Edit: Well I re-read this today and was not very happy with the final few sections, so I went ahead and revised it a bit. Sorry folks!
Chapter 2
The duo made their way back to game room where Elliot had come from, Foxy humming his pirate tune while Elliot was having a ball on Foxy's shoulder. Passing the stage Foxy made sure the other two new animatronics were already in their sleep mode before continuing on, but as they entered the well lit room Elliot started to notice Foxy's wear and tear.
"Uh, cap'n Foxy?"
"What is it my boy?"
"Why are you missing some of your fur-"
Foxy frowned, remembering he was still rough around the edges. The thing was all the animatronics from the old 'Freddys' were in some sort of disrepair, replacement part having not been ordered in years.
Foxy was going to try and explain to the young boy why he was as beat up as he was without upsetting him, until Elliot continued.
"-You look like you were in a fight. . ."
Foxy's ear twitched at this, realizing what he was going to say. A little fib never hurt anyone anyway.
"Aye, I was! The dreaded SEA BEAST came from the depths of the ocean, putting Freddys Pizza at risk!"
"Really!?"
"Yup, and old Foxy and his crew had to defend the whole place! We all got a little beat up, but you should have seen the monster once we were finished with it!" Foxy cackled.
"Whooooa! You guys are so cool!"
"Aye, you're pretty 'cool' yourself lad" Foxy said, relived he dodged a bullet.
Amongst all this commotion, Mangle heard Foxy enter the game room talking to someone, stopping her from activating her sleep. Mangle sat up the best she could and slinked over to the entrance of Kids Cove, curious as to what Foxy was doing out of the supply room such a ways off from closing time. Poking her head out the door she saw Foxy, but more importantly she saw a boy on his shoulders. She watched as Foxy talked about a "sea beast" as the cause for his poor condition. Mangle smirked, amused at Foxy's lying ability, and seeing that it worked the boy smiled and hugged Foxy. Watching this boy with the old animatronic reminded her of her sad situation though and decided to return to her lonely room, but not before she heard the boy speak up, grabbing her attention.
"Foxy what's that?"
Mangle looked back only to be met with Foxy and the boy looking at her in the doorway. Gasping, she pulled back into the room.
Foxy frowned, ". . . Nothing Elliot, don't worry about it. . ."
Mangles heart broke hearing Foxy talk about her like that while she made her way back to her corner.
"Was that another one like you?"
"Yes, well, er, no. It's hard to explain, let's just head back." Foxy replied walking towards the exit, hopping to distance himself from the whole situation.
"Foxy, I want to meet him."
Foxy stopped walking. He wanted to meet her? Why? He got a good look at the thrashed animatronic already, was he just curious?
"Elliot I think we should just go back, she's, uh, under the weather right now. . ."
"Oh. . . Okay. . . Foxy, can you let me down, I want to walk."
"Sure."
Foxy picked the boy up off his shoulder and brought him down, but as soon as he touched the ground Elliot ran to the door Mangle was in.
"Elliot come back!" But Elliot was already in the door.
Mangle heard Foxy say something, causing her to look up again, but this time she was met with the curious face of a young boy already sitting criss cross in front of her. Mangle was surprised for a moment, but drooped her ears again and closed her eyes expecting to be taken apart further, also still emotionally struck by Foxy.
She sat there for a few seconds waiting for one of her limbs to be removed again, but it never happened. Instead she heard the boy speak up.
"Hi, I'm Elliot."
Mangle opened her eyes again, seeing the boy was still looking at her. Mangle wasn't sure what to do, was she aloud to talk to the children? She hadn't done that since she was first activated, but it wasn't anything like this. Deciding no one specifically told her not to, she went to reply.
". . . Um, hi." Mangle replied, unsure how to respond.
"What's your name?"
Mangle cringed at what she was about to say.
"I'm. . . Mangle. . ." The animatronic breaking eye contact with the boy as she said it.
"Foxy said you were sad, are you okay?" Elliot said as he moved closer to her
Mangle looked back up into the eyes of the young man. She could see he had a concerned expression on his face, like he cared about her.
". . . Yes, I guess I am a little sad." She said quietly.
"I'm sorry. . . Do you want to be friends?"
"Really? . . . Why?" Mangle replied, not expecting to ever hear such a question.
"I don't know, my mom use to always say you can sometimes tell when you're with a special person, and I like you."
Watching all of this from the doorway, it was Foxy's turn to look on. With a relived smile, he watched the sneaky rascal make friends with his counterpart. Foxy had hopped one day a child would make Mangle their favorite like kids had done for him many years ago, but never for a moment believed he would get to see it happen to her, especially with Elliot.
Mangle felt a huge weight begin to lift off of her as he said those words, a warmth flooding her circuits and she began to smile. She wanted to hug him, she wanted to hold the young boy close and finally experience the caring of a child, but in the process a frayed wire arced to the ground causing her to wince in pain.
"Are you alright?" Elliot said quickly seeing Mangle in pain.
Recognizing the time to stepping in, Foxy got down beside Elliot.
"Hey lad, you alright?"
"Foxy what's wrong with her?" The boy said, tears beginning to fill his eyes.
"Lad she's been living a hard life here, I won't lie to ya. Here in Pira-, err, I mean 'Kids Cove', they left'er here to be taken apart for fun by kids younger than yourself. . ." Foxy said, making sure young Elliot understood what he was saying.
"W-we have to fix her! Can we?!" The boy began crying out.
"I-. . . We-. . ." Foxy knew the answer, there hadn't been new parts ordered for any of them in years. Before Foxy could say more though, Mangle recovered quickly and spoke up.
"Elliot please don't cry, I'm alright, really I am, I'm just taken apart is all, and I'm still all right here." Mangle said trying to calm the boy down.
Foxy was amazed she had said that. While it was true all of her was still here, it was all strewn about the room and would require hours of searching and even longer to arrange everything again.
With tears running down his face, Elliot looked back at Mangle, trying to keep from crying anymore.
"M-Mangle, can I c-call you a different name?" The boy stuttered.
"Of course you can, anything you want." She said with a soft smile.
"I-I want to call you Dawn." The boy wiping the tears off his face.
"I like that; it's a pretty name." Mangle replied, looking up at Foxy.
Even though Foxy had just hurt her with his comment before all of this, it was also because of him this child was here, and for once in a very, very long time, she began to feel happy. . .
"I-it was my mom's name, a-and you. . . Y-you remind me of h-her." Elliot brought his arm up to wipe more tears away.
Foxy and Mangles expressions immediately went to shock, quickly looking back at the poor child. Elliot stood there with his face buried in his arm and began to cry again. Mangle brought her one arm around the boy as Foxy helped pull all of them in.
As Elliot began to to calm down and open his eyes again, he was met face to face with Mangle.
"Don't worry Elliot, I'll always be here." Mangle said softly.
"Pr-promise?"
"I promise."
Foxy snuck out of the kitchen with a soft sever ice cream in his hand, hearing faint arguing from the supply room.
"Freddy you have no freaking idea what you're talking about! The speed of light is the Universes speed limit, it is literally impossible to-"
Foxy chuckled as he walked back to Kids Cove. Freddy always knew how to get the new Bonnie riled up. As he thought about it, he realized he needed to apologize to that quirky bot when he had a chance.
Entering the cove he walked over to Elliot and handed him the ice cream. He had calmed down with Mangle soothing him, now the two sat on the floor with Elliot sitting close to her.
"Well my boy, best you be goin' on your way, you're probably bein' missed be your friends." Foxy not really wanting to pull the boy away from his new best friend, but he'd been paying close attention to the clock and it had reached five minutes till the employee's lunches would be over.
"I don't want to go home though. . ."
"It's alright Elliot, I won't go anywhere. I'll be right here for you when you come back." Mangle said brushing her one hand through his hair.
"Arr, and didn't you say you had a birthday coming up? Why not have it here at Freddys!" Foxy's cheerful pirate voice returning to him.
"I can do that!? That'd be awesome!" The boy said excitedly, almost dropping his ice cream.
"Aye, it'll be a time to be had! But for now it's time to say goodbye." Foxy said smiling, reaching out with his hand.
Elliot grabbed on and started to walk out, but turned around and ran back giving Mangle one last surprise hug.
"Promise?"
"Promise."
Letting go the boy smiled before running back to Foxy and the two of them walked out. Just before they lost sight around the corner though Foxy looked back and smiled at Mangle. Mangle smiled in return and waved as she lost sight of Foxy.
Curling up on the floor, the robot started thinking about her name. 'Mangle' was given to her simply for her appearance as a mess of useless parts by the people that put her here in the first place, but 'Dawn' was special, from a boy that loved her. It was an easy decision as Dawn started her sleep mode, not bothering to set her power up time till opening the next day. She was too happy to go chasing an endoskeleton tonight. She smiled as she powered down, keeping the content expression on her face as she slept.
Foxy opened the supply room door to Freddy, old Bonnie and Bonnie 2.0 all in the middle of the room arguing, Freddy and old Bonnie obviously having fun driving new Bonnie insane. As the door swung open all of them finally stopped bickering.
"Alright Bonnie, I think this young pirate wants to go home." Foxy said gesturing to Elliot outside.
Bonnie 2.0 blinked a few times, looked at the clocks and realized what Freddy and old Bonnie had done, glaring at them before walking towards the boy standing outside, but as Bonnie started past Foxy, the animatronic made him stop.
"Bon, I've been meanin' to say, I'm sorry I yelled at ya like that earlier. I've had my fair share of tough days when I was still performing and I'd be lyin' if I said I've never complained a bit. You're a good friend and I just had to try and make it right." Foxy said trying to keep Elliot from hearing.
". . . It's alright Foxy. We're still alright." New Bonnie said smiling a bit at Foxy.
Foxy patted Bonnie on the shoulder as the rabbit walked out. Foxy and Elliot waved as the doors shut.
"Alright young man, let's get you. . . You gave him ice cream!?"
Freddy and Bonnie chuckled while just Foxy stood there listening to the staff return, new Bonnie explaining the boy was left behind from the last party. Foxy stayed quiet near the door.
"Foxy, you alright?" Old Bonnie said carefully, but the pirate didn't move.
Freddy started to move towards Foxy, but Foxy started to turn around with a big smile plastered on his face
"What a kid!" Foxy laughed, the other two animatronics relieved to see the boy had cheered their friend up.
"What happened?"
"He loves Mangle." Foxy said without skipping a beat, "I never thought I'd see it, but he was completely attached to her, he even started calling her Dawn after his, uh, mother. . . That was another thing. . ." Foxy said before trailing off, losing his smile.
The two animatronics stood there waiting, listening intently as to what Foxy was talking about.
"He started calling Mangle 'Dawn" because she reminded him of his mom. . . Fellas the way he talked about her, I don't think his mother is around any more. . ."
Freddy and Bonnie were taken back by what they just heard, both looking down. They all stood in the quite room for a minute before Freddy broke the silence.
". . . We'll do something for him one day Foxy, don't you worry." Freddy tried reassuring the old pirate.
"Will he be coming back?" Old Bonnie asked hopefully.
"Maybe, he said his birthday was next month and I told he could try having it here." Foxy said with a smile beginning to creep onto his face again."
The animatronics in the supply room continued to chat while Elliot sat in the party room his friend's birthday was just held in, Bonnie 2.0 keeping him company while he noodled on his guitar.
Eventually Elliot's friend's parents came back and picked him up. As they left, Elliot turned himself around, watching the Pizza place get smaller and smaller while waving at Bonnie as they drove off.
As he got turned around, Elliot began to feel tired; all the excitement of the day was finally catching up to him. As he drifted off to sleep, the boy started thinking of all the stories he had to tell his friends...
Welcome aboard the feels train haha.
I'm happy some of you have taken a liking to this story, and lucky you this is going to be my first story I plan on finishing.
I do apologize deeply if there are some blatant grammar errors, its just after 1am and I have work in about 5 hours lol.
I do want to say though there might be some pretty good amount of time between chapters, I still have to do stuff like work and other hobbies I have to juggle, but I'm grinding out as much as I can in the time I do have.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed the second addition and I'll see you in the next chapter :]
