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// Day 5 
// Story: Five Nights at Freddy's: Cybersense 
// by AmpUpHeart 
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"Okay, thank you, everypony," Tripwire said. Only minutes have passed. Trip teleported everyone back to the lab, and everyone turned their attention to the rusted filly, still twitching her eye. 

"The best course of action would be to put her into a sleep and wake her after we fix her up a bit."

"A BIT!?" Rarity cried out, "She needs more than a bit! Have you looked at her!?"

"Ummm... I don't mean to interrupt," Fluttershy said, "But I think that she's still awake." She was right. The filly had her open eye fixed on Rarity.

Fray, to the side, whispered, "Are you okay with this?" She received a grateful blink from the filly. She smiled.

After the filly had been put into a sleep, Trip said, "Okay. Rarity, I want you to scrub off the rust."

"Why me?" She whined.

"Because it's going to be the cleanest job that you'll be able to do, unless you want to scrub some oil."

"Oh, okay, no thanks."

"As for the rest of you, gather parts. Except for Hazard, Infra, Fray, and Spark. You guys will help me figure out what to rebuild."

As Rarity walked off in disgust, Twilight whispered to Trip, "Does she even USE oil?"

"No," Trip answered, "But how else was I supposed to get her to do it?" The two of them shared a few snickers, and then went their separate ways.
...........

"So what are we going to do?" Spark asked, an hour later.

"Trip found out the blueprint for the filly. He, Hazard, Tesla, Mirage, and Fray are working on it. Rarity's getting a shower. Rainbow and Axle are racing in the simulator. I think that the others are napping," Infra said.

"What do you think that the mastermind would do if he saw us helping these ponies?"

"I don't know, but he probably knows that we're here. He has a way of knowing."

"And concealing who he really is. I don't think I've ever heard his real name."

"Vice Militude."

"What?"

"Fray told me back in the abandoned lab. We, or rather, she, found a journal of some sort. They're making another prototype, but they're pulling out all of the stops."

"Maybe I can find something. I just hope I can still tap into CREATion's system."

"Maybe we don't have to," Spark said.

"Huh?" Infra replied.

"I bet there's something in our old lab that can give us clues. It's definitely something worth mentioning to Trip."

"Agreed."
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The filly was good as new. She had a metallic silver coat and a gold mane, tail, and eyes. Fray was shaking from anticipation. She slowly approached the small robot, still asleep, and tapped its shoulder. 

The filly moved, and opened its eyes. She looked at herself in amazement, examining herself. Her right eye, however, began to twitch and turn. She immediately shook her head and her eye steadied. She looked at Fray.

"Th-th-thank you," she stuttered.

'Poor thing,' Fray thought, looking at the others, 'We were never able to get rid of the glitches.'

But she shook it off. "You're welcome."

"Where a-am I?"

"You're in our lab. Don't worry. You're safe," Tripwire said.

Hazard called everyone else in, and introductions went around as usual.

"Do you have a name?" Jasper said, walking up.

"I-I-I think s-so," the filly said, "Th-th-th-they would c-c-call me... G-Glitch."

"I have to say that it suits her," Rainbow Dash said.

"Woah! Time out! Did you hear the words coming out of your mouth!?" Tesla said.

"I... I don't mean to be offensive, but I have to admit that she fits the name. In a cute way. But I'm fine if you pick something different," Fluttershy whispered.

"I-I could-d tell th-that they m-meant for it t-to be of-f-fensive. B-but I don't know what e-else to c-call mys-self," Glitch said.

"Okay. I feel bad, but I guess that you'll be called 'Glitch,' at least for now," Tripwire said. Glitch nodded, sending her eye spinning again.
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"Tripwire?" Spark asked, later that afternoon, "I think that we should go to Manehattan next. If CREATion hasn't removed the data from the lab that Infra and I shared, there may be some answers-"

"Forget it," Infra said, walking in, "I hacked into our old computer. There's nothing. They scrubbed the database clean. The only way for us to find anything would be to either go to the lab itself, or to hack CREATion's maneframe. They're expecting us to do the former, so I say that we work on the latter."

"I have a ladder!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed, appearing out of nowhere with a huge, pink-and-white candy cane-style ladder.

The three ponies looked in surprise, until Spark said, "You never cease to surprise me, Pinkie Pie."

Everyone bursted out laughing, except for Tripwire, who merely chuckled and rolled his eyes in amusement.

"Say, Trip," Pinkie said, "That's the closest thing to a laugh I've ever heard you do."

"I'm not exactly the type of pony to laugh," Trip replied, "Too many negative associations. I grew up with an everlasting maniacally laughing madmare who tried to kill me. I have nothing against laughing, but my body must've built an involuntary resistance to it. I snicker and chuckle as much as almost anypony, but it takes a lot to get me to actually laugh."

"Hmmmmm," Pinkie said to herself, "Sounds like a challenge to me."

"Go ahead," Trip said, "I'm actually looking forward to laughing again."





A scream was heard in another room.

"Tripwire!" Mild yelled across the hall, "Come quick! It's Glitch!"

Trip and the others ran into the room where they saw Glitch having what looked like a panic attack. Her chest was heaving, her eyes wide and unusually dilated, as if she just saw something traumatizing.

"C-Canterlot!" She cried out, "P-princesses! H-help!"

Everyone was crowded around the robotic filly, trying to comfort her. Except for one. The pony that Trip least expected to. And she looked just as frightened.

Tripwire didn't notice her, but Jasper did. Trip touched his horn to Glitch's.

"She was never fully severed from the facility. They sent a message that she must've picked up. It's encrypted. Hang on..."

With Tripwire occupied with Glitch, Jasper walked to Fray. She had eyes just as wild, but her breathing was more steady. She was staring at the ground, seeming to be fighting back emotions.

'She's trying to keep her composure,' he thought.

"Fray, what's wrong?" 

Fray looked up at him.
"Canterlot's under attack," she said fearfully, "CREATion's making a move. They've activated the third alicorn,"
Everyone fell silent. Even Glitch stopped panicking.


"Cyber Lock."