Luna ran through the castle corridors, looking like she was on the verge of having a complete meltdown. She didn't know what to do, she couldn't process how to handle this, she had to find her sister. As she ran for what felt like hours she found herself standing behind a large line of ponies. Of course, day court was still in session and the local snobs are likely here complaining about just how hard their everyday lives are; pathetic. It would be hours before Celestia would get a break from these stuck up squares, but this was technically an emergency. Luna took a second to mentally prepare for the scolding she would likely get from her sister and took a breath. "Attention everypony, there is a matter of most urgency in the works. We ask that you please leave the building so that the matter may be addressed.

The resident of Canterlot whined and complained about why they had a perfectly good reason to be here, but after falling upon the night princesses stern gaze they cowered and were gone in a matter of seconds, the rest however took their sweet time going out the door. Celestia sat in her throne with a mix of both confusion and frustration glued to her features as Luna approached her. "What is the meaning of this Luna?" She asked with light venom in her words, "You know as well as I that-" She stopped and watched as the last pony left and the door was closed. Her face suddenly dropped to one of relief. "Oh thank goodness, they're all gone." She said, levitating a cold cup of coffee in front of her face and heating it with her magic.

Luna smirked at Celestia, "I take it that your afternoon consisted of the usual nonsense?"

Celestia nodded and took a sip of her now hot beverage. "Oh no sister, this one was so important that the very fate of Equestria rested in the balance. Golden Ingot was robbed of a single pack of gum which almost resulted in the extraction of every guard on duty." She explained in a sarcastic tone.

Luna rolled her eyes, "I swear these ponies wouldn't survive a single day living in a place as simple as Ponyville."

Celestia giggled, "Anyway, I know there isn't an actual emergency. If there was you would be in a much more frantic state. So what exactly is this about?"

A wave of anxiety started to was over Luna, she wasn't sure how her sister would take this, but she was her last hope in figuring this all out. "Well, it isn't an emergency per se, but it is rather urgent."

"What do you mean?" She asked, giving her sister a quizzical look.

Luna bit her lower lip as she contemplated a thousand different way to word this, but eventually settled for telling her what she needed to know. "While Twilight and I were rummaging around for the documents she was looking for we cam across a door that had been completely boarded over."

Celestia raised a brown at her sister, knowing exactly what door she was talking about. "Go on..."

"Well, I opened it and-" She suddenly stopped as Celestia stood up straight and tall, looking ready for a fight, "Let me finish! And, we found something in the back. It was like on of those animatronics, but it was different. We were curious as to why is was back there so we activated it and..."

"And?" Celestia pressed, her anger very clearly echoing in her voice, causing her sister to flinch slightly.

"Sister...it asked for our help." She said quietly.

Celestia's mind was racing with a million thoughts a minute. "What do you mean it asked for our help?"

"After we tuned it on it went into a rampage and thrashed the whole room. After that it made a noise like it was crying and it...it said help me."

Celestia gave herself some time to process all of the given information, and honestly, she didn't believe a word of it; she didn't want to. "Luna, if this is your idea of a joke I do not find it the littlest bit amusing."

"Sister, I assure you that this is no joke. I would find no such enjoyment from humor such as this. You must believe me, I can take you to it." She said, hoping Celestia would trust her enough to let her take her to it. "Twilight is with it right now trying to figure out as much as she can from it." She could see that this topic was making her sister uncomfortable, but it had to be done. She couldn't just hide something like this from Celestia. If the stories were true and this was indeed her lover at one point then surely she would want to know, even if she didn't. Luna walked over to Celestia and put a hoof on her shoulder. "Please sister, follow me."

The night princess turned toward the door and started for the room where she had left Twilight with the animatronic. Celestia was hesitant, but she followed, keeping a fair distance between her and her sister. Part of her was hoping that this was some sort of cruel joke while a much smaller portion of her was bouncing with glee at the chance that her human had survived and everything could go back to the way it once was.

Upon further examination of the animatronic's body, as well as analyzing of the blueprints used to make an animatronic, Twilight was more than able to conclude that this specific one was in pretty good shape. Aside from the rust, holes, discoloration, and broken ear it was still fully functioning minus the occasion twitches it seemed to be suffering from. This whole thing about there being a living thing within it seemed pretty far-fetched to her, she could see parts that would appear to be some sort of endo-skeleton, and with the amount of damage done there was no way anything in it could have survived, especially if it had been locked in here for thirty years. So she couldn't help but wonder, or at least suspect, if this was just the animatronic's programming rather than this Trevor character that had built the others.

She looked over at the one in question who was sitting in a very old chair, using on of his legs to make himself spin in circles. The seat creaked under his shear weight alone, but the spinning made it give of an ear piercing screech that didn't seem to bother it much at all. She approached it and put a hoof against the chair, causing it to stop spinning. It turned back at her and she could swear that it had an annoyed look about it. "I'm sorry, I just wanted to ask you some questions if that would be alright?"

It looked down at her, feeling its programming recognize her as royalty. Which must mean that she and the other alicorn are in charge now. That must mean that Celestia was gone now; it's probably for the better, he thought, it would probably be pretty horrible to see him like this. At least then she would have remembered him as he was. He nodded, agreeing to answer her questions.

"Thank you." She replied in appreciation, a light smile spread across her face. "First and foremost, my name is Twilight Sparkle. Would you mind telling me your name?"

It wondered if using its name would even be worth it at this point. Not like it mattered anyway, but then again it did basically define it as a person when it still was a person. It would probably be best to just find some sort of middle-ground, he figured. So, in his electronic-sounding voice, he replied with, "I was known as Trevor at one point, but now..." He thought back to when he had pried his mask off and saw the horror that lied beneath it, that face wasn't his anymore. That was the face of death and decay. "I guess you can call me Springtrap. That's what they called this thing anyway." It was as good a name as any in his mind at this point. It wasn't like he could just take the suit off, there didn't appear to be a whole lot of him left within it. Some organs here, a few intestines there, the occasional straps of old clothing.

She pondered about the name, it sounded familiar. Luna had said it earlier back when they were in the room. More importantly though, this thing just said it was once known as Trevor. A statement like that is usually a sign of some sort of trauma, one in which something feels as though it had become so different that it felt the need to give up its own name in placement for one that seemed more fitting. Then again, the original creator of the animatronics was named Trevor. She would need to investigate this. "Would you mind elaborating?"

He didn't really see the harm in telling her, he's never had a reason not to trust Equestrian royalty before. "I was...I guess you could say that I was different to begin with. I mean, I'm different now, but I wasn't as grotesque...I guess? Simply put, I-"

"Did you hurt somepony?" She asked, wondering if the rumors were actually true. Wondering if maybe Luna was wrong and this thing had attacked and taken the life of Celestia's human.

Thinking back, he remembered getting into the suit, the feeling he got when he first put it on, then the agonizing pain that followed when Spring Lock's spring-locks broke and mutilated him. It was an accident, but for some reason he could feel something inside of him growing, something angry. "No, somepony hurt me..." He said, clenching his fists.

Before Twilight could reply with anything, the workshop's door creaked open, causing both of them to turn their attention to the entrance. The first to enter was Luna, who stared at the robot-bunny with curious and somewhat nervous eyes. The next to enter was Celestia. Once Springtrap's glowing eyes found her form he stood up and turned to face her completely. Deep down in the back of his mind was a small voice telling him to turn away and run so she wouldn't have to see him like this, however, it was being drowned out by a much louder voice coming from within his heart. As he stared at her longingly, Celestia's eyes finally met his form.

She couldn't help but recoil a bit as she stared at the mangled animatronic suit that had brutally ended the life of her human lover. As the memory of this filled her head she couldn't help the watery look in her eyes. Although the sight of the suit both disturbed and disgusted her, she had to know for sure. The sun princess approached him slowly, taking in every detail of his new twisted body. In the end, she didn't truly care for his looks, it was his personality; his goofy sense of humor as well as the love and affection he showed her. With that in mind, she stopped just inches away from the walking hunk of metal and placed a hoof on his rusted cheek, "Trevor?" She asked with sadness in her voice, "Is that really you?"

He reached up and gently placed his cold hand on her hoof, nuzzling it slightly as he embraced her touch. "Tia...It feels like it's been forever. I thought that you were gone..." He figured with the two princesses he had seen that Celestia must have passed on and they had taken her place, but to see her alive and well, and still so beautiful; It warmed his heart. "It's me." He said, his voice being filled with joyful but sorrowful static.

Celestia finally let go, letting her tears run down her face before jumping onto the animatronic and forcing him into a loving embrace which he gladly returned. "I thought I had lost you forever too."

Luna and Twilight both stared at the two with their mouths agape. As far as they had heard this animatronic was defective and killed her lover, yet here she is calling it by his name. "Sister, would you mind filling us in on just what might be going on here?" Luna asked, thinking it was easier than trying to piece it together themselves.

After a few minutes of getting everything cleared up and taken care of, Celestia and Trevor told the story of the day he had died. It went relatively smoothly, but the pain they both felt was clearly showing on them and even though Trevor didn't have a whole lot going for him in the expressions department, you could feel his emotions in the words he spoke. This made it easier to tell if he was becoming upset, but it also made them all a bit uncomfortable when Spring Lock was brought up. They didn't know why, but the air seemed to grow much warmer at the mention of him, so they decided to avoid bringing him up in future conversations.

"So let me see if I've got this all right." Twilight began, "You were Celestia's human coltfriend, you were working down here with a friend to build these animatronics, and as a way to say thanks he had a special suit made for you in which you could be like the animatronics you built. However, when you put it on something went wrong and it tore you apart from the inside. Did I miss anything?" Celestia and Trevor nodded, she had basically gotten the whole thing down. "I'm sorry Princess, but I'm finding that a bit hard to believe. I know that a lot of weird stuff has happened around here, but in this case it would mean that Springtrap, Trevor, whatever his name is, is basically a possessed machine." She stated as her scientific mind started to take control of her, but only shortly. "To be honest I don't think there's anything inside of that suit." Twilight lifted a tool up from the ground and compared it to some of the bolts on his face, it was the right tool to remove that part, so she used it. "I bet if I tweak this a bit, we will all see just-"

Trevor hadn't stopped her, he was completely unaware that she had any knowledge on how these things work and sat there, confident she wouldn't be able to do anything. That all went down the drain though when his mask snapped open, separating the upper jaw from the lower one and revealing the decaying human head within. Once he felt the mask go up he instinctively reached up and grabbed it, slamming it shut and re-tightening the loosened piece so it would stay in place, but the damage was done. He found himself being stared at from all directions, each face full of nothing but a mixture of disgust and fear. He didn't care what Twilight or Luna felt, but when he saw that same expression on Celestia, it hurt. If his heart were still beating he would swear that it had stopped.He reached out to touch her, but the shock had made it so she didn't notice this action until the last second. Instinctively she jumped back, making the pain within him grow. He should have expected it, just look at him, he was a monster. A walking, talking, piece of scrap metal full of rotting guts and limbs. He was a body in a coffin, just waiting for the worms to strip him away of any flesh he may still bare. His hand lowered and he got up, exiting the room. However, he knew better than to simply wander around through the castle, so instead he went back into the room that he had been sealed in for thirty long years, disappearing into the darkness of the back room. His gaze remained as far from them as possible, the pain he felt was worse than when the spring-locks in the suit snapped. Then it hit him, everything that had happened, what he had become, it all stemmed from one place. No, one pony. If it wasn't for this pony he would have never built the animatronics in the first place, and if he never did that than a certain friend would never have made him a gift that made him this way. "You bastard, this is your fault..." His words echoed through the room with venom strong enough to fuel fire. "You're mine..."

The three sat in silence until he had left the room, Twilight feeling absolutely horrible for what she had done. She should have known better than to question her mentor and then to do something like that. "I should go talk to him." She suggested, earning herself an unaproving nod from Luna.

"I do not think that would be wise Twilight Sparkle." Luna explained, believing that approaching him when he was upset might not be the best idea. She didn't exactly know him that well, so she would just have to work with what her gut told her.

Before Twilight could argue, Celestia raised a hoof to silence her. "Twilight, I will talk to him. He will listen to me." SHe rose up from her seat and made her way to the back room, it was almost to dark to see, but thanks to a little illumination spell, that problem was taken care of quickly. However, when she made it to the back room, she found herself face to face with a room that looked like a tornado had torn through it. The whole place was a mess, but there were two things that seemed to catch her attention rather quickly. One one wall there was a dark liquid that spelled the name Springtrap while on the one across from it was another name, this one carved into the wall. It simply spelled Spring Lock.

Author's Note

Sorry for the late update guys. I just got moved back into my old place and with all the stuff that goes on around there I might be a bit slower than what you're used to. I'm not saying it'll take me weeks at a time to update, just probably a couple of days