The Nightmare

by Silver Butcher

A Broken Mind

Previous Chapter

Luna and Rarity looked silently over Freddy Juniors, Sweetie Bell could be seen waving as Starlight made her way back into the Nightmare world, what she was doing was of little importance to Luna.

"Are you ready?" Luna asked as she lit her horn.

"Ready as one can be," Rarity replied as Luna cast her Spell, Rarity faded away and Luna turned to Freddy Juniors.

"It's time to end this," Luna flew down and fired a spell, blasting at Freddy Juniors, upon hitting the building the entire dreamscape began violently shaking and cracking.

"What the hell?" Lolbit demanded as she, Nightmare, and the Puppet lead the Nightmares to Freddy's.

"Someone is attacking our mind," The Puppet said as it held onto Nightmare's shoulder tightly "If they break the dream all of the Nightmare's and the rest of the Soulless animatronic's could be lost forever.

"Screw that!" Nightmare said angrily as the group picked up the pace and ran into Starlight. Who took several steps back, Lolbit ignored her fear and scooped her off her hoofs.

"Hey, it's me, long story, can't tell it now more important things to say, someone's trying to break the Nightmare, and if they do that we'll lose Mangle, Bc, the Toy's, and the Nightmare's,"

"Wait who the hell are you?" Starlight demanded in confusion.

"Lolbit," The Puppet said waving from its position on The Nightmare "She's, The Nightmare, and I are all the same Soul, just split apart, Were not entirely sure how or why, but to be honest we've been to busy to really think it over,"

"Probably a side effect of having our soul ripped out of the Puppet and repurposed into an artificial intelligence," Lolbit suggested only for The Nightmare to angrily cut in

"Now is not the time, we need to get to Freddy Juniors before our friends are all erased from existence,"


Twilight was fuming as she paced back and forth, sitting not too far from her was Princess Celestia, Cadance, and Shining Armor.

"Twilly," Shining said, getting her attention "We're worried about you, I understand, we all cared for Spike, but your blind anger at Filthy Rich is not the way you should be coping with it, It was William not Filthy who took Spike from us, I have hundreds of Royal guard members searching for him all across Equestria. The Search will be increased to the Changling Hive and the Dragon Lands once we....figure out how to tell Ember and Thorax,"

"Oh yeah, they're gonna be so happy to find out that Spike has been dead for weeks and no one thought to tell them," Cadance said as she glared at her Aunt.

"Spike was the only thing guaranteeing our peace with the Dragon lands, and if we tell Thorax he will tell Ember, we have to finish preparing for the possibility that Ember and her people become....violent,"

"Who cares!" Twilight cried out "Listen, I'm gonna tell you something. Something serious, something Luna discovered and is now trying to deal with,"

"I was wondering where my sister had gone off to," Celestia said with a sigh, "But it and any other conversation can wait until we talk about you and the way you've been acting since Spike left us,"

"That's part of the problem," Twilight cried out "When Will killed them he used black magic to dispose of their bodies, that's why Spike and Starlight's bodies were never recovered," Twilight lit her horn and placed a Book on the table, "This was found at Will's home, it was cast aside during the investigation because no one actually looked at what it was, look at page 263," Celestia opened the book and flipped to the page, she read it and her eyes slowly went wide.

"Your obsession with the AI," She whispered, her tone telling Cadance and Shining that things were worse than their initial suspicions.

"Spike and Starlight's souls were trapped in whatever Will used to hide their bodies with, I have no idea where Starlight ended up, but Spike was put in the Puppet, the one's whose main power core was overflowing and was then converted..."

"Into Filthy's Lolbit Ai," Shining looked at Twilight slack-jawed "Are you telling us...." Shining stood up with determination in his eyes "....That my Little brother is a robot!" The sparkle in Shining's eye made Cadance groan, making Shining cough "Sorry, but he's still...around!?"

"I'm guessing Filthy is none the wiser about it," Cadance said "He was overflowing with joy at making a sentient AI,"

"Alright," Twilight said, "Now that we all know, we can go get him..."

"Twilight," Celestia said, her tone telling all of them they weren't going to like what she was about to say "There's nothing we can do about it I'm afraid, there's no way to track this spell, and with no proof, we can't legally take his AI, not after the scholars I sent to inspected gave an official report that nothing was wrong,"

"Who cares," Twilight said angrily "We know and that's all the evidence we need if you say..."

"I am the ruling monarch of the country," Celestia snapped back "And if my ponies find out they can keep their loved ones by casting this spell on them, there will be chaos, not to mention that if three Princesses and the Captain of the Royal guard all just take it he can sue, and he will win, it would accomplish nothing and only serve to tarnish our reputation in the country, or hands are tied,"

"Bullshit," Twilight said angrily "Shining, Cadance, help me here!"

"I mean," Shining said with a groan "Twily if we just waltz in and take it I could lose the respect of my shoulders, and both Celestia, Cadance, and yourself could lose the respect of the country, Luna to just from the association, we...we can't legally do anything," Twilight made several noised of rage before kicking the table and storming out of the room.

"There's another problem," Celestia said looking to Shining and Cadance "A side effect of the spell is Memory lose, Spike and Starlight will both have no idea who they used to be, there's a near-perfect change that Spike would side with Filthy and fight back,"

"How does a glowing ball fight back?" Shining asked back with a chuckle.

"Never mind for the moment, I must go find my sister," Celestia got up and lit her horn "make sure she isn't doing something too rash without me,"


Luna was firing a concentrated blast of magic at Freddy Juniors and failed to see the hord of Nightmare's rushing to the entrance. Toy Bonnie and Pip stood at the ready but lost their battle Spirit when the Puppet waved at them from the Nightmare's Shoulder.

"Don't worry," It called out "There's all awake now, they only look like they bite, they most likely won't,"

"Another Bonnie Brother!?" Toy Bonnie cheered "Oh this is the best!"

"Oh, I have a Brother?" Nightmare Bonnie asked, "That's nice, Hello!" Lolbit ran to the front and put her hands forward.

"Open?" She asked, Instantly the Nightmarish landscape began pulling away from Freddy Juniors and the ground beneath them expanded from pulsating flesh and a road of teeth into a normal-looking ground with dirt, grass, and a stone walkway. "Oh snap that worked!" The Nightmare's rushed inside with Starlight and the Puppet coming along to calm down the rest of the Toys and lost souls while Lolbit and the Nightmare looked up at Luna's attack.

"Now what?" Lolbit asked as she looked up at the blast, it was making direct contact with the building, but Freddy Juniors was holding strong against it.

"Hey," Nightmare said as he ran up to Luna "What are-" Luna stopped firing and instead blasted at Nightmare, who jumped back.

"Do not resist, I am sending you all to the afterlife, it is time for you all to rest in peace and leave the living world to those who still draw breath," Nightmare growled as he readjusted his tie.

"Yeah, like hell, I'm letting you destroy my world," Nightmare raise his hand, and the entire Nightmare world around them turned black and converged on Freddy Juniors, the world became a void and The Nightmare opened its eyes. Before it was a small Luna, in the mouth on his stomach Freddy Juniors was laying on his tongue. Lolbit however was floating in the void with the Puppet.

"I have no idea what's even happening anymore," Lolbit decided as she watched Luna continue her attack while avoiding Nightmare's assault upon her.

"Nightmare only exists in the dream world," Puppet replied "And since we are in a dream he has all the power while we have none," Lolbit looked over at the Puppet before looking back at Nightmare.

"Alright wiseass, if you know everything why are we floating in nothingness while everything else is inside Nightmare's Belly?"

"I dunno," The Puppet declared with a shrug.

"Useless secondary personality," Lolbit muttered irritably, Inside the restaurant the Toys and Nightmares were too busy getting to know one another to care about the fact that they had been eaten by Nightmare. Sweetie stood with the lost souls, who had all turned back into their withered forms once Nightmare had absorbed the dreamscape.

"I don't know what's happening anymore," Withered Bonnie declared as he looked out the front door and looked at the inside of Nightmare's stomach mouth "This dream is freaking weird,"

"I be me again so I don't give a care as to what's happening out that, I'm gonna get as far away from that thar child," Foxy walked around Sweetie and made his way to his Nightmare Counterpart, who had also begun arguing with Mangle.

"I need to go," Sweetie decided "Princess Luna followed me here, and she doesn't care what happens to any of you so if I stay she might send you all to oblivion,"

"And what exactly do you plan to do?" Fredbear asked as he got onto one knee.

"Well I was holding Nightmare when he glitched out and that made the nightmare worse, so maybe if he's not Nightmare when I'm holding him..."

"Got it," Fredbear said as he picked her up "The Puppet split into the Nightmare and Lolbit, so if your holding one of them when they get messed with it might just destroy the dream and send us all back to the waking world, Although..." Fredbear looked back to the toys and Nightmare's "They might be destroyed in the process," Sweetie stood firm as she pointed at them.

"They're nice, but they're all figments of Sp-The Puppete's Imagination, my only concern is making sure everyone who's actually real gets out of this without Luna forcefully ending them,"

"Alright kid," Fredbear said as he turned to Withered Freddy "You're in charge, we're probably not gonna see each other again so good luck out there Kid,"

"You got it," Withered Freddy replied with a salute as Fredbear walked out the door and ran along the Nightmare's tongue with Sweetie resting in his arms, Fredbear ran to mouth and jumped out, only to lose all momentum and begin floating away in the mass emptiness that was the dream.

"Poorly thought out," Fredbear muttered as he held up Sweetie "You see Lolbit or the Puppet?"

"I see both of them," Sweetie said as she saw the two casually floating aways away from Nightmare and Luna's less than impressive battle, Luna was firing a constant beam of magic at Nightmares while dodging his swipes, and Nightmare was tanking it, and attempting to swat her out of the air.

"Why doesn't she just make herself big?" Lolbit pondered.

"Maybe she doesn't wanna be an easy target," The Puppet offered before seeing Fredbear and Sweetie. "Oh look, guests," Lolbit looked at them and held up her hand.

"Stop" She demanded, causing Fredbear and Sweetie's floating to come to an instant stop. "Fredbear, I see you're still with the little filly who caused all of this...I mean technically half caused this I guess since it was Filthy who-"

"No time," Sweetie said angrily "Grab my hand and try to leave the dream, either of you, when I was holding Nightmare when he attempted to leave I made the nightmare worse, so holding onto one of you might break it altogether,"

"You want me to help you break my own mind?" Lolbit asked "Kid no offense but I don't really wanna break myself," Lolbit turned back to watch Nightmare and Luna fight when Fredbear chucked Sweetie at Lolbit, the young Filly put her hands around Lolbit's neck and held on as hard as she could.

"Oi," Lolbit snapped at the child as she grabbed her and began pulling at her to remove her "Get off me you little-" Lolbit stopped when she and all the rest heard a loud ticking sound as a bright light suddenly shone across the void. Luna and Nightmare looked to the light and found a giant clock counting down to zero starting at 30.

"Get off!!" Lolbit demanded panic in her voice, getting Luna's attention as she watched Lolbit attempt to remove Sweetie from her grasp. "There's no telling what might happen if I wake up with you holding me again!"

"Your not Nightmare," Sweetie shot back "So whatever it does do it'll strip your dream world of the power I overloaded you with,"

"That doesn't make any sense," Lolbit snapped angrily "How does doing the exact same thing you did last time not result in the same thing? You're causing nothing but trouble for yourself!"

"Then why are you so scared?" Sweetie asked as the clock hit 10 seconds

"Get off me!" Lolbit yelled as Sweetie began slipping only for them both to be blasted by Luna and be forced to stay in place.

"Regardless of what happens, should I Remove Sweetie from this dream just as you awaken it will destroy it and probably you,"

"Wait!" Lolbit cried out as the clock struck zero and she felt a harsh pull as her body in Equestria started back up, felt by a tinge of sickness as her body began violently shaking before she screamed and Luna forced Sweetie into Rarity's dream. The Second Sweetie vanished a blinding light shone from where she had just been and Lolbit was enveloped in a light that stuck Fredbear, who didn't have time to react before vanishing.

It Struck the Puppet, who started becoming blurry as it looked at its hands before being sucked into Lolbit, Lolbit continued screaming as Nightmare attempted to back away, only for Luna to flash into existence behind him and blast him in the back, the shot along with the Nightmares lessening power caused him to fall and he screamed as the light enveloped him and he to was sucked in, leaving Freddy Juniors to exist for a moment, The Nightmare's, Toys, and rest of the lost souls all looking out before they and the building vanished.


Luna's eyes shot open, she got to her feet and looked at Sweetie and Rarity, both of whom were also waking up. Sweetie barely had time to rub the sleep from her eyes before Rarity grabbed her and was snuggling her with glee.

"Oh Sweetie I was so worried," She cried out as she picked her up.

"Rarity," Sweetie complained, "It was just a bad dream, speaking of which, how did it....end?"

"I'm not sure," Luna replied "But your plan worked somewhat at the very least, Spike and the rest of his friends have been thrown from the dream world, where they might have ended up I'm not sure, whether back to their hosts or the afterlife there-" Luna stopped as Celestia teleported to her.

"Ah," Celestia said with a sigh "Finally, Luna where have you been?"

"Right here," Luna replied simply. "Trying to kill a dream demon,"

"And...?" Celestia asked, rolling her hoof for Luna to go on.

"I mean at the very least it's not a Dream Deamon anymore so it's not really my problem now is it," Luna smiled back "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to make sure Sweetie hasn't retained any negative energy from the encounter," Luna lit her horn and teleported herself, Sweetie, and Rarity away. Leaving Celestia alone in the room.

"Damit all Luna," Celestia sighed, "This talk isn't over, you have to come home eventually," Celestia lit her horn and returned to Canterlot.


"Sir!" An employee called out to Filthy rich, FIlthy was attempting to quell the overwhelming Power surge that had suddenly started shooting all around his business. Lightbulbs were glowing at their brightest before bursting, screens were sparking, others cracking, and some exploding. He had reports of several electoral fires, but no matter what he did he couldn't get the system to shut down. He looked at his cracking screen, praying it wouldn't explode in his face, when he saw it, Lolbit's face appeared on the screen for a second before flicking away. Filthy ran away from his control console and instead ran downstairs, passing an electoral fire and a few employees attempting to flee from the disaster.

Filthy ignored them all and rushed to his office, upon entering he found his lights had already exploded, he ignored the glass on the floor and grabbed a large photo of him with his family and pulled it, it swung off the wall and the wall itself slid open, he ran down the partially finished stairway and made his way into the secret room he had moved Lolbit to. Lolbit's Ai core was housed in a giant machine shaped like a heart with a now broken screen resting atop it.

The core and the heart were glowing as energy whirled around the orb, for a second it formed into an arm reminiscent of that of the Puppets, and one with freighting claws, before it condensed and took the shape of Lolbit's head, and began screaming. Filthy Rushed to the wall and slammed his fist against the emergent shut-off switch. The orb turned black and the energy turned to slime and fell to the floor, splattering as it landed.

The Orb turned blue and the cracked screen flickered weakly to life as Lolbit formed on the screen.

"Error," She said "Magical overload, Attempting to siphon off energy!" the Ai core began glowing brightly as the already damaged screen began shaking, black slime started coming out of the cracks and joined the rest on the floor, suddenly the screen burst and Filthy covered his face as the room was coated in slime. "Energy siphoned, rebooting," Lolbit's distorted and broken voice called from the barely functioning speaker on the heart. Filthy was breathing heavily as the slime on his body began dripping off him.

"Seems things didn't go to plan," He said as he looked at his hand, he looked at the slime before freezing, the slime was indeed dripping, but not towards the floor, it was sliding up his hand and towards the center of the room. He watched as the slime began swirling together. "Amazing," He said "A symptom of whatever magic overloaded Lolbit mixing with the original magic William used may-"

"William?" A voice demanded, one not belonging to Lolbit, the Slime began shaping itself as an arm formed out of it. "William!" It repeated angrily as it began taking shape, Filthy took a step back as the figure fully formed and looked at him. "William!" It demanded, Filthy continued backing away as the Slime monster took a step towards him, it was completely black, and parts of its body were dripping upwards and floating up a little before disappearing. "Where is William Afton!?" Shadow Bonnie demanded before the lights flickered and Filthy found himself alone in the room, with no sign that Shadow Bonnie had ever existed being left behind. Filthy stood in silence for a moment before laughing.

"Well...it seems Lolbit, my friends, you've just made a new friend to take care of William for us," Filthy laughed for a moment before recollecting himself "Come now, let's fix you up Lolbit my dear,"


Author's Note

Don't worry there will be a sequel, I plan to post the first chapter of it on the 31st. so look forward to Shadow Bonnie and his hunt for William. as for what happened to the Toys and the Nightmares....maybe you'll find out.