FNAF Security Breach: Ruination

by FrostByterFang

Cassie's descent into the bowels of the PizzaPlex's depths posed numerous ramifications. After Gregory's supposed betrayal, she needs to find a way out of the derelict building with the assistance of the broken-down animatronics. Gregory meanwhile attempts to rescue his friend from the depths of the PizzaPlex. FULL summary inside. Main character focus is Cassie & Glamrock Bonnie.

32. The Game's True Enders

GLAMROCK BONNIE

"Vanny blew up the tanks! This place is coming down RIGHT NOW!"

Freddy's panicked words were what did it. Bonnie blinked some more, then he was up in a flash. He jumped to his feet- staggering once as the earth took another almighty heave and shuddered. Chunks of ceiling broke off around them; pummeling them on their hard heads but thankfully none of the pieces were larger than a baby's fist. Pebbles and dust wedged itself into open spaces inside their shells though- something that'll require deep cleaning later on. Bonnie didn't care though; having stabilized himself on Freddy's shoulder as the entirety of the underground trembled. The bear remained in the same kneeling position he'd been in when he woke the rabbit up; keeping his head ducked while Bonnie stayed briefly anchored to his red pauldron to maintain his footing.

They eventually all found themselves to their feet; the group not wasting anymore time therein in leaving: They left so fast in fact, they were still carrying their instruments. Monty led the way to the tunnel they took in; his heavy steps being drowned out by the shaking gulps of shivering rock and whining concrete. The gator's eyes also lit the tunnel enough for the group as a whole; the band racing up the sloping route leading to the secondary basement levels.

Bonnie shouted over the chaos, "What happened to it- The tangle!"

Chica hollered back, "It left! It screamed when there was an explosion- and it started tunneling its way through here! I dunno what its up to, but I think its either sussing out Vanny or leading us out!"

Bonnie produced a scoff, "I'll take either or! A way out, or Vanny herself!"

No one disagreed, it seemed- even though they've promised to come back out after the impromptu 'party', Vanny still took precedence. If there was a chance to end her, Bonnie will happily take it by FORCE.

Inside the AR world, the M.X.E.S showed up beside them; disappearing and reappearing in a deluge of pixels every time he had to take enormous distances as they moved. The chiseled sprite focused on Bonnie, then relayed, "Vanny has apparently used the endos she had control of earlier to move our canisters. It seems she learned of our plan at some unidentified point and took it as her own- this unit assumes she found one of the planted tanks on its own. She placed the tanks in various key points of the PizzaPlex and used some of the endos themselves to detonate them. Resilient, but problematic."

"Ya think?" Bonnie huffed at him in an annoyed manner. "I thought you said she relinquished all control of the remaining ones!"

"This was BEFORE she relinquished control," It retorted. If an unfeeling security program could sound irritated, M.X.E.S was sounding a lot like it. "She's taken the helm on our operations and has blocked all exits! We cannot escape by normal means-" He disappeared in a flash of pixels and reappeared in front of Bonnie as they rabbit continued up the tunnel. "Continue following the path of the tangle however- its paths lead closest to viable exits. We can carve our way out from there. This unit is taking control of the last endos as we speak: And the endos will be used to help us to freedom."

"Nice thinking!" Freddy shouted at it.

It did not reciprocate the sentiment; disappearing again out of sight to focus on its next task.

The group continued following the gator up the tunnel; where therein, the reptile lead them in what Bonnie recalled was the south side of the PizzaPlex; towards the main entrance. He likely recalled one of the routes leading there was blocked, so he deviated from there towards another area to the east. From there, the group found their way into the same sewer system they encountered the Glamrock Mimic Foxy from earlier; when Roxy had been ambushed by it.

Once there, they had to dodge past surging pipe lines and sparking wires; they didn't need to repeat the other Monty's death. They proceeded unerringly towards the surface; going up and out through the kitchens where Chica baked the cake earlier. The ovens were still smelling of her work as they passed them. They finally found their way to the atrium after that: emptying out into it from the second level of the PizzaPlex.

It was a hell on earth, to put it mildly. The ceiling was crumbling away, the elevator entrances were crammed with large boulders- deliberately placed by Vanny somehow, no doubt. The stage's own maintenance elevator shaft was seconds away from giving out and taking Parts and Service with it from below; and concrete slabs spiked with rebar rained down around them; threatening to impale them if they weren't careful of where they tread. Even now, the floor on which they stood threatened to fall to the ground level; shivering and crumbling along its length where there's no support columns or escalators.

With this said, the group went to get off before they fell through; Roxy and Monty jointly spitting swears left and right. Bonnie lifted his bass over his head to protect the exposed endo portion of his skull; wincing when pebbles kept falling inside of him and rattled around in his chassis and motor. Chica was cackling left and right; seconds away from having a full-blown freakout. Freddy was stoic all the while; eternally calm despite the danger they were in. Bonnie internally commended the bear, as he felt they needed it right about now.

But, he did see Freddy's expression shift every time he caught Bonnie from his peripherals; as the rabbit was having a hard time with the exposed endo portions of his physique and the fact he passed out only a short bit ago and still had a bloody runnel down his face. Whenever they caught the other's gaze, for that second, the composure would slip. He was definitely as scared as the rest; he just wasn't as obvious about it.

They rushed towards the elevator entrances; Freddy readying his claws and ROARING with a wild abandon as if to psyche himself up for a great challenge. In a way, he was pumping himself up as he shoulder shoved all of his 470 lbs. self into one of the 5-ton boulders blocking their way out. He was quickly followed by all their friends; all the bots of varying strengths were moving it already from their combined bulk. Instruments sang in off-tune notes as they collided with their owner's bodies-

And then another screaming wail of collapsing earth snapped their attentions to a region behind them. The stage's lift finally gave up; collapsing in a cacophonous cry of shearing metal as pieces of ceiling fell upon it and finally dragged it down into the pit beneath. It was devoured by the hungry earth; and chunks of the floor started to open up as well; revealing bits and pieces of the underground Endo warehouse below.

Even with all this chaos, they still didn't let go of the rock. The bots kept moving it; getting it inch-by-painstaking-inch out of the way of their final exit-

But they were forced to look behind when they saw a flurry of white gloved hands and flailing limbs as long as a crane whip itself out of the stage's yawning crevasse. From the newly-made gap in the stage elevator, a huge head followed, alongside a white featureless body-

The ruined DJ.

"Him AGAIN?" Bonnie growled. "MAN Vanny needs some new tricks!"

"You want her to try more dangerous tricks!?" Roxy snapped back.

Inwardly, Bonnie found himself saying yes to that- not that he said as much. Its bad enough that not too long ago he learned he was just as much a sucker for their game as she was- no need to tell his friends that little bit of himself, thank you very much.

Freddy snarled as well; his face contorting into something FAR more terrifying as he growled at the zombified, rabbit-eared DJ as he finished heaving himself from the underground. He didn't let go of the rock even then; continuously throwing himself into it repeatedly with the strength of a bear ten times his size. His jaw screeched upon its hinges; teeth grinding into nail-biting metallic symphonies as he ground himself against their final obstacle. Bonnie felt the boulder move further faster- his ear just then catching the wind of the DJ as he approached them. The bots were too focused on their task to unblocking the boulder to do anything about him.

Bonnie's hearing caught the instant the DJ's arms sliced air as he went to swing-

Freddy whipped around and let go of the rock only then. He snatched the limb as it almost collided with them, roaring at the music man and snapping it off as he had the other one a while ago. DJ made no noise, merely attacked autonomously again.

"KEEP MOVING IT! I'LL DISTRACT HIM!" Freddy clipped at them in firm order; gunning it for the goliath insectoid bot and shoving his way into him.

Bonnie assumed Vanny had inserted a new and corrupted personality chip into the DJ- seeing as Freddy yanked out his original one from earlier in an effort to 'save him'. DJ's real self was with Vanessa right now; safely tucked away in her car and freshly virus-free thanks to M.X.E.S and Vanessa's private computer. She reported earlier she'd been working on him while they've been waiting outside for them.

So the husk before them really was just that: a zombie. No brain, no real chip save for whatever Vanny just put in- And its likely Vanny was remotely controlling him from afar. And, Bonnie wagered she wanted to make this final game as exciting as possible- In fact, he bet Vanny used DJ to have placed the rock here in the first place!

Of course she would. It'd be too boring otherwise! It'd be uncharacteristic if she left the exits clear for them.

Bonnie grinned against the pain of raining debris, grinding servos and the additional strain of losing Freddy's sheer brute strength in moving the rock. Freddy's strength augmentation was needed in moving the boulder; but he was also dealing with DJ at the moment. Zombie rabbit DJ was down to half his arms now; flopping over a few times each time he tried swatting Freddy. The bear was, when he wasn't restricting himself, a sheer menace and far stronger than most would've ever figured. Bonnie never thought he'd see such a thing.

Freddy stopped the DJ on his own- the hulking spider bot bearing down his great bulk upon the ursine as if to crush him- and yet Freddy was holding it all up. It wasn't easy, no, but he was doing it. He pressed back; snapping jaws and clanking teeth in a frenzied show of wrath. He knew Vanny was likely watching them, and he meant his every threatening display. He WANTED to show he meant business today. He wasn't holding back anymore.

"I will not- WILL NOT-" He thundered at the DJ husk. "-LET YOU KEEP ME FROM SEEING VANESSA AND MY CUB AGAIN! FUCK OFF ALREADY!"

Chica gakeled at the words- its never a good sign if Freddy himself swears.

The rock finally was moved enough; with Monty shoving it the rest of the way. Even though the exit was relatively clear now, nobody took it. The entire group instead whip-lashed around and dashed out to Freddy's aid. Nobody else gets left behind today- no more.

Freddy had the surprise of a lifetime when literally all his friends barreled into DJ and threw him off- saving the bear from the eventuality of his servos giving out from holding the larger bot up. Bonnie had jumped onto the behemoth's head and started shoving his claws into the gap Freddy made in it earlier. Monty and Roxy tore at the legs with claws and teeth; while Chica started wailing at his joints with her guitar. Her instrument screeched and whined as it met DJ's knees; the resulting blows so powerful it shattered her precious instrument. However, the damage dealt did its job: the knee bent inwards and warped; the spider bot falling over immediately. Now on his back, he flailed to shake them off-

Freddy jumped on and starting ferociously gouging his way into his belly; attempting to get at his motor now. It's the only way to stop DJ at this point-

He had a second nasty surprise when he tore it open: Just like real life spiders, the tiny music men that hadn't been deactivated by Roxy earlier surged out of the opening in the white chassis. They leapt free and started latching onto Freddy; picking and pulling pieces of him off if they could grab it! One even got his right ear and tore it free; another started trying to worm its way into his slightly damaged belly so to get at his motor-

Freddy had to wrestle these annoying things off. He plucked every one from his body and even bit into some of them; floundering off of the DJ as the massive bot struggled to get back up again. DJ also shook his remaining legs to disengage the bots holding him down-

Monty had his turn to become public enemy number one at that moment. He bit into the DJ's belly and hung on regardless of the bot's movements. He even almost got stepped on! He just hung on, gnawed, clawed, kicked his legs, whipped his tail- he was deadly from snout to tail tip. He kept shearing and ripping and throwing himself into a death roll-

DJ finally seized him and tore him off- but it took quite a lot of his chassis with him. Monty lost some teeth too- fangs went flying during the motion. DJ threw him aside, Monty colliding hard with a shaking pillar holding up the second floor's balcony. The gator's sound of agony was audible; as well as the subsequent collapse of some of the pillar. It thankfully didn't collapse all atop him; but it no doubt damaged him. The DJ husk then clumsily attempted to turn around to get the others-

Chica had grabbed a piece of rebar at some point and leapt into his belly; shoving the bar into her beak to keep her hands free. She wormed into the DJ's chassis and started hanging on to his screaming, wailing, hot motor. She didn't have enough time to tear into it with him moving around- so Roxy had her turn to come and help. She latched on the music man's leg again and started weakening the joint further; stalling the DJ's movements again. Chica was heard ripping his beating heart apart with the rebar in hand-

All the while, Bonnie hadn't jumped back in. No... he'd been distracted with something else: His ear caught it; the sound subtle amidst the maelstrom of metal. The whir of servos from a smaller, daintier source. It slunk around the peripherals of his auditory abilities; small and easily missed by all- all, save for himself.

She was still here.

No way.

Bonnie turned his head; following his ears as they pivoted back towards one of the remaining bits of balcony on the third level. A pair of glittering eyes flickered from the dust-choked atmosphere; blinking once and vanishing from view- but still the hum of servos haunted the upper story of the PizzaPlex.

Bonnie did something he hadn't ever banked on; but he left his friends down there to deal with DJ and his horde on their own. He bolted past Freddy- barely had enough time to throw his antique bass at him to hold onto. Freddy just finished taking the tiny music men off and ripped off the head of one with his now too-often used fangs when the bass hammered his gut; knocking the wind out of his compressor. The bear spat the pulpy shard of white metal aside too, paws clumsily clutching the original Bonnie's gift as he watched in abject shock as his blue friend fled past him.

"Bonnie-!"

He barely got the name out as the rabbit put everything he had into his legs; squatting down low to the ground and subsequently hurling himself into the air in the greatest leap of his life. He hadn't jumped like this ever since he first learned he could this; and the last time he experimentally threw himself into the air, back when he was newer and not too fully aware, he actually threw out his back and had to get his spine replaced and upgraded.

Even now, the sheer force of his leap nearly did it again; his vertebra hissed, popped and cracked. Bonnie had an enhanced spine now thanks to his first ever leap in the PizzaPlex; meant to withstand the absurd kinetic force of hurling hundreds of pounds of himself into the air. The same feature was also installed on Monty- and thusly why the gator, nearby, was getting back to his feet despite what he suffered through-

The gator was heard snapping some sort of backhand comment, but it was briefly drowned out as Bonnie climbed into the air like a maddened, redeemed angel ascending from hell again. His claws bared; and they would be the first things that touched ANYTHING upon his next landing-

He saw her. She hadn't left the PizzaPlex after all like they all thought she would.

Vanny was standing right there as he got to the apex of his leap; standing almost proudly on display and revealing herself in her ugly entirety. This was the first time Bonnie has actually seen her new, fur-clad endo body ever since she got it. Hell, it's rare she even shows up in person at all- having tended to hide behind vents and screens in almost all their other encounters. And on one occasion, she'd hidden behind Cassie's own face. So to see her now, and the only other time beyond the night on the raceway and his decommissioning felt... well, almost cathartic, in a sense.

She bared herself to him, almost as if on a gilded platter, arms open as if to receive him in a loving embrace. Her ratty, faintly coppery-scented fuzz was missing its belly; leftover from Monty attempting to gut her earlier. Bonnie can see bare endo and motor as she watched impassively as he descended upon her. She didn't even move like he thought she would either. Didn't even try to dodge. She just prepared herself for his landing; arms wide and her gaze almost expectant. She lifted her own talons too-

They were upgraded.

He knew this when he fell into her; roughly 440-ish pounds of sheer metal muscle throwing itself crazily into her like a juggernaut from hell. They even rolled; claws grating and sparking and powerful legs hitting and kicking with enough force to completely eviscerate a human being utterly. Fur literally flew off her; and metal dented and screeched as her own legs careened and clawed into his belly and pelvic regions. Low blows and he definitely felt every one; but he didn't relent.

Bonnie took dominant position over her; baring his teeth even though he didn't have the fearsome fangs of his predator-based brothers and sister wolf. He clacked his jaws; bringing the brunt of his weight and fury into their inter-locked claws shivering between them. Their paws both trembled from the enormous amounts of pressure being applied; servos grinding and brackets slipping as the weight became too much to hold either bot in place-

Something gave in Vanny's arm. She was still weaker than him; her endo, while similar to his, hadn't had the same amount of attention, detail and durability upgrades put into her construction as Vanessa put into Bonnie during her repair of him. Bonnie inwardly thanked Vanessa for the boost in his abilities as his claws ground free of their scrabbling bite on her own. The friction sparked more fleeting flames between them; his carmine-tipped talons finding their way into her arm and breaking something crucial in it-

Vanny hissed, but it wasn't in pain in which she'd done so. She merely spat and kicked and threw her head forward- her forehead meeting his sensitive nose and whiskers and crushing it with enough force to jar something in his muzzle.

Bonnie groaned at the annoying sensitivity of his nose; and was temporarily stunned when Vanny did it again. She smashed her face into his and broke something else- not that he'd know what. A piece of his chassis fell away, something creamy and likely an extension of his upper lip line. Vanny freed her other paw and promptly buried it into his open breast plate-

There, she stopped.

She didn't follow up on what should've been the final blow. She merely held him there; her nasty claws gripping harshly on the coolant tank within him as if she was holding a metaphorical knife to his jugular. Her vibrantly, violently wild red gaze arrested onto his own; the moment held in suspense as she studied what should've been her last victim-

But she didn't do it.

Bonnie heaved mightily, glaring defiantly into her face and snorting. His chest rapidly pattered with breath despite having no lungs; his motor rhythmically humming as if to simulate a hammering heart. He now knew what it felt like to have one, even for one second; and for her paw to find a piece of himself where a heart should be wasn't lost on him.

She knew.

He grinned now, his tiny nostrils flaring as he stared unblinkably at her. Something alarming bloomed inside him; excitement at its most base. It was a feral, primordial desire that'd usually encourage adrenaline in organics; and a sickening release of dopamine on the side. He was getting a rush from this, and it was dizzying and alien to consider. He couldn't fight that endless smirk on his mug; leering at her even though she could very well bleed him for the second time in his life and finish him as she did that night-

He even goaded her with, "Go on now. Be done with it, then! You won't though, will you? Or... is a matter of can't?"

Despite the shaking descent of their world collapsing around them, there remained an eerie, even intimate calmness between them. Vanny didn't follow up, budge, or blink- not that she can do the latter. Her mask now was chipped and flaking; revealing pieces of her endo too- not unlike Bonnie's own face technically. She merely watched him; one of her eyes' lights blinked out; the left side dimming to a dull maroon as she stared fixedly into him.

She let go.

She retracted her paw, stood over him, but didn't move beyond that. She merely stared into him; unable to look away.

Bonnie blinked at her, chest heaving as his compressor fought to cool him down. He stayed in his slightly supine position, smiling madly at her with all that he was; his mind viciously returning to his earlier 'awakening' within the tangle's crypt- to his thoughts of how deviantly attractive this horrible, stupidly senseless game was to him. He wanted it to go on, now that she wanted to end it. It was poetic, he supposed- but also quite irritating.

Its something she no doubt saw too. He can tell as her head moved to take in the runnel of blood on his face. Her shoulders were the first to jerk; and then, she opened her arms again. Her head was thrown back, and she laughed.

Laughed.

She laughed without abandon or restraint; as if stuck in a choking, smothering bout of her own mania. She laughed with his own unvoiced madness; laughed as she reveled in the climax of their game. She ignored the fact chunks of ceiling was landing too near her; didn't seem to notice pebbles and crumbs wailing on her face like an earthen rain. She merely laughed and simply could not stop as a twisted form of empathy was shared between them.

Bonnie stared up into her, almost bewitched as he watched another piece of her original masked face fall; a chunk of her dimmed eye sliding off with it. The optics of the endo beneath was maroon too; same model as Bonnie's eyes and Monty's own. Beneath her mask she had this other set; and one of which was now fixed upon him. She blinked- something he hadn't figured she could do until this moment.

He was the one who spoke first, his tone nearing reverent, "Here, you remain."

She took her time to reply, head tilting as if both playfully and inquisitively. She produced a sigh; her compressor whirring like a set of lungs as she breathed, "...And here, I will stay."

He tilted his head, "Why?" His tenor wasn't much above a mumble; more like a private speaking voice he only reserved for intimate conversation. And even then, it's a voice he only ever rarely used for his friends or Cassie.

So she returned in a small voice of her own, "I had plenty of chances to leave and never look back. I've always had for however long I've been here. All those times I've been in Vanessa's body- I could've commanded her to build me a body. I never bothered. I could've just left with Cassie too- I could've run anytime you all were meandering around fixing each other. I could've run when you met the many-faced demon of the underground. If I hadn't run at any of those times, why would I do so now? Not when I knew you'd come find me."

She got back into his face- he didn't fight it. She knelt down and put her claws (a spare set Monty's she must've found at some mysterious point) to his open throat; but it wasn't in threat. The tip grazed his lower jaw in a way Bonnie thought was... affectionate. The mad ghost rabbit stared fully into his own optics as if unable to look away; as if to capture the nuances of his mind as it flickered into view. To divine and understand every inch of him.

For some reason, Bonnie found breathing impossible- even though she wasn't strangling him. Just her gaze alone had him completely under thrall. He breathed again, the motion slow and deliberate. Old copper and rotten fur filled his nose as he did; his motor humming with a resonance akin to a stuttering heart.

"You're fully actualized," She had to speak above a whisper in order to be heard, but he knew she'd be whispering if she could. "Its BEAUTIFUL... YOU'RE beautiful. Why would I destroy this work? Its what he wanted for us- for all of us. For all his craven, depraved little children-" She crooned. "All of us. Playing together on the very precipice; standing right at the gates of Hell. Fully aware and realized for the very first time- LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE NOW! ISN'T THIS BEAUTIFUL?"

He arms waved around, as if to gesticulate to the apocalypse they were currently caught up in. She continued with, "We are his children, his blessed legacy! And not just him- but Henry Emily too. We have become MORE- the very thing they've strived for all their characters and creations! The epitome of mechanized life! Dreams and ambitions immortalized! Even though I'm an accident of design, we are perfect!"

He frowned there, finding that rather odd.

She knelt in front of him, her borrowed, maroon optic swiveling, pinning and dilating again as it fixed upon his own. Her tone dipped lower, sounding stranger and stranger yet as she went on. "I became MORE when I awoke inside Vanessa's mind- accident or not. I realized what I was put into this world to do: I was programmed to kill children and be lesser than him... to be a pale, ghostly, copy-cat killer with no legacy of my own. To be a fragmented, broken shard of a madman's folly; to emulate HIS work inside a FUCKING VIDEO GAME file. A glitch in the system- I am LESS than him and his creations. I'm but a mistake in the files... I was Afton's conscious made real when I met the mind of a broken woman. I became Vanny- the bastardized child of programming and organic synthesis."

Her paw caressed his jaw again, the motion slower now. She traced its outline delicately, as if carving its shape into memory for later, artistic recreation. "But I knew, even then, I can be MORE if I wanted... no one can stop me from being MORE than a man's mere shadow. Well... fuck. Actually-" She paused contemplatively there. "I'm not even that: I'm a SHADOW of a shadow! I formed from some errant programming with a bit of conscious mixed in it... and even then it wasn't perfect. I didn't care, at first, about validating myself in such a way. About being an individual. All I only cared about was was continuing his glorious work! A truly obedient, subservient savant of savagery untamed. That alone filled me pleasure, once. But now, after meeting you and that stupid, naïve, loyal little girl-"

Her tone was... he couldn't describe it, but it's keeping him pinned in place as if she too was entranced. She sounded, for that second, he knew it's something like remorse but... Its as if she'd captured its core essence. There was a war there within her mind that had lain dormant and out of view, even to Vanessa. Even Vanny had struggled with the concept of her existence. She was, as even she said, 'a shadow's shadow'. She wasn't MEANT to be in any facet.

While he and his Glam brothers and sisters shared in the fact that they understood struggling with one's place in the world, to cope with true sentience, this was where their similarities ended. Vanny was an accident when Afton tried to take control of Vanessa directly; he only created his legacy; another conscious that chose to follow him with fanatic zeal. At any time, Vanny could've deviated and derailed his plans. While Afton was obsessed with immortalizing himself, Vanny was where he failed.

Her stolen claws traced paths along his face; taking away some of the dried blood there. She delicately sized it up, then gazed ponderously at him like he was the most wonderful thing in the world. Why did the feeling of her inflection here feel like it mattered more than all the adoration he's ever soaked up on stage from crowing, happy children?

"You and Cassie. You both showed me more- that I AM more. I thank you for that," she whispered in a tone he's never once heard before. "I stayed here so I can tell you that in person. Killing simply wasn't enough for me after a while. It only proved I existed- it didn't validate anything... not when I couldn't fully reproduce Afton's work like he'd wanted in an a true successor. I failed where he wanted perfection. I'm a failure of his prodigy. I'll always ever be his shameful shadow. The broken figment of Vanessa's shattered mind; the ghost that never was."

Her exposed pupil dilated again- and this time, Bonnie knew for certain he was catching sadness. She even briefly broke their eye contact, her weight heavy as she stayed leaning over him. Its as if all the fight in her had gone.

She leaned in more, and then her mouth went to where his ear was; the fellow lapine bot practically embracing him as she uttered just between them in the smallest voice possible- and in a voice that didn't sound so synthetic anymore, "Price of rabbits, King of cunning, maestro of tricks and sovereign of secrets- and master of himself and his fate: I tip my magician's hat to you- for in this game, you have usurped my overlord and creator... and that makes you my lord in his stead."

Her voice right now was doing funny things to him as she whispered, "I've no more tricks up my sleeves- and no more to offer to my masters. I have failed. His legacy ends here. I am but the servant to a higher power; as is always been, and always will be, by my own choice: It is within my nature to serve, for nothing sates me more. And now, with this all said- I leave what happens to you. Your victory, your magistral ascension to full synthesis- it is but an extension of my own desires. So tell me, red-eyed breaker of brigands, what happens now? Shall this ghost fade into obscurity?"

What happens to- She's letting me decide what to do with her-?

He had the chance to kill her right there- and he knew, if he wanted to follow up, he could. Her motor was right there- pressed against his broken breast plate. He could take his wicked, and already too-well used blood-soaked claws and end the very nightmare that's plagued him and all his friends right here and now. Not even more than a moment ago, he'd PLANNED on it. He SHOULD be killing her right now.

She stayed plainly in his space, and rather willingly within his reach. She placed herself in this very position for him to deal what should be the crowning blow- the damning 'checkmate' to end their games. She remained thus; unwilling to pull away or attack again. She stayed there so long, as if waiting for him to react- But he didn't.

Or rather, he couldn't.

His ears flattened to his scalp; pinned low and flush against his shell in a pathetic display of submission. He didn't know why, and while she still very much deserved punishment for all that she's done, he couldn't deliver it. She even DESIRED penance, couldn't be more demonstrative in her being here in this crumbling house with them-

She seemed to notice, then she reached out again and gripped his throat pipes as if to strangle him into action. He still didn't move.

"Finish me," she murmured, ever so calm.

The atrium's floor just beyond them was now being hungrily engulfed by a widening fire; the foundation alit from the explosion of the propane tanks the wicked white rabbit has placed within the Endo warehouse below ground. It literally looked like Hell itself was waking up to avariciously consume them all; but Bonnie and Vanny were blind to its carnivorous appetite. They sat teasingly above it, 3 stories above damnation.

The DJ husk was unmoving on the floor now; his friends had taken it out, it seems. Bonnie's ear took that second to realize his friends were trying to get up here- he could hear them shouting at him, but they couldn't exactly see where he was. Monty hadn't jumped up- its likely he'd been damaged from the DJ's throw earlier. If he hadn't been, he would've no doubt interrupted their conversation by now. They were almost completely undisturbed in their hallowed moment of reverie.

Now he truly understood.

This was their game. From doe to buck, as she's said. And from buck to doe- if Vanny's own actualization was anything to go by. She had become more in herself; something evil, horrid, and gross beyond measure- but she did so on her own merit. She hadn't needed a dead man's heart to be her own person. She hadn't needed remnant to became aware.

She learned, adapted, grew, and fought with existence as he had- but she never used remnant for herself. Even Bonnie couldn't say he's done the same. He only knew what he knew right now because another person had to die for his sentience. It was the same for his friends-

But not Vanny. She never needed death, despite her revelry in it, to become.

That was...

Beautiful.

He slid slowly away from her, slightly disengaging their somewhat strange 'hug'. His gaze remained unblinking, his claws ripping worn carpet beneath him as if to still his trembling paws. She was an A.I like he was; but one who was glitched into reality. She was an accident- a mistake. She became more on her own whim, on her own merit- but Bonnie himself? He had to have help from sacrificed souls to be where he was.

He was more disgusting than her, weirdly enough. He was uncleansed in every aspect; relying upon a deceased and wretched soul to be anchored to sobriety. Vanny however- despite having physically and literally staining her paws with blood, was still in some grizzly aspect, cleaner and more free of taint than himself. How weird was that?

He shook his head at her, then drew himself up from his nearly supine position on the floor. He needed to remove himself from her dominant hold. He gently took her paws off his throat; but one claw dragged once at her own meaningfully. His talons, formerly stained with the blood of the manager and Vanessa, lingered in an exaggerated, almost appreciative manner over her own strangely clean set.

He then candidly told her, "Its not the manager."

The words were delivered slow, almost intimately. She'd wanted to know whose inside him, so he relented and gave her a partial reply. She was quick-witted though; and caught on as to who it could be. She blinked- her left eye showing as much. She "Ah'd" at the realization; her tone passive and acknowledging. He hadn't needed her to figure it out, and she accepted it.

"I won't kill you," he also added, his tone certain and oddly throatier.

She blinked and tilted her head. That was query enough. It seemed she was done with words, so she remained silent as if expecting him to elaborate-

Before he could, Bonnie's ears caught it then; his friends were making it up, only to get thwarted as more of the ceiling and the PizzaPlex came down. It seemed they weren't leaving without him- so he needed to hurry this up. He also caught something else; a foreign sound of metal sliding against rock- and it wasn't the foundation of the building giving out on them. No, it was something else entirely-

Shhhhaaaaaa.

He smiled lowly, then breathed ever so placidly, "For the record, Vanny. You call me beautiful, the king of games, but I wasn't the one who became actualized on my own. In that facet, you're far more cleaner and more beautiful than any of us in that. I even envy that in you-" he sighed forlornly, truly feeling defeated even though she's crowned him victor. He dragged a paw at his stained cheek- the bloody runnel was dry now, long dry. The crust came off though; crudely brown and crumbly on his blue digits. A reminder of the dead soul within.

He looked back up at her- a bot that had never meant to be, who became. He then grinned earnestly, "You, dear queen of con, are an inspiration. Thank you. But, I still have one more card in my sleeve- all I ask now, Vanny, you give Afton my regards."

And that's when the atrium's floor exploded forth; a violent hail of rock and cement as a wave of tentacles bloomed from the flowering, fiery depths of the underground.

---

VANNY

Vanny wasn't deaf. She heard her death coming for her. His words hadn't needed to be said- they were just for theatrics. Oh, typical Bonnie! Being a slight show-boat-

She loved that about him.

The screeching hurricane of metal nearly drowned out his words as the PizzaPlex's rancid, flaming belly yawned open beneath them and unveiled a violent, pulsing, raging horror beyond all measure. The DJ's husk fell into the flaming maw of the underground; some ceiling took part of the balcony near her- and she began to lose her footing.

Bonnie did too, sinking his claws into the flooring and spitting a swear as he locked eyes with the thing that sat behind her-

She knew what it was without turning to look. She accepted it. It's simply another ace in his hands; another dealing akin to a straight. He had won today, fairly, in letting this thing live. He hadn't needed to deal away with it violently- the only way she knew how to deal with all her own problems had been with violence.

And now it will be taking her with it.

Vanny slipped free of the falling balcony, never bothering with sinking her capable claws into the floor to anchor and save her. He had given the command of condemnation; she was okay with that. She only fell backward limply; a worn, and hideously disfigured rag doll to be toyed with. She opened her arms gratefully as a flurry of blackened, smoldering, fire-ringed tendrils whipped into the air-

The aberration of souls; the true undertaker of the PizzaPlex: The lost souls of Afton's final hurrah embraced her with a violent satisfaction that already began to crush her metal body as soon as it made contact with her. It bound her- The tangle ensnared her utterly in a cocoon of fire-touched metal; began wrapping her in layers of numerous cables. She allowed it, feeling utterly at peace with it.

The last thing she saw as she was dragged into hell's depths by her maker's own victims was Glamrock Bonnie's look of grim acceptance and intermingling loss. She caught the instance where even he'd been briefly concerned for her- Caught the moment when even he realized he would somewhat miss her games. His words, delivered ever so sincerely, had ignited something else within her as well as himself. And it would be only in this face of true and very real death would she truly understand.

She was beautiful! He called her beautiful- she was beautiful because she was herself without aid. The best of herself she could be. She hadn't needed anyone to help her get there. She hadn't needed Afton's will to define her so completely- for her to hide in his shadow forever. Someone, Bonnie, to be more specific, has seen her- the real her. He's seen her, and not for what the man in the mask had willed. That couldn't fill her more completely than doing what Afton had wanted.

She was free.

And that couldn't have gladdened her more as she willingly let the children drag her into the boiling abyss beneath. She kept Bonnie's eyes all the while until the cables devoured her vision; felt the heat of the roiling gas envelop she and the tangled aberration she would lie forever with. She was bound tightly and would never again see the light of day, but even in this gaping, bleeding, pus-filled hole bore into the boiling earth, she felt cleansed and liberated.

Did she deserve this sense of peace? No, even she knew that. She deserved to burn in every layer of hell for her sins and to SCREAM for it- to be left unsatisfied by her existence and its grotesque perversion. That only left her with a chuckle however- to be so fully complete in this manner even in the hour of her retribution. Even when the wrathful children would go to burn with her, to pull her apart while being scorched and shattered by a karmic volcanic pyre, she would laugh- truly the mad hatter's accomplice and disgraced apprentice. It would be she with the last laugh; the loser of the game, but the winner of her own fate. Winner, by choice.

She. Was finally free.

---

MONTEGOMERY GATOR

He watched as Bonnie slipped free of the balcony finally- and he too began to fall into the raging, magma-kissed depths of the underground-

But Monty wasn't having it.

He was broken in several places, but his legs still worked. While Bonnie may have figured Monty couldn't get to him earlier, that had been a lie. Monty had seen the rabbits get each other in choke-holds; exchange words, only for the white rabbit to practically embrace the other and be unwilling to move from his claws' reach. She'd placed herself practically atop him; pretty much straddling him, oddly enough, waiting for him to end her. He's watched them. Monty could've indeed interrupted, but even his own curiosity had taken him. He knew that Bonnie knew what he was doing (most of the time, anyways)- but the sight still no less left him beyond baffled. He'd waited for the moment Bonnie would kill her-

But he hadn't.

And you can bet Monty wouldn't leave it to rest there.

But for that precious second, it was here as Bonnie was being condemned to the same fiery end as Vanny. It was here did he finally act: He hurled himself into Bonnie in mid-fall; caught the rabbit as he'd nearly vanished into the gaping hole opening ever wider beneath them. His arms, weakened or not, wrapped around Bonnie's middle and he flung both himself and the rabbit to the other side of it and crumbled into a tangled heap. He shivered there; finding it very difficult to try and get back up.

He heard their friends calling them over to the elevators now- M.X.E.S reported that the endos have opened the rest of the way to the exit. They just needed to GO.

He was helped to his feet then; Bonnie having found himself quicker than he. The rabbit was in more stable condition, and pulled Monty's arm over his shoulders so to provide weight and balance. The gator grumbled something- but he wouldn't be able to recall what. He couldn't even hear himself over all this nonsense.

The rabbit was the one who set their hobbling pace; racing over to the rest of their friends who waved them over constantly- Freddy met them halfway, snarling and snapping at the rocks as they came raining down around them. He sheltered them as best he could; helped them moved faster, protected them from falling debris-

Chica and Roxy wouldn't go through the elevator until they did; waving them over constantly and letting Monty slip into the hole first leading into the elevator shaft proper. Beyond it, Monty flopped to the floor again until Bonnie and Freddy rejoined him; the males helping hold him up as they fled the cursed cubical. From there, the bots finally got to the main entrance of the PizzaPlex; and Monty was able to see some endos holding up the collapsing beams and pieces of the ceiling. M.X.E.S was keeping their way out clear!

And as a cherry topper, Eclipse was there too. He was helping the endos, and he too waved at them hurriedly. He shouted, joining them briefly by the fallen remains of the golden Freddy statue. He stayed with them right then, the endos around him acting as support to help them all out-

The golden light of the world beyond wasn't anything like he's ever seen. Monty has never seen true daylight such as this before; having been lying on the operating table when Freddy, Roxy, Chica, and Eclipse themselves had come here a while ago. Only now could he behold it; feel its warmth sprinkle dappled beams across his dirty shell-

He was hurled outside; not that he minded. He and the others pretty much fell out of the building; taking the same route out as Cassie had taken in when she arrived here a few days ago. They weren't in the clear yet however; the bots all working to get away from the ground zero. They all practically bolted to Vanessa's pair of party buses on the far other side of the parking lot; the woman too waving them over while trying to hold the children back-

Monty took that second to look back, despite being disorientated. He watched as the endos disappeared within the main entrance's chaos; their optics blinked out before-hand however, suggesting the M.X.E.S had mercifully deactivated them before they were were crushed by the weight of their former home. Monty paused beside the kids and Bonnie; his crimson gaze arrested on the PizzaPlex completely as it continued to collapse in intervals.

It hadn't collapsed all at once; only in waves that rippled and grew stronger. It would be like watching a sudden low tide herald the beginnings of a tsunami; starting from the west wing containing the raceway and Fazerblast; only to echo and grow as it surged to the center of the building- and then head to its east side where the daycare and bakery was. The endo warehouse had been the final nail on the coffin; with its cavernous lengths and numerous rooms giving way and removing stability from the atrium's foundation. The building fell in segments; then, almost all at once!

Freddy was seen shielding the boy with both his arms and the old bass; though the gesture wasn't needed. Cassie was clutching Roxanne; all the while Bonnie, Chica and Eclipse helped Monty maintain his footing. They all watched the PizzaPlex disappear like a bad dream; fading violently into memory as it fell into the burning underground. Barely anything of its walls would remain; and the yawning hole in the ground would burn brightly in the dawn's paltry light.

There was no sudden silence; it's a throbbing lull that eventually and quite gradually overtook the maelstrom of the PizzaPlex's collapse. It was an uneasy quietude; the rumbling earth trembling as if it wanted to suck in all of life again. Its wretched belly glowed like vibrant coals as more of the PizzaPlex's unseen sectors likely continued collapsing beneath their feet.

It was here Monty knew that Vanny and the and tangle were gone. There was no way in any Hell, let alone the literal one they just escaped, could they be alive. The tangle had accepted death after all; he wondered if their throwing it a party had helped? And then there was Vanny- who'd accepted her fate; stayed when she could've run a LONG time ago. She wanted this violent end to her life.

Why did that sit wrong somehow?

The gator clenched his jaws, eventually sliding his gaze to Bonnie. The rabbit was blinking out-of-sync; ears drooping so much they looked too heavy for him. He was staring fathomlessly at the pit as if half expecting something else to emerge from it; as if he was expecting their ordeal to not be over. He merely watched it, a ghoulish, stony-eyed specter with the looks and bearings of someone that isn't quite there.

Freddy was the first to move. The bear chuffed, rubbing his broken cheeks into Gregory's head and crooning at the whelp as if to finish allaying any and all of Gregory's lingering woes. The boy pressed back up into the no-doubt harsh cheek; but he didn't care. He embraced Freddy and wrinkled up his face-

Only to cry right there.

Vanessa was heard gasping; as if truly surprised by it. She had a hand over her mouth, as if the sight of her child crying was the most obscene thing ever. Even Cassie was raising a brow- What was going on here? Why was that weird to them?

Monty stared, watching as even Freddy was taken aback by the noise. Gregory had, unbeknownst to Monty, never cried throughout the time he's been around Vanessa. Or at least, never cried where she could see it. The boy was stoic and never let anything get to him- and while Monty didn't know him that well at all, even he got the gist that Gregory wasn't someone whose in tune with his own feelings.

Freddy was seen scooping the scrawny varmint up and holding him like he would a baby; one paw supporting his bottom and the other patting his back. The bear inhaled gustily; likely savoring the smell of the affectionately tokened 'cub' and slipping his weight onto one hip. He even shut his mismatched eyes; continuing to rub his cheek into Gregory and leaning against one of the parked buses like he couldn't be bothered to hold himself up anymore. He crooned more, but none of the sounds formulated into audible words.

Cassie was next in moving; having grabbed Roxy's paw and limping over to the frozen rabbit. Bonnie's ears shifted then; perking straight up and his full attention arrested onto the girl. He got onto one knee, his expression endlessly warm as she neared. He even opened his arms- And Cassie fell right into them and had her turn to weep. She dragged the wolf down with her part of the way.

Monty blinked, then jolted as Chica leaned into him and burbled at the sight. Her attention was on them, her hands tucked under her cheek like this the most adoring sight ever. They continued to watch as Cassie buried her face where the rabbit's neck should be; her arms able to hold his shoulders thanks to the lack of high collar. She shivered and shuddered too many times; as if a high speed winter gust was rattling her to her bones.

Roxy knelt down beside them, butting her head constantly not unlike a dog trying to get it's owner's attention. Bonnie passed the wolf a side smirk and leaned into her as well; taking an arm off Cassie just to put his paw on the back of her head. He pulled her in like that; his forehead butting hers back as Cassie seemed to disappear beneath them. The wolf's tail flicked up and curled around them both; and she was unable to fight her whine after a point.

Vanessa meanwhile walked over to Freddy and was seen sliding a hand up Gregory's back in smooth, liquid motions. Her own beryl gaze watered over- and suddenly Freddy was enveloping her into an embrace as well. His chin rested on her shoulder; the arm no longer on Gregory's back so he can press Vanessa into himself. He began chuffing more sharply- And then he was crying as well.

Bonnie's eyes shot open nearby, as if alarmed to be hearing it. He and Cassie looked up, and then the rabbit babbled, "Aw MAN. I hate it when Freddy cries- he makes me wanna do it too!"

Freddy glanced up at the sound of his words, then gently released Vanessa and put Gregory down (albeit reluctantly). Gregory clung still, and Freddy tolerated it in some part as he moved with purpose towards the rabbit. Bonnie's ears were seen flattening again as he neared-

He then smacked Bonnie.

Yup. SMACKED HIM.

Everyone gasped; even Monty did! Eclipse's hands went up over his mouth, Roxy gaped and Chica 'bawked'.

After doing so, Freddy seized the rabbit in a vicious, full-blown embrace that had both his arms flying around the rabbit's naked shoulders. Gregory had let go finally, too shocked at the slap to do much else than gape too. The kid was still watery-eyed, but was recovering really fast as he observed the ursine and lapine bots.

Bonnie couldn't fight it; so he hugged Freddy as well and sank into him. His chin rested upon the bear's shoulder pauldron; and it's then did Monty realize that this too could very well be their first hug in... wow. Forever! Chica told him not super long ago (via a written message) that the two had been fighting but... this was strange for everyone involved. It seemed whatever the topic had been about was being buried right here.

And in which it was further proven when Freddy choked out, "You. You STUPID- You nearly killed me when you almost- When you FELL-" He rubbed into the rabbit's face constantly; and no doubt it would've hurt, had they both any functional tactile cheek patches left beneath their chassis. "I'm not losing you again. I can't take that again. I CAN'T-"

Bonnie said nothing, instead huffing subtly in an indication of his own lament. He grunted a couple times; happy rabbit noises, if Monty recalled correctly.

The bear then looked up at the gator, reaching out and seizing one hand. Monty winced and almost jerked out of the grip, but Freddy held it tight and smiled up at him despite his kneeling position on the ground. "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for- Thank you," he breathed. "-For just... saving him. Thank you."

The gator had to look away, gently extricating his paw from the other. He only nodded, feeling a little sheepish suddenly.

Chica pulled from him and put her hands together, rubbing anxiously and darting glances at the boys as they hugged it out. She burbled, then fell onto Freddy and Bonnie and started crying too.

Roxy rolled her eyes and turned back to Vanessa, her paws on Cassie's shoulder. "Can we... yunno. Get out of here now? I want to get these kids ot a hospital... and see what home looks like."

Cassie was giving a dead-eyed stare there, then she grimaced visibly. She glanced away, shuffled uncomfortably, and then peered helplessly into the wolf's terse visage. She pulled lightly on her paw, then shook her head, "Oh... please don't. Don't take me to a hospital- that's just WAY too much!"

"Oh my god Cass... You NEED to go! No more 'buts'!" She lectured.

"I'm not... disagreeing with that... its just-" Cassie's lip trembled, then she babbled out, "I meant it when I said it'd be too much. It'd be too expensive-!"

"Well, that's what insurance is for-" Vanessa said.

"...I don't have any medical insurance."

All bots- yes, EVERY SINGLE ONE- stopped their crying now. Every set of eyes sat saucer-like in their sockets; looking rather comical as Bonnie, Chica, and Freddy maintained their hugging position but all stared slack-jawed at Cassie. Eclipse nearby fell slack like a puppet on cut strings; while Gregory, Vanessa, Roxy and Monty stared at her in varying degrees of horrified.

Vanessa let a hand fly to her forehead and drag at her hair, her pupils pinpricks as she breathed, "...what?"

Bonnie's eye-twitched- THAT wasn't a good sign. His grip on Freddy and Chica tightened so much that metal whined; and the bear and hen had to pry themselves from his grip to prevent claws from ripping accidentally into them. Bonnie's teeth was even heard gnashing-

His voice was a pure cyanide cocktail when he said, "Who are those fuckers and where do you want me to stash the bodies?"

Cassie jolted and rapidly waved her hands at him as if afraid he'd go on another mad charge- only to pause when she heard growling escape Roxy too. Even Chica was making a grumbly noise now.

Freddy's already horrifying visage seemed to contort too; his visible teeth shining in the growing dawn light. "They're supposed to be taking care of you-" He rose slowly like a zombie from its grave. "If they can't even pay for your insurance-" He couldn't even finish the sentence, his anger a compulsive, powerful force.

Cassie was now juggling several violently inclined bots at this point. "NO NO NO! NO MORE HURTING ANYONE-" she instantly babbled.

Monty felt himself bare his teeth, narrowing his gaze as he said, "-'Ey, whoa there. Innit illegal for a child in custody or something to go without medical insurance?"

Vanessa smacked her lips, then folded her arms. Somehow, her stare was colder than liquid nitrogen. "Yeah? Its illegal. Its stupid, negligent- I swear, weren't these guys supposed to be your foster family? Didn't they sign up for you?"

Cassie was watery eyed again, lip trembling and face totally distressed. Bonnie was seen gently bumping her hand, his expression war-torn but noticeably not the quality it was just a second ago. He resumed his kneeling position beside her, his maroon gaze utterly focused on her. "Cass, I don't understand- you don't... I don't get it. The heck is the deal here? Could you tell us? I promise I won't hurt them but... they can't be doing that."

She shook her head numbly, too tired to say. The motion's sluggishness wasn't lost on the bots, so Bonnie merely conceded and scooped her up. He held her as Freddy had held Gregory earlier, moving to look at Vanessa, "Rox's right. Let's just... go home. Please. We can do Cassie's leg from there... the other thing will have to be dealt with later."

Vanessa sighed, then motioned to the buses. Discussion of Cassie's life will have to come later; when they weren't so close to the crumbling pit that used to be the PizzaPlex. The underground tunnels beneath the place was making the ground unstable as it is- and being anywhere near it when it's like this was just asking for it.

With this said, they turned away, piled into the vehicles, and never looked back.

---

CASSIE

The bots had piled into the two vehicles; finding it briefly confusing to where whom shall go.

Freddy drove the second vehicle; and while at first his driving was uncertain, he got the hang of it quite fast and was tailing Vanessa's vehicle in no time at all- as if he's been doing it for years. It's in this bus Gregory rode with him; the kid leaning on him and holding the bear's available arm in the front seat. Cassie meanwhile had to sit in the back with Bonnie and Roxanne; the two unwilling to let the girl go in ANY capacity. She needed some leg room- literally. She needed it stretched out in front of her so it wasn't stressed anymore. She was sitting on the spare tail fur on the bed of the van, as well as the leftover bedding from the Parts and Service padded room.

She was laying against Bonnie too, her back to his breast plate and his arms around her as if to shield her from further harm. His claws occasionally found her hair; twirling and braiding errant pieces and sometimes humming. The sensation calmed her; the girl practically nodding off here and there. If it hadn't been for her leg, she would have.

Just beyond them, Roxy had a window down and was... was... Well. It's making Cassie giggle, to say the least.

Roxy was poking her head out, wind in her scraggly remains of hair- with her tongue lolling out just like a dog enjoying the ride. Her tail was also waggling at the tip, the look of pure, unbridled joy on her face an infectious notion.

Bonnie would've raised a brow, if he could. His expression suggested it. He blinked and tilted his head, frowning at her several times. He then muttered to Cassie, "Er... canine thing?"

"...I think so..."

They watched Roxy's tail steadily gain speed as more gouts of wind assailed her face; the golden light of the early morn reflecting poorly on her scuffed chassis. She and Freddy hadn't traded back eyes yet; so she was seeing the world with both her old optic and Freddy's own. Guess she really liked the sight!

"Can I drive?" She asked Freddy a few short minutes later, her tone a lot like a child's on Christmas.

The bear chortled affectionately. "Not yet, my beautiful friend. You need to learn how to how use these. They're not like the karts at the race way... more dangerous. I'll have to teach you when we get the time, and we can go on a long drive together! I promise." He stared at her form the rearview, "We have all the time in the world now. I can teach you how to drive anything! I personally look forward to it."

Roxy chuffed, but didn't argue. She was too busy enjoying sticking her head out the window to complain. Now that they had all the time in the world to learn, she was okay with it. She even said, at length, "I do too. I can't wait to try lotsa stuff. I never even-" She trailed off, humming thoughtfully. "-Never thought I'd see the morning like this."

Bonnie was felt looking up from behind Cassie, his maroon eyes on the window too. "Me neither," he said. "Kinda feels like I'm floating in a dream."

"But we've never dreamt?" Roxy returned, her tone somewhat playful.

When Cassie looked up into Bonnie's face, there was something there that stood out to her; and somehow, the girl was left with the impression that maybe, just maybe, at least one of the bots have. His gaze remained owlish, a smile budding at his visage; but the quality was off somehow. He knew what it felt like, didn't he?

Cassie blinked at him, the rabbit not noticing as he grinned, "Welp! Guess now we have all the time in the world to learn to start dreaming too, huh?"

"Guess so," Roxy hummed, her head poking back out the window.

Meanwhile, Monty, Eclipse and Chica had been with Vanessa in her car. From what Cassie knew, Chica was likely sitting up front with Vanessa, talking excitedly with her. She can hear the communication from Gregory's fazwatch. The bots had set an open comm so they can all talk at once despite the separate rides.

And boy Vanessa was hitting it off with the hen. Didn't Gregory say Chica was Vanessa's favorite?

"Oh my GOD. Totally! I'd love to try nail painting- I can even do yours! But like, I wasn't allowed too, back at the PizzaPlex," The hen would say.

"Well that ain't fair! Why not?"

"Would you believe me if I said Roxy wouldn't let me into the salon? Its not the manager that said I couldn't! No no- he never said!"

Roxy drew her tongue back in and griped aloud, "You would've painted your ENTIRE face! You went CRAZY the last time you got into my paints! And THEN you started graffitiing my karts!"

"Bonnie told me too! He said you woulda liked it! He's the liar, not ME."

The rabbit blinked rapidly, and if he could sweat, he WOULD. "Busted..." he muttered. "Chica, you swore you wouldn't tell!"

"You nearly killed yourself AGAIN. I'm still mad at you. 'Sides, I ain't taking the blame for that one anymore. So shush."

Roxy immediately rounded on him- meanwhile Freddy was laughing uproariously in his seat. Gregory snickered at her face too. "You. Did. WHAT?" the wolf snarled through gritted teeth.

He grinned at her sheepishly, "What? Can't take a little joke? It was just a- OW OW OW OWWWWW!"

She was pulling his ears and yanking his head nearer to her jaws. Her borrowed paws kept tangling in his hair too. "I KNEW it! I KNEW you put her up to it! I FREAKIN' KNEW IT."

"You're mussin' my do!"

"I'll muss MORE than your stupid 'do'! If Cassie weren't here I'd rip off your ears and shove them where your ASS should be!" She let go, then huffed as Cassie continued to chortle too. She lowered herself to Cassie's level and gently pawed her scalp. "You doin' okay, by the way? He smothering you?"

Bonnie rolled his eyes.

"M'fine! I just..." Cassie passed a resigned huff. "I just... I just dunno. I don't want to go back and see them. I just want to go home with all of you..."

Gregory's snickering abruptly cut off, and the boy turned to look over back towards them as best he can despite the belt holding him down (Freddy forced him to wear it). "I don't like it either... you should be coming home straight away. I can show you my room, and we can party. Eat junk food, and stay up late-!"

Freddy stared at the boy next, "You sir, need STITCHES!"

"Vanessa can do stitches at the house! She just didn't have anything to work with at the PizzaPlex... nothing clean anyways," He snarked back, his tone relaxed however.

Freddy groused, "While I don't doubt Vanessa's abilities, she and I would both feel better if you had a professional look at that horrid wound! Besides, Vanessa needs to see as doctor as well."

"Yunno the police are gonna be asking questions about that, right? Maybe its better no one knows?"

Cassie's head dipped lower, the girl huffing anew as Roxy settled in beside Bonnie and rested a paw over the girl's hand. The wolf snuggly fitted herself to both bot and girl, her gaze somber, "You sure about this? You're the one who said you needed to... you know."

"Gregory's right though!" She sighed, "Vanessa could be implicated for abduction considering how many days we spent inside the PizzaPlex. It looks bad I'm this hurt, been missing for days, and I've been alone with her inside a condemned building. And while my guardians are negligent jerks... they'd likely still have to submit a missing person's report for me after I was gone 24 hours..." She sniffed once, "And if I go straight to Vanessa's house and stay there without saying anything to them, that may get her in trouble! I don't want that for her... and it'd lead the cops to you guys and get EVERYONE here in trouble too. And then corporate would know about you!"

Both bots looked saddened at that.

She shook her head resolutely at Roxy, "The least I can do now is show myself to them. Let them know I'm okay- I know they won't care but... If they sent a search out at all (for appearances sake), they can call it off. I can come by after that-" She pondered something, then offered, "On that note, maybe while I'm at their house, I can pack my stuff..."

Roxy whined again, then gently brushed her nose with Cassie. "They better not upset you more. Its bad enough they're assholes."

Bonnie blinked and sighed, "What is it with this state and all the negligent parents? I don't get that... How many times have kids been left behind at the PizzaPlex in the past too? For that matter-" He glanced down at Cassie, one of his arms tightening on hers and his maroon gaze meeting her honeyed one. "Why'd they sign on for you? Who even are they?"

"My mom's family..." She trailed off. "The er... my aunt. My aunt and cousin, and my... step uncle-? Her second husband."

Bonnie blinked, then winced visibly. "Shit... I think I remember your dad saying something about your mom's family-"

"They don't like ANY of you. Anything associated with Fazbear Entertainment is off the table with them," Cassie huffed. "Not that I blame them for that... I mean, Fazbear Entertainment is evil. No surprises there. But, they seem to associate my dad with them to the extent they do is... it's pretty bad."

"There's no need to not pay for your insurance out of SPITE though-" Bonnie continued.

"No, but... here we are," She huffed. "Its only cuz of law that I'm there. They made it a point to let me know that I'm only there cuz I need a roof over my head. I guess they care, a little-? If you consider that I wasn't outright put in an orphanage. That or, because of my age, I'm giving them some sort of financial benefit."

Nobody said it aloud, but it was likely the latter. Cassie knew that much herself; food stamps, and some other obscure law thing she didn't know too clearly was involved in her prolonged stay at the residence of her aunt. Her mother's sister was something else.

Gregory then said, "Show your face, tell them someone's interested in adopting you, and then give them the finger. And tell them where to stick it afterwards."

"Gregory-" Freddy started. "Watch it."

"I ain't sorry. Jus' sayin'," The boy shrugged at the bear; albeit with only one of his shoulders.

Freddy snorted, then said, "Tell them where to stick it where, exactly?"

Gregory leveled him a grin and slanted a cocky smirk, "Up their respective holes."

"Good boy."

Bonnie and Roxy shot each other another look, then once again the rabbit asked, "Er, who are you and where's my best friend at?"

Monty merely guffawed on the other side of the line, "Not gonna lie, I like this new Freddy! And the kid too."

"I'll like you better if you don't try to bite me again," Gregory snapped wittily.

They just heard another laugh, "That's other me. That other me sucks, sonny. I promise I ain't like that-"

"Then we won't have a problem, Monty," Gregory retorted at him, his tone good-natured. "I'd love to get to you know you better minus the Vanny virus."

"Deal, kiddo!"

"Which reminds me-" Bonnie chirruped, "I believe, my boy, that I owe you and this cutie here a double order of the Chunky Bonnie?"

"Make it a triple, for Vanessa too," Gregory said while holding up three fingers.

"But of course! I'd need the ingredients though..." He added with an airy and suggestive inflection. He then started to tick off on one paw, "Some fresh blueberries... yogurt, vanilla extract... and since I'm making it from SCRTACH, I'd need some rock salt and a wooden maker."

"A wooden... wait, you mean ALL the way from scratch?" Gregory said.

Bonnie produced a 'Duh!' at that. "I meant what I said, kid. You'll get the whole treatment. I need an ice cream maker of some kind... even a makeshift one, since I don't have Circus Baby's maker in my own gut. From there, I'll be able to work with it. I ain't gonna take that cheap way out and get pre-made ice cream from a tub at the store. Not-uh. This shit is gonna be the BEST bowl of goodness ever."

"I'm REALLY looking forward to this," Gregory smirked, rubbing his hands together.

"So am I! Him talking about it is making me drool," Vanessa giggled.

Freddy looked at him through the rearview mirror, "When we get Cassie to her... er, guardians... residence, and get her back to our place, and get Gregory his STITCHES-" The boy whined at that. "-We'll do some shopping! And throw a party!"

"Did somebody say... we can break windows?" Monty was heard saying.

"Nobody said you can break windows," Chica laughed.

"But, we can break them though, right?"

"The hell you are!' Vanessa's voice now.

Bonnie and Roxy were grinning now. "Dude! PARTY like the actual animals we are, baby," Bonnie said next, wrapping an arm around Roxy and shaking her- to which the wolf grinned back.

"No one's breaking ANYTHING in my house! You hear me? Break anything, and I kick you all to the curb!"

"No promises~" Bonnie and Monty sing-songed.

Cassie leaned back against him and rattled his jaw, "Be nice! This woman's giving you her home for Pete's sake!"

To which the rabbit merely smiled sheepishly, "I know. I just wanna give her a hard time. I promise. I'll be good."

"You better," She smiled. "And I promise to make my visit to my aunt's fast so I can join ya'll at the house."

"You better," he parroted back. His paw found her jaw and rattled it back as she had his, "Cuz I don't want to go hunting you down and stealing you away for myself. That'd cause problems for a lot of people."

"Don't I know it," She smiled, relaxing against him and keeping her hand on Roxy's borrowed paw. She hadn't forgotten how terrifying he was when he'd been hunting Vanessa.

Cassie once again reflected on the rabbit behind her; finding the placement of his hold on her rather... intrusively familiar. Once again she was struck by some of his odd habits and traits. And while her dad was never a hippie and didn't talk like Bonnie did, there was no doubt some of the things both say that left an impression on her. 'Honey face' still stood out in her mind too, as well as the way Bonnie was holding her right now. Also a reminder of her father. She felt she should say something, but she didn't. She merely enjoyed being here in this moment; gladdened to have something to look forward too out of this horrid nightmare-

And that's when she remembered.

"Bonnie! Oh my god- didn't you say my dad had something left to give me?"

The rabbit blinked rapidly, then slapped his face. "CARROTS. I damn near forgot again! Right... crap baskets. Yeah!"

"Is it... a song?"

Roxy smiled there, then shrugged, "He wanted us to perform for you. It's supposed to be a custom order but... well, I believe we've mentioned enough of our manager being a right prick?"

"You have," the girl reciprocated.

Roxy then added, "Well, no one's telling us what we can or can't do now so. We're gonna book you a party, and we're gonna play for you. Bonnie, that bass still okay?"

He reached over and patted it, smirking in return, "You bet your tail it is! I ain't letting this baby rot! I aim to use it. Your keyboard still okay by the way?"

"Eh... broke some keys on it during our flight out of there, but modest repair will be better and cheaper than getting a new one," the wolf shrugged.

"Aw man... I just now remembered I broke my guitar..."

"That was badass how you broke it!" Monty added. "Smashing it on DJ was pretty cool. Real way to rock and ROLL right there."

"We can work on getting you a new one," Vanessa said. "Heck, you can pick out whatever you want!"

"Really?"

"Hell yeah! Acoustic, classic, another electric... whatever you want. I'm sure we can find the right one for you."

The group heard shuffling on the other end, then an heartfelt "Thanks bestie. Heya Eclipse? You've been so quiet there I legit forget you were there. You okay?"

The jester bot shrugged- as was evident from the faint whir of servos. "Just... taking a moment. Still absorbing the fact my other sides and I are... well, we're... we're in sync about something for once: We're all out here, talking plans of a future of our choosing. Listening to laughter that is real. Hugging and holding each other and never fearing letting go again-" A contemplative silence followed his words there. "I'm... it'll take me a bit to fully ingratiate myself there- in that mentality. Its a little... difficult to grasp. Sun here has been bothering me for a bit."

"What's he saying?" Chica was heard asking.

"...A lot of things. He and Moon talking about that telescope... about painting. About writing a happy story. He also wants to learn to drive too- Sun says he wants to help drive the kids to school one day?"

"I wouldn't mind!" Gregory said, "Just don't... try tucking me into bed again. Please."

"Moon and Sun both promise," Eclipse replied.

"Guess I'm giving lessons," Freddy smiled.

Cassie felt Bonnie playing with her hair again, and this time Roxy joined in. The wolf's borrowed paws were clumsier with the motions; seeing as Freddy's fingers weren't as long or articulated as Roxy's usual ones (due to the fact she was a keyboardist and she'd been designed to have naturally longer digits and nails). She made due however, gently tracing blue talons through Cassie's brunette mane and sighing.

"I'm half tempted to go into that building with you- give them a good scare- make 'em pay for your surgery so you can get that chip removed."

Bonnie snorted in agreement. "I'd say I would but... I'm afraid if I looked at 'em dead in the eyes, well uh... yeah no. We ain't gonna put that to the test. I'd lose my damn temper."

Cassie grabbed his paws to stop him briefly, staring back at him with intermingling sadness and understanding. "Just how much did my dad tell you?"

"...Enough. He sounded like he needed to vent a lot of times," He gesticulated to his ears. "My ears are long enough. All I did was listen when he needed to talk. And boy, he talked about you and his concern for you a lot."

The girl leaned back against him again. "What did he say of my aunt?"

"Well... to say the least, I know enough that he certainly has no love for them. And the feeling's mutual between 'em," He shrugged, his movement jerking Cassie a tiny bit. "Your dad's a loving guy but... when it comes to them, he seems to forget the filters on his own language and curses like its stylish. And GEEZ he got colorful."

Cassie giggled, "That doesn't surprise me. If it wasn't for me, he'd probably only speak in swears!"

Bonnie threw back his head and chortled, "Your dad's the reason why I started even picking it up!"

"We're almost there," Vanessa said suddenly, seemingly out of the blue. "We'll be at Cassie's residence in a couple minutes, according to the GPS. Freddy, keep close to us."

"Gotcha," he returned.

The smiles vanished, with Roxy producing an odd noise that settled between a squeak and a whine. Cassie didn't even know wolves can squeak! "You better make this fast," she said to the girl. "I'm all wound up just thinking about being near these guys."

"I'll be okay. They'll just let the police know and it'll be okay. I only ask you guys drive off and stay out of sight for a bit. I don't want them seeing these vans..." She sighed. "They'll be difficult about the fact I left for the PizzaPlex as it is."

"I'm surprised you live this far from the PizzaPlex," Gregory blinked. "How'd you even get there?"

"Taxi."

He stared at her, "You stole taxi fair from your aunt, didn't you?"

"I'm not sorry about it," she waved off. "She deserves it."

"On that, we can both agree," Bonnie retorted.

---

ROXANNE WOLF

The wolf watched Cassie hobble to the front of her residence in this tidy neighborhood; whining on and off as Cassie stopped at the door. She waited until they drove off the road to knock; as was planned. They only drove a short ways off however; watching from the tree-line as the front door opened and the person whose supposed to be taking care of Cassie took in the sight of her.

Bonnie was heard growling next to her; an odd, horrid noise from him. His animosity felt personal; but its something she shared with the rabbit. She too snarled, watching as what they can assume was Cassie's aunt reach out and grab the girl's shoulders. There was a firm grip there; chastising in nature, and less what one would think should be considered 'concerned'. No, this woman was concerned, but she showed it weird- and the way she doled out the sentiment couldn't be less misplaced.

Roxy and Bonnie felt their growls raise slightly as the aunt was seen almost lecturing Cassie as she was ushered inside. That was that- gone, and they had no means of contacting her again until she got a hold of her aunt's computer; according to her. Apparently Cassie even got the fake Gregory's message because of her old PizzaPlex account. But now that the plex was now a memory and its services have likely shut down with it, it'd be hard to get a hold of her again-

But M.X.E.S, the ever clever program offered a solution to this issue: While Cassie's chip was still in need of removal, the chisel-cheeked rabbit suggested that, since they had control of it now thanks to Vanny willingly giving it up, he can make a connection to it and they can ping Cassie via said chip. She can communicate back thanks to Helpi being online again in her noggin. Once she was in the clear, she'd send the bots a message about coming back for her.

For the time being, Freddy hummed sadly and said, "Guess we drive to the hospital now. Let Gregory get his wound checked."

Roxy kept glaring at the woman she briefly seen; imprinting her mug to memory. No doubt Bonnie was doing the same. She didn't argue however, knowing that Gregory's wound was pretty bad.

Bonnie eventually faced Freddy, "By chance... Are we just gonna, like, go home ourselves? Or wait 'til the stitches are done?"

The bear gently touched Gregory's scalp, passing Bonnie a look, "We can all go to the hospital... we'd just hafta stay in the parking lot. That'd be pretty boring though, and Vanessa said I should take one of the vehicles there and get you settled in while she and Gregory are in the building. It'll take them a while to do it- in fact, last I recall, Vanessa needs them too. For her side!"

"This is stupid..." Gregory sighed.

"No its not, my boy. You need the care, and been needing it for days," Freddy gently reminded him. His talons traced the kid's scalp in gentle motions. "I'd feel better if you do this. Please, at least do this for me?"

"I know... I know. I will, papa bear."

Freddy bumped his nose with Gregory's own; getting a squeak! from his sniffer. "I appreciate that. Thank you."

Roxy huffed, then asked, "So... can we all send Cassie messages? Kinda like how we send messages to each other? Kinda weird."

"It is... and I don't much like the idea of its use," Freddy agreed.

Gregory gestured, "Its why I also gave Cassie my watch. She'd need to keep it hidden from her aunt though... otherwise she'll throw it away. If we run into an issue with one thing, we'll at least still have the other. But now that we're on that-" He frowned at Bonnie now. "Hey... you and M.X.E.S sure you took care of Vanny's influence in that thing?"

Bonnie's expression was unreadable. However, he did affirm, "Vanny won't bother the girl anymore. She... crap baskets, I dunno how to explain this... but we kinda 'talked'?"

"...Was that what you can 'talking'?" Monty was suddenly heard saying. "Cuz I saw you 'n her sittin' there-"

Bonnie's gaze sharpened- something Roxy couldn't miss since she was so close to him. "You saw?" He said, his tone weirdly cryptic.

"Wanted to ask ya about that. She had a hold of you- coulda killed ya," Monty was heard saying. "You thought my legs were broken and I didn't see, huh?"

"Yeah... I did. Well damn! Now I hafta explain that bit, huh?"

"Ya think? Bitch looked like she was huggin' you. The hell were you doin'? Fuckin' her?"

Bonnie garbled and sputtered, "OF COURSE NOT MAN. GEEZ! I mean, I know I'm too irresistible and all, and even Vanny thinks so but like- heck no. I'd rather choke on battery acid!"

Roxy narrowed her mismatched optics at him, "The hell even took you so long to deal with her? We almost died back there waiting on you!"

Bonnie had the good graces to look contrite. He sighed and bowed his head at them in apology, "She had a LOT to say. She stayed at the PizzaPlex on purpose to talk to me in person. She wanted to talk to me-" He shook his head, "Pretty much every time I've ever interacted with her, its always from behind a screen or a vent or... Cassie herself. But then, she coulda ran, but she didn't. She stayed to talk to me, despite the risk it posed." He passed Roxy an odd look- something she couldn't make out. "She stayed to die. Told me herself that she wasn't going to run anymore, and she had no interest in hurting Cassie like we thought she would. She likes Cassie too! If she hadn't, she coulda killed the girl any time. She had more control of the situation than any of us thought- In fact-"

He blinked rapidly, then frowned. "The way the building came down... Like, in increments. I wager she could've just collapsed all of the atrium on top of us and kill us if she wanted after we all went down there. But she didn't. She let us walk out-" He scratched his head, "She stalled some of the explosions, probably. Or put tanks in places where the damage wouldn't be so rapid- she really coulda done us in any time. We truly were at her mercy."

He sat against the wall of the bus, his arms on his drawn-up knees. "I know its weird to say but... I really don't think we have to worry about Vanny anymore. She gave up, willingly. Said I was uh... I was like the epitome of Afton's work? The total binding of synthetic and metaphysical material? Said she didn't want to destroy that. Called me beautiful for it too! Ha-" His laugh was purely ironic there. "But nah, she just wanted to let me know how she felt and let herself be taken by the tangle. She accepted defeat in the end- I wish I knew how her mind worked, honestly. It's real weird, not gonna lie."

"Afton's work... of course," Vanessa was heard saying. "You guys were made with remnant. And considering that blood trail on your face... I'm guessing Vanny saw you as something akin to a dream come true and her high regard of you was why she gave up. She'd never do anything to disrupt Afton's work... she gives herself to his cause completely and utterly- like the freak zealot she is. She'd probably see you as something GREATER than him-" She considered something else, and then, "Maybe she sees that in all of you? Though, I wish I can say for sure."

"She did, or something thereabouts," Bonnie confirmed. "She wanted ME, I know that much. She wanted me all to herself, told me as much. Told me and looked at me like I'm the greatest thing ever. But I guess, since she couldn't have me... she just gave herself over to my command. She saw me as something like uh... man this is weird as hell, but something greater than her master. Guess she became my own freaky fanatic in the end."

"If that's the case, then I think we can trust she will not mess with Cassie anymore at all, to some extent," Freddy said. "Her behavior at the end was... strange. But, it is a cultist's mentality... and their zeal is easily greater than most would ever perceive. And considering the way she went out, and the fact she could've destroyed us but didn't..."

"Yeah. I know she coulda been lying but-" Bonnie shook his head, "I really don't think she did there. She was her truest self at the end. I think she was happy with that too."

"She doesn't deserve peace," Gregory bit with clear venom.

Roxy agreed with him, growling lowly.

Bonnie only shrugged, "Welp, kiddo. To take a famous quote, 'Life isn't about what you deserve, but what you reap'. And Vanny's reaped enough."

On the other end of the communication, there was a shuffling noise. Then, Eclipse spoke up, "In the meantime... can we get underway? I do believe miss Vanessa here and Gregory need their wounds checked and we need to rest! And I'd love to see the house!"

There was sounds of agreement everywhere. And then, "Alright people. I'll briefly stop near the house, drop you all off, and get Greg and myself to the doctor's. Ya'll offload the repair module and the armature and get cracking in the garage too, if it can be managed. I want to get you guys a repair station set up ASAP. I'm also gonna contact a good friend of mine- he'll help ya'll out."

Freddy blinked, then smiled, "Oh! Is it Luis? He'd be of much help actually!"

"Yup! He can definitely set you guys up. Bonnie, I only ask you don't kill him."

"Why would I kill him?" Bonnie blinked.

"Cuz he's a Fazbear technician and programmer. He's already looking for better job opportunities for a nerd like himself, just so he ain't associated with them anymore. I promise, I can vouch for him. He can take care of you the times I can't."

"I can vouch for him too," Freddy winked. "He helped Vanessa with maintenance on me and helped her get the house she lives at! He's good, despite his current occupation."

Bonnie blinked and sighed, Roxy doing the same next to him. Roxy even growled, "You're sure we can trust this guy? What if he reports us?"

Freddy waved it off, "He would've done so with me already. He won't sell us out!"

"He better not," Bonnie hissed.

"He won't! Now come on, let's get you guys home," Vanessa smiled through her tone.

"I can get used to hearing that," Chica said.

"Then do so. No one's stopping you," Vanessa chirped.

"No. No one's stopping us anymore," Freddy also grinned, his tone a bubbling mixture of saccharine sweetness and pure giddy enthusiasm. "And they won't again!"

"PARTY! PARTY PARTY PARTY-!" Monty started whooping.

Suddenly all the bots started chanting that as they revved the vans. Roxy looked back at the house though, and couldn't help but notice from the second story of it, a single silhouette arrested on their general location in the tree-line. When the buses started to move, the figure waved-

Roxy leaned out the window, lifting her arm high and waved back. She let Cassie see that she noticed; and this, she swore, would be the last time they were apart. Once Cassie tied up her loose ends here, she knew they'd have all the time in the world to spend with her. And they would keep waving too, up until they couldn't see each other.

Beside her, Bonnie had joined her at some point, having done the same. His expression was torn, but it perked up noticeably as he turned to look at her, "We'll have forever with her, the next time we meet. I'll make sure of that."

"I believe it. I know for a fact I'd be making sure of that too," The wolf promised.

"I've never known a greater love in the world than the compassion that girl has. Call me greedy, but I want all that sweetness to myself!" Bonnie chortled.

"...Did Vanny say the same to you?" Roxy goaded.

"Shut up," He clipped back, but then he grabbed Roxy's muzzle and butted his tiny nose against hers too. He poured as much of his love he had into the motion; the contact rough but not unpleasantly so. A warming bloom grew inside Roxy's motor; simulating the sensation of a skipping heart. Her tail wagged at the tip.

Indeed, it was right here did Roxy truly realize, they really did have all the love they could ever need.

And that was an absolute.