Freddy, Chica, Bonnie and Foxy reentered the main upon hearing the sounds of something repeatedly hitting one of the tables or a wall. They were quite surprised to see the friend of their friend hitting her head on the table. They may not have been alive for who knows how long, but as far as they remembered that must hurt quite a lot.
Upon seeing the animatronics, Sunset stopped her friend by putting a hand on Rainbow's shoulder.
"Rainbow, I know this is all a little weird, but don't you think you're a little overreacting after everything you, me and the rest of our friends have been through?" the Equestrian tried with a nervous smile.
"That's..." Rainbow raised a finger, but didn't know what exactly she was supposed to say. "Urrgh, my head." the girl put both of her hands on her forehead.
Sunset couldn't help, but laugh. "Alright, I think now that we have all calmed down, how about some introductions?" Sunset stood up and walked towards the animatronic gang. It was only then that Rainbow Dash noticed the robots behind her. Her eyes widened a little, but she managed to prevent herself from jumping out of her seat.
"Rainbow Dash, these are Freddy Fazbear, Chica, Bonnie and Foxy, the pirate. Foxy has sometimes problems controlling his body, so please forgive him if some of his movements seem a little stiff or something."
The gang all waved with their arms to Rainbow, who carefully waved back.
"Uh...come again? Stiff?"
"Right that." Sunset remembered her friend still didn't know all the details. "Basically, the children inside control the bodies they have been given. However, when the bodies are broken there's nothing they can do about it. Foxy's body here isn't working properly."
The Fox looked down.
"However, I finally managed to convince the manager to put up the money to repair him."
Foxy looked at Sunset surprised, his eye-patch open. Sunset smiled.
"What? I told you I'll make sure you'll be able to entertain the kids again."
"AAHH!" Foxy cried out and hugged Sunset tightly.
"Urrgh, you're welcome." the fiery haired girl said, barely able to breath.
"Huh, huh, huh."
Rainbow jumped at the creepy laugh coming out of Freddy. It was obviously the voicebox that worked there. Still, children liked this kind of thing?
Freddy and Chica pulled Foxy away, in order to stop him from suffocating their friend. The pirate smiled sheepishly.
Sunset bend over catching her breath, before walking over to her other friend.
"Okay, guys this is Rainbow Dash. She's the one who put our band together. She also captain of every sports team in our school. Don't ask me how she convinced the principal to do that."
"Uh...hi, I guess?" Rainbow Dash said carefully.
"She and her friend have a bet going on, for her to stay the entire night here." Sunset explained further.
"So, anyone got an idea what we're going to do tonight?" Sunset asked.
"What do you mean, what we're going to do?" Rainbow Dash got up from her chair.
"Come on, you want to sit around all night and do nothing?" Sunset asked. "Trust me, it's a lot easier to cope with this entire situation, when you actually interact with them." Sunset explained.
It seemed Chica had already an idea. While Sunset had been talking to Rainbow Dash, she took out a board-game: Monopoly.
Rainbow Dash looked at it and back at the animatronic. "Alright." she sighed. I swear, as soon as this is over, I'm never going to come back here again.
Rainbow Dash had to admit one thing. After one hour of playing Monopoly, she was way less tense, than she had been before. She was sitting the farthest away from the animatronics, just in case. Another thing she noticed, was how the animatronics handled the tiny pieces on the board. It was impressive, they had no problem handling them or rolling the dices, though they did need help, when picking up cards or the game money.
"Arr! Looks like Freddy stole me loot again!" Foxy complained, using actually one of the dialogue options that was programmed into him. He landed on one of the spaces that the bear owned. Sunset helped the pirate handing over the money.
So far, no one had been especially lucky in the game. Money shifted from one person to another, but the properties were split evenly between the players. It was now Rainbow's turn again. She was about to roll the dice, when she remembered something.
“Hey Sunset...what’s up with the costume in the kitchen?”
“That thing?” Sunset shrugged. “I dunno. The boss told me the thing isn’t in use anymore and that the others will take care of it in the morning. It’s supposed to be in storage.”
“Uh...huh…” Rainbow nodded and rolled the dice. Neither of the girls noticed the animatronics giving each other a brief glance.
The game continued until five in the morning, when everyone lost the will to go on. It didn’t look out a winner would make itself clear any time soon, so they just gave up on it. Freddy and Foxy had gone to the arcade, where they played against each other on one of the games. Chica walked into the kitchen and as for Bonnie he was playing with his guitar, which turned out to be a real one. Rainbow Dash was impressed by that.
“How does he play the guitar with that much precision?” the rainbow haired girl asked. She and Sunset were sitting on the table, watching Bonnie play a little tune.
“I taught him.” Sunset smiled. “Originally they planned on programming him to play that thing. The programmers were a little overconfident back then, from what I heard and in the end gave up on it. Belief me, it wasn’t easy. And he’s still struggling with more complex sets of notes.”
She shook her head.
"Okay...? Hey, why didn't you report this all to the police?! I'm sure they could find something out!" Rainbow almost shouted.
Sunset in return flinched, looking with a guilty expression to her friend. "Believe me, I want to do this. But" she sighed "basically I promised the children not to tell anyone, not even the police. It's strange, but they somehow really like entertaining other children."
"Now that sounds just downright creepy. OW! I was just joking, ya know?" Rainbow rubbed the spot Sunset had hit. "Anyways, you do know I'm not just going to sit on the sidelines, while you come back here every night in this haunted house. And you know I AM going to tell the others about this."
The former unicorn did see this coming, but still wasn't happy about it.
"Dash, I made a promise-"
"Correct, YOU made a promise." Rainbow pointed out. "I didn't." the athlete said smugly.
Then, out of nowhere, the lights went out, causing the girls to shriek for a split second.
"H-hey, what's up with this place?!" Rainbow stammered.
"Power outage." Sunset breathed out. "I guess you used up too much power earlier."
"Hey, don't blame me! You're the one who decided to put me into one of those suits!"
"I didn't want to- urgh, you know what? Forget it. I go and get the flashlights."
Gilda yawned, waiting impatiently for her friend to come out of that Pizza Place. About an hour ago she’d been woken up by a text from said friend, who was supposed to come out around six or so. And true to her word, Dash came sprinting down the road, her blue jacket pulled over her head, in order to protect herself from the rain. The girl quickly opened the door, got into the car and slammed it shut.
“Oh man, fucking weather.” Rainbow cursed, wiping her face dry.
“Welcome back. How was it?” Gilda asked, starting the engine.
“Tch, turns out those things walk around at night. Also turns out my friend works there as the night guard.”
“Really?” the girl from the Everfree Academy asked.
“Yeah, was pretty lucky.” Rainbow grinned. “Anyone else would have called the cops.”
“Haha, that would have been hilarious.”
“Very funny, G.” Dash rolled her eyes..
“Say, why are those things moving around?” Gilda asked another question, stopping at the red light.
“Something about the robots not working right, after they’re stuck standing still for too long.” Rainbow explained, yawning.
“Damn, I’m tired. Good thing it is Saturday. Gonna catch some Zs and then-”
“Yeah, yeah.” Gilda cut her friend off. “I get it. I lost. But don’t worry. I’ll get ya back on this, RD.”
“Heh, I wanna see that happen.”
The two continued bickering, while Gilda was driving through the rain.
Sunset rubbed her temples, trying to resist the urge to fall asleep right next to the heater in the restaurant. Her body still wasn't used to her new sleeping schedule. You see, she worked from Monday to Friday the night shift, went to school the following day and slept almost the rest of the day. It had cut down on the time she could spend with her friends significantly, but after loosing her old job, due to the place closing, this was the only way for her to make some kind of living.
She finally finished cleaning up the mess she, Rainbow and the animatronics had made during the night. Her boss may be lenient, but Sunset wasn't one to push her luck. Finished tidying up the place, Sunset made went around the place a bit. Until someone from the morning shift, be it the guard or a cook, arrived, she wasn't allowed to leave the place.
Inside the kitchen, she found that one of the animatronics accidentally knocked down a few pots. Stuff like that happened all the time, so she quickly picked it up and put them back to their place. She didn't get why this place had so many pots to begin with. It focused on making pizza after all. Moving inside the place, the former unicorn's eyes fell on the "Golden Freddy". The gold color might have been brighter once at a time, but now it looked slightly green.
"How come these things look creepier without an endo inside?" Sunset wondered aloud. She knelt down in front of the costume, moving head up a little. "Wonder how it is for them. Being stuck in there. No more need for sleep. No more need for food. Angry, confused, sad...maybe I should ask Princess Twilight after all. There has to be some way I can help them move on. Or whatever ghosts do..."
She let go of the head, but it didn't slumped back down. Initially she fought it got somehow stuck through the old, rusty machinery inside. However this theory was immediately blown to pieces, as two white pupils appeared inside the black, empty eye-holes.
"Wahh!" Sunset shrieked, falling backwards on her butt.
"Heheheheehehehehe..."
Sunset could hear the faint giggle of a child, which echoed throughout the entire building. Before the guard's mind could comprehend as to what was going on, the costume disappeared. Not in a flash of a teleport light, but just fading, as if slowly disappearing from a screen.
The former unicorn didn't know what this all meant, but she knew one thing. Either she got a raise or there the empty Freddy suit in the Parts and Service room, would not be so empty anymore.