I decided to take a different approach here. I wanted to look at some of before the gang completely split up and consider that maybe, Shaggy and Scoob were the first to leave, but that they were supported. Eventually the group grew more distant BECAUSE Shaggy snapped, despite their best efforts at helping him through his grief.
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"Like thanks again for coming guys. I couldn't have opened this sweet pizza joint without all your support. Even if it meant Scoob and I left the gang."
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"Don't mention it, Shaggy," Velma said. "I think it was for the best anyway."
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"Like what's that supposed to mean?"
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"She just mean you and Scooby always seem a bit tight-strung when we do our investigations. It might be good for you to take a break so you're not always stressing about ghosts and things," Daphne clarified.
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"That's right."
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"Well... I guess that's fine then," Shaggy was crossing his arms. Shaggy and Scoob decided to take the mystery machine with the rest of the gang for old times sake and so they could tell everyone a bit about the place.
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"So like, as I said before, this place is a pizza joint, and my old buddy Henry got into some engineering, showed me some of the ropes. We have sick robots that perform live shows."
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"So animatronics," Velma stated.
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"Yeah, but these ones aren't stuck on stage. Our robotamatronics can wander around the whole joint and keep the party going if a person climbs into the suit."
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"Isn't that dangerous?" Fred asked. "Mechanical parts and all?"
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"Normally yes," Velma stated, "but recently, some research has come out about new components called spring locks. Hypothetically, these could lock the mechanical parts down and provide structure and safety."
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"Exactly. All the suits have a bunch of those," Shaggy said excitedly.
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"Still it's risky. They're still mechanical parts that could malfunction and cause a number of other problems with excessive movement or water."
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"Like don't worry about it, Velma. I trust Henry and I've worn the Bonnie suit around a hundred times."
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"Bonnie?" Daphne asked.
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"Bonnie Bunny! Oh, and Fred, thanks to all your family's investments and the rides I've hitched, I decided to name a character after you."
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"You have?"
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"It's Freddy Fazbear and the gang!" Shaggy announced, stepping to the side as the curtains pulled aside and revealed 4 animatronics.
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The lead singer, Freddy, was a brown bear with a small, black top hat. Next to him was a yellow bird holding a big, pink-frosted, buck-toothed cupcake with lights above reading Chica Chicken. On the other side was a purple bunnie with the lights reading Bonnie Bunny above him. Bonnie played a red guitar.
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Shaggy looked at the bunny with creased brows and an air of hurt and frustration. He made his way over to his old friend Henry who was working on a new robot, a lanky bot woth black and white stripes he deemed built for security.
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"Henry, like, I know we agreed on making Freddy brown, but I never said we could make Bonnie purple."
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"You don't expect us to have 2 yellow characters on stage, do you?"
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"Bonnie was still my character. You had no right to change him without my permission."
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Henry just shrugged and Shaggy stormed away, muttering to himself.
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"Like, I'll show him which Bonnie is more popular."
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Shaggy stormed through pirate's cove and accidently kicked Foxy's shin in the dark. The outside red part of his leg fell off, revealing the metal framework underneath.
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Shaggy paid no mind to Henry's now vandalized animatronic and he stormed into the back room to where the yellow Bonnie suit stood, golden in Shaggy's eyes that dazzled like a proud father's.
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He put on the suit, securing all the springlocks in place. Soon, he made his entrance through an employee's only door leading between backstage of pirate's cove and an in-progress fun house he was wanting to set up. It only had one mirror so far because Shaggy had to drop the project to get everything else done in time while Henry focused on the robots.
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Shaggy jumped when he saw his reflection and shook it off. "Don't be a goof, man, you're the one inside. It's just a mask, like always." Shaggy removed the Bonnie mask and put it on a few times.
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The rabbit face started to grow on him in a manner of speaking. He felt more right with the mask on. He couldn't quite explain it.
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Shaggy slipped the mask over his head a final time and stepped out into the party room.
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"Woah!" Fred exclaimed when he saw Shaggy come through the door labeled "closed".
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A bunch of kids ran over to see the free-roaming character first hands.
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The animatronics started to transition songs.
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"Round round round round, I get around..."
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"Hold the phone, I love this song!" Fred exclaimed, turning his attention back to the stage.
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Though he still had a lot of the kids' attention captured, Shaggy was disappointed that his friends were more focused on the band. Even Scooby was captivated by the colorful cast of singing animals on stage, so much so that he jumped up and stage and started dancing on his hind legs with them, howling.
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"Yeah-ha-ha, go Scoob! Work it!" Fred chuckled.
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"Are you sure he should be up there?" Velma asked. Shaggy didn't particularly mind as long as Scooby didn't start bumping into them and such. He was a good dog.
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Shaggy was starting to be pushed by the kids into the next room and he had to hurry ahead before one of the kids accidentally jostled a spring lock.
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The night went by without a hitch. At some point, the animatronics ended their show and started wandering. On their own. When Shaggy nearly bumped into purple Bonnie, he almost jumped out of his own rabbit skin.
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"ZOINKS! Henry! You scared me!... Trying to show me up, are you?"
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When Henry did respond, this raised questions in Shaggy's mind. That's when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He spun around and saw Henry looking up at him.
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"William, what are you doing?" Henry's voice was exasperated and disappointed.
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"Like, I'm doing my job, Henry. Entertaining people. And I told you I go by Shaggy now. Wait a minite... if you're here than who's-"
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"No one is. I didn't want to risk a springlock failure while someone was wearing the suits, so I made them able to come off stage an interact with guests on their own. They can't really talk beside set lines..."
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"Argh... has anyone seen me eye patch? Oh! Never mind. It's right on me eye where I left it." Shaggy looked over his shoulder to see the animatronic pirate fox, Foxy, in the middle of all the kids Shaggy was previously entertaining. The crowd laughed.
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"But people like them plenty and it's less of a safety concern. That's why I made the purple Bonnie."
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Shaggy watched as Scooby reached a paw out to strum the guitar purple Bonnie was holding.
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Shaggy didn't know why an inside part of him wanted to scream out until suddenly, Scooby was shocked back with a powerful electric force. Bonnie tilted his head. Shaggy was only frozen inplace for a second as he processed what happened before he ran forward.
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"William, don't run in that!" Henry called out.
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It didn't matter. Shaggy slid down on his knees next to the Great Dane and scooped Scooby un in his arms.
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"Scoob? Scoob? Wake up, buddy. Scoob... Scoob, quit pulling my leg!"
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Henry walked over cautiously and put a comforting hand on Shaggy's shoulder.
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Shaggy spun around and struck Henry back several feet.
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Shaggy froze as he felt the suit shudder. Shaggy's voice was breaking "Oh, come on, not now... I have more important things to worry about."
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"William, we need to get you out of that suit," Henry said calmly, getting back on his feet.
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"I know that!" Shaggy snapped.
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Henry bent down and took the helmet off of Shaggy and started opening the back of the suit, retightening the springlocks. Shaggy could only stare at his dog, unable to move or do anything. The gang ran into the room.
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"Shaggy, what's wrong?" Fred asked quickly as the gang ran in from the other room.
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Daphne gasped and the other two's eyes were wide.
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"Oh no..." Fred breathed.
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Shaggy sat at the edge of the stage, elbows on his knees and face buried in his palms.
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"Shaggy..." Daphne said gently, moving to sit by him.
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"Don't... call me that. That- that was his name for me."
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Daphne's face looked more pained. She didn't know what to do or say. Shaggy had known Scooby longer than he'd known anyone else until the tragic accident earlier that night.
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The party was long over and Shaggy wouldn't eat or do anything. She knew it was good that he was speaking again, at least, but...
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Daphne realized she never knew Shaggy by any other name.
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"What-?"
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"William. William Afton."
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"Okay then, Will..." Daphne didn't know what else to say.
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"This is his fault," Shaggy said with a bitter tone.
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"What?"
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"Henry's. He should have known if the guitar could do that."
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"I don't think guitars are supposed to-"
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"Exactly. He screwed it up to kill Scoob."
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"I'm sure that's not-"
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"I don't care!"
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The silence that followed hung heavy for a long space of time, heavier than before Shaggy started talking again.
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After what felt like an hour, she heard him mutter, "Just go away..."
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"I can't do that, you know th-"
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"I said go away!"
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Daphne's heart dropped heavily into her stomach. The expression Shaggy- or- William held was enraged. She'd never even hear him get angry before. It was terrifying. He felt huge and overpowering even when we wasn't standing.
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Slowly, Daphne got up and backed away.
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When he didn't stop hee, she turned and left to join the others in the next room.
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William Afton sat alone, angry and broken. He'd never be the same. He started to wonder why he even bothered to do anything. His dream cause the death of his best friend and caused him to chase everyone else away.
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He wondered if he was a monster.
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He looked at the Spring Bonnie hay and picked it up.
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Putting it on, he felt a strange sense of comfort. This was the correct Bonnie. This was his correct self. This was the form that could do no harm. It was the last thing he wore before...
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He felt like it brought him closer to his friend, as twosted as that was. The ears felt like a part of him and the mask felt as if it protected him from the outside world.
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His friends eventually left. He said he'd be fine. Thay he was fine. He never took off the mask to show his true emotions.
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High Voltage warnings were spread about the guitar as Henry Emily let customers back into the Diner.
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Fredbear's Family Diner was a huge success despite the incidents of opening night and it drove William mad. Henry was still profiting off of the cursed animatronic that took his friend.
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Henry didn't know the sting of grief William did. If that were the case, if it were Henry who suffered that night, the restaurant would have been closed for good.
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But no. Instead the man continued to profit and smile and pretend everything was fine, marketing knockoffs of William's original characters. Knockoffs that caused death and grief.
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The robot Emily was working on the day of the grand opening eventually came online.
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Henry called it a security animatronic. The Marionette. But Afton didn't believe anything Henry made was safe.
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Eventually, William tried to move on. He got married and started a family and Henry did the same.
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One day, William's distrust in Henry's machines was solidified when Michael Afton and his friends decided to pick on his little brother and bring him close to the animatronics William had tried to raise them to keep a safe distance from.
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That's when his younger son was bitten by the Freddy animatronic. There was blood everywhere. It destroyed William.
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Twice.
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Twice now, Henry's inventions had caused him pain and grief.
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William rarely ever left the suit after that. Spring Bonnie had become a part of him.
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Then, one day, he had the sick, twisted thought of revenge.
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He saw Charlotte Emily run out of the restaurant crying for some reason. William got out of the Bonnie suit and told another employee to put it on. The employee was uncertain, but obeyed.
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William took this opportunity to follow Charlotte out, while someone else unintentionally crafted an alibi for Jim.
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Two deaths occurred that night.
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The employee in a spring lock failure and the girl... the girl who's death would cause Henry the same pain William had known.
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The best part?
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William got out of it all scot-free.
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But it was never enough.
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Never.
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Never ever even close.
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The holes in his heart never filled. So he sought out more of that temporary gratification.
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But there was one witness that day to the murder. The Marionette animatronic which deactivated itself and came back online with new life.
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