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Chapter 17

Zoe grunted as she picked up a large cardboard box. "God, this is heavy. What's in here?"

Her friend Raina shrugged. "I don't know. Let me see," she said as she walked over to her. She rummaged through the box for a moment, then, with great effort, heaved an old computer out of the box. "Huh. That's where that went." She set it down on the floor of her garage and picked up a long pink coat that was similar to Foxy's. "Do you think Mangle will like this?"

Zoe glanced at it and nodded, setting down the empty box and shoving a bunch of headbands with animal ears inside. They were at Raina's house, which was a couple blocks away from Zoe's own home. She owned a clothing store on Main Street, where she sold clothes she made herself.

Mike, Jeremy, and Zoe all went to high school with her. The four of them were all friends, and they'd given each other all nicknames. Mike was Mickey, Jeremy was Jerebear, Zoe was Supernova, and Raina was Rainbow. There were reasons behind their nicknames. Mike was Mickey because he dressed up as Mickey Mouse every Halloween until he was ten. Zoe's had come partially from her last name, and partially from the fact that she'd wanted to be astronaut when she was eleven. But then she had found out how much training they had to go through, and she became a mechanic instead. Jeremy's nickname was Jerebear because when he was little, Freddy had been his favourite animatronic at the restaurant, which was only because bears had been his favourite animal. Once, he'd dressed up as a bear for Halloween. Raina's full name was Raina Bowman, and when the four of them first met each other at some other kid's birthday party when they were all four, Mike had mispronounced her name and called her "Rainbow" instead. She was really happy all the time, and wore a variety of colours, most of which never matched. So the nickname kind of stuck. Raina had dark brown hair that was cut in a cute bob. Her eyes were a pretty shade of green that stood out against her olive skin. She always wore elaborate outfits, and she mostly made her own. At the moment, she was wearing bright green leggings with a blue cardigan, a pink miniskirt, and a ruffly white tanktop, plus a pair of bright orange ballet flats.

The previous day, after the swarm of fangirls had barged into the pizzeria, Raina and Zoe went shopping for new outfits for the robots. A lot of their clothing had rips and tears in them, so they went out and bought them three new outfits each- one for work, another for casual wear, and pajamas. Sure, they could've just sewed up the few holes in their clothes, but Zoe thought they deserved a little reward for putting up with those crazy fans.

Raina grabbed a bunch of outfits wrapped in plastic. "Let's get these to the pizzeria."

xXx

Vincent sighed as he stuck a cigarette in his mouth and lit it. He hadn't gotten much sleep last night. That Fredbear robot had caused quite a commotion last night. Not to mention the nightmares that had plagued him every night since that Nova girl had rebuilt those wretched automatons.

He rolled his eyes at himself as he pulled his hair back and secured it with an elastic. He shouldn't have been thinking about the nightmares. Everything that happened in them had occurred for real in the past, and he hated looking back on those days. He thought back to when he was younger, and had just been hired as a mechanic to build new animatronics-

"STOP. THINKING. ABOUT. THAT," he ordered himself, smacking his head on his mirror with each syllable. But try as he might, the memories wouldn't leave him be. They never did.

He was interrupted in his self-pity by an unfamiliar, sing-song voice. "DO NOT BE ALARMED, ROBOTS! I COME BEARING GIFTS!"

Vincent raised an eyebrow, all thoughts of his past driven out by confusion. "The fuck...?" he whispered, striding over to his half-open door. He shouldered it open and walked out into the main party room. Before he saw anything, however, a bright gold thing rushed past him and accidentally clipped his shoulder. Vincent inhaled sharply as a piece of metal pierced through his skin. He quickly clapped a hand to his shoulder to hide it.

"I'm sorry," a voice apologized frantically. "I wasn't watching where I was going. Are you okay?"

Vincent looked up and saw Goldie. He almost snapped at the robot: "Well what do you think? Do you not see the blood gushing from my shoulder?" (Although in truth it didn't hurt that much, as he'd gotten used to the pain after so many years. He was just in a really bad mood that morning.) The words were almost out of his mouth when he caught a glimpse of the robot's dark brown eyes. Suddenly, in the automaton's place was a little boy, looking to be around four or five years of age. He had a black and grey striped shirt and an old Fredbear plush clutched in his arms.

"Hey, what's wrong? Why are looking at me like that?"

Vincent shook his head vigourously until the old memory was gone. Goldie stood in front of him with a concerned look on his face.

Vincent gave Goldie a false smile and walked past him.

xXx

Goldie walked out of the security office, his thoughts whirling in his mind. As soon as Fritz had left to deal with BB, Goldie had sat down in the office chair and flipped back and forth between the two pictures. He'd been quite confused at first, trying to find out why he had looked like that in the first one. Minutes had turned to hours, and he began to get more and more frustrated. Needless to say, he'd stayed in the office the entire rest of the night, not getting any more sleep than he had before.

Now he was walking down the hallway towards the main party room, completely exhausted. He looked up at the camera in Party Room 2. The camera lay dormant now, but he still cringed. Goldie lowered his gaze and hurried past it. Before he got to the end, however, he crashed into something. He stumbled backwards and shook his head. The automaton looked up and saw Vincent with a surprised look on his face. Blood was leaking from his shoulder.

Goldie smiled apologetically. "I'm sorry. I wasn't watching where I was going. Are you okay?"

Vincent turned around, a scowl forming on his face, looking as though he were about to yell. Then he suddenly gasped, his eyes widening. He stayed that way until Goldie gave a nervous laugh. "Hey, what's wrong? Why are looking at me like that?"

Vincent blinked and shook his head. Goldie continued to look at him. Then Vincent gave Goldie a smile that was most definitely fake and walked away from the robot without a word.

He was quite confused. Goldie had no idea what had just happened, but he was shaken out of his daze when he saw the commotion going on in the main room. A person in a riduculous multi-coloured outfit was running around, trying to put a set of purple bunny ears on Bonnie's head while Zoe, Mike, and Jeremy were laughing like crazy. Some of the other animatronics were standing around, half of them with animal ears on their heads. Teddy had an orange pair of cute round bear ears on his head, and he definitely didn't look happy about it. Chica and Tia both had fake yellow wings strapped to their backs, and were running around, pretending to fly. Well, Tia was. Chica was just sitting on one of the tables, having a giggling fit while she watched Tia crash into walls. Mangle was hanging from the ceiling as though it were a set of monkey bars, and Tonnie was standing on a table, trying to get up as well, but he fell to the floor every time. For some reason, Mangle had on a bubblegum pink pirate coat, similar to Foxy's. Foxy had stolen Freddy's hat and animal ears, and was now running around the restaurant with them on, screaming random words such as "RUBBISH!" and 'BLOODY HELL!" in a terribly exaggerated British accent. Freddy was running after him, yelling words that definitely weren't complimentary towards the pirate fox.

Goldie blinked. This was even more chaotic than the day they'd been activated.

Then the new person suddenly appeared in front of Goldie and took off his hat. She set a yellow headband with little bear ears on them onto his head and shoved his hat back on him and ran away before he even realized what happened.

He sighed. Today was going to be a long day.