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Chapter 26

Goldie stepped outside and blinked as the bright sunlight hit his eyes. He and the other animatronics had never been outside the restaurant before, mostly because they were so busy with work, and they had really only seen the sun through the windows before. It was really bright, and he wasn't sure if he liked it or not.

Mangle burst out of the restaurant, Tonnie following close behind. "I call shotgun!" Mangle yelled, accidentally bumping into Goldie in his race to Zoe's pickup truck.

"Aw, come on!" Tonnie whined, running after his friend. "I wanted the front seat!" He crashed into Bonnie, who snarled and shoved him away.

"Don't fight!" Zoe called, stepping out the doors. "Tonnie, you can have the front seat on the way back this afternoon!"

At that, Tonnie cheered up immensely. He happily crawled into the backseat of Zoe's truck.

"Okay, I can take four people in my truck," Zoe announced. "Raina can take five in her car because it has an extra seat in the front. Two of you can probably go in the cargo bed of my truck, but you're going to have to be careful, because I don't want to have to reattach any disconnected limbs if you fall out the back."

Teddy and Bonnie exchanged a glance, then both scrambled to get into the back of the truck.

Zoe sighed. "Okay, I would prefer that you two go in a vehicle, but whatever. I'll take Chica and the Toys. Raina, if you're okay with taking Goldie, Mari, BB, Freddy, and Spring-"

"No prob, Bob!" Raina gave her friend a smile, then bounded over to her car.

Goldie sighed and climbed into the back of Raina's car. This was going to be a long ride.

xXx

The ride was actually only seven minutes, but it felt much longer. Raina had turned the radio to some pop station and was singing loudly along to the songs. Mari was playing around with her music box, BB was jumping up and down excitedly in his seat, trying to talk to anybody about what their house would be like ("Do you think it'll be big? Does it already have furniture? Where will we sleep?), Springtrap was complaining loudly about the brightness of "that giant yellow orb in the sky", and Freddy was trying to clean up a bunch of oil that was, for some reason, leaking from Springtrap's hand.

Goldie hated pop music.

When the vehicles finally stopped, BB was the first one out. He gazed at the one-story house in awe. They were at the very edge of town, on a street where a bunch of the buildings looked very rough and run-down. The houses might have once been bright and colourful, but now they looked grey and empty. Goldie thought it looked sad (and oddly familiar), but BB looked estatic.

Zoe shut the door to her truck. "Well, it's not much, but it was the only thing available that was really cheap."

"Scott said that it used to belong to a friend of his," Raina said, slamming her own door shut. "The previous owner passed away, and no one's really lived in it since."

Bonnie smirked. "Do you think it's haunted?" he asked, looking over at Teddy.

Teddy shrugged. "I don't know. What do you say we find out?" They both laughed and ran up the steps and through the door.

Zoe started towards the house. "Come on guys. We've got everything set up already."

Goldie glanced up at the house. He'd never been out of the restaurant before today, but he couldn't shake the feeling that he'd been here already.

He took a deep breath and walked towards the house.

xXx

The door opened into a slightly cramped living room, complete with an old TV, a faded blue couch, and an orange rug that was flecked with dirt. There was a closed door next to the TV, and on the other end of the room, there was on open doorway that led to a room with an old grandfather clock sitting against one wall. On the other end of the grandfather clock room was another closed door. Goldie peeked into the room with the clock and saw a long hallway leading to another closed door, and another one set against the left side of the hallway.

"We cleaned up some of the furniture," Raina said. "There are two bedrooms down there-" she pointed down the hallway, "-and another one through there." She pointed to the closed door across from the living room. "You guys can leave your bags here for now and look around, and after work, you can decide on who gets to sleep where."

"We're going to go back to the pizzeria and try to get Foxy working again," Zoe said, walking out the door. "Don't destroy the place while we're gone. We'll be back after lunch to get you for work."

"Wait," Mari started, "don't we have a birthday party at-"

Zoe shut the door, and they were gone.

"Ten," Mari finished.

Bonnie and Teddy immediately threw down their bags and ran down the hallway, disappearing through the left door.

"Whoa, they've already got beds!" Bonnie's yelled happily.

"Hey, I think I found another hallway!" Teddy's voice rang out from the room.

Tia grabbed Chica's wrist. "Come on, let's go find the kitchen!" The two sisters opened the door in the living room and ran through eagerly.

Freddy glanced down at Springtrap's oily arm and sighed. "As much as I would like to explore, I think we should find a bathroom and get you cleaned up." The two of them disappeared through the living room door.

BB knelt down in front of the TV. "I wonder if this still works." He began pressing buttons, trying to turn it on.

Mari wandered into the grandfather clock room. She gazed at the clock in awe. "This is beautiful," she whispered. "I wonder how it works."

Mangle looked around. "This would be a great place to play hide-and-seek."

Tonnie grinned. "I'll count first!" He covered his eyes and began counting. "One, two, three..."

Mangle smiled and dashed down the hallway across from the clock.

Goldie wasn't sure what else to do, so he decided to go down the living room hallway and see what was down there. He didn't want to wait around for Mari to destroy the grandfather clock (which she would most likely end up doing in an attempt to take it apart to find out how it works) or for BB to figure out that the TV wasn't even plugged into the outlet in the wall.

He walked through the doorway, and the feeling of familiarity increased. There were four doors in the hall, two on the left, and two on the right. A small window was set into the wall near the ceiling. An odd place for a window, it seemed. The lights were on in the two left rooms- the bathroom and the kitchen, he assumed.

He started walking towards the end of the hall. He glanced in the two right doors as he passed. One had a large table in the centre of it, surrounded by a bunch of dusty wooden chairs. Probably a dining room. The other room's door was closed. He opened it and saw that it was filled with boxes and old furniture. A storage room. He'd have to check that out later.

Goldie reached the end of the hallway. He felt like there was something missing here.

"What are you doing?"

Goldie whipped around and saw BB standing in the doorway at the beginning of the hall. He looked kind of confused, and Goldie wasn't sure why. Then he realized that he probably made an odd image, staring down at a blank spot on the floor at the end of the hall.

He shrugged. "Nothing. What about you? Did you get the TV to work?"

BB nodded and started walking forward. "Yeah, but I don't know how to change the channel." He reached Goldie and followed his gaze to the floor. "Whatcha looking at?"

Another shrug. "Dunno. The floor, I guess."

"Why?" BB asked.

Goldie looked up at him. Something about the look on his face made something shift in Goldie. Before he knew what he was doing, he found himself speaking. "BB, could you stand there for a moment?" he asked, pointing at the area right under the small window.

BB furrowed his eyebrows, but he didn't ask any questions. He shifted his position so his back was to the window and shuffled backwards until he was up against the wall. Goldie ran back towards the living room door. He didn't quite know what he was doing, but he knew it was important. He reached the door and slapped the light switch on the wall. Immediately, the light in the hallway turned off, leaving only the light from the window. It cast eerie shadows across BB's face, making him look like something from...

A nightmare.

Goldie burst into the bathroom to see Freddy wrapping up a gash on Springtrap's arm. "Freddy, get Chica and meet me in the other hallway." He ran back out into the living room without waiting for a response.

He dashed through the living room, BB running after him and worriedly asking him what he was doing. Goldie ignored him. He needed Foxy, but since he wasn't there at the moment, he had to find Mangle.

He ran past Mari, who had successfully taken apart the grandfather clock and had scattered its remains across the dark blue floor. She looked up as he ran past. She must have seen the concerned look in BB's eyes when he ran after him, because then she joined in the chase as well.

Goldie ran to the end of the hall and opened the door. Inside was a familiar room, complete with checkered carpeting, a bed with a blue comforter, and a bright blue dresser. He didn't even try to deny it this time. He had definitely been here before.

Inside the room, Tonnie was looking for Mangle. There weren't many places to hide, and Goldie could very clearly see Mangle under the bed, but they probably just wanted the game to last longer. Goldie didn't care about their game though. So while Tonnie was looking in the empty closet, Goldie knelt down to speak to Mangle. "Meet everyone in the master bedroom." He turned around, pushed Mari and BB aside, and sprinted into the other bedroom in the hallway.

Bonnie was rummaging through the drawers in the dresser, and Teddy was looking up at a bunch of photos on the wall in the hallway on the right side of the room. Against the middle of the back wall was a bed big enough for two, and there was a blue dresser on each side of the room. Children's toys were scattered on the floor. Zoe and Raina must not have gotten around to cleaning this room yet.

Goldie walked towards Teddy and yanked him into the room (accompanied with a startled yelp from said animatronic) just as Freddy entered the room, followed by Chica, Tia, and Springtrap. Goldie did a quick head count. Everyone was there.

Goldie didn't hesitate. He ushered everyone into the centre of the room and set to work positioning them around the room. He grabbed Chica's shoulders and pushed her over to the right hallway. He placed her right outside the doorway, then pushed Bonnie over to the left door. He grabbed Freddy and sat him down on the bed, then took Mangle's wrists and pulled him into the closet. Goldie didn't quite know what to do with the other Toys, so he directed Tia over to Chica, Tonnie over to Bonnie, and Teddy over to Freddy. Mari, BB, and Springtrap didn't have places in the room, so he just motioned for them to sit down on the floor in front of the bed.

All of a sudden, everything clicked into place.

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