The sound of rain was echoing through the dining room as Princess Luna drank her coffee, She had just gotten back from a rather large Funeral and was not in the best of modes as she had personally known almost all the ones being buried. She wasn't ashamed to admit she had cried. What she was ashamed of was not knowing about even Spike's death until the entire event had already transpired. She was just about to finish off her coffee when she felt it happen again and she tossed the mug to the table, shattering it and spilling the last of its contents along its surface.

"I have you now!" She Cried out as she spread her wings and in a blink of an eye she was in a dream, She couldn't tell what it originally had been of but at the moment it was fastly dissolving into a Nightmare. She took to the sky and very quickly found who was having the dream, a small filly with glasses was cowering in a house made of Gingerbread. Luna looked at the child and turned to the creature causing the Nightmare, a black bear with a Golden Tie and Top hat was making its way through the landscape towards the child. Luna flew at full speed and landed in front of The Nightmare and it Squinted at her. For the last week the two had been playing the same odd game, Luna would find it destroying a dream and could find it trying to get to the one having the dream, but as soon as it got to the dreamer it would scoff and jump into a new one. She was irritated, but not at the Nightmare, she knew exactly what it was and why it was doing this.

"I've been trying to figure you out for the last week," Luna said as the Nightmare slowly approached her. "I just got back from a funeral, 6 poor souls were murdered, and a dream jumping Nightmare such as yourself are always lost souls, I'm going on a limb and saying your one of those lost souls, and if one of you jumped into the dream realm it's only a matter of time before the rest follow you," Luna lit her horn "Which means I need to put you to rest now,"

"I require no rest," Nightmare replied, its voice sending chills down Luna's spine.

"Look who can talk," Luna said before firing the magical blast at the Nightmare, as it got close the blast dissipated. "That's not good," She muttered as The Nightmare began growing in size "And that's worse," She added before taking flight "Listen to me Nightmare," She called to the bear "I know you seek the one who ended your days-" The Nightmare, who up to this point was staring past Luna instantly took notice of her and smacked her out of the air.

"I Seek Vengeance for all the Fallen," Nightmare said angrily "not just for me,"

"Just tell me who you seek," Luna called out as she took back to the sky.

"You lack the Will to deliver true punishment," Nightmare replied as the Dream began cracking around him.

"Times up," Luna said as the Dreamer awoke from their Nightmare and sent her to the Dream doors, the Nightmare was gone, almost certainly in the same place, but it was clear now there was no point, The Nightmare was seeking vengeance and the power of a vengeful spirit in the dream world was more than even she could handle alone. She lit her horn and retired to the waking world and teleported to the one whose aid she required.

Twilight was having a cup of tea when Luna Teleported into the room.

"Oh, Sweet Luna!" She cried out as she only just saved her drink.

"Twilight Sparkle," Luna said in a serious tone "I need to speak to you and your friends at once,"

Nightmare looked around the hundreds of doors surrounding him and groaned.

"Dam Magical Princesses," He muttered as he looked at all the doors "I'm gonna find you Will, and I'll make sure you don't go into that silent night peacefully." Nightmare made to open another door only to suddenly find himself in a box.

"Ah shit," The Puppet muttered as it looked around the cramp container. "I'm back here," The Puppet lay in silence for an unknown amount of time before he finally heard noises outside his container. After a short wait, the top of his crate was opened up and his partially broken body was pulled out of the crate by a Purple shirt. The Puppet looked around the room, it was fairly large and full of mechanical devices being overlooked by Ponies in Labcoats.

"Place it on the table," one of the Ponies said dully as he typed away on his computer. The Purple shirt did as they were told and placed The Puppet down.

"Nice place," The Puppet said, The Purple Shirt backed up and the one at the computer suddenly looking interested in The Puppet.

"Was That Sarcasm?" He asked curiously, The Puppet looked over at him, then back at the roof.

"You have some Yellow ass teeth," it replied rudely as it tried to cross its arms,

"It swore," another in a lab coat said in shock before he knew it The Puppet was surrounded by Labcoats talking around him. One ran out of the room and before long came back with a large roll of blue paper and the Labcoats converted around it. The Puppet groaned and said loudly.

"I'm shutting off, feel free to turn me back on when you're doing something I care about," The Puppet shut his eyes and the Nightmare reopened them.

"Alright," he said as he looked at the endless rows of doors before picking one "That one looks pretty purple,"

"Sorry," Rarity said with a yawn as she made her way into the Throne Room, "But I don't think any of the others are coming,"

"What about Fluttershy and Pinkie?" Twilight questioned.

"Fluttershy went with Rainbow to hunt down Scootaloo's parents, they were on vacation, the poor dears are gonna be devastated. And Pinkie is traveling Equestria with the Apples gathering the Apple family for Appleblooms funeral,"

"So it's just the three of us?" Luna asked.

"Four," Sweetie called out as she made her way into the room. "The Last Crusader is here to help," Her voice broke a little through her line but she picked herself back up. Luna looked at the young filly and saw the exhaustion in her eyes. "It's really hard helping others find their one true place all alone," She added with a yawn.

"Well good news, our mission will be taking place in the sleeping world so you'll be able to get some rest," Luna said softly before looking to Twilight and Rarity and sighing. "A few days ago someone had a Nightmare, as soon as that pony woke up another pony suddenly began having the same Nightmare, this has been happening on repeat every night for almost a week, It wasn't until this morning, when I attended young Spike's Funeral, that I realized what was happening," Luna looked to Twilight. "A Dream jumping Nightmare is the result of a murdered soul seeking to avenge its death, I'm afraid this Nightmare might be Spike's lost self looking for the one who ended his days." This was greeted with a long silence from the group, Luna waited and pretty soon Sweetie belle spoke up.

"Do...do you think he remembers who killed him?" She asked with a quiver, "do...do you think the others might be doing the same?" Luna looked down at Sweetie softly.

"I'm not sure if he will remember who did it but he will be able to recognize his killer the second he gets too close to them, and I'm only thinking it's Spike due to reports saying he was first, I don't think the others will be too far behind him in invading the dreams of others, but if they all join up they could kill someone accidentally and that is our main goal after they have been detained in magic binding I can take then to the one who is being charged with murder, just to make sure without a doubt it's him,"

"I'm ready," Twilight suddenly said, standing up with clenched fists and doing her best to stay calm "I'm ready" she repeated as though she was trying to convince herself it was true.

"So am I," Rarity said with determination as she got up "This might be my best chance to tell my little Spikey-Wikey goodbye," Luna nodded to Rarity

"Then we best find a place to lay your heads, this could end up being quite the undertaking," The 4 moved from the throne room to Twilight's reading room, Sweetie took the couch and Twilight took a chair as Rarity seemed to produce her fainting chair from nowhere and got comfy on it, Luna stood between the three and lit her horn, the magic began flowing to the trio. "Let us begin"

Nightmare was making its way through a deteriorating dreamland, closing in on the dreamer fast, upon reaching a house that was starting to burn with his presence he found the dreamer to be a mare cowering in the window and scoffed before dispersing from the dream.

"onto the next one," he grumbled, he found himself in a small dark closet and frowned, not at his surroundings, but at the feeling of multiple ponies sharing the dream he now resided in "Odd," He said in his chilling voice and peeked from the closet, he spotted a simple bedroom, sitting inside it was Luna, Rarity, Twilight, and Sweetie Belle, the latter of which seemed less than pleased to be in the room.

"Well," Rarity said as she inspected the decore of the room "I wouldn't hire the owner of this room to decorate anything,"

"Who's dream is this? Sweetie asked as she looked around the room, it had two doors on either side, the Underside of the bed seemed darker than it should have been, and she could swear something was watching her from the closet.

"This dream is Spike's," Luna said simply "and its existence proves he's in the dream world, now that we've entered it the Nightmare should end up here the next time it tries to leave a dream."

Twilight looked around the room in silence, having been the only member of the group so far to have not said a thing since entering the dream, she made her way to the bed and put a hoof on it, after a moment she silently lay her head on it and closed her eye, Rarity and Luna did nothing to interrupt her and Sweetie made her way to the closet, she opened it to easy the feeling of being watched and once it was opened she and Nightmare stood there staring at each other for a hot moment before she silently and slowly closed it, neither her nor the Nightmare breaking eye contact as she did so. As soon as the door was closed she backed away from the closet, never looking away from it as she back up to Luna.

"Princess," She said getting the adults attention, Twilight lift her head up and left the bed at the sound of Sweetie's voice and both Luna and Rarity looked at her.

"Yes," Luna asked, everyone in the room having missed Sweetie's short exchange with Nightmare.

"There's a Demon Freddy in the closet," before any of the adults could reply Nightmare spine chilling voice sounded from the closet.

"That is a fair assessment of what I am," he said in agreement, a visible shiver went through Sweetie as soon as she heard his voice and the rest of the room stood at the ready. Twilight lit her horn and used her magic to open the closet revealing it to be empty, Rarity had bubbled herself as soon as she had heard Nightmare speak and Luna was standing in wait for it to reveal itself.

"Nightmare," Luna said slowly and carefully "We just wanna talk, we come in peace," Nightmare gave no verbal reply, instead his head appeared on the bed, Rarity jumped back and hit the edge of her own bubble in panic, Twilight did the opposite of Rarity and got closer to Nightmare, extinguishing the magic gathered at the tip of her horn as she did so, Nightmare didn't seem to particularly care about her present and his eyes went over her and instead rested on Sweetie.

"Are you lost?" Nightmare asked Sweetie, completely ignoring the others before Sweetie could say anything Nightmare melted into a black liquid and it rushed over the side of the bed and began approaching Sweetie, who took a few step backs while Luna attempted to bubble the liquid, the puddle gained shape and they watched as it turned into a completely different animatronic, standing before Sweetie belle was the Puppet, who was examining her before reaching down and placing its hand on her head.

"Your fire still burns bright," The Puppet said to her confusion "I have no gifts to give to you," his piece said he began melting back into the puddle and more out of desperation to keep him from leaving than anything else Sweetie tried grabbing the Puppet and melted into the shadows with her eyes shut tight, after a moment she found herself standing in a hall with Rarity screaming out her name in the distance, Sweetie blinked as Nightmare formed inform of her.

"Hmm?" it pondered, now ignoring Sweetie after confirming she still had a heartbeat "I'm still in this dream," as Nightmare pondered how to escape his own dreamscape Sweetie decided on a plan and chose to talk to Nightmare rather than telling her elders where it was.

"Are you really Spike?" She demanded, Nightmare looked back at her and his entire body turned to static, for a moment he was the Puppet again, then he shifted again and Spike was looking at her, his colors now more like the Puppets than his own, Sweetie started crying at the sight of him, without a word he shifted back to the Puppet and finally Nightmare.

"Was that my name?" He asked In his spine chilling voice, he looked at his hands for a moment before looking back at the Sweetie "How oddly pleasant, something I didn't know I needed till I received it," Nightmare moved closer to Sweetie looking down at her. "You must be Sweetie Belle," He noted as Rarity's voice cried out again. "Where we friends,"

"I was with you the day you died," She replied with a sniff, Nightmare watched the young filly begin to cry, and had little to offer in comfort at the memory of his own demise.

"Your tears are wasted," Nightmare said after a moment to get her attention "For soon I shall find the murder, and he Will meet the same fate as I and all the others have," Nightmare turned to leave and Sweetie once again grabbed him to stop him from leaving the dream when it happened, Nightmare felt a searing pain and he along with the entire dream began glitching and cracking.

"What's happening!" Twilight demanded as Rarity tried in vain to open the doors leading out of the room.

"He's waking up?" Luna replied in a confused question, earning a confused look from Twilight "His soul must still be anchored to something, as Twilight was fading away her eyes went wide.

"The Animatronics!" She said in realization before the dream collapsed and they all awoke, Twilight didn't waste a moment as soon as her eyes opened she jumped to her hooves. "I need to visit Fazbear Entertainment!" She declared loudly before lighting her horn and teleporting out of the room, Luna rubbed her temple.

"Well that both a failure and a success," She decided before Rarity brought her attention to an important issue.

"Sweetie?" Rarity asked as she held her younger sister, she was still sleeping, breathing hard, and was both sweating and shaking.

"I'll wake her," Luna said before sitting back down and going to the dream world, she meant to go straight to Sweetie's dream but instead found herself in front of her door, she was confused for a second before actually looking at the door, Sweetie's door was cracked, and leaking from it was liquid Nightmare. "Oh fuck," Luna said when she saw it and quickly backed away from it before bubbling the door, the liquid began slowly but surely eating away at her magic and she returned to the waking world with a worried look.

"What?" Rarity demanded when she saw the look on Luna's face "What's wrong?" Luna looked to Rarity in silence as she tried to put what was happening into words.

Sweetie opened her eyes and blinked, she felt sleepy, she yawned as she looked around at the room and frowned at her surrounding, she was still in Spike's Nightmare, but it had shifted, she saw a picture of her mother on the wall, she saw a few of her toys laying on the floor with some of Spike's, and the more she watched the more her stuff began phasing over Spikes and replacing it.

"Where am I?" she asked in fear and confusion, she got out of the bed and looked around as the room continued overshadowing some of Spike's stuff with here's, after a closer look she noted that not all of his stuff was being replaced, she made to open the door when she heard something, she stopped and set her ear against the door, she could just hear breathing on the other side and was about to open it when she heard laughter and turned, a tiny Nightmare plush Freddy was on the bed, the second she looked at it however it disappeared into the bed, she heard a creek and looked at the door as large black claws began opening it, a shiver of fear ran through her spine and she put her hooves on the door, forcing it to shut.

"What's happening?" she asked in fear when she heard another creaking sound and the door opposite to her began opening slowly, she rushed to it and snapped it shut when she heard the laugh and once again made the Freddy disappear, she took a deep breath when the door opposite of her began opening again and she let out a cry of fear as she rushed to keep the monsters at bay.

Twilight made it to Manehattan quickly and pinpointed Fazbear entertainment headquarters thanks to a simple locater spell, she landed at its front gate where a guard was chilling and as soon as he saw her he picked up a Walk-e-talkie and spoke into it.

"Princess Twilight is at Gate B, can we please have a guide take her to the bosses office?" Twilight didn't even have to wait as a Unicorn teleported next to her and then teleported them both Directly to Filthy Rich.

"Princess Twilight sir," The Unicorn said before disappearing again, Filthy Rich was typing away at his computer and after clicking a few things turned to Twilight with an odd look.

"Lawsuit?" he asked simply.

"Actually no," she replied, the look of shock on his face was almost comical.

"Oh, um...how can I help you then?" he asked, clearly not sure what was happening anymore.

"I need to see the Puppet animatronic," the look of dismay on his face indicated she had asked in impossible "What?"

"We um...well," Filthy gave an awkward cough before saying quietly "just finished removing its Ai-core, it's broken remains have already been melted down to recreate it for the museum,"

Author's Note

I just know someone's gonna ask this, why didn't I just use Nightmarrion? Why did I make the Puppet/Spike Nightmare? The reason for that is simple, Nightmare appears in the normal game, Nightmarrion, Nightmare Mangle, and Nightmare Balloon boy appeared as Halloween special characters so I decided to use Nightmare to try and stick to the animatronics that appeared in the main game. (and don't worry the other lost souls will appear later in the story)

This story is planned to be short (5 chapters or so) so I should be able to finish It in a few weeks or so