//------------------------------// // So Much Nope! // Story: Five Minutes at Freddy's // by Whateverdudezb //------------------------------// From the ceiling, a dull light flickered on to reveal a shabby desk littered with crumpled food wrappers, empty plastic cups, and many more various pieces of trash that were strewn about its surface. Along with the trash was a cheap, metal fan that spun its short blades in a pathetic attempt to cool off the dirty security room that it was in. Next to this fan was a phone. It started ringing. Berrrrring! Berrrrring! Berrrr—*click* "Hello? ...Hello! Uh... I wanted to record a message for you, to help you get settled here in your first night. Um... I actually worked in that office before you, so I know that it can be a bit overwhelming, but I'm here to tell you that there's nothing to worry about. You'll do fine. ...So let's just focus on getting you through your first night. Okay, lets see... the animatronic characters here do get a bit quirky at night. So just be aware, the characters do tend to ...wander a bit, they've got some kind of free-roaming mode, uh... something about their servos locking up if they get turned off for too long. They used to walk around during the day too, but then there was the 'bite of eighty-seven' ...anyways, concerning your safety, the only real risk to you, if any, is that if these characters happen to see you after hours, they'll probably won't recognize you, they'll most likely see you as a metal endoskeleton without its costume on. Now since that's against the rules, they'll probably try to forcefully stuff you into a suit. Now that wouldn't be so bad if the suit themselves weren't filled with crossbeams, wires, and animatronic devices—especially around the facial area—so you can imagine having your head forced inside one of those can cause a bit of... discomfort. But, hey! First day should be a breeze, I'll chat with you tomorrow, uh... check those cameras, and only close those doors when absolutely necessary. You've gotta conserve power. Alright, good night." *click* The room was left silent with only the swishing sound of the spinning fan blades and the erratic flickering of the ceiling light to occupy the noiselessness of the security room. Sitting near the back wall of the room, in a rather admittedly comfy swivel chair, was a cyan and rainbow-maned pegasus by the name of Rainbow Dash. Leaning forward on her chair, Rainbow Dash gave the now silent phone a quizzical look. A prudent question on her lips. "...When did Equestria get phones?" First Night 12:00 A.M. If there's anything that Rainbow Dash has learned in her time as an Element of Harmony, it was that she, along with the rest of her friends, was very good at saving Equestria. And although her mental thesaurus wasn't quite as extensive as Twilight's, she was pretty sure that 'saving' was synonymous with 'protecting,' so, by that logic, she was absolutely certain that she would make an excellent guard for protecting smaller, less Equestria-sized places all by herself. At least, for however long it would take for her to make enough bits to finally pay off her flight school loan, because apparently it turns out that being one of the saviors of Equestria—multiple times even!—does not give her any sort of cash rebate. ...Swell. So here she was, working the nightshift at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza place, and completely bored out of her skull. Currently, she was slouched in her chair, a hoof propping her head up as she watched the tablet screen with a bored expression. The screen only showed one camera feed at a time and she currently had it set to the entrance of the place. In fact, the restaurant's entrance was the only camera feed that she even bothered to check at all throughout her entire time here and she had a very good reason for that. She was guarding a cheap, family-friendly pizza restaurant for crying out loud! The only ponies that would even bother to break into this place would be stupid teenagers trying to show off in front of their friends and pretending to be cool. And since it would only be stupid teenagers that would even dare try, she'd bet money on the fact that they'd be dumb enough to attempt to break the lock on the front door and just walk straight in. And it was such that Rainbow Dash sat there, tiredly watching the entrance camera feed, completely unaware of the movement that was going on deeper in the restaurant. Completely unaware of the movement that was heading closer toward the lit security room. Berrrrring! The phone rang loudly and obnoxiously, completely startling her out of her reverie with a fright. Setting down the tablet, Rainbow Dash swerved her swivel chair toward the desk and answered the phone, surprised to hear a friendly voice. "Hello? Oh, hi Pinkie!" Rainbow Dash smiled at hearing her fun, party friend answer from the other line, "Hey, quick question, before you say anything, can you tell me ...when did we get phones?" her violet irises flickered toward the tablet in her lap, "and tablets too? Did I just miss some technological boom or something?" In the restaurant's main dining hall, where the tables were lined up with rows of party hats atop them, a large, towering shadow, barely perceivable in the encompassing darkness, slowly trailed over the white cloth that covered these tables. "Wow, we've had the technology for that long, huh? Knowing that probably could've made a few of our past adventures much easier to handle, y'know? Anyways, what was it that you'd call me for?" A curved hook, too sharp to be attached to anything benign, slowly slid between the folds of two drapes and started to steadily push them apart. "Wait, what!?" gasped Rainbow Dash, suddenly sitting up straight as her expression became incredibly fearful, "You're saying that I have a deep, personal history with this place that will slowly be revealed over the course of my stay here!?" A jibber-jabbering of a frantic voice was heard on the other line. "...Oh, that's not what you're telling me," said Rainbow Dash as her demeanor relaxed to much more calm state, "then what did you call for?" In the west-end hallway that led to the security room, there was a flickering light hanging from the ceiling that, considering just how much it flickered on and off, teetered on the brink of dying. And under this dying light stood a large figure that was bipedal in shape and bulbously round in size. "Oh, I see, you're just wondering why I'm not doing what the guy on the phone told me to do, like watching out for the animatronics," Rainbow Dash paused in her conversation, her face expressionless as she blankly stared straight ahead and silently mulled over the words that she just uttered, "...okay, first off, I'm not even going to attempt to understand how or why you're even aware of that for the sake of staying sane, and second off, c'mon Pinkie, killer animatronics?" she snorted derisively, "That's obviously just something that older employees tell newer ones to freak them out. It's like when I used to work at the rainbow factory," she smiled and nodded her head fondly as she remembered her time there, "man, I'd tell you, I had this one story that totally freaked out the school colts and fillies that came over for field trips. It was hilarious," she recalled nostalgically before briefly pausing with a far away look in her eyes as a sense of realization came to her, "actually, come to think of it, that's probably what got me fired there in the first place." "Hur... hur... hur..." Rainbow Dash's ears twitched at the sudden noise, it had sounded like... laughter? Did some kids break-in somehow? It sounded like it was coming from the restaurant's main dining hall. "Hey, Pinkie, I'm going to have to call you back ...somehow—I'll figure it out later—I've gotta check something," hanging up the phone, Rainbow Dash reopened her tablet and flicked through the camera feeds, before pausing at a specific one. The dining hall's stage... It was empty. Clump! Clump! Rainbow Dash sprung her head up at the noise of quick, heavy footsteps sounding off to her left. Turning her gaze toward the west entrance of the room, she silently stared into the black darkness with aweing trepidation. ...No. It couldn't be... could it? Her eyes flicked over to the two buttons placed on the side of the entrance, particularly focusing on the white button that would activate the hallway lights. Switching her gaze back to the shadowy darkness, she slowly moved her cyan hoof over the button. Hesitating for but a second, she pressed her hoof down against it, activating the lights and allowing her to see into the hallway. And there stood Bonnie the Bunny, one of the animatronic animals used to entertain the children who came to the restaurant, standing no more than a few feet away from Dash. What once seemed so friendly and innocent in the light, now seemed terrifying and demonic in the darkness. It's marshmallow shaped teeth looked predatory and the corners of its mouth appeared to be stained with some sort of mucus and... and blood! Yes, dear Celestia, that looked like blood! What was worse though were its eyes! How it stared back at Dash with blank, cartoonish eyes. Not real eyes, but fake eyes! It had fake eyes, fake teeth, a fake nose, a fake face, and fake skin! Everything about it seemed so fake and wrong, like its appearance was nothing more than a flimsy, haunting disguise used to cover up something that was just so much more terrifying underneath that it could barely be contained by such a cartoonish get up, creating a walking morbid horror! And Rainbow Dash stared straight at it, frozen still. Then her wings flared open. "Nope!" she said with absolute clarity. And suddenly she was a rainbow that flew out of the east entrance of the security room, flying away from the animatronic monster so fast that her backdraft caused its bowtie to twirl from the burst of wind. "Nope-nope-nope-nope-nope-nope-nope-nope-nope!" she repeatedly yelled in fright as she flew down the east hallway at such a speed that she barely noticed the yellow figure that she passed by, its 'let's eat' bib flying off of it from the sudden passing. "Nope-nope-nope-nope-nope-nope-nope-nope-nope!" Rainbow Dash continued to chant this mantra as she flew over the dining hall's tables and past the drapes of the pirate cove stage, not even noticing the curved hook that barely missed striking her abdomen to only slide through the hair strands of her tail. "Nope-nope-nope-nope-nope-YES!" she screamed out joyously as she reached the entrance of the restaurant. Placing her hooves against the glass double-doors, Rainbow Dash gave them a push with all of her might. Only for them to not move an inch... Because they were locked... And Rainbow Dash just remembered that she left the keys in the security room. "Hur... Hur... Hur..." Eyes went wide, brows shot up, and pupils shrank to tiny pinpricks as she heard the noise. That laughter sounded very close. Like, the 'right behind her' kind of close... CRASH! "FREEDOM!" shouted Rainbow Dash as she burst through the glass of the double-doors, the shattered shards falling to the ground as she flew away into the distance. ...Except she wasn't flying off into the distance. In fact, to her, it seemed like she was flying in place right in front of the entrance, no matter how hard she flapped her wings. Perhaps it had something to do with the hard tugging feeling on her tail. Snapping her head back around in mid-air, Rainbow Dash nearly cried in fearful distraught at what she saw. There was a brown, metal paw wrapped around her rainbow colored tail, and the limb of this paw was stretching out from the darkness of the restaurant much like a tendril of a cosmic horror would do from a shadowy realm. Suddenly, a face lit up from the darkness of the restaurant. It had two large, glowing eyes and a bright, open maw that procured enough light for her to see a cartoonish, bear face with a bowler hat atop of its head. It was Freddy Fazbear, the centerpiece of the animatronic quartet and the mascot of the restaurant. And it was pulling her back into said restaurant. "Hur... Hur... Hur..." it laughed its disturbing laugh as it soullessly stared unblinkingly at the animatronic endoskeleton it had found. It was against the rules for one to be without its suit. It needed to fix that. Pulled half-way back inside of the restaurant again, Rainbow Dash found herself furiously flapping her wings with all of her might and desperately clinging to the edges of the shattered doors with her hooves. Holding herself against the doors, the broken pieces of glass still attached to the insides of the window's ridges pierced into her, their sharp edges cutting into her skin and allowing red blood to trail down both her cyan coat and the glass. But she didn't pay the pain any mind as she concentrated solely on surviving. "So... much...—AUGH!" screamed out Rainbow Dash as a second metal paw grabbed her face and pulled her fully into the restaurant. Her form disappearing into its shadowy interior, its encompassing darkness swallowing her whole. But then, the restaurant's interior exploded with color, completely shattering the remaining glass windows as a streak of rainbow shot out from the front entrance. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE!" the rainbow shouted as it escaped the restaurant's confines and flew off into the distance, a severed metal paw still attached to the rainbow's tail. Second Night 12:00 A.M. Buck That! BREAKING NEWS! FREDDY FAZBEAR'S PIZZA DESTROYED BY ROYAL ORDER! In one of the most unusual first decrees of a newly formed government body, Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, a beloved family restaurant loved by many and the source of much conspiracy surrounding the cases of missing children and security guards alike, has been destroyed by order of the Council of Friendship, led by Princess Twilight Sparkle. This controversial decision was initiated by Rainbow Dash, Element of Loyalty, winner of Best Young Flyer's competition, and council seat member. After taking a second job (or third if one counted a seat on the council as a job, which, according to a recent poll, most ponies don't) as a night watch guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, Rainbow Dash was reportedly seen flying screaming out of the restaurant shortly after her first posting, breaking several windows and damaging other such pieces of private property as a result. The actual destruction of the restaurant was carried out by the very council members themselves, who had arrived at the restaurant's location early in the morning, cleared out any patrons and workers inside of it, before using their 'friendship-rainbow powers' to create a beam of magical energy to obliterate the family restaurant. Suspicions regarding Rainbow Dash's sanity were put into question when concerned ponies reported that said council seat member was seen at the site, still in her 'rainbow-powered' form, frantically jumping up and down on the rubble and screaming, "FRIENDSHIP-BEAM IT TO THE GROUND!"