As you stare at the yellow animatronic with a comical bib on it’s chest and the sounds of terrified whimpering can be heard from the other side of the door, a realization hits you.
Zapper frost’s Comment
Wait, it's a chicken! Therefore if I imitate a chicken I can get its attention and get it a safe distance away from the door and use my boom stick.
Imitate a chicken? It’s a machine Bugze, I don’t-
I see absolutely no way this could no horribly wrong! You think in determination as you peek your head around the corner and...
Down with Chrysalis’s Comment
“Oh chicken! You’re just a little chicken! Cheeeeep, cheep cheep cheep chhheeeeeppp.”
"Mr. Bugze what are you doing!?” Sunset whispers harshly as she pulls on the back of your coat. “That isn't an actual chicken, and there’s no way that's going to work! You don't even sound like a real chicken anyway!"
I must agree with her my bug. There's no way that you making terrible chicken noises will draw the robot’s attention.
You ignore Sunset and Selena's doubts as you continue to make strange chicken noises in the hopes of drawing the robot bird’s attention, and as per usual when you do something that shouldn't work...well it works. Chica stops pounding on the door and eerily turns towards you, her evil robotic eyes staring you down.
I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but yet somehow I still am...
"How...why did that work!? That doesn't make any sense!" Sunset blathers.
Unknown to the rest of you, Twilight is sharing similar thoughts.
“I bet you can’t even play hoofball chicken, cheep cheep cheep!” you mock as you flap your elbows like wings.
After a few more seconds of the robot chicken staring you down it releases a terrifying shriek before charging at you. You don't make any move to avoid the charging machine while Sunset, Fluttershy and Rarity have the brains to quickly move out of the way.
“Get back! You’ve got it’s attention!” Rarity urges but you still continue flapping your arms and cheep.
“At least stop antagonizing it!” Fluttershy implores, but you don't make any move to stop as you wait for the robot bird to get closer, and closer, and closer...
Now!
Just as the demonic bird reaches you, you quickly shove the Boom Stick into its open beak. You get pushed back into a nearby wall from the force of the robots pushing, but thankfully it appears you’re still strong enough to hold it back. The bot tries to get the Boom Stick out of its beak, but after a few seconds of futile struggling it just glares at you.
However that glare soon changes to one of shock as a purple glow begins to come from your hand as the magic crystal works its magic on the staff. You give the robot a smug look, notice its bib, and smugly say,
"Eat this!"
And with a blast from the Boom Stick, the robot chicken (minus a head) is flung back and slammed into a nearby wall. The now headless robot twitches for a few moments with sparks coming out of it before going dormant. Thankfully since your back was against the wall you didn't get blasted back this time, so you were able to see the shocked looks of the others.
You simply twirl the Boom Stick around before saying,
"What? You’re all acting like I didn't have a plan or something?"
My bug, I am in your head and I didn't know you had a plan.
I thought you were just going to recklessly attack like you always do honestly.
Okay, I do have plans sometimes! you grumble mentally to your skullmates.
Eventually your group snaps out of their shock and make their way to the door where Chica was going at it. You try and open it to find it locked, and after a few moments of silence from the other side Sunset knocks on the door.
“You alright? Don’t worry the thing is gone. We won’t hurt you.”
“No way! That thing tried to eat us!” Indigo cries out.
“Yeah how do we know you’re not just robots mimicking a human voice?!” Sour adds equally scared. Sunset sighs at that.
“Look you guys, I know you’re scared and you have every right to be. But I promise you that we’re not robots.”
“But that’s exactly what a robot would say!” Indigo argues.
“Humie, we just blew up that gorramned robot for you, and you’re looking a gift horse in the mouth?” you grunt in frustration.
“Humie? …Is that the janitor?” Sour asks.
“Huh?” you blather.
“It kind of sounds like him,” Indigo says.
Sunset, Fluttershy and Rarity look at you after hearing this.
“You know these girls?” asks Rarity.
“Not personally. Kind of from a distance since they were always picking on Twilight and the like. There was that one time where I-“
You are cut off as the sound of something heavy being dragged behind the door can be heard. A moment later, the door opens and both terrified girls stare at your group in trepidation. Their clothes are dirty in some places and their eyes red from crying and tears stain their cheeks. They shake like leaves, heads looking back and forth for danger before their eyes train on you.
"It is Mr. Bugze," Indigo says in shock, and you blink in surprise at their recognition.
That's weird...how do they know my name? I never introduced myself to them.
Shaking off your confusion for now you hesitantly say,
"Uh...yeah it’s me. Think you can let us in before any other evil robots show up?"
"Uh..." they say looking to the girls.
“It’s alright, we’re with him,” Sunset reassures.
“Nothing is going to hurt you now,” Fluttershy smiles.
“Quite so, but yes, may we please come inside?” the ragged looking Rarity pleads.
“R-Right,” they nod as they wave your group inside. You then quickly close the door, and since it’s an attraction, there’s no locks, so you help re-slide the fake arcade cabinet in front of it.
As you do you don't notice the sounds of Chica's body being dragged off by a metallic clawed hand.
Puzzling Frost’s Comment
With Twilight
All of Twi’s anger for her bullies slips away as she sees just how frightened they are as they latch onto the three girls with the clean shaven Bugze.
“Ohh, I didn’t think they’d be that worse for wear,” she says holding her cheeks as guilt hits her.
“I mean, yeah they keep picking on me…but did it justify this?” she groans as she scoops Spike up in her arms and holds him tight.
“I didn’t even have to have them here for this experiment, I just…I just wanted to get back at them and…”
She covers her mouth in shame before Spike licks a tear off her cheek.
“Oh Spike, I should never have brought them into this. It’s far too dangerous, especially if one of these Bugze’s uses their power.”
Speaking of that, she looks at the read out on Chica and sees that it’s completely offline.
“I just hope there’s enough left to actually make this all worthwhile. I mean, first Freddy goes offline and now Mangle, is attacking Foxy? It’s not supposed to be doing that! What more could go wrong?” She changes her camera in time to see B2 running with his group through the hallways.
“Well, at least there was another one of those Chica models,” she says downtrodden.
With B2
B2 gasps as he and his group catch their breaths after getting as far from the two robot foxes as possible.
“You *huff* think we lost them?” Pinkie gasps.
“Yeah, I think my ruse worked. Though I have a feeling it’s going to come back to bite us. Literally,” B2 says in worry. After a few moments of panting, Rainbow Dash speaks up.
“Alright, let’s just assume that we can’t convince other robots to eat each other, what’s Plan B?”
“Preferably staying as far from them as possible. I don’t have a bag of goodies like the other me,” B2 admits.
“We really didn’t plan this well did we?” Applejack asks sounding defeated.
“No…no we did not,” Flash grunts defeatedly.
“Wait a minute, why don’t we just get Flash to Hulk out like he did in the mall and just smash everything?” Pinkie suggests.
“Oooh, I like that idea,” B2 agrees.
“Oh Hell No!” Flash argues. “One, I don’t want to go through that again thank you very much, and Two, that magic mirror got destroyed so I can’t even if I wanted to.”
“Awww, that stinks,” Pinkie pouts.
“Yeah, I bet it would have been awesome,” Rainbow pouts as well.
“It’s more terrifying than anything else,” B2 says. “Though it would have been welcomed in this land of mechanical death. Speaking of which, there’s another one!”
The teens look to where he’s pointing and see a plastic looking animatronic chicken with a bib on, just idly standing in front of an intersection with doors surrounding it. Surprisingly, it doesn’t appear to have noticed the group yet.
“We need to draw its attention, but how?” Applejack mutters. Pinkie meanwhile remains silent as she cranes her neck to read the lettering on the bib.
“Hmm, it says ‘Let’s Party’, but the party is crossed out in sharpie and ‘Eat’ is written above it…”
“Yeah…and?” Flash whispers, though she ignores that.
“Leave it to me,” Pinkie says with a determined look. She then tip toes around the robot into another room that looks like a typical haunted kitchen. As the group watches in anticipation, she suddenly pulls out a pizza box from, her hair.
“Wait what?” B2 says confused
With Twilight
“How?! Where?! Does everyone suddenly have strange unknown powers?!” She yells in confusion her eyes glowing a neon blue as Spike whimpers at the sight and backs away. “This…this must be why these people are hanging around both Bugzes. They all must have powers! I Must Know More!” she declares as she pushes a button for Toy Chica.
Back with B2
Suddenly, the chicken bot whirls around and looks at Pinkie Pie and B2’s group all collectively gasp in worry.
“Pinkie!” Rainbow shouts. “Run Before-“
“Yoo-hoo! Come and get it!” Pinkie yells as she opens the box to reveal a steaming hot pizza inside. Toy Chica’s eyes widen as it’s mouth somehow grins.
"Pizza?! Pizza! Pizza! Pizza!" it yells as it charges toward Pinkie with surprising speed into the adjacent room. With deftness and skill, Pinkie throws the pizza right at its face and beelines it out the door before shutting it behind her.
“Pizza?” Chica says looking back to the door it shuts.
Deciding to help after that amazing spectacle, B2 and the rest of the group pushes over a nearby vending machine blocking the door. Once it’s in place, everyone sighs in relief at their accomplishment.
“…You know, I hate to ask but, where did you get a fresh Pizza from?” B2 asks.
“Ha ha ha,” Pinkie giggles. “Wouldn’t you like to know?”
“…Yes! Yes I would!” he says in frustration.
“You ain’t gonna get a straight answer out of her sugarcube,” Applejack interjects.
“Yeah, that’s just Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie,” Rainbow nods.
“You learn to stop questioning things when it comes to her,” Flash says reluctantly.
B2 looks at the resolute teens and just shrugs in defeat.
“Alright then…you got any more?”
“Now why would I have more than one? That’s just silly,” Pinkie giggles at her insane logic just before a pounding noise comes from the other side of the door and everyone jumps.
“I think that’s our cue,” B2 says as everyone nods in agreement and backs away slowly.
On the otherside of the door, Toy Chica gives up on trying to open the door and decides to shove the pizza into it’s beak. However as it attempts to eat, a large figure appears behind it with purple electricity flowing around its body. A yellow disfigured hand reaches forth and grabs Chica by the shoulder.
“Pizza?” Chica asks turning around.
B2 and the rest of the group hear a scream come from the kitchen followed by the sounds of a machine being torn apart.
“Huh, sounds like that cannibal fox is at it again,” Rainbow theorizes.
“Well, better them than us,” B2 shrugs as they continue moving through the attraction.
Down with Chrysalis’s Comment
With You
After a few minutes of consolation, you and the girls manage to calm Indigo and Sour down and they explain how they got there.
“And then when we showed up to the entrance, the robots grabbed us and dragged us inside,” Indigo says.
“They then let go of us inside the maze, and we just booked it, and we were stuck in here until you all found us” Sour finishes.
“OK, but why would you think you’d get free pizza at a haunted house?” Sunset asks.
“I don’t know!” Indigo huffs. “We thought maybe we were getting compensated by the owners after those stupid robots harassed us a few weeks ago.”
“Wait, you’ve been here before?” asks Fluttershy.
“Yeah, and it was terrible!” Sour shudders. “Those stupid robots singled us out. No one else got chased as much as we did.”
Oh right, Twilight’s original vengeance on them, you put two and two together. Speaking of…
“Alright girls, you’re gonna be just fine after this, but where is Twilight?”
“Huh?” both girls ask.
“Twilight Sparkle? She goes to your school? You pick on her a lot?”
“Why would Sparkle be here?” ask Sour.
“Because she’s the one who called and said you two and her were in trouble,” you explain.
They both look at each other in confusion before looking back to you.
“We didn’t see her Mr. Bugze,” Indigo admits.
“Well crap baskets,” you growl. “That means we can’t just make a beeline for the door now! Also, how do you guys know my name?”
“Uh, why wouldn’t we?” asks Sour.
“Because I was only the janitor?”
“Yeah exactly. You’re the guy who actually did his job,” Indigo scoffs.
“Huh?”
“You actually cleaned and stuff, unlike that old dude. Ever since Cinch fired you, everything’s sticky again for some reason.”
“Yeah, plus you were always giving out advice on random things, like how to spruce up pranks and such.”
“I did?” you blather.
“Yeah…you don’t remember? You taught me the whip cream in the locker trick,” Indigo says.
“Yeah, and you got it in your beard. You forgot that?” asks Sour.
Dang it B2!
“Oh right, yeah totally remember now,” you dismiss. “But, uh, anyway just…just take a few more minutes to rest up. We’ve still got to find the rest of our group and Twilight.”
You then go to stand guard by the door while Fluttershy and Sunset continue to talk with the two girls.
Maybe B2 and I should have compared notes on what we did at Crystal Prep instead of not at all, you ponder.
Yes you should have. This perpetual motion of vengeance seems to stem for your lack of communication, Selena agrees.
As you nod your head at her assessment, Rarity comes to stand beside you.
“Hey McSta-I mean Rarity. How you holding up.”
“Better I suppose,” she huffs, still annoyed at you. “Was it truly necessary of you to use a lady such as myself as a 'meat shield' as you put it? I mean what if that robot had exploded into shrapnel!?"
"Yeah...not my brightest moment I know,” you wince at her tone. “I forget that you humies aren't as resilient as the ponies back home, and in my defense its kinda second nature for me to do that whenever I have to fight the pony you."
Rarity quirks her eyebrow at that and places her hands on her hip before she huffs and says,
"Darling, are you telling me you get into enough altercations with my other self that it becomes instinct for you to use her as a meat shield?"
There is a few moments of awkward silence before you chuckle nervously and mumble out,
"If it makes you feel any better, pony you seems to take offense whenever I use someone else as a meat shield."
"I...I quite frankly don't know how to respond to that."
“Right…” you say awkwardly. “Uh...how about an olive branch? I’ve got Equestrian clothes in my bag, maybe they could help with designs or something?”
“As much as I’d like to view such things, I don’t really know how they would help me if they are built for horses. Also, I think it’d be better if we were out of this whole mess first.”
“Yeah, alright,” you nod as the two of you go back to being silent and staring at the rescued bullies.
This is troubling…Sombra says suddenly.
Yeah I know, but don't worry I'm on the lookout for if she ever has scissors in her hands.
Not her you idiot, I'm talking about that presence I felt before!
Oh boy, that doesn't sound good. What's up Zippo?
That dark presence has become stronger, almost as if it just became active after some time. And now that I can sense it more clearly...it is far more sinister then I previously thought.
You look back over at the still peeved Rarity and how close in proximity you are to her.
Are you sure it's not just McStabflank's cheap knock off here?
I'm afraid not my bug. I can now sense it too, and needless to say whatever it is, it’s sickening. Even dark magic doesn't feel as...nauseating as this does.
That causes you to sweat nervously.
How bad are we talking?
Very bad, she says. The source of this feeling is nothing but malice.
Yes that’s it. Maliciousness for the sake of malice, with no other purpose Sombra agrees.
Nothing but evil and malice? You gulp. Like…like The Nightmare?
...I'm afraid that is a good comparison my bug.
And just like that any and all relaxation leaves you as your fist tightens in fear and anger. The others in the room notice your change and Sunset asks,
"Mr. Bugze? Are you okay?"
You don't immediately answer, instead you pull out Second Law and load some leftover ball bearings from the mall into it.
“You had a gun this whole time and you didn’t use it?!” Rarity shrieks but you ignore her. Once loaded, you give the girls a grim look before saying,
"Things just got far more scary. We're finding the others and then getting the buck out of here as fast as possible. Am I clear?"
Your change in tone does its job as the others numbly nod their heads.
“Alright, let’s roll out,” you say to the five and they fall in line behind you.
Puzzling Frost’s Comment
WARGAMES’ Comment
As you travel through this seemingly never ending maze of twists and turns. Fluttershy raises her concerns.
“Mr. Bugze? Are you sure you’re ok?” she asks worriedly.
“Yeah, sure, never better,” you lie as you point Second Law around a corner before continuing on. “Why do you ask?”
“Um, you kind of keep giving off little bits of that purple electricity,” she points to your finger, which does just that as you touch a wall.
“Oh that’s just static, I’ve been through worse. I throw bigger amounts than this back home,” you brag. And while Sunset, Rarity and Fluttershy still worried, Indigo and Sour just seem confused.
I don’t know my bug, you’re human now remember? We don’t know the limits your body can take, Selena says worriedly.
Yeah, well I don’t have much choice at the moment if some insane malice magic is inside this stupid place, you point out.
Suddenly you and your group hear laughter. Unnerving and annoying laughter.
You turn the corner, Second Law raised, to see a small robot child holding a balloon staring at you, it’s laughter seemingly repeating over and over again.
“Oh Luna it’s this one again,” you growl.
“Again?” Sunset asks confused.
“I met it’s double In Equestria, relax it’s harmless, it’s mostly just annoying.” You say pointing at it with Second Law. However as you claim it’s harmless it stops laughing and it’s eyes turn to a glare.
“Are you sure about that?” asks Rarity as it starts laughing again, only with a much lower pitch.
“I…think so?” you say cautiously as you raise the gun. “I mean, it’s got no claws or teeth or-“
Suddenly it’s body contorts, it’s mouth growing larger with sharp teeth and it’s hands forming claws and it leaps right at you.
“Motherbucker!!” You shout jamming Second Law into the robot’s mouth and pull the trigger. Balloon Boy’s head completely vaporizes as it is thrown backward and parts of it catch fire.
“What the buck was that?! I thought only Mangle could change shape?” You say a bit spooked.
“Change shape?” Sour asks.
“Yeah! It’s like it did it just to spite me for saying it wasn’t dangerous!”
“Uh Bugze?” Sunset says, “The robot didn’t change, you just freaked out and blew it’s head off.
“What?!” you look to her pointing to the robot, and sure enough there are no claws on the bot’s hands.
“Wait, none of you saw that thing leap at me trying to bite my face off?”
“With what? It’s balloon?” asks Indigo.
I…Wha…Selly? You ask.
I don’t, how, You hear Selena mutter stumped.
Ugh can’t you tell it’s an illusion? The air quality in this place is abysmal and your mind is being affected.
Wait how do you know that?
Hello? I’m the master of illusions and fear manipulation. Of course I would know this kind of thing, he huffs.
Point taken, You and Selena admit.
Though aren't I supposed to be immune to this Selena?
For toxins yes, but for stagnant oxygen all around...That's a different story.
Great, you think grumpily. Well, shallow breaths it is then.
As you walk away and explain to the girls what happened, a claw grabs the burning body and pulls it into the shadows.
Meanwhile
A certain bear wanders through the halls limping it’s way toward its enemy.
“Killer-mmust find kkiller.” As Freddy walks down a hallway it sees through an open attraction room with a present box inside.
“Nneed-help. Prevent more deaths.” Freddy reaches out a paw and places it on the box as purple electricity into it. A few moments later, a winding up noise comes from within, before the box lid pops open and a black hand emerges out.
“Hello f-friend.” Freddy says as a pale white smiling face rises from the present.
“Hello…” it answers back.
“He’s back…h-he’s awake. We must stop him,” Freddy says.
“Others are awake?” the puppet asks.
“Ch-Children inside. Mangle gone cr-crazy. Killer stalking,” the bear sparks.
“…Follow,” the creepy puppet orders as it exits it’s box.
With Twilight
“Wait, was that Freddy I just saw?” she asks aloud looking back at one of the feeds. For a moment, she swore she saw the animatronic back online, with some spindly looking thing, but by the time she checks again, it’s gone.
“Ugh, I’m just seeing things now,” she shakes her head. “Maybe I’m just shaken because one of the Bugze’s brought a shotgun with him…”
She then looks at more cameras at Your group, B2’s group, and Mangle who is currently devouring Toy Bonnie…
Kichi’s Comment
But then something catches her eye. A poster near the crossroads, a little ways outside the “Security Room” she’s in. It’s a Freddy Poster…but not.
“Hmm, a yellow Freddy? Was that even one of the options I had?” she asks herself as she looks through the roster. Finding nothing she shrugs and looks at her dog.
“Guess it must have been a previous moddddddd…” she trails off as she sees said electronic in the doorway.
“Spike, please tell me you see that?” she asks to her puppy who just looks at her strangely.
Looking back up from her dog, she shrieks as the hollow eyed suit is right in front of her. She falls backward in her chair and hits the ground with an
“Oomph!”
Scrambling backwards she looks to the suit…and it’s not there.
“I…but…” she stammers a she looks to her concerned puppy. “I, uh…I guess nerves are just getting to me. Maybe it’s latent guilt. I should actually get Indigo and Sour free pizza after this…”
"Calm down, Twilight, nothing happened, I... Yes, I must have dozed off, that it... there is no golden Freddy, it was just a dream" muttered Twilight to herself as she sits back in her chair.
“I’m just seeing things. I’m just…”
Down with Chrysalis’s Comment
She stops as she notices something...strange on one of the cameras. At the end of the hall, almost out of the camera's sight, is a large shadowed figure that wasn't there before.
Assuming it’s another hallucination brought upon by her guilt and nerves, she clears her eyes, but to her shock the shadowed figure is still there. Before she can question exactly what it is, it starts to move.
Her eyes slowly widen in horror as the large shadow begins to slowly move towards the camera, with its limbs and head spasticly twitching with each step. But that’s not all…it begins to speak.
"It-it’s been y-years...sin-since I've se-seen a face rou-round here..."
It's voice is deep and gravely, as if the person hasn't spoken in years. It’s a quiet voice, and yet it somehow echo in the room the camera was in.
"For-forgotten fo-for so long...bro-broken and alone in the he-hell I called my ho-home."
The figure struggles to speak and move, yet it keeps walking towards the camera and as it does, Twilight sees that it’s got rabbit ears.
"I-I am the hun-hunter, you're the pre-prey...You're ju-just an attar-attraction in my amusement par-park... "
Twilight lets out a gasp as the creature walks under a flickering light and she sees it is a disheveled and rotting rabbit animatronic, with bits of it’s endoskeleton exposed.
"The show has ju-just be-begun...I'm giving on-one last encore to-tonight..."
And it’s glowing purple eyes are far more lifelike than the other animatronics, like someone had forced a pair of actual eyeballs into the suit, forever unblinking and staring into her soul. And on closer inspection she can see dozens of blood stains on the suit along with what looks like actual flesh dangling on the limbs sockets.
Twilight's hands cover her mouth in fear at the sight, and even more when the monster just stops. It stops talking, stops moving, just...stops and stares eerily at her camera, and as the seconds tick by it appears that the camera might have frozen. Until the feed goes out.
"WHAT!? No no no no no!" Twilight starts shaking the tablet crazily trying to get the picture back.
"What in the world is that thing? It’s not on any of the public animatronic lists and-AHHHHHH!" She screams as the feed returns and the monsters face of a gooey human skull, eyes widened in permanent horror.
"It's a dan-dangerous thing...waking up ancient his-history! Wel-welcome to m-my NIGHTMARE!"
And with a final screech from the creature the camera goes offline...permanently.
Puzzling Frost’s Comment
As she pants and gasps in air, Twilight looks to Spike who whines and back at the staticy image.
“OK Spike, things have gone far enough. Someone else is inside this building, and they seem dangerous. I need to set things right and get everyone out of here before that…thing finds them!”
She then presses the button to deactivate the jamming device on the phones, however it doesn’t work.
“Oh come on! Did the power outage affect this to?!” Twilight groans. “Well, the least I can do is turn off all the robots, they don’t rely on the building power.
She then sees Mangle on one of the cameras brutally dismantling Toy Freddy.
“Wow they really are efficient…maybe I should keep them on to keep that thing away from the Bugzes and their friends. In fact if I could use the robots to have everyone keep in contact with one another! If I just tweak a system here and there, I can make it so they can send messages between the groups and protect them!” Twilight says before beginning to reprogram her robots.
“I just have to hope they don’t instinctively break them.”
With You
“Buck Your Mama!” you cry out as you blast some sort of Pig animatronic in the face.”
With B2
B2 and his group eventually reach a corridor in the maze that ends at a single door. Above it, says Exit.
“Holy Crap! We actually made it!” Flash cheers.
“But what about the others?” Applejack interjects.
“Who cares, they’ll be fine,” B2 cuts her off. “We can find our bearings now.” And without another word, he opens the door and hanging from the ceiling is a banner that says Congratulations.
And beyond that is another sign that reads, History of The Lost, and the walls leading to yet another door are filled with glass cases full of newspaper clippings, and other things.
“Aw man, I hate museums!” Rainbow groans. “How can that be the grand prize after going through all that?”
“Nah, it’s probably just hidden camera pictures showing our scared faces,” Pinkie suggests. When they all get closer though, they find that it is indeed, just museum type stuff and Pinkie deflates a little. “Oh that’s disappointing.
“Well at least we’re no longer in there with those things,” Applejack shudders.
“History of the Lost? What does that mean?” Flash says looking at the label as B2 peers closely at the newspaper clippings.
“Looks like these old news headlines talked about a series of disappearances of kids at Freddy Fazbears.”
“Disappearing kids? Now that sounds worrying.” Applejack says with a hint of fear.
“Well that’s the urban legend isn’t it? The robots ate the kids and that’s why everything got shut down,” Rainbow points out.
“Yeah, why else would they make a horror attraction out of it?” says B2.
“Well yeah, but these look like real newspaper articles, just like my Granny Smith has in her scrap books.”
“…Granny Smith?” B2 asks curiously.
“Yeah that’s right,” she nods.
“Uh…do you happen to know what her first name is?” he asks her and she gives him a raised brow.
“Orchard. Why? Do you know my Granny?”
“Uh…” B2 stammers before diverting his eyes nervously to the glass cases. “Oh look at that, a shiny red button!”
“Oooh! I love buttons!” Pinkie cheers, pressing it and helping B2 divert the conversation.
“Freddy Fazbear’s a wonderful place for children, and a successful food chain business…So what brought it into the kingdom of horror urband legends?” A teen speaks from the intercom box next to the glass case. “Well, why don’t we listen to what our friend here has to say and find out?” The phone dude says before the familiar intercom voice from before speaks up.
“So I just talk into this thing? Yeah ok ok. This is off record right?” The phone guy speaks. “Alright well, I guess I’ll tell about how everything fell apart.”
“Hey, it’s that guy on the loudspeaker from before,” Rainbow says.
“Before Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, there was the original location known as Fredbear’s Family Diner. There were only two animatronics then, a Golden Fredbear, and a yellow Bonnie, and things were a bit simpler.”
B2’s group looks in at the photos and sees an article advertising Fredbear’s diner and pictures of the two mascots.
“I was a janitor and junior technician at the time cleaning up the messes the kids made. It wasn’t a fun job but it paid the bills. And I was there that day when it all started going south, when the Bite of 83 happened.”
“83? Didn’t he say 87 before?” B2 asks.
“Must have been more,” Flash shrugs.
"Now that's a morbid thought," Applejack says.
“See, we had this security guard named William Afton, and it was his youngest son Chris’s birthday, so of course he was going to have it there, and several other kids from employees came for the party. Even though he never liked the animatronics for some reason.”
“Gee, I wonder why?” B2 deadpans.
“But even poor Chris on his birthday couldn’t escape trouble. His brother Michael was a bit of a punk and tormented his little brother constantly…but that day.” He pauses and sighs. “What happened that day will haunt me for the rest of my life. Michael corralled the kids into putting Chris’s head in the mouth of Fredbear as a cruel prank.” He pauses again. “The old suits had a problem with the mechanical components, specifically in the jaw and head area. Think of a bear trap…”
B2’s group pale at that analogy.
“It was a mess….that poor kid. I should’ve stopped them. I should’ve…oh god….*sobs* Well, it is amazing how long a human can survive without their frontal lobe. He was in a coma for 15 years before passing”
“Jeeze…” Flash says.
“After that incident, the Fredbear Diner closed down. A few years later, they opened it up again as Freddy’s, and swore to take safer precautions, but that didn’t happen. Those children all disappeared, and then the Bite of 87 happened…it was a mess.”
“Holy…” Applejack gags.
“Despite everything though, I do enjoy the animatronics, because their job is to make kids happy. I still work security for the company, even if it is on it’s last legs. Although things are looking up, we are hiring a new security guard soon. Maybe things will turn around for the better.”
After the sound of a tape stopping is heard.
“Freddy’s closed a week after that interview, and the one who gave it was reported missing,” the Phone Dude’s voice returns. “Pretty twisted stuff right? It’s said that the souls of the dead children still possess the animatronics…but hey, you’ve lived through it. Congratulations on surviving the night!”
And then the intercom goes off for good. A few moments of silence fall over the group. Flash looks green, Applejack looks outraged, and Rainbow is hugging Pinkie who’s hair is flattened out.
“God Damn,” B2 shakes his head, saying what all of them had been thinking.
“I never should’ve pressed that button,” Pinkie whimpers.
“I hear that,” he shakes his head and looks to the last exit door. “Even without all this messed up history, these things are screwed up.”
“It’s dang irresponsible for these haunted house folks to be using those animatronics if they caused so much death,” Applejack spits.
“…You really think they’d use the same ones?” asks Rainbow.
“Well, it would be cheaper…” Flash says.
“And those things have been really aggressive tonight,” B2 adds. Almost as one, everyone in B2’s group looks back at the door they just came out of.
“Fluttershy, Rarity, Mr. Bugze and those other girls are still in there with them…” Pinkie whimpers.
B2 stares at the door back to the maze and the exit and just sighs deeply.
“Ah Hell…”
With Twilight
“Dear Lord! The history of these things is horrifying!” Twilight shudders as she finishes hearing the recording from B2 and his group’s side. “Well, at least they’re about to be out. Now all I have to worry about is-What?! Why are they going back in?!”
B2 and the teens reluctantly walk back into the attraction and a strand of Twilight’s hair falls in front of her face.
“H-H-How Stupid Could You Be?!”
With Bugze
“How stupid can you be?!” you taunt to the hippo animatronic as it walks towards you slowly. Quite a few animatronics have done that recently, and they’ve just been easily taken down.
You go to fire Second Law one more time…and all the animatronic gets is some air blown in it’s face.
“Dang it! Out of Ball Bearings!” you shout as you instinctively punch the slow robot right in it’s stupid face as it reaches out to you. Pain hits your wrapped hand since it’s still tender, but as you’re also holding the purple gem in that hand, the robot gets sent flying in an arc of purple electricity.
“AGHGHAHAHGAGHHEEE!!!” you yell as the electricity courses through you too and your teeth chatter.
Agh! Stupid weak human body! Selena growls herself as she feels that sensation.
For once, I have to agree! Sombra groans.
“Are you alright?” asks Sunset.
“Never better,” you lie as smoke wisps off of your hair. “You should see the other guy.”
As you say that, a whirring metal clank is heard as the Hippo crawls out of the hole, looking disorientated as purple electricity sparks off of it’s body.
“I see the other guy! We all see him!” Sour says in horror from behind you.
“Oh I am not in the bucking mood!” you growl to the evil machine as you put away Second Law and bring back out the Boom Stick. “You maybe be hungry, hungry, so let me feed ya with a Boom Stick Sand-“
“Hhh-Hello Hello! Hello?” the animatronic speaks with a robotic voice, holding it’s arms up for you to stop.
“What the…?” you sputter and back up a bit.
“See! I told you they could mimic human voices!” Indigo rants as she, Sour, Fluttershy and Rarity all hold onto one another.
“Well if you’re hearing this-Don’t-bite. I’m-Friends-“ it says with interspliced audio clips.
“Whoa, it sounds just like that guy over the intercom,” you say aloud.
“I-Am-" it answers.
"Wait, what?"
"There’s nothing to worry about-good idea-to chat with you-Things start getting real tonight,” it says with more spliced audio of the phone guy.
You look at the thing, and look back at the girls and back as you are beyond confused. Twilight up in her control area is just as flabbergasted at this as you are.
“What. The. Buck?” you say as the hippo robot stares at you all intently.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
