Mechanical Instinct

Scootaloo sat in a chair looking out across the party room. The room was filled with children and adults of all sizes. On the far end of the room music was being played by three animatronics on a stage. Freddy, Bonnie, and Chica were all moving to the song as Freddy's mouth opened and closed. Bonnie plucked at the strings of his guitar and Chica swayed back and forth with her cupcake in one hand. In a corner sat children pulling and yanking at an animatronic. She was originally named Foxy but the employees refered to her as The Mangle.

Scootaloo enjoyed her job, well almost enjoyed her job. She was the day guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. It was funny, to her, since sixteen years ago Rainbow Dash had been killed by a puppet created by the same company she now worked for. The only rooms in the building she hated were the parts and service room and the prize corner. The parts and service room is where she had to go to get pieces for Mangle. The problem was that the old animatronics were in that room. She had the job of taking pieces off of them with a screwdriver. Every time she'd enter the room the squeaking of rusted metal could be heard as the animatronic reached out and tried to grab her with the parts they could barely move. She could never get herself close to Freddy as he seemed to have the second fastest reaction of them all. He also creeped her out the most, besides Chica. His arms had holes in them where wires poked out of. His eyes were always this eerie bright yellow and they followed her everywhere. Foxy sat in a back corner his cracked head revealing the endoskeleton underneath and his past scars, from before the reopening, were larger and more noticeable. Chica sat on the right wall of the room. Her head having been picked at plenty of times, to get parts. Now revealed her whole endoskeleton's jaw and the wires that made it move. Her eyes now seemed to bulge from her head since her eyelids had also been removed. Her hands were now missing as they had been used on the newer Chica and now were just wires dangling. Her suit was in no better condition than Freddy's. Holes revealed wires and pieces of the endoskeleton. Bonnie was a whole different story. His whole face had been removed for the night guard to wear. No one understood why that was necessary but they just thought he might like something to show his kids. The only indication Scootaloo got that Bonnie was watching her was the two red lights that replaced his eyes. He would turn his head creating loud screeches of rusted metal and the red lights were always aimed at her when this happened. One of his arms was now gone along with part of an ear. These were why she feared that room. The stories she was told were horrific and she never wanted to die at the hands of the animatronics.

The reason she hated the prize corner was because a replica of the puppet they burned, the day of Rainbow's death, was in a box. The box opened and he popped out when the music stopped. When the music stopped she'd have to go over and crank it herself. During that time the puppet seemed to watch her every move. Once and a while she'd catch it leaning over trying to get a good look at what she was doing. She'd then shove the puppet in the box and close the lid. She hated that puppet so much to the point she'd break its head the moment she quit or got fired. As of now it was almost closing time and she was actually glad because it was the weekend and that meant she didn't need to come in for work tomorrow. Tomorrow was a bad day for her though. It was the day that Rainbow Dash's dead body was found in her cell. She always went to Rainbow's grave and placed a flower at the foot of the tombstone. Not far from that stone another five sat. Each one the names of friends now passed on. She sometimes wondered what it was like where they were now.

She usually spent her time after that with Sweetibelle and Applebloom. Sweetiebelle had taken over the family business and spent most of her time making dresses. She had kept her cotton candy hair style and her hair was still pink and bright purple. Applebloom worked on her family's farm. Her hair was now very rough looking. She never seemed to comb it unless it got dirty. Her hair was still red. Scootaloo had her purple hair and she worked at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Applebloom was the bigger of the three, by only a few inches. Scootaloo enjoyed the shenanigans they still had. They sometimes even talked and laughed about all the things they had done in the past. She always had the good and the bad memories. Scootaloo got up from her chair and walked to the exit. She looked back at the empty halls of the pizza place and walked out the door.

She arrived home and opened the door. The apartment was empty. Just as she liked it. On the wall were the few photos she had of her and Rainbow Dash. She walked into the living room and threw her coat on the couch. She set her phone on the table and picked up the remote. She was about to turn on the tv when her cell phone rang. She picked it up and looked at the number. It was the pizza place. She picked up the phone and answered the call," hello. Scootaloo Dash speaking."

"Hello. Sorry to disturb you after you've left. Now I know that you have plans with it being your weekend off due to mhm reasons. But i'm going to need to call you back for tonight's night shift." The manager sounded worried for some strange reason.

"But," Scootaloo said," I...... fine. I'll be there in a few minutes."

"Alright. Thank you and good night," the phone clicked and the call ended. To think she'd have to go back to work after she already left. She got off the couch grabbed her coat and walked to her door. She opened it and walked down the hall. She called the elevator and when it arrived Sweetiebelle and Applebloom stood inside.

"Hey there Scootaloo you ready fer some fun," Applebloom asked.

"Sorry Applebloom i've been asigned the night shift tonight," Scootaloo said as she stepped into the elevator.

"Well can't we stick around with you," Sweetiebelle said as the doors shut and the elevator started going down.

"Sorry girls. The boss doesn't like visitors after hours," Scootaloo said.

"Alright fine. Well see ya tomorrow," Applebloom said as the elevator stopped moving and the doors opened and they stepped out.

"Yeah see you tomorrow," Scootaloo said as she walked towards the doors. On the t.v. she saw the news.

"Only minutes ago a man was arrested for the murder of five children. The bodies have not been found yet but the search will begin tomorrow morning. If you have any information as to which children have gone missing please contact the police."

Scootaloo didn't hear anything else as she walked out the door. She got on her motorcycle and started the ignition. She drove down to Freddy Fazbear's and walked through the door to meet up with the manager. As she entered his office the manager was putting on his coat. "Alright Scootaloo come with me," the manger said as he left his room and walked down a hall. Scootaloo followed while she looked at how eerie the place looked at night. The drawn pictures seemed much more ominous. They walked down another hall and came to a small room. On each side was a vent each with a button above it that said "light" underneath. In the middle of the room was a table with a fan and a small tablet on it. Behind it was a chair and beside the chair was the face of Bonnie. Scootaloo stared at it and realized that it wasn't attached to anything the eyes weren't in the sockets and it seemed empty. When she looked around a bit more she realized the manager was gone and she was all alone. So she sat down and picked up the mask. The mask was worn like a welding mask. Then she heard foot steps and looked around for anything to defend herself with. She saw a flashlight and picked it up. Instead of shining it down the hall way she crawled underneath the table and prepared to hit the intruders legs. The foot steps began to get louder. They were coming down the hall towards the room. Then it stopped right outside of the light. Scootaloo could hear her heart beating. The thing in the hall turned around and the noise got quieter. A few seconds later she heard banging. It was coming in throught one of the vents. Then there came another set of banging. There were two things after her. She looked to her left and right but saw nothing. Then she got up and went to the vent she hit the light button and Applebloom's head became visible. Scootaloo hit the flash light on Applebloom's head and screamed.

"Ow," Applebloom groaned as she rubbed her head," what in the hay was that for?"

"Sorry," Scootaloo said as she let out a sigh of relief," I thought you were a robber or a criminal." Then Sweetiebelle stepped out of the other vent. "Hold on. Why are you guys even here? I thought I said you can't come in here after hours?"

"Well who said anyone had ta know," Applebloom asked as she climbed out of the vent.

"Well you guys need to leave you're going to get me in trouble."

"Please Scootaloo we just want to spend this one night with you. This one night where you should be enjoying your time with us," Sweetiebelle begged.

"Alright fine. But if the boss finds out.......  you better say that I had no idea you were in the building," Scootaloo said as she sat back down.

"Fine," Applebloom and Sweetiebelle said as they stood at the dside of the table. Then loud footsteps could be hear. Scootaloo pulled out her flashlight and aimed it at the hall way. She thought she saw some yellow at the doorway to one of the side rooms. Then she noticed something. The music box had stopped. She flipped over the tablet and pushed her finger on a button. The whole building seemed to fill with the noises of the music box. Then more loud footsteps could be heard and bright white dots could be seen at the very end of the hall. She watched in horror as one set of eyes became many.