What You Want

by APStories

Stay The Course

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So, this is what Fluttershy wants? So be it.

Fluttershy was almost finished with Five Nights At Freddy's VR: Help Wanted. She only had one more ending to get: the Merge Ending. Yes, finding all 16 tapes was EXTREMELY difficult, but she managed to find them all.

Finding the 16th tape reveals how to destroy Glitchtrap. The tape states: "Let it approach you. Let it begin to merge with you. Play the music and flip the switch that will cause a hard restart of the game and flush the memory, effectively killing it. I hope." The game will then continue. Randomly when loading into the main area, Glitchtrap will appear behind the main computer and will start to "merge" with the player. If the instructions from tape 16 are not followed, the player's view will slowly fade to purple and glitch before fading back into the perspective of Glitchtrap. The implication is that the merge was successful and Glitchtrap can escape from the game. The game will then fade to black and take the player to the game over room.

She listened to the 16th tape so she could be reminded of what not to do.

There is a way to kill it. It wants to escape. To escape through someone. Someone plugged into this game. That's...you now... You have to let it begin the process of leaving through you, then use the disconnect switch that I've embedded by the main stage. Let it approach you. Let it begin to merge with you. Play the music and flip the switch. That will cause a hard restart of the game and flush the memory, effectively killing it, I hope. I don't know when it will come for you.

She honestly didn't know who the Tape Girl was, but she knew what she had to do. She went back to the main menu screen. Glitchtrap was directly behind her. "Now... we become one", Fluttershy said.

"So... this is the end, huh?", Glitchtrap asked as if he was speaking to Fluttershy, though in-game, he was speaking to a curtain. "Can you hear me? I've been waiting for you. Don't worry. I can tell you anything you wanna know. My real name is William Afton, the former owner of Afton Robotics, LLC. Thanks to the ghosts of the dead children, I am now an immortalized serial killer. I am the father of children without a home. The creator of vessels without souls. Just stay the course. Focus on my voice. I'll show you the way, then you'll rejoice. Merging with me means selling your soul. Is this what you want?" Fluttershy, however, couldn't even HEAR Glitchtrap's monologue because he doesn't actually speak in-game. "So be it."

Fluttershy allowed Glitchtrap to merge with her. Her view slowly started to fade to purple. In the real world, the VR headset began crackling with purple electricity. "Wait... what's happening?!", Fluttershy asked. She tried to take off the headset, but it was glued onto her head. She let out a bloodcurdling scream as the electricity enveloped her. Blood ran down her ears as she screamed at the top of her lungs. "Help! HELP!!!". Suddenly, she fell silent. After several minutes, Fluttershy took off the headset. Her eyes opened. They were now purple. She was now a vessel for Glitchtrap. They were now one being. Fluttershy... was no more.

The serial killer scanned his new surroundings. "I'm back! Revamped! The madness never ends! It's not over yet! There's nothing left to mend!", Glitchtrap said. He was in a teenage girl's bedroom. He went into a kitchen and grabbed a knife. "Time to kill again." Suddenly, he heard a crash in the bedroom. He ran into the bedroom to find someone in a white rabbit suit. "Ah. My follower."

"Hello, master", the follower, Vanny, said. She had a knife as well. She also had a tape. She played it.

Hello. You don't know me. I'd created a series of logs for you documenting the troubled development of this VR game that you're now testing in hopes that you, whoever you are, and whatever team you are with, will abandon development. Now I fear that those logs are being used as a Trojan horse. If you're unable to abandon development, hide all traces of these logs that I’ve created. I fear that finding them and reassembling them will also reassemble the very thing I've tried so desperately to destroy.

After realizing what the Tape Girl was planning, Vanny attempted to destroy the tape, but it vanished. "Why do you look like a girl?", she asked Glitchtrap.

"This is my vessel, young one", Glitchtrap answered. "Come." He extended his hand. "I still have much more to teach you." She took it and stood up. "Remember the plan. Stay the course."

"I will", she replied.

"Focus on my voice", Glitchtrap said.

"I will", she replied.

Don't let anyone lead you astray", Glitchtrap said.

"I won't", she replied.

"Have you selected one?", Glitchtrap asked.

"I have", she answered. Suddenly, Glitchtrap started convulsing. Fluttershy's soul was still inside her body.

"Finish her!", Glitchtrap commanded. Vanny tackled the vessel and repeatedly stabbed it. Blood sprayed from the stab wounds as Vanny's featureless mask only smiled. Fluttershy's soul escaped her body and was absorbed by the headset. Glitchtrap ripped the vessel off of him as if it were a costume. "Well... that was interesting." He put on the VR headset and found Fluttershy trapped. "This is what you wanted, right?"

"No! Let me out! LET ME OUT!!!", Fluttershy screamed. However, Glitchtrap couldn't hear her because she wasn't part of the game. He took off the headset and burned it. "NOOOOOOO!" Fluttershy was now forever trapped in the game.

"Thank you, Fluttershy, for giving me life. In return, you will now experience the hell I went through!", Glitchtrap said to the burning headset. "Come, my protégé. Time to take your first victim." Glitchtrap and Vanny walked away from the bonfire as the headset slowly melted and Fluttershy's life ended.

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