Opening Theme:
Kersey's Comment
After pacing back and forth, and looking out the door window (the obstacle course looks intrinsic and well put together like a movie set) and trying to figure out a plan to take care of the zombies, you turn around to Samus and tell her that,
"Since they're all zombies, just grab that conveniently placed axe right there and start cutting their heads o-"
"Whoa whoa whoa!" Kichi exclaims, "Those aren't real zombies! Those are just my minions dressed in zombie garb...with a few surprises"
"Didn't think you gave a feather about your minions," you reply.
"Them? Pfffft, I just spent a pretty bit or two on authentic Left 4 Dead and others- zombie makeup."
You gain a blank stare when you hear this, which soon turns into a smug look as you say,
"In that case, Samus, grab that clown makeup and start splashing it in their eyes to disorient them and try to ruin those zombie costumes while you're at it."
You hear some things crashing from the other side of the speaker before Kichi yells out in a panicked tone,
"Wait, what NO!"
Samus ignores her boss as she splashes paint onto the "zombies" from the window. The results are instant as you hear shouts of pain coming from the "zombies,"
"MY EYES! THEY BURN! THEY BURRRNNNNN!"
"ALL I CAN SEE IS BLUE! WHY CAN I ONLY SEE BLUE!?!?"
"NOOOOO! NOW I'LL TURN INTO THAT STUPID BATMARE VILLAIN THAT CAN ONLY SEE IN COLORS!"
Soon the cries of pain come to a end and you can only assume the "zombies" have run off. Your about to comment on how well that worked when Kichi yells in rage,
You and Samus chuckle at Kichi's rage, to which Kichi responds with,
"Those costumes and hours of make-up are coming out of your paycheck! You hear me!"
Samus rolls her eyes at this and is about to say something when you interrupt her as you say,
"As much as I love messing with a Knight leader, we need to get going. I don't need a watch to know that I don't have munch time left."
Samus looks hesitant for a few moments before she eventually nods her head. However, as you're about to open the door...
Kichi's Comment
Suddenly a minotaur with his head hidden by a paper box wielding a chainsaw bursts through the door yelling like a mad-stallion! Your eyes widen in fear as the zombie laughs, and he tries to cut you with the chainsaw
"Bwahahaha!!"
"Gaahhh! That's not a slow zombie!! Would You Kindly Burn Burn Burn?!!!" you shout, setting the monster ablaze. What happens next surprises the heck out of you, the zombie falls to ash very very quickly.
"Poor Roger, only a couple of days until retirement, *sigh*, his poor wife Mootilda and his calf are now without a father" comes the condescending voice of Kichi
Hearing this, you become really depressed
"What did I do?... I... I didn't know it was real... I killed someone...again..." you mutter in shock as tears begin to well up in your eyes.
"Umm, CV? You OK there?"
"Not again...not again..." you mutter as you stare at the ashes.
Bugze...comes the strained voice of Selena
"Dude, snap out of it, you're literally crying over an animatronic!" Samus chides.
"I can't believe I...ANIMATRONIC?!" you yell as you register what she says.
"Yeah, don't you see all the metal bits and wire in the ash?" she says with an eye roll.
You take a closer look at the ash and see that she is right.
Oh thank me, I thought I had to sober up, woohoo!!!
"What? But I thought...the other zombies...We just through paint in their eyes!"
"Nah, Don't worry, only some of the zombies out there are goons, the rest are animatronics," she explains.
"Seriously?! How am I supposed to know which is which?"
"You got me, but I figure the ratio is 9 to 1, Goon to Animatronic, and unlike Freddy and his friends, these ones are remote operated."
"*Sigh* , And I wanted to leave it as a surprise until he defeated the third level... But yes, some of my underling colts and fillies control the zombies. I was thinking, 'Why don't I let them have some fun?' But now we have a crying colt because you broke his robot, for shame!"
"Colts and fillies...you mean the kids you've kidnapped?!"
"Eh...kidnapped is such an ugly word. Oh and before I forgot, thanks to Samus opening her big beak, now the zombies have a mini-map showing them where are you so... Have fun with that!" and with a click, his intercom cuts off.
"But he was freaking out boss! I had to get him moving! Hello?...Great... Just bucking great...I'm now in more trouble thanks to you," she says as she glares at you.
"Oh cry me a river. But seriously, I'd look into alternative career paths after you go to jail."
"Hmmph, as if. But anyway, seeing as how our safehouse is no longer safe, I say we book it. You got all the supplies you want?"
"Ummm..." you say as you give one more glance to the room. Your eyes stop near the pile of ash as you realize there IS one new item available.
rainbowPOOTIS's Comment
A chainsaw!
Your eyes widen in delight as you see the beauty that is the chainsaw. You're last one broke it's chain, but a new and improved model is sitting right in front of you, courtesy of the Crimson Knights. You quickly rush over to it and pick it up. You're about to start it up when Samus smacks you in the back of the head before saying,
"You idiot! You're going to doom us if you start that thing up! The noise it'll make will attract every zombie in the area!"
You make a disappointed face as you say,
"But...chainsaw...."
Samus sighs in annoyance before she says,
"Look, if ya want you can use that thing when we get to the end, but for now keep it off and not make any noise."
You sigh before you nod your head reluctantly and put the chainsaw into The Inventory.
Chainsaw added to Inventory
That reminds me, I should probably do an inventory check after this is all over with and get rid of any of the stuff I don't need, and update my attacks list too.
"Really though, I don't think it matters all that much since the monsters have a minimap now," you counter in a huff.
"So what? I doubt some schmucks in costumes and little kid operated machines will benefit from them much."
"Gah... Did you just tempt Lady Luck?" you shriek.
Just then bazooka projectile hits in front of you as a strange zombie made of fungus comes running out of an alley followed by two strange lizard things with their brains out of their skulls.
"Next time, no tempting that cosmic witch!" you command Samus who nods as you both start running.
As you run, you notice the three strange monsters behind you moving in unnatural ways. Putting two and two together, you realize no pony, minotaur, whatever could move that way and must be animatronics. Pointing your hoof behind you, you yell
"Would you kindly EAT FIRE?!!!" The flames strike the monsters, and sure enough, they burn up revealing robot parts.
"I bucking knew it!" you yell.
"What? What did you know?" asks Samus as she stops and stares at you.
"That those crispy ones were animatronics, unless they didn't have bones, or were Pinkie Pie, noling can move like that."
"Oh...alright then, let's get going," she says with a smirk.
"Good idea, now let's-Hey! Where are you going?!"
ThePonySpartan's Comment
Samus starts to walk down an alleyway instead of the straight path you're on, which confuses you.
She looks at you and says, "I was told by Kichi to walk a VERY specific path, and quite frankly, I don't want to get in any more trouble so..." And then she continues to walk.
"Wait, stop!" you command, but she ignores you. "Stop!"
Kichi's voice then comes from the speakers above. "The only way she'll stop is if you walk up to her and talk to her face to face. Behind her won't work and she'll turn to you if you touch her."
"...WHAT?!"
"What, you've never played a poorly made escort mission? Have fun!"
You facehoof as you catch up to the moving Samus and tap her on the shoulder. "Hey, can ya stop for a seco-"
"So I should head back the other way, then? ...I see." Then she starts walking back the exact way she came from. Same path, same steps.
"H-huh?"
"Sorry, my pathing means I gotta retrace my steps."
On cue, Samus turns around when she steps in the exact same spot she began and starts to walk in the exact same bucking way.
You yell in frustration.
"Why are you being so difficult!!!"
"Because it's my job!" she replies as she starts down the alleyway again. "And right now being difficult is part of the-OW!!!" she yells as a hidden zombie in a hoodie in a dumpster leaps out and strikes her in the side, causing her life bar to go down.
"Hey! Cut it out you jer-AH!" she yells as she is struck again, her health going into the yellow. As she yells, 6 more zombies round the corner of the alley way and rush her.
"OH COME ON!!!" you yell as you rush forth and strike the closest one, which is made of metal.
"You didn't say these things would actually hurt me!" she yells to the ceiling as she wipes a bit of blood from her nose.
"Well now you know, and knowing is half the battle!" comes the reply from Kichi.
"Oh buck this!" she yells as she jumps back from the group of zombies.
You then Psycho Crusher right through them, giving Samus a path to rush through. The downed zombies on either side of either moan, or mechanically whir as they try to get up.
"OK, so three goons, and 7 robots. Would you robots kindly BURN?!" you yell setting the animatronics on fire, and in the distance you swear you hear children crying, but you ignore it and look to the other three," and would you three kindly CHILL OUT!!!" you freeze them to the floor as they moan in pain.
"Good, now you three just sit tight and wait for me to take out your friends and boss."
"RED!!!" you hear Samus screech in the distance as she runs away from a group of Neighzi Zombies.
"It's Crimson Vengeance thank you very much, and Quit running up ahead!" you yell as you run to save your quarry.
Anyway after dealing with the the Neighzi Zombies (All of them live beings so no glorious fire) the two of you continue along the path, knocking out any straggler "zombie" and zombie animatronics along the way. Any of the real zombies you do knock out you quickly freeze them in place and continue on. You wish you could capture and put them all in the prison saddle bag (Second Inventory), but you really don't have time either because you were getting overwhelmed and couldn't risk Samus getting hurt, or the they ran away and hid before you could freeze them.
Eventually you and Samus come across an area marked "1st Check Point". Deciding that this is a good place the rest, you and Samus take a break and sit down. As the two of you catch your breath, you chuckle and say,
"Well...that was quite the trip huh?"
"Yeah...and we have to do it 2 more times," she pants before looking at you quizzically.
"Speaking of trips...
BrownDog's Comment
“...I’m kind of surprised you’re as coherent as you are.”
“Why do you say that?” you ask.
“Well I got hit with the same tranqs in that pizza that you did, and when I first woke up, I was loopy as tartarus.”
“No surprises there,” you deadpan.
Oh hush up, you know you love drugged me.
I don’t actually. I really really don’t. you deadpan.
Ok fine, keep lying to yourself *giggle*
Rolling your eyes once more, you ask, “But why wouldn’t I be coherent? You are.”
“Well ya, they gave me and your little seapony the counter venom, but they decided not to give you any to, and I quote “Liven things up a bit.””
“Huh…I guess I’m just more resistant to drugs than they planned?” you lie.
You’re welcome my squishy little idiot
Ignoring her you ask, “And wait, is Aqua OK?”
“I don’t know, the last I saw her we were being pulled apart, and she was coming off her high while singing about Yellow Submarines or something...Also I think she had 7 eyes…but that may have still been the drugs.”
“Dang, what the heck was that pizza laced with?”
“Apparently the tranquilizer is an extract of hallucinogenic toad poison.”
Who’s she calling a toad? How does she know it wasn’t a frog? Or some other amphibian?
Note to self, get antivenom antidote ASAP
“Yeesh…well I guess it’s good that neither of us are drugged right now. And seriously stay closer to me when we go out again, I don’t even wanna risk the chance that your head really is wired to blow if I fail.”
She tugs nervously at the collar at that but nods.
"Yeah, sorry about that, they told me to be useless like Ashley in Resident Evil 4...but that was before I knew I was actually going to be hit by these guys."
With that all said you decide that that's enough rest and the both of you continue onward. As you encounter a few more zombies you accidently bump into a fake carriage. Suddenly fireworks begin going off behind it, to which you and Samus gain a confused look at. That confused look, however, changes into horror as you hear a screech coming from behind you. You turn around and see a horde of ABOUT 50 zombies heading right towards you from all directions. Your eyes widen in panic for a moment before you are suddenly picked up under the arms.
"Hang on!" Samus shouts as she flaps her wings and lands you both on a building prop.
"Wait, we could've been flying this whole bucking time?!"
"No! Your water whorse sprained my wings with her stupid tidal wave. Just doing this little bit hurt like Tartarus."
"Oh...sorry," you apologize before looking back down to the horde who are screaming up at you from below. They then begin to...
Iamjustarandompony's Comment
...dig their limbs on the sides of the building and climb up!
"Buck! We're sitting ducks now!" you scream as you both begin to back away from the edge.
"What do I do?! What do I do?!"
Make like a wet tarp, and slide on out of here...
*Ding*
"That's it!"
You crank up a combination on your glove, Fire and Ice, and shout "Would you Kindly Mix it Up?!"
Doing so sends forth a slushy ice flurry that coats the sides of the building, causing the building to be incredibly slippery.
Thanks Selena, you wonderful genius you
I are the smartest! she cheers.
Chuckling you look down at the slipping zombies, seeing that there a mix of actors and animatronics.
"That should hold them for a bit," you report to Samus, who nods and massages her wings.
"Just give me a second, I got a cramp," she explains.
"Alright, but hurry, I don't like standing still for too long."
You then look back down and really take it all in. The building prop sets, the animatronics, the very well done make up. It really is impressive.
BrownDog's Comment
“Having faced real decomposing corpses, I have to say, your effects are pretty dang good, where do you guys keep getting all these wonderful toys?”
“Well the make up and props all come from Applewood I hear,” Samus says as fully extends her wings, "And wait, what? Real decomposin-?"
“Applewood again? Is this from the same knight that gave ol' bonesy in my bags all his props?” you interupt her. She seems a bit confused by what you mean, but just nods and says,
“Yeah, Solarkness has got it made out there and…” Samus’s eyes shrink as soon as she says this.
“Solarkness eh?” you smirk.
She faceclaws before looking at you.
“Why do you keep getting me in trouble?” she then looks up at the ceiling and screeches.
“I’m sorry Kichi, it just slipped out, please understand?!”
In response, a high shrieking mare’s voice rings out from the obstacle course. A skinny looking unicorn mare with claws suddenly lands on the roof and comes running at the both of you.
“YOU STARTLED THE WITCH!!!” comes the frustrated shout of Kichi over the intercom.
“AAAAHHHHH!!!” Samus gets struck by this opponent right in her wings, and her life bar goes dangerously close to red.
“Would You Kindly Buck Off?!” you yell as you use bucking bronco on the witch who thrashes in mid air.
You grab Samus’s claw and rush off with her, “Come on!”
She seems laggy as you drag her off the roof top and parkour to the next one.
"What's the matter? Run!" you yell as you slide down an archway and back onto the street.
"This collar...making me feel..." she drowsily says as her eyes fight to stay open.
"Oh No You Don't!" you yell as you sling her over your back and keep running. You round the corner, being chased by the initial horde, and see the second checkpoint on the other side of another horde.
"Buck!" you yell as you raise your glove and shout, "Would you all kindly get bucked?!" you yell as you spam Bucking Bronco, causing animatronics and goons alike to float in midair as you rush through them.
With several foes right on your tail, you dive right through the door way, and air bend it shut behind you, activating the safe zone.
"Thank Luna!"
Never!
I concur
Shut up seven eyed heathen!
You then shrug Samus off and see that there is still a smidgen of health left, but she appears to be falling asleep.
"Oh no you don't! I didn't go through all these hours of bullspit for it to end like this!"
You see a medpack and open it up to find a variety of items, but the one thing that sticks out the most is a bottle of pills with a red cross on it..
You then open up her beak and pour them down her throat. She sits up, coughing and hacking, but you see her health bar goes back. You then give her a canteen of water.
"*Cough* *Hack* *Drink* Ugh...Thanks red…I owe ya one."
"No problem, but seriously, stop almost dying would ya?"
"Agreed, I don't know what the heck this collar was doing to me...but I guess I got my answer from Kichi,” She sighs as she looks up before glaring at you again.
“But seriously, stop fishing for information, I do not want to get in any more trouble than I already have, OK?”
"Alright, alright, Sorry..." you say as you rub the back of your neck. "But let's just take a minute, we got one more checkpoint to get to, and chances are, it's going to be the hardest."
"Sounds about right to me, stupid infinite spawning enemies..." she growls.
As you and Samus rest, you begin to look around for anything useful that could help you both out. As you look around you come across...
Kropsling66's Comment
A defibrillator, med kit (minus pills), and a bottle of... bomber bio.
You looked at the med kit and defibrillator
The med kit would come in handy, I can use it heal Samus with all the other stuff inside it.
However you then start having thoughts on the defibrillator,
But if Samus died I could use this to bring her back. It's be like a 1up.
You star debating on which one to take. But you soon realize how dumb you are, stop and slap yourself on the head.
What am I thinking, I have infinite storage space. I will just take them all!
Med-Kit add to Inventory
Defibrillator added to Inventory
Boomer BIo add to Inventory
"Wait you can't do that. That's against the rules of the game!" Kichi calls out.
"First off you never mentioned any rules aside from getting to the end. Second this is a zombie attack! You take what you find to survive, it's more realistic" you reply.
Kichi begins to grumble as he shuts the intercom off.
"That might come back to bite us...literally," Samus says.
"Meh, let him stew, I'll be pummeling him soon enough anyway."
With Kichi
Kersey's Comment
"Stupid bounty hunter, stupid cat lion. You're costing me a fortune here...I'll show you...if you freaking leave the safe room!" he yells at the screens.
His anger then turns to a smirk however as he sees the clock. "Only one hour to go, so keep on slacking off, I'll be winning anyway," he says as he sits back and lifts up a newspaper.
A few articles catch his eye, but he mostly just skims over them.
"New Daring Do book delayed, lazy writer...Production starts on Transformares 5...way to drop the ball guys..." but then one catches his attention. "Princesses Authorize Exoskeleton Program in a 2-1 Vote? What's that mean? Are ponies gonna grow carapaces like us changelings or- OH AWESOME!" he shouts as he sees a better headline.
"Quantum Break just came out Woohoo! If you make enough money, that means Alan Wake 2 will get made!"
He then reads the article more thoroughly. "Heh, figures those Canterlot snobs would get it a day early. Bucking entitled fat flank princesses. Always up to no good, even now I'd wager.
Kropsling66's Comment
MEANWHILE IN CANTERLOT
Celestia was not having the best morning. She had been pouring over strategy plans all night, and would have to raise the sun in an hour. This caused her to be incredibly moody and cranky.
"I can't believe this! It's been nearly 2 months since the incident at the Crystal Empire, and there's not one trace of that me damned changeling! How does he keep escaping us? Ugh, it's like Lady Luck just favors him..." she then rubs her tired eyes. "I'm just glad Twilight was still able to learn the correct lesson despite The Offender's interference. Maybe things will be easier if she succeeds..."
She then gives a sigh, "Think on that later Celestia...at least there is some good news, three Crimson Knights were aprehended, now we can finally have a glimpse into their inner worki-" before she can finish that statement, her bedroom door was kicked open as a shaky looking guard ran inside.
"Your highness the Knights we captured have gotten away."
Celestia's face becomes very red upon hearing that as steam starts to escape from her ears.
MEANWHILE WITH KROPSLING
A changeling wearing a black cloak was running through a field getting some distance from the royal palace as he tried to collect his thoughts.
"Alright, the series of events leading to how I got knocked out and dressed in this cloak and then thrown in jail is beyond me, but I think it has something to do with those...other cloaked figures FireHeart and Pentakill. At least they distracted the guards long enough for us to book it, which helps since I don't have magic anymore. What were they called, the Red Guards? Ah, I'll look for them later, but right now I gotta find the best place to lay low."
He then looks around in the premorning darkness.
"Not many options there...Well Ponyvile is not far way and it has a train station, but it is home to the bearers. I could go for the Everfree, but- Kropsling gets interrupted when an explosion goes off in the city behind him.
"BUCK YOU LADY LUCK!!!" came the shout of a very upset Celestia.
"Iwilltakemychanceswithponyville," he screeches as he double times it, hoping that a train awaits him. Unbeknownst to him, the two cloaked figures that helped him out were also making a beeline for the Ponyville train station, running away from the wrath of the sun.
Back to Kichi
"Always scheming..." he mutters before looking back at the screen, and still seeing the griffon and bounty hunter resting.
"Oh for the love of, GET ON WITH IT! This is boring watching your timer run out." he shouts into the microphone.
The masked bounty hunter just looks up and says.
"Oh keep your britches on, we'll be through this last chapter in no time, and then...I'm coming for you..." he threatens.
"All right then Mr. Crimson Vengeance I'll play your game." With that the zombie animatronic difficulty setting gets set to one hundred so the zombies are harder to take to down, and they can run faster.
BACK WITH YOU
Of course you don't know any of that, all you know is that there are what looks like thousands of zombies heading right for the door. Your eyes widen at this.
"Uh oh. This is not good. We need to run...NOW!"
"I told you not to taunt him!" Samus screeches.
As you both look out of the door, you see that every street, every rooftop, and practically every surface is filled with running zombies.
"That just ain't fair..." you moan.
"Better just give up now, these Animatronics are even stronger than the last one, No weak minions for you this round!" Kichi's voice blares tauntingly.
"Oh buck, Oh buck oh...Wait...All animatronics?" you top and say aloud as you smirk.
"Yeah...why?" Kichi asks suddenly feeling dreadful.
BrownDog's Comment
"Come on, let's move! We can't just stay here! There's too many of them!" Samus squawks.
"Oh don't worry about them, I got it covered. Also I just had a great idea on how to make you not take anymore damage.”
“How?”
After shoving her into the prison inventory.
“Is that a Changeling? Why is there a changeling in your bag?”
You sush her and say.
"I'll tell you later, just sit back while I clean up around here," you say in deranged voice, which scares her.
Oh boy, here comes the good stuff!
You pull your hear out of the bag and kick open the door.
More animatronic zombies, from all sorts of games rush you. Turning your voice filter to intimidating and pulling your glove on tighter you shout.
FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE!
"I AM THE GOD OF HELL FIRE!!! AND I BRING YOU...Fire!"
You mentally command your glove to unleash a massive wave of fire right into their charging faces, vaporizing many of them with the first blow. Your pyromania gives way to giddiness as you begin to sing.
I'll take you to burn
You blaze through some Neighzi Zombies.
Fire!
You set a group of lickers on fire.
I'll take you to learn
I'll see you burn
The buildings start to catch fire as you rush through the horde of zombies.
"NO! My Set! What are you doing?!" Kichi's panicked cry comes from above.
You look up smirking as you make a ring of fire around yourself.
You fought hard and you saved and earned
But all of it's going to burn
You then set a fire aura around your hoof and start rushing through the animatronics, giving them flaming falcon punches
And your mind, your tiny mind
You know you've really been so blind
Now 's your time burn your mind
You're falling far too far behind
You sing as you give a flaming Psycho Crusher through a large group.
Oh no!
You set fire to a bloater.
Oh no!
A Crimson Head Lights up
Oh no!
A Las Plagas fries.
You're gonna burn...
You sing giddily as you point up to the ceiling towards Kichi.
Fire!
You blow up a carriage.
To destroy all you've done
Fire!
You pick up the flaming robots with your bucking bronco before using your Shadow Whip to sling the remains at more enemies.
To end all you've become!
You then parkour up a burning building and gesture towards the cameras again.
I'll feel you burn
"First the maze, and now the Left 4 Dead set?! What more do you want! And where is that stupid Griffon?!"
You ignore him and sing back
You've been living like a little girl
In the middle of your little world
And your mind, your tiny mind
You know you've really been so blind
Now's your time to burn your mind
You're falling far too far behind
"What is wrong with you?" the intercom chirps.
Your eyes light up at this
Fire!
You shout as you jump among the still numerous robotic zombies who encircle you.
I'll take you to burn
Fire!
I'll take you to learn
I'll see you burn
You taunt as the Zombies close in and you look down at the ground.
You're gonna burn
You're gonna burn
You're gonna burn
Right when they are about to reach you, you throw your head up as your eye burns black, and black and orange flames shoot out from you.
Burn!
Burn!
Burn!
Burn!
Burn!
Burn!
All of the zombies melt into useless ash and scrap as they give robotic screams, and every single building around you is bathed in glorious flame. Victorious, you look up and sing your praise!
Fire, I'll take you to burn
Fire, I'll take you to learn
Fire, I'll take you to burn
Fire, I'll take you to learn
As you finish, you begin panting as you stare at your glorious carnage and smile.
Bugze...thank you for this...from the bottom of my heart...thank you. I really needed this Selena says breathlessly.
No problemo Moon Hips, you tease to which she giggles.
Words fail this majestic scene... Sombra adds.
"Quite so, quite so," you agree aloud.
You then notice that your burning vengeance has allowed you easy access to the final checkpoint.
You whistle happily as you walk right up to the door.
Meanwhile, in the Dreamscape
"Come on! Why can't I get in? If I can't help out, the least I can do is talk with that Sombra guy again," Nightshade grunts as she tries to access your head again.
A screen pops up that says Temporarily Out of Order, Please Try Again Later
"Temporary my blank butt! Let me in Mommy!" she snarls before a scent catches her nose.
"*Snif* *Sniff* Is that smoke? Oh cheese and rice, Daddy's setting fires again...maybe I'll just stay asleep for a little bit till the crazy goes away..."
Back with You
Skipping merrily to the door you then call out to your bags.
"You can come out now."
The spandexed Griffin shakily comes out of the bags, looks at the burning surroundings and just stares at you in fear.
"What?" you ask her.
"I peaked through the bag top...What the buck is up with you and fire! You were laughing like a insane colt in a candy store who just got free candy! And Singing! Why were you singing?!"
You give her a shrug before saying,
"What can I say, fire is pretty."
She gains a enraged look as she says,
"THAT DOSEN'T ANSWER MY QUESTION!"
You ignore her as you both continue through the open doorway. As soon as you do, the collar on her beeps, turns green, and falls off.
"Oh thank goodness," she says as she rubs her neck and looks at the collar more thoroughly.
"Son of a-There were needles in this thing!"
"What was in them?"
"I have no clue, but whatever it was made me weaker...THAT BUCKER!!!"
"Hey, don't worry about it, you're safe now alright?" you console.
She looks at you even more confused as she asks you, "Why do you even care?"
"Huh?"
"I mean, I know it was your objective for this mission but...you actually sound like you cared whether I was hurt or not."
"Well because I did," you say truthfully.
"But why? I'm a criminal. I tried to beat you down, and you're gonna throw me in jail. Why?"
"Because if you did die, it would've been my fault, and I couldn't live with myself if I killed someone again," you say as you look down.
"Oh...is that why you were...?"
"Freaking out over the chainsaw guy? Yes. I've taken a vow to never kill again. It's rather...difficult in my field of work, but I made a promise, and I intend to keep it," you say in determination before looking back to her. "And yeah, you're a criminal and all, and you lead a gang, but you don't deserve to die. I bet you've never actually killed someling."
She shakes her head at this, "No...I mean, I got into this to feed my gaming addiction. There's not much work for a homeless cosplayer you know? But after tonight..."
She shakes her head and screeches, "Yo Kichi! I quit! Do you hear me? I ain't working for a guy that treats his employees this way! And I'm sure the rest of the Extra Lives agree!"
There is no answer from the speakers, but you think her message got through.
You smile at this, "Well don't worry about him too much longer, I'll be seeing him soon enough," you say as you walk to the table in the middle of the room under a banner that says
Key 3.
This one is in the shape of a biohazard symbol and attached to a chain.
"Alright Kichi, here I come!" you shout up to the ceiling.
WITH KICHI
He stares slackjawed at his burning set and the bounty hunter taunting him with the final key, before he and the chicken run back through the other two sections. He stops along the way to throw about 10 bound minion knights into his bag.
"You quit huh? Well guess we gotta find a new group of nerds to import games." He then looks at the clock.
"Whelp...30 minutes left...time for the final Boss," Kichi says as he grits his teeth.
With You Yet Again
After walking back into the kitchen, you dust the lovely soot off of your coat. You then look at the clock and realize something.
"OH BUCK! I only got 30 Minutes Left!" and you rush down the hallway, not even caring if Freddy and his friends see you...which they don't surprisingly as you see none of them around. What you do see though is the athletic griffin running next to you.
"Hey, what are you doing? I thought you quit?"
"I did! But I still owe you one, and I owe that jerk a knuckle sandwich for that collar bullspit!" she growls.
"Well, glad to have you aboard...what's a knuckle?"
"It's a Minotaur expression!"
As you finally reach the boss door in the night guard office where this whole mess began, you lift the three keys off of your neck and insert them into their spots. You hear a massive click and the door slides into the floor.
The other side of the room is darkness but you and the angry griffin step into it with determination.
Suddenly you hear a set of hooves clap together as a light comes from overhead, illuminating a chair with a figure sitting in it.
"Flash Sunshine?" you ask as you see the reporter from the bathroom relaxing in the chair.
"Hello there, I see you got the last key," he says...smugly?
"Yeah I did...how the heck did you get in here? Was there a back way in?" you ask confusedly.
"Oh no, I just walked right on through, there was a button under the Night Guard's Desk."
"ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?!!! This whole time, THIS WHOLE TIME!!! I could've entered here? Did I even need the keys?"
"No actually, they were just an amusing time waster!" he smiles.
"OH MOTHERBUCKER!!!"
He chuckles at this before saying, "And now that you now the truth, let's drop the a-"
"When I find you Kichi, I am going to slap you silly!" you scream to the surrounding darkness.
"What?" asks Sunshine.
"Flash, have you seen him anywhere? He might look like a purple stallion at the moment!"
"...Are you serious?" he asks incredulously.
"Yes I'm serious...although he is a changeling so he could look like literally anyling."
"Yes...anyling...absolutely anyling..." he says condescendingly.
"Yeah I know right?! So have you seen any shady characters around?!"
Flash Sunshine just stares at you dumbfounded for the longest time with his mouth open.
"Um, Red, I think that that guy is..."
"Another unfortunate victim here, yes I know, which is why we all have to stick together to save Aqua!"
"Oh, you mean this mare?" Sunshine asks as all of a sudden another overhead light comes on, revealing a tied up sleeping Aqua in a chair beside him.
"Aqua!" you yell and look to Sunshine again, "You...you..."
"Finally you figure it out, Yes I am-"
"The one who saved her! Good job man!" you cry out happily interrupting him. He again looks completely baffled at this sentence.
"Alright, pick her up and get her to safety while Samus and I deal with Kichi, I'm sure he's around here somewhere..." you say as you look around at the darkness while Samus just faceclaws.
Flash Sunshine then gets an annoyed look and says, "OK, enough of this," as he bursts into green flames, revealing a changeling in a hooded cloak as another light comes on, revealing a glass viewing room full of colts and fillies.
"Get the picture now bounty hunter?" he condescends.
"Wait, YOU'RE Kichi?!" You cry out incredulously, "Huh, who could've seen that twist coming?"
He and Samus both facehoof/claw at this.
"Why did I even put up with the charade?" Kichi mumbles to himself.
You ignore him though as you've finally found your target.
"Alright Crimson Knight, I've got you now! It's time to pay!" you shout to the instigator of the last 6 hours.
"Really, and what are you going to do?" he says without moving.
"Put you in jail of course!" you answer plainly as you start advancing towards him.
"OBJECTION!" the changeling shouts taking you by surprise.
"You're arresting me huh? Under what charges? Being a changeling? That is speciecist" he accuses.
"Gah!" you stumble back, feeling like you've been hit with your own accusatory weapon.
"I'm not speciest! In fact, I think I've got quite an open mind when it comes to changelings!"
"Oh sure you do, uh huh, then why am I being arrested?"
You scowl at this.
"What about kidnapping foals and controlling them? Or being the leader of a mafia and a terrorist cell? Or how about drugging and taking hostages?" You point out at him.
"Or how about endangering the lives of your employees, and threatening them with death?!" Samus growls.
"Yeah, that too!"
"Meh!" He says as he shrugs.
"Meh? That's all you have to say?" you ask.
"What? It's not like you have any proof of the organization stuff. The kids are better off than on the streets, and they give me love, and It's not my fault you all ate a pizza and suddenly took a nap."
"Seriously?" you spout.
"Of course, I'm not guilty, but you on the other hoof are another story..." Kichi answers calmly
"What?!" you exclaim.
"Well, let's see what you've done this night, Trespassing on private property, damaging said private property, assaulting several employees, wrongfully accusing the property owner, and of course, Arson! Lots and lots of arson," Kichi lists off.
"Well, err..." you rub the back of your neck as what he's said is all true, but you counter back. "What about proof? like you said before, where's the proof?"
He simply points up at the many cameras.
"Oh..."
"Everything you've done tonight is on camera, and none of what I have is. I'm sure that if you capture me then this will get to the authorities and then you'll be wanted too. A bounty hunter with a bounty on his head, ironic, right?" he smirks.
"Well, err...." you fumble.
"You see, this could happen...or you could just join up with me. You are a very powerful individual and I feel something in you...you are not a normal pony, why fight? It's not like my friends and I are doing anything wrong," he offers.
"Seriously? Another villain askiong me to join the dark side? How cliche..." you say aloud.
Cliches...are not inherently bad... Sombra spouts.
"By the way, do you have any of that antidote left? I could really use some."
"Of course I do, and it's all yours if you say you'll join up."
"To heck with that. I have a job to do, I am going to take down all you Flag Burner wannabes!"
"Meh, It's not like I'm too interested in the Flag Burner objective, not after what happened to him. Really we all do whatever the heck we want and once in awhile an order comes down from on high...and they're pretty weird sometimes...Anyway, yeah there's really not much of an objective to follow. And if you don't want to join I could even send you to another member" Kichi states nonchalantly.
"What? Really? That easily?" you say taken aback.
"Of course. I'll send you after someling else, and all you have to do is just walk away and leave me to my projects. I'll keep giving you names as long as you leave me be. Do we have a deal?"
You consider it for a moment. On one hand, you'll have your own little rat and be able to find the rest of the Knights. On the other hand however...You look up at the dull eyed children watching, and you remember all the bullspit you just went through for the keys that you didn't even need to get. And the puzzles...THE PUZZLES!!!
You look to Samus who just gives you the same reproachfull look as you turn your head back and yell.
"NO DEAL! Those kids are getting freed, and you are going down. I don't care if you have all my actions on video because you know what? It'll be written off as collateral damage for taking down a Crimson Knight Leader. Besides, I'm burning this whole bucking place down to the ground for good measure Kichi boy!" you say as you narrow your eyes at him.
He sighs as you say that before he suddenly smiles.
"A part of me hoped you'd say that," he says before pushing a button on his chair.
The room begins to rumble a bit as you and Samus begin to freak out a little, but then all the lights in the room come on, and you see that you are in a massive fighting arena.
From the roof drops down a large, heavy monstrosity.
Your eyes widen in fear as you take it in. In a mess of wires, metal, fake fur and limbs is a 20 foot tall mishmash of all of the Freddy Fazbear electronics. It has four legs, four arms, and three heads sitting atop it's body. The heads of the two foxes (both red and pink) and an exposed exoskeleton head with a top hat twitch as they control the body and stare you down.
The body itself is made up of all the heads of all the other animatronics, and they all form one gigantic razor toothed mouth in the middle of their belly. The heads open up and screech that horrible noise at you.
A Banner Descends from the ceiling displaying the words
The Animatronic Monstrosity:
MANGLEOID
You and Samus both gulp at this monstrosity, as Kichi flies and lands amongst the three controlling heads on top. He smiles and pulls his hood on as he taunts.
"Well...as the foals these days say, GAME ON!"
WHAT DO YOU DO?
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