Question of Freedom {Freedom AU} [Book One]

Chapter Eighteen

  With some help from Fredrick, Chica was sewing away at the small tears in Freddy's vest. Earlier, she had found a small metal box stored in the back room, whose contents consisted of a couple sizes of sewing needles, and two colors of thread. Black and light gray.

Choosing the black thread, Chica figured it would look less obvious than the gray against Freddy's almost dark brown—almost black—polished cotton vest, and it's small handful of black buttons.

"I think that's it." Chica said, as she used a very small pair of scissors to cut the thread. "Very well done." Fred complimented, as she held up the vest to get a better look at it. "Cupcake!" Carl said, although Chica interpreted it as also a compliment on her sewing job.

"Here you go, Freddy!" She exclaimed, getting up to give the piece of clothing to the bear. "Thanks!" Freddy responded, as he put the vest on while also getting a look at it. The vest looked to be brand new.

"Nice to see you all patching yourselves up." The Marionette commented, making his way over to the three. Freddy glanced over to him. "Oh, thanks. I think?" Puppet smirked. "Actually, it's a good thing," He began, Fredrick and Chica also looked at him. "I have some news for everyone." Puppet told, raising his voice a little to get everyone else's attention. It worked, as pretty much everyone in the room approached the table the four were gathered at. Freddy then asked, "What's the news?"

"Well, from what I've been hearing, a new location will be opening just a town over." The Marionette answered, continuing with, "It won't be as big as this place, but they'll be needing mascots for that location anyways." Puppet was earning many curious looks. He looked at Freddy and his gang. "You four will be going to that location."

"Really?" He nodded, answering Bonnie. The 'originals' all exchanged glances that appeared to be only a little bit excited. Their expressions looked more conflicted, in truth. "When would this be?" Freddy asked him. "In about A week, I think." The bear hummed.

"Aren't you guys excited?" Puppet wondered. The four looked back to him. "I mean, don't get me wrong, we're happy that we'll get to perform again, but..." Freddy's words trailed off. His British replacement picked up on what the other bear was trying to say. "You'd miss us?" All four nodded. The Marionette hummed. "What?"

"Maybe you wouldn't have to miss each other." Puppet said, looking as though a lightbulb had gone off in his head. "What d'ye mean?" Foxy asked curiously. "I'm sure I could easily find a way for you guys to keep in touch. A phone number, maybe?" A few peoples' expressions lit up a bit. "You really think we could just call each other?"

"Sure! Why not?" Puppet told with a shrug. "I could arrange that, no problem." Smiles grew following that statement, as the mood seemed to have lightened. After all of them being excused by the Marionette, everyone continued on their night, now seeming excited about the new location.

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The new location's storage room felt more like a broom closet. Gold never really found himself to be claustrophobic, but found this to be the rare exception. Not long after waking up, did the golden bear notice the absence of his old friend. His first thoughts, were that he'd probably been left behind at the Toys' location, or maybe he was taken to one of the company's warehouses which Puppet had mentioned a few times.

Sighing to himself, the bear got up and went to open the room's door. He was surprised to find it locked–from the outside, no less. Rolling his dark eyes a little, Gold instead opted for teleporting out of the room. A moment was all it took for him to realize he couldn't do that. He'd never seen the rest of this building before, meaning he couldn't teleport elsewhere. He realized this meant it would take him trying to visualize what the other side of the door looked like if were ever to teleport out.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the building, the main four were already awake and exploring the newer, and smaller location. It looked to have been decorated for the upcoming winter holiday of Christmas, every decoration appearing to be brand new as opposed to the old and re-used ones from their first location. It was a nice change.

"This place seems bigger than our old location, don't it, Freddy?" Bonnie asked, having met back up with the bear in the main dining area. "Yeah, sure looks like it, Bon." Freddy agreed, taking another glance around. "'Ave any of ye seen Puppet?" Foxy suddenly asked, also making his way back to the dining area. Bonnie shook his head 'no', Freddy responding with, "I take it by your question, you haven't seen him either?"

"Nay, Cap'n." Foxy answered with a shrug and a shake of his head. Then, Chica and Carl came back to the room, too. "Cupcake!" Carl cried out, followed by Chica translating with, "We haven't seen him, either." The bear hummed, a thought coming to him. "They must've left him back with the Toys, then."

"Ye t'ink?" Freddy nodded, Bonnie commenting, "He did have a pretty good set up in that 'Prize Corner', in my opinion." Everyone seemed to agree with that. "Well, then," The group's leader began again. "In that case, we have nothing to worry about!"

"What are we worryin' about?" Gold asked, having suddenly appeared behind his younger brother. Freddy, nearly jumping out of his skin in fright, stumbled forward a little. Turning around sharply, he all-but-glared at his older brother. "Gold...! What was that for?" The older bear gave a shrug. "My bad, still learnin' the layout of this place is all."

"Sure..." Brushing his brother's suspicious glare off, Gold then asked, "What were y'all talkin' about?" Composing himself, Freddy answered, "We came to the conclusion that Puppet's probably back at the last location, since none of us could find him." The golden bear hummed. "That must be where Springtrap is too."

"Um, 'Springtrap'? Wait, do you mean SpringBonnie?" Gold nodded in answer to his brother's question. "He's decided to go by 'Springtrap' now. It's mainly to avoid any confusion, but we also heard from Puppet that accordin' to the humans, 'SpringBonnie' no longer exists." He explained, a small sigh tagging onto the end of his words. "Oh, that's odd."

"Yeah, but that's the company for ya." Freddy hummed. "Unfortunately."