Greeting: Rachel and her friends are on their way to the fence. The border is closed but hopefully there are no more helicopters.
Milla and Fritz may have a plan. And maybe Rachel's new weapon turns out to be useful too. Enjoy!
( Rachel and friends. Driving on a field)
The bus left the town behind, as well as weird animatronics and monster corpses. They were happy to get out of that place after so many fearful situations.
Their journey wasn't over but no one was thinking about that. Especially not someone like Ray who had more important things to think about.
Rachel looked like she was petting the sword.
" Here we are. Let's clean you up", she was talking to it.
Her hand was wiping dust off the blade and it was shining.
" You are not cleaning up anything!", Ray kicked the sword to the side.
He picked Rachel up by the shoulders and pushed her against a bar.
" I should punch you for that, Rachel. I love you but that was the stupidest thing you could have done", Ray was angry.
" Calm down, Ray. Use the words", she was calming him down.
The kids were alerted. It was obvious that Rachel had been a naughty bunny.
Ray took a deep breath.
Rachel thought he had calmed down but then he snapped.
" What the heck were you thinking? You did the exact opposite of what they ordered. What part of ´Do not touch the sword´ was unclear to you?", he shouted at her.
Rachel looked at the sword for answers, she got none.
She had stolen the sword on purpose. She had planned it well and executed it.
" Let me down, Ray. It's mine now. We made it, that is all. No harm done", she told him.
Ray let her go and looked deep into her eyes.
" It's not yours, it never was. We should give it back to them. The consequences will come for us sooner or later", he warned her.
" Never. I won't give it back. They were just guarding it, the sword wasn't theirs.
If they were down there for centuries, their so called queen must be dead by now", Rachel said to him.
Ray glanced at the sword and tried to pick it up. Rachel rushed to it and grabbed it quickly.
" I'll keep it safe. I took it so I'll be holding it", she explained to Ray.
Doug was worried about Rachel. The kids were too. That didn't seem like Rachel's normal behaviour.
" Why are you so possessive over it? You sound like someone else. Just put it down", Doug told Rachel.
" Nonsense. I'm fine. It wants to be with me because I'll keep it safe", Rachel shook her head.
" Not you too. It! Is! An! Object! It can't think nor desire", Ray rolled his eyes.
" Can you please explain what happened down there? I'm really curious", Nick interrupted.
Ray sacrificed some time to tell him the story. Rachel wasted that time on cleaning the sword.
" Interesting. I'm with Ray on this one, Rachel", Nick said finally.
" What?", Rachel leaned into the sword.
" Those guys were really serious about you not touching it. Probably for a good reason too. It might be dangerous", Nick told her.
Rachel snorted.
" How? It is beautiful. It only cuts your enemies a bit. Those animatronics were just dedicated to their queen", she insisted.
Lena was sitting next to Nick who glanced at her.
" It is already changing you, Rachel darling. You are obsessed over it.
Tell me then. Would you sacrifice the kids to keep that sword?", Lena glanced at the rabbit animatronic.
Rachel was astounded.
" Of course not! Kids come first", she was certain of it.
" Maybe", she added silently when she looked at the sword.
Ray grabbed the sword out of Rachel's hands.
" I'm taking this. I don't know what has gotten into you. You're ready to defend it against anything.
I see it in your eyes, Rachel", Ray told her and stopped her from taking it back.
" Give it back, Ray! It's mine. I risked my life, getting it. You were ready to just leave. I get you don't like it but I do. Give it to me", Rachel insisted angrily.
Ray kept it out of her reach.
" It's like the Ring from that one book", Ray realized.
" The Lord of the rings by J.R.R Tolkien!", one older kid specified.
" It makes you obsessed. You are not yourself Rachel", he told the angry bunny.
" Nonsense! I'm fine if you just give me back my sword. I can become a real hero with it. The kids will think of me as a hero when I have it", Rachel raged.
One adorable little girl came to her and tried to grab her hand.
" Rachel! You already.. You already are..", the girl tried to say it but Rachel kept on flailing her body around.
" Let go!", Rachel snapped at the girl and hit her with the back of her hand.
The girl stumbled backwards. There was some boy's backpack on the ground and she tripped over it.
Doug launched forward as the girl lost her balance and fell backwards. The dog animatronic was too slow, the girl hit her head into the metallic side of a seat.
" No!", Doug shouted in distress.
Rachel and Ray stopped moving immediately. Their angry expressions faded away.
The girl was hit badly and her head started to bleed.
" No!", Rachel mouthed and shook her head.
The sword fell to the floor and made a clank.
" You already were out hero", the girl said silently and closed her eyes.
Doug picked her up and checked out if she was still alive. The girl had been hit in the head hard.
Rachel was almost speechless.
" What have I done?", she asked herself.
Ray went to help the girl and Doug. Rachel, as a good animatronic, followed the example of her friends.
" Stay there", Ray put his hand forward to block her from coming.
" But I can help", insisted Rachel.
" I think you have done enough", Doug looked at her angrily.
That went deep. Rachel felt pain in her chest.
" I want to help. It makes me sad to see her like this. That was my fault. I have to help her. It hurts to see her like this", Rachel pleaded with serious eyes.
" Why don't you hold your beloved sword? It should comfort you enough", Ray responded angrily.
Rachel backed away while the other animatronics stopped the bleeding and woke up the girl.
She retreated back to her sword and looked at it. She couldn't pick it up.
" I'm sorry, Rachel. I was filled with lust and desperation", the sword told her.
It might have also been her inner voice.
" This is not my happy place. This is not where I retreat to. My place is in there, in the loving embrace of my friends", she realized and told herself.
Poor Rachel's ears drooped as she went back to the front of the bus and sat down. Nick and Lena didn't say anything, why would they?
Rachel had done a bad thing. Had nothing changed since the murder of the night guard? Was she still the same mean rabbit?
Her friends had looked at her like she was anyway.
Ray and Doug were calming the girl down. She had burst into tears as soon as she had woken up.
" Can you move your arms and legs?", Doug's concerned voice asked her.
Rachel hoped that the girl was alright. That bar had been hard metal and she had hit her head into it.
The girl might have broken bones or even a concussion. Rachel wouldn't have been amazed if she had.
She had hit the girl for trying to comfort her.
Rachel picked up the sword from the floor and put it against a wall. The sword had lost its charm quickly after her realization.
They had been right, the sword was evil, very evil.
At the same time, Rachel felt light within it. It was born out of darkness but made by light.
" What kind of being would create something so dangerous? Why would a sword like this be made?", Rachel asked herself.
She had a feeling that she would find that out sooner or later. The sword had wanted to be found and that desire hadn't been evil at all.
The way Shadow bonnie had apologized to her and stopped her own friends, troubled Rachel.
Shadow bonnie had seen something, Rachel had known that by staring at her face.
" Oh god. I see it now", her face had told Rachel.
The sword was evil but Rachel wasn't going to get rid of it.
" Christ. This really is like The Lord of the rings", she thought and covered her face.
She was meant to take it with her. Her friends would be suspicious of her but even they would understand in time.
" They will hate you for now but after that you shall save them all. Not just your friends and children but all friends and children on earth", claimed the sword.
Rachel decided to go with her hunch. She would have to be careful though, the sword's evil was fighting back.
" It will be useful. I promise", Rachel assured herself.
Her gaze stumbled across a jeep, beside the bus. Rachel saw Milla riding shotgun.
Fritz was driving and Milla was dancing in place. There was a party going on inside that car.
They were getting close to the checkpoint. Milla walked out of the window cheerfully.
She was so agile and collected when she wanted.
Milla got onto the roof and waved at Rachel. The rabbit waved back at her joylessly.
Milla was happy as she jumped towards the bus. Rachel thought that she was going to fall.
Instead, Milla grabbed the edge of the bus' roof and climbed onto it. She appeared on the other side and peeked through Nick's window.
She was upside down and probably about to fall.
Nick opened the window so Milla could speak with him.
" Hi. It's me", Milla greeted.
" You're welcome to come in if you wish", Nick told her.
" No. Dad just wants you to know that we've got this. It will take time to blast through the cars, blocking the gate.
I still say that our original plan was better but dad thinks your bus is too fragile", Milla explained.
" You would be surprised", joked Nick.
Milla smiled but it looked like she was sad because of her upside down face. She glanced at Rachel.
" Can I try that sword now? I'd like to give those monsters a kick in the ass", she asked her.
Rachel didn't want to give it to her. The sword would be dangerous in wrong hands.
She didn't think that her own hands were right ones but they were more right than Milla's.
" It is dangerous. That may not be a good idea", Rachel warned her.
" Okay. Be a killjoy then", Milla waved her hand in frustration and left.
Rachel was glad that Milla didn't start arguing. The sword was a lethal weapon but it could also turn against its user.
It needed to be handled by the one that owned it. That was probably why the sword was buried into that cave long ago.
The queen either left the country or died and the sword was too dangerous to be handled by anyone else.
The shadow animatronics said that the sword was to stay down there until its time came again.
Rachel didn't know what it meant but right then was the time. She had found it because its time had come.
The sword had saved them. They weren't alive because the children had had to survive.
They were there because the sword, or rather what was inside it, wanted so.
Those were the feelings that came into Rachel mind. She had no idea of what they meant but she got the main point.
She had to keep that sword with her at all costs. She would know when to let it go.
The thing, worrying her, was whether she would be able to let it go when the time came.
She was already thinking about sacrificing the kids for the sword.
If it happened, she would have to let go of her selfish desires and do it for the greater good. Rachel hoped it wouldn't happen but no one knew for sure.
Suddenly, Rachel put her palms together and prayed for a minute.
She had to get some assurance from somebody. It wasn't a surprise that she prayed.
Their entire escape to Freddy's was basically running on prayers at that point.
Especially when they came to the checkpoint and the monsters noticed it. Rachel saw it, looming ahead.
Her friends had managed to fix up the girl. They came to the front and glanced at the lonely bunny.
Rachel didn't dare to glance at them, she was so embarrassed of herself. She focused on the contraption, on her right.
" How will we get through it?", she whispered on her own.
" I can prove myself. You just need to let go of everything. Be my puppet", the sword told her.
Rachel ignored it, she was not going to fall for so obvious a trap.
" Get ready, kiddies. You better close your eyes", Doug told the children.
Some obeyed, the situation was scary. There would be death and blood.
The animatronics got ready to defend the kids from monsters, jumping through the windows.
Fritz and Milla's jeep drove in front of the bus to protect it. Milla got her arrows ready and popped through the roof.
They were driving nearly a mile away from the fence. The cars reached the highway and took the right.
The monsters, if not alerted already, got alerted right then.
" They are both here. Sickening and pointless", one monster grinned by the gate.
The monsters protected the gate by going in front of it. There were monsters hanging onto the front of it while some were on top of it.
The checkpoint had a roof and there were monsters on that too. The cars sped up and muscles tightened.
" This will be a mess", Fritz thought.
Nick was simply following the jeep and keeping up with its speed.
Milla, on the roof of the jeep now, glanced at Nick with worried eyes.
" I've got this", Nick mouthed, hoping Milla would understand him.
Milla sighed and raised her thumb. She relaxed now that she could focus on breaking the gate.
It seemed hard due to all the cars, stacked in front of it. Milla and Fritz had wanted to get to a roof, in the town, and then drive off the edge.
That would have taken them back to the other side.
Milla grinned at the thought, there had even been a parking garage in the town. They had cleaned up the building in order to take the jeep to the top.
Too bad that right after the building had been clean, a certain bus had been noticed by Milla.
A part of her wished she had stayed quiet. If she had done that, they would be safely on the other side already.
" Shut up! This is an adventure. That is what you wanted, right? That's why you didn't go to the pizzeria immediately", the other part of Milla told her.
It was correct, she had.
That was not a burden, that was an adventure.
With that in mind, Milla smiled and took aim. She aimed at the roof of the checkpoint.
The arrow launched and soared through the air. They were that close already.
As usual, her aim was perfect but the monsters had other things in mind. One monster jumped in the air and went face to face with the arrow.
It was an exploding one, a good way to enter a fight.
The monster ruined it by hitting it in the air. It blew up with the monster.
The roof was important to the monsters, that one had killed itself to protect the it.
" We have to destroy the gate", Fritz told his daughter.
" I know that but a collapsing roof might crush it along with a few monsters", explained Milla.
" Smart thinking but we need something else", Fritz replied to her.
Milla gestured Nick to slow down and let them go first. Nick did as he was told and got ready to dodge attacks.
The monsters were waiting for the jeep that was driving straight at them.
" We're back, bitches!", Milla exclaimed as they drove into the horde.
That jeep was tough by the looks of it. Fritz started driving in circles like the first time around.
He grabbed a gun and used it to shoot, mostly monsters, trying to climb onto the jeep's roof.
Milla had a sword to stop the monsters if they got too close.
At the same time, Nick was dodging the monsters, attacking his bus. Rachel saw them at the windows.
Milla and Fritz needed more time but they had none. The kids were shrieking and backing away from the windows.
Rachel wished she could have done something.
" They will try to use the arrows but it's useless. I can do it", said the sword.
Rachel tried to ignore it but it kept on talking. She hoped it wasn't all in her head, the feelings were annoying.
She felt them but they weren't hers.
" Let me show my true power. You must survive for me to reach my queen again. I will guide your hand", the sword assured her.
" This is a lie. I can't use you or else I'll hurt my friends like last time", Rachel felt in her heart.
The sword felt sorry for her.
" That is your weakness. You remain stuck to your past deeds. You use them to define your current self. The same thing as with the night guard.
He is gone and so is that deed. It's the past, focus on the present", the sword told Rachel.
Ray was trying to stop the monsters from opening the door and Doug was with the kids.
Nick was surrounded and he couldn't move the bus anymore.
" We will not make it and you know that. I can call the skies to crack. That is how we make sure that we have a future", the sword assured her.
" What if this is a lie?", Rachel asked a good question.
The sword had an answer, Rachel knew it too already.
" Then it makes no difference which one you choose. You're dead either way", the sword answered her.
Rachel took a deep breath and made her decision.
She grabbed the sword and felt it warm up in her hand. Doug noticed it and came to her.
" Put it down, Rachel. It's dangerous", Doug said softly, afraid.
" Trust me, Doug. We found this for a reason. No more darkness, I'll use the sword's light side this time", Rachel promised him.
Doug was scared but something in Rachel's gaze made him nod.
Rachel stood up with the sword and grinned at the monsters, outside. They were opening the door and Ray's arms failed him, he fell to the floor.
The monsters peeked in but stopped suddenly. Ray looked up and saw Rachel's face.
" Rachel. What are you doing?", he asked her confusedly.
" I'll deal with this", she told her dear friend.
The monsters were afraid and backed off a bit. Nick hit the breaks at the same time and the bus stopped sideways.
" It can't be", one monster mouthed.
Rachel stepped outside and went into her fighting stance.
" Why are they so afraid of her?", Doug asked while helping Ray up.
" They're afraid of the sword, not her", Ray was certain of it.
Rachel gave in to the sword and swung it, killing monsters.
" Run!", shouted one monster.
They fell back closer to the checkpoint where the Smiths were having trouble. The gate had been hard to destroy with arrows.
The monsters had been blocking all of them.
Rachel walked along the road with determination in her eyes. The skies cracked and a sudden light flashed.
It was storming just like inside Rachel's heart.
" Raise me to the sky and let the forces of nature strike down your enemies", the sword told Rachel.
The rabbit raised the sword obediently and a lightning hit her. The children, in the bus, screamed, thinking that Rachel would die.
It felt good, Rachel was charged up.
The sword was filled with lightning like Electra's soul. The monsters stopped attacking the jeep and backed away.
Rachel swung the sword. The blade got an electric expansion onto its blade. It was a giant whip that butchered the monsters, in its path.
" That is a cool piece of weaponry", Milla thought, ducking to get to cover.
The monsters were spreading out as they ran away. It was like from the Bible.
God walks and demons run away as He approaches.
Rachel saw the gate and charged her sword. She thrust it forward and a lightning blast came out of its tip.
The blast obliterated the gate, the stack of cars and all the monsters, by the gate. The lightning stopped coming as Rachel saw no more threats.
" Good because I am out", said Rachel and fell to the ground.
" Rachel!", Doug ran out of the bus and straight to her. He picked up the poor bunny and the sword.
The dog ran back inside quickly and put her down to the floor. Nick closed the door and the two vehicles left the state.
The gate was just gone, it was a miracle. The monsters had lost a fight with a bunny and a sword.
" What happened to her?", Doug said, crying.
He was scared and Rachel seemed dead.
" I have no idea, buddy. I have no idea", Ray knelt down and answered.
Farewell: That sword will be a fun asset to play with. But what is it exactly?
We will find out sooner or later but it's not hard to realize. To question is when will they realize it themselves. THE ONLY WAY TO LIVE IS TO WRITE.
