AN: Hi! So… I took a little break, 'cause it was Christmas, also! That means my account has been active for an entire year! Woo! How awesome is that?!
Freddy rolled her eyes as the shadow things argued silently, to the confusion of everyone. "Do you think they've realised yet?" She asked Drake, who was looking into nothingness.
"I have no idea… This wasn't meant to happen…" He muttered, unable to figure it out.
"They kinda look like my old nightmares, or, well they look more like the shadows I use to see on the walls." Ben pointed out. "My old nightmares would be something different." He explained quickly.
"Back in 83?" William asked horrified.
"Yeah, those things always scared me… I think I figured out why some of my nightmares have stomach mouths though!" He said happily, before getting sad. "It's because of… Well, Wendy…" He trailed off.
"The claw?" Baby asked.
"The claw, it was in the stomach so it kinda burrowed into my mind when I played with them." He agreed.
"I'm going to ask something I just thought of, while those things aren't talking." Tom interrupted, his form appearing from where he had been messing with his old notebook.
"Talking?" Freddy asked.
"I can hear them for some reason." He shrugged. "Anyway… I absorbed your… Essence, is that right?" He asked Ben.
"Yeah, I didn't think that was possible, I just shoved it into them to protect my nightmares, you probably absorbed it since Nightmare Foxy was always kinda just a blank slate." Ben explained.
"Is… Is it possible the other essences could gain bodies? And, could i… Transform?" Tom asked cautiously.
"I… Huh… Give me a second." He said, pulling black smoke out of Bonnie, Freddy, Chica and Bella, then forming balls out of them. "And now… SMASH!" He shouted, throwing them to the floor where the balls broke open, forming figures, as well as new ones coming from the remains. "Looks like you were right! Since they have personalities and souls, for lack of a better term, they can become real outside of my domain!" He exclaimed happily, while the figures finally solidified into terrifying looking animatronics… "Hi guys!" He said cheerily to them.
"B-Ben?" A terrifying Chica asked confused, looking at her hands. "Where are we? This isn't the house…" She asked him, looking around the room.
"It's a long story, but I found them! Wendy and Dad! I found them! I found them I found them I found them!" He told her happily, bouncing up and down like a kid on a sugar rush.
"Really? Huh, mind pointing them out for us? It's hard enough to see in these conditions, all these people are making it worse." Another one, the bonnie, said in a gruff male tone.
"There, and there!" He said, pointing at Baby and then William.
"Well then, I suppose we should introduce ourselves." The freddy said in a very posh voice that belonged to some british dude probably.
"Yeah I guess, BB's still too tired at the moment." The chica said, checking one that looked a little like a balloon boy model.
"I am Nightmare Freddy, the leader of this ragtag group of nightmarish fools." He said, doing a bow that caused little freddy's to fall off of him. "You, back here." He ordered the little things, causing them to enter little tears in his fabric. "Those were the Freddles, sort of my children I suppose, manifested when ben saw some of the plushies while he was becoming the ULTIMATE you see." Nightmare Freddy explained, his voice becoming terrifying for a moment.
"I'm Nightmare Chica, I'm the smart one, no offence Freddy." The chica said, glancing at Nightmare Freddy for a second.
"None taken, you are after all much more mentally adept." Nightmare Freddy agreed.
"Anyway, I usually cooked food for everyone after we played our games for the night." She finished. "This is Cupcake, he's a little bit of a jerk when we play, but he's a big softy really!" She giggled, holding a cupcake with eyes and teeth.
"I'm Nightmare Bonnie, I'm the one you wanna watch out for, not 'cause I'm strong or anything, I'm just reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaally annoyin'." The bonnie said, stretching his words out to be annoying. "It's a real bad habit, Ben noticed how annoying Bonnie was on Fredbear and Friends so I got that trait." He explained, giving a shrug.
"Hey, where's Nightmare Foxy?" Nightmare Chica asked confused.
"Tom here absorbed his essence! We've finally got a real Nightmare Foxy!" Ben explained happily.
"Really? Awesome!" The Terrifying BB exclaimed, head spinning around while the teeth that went around the entire head gleamed. "I'm Nightmare BB! I'm partners with Plushtrap! Hey, um… Where is Plushtrap anyway?" It asked curiously.
"I'm here little dude." The plush rabbit said from his place on Drakes head, before he hopped onto Nightmare BB's.
"Yay! We play hide and seek with Ben sometimes!" Nightmare BB finished.
A horrid burst of Static came from something that looked a little like mangle, if you squinted a lot.
"OW! I forgot to fix that…" Ben muttered, holding his ears.
"Let me." Nightmare Chica said, fiddling with something.
"I-I-I-I-IS THis bet-t-t-ter?" It asked, voice fluctuating randomly.
"much."
"I-I-I-I'M NIGHTMAre mang-g-g-gle." It said. "I'm a BOY" He added, looking around as best as he could.
A figure appeared from the shadows next, looking slightly scared. "I'm… Nightmarion, it's nice to meet you…" It said with a feminine whisper.
"Hey, where's Nightmare Fredbear?" Ben asked curiously.
"I don't know, when you left he appeared for a second and said he wanted to find Fredbear." Nightmare Chica told him. "Whatever that means…"
Tom frowned as he watched the shadow things, before going over to them and starting to say something in this strange static language… After a few moments he turned back to the group. "Apparently they're victims of your brother as well." He told William.
"Victims… Wait, that means… I know them! They're the technicians that went missing when they did our regular performers a favour and used the springsuits!" He exclaimed, getting a nod from the Shadow Freddy. "Let's see… Peter was too bulky to fit into the spring bonnie, and John was too short to fit in the spring freddy…" He muttered, getting more nods. "They must not be able to talk because they were taken out of the suits! Meaning they're possessing shadowy memories of them, which don't include voice boxes!" He realised.
"Well, actually it's more that they don't know how, they have voice boxes but they can't get them working, there's this ball or something."
"It's meant to be a clicker ball, you just press it to turn them on." The shadow's did that on their throats getting bursts of static as they turned on.
"Hello? Can you hear us?" The shadow freddy asked.
"Now we can." Freddy agreed, the others having joined Foxy in his nap of pain.
"GREAT! NowI canfinally swearagain!" The shadow bonnie said happily, taking a deep breath before being slapped by the shadow freddy.
"John please calm down." The shadow freddy, or Peter, told the shadow bonnie, or John.
"Fine…"
"Mind if I get rid of those shadows? Shadow's are kinda my thing." Ben asked.
"Not atall. They are incredibly annoying." Peter agreed.
Ben focused and let the shadow's drip off of them, revealing bits and pieces of animatronics that had been scrapped in the past.
"You've been trying to rebuild bodies for yourselves…" William muttered.
"Yeah, it's harder then I thought it would be." John agreed, pulling up a foxy arm onto his expose endoskeleton.
"I can fix that." He offered. "I still run the company, I just leave the buildings to their own managers jobs." He explained. "But, I still run it, so I can get some old parts, or, I can make you whole new suits."
"I think new suits, but old works as well." Peter told him.
"Right…" He muttered, grabbing a notebook, and taking the two to go talk.
"So… He can become Nightmare Foxy?" Nightmare chica asked, looking at Tom.
"I think so." Ben agreed.
"DOES THIS HELP?" Tom asked, now in the form of a nightmarish Foxy, but with Black patches instead of full red.
"Huh… He's different now." Nightmare Chica pointed out.
"Probably because it's a soul and essence, instead of just essence." Ben noted.
"I guess…" She agreed, pulling Tom to the other nightmare's, much to his surprise, so that they could talk.
Freddy gave a sigh as she and Drake decided to Join Foxy…
Somewhere
The golden bunny, Henry… Made it's way to a castle, or was it a he? It had taken Henry's name… So male, yes, He, he was a male, it had a nice feel to it… He made his way to the castle, sensing something, before he stopped, sensing something inside the pizzeria he was passing, and heading to it, finding a fake wall… Inside it was a golden bear, slumped down with glowing black eyes, only white dots visible inside it…