mangle is going to be a boy in this story and the marionette and springtrap will be girls don't rage at me in the reviews please

but if multiple people get annoyed about mangle's gender and say that he's a girl, then I can go back and change it so that he's genderfluid or bigender, and that way, he can kind of be both, therefore (hopefully) satisfying everyone

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Chapter 6

*One month later*

Zoe tied Golden Freddy's purple bow tie and stepped back from the dormant robots.

They were finished.

It had taken a lot of work, and a heck of a lot of time, but she had finally recollected each of the animatronics into a more human form. Her chest swelled with pride as she stared at them. She had made these with her own two hands.

Fritz walked up behind her. "Whoa. Those look awesome."

She smiled. "Thanks. Have you got the programming done?"

He nodded and went back to the control panel. "Almost. But are you still sure about giving them learning AIs?"

"One hundred percent."

He took a deep breath. "Okay. Here goes nothing." He hit a few keys on his laptop, then looked up again. "They should be active in a few seconds."

The two of them stood and watched the robots. For about fifteen awkwardly silent seconds, nothing happened, and Zoe began to worry that maybe they did something wrong.

Then the jumper cables protruding from the control panel that were connected to the robots' hands sparked, and an electric current flowed through the wires, jarring the animatronics. They twitched violently as the electricity jolted through their circuits.

The lights flickered in the room and all the power in the building went out. Zoe heard a crashing noise as the robots were jarred loose from their stands and toppled over.

"OH, COME ON!" an angry Vincent yelled from the dining room. Zoe heard Jeremy shriek in fear (from the power outage or Vincent's screaming, she wasn't sure). Footsteps approached the door to the room, and the door swung open. Mike walked in, his face illuminated from the flashlight on his phone.

"What happened?" he asked.

Zoe shrugged, her spirits sinking. "I guess it didn't work. There wasn't enough power to activate them all."

Mike sighed. "That's too bad. Maybe we can try again."

Fritz shook his head. "There's not enough power in the entire pizzeria to activate them. It won't work."

Suddenly, Zoe heard something move in the corner of the room. "Everybody be quiet!" she ordered. The other two looked at her.

"What is it?" Fritz asked.

"I think I heard something."

Mike swung the flashlight across the whole room. "I don't see anything."

He pointed his flashlight in the corner Zoe had heard the noise in. The Toy Bonnie robot was there, not moving at all. His eyes were still closed.

Suddenly, he twitched, and the cables on his hands sparked. His eyes shot open.

Zoe looked around. All of the other animatronics were doing the same. It was a little creepy, seeing human looking bodies twitching on the floor, but she smiled. It had worked.

Fritz cheered. "YES!"

"That's what I'm talkin' about!" Mike yelled.

Mike and Zoe exchanged high-fives and Fritz decided to use his phone to order a celebratory pizza, while the robots looked at them in confusion. The three unclipped the cables from their hands and they stared around the room blankly.

"Keep it down in there!" Vincent complained. He appeared in the doorway and gaped at them. "Oh my gosh..."

Zoe looked down at the Freddy robot. He was trying to get to his feet, but failing miserably. Zoe laughed. "Here, I'll help." She grabbed his arm and hoisted him up. He almost fell over again, but Fritz took his other arm and they held him up together.

Freddy shook his head, the brown metal fibers for his hair swishing with the movement. He opened his mouth as though he were about to talk, but all that came out was a kind of garbled noise that a baby would make.

"I don't think they can work in the pizzeria for a while," Zoe pointed out. "Right now, they have the intelligence of newborns, even though they mostly have the physical abilities of twenty-year-olds. Their minds are going to have to adjust."

Jeremy entered the room and almost tripped over the Marionette's legs. "Oh geez!" he yelped as he almost landed on his face.

Scott walked in and stepped neatly over the metal girl. He looked around the room in surprise. "Wow. Just wow."

Vincent nodded. "Impressive," he commented as he gave Bonnie a quick once-over. "These are very well made. Well done, Nova."

Zoe looked into Freddy's blue eyes. "Hey, buddy. My name is Zoe. Can you say 'Zoe?'"

He tilted his head, his black top hat almost falling off. "Zzz... Zeh... Zuh..."

She shrugged and reached up to straighten his hat. "Close enough."

"Hey, guys?" Fritz interrupted. "Do any of you want mushrooms on your pizza?"

"Pizza," said a voice next to the control panel. Everyone turned to look at whoever spoke. It was Chica. She looked kind of like a large toddler in her knee-length yellow dress that poofed out at the sleeves. The apron over the dress had the words "Let's Eat!" printed in purple and yellow.

Zoe smiled. She felt like a mom hearing her baby say its first words, which she supposed she kind of was.

She looked down at Toy Chica, who was sitting at her feet. She stared up at her with startling purple eyes that matched Chica's. "I think we need to give the Toys proper names," Zoe said. "Calling them Toy Freddy and Toy Chica all the time doesn't seem right. They have their own minds. They deserve to have names of their own, too."

"Should we change Mangle's name?" Jeremy asked. "I don't know if parents will like their kids being with a a robot named Mangle."

Zoe shrugged. "I don't know. I'm kind of used to calling him that. But the others definitely need names."

"Let's just call them Toy whatever for now," Mike suggested. He bent down to look at Toy Freddy. "Can you say 'Toy Freddy?'"

Toy Freddy blinked in confusion. "To- T- Te- Teddy?"

Zoe laughed. "That's perfect! His name can be Teddy!"

"And Toy Bonnie can be Tonnie!" Fritz exclaimed.

"What about Toy Chica?" Mike asked.

Zoe thought about it for a moment. "Tia could work." She looked down and saw the newly named Tia grinning happily at her. She grinned back.

"Where are they going to sleep tonight?" Vincent asked. "We don't anywhere for them to stay."

Zoe shrugged. "I can bring some blankets, pillows, and sleeping bags from my house. They can sleep in the kitchen for now until we can organize somewhere else for them to stay."

Springtrap stood up. She tugged on her baggy greenish-yellow sweater and fixed her gaze on Vincent. "Purple," she said simply.

Vincent tugged on the collar of his violet uniform. "Um, yeah. Okay."

She tilted her head. "Purple."

Vincent cringed. "Please stop staring at me."

Zoe furrowed her brow. Vincent looked nervous. He was never nervous.

Suddenly, Vincent yelped and jumped backwards. Balloon Boy had scooted over to his feet. BB had been smiling at him, but his grin turned into a frown as the owner of the pizzeria backed away so his back was pressed against the wall.

BB pouted. Zoe knelt down and put an arm around his shoulders while glaring at Vincent. "Come on. Give them a chance. They're not going to hurt you."

Vincent started shaking. "I-I've got to- to g-go. B-bye." He turned around and dashed out the open door. His footsteps faded as he ran away.

"What's up with him?" Mike wondered.

Zoe narrowed her eyes. Maybe it was time she found out.

Zoe gave BB a quick kiss on the forehead and got up. "I'll go talk to him," she announced, walking towards the door. "You guys can show them around the place, but make sure they don't break anything."

She heard a crash and whirled around. Fritz's laptop was on the floor and the screen was cracked. Bonnie and Teddy were sitting next to it and they both giggled.

Fritz's eyes widened. "My computer!"

Zoe stepped out of the room and wandered through the darkness.