This was it.

The final night.

Starlight looked into the mirror and stared at herself.

"You can do this." she said to the mirror. "You can take on a few animtronics, and if the power goes out before 6," her horn dangerously glowed, and a recording of Starlight and Twilight showed when they were battling each other to the death while she was trying to stop the Sonic Rainboom.

"I'll give them all my power the way I gave all my power to Twilight."

She walked out of her room with a comfortable smirk, but she didn't look where she was going and bumped into Twiligiht.

"Oh, sorry Twilight." she bowed her head apologetically. "I didn't see you there."

"No problem, Starlight." Twilight said with a cute grin. "Is this your last night?"

"Yes, finally." Starlight sighed happily. "And if I make it through, I won't have to worry about Freddy and his friends any longer.

Twilight's smile faded away, replaced by a confused look. "If you didn't like working there, you should've quit earlier."

Starlight gave her an annoyed look. She now remembered why they were so apart in the first place. "Twilight, that place may be scary and death threatening, but I'm not a wuss."

"But what if you made one tiny mistake? One that could end you permanently?"

"Twilight, if I made any mistake, I would be dead by now."

"But think about it," Twilight placed her hoof on Starlight's shoulder. "You are risking so much, and if you were to die, you could lose everything. Your friends, your home, everything."

"Twilight!" Starlight shoved Twilight's hoof away. "Yes, hearing that me staying is ludicrous, but trust me when I tell you, I will be fine."

She looked outside, time was being wasted already.

"Look, we can talk more after my final shift is over, and yes, I will make sure I'll come back alive." She trotted out the castle doors before she let Twilight reply.

Twilight stared on as she left and rubbed a hoof under her chin.

Starlight opened the pizzeria’s doors, and like last time, Liles wasn't present. Another note appeared with the keys next to them. The note said:

Hey, Starlight,

I decided to take a break from this establishment. I hired a friend of mine to give you your paycheck when your shift is over. So don't expect me to appear whenever your night ends. When your shift ends, just stay put, and he will come. He won't appreciate it if you leave the restaurant and he's all alone.

Good luck on your final night.

-Liles

Starlight was a little disappointed that she would not get to see the stallion one last time, but she shrugged. Maybe it was best if he left the place altogether.

But then something was different about the note: the hornwriting. It was different on this note. Lile's hornwriting was sloppy but still readable, while this hornwriting was very formal and it was hard for Starlight to read it sometimes.

She looked at the note in suspicion, but she didn't care. She wanted to be out of here as quickly as possible.

She got into her office chair and turned on the monitors. But then she jumped when she heard the phone rang.

Who would be calling me at this moment? Starlight thought. He literally died.

The message opened, and instead of hearing a voice, she heard demonic garbling, along with loud screeches in the background.

She immediately hung up the phone.

"That's it." Starlight grabbed the phone with her magic. "I'm taking this to Celestia as proof that this restaurant shouldn't still be here."

As she grabbed the phone, a burst of purple magic burst behind her. Somehow the magic knocked Starlight forward and she hit her stomach on the desk, and the phone banged on the wall, and hit the floor, shattering it to pieces.

"Oh gee, Starlight! I'm so sorry!"

Starlight's heart may have skipped a beat when she recognized the voice.

"Twilight?" Starlight said in complete shock as she stood up. "Why are you here?"

"Well since this is your last night, I wanted to see what you have been doing these past nights." Twilight looked at the buttons on her left side. "What do those do?"

When she pushed the light button, Bonnie was in the doorway, giving them a creepy look.

"No!" Starlight ran over and closed the door. "Phew."

"Wait, this is what you have been doing the whole time?" Twilight acted as if she couldn't believe what she saw.

"Yeah, what did you expect?" Starlight said, annoyed. She felt a sharp pain in her hoof when she stepped on something sharp. She looked down and saw the phone smashed to pieces.

"The phone!" Starlight gasped. "The proof!"

Twilight looked at her, confused. "What proof?"

"There was a recording of a pony that died to these animatronics." Starlight said as she scanned through the cameras and closed the right door. "And I would've shown it to Celestia, but then you came along." She sighed.

"I'm so sorry, Starlight." She said sadly.

Starlight looked up. Was she holding back tears?

"I-I-It's fine, Twilight." Starlight stammered. "Not that it really cared anyway." She said, although she was lying to her and herself.

"Well," Twilight sat down on the floor. "If I'm going to be here, I might as well be useful."

"Wait what." Starlight looked behind her. "You're staying here?"

"Yeah. If your going through your final night, I thought it would be good to have a friend with you."

"Well, thank you." Starlight nodded, grateful. "But you might have to go through the basics, such as, don't mess with those lights. They drain power." Starlight said as Twilight kept pressing the light button. "But it seems that Bonnie is gone so..."

She opened the left door, which made Twilight jump.

"I can't believe that you had to go through this..." Twilight stared in disbelief.

"Yeah? Well, I'm a tough pony. I can handle a few animatronics, but hey, I'm not scared of them anymore." Starlight simply said. "If the power goes out and/or they are in the office, I'll kick their butts with my magic like how I kicked your butt when I went back in time."

Twilight looked at her hotly. "Now hold on just a minute-"

She was interrupted when Starlight silenced her with her hoof. "Listen."

Twilight gasped when she heard low pitched laughter in the background. "Who is that?!"

"Freddy." Starlight answered. "The big bear himself, and a very tedious animatronic to deal with. Mostly hangs around in the shadows."

Twilight jumped a little bit when she heard low humming in the background. “And who is making that noise?” she asked as she pointed to the left side.

“Foxy. Another tedious animatronic. He’s unlike the others.”

“What do you mean?” Twilight was startled when she heard running footsteps at her side. Starlight rushed to the door button, but Twilight was faster and quickly pressed the door button, causing the power to drain.

“Like that.” Starlight said after Foxy ran off.

Hours had passed and Twilight was finally getting the hang of what to do. She was on the left side, while Starlight handled the right. Starlight instructed her about the sounds and what to do when the others drew near.

She looked at her tablet, only to find out that the percentage is 34%

“Twilight, are you using the doors a lot more often?” Starlight turned around to face her former mentor. She saw that the door was closed, and no animatronic was even around at the time.

“Twilight Sparkle!” Starlight let out an exasperated sigh and opened the door.

“What? The animatronic might be hiding, you never know!” Twilight defended herself.

“Oh, they don’t hide. You can hear their footsteps, making them easily spotted.” she said calmly but she was still angry. She literally told her to only close the doors when the animatronics are nearby, yet it seemed to fade away in her mind.

Twilight sighed. “I’m sorry, Starlight. I just can’t get used to this atmosphere. Honestly, I don’t know how you do it.”

Starlight’s anger faded. She sighed too. “It’s ok, Twilight. You didn’t know.”

“But I’m putting you in danger.” Twilight almost looked like she was about to cry again. “Maybe I shouldn’t be here.” she lit up her horn to cast a teleportation spell.

“No!” Starlight stopped her, while keeping an eye on the animatronics at the same time. “Twilight, please stay. I’m sorry I got angry at you. It's just been stressful lately. In fact,” Starlight’s ears lowered in shame. It was about time she told her this. “I’m sorry about my outburst a few days before. I know you’re just trying to protect me.”

“And I’m sorry too.” Twilight said after a few moments of silence.

“What do you mean?”

“I should’ve pushed Celestia into closing this restaurant days before. And it's all my fault that I didn’t. The truth is, I wanted to give Fazbear a chance.”

“You what?” Starlight couldn’t believe her ears. “But you heard about the murders, the Bite, everything that was fishy about that place!”

Twilight interrupted her by raising her hoof. “I know, but I put aside those facts because... well... I loved this franchise. I was happy the day that it opened. I just thought that maybe Fazbear would surprise me. That it would grow out of the weeds of the murder phase and be the pizzeria that anyone can enjoy. But I guess I was wrong.”

“So that’s why you didn’t insist to close it?”

Twilight slowly nodded. “I knew it would close down eventually, since Celestia ordered it. But I was hoping that it would have a good run while it lasted.”

Starlight looked at her in a shocked, but understanding way, while looking at the cameras and closing the doors.

“Twilight...” she was at a loss for words.

She looked at the clock. 5am.

“Well, Twilight.” Starlight touched Twilight’s chin to look at her. “It’s almost over.”

“That’s a relief. I don’t know if I can stay here much longer.” she chuckled a little bit.

She and Twilight exchanged smiles.

Then the lights turned off.

“WHAT?!” Starlight screamed in horror.

Twilight immediately got up. “What is it?”

“The power went out.” Starlight gazed in horror. “I think I left the doors closed for too long.”

“So, what now?” Just as Twilight said that a jingle played beside her and Freddy’s eyes glowed.

“Gah!” Twilight jumped back.

Starlight and Twilight held on to each other as the jingle continued playing, both terrified to the core. Starlight didn’t check the time to see if she was close or farther from six. She prayed that it was the former.

The jingle suddenly stopped, she and Twilight were in pitch darkness now.

Cmon, 6am. COME ON 6AM.

“So is something supposed to happen or-” She was suddenly cut off when something grabbed her horn and her mouth. She let out muffles of screams through the mouth.

“Starlight!” She could make out her muffled name through her mouth.

“Twilight!” Starlight lit up her horn and saw that Freddy lifted her up in the air and made demonic static noises. Starlight’s horn burned brighter and charged up her magic to save her friend from death but was instantly slapped away by Chica. She was knocked to the wall, and Chica stared down at her with a death glare. Her eyes were replaced with black eye sockets, with only a white dot remaining. Then she grabbed her horn similar to how Freddy grabbed Twilight's.

Starlight turned to see Freddy holding Twilight near his mouth, almost about to bite her, just like the previous victims.

"No-" Starlight was choked out when Chica grabbed her throat.

When she looked at the chicken, she saw the same hallucinations of Bonnie and Freddy, with the words "IT'S ME" hovering above them.

Starlight closed her eyes, her ears being deafened by Twilight's desperate screams for help. Starlight felt like a monster. She was the reason it was happening to them right now, and all because she left the door closed. And now she can't even help Twilight.

She now expected to hear either the skull crushing sound coming from Twilight, or expected herself to feel the same way.

...
...
...

Starlight opened her eyes, and Twilight suddenly stopped screaming.

She saw that Chica loosened her grip, while she was still staring at her, not moving, while Freddy was in locked position.

Just then, Twilight was startled by a sound that came next. While to Starlight, it was the best sound she heard in her life.

The clock chimed six.

"Thank Celestia!" Starlight let out a deep breath. She then realized that she wasn't clutching to her horn as much.

She used a teleportation spell on herself, and on Twilight, teleporting them outside the office.

Twilight was stunned like a deer in the headlights. Her hooves were staggering.

"Twilight?" Starlight waved her hooves to the mare.

"I- we just- how did-" she was stummering like crazy.

Starlight closed her mouth with her hoof. "I know. I can't believe it either."

Twilight then staggered to the restaurant door. "This. This place. Has NO CHANCE. Of being open. Any. Longer." she rubbed her forehead. "I'll see you back at the castle. I got an essay to write." She said as she flew away.

Starlight chuckled, while looking at the sky from the inside. Thankful that she and Twilight somehow made it through alive, and that her days of being here will finally be over.

While Starlight stayed at the pizzeria, waiting for Lile's friend, the rest of the pizzeria staff went over and put the animationics back in their places.

Starlight gazed at the animatronics with a somewhat respectable look. They tried. They tried to hard to beat her. And they were very close, but unfortunately for them, miracle was at Starlight's side.

Better luck next time, creepos.

Then something caught her eye as a pony opened the door. He was a purple unicorn with dark purple hair. He was wearing a white suit with a black tie. His cutie mark was a yellow badge.

"Hello?" he called out in a husky voice. "Anyone here named Starlight Shimmer?"

"It's Glimmer." Starlight corrected the pony.

"Ah, sorry. These names are kind of hard to remember." He dipped his head apologetically.

"No worries. I assume you are a friend of Liles?" Starlight asked the purple pony.

He nodded. "Yes I am. He wanted me to give you this."

He handed out a sack of bits. Starlight opened up and inspected each of them to make sure that the make wasn't filled with rocks.

"This makes my time here worthwhile." Starlight murmured.

When she looked up, she saw that the purple pony was staring up at the animatronics that were on the stage. "Sad how these guys will be going sometime soon." He said mildly.

"I'm not." Starlight added.

The pony chuckled. "Of course not. You had to endure the pain of watching over them."

"Yeah, and my life was on the line a few times." Starlight sighed. "But I'm just happy that this whole thing is over."

The pony nodded. "You know," he said suddenly. "You're one brave pony. Anyone would've left the restaurant as soon as their first shift ends. You are very different from them. And I have to say, me and Liles are very impressed."

Starlight was shocked. She never expected a compliment from a pony that she just met. "Thank you."

The pony was about to say more, but he was interrupted when one of the staff members screamed in pure horror.

"What's wrong?" The purple pony demanded.

The staff members went behind the stage and dragged out a pony's body. And Starlight felt tears flow through her face when she recognized who it was.

It had been weeks since her final night at Freddy’s. Newspapers had been going on like wildfire since the news of the death of Liles Burton, who would be the last victim of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. Starlight remembered that cruel morning, where she saw the death of a potential friend. He died the same way that Twilight would’ve died, his head had been bitten brutally.

But even if Lile’s didn’t die, Twilight made sure to Celestia that Freddy’s was an unsafe place for foals and that it needed to be shut down immediately; Lile’s death was just the cherry on top.

So, Celestia shut the business down, finally, and sold the animatronics somewhere else. Hopefully far, far away from where Starlight and her friends are.

And after going through torturing nightmares since that day, Starlight can finally rest well, and not have to worry about going to a death trap every night.

She brushed her mane once more and headed downstairs to where Spike and Twilight were eating some haycakes.

“Good morning, Starlight!” Twilight greeted, and Spike said the same thing.

“Good morning to the both of you.” Starlight sighed happily. She grabbed a packet of hot coco and poured it onto some hot water in her brand-new Trixie cup.

“I still can’t believe that we went through that nightmare.” Twilight said, remembering the night where she and Starlight were dangerously close to death. “But you managed to pull through.”

“Yeah, I guess I did.” Starlight heated up the cup with her magic and drank from it.

“I’m sorry that your friend died though.” Twilight added sadly. “But at least he will be the last victim at Freddy’s for a good while.”

“Yeah.” Starlight sadly remembered Liles, and someone else. “Especially his friend, he looked pretty shaken up when he heard about the death of his friend.”

“That purple pony you were talking about?” Spike added.

“Yeah, him. He’s mysterious, and he’s a pretty decent pony.” Starlight looked out the window. “I probably won’t see him again sometime soon now that Freddy’s is discontinued.”

“I see.” Twilight joined her at her side. “Did you ever get the name of the pony?”

“He never told me his last name, I don’t think.” Starlight pondered as she stared outside. “But I do remember his first name though.”

“Which is...?”

“William.”

Just then she got startled she heard whispers that kept saying “IT’S ME.” numerous times.

“Is everything ok?” Twilight asked when she saw Starlight’s sudden reaction.

She just shook her head. “No, just a gust of wind.”

Author's Note

I hope you guys enjoyed this last chapter (which is admittingly a little darker than the previous ones), and the story in general. It’s been really fun writing the chapters about the mysterious Freddy Fazbear’s, and of course, writing Starlight is fun too.

And if you didn’t like it, well, thank you for at least reading this note. I greatly appreciate it.

Now she won’t have to worry about Freddy Fazbear’s anytime soon :D

For a while at least

-Catpaw616