Author's Note

It's late (4:44am), so there are probably a good amount of grammar issues in here. Please just point them out and I will fix them, but real quick I want to thank you all for reading his story. It's been really fun and I've enjoy (almost) every second of it. I hope to see you guys in the future, feel free to check out some of my other stories and once again, thank you all.

Never-ending Nightmare

Celestia awoke slowly, her eyelids heavy from exhaustion. She found herself in a small white room with a I.V. in one of her hooves. She looked to her side to see both her sister and Twilight resting and leaning into each other. The sight made Celestia giggle slightly, which seemed to be enough to pull the sleeping Princesses from their slumber.

As Luna and Twilight awoke they noticed the position they were in, they were practically cuddling, and separated quickly wearing a light blush donning their features. However, their focused was pulled away from their slightly embarrassing predicament when they noticed that Celestia had awoken. They excited shouted her name in unison before charging over to her bed and smiling brightly at her.

Twilight was the first to make it to the bedside and stared up at her fellow princess and friend. "Oh thank goodness! I thought you were never going to wake up."

"My concerns bordered on the drastic side as well, sister. How are you feeling?" Luna asked, following up on Twilight's comment about feeling like she wasn't going to bounce back. She was pretty beat up when they found her. Cuts and bruises decorated her whole body as well as a few burns, her left wing had been broken, and she had a mild concussion. They could only imagine what had happened within the castles burning walls.

Celestia took a moment to collect her thoughts and regather all that had happened. "I'm fine, do not worry for me. How is Spring Lock? Is he unharmed?"

Twilight and Luna's features suddenly dropped as they both glanced at each other. "I'm sorry Princess, but Spring Lock didn't make it." Twilight explained, "He died two days ago. They did all they could, but he was old and the explosion roughed him up pretty badly."

Celestia now wore her own downed expression. "I should have known. I did not believe he would have survived it, but I still held hope for the impossible. How long have I been here?"

"You've been here for several days, sister. About a full week now if I am remembering correctly." Luna informed her. After what had happened and with her being in this condition the doctors thought it would be best to have the princess stay asleep until they were sure most of the pain would have passed.

Celestia was a bit taken back by this. Had she really been asleep for seven whole days? Who knows how much she's missed, and poor Luna and Twilight would have had to be picking up the slack for her.

Twilight could tell that Celestia was starting to overthink all of this and that was the last thing she needed to do. All that it would do is cause her stress and she didn't need that right now. "Don't worry Princess, Luna and I are taking care of everything." She said with a smile, "And, we are more than happy to keep working until you're feeling better."

Celestia wore a heart warming smile, she was so grateful to have a student like Twilight and sister like Luna. They were so willing to help her in her time of need and it made her feel both loved and appreciated, something she doesn't feel too often while dealing with the petty Canterlot snobs. "Thank you, both of you."

The two smiled at Celestia before a nurse entered the room. "I'm sorry to interrupt, but it's getting late and visiting hours are over." She explained in a slightly fearful fashion. She was very nervous about asking the princesses to leave and was very intimidated.

Luna smiled to the nurse, helping to reduce the poor mare's fears, but only slightly. "Very well, we will be out shortly." As she said this the nurse exited the room in a somewhat professional fashion. "Well, we must be off sister. I hope that you will be better soon and don't try to worry yourself too much. Twilight and I can handle things for now."

Celestia gave her sister a quick nod and her smile widened. "Thank you, I will do my best." With that the two princesses were off, Twilight giving Celestia a quick wave before closing the door, which Celestia responded to in kind.

Now all she had left to do was sit here silently, alone, and bored. She wondered what she could do to help pass the time, but eventually find herself just becoming tired. Deciding not to fight the urge to sleep, she slumped down into the bed, burying herself under the thin hospital blankets draped over her and allowing herself to be consumed by what wonderful dreamland awaited her. If only she knew about the nightmare that awaited her.

She was surrounded by darkness, the only visible thing being her and the cauterized remains of her castle. She couldn't move, she couldn't breath, it was like she was a statue; being forced to watch the empty world around her while being completely incapable to react or interfere. All she could do was watch, watch as pieces of her destroyed castle that rested on the ground started moving as if there was something beneath them, something alive and trying to get out.

Suddenly a rusted metal hand broke the surface of the debris, planting itself firmly on the ground and forcing the rest of it's body out of the rubble. A cracked, rusted, and burnt Spring Bonnie suit made its way up out of the carnage. Chunks of metal were missing from it's body, half of it's right ear was broken off, and it's left eye missing.

The abomination looked up at her, staring her down. Despite it's face being completely expressionless, she felt as though it was smiling at her. Before she could react a large black metal claw rose from the surrounding darkness, slamming down on top of the metal-suited corpse and dragged it away. Soon a familiar animatronic head appeared high in the sky, larger than life. It looked like Fredbear, but this one was different. For starters; it was completely black with a yellow hat and tie. But, more interestingly, it gave off an energy that made it feel much more sinister.

Celestia awoke to a sudden knocking at her door. She reluctantly opened her eyes and looked over at the door. The knocking came again and she grunted slightly as she lifted herself out of the bed, grabbing the I.V. with her hoof and walking over to the door before using her magic to turn the nob and open it. Much to her surprise, there was nopony there. She peeked her head out the door, finding only hallways and darkness.

She found this to be extremely odd, but wasn't sure how to deal with it. She figured that maybe there was a foal running around in here or something that was just looking to have a little fun. Celestia giggled at the thought of a young pony running around the hallways pulling pranks on some of the patients. The sun princess closed the door and locked it before turning to go back to her bed.

Celestia froze dead in her tracks as she did this, seeing something sitting on the bed. It was small, like an animal, but it didn't seem to be doing anything. Her curiosity was going mad so she used her magic to create a decently bright light at the tip of her horn. What she saw made her gasp; On her bed was what looked like a small metal bear wearing a black hat and tie with sharp teeth and seemed to be twitching rapidly. Right as the light touched it the small bear vanished before Celestia could so much as blink.

Her body made her head instinctively shoot left and right, looking for wherever that thing may have run off to. How could something so small move so fast, she wondered as she scanned the room with her eyes, her horn lighting every spot she faced. Sadly all of this was in vain as she couldn't find even a sign that the small bear was even actually there. Celestia was beginning to question her sanity now; maybe she was just seeing things?

Celestia mentally demanded herself to stop her foalish behavior and closed her eyes as she took a deep breath. There was nothing there, you were just imagining things. It's late, you're tired, just go to bed and in the morning this whole thing will be just like a bad dream. As she went to take a step forward she bumped into something hard. Letting out a small grunt, she opened her eyes and rubbed the bridge of her muzzle before once again freezing in place.

Standing in front of her was a tall dark figure resembling the much smaller creature she had just seen on her bed. Small, brown, and rusty; wearing a black hate and bow tie. Only this thing was standing much taller than Celestia and had three of the much smaller versions crawling across its body and staring at her all while still twitching madly.

Celestia went to take a step back, but before she could the beast roared and lunged at her. She just barely managed to avoid the attack before running out of the door. Sprinting as fast as she could down the hallway, being slightly slowed down by the I.V. she was forced to keep hold of. She looked back to see the large metal bear charging down the hall after her.

Unfortunately as Celstia tried desperately to escape she slammed into what felt like a wall, but upon further inspection turned out to be something entirely different. Metal legs with toes like knives and the body of a ravaged metal fox with a hook for a hand. It stared down at her with bright red eyes and screeched loudly, swinging it's hook at Celestia. She threw her I.V. at the beast, to which it responded by grabbing the medical tool and throwing it behind it. As the I.V. was thrown several feet away the tube connecting it to Celestia was yanked and gashed a small portion Celestia's hoof as well as tearing the vein it was fed into. Her white fur was stained red as she started bleeding heavily onto the floor.

The sound of the metal bear coming closer echoed just behind her and Celestia looked over just in time to see it jump at her. She quickly ducked down, letting it fly over her head and into the metal demon fox. Seizing this opportunity she ran back into her room and slammed the door shut, locking it behind her and levitating the bed to use it as a barricade.

Once she was sure the door was secure she started sifting through the draws and cabinets, eventually finding a set of gauze that she quickly used to wrap her bleeding hoof. They became stained on contact and didn't stop the blood flow, but it slowed it down and that would be good enough for now. She placed her hoof to the ground, applying weight to it to test how much it could take. It would be tolerable enough to run if needed, but not much else. If only her wing wasn't broken.

She turned toward the window, not knowing just how high up she was. after opening it and looking down she saw that where she was now was much like where she was in her dream. The building was the only existing structure in this dark void. As she took a second to process this a large bi pedal figure dropped down and grabbed onto the ledge of her window.

Celestia shrieked from the creatures sudden appearance and fell back, crawling away from the window. It's body was a dull blue and it had long rusted ears and wore a red bow tie. Much like the others it had rows of sharp teeth, glowing eyes, it's body was beaten and torn, and looked to be made of metal.

As Celestia sat in place, frozen with fear, the animatronic demon bunny walked closer to her, reaching a hand out to grab her. Just as he was about to have her she shot a beam of magic at it, blasting a hole through it's chest and causing it to fall over lifelessly. That worked? That actually worked! She could feel a build up of something in her chest, something powerful. For the first time in a while she felt hope. She turned to face the door with a determined look on her face as the creatures on the other side started pounding and banging on the slab of wood.

A yellow arm tore through the door, grabbing the bed and throwing it out of the way before removing it's arm and kicking the door open. The yellow demonic chicken-like animatronic swung it's arms at Celestia like a wild animal, only to be brought down in the same manner as the robotic-bunny that had crawled through the window.

Celestia's body became surrounded in a golden aura and levitated off of the ground before hovering out into the hallway where she would turn to face the fox first. It charged at her, swinging it's hook at her head. The hook seemed to stop as it became surrounded in the same golden aura that she was surrounded in. The metal fox tried to move it's arm but soon found it being torn off of it's body. The hook arm was then used to beat the fox, slashing at it's face and breaking the metals that made up its face until the animatronic went still.

She took a breath and tossed the arm aside, letting herself relax for a moment. However, that was quickly interrupted by the sound of a distorted electronic growl coming just a short distance behind her. Her body spun around to face the metal bear that stared her down from the end of the hall. It raised it's claw and pointed at her, roaring as it did so. At this the smaller bears leaped off of its body and moved at lightning speeds in her direction.

Celestia caught them all in her magical grip and held them in the air. Their twitching seemed to increase as she overcharged them with her magic before they promptly exploded in the air. The metal bear growled once more as Celestia did this, all while shooting it a death glare. As the two stared down the other they charged; Celestia using her magic to fly at the beast while it sprinted toward her with its claws raised and ready to attack. Before they could get halfway down the hall the building started to shake, making them both stop dead in their tracks.

The bear was about to continue charging Celestia, but suddenly became surrounded by rows of large sharp teeth that tore through the ceiling and the floor. The entire half of the hospital the animatronic was on had been annihilated by the head of the black Fredbear from her dream. It bit down on the building and took everything into it's mouth before chewing it to bits. Celestia stared in awe at the large Fredbear standing in the darkness that seemed to have no issues with eating the hospital. She though it would continue to bite at the building until there was nothing left, but instead it held out a massive closed claw and placed in near the opening it had made.

Celestia stared at it curiously as it opened it's claw revealing a small toy that resembled the Spring Bonnie suit. The toy looked up at Celestia before climbing to its feet and jumping onto the hospital floor and walking toward her. She hovered back cautiously, which made the small Spring Bonnie stop. It waited for her to stop as well before continuing to walk over to her. This time Celestia waited to see what it would do.

Once it was close enough it reached out a hand and grabbed Celestia's uninjured hoof, tugging on it slightly. Celestia lowered herself so she was standing on the ground again, but kept her magical guard up. The toy jumped up and grabbed her mane, using it to climb up to her face. Once up it grabbed her head and started hugging her. She didn't know why, but something about this made her...happy. It filled her with joy and made her feel like everything was alright.

She could feel tears forming in her eyes as she let her magic die down and grabbed the toy, looking it over before pulling it into a tight embrace. Holding it made her feel whole, made her feel loved, like...she was with Trevor again. She stretched out her hooves, holding the toy up and eyeing it with a smile on her face. It started twitching slightly, which caused her smile to drop slightly. The twitching became worse with every passing second and soon after its eye's started glowing bright red and it grew long, razor-sharp teeth. It then reached up and pulled off it's right ear, then proceeded the rip out it's left eye before lunging at her.

Celestia woke up screaming in the hospital bed. She had sweat pouring down her body and she was shaking as she started looking around the room in a panic. Jumping out of the bed to look around, she felt a tug on her hoof. Looking over she came to find an I.V. in her hoof, which surprised her. She walked over to the I.V. and grabbed it before walking over to the door and slowly looking outside of the room. The lights were all on and there was a nurse sitting in next to a monitor several rooms away from her.

She closed the door and turned to the window, trotting over to open it and look outside. She could see the moon, Canterlot, some ponies wandering around, everything was fine. After closing the window and going back to the bed, Celestia took in a long, seep, well-deserved breath. Letting everything around her sink in. "It was just a dream." She muttered to herself, "It was just a dream..."

Celestia leaned back and let her body plop down onto the bed with her hooves spread across the soft surface. She looked up at the clock, it was only three in the morning. She was not about to go back to sleep after that, but she wasn't apposed to getting comfortable and relaxing for a bit. She adjusted her body on the bed and let out a content sigh as she got cozy. Her eyes were starting to become heavy, but just as they were about to close she heard a voice say her name and was startled back to the waking world.

She started looking around the room once again, her eyes scanning every visible surface it could find from her current position. "Who is it...Who's there!?" She shouted, starting to panic slightly.

Her body froze one final time that night as she felt the bed shake beneath her. The body of an all too familiar animatronic crawling out from under her. It's body was a dull greenish color with cracks all about it; its right ear had been snapped off at some point and it was missing its left eye. While one eye was missing though, the other was glowing bright red as it stared at her, climbing to it's feet as it finally replied to her. "It's me..."

All that could be heard on the other side was Springtrap unleashing an ungodly screeching noise as well as Celestia shrieking with a mixture of both fear and pain coursing through her tones.

The End