"Queen Celestia! Queen Celestia!" a blue unicorn mare with a wand and crescent wand cutie mark yelled frantically.
"What is it Checker Monarch? Your split personality, Trixie Lulamoon right?, isn't trying to make yet another pathetically pitiful comeback attempt again is she?" the Solar Alicorn asked with mild curiosity and thinly veiled annoyance.
"Oh no, that isn't the problem, your highness."
"*sigh* Then what is it? Has Sunset Shimmer and the other Element Bearers finally located PrincessTwilight Sparkle and her student Starlight Glimmer yet? Or unsealed that pocket dimension that Discord had teleported himself, the Crystal Empire, Shining Armor, my sister Luna, my niece Mi Amore Cadenza, her daughter Flurry Heart, and King Thorax and the Changelings into?"
"Still nothing on either project."
"Then what is so important right now that it just can't wait?!"
"Cell #83 of Ponification for Earth's has gone silent!"
"..."
"Uh, m-my-my Queen? Are y-you okay? D-do y-you n-need s-some water?"
"WHAT?! HOW EXACTLY IN MY NAME DID ANY SUBGROUP OF THE PER JUST GO AND DISAPPEAR AFTER EVERYTHING I HAVE DONE FOR THEM AND STILL AM DOING FOR THIS MISERABLE MUDBALL OF A PLANET!"
"Well, your highness, you see there was this attack on one of the safe-houses that we secretly established for our PER agents..."
"Yes, and?...
"And it was a total massacre..."
"Don't. Leave. Me. Hanging. In. Suspense. Just Keep. On. Talking. Right. Now. Or. Else."
"Yes, my Queen. Of course, my Queen."
"Talk! NOW!"
"..."
"Unless. You. Finish. This. Briefing. Right. Now. Or. You. Will. Find. Yourself. As a... "donor" for. Ponification. Potion 2.0, is. That. Understood."
"Y-yes. Yes, m-my Queen. As I was saying, there is only a small list of ponies and humans in PER Cell #83 that managed to survive the onslaught."
"Do they have?..."
"No, they have been separated from all of their stockpiled supply of the Potion."
"..."
"Uh, m-my Queen."
"The list."
"Begging your majesty's pardon?"
"The list of survivors. Give. It. To. Me. Right. Now."
"Yes, of course! Here you go, your highness," Checker said as she took out a scroll and held it out for Celestia to take.
Celestia took the scroll and asked, "Is there anything else, Checker Monarch?"
"No."
"Then leave me."
Celestia waited until she had reached her private sanctum before she unrolled the scroll.
She took a very careful look at its contents, memorizing the names of the survivors. But then she stopped herself, and, while mildly chuckling, said to herself, "Celestia, you actress! You got so far into character that you forgot that the loss of one measly PER Cell is a meaningless loss!"
Now in hysterics, Celestia decided to retire for the night. Before leaving for her bedchambers, she decided to take one last look at the six names on the list: Sparkler (a unicorn mare), Johnny Doe (a human), Jenny Foreman (another human), Firefly (a pegasus mare), Sunny Omelet (a stallion Newfoal), and Scot Fitzgerald (yet another human).
Celestia smirked to herself as she though, 'Oh please, Checker. What made you think that the soon-to-be complete end of one small, insignificant portion of my fanatical agents in the Ponification for Earth's Rebirth movement was urgent, high-priority news?
'After all, what could possibly happen to them that will impact my operation against those savage monkeys that have deluded themselves into believing that they have become an actual civilization, when it is excruciatingly obvious that they are still animals? What kind of impact could those survivors possibly have?'
Jenny looked at Johnny and asked him, "Why won't you tell us your real name?"
He looked at her and simply replied, "I have my reasons."
"But—"
"Would you please just respect my privacy alright?!"
"..."
"Thank you for shutting the hell up. Geeze!"
Then Firefly flew in and said, "Hey! We found a place to use as a shelter for the night!"
They both blankly stared at her in stunned confusion, then at each other, and then back at her. Irritated, Firefly yelled, "Come on! Let's go already!" as she zoomed off.
And then came right back and, very sheepishly, said, "Oh, right. You don't know where it is. Heh-Heh. (I feel so embarrassed.) Just follow me, okay?"
The two nodded and Firefly took off again, but at a much slower pace this time.
There was no conversation between any of them, as all three were lost in their thoughts: Jenny could only wonder who Johnny really was, Johnny could only reflect on the dark reality of his horror-filled past, and Firefly was worrying about how she'd be able to return to Equestria and her Queen.
Well, actually, Firefly did have something else on her mind—she was eager to finally ponify the stupid, worthless apes that she had to work with in her assigned role as one of her Queen's assigned overseer-agents in the PER movement as part of her prerequisites to join the Wonderbolts.
They were all lost in thought, all almost blissfully unaware of what truly awaited them....
"This... is really it? Seriously?" Jenny asked in blatantly underwhelmed disappointment as she stared at the abandoned pizzeria.
"Yeah," Scott replied, "This is where we'll be taking shelter in for the night."
"This place is a wreck!"
"Well, it was the best some of us could find on such short notice, okay?!"
"You do understand that we're just gonna be staying at this 'Freddy Fazbear's Pizza' place until the morning, right Jenny?" Sunny interjected in his usual overly cheerful voice, thus diffusing the tension.
"Oh," Jenny said awkwardly, then she noticed the look of recognition in Johnny's eyes.
Johnny noticed her gaze and snapped, "Yes, I know this place, but that's none of your fucking business, you nosy little bitch!"
"O-kay," Sparkler said, "I believe I speak for everypo, er, I mean all of us here, when I say that I think we have all had enough today, and we should definitely turn in now."
All nodded in agreement, and, one-by-one, they all squeezed in through the boarded up windows, none of them truly aware of what the night had in store for them.
The Just Golden Joy of Creation
Author's Note
I'm back!
BTW, this fic is also AU to FNaF canon.
And now, on with the story!
The Just Golden Joy of Creation
The specter watched one of the intruders separate from the rest of his group after being ordered to "find a safe place to rest."
The specter, invisible and unable to touch anything at the moment, followed this 'Sunny' down the halls, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.
12:00 AM
Sunny walked done the corridor, and, being a 'Newfoal' as all ponified humans were referred to as, was oblivious to the obvious sinister undertones of his surroundings.
Then he tripped.
He got back up, turned around, and saw what he had tripped over: a cell phone.
Which immediately started ringing.
As a Newfoal, Sunny was incapable of full-range thinking. And, as a result of his one-track cognition, didn't even stop to ponder as to what the hell a cell phone was lying around in this place, where there was no signal. Let alone how it could work with no fucking battery.
But, Sunny was a Newfoal. So he only stared at the ringing phone, wishing that it would stop.
Eventually it did, but then a voice emanated from its speakers; "Uh, hello? Hello hello, oh hey there! Um, what are you doing here? Why'd you come here?! With all those other guys?! Didn't any of you notice that this place is closed down for... um... safety and health reasons? Yeah, safety and health reasons! Yes, that's why this location is closed! You guys really, uh... you guys really shouldn't have come here. I mean, don't any of you remember the uh, the Bite of '87? Or the, oh why did it happen?, the uh... the Missing Children Incident? Oh no, it's, uh, it's really close to, y'know, midnight. It's, uh, well it's gonna be to dangerous to leave the eh premises? 'til six AM, so you're all gonna have to, well, um, just , well basically survive the night 'til then. And, well, normally this would be the point where I'd, well, I'd give you the, uh, well the advice you all are gonna need to, well uh, survive! But, unfortunately, I'm uh, well I'm all out of time, so, well good luck and good night!"
There it was.
The voice.
The voice of the fear.
The voice of the torment.
The voice of the dread.
The voice of the panic.
The voice of the anger.
The voice of the secrets.
The voice of the revenge.
The voice of the Company's "Phone Guy" as he had long ago been dubbed.
The voice that was the signal.
The voice that, every Night, was the signal.
The voice that, for every single one of all five of the Nights, was always the signal.
The signal.
The signal to begin.
The signal to begin the Night.
The signal to begin the 1st Night.
Tonight.
Tonight is that Night.
Tonight is Night One.
The intruders won't reach 6 AM.
They will not survive the Night.
Because they aren't ready.
They never are.
-*Later*-
Sunny stared at the poster in front of him. It depicted a dark brown colored bear wearing a hat. Despite being a Newfoal, Sunny could still feel mystified by the poster, it was almost as though the poster had some strange sort of otherworldly properties. Sunny looked around the room, and then turned back to the poster. Which now depicted an eyeless golden version of the bear that was originally depicted on the poster.
Two words began to continuously flash in front of Sunny's eyes: 'IT'S ME'.
-*Meanwhile*-
"Why the bucking hay is that scrying stone going nuts?!" Firefly exclaimed as she freaked out.
They had been observing Sunny from the moment that they had sent the Newfoal out. They had all witnessed Sunny receiving the apparent 'phone call from beyond the grave'.
But from the moment Sunny had entered the room he was currently in, the scrying stone became unreliable and suffered from an increasing amount of interference that was very similar to electronic static.
"I... don't... know," Sparkler replied with confusion.
-*Back With Sunny*-
Sunny turned around and saw the slumped body of an eyeless golden bear right in front of him. Sunny walked up to it,... and touched it's nose. >HONK!<
-*Meanwhile*-
The agents of Ponification for Earth's Rebirth could only stare in shock when the scrying stone did something that it was incapable of doing: it shifted to Sunny's point of view!
They all saw with Sunny as he walked up to the strange yellow bear and honk its nose.
They all saw the yellow bear disappear, only to suddenly reappear in a more horrific and demonic form!
