Author Notes

Hope you enjoy the chapter :)

Chapter 37

Revenge

Something was bothering Freddy even though it was a relatively peaceful night. The groups had called a temporary truce (under threats from both Ruby and Hedy respectively) and were gathered reluctantly to watch a movie since Ruby was still supposed to be resting.

And no. It wasn't the fact that Ruby was playfully glaring at everyone while she lazily spun a paint filled water gun around her finger. Nor was it the fact that the mechanic was glancing at him as she wrote in a notebook and looked at a book she had on the table. A systems manual from what he could see.

It wasn't the fact that Bonnie was practically cowering behind him and Ruby in attempt to put anything between him and the mechanic.

It wasn't even the fact that Toy Bonnie was complaining as loudly as possible about his left eye, which Hedy had knocked loose during her amusing rant the other day and had only that day popped out, scaring some kids.

"Would you just hurry up. Please? My depth perception is completely gone!" he whined.

"I'll say. You missed the door. Twice." Chica sounded amused.

"Toby shut up for ten more minutes or else I will get out my muting screwdriver." Hedy warned as she continued to write. Whatever she threatened seemed to work because Toy Bonnie immediately quieted, earning him snickers from Toy Chica.

"What's a muting screwdriver?" Ruby asked. "And can I get one?"

"Ha ha. No." Hedy answered sarcastically.

"Buzzkill." Ruby muttered.

She yawned. "I wonder why the projector's taking so long to warm up." she mused distractedly.

She sent a bored glare in the direction of the movie player.

Freddy looked around again before noticing something. Oh. That's what had been bothering him. Someone was missing.

"Where's Mangle?" he asked with a frown.

Ruby frowned and looked around. "She was here a minute ago..."

The Toys glanced around worriedly.

"Mangle?" Toy Freddy called.

"She's fine Teddy." Hedy told him, closing her book and motioning for Toy Bonnie to come over. "But I wouldn't suggest interrupting her right now."

"Where is she?" Freddy asked.

Hedy smirked. "You'll probably hear soon enough."

Ruby snickered, remembering the tail end of a conversation she had caught earlier.

"What's that supposed to me-" Bonnie glared at the mechanic but was cut off as an ear splitting shriek echoed through the building, making everyone jump in shock.

It was sound none of them had ever heard before.

Incoherent yelling continued as the 'bots shared confused glances.

"Is that...Puppet?" Toy Freddy asked in disbelief.

"Apparently." Hedy snickered and got to work on Toby.

Ruby was choking on her giggles for the whole five minutes that they all waited in confusion, listening to the angry yelling, when the pitch of the shouting sudden rose to a frantic screeching and continued like that for thirty seconds.

"What is...?" Goldy closed her book debating on whether to go and investigate.

"H-hold on Goldy." Ruby laughed, stopping the yellow bear before she could teleport away.

She hadn't heard the whole of Mangle's and Hedy's one sided conversation, but she heard enough to figure out that the clown wasn't having a great day. Which was completely fine with her.

There were clanging sounds from the hallway a second before Mangle poked her head through the top of the doorway. She was grinning, looking nervous and embarrassed, but at the same time far too amused for her own good.

There was also something black and white hanging from her toothy jaws.

"What did you do to Puppet?" Toy Bonnie asked hesitantly.

He eyed the limp black thing suspiciously. She wouldn't have...would she?

Mangle came the rest of the way into the room and dumped the limp black thing in the middle of the room. It crumpled to the ground and Mangle looked very smug.

Hedy was suddenly reminded of a cat she had when she was a little girl. It often brought her little dead things as 'gifts'. Rats and birds and the like.

Strangely enough? The yelling was still continuing from the other room and not from the pile of noticeably empty fabric on the ground.

Ruby stared at the thing and reached out to poke it with Betty. A smile was fighting to show itself on her face.

"Is that...the clown's suit?" she asked, grinning broadly.

Freddy blinked. "Did you...you took him out of his suit?!" he asked incredulously.

Mangle didn't nod but her grinned widened a little even as she looked away a slightly sheepishly.

Ruby continued poking the black and what fabric with her bat until a wooden mask showed itself under the folds.

Hedy managed control herself long enough to shout as loud as she could. "Feeling a little breezy there Marionette?"

"Shut up you..." the rest of his faint sounding curse filled tirade probably shouldn't be repeated.

Ruby curled into a ball as she tried to control her laughter.

After everyone finished cringing, both at the swearing and at the empty limp suit, Ruby turned to Hedy who had a pleased look on her face.

"Please tell me you two have something else planned." Ruby laughed through the pain in her shoulder.

She was irritating it with her laughing but she didn't care right then.

"Oh I don't know." Hedy rolled her eyes modestly and shrugged with an exaggerated bored air. "I kind of thought you'd like to be a little creative with it. We have to give it back eventually. We can't really have the kids seeing a naked robot skeleton walking around later today after all."

Based on her nonchalant tone of voice, that was probably the only reason Hedy would put a deadline on her and Mangle's idea of teaching Puppet a lesson..

"Oh don't say it like that." Chica whined, grimacing.

Toy Freddy looked about ready to burst into a lecture about just how against "the rules" that was but snapped his mouth shut at the look his pink and white fox friend shot him.

Ruby gave a sinister smile and picked up the suit with the end of her bat.
"Oh, I can get very creative. Very creative indeed." She snickered, eyes dancing.

She glanced over at the doorway at a slight noise and did a double take as she raised her bat higher, the suit still dangling off it.

"What the heck is that?!" she pointed at the spindly thing that was glaring at everyone in the room.

It's pinprick white LED eyes where narrowed in annoyance.

"Give. It. Back. " it hissed through a black speaker on its "face" with Puppet's voice.

Hedy blinked in...shock? She wasn't sure. She just knew that the half-wood-half-metal wire covered skeleton looking thing standing unsteadily in the door as it favoured its right leg was indeed Puppet.

He was a heck of a lot creepier out of his "skin".

"H-hi Puppet." Toy Bonnie greeted uncertainly.

They hadn't talked to him for a couple days since they lost and found out about what he had done, and it was seriously throwing him off to see Puppet not as Puppet.

Mangle let out a crackle of static and suddenly swooped down, picking up Puppet's costume/suit from Betty in her mouth and bolting for the other door.

"Argh!" the Marionette growled and darted into the room to follow Mangle, wobbling slightly on his damaged leg and trying (and failing) to ignore just how humiliating this all was.

Everyone stared at the door for a moment.

Ruby looked thoughtful for a moment. "You know..."

"What?" Hedy asked without looking at her.

"I think he looks better this way." Ruby smirked.

"NO." was the immediate response.

Puppet eventually did find his suit with barely five minutes to spare before opening time.

"Finally." He snapped.

How DARE they?! He had never been so humiliated before.

It was tacked onto a wall in the staff room with the push pins from the bulletin board, hung up with all the arms and legs in the proper place. (Probably Ruby's doing.)

Puppet glared at his own face staring back at him with blank eyes. His own real white ones narrowed in fury.

Muttering to himself he stalked forwards towards it and reached up to yank himself off the wall...

At that moment, one of the cleaners opened the door with the intent to get his morning coffee from the staff room. He entered just in time to see a smallish, very creepy endoskeleton yank a flattened Marionette off the wall right before the paint, glitter, and bleach bombs hidden inside and behind it went off in a spectacular explosion.

Apparently, bleach turned black fabric purple.

Puppet looked very splotchy and dripped rainbows and unicorns from every single seam that day.

Meanwhile, Ruby went home and demanded to be called the 'Clown Rainbow-fier' for the rest of the day to the house's amusement.

Author Notes

Hope you enjoyed and don't worry. I haven't forgotten about BB. Where he's been this whole time will be revealed soon. :P