Five Nights, One Nightmare
After the Bells (Antagonists and Accusations) (Edited)
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Rainbow Dash suddenly darted towards the Mangle, forcefully pushing her back and putting distance between Fluttershy and what the hotheaded pegasus had dubbed 'The Abomination.' As Mangle shook her main head, the one sight that greeted her when she opened her eyes was the view of the cyan equine's face.
"Get off my friend, you train wreck!" She screamed, startling the animatronic on the ceiling. Mangle cocked her head to the side in confusion, only to get yet another shove from the pegasus.
'Hey! I wasn't doing anything wrong!' Mangle cried, only for Rainbow to hear an incoherent string of static, like the others did, which forced their hooves to their ears, until Twilight placed a muffling spell over them, toning down the volume.
The alicorn then, yet again, dragged her rash friend away from the animatronic, who stopped trying to communicate vocally, cutting off the static. "Rainbow, don't do that! We're practically guests, here!" She scolded her, receiving a glare from the pegasus.
"We aren't guests! We're prisoners, here! Besides, Celestia knows what these things have been doing to Pinkie and Fluttershy!" Rainbow retaliated, making the two animatronics present flinch briefly at the accusation. Against what he'd normally do, SpringTrap, already fed up with the cyan equine's behaviour, pried his mouth open just a bit, and spoke, his voice being surprisingly clear for several decades of decay.
"If you'd stop with the Goddamn accusations, then I'd happily explain what the fuck was going on, you lightweight, spastic little gremlin," he managed to say, scaring the group, somehow. Twilight then shakes her head, clearing it, before removing a snarling Rainbow Dash from the machine's line of sight.
"Sorry about that. She gets a bit... Brash, and arrogant when she finds opposition. And she's quite protective of Fluttershy, to say the least," Twilight explained, only for the Spring Animatronic to dismiss both the apology and explanation.
"No 'Sorries' needed. Dealing with screaming animals are the least of my problems. I'm barely functional, here. Not having a clean-up in 30 years makes me look like a train wreck..." He said, muttering the last bit, though a certain pink equine heard enough of what he had told them, and went about, scrounging for cleaning supplies.
"Don't go looking for me! Just mind your own business!" She called as she began roaming the halls, searching for the items she sought, leaving her friends to converse with the two animatronics. Although, while the remaining five interacted with the Spring Bonnie animatronic, as well as the Mangle, no one, or no pony noticed a certain rainbow-maned pegasus slinking out of the space, and wandering off.
Elsewhere.
Office Hallway
Phantom Freddy slowly limped along, keeping his gaze on the Night Guard within the office, who stared back at him with some random things in his hands, until he ducked underneath the view of the window, and crept into the room, which immediately threw the Guard into a panicked state.
"Oh, shit! Stay away! I-I'm warning you!" Jeremy screamed at the Phantom, however futile the words were, as Freddy's burnt, shattered husk of a body hobbled towards him awkwardly on his remaining leg. However, the moment the ghost of the animatronic mascot set his foot a meter away from the Night Guard, he was suddenly tackled by the animatronic pegasus that had hidden underneath the desk, and slammed into the wall.
"H-Hey, bu-b-buddy! We-Welc--elome back to F-Fred-ddy Fa-zb--azbear's Piz-Pizza!" The Phantom Animatronic stuttered, the incineration obviously having taken a toll on Fazbear's voicebox. Clockwork simply ignored the fellow animatronic's words, choosing to, instead, reaching into the gaping hole made for the neck of Freddy's endoskeleton, and smashing his hoof into part of the metal frame.
"O-Ow! ThA-hAt hu-rt-t! Ke-eep you-our ha-hands of-off!" The Phantom continued to recite his preprogrammed lines, and reached for Clockwork's face with an empty hand while doing so. The palm of Fazbear's hand touched the edge of the animatronic equine's muzzle, after which his hand then closed around the rest of Clockwork's face, the massive arm then flinging the one in his grasp out of the room, smashing into the tiled walls of the hallway, right outside of the main exit.
"... Oh, God, help me..." Jeremy whispered, as the Phantom slowly got to its remaining foot, and limped towards him, the faint light in the eyes of Fazbear's ghost showing no emotion, whatsoever.
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