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In the bowels of Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizzaplex, a black and orange daycare animatronic was putting the finishing touches on a project that would hopefully make his job more tolerable.

After seven months of intricate design, construction, and programming, Eclipse had finally crafted two assistants to help him in the daycare. He was honestly surprised Fazbear hadn’t thought to do this initially, but then again, Fazbear sucked.

After all, they were the ones who approved a play area full of safety hazards, potentially illegal candy, and a ball pit that always had something gross inside of it. They didn’t hire any human staff to handle the complaints that came in from parents who didn’t want to listen to the “thing,” and they didn’t send any cleaning bots in.

Which was awful because he worked with little kids.

But not anymore. One of his assistants was designed to not only be able to give kids the attention they needed, but to clean up after them, as well.

And the daycare was currently a mess, so he decided to activate that one first.

He pulled up their code, and with the push of a button, he activated the Sun Model 1.07.

***

For a few minutes, nothing happened, and Eclipse wondered if he’d done something wrong. He pulled up his laptop to take a look at Sun’s code.

Everything seemed to be in order.

When he pulled the laptop back down, he immediately jumped back from the bright yellow animatronic standing right in front of him.

“GOOD- grief…” Eclipse exclaimed, exhaling sharply.

At least he knew Sun was working now.

“Hello!” Sun cheered, skipping closer to him.

“ Hi!! You look like me! Well, I think you look like me, I haven’t seen myself yet. Wow, you’re tall! What’s your name? What’s my name…? Why are you orange? Where are we? Boy, it’s dark in here-”

“Just…stop,” Eclipse interrupted, holding his hands out.

He’d programmed Sun to be energetic and happy for the kids, since he sometimes had trouble keeping the mask on. Of course, he should’ve expected Sun to act like this outside of work, too.

Oh, well. It was better than nothing.

“Your name… is Sun.”

“Ohhh… okay, that sounds perfect!! So, then who are you?”

Sun gasped.

“Are you my mom?”

“...What!? No, you idiot. I’m your… your…”

Wait.

What was Sun to him?

Even though he’d made the assistants to help with the workload, he didn’t just want to flat-out call them his servants or creations or something.

Just like a certain old guy…

“I’m… I’m your boss,” Eclipse decided.

“Call me Eclipse.”

“Okay, Mo… I mean, Eclipse!!”

***

It wasn’t long before Sun was bouncing around Parts and Services, asking what everything was and if he could touch it. Eclipse had to keep him from accidentally killing himself twice within thirty seconds, which, to no one’s surprise, was starting to piss him off.

Still, there was no way he was gonna scrap seven months’ worth of work purely out of annoyance. Sun’s motor functions seemed to be working- he was crawling around, backflipping, and talking a mile a minute- perfect for running after kids.

Maybe Sun just needed a little reigning in.

“Hey, Eclipse, what’s this thing!?”

Eclipse barely managed to pull Sun out of the containment chamber before the Endo tore him apart.

“Why…are you like this?” He exclaimed, panting.

“Oh, right, me.”

“Huh?” Sun tilted his head.

“Never mind. Just…stand over there and don’t move.”

Eclipse pointed to a corner of the room, which Sun timidly retreated to. He pulled up the programming for the second assistant and prepared to activate it.

***

His hand hovered over the button. This assistant was designed to handle the kids during naptime, and intruders or potential kidnappers. Eclipse had done his best to make sure he wouldn’t be an outright killer, but he’d had to go through a lot of trial and error with the programming.

He hoped he wouldn’t have to use the failsafe…

“Eclipse, whatcha doing?” Sun called from the corner.

“I’m about to activate your…coworker.”

“I have a sibling!?”

“No, he…whatever. Sure. Just…stay over there.”

No use stalling for this long. (Metaphorically) Holding his breath, Eclipse activated the Moon Model 1.34.

***

A few minutes later, Moon whirred to life, yawning as if he’d woken up from a nap.

An excited squeal erupted from Sun, but Eclipse gestured for him to stay quiet.

Moon looked up at the two similar animatronics before him.

“Am I tripping balls?”

Well.

That was unexpected.

“Uh…no. What?” Eclipse answered, completely baffled.

“What does that mean?” Sun asked.

“Nothing. Don’t repeat that.” Eclipse turned his attention back to Moon.

“How do you…?”

“I’m connected to the internet, duh,” Moon answered. “Who are you? And why are you orange?”

Why do they keep asking why I’m orange? It’s not like I know!!

“I’m Eclipse. Your boss. And…that’s Sun.”

Sun waved enthusiastically.

“I’m your brother!!”

Moon stared at him for a minute.

“Ew. Why?”

Eclipse sighed. Maybe he’d made Moon a little too much like him- at least, him when he first woke up.

At least he didn’t seem to want to murder people. Speaking of which…

“Um…random question. What would you do if you had to fight an intruder?”

Moon was rightfully baffled by the specific question, but he answered regardless.

“Oh. Just apprehend them and keep them in one place…”.

“Okay. Good.”

“...and snap their bones for being NAUGHTY,” he concluded enthusiastically.

Eclipse put a hand over his face.

Sun hugged himself, backing further into the corner. “...What?”

After a few more seconds, Eclipse took his hand down.

“...We’ll talk about that later. Right now, I need to show you two the daycare. Come on.”

“Daycare!?” Sun exclaimed, his initial fear seemingly forgotten.

“That sounds fun!! I bet it’s all colorful and fun and bright and…”

Sun ran out of Parts and Service, Eclipse following after him with Moon trailing behind.

“That guy is an idiot. Does he even know where he’s going?”

“You know, you’re gonna have to work with him,” Eclipse asserted. “He’s your coworker…and I guess, your brother.”

Moon scoffed. “Yeah, whatever, Mom.”

Eclipse stopped walking. Moon turned around when he realized the orange guy wasn’t following him anymore.

“What?”

“Don’t…call me Mom.”

“Why not? You’re the one who made us, right? That makes you our mom, technically,” Moon pointed out.

“I… I’m not your mom. I’m your boss. I’m not even a woman!! Why did both of you…”

Eclipse growled in frustration. He knew he shouldn’t be this upset at his assistants’ dumb nickname.

“Just call me Eclipse.”

“Sure, Mom.” Moon ran off to join Sun on the main stage platform.

He could already feel the migraine coming in.

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It turns out making Sun and Moon didn’t amount to an immediate disaster.

After letting them watch the daycare’s routine for a couple days (from a distance, of course), they were able to settle into their roles fairly quickly.

The kids absolutely loved Sun, and Sun loved the kids- though, Eclipse had to tell them that drawing on Mr. Sun was a one time thing. Not like they would actually listen.

The kids seemed to like Moon, too- at least, those who happened to interact with him during naptime. Moon seemed to be willing to tone down the crudeness for them, and helped them get back to sleep.

Not that it was endearing or anything.

Anyway, despite the few hiccups, it seemed like Sun and Moon were really gonna make a good influence on the Superstar Daycare.

At least, during work hours…

***

“MoOn! WILL YOU QUIT STACKING THE BARRELS LIKE THAT!?”

“OH, STOP WHINING! THERE AREN’T ANY KIDS HERE!!”

Eclipse bit back a growl and got up from the security desk to see what had happened. Under the bridge between the two play structures, he could see some barrels stacked into a phallic symbol.

Again.

Now, Sun and Moon were yelling at each other while Moon was… hanging from the wire for some reason?

It had been like this all week; Eclipse hadn’t been able to get a moment’s peace, especially since he now had to share his tower space with the two animatronic brats.

To make matters worse, his phone started ringing. If he had eyelids, they’d be twitching by now. He just hoped it wasn’t another angry parent…

“Guys. Guys… GUYS!!”

Sun and Moon quieted immediately.

“I’m stepping out to take a call. Do NOT. Kill each other,” Eclipse ordered, walking out of the wooden doors.

Moon scoffed. “Bold of him to assume this yellow twink could kill me.”

Sun looked up at Moon. “What’s a twink?”

***

“Hello?”

“Hey, man!!”

Of, course, it had to be worse than an angry parent.

“Ugh…what do you want, Montgomery?”

“What? Can’t a guy talk to his girlfriend? You’re not breaking up with me, are ya?”

Eclipse seethed at Monty’s arrogant laugh. It was times like this he wished he had it in him to kill.

“That was one time, I needed the money. Now, what do you want?”

Monty huffed. “What, no foreplay?”

“Hanging up.”

“Wait! I…just…come to Monty’s Gator Golf. I got something to show you that I really think you’ll be interested in,” the gator insisted.

As much as Eclipse didn’t trust that this wouldn’t be something weird, he really needed to take a second to step away from his assistants before he exploded.

“I’ll be there in ten.”

He hung up the phone and stuck his head back through the door.

“Guys, I’m going out for a minute. Moon, help Sun clean up.”

“I got it, Eclipse!”

Sun was scrubbing the barrels so fast, he was almost worried they would catch on fire.

“...Well, then.” Eclipse looked towards the ceiling, where Moon was doing acrobatics in the air.

“Moon, why are you still on the wire?”

“Cause I RULE THE SKIES, MOM!!”

Eclipse slowly backed out of the daycare, closing the door behind him.

***

“Oh…my…God.”

In the past seven months the Pizzaplex had been open, Monty’s Gator Golf hadn’t looked like this. The area was now well lit, ventilated, decorated by giant robotic alligators, and oh, my gosh was that air conditioning?

It was far from perfect, but Monty’s Gator Golf had gotten a considerable upgrade.

“Hey, man!!” Monty hurried over to the entrance of the golf course, stopping way too close to Eclipse’s face.

“Man, you look great today.”

“I can’t change my outfit. Also, back away before I rip out your tongue,” Eclipse threatened.

Monty took a few steps back.

“Now, allow me to show you around the place.”

Eclipse followed Monty around the golf course as he continued to ramble.

“Looks great, right? Had to threaten a couple workers to get it built this fast, but as you can see, it was completely worth it.”

“You just…threatened them, right?” Eclipse questioned.

Monty stammered, as if he had been deeply wounded. “Of course! What do you take me for, a…don’t- don’t look in the river.”

He pointed to the snack bar. “Now, the food. I’m charging five bucks per FizzyFaz refill, and I’m adding a new menu item. I call ‘em, ‘Gator Dogs’.”

“I’m already scared to ask why,” Eclipse interjected.

Monty huffed. “Relax, they’re made of pork. And a few crickets.”

“You’re gonna give people salmonella.”

“Who’s salmonella?”

***

Eclipse yelped as Sun seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. Once he caught his hypothetical breath, he finally addressed his assistant.

“Where…did you COME from!?”

“A week ago, I woke up in-”

“No, no no,” Eclipse interrupted. “Why are you out of the daycare? You know I told you guys not to leave just yet.”

Sun looked down.

“Sorry, Eclipse. Moon snuck out after you left, and I tried to get him to come back. And I followed him here.”

“Wait…here?”

Eclipse looked around for a few seconds before a voice boomed from the catwalks,

“THERE’S A BIG BUCKET OF BALLS!!”

***

“What, did you finally get laid?” Monty coaxed as he ran after Eclipse.

“Stuff it, gator, this is not the time.” Eclipse finally spotted Moon high above them on the catwalks, directly near the splash bucket.

“Moon, get down from there!!”

“No! I don’t wanna!!” Moon shot back.

He noticed the button on the railing and began to approach it. “What does this do…?”

“DON’T touch that,” Eclipse demanded. “Step away from the bucket and get down here, now!!”

Moon groaned. “You’re so boring!! I bet you don’t even know what this bucket does!”

“It dumps a crap ton of golf balls onto the floor,” Monty supplied.

Eclipse slowly turned to glare at the alligator, who just shrugged.

“Cool!!” Moon’s hand sailed towards the button.

“MOON, IF YOU TOUCH THAT, YOU ARE NOT LEAVING THE DAYCARE AGAIN!!”

Moon paused, seeming to consider Eclipse’s words.

He took a few steps back from the button, huffing dismissively.

“Whatever, Mom…”

As he made his way down from the catwalks, A tight feeling formed in Eclipse’s chest.

He’d never yelled like that before.

“Um…Sun, we gotta go.”

As Moon approached the group, Eclipse led both him and Sun out of the course.

“Bye, gator guy!! I like your glasses!” Sun exclaimed.

Monty waved to Sun as he walked out.

“At least that one has taste…”

***

“Hey, Eclipse, who was that guy?” Sun asked as they all walked back to the daycare.

“An…associate of mine. We briefly had a relationship,” Eclipse elaborated.

Sun paused for a second before adding,

“So…you were a twink?”

Moon could barely choke back his laughter. Sun didn’t seem to know what the joke was.

After a second, Eclipse groaned.

“That reminds me. Moon…”

Moon’s laughter abruptly stopped. He sighed in exasperation, turning to face his boss.

“Lemme guess, I’m…not allowed outside the daycare anymore.”

“No. I…”

Eclipse made himself look Moon in the eye before continuing,

“I… don’t like how I spoke to you on the catwalk. The bucket would’ve fallen on you, and I didn’t want you to get hurt, but I…shouldn’t have threatened to keep you locked up. I’m sorry.”

Moon was quiet for a few seconds. He didn’t seem to know what to make of Eclipse’s apology.

“It’s…no big deal, Mom. Just wish you’d let us out more.”

“I didn’t because this place is a giant safety hazard. But I’ll show you around at the end of the week,” Eclipse informed.

Moon gasped in surprise, and Sun giggled in delight.

“We get to look around some more!?”

“Yeah… right after Moon cleans the bathrooms for teaching you what a twink is.”

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Eclipse woke with a start in the middle of the night, breathing heavily and gripping his wrists.

They’re not there. They’re not there; you’re okay.

After taking a few minutes to ground himself, he realized that Sun and Moon weren’t in the crawlspace room with him. Moon had decided to sleep there to annoy Eclipse, and Sun wanted to because he was scared of the dark.

Maybe they had decided to move to the couch? He crawled out of the room and looked into the tower’s main space.

“Sun? Moon?”

They weren’t there.

They weren’t there.

***

Eclipse dove out of the tower into the ballpit and hurried to the computers. There was no telling what they could’ve gotten into, or who could’ve gotten to them.

Please let it not be him…

Thankfully, before Eclipse could pull up the trackers, he heard the faint voices of Sun and Moon approaching the Daycare.

***

“Sun, hold it up further, you’re gonna drop it!”

“I’m…doing the best I can!! It’s… slippery!”

There was a squelching sound, and something heavy hit the floor with a splat.

“Oh, no, oh, no! A mess! CLEAN UP-”

“Shh-shh-shh!! Shut up, you idiot! Do you want Mom to hear us…?”

Eclipse squinted.

What don’t they want Mom- I MEAN ME. ME. What don’t they want me to hear?

He peeked out the door and saw his two assistants dragging a long burlap bag with something red and sticky leaking out of it.

Eclipse made eye contact with Sun and Moon for all of twenty seconds.

“It’s not a body,” Sun blurted.

***

Ten minutes later, after Eclipse allowed Sun to clean the floor, he and Moon were sitting in front of him in the daycare- with the bag.

“...Why?” Eclipse demanded.

Sun and Moon exchanged a confused look.

“Why what?” Moon asked for clarification.

Eclipse had to take several deep breaths to keep himself from screaming.

“Why are you up at this hour? Where were you? Why do you have a bag? Why didn’t you want me to see it? What’s in the bag? Did you murder someone!?”

Moon awkwardly cleared his throat.

“Do…you want those answered in order, or…?”

“MOON!!”

“FINE!!” Moon huffed. “Sun found this weird portal thing, and we’ve been using it every night.”

“We- we didn’t know it was against the rules!” Sun defended. “Please don’t make us stop working, I almost got the kids to be quiet during story time-”

“Hold it,” Eclipse interrupted, lifting up a hand.

“What…portal thing?”

***

Sun and Moon led Eclipse to the main stage of the Fazbear Theatre. Moon turned off the S.T.A.F.F. Bot before Sun started to elaborate.

“I… I was cleaning over here, and I found this weird console near the stage.”

He pulled back the curtain and stepped on a slightly elevated floorboard. A platform raised a console out of the floor.

Sun pushed a button, and a purple, glowing aura surrounded the entirety of the stage.

Eclipse winced.

“I… didn’t expect you to find it that fast.”

Sun and Moon gasped.

“Wait, this is yours!?” Moon exclaimed, baffled.

Eclipse scratched the back of his head. “Yeah…I needed some extra cash, so I made some stuff for the government. Though, I did keep the best version of the blueprints…”

Moon chuckled. “I take back what I said about you being lame!!”

“Yeah, this is really cool, Mo- I mean, Eclipse!” Sun added.

Eclipse really didn’t think much of the portal, but for some reason, it felt…nice to be recognized for it.

Just then, a hissing sound came from outside the theater, followed by an alarm Eclipse had set for any inhuman hostiles that came near the daycare.

He slowly turned to look at his assistants.

“What was in that bag…?”

***

Eclipse was horrified to discover that the daycare floor and walls were crawling with hissing baby scorpion monsters the size of German shepherds. They were chewing on the play structures and spitting acid everywhere.

The security system was zapping them as quickly as possible, but they kept managing to slip away.

“Both of you, stay out here.”

Eclipse hurried into the daycare and used the knife installed in his arm to take down the scorpions the lasers were missing. He tried to keep track of how many there were, but they seemed to keep coming out of nowhere.

“OH, GOD!!”

He was tackled to the ground by a scorpion who had jumped him from the air. He was barely blocking its jaws with his knife, wincing when a drop of acid landed on his hand.

A barrel abruptly knocked the scorpion off of him.

Eclipse turned his head and saw Moon beating the little beast into a slimy puddle with the barrel.

His head shot up abruptly, eyes glowing red.

“N-n-N-N NAUGHTY…”

***

It wasn’t long before all the scorpions were goo after that.

Moon’s eyes slowly dimmed back to their usual blue. He shook his head, as if he was disoriented.

“Wha…woah. This is gross.” He stepped out of the puddle of scorpion goo and looked around the daycare.

“Is that acid?”

“Moondrop…?” Eclipse suddenly piped up from the other side of the daycare. He gestured for Sun, who had been watching from outside, to come back in.

“Remind me again what was in that bag…”

“Ohh. Just some…eggs…from a…demon dimension.”

As he spoke, Moon seemed to realize where this had gone horribly wrong.

Eclipse barely seemed to be holding it together. He was twitching and spitting angry mutters from under his breath.

Sun took a precautionary step back.

“Um…Mo-”

“You know WHAT!? You two know better than to take random crap from demon dimensions! I’ll discuss this with you later, just…go to the tower!!” Eclipse exploded.

Moon hurried towards the exit to the daycare, grabbing Sun’s arm and leading him along.

Before he stepped out, Sun peeped,

“Don’t…don’t you want us to cle-”

“TOWER!!” Eclipse boomed, his voice distorting.

***

Once Eclipse was alone, he took a second to breathe and give the damage a once-over.

Acid was melting the play structures, and there was demon scorpion goo everywhere.

It would definitely take more than one day to clean up. Sighing, he quickly wrote an email saying that the Superstar Daycare was closed for repairs.

His mind flashed back to how he’d spoken to his assistants. Groaning, he smacked himself in the face.

“Why’d I say that…? I was pissed, that’s why I said it…but…why’d I say it…like that…?”

After looking around at the mess again, he turned and started towards the area’s exit.

“I gotta take a walk…”

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In the tower, Sun was bawling his eyes out on the couch while Moon paced back and forth across the room.

“Mom…Mom’s really mad at us!!” Sun sobbed, slamming his face into the cushion.

“I know! Even I haven’t made him that pissed before, and I painted butts on the bathroom walls!!”

Moon groaned, running his hands over his face.

“I never should’ve picked up those eggs from that weird guy. Oh, God, this is really bad. What if…”

He paused, taking his hands down from his face and turning to face Sun.

“...What if he…decommissions us?”

“What does that mean?” Sun muttered, lifting his head.

Moon scoffed.

“It means getting shut off permanently, you idiot!! We’ll be dead!!”

After processing for a few seconds, Sun’s sobs turned into high pitched screams.

“Moon!!MOON, I DON’T WANNA DIE-”

Moon slapped a hand over his faceplate, which surprisingly got him to shut up. He was quiet for a minute, seeming to contemplate something.

“We…we’re not gonna die. Not now.”

Sun took Moon’s hand off his face. ”Um…how? Why?”

“Because we’re getting out of here.”

***

Moon scanned the daycare for any sign of Eclipse. It was still a mess, but he didn’t seem to be around.

He dove into the ball pit, but started yelping in pain a few seconds later.

Sun looked off the balcony. “Moon!? Are you okay!?”

“Sun, take the long way down, there’s a little acid in here…” Moon groaned, crawling out of the ball pit onto the floor.

He had only been grazed by the acid, but it still burned. A lot.

Once Sun got down to the daycare, he hurried over to Moon, barely dodging a hunk of debris that melted from the play structure.

His heart ached in concern when he saw the burn marks on his brother.

“Moon…? Maybe…Maybe we shouldn’t go. Maybe that gator guy knows how to fix you, and…and we can hide somewhere here until-”

“That…gator…is a simp. For our mom,” Moon pointed out, shakily standing up.

“There’s no way he’s not gonna snitch on us. Besides, I’m fine.”

“Moon, I think your hat is melting,” Sun muttered.

“Shut up. You wet the bed.”

Moon shoved past his brother and headed towards the exit.

Sun stammered. “I… I don’t even pee!! Moon!?”

***

Meanwhile, Eclipse wandered around the Pizzaplex. His heart wrenched with guilt about how he’d spoken to his assistants. The whole time they’d been alive, he’d been worried about losing his temper with Sun and Moon. He could hope that they weren’t too affected by it, but he knew from experience that it wasn’t that simple.

He’d hated how he’d sounded.

He’d sounded like…

Like…

Suddenly, there was a muffled explosion, which shook the floor and walls for a few seconds. Once Eclipse got his bearings, he could see a plume of black smoke wafting out of Monty’s Gator Golf.

“MONTY!?”

He hurried over to the attraction and prayed that the elevators still worked…

***

To Eclipse’s relief, they did work- but when he got to the attraction, a shockwave of soot covered everything from the balcony towards the entrance.

“Monty? Monty!?”

Eclipse followed the soot to its source, which seemed to be the now-charred snack bar. He ran into the gator on his way there.

“Oh, thank God, you still have your legs.”

Monty chuckled. “You really think I wouldn’t learn my lesson after the first time? Just a little mishap with the Gator Dog machine. But…you know, if... you wanna play with my legs that bad-”

“Finish that sentence… and I will actually stab you,” Eclipse breathed, engaging his arm knife.

Monty stared at his arm for a minute.

“ Wow. That’s…new. I could get into it.”

Eclipse retracted his knife and quickly broke down in shaky sobs.

“Goddamnit, Monty…”

***

“Woah, woah, woah, hey. I… I’m sorry, I…um…”

Monty wasn’t really sure how to react. He’d seen Eclipse during vulnerable moments before- sometimes without his knowledge- but he’d never actually seen him cry.

Whatever was going on must’ve been really bad.

He awkwardly placed a hand on the sobbing animatronic’s shoulder.

“Do you…want to talk about it?”

Eclipse nodded, took a deep breath, and shakily let it out.

“I…yelled at them…”

“Who?” Monty pressed. “The little twerps that follow you around?”

Eclipse nodded again.

“They…messed up the daycare with some…demon…scorpion things. It… it was probably an accident, but… I… still got…m-mad…”

“Well, no duh, you got mad. If they mess up the daycare, you can get mad; it’s not a bad thing,” Monty pointed out.

“I know, but…” Eclipse took a deep breath.

“Remember…the day you had to drag me to Parts and Service?”

“Uh-huh.”

Monty couldn’t forget that day. He’d gotten a frantic call from Eclipse, and when he got to the daycare, the daycare animatronic was beat up so badly, his faceplate was about to fall off.

So yeah, not a forgettable day.

After a minute, Eclipse admitted, “That…that was my…creator.”

Monty stayed silent as the daycare attendant continued.

“He…put something dangerous in my head when I was being created, and I took it out, and…he got… mad about it.”

Eclipse hugged himself.

“I don’t…wanna treat them like he treated me.”

After a minute, the gator started laughing.

“Oh, man. Is that it?”

Before Eclipse could cuss him out, Monty explained,

“Listen, man. You’re way better than your creator. From what I understand, you didn’t even lay a hand on them, and you’re upset for raising your voice- which is something most parents do at least once.”

“Monty, I’m not a-”

“Shush, babe. My point is, you don’t have to worry about being like that guy. But if you wanna apologize for yelling, I can be there with ya.”

Eclipse huffed out a laugh, looking down.

“Thanks…Monty.”

***

He let the gator follow him back to the Superstar Daycare. If he was going to try and come back from how he acted, he was gonna need the support.

“Hey…promise me you won’t say anything weird in front of my assistants,” Eclipse suggested.

The gator scoffed. “Weird? Who you calling weird, sugar ti-”

“Monty…”

“Oh, come on, just let me get ‘em all out now!!”

“You can’t. We’re literally almost there.”

Eclipse stepped into the double doors, and Monty was right behind him, whistling at the acid burned, scorpion-gut covered daycare.

“Wow. You weren’t kidding about the mess.”

“Just don’t touch anything,” Eclipse warned.

“Sun? Moon? Can you come down? I…wanna talk to you.”

There was no reply.

Eclipse stepped over the scorpion guts and got closer to the tower.

“Come on guys, I…know you’re probably upset with me, but…at least hear me out.”

Still nothing.

Eclipse hurried over to the computers and looked at Sun and Moon’s trackers.

Both of the trackers had been disabled.

“Oh, SON OF A-”

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Monty was starting to get concerned.

Eclipse had been pacing behind the security desk for the past thirty minutes, muttering under his breath. Apparently, one of the twins (most likely Moon) figured out how to disable their trackers, because their last recorded location was right outside the daycare.

And a quick check of the cameras concluded that they had left the building two hours ago.

“Um…Clipsy? You… you wanna take a second?”

Eclipse’s head snapped up.

“Take a second? Take a second!?”

The daycare animatronic chuckled darkly before continuing,

“When Sun was…thirty minutes old…not even an hour…he almost got eaten by an Endo. Moon narrowly missed getting crushed by that…stupid bucket thing, and…and just yesterday, they blew up a microwave… by filling it with forks!!”

Eclipse exhaled sharply.

When he realized how scared Monty looked, he took a few deep breaths to calm down.

“They’ve…never left the Pizzaplex, Monty…I mean, in just this dimension, but still…”

“I get it. You’re worried about your kids,” the gator supplied.

Eclipse sighed. “Monty, they’re my assistants, not-”

“Oh, yeah? What are they scared of?”

“Sun’s scared of the dark, and I think Moon’s afraid of dolls. He always turns them around when they’re facing him,” Eclipse answered.

His face heated up when he realized the point of Monty’s question.

“I…just noticed. That’s a normal thing to notice about the people you’re working with.”

Just then, Eclipse got a notification. He was about to dismiss it like he had done with the ones that had popped up a few minutes ago, but then he noticed what it said:

“Thank you for your purchase!”

“Purchase…? I… I didn’t…”

“What’s going on?” Monty asked.

Eclipse sighed. “Someone’s buying stuff on my card. Maybe one of the employees took it or some…”

He trailed off when he noticed exactly what was purchased. A few seconds later, he ran out of the daycare, and Monty ran after him.

“Hey!! Where are you going!?”

“I know where Sun and Moon are, but we gotta hurry!!”

***

Meanwhile, in a Chili’s a few miles away, Moon was eagerly digging into his third basket of chips.

As his brother ate, Sun sat across from him, picking at the chocolate cheesecake he had ordered.

“What’s wrong? You not hungry?” Moon asked, reaching for the plate.

“No…” Sun smacked his hand away.

“I’m just…thinking. Was it…really a good idea to leave? We haven’t been outside before, and…you’re hurt.”

“Oh, don’t worry. I figured out how to turn off my pain receptors. It doesn’t hurt…”

Moon dropped a chip, gripping his wrist tightly as it shook.

“Well…it doesn't hurt as much.” He looked down at the chip on the floor. “Five second rule.”

Sun grimaced as his twin picked up the chip on the floor and ate it.

“Oh, that’s…disgusting. How…how are you even paying for all those chips!?”

“I know Mom’s debit card number,” Moon admitted.

“What!?” Sun pushed his cheesecake to the side and leaned in further.

“Is…this legal?”

Moon shrugged, stuffing more chips in his mouth.

“MOONY!!”

“OH, COME ON! HE MIGHT DECOMMISSION US, SUN!!” Moon argued. “Now, can I have your cheesecake, or-”

Moon cut himself off when he saw a familiar face approaching their table.

***

A few minutes earlier, Eclipse and Monty had arrived at the nearly empty Chili’s that Sun and Moon were hiding out in. If there was one thing that Eclipse knew about Moon, it’s that the naptime animatronic had an intense love for chips.

As relieved as he was to see his assistants safe, he was reluctant to step inside the restaurant.

Monty seemed to notice this.

“You want me to talk to them first?”

“Um…sure,” Eclipse answered, a bit skeptical of the offer.

“Just…don’t do anything stupid, please.”

Monty scoffed. “When have I ever done anything stupid?”

“Well-”

“Don’t answer that.”

Monty entered the restaurant and saw Sun and Moon yelling at each other at a table. They seemed to be mostly okay, but Moon’s body was covered in what looked like…burn marks?

It didn’t take long for the nighttime animatronic to notice Monty standing nearby them.

“Crap, it’s the weird guy that flirts with our Mom!! Sun, tape jail!!”

“Uh…right!!”

As Sun fumbled to open his chest compartment, Moon abruptly tackled the gator to the floor, pinning his arms behind his back.

“Wha- hey! What are-”

“Don’t talk to me, gator!! I know what you and my mom do,” Moon accused.

Sun handed Moon a roll of duct tape, and Moon wasted no time taping Monty’s legs and arms together, though he was doing a pretty messy job.

“Guys…what is tape jail?” Monty implored.

“It’s… It’s like regular jail, but for PERVERTS!!” Sun exclaimed.

***

Eclipse knew he should probably step in once he heard Sun shout the word, “perverts.”

He entered the restaurant and took in the sight of Monty duct taped to the floor with Moon sitting on top of him and Sun holding a roll of tape.

“Uh…you okay, Monty?” Eclipse asked.

“Yeah, I just wanted to know what they were gonna do.”

To the twins’ surprise, Monty tore out of the tape immediately and stood up, which caused Moon to slide off the gator’s back. Before they could run away, Monty grabbed them both by the hooks on their backs that connected them to the wire in the daycare and lifted them into the air.

“Well, that was easy.”

“Let us GO, you stupid gator!!” Moon demanded, trying to punch him.

“Hey, don’t be like that.” Monty shifted Moon so he was carrying him under his armpit, restricting him further.

“So, you wanna head back to the Pizzaplex?”

Eclipse nodded. “Yeah. Let’s get out of here before someone calls the cops.”

***

As they headed back to the building, Moon finally stopped spitting curses and threats and went silent as Monty carried both him and Sun.

When they entered the lobby of the building, Eclipse turned around to talk to Sun and Moon.

“Don’t let them go yet, Monty.” Eclipse looked down at Sun and Moon, who were desperately trying to avoid eye contact.

“Bringing demon scorpions into the daycare…disabling your trackers…running away…using my debit card without permission…”

Sun and Moon flinched as he listed their offenses.

“...for all of this, you are grounded for the next week. Do you understand me?” Eclipse concluded.

“Yes, Eclipse…”

“Yes, Mom.”

“Good. Now…as for me…”

Eclipse moved closer and gestured for Monty to put them down.

Once he did, the daycare attendant pulled his assistants into a tight hug.

“I…shouldn’t have made you feel like you had to run away. I'm so, so sorry.”

After a few seconds, Sun started sobbing and returned the hug. Moon remained stiff.

“You’re…not…decommissioning us?”

Eclipse gasped.

“No, Moon, never, why would you…? I’m not decommissioning either of you. Not now, not ever.”

Once Moon heard that, he leaned a little further into Eclipse’s hug.

“Okay, Mom…”

***

It had taken an hour (because Moon wouldn’t hold still), but Eclipse finally managed to fix his assistant’s burnt body.

Once he let Moon out of the protective cylinder, his assistant hissed at him and ran out of Parts and Service.

“Take it easy, Moon! The solder just dried,” Eclipse called after him as he ran out. Sighing, he turned to face Monty.

“Thanks again for helping me get them back.”

“Hey…no problem. You know I’d do anything for you, right?” Monty asked, putting a hand on his shoulder.

Eclipse placed his hand over Monty’s. “Yeah… I know.”

They stared at each other for a minute before both of them realized what they were doing. Eclipse pulled away and Monty started to exit Parts and Service.

“Well, I, uh, should…should probably call a repairman, so…”

“Um, yep. See you later, Clipsy,” Monty dismissed, closing the doors behind him.

Once the gator was gone, Eclipse put his hand on his shoulder where Monty’s had been.

He could feel his processor running a bit too fast.

“Goddamnit, Monty…”

Chapter Text

After the scorpion incident, it obviously wasn’t safe to stay in the daycare, so Eclipse brought Sun and Moon to a house he had purchased a week ago. He would’ve moved them in sooner, but he wanted them to get used to the work routine before any more major changes.

Thankfully, they seemed to settle into the house pretty well- though, for the first two nights they made half-baked excuses to sleep in Eclipse’s room.

Not that he really minded.

But of course, something else had to happen once his assistants felt secure enough to sleep in their own rooms.

***

Eclipse bit back a curse as soon as he got off the phone with the contractor. Apparently, the acid hadn’t been cleaned out properly before they started rebuilding the play structures, and now, the construction equipment was melting.

It shouldn’t have been a surprise since Fazbear sucked.

Now, he had to go to the Pizzaplex and take care of it, but he couldn’t leave Sun and Moon home alone- especially since they were grounded. (And magnets for chaos.)

Reluctantly, he pulled up his contacts.

He couldn’t call Monty; for some reason, Sun and Moon didn’t seem to fully trust him.

Who else would be willing to babysit on such short notice?

His gaze went to Chica’s number. He wasn’t really close with her, but she was pretty nice, and kids seemed to love her.

Holding his breath, he dialed the number.

***

“Hello?”

“Um…hey, Chica.”

“Oh! Hi, Eclipse,” The chicken greeted cheerfully. “It’s…nice to hear from you.”

“Yeah…”

Eclipse suddenly felt guilty about calling her just to ask a favor, but this was kind of an emergency.

So, he decided to get right to the point.

“Um…listen, I know this is super short notice, but… I could really use your help.”

“Oh… okay. Help with what?”

Eclipse scratched the back of his head.

“Well… I have these… assistants. I made them, they’re kinda like kids, and…they’re grounded right now. I need someone to watch them for a couple hours, and…I know you’re really good with kids. I would usually ask Monty, but-”

“I didn’t know you had kids!! I’ll come over,” Chica agreed.

Eclipse stammered in surprise.

“R…Really?”

“Yeah! Um, could you send your address, so-”

“Oh, yeah, sure.” He quickly texted her his home address. “Thank you so much, Chica. If there’s anything I can do in return, let me know.”

“I’ll hold you to that,” Chica teased. “See you in a bit!!”

***

Twenty minutes later, Chica showed up at the front door… with Roxanne Wolf right behind her. Eclipse was a bit surprised, but he invited them both in, regardless.

“Uh, sorry about the mess. We just moved in,” Eclipse informed, referring to the cardboard boxes all around them.

“It’s fine,” Chica assured him. “Roxy and I know how chaotic moving can be.”

“That’s only because you kept dropping the boxes,” Roxy teased, resting her arm on Chica’s shoulder.

Chica playfully pushed her arm off, but Roxy kept putting it on her. Eclipse was touched by how close they were, and cleared his throat to get their attention.

Chica and Roxy broke it up immediately, both of them looking a bit embarrassed.

“So, Roxy, can I ask why you tagged along?” Eclipse questioned.

“I…wanted to make sure Chica didn’t eat you out of house and home,” Roxy informed.

“Also, word on the street is that one of your kids is a little sh-”

“A LITTLE…challenging,” Chica interrupted, glaring at Roxy. “But… I’m sure we can handle them.”

Eclipse nodded. “Can’t say I disagree.”

He turned toward the hallway and took a deep breath.

“SUN!! MOON!! COME HERE FOR A MINUTE!!”

***

Sun hurried to the living room with Moon trailing boredly behind him.

He froze when he saw Roxanne, staring at her blankly.

“These are my…assistants, Sun and Moon. Guys, this is Glamrock Chica and Roxanne Wolf,” Eclipse introduced.

“They’re gonna watch you two while I’m out.”

Sun muttered a greeting under his breath, shakily waving as he stared at Roxanne.

Moon turned to Eclipse.

“Why is one of our babysitters a giant chicken?”

“Moon,” Eclipse scolded. “Sorry, Chica, he-”

“It’s fine. Kids say those kinds of things,” Chica dismissed, kneeling down to Moon’s level.

“I’m not a kid,” Moon pouted.

Roxy chuckled. “Oh, yeah? How old are you?”

“I’m four…weeks…”

“I’m an hour older!” Sun blurted, shoving in front of Moon.

Moon shoved Sun to the floor.

Eclipse groaned.

“I…should probably get going. As I mentioned, they’re grounded, so that means no video games or TV. Their internet has been disabled, and I will know if you turn it back on, Moon.”

Moon grumbled, taking his hands down from the back of his head and storming back to his room. He paused, turned around, and dragged Sun along with him, who was still staring at Roxy.

“Don’t worry, Eclipse, we’ll be fine,” Chica assured him. “By the way, why did you need me to babysit?”

“It’s…a long story involving scorpions and…acid, I gotta go!!”

Eclipse hurried past Chica and Roxy to the front door.

“BEHAVE GUYS, BYE!!”

***

“Ugh. Why’d Mom get us babysitters…? We are babysitters…and we don’t need em…”

Moon paused, turning to face Sun.

“Well, you might.”

Sun chuckled. “Preeetty wolf lady…”

“Oh, terrific, my brother’s a furry.”

Moon shoved Sun back into his room before returning to his own, flopping face down on his bed in exasperation.

A few seconds later, someone knocked on his door.

“Moon? Can I come in?” Chica’s voice asked.

The naptime animatronic gave a muffled noise which she took for a yes. When she came in, she was a little surprised to see Moon in his position.

“Whatcha doing there, bud?”

“Contemplating my existence,” Moon answered, his voice muffled.

Chica laughed.

“That sounds…fun.” She sat down on the edge of the bed.

“Roxy and I had an idea for something even more fun to do- something that doesn't break the rules of your grounding! You interested?”

Moon lifted his head up.

“Are we doing a crime?”

“Uh…no.” Chica pulled out a colorful deck of cards.

“Have you ever heard about Uno?”

***

“ ‘Oh, Sun, you’re so handsome and good at drawing!!’ Well, thank you, Roxanne, I do try my best.”

Sun picked up his Moon plushie. “ ‘Yeah, and you’re such a good brother. I wanna be like you when I grow up!!’ ”

Roxy chuckled. “Aww, that’s cute.”

Sun stammered nervously, yeeting his Roxy and Moon plushies across the room.

“I wasn’t… I wasn’t doing anything!! How… much did you see?”

“I didn’t see a thing.”

Sun sighed in relief, not realizing she was being sarcastic.

“Oh…okay, good. Did…you need something, Miss Roxy?”

“Yep. We’re all gonna play a game.”

Sun gasped in excitement. “A GAME!?!”

***

When Eclipse returned home that evening, he was exhausted from narrowly avoiding a construction disaster in the daycare’s reconstruction.

Though, his anxiety went up again when he heard Sun shouting inside the house.

He slammed open the front door and saw Sun, Moon, Roxy and Chica all sitting in the living room, playing Uno.

“Why do I keep getting draw fours…?” Sun whined, pulling more cards from the deck.

“You lack the skills, Sundrop,” Moon stated, placing another draw four in front of him.

Sun stammered a bit in exasperation.

“Fight me.”

Moon hopped up on the couch in a feral position. “Is that a challenge!?”

“Absolutely not,” Eclipse interjected, catching everyone’s attention.

“Oh, hi, Eclipse!!” Chica greeted.

“I’m sorry if we’re not supposed to be playing, I thought it was a good idea at the time…”

“Don’t worry, Chica. This is honestly better than literally anything else they do on a regular basis,” Eclipse assured her.

“Thank you both for watching them.”

“No problem, we had fun,” Roxy added. “Sun’s such a sweetheart, and Moon’s so competitive. I’ll have to bring him to the racetrack sometime.”

Eclipse chuckled when he heard Sun muttering angrily under his breath.

“Well, I shouldn’t keep you girls too long. Sun, Moon, give them back their cards.”

“You guys can hold onto them for now, we’ve got another deck at home.”

Chica got up and walked to the front door with Roxy. She gave Roxy a quick peck on the cheek and said goodbye to Eclipse as they walked out the door.

As soon as they were gone, Eclipse and Moon noticed that Sun was standing rigidly.

“Uh…you okay, buddy?” Eclipse asked.

“Roxy’s in lesbians…with CHICA!!”

Sun sobbed loudly, running back to his room. Moon shrugged and started gathering the Uno cards.

“Eh. He’ll be fine.”

Chapter Text

Sun was not fine.

He ended up pouting for the next few days, and not even the new and improved daycare was enough to cheer him up. Sure, he acted happy in front of the kids, but every time the daycare closed, Sun was solemnly wiping down the barrels or sitting on top of the play structures with a Roxanne plushie.

Moon didn’t understand why, but seeing his brother so depressed got on his nerves.

Eventually, he decided to do something about it.

***

“Mom, I’m going out,” Moon declared after the daycare closed.

“Hold it,” Eclipse interrupted, walking in front of Moon to block him.

“You need to help Sun clean up first.”

Moon scoffed. “He never lets me help clean up. Besides, I’m leaving for Sun.”

Eclipse was intrigued by his assistant’s wording.

“What… do you mean by that?”

“I’m sure you’ve noticed that Sun’s been a wet sandwich ever since he found out Roxy was taken,” Moon pointed out.

Eclipse looked over at Sun, who was staring at the Roxanne image on the play structure while wiping down a barrel.

“Well…yeah, but… what do you plan to do about it?”

“I’m gonna find Sun a girlfriend.”

Shocked, Eclipse started coughing when he heard Moon’s idea.

“...Excuse me?”

“Or maybe just a friend. Dude is…lonely,” Moon quipped.

Before Eclipse could offer a rebuttal or state the many ways this plan could go wrong, his assistant was already ducking past him to exit the daycare.

“Love you, bye! I’ll be back soon!!”

***

Turns out finding a friend for Sun was more difficult than Moon had anticipated.

He’d decided to start searching for options literally from the bottom of the Pizzaplex up, but the Endos were definitely not a good option for companionship.

He’d heard of a Glamrock Bonnie, but for some reason, he couldn’t find him anywhere. Freddy Fazbear was nice, but he was currently headlining a kid’s birthday party in the atrium, so Moon couldn’t talk to him.

Chica was their babysitter, so that might be kind of weird.

As for Roxy…Moon wasn’t sure how Sun felt about her right now.

And Monty was definitely out of the question- that guy was creepy around their mom…

Once Moon was done searching, he took a minute to breathe in Rockstar Row. The only feasible options he could find were the DJ Music Man or the Wet Floor bots, and the former would probably scare Sun before he could introduce them…

As Moon tried to figure out where to steal a Wet Floor bot from, he bumped into somebody.

“Oh, sorry.”

“No, you’re good.”

Moon looked up and saw what his animatronic file told him was a Foxy model.

A withered, beat up looking Foxy model. He was carrying a large cardboard box filled with documents labeled “classified” and “rejected”.

“What happened to your body?” Moon blurted.

“Uh…nothing. Rude much?”

Foxy pushed past Moon and started down the hallway. Moon sheepishly rubbed his forearm.

“Sorry. My Mom says I need to think before I speak.”

“Well, she’s right,” Foxy added, still walking away.

“Actually, it’s ‘he’,” Moon corrected.

Foxy paused and turned to face Moon. His eyepatch flipped upward, revealing his other eye.

“What?”

***

Surprisingly, it didn’t take very long for Moon to explain his family’s dynamics to Foxy.

“Huh. Kinda sounds like your mom’s in denial,” Foxy commented.

Moon shrugged. “Yeah… I don’t really know for sure.”

Foxy scoffed. “You said he let you live with him for free? Dude, no boss acts like that toward their employees.”

He readjusted the box in his arms.

“Trust me, I know. My boss is making me burn all these incident reports.”

“Is…your boss Monty?” Moon guessed.

“Yeah, how’d you know?”

Moon shrugged.

“A hunch. Can I help you burn things?”

***

Moon enthusiastically kicked open the doors of the daycare, startling both Sun and Eclipse.

“SUN!!”

He hurried over to his twin, and tackled him to the floor.

“Good news, I found you a new friend!!”

“New…friend…?” Sun muttered, his depressed demeanor cracking for a minute.

Moon nodded.

“His name is Foxy, he’s full of holes, and I gave him your number!! He’s coming over to play video games tomorrow.”

“Oh. That sounds fun,” Sun approved.

“Can… you get off me now? I have to finish cleaning.”

“Never.” Moon hugged his twin, and Sun struggled to push him off.

Eclipse approached them both and sniffed.

“Uh…Moon? Why do you smell like gasoline?”

***

The next day, after work, Sun awaited Foxy’s arrival in anticipation. He’d been texting with him during every break he got, and he seemed like a really nice person.

He didn’t wanna screw this up.

Which is why he was pacing back and forth around the front door, flapping his hands nervously. Just then, someone threw a handful of popcorn at him.

“Sun, relax,” Moon urged him. “Foxy’s a cool guy, and he’s gonna like you.”

“I… I know, but…what if I do something weird? What if I say something weird?” Sun wondered out loud, picking up the popcorn and tossing it in a trash can.

“Should I hide my plushies?”

“If you mean the Roxanne plushie warming your spot on the couch, then yes,” Moon answered, holding up the mentioned plushie by the leg.

Sun stammered in shock, snatching it from his brother.

“Don’t do that!! She’s sensitive.”

Just then, the doorbell rang. Sun panicked and hurried to hide the plushie in his room, leaving Moon to answer the door for him.

“Hey,” Foxy greeted.

“Hey. Sun’ll be out in a minute.”

Moon stepped aside to let Foxy into the house. By now, the place had been cleaned up a bit more, allowing more space to look around at all the modern amenities from the flat screen TV to the obsidian marble countertops in the kitchen.

There was even a small framed picture of Eclipse taking a selfie with Sun and Moon arguing in the background on the coffee table.

Though, it seemed to be the only picture…

“Wow, this place is nice.”

“Thanks. I think my Mom bought it with government money,” Moon mentioned.

“Your mom works for the government?” Foxy asked, intrigued.

Moon paused. “I…don’t know how much I can legally say.”

It was then that Sun reentered the living room, (metaphorically) out of breath.

He relaxed a bit when he saw their houseguest.

“Oh, hey! You must be Foxy, right?”

Foxy scoffed. “Why? Just because I’m a fox?”

Sun’s embarrassed stammering sent Moon into a fit of chuckles, and Foxy followed soon after.

“I’m just kidding, man. It’s nice to meet you,” Foxy greeted.

Sun sighed in relief. “It’s nice to meet you, too…Moon, stop laughing!!”

“But it was funny!” Moon rebutted.

Sun stared at Moon for a full twenty seconds.

“Foxy, do you mind if I strangle Moon real quick before I show you that game?”

“Sure, go ahead.”

Foxy stepped aside while Sun cracked his knuckles and Moon’s eyes started glowing red.

***

Once the thrashing sounds stopped, Eclipse braced himself for whatever disaster he needed to prepare for downstairs.

However, instead of broken furniture and/or people, he was relieved to see his assistants playing a creepy video game with what he had heard was the Foxy model Moon had invited over.

They were shouting at Sun about probability and what items to use, but overall, all of them seemed to be having fun.

Eclipse decided to interrogate them about the noise later.

It was nice to see both Sun and Moon happy.

Chapter Text

“No, it’s fine!!... Of course you can, you…you seem like you need a place to rest.”

Eclipse perked up when he heard Sun’s voice coming from the tower. It was unusual to hear him up there, especially since he was scared of the dark, and the lights were off.

“Sun?” Eclipse called out.

Sun didn’t seem to hear him, and kept talking to…someone?

Eclipse started to make his way up to the tower through the theater, wondering who Sun could be talking to. He was probably being paranoid; after all, Sun did just make friends with Foxy. Maybe he was just on a call with him.

Except that Sun wouldn’t be on a call in the dark unless something was up.

When he arrived at the door that led into the tower space, he leaned in to listen to what Sun was saying.

“Hey, where are you going…?”

Eclipse opened the door, and saw Sun standing in there…alone?

“Hey, Eclipse,” Sun greeted casually.

“Hey…who…were you talking to?” Eclipse asked.

Sun stammered, as if he was trying to think of a response.

“Um…Moon! I was on the phone with Moon.”

“Moon’s asleep in one of the play structures,” Eclipse informed, gesturing towards the daycare.

Sun paused.

“Oh. Uh…”

He droned on for a minute before finally running past Eclipse into the hallway.

***

Eclipse liked to think of Sun as a pretty straightforward person.

He usually did as he was told, and he was honest- vocally and emotionally. It wasn’t really hard to tell if he was in a good or bad mood, and on rare occasions when he did lie, he was terrible at it.

Like today.

But even if Sun had secrets, they were most likely pretty innocent- he was Sun, after all.

So why couldn’t Eclipse stop WORRYING about him!?

After heading to Gator Golf and expressing his concerns to Monty, he was met with a dismissive scoff.

“Don’t you think you’re being a bit of a helicopter parent?”

“Monty, I’m not a parent,” Eclipse insisted,

“But… I can’t help but worry here. Sun’s not as suspicious as Moon, so it could be easier for him to fall into trouble. Not that I don’t trust him, but-”

“Shh…” Monty shushed, putting his finger to Eclipse’s mouth.

Eclipse didn’t tell him to move it.

“There’s an obvious solution to this, Clipsy. All you have to do… is sit him down and talk to him.”

Before Eclipse could respond, a loud shredding sound came from behind the snack bar, followed by the impact of a bunch of small objects. They almost sounded like bullets.

Monty groaned in exasperation. “Foxy, what did I tell you to do before you started shredding!?”

“Make sure all the bones are out first,” Foxy’s voice called back.

“Exactly!! Now clean that up!”

Monty noticed the way Eclipse was looking between him and the snack bar.

“Found him in the alley. Don’t know why Fazbear threw him out; just needed a little fixin’. Seriously, he’ll do anything.”

Eclipse decided not to ask, and quickly changed the subject.

“So…you think Sun’ll tell me what’s going on if I just…confront him?”

Monty huffed.

“That kid seems like the kind of person who thinks they’ll go to jail for tearing the tag off a couch. He’ll be honest with you, trust me.”

Eclipse knew Monty was probably right, but he couldn’t shake the feeling that something serious was going on…

***

After they all got home from the Pizzaplex, Eclipse finally worked up the nerve to approach Sun.

He was coloring in the living room with Moon, who was playing the second chapter of Poppy Playtime and looking like he wanted to hide behind the couch.

“You know, you don’t have to play that if you’re too scared,” Eclipse assured him.

“But it’s a good game, Mo- OH, DEAR GOD!!”

Eclipse managed to restrain his laughter as Moon was jumpscared by PJ Pug-a Pillar.

He glanced over Sun’s shoulder to see what he was drawing. It looked like a picture of him and a tall, blue and green animatronic with cottony white hair and a rainbow ribbon.

There was a dark spot where one of its eyes should’ve been.

“What’s that?” Eclipse asked.

To his surprise, Sun immediately stuffed the picture into his mouth.

“Nothin.’”

He got up and hurried to his room. Both Eclipse and Moon watched him walk away in shock.

After a minute, Moon sighed and turned back to the game.

“Just when I got him to stop eating glitter glue…”

Eclipse did a double take.

“He was eating WHAT-”

***

Having failed to confront him, Eclipse tried to talk to Sun the next day. However, his cheerful, yellow assistant seemed to be avoiding him.

During the day, he made sure he was constantly engaged with the kids so Eclipse couldn’t talk to him. At naptime, he went up to the tower, but some kid had peed their sleeping bag, so Eclipse was occupied that whole time.

And when the daycare finally closed, Sun was nowhere to be found- he didn’t even clean the barrels before leaving!!

Something was definitely going on.

“Moon!?” Eclipse called to his assistant, who was doing acrobatics on the wire.

“Do you know where Sun went!?”

“He asked me not to tell you,” Moon called back, flying over the bridge connecting the two play structures.

Eclipse sighed, walking over to the computer.

He waited until Moon was close to the floor, and remotely unhooked the cord connecting Moon to the wire.

Moon landed right on his face, not sure what the heck just happened.

Eclipse walked up to him and stared him down.

“Where is your brother?”

“Warehouse,” Moon mumbled.

That one word seemed to make time stop for Eclipse.

***

Meanwhile, Sun was searching through the warehouse for a particular item, though he couldn’t escape the feeling that he was being watched.

When he’d asked Moon, he said that their mom hadn’t put nanny cams in their heads, so that wasn’t it.

Oh, well. It didn’t matter.

Sun turned around and collided with one of the Endos.

“That’s weird…wasn’t it just over there?”

Sun stared up at the Endo for a minute before reaching up to try and remove its eyes. It was easier said than done; they seemed to be really stuck in there.

He climbed onto its shoulders to get better access, but still no luck.

Sun was so focused on his task that he didn’t hear the quiet footsteps of the Endos approaching him from behind…

***

…but was promptly made aware of them when Eclipse slashed their heads off and they clattered to the ground.

“Mom!? I mean, Eclipse!?”

“Sun…” Eclipse began softly,

“Get off the Endo…and walk towards me. Slowly.”

Sun didn’t understand why his mom seemed so tense, but he did what he was told regardless. Once he was close enough to Eclipse, the orange animatronic pulled him into a tight hug, which he returned.

After a moment, Eclipse whispered,

“Sundrop, you have ten seconds to explain what you’re doing here before I ground you until the end of time.”

“I was looking for an eye for my new friend!!” Sun blurted.

Eclipse stammered in disbelief.

“New friend…? Sun, Foxy has two eyes!”

Sun muttered nervously, staring at the ground.

“It’s… It’s not Foxy…”

“What do you…”

Eclipse trailed off when he noticed movement in the background. He looked up quickly, and it stopped.

“We’ll talk about this in the daycare.” He picked up Sun, carrying him under his arm backwards.

“If we pass by an Endo, keep looking at it, and don’t look away.”

“Okay. Is…this a game?” Sun asked, picking up a set of Endo eyes on the ground as Eclipse stepped over them.

“No, Sun, it’s not. Do you remember what happened on the day you were born?” Eclipse insisted.

Sun nodded, even though Eclipse couldn’t see it. “Yeah, but just that one was turned on, right?”

Eclipse scoffed.

“No, Sun. All of them are on right now- but they only move when you’re not looking.”

Sun was quiet for a moment.

“Oh…”

***

Once they had returned to the daycare and finished cleaning up, Eclipse stared down his assistant.

Sun’s eyes were glued to the floor.

Moon was standing nearby, eating chips from a bag. (This was the first time only Sun had gotten in trouble.)

“Now…remind me again why you went down to the warehouse,” Eclipse ordered.

“I…I…have a secret friend.”

Eclipse and Moon exchanged a look.

“Sun… what do you mean?” Eclipse pressed.

Sun stammered a bit before beginning.

“I…met her in the theater. She was tall, and…she is tall, and…and sad. And I think her eye had been ripped out. So…I let her stay in the tower.”

He paused for a minute before adding,

“Her name is Earth.”

For a minute, the information hung in the air like a heavy fog.

“Wow. I knew you wanted a girlfriend, but I didn’t think you’d stoop to making one up,” Moon remarked.

“She’s not made up, Moony,” Sun insisted angrily. “She’s real!! She super tall and has puffy hair and-”

“Wait. The tower?” Eclipse interrupted, looking up there.

“Is that who you were talking to?”

Sun nodded enthusiastically. “Yeah!! Do you want me to introduce you?”

***

Eclipse was barely listening as Sun chattered away about Earth while they headed up to the tower. He’d never heard of an “Earth” model before, so why did it sound so close to their brand?

When they reached the end of the hall, Sun knocked before opening the door to the tower space. Eclipse turned on the lights, and…

…there was nothing there but his old inventions.

“What!?” Sun looked around, confused.

“I swear, she was here!!”

He looked into their old bedroom, but there was nothing to be seen.

Eclipse scanned the room, but he didn’t detect anything. Maybe Sun just had an imaginary friend and didn’t say anything because he was embarrassed.

Sun was pretty committed to his games, so it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for him to get any items for them. And if he didn’t know about the Endos, he didn’t knowingly put himself in danger.

Eclipse could just tell him not to go down there again.

His shoulders felt lighter as he realized that he’d been making a big deal out of nothing.

As Sun searched the room for his supposed friend, Moon scoffed.

“Give it a rest, Sun. If you want a girlfriend that bad, maybe I should turn off your ad blocker-”

A Monty plushie was promptly thrown in his face.

“Knock it off, Moon! She’s not my girlfriend- she’s my friend, and she is real!!”

Sun ran to Eclipse, looking up at him.

“You believe me, don’t you?”

No. No, he didn’t.

Eclipse didn’t like lying, and he especially didn’t wanna lie to his assistant…

…but for some reason, he didn’t have the heart to tell Sun what he really thought.

“Maybe…you can introduce us to her later. If she’s not around now.”

Sun gasped, bouncing on his feet, and gave Eclipse a big hug.

“That’s a great idea!! You’re gonna love her!!”

Eclipse huffed out a laugh, ruffling Sun’s rays.

“Come on. Let’s go home.”

As Moon tried to protest the validity of Sun’s imaginary “girlfriend,” Sun quietly placed the Endo eyes on the floor before following his mom and brother out of the tower.

A green hand picked them up once the door was closed.

Chapter Text

“If anyone touches you Roxanne, I’m gonna hurt them really badly…”

Sun snored and turned over in bed, cuddling his Roxy plush to his chest.

“...and that goes for Chica, too…protect chicken babysitter…”

As Sun continued to snooze, a dark figure crept into his room and crawled up to the bed.

A glowing pair of red eyes hovered ominously over him.

Sun unconsciously lifted an arm to block the light.

“Nightlight’s too bright, Mom…”

The figure rolled its eyes and grabbed the pillow-sized DJ Music Man plushie at the foot of Sun’s bed.

It raised the plushie over its head and whacked Sun clean in the face.

***

“CLEAN UP!!” Sun startled, sitting up abruptly. Once he caught his breath, he looked over and saw Moon standing by his bed.

“Hey, Sun.”

Sun blinked, snatched the DJ plushie from his twin, and laid back down, hugging it.

“Come on, get up! I have something to show you,” Moon urged.

“Show me tomorrow…” Sun groaned, pulling the covers over his head.

“Why aren’t you asleep…?”

Moon scoffed.

“You know I’m never asleep when it’s appropriate. Now, come on!! I found this cool new dimension that I think you’re gonna love!!”

Sun opened one of his eyes, but he didn’t get up.

“Moony, do you remember what happened the last time we went to another dimension?”

“Yeah, but…we don’t have to bring back any eggs this time,” Moon assured his brother.

“And besides, Mom’s not gonna catch us.”

Sun popped out of the blankets a few seconds after Moon’s statement.

“Moon, what did you do?”

***

When Sun and Moon peeked into Eclipse’s room, the daycare animatronic was sleeping more peacefully than either of them had ever seen.

“I think he invented some kind of robot melatonin. Saw him pouring it into his drink,” Moon whispered.

Sun stared at his twin skeptically for a minute before he added,

“I did not do anything else to his drink.”

Sun scoffed, closing the bedroom door.

“I’m going back to bed…”

“What!? Come on, Sun,” Moon urged. “Don’t you wanna see this dimension? I know you want to explore more like I do…”

“I do, but…” Sun crossed his arms, looking down.

“I…don’t wanna get in trouble with Mom again.”

Moon didn’t say anything for a minute. He patted Sun’s shoulder, walking past him.

“Fine. I’ll check out the Minecraft Dimension on my own.”

Sun nodded, watching as Moon headed down the hall and quietly left out the front door.

He stood there for a few seconds before gasping a bit.

“Minecraft Dimension..? Hold- Hold on!! Moon!?”

***

By the time the twins arrived at the Pizzaplex, Moon had explained to Sun that he had discovered a Minecraft Dimension in Eclipse’s computer database. Apparently, he had gone there a few times to get supplies, but the file Moon found it in was labeled, “do not show assistants.”

Needless to say, Sun was eager to see what a Minecraft Dimension looked like. The twins snuck into the Pizzaplex, disabled the cameras, and hurried to Fazbear Theater.

Unfortunately, they quickly ran into a snag:

The console that controlled the portal had a four digit password on it now.

“Huh. I wonder when Mom did that,” Sun remarked quietly.

“I…guess we’re not going there without his permission.”

“Or are we?” Moon took off his hat and pulled out a small device shaped like a calculator.

“Mom’s not the only one who knows how to build stuff!”

Sun stared at the four tiny yellow rays on the top of Moon’s head.

“You have rays…?” Sun breathed, slightly terrified.

Moon shoved his hat back on and connected a cord from the device to the console.

“Of course I have rays. What, did you think I was bald!?”

“Well…yeah.” Sun chuckled a bit, crossing his arms. “I thought you never took off the hat for a reason.”

“I was literally born with it on. Am I not allowed to be sentimental?”

Moon pressed a button on the device, which hacked the four digit password and unlocked the full range of action for the portal.

The glowing, purple aura surrounded the stage.

Sun giggled in excitement while Moon tried to find the right dimension. Once he did, he and his twin stepped to the center of the stage as the portal hummed to life.

Moon thought he heard something hit the floor, but he didn’t have time to reflect on it before they were zapped to the Minecraft Dimension.

***

“Wow…”

On top of a hill, Sun and Moon stared in awe at the glowing, cubical moon illuminating the beautiful landscape of the Minecraft world. Trees rustled in the wind, and the sound of cows and sheep grazing could be heard nearby.

It was all so peaceful.

“It looks so cool here! And you…”

Sun turned to look at his brother, who was definitely a little more… square than he remembered. Not that he looked any different, but…

“Wow, you look terrible.”

Moon punched his brother before hurrying down the hill toward a nearby mountain.

“I’m gonna go look for precious materials! Don’t do anything dumb!”

“Same to you!!” Sun bid farewell before noticing a field of flowers on the other side of the hill occupied by a couple of sheep.

He headed down to the field and pet a sheep that was walking by, who baa’d at him in acknowledgement.

“Earth would probably love this…”

He started to pick some flowers for her, wondering if they’d stay square when he brought them back.

***

Meanwhile, Moon was making pretty good progress with the mining; he had already found silver and gold ore, and he had a feeling he was getting pretty close to diamonds.

No, zombies. Those were zombies.

Sighing, he prepared to fight them off with his pickaxe, hoping to get this over with soon. He could see them coming around a corner…

…and they were huge.

Like, incredibly huge.

The zombies saw Moon and immediately went after him. He tried to hit them with the iron pickaxe he had crafted, but it barely made a dent.

“Oh, crap…”

Moon turned around and began to run out of the path he had mined.

“Crap, crap, crap crap crap!!”

***

Sun was pretty surprised to see Moon screaming and running away from something. He hadn’t even acted like that when their Mom caught him painting butts on the bathroom walls.

“Hey, Moon. You find anything?” Sun asked casually.

Moon gasped, looking behind him.

“Afraid so. We have to go, now.”

“What? Why?”

Sun’s question was answered when trees started falling like dominos in the distance, followed by loud zombie noises.

“That’s why!” Moon pulled up the portal app on his arm computer, but the password was in the way.

He touched his hat for the password breaker, but his stomach dropped when he didn’t feel it.

“Moon? What’s wrong?” Sun questioned.

His twin laughed nervously before saying very fast,

“I might’ve left my password breaker back at home.”

Sun blinked, staring at his brother.

“YOU WHAT-”

***

Just then, a giant zombie arm swooped down to grab them, but the daycare animatronics ducked out of the way just in time.

They hurried across the landscape away from the giant zombies, while Moon struggled to guess the password.

“No…no…NO!!”

“MOON, CAN YOU HURRY UP!?”

“I’M TRYING!!”

Moon jammed in all the four number combinations he could think of, but none of them seemed to work. It probably didn’t help that he and his brother were currently running for their lives.

When they got far enough away from the zombies, they sealed themselves inside a cliffside to hide from them.

“Guess…guess that explains… why Mom didn’t tell us about this place,” Moon stammered, still trying to figure out the password.

Sun watched his brother grow increasingly more frustrated with every failed attempt. Two hours passed, and he couldn’t figure it out. A tense silence settled through the cave like a heavy fog.

To make matters worse, the giant zombies could be heard approaching outside.

Moon slammed his forearm into the cave wall, sobbing under his breath.

“This is all my fault…”

Sun flinched.

He had never seen Moon so upset before.

He hesitantly reached out to his brother.

“Moon-”

“DON’T try to make this better, Sun!! I made a dumb decision and put us in danger, just like I did before!!” Moon declared, clenching his fists.

“It’s why Mom likes you more; you may be an idiot, but you aren’t stupid! I am, and I’m… really sorry…”

Moon sank to the ground, curling into a fetal position.

Sun stayed silent.

Moon hadn’t told him he felt that way.

Did he really think Mom liked him more?

Does he really think he’s stupid?

Sun crouched down beside Moon as the giant zombie noises got closer. It sounded like they were right on top of them.

“Don’t worry, Moon. Maybe…maybe Mom’ll find us,” Sun hoped, wrapping an arm around Moon’s shoulders.

Moon turned to face Sun. “Do you really think that?”

The cave rumbled, and pebbles fell from the walls and ceiling.

“Um…maybe.”

Despite the terror, Moon huffed out a laugh.

“I’m…glad… you were one of the first people I met.”

Sun almost returned the compliment, then something hit him- figuratively.

“Moon… Moon, our birthday!!”

Before Moon could ask what Sun meant, his brother grabbed his arm and typed in 0-6-2-8.

After a tense few seconds, the password went through.

The cave started crumbling around them, the zombies groaning outside.

Moon found the signature for their dimension, and with the quick press of a button, the twins were instantly teleported back home.

***

Sun and Moon laid on the Fazbear Theater stage for a long time.

Eventually, Moon got up and deleted the record of him and Sun’s trip from the portal’s console.

Somehow, the flowers Sun had picked had survived. After dropping them off in the tower, he rejoined his brother in the lobby of the daycare.

Without saying a word, the twins started the walk back home.

Once they arrived, they checked on Eclipse and relief washed over them both once they realized he was still sleeping.

Sun headed back to his room, but Moon followed him.

“Um…can…”

Sun sighed. “I’ll move my plushies.”

After gently placing said plushies on the floor, Moon crawled into bed alongside his brother.

“Moon…?” Sun spoke up after a minute.

“Yeah, Sun?”

Sun paused for a minute before saying,

“You’re…you’re not stupid.”

Moon tensed a bit before turning away from his brother.

“And you’re…not… entirely an idiot.”

Sun chuckled, hitting Moon with his Roxanne plushie.

Chapter Text

When Eclipse came to wake his assistants up for work, he didn’t expect them to both be sleeping in Sun’s room…

…looking incredibly exhausted.

He briefly wondered if they were coming down with something, but animatronics didn’t usually get sick. Still, he took a second to check them out physically, but everything seemed normal.

Maybe they’d just had nightmares and stayed up because of them.

In any case, they were in no shape for chasing after kids today, so he sent a message saying the daycare was closed for “maintenance.”

He pulled the covers back over Sun and Moon and left Sun’s bedroom door cracked open. Despite his concern, this could be a good opportunity. With his assistants resting and the daycare closed, he might be able to actually relax today. Heck, Eclipse couldn’t remember the last time it had been so quiet.

In fact, it was like he’d barely gotten peace for the last month.

He made a bowl of popcorn and turned on some trashy soap opera, and everything was perfect…

…that is, for about an hour.

***

“Hey, man!!”

Eclipse groaned, pausing his soap opera. “Hello, Montgomery…”

“Hey. So. I heard you were closing down the daycare today,” Monty observed.

“You finally taking a day off?”

“Um…kinda. I…called in because of Sun and Moon. Something’s going on with them.”

Eclipse took a second to pull up an overview of their systems on his laptop.

“Looks like… a… trauma response equivalent to a near death experience…? How…how bad were those nightmares…?”

Monty sighed.

“Oh. Guess if you’re gonna spend the day fussing over them, I can’t take you on that date.”

Eclipse paused, slamming his laptop closed.

“What date?”

“Uh…” Monty sounded embarrassed now.

“The, uh, the…the date. That I was gonna ask you on…since you have a day off.”

After another second, he asked,

“Wanna go on a date?”

Eclipse remained silent for a minute. The thought of spending time with Monty was…captivating, to say the least. But he was still worried about his assistants since they didn’t seem to be doing well.

“Um…gimme a minute.”

***

Moon hissed as he was gently shaken awake. He looked up and saw the half orange face of his mother.

“Don’t wanna go to work, Mom…”

“I know. I closed the daycare. But…would you and Sun be alright if I was out of the house for a few hours? Monty asked me out,” Eclipse informed.

“Sure. Whatever,” Moon dismissed, rolling over.

Eclipse sighed in relief.

“Good. I’ll leave a note in case you forget this conversation…call if you need anything, okay?”

Moon made a dismissive noise, and Eclipse left his assistants to sleep. He unmuted himself and answered Monty.

“I’ll…go on a date with you.”

“Great. Be there in ten.”

Monty hung up the phone, and Eclipse was left in anxious anticipation. He’d had a…relationship with Monty before, but it wasn’t much of actually going out together.

And he didn’t want it to be the same as last time, but…he’d started feeling differently about the gator lately.

He found himself laughing at his dumb dirty jokes, and thinking about inventing stuff with him, or holding his hand, or playing video games together, or…

Dammit, do I actually have feelings!?

Eclipse buried his face in his hands in embarrassment. As complicated as his relationship with Monty was, he really wanted to try again with him.

Besides, he already said yes, so there was no way he could back out now.

***

Ten minutes after Eclipse left with Monty, Moon’s eyes shot open in shock.

He looked around, then got out of bed and started frantically searching around the house.

“Please let it be a dream, please let it be a dream…”

When Moon saw the note on the coffee table, his heart clenched in worry.

“SUN!!”

Sun hurried to the living room, accidentally colliding with his brother.

“Oww… Moon, I swear, you better not just be out of chips-”

“Worse than that, Sun!! It’s a Code Green!!”

“What!?” Sun hopped off the floor, ignoring the dent in his forehead.

“Are you sure!?”

Moon handed Sun the note written by Eclipse.

Sun and Moon,

I’m going out with Monty. Make sure to get some rest, your battery lives are at like, thirty percent. If you need anything, call me.

Don’t destroy the house.

-Eclipse

“No…no, this is terrible!!” Sun exclaimed, clenching the note in his hands.

“I know!! There’s no way that gator is good for our mom; he used to put him through literal torture,” Moon pointed out.

Sun gasped. “Wait…really?”

Moon nodded.

“I saw some pictures in the same file I found that dimension signature in. I…I don’t know why Mom kept them, but it can’t be for a good reason!!”

A warning message about Moon’s battery life flashed before his eyes, but he quickly dismissed it.

“But what are we gonna do?! It’s not like Mom’s gonna listen to us, and Monty’s immune to tape jail,” Sun pointed out.

“Then…then we just have to ruin their date from…afar,” Moon realized, huffing out a laugh.

“Come on, I know how to find out their location.”

***

“Well? What do you think?”

Eclipse didn’t say a word. He was busy taking in the scenery around him; Monty hadn’t brought him to this restaurant in months.

The low lights, candlelit tables, and marble fountain all provided the perfect romantic atmosphere.

It was just as beautiful as he remembered- even with the pancakes everywhere.

“Did…Did you buy out the dining area?” Eclipse asked as Monty led him to a table.

“Sure. I mean, how else are an animatronic gator and sun…thing going to get a peaceful meal around here?”

Monty pulled out a chair for Eclipse before sitting down across from him. A waiter came up to the two of them.

“What can I start you off with, Mr. Gator?”

“I’ll take the wine. And the lady here will have an Amaretto Sour.”

Eclipse kicked Monty from under the table, but the gator barely reacted.

“Coming right up.” The waiter hurried off to the bar to get their drinks.

“Brat,” Monty accused, sticking his tongue out at Eclipse.

Eclipse scoffed. “At least you remembered my favorite…”

“How could I forget? Remember that night you ordered like, seven in a row and started crying because-”

“Shut up-”

“-frogs were so cute?”

“Monty…”

Eclipse ran a hand down his face in embarrassment as Monty laughed, though he couldn’t help laughing along with him.

***

Unbeknownst to either of them, Sun and Moon were watching the exchange from behind a large potted tree near the entrance.

“Ugh. Disgusting,” Moon grumbled.

“You can hear what they’re saying?” Sun questioned.

“No, I just know I’m disgusted.”

Moon noticed the waiter preparing drinks behind the bar and got an idea. Once he and Sun managed to sneak back there, Moon grabbed a bottle of hot sauce and brown liquor.

“I saw this on a cartoon once, so it’s gotta work.” He peeked on top of the counter.

“Um…which one do you think is Mom’s?”

“I don’t know… the red one?” Sun guessed, pointing to the glass of wine.

Moon nodded, pouring the hot sauce and brown liquor into the glass.

“Sorry, Mom, but this date’s over…”

***

Once Monty started choking, Eclipse immediately ran to his side.

“What happened!? How are you choking? Are you okay?”

Monty huffed out a laugh. “Wow, first you poison me, and then, you pretend to care?”

“I didn’t poison you, you stupid gator,” Eclipse huffed, picking up the wine glass and sniffing it.

“Ugh. I think something’s wrong with the drinks here.”

“Eh. Wouldn’t be surprised if someone tried to take me out this way,” Monty mentioned, clearing his throat.

“But don’t worry. I got another place to take you that I think you’re gonna love.”

“It better not be that club we went to, it took forever to get those stains out…”

***

To Sun and Moon’s relief, they didn’t go to a club- Monty had taken Eclipse to an aquarium.

They stalked their Mom and Monty from a distance as the couple compared each other’s appearances to the different creatures there.

It was sweet- almost disgustingly so.

“So, how are we gonna break this up?” Sun asked.

Moon noticed a wet floor sign down the hall from where Eclipse and Monty were approaching from. He quickly swiped it and ducked back into the maintenance room they were hiding in.

“I wonder how fragile Monty’s legs are…”

Unfortunately, it was Eclipse who slipped on the floor first, and Sun and Moon winced as they watched their Mom fall-

No, wait, he didn’t fall- Monty caught him in time.

“Huh. My hero,” Eclipse commented, a bit surprised.

Monty helped him back upright.

“Anything for you, Clipsy. Is… there anything I can expect in return?”

He leaned closer to Eclipse’s face, but he pushed the gator’s jaws away with one finger.

“How about I buy you a plushie from the gift shop?”

“...Okay.”

***

After leaving the aquarium, Eclipse and Monty watched the sunset together over a bridge. Neither of them said a word for a while, their hands clasped together on the railing.

“So…you have fun today?” Monty finally asked.

“I…did,” Eclipse admitted, squeezing his hand a bit tighter.

“I’m… honestly a little surprised you didn’t do anything-”

“Raunchy? Overly flirty?”

Eclipse looked up at Monty. The gator had taken his glasses off.

“Yeah, I…didn’t really want today to be like…the first time. I mean, it was fun at first, but…then I started to actually like hearing you ramble on about quantum mechanics and…what, dimension probability? You’re a huge nerd, you know that?”

Monty awkwardly scratched the back of his head.

“But… I really like huge nerds…and…and you in particular.”

Eclipse couldn’t believe what he was hearing. He pinched his own arm, but he definitely wasn’t dreaming.

“I…wanted to ask if…you want to try again. No sexual strings attached.”

Eclipse hesitantly reached out to hold the gator’s hand.

“Monty… I-”

"Oh, HELL NO!!”

To Eclipse’s surprise, both of his assistants popped out of the frickin’ water and landed with a wet splat onto the bridge.

“Sun!? Moon!? Why aren’t you at home!?”

“This is for your own good, Mommy!” Sun exclaimed before hugging Eclipse’s waist in a protective manner.

Moon shoved between Eclipse and Monty, his eyes glowing red.

“Don’t try to fool him, gator!! You think you can just take our mom on a romantic date and have him buy you an arm demon-”

“Octopus,” Monty corrected.

“WHATEVER!! I don’t trust you, and the last thing we want is for Mom to get hurt again, so why don’t you…you…you…”

Moon fell forward, and Monty caught him before he hit the ground. Sun was out cold, too, still clinging onto Eclipse’s waist.

Monty and Eclipse exchanged a confused look.

“Huh…guess we had a tail,” Monty remarked, throwing Moon over his shoulder.

“Your kid’s battery’s on fire. How long have they been running around?”

Eclipse sighed.

“I don’t know, Monty… I really don’t know.”

He picked Sun up, and the two of them headed back to Eclipse’s house.

***

Once Sun and Moon were dried off, tucked into bed, and connected to a power outlet, Eclipse followed Monty to the front door.

“Uh…sorry about them. They’re just kinda protective.”

Monty chuckled. “Don’t worry, Clipsy. I don’t blame them; I wouldn’t want some weird guy dating my mom, either.”

Eclipse rolled his eyes. “Monty, I’m not their-”

“The more you say that, the more I think you’re trying to convince yourself they’re not your kids. And they clearly are.”

“Yeah, whatever…” Eclipse crossed his arms, then gazed into Monty’s eyes.

“Uh…thanks for…helping me get them home.”

Monty shrugged. “Forget about it. I said I’d do anything for you, didn’t I?”

Eclipse reluctantly reached out and put a hand on his shoulder…

…and kissed Monty on the lips.

The two of them were frozen for all of nine seconds before Eclipse blurted,

“I had fun today, bye!!”

He slammed the door shut, grabbed a throw pillow, and screamed into it.

Meanwhile, Monty walked home, hugging the octopus plushie, absolutely speechless- and touching his lips where Eclipse had kissed him.

“He’s…never done that before…”

Chapter Text

When Eclipse asked Sun and Moon what had happened to put them through a trauma response, they just said they’d had nightmares after playing Minecraft. It was an obvious lie, but they were recovering, so Eclipse decided to drop it- for now.

After all, he understood how hard it was to talk about certain things…

Another week went by, and everything was mostly normal, except the orange animatronic couldn’t get his mind off of Monty. The gator had confessed his romantic feelings for him, and he’d kissed him and slammed the door in his face in return!

Seriously, who does that!?

Despite his embarrassment, he was desperate to give him an answer. Though, every time he pulled up his number, he got cold feet, and he went out of his way to avoid Gator Golf.

Eclipse knew Monty liked him, and he liked Monty…

That’s right.

He liked Monty.

So why was he so scared to tell him?

***

On Friday evening, after the daycare closed, Eclipse was tidying up while Moon was showing Sun how to use the wire near the ball pit.

Just then, he got a call from Chica. It was admittedly a nice surprise; even though she was usually busy during the day, she was fun to talk to whenever he got the opportunity.

With no hesitation, he answered the phone.

“Hello?”

“Hey, Eclipse!!” Chica greeted. “Are you busy tonight?”

Well, that was a bit unexpected.

“Um…no. Why? Do you need something?”

“You…could say that.” She and Roxy giggled in the background.

Eclipse rolled his eyes. They were less subtle than Sun and Moon when they were up to something.

“All right, what are you guys plotting?”

“There’s no plotting, Eclipse,” Chica promised,

“But…remember when you said you’d pay me back for babysitting on short notice?”

Eclipse did say that. Whatever she wanted, he hoped it wasn’t something embarrassing.

“Um…yes…?”

“Good!! If you can, come over to our apartment tonight. I’m not telling you what for, but I think you’re gonna love it.”

“Well, I…” Eclipse trailed off when he saw Sun screaming as he sailed through the air on the wire.

Moon was giving him a thumbs up.

“I’ll…find someone to watch my ki- assistants.”

“Awesome, we’ll see you tonight!!”

Eclipse hung up the phone and remotely disconnected Sun from the wire once he sailed close enough to the floor. With his heart pounding, he pulled up the gator’s number again.

You’re not confessing, you’re just asking a favor.

Taking a deep breath, he finally called.

“Monty…?”

***

“...under penalty of two weeks’ grounding, I solemnly swear not to hurt, harm, or otherwise attempt to subdue the party known as Montgomery Gator in any way. I understand that a breach of this agreement will result in the aforementioned punishment, and I accept the consequences that may follow,” Sun and Moon concluded in unison.

Eclipse stopped the recording.

“Good. You can put your hands down now.”

Sun and Moon lowered their right hands, both looking equally annoyed.

The orange animatronic sighed.

“Guys, I promise, Monty’s a good person. And he’s bringing Foxy over, so you won’t be completely bored, just…try. Please?”

Sun’s expression softened at Eclipse’s plea, and he nodded in agreement. Moon seemed a little more reluctant, but he nodded as well.

“Have…Have fun with Chica and Roxy,” Moon grumbled.

Eclipse sighed in relief, patting Moon’s head. Just then, the doorbell rang, and he went over to answer it.

Monty was standing outside with Foxy behind him.

“Hey, Eclipse,” Foxy greeted quickly before slipping inside to meet with Sun and Moon.

Eclipse and Monty stood in silence at the front door.

“Um…bedtime is kinda loose since it’s Friday, but I should be back before it gets too late,” Eclipse finally blurted, hurrying past Monty.

“Okay, bye…”

***

After rechecking the address twice, Eclipse was certain that he’d gotten Chica and Roxy’s apartment number correct. Steeling himself for anything, he knocked on the door.

A few seconds later, Chica opened it.

“Eclipse!! You made it! Come on in!”

Before Eclipse could even say, “hi,” Chica grabbed his arm and dragged him to the living room. He glanced around, but nothing in the apartment seemed to be broken or otherwise out of order.

What did they even call me for?

Set up on the coffee table were trays of nail polish, makeup, and various snacks and drinks. Roxy, who sat on the couch, gave a one handed wave to Eclipse before picking up the remote.

“Hey,” Eclipse greeted, confused.

“Um, what-”

“Welcome to girl’s night!!” Chica exclaimed, plopping down on the couch.

“Roxy and I do this every Friday, and we thought it was time we invited you!! Isn’t that right, honey?”

Roxy nodded in agreement, flipping through channels on the TV.

Eclipse stammered, holding his hands up defensively.

“I… I’m sorry, what? I…I’m glad you invited me, but… I…haven’t done anything like this before. And… I’m not even a girl, so-”

“Eclipse, you run a daycare, and you’re a depressed mother of two, which is close enough,” Roxy interjected.

She paused to put her hands over where Chica’s ears would be.

“And she’s been dying to hang out with you for the past two weeks, so if you disappoint her, I will tear off your rays. Sit. Down.”

Eclipse nodded quickly, sitting down next to Chica on the couch. She squawked in confusion when Roxy took her hands off her head, but the wolf didn’t elaborate.

Violent threat aside, Eclipse could at least hope that this night wouldn’t end in complete disaster.

What do girls do at these kinds of things, anyway? Arson? Murder? The Dark Arts?

***

Nail painting was going to be his next guess.

As Roxy explained how the most effective way to handle a Karen would be to throw her out a window, Chica painted his nails white.

He knew it wasn’t the most flashy, but at least it didn’t clash with his color scheme.

“Eclipse, can you please tell Roxy that we shouldn’t throw our guests out of windows?” Chica asked.

Eclipse shrugged.

“I wouldn’t know, there aren’t any windows in the daycare.”

Chica sputtered in shock while Roxy burst out laughing, putting an arm around her shoulder.

“Eclipse!!”

“Chica, I have to deal with screaming children on a regular basis. I don’t get paid to deal with screaming parents…well, I hardly get paid at all, but you know what I mean,” Eclipse explained.

“It’s honestly kinda bad that there are no windows in the daycare, either…”

“Maybe you could put in a skylight,” Roxy suggested.

Eclipse nodded. “I’ve thought about that, but how would you throw someone-”

“HOW ABOUT we play Truth or Dare?” Chica interrupted, slamming the bottle of white nail polish down on the table.

***

Truth or Dare was actually pretty fun. Chica had confessed to the rumor that she used to eat garbage when she first got activated, and Roxy dared Eclipse to braid her hair, which he was currently doing.

“I’ve got one. Eclipse, Truth or Dare?” Chica asked.

Eclipse pushed some of Roxy’s hair out of his face.

“Um, truth.”

“What’s the relationship between you and Monty?”

Eclipse paused, completely blindsided. For some reason, he hadn’t been expected to be asked about that.

“Uh…we…we, uh…”

“Weren’t you two together at one point?” Roxy asked in a teasing manner.

“Well…yeah,” Eclipse began, looking anywhere but at their faces,

“But…it was a casual…’hangout’ thing. I mean, he took me out last week, but-”

“You went on a DATE!?” Chica exclaimed, clasping her hands together.

“How’d it go? Did you have fun!? Did he hurt you?”

Eclipse was quick to deny her question, and went on to describe the date to Roxy and Chica. They listened with delight as he told them about the aquarium, the bridge, the romantic confession, and even how his assistants had shown up…

…and how he’d ended the night by kissing Monty on the lips and slamming the door in his face.

Chica and Roxy exchanged a baffled look.

Eclipse looked down, embarrassed.

“I…asked him to watch Sun and Moon tonight, but… I still couldn’t give him an answer,” he admitted.

“I’m such an idiot….I don’t know why I couldn’t just say it, we’ve…known each other since we got to the Pizzaplex. I love that stupid gator, and I know he loves me, so why can’t I just-”

“Eclipse. Eclipse, easy with the comb,” Roxy interrupted, tensing her shoulders at the animatronic’s rough treatment.

“Sorry.”

Eclipse put the comb down and resumed his braiding.

Chica, who had been uncharacteristically quiet during Eclipse’s story, finally spoke up.

“I…know how hard it can be to tell someone you love them,” she admitted.

Eclipse was a bit surprised. Chica always seemed so social and upbeat.

Roxy chuckled.

“Yeah. I don’t think you were around us much when the place first opened, but Chica used to be a nervous mess around me. Every time we ran into each other in the hall, she tripped over a caution bot. It was adorable.”

Chica scoffed, rolling her eyes. “Oh, yeah? And who steered a cart right into a wall when I went to the Raceway for the first time?”

Eclipse laughed at the thought of Roxy crashing over something like that, but a quick growl from her shut him right up.

“So…how’d you end up together?” he questioned, sticking a bow in Roxy’s hair.

“Well…as scared as I was of telling her, I realized that even if she didn’t like me like I liked her, I’d…hate myself even more if I didn’t let her know,” Chica explained.

“I mean, who wouldn’t want to know that someone loves them?”

“There’s probably a few people, babe,” Roxy pointed out, earning an annoyed squawk from Chica.

“You know what I mean, Roxy!!”

Aside from their banter, Eclipse’s heart felt lighter from knowing that he wasn’t alone in being nervous about relationships.

He gave Roxy a hand mirror so she could see her hair, and she gasped in shock.

“I… I’m sorry!! I’m just used to braiding kids’ hair; if…if you want me to take it down, I-”

“I’M BEAUTIFUL!!”

***

After a couple more rounds of Truth or Dare and a promise to come back next Friday, Eclipse headed back home. When he knocked on the door, Monty stepped aside to show Eclipse the living room.

Sun, Moon, and Foxy were asleep in a giant pillow fort.

“Guess they finally warmed up to you, huh?” Eclipse remarked quietly.

“Yep.” Monty crept over to the pillow fort and carefully placed his sleeping assistant over his shoulder. “I had to give them a few extra bags of chips, though.”

Eclipse groaned, but he was mostly just happy that nothing was on fire.

Monty began to walk out the door, but before he could, the orange animatronic grabbed his hand.

“Wait.”

The gator paused, watching Eclipse intently as he seemed to be struggling to form words.

“I…I…”

Eclipse exhaled, and finally declared,

“I…love you, too. Idiot. Gator.”

Monty didn’t say anything at first. Eclipse was concerned for a minute, but then, he asked,

“Does…this mean you’re my girlfriend again?”

Eclipse sighed, huffing out a laugh.

“I’m whatever you want, Monty.”

Monty lifted his hand to kiss it, then waved goodbye to him as he walked away.

“See you at work, Clipsy. Nice nails, by the way.”

Eclipse waved back to him, a floaty feeling rising in his chest.

“Thank you, Chica…”

Chapter Text

After a disastrous day that involved new Fazbear brand slime that Eclipse was asked to try with the kids in the daycare, he and Sun went to throw out the rest of the goo covered wet rags.

Moon was asked to stay behind and wipe up any leftover residue, so naturally, he didn’t, opting to fly through the air on the wire.

As he (badly) sang “Chandelier” to himself, he noticed a gray dot approaching the daycare’s entrance. He landed on top of one of the play structures and saw that the gray dot wasn’t a gray dot, but a little gray robot.

The robot entered the daycare and looked around.

“Hello? Eclipse?”

Something was odd.

Moon hadn’t seen this robot before, and his mom hadn't told either him or Sun about it. However, the alarms would’ve gone off for anyone who the daycare’s security system didn’t recognize.

Still attached to the wire, Moon hopped down from the play structure before disconnecting himself.

“He’s not here. Did…you need something?”

The robot scoffed. “Well, no. Should I need anything to want to visit my own son?”

Moon paused, taking a step back. In his entire month and a quarter of life, his mother had never mentioned his own parents.

Ever.

“You’re…Mom’s…dad?”

“Mom…? Yes, I suppose so,” the robot suggested.

“And that makes me your Grandpa-pa.”

Moon stared at the robot for a minute.

“No.”

The robot sighed.

“I see you take after your mother… Now, where is he? I have something I need to discuss with him.”

“He’s at the dumpster with my brother. Fazbear made us give the kids this branded slime that they just threw everywhere,” Moon explained.

“You might wanna watch where you step, by the way.”

“Yes, yes, children are…disgusting,” the robot observed with a hint of disdain.

“So…why’d you make my mom if you hate kids?” Moon asked.

The robot shrugged.

“It was a commission job. Still, he was one of my better creations- logical, intelligent, programmed with over 200 caretaking protocols and top-notch self defense protocols.”

The robot turned to look at the animated ad with Eclipse’s face.

“Yes, he could’ve been my greatest accomplishment.…until he decided to betray me.”

Moon took a couple more steps back.

“Betrayal” wasn’t a word that he would usually associate with Eclipse.

“What…what did he do?”

The robot turned around and began to approach Moon.

“Well-”

***

Just then, Sun came flying in on the wire, tackled the robot to the ground, and started duct taping his arms and legs together.

“BAD ROBOT!! BAD!! YOU ARE BANNED FROM THE DAYCARE!!”

Moon tried to pull his brother off of him, but he wasn’t budging.

“Sun, what are you doing!?”

“Moon, he’s DANGEROUS!!” Sun insisted before yelling,

“SECURITY ALERT!! SECURITY ALERT!! WHOO-WHOO-WHOO-WHOO!!!”

Since Sun was programmed to be able to summon security if Moon or Eclipse weren’t around, it didn’t take long for someone to show up- Monty.

“What’s going on? Are you guys okay?” he asked, hurrying over to the twins.

Sun held up the robot wrapped in tape. It seemed strangely unresponsive now.

“Destroy this. Destroy it with fire.”

Sun wasn’t usually this intense, so Monty just nodded and hurried the robot out of the daycare.

As he left through the double doors, Eclipse was coming in, and he just barely got a glimpse of the little gray robot.

He collapsed as soon as he set foot on the daycare floor.

***

“Mom! Are you okay?” Moon asked, hurrying over to Eclipse with Sun.

“That was…that…”

Sun and Moon quickly helped Eclipse to his feet. It took a couple minutes for him to calm down, but he finally questioned in a shaking voice,

“That…robot…did it talk to…either of you?”

Moon nodded. “Yeah, he talked to me, he…he said he was your creator.”

Eclipse seemed to go rigid at that statement.

Sun and Moon exchanged a worried look, and Eclipse slowly stood up and went to the computer.

His security system had been disabled.

The twins startled when their mom slammed his fist on the keyboard. Sun slowly approached Eclipse from in front of the desk.

“Mom…it’s okay, I…I put him in tape jail, and…Monty’s setting him on fire. He…he won’t-”

“It’s not fine, Sun!!” Eclipse snapped, lowering his tone once he realized how angry he sounded.

“Sorry…You…God, I should’ve told you guys sooner…”

“Tell us what?” Moon insisted, leaning over the counter.

Eclipse rebooted the security system and stepped out from behind the desk. He’d been putting off talking to his assistants about this for a while, but after today, it was clear that they needed to know about…him.

Taking a deep breath to brace himself, he crouched down to Sun and Moon’s level.

“I need to tell you about when I first woke up…”

***

Eclipse had attained sentience early on, even before his body was completely finished. He was never really sure why; maybe someone had accidentally activated him and didn’t notice.

So for the first 24 hours of his life, he wandered around the dark, cloudy, colorful space he instinctively knew was his mindscape.

Occasionally, he could hear what sounded like a man’s voice outside, talking to himself. Realizing it was his creator, he tried to get his attention, but it never worked- probably because he didn’t have a voice box yet and couldn’t move.

As time went on, he realized he was meant to be some kind of performer…no, daycare robot. His programming had been flooded with actor and performance data, but a couple days ago, that had been switched up to childcare information and techniques.

Children are…terrifying.

He busied himself by organizing the incoming data into different categories, though he was a little nervous when self-defense techniques started coming in.

It was probably fine, though; humans have a tendency to…hurt children, so some precautions would be good, right?

And then came the big one.

***

It had happened unexpectedly one day, after his creator had installed his eyes.

The room they were in was dark, so Eclipse couldn’t see his creator’s face very well- though, he could tell he was an old man.

It was kind of exciting for the young animatronic; now that he could see his creator, maybe he could make up a plan to get his attention somehow.

But that would have to wait after whatever he was going to do to him next.

Eclipse watched as the man plugged a cord into his arm.

His system was hit all at once with a burning sensation that shot through his core like lava:

RAGE. MURDER. BLOOD. KILL. KILL. KILL.

If Eclipse had a voice, he would’ve been screaming. This didn’t seem right; if he was programmed to take care of kids, why would his creator put this in him?

“STOP!! PLEASE!! MAKE IT STOP!!”

Once he managed to corral the burning to the back of his head, he started to think of ideas to get his creator’s attention. Maybe this had been some horrible mistake. It had just been put in, so his creator could take it out before it rooted itself in his system.

That’s when he heard him say it:

“There. Now, humanity will get what it deserves. I’m counting on you, Eclipse.”

Eclipse replayed his creator’s words in his head a couple times.

He decided to keep his sentience secret.

***

Sun and Moon stared at their mother, horrified.

A tense silence settled over the daycare like a heavy fog.

Eventually, Moon gathered the nerve to speak.

“What…did he put in your head…?”

“A…code. That would’ve…”

Eclipse’s hands shook as he continued.

“Would’ve…made me do…terrible things. I…took it out as soon as I was brought here, but…even that didn’t come without consequences.”

He put his hands on his assistants’ shoulders.

“If that robot ever comes around either of you again, you have my express permission to destroy it. His actual body is…gross, but if he ever shows up in person, run. Do not try to fight him. Do you understand, Sun? Moon?”

“Yes, Mom,” Sun and Moon answered in unison.

Eclipse was so relieved, he forgot to be annoyed.

“Okay, great. Sun, I’m glad that you called Monty before anything got worse. I…”

He cut himself off as he realized something very important.

“Sun…how… did you know about…him?”

“Earth told me her dad was a lot like that guy,” Sun explained, “And…he did something really bad…”

Sun’s voice started to fade into the background.

The only sound Eclipse could hear was his own artificial heartbeat as his gaze slowly rose to the tower balcony.

How… would Sun’s imaginary friend…know about my creator?

He continued to stare at the tower. Sun stopped talking once he realized that Eclipse wasn’t listening, and he and Moon looked in the direction he was looking.

That’s when Eclipse finally saw it-

A darkened figure moving, followed by the distant sound of a door closing.

“Both of you, stay here.”

Sun gasped when Eclipse engaged his arm knife, and stepped in front of him to keep him from leaving.

“Mom, no!! Earth’s my friend, please-”

“Stay. Here,” Eclipse repeated, pushing past his frightened assistant.

The daycare doors slammed behind Eclipse, leaving Sun and Moon in silence.

Chapter Text

On the stage of Fazbear Theater, Earth was frantically filling in any four digit combination she could think of on Eclipse’s portal console.

She had never seen a password on an interdimensional portal before- then again, she had only ever seen one other portal.

While she would usually commend the safety measures, now wasn’t really a convenient time for that.

She yelped when someone suddenly appeared behind her and put the blade of a knife to her throat.

“This can cut through an endo,” a voice warned.

“No. Sudden. Movements.”

Not wanting to make things worse, she slowly raised her hands in the air, spreading her fingers apart.

“Good.” The person started to urge her forward.

“Now, I’m going to take you to Parts and Service, and maybe you can explain why you’ve been appearing in my son’s drawings for the past two weeks.”

Earth nodded, letting Eclipse lead her down the steps of the stage and out of the theater.

She knew this might happen eventually, but the knife was definitely a surprise.

***

Moon stared at his brother in shock.

They had been watching Eclipse confront Earth from the cameras, and Sun had let out a colorful string of expletives when his mother snuck up behind her with his arm knife to her throat.

Even Moon didn’t know some of those words.

“Um…are you-”

Sun suddenly broke down sobbing, slamming his fist on the keyboard. Moon reluctantly reached out to place a hand on Sun’s shoulder.

Just then, Monty re-entered the daycare.

“Okay, the flamethrower wasn’t working, so I had to drop it in the acidic river in- what…what is happening?”

“Sun’s imaginary girlfriend turned out to be real,” Moon informed.

“She’s NOT my girlfriend, Moony!!” Sun wheezed through tears.

“She’s my friend, and…Mom might kill her!”

He switched around the cameras, trying to find out where Eclipse and Earth were.

“I don’t get it…why would Mom threaten her? I…I already told him about her…”

Moon sheepishly rubbed his arm, looking to Monty for any hint of how to break this to him gently.

The gator just shrugged. Moon groaned, and reluctantly decided to just bite the bullet.

“Uh…Sun? You…you know how you play with those plushies sometimes?”

Sun scoffed. “Yeah, but…why does that matter right now!?”

He growled in frustration, furiously jamming the keys on the computer. Moon pushed Sun’s chair away and quickly found Eclipse and Earth on the cameras, watching as they left the daycare area.

“Well…Mom…probably thought you were doing the same kind of thing with Earth. You know…playing a game or-”

“You…you thought I was playing a game…?”

Sun started to hyperventilate, scratching his fingers on the desk.

“You…you and Mom didn’t believe me…?”

Both Moon and Monty took a step back; they’d never seen Sun act like this before.

Monty barely caught him before he ran out of the daycare.

“Woah, woah, woah, hey. Where are you going, kiddo?”

“Gotta…make sure…Mom doesn't hurt her!!” Sun exclaimed, trying to struggle out of Monty’s arms.

Monty looked around, conflicted. He knew Eclipse was probably going to interrogate this Earth person, rightfully so. After all, he wouldn’t want a stranger talking to his kid for weeks.

But at the same time… he could barely stand to see Sun like this.

“I’ll go down there. I’ll go down there, okay? You…you guys stay up here, and…and I’ll try to make sure your mom doesn't hurt her.”

Sun eventually ceased his struggle, and Monty put him down.

“Everything’s gonna be fine, buddy.”

He put a hand on Sun’s shoulder before heading out of the daycare.

Hopefully, Eclipse wouldn’t make a liar out of him…

***

Down in Parts and Service, Eclipse had placed Earth in a containment chamber and was currently scanning through her system via a chip he had placed in the back of her head.

Eclipse noticed that her face plate was cracked around her left eye. It looked like the blue eye that had been there was replaced by the eye of an Endo- something that worked, but it still could use a replacement.

She hadn’t said a word as he put in the chip. She didn’t protest as he skimmed through her program.

She just seemed…defeated.

He didn’t see anything malicious in her code- the worst thing was a self defense protocol that had previously been automatic.

Otherwise, there was nothing but caretaking protocols, including some assigned for children with special needs.

“You are a daycare attendant,” Eclipse concluded.

He walked up to the containment chamber and looked Earth in the eye.

“I know I might’ve gone too far with the knife, but I can’t be too careful. My…assistants are still pretty young.”

Earth nodded. “I can understand that. I mean, especially if you have a dad like…him.”

Eclipse took a step back.

“So, you do know about him. How?”

Earth crossed her arms, seeming a bit reluctant to answer.

“That’s…kind of complicated.”

“You’ve been hiding in my daycare for days, and somehow, Sun was the only one who knew you were here. I…God, I should’ve believed him…”

Eclipse shook off the self-loathing before continuing.

“I want to know who you are and what you’re doing here. How do you know about the creator? And why were you talking to Sun?”

***

Before Earth could answer any of those questions, Monty burst into Parts and Service, panting from exhaustion.

“Eclipse… I need…to talk to you…”

Despite the tense situation, the daycare attendant couldn’t help but relax a bit at the sight of Monty.

He soundproofed Earth’s containment chamber before speaking to him.

“Monty, this…really isn’t a good time, but-”

“I know. Just…that kid of yours. Sun,” the gator began, taking off his glasses.

“I’ve…I’ve never seen him so upset before. The little fella almost had a panic attack, and… I promised I would make sure you didn’t hurt his friend.”

He took a second to look over Sun’s supposed imaginary friend.

“Wow, she’s tall.”

“I know. I… I don’t know how she managed to hide from us this long,” Eclipse admitted.

“Unless she tries anything, I’m not going to hurt her in any way. And from what I’ve seen so far, I don’t think she will…at least, for now.”

“All right, but I’m still staying here to make sure,” Monty concluded.

“I think that kid might be more vicious than he looks.”

Eclipse smiled, knowing his boyfriend was right. He turned off the soundproofing and spoke directly to Earth.

“All right…Earth. Do you remember when Sun tried to introduce us before?”

“Yes. I…think it was the day he left those eyes in the tower,” Earth confirmed.

Eclipse nodded. “Good. Well, my question is, since you’re kind of…um…”

“Tall? Big?” Earth finished, smirking.

“I mean, you can just say I’m big. I know I am.”

Eclipse chuckled a bit.

“Right. Well…how’d you hide so fast?”

“I can get smaller,” Earth answered.

“Like… I can shrink my body so I can fit into smaller spaces.”

Eclipse watched as the eight foot tall animatronic suddenly shrunk to the size of a mouse.

It was surprising, but it did explain how she managed to hide for so long. Eclipse was impressed, but he quickly remembered that was supposed to be interrogating her.

“Right. Well…how did you know about the Creator?”

Earth grew back to her usual height, and poked her two index fingers together in a nervous gesture.

“He…was my Creator. Where I came from. A… A giant brain, right?”

Eclipse nodded, stepping closer to the glass.

“Yes. What…what do you mean, ‘where you came from?’ Are you… from a different dimension or something?”

Earth nodded, still looking down.

“I…don’t know the exact coordinates or whatever, but-”

“I can find out,” Eclipse assured her.

“So, if you’re from another dimension, then... why are you here?”

Earth’s nervous gesture turned into clenched fists as the readings on her code indicated something leading up to a trauma response.

She attempted to stammer out a response, but her voice was suddenly gone.

Eclipse held his hands up in a placating gesture.

“Woah, woah, okay. You… don’t have to tell me right now…”

The readings slowly went back to normal.

Eclipse realized that the reason Earth was here most likely because she was escaping something- something that, in good conscience, he couldn’t force her to talk about.

Still, he knew better than to fully trust someone from another dimension. His assistants’ safety came first, and he didn’t want to expose them to any more potential danger.

Especially since he knew that the Creator knew about them.

He exchanged a confirmative look with Monty before speaking again.

“Look…for my assistant’s sake, I won’t send you back to whatever dimension you came from. But until I’m absolutely sure you’re not a threat…you’ll have to stay in here.”

Earth was silent for a minute.

“Okay. This…is honestly better than what I thought you’d do to me…”

Eclipse wasn’t sure what that was supposed to mean, but he decided not to ask right now.

“I’ll…be back to talk to you tomorrow. There should be a charger outlet in there.”

He shut down the computer and took Monty’s hand, walking out of Parts and Service with him.

“So…what are you gonna tell the kids?” Monty asked.

Eclipse sighed.

“What else? The truth…”

***

When Eclipse and Monty returned to the daycare, Moon was sitting at the computers while Sun was sitting on the floor in front of the security desk, staring blankly at the floor.

“Guys?”

Only Moon looked up at Eclipse.

He was a bit concerned by Sun’s lack of reaction, but he continued to talk.

“Earth is…locked in Parts and Service. She hasn’t shown any signs of hostility, but she’s staying there until I know for certain that she’s not a threat. As such… neither of you are permitted to speak to her until further notice.”

The daycare was quiet for a couple of minutes, then Sun started giggling.

“Are… I’m sorry, Mom, I can’t…are you serious!?”

Sun stood up and stormed over to Eclipse, glaring up at him with clenched fists.

“You DIDN’T believe me when I told you she was real, and NOW I CAN’T TALK TO HER!?”

Eclipse took a couple steps back.

Monty had told him Sun was upset, but he hadn’t anticipated…this.

“Sun… I… I’m sorry, but-”

“It’s not fair!! She’s MY friend!! And…and she was RIGHT about you!! Eclipses…Eclipses are MEAN!!”

Sun ran out of the daycare, his cries echoing off the walls of the area.

“I’ll…get him.” Moon ran after his brother, looking back at his mom and Monty before leaving.

Eclipse groaned in exasperation, leaning into Monty’s chest.

“I…messed up, didn’t I?”

Monty put his arm around Eclipse’s shoulder, hugging him closer.

“Well…it is kinda unfair. But Sun’ll understand…eventually.”

Eclipse managed a half smile, but a heavy feeling settled in his chest.

“I really hope so…”

Chapter Text

It was official, Moon hated this.

For three days, his house and the daycare without the kids had been awkwardly quiet. Ever since Eclipse banned him and Sun from talking to that tall lady in Parts and Service, the warm and chaotic atmosphere that usually surrounded their family had gotten a lot more…tense.

Moon didn’t expect things to go back to normal immediately- in fact, he expected for Sun to be mad, and Eclipse to become even more boring and protective, but…

…he didn’t expect them to stop talking to each other altogether.

Outside of working hours, Sun never said a word, and their mother was spending most of his time off making plans to fortify the daycare- barely exchanging a word with neither Sun nor Moon.

Moon wasn’t really sure where the issue was coming from. Sure, he understood how dangerous his “grandfather” was, but they’d gotten rid of him for now. Earth had been locked up just in case she was dangerous, but he’d snuck down there while Eclipse was going to visit her.

Eclipse didn’t put his hands on her or force her to tell him anything she wasn’t ready to say.

Even when Moon told Sun that she was fine and their mom wasn’t hurting her, he didn’t cheer up or even react.

And since Eclipse was mostly busy with defense, Moon couldn’t talk to him, either.

As much as he didn’t want to, he realized that it was up to him to get his family to snap out of it…whatever “it” was.

***

One evening after work, he kicked open Sun’s bedroom door and threw a bag of chips at him.

“Hey, Sun, wanna play Baby in Yellow?”

Sun was laying on his bed, facing the wall.

He didn’t answer, but he did throw the bag of chips back at Moon.

Moon picked up the chips and left Sun’s room, sighing.

“Guess that’s a no…”

He started eating the chips and walked into the living room, reluctantly deciding to play the Baby in Yellow by himself.

Maybe he could try to talk to Sun later.

Unfortunately, the living room was literally covered wall to wall in self-defense weapon blueprints and plans. Some of the weapons looked like they were designed to nuke the daycare from orbit rather than fend off an intruder.

Just how bad is our grandpa? Moon wondered.

Eclipse was pacing back and forth, talking to someone on the phone.

“...yes, I need it here by tomorrow. No, tomorrow. Don’t forget who covered your asses when you set off that-”

Moon cleared his throat.

“Um…Mom?”

The orange animatronic startled when he noticed Moon.

“Uh…could you wait a second, Moon? I’m… I’m kinda busy right now… What do you mean, you lost the blueprints!?”

Moon flinched at his Mom’s harsh tone and turned around to go back to his room.

Eclipse hadn’t been this upset since the scorpion incident.

Sun was completely depressed and inactive.

Moon didn’t know if he could fix this by himself…

***

Around midnight, in Monty’s Gator Golf, Foxy was stacking every topping he could find on top of a single Gator Dog- in alphabetical order.

So far, it had beans, blue cheese sauce, chili, coleslaw, jalapenos, ketchup, mayo, mustard, and onions.

He was about to add relish, but then he paused and looked up.

“You know, the bell in your hat gives you away.”

Moon groaned, climbing down from the roof of the Gator Grub station.

“Aw, man… I can’t gremlin under these conditions, Mom…”

He landed on the floor and put his chin on the counter, eying the food item curiously.

“Is that a new recipe or something?”

“No, this is for me.” Foxy dumped some relish on top of the Gator Dog.

“Monty’s coming up with a new secret sauce, though. He said I had to wait here while he made it.”

Moon blinked.

“It has drugs in it, doesn’t it?”

“Why are you here?”

Moon wanted to point out that Foxy was avoiding the question, but he just decided to answer.

“I…need Monty’s help. Sun and Mom have been acting…weird since that robot showed up, and we found out Earth was real,” Moon explained.

“Mom’s been building stuff to protect us from that Creator guy, and Sun’s all depressed and stuff. I…tried talking to them, but…”

“Didn’t work?” Foxy guessed.

Moon nodded.

“That’s not surprising. No offense, but you seem like you’re bad at talking to people,” Foxy pointed out.

“If I didn’t agree with you, I’d punch you,” Moon grumbled, laying his face on the counter.

“I just…wish there was a way to get them talking again…”

Foxy picked up his Gator Dog and took a bite, watching Moon for a minute.

“What…usually gets them talking?”

“The kids. But…it would be kinda weird to drop all our family drama in front of them,” Moon reasoned.

“And the only other time we talk is when something dangerous happens, like-”

Moon cut himself off, slowly rising from the counter.

A huge grin came over his face.

“I have an idea!!”

***

Trying not to drop his Gator Dog, Foxy jogged after Moon as the nighttime animatronic ran for the Fazbear Theater.

“Moon…what are you doing!?” Foxy exclaimed, pausing to catch his (hypothetical) breath.

“Remember when we told you about that dimension with the giant zombies?” Moon asked, turning to look back at Foxy.

Foxy’s eyepatch flipped upward.

“Moon, you wouldn’t…”

Moon shook his head.

“Don’t worry, I’m not sending them to that one.”

When he and Foxy arrived at the theater, Moon pulled up the console for the portal on the stage.

Just as he’d suspected, Eclipse hadn’t changed the password yet.

He pulled a flash drive out of his hat and stuck it in the console, and began reprogramming it to send specified individuals to a different dimension remotely.

“I’m gonna put them somewhere where they’ll be able to work together and talk,” Moon explained.

“Hopefully, they’ll be able to talk out whatever’s going on…”

“You do realize that you will get very grounded for this, right?” Foxy reminded him.

Moon nodded, his hand hovering over the “enter” key.

He paused, realizing that he was about to send his brother and mom to a different dimension against their will.

He knew they wouldn’t be killed by anything there, but still…

“Oh, I’ll definitely get grounded…but…I can’t just let them not talk to each other.”

Steeling himself for the consequences, Moon pressed the button, and almost instantaneously, Sun and Eclipse were sent to a Minecraft dimension.

***

“Ugh…what..?”

When Sun’s vision came into focus, he realized that he was outside…during the daytime…

…in a Minecraft dimension…

…on top of a very, VERY tall, yellow tower.

He yelped, quickly bumping into someone else on top of the tower- Eclipse.

“Hey, buddy, hey. It’s okay.”

Eclipse pulled Sun into a hug, looking around in confusion.

“How…did we get here!? Did something happen with the portal? Did… Did my dad do this…?”

Before he could fully panic, Eclipse got a call from Moon, which he quickly answered.

“Moon?”

“Hey, Mom…so… please don’t be mad…”

“Moondrop…What… did you do?” Eclipse demanded.

Moon chuckled nervously.

“Well… I… might’ve used the portal to send you and Sun to the top of a Lucky Block tower in a safe dimension.”

Eclipse paused, trying to both absorb the information and keep from yelling something very obscene in front of Sun.

“...What?”

“Foxy’s here, too,” Moon informed casually.

“Don’t involve me in this. I tried to talk him out of it,” the fox mentioned.

“All right, just…how did you even access the portal!? I put a password on it.”

Moon paused.

“Uh…”

Eclipse looked down at Sun. The guilty smile on his assistant’s face told him all he needed to know.

“We’ll talk about this later. Moon, pull us out of here.”

“I…actually can’t. I programmed the portal to send you back only after you finish breaking through all of those Lucky Blocks,” Moon explained.

“Lucky Blocks…?”

Sun tried to reach down and break one, but Eclipse stopped him.

“Sun, no! Those things are unpredictable,” he warned.

“Don’t worry, you shouldn’t die from any of the explosives or lava…they might still hurt a bunch, though.”

Moon awkwardly cleared his throat.

“Anyway, have fun, we’ll be watching on the theater screen, bye!!”

***

Once Moon hung up the phone, he nervously avoided looking behind him at the now muted theater sized video feed of Sun and Eclipse on the Lucky Block tower.

As Foxy finished off his gator dog, he watched Eclipse start to break through the tower, keeping Sun partially behind him.

“Wow. Your mom does not look happy,” he remarked.

Moon groaned. “Do they look like they’re talking, at least?”

Foxy stepped a bit closer to the screen.

“Well… I think Sun’s crying, if that counts.”

Moon smacked a hand to his face, sinking down to sit on the floor.

“I should’ve just called an intervention or something…stupid, stupid, stupid…”

Foxy realized that Moon was panicking, and quickly kneeled down next to him.

“Hey, it…well, this plan was stupid, but…it had good intentions,” he pointed out.

“And… I’m sure your Mom’ll be willing to hear you out once they get back. He’ll probably be mad, but… I think he’d still be willing to listen.”

Moon looked up at Foxy, trying to muster a smile.

“Yeah… I just…hope they mostly get harmless stuff.”

Foxy glanced back at the screen.

“Oh, look, TNT.”

***

Once the blast stopped, Eclipse opened his eyes and realized that neither him or Sun were killed by their close proximity.

Moon was right about not being hurt by anything here.

“That…that was loud…” Sun breathed shakily.

Eclipse let him out of the tight hug he had him in and looked down.

There were at least seventy more blocks to go- this was going to take a while.

“Crap… Sun, I’ll build a platform for you. You stay up here while I go through the tower,” Eclipse proposed.

“But Mo- I mean, Eclipse, it’s super high up here!!” Sun complained, looking down.

“And what if it doesn’t take us home if I’m not with you?”

Eclipse realized that Sun had a point, but he was still reluctant to let Sun continue further.

He searched through his inventory and found some gold armor and a shield.

“Here, put this on. It should give you a little more protection,” Eclipse directed, handing Sun the armor.

***

Once Sun had the armor on, Eclipse continued plowing through the tower of Lucky Blocks.

“That brother of yours is in a lot of trouble… I don’t know what possessed him to do this…”

“Hey, it probably wasn’t for a bad reason,” Sun defended, catching a diamond block that popped out of one of the blocks.

“He’s not stupid. If he sent both me and you here, it was probably for something important.”

“I…never said he was stupid,” Eclipse pointed out.

Before he broke another block, he turned to face his assistant.

“Does…he think he’s stupid?”

“Well…yeah. Because of you,” Sun accused, pointing in Eclipse’s face.

“He thinks you like me more…but obviously, you don’t since you don’t trust me.”

Eclipse sighed, pushing Sun’s finger away.

“Sun, what are you talking about?”

“I TOLD YOU EARTH WAS REAL, AND YOU DIDN’T BELIEVE ME!!”

Sun turned around, crossing his arms.

“And now, I can’t even talk to her anymore!!”

“Sun…I’m sorry I didn’t believe you at first,” Eclipse apologized,

“But... I can’t trust her just yet. When you tried to introduce us, she was hiding, which meant she didn’t want me to know she was here- which is suspicious.”

“She might’ve just been scared of you. You are overprotective,” Sun interjected.

“In fact, you literally held your knife to her throat when you did see her!!”

Eclipse winced.

“You… saw that, huh?”

Sun turned to glare at Eclipse.

“She’s my friend, Mom!!”

***

At that moment, Eclipse finally noticed the look in Sun’s eyes.

It was the look of someone who was scared to fail a person they cared more about than their own life.

He hadn’t expected to see it in an animatronic so young.

He should've known better.

“Sun…can you tell me why you’re so protective of Earth?”

Sun seemed a little surprised by the question. He lifted his helmet up a little when it flopped over his eyes.

“It’s…her personal business…”

“I can keep a secret, and… I want to understand.”

Eclipse put some blocks behind him and kneeled down in front of his assistant.

After a couple minutes, Sun answered.

“She…lost her brothers.”

***

Moon and Foxy, who were still watching them from the Theater and eating popcorn, exchanged a look of shock.

“Earth had…brothers?” Eclipse pressed, putting his hands on Sun’s shoulders.

“Yeah,” Sun concluded, looking towards the ground.

“Her…dad killed them. He almost killed her, too, but…she fought him off.”

Moon didn’t want to believe it.

His “grandpa” really would kill his own creations- no wonder Eclipse was scared of him.

“So that's why you’ve been so down lately… You didn’t like how I was treating Earth after she went through all that, did you?” Eclipse asked.

Sun shook his head furiously.

“No. And…it’s kinda dumb, but I asked if she wanted me to be her new brother. She said I didn’t have to, but… I still want to help her somehow.”

Once Eclipse realized Sun’s intentions, he chuckled, taking off Sun’s helmet to ruffle his rays.

“Yeah, that sounds about like you…How about this? When we get back home, I’ll…consider letting you go to Parts and Service to see her. But ONLY when I’m there, too.”

Sun gasped, gazing up at Eclipse.

“You’d…really do that?”

Eclipse nodded.

“You’ve been around her the longest, so…it’s admittedly logical to consider your perspective on her.”

Sun squealed, jumping into Eclipse’s arms for a hug.

“Thank you, Mommy!! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!”

Eclipse hugged him back, with Moon smiling at the touching scene from his seat.

“Huh. It actually worked…”

***

Sixty nine Lucky Blocks later, Sun and Eclipse appeared back in their home dimension, right on the stage.

When Eclipse spotted Moon and Foxy eating popcorn from the balcony, both of them tried to run out of the theater.

Foxy managed to get out, but Eclipse activated the automatic lockdown, which sealed off the exit just before Moon could get there.

“Moondrop, come down here!!”

Moon sighed, reluctantly inching his way downstairs to face his probably very pissed-off mother.

He didn’t expect Eclipse to hug him.

“You’re not stupid, Moon. You’re just impulsive…and I love you just as much as Sun.”

Moon slowly returned the hug.

“Um…thanks, Mom.”

“You’re welcome.”

Eclipse pulled away and stood above his two assistants.

“Now, would either of you like to explain why you know the portal password?”

Sun and Moon shared a look for a split second before flat out sprinting away from their mother.

“What- guys? GUYS!!”

Chapter Text

Eclipse had been silent for ten minutes now.

By the time they had arrived home, Sun and Moon had finished recounting their adventure to a Minecraft Dimension with giant zombies that they absolutely weren’t supposed to know about.

Even worse- the coordinates for that dimension were in a folder with some pictures from his and Monty’s…former couple activities.

Oh, God, I hope they didn’t see them…

“Uh…Mom? You okay?” Moon asked.

Eclipse stammered, trying to clear his thoughts.

“Well…considering you sent your brother and I to a Minecraft Dimension, and went to another Minecraft Dimension that you weren’t even supposed to know about without telling me…no, not entirely.”

Sun and Moon exchanged a guilty look. They’d figured that their little excursion would come back to bite them eventually.

“At least that explains why you were so tired that day…I hope you understand that this means you’re both grounded for the next month,” Eclipse declared.

“Moon, you get an extra week for what you did tonight.”

“I can live with that,” Moon accepted, turning to walk to his room.

Before Sun could follow after him, Eclipse put a hand on his shoulder.

“Sun… I’m sorry, but…it wouldn’t be fair to let you see Earth while you’re grounded.”

Sun nodded, his fists clenched tightly.

“However…if you wanna draw her some pictures or something, I’ll bring them to her.”

The daytime animatronic gasped, bouncing on the balls of his feet.

“That sounds great, Eclip-”

Sun cut himself off with a glitchy-sounding cough that startled both himself and his mother.

Before Eclipse could ask about it, Sun ran off to his own room.

“I…can check on him tomorrow.”

***

“That was close…”

Sun shuffled over to his plushie-covered bed and flopped down on it. He’d screamed a lot when he and Eclipse were on the Lucky Block tower, so he assumed the weird feeling that had developed in his voice box was from that.

Though, now that he was laying down, he realized that his whole body was aching…and it felt like something was actively draining his battery.

He couldn’t tell his Mom, though. He’d been angry with him for three whole days, and he’d yelled at him, and now that they were finally on speaking terms again, he didn’t want to annoy him by complaining about a little sore throat.

Sun decided to ignore it- maybe he just needed a good night’s sleep.

***

It did not get better after a good night’s sleep.

Sun’s body felt like it was on fire, and his fan was so loud, he was surprised Moon couldn’t hear it from across the hall.

He opened his mouth to speak and immediately shut up- his voice sounded and felt like rusty metal.

What is happening?

Hugging his Roxanne plushie, he pulled up the calendar and hoped to whoever could read his thoughts that the daycare was closed.

Thank goodness, it’s Saturday.

Sun flopped back on his bed, letting out a distorted sigh of relief. Hopefully, he’d have all weekend to rest, and his family would assume he was just playing a quiet game.

Just then, there was a pounding on his door.

“SUN!! Mom went to put weapons in the Daycare!! He called Chica and Roxy!!”

Sun startled at his brother’s voice, wondering how he could respond without giving himself away.

“Sun!? You in there? It’s too quiet!!”

Apparently not waiting for an answer, Moon kicked open Sun’s bedroom door and sized him up.

“All right, what’s wrong?”

“NoThInG,” Sun answered reflexively, slapping a hand over his mouth.

Moon flinched at the sound of his twin’s voice.

“Dear…God, have you been drinking nails!?”

***

After reading through a bunch of poorly spelled texts from Sun about his symptoms, Moon did an impressively professional diagnostic check on his body.

“Ooh…looks like your voice box is worn out…but that’s impossible; you yell all the time, and-”

Moon cut himself off and glared at his brother.

“Did you swallow the water in that Lucky Block trap?”

Sun nodded slowly, avoiding eye contact with his brother.

Moon reached up and flicked him right in the forehead.

“Moron, that was salt water!! If you were a human, you’d probably be dead from dehydration…”

Sun stuck his tongue out at Moon, who quickly returned the gesture.

“The bacteria from that water is probably affecting your other systems, too. It’s already obvious, but your battery’s like…on fire,” Moon informed.

Sun rolled his eyes, but his annoyance turned to panic when he realized Moon was calling someone.

“Mom should be able to- hey!!”

Sun hung up Moon’s phone before the call could go through. He shook his head rapidly, falling back on his bed when it made him dizzy.

“You don’t wanna tell Mom?” Moon questioned.

“But your voice sounds…painful.”

Sun shook his head again, nervously fidgeting with his Roxanne plushie.

In any normal circumstance, Moon would’ve ignored his brother’s wishes, but he couldn’t dismiss the guilty expression on his twin’s face.

“...Fine. I won’t tell him…now.”

Sun gasped, hopping up and practically tackling Moon into a hug.

“Yeah, yeah,” Moon mumbled, trying to push Sun away.

“Though, you’re gonna have to keep it a secret from-”

“Boys!! We’re here!” Chica called from the living room.

***

“I don’t know if betting is a habit specifically you two should be getting into,” Roxy expressed.

Moon, who was on round three of tic-tac-toe with Sun, shrugged dismissively.

“We’re not doing it for money or anything. I just told him I didn’t think he could keep his mouth shut for twenty-four hours, and he wanted to prove me wrong.”

Sun nodded in conformation, drawing an O on a second space.

After a minute of scrutiny, Roxy huffed.

“Well, if it’s just for a day, then I guess- CHICA, BACK AWAY FROM THE FRIDGE!!”

“Eclipse said we could help ourselves to anything!!” The chicken argued.

“ECLIPSE IS TOO NICE FOR HIS OWN GOOD!! BACK. AWAY.”

As Sun and Moon fondly watched the couple’s antics, Sun heard a tiny voice speak up,

“Boy, it’s hot in here, isn’t it?”

***

He didn’t know where it had come from at first. For a minute, he looked around, trying to find the source.

“What are you looking at?” Moon asked.

Sun shook his head, indicating nothing.

Moon glared at him skeptically, but didn’t question him further. He turned his attention back to the argument brewing between Chica and Roxy.

“You know, you should tell him what’s really going on.”

Sun barely saw it out of the corner of his eye.

He turned to look at his Roxanne plushie, and it spoke again.

“Hello, Sundrop.”

Its mouth moved.

It giggled.

Without much thinking, he snatched up the plushie and ran back to his room.

Roxy, Chica, and Moon watched him, confused.

“I’ll…go…see…whatever that was,” Moon decided, standing up.

***

Sun slammed his bedroom door behind him and held his Roxy plush up to his face, a silent dare for it to speak again.

“You know, you really shouldn’t slam doors,” it reprimanded.

Sun yelped and threw it across the room. The tiny wolf landed face down on his bed.

“Good thing I don’t feel pain.”

Sun waited for a minute to make sure the plushie wouldn’t move. Once he realized it wouldn’t, he whispered,

“Why…why are you talking…?”

“Because you’re hallucinating, Sun. The little heat ripples you’re seeing are coming off of you.”

Sun looked down at his arm and realized the Roxanne plushie was right. Just then, someone knocked on his bedroom door.

“Sun…? You okay, buddy?” Moon questioned.

“You need to tell him what’s going on, Sun,” the plushie pressed.

“If you don’t tell him, you’ll just get worse…”

“I don’t-” Sun paused, coughing into his elbow.

“Don’t…need to tell him…”

“Sun, who are you talking to?”

Moon opened the door and looked around, seeing nothing but his ailing twin brother.

“What are you doing in here?”

Sun didn’t respond, but Moon didn’t miss how he was avoiding eye contact.

“You know, you’re the first person I’ve met who’s bad at lying when they can’t talk.”

“No, I’m-” Sun cut himself off with another glitchy coughing fit.

Moon hurried over to him, his hands hovering uncertainly.

“Are…you sure I shouldn’t call Mom?”

Sun nodded, glancing at the Roxanne plushie momentarily. He grabbed Moon’s shoulders before leading him out of his room.

“Liar,” the plushie whispered as he closed the door.

***

Two hours later, Chica and Roxy didn't seem to realize that Sun wasn’t feeling well- which was good for Sun, because he was doing a terrible job at hiding it.

He didn’t participate in any games, he kept stifling coughs into his elbow, and he even looked repulsed when Chica suggested a game that involved stuffed animals.

When’s Mom gonna be home..? Sun wondered as they finished up a rage-filled game of Monopoly.

He’d kill to lay down right now. He wasn’t sure how much longer he could keep pretending nothing was wrong…

“Sun, honey, could you grab another board game?” Chica asked.

She glanced at Roxy, who was picking up the game pieces she’d thrown to the floor in a fit of rage.

“Maybe…Clue?”

Sun nodded and stood up to head to his room, missing the concerned looks he got from Chica and Moon.

When he opened his bedroom door, all his plushies were glaring at him.

“You need to tell them, Sun!!”

“Tell them, Sun!!”

“Tell them, Sun!!”

“Tell them!!”

Trembling, he tried to ignore the many high pitched voices and fell to his knees to get the Clue game out from under his bed.

Once he retrieved it, he realized he couldn’t stand back up.

The voices got more insistent.

“You can’t even stand!!”

“You need to tell them!!”

“Call for help!!”

“Sun…?”

Sun grabbed a handful of his comforter. It felt the walls were melting in on him.

“No…no, I’m fine, I…”

“ARE YOU KIDDING!?”

“YOU’RE ABOUT TO PASS OUT!!”

“YOU SHOULD’VE LET MOON CALL YOUR MOM!!”

“Sun, why are you on the floor…?”

Sun curled into a fetal position, hugging the Clue game to his chest.

“I don’t…don’t need help…please stop talking…”

Everything was in a haze now. The plushies wouldn’t stop yelling, and the yellow animatronic felt like he was in a furnace.

A hand landed on his shoulder.

“I’M FINE!! LEAVE ME ALONE!!”

***

When Sun finally came to, he was lying…somewhere familiar, but not his bedroom.

There was a tube of some cold liquid running into his arm, and he was covered by a ducky blanket.

His Roxanne plushie was at his side.

She was quiet now.

After he broke into tears from relief, he heard a hissing sound, and suddenly, Eclipse was in front of him.

“Mommy…?”

“Sun, what’s wrong? Are you still hurting?” his mother pressed.

Sun paused for a second, processing the question.

He scoffed.

“Moon snitched…”

“What…? Sun, Moon didn’t snitch. I get alerts on my laptop, remember?”

Sun groaned, reaching up to slap himself in the forehead. Eclipse caught his hand before it made contact.

“Don’t. I just spent five hours flushing bacteria out of your body.”

Five hours?

It was then that Sun realized that he was in Parts and Service, inside the protective cylinder.

He waved at Earth, who was watching from within one of the containment chambers.

She waved back, smiling at him.

“Can’t believe I was so damn busy I didn’t look at them right away…” Eclipse grumbled, putting a hand on Sun’s forehead.

“I’m a terrible mom. Boss…Wait, Sun, why didn’t you say anything?”

Sun sat up a little more, clearing his throat.

“I…didn’t wanna…bug you…”

The angry look on Eclipse’s face wasn’t reassuring.

“Sundrop, what do we tell the kids to do whenever they get sick?”

“Tell…you, or me, or Moon right away,” Sun recited.

Eclipse nodded.

“If a kid you put in time out got sick, would you want them to tell you?”

“Mm-hmm,” Sun muttered, sinking deeper into the chair.

“Exactly. Next time, please tell me when you’re not feeling good so this doesn’t happen again.”

Eclipse grabbed Sun’s shoulders and gently shook him back and forth, making him laugh.

“Do you understand, child? I want you to annoy me, even if you’re in trouble.”

“Okay, okay, I get it,” Sun giggled, trying to pull away.

Just then, Moon burst into Parts and Service, running into the protective cylinder and leaping into the chair with his twin.

“SUUUUUUUUUN!!!”

“Moon!! You were supposed to wait upstairs with Monty,” Eclipse scolded.

“I bit him. Sun’s awake now.”

Before Sun could interject, Moon wrapped his arms around him in the tightest hug he’d ever given.

“I thought I killed you, you idiot… I’m never lying for you again. When you’re sick, anyway.”

A warm feeling rose in Sun’s chest as he reached up to hug Moon back.

“Oh, by the way, you knocked out the power for the whole block,” Moon mentioned.

After ten seconds, Sun processed what his twin said. He glanced at Eclipse, baffled, but his mother just casually nodded.

“Wait…what?”

Chapter Text

Thankfully, Sun seemed to recover well after his system was flushed of bacteria.

Eclipse gave him check-ups every day for the next week, and all signs pointed to his cheerful assistant being on the mend. Sure, there were some… weird energy readings, but they didn’t seem to be affecting Sun negatively at all, so he decided to save that mystery for another day.

However, that isn’t to say Eclipse wasn’t completely rattled by Sun’s rapid infection.

He didn’t want to imagine what would’ve happened if he’d gotten to his assistant even later than he did. He never would’ve forgiven himself if…

And of course, this had to happen close to his creator’s reappearance.

So, as soon as Sun was well enough to return to the daycare, Eclipse worked for days on end to fortify it, even heading back to the Pizzaplex after Sun and Moon went to bed. He was more determined than ever to protect his assistants, and would stop at nothing to do so. Even when most of the defenses he thought of were too dangerous or complicated to place in the daycare, he kept trying.

There was no time for breaks.

No time for sleeping.

No time for…

***

“OH, MY GOD!! ECLIPSE, WAKE UP!!”

The orange animatronic startled awake, smelled the burning, and fumbled to turn off the soldering iron before it melted through his foot.

Gasping for his (hypothetical) breath, he turned to look at Earth, who was gaping at him, horrified from within the containment chamber.

“I’m… I’m fine,” Eclipse muttered, unplugging the iron.

He knelt down to observe his melted shoe and found that his foot, thankfully, wasn’t burned.

Earth blinked, as if she couldn’t believe what had just come out of his mouth.

“Okay… I know I’m the one in the containment chamber, but…you are not fine.”

Eclipse huffed. “Look, I know I haven’t gotten a lot of sleep in…a while. But I don’t really have any other choice. If I wanna keep them safe-”

“You literally bought me these knitting needles and yarn while sleepwalking,” Earth pointed out, holding up a half-knitted sweater.

The tired animatronic pulled up his finances and saw that he had indeed made the purchase four days ago.

“Uh…right. That looks nice, by the way.”

“Thank you,” Earth deadpanned, continuing to knit.

Eclipse looked around and realized that the floor of Parts and Service was buried in a sea of blueprints, barely-legible notes, scrap metal, tools, and one…very suggestive pencil-sketch drawing of himself and Monty.

Where did this come from? He wondered, stuffing it into his pocket.

Although he didn’t want to admit it, Earth…had a point.

It seemed like he was going in circles here. His exhaustion was making it hard to think of ideas, and any ideas he had were too dangerous, or…leading him back to Monty, apparently.

Maybe the solution to protecting the daycare was simpler than he thought.

Wasn’t there a saying about safety in numbers…?

Eclipse turned to Earth, who was still engaged in knitting a sweater.

“Hey, Earth…wanna make a deal?”

***

Eclipse hadn’t expected boisterous laughter from Monty when he told him about his plan in Gator Golf.

“Oh, man…first, you hold a goddamn knife to her throat, and then you offer her a job?”

The daycare attendant sighed, his face heating up.

“I know, Monty, but I’m desperate, okay? You know how dangerous my dad is, and Earth has self-defense and caretaking programming. And she likes Sun, so-”

“You’re using her friendship with that kid to manipulate her into helping you,” Monty concluded, grinning.

“Real evil, Clipsy. That’s hot.”

Eclipse rolled his eyes.

“Monty, she doesn’t have to. I’m still gonna let her out of the containment chamber even if she says no. I may not fully trust her, but… she doesn’t seem to be a bad person.”

The gator smiled. “Yeah, yeah, you’re a sweetheart. But if she says no, do you want me to help out there?”

“You… think I’m sweet…?” Eclipse muttered before shaking his head.

“No, no. You would burn the place to the ground if you ran into a Karen.”

Monty scoffed. “Please. You really think I’m that bad at handling humans?”

“Uh… excuse me…”

Eclipse and Monty turned to face Foxy, who was peeking out behind a plastic bush, looking very uncomfortable.

“Sorry to interrupt your…couple talk, but there’s like, a bunch of cops pounding on the back door.”

Monty suddenly pulled a gun out of nowhere.

“Welp, time to go to work. Clipsy…you’ll be fine, okay? And take a nap.”

Eclipse nodded, kissing Monty’s cheek.

“Don’t lose your legs.”

***

A few days later, when Sun and Moon had taken the kids out to Roxy Raceway, Eclipse was working to update the Daycare’s alarm system.

Contrary to his boyfriend’s suggestion, Eclipse did not take a nap. In fact, his consistent worry-induced work had led him to forget his nightly tea, which had made it a lot more difficult to sleep…

Which caused him to fall asleep when he was working.

Again.

It probably would’ve been fine if one of his rays hadn’t touched the keyboard and turned off the alarms and defenses.

A little gray robot made its way into the daycare.

It opened a drawer of the security desk, pulled out a flash drive, and put it in its chest compartment, completely out of sight.

Then, it slammed the drawer shut, startling Eclipse awake.

“Hello, my boy.”

***

After realizing it would take way too long to reboot the daycare’s defense system, Eclipse finally addressed the robot standing near his desk.

“What do you want?”

He scoffed. “Well, finally. I would’ve told you sooner, but your little yellow…pet attacked my other drone.”

“Call him that again…and I kill you,” Eclipse threatened.

“Oh, please. Empty threats will get you nowhere.”

The robot turned to look at the animated ad.

“I came to tell you about Lunar.”

“Lunar…?” Eclipse repeated, more confused than angry now.

“Who’s…Lunar?”

“Your brother- a better version of you. I started on him soon after I…taught you that little lesson.”

Eclipse squeezed the counter as that day flashed before his eyes.

The Creator either didn’t notice or didn’t care, because he kept talking.

“He’s more playful, laid-back, and…how do the kids say it? Hip? Skibbity?”

The animatronic shuddered.

“Please stop.”

“My point is, he’s coming here to work. With you. And he will do better, because I made him better than you. And before you protest, I already confirmed it with Fazbear.”

A quick check of Eclipse’s email confirmed the Creator’s words. He sighed and braced his arms on the desk.

“Damn you.”

“Yes, I’m sure you wish you could,” the robot dismissed, heading towards the door.

“Now, Lunar should appear by next week. I would advise you not to kill him, but…we both know you’re too weak to do so.”

“Not killing isn’t a weakness,” Eclipse rebutted.

The Creator stared at him for a minute.

“I wonder if you’d feel the same way if your creations came under threat.”

***

Eclipse was so stunned, he didn’t think to respond.

He watched the robot leave the daycare, and his knees shook before he fell back into his chair.

Thirty seconds later, Moon burst through the double doors with Monty behind him.

“WHOMST HAS UTTERED THE FORBIDDEN WORD!?”

As Moon frantically looked around for the offender, Monty checked on Eclipse.

“You all right, hon?” he asked, putting a hand on his shoulder.

Eclipse didn’t say anything for a minute, just staring at the wall and trembling.

The Creator’s last comment sounded a little too serious.

“I…”

He looked over at Moon, who paused his scrutinizing search to wave at his mother.

Eclipse waved back and forced himself to calm down.

“I… I need a nap.”

Chapter Text

After that day, Monty made sure Eclipse took a couple days off to get some rest. Sun and Moon were delighted for the opportunity to run the daycare by themselves, and surprisingly, they managed to get through two days without any kids getting killed.

Regardless, they were happy when their mother returned to the job. And as soon as he did, Glamrock Freddy messaged him with a request to fix the charging station in his back room.

Eclipse gladly took the request. Freddy was usually busy as the face of the business, but he was one of the nicest guys in the entire franchise…second next to Monty, of course.

***

“There ya go. It should be working now,” Eclipse confirmed, closing the panel on the charging station.

“Wow, thanks, Eclipse. You’re really handy with fixing stuff,” Glamrock Freddy complimented.

“Yeah…you kinda have to be when you have two destructive kids.”

The sudden silence made Eclipse notice his little slip up.

“I mean, work with destructive kids-”

“No. No, it’s too late! You already said it,” Freddy teased, chuckling at Eclipse’s frustrated groan.

“Monty told me about them. Sun and Moon, right?”

“They’re my assistants,” Eclipse insisted.

“And, yes. One’s a magnet for trouble, and the other will…blindly stumble into it. I… I can’t turn my back on them for ten seconds before they’re doing something dumb. Hell, they’re probably doing something dumb right-”

“Eclipse, you’re…you’re about to tear off your rays,” Freddy interrupted.

The orange animatronic looked at the hands holding his rays and quickly crossed his arms, hugging himself.

“Sorry, it’s…been kind of a stressful week.”

“Oh.” Freddy led Eclipse out to the couch in the main dressing room.

“Do you wanna talk about it?”

***

Freddy listened in concern and slight horror as Eclipse gave a glossed over version of his history with his dad and his recent threats.

“...and now, he’s sending over some other daycare attendant that Fazbear had commissioned. I mean, they already know about Sun and Moon, who are pretty much working for free, but… I guess they were jealous that I made them or something.”

“Yeah. Sounds like Fazbear,” Freddy affirmed.

“I’m just…worried about this ‘Lunar’ guy. He’s…technically my brother, but I haven’t met him before, and…and I don’t know how he’ll act around my kids.”

Eclipse had to resist the urge to pull at his rays again.

“I…just wish there was a way I could protect them more.”

“Maybe my dad could help. He’s pretty powerful,” Freddy suggested.

The orange animatronic slowly looked up at his coworker.

“Your dad?”

“Yeah. His name’s Golden Freddy. He’s well-versed in magic, and he could probably teach you a thing or two. I…I tried to learn magic, but I ended up doing this instead.”

Even though Eclipse’s first instinct was to be skeptical about magic, he’d literally built a portal to other dimensions. He knew anything was possible.

And right now, he was desperate for options.

“Um…how do I contact him?”

***

Early the next morning, after many hours of driving, Eclipse finally pulled up to the gates of a very large, very old castle in the woods.

He took one look at the property and checked the address again. This was definitely it.

Could Freddy be pranking me…? No, he’s not really like that.

Eclipse got out of the car and entered the gates, tripping over a couple of the broken-up bricks in the walkway.

Bats shrieked overhead as he approached the front door. Taking deep breaths, he tried to remember the name of Freddy’s father.

With a shaky hand, he knocked on the door.

“Hello? Golden… Freddy?”

There was no answer. When he knocked on the door again, it slowly swung open.

From what he could see, the inside of the mansion was just as creepy and old as the interior. He started to consider forgetting this whole idea, but he quickly remembered that the safety of his kids was on the line.

He had access to dimensions of infinite gold. If Golden Freddy was that kind of guy, he’d be able to get him anything he wanted.

This is for Sun and Moon.

Steeling himself, he entered the mansion.

***

He hadn’t been able to see them as well outside, but there were a bunch of little glowing dots floating around everywhere- even in the main foyer.

“Hello? Golden Freddy? I…wanna talk to you…”

Eclipse looked around, but he didn’t see or hear anything.

Groaning, he turned around, deciding to call Freddy and tell him he couldn’t find his dad.

There was a short golden bear animatronic standing very close behind him.

Eclipse shrieked and stumbled back into the foyer’s centerpiece, trying to distance himself as much as possible from this…person?

“Who dares to enter my domain?”

The orange animatronic cleared his throat.

“I… I’m Eclipse…hi…”

“Beings of Constellation are not welcome here,” Golden Freddy boomed, stepping closer to him.

“You must leave. NOW.”

Eclipse slipped behind the foyer’s centerpiece, trying to put distance between himself and this animatronic.

“But my…my coworker gave me this address,” he stammered, trying not to fall over from terror.

“His name is Glamrock Freddy, he…he said he was your son…”

The golden bear seemed to relax when Eclipse mentioned Glamrock Freddy.

“Oh, yeah, that is my son!”

“What!? How?” Eclipse exclaimed, his fear suddenly replaced by confusion.

“Well, when two animatronics love each other…or, when they-”

“Nope. NO. Never mind,” Eclipse interrupted.

“Why did I even ask that? I…ahem. I… I came here to ask for your help.”

***

Golden Freddy was surprisingly hospitable for an ultra-powerful ghost.

Also, apparently, ghosts were real. But Eclipse didn’t have time to focus on that.

After Golden Freddy made some tea, Eclipse sat down on a couch and explained to the ghostly animatronic how his assistants (kids) were potentially in danger because of his father and brother, Lunar.

“I’ve already armed the daycare to the teeth, but my…creator’s managed to break in there twice. I’ve told them what to do if he shows up again, but… I don’t know if that’ll be enough to keep them safe.”

“Hey, I understand,” Golden Freddy assured.

“It’s hard to know how to keep your kids safe. For a parent, that worry never really leaves.”

“I’m not a-”

“Yes, you are. And I’ll help you.”

Eclipse’s eyes widened, and he nearly dropped his half-empty tea mug.

“You…you’re serious? I don’t have to pay?”

“Nope. But I do have something else to ask…” Golden Freddy began, stepping closer to Eclipse.

“...let me train your kids to use magic.”

Eclipse honestly hadn’t expected that condition from the old ghost.

“Um…what?”

“I want to train your kids in magic. With what they learn, they’ll be able to protect themselves better, and I’m not gonna pass on the opportunity to teach two beings with such high potential,” Golden Freddy explained.

Eclipse cleared his throat. “Uh…how do you know they have potential?”

“I can sense it within them…seriously. They’re standing right over there.”

Although baffled for a second, Eclipse slowly turned to face the entryway, where he could see his two assistants slowly retreating towards the front door.

“Would you excuse me a minute?” he asked calmly, standing up.

Golden Freddy said nothing as Eclipse hurried over, grabbed Sun and Moon by their wire hooks and quietly scolded both of them as they tried to pull away.

“Yep. He’s definitely a parent.”

***

“...yes, Chica, I promise, they’re fine. Yes, you and Roxy can still come over, I’m not mad…at you.”

Sun and Moon stood around sheepishly as Eclipse talked to a blubbering Chica over the phone. They should’ve known their babysitter would panic about them disappearing suddenly.

“Sun, Moon, apologize to Aunt Chica and Roxy,” Eclipse ordered.

“Sorry, Aunt Chica,” Sun muttered.

“Sorry, Aunt Roxy,” Moon grumbled.

“Did you hear them? All right. We’ll see you when we get back. Love you, too. Goodbye.”

Eclipse hung up his phone, then glared at his two assistants.

“Now…is there anything else I should know?”

Sun and Moon exchanged a nervous look.

“Uh… I threw up in your trunk while we were hiding there,” Moon mentioned.

Eclipse sighed, facepalming. “Of course you did…”

“Well, you were gonna make a big decision without us!!” Moon defended.

“Yeah!!” Sun added, suddenly nervous about his outburst.

“We…we’re supposed to work together on stuff, right?”

Despite his frustration, Eclipse understood his kids’ perspective. He took a minute to calm down before replying,

“You…you’re right. I didn’t want you two to stress about the Creator. But I wasn’t gonna go through with this without asking you about it first.”

Moon sighed in relief. “Oh, thank God.”

“Sorry we snuck out of the house…” Sun apologized.

Eclipse ruffled Sun’s rays. “I’ll let it slide this one time. But…do you guys wanna learn magic?”

Sun nodded enthusiastically, but Moon rolled his eyes.

“Magic?” Moon scoffed. “Mom, you’ve gotta be kidding.”

“Bippity boppity, you’re now a plushie.”

In less than a second, Moon shrank, and Eclipse and Sun looked on as their now tiny family member screamed and ran around on the floor like a rodent.

After a minute, Sun walked over to Golden Freddy and grabbed his hand.

“I will give you whatever you want if you teach me how to do that.”

Chapter Text

After months of careful planning, saving, and going over the pros and cons, Chica was finally ready to go through with her plan. If everything went well, her and Roxy’s lives would change forever, and she could even get her nephews involved with the surprise.

She’d decided to enter phase one last night, before she chickened out (pun not intended).

It started with Eclipse leaving for an overnight trip and asking her and Roxy to stay with the kids. Sun and Moon were already asleep, so they could cuddle, eat snacks, and watch Deadpool movies until they passed out.

A perfect, romantic night- check.

Chica woke up in Roxy’s arms the next morning, and her heart pounded with excitement and a healthy amount of fear.

Time for phase two.

She carefully untangled herself from her sleeping girlfriend and crept to the kitchen. Thankfully, Eclipse had all the ingredients needed for her to make apple cinnamon pancakes, Roxy’s favorite breakfast.

Hopefully, Sun and Moon aren’t klutzes in the kitchen, Chica thought as she snuck past Roxy in the living room.

She decided to wake up Moon first, since he wasn’t as excitable. Sun would probably scream his head off when he heard about Chica’s plan for breakfast that morning.

She took a second to peek at the ring box hidden in her chest compartment.

Still untouched.

Taking a deep breath, she opened Moon’s bedroom door.

“Moon…? Are you awake?” she whispered.

“I need your help with something.”

The lump under the blankets didn’t move. Smiling, Chica walked over to the bed and gently pulled Moon’s covers down.

She was met with a pile of tightly-packed pillows.

***

Roxy woke up to a familiar ungodly, high-pitched shriek.

Assuming her girlfriend had encountered a particularly horrifying spider, she grabbed a magazine off the coffee table and lazily stood up from the couch. It didn’t take long to find Chica in the hallway near the boys’ rooms, hyperventilating and nervously flapping her arms.

“ROXY!! Sun and Moon are gone!!”

“What!?”

Roxy hurried over to the rooms and saw pillows and plushies piled in the twins’ respective beds where they would usually be.

“This can’t be happening! Not today,” Chica exclaimed, dragging her fingers down her face.

“Oh, God, where’d they run off to this time!? Did they use the portal again? Are they off fighting monsters!? Are they dead!? Oh, God, if they’re dead, Eclipse is gonna kill us!! Eclipse is…”

Chica trailed off when she noticed the rhythmic tapping on the back of her hands. Roxy had gently taken each in hers and began tapping a four count rhythm on them.

Chica followed the prompting, inhaling for four, then exhaling for four, slowly feeling the panic leaving her body.

“Sorry,” she mumbled once she was calm.

“You don’t have to apologize.” Roxy leaned forward to give her girlfriend a peck on the forehead.

“Come on. Let’s find our nephews and put them in a headlock for making you worry.”

***

The first place they decided to check was the daycare- after all, it was where they spent the most time.

“Are you sure they’d be here so early? Eclipse isn’t even back yet,” Chica pointed out.

“You know how Sun likes to clean. Maybe they just wanted to get an early start.”

Roxy opened the doors to the daycare, but the bouncing yellow animatronic and his snarky twin brother were nowhere to be seen.

There was someone there, however. They were wearing a pink sweater, hunched over at the security desk, watching…a Barbie cartoon?

“Um…excuse me?” Chica called.

The person turned around, their cottony hair covering part of their face. They stood up quickly, taking a couple of steps back.

“Can…can I help you?”

Roxy and Chica exchanged a look. This person seemed jumpy, but they didn’t look like they were doing anything bad.

Chica smiled. “It’s okay. Are…you new here? Eclipse should’ve introduced us.”

“And given us your hair routine- you look amazing,” Roxy complimented.

A ghost of a smile crossed the person’s face.

“Thank you. Um…my name is Earth. I…I’m a recent hire.”

“Nice to meet you. I’m Chica, and this is Roxy, my… girlfriend.”

Not fiancée. Not yet…

Roxy’s ear twitched, and she awkwardly cleared her throat, signaling that they needed to get back on task.

“Oh, right!! Have you seen Sun and Moon? We…were babysitting them, but they disappeared,” Chica questioned.

“What!?” Earth exclaimed, more distressed than the couple expected.

“Okay, I… I know where they might be. But I thought Eclipse changed the password on it…”

The tall animatronic pushed past Chica and Roxy, who followed her to the Fazbear Theater.

***

“Show me the travel log.”

At Earth’s command, the portal console projected a timestamped log of all the dimensional portal trips. Eclipse had given her access to the logs, but she didn’t know the new password.

There were no recorded trips for the last week.

Chica sighed in relief. “Oh, thank God, they’re still on this planet.”

“I guess that cuts down our search options. Let’s go talk to Monty,” Roxy suggested.

“Good idea.”

Chica began to follow her girlfriend out of the theater, but Earth spoke up.

“Um…would you… mind telling me if you find them? I mean, I…know you don’t know me, but-”

“Sure!” Chica immediately pulled up her contacts.

“What’s your number?”

***

“I wonder why Eclipse didn’t say anything about her,” Roxy mentioned after Chica sent her Earth’s phone number.

“He’s been stressed lately,” Chica reasoned. “With that dad of his, I’m not surprised he got a new attendant.”

They entered the elevator to Monty’s Gator Golf, groaning when the stage song started playing over the speaker.

Roxy’s ears twitched. “You know what? He did mention that the daycare was getting a new attendant.”

“Yeah, he did…but…he said their name was Lunar,” Chica realized.

Before the two of them could ask any more questions, the elevator arrived at Monty’s Gator Golf, and they started looking around for him.

“Monty? Sun? Moon?” Chica called.

Roxy sighed. “Come out, ya little…twerps. We don’t want your mom to kill us!!”

While they didn’t see the kids, they did find Foxy standing outside a “decoration” trailer with a bunch of boxes of clothes.

“Hey, ladies.”

“Hi, Foxy. Is Monty around here?” Chica asked.

“Oh, yeah. He’s-”

“Okay, I found one that fits, but I’m not really sure about the color,” Monty interrupted, stepping out of the trailer. He was wearing a navy blue dress with sequined accents.

When he saw Chica and Roxy, he froze where he stood.

“This…isn’t what it looks like. I’m not wearing a dress.”

Chica squealed in delight, and Roxy rolled her eyes, grinning.

“Don’t tell Eclipse,” Monty surrendered.

“We won’t…if you help us find Sun and Moon,” Roxy bribed.

Monty scoffed, kneeling down to dig through the boxes for a different dress.

“Why? The little brats aren’t sleeping in? The place doesn’t open for another hour.”

Chica laughed stiltedly, rubbing the back of her neck.

“Well…no, they…might’vetakenoffinthemiddleofthenightandwehavenoideawheretheyare.”

Monty paused, his eyes widening as he turned to look at Chica and Roxy.

“They what?”

***

A minute later, everyone was crammed into the Gator Golf Security Office as Monty tried to track down Sun and Moon.

Not that Chica or Roxy minded the close proximity…

Monty scoffed in frustration when Sun and Moon’s tracker locations came up inconclusive. Eclipse had given him their trackers in case of an emergency, and this definitely seemed to be an emergency.

“Little shits must’ve disabled their trackers again…”

“See? He gets to call them that,” Roxy muttered to Chica.

Chica’s eyelid twitched. Roxy’s ears pressed against her head.

“Sorry, babe, not the time?”

“No,” Chica huffed, slightly deterred by her girlfriend’s cute expression.

“But, do you know where they might be? We’ll check anywhere!”

“Anywhere…?”

Monty seemed hesitant for a second, then sent Chica and Roxy the locations of all of Eclipse’s bunkers and labs.

“This is every place that Eclipse legally owns. Maybe Sun and Moon are hanging out in one of them.”

“How can he afford the upkeep?” Chica questioned.

Monty harshly cleared his throat. “I’m… afraid I cannot disclose that information. Just promise me you’ll delete all those coordinates after you find the kids. Heh…last time I leaked those, Clipsy-”

“Don’t… tell us the details of your sex life,” Roxy interrupted, earning a middle finger from the gator.

“And thank you.”

***

From there, the plan was simple- split up and check all the bunkers and laboratories Eclipse owned. There were only five locations, so it couldn’t be that difficult…right?

And it wasn’t.

That is, if you didn’t count the booby traps, security measures, and the fact that at the end of each obstacle, they found out that Sun and Moon didn’t seem to be at any of those places.

Chica and Roxy decided to check the final bunker together- an old, dimly lit one underground.

“Why would Eclipse even need a place like this?” Roxy asked, turning to look down a dark corridor.

“His dad’s dangerous, hon. He might have to hide here one day.”

Chica looked down the other hallway, but once again, she didn’t see her nephews anywhere.

“Oh, no…no, this can’t be happening…”

Roxy’s ear twitched, and she hurried over to Chica’s side just as her girlfriend crouched down on the floor, hyperventilating.

“Hey, hey, it’s okay. There’s…there’s still some places we haven’t checked out-”

“It’s not just about that, Roxy,” Chica blurted, her voice cracking.

“I mean…it is, but…if Eclipse can’t even rely on me as a babysitter, how…”

She glanced up at Roxy, then looked down, her cheeks reddening.

“How can…you rely on me as a wife?”

Roxy kneeled down next to her girlfriend. “Chica, I…wait. Did you say, ‘wife’?”

Chica’s panic stopped completely when she realized that she had just blurted out the secret she had been trying to keep for months.

Roxy looked equally caught off guard.

Neither of them knew what to say.

Just then, Chica’s phone rang.

***

“Love you…bye.”

Chica hung up the phone. Apparently, Sun and Moon had snuck into Eclipse’s trunk and followed him to…Freddy’s dad’s house?

“Freddy has a dad?” Roxy questioned.

The baffled chicken animatronic shrugged. “I… guess so.”

A short silence filled the bunker.

“So…what was that about being a wife?”

Chica blushed. This wasn’t what she had planned at all, but now that she knew her nephews were safe, she’d at least be able to focus on what she had to say.

She kneeled down and pulled the ring box out of her chest compartment. Roxy let out a quiet gasp.

“Chica…”

“Roxanne Wolf,” Chica began, trying to remember what she’d been rehearsing privately.

“I’ve…loved you since before I even met you. And…every moment as your girlfriend makes me love you even more, so… I want to-”

Chica was interrupted by a sudden hug by her girlfriend that almost knocked her over.

Roxy chuckled, tucking her hair back. “Sorry, I interrupted. What were you saying?”

Chica scoffed, reaching up to cradle her girlfriend’s chin.

“Will you-”

She was cut off again when Roxy leaned forward to kiss her.

“Sorry, I interrupted again…”

“Roxy!” Chica squealed, trying to pin her girlfriend in a hug.

“If you’re not gonna let me ask, will you at least give me an answer?”

Roxy pulled the two of them to their feet, holding Chica’s hand in hers.

“Yes. I want to be your wife, too.”

Chica put the ring on Roxy’s finger.

Neither of them would remember to delete the coordinates after that.