Keep The Gears Turning

by Imperium Bedlam


Pinkies Pizzeria

“H-h-h-h-hi foals,RUN welcome to Pinkie’s Pizzeria hahaha! I hope yoooou’SAVE HERre rrrrreeeaady for some fun!”

No! No fun! Your fun is not the good kind of fun! Every single night is the same as the last, only it just gets worse each time! I banged on the front doors to the pizzeria, unable to even budge the glass as my hooves simply bounced off.

I knew it was useless but it was worth a shot. That annoying phone was still ringing back at the security room. Was I suspicious of it? Yes. Did I have a choice when it came to answering it? Probably, but I’m not taking any risks.

Ever since that first ‘night’ I would get stuck here, and seven hours later it would just start all over. It’s only the third night but I still can’t stand it here, those robots…. they aren’t natural! With a frustrated sigh I head back to the main stage area.

Every single ‘night’ so far, for the first three hours, the robots would barely move. So if I was counting right, I had about two more hours until they would get to the hallway. Only half an hour until they left the stage though.

So frantically I flipped a few of the tables, not that it would matter. Each ‘night’ everything here would just go back to where it was. I barely paid any mind to the robots, though I knew they were watching me. Especially Pinkie, she was always watching.

I barely managed to fill one of the hallways with tables before I noticed I only had ten minutes left, a quick glance back and I saw that Twilight was gone. I only squealed a little bit as I hurriedly just bucked a table onto its side, grabbing one end in my teeth as I backtracked through the hallway, towards the security room.

As I passed by the storage closet I almost tripped over my own hooves. Twilight was just standing there, staring at me as I fumbled to get inside the security room. Whoever built these things was pure evil, I couldn’t think of anything else to describe them.

Once I was in the security room I let out a sigh of relief. Here, I had control. Here, I could stop them. So with no small amount of luck I barely had the tablet in my hooves when Fluttershy pressed her face to the glass opposite of where I came in.

I screamed and flailed to close the door, my hoof missing the large red button a few times before finally finding purchase. Honestly I had no idea what terrified me more, these machines or my horrible reaction time.

As soon as the Fluttershy problem was dealt with I hastily pressed the ‘Play Message’ button on the phone while keeping an eye on the other door. I was taking NO chances. “....hello? Hey, hello? Uhhhh, congratulations on making it to night three, told you it wouldn’t be that hard!”
You lying sack of shit phone mare! “Anyway, by the third night you might notice the animatronics getting a little… antsy.” Antsy? What did he mean by antsy? Are they going to be even more dead-eyed?! What?!

“What do you mean you stupid phone?!” I’m talking to a phone now, great. I already had my hooves full with opening the door on Fluttershys side now that she was gone. A quick look at the cameras and… yep, she was just around the corner.

Shhh So, yea, just keep an eye on those doors and you should be fine. You’re already halfway through so there’s only another half to go! Oh, and if you were wondering what I meant by antsy, it’s just that Pinkie tends to get…. bo-” The phone cut off there.

Why? Well, maybe it was because something pressed the ‘Stop’ button. I slowly looked towards the phone now, my hooves shakily lowering the tablet as I peered up.

“Hi!”

Oh no. That’s not fair. That’s just not fair at all. Here she was, Pinkie Pie, standing right in front of me. A dark smile on her face as she stared into my eyes. It didn’t matter what that phone mare said, these robots did not see me as a robot without a costume. They saw me as somethingto be hunted. Something to be played with.

I’d apparently gotten boring. Even as she stood there I slowly shrank in my seat. Twilight moving through the door on my left with a similar smile as the Fluttershy robot moved in from the right.

“H-h-h-hi there Lemon Drop, we here at Pi-pi-pinkie’s Pizzeria would like to inform, inform, iiiiinnfffooorrrmmm you that making a mess is frowned upon and that cleaning up is boring I barely flinched as she said my name, though a quick glance down at the tablet showed that all the tables I’d used to block the halls were now back where they started.

Oh. I broke the rules. That’s how she got in. As I looked back up shakily a single tear began to make its way down my muzzle. Well… it was a good try. No matter how prepared for it I was though, I still screamed as Pinkie leapt at me, chomping those metal teeth loud enough to make my world spin.

……..Oh, there’s another one. Not the one from behind the curtains. I barely noticed it in those last moments of my life. Behind all of them stood another. Though it was far more decrepit. As it sat there, huge, empty eyes watching me as my life was ripped away I knew it was somehow responsible. And I cursed it with my final breath before those wires tore through my flesh.

What’s worse though, is that it smiled. I died horribly, cursing its existence and it smiled. Bucking son of a-