The Puppet
The End of the Beginning
Previous ChapterThe Puppet was sitting in the Parts and service room, softly whispering sweet nothings to the Final Spirit in need of a home, Sitting next to Silver Spoon in the body of Bonnie was Pip in the body of Foxy, across from them Starlight in Fredbear was talking to Scootaloo in the Body of Freddy, the vacant body of Chica lay ready, but just like all the others Applebloom only remembered her name and the last few moments of her life.
"-But I can't remember," She sobbed as the Puppet cradled her "I can't remember who they are," Applebloom flashed to the pain of dying, the agony of the knife running threw her eye, then as the life left her body she herd herself softy cry out the words Granny, Sis. "Who are they?" She sobbed as she buried her face into the Puppet's chest, he ghostly form phasing threw it's chest as she did so.
"I don't know," The Puppet replied with a frown "I never saw you with anyone but the ones who died with you,"
"Yar!" Foxy suddenly cut in "I t'was lone when I met me end,"
"Please stop whining about that," Freddy pleaded looking over at the fox "At least you didn't get curb-stomped into the floor,"
"Funny enough," Foxy shot back irritable "I didn't die when me neck was snapped instantly, I got to slowly suffocate for a moment before being repeatedly stabbed,"
"I already miss being alone in here," Bonnie grumbled as Foxy and Freddy bickered and The Puppet placed Applebloom into Chica. The Puppet smiled before dragging himself back to Bonnie.
"So much for the guards," Bonnie grumbled as he picked the Puppet up in his arms. "They didn't do jack shit,"
"Of course they fucking didn't," The Puppet replied earning a gasp from the room for his swear "There monitoring his every movement, but the building is dangerous so there's no way he'd do anything on the night shift so they just have to guard the outside, they couldn't even fucking do that right!"
"Alright," Bonnie said with a note of concern in his voice "Maybe calm down a little-"
"Let's kill him," The Puppet said bluntly.
"I'm in," Fredbear said immediately.
"Whoa!" Bonnie said "first, I'm also in, but second, aren't you the one that was all like closure is important and stuff,"
"Six!" The Puppet said angrily "He's gotten away with Murder 3 times and killed 6 ponies, and I bet he'll get away with it another 3 times again!" before The Puppet could continue his Rage Chica held out her handless arms and Bonnie handed her The Puppet, as The Puppet raged about his incompetence to save anyone Chica rocked him back and forth and whispered sweet nothings to him to try and calm his raging soul. Unbeknownst to the group the Pizzarea outside of the Parts and Service room was full of Guards, and quite a few Ponies that had been guards up until a few moments ago.
"Get out of here!" Shining yelled in furry as the now ex guards were taken away "This is a level of ineptitude I didn't even fucking know was possible!" Shining turned away from them and looked at the sobbing Applejack, her hands were drenched in blood as she cradled the lifeless body of her little sister in her arms, Shining hears screaming from the ex Guards and the sound of three mares in an unbelievable furry, he recognized Rainbow and figured the other two as Scootaloo's legal guardians, He noticed an unfamiliar couple crying outside and pegged them as Pips parents, all families accounted for Shining made his way to Twilight, who was talking to the only remaining victim of the attack, the Spring Bonnie suit lay to the side, having been taken off piece by piece, but at the moment sitting in a chair with the Torso and arms still stuck on him was William Afton, he was covered in cuts, scraped and it was still uncertain if his arms could be saved.
"I saw the kids on one of the cameras," Will said simply "Got up and next thing I know I'm face to face with The Puppet,"
"I thought you said you could throw it across a room,"
"And across a room, I did throw," Will agreed "Then I turned to Corner and met face to face with Fredbear and the old Bonnie animatronic," Will smiled and showed his new lack of a few teeth "That bunny punched the shit out of me, next thing I know I wake up in the Springbonnie suit, rush out to the main hall, and unfortunately moved to fast," Will moved one of his arms and immediately swore before letting it drop back down "Total Spring lock failure,"
"We found residue in the puddle of blood in the middle of the room of a teleport," Shining noted pointing to the pool.
"That would be my arm juice right there," Will said with a smile, "The second the arms snapped I tried to hold the rest back with my magic, then tried to teleport, rushed it, and instead teleported myself and the suit to my lovely home," Will looked over at the Spring Bonnie suit, now missing one of its ears. "Witch is where you'll find Bonnie's other ear, also a shit ton of blood then teleported outside the front door of the restaurant, and then waited 5 fucking minutes for a guard to notice the giant golden robot bunny that had appeared by the entrance," Will gave Shining an irritated look "Then got punched in the face again and got the end's of my ears torn off," Shining gave Will a once over, he was covered in cuts scrapes and other such damaging, both of his ears had been torn to shreds by the mask, all of his cuts were very symmetrical. Before Shining could ask for more the Manager of the place came out of the kitchen, out of breath and holding up a hand crank.
"I Found it, Will," He called out "let's Unwind those Spring locks and get you to the hospital,"
"Oh no hurry," Will said calmly "Just being questioned while trying to prevent the suit's upper body from tearing me to pieces," Shining and Twilight left Will as the Manager and a guard began winding back the spring locks to free Will. while they did this Will put his magic into keeping the locks at bay and thought back to his hard work of not getting arrested.
Will let out a scream as the Spring locks crushed his arms, he lit his horn and teleported away, but not before the rest of the Spring locks began failing, After a second Will opened his eyes, he was at his apartment bleeding out on the floor, He took a deep breath before forcing himself to his hooves, his entry body screaming in pain as his hundred of deep cuts began pulsing with pain and bleeding, once he got to his hooves he took a few more deep breaths.
"Shit, shit, shit," He muttered as he looked down at the mess he was making, "OK think, why did I teleport here? Cause I was being crushed," After a few minutes of bleeding out Will took a deep breath and teleported back to the same spot he had been in early, appearing face to face with the empty SpringBonnie suit, he could hear the possessed Animatronics down the hall, the Toy ones where still shut off. Will took a deep breath and used his magic to force the Spring locks back into place before teleporting back into the costume, putting a magic barrier around his mouth to mute his own screams.
"This is gonna suck dick," He said before releasing the arms from his magic, with a snap his arms where re crushed and he almost fell to the floor as he screamed out, after a second he found his knife was laying next to the one who's skull he had crushed.
"So none of my blood is there, so I gotta make sure none of their blood is one me," After a moment, and nearly passing out, Will managed to cover up the three children's blood with his own. "Sloppy but best I can do," Will took a deep breath covering one of Bonnie's ears in his magic, snapping it off and sending it to his apartment. His cover-up done as best as he could manage he teleported to the outside of the building and waited to be noticed by a guard.
Will let out a sigh as the Springlocks were pulled away and he teleported the torso and arms to the pile housing the rest of Springbonnie.
"I'm in so much fucking pain," he said calmly as two guards ran up with a stretcher and placed him softly on it before heading to Ponyville hospital. Twilight watched him go and looked back to her Brother.
"Alright, what's our new place of attack?" She asked him.
"My Guards failed me," Shining muttered "You and I could swap in and out, you watch the place during business hours, I become the Night Guard and try and-"
"Oh hell no," A New Voice called out getting their attention, Shining and Twilight looked over as a new pony arrived on the scene.
"Filthy Rich," Twilight asked in confusion before Shining approached him.
"Sir this is a crime scene, only authorized personal-"
"I am Filthy Rich," Filthy said simply "Owner of Fazbear Entertainment," That line was greeted with silence.
"That what you do?" Twilight demanded in confusion "I thought you...I don't know I never thought about it but really? This?"
"There are a total of 37 Freddy Fazbear themed restaurants in Equestria," Filthy said "And 1 in Griffin stone, and the one in Canterlot doubles as a museum of Fazbear history," he cleared his throat "But that is not why I am here, I am here to inform you that this location is shutting down," Shining made to say something when Filthy rich added "More importantly though, that this location was supposed to have already been shut down several days ago, but as I just found out that the Emails, letters, and 4 different Phone calls informing the owner of this location of this were all ignored,"
"But you just said you-" Shining stared only to be cut off again.
"I own the Franchise," Filthy said simply "I don't own and manage every location," as soon as the word manage was spoken Twilight and Shining turned to the Manager, who was trying desperately to open the secret door to no avail. "Not only was he to shut down the restaurant the second a child died, but he's broken almost every other fucking code and requirement for Freddy Jr's," Filthy approached the Manager who had given up on the sealed door and was backing away into the corner, hiding his face in it "First, why are the Toy Animatronics shut off?" The Manager fumbled a little as Filthy kept going "Why do you only have half the required Cameras set up in your establishment? And why the fuck do you have Fredbear and Spring Bonnie?!" The Manager was shaking in fear as he turned to Filthy, Filthy visibly faltered for a second when he saw the manager's face before demanding with rage "Why the Fuck are you Running another one of my restaurants?!"
"Wait, hold up," Shining said as he went to Filthy's side "Explain those last two to me,"
"Springbonnie and Fredbear are the original mascots from Fredbears Family Dinner and," Filthy looked at Shining with a look of rage "were both stolen 2 years ago from the Fazbear Musume in Canterlot,"
"I just found them here," The Manager said as he tried to back away "They were just sitting in the original restaurant that we built around,"
"Fredbear's shut down 20 years ago!" Filthy said as he pointed to Springbonnie "Springbonnie would not still be so brightly golden if he had been sitting in a musty shack for 2 years," Filthy marched to the Manager and picked him up by the collar, "But explain this to me," Filthy picked up the manager and glared at him in silence "Why is it that your running this restaurant after I fired 4 years ago and banned from ever setting foot on Fazbear property for not only running your restraint into the ground but-" Filthy threw the manager away from the wall and between Shining and Twilight to the hooves of Applejack and Rainbow Dash, Who had both come after hearing Filthy screaming "-also for allowing several murders to take place under your roof. Applejack and Rainbow Dash both looked down at the Manage in silence as he tried to crawl away.
"You mean to tell me," Shining said looking to Filthy.
"That this is the 2nd Fazbear restraint this man has run that, from day one, was plagued with murdered?" Filthy questioned "Why yes, that is exactly what I'm telling you," Shining looked from Filthy to the Manager and frowned.
"I call bullshit on that being a coincidence," he decided as he picked the Manager up, the second he was on his feet he was decked in the face by the combined forces of Applejack and Rainbow Dash. "Hey," Shining said pulling away from the two. "Do that shit again and his lawyer can use it to get him off from being punished for his crime.
"Wait!" The Manager cried out as Shining dragged him away "It wasn't me you have to believe me," As The Manager was brought in for questioning a few ponies in Purple suits made their way into the building.
"The hell are these guys?" Rainbow asked.
"They work for the Fazbear Musume," Filthy said with a smile "I manage that one personally, There here to take the Toy Animatronics in for maintenance before putting them up on display at the Musume, they were the only ones ever made, and sadly Fazbear Jr's name had been dragged through the mud far to deeply for me to even consider fixing it, We'll tear down the building and just build the normal Fazbear Pizzeria in-"
"Sir," On of the Purple suits said as he picked up the lid of the Puppet's box "The Puppet is missing,"
"Check Parts and Sevices, it might have been damaged or something," Filthy sighed before turning to the 3 Mares in front of him. "I've very sorry for all you've lost," He said "But I must ask you to leave, once the Animatronics and Games have been removed we'll be closing the doors for good," Filthy suddenly turned on the spot "Careful with Springbonnie, he's not in the best condition, but a deep cleaning should get him looking good as new," Filthy gave a small smile before adding "Oh! And don't fix the ear, It'll give the Animatronic character," Twilight and the friends looked at each other.
"I gotta go...talk to her aunts," Rainbow muttered as she headed out.
"I got so many calls to make," Applejack said as she started tearing up "Oh Sweet Celestia, what am I gonna tell Big Mac and Granny?" Twilight watched her two friends head off into the night and was about to go track down Shining armor when one of the Purple suits returned with the damaged Puppet.
"Holy shit," He said once he got the Filthy rich "Sir First we found Fredbear, second we found a full set of Core Animatronics in the Parts and Sevice room," Filthy didn't react for a moment.
"What?" he asked in confusion "Why the hell do they have a core- oh wait yes, of course, this was gonna be a normal Freddy Fazbears Pizza but Diamond Tiara asked if I could add a carousel for her, and...things just got a little out of hand, well that saves us a shit ton of time, see if ponyville has any vacant buildings for sale, if they do buy it and send the core 4 there, we'll make it the new Ponyville Freddy Fazbears, If we do things right we can have it open for business before the end of the-oh what the?" Filthy rich looked down at the Puppet and frowned "What the fuck happened to you?"
"I got my shit kick in," The Puppet replied, he was immediately dropped by the Purple suit as he and Filthy both jumped back in shock.
"Did that thing just talk?" The Purple suit demanded.
"Did that thing just swear?" Filthy Rich demanded as the Puppet began tapping on the floor.
"Thanks, I wanted to bid the floor a fond Farewell," Filthy looked at the Puppet as he slowly gave it a large Grin.
"Don't take this one to the museum, take it to Fazbear entertainment headquarters in Manhattan, We've been trying to make a Security system Smart enough to guard a build all on its own, seems somewhere along the line this little guy was equipped with a highly advanced Ai Core." The Purple suit nodded and picked the Puppet back up, holding it away from his body as he did so. as he was taken away The Puppet looked back to Twilight and said very simply.
"It was William," He called out "Not the Manager, Will murdered the kids, and I broke his arms for it," As the Puppet was taken away Filthy smiled and Twilight frowned.
"How reliable is that thing?" She asked.
"In its current state Probably not very much, it's very likely that it might just not like this Will person, you know angry evil Robot's gaining sentience, we'll test it out, I'll send you a letter if we see anything...incriminating when we check it's memory,"
"Wait, why if you can do that then you should gather all the Animatronics and-"
"These guys are turned off," Filthy said pointing to the Mange and Toy Bonnie as they were being packed up carefully. "Doing that kind of fucks up their inner robotics so we ain't getting anything from them, and the core four in the back weren't finished so they don't have it," Filthy gave an awkward cough and made to shake Twilight's hand, changed to go for a pat on the back, and decided to just clap his hands. "When you do sue us, please don't take it personally if my Wife sends you hate mail," Twilight looked at him, angry at his joke for a second, before seeing the serious look on his face.
She didn't say anything to him and instead teleported to Shining. Filthy stood in place for a moment before calling out "Be Careful with the Carousel, I want It to function properly when we install it, and Careful with Balloon Colt and Mangle, kids are always handling them, use gloves and give them a good wash before boxing them up, Check to see if any of the games they have here were specially made for this location, and careful with the plushies," As Filthy got to work making sure the restaurant was emptied of anything valuable the Puppet was placed in a box, just as the top was put on it felt it's body go stiff.
"Guess it's 6 am," The Puppet muttered as it closed its eyes, the second he closed his eyes he suddenly felt different, very different and he shot up, he was laying on a none existent floor, around his on either side was an endless row of doors. He rubbed his eyes, then saw his hands. they were black, with claw-like fingers, and looked like they were covered in fur. His ears lifted up in shock, they lifted high when he realized he had ears and he shot to his feet.
"Where am I?" He Demanded his demonic voice sending chills down his Spine, Suddenly a mirror, appearing as if simply because he wanted it to, revealed to him what he was, he was Freddy, but more monstrous, with a Golden Hat and Tie and a Mouth in his stomach. He stepped away from the reflection of his new nightmarish self. He once again looked at his hands before blinking.
"I'm a Nightmare,"
Author's Note
I'm 100% Sure no one saw that ending coming, Hope you enjoyed the story. There will be a Sequal.
