Equestrian Nights

Fluttershy drove along the road until she spotted it: Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. She parked her car and walked toward the restaurant, anxiously. For some weird reason she was getting a really bad feeling from the restaurant.

The area that once to appeared have been a garden was overgrown with weeds and wilting flowers. Dead vines covered the walls of the restaurant, growing all over the windows and brick walls.

Fluttershy whimpered in fear but continued to walk towards the entrance. When she reached the front entrance, she looked up and saw the pizzeria's sign with all of its animal characters waving hello in a friendly manner.

Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria, the sign read. Where fantasy and fun come to life!

Fluttershy rang the doorbell a few times until a man came and unlocked the door.

"Well, you must be Ms. Shy! Welcome!" the man said, putting his hand out to shake the girl's hand. Fluttershy nervously shook the man's hand.

Despite the man's reassuring smile, she felt something was off about him.

"Well, come on in. I don't bite." the man joked. Fluttershy nervously chuckled and followed the man into the pizzeria.

The two walked down the hall and into the dining room. The floor had a checkerboard pattern with black and white tiles. In the dining room were dozens of tables with party hats put on top of them in a straight line and covered in white fabric with small multicolored specks. "So you called about the job opening?" the man asked. "The security guard?

"Um, yes." Fluttershy replied. Although the place was giving off a weird vibe, she had no other choice. "I have my resume here."

"Great! I'll take that. While I go read this, why don't ya take a walk around the place? Get a feel of it." the man said.

Before Fluttershy could respond, the man was already walking away to what she assumed was his office. She checked around the dining room for a bit until she decided to check out the rest of pizzeria. She walked into a section called "Arcade." This section was littered with several arcade cabinets. Unfortunately, most of them were broken. The only few that were still functioning were ones like BB's Balloon Adventure, Princess Quest, and Mangle's Quest. These games seemed be programmed to be themed around the pizzeria itself. In one corner of the arcade was a prize counter. Kids would've gone here to trade in their tickets that they won from playing games for special prizes. Most of the lowest costing prizes ranged from pencils to small erasers while the most expensive prize was a medium-sized, brown robot dog.

Fluttershy checked out some of the other rooms like the kitchen which looked like any other restaurant but with a lots of pizza ovens, obviously because it was a pizzeria, the birthday room which was exclusive to boys and girls that had their birthday party here, and both boy's and girl's bathrooms.

But what stood out the most was what stood on the center stage. The restaurant's main attraction: the animatronics. They stood completely motionless on the stage. The characters consisted of a brown bear with a top hat and microphone in its hand, a purple rabbit with a red bow tie and an electric guitar. She thought Rainbow Dash would really like that character since she too was a guitarist. The third character was some sort of bird, either a chicken or a duck, holding up a cupcake that looked to be an animatronic too and a bib that read, "Let's Eat!".

"Amazing, aren't they?"

Fluttershy promply jumped a bit, startled.

"Oh, my apologies." The manager said. "Didn't mean to frighten ya."

"It's okay." Fluttershy said, turning back to the main stage. "So, these must be the animatronics."

"Yup, that's Bonnie the Bunny, Chica the Chicken, and the main man himself; Freddy Fazbear." The manager explained. "Aren't they just adorable?"

"Um, yeah, I guess." Fluttershy said. Honestly, the animatronics just looked creepy, but she kept that thought to herself as to not offend the manager.

"Want me to show you something?" The manager said, excitedly.

Before Fluttershy could respond, the man had already walked over to a large red button, with the words Party Time! written above it. To Fluttershy's surprise the animal characters started move around and talk.

Welcome, children, to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza! I'm Freddy Fazbear and these are my two pals: Bonnie the Bunny..

Hiya!

...and Chica the Chicken.

Hello there, little ones!

We're so excited to celebrate this faz-tastic day! But before we start, let's all sing a little song togeth-togeth-toget...

"Ah, not again!" The manager groaned. As Freddy continued to glitch out, the manager flipped a switch which caused all the animatronics to shut off immediately.

"Well, that was embarrassing." The manager said, looking at the ground. "I should really hire a repairman, not that it really matters anymore."

The manager then noticed a Fluttershy and awkwardly smiled at her. "Sorry about that. They've been malfunctioning a lot recently. How about we move on?"

Fluttershy nodded her head and followed the man away from the stage. As she walked through the dining room, she noticed some purple curtains with stars all over them in the farside of the room.

"Uh, what's that?" Fluttershy said, pointing to the curtains.

"Oh, that. That's our other animatronic, Foxy." The manager said, walking over to the little area. He pulled the curtains away revealing a large, red fox animatronic.

Fluttershy took notice of the eyepatch and the sharp hook on the robot's right arm, believing this animatronic must be themed after pirates. She also noticed that it looked more withered than the animatronics up on a stage. The poor robot has a huge gash in its chest and the legs of its endoskeleton were completely exposed.

"What happened to him?" Fluttershy asked, feeling a bit bad for the animatronic's condition.

"Oh, Foxy? Yeah, he used to perform for the kids just like the other until he kept malfunctioning so much that he had to be shut down. He was just becoming too much of a liability." The manager said, pointing to the 'Out of Order' sign.

"We were hoping we could get him up running again but then the pizzeria was shut down and well, he just kinda remains here now."

Despite the robot not actually being alive, Fluttershy couldn't help but feel bad for him.

"Wait, if the restaurant is closed down, why do you need a night guard?" Fluttershy asked. "If you don't mind me asking."

"Ah, well, I suppose I should explain that. Follow me." The manager said.

Fluttershy began to follow him but felt something was off. When she turned around, she looked as if the robots looked like they were staring directly at her. She shook her head, believing it was just her fear getting the better of her.

It was all in her head. Right?