"Hi, mister!"

Freddy groaned deeply and opened his eyes slowly. Even though he was still broken, a sense of relief filled him. His new friends and new found safety wasn't just a dream.

Looking around, he finally glanced downwards. Jumping a bit at the sight of a small, humanoid animatronic child, he tilted his head, not sure if he should speak or not.

"It's okay, I'm an animatronic like you!" He smiled widely at Freddy and giggled, which made the bear feel a bit uneasy.

He was oddly creepy.

"Erh, hello." Freddy finally said, leaning down to sniff the boy. He smelled like various gases, something he was sure would poison a human if they inhaled it too much. Snorting, he shook his head clear, blinking. The boy laughed.

"I'm B.B.! Reddy wants to see you, so he sent me!"

Freddy finally made up his mind that the child was disturbing and adorable at the same time.

Rubbing his face clear of any exhaustion, he allowed the boy to take his paw, leading him away from the room. The little one chatted something about balloons, but Freddy couldn't focus. The fumes were getting to him, oddly enough. And his mind was elsewhere; he wondered if he was ever going to see his family again.

Suddenly noticing that they had made their way into an office of some sort, he backed up a bit, his ears flattening. It looked vaguely similar to the one from his old restaurant, which made him uneasy and anxious. He relaxed a bit when he saw that Red sat at the desk, raising an eyebrow at him. He stayed silent until he caught scent of the gas fumes.

"B.B., how many times do I have to tell you? No loosening your gas valves! Helium is only for balloons!" Red scolded, getting up. Grabbing a wrench, he walked over and tightened the child's valve, making him giggle.

"But it makes the humans sound funny, sir!"

"It also makes them dead. Especially the gasoline." He said flatly, still keeping his scolding tone. Standing up, he pushed the boy away gently, looking down at him. "Thank you for doing your job, you can go back to what you were doing."

"You're welcome, Reddy!" B.B. smiled at Red, before filling up a balloon. Handing it over to Freddy, he waddled away, leaving the older bear looking confused.

"Don't mind him," Red began, sitting at his chair. "He's a little spastic. He's been acting odd the past few months." Shrugging a bit, he sat up straight, looking Freddy over.

"Freddy," Red spoke carefully, frowning as he did so. "I have rules. And I want you to know them."

"Of course." Freddy said quietly, nodding slowly. Red looked pleased, leaning back in his chair.

"This is my domain." He said simply, pulling out a cigar. He decided against it due to the helium and gasoline fumes in the room, rolling his eyes. He put it away, continuing his speech.

"I'm known as Boss, Sir, or Red. Any is fine." He studied Freddy's face before continuing. "I am the leader here. You may have been the leader at your old location, but I'm leader here. I won't tolerate any shenanigans. No going outside, no eating any food that isn't given to us, and no breaking anything. Understood?"

"...Yes, sir." Freddy felt a small twinge of jealousy overcome him.

This bear was younger than him and was treating him like a child.

He had to admit, Red had the strong air of maturity and authority surrounding his presence. It was impressive, considering the fact it was something Freddy was never able to obtain, no matter how hard he had tried to.

Red continued speaking, readjusting his position in the chair. "You can eat as much in the third section of the pantry as you want, that's all for the animatronics. But make sure to leave food for us." Taking a stack of papers, he aligned them neatly, casually organizing his desk as he spoke.

"One last thing." He stopped working at that, standing up. He walked around the desk to get in front of Freddy. Staring up at his face, he frowned, no trace of amusement on him.

"Do not go into the Prize Corner."

Keeping eye contact with him for a moment, he fixed his own bow tie and walked away to a shelf, shuffling around for something. Freddy couldn't help but to feel slightly intimidated by the tone he had used.

"Why not?" He dared to ask, making the other bear snort. He opened his mouth to speak, but was interrupted.

"Hello, ladies~"

Red and Freddy looked over their shoulders to find Clyde smiling at them. He carefully scooted past Freddy to get to the desk, leaning on it. Red sighed. Grabbing a folder, he sat back in his chair.

"What's with your second shadow?" Freddy decided to ask instead, already almost forgetting about the Prize Corner comment. Clyde always seemed to distract anybody he was near in one way or another.

"Freddy, you've met T-Bone, obviously." Red started, motioning to Clyde. "He's my right-hand man. Dependable, trustworthy, all of that good stuff." Sensing that the helium fumes were gone, he pulled out his cigar, putting it in his mouth. "He's also my best friend. I don't think I'd be able to do what I do without him."

He reached for some papers as Clyde leaned over and snapped his fingers below the cigar in the bear's mouth. The sudden friction of metal colliding with metal created a few sparks that lit it. Red puffed out some smoke after Clyde pulled away.

"I do mostly everything." Red continued, flipping through various papers that came from the folder. Clyde handed him a pencil, which he used right away. "I do the human's paperwork, organize, pretty much all of the dirty work. If I don't do it, nobody will. If it's not done, we get shut down."

He snorted out smoke before continuing. "The only thing I don't do is cook, clean, and take the money home."

"That's our job. Minus the money." The bunny said with a small shrug, smiling. "We all clean, T-Chi helps the cooks, and M&T do rounds of the restaurant to make sure nobody's broken in."

Freddy stared at them in disbelief. It had only been a few seconds, and he could see they worked as if they were one animatronic. It was so bizarre to see; even he and Bonnie hadn't gotten that close to work so well together.

"The humans are lazy pigs." Red growled. He seemed confused for a second while going through a few more papers, just to find that they were all finished. He blinked, raising an eyebrow at Clyde. The bunny grinned, patting the bear's back.

"You work too hard."

Sighing out quietly, Red leaned back and rubbed his own face, letting out a quiet whir. "God, thank you, T-Bone. I really wasn't looking forward to all of that..."

Freddy watched the exchange awkwardly before Red finally stood up, brushing himself off. He smiled at the older bear, tipping his hat a bit.

"Thanks to T-Bone, I have a bit of free time. I'm off for now, though. I have some important matters to attend to. If you have any questions, just ask him." He pointed to Clyde before walking off, leaving the two in the office.

Clyde waved him off, sighing quietly to himself. Tilting his head up at the taller male, he smiled. "So, Freddy, would you like to watch some TV with us?"


Clyde carefully led the older bear into the staff's lounge room, which was wide open with several couches and a large TV. Freddy's eyes widened at the sight of everything; he hadn't seen anything like it before. The technology looked like something from a Sci-Fi movie to him. He suddenly wondered how long he had been asleep.

T-Chi was sitting on a couch in front of said TV, clutching the remote tightly to her chest when she spotted Clyde. She gave the bunny a glare but smiled at Freddy either way, attempting to protect the remote from the other Toy animatronic. "Hey, Freddy! Did you sleep well?"

"Yes, thank you." He spoke awkwardly, trying not to stare at her oddly short attire. Something about it made him feel incredibly uncomfortable. He had never seen clothes so short.

He studied them both for a minute, sighing to himself. They all looked so different from what he was used to; so shiny and new.

Freddy jumped a bit when Clyde quickly darted for T-Chi when she was distracted and yanked the remote from her, making her shriek in protest. The bunny simply laughed at her, sticking his tongue out when he pulled it away.

"No need to be a remote hog, sweetheart. Freddy's the guest, he gets to pick what we watch."

She groaned loudly, but muttered out a quiet 'fine'. T-Bone handed the remote to Freddy, much to his confusion. He simply stared at the odd device in his hands, looking up to the flatscreen in front of the couch. He slowly sat down on the furniture, unsure of what to do.

"Hon, you act like you've never held a remote before!" Clyde exclaimed, sitting next to Freddy. T-Chi laughed at that, making Freddy frown.

"I haven't. Is this even a television? It's so big."

Clyde and T-Chi froze, giving each other worried looks. They finally both looked to Freddy, giving him unsure gazes.

"Um, it's just a normal TV. When were you made?" T-Chi questioned, tilting her head. Freddy furrowed his brows in more confusion, looking at the remote.

"1973. We had a television until 1976, when the humans took it away after it broke. It was much smaller than this one; only about the size of my head. Think we got another one around 1986."

The two toy animatronics sat frozen, staring at him in disbelief. He finally caught their looks, his ears falling.

"What?" He asked in mild defense, giving them both glares.

"What year do you think it is?" T-Chi asked curiously, scooting a bit closer. Freddy huffed and shrugged, shaking his head.

"1994? It feels like it hasn't been that long since the others and I were scrapped."

"When were you scrapped?" The chicken asked again, finding him interesting to talk to. The bear flinched a bit when she got closer, laughing awkwardly.

"Erh, 1993, w-why?"

"Freddy, dear." Clyde said, laughing a little bit now. He took the remote and turned the TV on, leaning back. "You've been out longer than you thought. It's 2015."


Red grit his teeth, doing his best to use a blowtorch without melting himself to the metal he was melding onto the broken animatronic in front of him. He would pause for a few seconds to allow his hands to cool down before grabbing another hunk of lavender metal from a small pile he had collected, pressing it hard onto the dead robot before melding more.

It was going relatively smoothly until he realized he was running out of any larger chunks of metal scrap to use. He sighed in annoyance, rubbing his face. Turning the blowtorch off, he placed it aside.

Not knowing what else to do, he simply pulled a new voice box from a spare parts bin that was right next to them. Taking a screwdriver and wrench, he leaned half-into the animatronic's mouth, attaching it to the right wires. Making sure it was secure, he patted it gently, pulling away.

Quickly wiping any oil off of the broken body before taking a break, he stretched and grit his teeth. He walked across the room, nearing the pipes in the back. Quickly finding the right one, he grabbed the cold air valve and turned it on. He stepped his body directly under the cool stream, groaning softly.

Feeling his motors cool down quickly, he waited a few seconds before he turned the valve off. Drying any moisture from his exoskeleton, he made sure he wouldn't overheat again in a few seconds. Not feeling anything out of the ordinary, he put the towel he was using down for a moment, humming quietly as he shuffled through a spare parts bin.

Trying to find a certain old face that the humans used to use to replace the separate parts of old exoskeletons, he growled when he found nothing but extra parts for him, and unused parts for Mangle. Standing upright, he looked up at the ceiling, wondering what exactly to do next.

He froze in spot when he heard the tell-tale beeping of an animatronic booting up.

Looking over his shoulder at the chicken and rabbit, he looked between the two of them. His gaze finally settled on the purple animatronic. The back lights to where its eyes once were had a glow to them, indicating it was on and active. Eyes going wide, Red slowly placed everything he was holding down, stepping forward.

"Well, I'll be damned..." He muttered, stopping a few feet away from it. He heard it groan quietly, followed by a bit of static.

"Can you hear me?" Red questioned, bending down a bit to reach its eye level. It snorted out a very staticky sounding snort, followed by a growl.

"Y-yeah, bud. Can 'ya just... F-FUCKIN' TURN ME OFF NEXT TIME 'YA FREAKIN' MELT METAL ONTO MY BODY?!" It shouted, sounding enraged. Red stepped back at that, frowning.

"No need to snap." Red said, attempting to keep his calm.

It felt horribly disturbing to talk to something without a frontal lobe.

The other animatronic moaned in very obvious pain, lifting up its good hand to rub its face. Crying out when it felt nothing but wires and bare endoskeleton and wires, it yanked its hand away.

"W-WHAT THE HELL?!" It shouted out, static following its panicked yelling. Red made several clipped noises, trying to get its attention.

"CALM DOWN!" He barked over the other's yelling, sighing when it relaxed a little. "It's okay, just...calm down. Can you see me?"

"Hardly! W-where's my beautiful face?!" It cried out again, afraid to move. Red walked back over to it, looking it over.

"It's okay. You're Bonnie, right?"

"Y-yeah, who else would I be?! Freakin' Einstein?!" Bonnie took a shaky breath through his new voice box, trying to calm himself. Waiting a few seconds, he readjusted his sitting position, groaning. He hadn't noticed Chica yet, much to Red's relief.

"Who are you, and where's Freddy?" The bunny questioned, his voice sounding mildly garbled with static.

"My name's Red." The bear said loud enough for the bunny to hear, feeling a bit awkward speaking to a broken face. Looking around for a moment, Red grabbed some more equipment. Holding it up for a second to show Bonnie, he frowned, looking at the two, pinprick dots of light in the middle of the old rabbit's broken endoskeleton's skull.

"I'm going to install new vision equipment for you, just relax. I'll explain everything afterwards."


Author's Note:

Heya, guys! How are you today? I just realized Bonnie has the worst luck with his face and being booted up. Makes me want to hug him.

I keep forgetting to tell you guys that I actually have a BoC ask account on DeviantART! Just look up "Ask-The-Fazbear-Bros" in the Google search bar! Questions are closed, but if you ask a question and add "RedForPresident" at the end of it, I'll make sure to answer it next! (This coupon is only good until December 5th, 2014! *Shotdown*)

I did the beta reading myself, so I'm sorry if there's any typos.

(I'd also like to say to KudleyFan93 that I actually had hallucinations about the game as well, believe it or not! It happened a lot while writing BoC 1. I kept seeing Freddy's face from the "It's Me" hallucinations. Made me jump a few times, ech! That's what I get for writing at 5am, I guess. Haha!)

I'd like to thank LevitatingPiez, FadedMemories09, KudleyFan93, Jflare205, MCHaunter, Unknown Forgotten Friend, thechallenger1, Purest of the Hearts, Anon Jules, Insanity21, and Angelication09 for the reviews!

Reviewer Spotlight: Today's reviewer spotlight goes to LevitatingPiez for being awesome! Andgoshdarnityoucaughtthechemistry

Song Spotlight: Today's song spotlight goes to "Mystery Skulls - Ghost 8-Bit" created by TF2Brony98 on YouTube! It's absolutely perfect, I love it so much.


Questions Answered!:


FadedMemories09: "What year is this story taking place?"

Answer: As you can see, I decided to incorporate it into this chapter because of this! I was debating between actually using 2014 or '15. The reason why I used '15 was because of the teaser image that was released a while back, saying the "Grand Reopening" was in 2015~


thechallenger1: "What do you like about fnaf's?"

Answer: There's a lot I like about the games! The mechanics are amazing, and the in-game plot is even better. The most fun I'm having is giving these "lifeless" (stated by several non-fandoming fans) characters personalities. I'm having a blast!


Anon Jules: "However, im wondering where foxy is going to show up in this fanfiction?"

Answer: Gosh, I'm so sorry I keep missing your questions! I have no idea how I keep doing that, I'm so sorry! While I'm not quite sure if there's going to be any Foxy/Mangle shipping going on, Foxy will be added later! Even if it's just a small cameo. I promise!