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Chapter 24: Emotional Blackmail
"You did what ?" Purple Guy shouted at Goldie, taking in his hands an axe and threatening the bear with it.
The animatronic gulped, scared by his ally, and repeated, stammering fearfully: "I-I-I didn't want t-to kill Sp-Springtrap..."
"And why so ?"
"I-I-I... He... Is my friend..." Fredbear whispered, wide-eyed and breathing heavily, his voice shaking in fear and his legs flickering too much. Fortunately, he was chained to the wall, so he was sure that he couldn't fall.
Purple Guy snorted and stepped back, putting the axe on the steel table next to him and grabbing a photo Fredbear always had with him. It showed Springtrap and him together, on the Show Stage, performing for children. Vincent showed the picture to the bear with the purple bowtie and pointed on it Spring Bonnie, smiling meanly.
Then, he took it between his two hands, ready to rip it apart. Fredbear struggled, attempting to escape his chains, shouting at Purple Guy and weeping. "NOOO !"
The guy smiled even more before walking to the fireplace, throwing the precious picture in the fire. It took some time to burn, Fredbear looking at it with desesperation while crying, glancing at his friend's face vanishing in the fire. He lowered his head, even more crying, and Purple Guy came towards him, raising his head and forcing him to look at him in the eyes. "Don't you dare to do that again, did you understand ?"
"But-"
"And if you DARE to say 'BUT' AGAIN, I PROMISE YOU I'M GOING TO KILL HIM, ALONG WITH ALL YOUR LITTLE FRIENDS, MYSELF, IN FRONT OF YOUR VERY EYES !" Vincent screamed angrily, slapping the bear and gritting his teeth. He clenched his fists, slapping again Fredbear until this one stopped crying. Then, he walked to the table and tried to calm down. "Okay. So. Today, I want you to kill Marionette only, now that you killed Chica and Bonnie last time, right ? Do you think you can do it ?"
Fredbear sniffed sadly, tears running down his cheeks and the bruises on his forehead being more visible as he lowered his head sadly.
Purple Guy smiled with his usual creepy smile, releasing him and saying: "That must be a 'Yes'."
"Huh... H-Hello ? Someone... ?" Bonnie cried out in a very broken voice, feeling too weak to stand up or even shout louder. He felt pain everywhere, in every limb. His head was killing him, and he felt like if he was going to faint.
He needed help, but nobody knew where he was when he was hiding. So he was still in his hiding-place, trying to see the light of day. He was in fact hiding in the basement, behind the boxes. What a stupid idea he had ! Now he was stuck, all alone, in this dark place.
"Please, someone... ! Freddy... ! Foxy... ! Uh... CHICA !" He called out, but there was no sound from the room upstairs. He lowered his head, closing his eyes painfully and seeing it.
The blood.
Everywhere.
It came from him, right ? Fredbear did kill him...
Well, he'd harmed him, but now Bonnie was going to die miserably alone in his room. In the basement. What a peaceful place to die, though.
There was no sound, nothing that could annoy him before his death. Soon, Bonnie raised his head, glancing at the ceiling and yelling as loudly as possible: "HEY ! I'M STILL HERE !"
But once again, it was vain. He closed his eyes, some tears running down his cheeks, and bleeded out.
Foxy ran to the Office, banging at the door while checking if Freddy was standing up from the seat and opening. The bear looked at him through the window and opened, staring at him with confusion. "You're late, what were you doing ?"
"Just playin' on t' Internet. What did I miss, matey ?" Foxy asked, coming quickly towards his friend and taking a seat, glancing at the security cameras.
"It seems that we're going to encounter the 'New guy' tonight." The bear said, showing him the meeting taking place at this exact time in the Manager's office.
Indeed, Mark Frames decided to find a new night guard, even if everything seemed alright without one. It was just security. He needed to remain sure that the animatronics weren't roaming around too much and touching everything. It mostly refered to the 'Incident with Freddy' the previous night.
Freddy was romaing around last night, looking for something interessant to do during the night, and found that old basement. There, he found the electric box. You guessed what happened. The pizzeria ran out of power, Puppet's Music Box stopping. She was grumpy because of that. She said that speaking with someone without her Music Box on stressed her out.
The manager had discovered what happened due seeing the box himself. The wires were cut off. Knowing that nobody entered the pizzeria thanks to the security cameras which worked 'till the incident, he knew that only an animatronic could have done it. That was mainly because of that that he wanted a night guard.
If the animatronics weren't calm enough and roamed around, touching everything, or if they were a bit too agressive towards the guard, the guy would have a hand-crank ready to use. The animatronics weren't too fond of that thing, to say the least.
So here was the meeting, Mark Frames trying to choose a good guard to do the -hellish- job. Freddy attended to it, even if he was not invited. The security cameras weren't disabled during the day so why not ? And it's not like children were about to come, it was Sunday.
Foxy smiled, cheering happily: "We'll have a new bucko, matey ! Perhaps he will be nice and everythin' !"
"Or perhaps he will be a greedy assh*le." Freddy replied, looking bored by the meeting where nothing interessant was yet happening.
Then, something interessant happened. A girl was chosen by the boss. A quite charming girl, she seemed to have twenty years old and had long curly brown hair. She seemed brave, even if she had to be a lot braver than that to pick up that kind of job. It wasn't going to be fun everyday, if you asked Freddy.
The two 'bots stood up, looking as the girl was enlisting, and they ran to the two other 'bots. They entered the Back room, Foxy yelling: "Hey guys, time t' encounter ta new one ! It be a lass !"
Freddy quickly entered after him, but stopped and looked at Foxy. He was as astonished as he was. They just stared at the Music Box -or more precisely what remained from it- without saying anything. Mario and Spring were nowhere to be seen. Weird...
They returned to the Dining Area, hearing some strange noise coming from behind them. Freddy turned around and his eyes widened. An axe fell between him and Foxy. Freddy gritted his teeth, pushing Foxy away and facing the enemy, which was none other than Fredbear. "FOXY RUN ! I won't let any of my friends die this time !"
The fox nodded and ran to the Office, closing the two doors and sitting, panicked. The situation was really bad ! REALLY bad ! Freddy was fighting against Fredbear all alone, Spring and Mario were gone and the Music Box was destroyed... Everything was wrong !
He took his head in his hands, breathing heavily and trying to calm down. He needed to be brave, just as Freddy had been, saving him, and go find Springtrap and Marionette. What if they were in danger ? He needed to help them.
Decided, he opened the left door and ran as quick as he could to the Restrooms. He passed Freddy, lying on the ground, without looking at him. Not the time for it. He was still alive, he was sure about that. Fredbear didn't come to kill Freddy. He maybe came for Springtrap or Marionette. Most likely Marionette since he did everything to save Springtrap's life.
He headed to the Restrooms, looking sadly at the scene which was taking place in front of him. Marionette was lying on the ground, blood flowing from a wound on her chest, in Springtrap's arms. This one was kneeling next to her, holding her hand, promising her that everything was going to be okay for her and that she didn't need to fear anything. But it was already too late to save her, and she perfectly knew it.
Foxy heard mechanical footsteps behind him and turned around slowly, facing Fredbear. This one didn't seem interested on him, though. He was staring at Springtrap. The golden bear took a step forward, attempting to attack Spring. Foxy was too shocked to move. Fredbear went quicklier to the bunny and raised his axe.
Springtrap didn't move. He just closed his eyes, ready to die along with his girlfriend.
SLASH
But, while Foxy expected Springtrap to scream or even to hear his head falling to the ground, he didn't hear anything. Just as if the axe had been stopped. He opened his eyes, afraid of seeing one of his friends dead on the floor, and witnessed the horrible truth.
Freddy had stopped the axe. But not in the correct way.
He just killed himself.
He stepped in, preventing Fredbear to kill one of his friends again, and now the axe's blade was deep inside his chest.
The bear splitted blood, looking at Foxy with a sorry expression before bleeding out, falling to the ground and blood flowing from his wound. Fredbear gasped and stepped back, shocked, before bursting into tears. "I didn't want this ! Oh god, what did I do !?" He cried out, kneeling before Freddy and taking the corpse in his arms. "I'm sorry... I'm sorry..."
Foxy made his way towards Springtrap, who was holding in his arms a dead Marionette, and helped him to stand up. The bunny was crying silently, too shocked to even speak. Foxy supported him, helping him to walk, and they walked towards Fredbear, still crying over Freddy's body.
"Hey, matey..."
"STAY AWAY FROM ME !" Fredbear shouted, lowering his head. The two other 'bots could clearly see the bruises on Fredbear's forehead.
Springtrap was too shocked to see it. He was fainting, maybe disgusted but also horrified for life. Foxy could sense that since he was still supporting him. If he wasn't, the bunny would be on the ground, already unconscious.
Foxy looked closer the bruises, noticing that they came from a human hit. Did someone hurt him ? Maybe Vincent, to oblige him to do what he wanted him to do ? Maybe Fredbear was the victim in the end ?
"Matey, what happened ta ye ? Did Purple Guy hurt ye ?" Foxy asked, slowly kneeling and lying Springtrap against him. This one was still crying but he soon fainted, as predicted.
Fredbear glanced at his best friend and cried again, asking with a trembling voice: "Is he dead... ?"
"Na, just sleepin', lad." Foxy replied while shooking his head. "Yer be okay, matey ? Yer seem... hurt."
The golden bear gulped, looking at the time, and sighed sadly. "He's torturing me... Both physically and mentally..." He whispered, sniffing and wiping the tears running down his cheeks. "He wants me to kill you all... But I won't..."
"An' what are ye gonna do, lad ?"
"I don't know... !" Fredbear said, weeping. He was so scared. He couldn't refuse anything. But he didn't want to kill all his friends. What could he do ? There were only Springtrap and Foxy left... Was Purple Guy going to ask him to kill them ? No, he couldn't kill anyone again... Marionette and Freddy were his closer friends, apart from Springtrap. "I don't want to kill anymore... !"
Foxy put his hand over Fredbear's, squeezing it comfortingly. "Come back home, lad. It be yer place."
"Not anymore..."
"You're wrong."
Fredbear raised his head when he heard the voice coming from behind. He turned around, wide-eyed when he discovered Shadow Freddy, giving him a warm look. "Sh-Shadow Freddy ?"
"In flesh." The purple bear with the yellow hat and bowtie answered, smiling to his counterpart. "Nice to meet you."
"Same." Fredbear said, astonished. That bear was real ? Since the beginning ? But why couldn't he see him before, if it was the case ?
Was it just a hallucination ? Was he becoming mad ?
Shadow Freddy helped him to stand up, Foxy doing the same and trying to carry Springtrap. The robot was obviously too heavy for Foxy to carry him. Fred shook his head and came towards them, carrying himself Springtrap and leading the other two to the Back room.
Fredbear was a bit insecure but followed as well, the purple bear lying Springtrap on the table and turning to the two animatronics behind him. "Fredbear, let me tell you that the fact that the others are dead doesn't matter anymore, as we speak."
"Wha-t do you mean ?" The golden bear demanded, approaching the table and grabbing his friend's hand supportingly. "How could this not matter ?"
Fred sighed but explained everything: "Spring took his decision. He's coming with me to the future."
"Oh... I-Is he ? I mean..." Fredbear didn't know what to say. Springtrap was ready. Well, that was unexpected.
Foxy glanced at the door, noticing that the two plushies left, that is to say Plushtrap and Plush Mario, were talking on the Show Stage. He smiled, tenderized, before turning to Shadow Freddy. "Oh, an' I had a question fer ye, matey. Can I come with ye ?"
"I'm... afraid it won't be possible." The shadow animatronic said, glancing at him in a sorry way. "There is already one Foxy there."
Foxy lowered his head, disappointed, but nodded. He could understand, and dying didn't scare him. Not even a little bit.
Fredbear raised his head, looking straight in Fred's eyes before asking: "C-Can I... I mean... stay here ?"
"Yer be welcome here, matey." Foxy greeted, putting a hand on his shoulder.
The bear smiled, nodding to thank him, and they heard a deep moan. Shadow Freddy smiled nervously before saluting them, saying that 'the beast is awake. Good luck !'
To be continued...
Hello ! How are you everyone ! Yeah, I killed Bonnie before killing Puppet and Freddy, that's so cruel, I know I know ^^ It needs to be done, because this is what will help Springtrap to really choose what he wants to do with his future.
You know, if he wants to go with Fred to the future of if he wants to stay here with his remaining friends.
That stuff ^^
As always, if you have any questions or stuff like that, even if it's hate or something like that, text me whenever you want ! I'll answer as fast as possible ! ^^
EmeraldKnight26: Sorry for killing Bonnie-Bonnie ! When I read your comment, I was like 'Sh*t, what did I do !?' xD Poor Bonnie had had an awful death, I agree. But maybe it's all for the best, who knows ? :D
As for Minecraft, I had it on my phone but don't have it anymore (because of the update, it's not working anymore -') So sorry again :D I'm apologizing to you a lot ! ^^
Thanks to everybody for the support, and I'll see you on Wednesday !
Until next time, guys, I love ya all !
Circle of J.