Eyyyyyyy doods! Now THIS is getting interesting! I think most of us can agree that intros suck am I right? XD *crickets*...ANYHOW! onto the next chapter!
Also in case you're wondering, I'm going to try to talk about every character on the team more equally, I know I didn't talk too much about Chica in the introductory chapter but I was really just getting things set up and she'll have a huge part later on. Also didn't talk much about Bonnie but he's pretty much featured in this chapter.
And THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR THOSE FANS OF OTHER CHARACTERS! I will try to feature EVERYONE in this story. I know Springtrap will have a big part and so will the toys, and Marionette, Golden, the shadows and the balloon kids are gonna be here too. I'm probably going to bring in the cupcakes (somehow) but rest assured that I will attempt to include everyone.
This chapter is really dark, but keep in mind it does absolutely not under any circumstances set the mood for the rest of the story. Just hang in there guys! bear with me! XD don't unfollow this story because of that pun I'm begging you.
Bonnie was so distracted by the deterioration of the room, in fact, that he almost didn't notice it get darker. He looked at his flashlight and noted that it seemed to be draining itself, and he was getting cold. Very, very cold.
"Who's there?" Called Bonnie. "Look, I promise I won't hurt you. You're probably a magical, aren't you?" Magicals were beings estranged from society because of mysterious powers. Bonnie figured one was looking for mischief. "I'm just trying to work. Maybe we can talk late-"
Bonnie was cut off as he turned around and saw he was face to face with some sort of amalgamate. He somehow recognized that it was made up of humans, some with broken legs and arms, backwards heads, and twitching bodies. All of them had empty eyes and mouths that gaped into screams, although the beings made no sound. They were colourless and seemed to be wearing similar uniforms. Bonnie could make out two letters that began one nametag through his immobilizing fear. An 'M'...and an 'i'...
"Wh...Wha..." Bonnie was in too much shock to move or even scream. He stared into the multiple empty eyes of the beast as it launched itself at him.
"Foxy, have you found anything?" asked Freddy, knowing the self proclaimed pirate was probably slacking again.
"Enough fer me te handle. Ye should search somewhere else." Of course Freddy was skeptical and walked in only to see the fox playing with a small, deteriorating plastic pirate ship.
Freddy rolled his eyes and started his lecture. "You know we're on a schedule. we've spent enough time in this city and the people in charge are getting annoyed. why do you always seem to want to screw us over?"
Foxy pretended to look hurt and pouted, holding his hand and hook up defensively. "Me? screw o'er th' team? Ye think I'd do that?"
"You've always done that."
"'Ave I really? 'Cause I'm not th' one leadin' th' team~!"
"You don't have to be leading to screw the team over."
"Oh really? 'cause yer always babysittin' me when th' rest of th' team is in danger y'know. Is a toy ship really worth yer time?"
Freddy's ear and eye twitched. As much as he hated to admit it, Foxy was right. He remembered when Foxy had chosen to swing from vines in the trees rather than walk with the rest of the team, and while Freddy was trying to lecture him into getting down he wasn't looking where he was going and stepped off of a cliff. When Bonnie and Chica tried to catch him they tumbled down as well. Foxy, however, was completely unhurt throughout the entire mission. Freddy sighed in annoyance. "Just try to help this one time. okay? Please?"
"Well! since ye asked so nicely," Foxy jumped up and threw the ship backwards over his shoulder, "I'm in cap'n!"
Freddy just shook his head. He could never understand why Foxy tested him so much, but more so, how he was never let go from the team by the higher-ups. They were certainly one of the stranger teams on the force.
During the angry exchange between Foxy and Freddy, they could be heard from outside and Chica was smart enough to stay away. She figured this whole mission was a bust anyways and it had been a few hours, meaning they'd have to go back soon. Thinking ahead, she searched for Bonnie.
She saw him a while earlier exiting the washrooms, probably to search in a place that wasn't so disgusting. Bonnie had a habit of leaving the better spots to his team and taking anywhere left, and with his complaining about the situation it didn't surprise Chica that he was off to search somewhere else.
She followed where he went and heard some sort of ominous buzzing noise coming from a room which was near the entrance. It had been boarded up when the team had arrived. Chica thought nothing of the situation. She figured Bonnie had gone back to take down the boards and he had actually found working tech, which was extremely rare. Only a few cases of it had ever been recorded and this made her excited.
Chica walked into the room to see Bonnie curled around a tablet emitting light. She knew Bonnie liked to read like that so it didn't surprise her too much, but what caused some confusion was that the tablet was clean. Shiny in fact, like it was brand new and planted in this collapsing mess of a place.
"Hey Bon! That's amazing! Working tech in a place like this?" No answer.
"Aw c'mon! You've gotta be proud of yourself! You're the first one on the team to find something like that! Freddy's gonna be jealous!" Still no answer. Just ominous silence.
Chica felt an overwhelming sense of dread as she stepped forward, like she expected something to jump at and gut her. She wasn't an idiot and stepped back and out of the room. On her way out she could have sworn that something other that Bonnie was watching her, and that big stain on the opposite end of the room wasn't just from water damage. Not only that, but she thought she heard a whisper that said something extremely ominous.
'Who's the killer now?'
Chica ran to the stared purple curtains to see Freddy and Foxy. She hoped they had made up because she needed backup.
"There's something wrong with Bonnie. I think some tech he found is messing with him." Chica hid her fear well.
Freddy flinched lightly at the word 'tech'. "Tec-erm...something wrong? what do you mean?" He turned to Foxy reluctantly and saw him wearing a mean grin and shaking his head slowly at him. Perhaps in his earlier years Freddy may have knocked him right the hell out, but now he just narrowed his eyes and turned back to Chica.
"He's just staring at some light and he won't answer me! I think there's something in the room with him too."
Freddy raised an eyebrow but was worried. "Like an insect?" Insects had evolved with animals on Earth but their transformation didn't go as pleasantly. Let's just say your flyswatter would be like a poke at them now.
Foxy rolled his eyes. "More like yer paranoia lass. C'mon, I'll show ye there's nothin' te worry about."
Despite everything, Freddy refused to cave and tried to use reason. "There is a good possibility there are insects here fox. Don't just charge in."
Foxy responded by forming a mouth with his remaining hand and opening and closing it as he repeated what Freddy said in a mimicking manner followed by, "I'm Freddy! Everyone listen to me 'cause I'm the greatest and the smartest and risks are for stupids! Duhhhhhh!"
Freddy just watched him and followed. He swore in his mind that one day he would get that immature rustic fluff-bag off of the team.
Chica pushed Foxy out of the way and led the team, which led to Foxy nudging her with his elbow, which led to Chica pulling a cupcake expertly out of her case. Before anyone could act, she shot it at Foxy who was then coated in glitter.
Foxy could only blink in surprise and tell himself repeatedly not to look at Freddy, and then of course looked at Freddy because nobody, not even himself could tell him what to do. Of course the scallywag was smirking. Foxy used all of his will to pretend not to notice and followed a smug Chica to the previously boarded up room.
"In there," she said, motioning to the opening which Foxy, of course, then ran right into.
"FOXY OH MY GOD." Freddy ran in after them and, worried for her team, Chica followed, shining her flashlight and revealing that Bonnie was gone, but the tablet continued to shine. Chica noticed that the ominous presence from before still existed, but was more faint. She dragged her flashlight around the room as Freddy examined the tablet, trying to hold it away from Foxy and his damaging hook, and saw two bright dots that shined from an air vent that hadn't been open before. As soon as she saw them they seemed to disappear, and Chica's attention was directed to the large, brownish-red stain near to the vent. not wanting to think about what that was, she wandered over to the others.
"He left a note..." Freddy said as he examined the loose logbook paper that was on the tablet. He read, "We're all monsters. See for yourself. I'll meet you at the entrance once you've watched this. If you don't think this is proof, know that I remembered every second as that bastard. I'll know if you've watched and don't try to find me if you haven't."
The three exchanged confused and worried glances. Monsters? but they couldn't be...they acted only in self defense or harmlessly and helped society by finding tech, right? They turned on the video and were not prepared for the horrors they saw.
There were robots that shared their features who would stalk guards and stuff them into suits. It seemed that someone had edited the video to add in only the scenes that would really leave an impression. They saw adults, some as young as eighteen, shaking violently and breaking into tears, some even vomiting as they tried to block the animatronics from getting into the office.
They would scream as they were dragged down the halls, begging for their lives. Most had families to support, some were single fathers or mothers trying to get back on their feet after being fired or after a divorce...many just pleaded to live. None in the video made it. Freddy, Foxy and Chica heard their bones crack and their screams of pain as they were stuffed, and then silence by the time the bear head was lowered onto the victim, completing the costume.
Each team member somehow remembered what it was like to kill the innocent. They saw their actions through the eyes of the brutal monsters in the video. It didn't make sense that it was them! Putting aside the fact that these were robots and every member of the team was quite obviously alive, they saw the stretch of years this happened in on the video date on the tablet. The late 1980s and early 1990s. The concept of recording years had been lost to Earth by now. Some scientists had decided to dedicate their work to as accurately as possible dating artifacts from the humans' time so that they could adopt the dating, but it had been so long.
Nevertheless the experience felt too real for everyone. No one knew what was up with Bonnie, Chica was sobbing, Foxy was trying to be brave but his eyes darted around and he fidgeted uncontrollably, and Freddy just stared at the screen. He seemed to be the most calm, but in his head he was repeating the names of each guard that had seemingly died by their hands.
Freddy turned off the tablet and tried to clear his head. He needed to be strong for his team, and knew they would be looking to him for a sense of what to do next. Maybe Foxy would listen to him for once. The thought cheered him up just a bit. He stood and looked at the team.
"I don't know how to explain this other than to say it's impossible. There's probably some sick magical messing with us. We wouldn't have been alive back then, and even if we existed as those...things...how could we have survived something that destroyed an entire race? They seemed to be malfunctioning here, so they would probably have broken down like most of the tech we found, or even be thrown into one of those garbage piles."
He was referencing landfills, where a lot of tech was found but was mostly useless unless the finder planned to use it for scrap. This raised the team's spirits a little. Perhaps those horrible things had already been melted down, but insecurity gnawed at the back of their minds still. Some piece of them told them they were responsible and that this logic would not justify their actions. They wanted to know what the hell was going on, and if anyone was to know, it would be the ones who told them a car crash caused their amnesia.
"Come on, we'll get Bonnie and we'll sort this out." Freddy lead the team to the entrance. Foxy still looked around but stopped fidgeting, and Chica wiped her tears away. Bonnie was waiting for them, and Freddy approached, hoping to tell him what he had told the others.
"It couldn't have been us. How could we even have been alive then?"
"You saw yourself doing what we did, didn't you? How could you try to justify that? They had families you know." Bonnie's voice was cold and he not only despised the rest of his team, but himself. What had he done?
"There's someone or something messing with us. You know it couldn't be possible for us to have done that. Especially you. In all these years we spent gathering tech you would never have killed a fly, and we have proof of that because you still weren't trying to kill that horse fly after it had bit you thirteen times."
"Oh, we know ourselves now, sure, but do you know where you were before that accident that those people 'claimed' happened to us? How can we really know ourselves if we don't even know that?"
"We're going to ask them. We'll go back to the ship right now and call. I have the tablet right here, so they won't be able to evade us any longer."
Foxy facepalmed so hard that one would be able to hear the sound from a block away and groaned. "Are ye serious ya fuzzbrain?" Freddy looked at him in shock.
"They're always actin' shady 'round us don't ye know? My bet is they know what 'appened and don't want us te be findin' out! I bet ye couldn't imagine what they'd do te us eh? 'ow 'bout memory wipin' an' bein' assigned te menial tasks fer th' rest o' our miserable lives?"
"But why would they want to screw us over after we've helped them so much? Plus, you're assuming we really did this which, as I said, doesn't make sense."
Foxy raised his arms. "Welcome te th' world o' business where th' higher-ups push everyone else out o' th' way te get that extra dollar."
Freddy realized he should have expected an answer like that. His mind was scrambled from the video. "Well, what about the logic? We couldn't have done this."
Chica stepped in. "Foxy has a point Freddy...I mean...even if logic suggests we didn't do this, no magical has been able to restore tech to this extent, much less give someone a connection to what happened in the video or made things like the robots in this video look like anyone...They might see it as a breakthrough and use us to find whoever did this. Our brains are by no means off limits."
Chica had a point. They wanted answers and the scientists that worked with the force had them, but they were by no means going to risk their lives for those answers.
"We'll go back and decide what to do then. It's getting dark," Freddy said. He turned to Bonnie who was glaring at them. It would not have been smart to start a fight with him at the moment. The team knew that Bonnie had a habit of putting himself in other people's shoes and imagining what it would be like to be in their situation, and it had gotten to a point where he couldn't control it anymore and it happened automatically. The way Bonnie saw it, someone needed to take the blame for what happened to those people, but Freddy noted that he needed to understand the senselessness of the situation and that everyone else on the team had seen what he saw. He would bring it up later.
The team was walking back in complete silence when a group of five robbers tried to nab the tablet from Freddy. He sidestepped the first one and punched him hard in the gut, leaving him to sink to the ground with some pained noises. The ram was weak from hunger, after all. The second was a rat who thought his stealth would overcome Foxy's, but he did not take into consideration his speed. Foxy was bit on the back of the leg and let out a loud yelp before kicking him off into some bushes. Chica tried to aim at the bush but was pushed to the ground by a bull, who figured his strength and size would overwhelm the chicken. Foxy swore and turned his back on the bush and the rat charged at his leg again, only to be kicked into the air and then slammed gracelessly into the ground by the fox's remaining fist.
"Heheh...hey pretty lady, you lost?" While Chica wasn't carrying her cupcase it was strapped to a belt, a suggestion made by Freddy who she silently thanked. Two were deployed from a hatch and she rolled quickly onto her back, slingshot in hand, and shot both quickly at the enemy, one landing in each eye. These weren't lethal and didn't cause much damage, but they burned like hell. The bull ran like a chicken with his head cut off holding his eyes and screaming while Chica got up and brushed herself off, checking on her teammates.
Bonnie was surrounded and seemed to be in danger, usually reluctant to inflict pain on anyone, but as Chica was about to run over the wolf behind Bonnie charged and was maced in the knee. After a pained scream he was kneeling and the other animal, a bat, spread it's wings to look bigger and let out a loud screech to stun the rabbit before she charged. Bonnie, without hesitating, maced the side of the bat's face sending her to the ground, maced the wolf yet again in his midsection and glared at the bat as she was trying to get up, making her think twice. It all happened so quickly and Chica was left stunned.
"Do you...need help?"
"No thanks. Is the tablet safe?" Freddy showed him the undamaged tablet and he nodded. There was something seriously wrong with Bonnie and he still glared at his team accusingly. While Freddy and Chica were sympathetic, Foxy thought he should be snapped out of it in probably the least graceful way possible.
"Are ye stupid lad? Do ye not know we saw what ye saw? Snap out o' it."
"You expect me to listen to a monster like you?"
"Is that why yer not listenin' te yerself?" Bonnie didn't answer. " Ye 'eard Freddy. This was someone's fault, but certainly not ours. Ye think everythin' 'as someone te blame fer don't ye? Well, I'm not dealin' with this. Either stop actin' like a child or I'll knock ye out so I don't 'ave te put up with ye anymore."
"Says the guy who play with toy ships while the rest of us are working." Bonnie had a point, but before Foxy could say anything else Chica chimed in.
"Hey, fighting's not getting us anywhere guys. Please stop." This shut them both up.
Freddy shook his head. "We'll get to the bottom of this, you have my word. We just need to get back." And with this, they were at the entrance to their quarters. It was basically a tank. The force wasn't going to waste expensive aircrafts or vehicles on teams like the Faz crew, so they were given something with enough space for tech collected after one day, as large ships would show up to collect tech from each based location every morning, and it was reinforced so robbers couldn't get in without the key.
Freddy locked up once everyone was inside and turned on the one dim light. Bonnie not longer looked angry, but he didn't look sad either. He seemed to be in thought. Instead of thinking this may have been dangerous, Freddy was relieved at the improvement and brought up the topic in question, whether or not they were going to question the scientists about what they found.
Foxy, knowing what was coming, began. "It's a dangerous an' stupid idea an' ye know it. ye can't be so loyal te those people."
"I've gotten that far. We can't ask outright, but we need answers and we can't just break into the lab to get them." Freddy wasn't stupid. He listened to reason but as far as he was concerned logic was his friend and not knowing about what was going on was killing him.
"Maybe we should find a scientist we trust and they'd tell us?" Chica suggested.
While the three were talking Bonnie was thinking about what he had done. Not during the time he thought he was an animatronic, but after he found out, while he stalled the team with the footage he found. How could he ever tell his teammates that a ship from the force was coming tonight?
OKAY! I really wanted to get the depressing and dark stuff out of the way first, but I PROMISE the next chapter will be funny.
Sooooo this chapter may be long but most of the main conflict is in it and therefore it's really important to the story. I wanted to put it all into one chapter because dark and depressing really shouldn't be the main mood. It's gonna get really lighthearted a bit later (especially around Foxy) and hopefully I'll be able to add some more characters in soon.
In my personal opinion Bonnie's kinda annoying. If anyone finds Sam Winchester from Supernatural annoying you'll probably find Bonnie annoying because he can be really whiny.
Uploading chapters daily WILL NOT BE A REGULAR THING! In fear of writer's block I'm gonna try to stay away from that. I'll basically upload the next chapter asap because the first two are kinda dull as in explanation rather than action. I'll probably work on stuff during the week and upload every few days or so, and during the school year I'll slow down considerably but I'm not abandoning this story or fnaf any time soon! I'm like a dog with a torn up old sock. It may by old and nobody may want it anymore but IT HOLDS A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART OKAY?! *pets my Freddy plushie* I'M NOT CRAZY!
Anyways, look forward to the next upload and I'll see you soon!