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A surge of power revitalised his systems, he slowly began to awaken once more like he had done many moons before. He opened his eyes and met all the unidentifiable objects that surrounded him. Something was different, something wasn't right this time. Freddy's vision became steady, only to find darkness, it shrouded him.
The animatronic looked around and tried to find anyone that may have been responsible for his awakening, only to find himself sat-up against an old, damp wall. There's no way anyone would have entered this room without activating the lights, it was too dark to see, even Freddy's golden body would have been hard to notice.
It was in his programming to automatically reactivate after a set amount of time to ensure that no damage came to his endoskeleton or circuitry.
Unfortunately, it was far too late for that.
He tried to stand up, only to be met with a large amount of pain, causing him to release a deep mechanical screech. It echoed throughout the room, bouncing around the walls before it finally died down. His joints were stiff, and locked as the animatronic tried to bring himself to stand. He couldn't take the surprising agony and sat back down.
Freddy then began to give himself a look over, his golden fur was missing and his rubbery exterior had many tears and scratches layered over his body, arms and legs. His golden colour had faded and become a sort of dark, vile yellow.
Peering over to his left arm, a main source of his pain. He noticed his upper arm had been significantly torn, with wires and circuitry poking out of the tears, he could do nothing but stare at this in horror. He started to feel over the rest of his body to find any other 'injuries'.
The animatronic bear placed both hands on his face, and began to feel around so he could identify if anything had changed. Everything seemed to be in place, his jaw, teeth and features were still intact, he continued to move further up his face and felt a cold shiver run down his spine as he stopped at his eye sockets.
His eyes were missing, he realised why his vision had become much 'clearer' than before. He vision was coming directly from his endoskeleton eyes.
There was a moment of utter panic racing through his circuits, he tried to fathom the position he awoke to find himself in, hoping it all to be a terrible nightmare that he'd soon awake from. He continued to examine his head until he noticed something else, that made him freeze in horror and disbelief.
His left ear was missing, all that remained were a few circuits and wires poking out of the connection port where the ear would connect to the head. Now the distress Freddy felt began to turn into a burning rage, a level of anxiety he'd never felt so strongly before. He was determined to find out who was responsible.
Before he could act, the sound of a door creaking open attracted the attention of his only use-able ear. Whoever it was, they were probably called in by the noise Freddy made when he screeched in pain. The door slammed shut as the sound of footsteps gradually became louder as whoever it was began to approach the animatronic bear.
"Who... Or what are ye?" A low, think accented male voice spoke out from the darkness.
Freddy's ear perked up, his rage dwindled and became replaced with curiosity. He had never heard this voice before, it sounded completely different, yet somewhat soothing. His slowly brought his head to face whoever it was, he was met with a pair of illuminated, golden like eyes glaring at him through the darkness. This was definitely no human, he began to wonder if it was another animatronic.
"I asked what ye are, don' be holdin' out on me" The voice spoke again, stern, somewhat commanding in his tone.
"F-F-Freddy Fred-b-bear" Freddy's voice box surged with agony, it was mechanically broken and Freddy hoped he wouldn't have to say another word to this mysterious being.
The golden eyes shifted to the side, it looked as though he were confused with Freddy's response. Those golden eyes were still locked on to the disabled animatronic, who could do nothing but stare back, hoping that he had just met someone who could 'save' him.
At that moment, the being moved backward slightly, a light click sound was heard before the room became filled with a glorious light. Freddy lurched his head down to avoid it, he felt as though his eyes weren't used to making contact with light anymore. That's when he truly began to wonder how long he'd been out for.
It took all of Freddy's willpower to bring his head up to face his interrogator, when he managed to lock eyes on to whoever it was in the room, he couldn't make any understanding of what stood before him.
A tall, slender animatronic. With a red, furry rubber exterior, it was the accessories that stunned Freddy the most. The animatronic sported what appeared to be painted on brown pants that went down to just below the knees. A large, bushy tail was also present on the new animatronic. As he brought his head further upwards, he noticed a sharp, intimidating metal hook in place of the animatronic's right hand.
He continued to inspect this new being, whilst most of his body was red, he had a rather pinkish like under-belly. His head featured a longer snout with much sharper, canine like teeth prodding out. The right eye appeared to have some sort of eye-patch placed above, it must have been able to cover his right eye if need be. His eyes also had two black eye brows hanging above them. A subtle, but strange addition Freddy did not remember.
The ears were in the same place as Freddy's, but they were much longer and pointed at the top. The golden animatronic tried to match it up against any animal he was familiar with, but nothing came out of it.
"Wh-a-a-at are yo-o-u?" The broken mascot tried to ask.
"Why, I be Foxy! Foxy te' Pirate Cap'n!" Foxy exclaimed with pride.
That's it! He's a fox! Freddy mentally face palmed as he realised, he wasn't able to fully make out the animal Foxy was based on due to all the supposed 'pirate' accessories he had donned.
Unbeknownst to Freddy, Foxy had too been inspecting the broken down bear with detail. He came to the conclusion that the golden animatronic couldn't threaten him, so he decided to be less intimidating with how he'd speak to the bear.
"Ye' said yer name was Fredbear?" He asked in a tender tone.
Foxy received a silent nod from Freddy, who signalled that he couldn't bare to speak through his voice box. Foxy acknowledged this with solemn nod of his own, he now needed to ask Freddy questions that could be answered in a yes/no format.
"I don' be recollectin' yer name in me memory, ye sure ye ain' another Freddy Fazbear?" The animatronic fox pressed on, though he seemed irritated in his tone.
Freddy stared at Foxy for a moment, bewildered by the question. He wasn't sure who this 'Freddy Fazbear' was, but with the way Foxy asked the question, it seemed as though that this character shared a close resemblance in appearance to himself.
Before Freddy could respond, their conversation was interrupted by a familiar voice coming from the other side of the door.
"Foxy! We need you back in Pirate's Cove! You've got ten minutes before the show starts!" The familiar voice demanded from the other side of the door.
"I best be goin' lad, don' worry, I'll be back after me show Fredbear" Foxy reassured the distressed Freddy, receiving a nod of approval from the silent animatronic.
With that, Foxy silently left the room. Leaving Freddy to ponder about whose voice called him out, it was definitely male, but he's heard a lot of male voices. Before he could gather his thoughts together, the door wildly swung open.
"You know you're not supposed to be in he..." The male stopped as he turned to meet Freddy dead in the eye, frozen in shock as he realised that he was active.
Freddy's rage began to boil over once more, identifying the man who'd called Foxy out of the room.
It was Scott.
The delivery truck pulled up, Mr. Forrester in tow as he and the delivery man each hauled one of the two giant crates into the party room. A mechanical engineer also entered along with the two men, assuredly to program the new animatronics.
Once they were finished bringing them in, the delivery man collected his pay and left abruptly. Leaving Mr. Forrester in charge of the situation.
"Right" Mr. Forrester started. "We're going to make a few minor alterations to the rabbit and the chicken, then we're taking that bear apart." He finished coldly.
Scott did nothing but look on as the mechanic started by making a few additions to Bonnie and Chica. By the time he was finished, Bonnie had received two black buttons underneath his red bow-tie and Chica was given a pair of black eye-brows. It didn't make sense to Scott, were these additions supposed to make them appear as new as these fresh animatronics?
"Excellent!" Mr. Forrester exclaimed. "Now let's get these two new animatronics out of their crates!"
He handed Scott a crowbar, figuring that he may as well make the silent employee useful since he was here. Scott forced open the first crate, revealing a large, animatronic fox. Who appeared to be a... Pirate? Scott looked to Mr. Forrester for confirmation.
"Meet Foxy the Pirate! He's going to be on his own stage. We may have to close down to set it up, but he's going to lighten this place up and business will boom! I can assure you that" Mr. Forrester beamed with delight, clearly he was excited with his new purchase.
"Well don't just stand there! Open up the next crate!" He suddenly became harsh towards Scott, who just followed his orders and went over to the next crate.
After prying the crate open, what stood before Scott confirmed that his worst fears had come true. A burly brown bear, identical in appearance to Freddy, stood motionless before him. There were a few minor differences however, this bear also had two black buttons and a pair of black eye-brows.
Whilst he still had the same bow-tie and top hat as Freddy, the brown bear's were jet black as opposed to the golden bear's navy blue variants.
"And this. This is Freddy Fazbear!" Mr. Forrester seemed somewhat too delighted to introduce the new Freddy. "Now, he's replacing that Freddy on stage" His tone again changed instantly into a cold, careless one.
As Mr. Forrester went over to move the old Freddy off stage, Scott's brain pounded as he tried to figure out a way to keep that Freddy around. Even if he couldn't be on stage anymore.
"Wait!" Scott cried.
Mr. Forrester's head almost turned 180 degrees as his emotionless eyes met Scott's.
"What?" The cold manager snapped.
"You don't have to scrap him, umm.. You can keep him as a, uhh... A spare animatronic! In case this new Freddy breaks down." Scott made a compelling argument to his boss.
He was only met with Mr. Forrester rolling his eyes.
"I doubt my new animatronic will break do..."
"But if he does?" Scott made a bold move interrupting his boss. "You can never be too sure boss, if this new Freddy breaks down and you don't have a replacement. That's not good for the business, and you're a good business man. Am I correct?" He continued, building a solid argument as he went on.
Mr. Forrester formed a slight smirk on his face, seemingly impressed with Scott's claims.
"I must say Scott, you surprised me. Okay, I'll keep him" He responded in defeat.
Scott almost burst for joy before Mr. Forrester cut him off once more.
"But. Since you care so much for these characters, I'm placing you as Head of Security. We don't have a night guard for these expensive machines yet, and it's now going to be your job to find someone. Got it?" All Mr. Forrester got was a silent nod from Scott.
"One more thing, enough of this 'Freddy Fredbear' bullshit, I want him to have a different name. One that differentiates him from our new Freddy." He continued.
There was a silence for a few seconds as Scott pondered what they could name the old Freddy, he looked between both animatronic bears. His mind pinged as if he had a great idea.
"How about... Golden Freddy? Goldie for short?"
The head of security never took his eyes off Golden Freddy, who stared back with anger flowing through his body.
"S-Scooooott!" Goldie's deep, mechanical voice roared as he tried to pull himself to his feet. His pain didn't matter anymore, what mattered is finding out why this man that he once called his friend didn't stop whatever fate he'd received.
The golden bear rose to his feet and limped towards to the door, reaching out for Scott whilst doing so, his pinprick white eyes glaring at Scott with pure rage. Scott slammed the door shut, trying to lock it as Goldie pounded on the door, prying it open as he refused to let his old friend get away from giving him answers.
Foxy, who was still present on Scott's side of the door, helped Scott close the door fully against Goldie's withering power, and locked the door. While he was still interested back in going back to see the animatronic bear after he'd done his show, he started to become uncertain about if Goldie was truly as non-threatening as he originally appeared.
Goldie stood on the other end of the door, he exasperated all of his remaining energy trying to get to Scott. He took a moment to recollect himself, Foxy said he'd be back, maybe he could use that time to try to find out more about what's happened, and how long it's actually been that he's been left to rot in here. The broken animatronic sat down against the wall once more, hoping to conserve any reserves of power he had left.
Scott and Foxy came back out into the party hall, the children cheering as Foxy finally made his appearance. It was amazing that no-one else noticed the commotion Goldie had caused, but everyone was enjoying the Fazbear band on stage. He slipped behind the curtains of Pirate's Cove to prepare for his show whilst Scott decided to call upon Bonnie and Chica's aid to calm down Goldie.
There's just one problem.
Bonnie and Chica think he's gone.
Scott didn't know how he was going to explain this to the two animatronics, they were distraught when Goldie 'left'. But, they managed to find comfort in Freddy Fazbear, he was like another Goldie to them. Obviously, there wasn't much difference between the two. Although, Freddy did come across as more aggressive than Goldie. Goldie was a gentle giant, if he had just snapped. Hell hath no fury if Freddy got mad.
He couldn't confront the problem just yet, Scott had to wait for Freddy to finish his introduction to Foxy's show.
"Hey all you Pirate fans! Head on down to Pirate's Cove, because the show's about to start! It's our good ol' pal, Foxy!" Freddy Fazbear bellowed from the stage.
All the children's attention immediately switched from the show stage towards Pirate's Cove, allowing Scott to grab Bonnie and Chica's attention. He moved around to the side of the stage closest to Bonnie, trying to catch Bonnie's attention.
"Bonnie!" He whispered as loudly as he could to avoid drawing attention back to him.
Bonnie turned to face the pale employee, noticing the look of pure dread on his face.
"Scott? What's wrong buddy?" Bonnie asked concernedly.
The head of security gulped, he motioned for Bonnie to grab Chica's attention. The purple animatronic moved over to the yellow chicken and grabbed her shoulder, she faced Bonnie before noticing Scott in the background.
"Hey Scott!" She called out.
She received a notion from Scott to keep her voice down, he then silently asked them both to follow him to the back-room. They were both confused with Scott's request, but followed him nonetheless. The two animatronic characters slowly climbed down off the stage and made their way to the back-room with Scott.
As they made their way, Foxy's show had just started. It would always become the highlight of the day, the children were always fascinated with Foxy's ludicrous tales. But, they were entertaining stories regardless of how much truth was actually behind them.
"Yar!" Foxy jumped out from behind the curtains.
"Aye! It be me, Foxy! And welcome te' the Pirate's Cove ye' landlubbers! Ye' ready for an adventure across te' seven seas kiddies?" He asked out, sporting an over the top pirate accent as he went on.
The children almost brought the roof down as they cheered for Foxy's show.
Scott continued to move to the back-room with Bonnie and Chica, they were still confused, they had been told by Mr. Forrester to never go into the back-room. Scott paused as he reached the door to the back-room, and turned back to Bonnie and Chica with a pleading look in his eyes.
"Before you two go in here, I want you to know that I'm so, so sorry for this" He choked.
They looked on in confusion as Scott opened the door, Bonnie was the first to enter the room.
"Why do you sound so... Oh my God..." Bonnie stood there in utter disbelief.
"What? What is... Oh no..." Chica too stopped what she was saying as she glared in horror at what she'd just noticed.
There, slumped against the wall, was Goldie. Who sat there completely unaware of Bonnie and Chica's arrival, he was trying to rest his failing energy reserves from his previous attempt at getting to Scott.
"F-Freddy!" Chica cried out. She ran over and knelt next to the damaged bear and tried to grab his attention.
Bonnie slowly marched forward, he couldn't believe his eyes, he thought Goldie was gone.
"C'mon Fredbear! It's us!" Bonnie screamed, they both tried to alert Goldie to their presence. But he was too tired to even acknowledge his surroundings.
Goldie caught patches of blurred out noise with his remaining ear, he tried to open his eyes slowly. It took a lot of effort to even keep his eyes open, his power was withering away from being left to rot in this dark room.
He saw Chica sat down next to him and Bonnie towering above him, he let out the faintest chuckle at the sight of his two best friends.
"H...Hey guys..." He forced out.
"I'm so sorry, I really am. I didn't think the boss would bring your life to this" Scott whimpered from the door.
Goldie managed to face Scott, before he croaked out a response.
"Life?... This... This is not life... This, is... Sickness." Goldie's eyes began to close as the final reserves of his power finally began to rot away.
Before his power finally gave in, he saw a large, brown figure enter the room. Approaching the broken bear before he finally powered down into pure blackness.
Freddy stood over his golden counterpart, and seemed horrified by the realisation that another animatronic had been left to wither away within the restaurant. He tried to process why there'd be another Freddy here, he then remembered that Bonnie and Chica were here long before he and Foxy arrived. But there was never a third animatronic, unless...
He replaced him.
Chica sat there, distressed, trying to re-awaken Goldie but to no avail. Bonnie slammed his fist in the wall, leaving a very impressive dent where he planted his fist. They had both believed Goldie had been taken away all that time ago, but to find out he was still here and left in such a state...
It hurt them.
Bonnie turned to face Scott, who was expecting the giant rabbit to tear him apart. Bonnie was going to do just that, before a firm grasp from Freddy prevented him from advancing forward.
Bonnie looked over to Freddy with his rage filled eyes, who nodded silently to the purple rabbit, Bonnie took a moment before he finally calmed down. Freddy then locked eyes with the terrified head of security.
"Tell us everything you know about this. Now"
Author's Note: Freddy and Foxy are here! And good ol' Fredbear hasn't met Freddy just yet. ;)
I almost kept writing Goldie's name as Freddy in this chapter, it was hard to suddenly change his name.
Again, all those follows/favourites and reviews really help me know what I'm doing right and wrong here, so thank you. I hope you guys enjoyed reading this chapter, and I'll see you in chapter 6! :)