In the Darkness There Is Shade

12 - Doubts are pouring down like rain

Theodor ran by himself. Behind him ran the others, Leo, Lily, Stella, Jack, Max and Charlie. Golden Freddy was left in ruins, so the others headed towards Leo's house. Finally they reached the house surrounded by a small Forest belonging to Leo and his father, and began to walk around looking for any traces of the robot. Unfortunately, they found nothing outside, so they headed into the forest.
The seven of them began to search places among the trees, and bushes looking for any gleam of metal.
Suddenly, Leo saw something in the distance. It looked quite strange, and no one else seemed to see it. Leo decided to approach it.
He slowly walked away from his house and began to walk towards the thing. As he got closer, he realized that it was an animatronic.
The boy walked even closer, and touched it. It was an animatronic that looked like Mangle, but had purple and green elements instead of pink. Leo walked around the robot and found a button to turn it on. In fear, he pressed it.
The robot's eyes lit up purple, and he looked around. He looked at the boy and slowly touched him with his nose.
- Hello - the robot said in a halting and broken voice.
- Hello - Leo replied. - Goldy said we were to find you because only you know how to get rid of William. Is that true?
- True - the robot replied in a halting voice.
- What's your name? I mean the animatronic's name.
- Tangle - the robot replied.
- Very strange name.
The robot looked around, as if trying to find something.
- Goldy. Where. - he asked.
Leo thought for a moment.
- Can you only speak in single words?
The robot nodded. Leo gasped, devastated, but quickly looked at his friends who were waiting for them.
- Goldy is in the ruins of the pizzeria. We can take you.
- We? - Tangle asked.
I pointed to my friends in the distance.
- We - he confirmed.
Leo started walking towards his friends, the metallic robot behind him. Huge and loud animatronic footsteps made a sound with each step.
The whole team with the robot started walking towards the ruins, when after a while Charlie felt drops on her. She looked up, and saw that it was starting to rain.
- It's raining! - she shouted and started running towards the ruins.
The whole team looked at the robot and started running after Charlie except for Leo. Leo helped Tangle to reach the goal.
The whole team started running down the valley towards the ruins, the robot with Leo.
Finally they reached the entrance, and it was raining a little harder.
Leo pushed the robot into the ruins, and he ran after it.
The whole team was panting from exhaustion except for Leo, who is a robot so he doesn't get tired. Finally they started walking towards the kitchen. A storm broke out outside. Lightning struck the ground from time to time in the distance.
Finally they reached Goldy.
- We have the Tangle robot - Theodor replied.
Goldy opened his eyes. "I think he was asleep" thought Leo.
- Oh, you're here. Again - he said in a sleepy voice.
- Yes, we are. What's next? - Charlie asked.
- Leave it to me. I'll get it out and come up with a plan to defeat William with the robot in the blink of an eye - Goldy replied.
The whole team nodded and started to leave when suddenly Max asked:
- Why should we trust you?
Both machines looked at him curiously. Goldy walked up to him and brought his face close to the boy's face so that his nose touched his.
- Because you have no one else, and I'm your only hope. That's why - he said in a serious voice, whispering to the boy loud enough for everyone in the team to hear.
The robot walked away with the second robot into the kitchen and they left the children alone.
- Are you sure it was a good idea to ask them? - Theo said.
- Yeah. Miles said we can't trust anyone. So I don't trust anyone except our crew.
The entire crew nodded in understanding and they sat down on the chairs that had survived in the pizzeria, waiting for the storm to pass.