Midnight paced back and forward in his house, mumbling to himself about last night's events, the image of Celestia's animatronic form still fresh in his mind.
"Fuck me, Celestia's an animatronic now, oh what is Luna going to do if she finds out about this?" Midnight said, rubbing his head in worry. He knew something was off about these animatronics, but having the ability to turn ponies into animatronics? Just then, something rammed into the door, knocking Midnight out of his worry with a yelp. With another bang, the door was forcibly pushed open, and a Lunar guard burst in. Setting his eyes on Midnight, the stallion had no time to react when the guard charged forward and tackled him. Midnight was slammed against his wall with an arm against his throat.
"Where is the princess?!" The guard hissed, but with an arm lodged against his neck, Midnight was unable to answer.
"Let him go, we can't get answers if you kill him," came the voice of Luna, who walked in through the door, followed by a second guard. The first guard looked back at her before looking back at Midnight. After another moment, he let Midnight go, allowing the pegasus to fall to the ground, coughing and bent over.
"What is it with guards?" Midnight said under his breath, still coughing. Once Midnight had recovered from another near death experience, Princess Luna chose to speak.
"You're Midnight Sight, correct?" She asked, Midnight looked up at the lunar princess before standing back up.
"Yes," Midnight simply responded.
"And you visited my sister two days ago, correct?"
"Yes," 'Fuck me, she's intimidating,' Luna looked around the room for a bit before her eyes landed on the sofas, she went over to the nearest one and sat down. Though it was a bit to small for her eight foot height, she eventually found a comfortable position on the couch.
"Have a seat, I want to talk to you a bit," Luna said, Midnight nodded his head and sat across from Luna.
"So," she began, "After you had talked to my sister, what occurred later afterwards?" Midnight hesitated a bit before saying,
"Princess, what I'm about to tell you, please don't freak out," Midnight said, causing Luna to raise an eyebrow.
"What did you do to the Princess?" The first guard hissed.
"Fort, do not interrupt," Luna commanded, and Fort shut his mouth. "Go ahead, Midnight."
"Okay, so, the reason I went to see Princess Celestia was to talk to her about... Freddy Fazbear's Pizza," It was Fort's turn to raise an eyebrow, "I know it seem weird, but there is a reason. The reason was that... the animatronics there... they're evil, sentient beings," Midnight paused a bit, but before he could continue, Fort interrupted.
"Princess, it's obvious that we are dealing with a lunatic here, so if I may, I-"
"Can you just shut the fuck up?!" Midnight yelled, fed up with the guard. Fort just stood there for a moment, shocked that he was just yelled at.
"How dare you-" Fort started, but was once again cut off.
"Actually, I agree with him, shut up," Luna said, Fort just stood there, wide eyed and jaw hanging. The second guard tried his best to stifle his laughter, as did Midnight. After the two had calmed down, Luna addressed Midnight.
"Please continue," she requested, Midnight nodded his head and continued.
"Well, after we talked about it, she decided to join me on my next shift. However, when she did, she was... captured and turned into an animatronic..." Luna's eye's widened, shocked at what she heard, as were the two guards. She couldn't believe it, how could her sister have been defeated so easily?
"How..." was all that Luna could say.
"I-I don't know, they somehow managed to disable her magic, how they managed to turn her into a robot, I don't know how they managed to do that," they all sat there in silence for the bit, after a moment, Luna stood up.
"Midnight, I'm coming with you tonight," the three other ponies in the room understandably freaked out. "Calm down, I'm not going in there to do what my sister did, I'm going in there to destroy the animatronics," with her saying this, Midnight calmed down, only a bit. But the guards were not as thrilled.
"But Princess, alone?" Fort asked.
"No, Midnight will be accompanying me,"
"Yes, I know, but he's just a pegasus!"
"Hey!"
"At the very least let us come as well,"
"No, Fort," Luna said, "This is a personal reason, that's why I'm doing it only with Midnight," she stated, this got the guards to shut up, they knew better than to argue with the Princess. "When does you shift start?"
"Right at twelve," Midnight responded.
"Alright, then we will meet five minutes before," as soon as she finished speaking, she headed out, followed by her guards, but before leaving, she said one last thing to Midnight. "Be prepared for tonight," after saying that, she was gone. After a bit, Midnight let out a loud sigh and fell back into his seat. He had mixed emotions, he was happy because tonight he may have been rid of the animatronics menace, but worried that the robots may just be able to claim the other princess. Not only that, he was also scared, because if they did manage to capture Luna, than that could very well mean the end of Equestria.
But worrying would not do him any good, all he could do was wait until tonight for the outcome. In the meantime, he needed to do somethings, one of which he was planning on doing right now. After getting up, leaving his house and walking to his destination, he knocked on the door of a house. After a moment, the door opened, revealing Bon Bon on the other side.
"Oh, hello Midnight," she greeted.
"Hi Bon Bon, remember when I promised I would explain everything about yesterday? Well, that's why I'm here," Midnight said, Bon Bon nodded her head, stepping out of the way to allow Midnight in and going upstairs to fetch Lyra. Once the two mares were back down and situated, Midnight began to explain everything, starting with night one of his shift.
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At the end of his story, the two mares were left in pure shock. No one knew what to say at that point, Midnight had nothing else to explain, and Bon Bon and Lyra did not know how to respond to what they just heard. After many awkward moments, Lyra was the first to get up, she walked over to Midnight, who was now looking up at her, and slapped him across the face.
"Why?! Why are you doing this to yourself?!" She cried out, tears starting to fall from her eyes. After Midnight had recovered from the stinging sensation on his cheek, he looked back up at Lyra.
"Because... at first it was to find out what there were doing, but now... now I'm doing it so no more lives are claimed. I'm doing to protect you guys, and everypony else here. They've already killed so many, I don't know if the others have even tried to do anything about it... but I am."
"But... but isn't there any other way?" Bon Bon asked, tears starting to fall from her eyes as well.
"If I knew of one, then I would do it. But right now, this is the best way."
"But you're going to get yourself killed!" Lyra yelled. Midnight simply stood up, and looked into her eyes.
"If I die, then I want to at least die knowing that you two are safe," Midnight stated, Lyra looked at him for a moment, before slapping him again, though not as hard as the first time. She then moved closer and embraced him, softly crying into his shoulder. Midnight comforted her, allowing tears of his own to fall. After a moment of silence, Bon Bon got up from her seat and joined in the hug. The three just stood there, crying and taking in their potentially last moments together. Tonight was going to be MIdnight's hardest night yet, not because he would be hiding away from the killer animatronics, but because he would be fighting them head on.
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Luna was waiting at the entrance of Freddy's for Midnight, just as it was about time for the two to meet up, Midnight could bee seen flying in, carrying something with him. As he landed, Luna saw what he had brought with him.
"A bat?" She questioned, looking at the blunt weapon in Midnight's hands. Said stallion looked down at it before looking back up at Luna.
"Well, I don't have a gun, I don't even have a permit for one. But it's at least a metal bat, so it should do at least some damage... hopefully..." Midnight responded, Luna just sighed.
"Well, it's better than nothing I guess," Luna said. She then lit up her horn and hands. "It's time Midnight," she said, moving towards the door with Midnight close behind. Once close enough, Luna kicked up the door and the two made their way in.
"Was that necessary?" Midnight asked, taking a glance back at the doors, it was a miracle that they hadn't been severally damaged. Luna didn't respond though, instead, she was keeping an eye out for any animatronics. Looking back at the stage, Midnight realized something, the band was already gone. Freddy's laugh echoed through the building, causing Midnight to tighten his grip around his bat and Luna to squint her eyes. After a quick moment, Luna's magic was gone, her eyes widened, but she recovered fairly quickly, resorting to balling her fists.
After a few tense moments, a screech was heard, followed by a scream from Midnight. Chica appeared from the kitchen and charged towards Midnight. Thinking fast, he swung the bat, nailing her in the head, managing to knock her off course, sending her into some tables. Luna turned around, trying to help Midnight, but she was tackled by Foxy, knocking her to the ground. While Luna was wrestling with Foxy to keep a metal hook out of her eye, Midnight tried to make his way to her, but his arm was grabbed by a purple hand. Looking back, Midnight saw that Bonnie had joined the fight.
With a single powerful throw, Midnight was thrown across the room, landing hard against a wall. A loud crunch was heard, as Midnight screamed out in pain. Picking himself up, his left wing was now hanging limply against his back. Doing his best to shake off the pain, Midnight looked towards the direction of where Luna was, only to see her fighting a futile fight. She was being wrestled into the back stage by the three robots. After managing to see clearly through the pain, Midnight was about to give chase, but a footstep behind him made him freeze stiff. Slowly looking behind himself, Midnight came face to face with the big bear himself.
"You think you're so smart, don't you?" Freddy asked, slowly advancing on Midnight, who in turn starting backing up. "You thought you could uncover what we were doing, even expose it to the world maybe? You thought that getting the princess's involved would help you goal, but instead, it only helped advance our plan. But even through all this, I must, at the very least, congratulate you. You are the first guard to ever come this far, to survive for this long. That is rather impressive, however, your time is almost up. And once I'm done with you, soon I will spread the Joy of Creation to all of Equestria!" At this point, Midnight was has pushed himself against another wall, grunting in pain as his wing brushed against wall.
Freddy was now looming over him, a sadistic look in those mechanical eyes. Midnight looked to his left, then took off running down the left hall, heading towards the office. There was no point in fighting, even if Freddy was alone, he was most likely the strongest out of all the animatronics anyway. Freddy simply watched as Midnight fled towards his office, he knew his time was coming soon, he would let the others have their fun, besides, he had his own business to attend to.
Midnight hurriedly ran into his office, not even choosing to look back behind himself. Once he was safely inside, he quickly closed both doors, making sure he was secure in his office. Once he was in his seat, making sure both doors were firmly shut... he cried into his hands. All of this was becoming too much for him, so many things were happening so fast. The plan was a utter failure, and now Luna was going to be like her sister. Was this all a lost cause at this point?
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The night proceeded normally, Bonnie, Chica and Celestia relentlessly tried to come into the office, and Freddy was in the backstage dealing with Luna, as indicated by the disabled backstage camera. After closing the door on Chica for what felt like the hundredth time, Midnight sighed to himself. Everything and everyone was proceeding normally... except Foxy, he was what was worrying Midnight. He hadn't left his cove all night, which Midnight was happy for, but that did nothing to clam his nerves. Especially since Foxy had made a promise the previous night, all Midnight could do now was only hope he decided not to do anything, which was most likely not going to happen.
Picking up the tablet, Midnight quickly flipped through the camera screens. He managed to find all the animatronics... except one, Foxy. Without looking at the door, Midnight slammed his fist down on the switch, closing off Foxy's only way in, but he knew Foxy would not give up that easily.
"You must be either very brave, or very stupid t' come aft here again," Foxy said through the closed door.
"Fuck off, shit head," Midnight said, surprisingly, calmly. But that didn't stop Foxy from driving his hook through the hole that he had already made. But he didn't stop there, he dragged his hook downwards, not by much, but enough to cut open a descent sized slit. After that, Foxy used the side of his hook and exposed endo-skeleton hand to widen the gap in the door. Now big enough to stick his head through, which is exactly what he did, along with his left arm. Midnight was starting to panic at this point.
"I'm goin' t' enjoy guttin' you!" Foxy said, trying to get through the door, but while he was talking, Midnight's eyes were drawn to the door switch. With a thought crossing his mind, Midnight got an evil look in his eye and let out a dark chuckle. Foxy looked at him confused, just as Midnight met his eyes.
"Wrong move, fox!" Midnight proclaimed, raising his arm. That was when Foxy realized his mistake, but by then it was too late. Midnight slammed his hand down on the button, and up went the door, along with Foxy. The animatronic let out a screech of pain when the door struggled to close, the metal starting to cut through fox. Sparks flew from his neck and shoulder as the metal door finally started cutting through, with Foxy crying out throughout it all. Finally, with an echoing thud, the door finally went up, and Foxy came down. His body lay still on the ground, not moving, with the exception of sparks shooting out from the neck and left shoulder.
His arm also laid motionless, shooting out sparks from where it had been severed. Lastly, was Foxy's head, his mouth was twitching and his eyes were rolling around in his head uncontrollably, accompanied by the sparks flying out from his nick. Finally, after a whole minute of trying to stay alive, Foxy started slowing down, before coming to a complete stop. Midnight got up from his seat and kicked the head and arm back out into the hall.
"Bitch," was all that Midnight said, before the power suddenly cut off, followed by it was a terrifying scream.
"FOXY!" Came Bonnie's voice, followed by the sound of pawsteps. Midnight panicked and opted for hiding under his desk, he had a feeling it wouldn't be Freddy paying him a visit tonight. From his vantage point, he could see the giant robotic bunny bend down and left up her pirate friend. But she soon set him back down, instead now looking into the office with white pinpricks. "MIDNIIIIGHT!!" Bonnie yelled out, storming into the office. "Where are you? Where the fuck are you?!" She questioned in a blind rage, not even seeing the stallion hiding under the table. Unable to find him, Bonnie instead resorted to tearing apart the office.
Midnight watched as everything was thrown off the table, the fan, the monitors, the tablet, and any other junk that was on there. That's when the alarm sounded, but was abruptly cut off when Bonnie tore the clock off the wall, and threw it against the opposite wall, causing it to shatter. With nothing more to break in the room, Bonnie stormed out of the office, heading back to the stage. After a few minutes, Midnight finally pulled himself out from underneath the table, observing the damage that was done.
The office was no longer recognizable, now nothing more than a room full of trash and broken electronics. Midnight also noticed that Foxy was gone, most likely set back into his cove or backstage. Making his way out of the office and into the hall, he peeked out the corner of the hall, looking at the band. Bonnie was the first to notice him, snapping her head to look at him. It was obvious she was doing everything in her strength to hold herself back. Not wanting to stay there any longer, Midnight quickly made his way out of the building, sprinting out into the streets.
At this point, there was no more fooling around, Midnight needed to get the Elements involved, they were Equestria's last hope.