Chapter 14: Uncle Gabriel's
Freddy and the gang arrived to building 37B. However, it looked like the doors were locked and there was a security system installed. So in the meantime, they weren't getting into the building until it's open for any events.
"Oh come on!" said Freddy, "The one time we need to go in there!" "There goes our hopes rather quickly," said Chica. "What do we do now?" asked Foxy. "I say we do activities until it those doors open," Bonnie suggested. "It probably won't open for many more hours, but I have to agree" said Fredbear, "But in doing so, we might have to visit someone I don't want to visit. However, I think he might be of SOME use." "Who's that?" asked Chica. "My damn brother!" said Fredbear in complete agitation. "A.k.a. my Uncle Gabriel," said Freddy.
Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy just looked at each other until they realized who Freddy was referring to. "Oh, I remember him!" said Foxy, "He sold some green to me and Freddy." "And then Freddy tried to convince me to sell my favorite guitar for more of it," added Bonnie, not amused, "Spoiler alert, it didn't work." "No offense, but I don't see how Gabriel could be of any use," said Chica, "Without his weed, he acts like he has crippling depression. I think that's a sign that he's slowly dying on the inside."
"That's typical Gabriel," Fredbear said, "I don't know where he went wrong, but once he started hanging around with his stoner girlfriend, things crumbled faster than the twin-" "Let's not go there please," Freddy interrupted, "Case and point, my father and uncle aren't on the best of terms. But we'll see what we can get out of him regardless."
Fredbear directed Bonnie on where to go and how to get to where Gabriel was. They ended up going to this odd neighborhood. Some of it were houses, while some were trailers, and even some were apartments. This definitely wasn't in town, but rather the next town over.
They stopped at a red light and to the right of them, there was a trailer home. The door on there swung wide open and out came a Grey Fox and white cat. The grey fox was coughing like mad from all the smoke that came out from the inside of the trailer. "That's some good shit!" he said, "Where did you get it?" "I got it off of Moris!" said the cat, as she too coughed, "She knows how to make the good stuff..."
Fredbear's eyes went wide, "Oh for God's sake," he sighed as his look surprised went to a look of disappointment, "Of course there's more that are just like Gabriel!" "Umm, does he know that weed is legalized?" asked Foxy in a whispered tone. "My dad was born nearly 70 years ago, so he's just gonna be naturally bitter about weed," Freddy whispered back, "Never gave me a problem about it, but that's probably because I never did it, except that one time that my uncle sold it to you and me." "Or maybe it's because your his son, so he sees it differently," Foxy whispered.
The van pulled up to a 6 story apartment that didn't look to be in the best shape. "This is the place," said Fredbear, with a bit of regret in his voice, "Gabriel's house. Or rather the apartment he lives in." "This looks like Blank's crack den of a house," said Freddy. "It's not too far off either," said Bonnie. "Wait a minute, this is where my sister lives!" said Chica, "Talk about a weird coincidence. I think I might give her a little hello while I'm here."
The gang went inside and while it didn't look good outside, the inside looked much better. "I'm gonna say hello to Susie, if anyone wants to come along for it," said Chica. "I'll come along," said Bonnie. "Me too, since I am good friends with her," added Foxy, "Susie was the one who actually got me to meet the love of my life. As for me love, she's on vacation for the month in Georgia." "You guys can do that, while me and my dad go talk to Gabriel," said Freddy. "I'm sure it'll keep you all busy since my brother can just ramble for an eternity," said Fredbear. The gang split up on the second floor, with Chica, Bonnie, and Foxy stopping there to see Susie, while Freddy and Fredbear continued on until they reached the fourth floor.
Freddy and Fredbear walked up to the first door. Fredbear took a deep breath, "This better be worth it." Freddy knocked on the door, and within seconds, footsteps could be heard. Then a thump could be heard, as of someone fell over. "Ugh, Goddammit!" said a voice. The door then opened and it was Gabriel's girlfriend, who was a Kodiak Bear. "Hey!" she greeted, "Thought you and your son wouldn't show up." "Give it a rest Cassidy," Fredbear said. "Look, this is really important," Freddy explained, "Important enough for me and my father to come out of town to see Gabriel. Is he around?" "Yeah, he's here," replied Cassidy.
She let Freddy and Fredbear in and lead them to where Gabriel was. Gabriel looked very much like Freddy, but withered. He was sitting on a recliner chair with headphones on loud enough that it could be heard. "Is that Linkin Park he's listening to?" asked Freddy. "I don't know what Leaking Park is, but it sounds like a water pipe broke at the park, or someone was walking in the park and couldn't hold in their pee," said Fredbear.
Gabriel then looked to his right and saw his brother and nephew right beside him. He took out the joint he had been smoking. "Fred-" he said before coughing his lungs out, "Fredbear and my little nephew! Oh Freddy, how you've grown!" "We saw each other 3 months ago," said Freddy, "Also, I don't know if you realize I am 41." "Normally I wouldn't come to you for things, but we need your help with something," said Fredbear.
Out of nowhere, Gabriel starting singing the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza theme. "Come on, now's not the time!" groaned Freddy. Gabriel continued on as if he didn't hear his nephew. "Just pathetic!" snapped Fredbear, "I'm gonna say it while your not listening! If you were on the poll of the upcoming election, I'd rather vote in that convicted criminal or that dementia patient over you any day!"
Just then, yelling could be heard on the other side of the wall. Potentially one of Gabriel's neighbors who was angry. Suddenly, an airhorn sounded off. This made Gabriel scream in fear as he didn't expect that. After that, he stopping singing.
"Really? That's what stopped you?" asked Fredbear, "If my wife saw this, god rest her soul, she'd wonder how the hell I managed to be more mature than my own older brother." "Now that you are not in your own mind, we have some questions," explained Freddy, "Do you know anything about Building 37B?" "I work as a janitor, sometimes I go to clean that building after events," said Gabriel, "I don't have any keys though, I'm only allowed to have them after events to clean up. My bosses call, not mine." "Do you know anyone who might have the key to the place?" asked Fredbear. Gabriel seemed to drift off until he said, "Eh...maybe so and so? Whoever that one building owner's name is. I don't know what it is."
This was disappointing to Freddy and Fredbear, but far from surprising. "If we can't get the keys, when is the next event?" asked Freddy. "Tonight at 8pm," replied Gabriel as he smoked a joint, before coughing. Freddy's face lit up, "Yes! I had a gut feeling you were useful!" "Useful to SOME extent," said Fredbear, "At least Gabriel didn't have the nerve to go on about stuff that ment nothing." Gabriel stopped coughing and said, "Some kind of social event on the first floor, but nothing on the second as far as I know. Why do you need this information from me?" "It's a long story, but I'll save it for after all of this," said Fredbear.
Freddy and his dad got the information they needed and were gonna leave. "By the way, before you leave," said Gabriel, "Can one of you go grab that tennis ball gun?" asked Gabriel, "I wanna do some practice at the tennis court after you guys leave." Freddy went to go grab it, but as he did so, Gabriel's neighbor started to yell again. The airhorn went off again, and this caused Freddy to pull the trigger. A tennis ball shot out and hit Freddy in the crotch as a honk sounded.
"My Fazballs!" he groaned as he grabbed ahold of himself, before falling on his knees and to the ground. "Did that noise come from Freddy?" asked Gabriel. "Yeah, the ball honk gets it from his father," replied Fredbear casually, "The nose honk he gets from his mother, god rest her soul."
Freddy got back up. "Can we please not talk about how both my balls and nose can honk?" he sighed, "Here's your tennis gun." Gabriel got out of his chair and was gonna grab it until more yelling was heard from his neighbor. Then the airhorn sounded once more. This spooked Freddy and caused him to pull the trigger. This time though, he unintentionally shot at Gabriel's face and this made Gabriel fall down to the ground.
"Oh my god, I think I just killed Uncle Gabriel!" said Freddy. Fredbear started to smile at the thought of that. Then Gabriel started snoring. "Oh what a silly goose, he's just asleep!" said Cassidy as she smoked a joint. "Oh thank god," sighed Freddy in relief. Fredbear sighed though in annoyance.
Meanwhile, the others were in Susie's apartment. She, Chica, Bonnie, and Foxy were watching some basketball on TV. "Ha! He got hit by the ball by his enemy team!" Susie laughed. "Reminds me of when we were younger," said Chica, "Some kid was bullying you in the park and you came to me saying "Help me big sis!" and I showed him to never mess with you again. I took his basketball and threw it right in his face! Nobody is gonna mess with my little sis."
"The red team seems likable, I'll root for them," said Bonnie. "Nah, the blue team seems like the more likable ones, I'll place me bets on them," said Foxy. "And if they lose, I'll be sure to be a thorn in your side." "Ha, I dare ye!"
A knock at the door was heard. "Huh, must be the captain and his father," said Foxy. "That was quicker than I was expecting," Chica added. Susie went to check to see who it was, and just as Foxy and Chica predicted, it was Freddy and his father.
"Sorry for the wait," said Fredbear, "It's must've been at least a whole hou-" "It's only been 30 minutes," Bonnie interrupted. "Case and point, Gabriel gave us the information we needed," said Freddy, "But we won't be going anywhere to that building until those doors open up at 8 o'clock pm." "What?!" exclaimed Foxy. "Uhh, did I miss something?" asked Susie. "I'll explain it after we are finished with this business we are dealing with. In the meantime, we gotta go."
Bonnie and Foxy exited to where Freddy and Fredbear were near the stairs, waiting for Chica. Chica gave her sister a hug before leaving. "Keep in touch Chica, okay?" asked Susie. "You know I will Susie," replied Chica as she exited, "Maybe one of these days I'll see if we can get mom to come over." "Yeah, I imagine it's lonely for her without dad. I miss him." "I miss him too, but he'd want us to continue forward with our lives without him. He'd be proud of how far we had come in just the last 10 years alone. But I'll see ya little sis!" "See ya big sis!"
The gang were in the van, heading back to town. "So let me get this straight, we can't go to building 37B until they unlock the doors at 8pm?" asked Chica. "Yep," Freddy replied, "It sucks, I know. But we can't do anything about it, unless we wanna risk breaking in and then being the wife or husband to an inmate within a month." "I don't wanna be cellmates with Percy the Parrot again," said Bonnie, "If I didn't give him crackers by a certain time, he wouldn't be a happy camper." "How the hell did ye end up in there?" asked Foxy. "Spray painting genitalia on former Mayor Hill's hood when I was 18," said Bonnie with embarrassment written all over his face.
"So what do we do now?" asked Fredbear. "We'll just have to stick in our homes for now," said Freddy, "I don't want to risk me or anyone here to go into jail or prison. We're already under someone's radar, we don't need to draw any more attention." "It's gonna be one boring time waiting for our opportunity," said Bonnie, "But at least Buster will be able to help us."
Just then, Bonnie was getting a call. "Speak of the devil," he said, before pressing the answering button, "Hello?" "Bonnie, are you with you friends?" asked Buster, "If so, put me on speaker immediately." Bonnie did so.
"What's going on?" he asked. "Look guys, I'm sorry to break it to you, but you all might be on your own for this one," explained Buster, "I would join you, but I think I'm being watched by the police, or someone perhaps." "Huh?" said Fredbear. "Could you expand on that statement a little more thoroughly?" asked Freddy. "I'll give it to you like this," Buster continued, "I keep seeing same car going by my house. This has been going on for a solid 45 minutes now. I don't know how long I'm gonna be around to help you guys, I feel like the cops or whoever this is will knock down my door at any moment and take me away."
"You sure it's not Francis and the boys?" asked Bonnie. "Bonnie, they've been locked up for 7 years," replied Buster, "They ain't gonna see the light of day for a while, not after what they did me. Back on the subject though, if I do end up inside, PLEASE be careful with what you do, I'm starting to believe that someone is catching onto us." With that, Buster hung up.
Freddy sighed, "I guess it'll be just us 5 for now." "If he meets Francis and the boys, that will be interesting," said Bonnie. "Who is Francis and the boys?" asked Fredbear. "A group of losers who apparently Buster owed money to," replied Chica. "They had their hands in all types of shite beforehand, so all that kinda racked up," added Foxy.
The situation sucked, especially knowing they had to wait for access to get in and the fact Buster couldn't help them for the time being. But they had no choice, especially since this seemed like the very last thing to do to keep the pizzeria from shutting down. For now, all they could do was wait.
To be continued in the next chapter...
(Chapter 14 published 7/14/24)