Chapter 8- Storage

At the bottom of a flight of stairs, they were met with a strange new place they had never seen before. Freddy assumed it must have been here the entire time, he just wondered why he was never allowed in it. The sign on the door was just as off putting as the musty smell the hallway gave off. The hallway was coated with old chairs, tables, dust bunnies, but it lacked the thing they had went there to find. Bonnie.

"I wonder… do you guys think that he is really here?" Freddy asked them.

Chica smiled a bit "I'm sure he's around here somewhere, my question is though… what is he doing down here if he is? I doubt he knows what's down here, just as we don't know anything about this place." She looked around at all the vents and doors in the hallway. "Who built this place? It's massive! Look at all these air ducts! I could get lost in the entirety of this place!"

Freddy laughed, looking over at Foxy. "Incidentally, do you think we would find him faster if we split up?" He asked him.

"Hmm… We would be lookin around a wider area… and we might find him a bit faster… so if we remember where the exit be… I don't see why not!" Foxy said.

"Good Idea, I think we should too! Where can I start looking first Foxy?" Chica asked excitedly. She was finally able to be useful and she was loving every second of it.

"hmm...t lass, maybe you should go into that vent thar! Maybe ye could find the lad! Freddy and I will look around the hallways. If ye find em, let us know? Ok?" Foxy said, helping her get the vent hatch off. She giggled as she looked into the vent, already beginning to draw a mental map in her head.

"Sure thing Foxy! Thanks!" She said, pecking him on the cheek. Foxy's gears heated up and he blushed, watching her disappear into the small vent. He thought he heard her giggling with excitement, making his gears heat up even hotter.

"Kinda wish I fit in those vents now…" He said, rubbing his cheek in and attempt of calming himself down. Freddy chuckled patting him on the back.

"Come on lover boy, let's go find Bonnie." He said, pointing down the hall towards a door. "I'll check that room out, you look around the halls more."

"Aye aye Cap'n!" Foxy said proudly, walking off in the direction of his choice. "I hope I find him soon… this place gives me the creeps!"

Now walking over to the door he had formerly pointed at, he heard a distinct cry coming from it. "Hm… Bonnie?" He asked. He waited a while for response; however, none came. Grunting with annoyance, he fiddled with the doorknob, the door giving way. He looked in the darkness, trying to spot the source of the nearly inaudible sobs. "Hello?"

"Huh!?" A voice said between sobs. A pair of green eyes lit up across the room, and Freddy knew them even from a distance.

"Green? What are you doing here?"

"Let's see… so I took a right, then a left, then went straight for a while… There has to be a way out…" Chica huffed, continuing to crawl in the vents with the utmost care not to attract too much attention. She turned to the right, sighing with relief as she saw the light at the end of the dark tunnel. She lightly pulled the grate off, slipping out and reattaching it.

Looking around at the room she was in, she noticed that it was filled with boxes and stacked chairs. From the dim lights that lit the room, she also noticed that everything, especially the boxes, were recently moved by humans. "Is this some kind of storage?" She thought to herself "Ok… where am… Hey!" She said, seeing the light go out. Strangely, the light was very different compared to the lights in the hallways, and she didn't know where it had come from. "Hey! Why did it shut off… wait… hello? Did someone turn it off?"

"Wait a minute! Chica? Is that you?" A familiar voice said, sticking it's head up accordingly. Chica gasped.

"Tee Chee? Are you ok!? What happened to you? What.. what are you doing here?" Chica said, immediately running over to the ruined little chicken.

"Yeah… I.. I don't know… the humans took me and the others… I don't know where they others are… Chica… please… help me…" She said faintly. Chica held onto her tightly.

"D-Don't worry little duck… I've got you now… I got you…" She said soothingly, patting the top of her head. Tee Chee shrank in her arms, shaking violently from either cold or fear. "I need to get you out of here…" Chica said, helping the girl to her feet. "Can you walk?"

"Not… by myself…" She said, grabbing a hold of Chica's shoulder. "Fuel tanks… really… low…" She said. Chica nodded, hearing the deadly beeps of the fuel gauge dropping. For some reason, Tee Chee's eyelights wouldn't go out. Chica assumed it was because she was afraid of the dark, as the automatic sensor connected to her AI Chip seemed fine.

"It's.. It's ok.. I've got you now… and… and I'm sure you'll be fine…" She said lightly, helping her back towards the surface.

"The… the others… are they safe?" Tee Chee choked out, making Chica sigh, continuing to head down the hall with her. After a few moments in deathly silence, she answered.

"I don't… I don't know… But… I'm sure that Freddy and Foxy have found one of them by now… I hope they're in decent condition…" She said, hobbling back up the stairs once she finally made it. "Come on Tee Chee! I'll make you some pizza!"Foxy continued walking down the hall, feeling extremely anxious. He kept thinking he saw a shadow or a pair of eyes looking at him every time he looked into one of the rooms. One thing bothered him more than that though, and that was, Where and how did they make this. Also, why? It didn't seem to hold much more purpose than storing a bunch of useless old junk.

Foxy continued walking down the hall, feeling extremely anxious. He kept thinking he saw a shadow or a pair of eyes looking at him every time he looked into one of the rooms. One thing bothered him more than that though, and that was, Where and how did they make this. Also, why? It didn't seem to hold much more purpose than storing a bunch of useless old junk.

"I wonder… does this have a different purpose… was it built here for another reason? Maybe this was here before the restaurant opened up here…" He thought to himself, nearing the end of the hallway. Something peculiar caught his eye, a pair of blue eyes staring at him from within one of the rooms to his left. He figured it was is eye sensors playing tricks on him, but he went into the room anyway.

"Hello? Who that be?" He asked once he saw the eyes close. He turned his eyelights on, lighting the room with his vision. "Oh… it's you!"

"Hello… Foxy… how are you?" Teddy said, coughing loudly. He scratched his head with a confused look. "You're not going to just leave me like Bonnie did, are you?" He asked, pulling himself up weakly on top of a box.

"What? You saw me matey Bonnie?" Foxy said, easing his way over to the large bear. Teddy nodded.

"Yeah… and someone else… but… I don't know who it was really… It was a strange golden rabbit. They were walking around together. Um, do you think you could get me out of this place? I hate the musty smell." Teddy said, holding a hand out for Foxy to grab. Foxy complied, grabbing his hand and helping him to the door.

"So… do you know what happened to ye?" Foxy asked as the slowly trudged down the hallway "Man this guys is really heavy, he's way bigger than the other two!"

"Vaguely… they had shut the other two off on the way over here… but… they forgot to shut me off. So I plugged myself into the nearest outlet and waited for something to happen. And something did happen, We arrived here. To this… old pizzeria. I didn't get to see it for very long as they ushered us into these rooms… I don't know where the others are… I… I'm sorry… everything went wrong…" Teddy said with a sigh. Once Foxy got a better look at the bear, he noticed that he was in very poor condition, even worse than his missing jaw and arm, he looked like he had an oil leak.

"Were you guys… here.. for…. very long?" Foxy asked, worrying about how many years had truly passed.

Teddy smirked, coughing a bit "It's only been a few years Foxy… luckily I've been plugged in the whole time, so I've been counting the days… you know it's been three years and I haven't been eating any real food, I'm starving after all this electricity… can I get some pizza?"

Authors Note-

Hey! Ok, expect an update on this chapter later, I've just barely had enough time to finish this before I had to go. So please review and all that, it means a lot! Later!

Song of the day-

It's not really the best song by them, but "Turning over a new leaf" By Mandopony is really good and every time I hear it I want to play more animal crossing!