The Purple Mare.
Chapter Six.
Secrets Don't Keep.
The red glow became more intense until the sides of the crate shattered into pieces, a tall, slender animatronic rose from the base of the crate, its face splits open slightly as it twitched, it's arms and legs were made up of two tube like structures that twisted around each other, encasing the endoskeleton, it looked at the six other crates, the animatronic was unaffected by the blizzard around it. Wires sprouted from its back and wrapped around the crates. The wires tightened around the crates until they shattered as well. Eleven more animatronics spilled out the crates.
There was an animatronic that looked like a human girl with red hair and a red dress, another one that looked like a human adult in a ballerina outfit, another was a white and purple bear with a blue rabbit puppet on its right hand, there was also a white and pink fox and last, there was seven identical baby like animatronics.
''Walk up morons!'' The slender animatronic barked, kicking the one in the red dress awake, she shot up, her face opening up.
''What the hell Ennard!'' She screamed, her screams awoke the others. The ballerina stood up, dusting the snow off herself.
''Baby! Would you shut up!'' The ballerina said, opening her lilac eyes, ''And why are we in a bloody wasteland full of snow?'' She added.
''Well i don't know Ballora!'' The fox said, standing up and wiping the snow from her paws.
''Will you all shut it!'' Ennard shouted, the bear looked at him, the puppet was about to open its mouth when the bear covered its mouth with his paw before he felt some tickle his paw.
''Bonnie, did you just like my paw?'' The bear asked, the puppet nodded, ''I... Didn't know you could do that...'' He added, quite confused. Bonnie giggled.
''Freddy!'' The fox said, the bear was startled, the fox wrapped her arms around the bear and gave him a tight hug, her face opened slightly.
''Oh... Hi Vixen...'' Freddy said, his face splitting open slightly.
''What are we doing here?'' Baby said, helping up the dolls before they started climbing all over her, ''I really hate the Bidybabs...'' She groaned as one of the them hung off her hair.
''We are here to get our revenge, my dear.'' Ennard said, the howling wind nearly drawing out his distorted voice box.
David and Starspring got off the train at Ponyville.
''Why are we here?'' Starlight asked, the sound of her metallic feet making contact with the platform echoed around the nearby area. Thankfully, the platform was empty.
''Twilight wants my help repairing something, i think it was her kitchen cupboard or something like that.'' He replied, walking up the footbridge, the passenger train pulls away from the station as they walk across the bridge.
''So, does Twilight know that i'm here with you.'' Starspring added, she saw David nodding and sighed, ''I can only imagine what she is going to say when she sees me.'' She sighed some more as they walked down the otherside of the footbridge. The pony working the ticket kiosk gasped when they saw Starlight clank past and out the station.
The high street was empty when the exception of a pony or two talking to each other at the benches, they didn't take notice of Starlight at first, but they turned their heads and looked straight at her, they then turned back and continued talking with each other. Starlight breathed a sigh of relief and continued walking towards Twilight's place.
''So, where does Twilight live?'' Starlight asked, ''I heard that she lives above a library.'' She added, David stopped in his track and sighed, Starlight tilted her head, ''Is something wrong?'' She asked again.
''She used to live in a library, she hasn't for years...'' He said, his eyes were closed, Starlight was confused by this point.
''What do you mean 'used to'?'' She replied, David opened his eyes and sighed.
''It's best that i show you.'' He responded, walking towards the town square, Starlight followed him.
The two continued walking until a wrecked structure blocked the path, Starlight looked in surprise, it was a tree, most of it was gone, leaving charred remains.
''What happened?'' She asked, she felt the faded presents of dark magic around what was left of the tree building.
''Lord Tirek.'' David said, recounting what Twilight had told him, ''Lord Tirek was hunting Twilight, he wanted her alicorn magic. In an attempt to hide, Twilight teleported to here, The Golden Oak Library. Unfortunately, Tirek fired his dark magic at the library. Twilight and her pet barely escaped with their lives. The destruction of the library kick started what would be called 'The Battle For Equestria'.'' David recounted, he placed his hand on the burned tree bark of the ruins. He turned and continued towards Twilight's place.
''Where does Twilight live now then?'' Starlight tilted her head, her remaining animatronic ear bounced slightly.
''She lives in a castle now.'' Was the only reply from David.
As Starlight walked just behind David, something caught her eye, she looked over as saw a waterfall streaming down the Ponyville side of Canterlot Mountain, the river in which it flowed into sparkled as it flowed through town, Starlight looked over the bridge and saw her reflection in the crystal clear water, her red eyes glowing slightly, a small carp came to the surface as some breadcrumbs were thrown into the water by a filly sitting on bridge balustrade.
''Hello Mr carp, hope you like breadcrumbs.'' The filly said, throwing more breadcrumbs into the water, Starlight smiled as memories was when Sunset Shimmer was that young filled her mind.
The filly continued to feed breadcrumbs to the fish until a filly, just bigger than her walked past and smacked her around the back of the head, the filly began to lose her balance, she flailed around before falling of the bridge, Starlight quickly ran and grabbed the filly by the tail with her mouth, catching her.
''I've got you!'' Starlight said without moving her mouth, the spikes on the base of her metal rear legs, once used to keep the suit attached to the endoskeleton, dug into the stone of the bridge, Starlight used them to her advantage and slowly pulled her filly back onto the bridge. Once the filly was back on the safety of the bridge Starlight released her tail.
''Oh thank you!'' The filly whimpered into Starlight's leg, the filly then back up and saw who it was, she screamed, ''IT'S STARSPRING!'' She ran off screaming, Starlight's ears fell flat, she turned and kept walking.
David watched what happened and sighed at the child's reaction. Starlight slowly walked past him.
''Are you ok?'' David asked as he started walking behind her, she didn't reply and kept walking, the castle coming into view, on right side of the path, a burned and collapsed building came into view and beyond that was a run down and abandoned building, there was silence between the two until they came to a fork in the path
''I wanna be left alone for awhile, I'm meet you at Twilight's castle once i've cleared my head.'' She said, turning onto the right path.
''Are you sure?'' David said, concerned, Starlight nodded, ''Ok..'' He replied, ''If there's anything wrong, you can tell me.'' He added, Starlight sighed. She continued walking on the right path, David shook his head and continued towards the castle.
The cobblestone path slowly disappeared under the overgrowth. Broken glass and syringes cracked under her hooves as she walked towards the abandoned building. The sky began to overcast, a storm had been scheduled for the day. The rain soon began to fall, heavy and fast, most of the town ran for shelter. The rain pelted the ground and Starlight's animatronic body, lightning flashed behind her, casting her shadow against the building as she walked past the fallen sign, she entered the building as thunder roared in the distance. The rain came through the the collapsed sections of the roof, leaving pools of water on the decaying floor tiles. A rusting ladder laid across the floor and on a table, it had collapsed and now had a 90 degree angle in the middle. Her red eyes were lighting the building in a dull glow.
Starlight slowly walked around the building, she didn't notice the torch or the saddle bag that Nyan and Blitzpony left behind, the saddle bags contents were spilled across the damp floor, Starlight's hoof steps echoed across the empty halls of the empty pizzeria. Lightning flashed outside, casting shadows of the fallen wires and pipes on the walls. The animatronic alicorn walked down the East Hall, rotting and moldy posters laid on the floor, they squelched under her weight. She entered the office and looked at the desk, the tablet for the camera system was resting on the desk still, the screen was flashing a 'low battery' warning, it then stopped, its screen went dark. Starlight sighed and left the office, she walked through the West Hall.
''This place sure has changed since i last saw it.'' She said to herself, remembering the last time she was in the building that night, over nineteen years ago.
Tangle heard the sound of Starlight's hooves echoing through the building, her head perked up. Her wires wrapped around the ceiling pipes, picking herself up and swinging out the storage room. The broken animatronic was humming a tune as she swung from pipe to pipe, she was some how able to make no sound as she moved about, trying to find the intruder in the building. Her building.
Starlight leaned inside Funtime Cove, the props used on the stage had fallen over and broken. A stage lights was resting on the stage, its colour lens was broken as was the bulb inside. She turned her head and looked at the main show stage, the sun and cloud props that were bolted to the back wall were rusted out and missing chunks of frame. The small door at the back of the stage that lead to the storeroom was noticeably open. Starlight moved towards the small door, she hoped up on the stage and walked through the door, Tangle watched her from the kitchen door, the mangled animatronic slowly moved closer as Starlight descended down the steps into the storage room.
Most of the wooden crates had collapsed and laid in rotting piles on the floor, water was pouring through a hole in the roof. Tangle climbed up onto the stage, inadvertently clanking. Starlight's ear twitched as she heard clanking outside the storage room, she turned.
''Who's there?'' She said, her voice echoing around the building, Tangle slowly crawled into the storage room, her one blue eye caught a closer look at Starlight. Tangle lost her grip and fell to the floor, Starlight jumped in surprise and turned around.
''Ah! It's The Purple Mare!'' Tangle screamed, she tried to run away but smacked into the wall, Starlight face hoofed
''Really?'' Starlight said, shaking her head in the process. Tangle was laying on the floor, rubbing her head. ''Who are you?'' Starlight asked the mangled robot.
''I'm Tangle, i wanted to call myself Mangle, but due to licensing, i couldn't.'' Tangle blurted out at once, Starlight was confused.
''Anyway, I'm Starlight Glimmer or at least, i was.'' Starlight said, twitching slightly, looking at Tangle's eyes.
At the back of the room, an animatronic twitched to life at the sound of Starlight Glimmer. It was like Springtrap but less damaged and painted grey, it rose up off the floor and walked towards the two other animatronics, its red eyes glowing bright. Tangle saw the other animatronic and smiled, Starlight felt a chill go down her servos, she turned and looked at the new animatronic, she flinched.
''Hello, Starlight Glimmer.'' It said in a deep voice, its eyes went to an ocean blue, ''Or should i say, mommy.'' It added, now sounding like a child. Starlight's ears fell flat at the sound of the child's voice
''Bryan?''
End of Chapter Six.