//------------------------------// // Fazbear's Fright // Story: EquestriaBound Girls: Short Stories // by Lucky Ness //------------------------------// 'A NEW CHALLENGER APPROACHES!' Rainbow is sitting at her computer, playing a game, when the line of text above appears. Next thing she knows, she's in a battle against a brown colored rabbit with a purple bow-tie and buttons on it as a team of four animatronics, consisting of a Golden-brown bear named Fredbear, another golden-brown bear named Nightmare Fredbear, a pitch-black bear named Nightmare, and a slightly decomposed version of the rabbit they're facing called Springtrap. "Finally! I've been looking for this animatronic for hours!" Rainbow says outloud as she has Springtrap use Springlocks on Spring Bonnie. "Uh, Rainbow?" "Yes, Flutters?" Rainbow asks her pink haired friend as she has Nightmare Fredbear use Mega Bite on Spring Bonnie. "Why do you enjoy playing that game?" "Because it's an RPG spin-off for one of the best horror series I've ever played." "But those animatronics are scary! Pinkie once dared me to make it to Night 3 of the first game." Fluttershy says as she shudders. "it wasn't a fun experience." "Well, just be glad she didn't dare you to do something else." Rainbow says as she switches to her second team, which is composed of Nightmare Freddy, Nightmare Bonnie, Nightmare Chica, and Nightmare Foxy. "What?" "Well, remember how Ness told us that his universe is the home of video games?" Rainbow says as Nightmare Foxy uses Hot Cheese 2. "Yeah." "Well, that means that there should at least be one Freddy's location there." Rainbow says as Nightmare Freddy uses Freddles. "Oh no! Do you seriously think she would dare me to spend the night there?" "I wouldn't put it past Pinkie." Rainbow says as Nightmare Bonnie uses Pizza Wheel 2. "You wouldn't put what past me?" Pinkie asks as she pops out of Rainbow's closet. "That y-you'd dare me to s-spend the night at F-Freddy Fazbear's Pizza." Fluttershy says nervously. "Oh, Fluttershy, I would NEVER dare you to spend the night there-" Pinkie starts to say to comfort her. "Oh, thank heavens." Fluttershy says, cutting her off. "I'd dare Rainbow to." Pinkie says, finishing her previous statement. "That's great, Pinkie." Rainbow says, distracted by her game as her team finally beats Spring Bonnie, which returns her to the map screen with a message that said 'YOU HAVE A NEW PARTY MEMBER!' and she clicks on the 'SAVE' button before turning off her computer and turning to Pinkie Pie. "So why were you hiding in my closet?" "I was going for the dramatic reveal." Pinkie says giddily. "Pinkie? You would seriously dare Rainbow to spend a night at Freddy's?" Fluttershy asks Pinkie as Rainbow takes a drink of water. Rainbow gags upon hearing this, causing her to choke on her water. "What?!" "I'm serious, Fluttershy," Pinkie says as she and Fluttershy look at Rainbow. "Rainbow Dash, I dare you to spend the night at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza!" She says as Rainbow looks at Fluttershy uncomfortably. ---- Ness was awoken at 11 PM by someone shaking his shoulder and calling his name. Ness opens his eyes and sees Rainbow standing over him. "Rainbow?" Ness says groggily. "What are you doing here?" "I need you to take me somewhere, Ness." Ness sighs. "I really need to talk to Jeff about creating other entrances for the portal." Ness gets out of bed and pulls out his iconic striped shirt and a pair of denim shorts. "Let me get dressed and I'll take you where you want to go." Ness says as he heads to the bathroom so he could get dressed. Ness returns a minute later and walks over to his sock drawer. "So where am I taking you?" Ness asks as he puts on a pair of shorts. Rainbow sighs. "I need you to take me to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza." Ness looks at her uncomfortably as he starts to put his shoes on. "Why on Earth would you want to go there at this time of night? You do know how dangerous it is." Rainbow slowly nods. "Pinkie dared me to spend the night there." She says with hesitation in her voice. Ness sighs as he puts his iconic hat on his head. "Okay, I'll take you there, but I won't be entering the building with you." ---- At 11:50, Rainbow entered Freddy's Fazbear's Pizza. She passed the animatronics on her way to the office. Freddy, Bonnie, and Chica followed her with their eyes and Foxy peeked at her from his Cove. All of them had the same thought going through their mechanical minds. Bonnie turns to Freddy, and voices said thoughts once Rainbow is out of hearing range. "What's she doing here? I thought the Pizzeria was closed down." "I thought so too, Bonnie." Chica says puzzled. "There must be a reason that she's here." Foxy says from his Cove. "Otherwise she wouldn't be here." "It doesn't matter why she's here." Freddy says with certainty. "It's been so long, but we FINALLY have something to do." Freddy lets out one of his iconic laughs. "We'll make her rue the day she entered this place!" -Meanwhile- Rainbow made it the office and sat down in the chair just as the clock struck twelve. "Okay, let's get this going." Rainbow says as she pulls up the camera monitor and changes the camera feed to Pirate's Cove. She puts the monitor down and checks both of the doors's lights before she hears Freddy laugh. She closes the office's right door and pulls the camera's monitor back up, checking Pirate Cove before changing the camera feed to display the Show Stage, seeing that Freddy, Bonnie, and Chica have all left the stage. Rainbow decides that to give them a chance and looks for Bonnie. She eventually finds him in the Supply Closet just as she hears a phone ring. She puts the tablet down and opens the right before she answers the phone, putting it on speaker. "Hello?" She asks as she closes the right door and opens the monitor, changing the feed back to Pirate Cove, which allows her to see Foxy peeking out of the curtain. "Rainbow?" A familiar voice asks in response. "Fluttershy?" "Listen, Rainbow, after you left, I talked to the rest of the girls. We agreed that we had to support you. So we entered the portal and had Ness bring us here." Rainbow changes the camera feed to the various cameras on the outside of the building until saw Ness standing next to her friends from the camera at the front of the building. "I can see you." Rainbow says as she moves the camera back and forth before turning the camera feed back to Pirate's Cove and sees that Foxy is out and is about to make a mad dash for the office. "Listen, it's not safe to come in here. The animatronics are already trying to kill me." Rainbow's voice starts to break. "I don't want to see any of you getting hurt." "We ain't goin' in there unless it's absolutely necessary, sugarcube." Applejack says. "Yeah, Pinkie told us how dangerous it is to be in there at night." Sunset says as Rainbow hears footsteps coming from the East Hallway. "Just a second, girls." Rainbow says as she checks the light and sees Chica peeking in through the window. "WHO'S THAT ON THE PHONE!" Chica yells at Rainbow from the window. "YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE ALONE!" She says before she storms off to find Freddy to let him know about this new development. "Great!" Rainbow says sarcastically. "Chica knows I'm talking to you girls." Rainbow says as she closes the door and checks the clock, seeing that it says it's now 2 AM. She then checks the cameras and gasps. Pirate Cove's feed was empty. All that was there was a sign that said "IT"S ME!". "Oh no!" Rainbow yells as she leaps out her chair and dashes for the button to close the West Hallway's door. "What!" "Foxy's coming, girls!" She says as she closes the door moments before an audible banging noise can be heard coming from the door. "We understand, darling." Rarity says over the phone. "Pinkie explained the mechanics of the animatronics to us." Rainbow opens the door again before she brings the monitor back up and sees Foxy peeking out of Pirate Cove again. She puts the monitor down again and looks at the clock, which gave the time as 3 AM. She then hears Freddy laugh and she pulls the monitor up, looking for him. She checks every camera for about an hour without finding him, although she heard Chica banging pots together in the kitchen and saw that Foxy was out of Pirate Cove again. She eventually checks the West Hall Corner at 4:45 AM and sees that the Freddy poster there was replaced with an image of Golden Freddy, as well as Bonnie standing in the corner. Rainbow puts the monitor down and sees Golden Freddy slumped on the ground before she pulls the monitor back up to make Golden Freddy disappear. The camera feed shows that Bonnie is out of the Corner, so Rainbow puts the monitor back down, closes the door, and checks the light. Sure enough, she could see Bonnie's shadow on the wall when she looked through the window, just before she saw Foxy run past the exact same window. A few moments later, she hears Foxy bang on the door and sees the lights go out overhead. "Dang it! Girls, I don't think I'll make it out alive." "Sure you will, Dashie!" Pinkie says as Rainbow starts to tear up. "It's 5 AM! You only have one hour to go!" "Yeah, but I'm out of power!" Rainbow says just as Freddy appears at the West Hall doorway and starts to play the Toreador March. "Girls," Rainbow says, starting to cry. "Tell my family I love them." The last thing the girls heard over the phone was an animatronic screech followed by Rainbow screaming. ---- "I have to go in there!" "No, Fluttershy!" Twilight says as Applejack blocks her path to the door. "It's too dangerous!" "I don't care!" Fluttershy yells as she worms her way past Applejack and grabs the handle. "Rainbow's the most loyal person I've ever known! I'm not going to leave her in there to die!" Fluttershy opens the door and runs inside before the others can stop her. Fluttershy runs straight for the office in the hope that she could catch the Freddy before they attempted to stuff Rainbow into a suit. She finds the door and enters it to find an empty office. She reaches into her pocket and pulls out the device she had Twilight make for her. It was a small generator, which she turned on before she opened and plugged it into the power box that Ness had found out about through his research. Immediately, the lights in the office turned on and the camera monitor displayed the camera feed for the Show Stage, where Fluttershy could see that Rainbow was unconscious, and was being dragged by Freddy towards the camera to the Backstage. Fluttershy was about to leave the office when she heard a noise, which caused her to flip through every camera until she saw a man with purple skin, purple hair, and a purple security uniform. Fluttershy pulls out her phone and calls Pinkie. "Pinkie? Could you bring the girls in? There's someone with purple skin in here." "Oh my gosh! Fluttershy be careful! That's William Afton! He's the one who killed those children years ago." "Oh m-my!" "Fluttershy, be careful! We'll be there in a minute!" "I will be," Fluttershy says as she heads out for the Backstage. ---- "Did you get her?" Bonnie asks Freddy as he enters the Backstage with the unconscious Rainbow in tow. "Sure did, Bonnie." Freddy says as he holds Rainbow up for all to see. "Let's stuff her!" Chica says as she comes forward with a Freddy suit. Freddy walks forward holding Rainbow in both arms. He lifts her up and is about to push her into the suit when he hears someone yell "NO!" Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy and Golden Freddy turn to see Fluttershy standing in the doorway. "Yarr, what be you doing here!" Foxy yells at her. "I'm here to save my friend!" "How are you going to do that!" Golden Freddy asks in a voice similar to Freddy's. "Like this!" Fluttershy says as she gives the animatronics the Stare. Chica, Bonnie and Foxy all cringe while Freddy and Golden Freddy look at each other uncomfortably. "Look if you'll follow me, you'll find you're real killer." "Wait, he's here!" "Yes, Golden," Fluttershy says as she walks out the doorway. "I saw him in the cameras. He was walking past the Restrooms." Fluttershy leads them through the restaurant until she sees her friends standing by the Restrooms. "Where's our murderer!" Freddy yells at the girls. "Afton is hiding in a save room back there." Twilight says as the group turns and heads for the room. When they reach the doorway, Freddy tries to enter the door, but finds that he is unable to do so. Upon turning around and walking back to the group, Afton opens the door and jumps out attempting to attack Freddy with an ax. It's then that he sees that Freddy's not alone. Afton runs back into the room as Fluttershy and her friends follow him into the room. They see him start to put on a suit that looks like a golden coloration of Bonnie. After he has it on, he stands up and starts to laugh, until he falls over, writhing and twitching as he appears to be suffering in severe pain. Bonnie and Foxy, having finally been able to enter the room, see that Afton is dying. "It won't be long till he's dead." Pinkie says to the group. "What?" "The Purple Guy dies by putting on a springlock version of Bonnie at the end of the third game," Pinkie says to everyone in the room. "Freddy?" Everyone looks over at Chica, who is standing over Freddy, who's is lying on the ground. "Afton must have done something when he attacked him!" Twilight says as she walks over to him and opens a panel on the back of him. She looks inside Freddy for a moment before turning to the others. "I think I can fix him! Could someone get me my supplies!" "Ah'm on it, sugarcube!" Applejack says as she runs out the room. Twilight starts working on fixing Freddy's programming while she waits. "What you doin', Twilight?" "Pinkie, I'm fixing his programming. That way he won't think of us as endoskeletons when he comes back online. I'm also making it so he can move in the daytime." Twilight says as she moves to Golden Freddy, fixing his programming as well before moving on to the others. "Ah've got your things, Twilight!" "Thank you, AJ!" Twilight says as she grabs her tools and gets to work on fixing Freddy's mechanical components. It takes a few moments, but eventually Freddy is as good as new. Twilight then picks up her supplies and moves over to Foxy so she can repair him. After fixing Foxy, she moves onto Golden Freddy. After repairing his endoskeleton she walks back over to Freddy and presses a button on his back, just as the clock strikes 6 AM and a familiar set of chimes ring over the PA. The group watches as Freddy slowly gets up, accepting Chica's offered hand. "What happened?" "We found our murderer!" Bonnie says, excited. "He tried to hide from us in the Spring Bonnie suit, but the springlocks failed." "He's dead?" Freddy asks, realization dawning on him as he looks at the clock. "Wait, it's 6:05. Why aren't we heading back to the Show Stage?" "She fixed our programming," Bonnie says as he points at Twilight. Ness enters the room with the unconscious Rainbow in tow. "I hate to break this up, but I think we need to get Rainbow to a hospital." Ness says as he gently puts Rainbow on the ground. Twilight walks over and puts a hand to Rainbow's neck in an attempt to find a pulse. "There's no pulse." "Follow me," Ness says as he attempts to pick up Rainbow. "I happen to be friends with a great doctor." Ness attempts to put Rainbow over his shoulders when he feels her weight rise off of her shoulders. He looks up to see Freddy carrying Rainbow. "Let me carry her," Freddy says with concern on evident on his mechanical face. "You just lead the way." ---- Dr. Mario had seen a lot in the years since he founded the Mushroom Kingdom Hospital years ago. The one thing he had never seen was a group of teenagers follow a group of animatronics through the entrance to the hospital. But that's just what happened when Rainbow was brought through the doorway by Freddy Fazbear at 7 AM. "Freddy Fazbear? No one's-a heard tale of you since-a 1993." Ness walks forward and pulls the doctor aside. "Rainbow was spending the night at the pizzeria. Freddy got to her." Ness says as Freddy looks down in shame. "We need you to save her." "I'll-a see what I can-a do," Dr. Mario says as he turns and starts to lead them to the nearest room. He guides Freddy to put Rainbow down on the bed while Dr. Mario electrifies his hands. "CLEAR!" He yells as he applies his hands to her chest, unleashing the electrical charge that had been built up within his hands into his patient. He then moves over and applies his fingers to the base of Rainbow's neck, checking for a pulse. "There's still no-a pulse." Dr. Mario says as he electrifies his hands again. "Dr. Mario? Couldn't you just use a Megavitamin?" Pinkie asks innocently. "I'm afraid not. She doesn't have a Fever or the Chills, so Megavitamins won't-a work." Dr. Mario says as he applies his electrified hands to Rainbow once more, unleashing the charge into her chest. He checks for a pulse and finds none. So he continues to defibrillate, trying to revive his fading patient for over an hour before he turns to the group standing behind him. "I'm-a sorry, but there's nothing else I can-a do to save her." Upon hearing this, Fluttershy and Rarity both start to cry while the rest of the group looks upset. Even the animatronics look at each other sadly as Dr. Mario leaves the room and turns to go to his office. The group stands there forlornly until Dr. Mario rushes back into the room, holding a green and white capped mushroom in his hand. He walks over to the deceased Rainbow, opens her mouth, and inserts the mushroom into her mouth. He then closes her mouth and stands back. The group of five animatronics, seven teenagers, and Dr. Mario watch as Rainbow slowly opens her eyes and sits up. "Ah thought you said there was nothing you could do?" Applejack asks Dr. Mario as he walks over and helps Rainbow up off of the bed. "I said there was nothing I could do to save her life. So I did the next best thing. I gave her a new life." "That green mushroom you fed her, it must have been a 1-Up Mushroom." Pinkie says as she realizes what the doctor had done. "I did," Dr. Mario says as he guides Rainbow to a chair. "Now, I'm sure you're wondering what happened, so I'll leave your friends to fill you in." Dr. Mario turns and leaves the room as Fluttershy starts to tell Rainbow what happened. ---- "So Freddy brought me here?" Rainbow asks as Fluttershy finishes her account of how Rainbow ended up in the hospital. "Yeah. I was feeling bad for what I did to you." Freddy says as he walks towards Rainbow. "After your friends cornered our killer, we knew you were to be trusted." Bonnie says as he steps forward to stand by Freddy. "And then one of you're friends helped repair us." Foxy says approaching Freddy and Bonnie. "So we knew we had to help you get better." Chica says standing next to Foxy. "We're sorry, Rainbow." Golden Freddy says standing behind Freddy. "Can we be friends? It gets lonely back at that restaurant." Freddy says, offering Rainbow his hand. Rainbow laughs. "Sure, Freddy," She says as she shakes his hand. -The End-