.
She shrugged it off.
" There should be some other pizzerias around. Are you thinking about them?", asked Bonnie.
" Those and other places as well. Milla and Fritz are out there too. We should rescue them", shrugged Chica.
Bonnie chuckled a bit.
" We don't even know where they live nowdays", she said to Chica.
" Not that they would need a rescue team anyway. They are probably having the time of their lives right now", Chica thought about it further.
" It could end up going the other way around. Milla and Fritz would have to rescue us", Bonnie was smiling.
" We don't need to be rescued, the pizzeria is a safe place. What do you say?
Shall we fight back without thinking death or should we live by the terms of monsters?", asked Chica.
Bonnie looked determined, her warrior self had awoken again.
" Never, Chica. We should never give in", she answered Chica.
She patted Bonnie in the back.
" That's the Bonnie I know. The bunny who's a fighter", Chica smiled at her.
Bonnie let out a loud giggle.
" I'm not a fighter for real. Storm and Fang are fighters, I'm just a bunny. Just because I have psychic powers, doesn't mean I'm a real fighter", said Bonnie.
" You are! Trust me", said Chica and stood up.
Marionette, Mike and Storm Jr. had been talking to each other for a while.
Eclipse was listening to them but not taking part in the conversation. Chica and Bonnie joined them now that Bonnie had gotten over the shock of the suffering.
" You don't want to go back there? Maybe we could rescue them if we tried", suggested Storm Jr.
Marionette shook his head to that.
" Absolutely no! That place is way too dangerous to travel to. We could lose our souls", Marionette told her.
" I agree with him, Storm Jr. You did not see it. Please, girl. Take our word for it. There is nothing for us there except death", Mike looked pleading.
" Hey! I did not suggest it in the first place. Now that we have found it, we might as well use it", exclaimed Storm Jr.
" I just checked it out, nothing more. I wanted to find out the origin of the ghosts and I did. It's too dangerous, now we can forget it", Marionette replied to her.
" Forget it? No! It could be useful. We just have to explore it more", Storm Jr. could not think about leaving it be.
Storm Jr. saw that Marionette was not going to give in. She was just a youngster and Marionette was a grown up.
She had not been in the lair and Marionette had.
Storm Jr. had to make him see how useful that place could be.
" Bonnie. What do you think? You were there too. It could be useful, right? We could find something useful in there", Storm Jr. glanced at Bonnie.
" Yea, Bonnie. Let's hear your opinion", Marionette let her speak up.
" Please, Bonnie. Put an end to Storm Jr.'s crazy suggestion. It's insane and you know it", pleaded Mike.
Bonnie glanced at them both.
" I'm afraid I have to agree with Marionette and Mike. The risks are not worth taking. Going back would be a suicide mission", she looked at Storm Jr.
" But I know it will be useful", insisted Storm Jr.
She was looking into Bonnie's eyes with a begging look.
" I doubt we are hearing the clever Storm Jr. who wants to protect us. I think the talker is the Storm Jr. who just wants Leslie back.
She is in control right now", Bonnie shook her head.
Storm Jr. snorted.
" Or are you really the rational Storm Jr.? Are you saying that because you really think that way?", asked Bonnie.
Storm Jr. and Bonnie looked into each other's eyes.
Storm Jr. would have wanted to say yes.
Her core sped up, she could not say it.
Storm Jr. let out a sigh and looked down.
" I thought so", said Bonnie, seeing that she was right.
" You could save your loved ones too. We could save the nightguards and bring them back. Chica! We could resurrect Betsy. And Nina as well!
Imagine how happy Springtrap would be! We could rescue Eclipse's parents as well. They must all be there", Storm Jr. looked really sad.
Marionette nodded to her.
" I know but we can't. It's dangerous and hard to get anyone from there. It might even be impossible", Marionette wished Storm Jr. would understand.
" Stupid. So we got nothing then. I was so sure this would be our way to defeat Black and the beast witch army", Storm Jr. was disappointed.
" It's actually an army of the dead", corrected Bonnie.
" What?", asked Storm Jr.
" We found that out. The monsters are people who have been possessed by the dead", explained Bonnie.
" That's how there can be so many of them. The whole planet has been taken over by them.
It seemed weird since there hadn't been a lot of beast witches in the Middle Ages. So they are all just normal dead people", it made sense to Mike.
Bonnie recalled something.
" One of the figures described to me that beast witches had red eyes", said Bonnie.
" Electra had red eyes. That evening at the Grayson hill when she became really powerful and electrocuted me", recalled Eclipse.
" Elleroth has red eyes as well. Like those elite monsters we have been seeing around", nodded Marionette.
" So the red-eyed monsters are proper beast witches then. Explains why they are so much more powerful than the rest", said Bonnie.
" Wait a minute! Only the red-eyed ones seem to be able to hide their true nature. You know, when they look like normal humans", shouted Storm Jr.
" That's actually a useful piece of information. We can expect mind games from the red-eyed monsters but not from the black-eyed ones", said Bonnie.
" Storm Jr. was wrong. We did get some information", she added.
" Okay! I admit I was wrong about that. It still doesn't help us stop the Apocalypse", admitted Storm Jr.
" Cheer up, Storm Jr. Like Chica told me: Don't worry about it. The solution will show itself in time.
We just have to fight back and go rescue people", Bonnie looked cheerful.
" Wait! I thought you were on our side. You didn't want to go back into that place, did you?", asked Mike.
Bonnie chuckled and shook her head.
" No, Mike. I mean the outside world. There must be lots of people out there, scared and sad.
We should go find them and bring them here. We have Faith and there's still lots of room in here", Bonnie told them.
" We don't have enough mattresses for everyone. Even now, some will have to sleep on the floor", Mike pointed out.
" Not to even mention that our food sources are not infinite", added Eclipse.
" We can solve the mattress problem easily. And let's not worry about food.
Maybe we can stop by the shopping center to get some food", Bonnie was everything but worried.
" You make it sound so easy. It's a piece of cake! Except that there will be monsters roaming out there, in case you don't remember", Eclipse told her.
" We can fight like always or hide if we need to. But we need to help those people out there.
We can't protect everybody but we can save as many as we can. Maybe they can help us survive as well! You never know", Bonnie had lots of ideas.
Suddenly, her idea did not seem so crazy anymore. They could do it. Plus, what else could they do.
Bonnie's idea was smart and useful unlike Storm Jr.'s crazy plan.
" You never know, that's right. It is possible that someone might know something useful", Mike had no problem with it anymore.
Eclipse and Marionette looked at Bonnie and seemed to accept her suggestion.
" Now that I think about it, that can turn out to be one of our best decisions ever. In An end of the world -situation, having more allies is crucial.
These basement animatronics are useful but they don't seem to fight with everything they've got.
Their past as slaves has taught them to think little of themselves", Marionette nodded towards Mike.
Storm Jr. had an opinion too.
" I think, when it comes to animatronics, we are the only ones with real fighting experience.
The others have just been in their pizzerias, singing and playing.
Tickle attacks are nothing compared to a monster, jumping at your face and eating it", she pointed out.
" Of course. I didn't think they would be fighters but they are as motivated to fight as we are. We all want to protect our kids with our lives.
Love is needed in this fight", Marionette told Storm Jr.
" All of you have heard of what Springtrap did, haven't you?", he added.
" Yea. Everyone is talking about it. I thought he fought someone for real and not by using magical power", Storm Jr. answered him.
" Well, he did. It is still unclear why he was able to do it. I'm sure it had something to do with his love for children.
Beast witches are children of sin and love is sin's worst enemy. I'm sure I'm on the right track", explained Marionette.
" That would be useful if we could just tap the monsters and they'd vanish", said Eclipse.
" With enough love, we might end up doing just that", Mike glanced at him.
" But we need more animatronics. The only way is to go exploring", Bonnie smiled at Mike.
" Yep. I think that might be the only way", he nodded to her.
" You are a genious, Bonnie", Marionette smiled at her.
Bonnie felt good. Then a small cough got her attention.
It's source was the chicken, behind her.
" Well. It wasn't my idea. It was Chica's. It would be wrong to take the credit for this idea", Bonnie turned around to look at Chica.
" Well, in that case. You are a genious, Chica. Thank you", Marionette said to her.
Chica blushed a bit.
" You're welcome. It was an idea which made sense. It just came into my mind, nothing more", Chica tried to hide her blushing cheeks.
They left the room and went back upstairs. Some animatronics came to find out what they had discovered.
Marionette told them everything.
" I will not join those expeditions, thank you. I can't see out there", was Nadia's first sentence.
Many others were ready to come out sometime. They could see how smart Chica's idea was.
Minutes later, Bonnie left the main hall and walked into Mr. Fazbear's office.
Scarlett was there with Balloon boy.
They had heard of the bed problem and tried to solve it.
" Are there any mattresses in there?", Scarlett asked BB who was in the second room.
BB came out.
" Only that one bed. Nothing else", answered BB.
The one that Jenny had slept in was dirty and not good for a child. Some adult was going to have to sleep on that.
" Hi, Bonnie. How many mattresses have you other guys found?", Scarlett asked her.
" Not even close to enough. We are in trouble. Perhaps I should have worried about this. It is true that there are no mattresses in the pizzeria", answered Bonnie.
" Too bad, Freddy's wasn't meant to be slept in. We did not prepare for this. If only we had", said BB and crossed his arms.
" I wonder how someone could have prepared for this. This came out of nowhere which was the worst part", Scarlett replied to him.
" I think we need someone with knowledge of the pizzeria. I can think of two who would know this place like the back of their hand.
Fred was torn apart by Goldie and William has been dead for decades now", sighed Bonnie.
" Delilah would know this place too. She knew this place well, believe me", added Balloon boy.
" She was a seer. Surely, she had to see this coming. Why couldn't have she like..hidden a ton of mattresses somewhere here?", asked Bonnie.
" Don't be like that. We can make it. It's not crucial to our survival to have beds. A kid can sleep on the same mattress as their parents.
It's not the end of the world", answered BB.
" If kids can't sleep, they will be angry and wild. It's going to be problematic", replied Scarlett.
" Well, in that case..Yes! This place will become a madhouse", said BB.
" Maybe the monsters will not kill us. We will kill ourselves before that", Scarlett thought out loud.
" I don't want to think about that. That just makes me want to find those damn mattresses no matter what it takes", Bonnie told them.
" Even if we can't find more, it's fine. There's no need to cry for it.
If there isn't anymore mattresses, then there isn't. We just have to live with that", shrugged Scarlett.
" It's gonna suck if there is a ton of them somewhere but we can't find it since we don't know the place.
We gotta have someone who knows this place well", Balloon boy was thinking hard.
Bonnie thought about it for a second.
" Mr. Fazbear has to know. He owns this place. He can tell us if there are any rooms for storing mattresses", exclaimed Bonnie.
" He isn't here", BB rolled his eyes.
Bonnie remembered it then.
" Oh yea! He left in the morning and went to the...", Bonnie started.
She went silent.
The bad feeling she had had in the basement earlier! It blew up inside her.
BB and Scarlett looked at her.
Suddenly, their eyes widened in fear.
" He went to the school. He never came back so he is still in there", Bonnie told them with scared eyes.
They had forgotten him!
Due to the shock and the sudden attacks, Mr. Fazbear had not been in their minds. The other animatronics heard Bonnie and Scarlett scream in shock.
They came to the office and drew their swords.
" What? Have they attacked again?", asked Freddy as he launched in.
" Bonnie!", he saw her on the floor.
Freddy came to her and raised her head.
" Bonnie. Answer me, darling", Freddy was scared.
Bonnie opened her eyes.
" Mr. Fazbear! He's still at the school. We forgot our boss", said Bonnie in shock.
The animatronics looked at her in fear. They had forgotten him completely.
Mr. Fazbear would not be happy when they'd finally find him. That was if Mr. Fazbear was going to be still alive.
They had to go rescue him but was it already too late to save him?
Farewell: No! I did not forget Mr. Fazbear. I did not realize a minute ago that he is still at the school!
I had it all planned out.
Really. Actually, the first battle was suppose to take place after the rescue of Mr. Fazbear but I changed it. This should get scary.
See you guys later and remember: THE ONLY WAY TO LIVE IS TO WRITE!
