-You Can't-

Chapter 25: Forever Friends

"Whe-Where am I ?"

"Don't worry." Nightmare's voice said, coming from his left. "Just another nightmare."

The bunny didn't reply. He stood up, looking all around him, but the place was totally unknown by him. It seemed... decrepit, but also new. The strangiest thing about this place were the different animatronic parts quite everywhere around the place. This establishment was really smaller than the pizzerias, and the greenish light wasn't comforting at all.

He stepped towards the Exit door, trying to open it but there was no way to do so. He sighed, annoyed, and turned to look at the Office room. It was bigger than the one at Freddy Fazbear's. There was also a window in front of the monitor, certainly useful but he didn't really understand why at the moment. He decided to take a peek at the monitor, and when he entered the room, he noticed another monitor. It seemed like... A maintenance panel.

There were a few options on it, written in green letters:

"System restart

menu:

- audio devices

- camera system

- ventilation

- reboot all

- exit"

Curious, the golden animatronic clicked on the first one: audio devices. It seemed to load something but when it finished, nothing happened. Springtrap raised an eyebrow, wondering, before turning it off, glancing at the other monitor. This one was for the security cameras. He was used with those. He checked every cam, from only 1 to 10 surprisingly enough, and then noticed the two small button at the bottom left:

"Play
Audio"

"Map
Toggle"

He clicked on the Play Audio one and Balloon Boy's voice echoed through the whole place. Springtrap's eyes widened as he didn't know at all what it was for. He tried the other button, and his map changed. It was a new one, with even less cameras, that seemed to show some dark... vents ? Was it possible to even look at the vents ? What kind of enemies were in there ?

He turned the monitor off when he noticed a red "ventilation error" message on the screen. Starting to understand what he needed to do, the golden animatronic went to the maintenance panel and clicked the ventilation button, hoping that it will reboot the system.

Suddenly, a red flashing light blinked and a strange sound came along. Springtrap turned off the panel, looking for the source of the problem and glancing at Nightmare beside him. "Did I do something wrong ?"

"Yes, let me show you." The black bear said, approaching him and grabbing the panel, guiding Springtrap's hands on the screen and helping him to do what was required. He just didn't wait enough time to reboot the thing. When it did, the light stopped flashing and everything was back to normal. "There you are."

"Th-Thanks." Springtrap said, blushing when he felt Nightmare's chest touching his back. "Could you... ?"

"Oh sorry." The nightmare animatronic said, stepping back and looking at him when the bunny sat on the chair. "As you may have noticed, this nightmare is quite different from the other ones."

Spring nodded, waiting for more information about what exactly he needed to do and why, once again, he wasn't in his own body, turned into a child version. The second question wasn't going to have an answer, but maybe the first one was going to.

Nightmare Fred seemed to be a bit lost before announcing: "Er, I guess I must do that... Uh, 'Welcome to Fazbear's Fright, the Horror Attraction.' Uh... We're actually in 2017."

"That's where you come from, isn't it ?" Springtrap demanded seriously, knowing that Shadow Freddy came from the future.

The bear gulped but nodded, smiling nervously. "I know it may not seem... friendly but it's a very nice place ! I mean, I don't want you to be freaked out by-"

"It's okay, Fred, it's okay." Springtrap cut, putting his finger on Nightmare's mouth without fearing to be beaten.

The nightmarish bear shut its mouth and leaded him to the opposite end of the building, showing him the different rooms and the animatronics that were living in each. Starting by CAM 02, Fred said that he often comes there, speaking with both Phantom Bonnie and Phantom Fredbear. They were living here, and that was where he used the time-travel machine.

Following, CAM 03, the black bear presented him Phantom Balloon Boy. The little boy said 'Hi' before leaving. Then Shadow Freddy explained that the boy liked this room but that he was roaming around each time. Yes, it was his favorite room, but he also liked the tenth room and the first one.

They walked towards CAM 04, saluting Phantom Mangle, who was dangling above them and looking at Phantom Foxy. This one was playing with his hook. Springtrap smiled to the pirate fox, only to receive another smile from the red animatronic. Fred explained that they were often here, even if they liked to go to the Office from time to time.

CAM 05, Freddy was looking at a poster of himself without noticing them. Nightmare said as a fun fact that the phantom was always watching himself, and that one time he even did it while attacking the guard. Springtrap laughed before following the nightmarish bear to the next room.

The two rooms, CAM 06 and 07, were quite special because they had something none other room had: arcades. That was mainly because of them that Balloon Boy wasn't very often on CAM 03. Even if he prefered playing with the guard, he also liked to speak with friends and the arcades were the perfect place to do that. Fred also informed that it was Springtrap's -the other one, of course- favourite place 'cause he loved talking with Chica.

Speaking about her, she was peeking out of her arcade on CAM 07, waving her hand to them. "Hey, I'm Phantom Chica ! Do you want to share some pizza with me ? I like -flesh- pizza !"

"Um... Uh, thanks I guess but I must decline..." Springtrap replied, grabbing Nightmare's hand and running out of the room as quick as he could.

CAM 08 was the Phantom Marionette's hallway. She was always there. No way she could be anywhere else. Even when the guard was looking at her, she just throw at him a hallucination. She had her Music Box there, that was why she did so. Even if the thing was broken and produced a really creepy music, she still liked listening to it.

When Springtrap saluted her, she just raised an eyebrow before saying: "Hi, Boss."

Without understanding, the bunny just followed his friend.

They soon arrived near CAM 09 and 10, the two most useless rooms of the place, and maybe even of the universe. Nightmare Shadow Freddy walked towards a poster on which Springtrap from the future generation was drawn and bursted into tears. He lost him. He was too weak to prevent him from commiting suicide.

The golden bunny put his hand over his friend's shoulder, trying to comfort him, and Nightmare thanked him. He explained that Springtrap had to be around those rooms at the beginning of the night, otherwise the night guard would suspect something.

Springtrap just nodded and they came back at the Office room. There, they found a note on the desk. Spring grabbed it, examining it to see if it wasn't a trap -hahahahaha- and read what was written on it.

"To the newbie,

Hey, I'm Phantom Fredbear ! Hope you're kind, you. The other wasn't that much, to be pretty honest. Well, I wanted to greet you for your arrival. You're at home here. If you need anything, you know where to find me !

CAM 02, just in case you forgot. :D

Phantom Fredbear, also known as Phantom Goldie.

PS: Did you know that Shadow Freddy loved you ? Hey- Don't tell him I said that."

The animatronic laughed and put the message aside. The nightmarish animatronic behind him raised an eyebrow, wanting to read the paper but Springtrap refused to give it to him. Nightmare tried everything to get it, pining his bunny friend against the window. Spring laughed, the paper in his right hand, and Nightmare smiled, taking it from his hand but he didn't want to let go of Springtrap.

If he did, the bunny would just take the paper back. Bad idea. He wanted to read the paper but Springtrap called him with a very sensitive voice. "Would you give it to me ?"

"No."

"But why ? It was my name written on this." Springtrap replied, smiling to his friend while trying to find a way to take the paper. He had an idea but didn't know how to do it.

Nightmare Shadow Freddy didn't care about those details and took a look at the paper. He read the first line when Springtrap forced him to look in his eyes, slowly approaching before kissing his lips softly.

Alarmed but also very happy about this initiative, Nightmare closed his eyes and kissed the bunny back, enjoying the exchange. But then, suddenly-

"GOTCHA !" Spring yelled, showing him the paper he had just taken back.

Fredbear inhaled deeply when he heard Springtrap moaning. He was about to wake up. Goldie didn't know if he was ready for that discussion or not. It was going to be awful. They would both be in pain. Fredbear was responsible, I hear you saying. Somehow, you're right but Fredbear didn't really want what happened. He didn't want to be tortured and to kill his friends. He was just an animatronic, broken because Life was unfair with him. Even if he did accept Purple Guy's proposal, he wasn't aware about what would happen.

Now it was too late.

The golden bunny opened an eye, sighing in relief. It seemed that he had the worse nightmare ever, or maybe the weirdest out of them. He glanced at Fredbear, quickly avoiding his gaze, and looking all around him. He clearly had no idea where he was. He covered his face with his hand, closing his eyes and trying to remember what happened to him. "Wha-what is going on... ?" He asked, his tired voice echoing through the room.

"Don't worry, you're in safety." Fredbear assured, coming towards him and sitting beside him.

Springtrap looked at him blankly before saying: "How could I be in safety since you're alone with me..."

Those words killed Fredbear from the inside. It could seem impossible, but the bear hoped that Spring wouldn't be mad at him. That was stupid, though. After all, didn't he kill Marionette ?

Springtrap sighed sadly before asking in a low voice: "What happened to... your head... ?"

"You seem exhausted, I should probably let you rest more..."

"Would you answer my question first... ?"

The bear gulped before lowering his head, sighing, his voice filled with sadness when he answered: "Purple Guy beat me up, nothing important..."

"Why... ?"

This time, Springtrap had seen as if he was worried about him.

"I-I didn't want to obey..." Goldie said, doing a facepalm. "I was being stupid... I knew that I couldn't desobey but... I needed to try."

Springtrap had a slight smile on his lips. He stood up, sitting next to Goldie and he put his hand on his friend's shoulder comfortingly. "You did right... And... Thanks."

Goldie blinked in confusion, staring at his best friend strangely. "What do you mean... ?"

"Well... You saved my life..." The bunny said, looking at him kindly. "You sacrified yourself to save... a piece of sh*t like me..."

"You're not a piece of sh*t, Spring."

Springtrap snorted before glancing at the door, still closed, absent-minded. "I am... Look around you. Our friends are dead because of me... Mario is dead... And you're also going to die, along with Foxy..."

Fredbear shook his head, turning Springtrap until the bunny looked at him straight in the eyes. "That needs to be done. For the best. You need to follow Shadow Freddy."

"I know but still... It's difficult for me... Knowing that you'll die when I'll leave..."

Goldie thought about that a second before whispering into Spring's ear: "Just tell yourself that you'll kill Purple Guy too."

After that, he stood up and left the room, telling him that they would speak again later because Springtrap needed to recover from the shock that was Marionette's death.

The thought of kicking Vincent's b*tt without even fighting with him gave the bunny a large smile.

To be continued...

Hello everybody ! Sorry, I'm really late but I was busy at doing homework and stuff like that so hope you forgive me ^^ This chapter announces the ending, I think, you'll see what I mean later but still... It spoils a lot ! ^^ Just kidding, guys ;)

Okay, so I'd like to thank again everybody for the support, you're awesome people ! :)

Until next time,

Circle of J.