Ask Goldie Anything Revamped

There were sirens, screaming, and crying. Freddy stood frozen on the stage staring at the blood pouring out of the cracked skull of an eight year old child. The kid's head was jammed into Goldie's mouth. One of the employees barely managed to remotely shut him down before further damage could be done to the child. It's a scene that would stay with Freddy forever. 

One of the parents was yelling at one of the teens who put the kid in Goldie's mouth as the other was holding their dying child. Both the kid's and Goldie's lifeless eyes stared at him. If he had a soul they would be looking right through it. 

Sitting across the dining room Goldie glared at Freddy. The room was tense and anyone who wasn't Freddy or Goldie looked extremely uncomfortable. Toby had clocked out and left the building as soon as he noticed that things were going to get tense. As for Millie she couldn't leave because Goldie was holding her down by her arm. Mike and Jeremy looked annoyed with this consistent glaring at each other, while the other animatronics looked confused and uncomfortable. 

“What are you doing here?” Freddy finally asked not trying to hide the anger in his voice. 

Goldie didn't say anything. 

“WHY IS HE HERE!?” yelled Freddy at the employees. 

The other animatronics stepped away from Freddy. They nervously looked at each other trying to figure out what was happening as this was the first time they've seen Freddy this angry. The toy animatronics were all squished together behind the door to the play area peering in to watch what was unfolding. 

As soon as Mari saw what they were arguing about she sprinted past the other toys, running past Freddy who tried to stop her to tackle-hug Goldie. Goldie looked surprised at being hugged and stood there frozen before hugging the newcomer.   

“Goldie! You're back!” said Mari excitedly. 

Her joy seemed to be infectious as Bonnie couldn't help but grin wildly at the two animatronics embracing each other. Chica also had a shadow of a smile on her face. Foxy on the other hand still glared down at the newcomer. He didn't trust the newbie especially with how Freddy was acting. 

“That's right! I'm back and here to stay!” replied Goldie with joy in his voice. 

“No, you're not,” said Freddy sternly. 

Freddy walked up to Goldie and was about to grab his remaining ear but Millie stopped him. 

“Freddy, he has no choice but to play nice, whatever happened between you two needs to be left in the past as per Fazbear orders,” said Millie sternly as if she were scolding a child. 

Freddy took a step back and looked at her with a look of realization before it quickly turned to pity. 

“Oh, you don't know, do you?” Freddy asked. 

“Know what?” Millie asked back. 

Before the conversation could continue on any further Mike interrupted them. He placed his hands on Freddy's shoulders pulling him further back from Goldie and Millie. 

“Freddy, Goldie's here for a second chance, if he blows this second chance or if anyone else blows it for him, he's going to get scrapped,” said Mike. 

Freddy stepped back and processed what was just said to him. 

Goldie was in danger of getting scrapped? 

The logical part of his mind told him that Goldie should have been scrapped after the bite and the investigation that followed. But for some reason he wasn’t. 

Suddenly he saw more clearly. Like some kind of veil had been lifted. 

He finally saw the poor state that Goldie was in. He finally saw that one of his ears was missing. He saw the exposed wires poking out from underneath his right eye. He noticed the large patches of fur missing from the right side of his body exposing the bear endoskeleton underneath. And lastly he noticed that Goldie's eyes weren't the same anymore. 

Before his pupils were pure white surrounded by black Irises. Now only the black Irises reminde. Goldie's left eye was blue like his own and the right was red. He wondered what could have happened to cause this change. 

Goldie's appearance wasn't the only thing he noticed. He noticed how his band and the toys were looking at him. 

Mari was staring daggers at him for interrupting her reunion with Goldie. And everyone else was looking at him wide eyed. They all looked shocked at his outburst, and some of the toys looked even frightened at him yelling. Even Mangle crawled out of whatever cubby hole they usually hide in during the night to watch. 

All the humans appeared to be judging him for his outburst. Even the skull buckle on Millie's belt appeared to be judging him. 

Goldie clung to Millie's side glaring at him. 

Freddy felt disgusted by that. He felt his chest tightened as he watched Millie pat Goldie's head. 

Images of when they were younger formed in his head. Images of Goldie before his fur became matted from the lack of maintenance, when he was a fluffy fuzz ball of yellow fur, clinging to him. Goldie had refused to let go of him before his first few shows. 

It should be him who Goldie was clinging onto, not a random worker. 

Freddy knew he shouldn't be thinking those things and feeling that way about his brother when he killed a child. In front of dozens of other children too. 

“I….I'm sorry,” said Freddy after a moment of silence. 

Goldie raised an eyebrow as if he was confused on what he was apologizing for. Freddy felt a feeling of uneasiness sink to the bottom of his stomach. 

“See you replaced me,” said Goldie while eyeing his band, completely switching the topic.

Bonnie shily waved at him while Chica looked at him confused and Foxy simply scoffed at him. 

Freddy wanted to reassure Goldie that wasn’t true but it kind of was. It was both true and false. The band was in production since before the Bite happened but Fazbear Entertainment hastened their production to have something to make up for their lost act.

Freddy vaguely remembered one of the employees asking Mr. Manager, why don’t they use some of the other animatronics that were already built instead of pushing out ones that only existed as blueprints. Which was something that stuck out to him as Mr. Manager had adamantly refused to acknowledge that conversion happened, denying the existence of other animatronics other than him, Mari and Goldie existing outside of blueprints at the time. Something that made the employees confused. Freddy remembered one making a slide remark about Mr. Manger getting dementia.

“Goldie, you weren’t replaced, the Fazbear band was in the works since long before your accident, they were only completed afterwards,” said Mike.

Goldie rolled his eyes at Mike.

Accident!? Goldie’s accident!? 

It being called Goldie’s accident makes it seem like Goldie was the victim. Something that Freddy knows he’ll make himself out to be if he doesn’t set the record straight before Goldie twists the narrative in his favor.

“His accident??” squeaked out Freddy barely hiding his rage.

This caused Goldie to go back to clinging to Millie’s side. The others looked at this exchange confused. None of them save for Mari knew about what happened at Fredbear’s, all what they did know was from what the adults would gossip about. Both Freddy and Mari refused to ever talk about what happened. Both because of their own trauma and the image of the company.

“That makes him seem like he was the victim when we all know he wasn’t,” said Freddy.

“It was an accident-” Mike started before Freddy interrupted him.

“I’m not denying that it was an accident but calling it Goldie’s accident is just wrong,” said Freddy.

“It was his springlocks failing, so I would say that it was as much as his accident as it was E- the kid’s,” said Mike.

Mike quickly looked away, looking almost guilty. Jeremy looked at Mike with concern present in his eyes.

“What in Davy Jones’ locker are you two on about?” asked Foxy.

“Remember the incident that caused Fredbear’s to close down?” said Freddy not giving anyone else the chance to explain.

“Goldie here caused it-” 

“Freddy, it wasn't Goldie’s fault,” said Mari.

Freddy ignored her.

“He caused it by biting a kid’s frontal lobe,” stated Freddy.

This caused everyone in the room, except for Mike and Jeremy, to gasp and for Goldie to lock eyes with the floor. Millie pulled away from Goldie making him look hurt. Goldie looked almost like a kicked puppy. 

“Didn’t you promise me that you weren’t going to bite my head off?” asked Millie.

“Of course, cause I’ll never do it again,” said Goldie trying to sound cheeky but his voice was breaking.

Everyone was looking at the smaller bear with horrified looks on their faces. The Toys started whispering among each other, occasionally casting scared glances in their direction.

Freddy was almost too upset to register what Millie had said. Almost.

“Goldie promised you what!?” asked Goldie.

Millie looked a little sheepish and embarrassed. Millie rubbed the back of her head before answering.

“Yeah…I made him promise me that, but at the time my head being taken off was an inside joke,” said Millie.

Freddy sighed. Of course the goth girl had an inside joke about her being decapitated. 

“Freddy,” said Mike sternly.

Mike looked at him with a hard look. Mike gestured for the Toys to come forward. 

“I’m going to set the record straight here,” said Mike.

“Goldie did jackshit,” said Mike, causing everyone to gasp at his foul language.

Millie didn’t gasp but she looked at Mike with wide eyes, while Jeremy rolled his eyes. Swear words and foul language was completely banned from the pizzeria on the grounds that it was a kids’ establishment.

“It was the fault of the kids who put the victim in his mouth and the lack of safety measures taken into consideration when he was being made,” said Mike.

Mike’s voice broke a little when he mentioned the kids who put the bite victim into Goldie’s mouth. Freddy wondered what that was all about.

“When the kid was crying his tears got onto the springlocks in Goldie’s mouth causing his jaw to snap shut,” explained Mike, “that was not something that Goldie could have made happen and was completely out of his control, it isn’t his fault he was built like that.”

Everyone else nodded as Mike explained.

“Oh thank God it wasn’t on purpose,” said Millie using the palms of her hands to rub her eyes.

Millie looked relieved upon finding out that it was the fault of faulty springlocks.

“Really?” said Chica to Millie.

“What?” asked Millie.

Freddy felt Goldie’s eyes on him. If animatronics could cry he was sure that Goldie’s eyes would be wet beyond belief and a waterfall would be ready to burst at any moment.

Freddy felt an awful feeling curl up inside his stomach as he looked at what was once his little brother. He decided to ignore it. Goldie couldn’t be trusted no matter how much blame was put onto the springlocks. The springlock thing even goes to show how dangerous his model was. 

“Millie, I think it’s time for you to go home, your parents would be getting worried about now,” said Mike.

Millie’s eyes widened as she just realized how much time has passed since when she was originally meant to clock out. 

Mille hastily pressed a kiss against Goldie’s head before running out the door.

“See you guys tomorrow!” Millie called back to them.

Freddy hadn’t noticed it but the Toys, mainly Toy Bonnie and Toy Chica, kidnapped Goldie. Everyone else took Millie’s leaving as a que to disperse going their own which way.