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"...eddy? ...e you oka...?" I thought I heard a voice call out. I couldn't feel anything. Everything was dark, there was no light, and no feeling. It was like I was dead.
Starting optical sensors
Suddenly, I could see, and I saw the hooves of the ponies as they looked over me. I looked up to see Twilight Sparkle was speaking, but I couldn't hear her. I looked around a bit more, and I saw the dead body of a small pony. 'Button Mash.' Instantly remembering what happened, I looked over to see the lights of my friends eyes slowly start up, and they looked around.
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Just like that, I could hear again. I heard the voices of the ponies freaking out, and I heard a mother sobbing over her lost child. There were guards talking to various ponies.
"Freddy?! Are you okay?! Please tell me you're okay!" Twilight said to me, small tears in her eyes.
I tried to open my mouth to speak, but no sound came out.
Starting basic movement programs
When those words showed up, I felt my arm again, and used it to push myself off the ground. As I slowly got up, and my friends did too, more words showed up across my vision.
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"What happened?" I ask, as I looked around, trying to avoid looking at my failure.
Twilight sighed in relief. "Good, you're okay. As for what happened, the arcade seemed to have lost power for a while, and when it regained power, some ponies came in, and saw you four on the ground, as if you were dead, and Button Mash... was...was..." Twilight didn't finish the sentence, as she cried and I pulled her into a hug.
"We can answer some of those questions about what happened. We we're in here when it did." I said calmly, and when Twilight finished her crying, she backed up a bit and nodded.
"We need to know who killed Button." She said, and I was about to tell her who did, when I had a spear pointed at my neck.
"Stop monster! You're under arrest for murder!" The guard said, as he kept the spear pointed at my neck.
"I didn't kill him. We tried to protect him from the real killer." I told the guard, who didn't believe me. What he did believe, was Twilight, who told him to stand down.
"Don't attack my friends! They didn't do it!" Twilight scolded the guard.
"But Princess! How do you know? They could be lying!" The guard replied, slowly backing up from an angry Twilight.
"I know, because they're designed to protect children!" The guard gulped.
"That's right." I responded. "Our programming forces us to protect children, even if we don't want to. But we always want to protect children."
The guard slowly moved away, and I let out a soft chuckle, before turning to Twilight. "You should gather your friends. I don't want to explain this more than once."
Twilight nodded. "We can do this in the castle too." Then, with a flash of her horn, she teleported away. We were about to teleport to the castle as well, but I noticed Button Mash's grieving mother.
I walked up to her, and crouched down to her level, and put my paw on her shoulders, trying to comfort her. "I'm sorry for your loss. But I promise you that we will find the pony who did this."
She seemed slightly angry at us, but she also looked like she was fighting her own emotions. Standing back up, I turned to my friends. "Guys, lets go." Then, we all teleported to Twilight's castle.
"Is everyone here?" I asked, as I looked around, seeing the sad and confused faces of the Bearers of the Elements of Harmony.
"Yes. We're all here. Now, can you please tell us what happened at the arcade?" Twilight asked, and I sighed, before starting.
"Before I can tell you what happened there, I need to tell you something else." I looked at my three friends, who gave me confidence to tell them. "You know how we're from another universe?" They all nodded. "Well, we didn't always look like this. We had different names. I used to be Fredrick, Bonnie was Bobby, Chica was Claire, and Foxy was Frank." The ponies all gasped. "We also weren't animatronics. We were a race called humans." Another round of gasps.
"But what turned you into animatronics?" Fluttershy asked.
Bobby spoke up. "Well, all four of us used to be big fans of a game series called 'Five Nights at Freddy's.' We loved it so much that we dressed up as the characters, and went to a convention, where we got displaced as the main characters of the game."
Claire continued. "You see, Five Nights at Freddy's is a video game, where you play as a security guard, who works from midnight to 6am for five days at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. But, while it does sound easy, the problem is that various animatronics try to kill you all night." They all gasped again.
"Why would they try to kill a security guard?!" Twilight asked, flabbergasted at the idea.
"Because they believe the security guard is the one who murdered them." Frank answered. "Years before the game, there was a killer. He would dress up as an animatronic, a golden version of Bonnie, which was actually able to be used as a suit and an animatronic. While dressed up, he would lure kids backstage, kill them, and stuff their bodies into the animatronics."
"What happened to the killer?" Applejack asked.
"He was caught by the police, our version of your guards, and was eventually let go due to lack of evidence. But various Freddy Fazbear places were shut down because of the foul stench of decay coming from the animatronics." I said, looking down at my feet. "The kids were eventually removed, and sometime later, more kids were killed, and stuffed into the suits by the same person. Those kids are still inside us." I opened my chest plate, and showed them my tangled mess of wires and the decaying corpse of the child. Fluttershy burst into tears, and Applejack comforted her. Rarity passed out on a couch, and Twilight threw up. Even Pinkie's mane deflated. "These children's souls were angry, and possessed the lifeless animatronics, wanting revenge. In the games, they eventually were able to find the murderer, who we only know as the Purple Guy, and were about to exact revenge, but he used an old trick against them. While the soul of another Freddy Fazbear, this one an adult who died in a Golden Freddy suit due to a malfunction in the spring parts of it, lead the children to the murderer, Purple Guy hid in a room that the animatronics didn't know about, and couldn't enter. Because of this, the Purple Guy was able to destroy the animatronics, using a special device. He disabled Freddy and his friends. But to his surprise, by doing so, he freed the souls of the children from the animatronics."
Bobby continued for me. "Because they were free, they were able to corner Purple Guy in the room, and eventually trick him into going into the very same suit he used to lure the children. But that suit had faulty springs in it, and even a small amount of water, the same amount you exhale can mess it up. So, they lured Purple Guy into a 'Springtrap,' where he thought he was safe, but he was wrong."
"It was raining that day, and the building was pretty faulty." I finished.
The ponies all gasped, knowing what happened. "So, he was finally gone?" Twilight asked, not really wanting to know the answer, but the scientific side of her wanted to.
"No." I answered, causing another round of gasps. "That led to the events of Five Nights at Freddy's Three. 30 years later, the stories of the murders became urban legend, and some people made a horror attraction of it. Fazbear's Fright. They didn't have an animatronic, because no one knew what happened to the animatronics, but while searching through an old Freddy Fazbear's Pizza building, they found something."
"No." Twilight said, not wanting it to be true.
"They found an animatronic. A worn out Golden Bonnie suit." Bobby continued. "They brought it to the building, and had a night guard watch over it for four nights."
"But how?!" Twilight asked. "How could the animatronic be alive if it didn't have a good reason for it's soul to stay?! The children that were... murdered... wanted to stop him, but the 'Purple Guy' doesn't have a good reason!"
Bobby chuckled a bit. "In our world, our kind discovered that there are different kind of souls. The kids had souls that wanted to finally be at piece, but the Purple Guy had a soul that wanted revenge. That didn't want to die that day. So he waited, and waited until he was found."
"What happened next?" Applejack asked. "It couldn't have ended just like that!"
I sighed. "In Fnaf 3, there were two kinds of endings. If you didn't appease the murdered children, you got the bad ending, and the kids souls stayed in the suits, and became restless spirits, killing night guards at night. But if you brought cake to each child's soul, they eventually leave the suits, and go onto the next life. The horror attraction burns down, and hopefully got rid of Springtrap. But that is all we really know so far. There was a fourth and final game in development before we disappeared from our world, so we don't know how it exactly ends."
"That's awful!" Fluttershy complained, wiping away tears. "How could a creature murder children like that?!"
"Some humans are violent, and evil, but some are generous, and go their entire life helping others." I answered.
"What happened at the arcade?" Twilight asked.
"The power went out, so we took Button Mash with us to fix the power, because we were trapped in there. We fixed the power, and dealt with an animatronic from the game. As we moved to leave, a purple unicorn showed up, and started hitting us with spells that disabled us, before killing Button Mash right in front of us." I answered, before moving over to lean on a wall, as I felt another vision or something coming.
We stared at our murderer, as he started laughing, thinking he was safe from us in his broken suit. His spring-trap.
"You can't get me now! You'll never get me, you kids! You might as well give up!" He laughed maniacally.
"No. Because you doomed yourself." I said, as the murderer stopped laughing and looked at us confused.
"What do you mean?" He asked, and I pointed at the wet ground below us, before pointing to the springs on his suit. I could see his eyes widening, as a clapping sound was heard, and blood started spilling everywhere. As he was yelling in pain, he fell onto the ground, and looked at us. "Mercy." He begged, before leaning back, his life drained.
Feeling a heavy burden removed from my shoulders, I turned to face my friends. "We did it." I said simply, and we disappeared in a bright light, to reappear at what was a birthday party. "What the?" I asked, before turning around to my friends, and was surprised by what I saw. my friends all had bodies again, and were wearing masks of the suits we were trapped in. I looked down at myself, and noticed I had a body again too.
"Happy Birthday!" They all exclaimed at once, and I felt a smile forming on my face, as I remembered we never finished my birthday, as we were murdered. All my friends were there, and even a kid who was wearing the mask of that puppet animatronic.
I felt too happy to care. I felt so happy and free, that I started floating off the ground, and went to the sky with my friends. 'So this is what it's like. To be free.' I said to myself, as we went higher and higher, and everything turned white.
But suddenly, something strange happened. Everything turned dark, and I felt weird. I felt a feeling I haven't felt in years. The feeling of a body. After what felt like forever, the darkness faded, and I saw a blinding light, and several adults standing over me, smiling. 'What the?' I heard myself crying, and started to feel sleepy, even though this body didn't. My last thought before I faded away was my surprise when I felt something else in my mind. Another personality.
When my regular vision returned, I looked between my concerned friends, and the concerned ponies. "Freddy, are you okay?" Frank asked.
"Yeah, but I think I figured out something weird." I responded, as I looked at my own hands, and tried to figure out what happened, and if it was true.
"What is it?" Bobby asked.
Then, standing up straight, my body glowed with a combination of both blue and white light. I responded in a voice both mine and another's.
"The truth."