The Purple Mare.

Chapter Nine.

Tangle (Part 3).

Ballora, Baby, Vixen and Freddy looked through the container their crates were thrown from, trying to find any of their equipment, much to Ennards dismay.
''Ha ha! Found my guitar and microphone, have you found anything guys?'' Baby said, strapping her prized instrument to her back and clipping the mic to her belt.
''I found my pirate gear!'' Vixen said, holding her sword high in the air as she placed her feathered captain's hat on her head. The Bonnie puppet detached from Freddy's arm and crawled along the container floor, wriggling through the gaps between the toppled crates that rested deep inside the large metal box.
''Found your mic Freddy.'' The puppet said, her tiny paw wrapping around the cylindrical device.

''Shit shit shit shit!'' Ballora screamed, moving a crate. ''Where are they. Where are they? Where are they?!'' She shouted, throwing another crate to the side.
''Ballora, what's wrong?'' Vixen said, grabbing the ballerina's hands and holding them tight. ''My Minireenas! I can't find them!'' Ballora shouted, ripping them from the fox's grasp.
''Maybe they're in the other container!'' Baby shouted, running over to a second overturned container and ripping the lock off. The doors swung open in the strong arctic wind. Ballora ran into the container and rummaged through all the overturned and broken crates but still found no trace of her Minireenas.
''They're not here...'' The ballerina said, her voice cracking, her long fingers slowly balling into a fist, dragging snow with them, ''We have to go back to Canterlot.''

''So, where are you heading?'' Tangle asked, easily keeping up with Starlight despite she being broken, ''Or a better question is, where are we heading?'' She added, putting emphasis on the 'we' part of the last statement.
''We are heading to Twilight's Castle.'' Starlight spoke out mid trot, ''Or palace, or manor, or whatever the fuck it's called.'' She grumbled, her body creaking and she continued walking. Tangle looked up at a nearby roof, water trickling down the drain pipe. An idea entered the mind of the broken toy animatronic, ''Maybe i could climb that?'' She said to herself, her eye fixed on the black pipe. She wrapped herself around it and began to shimy her way up the building, hoping to spot the castle. Starlight stopped when she stopped hearing the sound of Tangle's hoofsteps. Starlight turned around and found a lack of toy animatronic.
''Tangle?'' She said, looking around, ''Tangle? Where did you disappear of too?'' She added, she silenced herself as the sound of metal contacting with brick filled her ears. The mare turned her head where she gathered the sound was coming from. She gasped in horror at what she saw before her soulless eyes.

Tangle grunted as she pulled herself over the edge and onto the roof, the spare parts used for feet slipping on the wet slate roofing as she sat on the tip of the roof, looking down at Starlight with a slight smirk as she looked up at the toy robot.
''Tangle! Get down from their, you're gonna get in trouble!'' Starlight said, shouting while attempting to whisper at the same time.
''Why are you whisper-shouting?'' Tangle said, shouting down to Starlight, causing the spring-locked pony's face to change into a look of confusion.
''Whisper-shouting? What the hell are you talking about?! Get. Down. Now.'' Starlight said, starting to sound like a pissed off mother telling of her child. Tangle just gave a smug look in reply. ''And for starters, whisper-shouting isn't even a word!'' The unicorn mare added.
''I don't know, that's what it says i'm supposed to call it.'' Tangle responded, pulling stapled sheets of paper out of thin air, ''Chapter 9, Aha! See, ''Why are you whisper-shouting?'' Tangle said.'' She read out before throwing the booklet away. Starlight shook her head in confusing.

''Ok, whatever say, now just get down please.'' Starlight pleaded, looking up at the robot sitting on the roof. Tangled rolled her eyes.
''Agh. Fine!' Tangle responded, standing up and sliding down the slate roof, sparks showering from under her. ''Look out below!'' She bellowed before leaping off the roof. Tangle landed on the muddy ground with a splat.
''Well then. If you're finished playing around, we need to get to Twilight's castle.'' Starlight responded, turning around, ''If we can find it.'' She sheepishly added.
''I found the castle.'' Tangle blurted out, causing the other mare to freeze in place, ''It's over there'' She sang, untangling parts to make herself taller as she pointed to a building in the distance. Starlight facehoof and proceeded to grunt angrily.
''Right then, let's go!'' Tangle clapped her hooves together, ''Come on, Let's fly!'' She snorted with a slight giggle. Starlight rolled her eyes and groaned while secretly smiling.

The castle was now in full view as the two trotted through the vacant street, the moon rising behind them as they headed forward.
''So, uh, how'd that happen anyway?'' Starlight looked at her companion, causing Tangle to freeze on the spot. The broken robot looked at her hooves and sighed.
''You give up a few things, chasing a dream.'' She respond.
''Was it worth it?'' was the reply.
''I'm hoping it is, Glim-Glam. I most surely am.'' Tangled finished, clutching her tattered wings before continuing towards the castle, ''Anyway. Enough about me, what happened to your legs?'' She asked.
''I'd rather not talk about it. It's too traumatic for me.'' Replied Starlight, looking down at the ground before looking back up at Tangle.

''Please Springy Glimmy?'' Tangle begged.
''No.''
''Please?''
''No.''
''Pretty please.''
''Argh! Fine!'' Starlight shouted, rubbing her temples in annoyance, ''Just no more nicknames from now on, deal?.'' She added, Tangled made an audible 'awww' at the prospect of no nicknames. Starlight looked up at the sky and closed her eyes. ''The night Fazbear's Fright burned down. I tried to escape by crawling through the air vents, but one of the ventilation isolation doors slammed down, slicing my legs off below the knee.'' She looked down at her shredding rear legs, the mangled bones barely visible under the suit, ''If i'd been just a few seconds slower, it might of been my head.'' Tangle looked at her.

''We are not going back to Canterlot!'' Ennard roared, grabbing Ballora by the head and forcing her onto the snow, Freddy grabbed Ennard's hand in an attempt to make him back off, only to get backhanded by the psycho robot.
''Ennard! Stop it.'' Baby said, placing herself between Ennard and Ballora, the two stared coldly at each other as Vixen helped Freddy to his feet. Ballora crawl to her feet and continued to coldly stare at Ennard.
''I am going back to Canterlot and i'm going to find my Minireenas, with or without you.'' Ballora turned away from the group and towards the container her crate was thrown from during the derailment.
''Don't turn your back on me!'' Ennard shouted, hearing Ballora shout ''Make me!'' in reply, he snarled and charged at her, pinning the animatronic by the neck against the container.
''I've come to far with this plan and i will not just you ruin it.'' He tightened his grip on her neck, ''Now, you are with us or against us, what will it be?'' Was the ultimatum she was given.
Ballora reared her head back and spat a chunk of oil at Ennard's face, he roared before punching her to the ground.

''You're own your own!'' He said, turning away from her and shoved past the others, ''Lets go.'' Baby looking at Vixen and Freddy, then Ballora, ''LETS GO!'' The three flinged, ''Yes Ennard...'' They said, Baby rounded up the Bidybabs into a makeshift trolley. Baby looked back at Ballora as the ballerina weakly stood up.
''Sorry Ballora.'' Baby said as she and the others walked off into the blizzard.

End of Chapter Nine.