Five Nights at Muffin's

  Rainbow stopped outside the End Coaster. Staring at the obisidan-style structure for a few brief minutes. Finally, checking behind her, she walked inside. "Why do they leave the doors to all the attractions unlocked?" Dash muttered to herself, pulling out her flashlight and shining it across the attraction entrance.

After scanning the attraction, Dash realized Ender was no longer there. Dash ran outside and scanned the area around the attraction, but to no avail.

"Were is she?" Dash whispered to herself, panicked. She decided to head to the office, she knew she would be safe for a while, Ender did have sharp teeth and claws for some reason, then again she didn't interact with children or anyone for that matter, she just moved around reciting the rules for the End Coaster. Then how come she could go outside the coaster?

  As Dash walked towards the Muffin Hub she heard a sound. Turning she saw Storm, standing several yards away from her.

  Dash felt slightly alarmed, seeing Storm was only standing in the playground a while ago. Then again she probably took a while to check everything. Then she noticed the robot's black eye sockets.

Rainbow began to slowly back towards the Hub. Suddenly the robot flickered to life, its eyes flickering from black to blue. Then its eyes set on yellow. Rainbow stared in shock as the animatronic looked straight at her, its sunken eyes sockets yellow. Before Rainbow could take another step backwards, the animatronic lunged forward, sending adrenaline through the cyan pegasus' veins. Spinning around, she made a mad dash toward the hub, her heart beating at alarming speeds.

Jumping into the hub, Dash slammed the doors shut, grabbing a nearby table and pushing it up against the door, spinning around, the pegasus ran into the office, slamming the metal doors shut.

Putting a hand over her pumping heart, Dash let out a sigh of relief as she slumped against the wall. Tensing when she heard Storm bashing against the door. Then she remembered Pinkie. Suddenly worried, Dash snatched the tablet from the desk, switching frantically through the cameras.

  When she saw a pink blur on the swings her heart skipped a beat. Pinkie was alive. That was all that mattered to Dash at the second.

"4:00....not bad.." the pegasus set down the tablet and opened the door, Storm was gone.

"30% power... That's okay. I won't need it." and Dash left the hub, heading towards the Castle.

  She shone her light down the halls, peeking around corners to confirm nothing was there. The Castle seemed to be cleared of animatronics. The most noise was coming from the Purrcade.

Exhausted, Rainbow Dash ran to the Purrcade, peeking inside to see the animtronics and Pinkie Pie looking at the game consoles.

Finally at ease, Dash ran back to the Muffin Hub, Sparkler's words ringing in her head.

"Do not. And I say. DO NOT, open the back room. You will regret opening that door."

What was in the back room? Dash felt her curiosity get the best of her, she ran to the counter were just a few days ago, she applied for this job.

She grabbed a map, scrolling through it. "Hmph. Looks like they didn't put a map of the Muffin Hub. Then again it is for employees only."

Dash slid behind the counter and began to rummage through the drawers, guilt building up in the back of her mind. Finally Rainbow found a map of the park with extras for employees. The Back room wasn't even in the hub, it was in the End Coaster. Dash put everything back were it was and slid the map into her bag, heading to the End Coaster, flashlight in hoof.

Inside the coaster Dash followed the map to a door labeled Employees Only.

"Well.....I'm an employee." she whispered to herself, sliding into the room. There was a door as well. Walking inside, Dash realized the room was lined with metal parts and animatronic devices.

Rainbow walked to a door labeled Back Room

Dash slowly turned the doorknob but before she could open the door the bell rang.

"Oh...Time to go." she told herself, her exhaustion catching up almost instantly. Dash turned and left, unaware of the flickering lights under the door.