Chapter 14
Robots Attack!
"So...what your telling me, is that you three were in the main room, tidying up the place, when a whole mob of scrap animatronics burst through the doors and windows and tried to kill ye, so you ran into the kitchen and found this door that we also found and now we're basically trapped like fish in a net because this door locked behind us, and this all happened in the span of five minutes?" Foxy asked, rubbing his temple with a confused look on his face. Freddy nodded.
"Yep."
"Wow. We're chum, mates." Foxy laughed darkly. Everyone's faces, dimmed by the darkness, seemed hopeless. They were trapped down there, and even if they found a way out...well, the whole robot army thingy would tear them to shreds. Suddenly, Foxy looked up, his eye bright.
"Wait, we have our phones! Let's just try and call 911 or something!" He suggested. Freddy knew that was a weird idea, calling for help to rescue five animatronics, but it was worth a shot. He pulled his black phone from his brown jeans pocket and shook it. Nothing. He pressed the power button on the side. Nothing again. A little battery icon popped up, showing that his battery was dead. Looking around, he saw that Bonnie and Mangle, who always kept their phones with them at all times, had come to the same conclusion. Things were looking bleak for the crew.
But that was when Mangle got an idea.
"What if...we got someone else to unlock the door from the outside!" Mangle suggested. Bonnie glanced at her.
"Gee, thanks Sherlock. And yet we're all trapped down here." Bonnie said sardonically. Mangle rolled her eyes.
"Ruby. Remember her? She's probably the only one we can trust who's not stuck down here with us." She explained. Freddy nodded slowly.
"Yeah, actually. That could work. But none of us have her phone num-"
"I GOT IT!"
Chica, who'd been pretty quiet during all of this chaos, shook her phone in the air.
"It's only got 5%, but I have her number!" Chica exclaimed. Bonnie raised an eyebrow.
"And why exactly do you have it?" He asked, a sly grin on his face. Chica blushed furiously.
"I don't know! I just- are we calling her, or not?!" She asked stubbornly. Bonnie chuckled and took her neon pink Kirby phone from her hand. He punched the buttons for calling Ruby. The phone rang. Once. Twice. Three times. Then Ruby's voice, though not what they wanted to hear.
"Hey, it's Ruby. Here comes the beep, hope you know what to do with it."
Beeeeep.
"Lovely as always," Freddy noted. Bonnie tried calling her again, but met the same results. He opened a texting app and typed several messages, mostly sounding a lot like HELP PLS! or AHHHH OUR LIVES ARE IN DANGER COME QK!
Freddy noted that they were down to 3%.
"Dammit," Bonnie swore in frustration after their third attempt at calling Ruby.
"Maybe she's asleep," Freddy offered.
"To hell she's asleep." Bonnie scoffed. "It's like 10:30."
"Just saying," Freddy shrugged.
Now, let's go back in time to the beginning of the day, from Ruby's POV!
Ruby added extra eyeliner rimming her eye. She wasn't one for looks, but she enjoyed makeup. It was fun to paint her face with all these different products, but she drew the line at turning her face into a mask of foundation and eyeshadow and contour and lip gloss.
She finished her makeup and took a look at herself in the mirror. Big, oversized dark maroon knitted sweater, black jean shorts, and big black boots. She untied her braids, letting her dark red waves cascade down her back. Ruby clipped a black barrette into her hair and smiled at herself. Not bad.
She ran down the stairs, taking a quick glance at her watch. Crap. 8:03. She was going to be late for school, mostly because it took her 15 minutes to get there and she had to walk. She hated the bus.
Ruby skidded into the kitchen and fumbled through the snacks cupboard, rummaging for a granola bar. Her mother, who was at the dinner table trying to get a fussy, messy Rylaina to eat her applesauce, looked over to Ruby and waved her applesauce-and-mashed-pea covered arms at her to get her attention.
"Oh! Ruby, I almost forgot to tell you. Jared's going to drive you to school today, honey. Isn't he so nice?"
Ruby froze, open-mouthed. She wanted to tell her mother, no, that's not nice! But she was already late for school, and her mother had turned her attention back to Rylie and her applesauce. So Ruby sighed, forgetting about the granola bar, and grabbed her black-and-white checkered backpack off the hook and called to her mother and sister,
"Bye Mom and Rylie!"
"Rylaina Hazel Roxanne! We do not throw applesauce at the walls in this house! Now say sorry."
"But mommy, now it wooks nice!"
"I don't care! Now- arg, another email from Raven's stupid art school! We've already volunteered like a billion hours this year, what more do they want?! No, Rylie, we do not smear applesauce all over our faces! No!"
Ruby sighed. Welcome to my life.
~lll~
A limousine, long, white, and shining, waited for her as soon as she stepped out of the house and onto the porch. Ruby took another various step, unsure of what to do.
The door to the limo opened and a fortyish man with graying black hair and skin the colour of caramel smiled at her with his straight white teeth.
"Ruby, c'mon in!" He called, waving to her. Ruby rolled her eyes. Ugh. Jared. Of all the men in the world, why did her mom have to pick him? Sure, he had a lot of money, and was handsome if you were into forty-year-old men, but he was just so...well, he wasn't exactly the sharpest knife in the block. All brawn and no brains, was a nicer way of putting it.
Butter-soft peach leather cushioned her as soon as she sat down. It had that new-car scent that Ruby thought she loved, but now she wasn't so sure. There were little packets of lemon towelettes in the mesh pockets in the seat in front of her, and two bottles of fresh chilled spring water in the cupholders beside her. Classical music played on the radio, and the whole place reeked like rich, carefree money.
It felt so wrong to Ruby.
They drove for a bit in silence, then Jared awkwardly tried to make small talk.
"So, um, what are you studying in school?" He asked Ruby. It sounded to Ruby like he was trying to sound like a dad, which he'd never be. Well...stepdad maybe, but Ruby couldn't see herself ever calling Jared Dad.
"Well, in Math I'm doing Calculus, and we're also learning about hypothesis and conclusion." Ruby said confidentially. She could see him furrowing his brow in the mirror.
"Uhhh...that's like with gravity, right?" Jared asked. Ruby made a fake surprised face.
"Oh, you don't know? Wow, that's weird. It's very simple, actually. Basically it's a pattern of when things happen, like if A then B. And if you add…"
Jared's brown eyes began to glaze over. Ruby smirked. Conversation, over.
They reached the school. Kids stared at the long white limo, and whispered behind their hands. Ruby's face flushed. She'd kind of forgotten the fact that arriving at school in a fancy ride would get her a lot of unwanted attention. This wasn't a fancy prep school, this was more of the free public school where majority of Hurricane kids went. Oh sure, there were popular kids and a nice lacrosse team, and plenty of kids who went there got good grades and were overall nice people, but it certainly wasn't fancy or full of posh friendly people in the slightest.
Ruby sighed and unbuckled her seatbelt. She grabbed her backpack and opened the car door. Jared awkwardly said goodbye, which Ruby promptly ignored.
Two sophomore girls, one with red hair and one with brown, wearing matching pink outfits that just met the dress code, wobbled by her on their teetering high heels. They shot her dirty looks and whispered behind perfectly manicured hands. Ruby easily recognized them as Risa and Mitzi, two of the debuntes of the eleventh grade. Also known as Abigail's servants, along with Camila. Ruby, however, had dealt with popular girls before, so she just stared straight ahead and headed into the school to her locker to drop her stuff off.
Three...sixteen...twelve!
Ruby twisted in the locker number and started unloading her books when she felt a tapping on her shoulder. Ruby finished dealing with the last book and turned around.
"Hey, do you know where room 216 is?"
A chubby girl with gray-brown white-streaked hair asked Ruby. Behind her, a boy with matching gray-brown hair and slightly tanner skin stood, a cocky smirk on his face.
Ruby fumbled for words, not used to people at school asking her for things (and being polite about it).
"Um, yeah. It's right down the hall. Er- are you guys new?" Ruby asked them. The girl laughed.
"Silly me, I forgot to introduce ourselves! My name's Tulisa Abbott, and this is my twin brother Josh! And yes, we're new here. We're from Oregon actually. Our dad's in the army, so we move around alot." The girl explained. Ruby nodded.
"Nice names. I'm Ruby Roxanne." Josh stuck out his hand, and after a moment's hesitation, Ruby shook it. Tulisa looked around the school, probably scanning it for interesting things. Suddenly she gasped and pointed to behind Ruby.
"Oh my God, who is that?!" Tulisa asked in wonder. Ruby turned around, following the direction of Tulisa's finger. It had an interesting gold ring in the shape of a coiling snake with bright shimmering red, gem-like eyes. Very cool, Ruby would have to ask her where she got it sometime.
Back to whoever Tulisa was pointing at... Ruby could identify it as some guy with shaggy blonde hair. When the person turned around Ruby realized with a start who it was.
"Him?! Ha, that's Matt Weld. Kind of a douche, but he's one of the most popular guys in the school."
"And one of the hottest…" Tulisa sighed happily, hugging her books to her chest. Ruby snorted in disbelief.
"Yesh if you're into idiot boys who only care about lacrosse and how he styles his hair." Ruby rolled her eyes. "Definitely not my type, even if I liked guys."
"What grade is he in?" Tulisa wanted to know. Ruby shrugged.
"Uhh, my grade I think. Eleven."
"An older guy, mm? We're in grade ten…but I'm turning sixteen soon because I can drive..." Tulisa mumbled dizzily. Ruby made a mental note of that in case she needed it.
Josh opened his dark blue eyes wide at the sight of his sister.
"Ohh no. Please tell me this isn't going to be like Sheldon all over again." He groaned.
"Sheldon? Who-"
"Oh, he's his guy that Lise here had this huge crush on, but then he ended up going out with Anna Lee, Tulisa's old friend."
Tulisa shot him an evil glare worthy of only the deadliest stingrays.
"Josh!"
"What?! As your older brother, I'm advising you not to go all crazy over this guy."
"We're twins!"
"Ah-ah-ah- who's older?"
"By six minutes!"
"So? Still older, and wiser, then you."
"Humbler too, I presume?"
"Well obviously."
"I bet you don't even know what humble means."
"I do too!"
"Do not."
"Do too!"
"Great Neria, shut up!" Ruby yelled at the two bickering twins. They quickly stopped their fighting and Tulisa was staring at Ruby in shock.
"A WaterFire Saga reference?! You actually know what that is?" Tulisa asked Ruby in amazement.
Ruby laughed. "Wow, another person who actually reads those books. Impressive!"
Tulisa slung her arm over Ruby's shoulder.
"Well, Ruby dear. I can see that we are going to be very good friends."
~lll~
"Hmm, try texting her again."
"Give me the phone!"
Chica muttered something annoyed-sounding under her breath and handed Mangle the phone. Mangle's fingers flew over the keys as she speed-texted, HELP WE ARE TRAPPED IN THE PIZZERIA COME QK PLS AAAAH-
The phone made a long beeping noise and the screen went black. Mangle threw it to Chica in frustration.
"Craaa-b! It's dead!" She growled. Foxy made a weird moaning sound and flipped onto the ground like a rag doll, and Bonnie followed suit. Things weren't looking too good.
"I just hope she gets these messages," Freddy sighed.
~lll~
Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring!
Everyone's eyes were on Ruby, including the teacher's. Ruby covered her burning face with her hands as a few kids started to giggle.
"Well, Ruby? Answer it!" Her teacher pressed. "On speakerphone." Off went the gigglers again. Ruby sighed and pressed 'play'. It was probably just her mom, or Rylie fooling around with a phone, or maybe-
"Ruby! Help help help help, we are-"
Bonnie?! When did I give him my number?!
Ruby looked up from the phone.
"Excuse me, ma'am. It's- it's kind of private. Can I go in the hallway for a sec?" Ruby asked in what was probably the politest voice she could muster. The teacher raised her eyebrows.
"It's not can, it's may," She corrected. Ruby leaned back in her uncomfortable blue plastic chair and crossed her legs.
"It's September, actually. Now can I please go into the hallway?" Ruby begged. More giggles.
The teacher sighed, took off her glasses, and rubbed her forehead. Ruby could hear her mumbling something about retirement and the 'quality of education these days'. Without looking at Ruby, she nodded and pointed to the door.
As Ruby got up, one of the girls started to clap. Then two. The four. Then the whole classroom was clapping. Two jock boys chanted her name. Ruby actually heard whistling coming from the back of the classroom. Ruby just laughed it off and tried to act modest, but she did enjoy it. She even blew a kiss (at no one in particular) as she shut the door. There were shouts of,
"She aimed it at you, Caleb!" And,
"Nooo, she aimed it at Bella!"
Ruby rolled her eyes as she sat on a nearby bench to check her messages.
chicachick: haiii
rubyred34: heyyy :P
chicachick: :P so what's up?
rubyred34: just got back from lax. one kid didn't look where she was going and small into the wall.
rubyred34: *smashed
rubyred34: stupid autocucumber
chicachick: lmaooo
Not those, Ruby scolded herself for even texting a ROBOT of all things. She pushed the 'jump to latest' button at the bottom and checked the messages.
chicachick: HELP PLS!
chicachick: AHHH OUR LIVES ARE IN DANGER COME QK!
chicachick: this is bonnie btw
chicachick: COME TO THE PIZZERIA IMMEDIATELY!
chicachick: this be foxy now GET OF YEE BUTT AND COME HELP US
chicachick: are you sleeping?
chicachick: oh yeah this is Freddy now
chicachick: we need you to come right now, we are in serious trouble. We are locked in a secret door in the kitc
chicachick: Hi this is Chica now THE OWNER OF THIS PHONE we need you to come to the pizzeria right now our lives are in dan
chicachick: WE NEED TO GET OUT PLS COME WE WILL DIEEEEEE
chicachick: hello there this is mangle i just wanted to say a quick something
chicachick: HELP WE ARE TRAPPED IN THE PIZZERIA COME QK PLS AAAAH
It ended right there.
Ruby sighed and began to consider her options. She could stay at a boring school and do boring things, OR she could go to a pizzeria and save lives-well, they were robots, so they weren't really alive. But it would be exciting!
There isn't really much of a choice, Ruby realized. She had to help them, no matter what. It wasn't like she was getting anything done in school anyways.
She went back into the class, where the teacher was talking about nouns and adjectives and how they are the most fun things in the universe, blah blah blah.
Every head turned to hers when she stepped through the door. Ruby gave a little wave and speedwalked over to the teacher, who didn't exactly look pleased to see her.
"Um, Ms Green? It's...um...a family emergency. It's kind of serious, and my...uh...mom is going to pick me up. I might be back in time for more school but-"
"It's fine. Go ahead." She said, barely looking at Ruby. Ruby shuffled awkwardly.
"Uhm. Really? Because-"
"Yes really. Now get out of my hair." Ruby nodded her thanks and got out of there.
Suddenly, Ruby realized her problem. She couldn't exactly call her mom or (shudder) Jared to pick her up and take her to the pizzeria. And Ruby...well, she'd never gotten her license (she failed but we're not going to talk about that). So the only way would be to...steal someone's car, or walk a looong distance.
Then, Ruby got an idea.
10 minutes later…
"Tulisa! Can I borrow your car pleeeease?!" Ruby begged, grabbing her new friend's arm and shaking it. Tulisa laughed uncomfortably.
"Um. Why exactly?" She asked. "Because, I don't usually lend my car out to people."
"I just need it. Pleeeease?! I'll give you- uh-" Ruby rummaged through her backpack.
"Three stale mint Tic Tacs and a package of tissues?" Ruby asked. She opened the tear in the packaging and inspected the tissues. She threw a few of them back into her backpack and offered Tulisa the remaining.
"Three stale but delicious mint Tic Tacs and an opened package of mostly unused tissues?" Ruby suggested weakly. Tulisa laughed and shook her off.
"I can do without the... uh, interesting bargaining, thanks. Where would you go, and can you even drive?" Tulisa questioned her. Ruby laughed nervously.
"Pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft, of course I can drive. What am I, seven?" Ruby lied. She prayed that Tulisa wouldn't press on where she was going.
"Uh, where are you going?" Tulisa pressed. Ruby slapped her forehead.
"Promise not to tell anyone?" Ruby pleaded.
"I promise." Tulisa promised.
"I'm going to Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria to save five robot animatronics from some unknown danger because I am the night guard there and I became...uh, friends with the animatronics there and they need my help." Ruby let out a breath. "Wow, that was a long sentence!"
"Er. Okay. You can use my car, on one condition." Tulisa sighed. Ruby blinked.
"Wait. Really? And you're not like, questioning your friend choices or anything-?"
"Yes, really! As long as you bring it back in one piece, then I'll let you borrow it. And I think I've had weirder friends...maybe." Tulisa instructed. Ruby laughed in relief and wrapped Tulisa in a big hug. She smelled like vanilla. Tulisa laughed in surprise and hugged Ruby back.
"It's the gray shiny truck with the tan cushions. It's kinda beat up, and my mom said she might get me a new one sometime, maybe for my birthday." Tulisa informed her. Ruby nodded.
"Thank youuu!" Ruby called as Tulisa tossed her the keys and Ruby ran towards the front door to the parking lot.
~lll~
Alright.
Ruby placed her hands on the wheel. No. Right. Nine and three, nine and three. She took a big breath in, and out. Gotta remember anything I've learned from all those car video games...and my driver's test. That I failed. And put a man in the hospital. Nonono, don't think about that! Just think about how short it'll be by car! Yeah, only ten minutes. Just ten minutes in a speeding hunk of metal surrounded by hundreds of other speeding hunks of metal-!
"No." Ruby said aloud. It'll be fine. I know enough about driving, and it's not like I have to merge lanes or go on a highway or anything. It's Hurricane, not like we have busy crowded roads with thousands of excited tourists. I feel bad for anyone who has to vacation here. There's nothing fun to do. Except maybe Freddy Fazbear's, but then, that is-
"STOP STALLING AND GET ON WITH IT" She ordered herself angrily. But first, I need to put on my sunglasses. That was Ruby being smart. She wasn't supposed to be doing this, and she didn't want to get recognized. She reached in her backpack of many items and flipped on her brown tortoiseshell-print sunglasses. Now Ruby needed to hurry, as it was an emergency. Ruby sighed, placed her right hand on the gearshift, pulled it into drive, pressed on the gas hard…
And smashed right into a stop sign.
Ruby winced. That's gonna leave a dent. Maybe Tulisa wouldn't notice it…?
The stop sign teetered on the long metal post and then fell off with a loud clang. It rolled down the sidewalk and onto the road, where it spun for a bit and then stopped.
Well, Ruby wouldn't chicken out now. She had to do this, and she had to do it right. She tried again, this time not pressing so hard on the gas pedal. She turned the wheel. The truck moved backwards. She did it again. It moved backwards again! Ruby did it again, except doing it for a longer period of time and turning the wheel more. The truck spun out of the parking spot and faced the exit of the parking lot. Ruby slowly drove the car out of the parking lot, and onto the empty, silent road.
"Hey grandma! Move it, will ya?"
Someone behind her honked their horn.
"Shaddup, youngster!" Ruby yelled back as she used her newfound driving skills to speed into the road to Freddy Fazbear's, leaving the rude person coughing dust.
~lll~
"Face it, you guys, I don't think she's coming." Bonnie said. "I mean, we've been waiting for like thirty minutes now!" Chica shrugged.
"What if she really is asleep?" She offered.
"Yeah, and maybe aliens beamed her up and took her away on their sparkly pink UFO," Bonnie said sarcastically, resting his head on his fist. There was a faint banging coming from aboveground. Freddy tuned in to the odd sound. He was surprised that Foxy and Mangle, who were playing the card game War with a little more bloodshed than how the game was usually played, didn't hear it first. Chica rolled her eyes and crossed her arms.
"I was just saying. You don't have to be such a Debbie Downer all the time, Bonnie."
"Oh yeah? And, uh, you don't have to be such a...um...Kathy Happy!"
"The saying is Crabby Kathy, genius."
"Know-it-all!"
"Fish-brain!"
"CEASE YOUR BICKERING, IMBECILES!" Freddy yelled at the two bickering animatronics. "Listen!"
The banging got louder and louder until there was a loud crack and the sound of a door falling to the ground, with some muffled words following. Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to each other in excitement, each of them knowing what a broken-down-front-door meant.
"RUBY!" They all cried in sync.
"We're saaaaved!" Chica squealed. Everyone celebrated, until Freddy realized something.
"Wait. How is Ruby going to even get to us? There's like a huge hoard of scrapped animatronics out there, ready to kill anyone and anything!" Freddy told them. Chica smiled.
"Have some faith." She scolded teasingly. Freddy raised his eyebrows, but stepped back to merge with the group and listen with everyone else.
"Hiiiiya! Take that, you insolent fools! Fish-brains! Pieces of-"
The insults went on and on, as well as the loud banging noise of metal scraping against the floor. Freddy watched, open-mouthed, as the basement door cracked open and fell to the ground, and a dark silhouette fell with it. The silhouette put a hand on their hip and grinned at them.
"You called?" She asked, still grinning.
"Ruby!" The five ghost-animatronics yelled as they ran towards her in a weird sort of group hug, minus one hugger. Any guesses as to who?
"I take it you missed me," Ruby laughed as she hugged them back. Chica squeezed her tighter.
"You have no idea."
"Aaack, Chica, that's enough!" Ruby said. Chica instantly let go of her.
"Sorry!" She said quickly.
Ruby laughed. "It's okay. So, I take it the danger is those scrapped robot thingys?"
"Hm, how did you guess? From the massive horde of them outside?" Mangle asked drily, stepping out of the hug and crossing her arms. Mangle wasn't too big on long hugs.
"Yeah. These scurvy scallywags just showed up out of nowhere and started to plunder our ship-er, pizzeria." Foxy explained. Ruby nodded.
"So, what's the plan? Got any ideas?" Ruby asked them, pulling out a stick of mint bubble gum from her backpack of wonders and chewed it. Chica shrugged.
"Holding hands and singing songs about friendship always works," Chica suggested. "Or a *ahem* 'True Love's Kiss', capitalized of course."
"Oh, really." Bonnie made kissy noises at Freddy, who jokingly shoved him away.
"Cut it out, lovebirds. Kissing won't save lives, specifically yours when the robots figure out that the door is missing and we're all down here with no plan whatsoever." Ruby scolded impatiently.
"Killjoy," Bonnie muttered, but stopped the duck lips. Mangle tilted her head to the side.
"What if we just run in and murder them all? Much more fun than some boring plan, hon." She chided to Ruby. Foxy rubbed his hands together.
"I like the sound of this plan, lassie." He said with an evil chuckle, rubbing his hands together and shifting his weight from side to side. Bonnie nodded.
"Massacres are always entertaining," Bonnie reasoned.
Ruby shook her head and rolled her eyes. "As much as I love this plan, you can't just run out there! There are murderous robots trying to kill you!" She yelled.
"We're murderous robots," Chica pointed out truthfully.
"And we might be trying to kill you," Mangle said, shrugging. Ruby groaned. "Ugh! I give up!"
Bonnie did a fist-pump. "Yesss!" He quickly shifted into robot form and ran over to the wall, unsheathing his long spiky claws to start climbing the wall. Freddy ran after him and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Bonnie, wait-Ruby does have a point. There are at least a hundred of those things out there, if not more. You could get really hurt out there, if not killed." Freddy warned. Bonnie rotated his head backwards on his neck till it faced him. Freddy grimaced.
"Ack, it's really creepy that you can do that." He said, pulling back a bit.
"Sorry," Bonnie said, turning his body till it looked at least vaguely normal before talking.
"Freddy, it's really cute that you're worrying about me, but I can kill 'em. I've faced worse." Bonnie said gently. But Freddy knew that the worst Bonnie had faced was one time a night guard brought two bodyguards with him and Bonnie had slaughtered them all on his own. So proud. But even then, that hadn't been too hard. The bodyguards were made of soft warm flesh, the robots were made of hard cold metal.
"I STILL THINK ITS A VERY DUMB IDEA!" Ruby called from the back. Freddy sighed.
"Not to be rude, but I kind of agree with Ruby. You will guaranteed get hurt out there, even if you do manage to take a few of them down."
Bonnie had started climbing the wall.
"I'll be fine. In, out, they'll never see it coming." Bonnie called, using his claws to help him climb up another few feet. He was almost at the top now.
"I know you're going anyway but I still think you shouldn't!" Freddy yelled, cupping his hands over his mouth.
"Yeah, yeah!" Bonnie yelled back. He pulled away from the wall, and using his awesome bunny superpowers, jumped onto the platform behind the door. Bonnie gave a little salute and ran out to slaughter all the scrapped animatronics in the building.
~lll~
Freddy wrapped another bandage around Bonnie's arm. Blood soaked through the white cloth almost immediately. Freddy poured more antiseptic onto the wound. He leaned closer to Bonnie's face and brushed his soft turquoise hair out of the way to whisper into his ear,
"I told you so!"
"Those four words are now banned," Bonnie muttered flatly, turning his head so that he faced away. Freddy pouted.
"What, forever?"
"Yep."
"Awwww." Freddy groaned sadly.
They sat in silence a moment longer as Freddy got to work on Bonnie's leg scrapes. He wrinkled his nose at the matted blood, rusty red and already starting to dry on his leg. He rummaged around in the first-aid kit and found a Hulk Band-Aid. Freddy stuck it onto one of the smaller cuts.
"You're welcome," Freddy sing-songed.
"Shut up," Bonnie grumbled, leaning down and resting his head on one fist.
"'Thank you, dearest Freddy, my favourite person ever' was what I was hoping to hear, but I can settle with that...for now," Freddy laughed teasingly.
"I don't love you." Bonnie mumbled into his hand. Freddy unrolled more gauze from one of the new rolls.
"Yes you do, come on," Freddy chided as he taped the gauze onto the bloody wound.
"Hmmmph. I don't know! Maybe. Just...ow! That hurts!" Bonnie whined as Freddy began to dab the alcohol (don't drink kids) sanitizer on with a fluffy white cotton ball. Freddy laughed at the sound of Bonnie, who could rip a grizzly bear in half single-handedly, whining over a little bit of stinging! Freddy stuck out his lower lip in mock sympathy.
"Awww, does the little baby bunny rabbit need me to kiss his boo-boo better?" Freddy cooed in a little baby voice. Bonnie made a snarling sound.
"Stop being all weird! I don't like it!" Bonnie screeched, like an eagle. Freddy finished dressing the wound and sat down next to Bonnie on the old dusty cobalt blue rickety couch they'd found in the basement.
"I know you like iiiit. But fine I'll change the subject on your behalf." Freddy looked around for something to talk about, and was about to say something witty and charming like always when...
"BONNIIIEEEEEEE FREDDYYYYY RUBY HAS A PLAAAAAAAAN!" Mangle screamed, her voice in the inhumanly high voice that only Mangle seemed to be able to accomplish. Bonnie made a growling sound.
"Interrupted again." He got up from the chair, and Freddy followed him.
"Wait, so how do you get your hair like that? Helllloooo?!" Freddy called as he trailed behind Bonnie and Mangle to where Foxy, Chica, and Ruby were standing in a sort of semi-circle and talking about something in hushed voices.
"Alright, so that's the plan?" Chica asked. Ruby nodded. "Tell it to those three."
Foxy whispered to Freddy the plan, and he nodded. It seemed a lot more sensible than running out there blindly, killing everything that moved.
"And if anything goes wrong…" Ruby gestured to Foxy, who turned Into a robot and demonstrated his noticeably sharp claws, teeth, and other metal parts. Ruby turned to Mangle, probably to demonstrate something else.
But Mangle was sitting on the ground, seeming to be in deep thought. Ruby tapped her on the head.
"Helloooo? Anyone home?" She questioned her. Mangle snapped out of it.
"Sorry! I was just thinking." Mangle apologized quickly.
"Since when?" Foxy teased. Mangle rolled her eye at him and gave Foxy a swat.
"Be serious for one moment, please? I was thinking of a way to maybe make the plan better?" Mangle suggested. Ruby placed one hand on her hip.
"And what would that be?" She asked curiously. Maybe she shouldn't have asked that, for a devilish grin spread across Mangle's face as she grabbed Ruby's arm.
"And you, my dear, will be a very big part of it."
~lll~
The scrap robots sat there. They weren't really doing anything, being robots. They were simply waiting, for something, something alive to come out and visit them.
One of those robots heard a sound. It sounded like the clacking of boots. The other robots heard it too and tuned in to the noise to see what it was.
It was a tall girl, with long red hair and noisy black boots, strolling across the floor.
"Lalalalala, lalalalala. Innocent human girl with not a care in the world! Oh whoops, I tripped! Clumsy me."
The girl tumbled onto the floor and whipped out a big red bottle of some sort from out of her spilled backpack. She let out a loud groan and dumped the contents onto her leg. The girl gasped in pain, putting a hand to her mouth.
"Oh no! Looks like I'm terribly injured and I won't be able to move. I just hope NOTHING COMES AND ATTACKS ME," The girl yelled. There was red strong-smelling stuff dripping down her leg. Something, a sensor of some sort, went off inside the robots. Blood? Is that BLOOD? It didn't smell like blood, but it sure looked like it! They advanced on this girl.
"Woe is meeeeeeee!" The girl sighed, now staring at the ceiling. She cleared her throat. "WOE IS MEEEEEEEEEEEE!" She yelled a little louder. The robots ignored her and moved even closer. They could get her. They could take her to Him, the master! He'd be so impressed-
"Is that the signal?"
The robots looked above them to the whisper. But instead, they were met with a crushing weight bringing them to the floor. As they struggled, the last thing those five robots heard was the Innocent Girl yelling at the top of her lungs, bright red ketchup dripping down her legs,
"ATTACK!"
~lll~
"You -erg- brought a gun to school?!" Chica asked Ruby in between tearing apart a robot. Ruby aimed at a particularly small robot and pulled the trigger. The robot fell to the ground, electricity shocking and burning it's body. Ruby laughed and shook her head at Chica as Chica pinned down another robot.
"Naw, this is just a water gun. It's crazy good though, right?" Ruby said as she fired at another robot. Mangle ducked out of the way of another scrapped animatronic and slid under it, ripping into the back of it and tearing wires out with her claws.
"Alright, then why did you bring a -ack- water gun to school?" Mangle asked her as two robots attacked her from behind. Ruby shrugged as she fired at one of the robots on Mangle.
"Oh…. I don't really know. Just thought I might want it." Ruby told her airily. Mangle nodded as if it made complete and total sense and pounced on the other robot, using her electrified wires to engulf it in electricity, frying it's system entirely. Ruby, noticing her water gun was no longer watergunning, turned to punch a nearby robot in the face as hard as she could. She winced and rubbed her reddening fist.
"Yowch. It is not as easy as in the movies." Ruby said, her voice strained with pain. Suddenly, Chica screeched and dove behind Ruby. "Look out!" She yelled, her beak full of wires. Chica tore into the robot's speaker area with her talons. As Chica mauled the creature, Ruby noticed the blue glowy thing (Remnant?) that she'd seen in the other scrapped animatronic, squirming against the wires. Is it trying to get free? Ruby wondered. Chica growled and sliced the last wire, sending the Remnant aloft. It made a weird gurgling sound and disappeared into the air. Chica smiled and watched it go. She turned to face Ruby and saw her face, confusion and amazement all rolled into one.
"Uh- what are you looking at, Ruby?" Chica asked nervously. Ruby smiled.
"The Remnant, of course. Very nice of you to let it escape." Ruby winked.
"Wait- oh yeah. How are you able to see the Remnant?" Chica wanted to know. Ruby shrugged.
"Honestly I have no idea. It's just like...seeing that party table. It's just there." Ruby paused. "Maybe I can see it because of some dark secret in my past that nobody, not even I know about, that will be revealed in an epic plot twist later on in the book that affects the whole storyline."
"Maybe!" Chica chirped cheerfully (ch ch ch) as she bashed in the head of another robot. Ruby laughed.
"Kay, well, I'm going to go help Freddy. Bye!" She called over her shoulder. It might have just been her imagination, but Chica looked...sad to see her go. Ruby shook it off and went over to Freddy, who was staying out of the action by throwing the smashed robot bodies into the alleyway.
"Not that into the whole smashing 'n' bashing of robot heads, eh?" Ruby asked, chucking a heavy robot endoskeleton into the alley. It crashed against the graffiti-ed brick wall and slumped to the ground. Freddy picked up what looked like an arm and traced the wires with his finger absent-mindedly.
"Yeah, I usually leave that to the rest of them. They're all way more into it then I am. Sometimes I think maybe too into it…?" He sighed and chucked the arm into the alley. It landed right in the dark green garbage bin. "Never mind. I guess I'm just not...into murder?" Freddy tried.
Ruby snorted. "Yeah, you and like, 94.8% of the population. You can Google it, it's true." Freddy nodded slowly, choosing wisely not to question why she'd Googled that.
Ruby's eyes twitched, and she picked up a leg. Freddy expected her to throw it outside with the rest of them, but instead, to his surprise, she spun around and clocked an animatronic, that Freddy didn't even know was there, in the head.
"GET DOWN!" She screeched, as three more came to take its place. One of them whipped a tentacle towards her, aiming to strangle her, but Ruby grabbed it and swung it around to instead tangle the robot in its own wires. She cocked her head to the side and stomped on its head with her boot, crushing it's glass eyes. The Remnant sped out of the body and into the sky.
Freddy, while amazed by her strength, knew that there were still two others advancing on them. No time to be amazed when certain death is looming over you! He shifted into animatronic form and punched a robot in the head.
It just stared at him pityingly.
Freddy tried again, this time with all the force he could muster. He squeezed his eyes shut and punched.
There was a cracking sound and when Freddy opened his eyes, the robot was on the ground, electricity sparking from its broken body. It twitched a few times, then went deadly still. Deadly because it was dead, obviously.
"I did it!" He cheered quietly. Beside him, Mangle pounced onto a robot and ripped off an animatronic's blobby head and threw it to the floor, while Bonnie made sure it was dead while standing over the other one that Freddy had thought he had killed. Bonnie just rolled his bright green eyes.
"You didn't, weakling, I did. Big scary homicidal animatronic bear, eh?" Bonnie teased, giving Freddy a friendly punch in the shoulder. Freddy crossed his arms.
"Well, sorry if I don't like murdering robots. That's- that's like cannibalism!"
"Ell, ah oupdnt hay dese obufs flaste ewy ub." Mangle said, her mouth full of wires.
"What?!" Ruby asked her incredously. Mangle spat out the wires and shoved the body away disdainfully.
"I said, 'Well, I wouldn't say these robots taste very good'!" Mangle explained, as if she was talking to a preschool class of small children.
"It's kind of- AAAAAH!" Bonnie yelled as four robots tackled him in a doggy-pile sort of way. He rolled over and slashed at them with his claws, but there were too many of them for him to handle. One of them growled and tore a chunk out of Bonnie's ear. Bonnie grit his teeth from the pain and ripped off two tentacles. Oil bled onto the ground, and some even went into Bonnie's mouth. He spat it out in disgust.
Suddenly, the crushing weight of the four animatronics lifted off his chest and Bonnie coughed, sitting up in surprise. What-!
Freddy kicked the pile of robots to the side and dusted off his hands, pausing to walk over and smirk at Bonnie.
"Big scary homicidal animatronic bunny, eh?" He laughed, sticking out a hand to help Bonnie up. Bonnie rolled his eyes and took his hand-and pulled Freddy down with him.
"Whoa!" Freddy yelled in surprise as he tumbled to the ground. Bonnie held back a laugh, but failed.
Bonnie laughed, shoving Freddy playfully. Freddy groaned and sat up. "Not...funny." He muttered, slightly annoyed, but he knew Bonnie was just teasing. Bonnie giggled one last time and stood up with Freddy, wiping his hands on his legs. Freddy looked around the pizzeria to see if anything else was needed. His gaze fell on Chica, who was backed up against a wall.
"Uh, little help here?" Chica yelled nervously from the other side of the room. Freddy sat up, still laughing a little, and his eyes opened wide.
There weren't just ten or so of the robot's left. There were hundreds of them, pouring through the broken-down-front-door and windows, and heading straight towards them. The loud grinding sound of gears could be heard all around the pizzeria. Freddy slapped his head in frustration.
"Oi, Freddy! Any idea how we lot 'r going to get out of this one, eh?" Foxy yelled to him whilst tussling with a smaller animatronic. Freddy racked his brain for ideas, but he could only seem to pluck out one, which definitely wasn't the greatest idea, but certainly better than nothing.
"Uhh...can Ruby go run for help?"
"WHA- actually that's not a bad idea. I'll go do that!" Ruby called, easing an arm.
"And preferably faster than your current speed, please?" Mangle pleaded. She was looking a lot more beat up than usual, which was really saying something considering she got torn apart every single day. Ruby gave her a thumbs up and dashed outside to the parking lot. Luckily, her friends were distracting the robots (who weren't all that smart) so she had a clear path out.
Ruby opened the door and sat down in the brown leather driver's seat. She quickly slammed the door shut and put her hand on the gearshift. Now, how do you make it drive? She wondered. It had just been blind, dumb luck that she'd been able to mostly successfully drive Tulisa's car there, bow she had to figure out how to get it back. Oh wait, I think I remember! She thought, proud of herself for remembering.
She pulled the stick.
There was a moment where she was speeding backwards, and then a moment of loud, sickening, crunching and twisting and crumbling, the sound of metal hitting a flimsy wall-and breaking through it, crushing every scrap robot behind it. Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, and Mangle all stared at her, wide-eyed. Tulisa's poor car was badly...mangled, and black smoke was pouring out the front. All Ruby could muster was a feeble whisper of,
"Oops…"
Ah jeez...Ruby what have you done.
Now she's driving like me in Forza Horizon.
This is a very long chapter, I just realized.
Ok, wellllll challenge: what are going as for Halloween (or not). No trick-or-treating this year, I'm afraid, just sticking red balloons in sewers and playing lots of FNaF.
Bye for now!
~Ghost