The Purple Mare.
Chapter Five.
They took the bite and left them to die.
''What do you mean Fredbear?'' David asked Starlight, she looked at him.
''It's best that i explain what happened.'' She said. The CEE began to depart from Manehatten and towards Canterlot.
It was early morning on the 23th of July, today was Bryan's birthday and it was to be celebrated at Freddy's. Crystal Sky was sitting on the work table in the back stage.
''So, whats on today's schedule?'' The yellow alicorn asked, Fredbear shrugged, dusting off his top hat.
''A private birthday party.'' Starlight said, stepping in to the room, ''So, whats the problem, you two?'' She added, yawning slightly.
''I keep overheating.'' Crystal Sky said, Starlight walked over to the alicorn and opened the mask and looked inside. ''Here is whats causing your overheating!'' Starlight said, finding that one of the CPU cooling fans was jammed, blocking air flow. Starlight pulled out the jam and the fan started spinning again.
''How's that?'' Starlight asked, Crystal Sky scanned her systems, her CPU began to cool down. Crystal Sky smiled, she skipped off.
''And what about you Fredbear?'' Starlight asked the bear, he pointed to the show stage.
''Bonnie's leg joints are stuck, i would of carried him here but i couldn't lift him.'' Fredbear explained, Starlight face hoofed.
''Bonnie's a he? Crap, i've been calling them she.'' Starlight said, embarrassed. Fredbear chuckled, Starlight shook her head, her hoof still on her face.
''Tell that to him and see what happens.'' Fredbear chuckled some more.
''Not a bad idea. Yo! Bonnie, want your purse?!'' Starlight shouted, ''Ha ha! Real funny purple smarts!" Bonnie shouted back, Fredbear bursting into laughter.
Starlight grabbed her tools and Bonnie's instruction manual and walked towards the enraged rabbit. Bonnie grumbled as Starlight stepped up onto the stage.
''Grumble all you want cotton tail. It isn't gonna get you fixed any quicker.'' Starlight said, pulling out her spanner and began repairing the gears on Bonnie's legs, she loosened the bolts on the joints, Bonnie was able to move his legs now, he grumbled at her as she put her tools back in the back stage.
Bonnie moved his legs around, Fredbear followed Starlight.
''So, who's birthday is it?'' He asked the mare, she looked around and gestured him closer, she moved her mouth over his ears.
''Bryan's, don't tell Crystal.'' She said, he nodded and walked back to the stage.
A few hours past and the guest began to arrive at the pizzeria, Bryan was sitting at a table with a few of his friends, Starlight was in the managers office, going over some order forms for new parts for the animatronics. Bryan's cousin and her friends were walking to one of the arcade machines.
''So Cotton Candy, how are you related to Bryan exactly?'' Her friend asked her, see looked at them.
''Well Dusk Shine, I'm his cousin on his father's side.'' Cotton replied as they found an arcade machine titled 'Give Cake', Dusk Shine put a coin in the game, its screen lit up and flickered. The instructions for the game appeared on screen.
''Play as either; Fredbear, Bonnie or Princess Crystal Sky. Give cake to the children before the time runs out, the quicker you give cake, the more bonus time you get.'' Cotton read out as a 'press start to begin' flashed on the screen. Dust selected Fredbear and pressed start, an 8-bit Fredbear appeared in the center of the screen surround by six children, one child went red, 'Give Cake' flashed up on screen, Dusk moved the Fredbear sprite over to the child, the child went back to it original colour. This went on for every child on the screen until 'Level Complete' appeared on screen.
''So you kids like to party?'' A voice said, Cotton, Dusk and the two other children look around and shrug, thinking the voice was coming from the game.
The arcade machine's screen flickered and then goes blank before text began filling the screen 'Virus detected. Data has be erased.' was plastered all over the screen before the machine froze and shut down, startling the four children. A shadow scurried past the children, the sound of metal against metal startled them some more, they looked up and the ceiling.
Something hung from the broken light fixtures, it was bathed in near complete darkness, a lonely red eye barely lighting its broken humanoid face. The face was accompanied by a huge body mess of wires, cables and twisted chrome coated framework, the cables hung off its body, sparking at the ends when they made contact with each other. Part of the broken frame scrapped against the wall, removing the paint from said wall, the remains of endo teeth glimmered against the red light from a second eye that had fallen away from the face and dangled down. Oil and hydraulic fluid slowly leaked from its core and eye sockets. The only sound that came from this monstrous being was the sound of broken cooling fans and the wires sparking. A deep, distorted laugh omitted from its voice box.
''Wanna play a game?'' It asked in a creepy voice, part of the face hung open as it crawled down the wall and approached the four. They tried to back away but there exit was blocked by a wall, it cornered them.
''Who are you?! What do you want?! Cotton said, trying to stand her ground, the being moved closer, the open face flapping about.
''My name Ennard. I'm here with an offer i don't think you'd refuse.'' It said, a cable wrapped around the open half of it face and closed said half back up and it continued to approach them.
''What offer?'' Cotton said, starting to tremble in fear at the sight of Ennard.
''It's simple my little pony, kill Bryan, pin the murder on Starlight and i will reward you with riches beyond your wildest dreams.'' Ennard grinned, his sharp endo were clearly visible through his mouth that has permanent smile.
''No! I will not kill my cousin, even for all the riches in Canterlot!'' Cotton snapped, her friends nodded in agreement, Ennard just smirked.
''Well then, i guess i have to do this the hard way.'' His cables descended from the ceiling, they wrapped around the four children, needles rose from the ends of the cable and stabbed them in the neck, the children tried to wriggle free but they stopped abruptly as there eyes went black with white specks. More cables appeared carrying masks. they put a mask on each child's head, a Freddy, a Bonnie, a Chica and a Vixen. The cables released the children. They began to walk to the main stage area where the party was, Ennard then clawed onto the ceiling and followed them to the stage.
Fredbear sat on stage, waiting for the next show to start, he was fiddling with his bow tie when he heard the scrapping of metal, he looked around and saw Ennard behind him, the mangled animatronic just smirked at the golden bear, Fredbear just glared at it.
''Ennard! What are you...'' Fredbear wasn't able to finish his sentence as one of Ennard's cables plugged into the back of the bear.
'Virus detected. Data has be corrupted. Attempting restart. restart denied.' appeared in the bear's vision as his eyes changed from blue to red. Ennard released the bear.
''The show will begin momentarily...'' Ennard said as he crawled way, Fredbear staggered onto the stage as the curtains lifted. Bryan sat infront of the stage as Cotton Candy and her friend approached the colt from behind and picked him up.
''lets give him a closer look.'' Ennard said, Cotton Candy copied him as her friends raised Bryan up high and began to walk towards the stage.
''Please no!'' Bryan screamed, ''Put me down!'' He screamed some more.
Starlight and Crystal Sky both heard his screams
''Bryan!" They both shouted, Starlight made a run for the door and ran out the room. Crystal Sky ran to the stage, time began to slow as Starlight ran down the hall. Crystal Sky slipped on a spilt drink and hit her head on a table.
''Help me!'' Bryan screamed as Fredbear's jaws got closer to his head, tears streaming down his face, the virus in Fredbear began to fail, he regained his memory and watched in horror as Bryan came closer to his mouth.
Starlight ran into the show stage area just in time to see Bryan placed into the animatronic's jaws
"No!" She screamed and ran over to him, Crystal Sky joined her, Starlight tried to force Fredbear's jaw open.
"Starlight, i can't keep going...'' Fredbear said, trying to keep his jaw from closing. Bryan's tears began to leak into Fredbear's circuit board, Bonnie ran over and he too tried to force Fredbear's jaw open, Starlight left front hoof tried to find the shutdown/open jaw switch. Fredbear's circuit breakers began to hiss and click as Bryan tears leaked over them.
Just as Starlight was about to flick the switch, Fredbear's circuit breaker snapped, there was a flash of light, followed by a bang, Crystal Sky's face was showered with sparks, the bang sent the alicorn flying backwards, she crashed through a table, the left side of her face was now burned, her left eye was cracked and flickering, she weakly looked up at Fredbear.
"Im... Im sorry...'' Fredbear said, his jaw snapped shut, Starlight's hoof was crushed, as was Bryan's head. Starlight let out an ear piecing scream.
''Bryan!''
Tears streamed down Starlight's animatronic face as the CEE finally pulled into Canterlot, David looked at her.
''So, that was why you did it?'' He asked her, she nodded slowly, David handed her a tissue, the tears washed away the blood stains on her face. The human stood up and went to the door, the animatronic followed him, still crying.
''Come on Starlight, once we get to Ponyville, i'll talk to Twilight about this.'' David said, Starlight looked at him with watery eyes.
A freight train rattled through the arctic north toward The Crystal Empire. As it traveled along the line, it plowed into a patch of black ice hidden below the snow, the train derailed, spilling its cargo around the track, a container was thrown quick a distance away from the train, its doors being thrown open in the process, seven crates fell out and landed in the snow, one of the crates cracked open. A red glow began omitting from the crate.
'Afton Robotics'
'Online'
'Ennard'.
End of Chapter Five.