Author Notes
So Night 4 is going to be split over two chapters. There ended up being too much content and it was going to be too long. The rest of the night will be up on Wednesday. Might be able to put up a bonus chapter between Wednesday and next Sunday though, depending on my week, to make up for it.
Just wanted to say a huge thanks to Corona Pax who helped a lot with this chapter.
Hope you all enjoy. :)
Chapter 27
Night 4 Take 2
"I'm going to kill that walking pile of scrap!" Ruby snarled, pacing like a caged animal.
She hadn't reacted well when she heard that Toy Bonnie had been messing with Bonnie during the day.
"I'm going to tear him to pieces!"
For once none of the others were trying to calm her down. They were all pretty mad as well.
She stormed out of the room when it was close to twelve, muttering angrily.
"Um, we're all staying in here tonight right?" Goldy asked, a little nervously.
They all nodded in unison.
"What's got you all tied in a knot?" Hedy asked as Ruby glared venomously at the wall.
"I hope you're really good at fixing things Hedy. Because I am tearing the rabbit's head off of his shoulders tonight." She snapped.
Hedy paled. That…didn't sound like an idle threat.
The phone finally rang and focused Ruby's attention away from rampaging and talk of decapitation.
"Hello? Hello? Uh, hey there, night four! I told you you'd get the hang of it!"
Ruby couldn't help smiling at his usual exuberance. Both girls also realised that they still hadn't asked the other about 'Uncle Scott/Steve'.
"Ok, so uh, just to update you, uh, there's been somewhat of an, uh, investigation going on."
The night guard's attention focused entirely on the phone.
"Uh, we may end up having to close for a few days... I don't know. I want to emphasize though that it's really just a precaution. Uh, Fazbear Entertainment denies any wrongdoing."
"Of course they do." Ruby muttered, rolling her eyes.
"These things happen sometimes. Um... It'll all get sorted out in a few days. Just keep an eye on things and I'll keep you posted."
"Always positive aren't you Steve?" Ruby sighed.
"Uh, just as a side note though, try to avoid eye contact with any of the animatronics tonight if you can. Someone may have tampered with their facial recognition systems - we're not sure. But the characters have been acting very unusual, almost aggressive towards the staff. They interact with the kids just fine, but when they encounter an adult, they just...stare."
She frowned in confusion and glanced over at Hedy.
"Don't get any ideas."
The mechanic glared. "What do you take me for?!"
"Uh...Anyways, hang tight. It'll all pass. Good night!"
"Night Steve." Ruby stretched, attention shifting to teaching a very memorable lesson to a certain blue rabbit.
"Why do you call him Steve?" Hedy asked before she could leave.
"He didn't give a name. He sounded like a Steve." Ruby shrugged.
Hedy face-palmed. "His name is Scott. He's my uncle."
Ruby paused. Was she using the present tense? Then she didn't know? And what other connections did she have to Freddy's?
Ruby decided against saying anything just yet. She wasn't in any state of mind to be gentle about breaking news like that.
"Huh. Well, I have a rabbit's head to pull off." She waved as she left.
Hedy was seriously considering going out to check on them later.
Then again, he could just put Toy Bonnie's head back on afterwards…
"BARBIES!" Ruby yelled once out in the hallway. "It's open season on rabbits tonight!"
She hefted her machine paintball gun and started down the hallway. She was going to make his life a misery.
An hour later she had locked Toy Chica in the kitchen and Toy Freddy backstage. The Puppet was duct taped in his box so Ruby could focus completely on Toy Bonnie.
And focus she did.
By then he was also no longer blue. He was rainbow coloured.
"Just try and catch me you bucket of bolts!" she laughed, well ahead of the furious rabbit. "This is what you get when you mess with my friends."
As she turned the corner though, she slammed into something and went down.
"Ow…" Ruby propped herself up on her elbows and looked around.
Hedy did the same, and Ruby realised that she had run right into the older girl and knocked her out of her wheelchair.
"Ow is right." Hedy mumbled.
Toy Bonnie stood a little distance away, unsure about what to do now since Hedy had never been involved before.
"Shoot sorry." Ruby apologised, surprising both the 'bot and mechanic. "I'm so used to the clanking of robots that I didn't hear you. You okay?"
Nice to know there was a more caring persona under the sadistic one.
"Yeah. Happens more often than you think." Hedy answered.
The night guard looked like she wanted to help her up back into the chair but her eyes kept darting to the robot.
"Continue with your weird bet, game thing." Hedy waved her hand and Ruby took off again.
Survival instincts were strong after all.
Toy Bonnie stood around awkwardly. He wanted to chase after the night guard but Hedy was his friend…
He glanced back at Hedy who had pulled her wheelchair over to her and was inspecting a rather bad dent in the left wheel.
"Darn. I can't risk sitting in it now." She muttered.
She bit her lip and Toy Bonnie shuffled from one foot to the other, torn between chasing the night guard and helping the mechanic.
Hedy looked over at him and by the time two minutes had passed was getting really annoyed. He was still looking between the hallway and her.
"Toby!" She finally snapped, making him jump. "If you don't stop glaring after her and help me up, I WILL reformat you into a toaster!"
He hurried over to her and picked her up carefully.
"Sorry." He mumbled.
"You're impossible." She grumbled, crossing her arms in annoyance.
The trip was very uncomfortable for both of them; physically and mentally.
For Hedy, it was because she didn't enjoy the helpless feeling of needing someone to help her move around. Frankly, it was embarrassing and she was far too old to be comfortable being carried by anyone, even though she knew Toy Bonnie wouldn't drop her.
He wouldn't dare... She really could make him a toaster if she was willing to put the time and effort into the project. The staff might make him work in the kitchen...then they'd kick him out for his attitude.
The carrying hurt too. Just a little.
A fair amount of pressure was being put on the titanium rods in her spine due to the way Toy Bonnie had to hold her.
He was programmed to be able to hold young children, including babies and toddlers (not that many parents handed their babies off to any of the bots), but the "usual" way. For the ones old enough, that meant one arm around the back while balancing the kid on his hip as the kid sometime rested on his shoulder or gripped his neck. Unfortunately for him, he couldn't hold Hedy that way since her adult body was simply too awkward for him to handle size-wise.
So in the end he was stumbling slightly as he held her bridal style and carried her toward the main room. He felt his endo-skeleton teeth grit as his joints strained against the weight. He wasn't supposed to carry this much! Not that Hedy really was heavy, she actually was very thin but tall, er...long? And with other adults, night guards really, he dragged them most of the time.
Not that he could ever get away with doing that to Hedy, besides that one rather bad time at the warehouse that he tried not to think about.
But she would probably shut him down and do something even worse than that crazy night guard would before she woke him up again.
And Mangle would definitely rip him apart.
Toy Bonnie had a feeling that the Toy fox would murder him if he even looked at her best friend wrong now.
Not that he wanted to. As quite literally the only adult that any of the Toys could stand or even care about, Hedy had certain privileges. Even PUPPET did what she told him, even if she had to have a very good reason to convince him with.
"You could lay off the ice cream." he muttered without thinking.
Ah...insulting her was not one of those privileges he enjoyed.
"That's rich, coming from someone who doesn't understand taste." Hedy tried to cross her arms but couldn't succeed without making the already top-heavy Toy Bonnie lose his balance.
He did sway as she swung her arm and she suddenly held onto his neck for dear life.
"The toaster thing is still on the table if you drop me!" she growled. "And don't you dare complain. I know for a fact your gears can handle a lot more weight."
"Yeah yeah..." Toy Bonnie said as he rolled his green plastic eyes, though still a little sheepish from before.
"You're making me waste a lot of time. I should be chasing the night guard." He said sourly.
"Not my fault."
"True. It's hers." Toy Bonnie glared at a wall as if he could set Ruby on fire with x-ray vision.
"No it isn't." Hedy said sternly, "Its either everybody's or nobody's and it's pointless to assign blame like that for something so little."
"Yes mom." he said obnoxiously.
Hedy rolled her own eyes and shifted in an attempt to keep a plastic suit piece from digging into her. True the Toys looked friendlier and more cartoonish than the originals in her opinion. "Looked" being the operative word. Honestly, their hard plastic wasn't very "cuddly," as Hedy had heard Ruby once mutter.
Not that she could really compare them to the originals. Hedy wouldn't be caught dead getting THAT close to the Original gang. Ooh... Wrong choice of words...
Dead.
Hedy subconsciously reached up to run her fingers through her hair, yanking it back slightly.
Toy Bonnie saw this but miraculously didn't speak his mind, for once. Toy Freddy, or Teddy as Hedy annoyingly called him when they were all together without prying eyes, had noticed that Hedy pulled her hair when she was thinking about something that stressed her.
She'd been doing that a lot this week...
Hedy thought about the Originals. Yeah they were softer-ish looking, but they still looked so creepy! She used to have nightmares about them when she was little after that one glimpse into the back room at the old place.
And after she heard those stories…
And they were huge! It was ridiculous.
The shortest of them was that fox, yet he was still about seven and a half feet. The tallest was Bonnie at about eight NOT counting the ears... And his teeth...
How Ruby could stand next to them was beyond Hedy's understanding. Ruby was tiny. At least in comparison.
It was worse for Hedy though since sitting in her chair she was only 4ft.
Chica looked the creepiest but honestly she seemed more timid and less threatening than the others.
Freddy...she understood why Uncle Scott liked him the least. But he at least looked at her. Not sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing.
The Golden Freddy suit, which was a GIRL, called Goldy and a "ghost" for some reason, didn't seem especially threatening but Hedy knew she was old. And old people had the most memories, experience and wisdom. The way she talked and saw the world reminded Hedy of Puppet. But at the same time they were completely different.
She couldn't understand why they all seemed afraid and/or angry at her. She was the one who was terrified out of her wits to even be in the same room as any of them.
Especially Foxy.
"I've been thinking..." She started.
"Knew I smelled smoke," Toy Bonnie snickered.
"First of all: you can't smell. Second of all: if anyone could actually burn from thinking, it would be you," Hedy snapped back.
"Pfft."
"I was thinking," she said, "I came here as the mechanic for ALL of you. Foxy certainly needs it at least. But the most work I've done is fix Toy Chica's jaw and work on Mags." Hedy said using her nickname for Mangle. "And the check-up on all of the Toys."
"I thought you hated that worn out ancient piece of scrap." Toy Bonnie said, referring to Foxy.
Oh if Ruby heard him…She was already gunning for his head.
"I don't have to like someone to want to help." she said with a sniff.
Maybe if she told herself that enough, she would actually get the courage to ask the originals if she could work on them. They would probably say no.
"Whatever."
"Are you ever going to tell me?" Hedy asked, deciding to change the subject.
"About what?" Toy Bonnie asked.
But going by his tone, he already knew what she meant.
"Why you insist on killing Ruby."
"She's the Night Guard." he said in exasperation.
How many times did they have to explain this to her?!
"Use her name. And all of you still haven't told me why you hate night guards." she said and shifted again.
"It's not important." Toy Bonnie lied insistently.
Hedy was about to press and yell at him again that they couldn't kill someone because of something 'unimportant' but at that moment they reached the door.
Bonnie paused in the doorway to glare.
The Originals were watching their movie but immediately paused it and all turned to stare at them as they entered. Even Goldy looked up from her book.
"What happened?" Chica asked worriedly at seeing Hedy, the chicken's "mother hen" programming kicking in and overriding her fear.
The boys' and Goldy's anger actually melted into confusion.
Hedy hesitated to answer but Toy Bonnie beat her to it.
"The night guard broke her chair." he accused.
Foxy snarled immediately, making Hedy flinch and Toy Bonnie tense.
"The lass wouldn't do that." he said defensively while Freddy nodded in agreement, eyes flicking between them and the projector screen.
Bonnie just stared at a wall distantly after glancing at them.
"It was an accident." Hedy assured quickly as she hit Toy Bonnie in the back of the head.
"Hey!" he whined.
The sharp movement made him lose his balance and he stumbled the rest of the way into the room, causing Hedy to cry out in fear.
She wasn't afraid of heights, but she was afraid of falling.
"Do you need help?" Freddy asked hurriedly as both he and Chica moved to get up.
Foxy and Bonnie glanced at each other uncomfortably, their programming telling them they should offer to help as well, but their dislike for the stuck-up mechanic getting in the way.
"I'm fine!" Toy Bonnie snapped and he steadied himself and walked quickly to a booth table where he carefully set Hedy down in the seat.
"Am I still on the toaster list?" he asked, slightly nervously.
"Not at the moment," Hedy breathed, her heart rate finally going down.
"Good!" he chirped and darted out the door.
"TOBY!" Hedy shouted after him but he was already gone.
He left her. Alone. With the originals. And without her stuff.
"I'm going to strangle that idiot." She muttered.
It wouldn't do much to him but it might make her feel better.
"Toby?" Goldy whispered in confusion.
Ruby soon ran into Toy Bonnie again and continued making his night hell. A nice, colourful hell that featured a lot of streamers and glitter.
Life was good…
Author Notes
Hope you all enjoyed and next chapter up on Wednesday. :)