1 Chapter 1: Captured

Charlie woke up inside of what she thought was a stomach but it was metal and had what felt like screws but they were longer and sharper than any screw Charlie had ever found. After a few minutes of thinking on what it could be she remembered that she had what it was in her left pocket. It was a spring lock. After realizing what was prodding into her back she tightened so she could get at least an inch away from the fragile form of death. "Oh my god. What am I going to do!" she said but no one was around to hear it so she only talked to the metallic capsule she was in and to herself.

John found himself bleeding at the fingers after Charlie had been consumed by the twisted thing before him. After moments of thought, the monster lunged at him with unnatural speed that an animatronic shouldn't have. He kicked at it but it had been a futile effort and he was being pulled into the capsule. John didn't know what else to do so he grabbed at the dirt underneath his back and found something he could hold onto. He pulled himself out of the things jaw and ran until he couldn't breathe. "Dear god, what was that thing?" He didn't know and he didn't want to go back to find out.

Charlie didn't know what to do. All she knew was that she had to get out of there somehow. She wasn't fully aware of where she was until the inside of the monstrosity got incredibly dark, dirt fell from the top of the cavity, and there was a musty smell in the air and once again she felt like she was somewhere she didn't belong. She was back at Freddy's for another horrific adventure that she hoped would be tame but she knew perfectly well that most hopes don't come true and this hope was one that didn't. At first, Charlie wasn't very scared about being back at Freddy's but once she heard the familiar sounds of the animatronics moving she started freaking out. Luckily, she remembered in time that she was a walking death trap and that one wrong move could mean lights out and closed curtains.

Charlie was blinded by the light of the pizzeria because her eyes haven't seen any light for what felt like days but were most likely hours. After the white light went from her eyes she realized that she was blinded because the container keeping her had opened and she was being pulled out by a familiar golden bear. Michael was pulling her out of the robot she was being held in and the golden bear hugged her like there was no end. "Umm… Do I know you?" she asked but she already knew the answer to that. To her surprise the thing talked with the same voice she knew from so many years ago. "I think you already know that answer to that question Charlie," Michael said "It's me, Michael. Don't you remember me?" Charlie was able to hear the sadness in his voice. "I know you all too well Michael, and I've just been closing myself off from that reality." With somehow showing emotion and understanding the golden body went limp and she saw his old body crawl out of the suit but somehow he had grown and now he was missing an arm. Charlie starting bawling at the sight of an old friend coming back to her. "Hey, Hey, Charlie it's fine I'm not going anywhere." He said while trying to console her. "H-H-How are you alive it's been nearly 20 years?" she asked in between sobs, coughs, and sneezing from the dust in the room. "You would be extremely surprised at how long an arm can last you if you hardly eat at all," he said so calmly that Charlie nearly hit him because of it. "WHAT, YOU ATE YOUR OWN ARM OFF!?" she said screaming at this point but she couldn't help herself she was too shocked at the reality that he was missing an arm because of himself. "Sadly, I had to, otherwise I would've died."

"We thought you were dead for so long that the body had decayed," she said, "why didn't you come out last time we were here?" Michael had no answer for her so he stayed quiet.

After a short while, the other animatronics started moving like they did on their last adventure. "Oh, don't mind them they do that all the time they won't harm us," he said with a calming effect in his voice "They need to move as much as we have to get out of here."

"Michael, last time we were here they tried to kill me and our friends." Michael hadn't known that.

"Look they were only trying to protect their home after you broke into it. Wouldn't you do the same thing?" He retorted "I mean they have been here for over 10 years and just now have they been disturbed. I'm sure you can understand how that feels like after your mother left."

"We promised never to talk about that," she said shyly "you even said yourself that people would mourn your 'death' until you came back."

After a few minutes of talking together the animatronics started moving again. Charlie and Michael started running out of the building before they found a giant brown bear blocking their path. "UNDER IT!" Michael screamed before they both ducked underneath Freddy and kept running. Soon after they slammed the door to the old pizzeria did they hear the banging on the inside of it. "Block it with anything heavy." Charlie remembered the last time they were there as a group to get Jason out of there. She ran to the hall that had the ladder and knocked it down. She grabbed the top step of the ladder and started pulling it to the door. After a few feet of pulling she felt some of the weight fall off of her own arms. She look to her side and saw John helping her move the ladder.

"You didn't think I would let you be here by yourself did you?" He asked sarcastically

"Not… Now John" Charlie heaved.

After a few minutes of pulling the ladder the dropped it in front of the metal door that lead to the pizzeria. The door was slammed closed by more of the slams that they heard. They thought that the animatronics didn't know that the door opened to the inside.

------ 10 Minutes Later ------

Charlie, John and, Michael all headed out to Charlie's car. Charlie suddenly noticed that Michael didn't have any clothes on.

"Ahh… just get in the back seat and get on the floor until we get you some clothes to wear ok, Michael?"

Michael did as Charlie asked and they headed straight for a clothing store. They got him an Aeropostale shirt, a black pair of pants, underwear that Charlie didn't know that name to since she forgot, socks, and a pair of Nike shoes. After Michael was finished clothing he sat up in the back seat and put in his seat belt.

"Are the others ready to meet me yet?" Michael asked nervously.

"Well… I think they will although expect some tears from Marla, OK," John told him "And don't make a big deal about the arm either. If I was in the same situation, I've done it too."

Charlie drove them to the hotel that everyone was staying at. As soon as they got there Marla asked who was in the back seat of the car and why he was so dirty. Michael got out of the car and walked up to Marla. He gave her a hug and said,

"I think you already know who I am". Marla broke into tears and hugged Michael until she noticed that his arm was missing, Michael also told her that he needed air.

They stood there for long minutes just talking like it was just a normal day. It was as if no one had gone missing in the first place or thought dead. They were just friends outside a hotel talking. Almost like 11 years prior when they would all sit on the school playground and talk. By the end of all the hugging and chatting it was getting dark out so they booked in their rooms. Since they weren't expecting to have Michael with them he ended up sleeping with the girls. The only reason they allowed this was because he didn't really feel comfortable sleeping with the guys since he had always had feelings for Jessica. He didn't say this of course, he just said that he didn't want to sleep with the guys since they stink up the room.

Charlie was nice enough to let Michael sleep in the same bed as Jessica and she didn't seem to mind after he had a shower to clean up.

------ 8 hours later ------

Charlie thought that she was the first to wake up, but when she went outside to the front end of the hotel she found Michael sitting there. She didn't know what he was doing so she snuck up behind him and screamed. He ended up hitting her in the nose for that. He didn't mean to do that but he had been extremely jittery since he got back with the others.

"What was that for?!" She screamed. "What did you expect me to do I've been stuck inside an old animatronic for 11 years? Don't you think that when someone scares me that I won't jump. I'm still human Charlie." He retorted.

"Why are you up so early... It's like 6 in the morning?" She asked with a kind of sour tone because she was still miffed about being hit in the nose.

"If you had to sit in an old golden bear and wake up to the same chime at 6:00 every morning your body would set a sort of internal alarm." He explained. Charlie didn't even think about that since she never really sleeps in college anymore. Most of the time she just sits in her dorm working on project for her robotics class. Mainly soldering wires to a soundboard for different songs from old Freddy's Pizzerias from over the years. Michael stood up and walked over to Charlie. He was still grateful for her finding his signal so that she could free him. He was inches from her face. Charlie thought that he was about to kiss her before the others started filing out of the hotel.

"Uhh… did we interrupt something?" John asked with a smirk.

"NO!" Charlie yelled immediately after he uttered the question. "Yes," Michael muttered underneath his breath. Charlie notice that he tended to do that a lot whenever he got embarrassed near someone he liked even though she knew that he liked Jessica but a small idea started brewing in her head that Jessica was like a disguise so that it would seem like the right time when he would tell the real person he liked weather it be Jessica or Charlie. John didn't know what to think of Michael at this point in time. He knew that he was still his old friend from his childhood days but he had changed so much over 11 years. The one thing that John couldn't get over is the fact that Michael had eaten his own arm so that he could survive. John was scared that Michael was going crazy from all of those long years in that same yellow-gold suit of a dead bear pizza franchise.

Michael started pacing on the outside out the building. He used to do something similar when he was a child. He would pace around in a circle until he found something out about what he was thinking about.

"Hey Michael, what are you trying to figure out?" Charlie asked out of curiosity.

"I'm thinking about something private I might tell you if you are the right person for me to tell." This started triggering a lot of questions in Charlie's head. The first one she thought that came to her most importance was one simple question. "Does Michael want to ask me out on a date?" Charlie wouldn't find out how Michael felt about her until later but not much later. She only had to wait a few hours.

About 15 minutes later Charlie, Marla, Lamar, Jessica, John, Jason, and Michael left for the day but they didn't know where they were going to go. Both Charlie and Marla were surprised that Jason hadn't said anything the entire time they had been there.

"What's wrong Jason?" both Charlie and Marla asked.

"I don't really know how I feel about the new guy." He muttered. Marla could understand how Jason was feeling because he had never known Michael before today while the others had all known him 11 years prior. They all headed to the diner that they were going to but it was a 2 hour drive to get there

------ 1 hour into the drive ------

"When are we going to get there I'm starving?" Jason complained

"It's just another hour or so Jason, okay." Marla replied in a calm voice in an attempt to calm down her brother. Charlie was extremely surprised that Marla was trying to console her brother. It was like something big in their lives had brought them together in a way that they weren't expecting.

"Hey, did something happen when you guys were out over the past year?" Charlie asked Marla shyly so that Jason wouldn't hear her.

"Soon, after we got back from our first trip to Hurricane, we found out that our parents had gone apart from each other so since I was 18 and already had an apartment I asked my parents and I took custody of little Jason here. So, my little brother lives in my apartment now." She explained.

After the short explanation Jason started balling in the back of the car. Marla reached back with her free hand and patted his leg as if it were a way to calm him down. Charlie didn't know how but it has worked and he calmed down and drifted off to sleep. The rest of the ride was mostly a quiet one with a little bit of small talk about life and relationships and the such.

------ 45 minutes later------

"Hey, Jason wake up we're here." Marla said while shaking his arm. After a few minutes he started to wake and something scared him. He screamed from the back of the car and jumped out. When both Charlie and Marla looked up they saw what was some sort of messed up Freddy but it was much smaller and looked almost like some of the stuffed animals she had in her dorm room. It scuttled away and both Marla and Charlie took after it but what they would find when it stopped they never expected.

After a few minutes of chasing the thing it stopped and hopped into a window, Charlie and Marla climbed in and the first thing that hit them was the smell. It smelled like a mix between rotten pizza and mildew. The building was clearly rotting away from years of non-use and water damage. After a few minutes the smell was only present when they walked past a damaged part of the wall but by then they got used to it. The found the strange man again in the girls' bathroom. They heard him singing something in one of the stalls but they didn't know what it was. All they could make out was that it was the same 4 notes. Marla tried to figure out what the notes were but there was something thumping behind them so they couldn't hear them.

It was too late when they realized what the thumping behind them was. They turned around a saw a version Freddy walking around with his lights off so it was hard to see him but their eyes had adjusted to the low light in the building. They started running from the giant bear. Freddy was right behind them until they reached the hall they entered from. They scrambled back out of the window. Charlie cut her leg on a sharp piece of glass that was sticking out of the broken window. After the both of them got out of the building they ran towards the van and were able to get out of the abandoned freddy's. They had no idea what Jason saw that night but what they do know is that he will never forget what he saw.

After a few minutes of driving they reached the restaurant that they were headed to even if they were 15 minutes late due to the chase.

"God, Charlie can't you go anywhere without getting yourself hurt?!" Jessica exclaimed. Michael snuck up behind her which was really easy since he was built like a branch with one of the sticks taken off of it.

"BOO!" he screamed. The way she jumped sent her to turn so fast that Michael didn't even see the slap coming.

"Okay, I deserve that," he said "But damn you have an arm on you."

After a few minutes of rapid apologizing and hugging (which was difficult for Michael since he only had the one arm) they went back to their booth.

"Hey Michael, how did you get here anyway." Charlie questioned. "Oh, I know the whole city and all of its shortcuts." He explained. After that short conversation they went back into the restaurant and they ordered their food. They took about thirty minutes to eat all of their food which was weird for Jason because he always was hungry but tonight it seemed like he didn't really want to eat. Michael was the first person to finish his food. No one at the table was surprised because they all knew that all he had to eat for years was just his arm and from what Charlie noticed small bits of his right leg because he always walked with a limp. She didn't mention this to him because she didn't know how he would react.

The rest of the day everything seemed halfway normal. The group went back to the hotel and fell asleep. When Charlie woke up the next morning she noticed that during the night Jessica had somehow rapped her left arm and her left leg over Michael. Charlie didn't know how they were able to sleep like that but it didn't bother her at the moment because she needed to take a shower and get a breath of fresh air.

She didn't know how long John had been awake but she knew that he didn't get a lot of sleep because he had giant bags underneath his eyes.

"Charlie I have a question," He said shyly.

"Sure, what do you need John." She said with a tinge of curiosity in her voice.

"How are you feeling with Michael being back and all?" She didn't know how to respond. She knew that she was happy to know that he was alive and now well, but she was able to tell that wasn't exactly what John had intended to ask. That was all of the answer that she told him though. She knew that she would regret it later in life but right now she didn't know how to feel, she was just glad that Michael was alive.

-------A few hours later--------

Charlie and Michael were alone in the car tonight because their friends went to the movies and they just didn't have the money to go as well so they volunteered to stay back. What they didn't know was that the "movie" they went to see was actually a movie marathon. They only found this out because some people came out after saying that they could only stay for one movie so they had to leave. Michael asked them how many movies were left. They said that there about 6 more movies and that it would take about ten hours to finish them all.

Charlie and Michael didn't know what to do with their time so they went back to the hotel. Charlie invited Michael into her room because she didn't want him to be alone since it was only the two of them. Michael and Charlie laid on Charlie's bed while watching some T.V. Michael turned on his side and asked her. "He-hey Charlie w-w-would you like t-t-to go ou-out sometime?" Charlie didn't know how to react but she was so happy that he asked because he had some of the most handsome features that she had ever seen. When she told him that she would love to, his face flushed into a deep red. Charlie didn't know about a relationship ring that he had bought and Michael planned on giving the ring to Charlie on their date.

After an hour Charlie and Michael were ready to go out. Michael wasn't entirely ready emotionally but this was his best chance to ask Charlie to date him so he wasn't going to waste it. Michael stuck that boxed ring in his pocket and gave Charlie his jacket since he really didn't need it right now. She gladly accepted the offer of the jacket because Charlie thought that it was kind of cold outside. They didn't know where to go for their date so they decided on a little private area outside of the woods that only they knew of. Charlie knew of it because it was one of the first places she was able to think of and Michael knew the entire city since he had plenty of time to memorize it because of his years starring in front of a map in a security office. They sat in that area (I'm not going to say the location or what it looked like for privacy reasons) for what seemed like hours and it turned out that it was hours. They had a conversation and it went a little something like this.

"Hey, Charlie why do you still remember this place it is such an old piece of history." Michael asked out of curiosity.

"I'm not sure it was just a place I would run to whenever I got scared and I didn't feel safe inside my old house." She answered with a little bit of sadness in her eyes because of the painful memories of her old house that is now broken down and memories of the time that she and her father had spent together.

After a few minutes of star-gazing and silence Michael asked a question that would either lead him to eternal happiness or eternal sadness and he was hoping for the prior.

"Charlie, I have something to tell you," He said nervously "I've liked you ever since we were kids and I was heartbroken when I 'died' but now that I am back I was hoping that you would be my girlfriend."

After Michael had said this he pulled out a little box with matching rings. They were simple silver bands with their names engraved in them. The engravings read "Michael x Charlie"

After a few minutes of thinking Michael was starting to think of the worst when Charlie jumped up onto him and gave him a kiss.

"Yes, I would love to date you Michael," She said gleefully "Just don't break my heart otherwise you have to face John and with one arm, and no offence I think that it would be a one-sided fight."

With answer that Michael got and the rings for each other to prove it they went back to Charlie's car and just sat there listening to the radio. When they got back to the parking lot for the movies Charlie was driving with one hand and holding Michael's hand in the other. Michael couldn't even roll down his own window because his one hand was happily occupied. He tried to rest his hand on her thigh but Charlie stopped him and told him that he could when they were someplace more private. John and Jessica came up to the car and hopped into the back. Charlie asked them if they had fun during the movie marathon and they both happily said yes. John looked down at Charlie and Michaels' hands and then asked a question that would make some tension in the car.

"Hey, Charlie and Michael why do you have matching rings on your fingers." John was a little worried that Michael had asked Charlie to marry her.

"Oh, John. Michael and I have started dating, we both think that it would be a good relationship." Charlie said with glee. Jessica started asking a bunch of questions. Well, at least until she noticed that it was not helping the situation so she leaned over and rested her head on John's shoulder. John was surprised by her move but he accepted the feeling of someone else on his shoulder. He soon found that she had fallen asleep, he didn't try to wake her.

-A Few Hours Later-

They got back to the hotel safely. They decided that because of the new relationship status that they should change the sleeping chart. Charlie and Michael in one room. Then John and Jessica in the other room. With Jessica in the room John had a hard time falling asleep. When he asked Jessica to sleep with him her face blushed a bright red. "Don't you think we should wait until we're older and more mature?" she asked. John felt his face get hot. It felt as though you could cook food on his face. "WH-what… that's not what I meant," he stuttered "I just meant that we sleep in the same bed." This was something that John had found hard to do because he felt as though he had to be with Charlie, but something in the back of his mind thought otherwise. He thought that he might have more complicated feelings for Jessica. In the other room Charlie and Michael were just hanging out, they weren't feeling really tired at this time, watching TV. Personally, Michael never knew how people really liked TV because to him it seemed completely useless. It was just people on a set being recorded, saying lines as if they were just some robot with feelings. Michael didn't say any of this since it was just time to spend with Charlie so he really didn't care about what was on the screen, he just cared that she was there. They were both feeling kind of awkward since Michael had just gotten back to the group a few days ago, but she was glad he was here. She was glad that she was able to hold him in her arms. She knew that he was glad to hold him in his arm as well. They just laid there for hours with the TV on. They weren't really watching the TV they just had it there for white noise. They were just laying together on Charlie's bed. Michael was really nervous just next to Charlie, now he was in her bed laying right next to her. They were both in "sleeping clothing" which consisted of a t-shirt and underwear for Michael and a tank-top and underwear for Charlie. He had no idea what to do in this situation. He had his entire body curled up into a ball. Charlie reached over him and pulled him into a hug. The front of her body pressing against Michaels back. After a few minutes of this position Charlie felt Michaels breathing slow down and watched him fall asleep. Soon, she fell asleep too.

End of Chapter 1.