in the day...
Rainbow Sparkle was just heading home after reading the ponyville chronicle about the events of the night before. She was a hot pink pegasus with a yellow and purple mane with slight curls, and her cutie mark had two speakers with a microphone, which represented her talent for singing. When she got home, her phone started ringing. She hit play without picking it up and a high-pitched voice came forth.
"Hey uh, I know we haven't met in a while, but there has been an accident here at pinkie fazpie's and we don't have a security guard for the night shift..."
While the call continued, Rainbow Sparkle was having memories of when she first worked there seven years ago, but she quit when one of the older animatronic ponies named applejack accidentally bit a filly's head and the foal was killed, and she hasn't been back ever since. Feeling like she had enough of the memories, she picked up the phone.
"Oh uh, hello?" the voice from the other side said, surprised.
"Hey uh, is the uniform still the same?"
"Oh yeah, they are, your uniform will arrive in only a few minutes."
"Thank you."
Then she hung up the phone and prepared for her first day back at the pizzeria after seven years.
at night...
Rainbow Sparkle had put on her new uniform and started flying towards the pizzeria, she was ready to see all the changes have been made to the pizzeria since she quit.
When she landed, she opened the door to see that there was many more animatronics on stage, otherwise, everything was the same. She went into the security room to take vanilla orchid's place as security guard.
a few minutes later...
Fluttershy and pinkie just activated, ready to see the new pony that replaced the old one, but they looked around them to find that twilight was missing.
"Pinkie, where is twilight?" Fluttershy asked.
"I haven't seen her anywhere."
"We need to find her."
Then they started shouting twilight's name all around the building until they found her in the backstage.
"Oh twilight, we were looking everywhere for you." Fluttershy sighed in relief.
"Oh, hey guys, I just happened to find a strange crate that's as big as me." twilight pointed in the direction where this crate was.
"Maybe there are some party favors in there!" pinkie exclaimed.
"Or pizza!" twilight added.
"Or cute little animals." Fluttershy also added, and she got looks from the others. "What? You know me with animals."
RS was starting to fall asleep but instantly woke up when the phone started ringing underneath all the papers on the desk.
"Oh come on, where is the phone under all of these?" she exclaimed. Then accidentally put a hoof on a cupcake that was placed on the shelf over the desk.
"Wait a minute, why do they keep a cupcake on the shelf? That is creepy." then wiped it off on a drawing made by one of the foals that visited here a few days ago.
"I don't think we should open it," Fluttershy said, she started to walk away and pinkie did the same.
"Why not guys?" twilight asked, and ran over to her friends.
"Well it could be dangerous, so it could be bad for the pizzeria!" pinkie answered.
"Ok, I'll close it back up," she said, disappointed. She walked back over to the crate.
"Ok now, how did I open I... Uh oh." she was retracing her steps on how she got the crate to the way she had left it, but when she got back to the crate, it was wide open, though she remembered it being closed.
"AHHH!!!"
RS was having trouble with the cameras but managed to put up the backstage camera, watching twilight being taken by some unknown creature, then there was a scream.
what just happened, the scream happened just when my screen went black. What the hay is going on? she thought to herself.
"Twilight, what is taking so long!" Fluttershy asked as she walked in with pinkie.
"I think it took her instead!" pinkie said as she saw the big opening in the crate.
"Oh no, what should we do, I'm good at panicked screaming."
"I think we should look for clues. Fluttershy, check the kitchen."
"Got it."
While Fluttershy was heading towards the kitchen, rainbow dash had fully powered. She heard the sound of hoofsteps running towards the kitchen while dash was still waking up. She peeked out of her curtain and just happened to miss the pony that the hoofsteps came from, instead, she noticed the kitchen door completely close, then nothing else.
"What was that for?" she asked herself to no-one in particular.
"You'll find out soon enough." a voice from behind said, causing dash to flinch a little and move into a protective stance.
"Who's there!?" she called out, determination in her voice.
"I'm sunset shimmer, I've been sent here for specific reasons. Reasons that you don't need to know about." the voice stated her name and pounced out of the dark, towards dash.
"Oh no you don't!" dash said, before taking off into the air with her wings, despite being an animatronic.
Sunset just missed dash and flew out of the curtain. Dash was looking for a vent of sorts that she could hide in. Luckily, she found a vent and started to crawl inside.
When sunset had fully recovered from the pounce, she bolted back inside the curtain to try again, but dash had already been inside of the vent and safe from her. She growled then started for the kitchen.
RS was trying to get the screen on her computer fixed while on the kitchen camera. She knew that camera had been broken in the past, and she thought they had fixed it. Then she heard a faint scream coming from the audio that the camera produced.
Fluttershy was trying to find twilight in the kitchen like pinkie had told her to when something attacked her from behind. She screamed a very faint one, but that didn't mind sunset at all.
"Get off me!" she cried, trying to get sunset's hooves off herself.
Eventually, she managed to push sunset off and ran for the door.
When sunset got up, she had sensed that pinkie was going to see if rainbow had seen twilight anywhere, so she quickly ran out the kitchen door, and back towards dash's curtain to hide until pinkie arrived.
"Dashie, I need your help!" pinkie called, "Twilight has disappeared! I need you to help me find her before it turns 6 am!"
Then, someone poked her head out of the curtain, though it wasn't dash, it was sunset. Pinkie instantly knew who it was.
"SUNSET SHIMMER!!!!" she screamed, and started to run away from sunset, and managed to get away.
Then sunset thought that there was someone in the security office, so she started towards RS.
Meanwhile, RS was searching through the cameras until she found something strange in camera 2B, which was right outside her door. She stopped flipping through the cameras, to get a better look. Then she was very confused.
"Twilight!?" she exclaimed out loud. "What is twilight doing there, and why is she tied up?" then she heard a siren start to go off, "why is there a siren going off?"
Fluttershy had decided to check on the music box that rarity rested at. When she got there, she realized that rarity was getting out.
oh dear... she thought to herself.
"why is there a siren going off?" a voice said. It sounded like RS, so Fluttershy decided to answer the question asked.
"It's because the music box stopped!"
RS was switching through the cameras again until she stopped on the music box cam to find Fluttershy answering her question about the siren.
"it's because the music box stopped!" Fluttershy cried.
"Fluttershy, how did you hear my question?"
"no time to answer that, she's coming for you!" she said, noticing sunset running towards the security office off camera.
"It's a good thing that these doors can be locked so she wouldn't be able to get in," RS said, flying over to the door and pushing the button to close and lock the door, but was not able to due to the door being disabled.
"Well that is weird, usually that only happens when one of them is just...AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" while she was talking to herself, a sudden pop made her mane and tail stand on end, making her fall over too her flank.
Sunset had hidden in the balloon window in the office and disabled the door so she could enter easily.
Pinkie was hiding from sunset even though she knew she had outrun her the first time, then she heard a scream coming from the security office.
the new pony might be in trouble. she thought. time to save her.
Then she went over to the pile of boxes in the backstage and searched for her superhero costume. When she found it, she put it on and started to run for the security office.
Rainbow dash was getting bored of hiding in the vent.
"Ugh, can this night be over with already, I'm getting bored h..." then she heard a scream coming from the security office. "That might be the new security pony, maybe sunset shimmer got to her."
She thought long and hard about what to do to help RS get out of the situation she was in, then an idea came to mind.
"Maybe I can go through the vent to the other side since this leads to the security office," she stated her thought out loud, but nobody heard her. Then she started to crawl through the vent.
Meanwhile, RS was struggling with sunset to stay off her.
"No, no, please, I haven't reached 100 subscribers on my youtube channel yet!" she pleaded to sunset.
"Hm, does it look like I care?" sunset stated, standing over RS.
"Don't worry, I'll save you!" pinkie came running into the office towards sunset to stun her, but sunset was smarter, she hit pinkie I the head and she went flying to the other side of the room.
"Ow, I changed my mind, RUN AWAY!" pinkie exclaimed.
RS had escaped sunsets grasp while she was dealing with pinkie, and flew up to the ceiling to protect herself.
"She needs to be stopped!" Fluttershy said from the music box camera.
"She is way too destructive to still be here!" pinkie said getting up and taking off her outfit.
"Hmphmphmphmph!" twilight tried to speak through the cloth over her mouth but was unable to.
"What did she say?" Fluttershy said, now at the security door.
"I think she said to look out for the fan!" pinkie warned RS.
"Got it!" RS stated while flying all around the room staying close to the ceiling.
"Look!" Fluttershy noticed something coming through the hallway.
"I heard your cries darlings, what's wrong?" rarity was coming down the hall to see what was causing her friends trouble.
"It's sunset shimmer!" pinkie answered.
"That ruffian, well I'll deal with her at once."
Rarity used her magic to trap sunset in a field of magic. It worked successfully and trapped her inside. RS landed and rainbow came through the vent.
"I'm here. What's wr...darn it!" rainbow had realized rarity had already done the work.
"Maybe you can go untie twilight, I know those ropes can't be good for the gears," RS suggested, she didn't want dash to feel left out.
"Got it." dash said before going to help twilight.
"Also, why were you in that vent in the first place?" pinkie asked.
"I hid in there when sunset tried to attack me." dash answered.
"That's terrible!" RS stated, "glad you escaped."
"I think I'm going to need more help darlings, I can't hold her forever." rarity warned.
"Well, where are we going to find someone else to help?" Fluttershy asked.
"I know!" Twilight said, dash had helped get all the ropes off of twilight and remembered a feisty pony.
“Do you know where she or he lives?” RS asked twilight.
Twilight filled the group in on what she knew, then started to set course for the pony’s house.