Jeremy's eyes widen in alarm and worry. Did this guy said what he thought he said?

"'Poor career choice'?" Jeremy ask meekly, getting a bit freaked out.

"Ha ha ha! Just kidding. Yeah, I thought I would give you a little scare to ease up the tension of your new job."

"Well, it didn't work, pal." Jeremy remarks dryly, a bit annoyed and unamused by the fact that caller was trying to scare him.

"Uh yeah. My other co-workers didn't thought it was good either."

"You're the Phone Guy, right?" Jeremy ask the caller as he checks through the cameras carefully.

"Yeah, that's me. Uh, hello and welcome to your new summer job at the new and improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Uh, I'm here to talk you through some of the things you can expect to see during your first week here and to help you get started down this new and exciting career path. Uh, now, I want you to forget anything you may have heard about the old location, you know. Uh, some ponies still have a somewhat negative impression of the company. Uh... that old restaurant was kind of left to rot for quite a while, but I want to reassure you, Fazbear Entertainment is committed to family fun and above all, safety."

"Right, of course." Jeremy said with a nod.

"They've spent a small fortune on these new animatronics, uh, facial recognition, advanced mobility, they even let them walk around during the day. Isn't that neat?"

"Yeah, of course." Jeremy said. He can hears the Phone Guy clearing his throat.

"But most importantly, they're all tied into some kind of criminal database, so they can detect a predator a mile away. Heck, we should be paying them to guard you. Uh, now that being said, no new system's without its... kinks. Uh... you're only the second guard to work at that location. Uh, the first guy, Roughhouse, finished his week, but complained about... conditions. Uh, we switched him over to the day shift, so hey, lucky you, right?"

"So wait, what's wrong with the animatronics?" Jeremy ask the Phone Guy in concern as he switch the tablet to the feed with the original animatronics.

"Uh mainly he expressed concern that certain characters seemed to move around at night, and even attempted to get into his office. Now, from what we know, that should be impossible. Uh, that restaurant should be the safest place on earth. So while our engineers don't really have an explanation for this, the working theory is that... the robots were never given a proper "night mode". So when it gets quiet, they think they're in the wrong room, so then they go try to find where the ponies are, and in this case, that's your office."

"Great, just great." Jeremy said with a groan. "So what is your idea to deal with this?"

"So our temporary solution is this: there's a music box over by the Prize Counter, and it's rigged to be wound up remotely. So just, every once in a while, switch over to the Prize Counter video feed and wind it up for a few seconds. It doesn't seem to affect all of the animatronics, but it does affect... one of them."

As the Phone Guy is heard clearing his throat again, Jeremy switch the tablet's image to the Prize Counter. He was wondering what the "Wind up Music Box" function is for. Must be for that Puppet/Marionette thing. It begins to wind down, making the Pegasus yelps and wound it up quickly.

"Uh, and as for the rest of them, we have an even easier solution. You see, there may be a minor glitch in the system, something about robots seeing you as an endoskeleton without his costume on, and wanting to stuff you in a suit, so hey, we've given you an empty Freddy Fazbear head, problem solved! You can put it on anytime, and leave it on for as long as you want. Eventually anything that wandered in, will wander back out."

Jeremy took out the head that looks like the head of Freddy. The pony was wondering what it's for. Looks like if those robots try to wander in here, hopefully this would fool them!

"Uh, something else worth mentioning is kind of the modern design of the building. You may have noticed there are no doors for you to close, heh. But hey, you have a light! And even though your flashlight can run out of power, the building cannot. So, don't worry about the place going dark."

Jeremy checks his flashlight, shining the light down the hall. He got to be careful since the flashlight is only refill with new batteries every morning.

"Well, I think that's it. Uh, you should be golden. Uh, check the lights, put on the Freddy head if you need to, uh, keep the music box wound up, piece of cake. Have a good night, and I'll talk to you tomorrow."

The phone hangs up, ending the call. Jeremy sighs as he got to work. The Pegasus is in for a looooong night.

Jeremy checks the cameras...and is surprised to see that Toy Bonnie is gone. The Pegasus checks the camera and found the bunny in Party Room 3. How the hay did it get there so fast?

Jeremy sighs and switches to Prize Counter, winding up the music box. Once he's done, the Pegasus checks on Toy Bonnie. Still there.

Jeremy now goes back to the Sound Stage...and finds that Toy Chica is missing! Quickly, the pony changes the feed over to Party Room 1! There's the chicken...with her beak gone, making her face looks like one candy M&M! It freaks him out just spotting Toy Chica like that.

Jeremy hears a noise coming from the entrance. The Pegasus put his tablet down, shining his flashlight down the hall. To his shock, there's Toy Freddy, looking around, saying, "Ponies? Is there any ponies in here? Hey, anyone in there!"

Jeremy gulps a bit and quickly put his tablet. He hopes to the Herd that Toy Freddy would leave him alone. The Pegasus pony goes back to the Prize Counter, winding up the music box once more. Jeremy looks up and shines his flashlight. To his relief, Toy Freddy is gone.

But then Jeremy hears noises coming from the Right Air Vent, quickly press the light switch. There's Toy Bonnie about to come in! Quickly, the pony put the mask on, waiting.

The lights in the room flash on and off as Toy Bonnie came in, sliding in front of the newcomer, glancing at him curiously.

"Hello? Are you new here?" Toy Bonnie ask Jeremy. The disguised pony nervously nodded. "Any ponies? I just want to entertain them. Their voices (makes my damn ears bleed) entertain me so much (that I want to vomit)."

Jeremy shakes his head quickly. Toy Bonnie frowns but goes back the same way he came in. After a while, the new night guard took the mask sighing a bit. That was a close one!

Jeremy nervously check the time: 2 AM. The new guy got time left to go here!

As he kept his eye on the office, Jeremy was checking through the cameras.

"This is like looking for gems in a mine." Jeremy mumbled a bit. "I wish I got gem finding magic, but then I would be some greedy fussy unicorn to have it."

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In the present, Sweetie happily pointed out, "Hey! My sister is a greedy, fussy unicorn!"

"I am not greedy OR fussy!" Rarity snapped in annoyance.

"Relax, Rarity. He probably meant some other greedy, fussy unicorn." Rainbow said, adding a hidden chuckle.

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Jeremy made sure to rewind the music box. He heard noises coming from the right air vent, causing him to turn the light on. He yelps and spots Toy Chica in there.

"Yikes!" Jeremy exclaimed as he put the mask on. And just in time as Toy Chica came out, looking around.

"Where are the ponies? Hello? Any ponies in here?" Toy Chica spoke in a voice that a chipmunk would be proud of.

"Uh, n-nope, no ponies here!" Jeremy said while wearing the mask in a disguised voice.

Toy Chica blinked, looking at him carefully. She asked, "You sure? Because if we found ponies, we are supposed to (to k-k-k-k-kill) entertain them!"

"No, ponies, just us robots." Jeremy said nervously. He must be careful not to use his real voice or she may recognize him.

Toy Chica sighed before leaving the room. Once the chicken was gone, Jeremy took the mask off, sighing.

"Close one." Jeremy said as he got back to work. So far, the Foxy update and BB remained where they were. He hate to deal with those two.

Jeremy yelped as his tablet was pushed closed...by Toy Freddy! As the room flashed, the Pegasus didn't waste time in putting his mask back on.

"Hey, seen any ponies here? Place is quiet." Toy Freddy grumbled. "(Like a tomb of the damned!)"

"Haven't seen any ponies." Jeremy replied in his disguised voice under the mask.

Toy Freddy frowned then spoke, "(The ponies will rue the day when the Dark Mystic Ponies come to eradicate them and spill their blood across the soils!)"

Toy Freddy left the room, allowing Jeremy to take the mask off. He sighed while checking the time. 4:00 AM. Boy, had time come by quickly in this place!

Jeremy checked the cameras anxiously. Toy Freddy was back in the Show Stage, Toy Chica was in the first Party Room, while Toy Bonnie was in the second party room. He hoped to the Herd that they stayed there this time!

"So far, so good." Jeremy mumbled a bit.

As Jeremy looked through the cameras, he noticed two ponies in Foal's Cove. The Pegasus saw one saddened as he heard their voices.

"Sister, I am saddened about this as well, but why are we here this late at night?" The first voice, a stallion, asked his sister in concern.

The sister's voice explained, "Brother, it is the only chance we can come here to think of a plan, and also, I want to talk with Mangle."

"Sister, Mangle is not active." The brother's voice pointed out. He then noticed Mangle twitches and looked at the two. The newcomer backed up lightly, horn glowing. "It just moved, sister, get back."

"Easy, brother, she will not hurt us.” The sister's voice informed her brother.

The Mangle looked at them both, but it noticed something about the two; one of them was a pink pony. She's looking at her and to anypony watching's surprise, Mangle nuzzled the pink pony, who nuzzled back.

"You can trust me and my brother, Mangle." The pink pony assured the Mangle. It stopped and looked at the camera, licking its teeth, but the pink pony lightly held her head. "Mangle, to let you know, the guard in that room is not who you think he is, trust me."

The pink pony looked at the camera, looking at Jeremy through it and finished what she said, "He is not wearing a security hat; he is not who you are hunting, trust me."

Mangle looked at her and her head moved up and down slowly. The pink pony let her go as the Mangle climbed up the wall to the ceiling. The Alicorn, AKA the first voice, shivered as he added, "It is almost like a large spider when she does that."

"Brother, you can't blame her. Besides, by the time the 5th or 6th night comes around and when whoever does the day shift arrives, our plan will be put into action, but for now, we best hide." The pink pony said calmly. "Do not want that Puppet seeing us."

"Not needing to tell me, twice, sister." The brother said. "One cloaking spell, coming up."

His horn glowed and the two ponies became hidden as they moved from where they were.

"What the hay was that about?" Jeremy mumbled in concern. "Who are those two and what are they on about?"

Suddenly, Jeremy heard the song 'Pop Goes the Weasel' playing, making him confused.

"Where is that music coming from?" Jeremy asked in concern. That music was playing throughout the place.

Jeremy's eyes widened as he checked the feed for the Prize Counter. To his horror, the music box was winded down! He had forgotten to wind the thing back up!

As the music stopped, the new night guard yelped, "Oh, horse feathers, what?"

Suddenly, Jeremy heard a roar and looked up to see the Marionette jumping into the room, leaping right at him.

Jeremy screamed in fright as the Marionette got closer...

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It was another day at Fredbear's Family Diner. The foals are cheering as Freddy is serving cake to them. The robot is programmed to do so, and enjoys doing so. Freddy loves seeing the foals happy.

Well, not all foals are happy. Outside is a little colt who is black with a weird symbol on his head. He has a white mane, a horn, a short white tail, and his cutie mark...it doesn't appear to be anything that one has ever saw before. The colt, Charles Le Damien...he wanted to come inside. But no, some sort of force field is keeping the little one out.

"Try some cake." Freddy said to the foals happily. The animatronic knew that Charles is outside. He wanted to help, but alas, Freddy is programmed to stay inside the diner at all times. No exceptions.

Freddy spots something else as he serves cake to the six kids. A purple carriage pulls out from outside...with some sort of purple unicorn coming out. The colt didn't have time to respond or cry out as the unicorn with the scar smirks wickedly and uses his magic to summon a knife.

Freddy can only watch as Charles is stabbed to death, making him cry harder. No one can hear him out there, no one even came to rescue the poor pony. And when the murderer is done, he got back into the carriage and drove off, leaving the foal gray upon getting killed.

"S-A-V-E-H-H-I-M"

"No." Freddy said, feeling bad. He kept on doing his task but will never forget what happened...

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Jeremy was knocked to the floor by the Marionette. The Puppet smirks wickedly as he held up a hand as if ready to cut his throat right in. The Pegasus can only stare, preparing for the worst...

Suddenly the sound of a clock chiming is heard, along with foals cheering. The Marionette stops as he glares at the clock. 6 AM. The shift is over.

The Marionette growls, saying to the new night guard, "You got lucky, night guard...next night? It's going to be Tartarus. The Dark Mystic Ponies will not be stopped!"

Thus, the Marionette jumps up and returns to the darkness. Jeremy gulps as he held his own neck while getting up. That was a close one! That Marionette almost killed him! So why the buck didn't he finish him off?

Jeremy checks the cameras, seeing the animatronics returning to their place of position. The Pegasus is guessing that they are programmed to do so at the end of every night shift so the customers in the day won't think twice of what's happening.

Jeremy sighs as he got his key and ID pass, preparing to head out. The night guard is pondering how long this has been going on. Is this why Roughhouse was switch to day shift? And that vision of that colt getting killed...what was that about?

Jeremy passed through the party room, giving looks to the animatronics, posing and smiling as if nothing has gone wrong. The Pegasus suspects that they're laughing at him without doing so in real life, planning on getting him the next night.

Jeremy didn't waste time in going out the door, locking the place up and heads on his way.

Author's Notes:

Phew! Jeremy survived that night, but what was the vision about? Will he survive Night 2, especially when the old animatronics come out to play? Read, review and suggest!