Abby woke to her alarm blaring in her ear. She looked at the time, 7:00 PM. She had a few hours until her next shift so she got up and washed her face and brushed her teeth. She went to the kitchen afterwards and pulled out a plate of vegetables. That was going to be her snack at the first shift but she was so excited that when she left the house to get the job, she forgot them. She cooked the vegetables now, adding butter and letting it steam for a while. While she was waiting for the vegetables to cook, her thoughts wandered to her shift just last night. Specifically to that white alicorn robot. She was....interesting to say the least. It seemed too much like a normal pony.
Abby shook her head clearing it and walked over to the pot of vegetables making her plate and sitting on her couch. She sighed and started eating. She could tell that it was going to be a long night tonight.
She walked into the pizzeria at around 11:15. The manager was still there with a few other employees cleaning up the trash and other things that Abby didn't want to look at. The animatronics were still on stage, frozen in song. Abby looked closely at the brown one. The mane was a darker brown with a red streak on it. The wings had a bit of red as well at the tips of the feathers. Abby wondered if it wasn't paint then turned to walk to her office. She could've sworn that the animatronics were following her every move. She didn't dare turn around.
Sitting at her desk, Abby yawned. As usual it was boring. The other employees have left and the animatronics were shut down effectively. Abby just looked at the monitor at the stage, as usual the robots were still there, even the one in the cave.
"This will be a long and boring night", Abby mumbled.
A screeching noise woke Abby from her nap, which she didn't even know she took. She looked out the left door and saw one of the robots slowly walking down the hall. The screeching noise was the gears moving to help movement but it didn't even need oiling she realized. It was the blue alicorn with the red and cerulean mane. The alicorn was making the sound on purpose to scare her and the razor sharp smile proved as much. It started to move faster trotting toward the door. Abby quickly shut the door and looked out the right door only to come face to face with the white alicorn. She screamed jumping back.
"W-wait", the robot stuttered, "P-Promised help."
"Oh yea", Abby said but then her eyes narrowed, "How do I know you're not trying to trick me?"
"C-Cave", the alicorn stuttered, "Shanay comes."
Abbey looked at the monitor and saw the orchid alicorn coming for the right door. She was changing tactics and Abby could respect that. It's a way to catch someone off guard. The white alicorn stood outside the door and stared the other alicorn down. Abby poked her head outside to watch and saw that the orchid alicorn.......uh Shanay......was slowly walking toward them. The white alicorn, however, stood her ground. It was quite impressive to Abby since these robots scared the living sun outta her. The white alicorn tensed when Shanay got close enough to spit on.
"Le-eave", the white alicorn said.
"M-Make me-e-e", Shanay stuttered getting into a defensive stance.
The white alicorn just grinned then roared. Abby covered her ears because it wasn't the normal, run of the mill, lion roar. No, it was far from that. It was a mechanical roar gone wrong. It was so high pitched that Abby could swear that her ears were bleeding. She backed into the office wanting the noise to stop, she would give anything for it to stop. The robots clashed, metal on metal can be heard echoing through the hall. Abbey looked toward the left door, relieved when she found it empty. She wouldn't even go for the third night if this is what would happen. She looked at the monitor and saw that the cerulean mare had left the stage. No doubt to see what the ruckus was. The brown pony was still on stage surprisingly but....wait....was she?
"Oh you've got to be kidding me right now", Abby said, as she saw the brown animatronic mare staring right into the camera, right at her.
Abby couldn't take her eyes away, the eyes are so mesmerizing, an ocean of brown that held something more inside. Abby didn't notice the cerulean mare coming up on her left. The cerulean mare crouched, ready to pounce, but the thing that snapped Abby out of the trance she was in was the clashing of metal as one robot crashed into another. Abby looked toward the right, finding the white alicorn looking almost out of breath. Was that even possible?
"Watch y-yourself", the alicorn said.
Abby looked to the left seeing both the orchid and cerulean mares in a heap just outside the door. She came to the conclusion that the white alicorn had thrown her opponent into the other enemy. Hm, not a bad tactic.
"I never got your name", Abby said, turning toward the white alicorn.
"Jackie", the alicorn responded, "The cerulean o-o-one is Ma-arabella and y-you kno-o-o-ow Shana-a-ay."
"Who's the one still on the stage then", Abby asked, feeling afraid to even do so.
"She's the leader", Jackie said looking down, "Her name is Charlotte. S-She's the o-one who gives orders."
Abby thought for a minute and was about to tell Jackie something until the clock started chiming for 6 AM. Jackie smiled softly at Abby and walked back to the stage. Abby almost jumped out of her coat when she heard the other two robots behind her get up and walk toward their stages themselves. All though Abby didn't want to, she would have to come back for a third night to find out what was going on. She got up once she saw the robots deactivate and she walked out the restaurant herself. Once she got home, she plopped onto her bed. She didn't even have time to conjure a single thought until sleep claimed her.