Funtime Foxy sat on his stage, hitting the ping-pong ball with his wooden racket. His half-lidded eyes bored through the semi-dark room, his free hand resting on his cheek. His ears perked up immediately when he heard the doorknob twist and turn; it was Funtime Freddy. Foxy beamed the brightest smile on the sight of his best friend. He got on his feet and dashed towards him. Freddy closed the door behind him, only to be met with Foxy's open arms pulling him into a tight hug.

"GA—AH! Foxy!...It's—very—nice to— meet you-" The bear's words were delivered between breaks as Foxy's bone-crushing hug squeezed him. This is unfair, I'm a bear! I should be the one giving bear hugs... Funtime Freddy was a little shorter than his fox friend, so he was half-lifted off the ground.

"Oh Fred, I haven't seen you all day!" Funtime Foxy exclaimed who released the bear and grabbed his shoulders while looking at him in the eyes. Freddy

blinked and gave a nervous smile, "Aha-" he patted Foxy's head, "it's great seeing you too!"

Foxy's ears perked up again, "Hey! You wanna pay a visit to R.A? It's been a while since I've spoken to her.." Funtime Foxy's ears slightly dropped down, "I feel bad..T T"

"Don't worry! I know she won't mind." Funtime Freddy replied hoping that Foxy doesn't take him along. Though he liked greeting new people, but he was the anxious. He feared embarrassment and uttering something which may be the cause of Freddy digging a hole and never coming back out.

"Fred! You should come with me!" Freddy imagined a glass breaking in his head and gave a nervous, teeth smile. Oh why must the universe do this to me?!

"From what I know so far, R.A's actually a pretty chill person, but she's quiet most of the time and likes to spend her day in her room. I'm guessing she doesn't like social interaction that much." Elly explained as she decided to tag along with the two Funtimes.

"True, true. Maybe she got so terrified of you from the day she was dragged here that she doesn't even come out of her room!" Funtime Foxy threw his head back, placed both hands on his 'stomach' and broke down in loud laughter. Elly just- stood there, her eyebrows pulled down with half-lidded eyes, "Seriously?" She responded after a while.

"Hey, I have a question. Where's Ennard? Don't tell me he broke another doorknob again!" Yenndo, the animatronic endoskeleton with pale yellow eyes appeared out of nowhere which was enough for Foxy to put a halt to his laughter. His eyes went wide and turned his head slowly in a terrified manner, "Wh-where did you come from?!" Foxy exclaimed, pointing a finger at him.

"I..came from the..um..Private Room! Yeah! Private Room. I'm looking for Ennard because Lolbit told me to call him."

"Ahh," Foxy put both hand behind his head, "I see, I see. Well, he's probably hanging out with R.A cause, those two have gotten pretty close- considering the fact that Ennard never gives a lift to newcomers. He's always been the reserved and cold type y'know? Nowadays, I just see him with R.A, and he's reallyyyy happy so, yeah!"

Does- does that mean we're not gonna pay R.A a visit?! Sweet heavens! Funtime Freddy thought and turned around to leave.
"But I guess there's no harm in meeting R.A with Ennard there!" Aaaand Funtime Freddy's dreams were crushed into smithereens.

Meanwhile, Yenndo seemed in a daze, processing all the information he was being told was a load on his sensors. He opened his mouth and widened his eyes in sudden realisation, "Ohhhh! I get it now." He gave a thumbs up and smiled. Elly's gaze broke away from the scene in front of her and saw Jeremy carrying a cardboard box. Curiosity dwelled up inside her and sprinted towards him.

"Hello human!:D" Elly greeted with her sparkly green eyes.

Jeremy gave a warm smile,
"Hello Elly! What's up?"

Elly hugged his leg,
"Nothing much, whatcha doing?" She looked up at him.

"Oh, your brother told me to bring something for him. Dunno what's inside, he told me not to open it." Jeremy noticed Elly whose eyes were glued to the box, examining its every face. Hmm, I wonder what's inside...candies? Stuffed toys?

"You really don't know what's inside?" This set Jeremy off into a rising panic for he knew what the box really contained and broke his gaze for a split second, letting out a forced chuckle and patting her head,
"No Elly, I don't. And besides, it's your brother's right? He won't like it if someone touches his things."

Elly crossed her arms and let out a hmph! Jeremy bent his legs and patted Elly's back.
"I have to go now okay? It was nice talking to you! Bye bye!" Jeremy waved his hand and disappeared into the dark hallway.

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Lolbit turned on the 3 screens placed in front of him which responded with a static noise, soon taking form of a bedroom, a hallway with a chair, and another one showing a bed. Lolbit studied them, both hands placed under his chin with his eyebrows pulled together.

"Did you find anything?" Lolbit whipped his head to see Ennard who was leaning against the door with his arms crossed, his foot resting against the cold door.

Lolbit gave a nod in the negative,
"Not yet. It's the same." Ennard shook his head and let out a grunt.

His dangerous blue eyes stared at the vent above, a sudden urge of crawling through it rising in his chest. Just what are you playing at Afton? You think you're so smart? Tch, humans. Creating something smarter than them is quite an embarrassment for you isn't it?
The clown balled his hand into a fist at the thought of Afton. How much he wanted to shred off every inch of his skin with the Scooper. Just as he was planning on ways to get rid of Afton, a knock on the door alarmed him and got out of the way. He pressed the button next to the door and it opened, dimly lit rays of light entering the room.

"R.A! What a surprise! You made your way here by yourself?" Ennard's face lit up and let her come inside.

"Yeah, I almost got lost if it wasn't for Vivian." She gave out an embarrassed giggle, feeling her cheeks warm up a bit. R.A's eyes fell upon the 3 screens, but saw nothing because Lolbit had switched them off the second she stepped in.

"Wow, I've never seen this room before!" She exclaimed in amazement, taking slow steps and looking around the room, admiring the large screens. She saw a golden plushie with a purple hat and bow tie holding a mini walkie talkie, and next to it was a plush version of Ennard.

"Awww!" she picked it up with a bright smile, "look Ennard, it's you!"

The clown advanced towards her and stopped,
"Ehe yep! That's me, except my plush version is bald!" The both of them giggled.

Lolbit pulled his brows together, and crossed his arms. He slouched against his seat, and glared at the two talking figures in front of him. From the corner of his eye, Ennard noticed Lolbit's sudden change in the mood, but didn't say anything. Instead, he turned away and looked at R.A who was busy staring at the open vent above her.

"Hmm..do these vents connect all the rooms within this place?" R.A inquired, her head cocked to the side.

Lolbit, who was still slouched against his seat with crossed arms, narrowed his eyes at the dragon and let out a low, unfriendly snarl. R.A's head shot in the direction of the snarl, and her eyes fell onto Lolbit. Looks like he doesn't like me that much. Oh well, not my problem.
As the snarl didn't sound again, R.A slowly turned her head, her eyes scanning the room, finally looking back at Ennard with a light smile. Tch, stupid dragon. The orange fox thought to himself.

"THERE YOU ARE!" Funtime Foxy slammed the door open which caused R.A to shriek and accidentally clutched onto the clown's arm, only to slowly remove it out of embarrassment.

"Aha...sorry about that, I got...startled." R.A felt her cheeks warm up, and forced a smile on her face to cover up her embarrassment.

Ennard gave a full-teeth smile and patted her head,
"It's alright! I don't mind."

"Are you guys done with your wholesome moment?" Both R.A and Ennard stared at Funtime Foxy with an stern look on their faces.

"Foxy, what the hell?" Ennard hissed with gritted teeth.

Foxy ignored Ennard's comment and wrapped an arm around R.A,
"Now that I have found you, how about we go play some paintball?!"

"GAH! P-paintball?! What's that?" She exclaimed, her neck stinging with sudden pain.

"You'll see don't worry!" Funtime Foxy's voice had gotten much louder, it was as if his voice was coming from the speaker embedded onto his chest.

Ennard raised his hand in R.A's direction and opened his mouth to say a few words but then,
"RIGHTY-O! If you're done with your business here, I will take this initiative and take you with ME!" And with that, Funtime Foxy excitedly dragged R.A with him who was screaming which soon faded into the distance.

Ennard let out a long, exasperated sigh and shook his head. He didn't like it when he was talking to someone and a third person would enter as they desire and take that person away from him. He collapsed into the chair behind it, throwing his head back and squeezed his eyes shut. A sudden, pained expression clouded over his face.

"Now do you understand why I don't want to get close to anyone?" He heard Lolbit say all of a sudden and lifted his head to see his fox friend. Ennard had no idea why Lolbit said that, it was simply out of the blue.

"Yeah," Ennard looked away not wanting to make eye contact, "I knew that already." He stared off into the distance, not in the mood to be indulged into a conversation.

"Ennard." Lolbit's sudden concrete, serious tone forced the clown to look at him.

"What?" Ennard said with a hostile glare, his jaw clenched. Lolbit kept silent for a few moments and observed the sudden change in his friend's mood.

The fox sighed,
"Look, I'm sorry for whatever reason you're mad at, but you do know that R.A will eventually have to leave right? She can't stay down here forever."

Just what Ennard wanted. He felt more anger rising in his chest and let out a 'tch' and looked away immediately, his eyes more squinted. He wanted to avoid this topic, but now that Lolbit mentioned it, he couldn't stop thinking about it. Numerous thoughts ran through his head, was R.A really at home down here? Does she miss the outside world? Doesn't she want to go into the cozy sun? Meanwhile, Funtime Freddy entered the room in search of BonBon and noticed the intense atmosphere. He observed Ennard's peculiar behaviour and immediately felt something was off and kept his distance. He went over to Lolbit, and said a few words to him,

"Lolbit, don't say anything further, y-you'll provoke him completely." Freddy whispered,"I-I feel like something bad's going to happen..." The bear gulped and looked at Ennard once again who was now staring at the floor.

Freddy's ears perked up when he heard breathing, heavy breathing. He even looked back to see if someone was behind him, it felt so near. Oh no, Ennard's acting up again! Oh dear, I knew something was off! Funtime Freddy looked at Lolbit desperately, mentally begging him to not proceed further, but Lolbit didn't receive the message.

"And what if she wants to stay? Why are you trying to send her away? Why are you talking like him all of a sudden?" Ennard spat back, still looking at the floor. Funtime Freddy took a few steps back, and his hand began to shake in an odd trembling rhythm. It was as if he was standing there for hours, paralysed to the spot. The intense atmosphere downing onto him like a tightened grip.

"Me? Talking like him? Listen to me, Ennard. Afton does NOT know about R.A's presence yet, for how LONG do you intend on going like this? Just- how long will you be able to keep it up?"

Ennard gave no response, he only clenched his fists and jaw,
"I won't let him find out. I will NOT let him take away anybody else. I will not let him succeed."

"What happens if Afton finds out? What do you think he'll do? He'll be mad and R.A will be the one in danger." Lolbit began talking at a much quicker pace which seemed to be making Ennard more angry than before.

"What if he uses the Scooper on her? What will you do then, huh?"

CRASH!

Ennard threw his chair at the glass window Funtime Freddy was standing next to. The bear gasped, immediately ducking down and grabbing his ears. The glass shattered into smithereens, its shards scattering in all directions. Ennard didn't intend on throwing the chair at Freddy, but did it out of immense pain.

"SO WHAT?! WHAT IF HE FINDS OUT?!" Freddy whimpered and slowly got up with wobbly knees. Ennard's booming voice startled him and attracted attention of the minireenas who were playing nearby.

"WHY ARE YOU TRYING SO HARD TO SEPARATE HER FROM ME? AM I THAT DANGEROUS?" He took a break in between. Ennard's pale blue eyes were now glowing bloodshot red, just like his hair.

"EVEN IF THAT FUCKING BASTARD FINDS OUT, I WILL DEAL WITH HIM PERSONALLY IF HE LAYS A HAND ON MY FAMILY!"

Lolbit's eyes were widened and was now regretting not listening to Funtime Freddy's warning.

"Why can't you try to understand, Lolbit, why? Why? I am just trying to protect her. I want her to stay. What if she has nowhere to go? What if something happens to her because of me? It'll be my fault. My fault that I failed to protect her," Ennard said calmly, sounding more hurt than aggressive.

"Ennard..." Funtime Freddy said calmly and grew quiet. Ennard walked towards the exit and stopped,
"Don't you dare mention the Scooper and R.A's name in one sentence ever again."

The clown stormed out the room, slamming the door behind him, leaving Lolbit and Funtime Freddy to wrap up the mess Ennard had left behind.