-You Can't-
Chapter 9: Proposition
Freddy sighed, annoyed by the situation. Bonnie was next to him, looking at the scene without reaction, his jaw wide opened in shock. The bear turned around, not wanting to see what was going on in front of them. Chica put a hand on his shoulder, trembling as never. She was too surprised to do anything else. She couldn't even speak. Because yes, something was happening. Something really... unexpected.
Foxy cleared his throat and glanced at Balloon Boy, who was giggling nervously while looking all around him before fainting. Marionette was beside them, facepalming and shaking her head when she saw Balloon Boy on the ground.
Indeed, Goldie was flirting with Toy Chica.
Mangle was too shocked to even move, her voice box starting to glitch again and her jaw widening. She was maybe a few meters behind them, and she was like paralyzed. Toy Chica was smiling softly to the golden bear, charmed by the bear's advances and amused by the situation at the same time. But was it funny for everyone ?
The original animatronics, except Foxy, just turned around and returned to the Parts & Service room, closing its door without a word. Foxy turned to look at Marionette, who immediately stared at him. "Why are they doing that ?"
"They..." Marionette started before hesitating. "It seems that they're in love..."
"Oh..." The fox replied, looking again at the two animatronics flirting then at Balloon Boy, still unconscious. "But how ?"
"Sometimes, there is no logical explanation."
Mangle approached them soon after, trying to understand why that was happening before glancing at the Puppet, Foxy and Balloon Boy on the ground. She raised her look, seemingly wondering what happened to the other animatronic. The two just shruggled before going back to their activities, Foxy going to the Parts & Service room and Marionette joining her Music Box. She thought about what she was doing before the restaurant closed down.
Giving gifts to children.
They were always surprised when they saw her moving without strings. Indeed, that was quite spectacular for them. A real puppet wouldn't do such a thing, after all. She just had explain with a robotic voice that she had also an endoskeleton, allowing her to roam around. The children were happy with that explanation and didn't need more. They were just asking for their daily gift.
The Puppet always smiled to them before giving them their gifts, the children smiling and the parents thanking her before leaving Prize Corner.
Now... All was pretty... strange. Since the... incident with Mangle, none of the animatronics were acting the same towards her, even the toys themselves. Toy Freddy was aware about what really happened, just as Freddy, but... They were worried when they walked near her.
Marionette stopped thinking about that and the day passed. At night, some time before midnight, she heard the same mechanical footsteps as Springtrap's. She raised her head, looking at him as he was in front of her, looking at her straight in the eyes. The rabbit was smiling hugely to her. "Hello, dear." He said, seemingly very seductive as she got out of the Music Box cautiously.
"What do you want ? Leave me alone." Marionette asked with a hard expression on her face, not sure about the bunny's intentions.
"Oh, only speak, don't be nervy like that."
But even if he didn't seem threatening, she didn't trust him. She wasn't stupid. Vincent's ally had a plan, she could read that in his golden-grey eyes.
The bunny smiled softly and leaned against the side of the Music Box. "How are you doing since Freddy Fazbear's closed ?"
Marionette just stared at him without answering, Springtrap's right ear tilting slightly with curiousity. "Will you answer ?"
"Why ?"
"Just because I asked you something, and it's more than required to answer." Springtrap replied without letting go of his grin.
Fearing something bad to happen, she turned around and started to walk to the Parts & Service room, hoping the help of Fredbear or Freddy and the others, but he grabbed her arm before she could take one more step. "Wait, are you avoiding me ?"
"You know exactly why I'm fearing being alone with you, stop asking stupid questions." She replied, trying to release her arm from the grip.
"You don't need to fear me, that's way too late for fearing me." Springtrap answered, smiling and pressing her against the wall behind them.
She gasped, surprised, and tried to escape his grip. "Release me !"
"I don't want to."
Marionette started to really panic when she felt Springtrap's breathing against her face. They were so close to each other. To an extent, she would have wanted more if this wasn't in this specifical situation. Springtrap was the enemy, and she was alone with him. Stuck against a wall and harmless. "Why are you so mean... ?"
Springtrap smiled and kissed her on the lips quickly, avoiding the question. He looked at her expression with satisfaction. Of course, the Puppet was blushing. "So cute, love, but you should sometimes shut this beautiful mouth." He whispered, stepping back and seemingly wondering. "Anyway, I came to suggest you something."
Marionette gulped before looking at him. "And what is it ?"
Her voice filled with fear made him smile more hugely. "Would you help me if..."
"If ?"
"If I killed some more children ?" The golden bunny asked without looking at her, smiling cruelly. "I need your help to do so."
"Never !" The Puppet cried out, clenching her fists angrily and stricking him on the chest. "You know that I would never do such a thing !"
Springtrap turned to look at her in the eyes and asked innocently: "Even if it was for me ?"
Marionette looked away and crossed her arms against her chest. "Yes."
"Oh please, Puppet." The bunny laughed, glancing at her mockingly. "You're acting like a cry baby, try to be an adult."
"You should try to act like an adult, my dear Spring Bonnie. If you do so, Purple Guy couldn't be manipulating you anymore." Marionette replied coldly, going back to her Music Box.
Even if she was scared, she shouldn't show it to him. If she did... He would have her, in one way or another. Springtrap was clever and felt angry because he was all alone, he could easily trick her, to oblige her to do what he wanted her to do. In this case, kill children with him or for him.
Spring didn't answer, silently scrapping the Puppet's remark, following her and smiling hugely to her. "Y'know, I love hearing my other name from that girly mouth."
Marionette looked at Mangle, who was still glancing at the surveillance camera, and turned to glance at Springtrap. For once, Plushtrap wasn't with him. "Where is your plushie ?"
"At home, I didn't need him to speak with you." The bunny answered, shruggling. "Why don't you accept my offer ?"
"I don't want to kill anyone."
"Too bad for you."
Alarmed by the last sentence, Marionette stared at him. The golden bunny smiled more hugely and came towards her, grabbing her arm and pressing her against a wall, banging her head against the surface. She tried to escape but he was hitting her so stongly that she couldn't defend herself. "Release me ! Why do you-"
She fainted.
Springtrap smiled evilly and carried her to the Safe room, where five children were already stuck. He put her down and killed them, smiling even more when he noticed that Puppet's eyes were wide open...
When Fredbear awoke the following day, he felt like something was wrong. He took his time to shake his head, as usual, and teleported to the Music Box immediately. He needed to know if Marionette had the same feeling that him. They were the two only robots who could feel something like that. Bad feelings. And that day, Goldie felt a really, REALLY, bad feeling.
"Mario ?" He called out, waiting outside the Music Box.
Marionette looked at him blankly, paler than usual, and asked in a low and tired voice: "What do you want, Fredbear ?"
What Fredbear found strange was that she didn't mind about the 'Mario' thing. That's how he knew that his bad feeling was, in fact, about Marionette. He frowned and glanced back at her, noticing that she was kind of sick. "What is it this time ?" He asked, knowing exactly that she was trying to hide something.
"Wha-What do you mean ? Everything is okay, I-"
"Mario." Goldie cut, looking at her in an annoyed way.
"Marionette." The Puppet corrected, a smile growing on Fredbear's mouth.
"Right. I know that something's wrong, you can't hide it to me."
The Puppet just stared at him for a while before laughing nervously. She looked all around her, trying to find an issue but everybody was looking at her, waiting for her answer.
Freddy, who was just next to Mangle, was even crossing his arms and frowning furiously. He wasn't patient at all.
Chica came towards him and put his hand on her shoulder, smiling friendly to her. "Why don't you want to explain ?"
"Leave me alone... All of you ! Leave. Me. Alone." Marionette whispered, tears filling her black eyes while she remembered what she saw.
"Mario-"
"No Goldie !" She cut, looking away before hiding in her box without saying anything else.
Bonnie lowered his ears before leaving the room, going back to the Parts & Service room while the others werespeaking near the Show stage.
Freddy just sat in front of everyone, trying to analyze the situation. "So, as we've all guessed, Marionette is hiding something."
"What could it be ?" Toy Freddy asked, wondering.
"She seemed so serious."
"You're right, Toy Bonnie..." Toy Chica nodded, looking at him with a saddened expression on her face.
Mangle looked all around her, noticing that only Bonnie was absent. Foxy and Chica were speaking with Balloon Boy, who wanted to understand what was happening, and Fredbear was just in a dark corner of the room, staring at the Music Box and listening at the conversation at the same time. "Hey, where's Bonnie ?"
Freddy instantly raised his head, his heart missing a beat when he noticed Bonnie's absence. He feared the worse. Where could have Bonnie go ? He thought about it and ran to the Parts & Service room, but when he arrived there, it was empty.
He turned around to look at the others, really panicked. "Everybody looks for him ! We need to find him !"
"Freddy, calm down, nothing bad could have happen..." Chica replied, coming towards him and putting a hand on his shoulder.
"I don't care ! Find him !" The bear shouted, his heart beating so damn quickly...
Bonnie just followed the two golden eyes that were leading him to the Safe room. He didn't know that he couldn't enter the room. He didn't even know that it existed. His steps were slow, Bonnie trying to figure out if what he was doing was good or not.
The two golden eyes stopped moving in front of the locked door, in maybe the darkest corridor of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and Bonnie stopped walking as well. "How are you doing, friend ?" The shadow animatronic asked, keeping his distance from him.
"Who are you ?" The purple bunny asked, narrowing his eyes while trying to recognize the mysterious robot.
It was a bunny, for sure. But who would it be ? He didn't remember any bunny other than his friends, Spring Bonnie and Toy Bonnie. And Spring Bonnie was gone... That couldn't be him... could it ?
The animatronic moved around, looking for something before switching on the light. Bonnie's eyes widened, smiling hugely to his long lost friend. "Spring Bonnie, you came back !"
"Bonnie, listen, I need you to do something." Springtrap whispered as quick as possible, already hearing the others' voices not that far from them. "Will you accept to help me ?"
Bonnie frowned, wondering about what could Springtrap ask him, before nodding slowly. "I guess yes, you're a friend after all."
Springtrap lowered his head, his smile growing more and more. "Then, let me tell you what I want."
"BONNIE !"
The purple rabbit turned around, glancing at Freddy and the others, even Marionette, just next to him. Springtrap just crossed his arms against his chest, annoyed by the intrusion, and Marionette came towards Bonnie. "Stay away, let me deal with him."
Bonnie nodded and walked near the crew, Freddy quickly hugging him extremely tightly. The bunny couldn't move. Freddy just smiled to him and holded his hand, whispering random things in his right ear. Bonnie smiled too, hugging his friend.
Marionette and Fredbear came towards Springtrap, the golden bear glancing at him with desillusion. "What did you want to do this time ?"
"You'll know soon enough."
Goldie sighed and teleported right beside Springtrap, holding his hand. The golden bunny gasped and escaped his grip as if he'd been burned by the contact. "Don't touch me. That should be a rule."
"Springy, listen-"
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME ?" Springtrap shouted at him, furious as hell.
Marionette stepped between them, her heart beating as fast as it could be beating when she saw Springtrap's eyes. If he could kill with his look, she would be dead since a while. "Everybody calms down, let's just speak together."
"Shut up, love, you're boring. Do you remember what you saw yersterday ?" Springtrap replied dryly.
Everyone raised their look to stare at Marionette, who was starting to panick. The cries. The shouts. He killed them. Springtrap killed those children. He killed them without stopping grinning. He killed them in front of her. "You're a monster." Marionette said, clenching her fists.
"That's not the word, but quite good." Springtrap added, tilting his head on the right side, his ear following his movement.
"Why did you... do that to them ?" She asked him, wanting to understand Spring's motives. He didn't kill children for himself. Vincent asked him to do so ? Strange... Vincent would have done that himself... Unless he expected... Could it be... ?
Springtrap just clenched his fists and grabbed her arm, pushing her away and making his way to Fredbear.
Marionette put a hand on Springtrap's chest, preventing him to take another step. The bunny frowned and turned away, exhaling furiously and nearly leaving the corridor but Fredbear holded him back. "Please... Tell us what Marionette talked about..."
"No." The bunny replied, staring at his trapped arm. "Release me instantly."
Fredbear shook his head negatively and his grip tightened. "Not if you don't answer."
"I won't. We can stay like that all the day that I won't tell anything."
The golden bear lowered his head, tears beginning to fill his black eyes. "I wished I could see my best friend again..."
Springtrap's eyes filled with tears when he heard that, his heart beating faster as he looked away, sobbing. "You're friend is dead when you forgot about him... You brought that upon yourself..." He answered with a broken voice before running out. A piece of paper fell to the ground after his departure, seemingly ripped apart from a biggest piece of paper that wasn't there. Goldie sighed sadly and glanced at the piece of paper, grabbing it and turning it around.
He gasped and lowered his golden ears. What he saw just broke his heart.
He remembered this picture. They took it at their birthday party. They were still a huge family at this time. And it was... ripped apart. That family, that brotherhood they once shared... ripped apart. What remained were just bits of friendship... bits of love... bits of memories.
Everything was messed up now. Spring B-Springtrap was against them and they couldn't save him anymore. It was more than too late. Vincent had been faster than them.
Marionette put her hand on his shoulder, coming closer and staring at the picture too. Then she cried.
To be continued...
Hello everyone ! That one took time because I went on vacation for some time. I couldn't really write during two days. But I'm back now ! :D
Tell me everything about this chapter ! I personally don't like it, but... there it is. I tried my best, I promise ^^
Here you go, folks, see you next time and thank you so much for the support ! You're awesome !
Circle of J.