I was sitting on the couch, flipping through the channels as I tried to hold back my tears.

I eventually lost the battle and lowered my head, feeling the tears fill up my eyes and slide down my cheeks and falling onto the couch.

“Why did he have to do it? Why couldn’t he just let it go?” I thought.

Jet was a happy stallion before we moved to that second location. What happened there that was so bad?

Well I’ll never know... He wouldn’t tell me and I don’t know where he is now.

I brushed a strand of my pink mane away from my face and wiped my eyes, sniffing loudly and using the other hoof to pick up a tissue. I blew my nose with it and tossed it down into the trash can next to me, picking up the empty tissue box and dropping it into a bag of empty tissue boxes.

I put my head down on my hoof and began to think about anything, anything at all that I could have done that would have caused him to become this way. But nothing came to mine. So it must have been from his job as the night guard.

But what could have happened that was so bad that it caused him to become like this? It couldn’t have just been some simple thief who broke in.

The first time I can remember him every acting strange is when he finished his very first shift as the night guard in the first location. He jumped into my hooves when Pinkie turned on and screamed.

I looked out the window, it was getting pretty dark outside. But if I was going to find the answers I’m looking for, then I’ll have to get to the first location and look through the security tapes. Jet never let me look through them, saying that they were just boring tapes of him sitting down and throwing a ball back and forth at a wall.

I opened the door and turned, locking it and closing it. I opened my wings and flew up, flying to the old location.

I flew down as I got there, looking at the sign that showed Pinkie and all her friends with smiles on their faces. I smiled at the sight of the animatronic friends, and the joy they brought to foals and colts.

I looked down to the door and looked around, seeing nopony around I tried to open the door. But, naturally, it was locked.

I walked around the building to the secret entrance in the back that, thankfully, I overlooked back when the place was shut down so we could move to the next location.

I opened the door, creating a loud creaking sound that echoed through the building.

I entered the old building and put a box down in front of the door, stopping it from closing.

The building was still visibly old. The painting on the walls was cracking and I could hear some various creaking sounds resonating from deeper within.

I took a deep breath and took a step inside. “Okay Fluttershy... You can do this. Just find those security tapes and watch them. Then you can leave.” I thought to myself.

I walked deeper into the building, finding the night guard office and entering, looking around.

“Now where would they be?” I asked. I don’t remember Jet taking any boxes from the security office. The place still looked the same. The cupcake thing was there, the poster of Pinkie and her friends, and the old spin chair Jet loved.

I looked around, unable to find any boxes that held the security tapes. Or any boxes for that matter.

I walked up to the front desk and looked under it, not finding anything. I sighed and looked down.

“What happened to you Jet?” I asked myself.

I lifted my head but bumped it against the desk. I heard something hit the floor and saw a VHS tape on the floor.

I picked it up, rubbing my head, and read the words on the tape.

“Five Nights at Pinkie’s. Keep away from Fluttershy.” I read.

I looked around and found the TV, plugging it in and putting in the tape.

I hit the play button and sat down on the chair as I put the TV on the desk.

I saw Jet walk inside the office and sit down on the chair, nearly jumping back out of it as the phone in the office began to ring.

Jet answered the phone and it started playing a prerecorded message made by a stallion named Flash Sentry, the night guard at the time.

Flash Sentry went on saying that Jet made a big mistake taking the job and that the animatronics would move around and hunt him down so they could shove Jet into an empty exoskeleton suit.

He must have been trying to scare Jet a little, just as a tease or something.

Jet looked down at the tablet and his wings went down and I could see his whole body shaking. The camera was in an angle at the back of the room, so I could see over Jet’s shoulder and see tablet’s screen.

I felt my own body start to shake as I looked at the tablet screen, seeing the Stage.... With Applejack missing.

I watched through the tape, only to watch Jet screaming and freaking out, flying out faster than anything I’ve ever seen as soon as the bell rang.

I watched through the three others, which were just Jet freaking out at the whole thing as he shut the doors.

Sometimes during the third and fourth night I would hear something bang against the left door after Jet closed it and looked back at the tablet.

I could kind of see into the hole the room has in it on the right side. And sometimes, before Jet shuts the door on the right side, I could see something that was white. I didn’t know what it was, but I kept having a thought that it was Rarity.

But that couldn’t be it! .... Could it? No! There’s no way that the animatronics could move around freely! No, this must just be some weird error thing on the camera or something.

I turned my attention back to the TV as it showed the fifth night Jet worked, which began calm enough, but with Jet freaking out earlier than normal.

The night went on and I started to hear more banging at the left door before all of it just stopped and Jet began looking around as if he was confused about something.

I felt my eyes suddenly get extremely heavy and forced themselves shut before opening again, and I could feel my body begin to shake as I saw something in the closed room with Jet. In the room, both doors closed, sat the purple animatronic suit from the back room.

The very same suit we wanted to mold in honor of Shining Armor’s sister, Midnight Glow. I could see Jet stare at the thing and brace himself, as if he was expecting it to do something. But it just sat there, staring directly at him with it’s black, dark eyes.

Jet was staring at the tablet, but as soon as the animatronic suit appeared he lowered it.

Then, the room went dark. Jet began panting wildly, freaking out. Then, to my horror, out of the left side of the room I saw the Applejack animatronic and the Rainbow Dash animatronic walk into the room as Jet watched then, shaking.

Then, to the right, I saw the Rarity and Pinkie Pie animatronics walk inside.

I was staring at the screen, wide eyed at what I was seeing. The animatronics stood there, staring at Jet as he shook in fear.

He lowered his head after a while of staring at them and I could hear him crying.

I could hear him mumble something, which caused the animatronics, except the purple suit, to lean forward as if they were asking him to speak up.

“I’m sorry.” He said, his head lowered.

The creatures backed up and started chuckling.

“I’m sorry. I’m so, so, so sorry.” He said. I could hear him sobbing as he spoke, indicating he was crying. “I’m a monster. I’m not saying that I expect you all to forgive me, I’m just saying that I need to say that I’m sorry. It wasn’t all me. I was put up to it.” The animatronics stared at each other, then back to him. “I didn’t want to kill any of you, honest, but I was forced to. If I didn’t then the man would kill me, Fluttershy, and everypony who meant the world to me.”

“Jet was put up to it?” I thought.

The creatures seemed to light up as soon as Jet mentioned my name, leaving me to guess they must like me.

“I’m a disgusting pony. What I did was a disgusting waste of pony life. It was a mistake that I wish I could take back. But I can’t. Faust knows I should die. And now seems to be the appropriate time for it to happen.” He said, holding his head high up.

The animatronics turned their heads to stare at the purple animatronic, as if they were waiting for it to respond.

They all then turned their head to him and he braced himself again.

But nothing happened, soon Jet began to relax himself and the animatronics were just staring at him.

Then the bell rang, it was 6:00. The creatures looked at the purple one and my eyes were forced closed and the purple suit was gone. The animatronics walked out of the room, quiet, not making a sound. Jet just stood there, not making a sound either, he probably was wondering what had happened.

I stared at the screen, too busy being shocked at the fact that the animatronics were walking freely and the purple one was teleporting or whatever, to even think about what had just happened.

There were so many questions going on in my mind, and I couldn’t find the answers to any.

The screen started going to static and I hit the TV a little, making the screen go back to normal.

The screen showed Jet with another stallion, Jet reading a magazine and the stallion looking at the tablet. Then the screen started going to static again and it returned to normal, but I could see the stallion being dragged from the room by the animatronics.

The screen went to static as my jaw fell open, the screen went back to normal and it showed Jet with the animatronics in the room.

The animatronics were flashing light from their eyes, the Pinkie Pie one standing next to Jet as it shone a light at a magazine he was reading it, the Rainbow Dash one was just leaning against the wall, and the Rarity and Applejack animatronics walked out of the room through opposite doors with their heads held up high as if they had just gotten done with an argument.

Jet looked up from the magazine and looked at the Pinkie Pie animatronic. “Fluttershy would hate to see you guys like this... Well, murderous, I mean. She’d just hate having to be forced to get rid of you guys due to you being too dangerous.” He said to the animatronic. “That’s why I have to keep your guy’s sentience a secret.”

The camera started going to static and the screen turned black, leaving me in the darkness with the never ending mental picture of the animatronics dragging the stallion away, and the animatronics staring at Jet.

I looked down and I saw something at the bottom of the TV. I lifted the TV and saw it was a picture taped to the bottom of the TV. I took the picture off and saw that it was a picture of me, with writing on it.

“Do the job. Or her wings come off.” It read.

I dropped the photo, unable to fully process what was happening.

I heard some creaking from deeper inside the building and I ran out with fear.

I ran home and closed the door, slamming it closed and locking it with every lock I had and using a chair from the kitchen to hold it closed.

I ran up the stairs and closed the bedroom door, jumping in the bed and hiding underneath the covers as my whole body shaked.

I couldn’t get the mental image of the animatronics out of my mind, and I could feel my body shaking more at the thought.

“So that’s why Jet couldn’t let the animatronics get off his mind...” I thought. “Oh Faust... Jet....” Next Chapter: How He Got Here Estimated time remaining: 5 Minutes