Five Nights At Sugar Palace

The small restaurant was supposed to be a "fun" place. The current owners of the restaurant, some fancy baking unicorns that lived in Los Pegasus, opened the restaurant in a surrounding suburban town. Pinkie got a deal because they met at a baking convention, and needless to say she made a good impression.

Rarity's younger sister, Sweetie Belle, was having her birthday, and Since the restaurant was so popular with fillies around Sweetie's age she figured, Why not? All of her friend's would be there, too, and her sister's friends. Pinkie wanted to make the filly's day, just because she wanted to. It was her mission to make it the best birthday ever. She Pinkie Promised.

Guess she had no choice to break that Promise

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     "Pinkie?"

    Pinkie Pie shook herself awake to find she was in a dark room with Twilight and Rainbow. "Huh? What's going on?"

     "I don't know!" Rainbow Dash sighed, irritated and a bit annoyed. "But I would like to find out! Can you help us find a light switch or a candle or... something?? I can barely see two feet in front of me!"

     "Why Don't you use your magic as a light, Twilight?" Pinkie Pie said, with a light twinge of optimism.

     "Oh... ehem... sorry, I was panicking." Pinkie Pie could feel Twilight's blushing from where she was sitting. Twilight looked up and used her magic to make a faint light to fill a small part of the space, then sighed. "What are we still doing here?"

    "Good question! I have things to do in Ponyville, you know!" Rainbow blurted, angry as she saw where she was.

     They were in the main play area of the Sugar Palace Playhouse restaurant. the walls were black with stars, a Shiny robot animareonic pegasus on a small stage in the room with them, the wall behind them packed with several arcade machines, a far hallway with red wallpaper leading to the prize counter, managed by a pink earth pony animareonic in a clown suit. there was also a tinted window that led to the main stage room where the little concerts would take place. Rainbow remembered this especially, she spent most of her time at Sweetiebelle's party in the arcade stepping up to any challenges in the combat games the fillies and colts would throw at her.

     During the day, it seemed so much fun with the excited faces and laughs of the customers, but now...in the dark... the place seemed somehow more... cramped and constricting.

     "It's spooky here at night..." Pinkie Pie informed, though she didn't sound particularly scared. In fact, almost oddly jovial. "... did we fall asleep?"

     "WHY would we fall asleep at a party in the arcade room, Pinkie?" Rainbow said.

     "I don't know, only thing that makes sense to me!" Pinkie Pie hummed.

     Rainbow rolled her eyes, then paused when she noticed something peculiar. Something was gone.

     Twilight talked with Pinkie Pie while Rainbow walked over to the prize corner. "Somepony there?" She said, flying up slightly and glancing over the counter. "I know I saw somepony move over here. Show yourselves!"

    Suddenly an animareonic popped up from behind the counter, the metal head hitting hard on the blue pegasus's jaw, making her stop flying and fall onto the counter in pain. "Ow!"

     "Rainbow!" Pinkie and Twilight ran over to the dazed pegasus, who offered them a little fight as they helped her up.

     "I think that THING broke my tooth!" Rainbow said, wincing in pain, her mane messy from the crash.

     Pinkie stared at the blank stare of the animareonic looking back up at her, offering her a chill down her back as she giggled a little, trying to lift the uneasy feeling in the mare's guts.

     Twilight sighed. "You must have just not noticed it. It's dark after all."

     Rainbow glared at the animareonic while biting back the ache of her jaw. "It was moving. I know it was. It wasn't there.

     "Rainbow, it's just dark. Your eyes were playing tricks on you." Twilight insisted. "The power is off. that, and they are controlled by other ponies. Automated. Not. Real." Rainbow rolled her eyes, giving up on changing the unicorn's opinion. Just then, the lights sprang alive with full intensity, causing the three mares to jump and shriek a little. She quickly straitened herself out, a bit embarrassed to be scared of a light, not that she would ever admit it. Twilight took a minute to snap herself out of a disoriented daze, then turned to Rainbow. "See? There was a power out or something. Besides, that clown thing is just a hunk of metal on a stick, not like it can move on it's own."

      "Wow, way to crush my inner filly, Twilight. Now, I am still in pain because of my teeth!" Rainbow yelled.

    "G-girl's, stop!" Pinkie Pie yelled with a whimper. "What's getting into you two?"

     Twilight sighed. "Pinkie Pie is right. Sorry, Rainbow, I don't know why I was so... stubborn and not realized that you were hurt..."

      "Apology excepted. Now, let's find an exit so I can go home and schedule a dentist appointment." Dash said.

     Pinkie pie smiled. "Whoo! Okay, but first, Lemme just say this day, other than strangely ending up in this room with you guys, has been super fun, and we really should come back here sometime!"

    "Oh, uh... yeah, just not anytime soon... I think I've had enough of this restaurant for one day..." Twilight said.

    "I gotta agree with Twilight," Replied Dash, "Besides, these pony- bot things are giving you guys the creeps."

    " Awe... they're not that bad! In fact, they're kinda cute! That, and they sure know how to par- tay! Ain't that right, you charming robots, you!" Pinkie giggled, addressing the pegasus animatronic in the corner stage, then she got up to get a better look at it while Twilight and Dash laughed a bit to themselves and went to the door.

    Pinkie could read the small name tag on the animareonic pony to read 'Eight Bit', and the "cutie mark" was spray painted onto the robot mare's flank was a pixelated heart with a sword in it, which was the icon of a popular arcade game called "Friendship Quest" as She recognized. She didn't really play that much of it, but she imagined it would be interesting to other ponies. The animaretronic's mane was made of a metallic lilac fabric and was in the shape of a long pulled back tail with strait bangs, the robot's tail itself relatively short in comparison. The body of the robot was coated a light silver shade, and glimmered against the spotlight, as well as much like the other icon animaretonics there, Eight Bit had circular rosy cheeks and a bright smile. Her eyes were screens, and unfortunately pinkie didn't get to see them light up at the party so she could only guess Eight Bit's eyes could be a number of shapes and colors.

     "Forgive me for starring, but I just can't wait for the next party I throw here so I can see you in action!" Pinkie pie giggled. The pegasus animaretronic's eyes suddenly lit up as light party music started playing, startling yet intriguing Pinkie. Eight bit flew up in the air with her harness and gave a soft robotic laugh.

     "Good evening young Fillies and Colts!" Said Eight bit in a happy robotic female voice. "Time for the show to begin!"

    "Wow! Hey, Twilight, Dashie, come look at this!" Pinkie said, watching Eight Bit's graceful flutter around the stage.

    "Who might you be, little Filly?"

    "Who, me? I'm Pinkie Pie! Nice to meet you!"

    Eight Bit froze for a second, her eyes shifting to a static before popping back to a pix-elated blue. "ERROR." She landed down onto the stage. "INPUT NAME NOT REGISTERED. YOU ARE NOT BIRTHDAY FILLY."

    "Birthday filly? Oh, no, I'm not a filly anymore, than again any pony can be a filly in spirit, right? You must be talking about Sweetie Belle, although her party is over now."

     "INPUT NAME ACCEPTED." Eight Bit twitched slightly, the music slowing. "The party has just began!"