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!"
This was entertaining. Espeically near the end...I was getting worried and there wasn't even a Dark tag...For good reason.
Man, I saw Pewds and Markiplier's playthroughs! And yeah, I'm with Dash, ALL OF THE NOPE
LOL
Agreed, But she should quit in Night three or four I think.
First night is Easy but gits harder in later nights.
P.S. How do black out stuff?
10/24/14
Thanks, Knightmare Neko,
Don't call me a "Fag"
Never really could get into the game. I mean, a horror game that relies on the main character being such a terminal moron that they don't flee the scene and/or burn the building down after night one isn't horrifying, juts dumb.
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spoiler tags newfag
LOL
Rainbowdash: NOOOOOPE!
12:00 PM2nd NIGHTBUCK THAT
LOVING THIS STORY!
5179846 watch the game theory on youtube about the game and you'll understand.
Haha I bet that reaction would be same or even faster flying away if she will be in mount massive hospital (aka outlast) :D
'bib'
...This was strangle logical and straightforward for such an odd-ball premise.
AKA reality ensues.
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Agreed
This totally rocks and what was Mike thinking, coming back every night?!?
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An accurate summary of Rainbow's reaction:
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...Yeah, pretty much my reaction.
FNAF been popping up a lot. Well, this has a decent amount of thumbs, and I am intrigued. Let us read..
Heh, I let out a short laugh. Continuing...
Heh.
Pff
Alright, not bad. This deserves those thumbs.
5179846 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th_LYe97ZVc
Hit the 'skip to theory' annotation if you must.
Ahahahahaha...
Hehehehe
5182787 I heard one theory state that he always had a bad history with the place, and wasn't all that surprised that the animatronics moved at night. He wasn't aware that they actually kill, of course.
A certain Matthew Patrick made a video explaining his theory on the restaurant. By comparing a real life incident with the game, he found some disturbing parallels. I give you the link, but he was able to deduce that Mike was the murderer of the five children, and he had been convicted of his crimes and his death sentence had been delayed. The game was Mike's nightmare as he waited for the executioner. It would explain why Mike never brought weapons, told anyone, and couldn't escape.
Or it could be a really large plot hole.
Finally, someone gets it right!
Haha, that was hilarious!
5187570 That would actually make sense. If so, Mike gets what he deserves
Or maybe Five Nights at Freddy's 2 will tell us more
This. Was. Awesome.
Best Five Nights at Freddy's crossover I've seen
I look forward to seeing what you do with FNAF 2. Especially with all the new features introduced.
Also, Foxy's kill animation is much, MUCH scarier in the sequel.
The bastard pounces on you this time, his teeth wide open as the new Deathscreech rings in your ears.
BOOM!!! RIGHT INTO THE DARK-HOLE!!!!
Yeah, I have trouble getting through PewDiePie's videos, too..... mostly because of PewDiePie.
Goddamn, his voice is ear-rape.
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Agreed. Very Much Agreed. So Much Agreed.
I don't know why, but I instantly thought of this.
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Seriously, Five Night's at Freddy's? At this point I'd like to challenge someone to name something MLP hasn't crossed over with.
You know, I never understood why anyone who somehow managed to survive one night at Freddy's would ever come back, let alone work the whole 5-night shift.
5197363 Plus he makes the funniest noises when he's scared.
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A Certain Scientific Railgun
... right before somebody shoves an example of a crossover with that thing against me.
This was funny.
Great job!
You mean the fan spun its short blades.
You mean severed, decapitation implies a head.
This was really solid. Good job on the story. I'll throw you a like, but I want to share with you a few small pet peeves/issues I found as I read.
- Try not to start sentences with 'And'. Or at least, not too often. It's technically fine to start a sentence with a coordinating conjunction, but I feel like it can detract from a good looking and flowing end product. This is probably more of a personal pet peeve though.
- Word choice. Some of the words and phrases Dash used didn't really feel natural for her. Little things like using "Hey" or "Howdy" instead of "Hi" or "Hello" really goes a long way. The biggest example was where you had a standalone paragraph of "...Swell." and I sat back to myself and thought "When would Dash ever talk like that?" I feel she would do a sarcastic "...Awesome."
- As funny as your joke about phones and tablets was, and it was funny the first time. How would dash know what a phone or a tablet is called, if she never saw one before? This is Entirely a personal thing, so I'll just leave it at that.
Seriously, this was funny. Certainly a breath of fresh air from other, more horror based Five Nights stories.
5275040 fair enough. I for one felt it was hilarious.
Biggest NOPE I have ever seen.
Dammit! I was going to use this idea! ......Well played. You won fair and square.
If I were a psychopath with a death wish, I would totally build robots like that. So thats how you would react, I would probably either run, or beat the crap out of those mechanical monsters. Most likely I would run around and avoid them while trying to build an EMP. Fry their circuits.
Even though I've never played the game and have absolutely NO interest in doing so (I scare waaaaay too easily), I want to write one of these where instead of having a character work at the video game Freddy's, have Pinkie Pie work at a real-life frozen custard/burger chain that also happens to be called Freddy's. The horror in this is that Pinkie would only get free ice cream every five days (as opposed to two a day as I suppose Pinkie would try to eat).
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Funnily enough, playing through it actually reveals that FNAF2 is a prequel.