Five Nights at Muffin's

   Rainbow trotted into the carnival themed park, but it was obvious she wasn't at all eager to be back in the nightmare inducing park.

   She trotted past the "Purrcade". The Pun was about as bad as the theme park's attendance rate. Apparently ponies had commented that the animatronics were behaving too 'realisticly' for giant metal creatures. She didn't plot on going into the trash-ridden office this time. She would check on the animtronics personally. It slightly frightened her but it wouldn't matter if she would end up dead. How did the robots kill Sparkler, or anyone for that matter? Chase and Justin's tails couldn't move enough to strangle them, their hands often locked up so it would be hard to wrap them around anything. Maybe they tore the gaurds apart limb by limb, or threw them off the top of the End Coaster. Rainbow shook her head of the gorey thoughts, stopping outside Storm and Flame's booth. They stood there, their eyes stuck open and seemd to stare into the cyan pegasus's soul, she shivered at the thought. She stare dta the two animatronics for a couple more moments when she heard a laugh come from behind her. Turning around she saw the pink party pony who had practically danced with the metal animals.

"Hey Dashie! Did you come to hang out with Flame and Storm?" the pony bounced over, landing on the booth with the two robots.

"Um no.." Dash responded, Pinkie's smile slightly faded

"Is Sparkler filling your head with those little lies about the robots being evil?" Pinkie asked, poking Flame's leg to see if he was active.

"Um..." Dash didn't know how to respond. She wanted to tell Pinkie that Sparkler wasn't lying, that she had told the truth, and was inable to tell more. But her loyalty to Pinkie made it difficult, sure she wasn't Apple Jack but that didn't make it any easier to lie.

Pinkie immeadietly caught on and the pink mare's entirely vanished, replaced by a frown. "You don't trust them do you?"

Rainbow took in a breath and blurted everything out so fast she could barely understand herself. "Sparkler said the animatronics are evil and in her last phonecall one killed her!"

Pinkie stared at Dash before holding up a hoof and saying in a manor similar to Twilight giving advice. "Fine. Believe what you want."

Dash couldn't keep her mouth shut "Pinkie! Every night you go near these things your life is in danger! Why won't you just stop getting so close! They could hurt you and I wouldn't be there to help you!"

Pinkie bit her lip and walked away, prohibiting Dash from continuing.

Dash stared after her friend before turning to the End Coaster. She turned but her friend's pink coat was no longer visible. "May as well continue checking on the animatronics." and she trotted off, heading to the Art Station next.

The cyan pegasus passed a small food booth and several overfilled garbage cans on her way to the Art Station. Stopping outside to observe the faded rainbow building. Stepping forward, she peeked through the glass doors. She could hear footsteps ramming around the wood floor.

Slowly she opened the door, pulling out her flashlight, sending the shadows scattering with the light as it rolled across the walls. She saw a animatronic standing by a canvas, their arm moving around with a paint brush stuck between their fingers. She racked her brain for the name when the animatronic turned. Its eyes were green, some slight gold around the pupils. Rainbow's blood ran cold and she felt like her hooves were part of the floor. The animatronic just stared at her, before turning back to the canvas and continuing to paint. Dash backed up when she heard the footsteps again, heading towards her. Frightened out of her whits, Dash slid behind the door and slammed it shut, spinning around and bolting with a rainbow trail.