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Chapter Eight: Repair job for a broken heart

Life went on as it does in the Pizza Plex, naturally the PR department had a field day for having an actual good story to tell ‘Baby saved from storm by the Mega Pizza Plex!’ but it was tucked away in the side columns so only the most dedicated news readers saw it. Vanessa almost had a heart attack when Gregory told her what happened when she came to pick him up not even telling the bright side that despite it all he had managed to do all of his homework.

Weeks passed the story became old news and everything returned to its routine, except for Sun.

It was subtle at first, so much so that only the regulars noticed it at first. Sun would do what they normally did every day they would still play with the children, entertain them with games and puppet shows, and do arts and crafts projects but it would seems be missing something. It felt Sun was following a script and no matter how much they acted to be funny and jovial there was still a feeling of something off. They would watch them do activities but not join in unless asked by children, Sun would often stare off into space but quickly snap out of it.

“Sunny sad” one of the younger ones declared loudly. “Why are you sad?”

“I’m not sad!” Sun explained gesturing to their static grin “See? I’m smiling!”

“You feel sad” the little boy confirmed and tried to give him a hug, “It’s okay, don’t be sad”

“I’m not though.”

However now that someone had said what a lot of the children were thinking the word soon spread across the Day Care and to them telling their parents which lead to the staff finding out. The parents were concerned that their children were coming away with stories of a depressed robot.

So, this led to trips to Parts and Services which meant they had to sit through hours of diagnosis checks, however when they couldn’t see a problem as there was nothing wrong or amiss with their code, they were sent them back but the complaints would continue.

“They’re not going to find the problem you know” Chica mused as they watch Sun get marched out of Parts and Service for a second time that week.

“Huh?” Monty asked as he tuned his base. “Why not?”

“Cos silly, there isn’t a diagnosis programme designed to pick up on a broken heart” she answered.

“Didn’t they have the doll to help them with all that junk?” Roxy demanded “Why not just have that?”

“I had asked Moon that myself” Freddy explained sadly ��He said the best way to describe it was that they had been upgraded to be able to see colour for the first time in high definition only to go back to low quality black and white after a few days.”

“I get it…a doll doesn’t compare to Dewdrop” Chica sighed, the Glamrocks became quiet as they mulled over the problems in their heads but they couldn’t think of any solutions that didn’t require stealing a baby.

“We better get to Rock Star Row” Freddy said softly, they all grabbed their gear and headed to their rooms. Freddy was about to head off and check to see if Gregory was in yet but stopped when he heard a voice.

“Excuse me? may I talk to you for a second?”

Sun was back in the Day Care, they made they way around the playground picking up fallen toys and out of place blocks. Sun was nearly finished putting them away when they fell still, Sun just stood there staring at the final toy in their hand. A baby doll.

<Sun?> Moon asked gently <Sun if it’s too much I can take over>

<I’ve been thinking Moon…> Sun said after a silent minute. <Maybe it would be best if I…if I deleted my memories of Stella>

<What? Sun you can’t be serious!?>

<What else can I do?> Sun shouted abruptly holding the doll tightly to their chest. <Three strikes and you’re done! That’s the rule! They can’t fix me so I need to fix myself before they deem me a lost cause. It’s not fair that you have to suffer being decommissioned because of me!>

<I get that Sun> Moon soothed <But its not as simple as reaching in and deleting a file, we’re branching A.I you delete a memory there’s no telling what else we might lose in the process. We’ll forget Stella but we might also forget Gregory or how to care for babies or worse!>

Sun didn’t respond they just stood there hugging the doll.

Moon sighed from inside the mindscape, Sun had made their mind up and nothing was going to deter them. But what they were suggesting was a tedious fix at best; just because they had forgotten Stella doesn’t mean the others won’t remember, what if they bring her up in casual conversation by accident? Or they find photos and newspaper clippings? How would Sun react to being told that they had a baby but can’t remember them? Sun and Moon would by nature hunt down the truth till they found it and will wind up back in this emotional quagmire.

Sun silently put the doll back in its cubby hole when they got a ping in the security, they turned to see a man poking their head through the gates of the Day Care. Sun put on their customer service persona and skipped on happily to him.

“Ho h oho!” they laughed “Welcome to the Super Star Day Care! Unfortunately, we will be closing soon so please come again!”

“Sorry I was hoping to talk to the Day Care Attendant?” the man asked, he seemed well presented with a suit that screamed ‘office jockey’.

“That’s me!”

“Oh?” the man looked confused and then a bit embarrassed.

<Oh, great here we go again> Moon moaned, it wasn’t the first time and sadly won’t be the last that some people become very uncomfortable when talking to them or leaving their kids with a robot.

“Is there a problem? I can get a human staff if we are not to your liking” Sun offered but internally gave Moon a nod.

“No, oh no I wanted to talk to you its just…this makes things a little harder…”

Sun just tilts their head at them in confusion.

“Never mind, I came here to enrol my daughter”

“Oh fantastic, you’re in luck we have a few spaces left!” Sun exclaimed breathing a metaphoric sigh of relief that this man wasn’t going to start a hateful tirade at them. They grabbed the tablet from the top of the desk and returned to the man, they were going to document it all in their heads but people liked being able to see actual work being done when getting their details, looks less like that they are ignoring them.

“Can I ask a question first?”

“Sure” Sun chirped.

“I read in the news paper that a baby had been left here and the Day Care Attendant found them and kept them safe till police arrived, is that true?”

Sun felt a programme pop up in their skull which spoke for them.

“This Unit is unable to answer these questions, if you have concerns regarding any media reporting of the FazBear entertainment company please call our PR department on this number…”

“Ok I get it!” the man interrupted before Sun could blurt out anymore. “How about this, nod your head for yes and shake for no okay?”

Sun nodded their head.

“What I asked before…is it true?”

Sun nodded their head.

“You found her in a store cupboard?”

Sun nodded their head.

“But you took care of her even though she wasn’t on your system in anyway?”

Sun nodded their head.

“Why? By all logical reasons she wasn’t your concern, you should have left her there.”

“As if I would leave a child alone in those conditions!” Sun cried outraged by the sheer suggestion, “I may not be a human but I am not heartless mindless bucket of bolts! I would never let a child go cold and hungry if I can help it!”

Sun realised that they were shouting at a potential customer and took a step back.

“I’m sorry for raising my voice…”

“It’s okay…its why I came to thank you”

“Huh?”

“Stella’s my daughter, I came to thank the person who kept her safe so here I am thanking you” he said, “the lady who dumped her here was my sister-in-law, we had offered her a place at ours because she was in a rough spot and just got dumped by her partner. We didn’t know she was on drugs or that she was in such a rough place in her mind.”

“I hope she is getting the help she needs” Sun said quietly, they were pretty sure humans had a Parts and Service but was unsure how they would debug a human.

“Hopefully she is, this does mean however we no longer have a baby sitter but we did get a free year pass from here and well…we can’t fault the care, can we?”

Before Sun could respond the Day Care doors opened again and a woman walked through with a baby in tow, Sun felt their circuits soar when they noticed the Sun and Moon plushies that were held in the chubby little grip.

“Stella!” They cried happily, Stella looked around at being called and it took her a moment before she began to wiggle and laugh.

“Samooo!” she babbled and Sun had already bounded over to her and was about to swoop her into their arms when they finally registered the human female, Stella’s mother holding her. They froze and shrunk back, fidgeting with their bells and ribbons.

“My apologises, I didn’t mean to scare you…”

“You’re the Day Care Attendant? I’m guessing you don’t go by Samoo?” she laughed lightly.

“Samoo!” Stella confirmed.

“No, I go by Sun mostly we were trying to teach her to say Sun and Moon and well…”

“Samoo!” Stella declared and was reaching out for the lanky robot, her mother chuckled and finally gave in to her demands handing her over to Sun, who gave her a gentle but firm squeeze.

<Oh, Stella, I missed you so much!>

“So, about that Day Care slot?” her father asked.

“Oh yes consider her booked in!” Sun exclaimed “Just gives us the dates you need!”

<You know this is only delaying this problem, right?> Moon asked sadly as Sun bounced Stella on their knee while going over the parent’s schedules for pick up and drop off. <It’s only a matter of time before she gets too big for the Day Care or they might be just using that coupon we gave them.>

<I know Moon, I know> Sun replied sadly. <But at least this way I have time to make my peace with it>

Closing time came about as Vanessa was coming onto her shift, Gregory was rummaging in his backpack to see if he had brought the books some of the Glamrocks had requested. He looked up when he heard Stella’s voice and saw the three now heading out, he walked over to her and when she saw him, she waved her Sun plush at him.

“Hey Stella!” he chuckled.

“You know her?” the man asked, Gregory balked slightly and he could feel Vanessa’s tense up.

“Err…only in name! My sister works here and she lets me hang around backstage during her shifts sometimes and I heard Sun talk about her” Gregory said using the tried and true ‘sister excuse’ Vanessa waved as if to confirm her existence.

“So, you know Sun?”

“Yeah, sweet guy, he loved Stella”

“We did get that impression; you know when the police told us that Stella had been looked after by the Day Care Attendant, we had assumed it was some poor smuck so down on his luck they had to resort to sleeping at their work place. Our idea was to give them some money to help them onto their feet, you know get a down payment on an apartment or something but with them being a robot…makes it kind of harder to pay back their kindness.”

“We really want to make it up to them somehow” Stella’s mother said.

Gregory looked thoughtful for a second but Vanessa surprised him by stepping forward.

“I may have a suggestion…”

Sun was seeing off the last of his charges as Stella’s mother came to pick her up. Stella was at the arts and crafts table playing with some art clay when she saw her mother. She toddled over as quick as her little feet could carry her and was scooped up into her mother’s arms.

“Hello my little sunbeam, did you have a nice day”

“Mama!” she chanted.

“My goodness she been very energetic today, she certainly gave Moon the run around at nap time” Sun explained wiping off the smudges of clay off her hands.

“Yes, my life is never boring since she figured out how to walk!” her mother laughed, “Hope you wore her out at least”

“Oh, we can only hope”

Moon was watching this but got an alert from the video feed, he brought it up to show Vanessa dumping a large box in their room. He shrugged it off as something for Gregory or the Day Care and resumed listening in.

“Dada?” Stella asked.

“Daddy will be along in a minute; he’s bringing something for Samoo”

“Oh ho? Well coloured us intrigued!” Sun laughed and soon enough Stella’s father walked in gingerly holding a cardboard box, Sun tilted their head in confusion as he placed it on top of the security desk. Stella also craned her neck to see the box and made grabby hands for it.

Vanessa and Gregory barged in as if they were in a rush but Gregory hushed himself as they noticed they were not too late for the gift. Sun looked at the box, it was plain white with small holes in it.

“My, my isn’t this a mystery? What could be in this box hmmm?” Sun chuckled seeing Gregory was looking very excited. “Perhaps some new clothes and ribbons?”

<Sun…>

“Or new puppets?” smirking to themselves as they see Gregory getting more impatient, Sun could have fun too.

<Sunny?>

“Or perhaps a whole box of glitter glue!”

<SUNDROP!>

“With googly eyes…my goodness Moon what is it?” Sun blurted out loud.

“It has a … what?”

Gregory was now giggling to himself and Vanessa had gotten out her phone as Sun gingerly opened the box, with the flaps undone a fluffy little head popped out and mewled loudly.

“That’s a kitten” Sun stated as they stared at the silver-grey little critter.

“Yup” Vanessa confirmed. “What do you want to name her?”

“Oh…I see you got Stella a pet!” Sun exclaimed but stopped and turned to Vanessa. “Why am I naming her?”

“Because we got you a kitten!” Gregory blurted out happily! Sun looked back down at the kitten who was now nosing around the edge of the box as she was too small to climb out, it stumbled back when Sun held out a hand and then extended one finger towards her. The kitten approached the finger gave it a little sniff before trying to nibble it. Once Sun was sure it was settled with being near them, they scooped her up in one hand and cradled her with the other.

“She’s mine? B…but how? I can’t be allowed a pet! It’s against the rules!”

“I spoke with management; I explained how since you’re programmed to care for little things going long times without doing so may be bad for your software. So, I suggested we get a pet for you that you can take care of during closing time and unforeseen stuff like storm days” Vanessa said.

“Don’t worry she’s had all her shots, she hypoallergenic so there shouldn’t be any problems with kids and I think Vanessa and her brother already put all the stuff you’ll need like food, toys, litter, information books and such in your storage room.” Stella’s dad said as Sun looked down at the little kitten who was looking around from such high place.

“She has her own baby jail so you don’t have to worry about her running around during the day!” Gregory declared.

“A pen, we got her a pen” Vanessa explained.

“So, what are you gonna call her?” Gregory demanded.

Sun raised the kitten up to their face and the kitten bopped him with a tiny paw.

“I’m thinking Star drop” they said after a minute.

<Good name> Moon agreed <Her fur is silver like a star.>

“Why do you name things with ‘drop’ in it?” Gregory asked as Sun lowered themselves so Gregory and Stella could see the kitten. “You called Stella ‘Dewdrop’ before we knew her real name too…”

“Well…my full name is Sun drop; Moon’s is Moon drop so it’s like letting them be a part of the family”

<Ooh in that case I’m going to make her a little collar like ours!> Moon’s already itching to get their sewing kit out. Stella and Gregory were cooing over the kitty who in return gave them an investigating sniff before mewling. Stella giggled as the kitten curled up in Sun’s hands.

“The staff will be informed of her in case we need to make any vet calls, or if they find her wandering around during the day” Vanessa explained “But Sun you’ll be her primary care giver, she’s yours to look after, ok?”

Sun looked down at this little life that was now for them to love and care for, cats don’t need to go to school, won’t grow up and leave them. Star drop was theirs now and Sun was going to give them the best life they could manage.

“Thank you so much!” Sun said quietly so not to startled the dozing kitten. “Welcome to the family my little Star drop”

Star drop yawned and started to purr loudly.

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Note: Gah I never know how to end these!! I’m tempted to do one or two one shots of the shenanigans Star drop will no doubt get into but I think this is it.

#fnaf superstar daycare #daycare attendant #sundrop #fnaf sun

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crystalas · 2 years ago

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In case anyone gave a flying flip about ‘Birthday Wish’ there is going to be an ending chapter, i’m not such a git i’d leave my fav sunny blorbo depressed like that. its just taking me a while cos of real life stuff

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crystalas · 2 years ago

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Dear The Sun and Moon Show...

you have no right being this freaking addictive and good!! you have no idea how getting home to see your antics is the only thing that keeps me going!!

love you guys

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crystalas · 2 years ago

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Birthday Wish part 7

Not gonna lie, I am really tempted to have a ‘Bad ending AU’

Chapter seven: Waking from the dream

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Sun and Moon booted back into the waking world, hands clenched and uncurled, face plate turning as their body recalibrated and checked to see if all motor functions were available. As they were starting up and check listed their programmes, they came to their vocals which had been stopped mid-way through something so like most computers when it restarted after a cold stop it resumed where it had left off.

Which is why Sun suddenly bolted up from the chair in Parts and Surfaces and shouted.

“Don’t you fucking dare hurt my kids!”

It was at this point Sun finished starting up and quickly covered their mouth as they saw Freddy sitting next to them with the control panel in paw and the others standing outside watching.

“Oh, my goodness, pardon my potty mouth!” they whispered.

<Got to hand it to you Sun, those would have made pretty good last words> Moon mumbled as he joined Sun in the functioning world.

“Everything is okay Sun, we brought you here so we could repair you” Freddy started to explain. Moon took note of their new foot and noticed their pant leg had been moved up to show their knee where the Freddy not doubt had just disconnected to replace with a functioning leg. Sun however didn’t notice or care they had something more urgent on their mind.

“Where are the children? Are they okay? Are they safe? They’re not hurt, are they? Did they get shot?” Sun rambled in panic as horror scenario after horror scenario played in their head each one worst than the last before Moon had to mentally grab them and ground them, but Sun was already overheating with anxiety.

“Sunny?” Gregory piped up, Sun looked up to see the door open and Gregory walk in with a sleepy Dewdrop in his arms. “You, okay?”

“As you can see, they are unharmed” Freddy said, Sun got out of the chair and knelt down in front of the boy. Before he could say anything, Sun swept the two of them into a tight hug.

“Oh, thank the stars!” Sun would have wept if they could “When I saw that awful man hurt you like that I thought our system was going to crash! You were both SO brave! I’m so so so SO sorry I couldn’t protect you”

“Hey it’s okay…” Gregory “It all worked out.”

“What happened? I mean after we…were shut off?” Sun asked not yet willing to relinquish the hug.

“While we were chasing the alerts one of the Minis came to us saying there was a strange lady in the security room near the kitchen, sure enough there she was. Turns out she had hacked the system to keep us busy while they tried to steal you” Chica explained “she managed to lock herself in but she quickly changed her tune when the Minis got in” she chuckled.

“Where are they now?” Sun asked finally letting go of Gregory who offered Dewdrop up to them, Sun gratefully took her who snuggled up to them and began to grip at his ruffled collar.

“They are in Lost and Found, Roxy and Monty are guarding the doors and I think the Minis are having fun stalking them from the vents” Chica giggled.

<Sun, check the time…> Moon said.

“Oh goodness its nearly 7pm already?!” Sun squeaked, “We’ve been out for almost three hours!”

“We wanted to make sure you were fixed before bringing you back online” Gregory explained “Cos you know it might hurt having your leg amputated and stuff and finding a spare leg was hard, why is all your stuff down in the basement with all those creepy endos?!” Sun shrugged.

“I think it is best if we resumed to our posts now, with the storm now passing by it will only be a matter of time before human staff and security come by” Freddy stated, Sun got up tested their new leg as they did before doing a little twirl.

“Indeed, and I bet some brave little ones are hungry!”

“Nah I made sure Dewdrop got her tea! I fed her and everything!” he announced proudly “though you may have a mess to clean up in the party room… she started a bit of a food fight.” Gregory mumbled.

The Officer Terry and Officer James strode up quickly through the empty parking lot, the concrete gleamed with rain water that had yet to evaporate or drain away, clumps of debris like leaves and trash piled high in corners where the wind had shoved them in. The air felt fresh and cool after the storm had finally passed by and luckily there was no major structure damage except for odd roof tile missing, collapsed shed, and flooded road.

They came to the door and looked around for an emergency switch or lock, they were so busy looking for a place for a key they didn’t notice a robotic bear loom in from the shadowy building and open the door.

“Good morning!” The bear announced causing both to jolt and look at it, at another time and place this might have been funny but they were on a ticking clock and didn’t have a second to spare.

“Hello we with are with the local police…” Officer Terry started.

“Oh, good are you here for the intruders?” The bear asked politely, the police stared at him for a second.

“What? What intruders?”

“We had a break in yesterday afternoon, but worry not we apprehended them and they are currently under house arrest…or is that Plex arrest?” it wondered.

“No…no we’ll look into that later but right now we are on an urgent mission, perhaps you can help?” Officer James pulled out a photo and showed it to the bear. “We have been informed that this child had been left here just before closing two days ago and we need to find her as soon as we can!”

The policemen already had emergency supplies on hand, from what they understood as they were rushed out was that the baby had been left in a storeroom. Dehydration was going to be a big issue so they had the hospital on standby too in case of worst-case situation.

“Oh yes come this way” the bear said and lead them through the main entrance, hold up was this Freddy Fazbear that was escorting them in? Looking around they went in they realised how impossible this job was going to be. The woman had said she had left him in a store room, how many storerooms could a place like this have?!

“Okay we need to fan out and search, big guy is there any staff we can get to help us look? We can’t waste any time!” James asked.

“There is no need, Dewdrop is in the Day Care”

“Dewdrop?” Terry demanded.

“Yes, I’m afraid she didn’t have a guest profile so we kind of made a name up for her.” The bear laughed nervously, they continued to follow the bear into the Super Star Day Care past the sign in desk and to the big wooden doors. Freddy looked apprehensive and reluctantly opened the gate and gestured them inside.

The two went in blinking away the sudden loud and bright colours, they noted the dirty boot prints on the floor as well as the scuff on the wall. Was that the intruders doing? They paused when they heard a voice humming gently. They ventured in slowly not sure if they needed to get their guns out but as they came round the side of the play structure, they found the source of the humming. It took them a second to recognise the tune of ‘You are my sunshine’.

A tall lanky golden robot was sitting on the floor resting their back against a huge teddy bear, resting on their chest was a baby which they were rocking side to side gently. The baby was playing with a textile toy and would look up at the robot smiling before resuming their chewing on the toy.

“How may I help you this morning?” The robot asked without looking up.

“I uhh…” Officer Terry stammered, this was going so far into uncanny valley it was the other side.

“We have reports of an abandoned baby and came to pick them up” the Officer James claimed clearly made of sterner stuff, the robot looked at them and with one fluid motion stood up with the baby still in their arms. They couldn’t help but notice that standing as they were the baby was easily out of their reach.

“I see, well I will need to see some identification first” it said, the two policemen showed the bot their badges and it knelt down to stare at them for a second, their eyes glowing bright blue for a second before standing back up.

“Please wait…ah yes those do indeed match up with known data banks. I’m sorry about that but you know how it is with protocol!” The Day Care Attendant beamed suddenly changing their tone from quiet to cheerful. “Need to make sure people are who they say these days especially when caring for little ones!”

“We get that” Officer James said more relaxed now that the robot was giving less of a ‘I will murder you if you take a step out of line’ atmosphere. “May we now take Stella home?”

“Stella? Oh, is that your name? what a beautiful name for a beautiful baby!” the robot cooed tickling the baby before returning their attention to the officers. “May I ask what of the parents? The woman who ‘dropped’ her off did not seem sound of mind at the time.”

“Rest assured that lady was not Stella’s mother but a babysitter who was going through some things and made some pretty bad choices, Stella’s parents are waiting to hear from us as they are quite worried”

“Oh?”

“Well to be honest we were expecting the worst” the Officer Terry said finally getting the nerve to talk again “We were told the baby had been locked in a storage room for two days or more!”

“Why didn’t you come sooner?”

“Because the lady didn’t decide to tell us until yesterday evening! She was brought in raving drunk and high as a kite and decided to sleep it out in one of our cells. By the time she was sober enough to know what the heck was going on she started raving about all sorts of weird stuff including needing to go back and get her baby. We didn’t understand at first because according to all her records she didn’t have one. It wasn’t until her sister showed up reporting her and her daughter missing did we find out that it was more than just ramblings!”

“I understand…oh Stella what a relief!”

Stella gurgled happily, the robot seemed to tighten their grip for a moment and glanced at the balcony above the ball pit as if considering something before turning back around to face the policemen and hunched over so they could take the child. Stella reached out for the robot whining and fretting but stopped when the robot booped her nose gently.

“Thank you for your help” the Officer James said and they turned to leave, they made it past the play structures when...

“Wait!” the Day Care Attendant shouted suddenly, they spun around to see it covering their mouth, it took in a simulated breath [can they do that?] and walked over to the security bench and produced two party bags.

“I…I took the liberty of cleaning the clothes she had come in, and packed some snacks and diapers just in case…” Handing the first bag to them. “I also put in a year free pass to the Day Care in there in case…in case she wanted to come back, she doesn’t have to but it would be nice…oh and also!” the robot rummaged in the second bag and gave Stella a Moon and a Sun plushie which made the baby squeal happily and make grabby hands at. The robot looked like it wanted to say something else and hovered there for a moment before gentling stroking her cheek.

“Good bye my little sunbeam I hope you had fun during your time at the Super Star Day Care”

“Okay thanks we’ll be sure to pass them on!” Officer Terry exclaimed and with that they left the Day Care, Freddy escorted them to a place called Lost and Found which was being guarded by a robot wolf and gator, they both regarded the officers coldly but the wolf wiggled a finger at Stella who laughed and waved her Sun plush at it.

Sure, enough there were three humans huddled in the corner of room. The two men looked as if they had been a bar brawl and lost horribly but the woman’s face looked scratched and blotched as if someone had attacked her with suction cups. All three were staring at the computer desk that had some weird robot music thing on it like a mix of those old cymbal monkeys and a spider. Officer Terry peered into the window and his jaw dropped.

“Umm…correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t that the group of thieves wanted in like three other states?” he asked, Officer James looked in as well with Stella in tow who just cooed.

“Yup, that’s them!” turning away and grabbing his radio “We are gonna need back-up for this!”

Unbeknownst to them as they turned around, the robot spider jerked to life and waved at Stella before glaring at the three menacingly tilting its head in a jarring and glitching manner that just made the three scoots away even more. Their eyes darting to the vent where they saw two more pairs of beady soulless eyes watch them knowing that as soon as those policemen were gone their torment would continue.

Gregory had to wait in the backstage of Freddy’s green room, taking turns between pacing his small enclosure and checking his Faz watch watching all the policemen come and go in the camera. He had to stay put, he couldn’t be discovered as well. They had taken the three intruders out of the plex and they seemed more than eager to get out of the place too. Taking evidence of photos of Sun’s injuries and the shot off foot, bullet from the stage and whatever footage that could be given. There wasn’t much due to Ballora’s tampering but luckily what there was showing the two men running around Moon had altered to show no evidence of Gregory.

By the time noon had rolled around staff had started to turn up which meant that Gregory had to make a move, he crawled into the vents giving a nod as the Minis trotted by giggling with glee to each other. Sneaking through Kids Cove he got to the Day Care and as he approached, he felt his heart sink, he had watched Dewdrop leave with the police.

He knew that Dewdrop might get picked up its why he had told Sun that the birthday wish was temporary but he had planned on being able to find the Dewdrop ‘doll’ and swapping them out so Sun would think she had changed back. But Sun must have been forced to give her up and now that small kindness he had made for them had been taken away.

He looked around expecting to see having a mental breakdown but was shocked to find Sun hard at work cleaning the Day Care. They were already scrubbing the floor to remove the muddy footprints that the two men had tracked through.

“Sun?” the boy asked “You, okay?”

“Yup I am fine” they declared brightly, wringing out the wash cloth and resumed cleaning “Though I will need to crack on, those awful men left such a mess and I was already behind on my cleaning schedule as it was!”

“You sure? What about Dewdrop?”

“Her name is Stella and you’ll be pleased to hear her parents are eagerly awaiting her return”

“I’m sorry…”

“For what?”

“For Dewdrop…ya know…not being Dewdrop.”

The bot looked at him for a second before returning to cleaning.

“Oh, right the birthday wish, well you never know Gregory maybe the birthday wish fairy is real. It just didn’t come for me”

“Wait you knew that wasn’t Dewdrop?!” he cried but paused when he looked back on it and realised that neither Sun nor Moon only ever called her by that name twice and even then it was either at the start or in the heat of the moment, everyone else had regularly called the baby Dewdrop but not them.

“Oh, Moon examined the security feed as soon as Monty suggested it” Sun claimed getting up and moving on to washing down the scuff marks from the wall.

“Aren’t you upset?”

“Why would I be upset? Stella is going home to her family that was the best outcome when you think about it, from what you told us foster care sounded unpleasant”

“No, I mean…didn’t you want to keep her?” Sun paused for a moment putting down the wash cloth and Gregory could hear the cooling fans going into overdrive as Sun tried to keep their emotions in check. Sun then turned to look at him and gave him that familiar cheerful grin.

“Come now Gregory I couldn’t keep a baby!” they laughed “I mean I could care for her and look after her here but it’s not like I could actually give her a life here!” Sun started to fidget with their hands and when they noticed what they were doing gripped them tightly. “I’m just an animatronic, property of Fazbear Entertainment!” they declared loud and painfully happy, Gregory heard a small crack and saw that Sun was digging their fingers into their hands so much it was cracking the plating. Sun continued to manically clean but slowed down, dropped the wash rag and leant against the wall sliding down to sit curled up on the floor.

“Gregory I’m such a horrible person! I wanted to keep her…for a terrifying brief moment I wanted to hide her in our room and chase the police away, and the only thing that stopped me from doing so was that wouldn’t be fair on her… I can’t give her what she really needs, I can never leave this place so I can’t take her to the park or beach…I can’t take her to the doctors if she got sick…I’d never be able to see her off to her first day of school or show her snow or…” they curled up tighter, their whole body shaking and steam was leaving their vents as they gripped their rays in such a way Gregory was worried that they’d rip them off. “I’m just an animatronic, nothing more! Just a dumb robot that has a stupid glitch that makes them want something they’ll never have!” Sun wailed.

Gregory knelt down in front of Sun and pulled them into a hug, Sun hung there limply.

“You have me”

Sun returned the hug with trembling arms and even though robots are supposed to be soulless machines that cannot feel emotions or be hurt by them, robots are incapable of feeling loss or shedding tears

Sun cried.

#sundrop #daycare attendant #moon #sun #sunfnaf

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crystalas · 2 years ago

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Thank you noodilliac you have no idea how much i needed to read this

A comic to try and sort through some difficult feelings about being an artist and a reminder to not forget who you are.

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crystalas · 2 years ago

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I can confirm this is a viable lifestyle.

Ha ha seriously tho.

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crystalas · 2 years ago

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Birthday wish part 6

Yup this also contains head cannons on how the robots work.

Chapter Six: Hard Choices

As they scanned from on high were to go next and where the breaker box for the main stage might be a familiar hum filled the air. Neon signs and shop lights were blinking back into existence on the bottom floor and breathing life back into the Pizza Plex rapidly. Moon was about to note the good luck about not having to worry about the breaker box when a thought blindsided them.

The lights were coming back on.

Which mean Sun had to come out. This was bad.

They were high up in the rafters, while Sun was able to use the wire, they were nowhere near experienced enough to use it while juggling a baby and a ten-year-old as well. The idea of Sun panicking and dropping Gregory came abruptly to mind. Dewdrop at least was safely wrapped up snug against them so they wouldn’t need to worry…

Oh…Oh no…

Moon dropped to the third level floor as quickly as they could, the lights already flickering on that floor. Dumping Gregory Moon dived under a nearby table hoping the shade will buy them more time and began to tug at the knotted blanket.

The Day Care Attendant’s transformation was something of a technical marvel, one of its tricks was the fabric that had different patterns depending on the level of light on it. Its face plate had two layers that spun to show Sun or Moon’s face accordingly and Sun’s rays and Moon’s hat were tucked away in compartments surrounding their head. Many people assumed that their paint job changed like their pants but to have Moon suddenly glowing like a rave party seemed counterproductive to the whole ‘stealthy and quiet’ part of his job. Some thought its temperature reactive but that would hinged entirely upon the Day Care switching rapidly between being hot or cold to get the quick-change reaction.

No how they changed body colours was far simpler, the Day Care Attendant had two shell layers which would swap out in a matter of fluttering clicks. Panels would rise up slightly to allow them swap over each other with quick fluid motion, this is normally not a problem and only on rare occasions would they have a jamming problem.

However, they didn’t normally have a baby strapped to their torso, where their chest plate opens up to swap out their panels. Horrible images of fingers or worse getting sliced off or trapped were now running rampant in their mind.

<Shit! Shit! Shit!> Moon cursed now regretting doing such a secure knot, half focused on the task at hand and the other half on trying to stop Sun from taking over.

<Language! Language! Language!>

<Just shut up and focus on holding back!> Moon snapped, he could feel gears painfully grind as they tried to move as programmed; their head twitching erratically as it fought between Moon and Sun their cap being ripped from a stray sunray.

<I’ve never had to hold back myself before!> Sun whined. Try as they might it was the robot equivalent of trying to stop themselves from breathing, they could only do it for so long…

Moon tore the knot open at last, yank Dewdrop free of the blankie sling and plonked her down just as Sun lost their grip and was forced to the surface. Sun gave a pained whine as they completed their transformation programme and flopped onto the floor to Dewdrop’s amusement who crawled over and laid down next to them thinking it was a game of some kind.

“You guys, okay?!” Gregory asked.

“We’re fine just…give us a second!” Sun said cheerfully showing a thumbs up despite being on their back and still shaking slightly. Dewdrop looked at them and giggled.

“Samoo!” she laughed, Sun smiled and patted her head.

<Was that what it was like when you had to keep me from taking control?> Moon asked quietly.

<Oh no it used to be a lot worse because you fought back> Sun sighed as they got to their hands and knees and crawled out from the table, Dewdrop following them happily.

<I’m never going to be able to make it up to you for that am I?> Moon whispered sourly.

<I don’t blame you in the slightest Moonie> Sun exclaimed giving their other half a digitised hug. <Just like I don’t blame Monty, Chica or Roxy for what happened, it wasn’t your fault it was …theirs…>

Moon went quiet and Sun understood that he wanted alone time, Moon hated being reminded of what that rabbit thing forced them to do. To go against the very reason they were made, to protect children and be twisted into a monster that revel in hunting them down to ‘punish’ them still made Moon sick to their metaphoric stomach. Gregory looked up at them confused and worried as they had no idea what just happened.

“Gregory, until we know what’s going on with the lights can we ask you to carry Dewdrop?” Sun asked “We don’t want risk hurting her” The boy nodded and picked her up, Sun grabbed her blanket and made a loose sling for them to carry her in.

Power now on they just had to get to the bottom floor and the main stage, they crept down the stairs as they came to the second floor peered around to see if they could spot any danger before carrying on. All seemed well as they got to the bottom floor and the atrium.

<Sun!> Moon cried, Sun spun around to look up and saw the two men now peering from the second level balcony.

“There they are!” Balloon Boy shouted, Sun wasted no time he grabbed Gregory and Dewdrop in their arms and bolted to the main stage.

“Fuck they’re trying to get away!” Balloon Boy cried angrily and started to head for the stairs, Bon Bon however just took out his gun and rested it against the balcony railings,

“Hey how much do you think a leg is compared to all that processing gear it has?” he asked as he made sure his silencer was on properly.

“Compared to all that A.I junk? Not much why?”

Bon Bon took careful aim as the Day Care Attendant got close to the stage.

“Take it out of my cut”

He pulled the trigger.

The Animatronics do not feel ‘pain’ at least not in the same way humans do, but it serves the same purpose as to show where something has gone wrong or broken. However, the purpose as to why they react to pain is different because when a human screams in pain it is get attention for help. When animatronics cry out in response to damage it is not only to get attention for repair but to bring attention to whoever is damaging them of their wrong doing in hope of stopping them. After all most young children are empathic enough to stop kicking a robot if it suddenly starts going ‘owwie that hurts. The more fragile and delicate the part being attack the more anguished the screams. A child only has to hear Monty howl in pain once to realise that using the camera near him is a bad and scary idea. Limbs barely needed any reaction, at best a little yelp if they got a particularly vicious kick.

So, when Sun suddenly got shot in the leg the first thing that came out of them was…

“Owwie!” before warnings started to pop-up in their vision, equilibrium suddenly shattered Sun started to fall over in mid stride and barely managed to spin their torso around so they didn’t land on their passengers. Dewdrop gave a whimper at the suddenly thump and started to tear up.

“Sunny!” Gregory cried getting to his feet and seeing the damage, Sun was curled up on the floor cradling Dewdrop tenderly, they tried to sit up and when they did, they saw that Sun’s foot had been shot off and was now lying nearby. Hydraulic fluid was seeping out and live wire crackled and fizzed.

“Don’t worry about me!” Sun cried holding out Dewdrop “Get to the stage, call for help and get below where its safe!”

Gregory gave a nod, picked up Dewdrop who was now fussing and didn’t want to be picked up anymore. Not wanting to waste any more time by running to the side stage stairs Gregory hauled her onto the stage before clambering up himself once he was sure Dewdrop wasn’t going to fall off the stage, he grabbed the mic from the tall stand and brought it down to his face when…

He saw a gun being pointed at him. The two men were now ambling towards them as if they had all the time in the world.

“That’s close enough kid” the shorter one said “Put down the mic”

Gregory did so making sure that he stayed in front of Dewdrop, Sun staggered to their knees and clung onto the stage barely able to stand on the one leg they had left.

“Fire arms are not allowed on Pizza Plex Premises, it is past operating hours and you are trespassing please leave!” Sun demanded trying to sound a lot braver than they felt.

“This has been a fantastic run around but we’re kind of on a time crunch so I’m gonna make a deal with you nanny-bot” the taller one declared “Come with us all quiet like and we’ll leave the kids here in one piece!”

“Why do you want Sun so bad?” Gregory demanded angrily.

“Kid you have no idea how much that things parts are worth in the right circles” Balloon Boy smirked.

“Y…you’re going to scrap us?!” Sun whimpered.

“Yeah, and if you resist, I’ll shoot the brats!” Bon Bon declared coldly. “So what will it be tinman?”

Sun looked at Gregory who was shaking his head but could see from how he was trembling how scared he was, the poor child shouldn’t have to have faced death so many times at such a young age. Sun should protect the children but with their mobility hindered so horrendously they had very few options.

Priority one: Protect the children.

Sun hung their head and looked at Gregory and Dewdrop who was oblivious to the life and death situation at hand, bless her she was too busy looking at all the stuff on stage.

Dewdrop looked around this place was pretty and colourful; she could do without the shouting and everyone seemed upset. Maybe she could something about that? What makes people happy? She looked around and saw her favourite toy sitting nearby! Granted it was slightly bigger and had a tail now but it was still her toy, she grabbed it and brought it up to her chin ignoring her hand hitting something that went ‘click!’

“Do…do you promise?” Sun asked quietly.

<SUN NO!> Moon roared <You can’t be serious?! We can’t trust them!>

“Do you promise to leave them alone if I come with you?” Sun demanded louder.

“Sure thing, pinkie promise and everything but I’m gonna need a sign of good faith that you’re not just gonna go Jekyll and Hyde on us as soon as we’re out of here” Balloon Boy said “How do we turn you off?”

Sun could feel Moon raging and fighting, he wanted to come and tear them apart for even suggesting of hurting their little ones but in glaring light of the stage Moon was trapped in the back seat completely helpless.

“There are two switches… either side on the back of our face plate…you need to …to…hold them down for five seconds…”

“There we go, we get the goods the kids get to live everyone is happy” Balloon Boy exclaimed as he walked towards Sun.

“Sunny please!” Gregory cried “Don’t…” but froze when the gun was brought up again to aim on him.

“Kids should be seen and not heard” Bon Bon stated.

Sun hung his head in defeat as the man started to roughly yank his head about to get to the switches, they hugged themselves awaiting the cold dark that is being offline when suddenly…

“SAAAAMMOOOO AH BAH BAH BAH! SAMMOOOO LA LALA!” came blaring onto stage in surround sound.

Freddy glanced around anxiously as Roxy gave a growl at another fruitless search.

“I am going to check on Gregory…I do not like all these false alerts. Something feels off” Freddy muttered.

“They’re safe with Sun and Moon Freddy but I get what you mean. I can’t help but feel we’re on a wild goose chase” Roxy agreed “Better meet up with the others, they might have had better lu…”

“SAAAAMMOOOO AH BAH BAH BAH! SAMMOOOO LA LALA!”

The bear and wolf stood there dumbfounded as baby babble could be heard throughout the Pizza Plex this would have been mildly endearing and confusing if not for the next bit.

“How the fuck did that kid get the mic?!” a gruff man demanded followed by the sounds of footsteps.

“NO! Leave her alone she’s just a baby!” another voice cried out.

“Gregory!” Freddy gasped.

“Fuck off brat!” followed by the sound a scuffle and then something hitting the floor accompanied by a yelp of pain. Freddy didn’t hear anything else as he was already running.

“Freddy?” Roxy asked.

“Main stage now!”

Bon Bon had wasted no time of storming the stage and stomping up to Dewdrop who looked up at him with big scared eyes, Gregory’s body moved before he could think and found himself standing between the baby and the angry brute.

“NO! Leave her alone she’s just a baby!” he shouted, but the man just raised up his gun and smacked Gregory to the floor. Dewdrop didn’t like this and started to cry, crawling away from the mean man who kicked the mic away from her and out of reach.

“Gregory!!!” Moon and Sun screamed.

Balloon Boy gave a yelp as Sun suddenly reared up trying to stand with only one leg, they attempted to pull the man off themselves but he was clinging on as he reached for the back of their head. Sun was yanking and pulling on their clothes in a crazed bid to get free and protect the children before just giving up on getting rid of their limpet and instead aimed for the man who just smacked Gregory!

“Don’t you…” was as far as Sun got before their eyes went dark and they crumpled back down like a puppet without strings, Balloon Boy went down with the robot with a heavy thud.

“Jeez that was a close one!” he grumbled as he wiggled free of the robot’s limp frame.

“Ballora, we got the prize, keep the bots away from the main stage and we’ll meet you at the check point” Bon Bon said into their coms, watching their partner starting to drag Sun away. Gregory blinked back from his daze to see a wailing Dewdrop next to him and the taller man walking over to them with gun aimed squarely on them.

“Y…you promised Sun that you would let us go” Gregory managed to say despite his mouth going dry. The man smirked a cold smile, this was a man who wasn’t doing this because he was in dire straits or because he needed the money. This was a man who was doing this job for the thrill, the rush of risking it all, winning and getting away with it. But now he had done this so many times and the high just wasn’t doing it for him anymore.

He needed a new kick, he had to admit hunting down the nanny bot and seeing it hit the floor sprawling after a well-aimed bullet had made him feel more than he had in a long while. Maybe this was a new thing to try and here was a way to test it out. After all these kids were obviously abandoned, no one of importance would notice or care if they were to vanish.

“And I should keep a promise to a gloried toy because?” he chuckled.

“Come on man, they’re just kids!” Balloon Boy declared.

“You said you didn’t want witnesses!” Bon Bon said calmly, “Are you a witness?” he asked in a polite voice that had the unmistakable under tone of ‘fuck around and find out’.

Balloon Boy was a lot of things but a selfless idiot wasn’t one of them.

“Nope but we’re gonna need to hurry because…”

The floor trembled and the repeating sound of metal hitting tile could be heard, Balloon Boy only managed to glance up in time to see an extremely pissed off robot wolf charge towards him and lunge at him. He smacked onto the floor with the wind was knocked out of him as he was now pinned to the floor and glaring glowing eyes bore into his.

Bon Bon watch this and swung his gun around to shoot at Roxy when Freddy blindsided him from side stage grabbing him and wretched the gun from his hands. The two men were no match for the seven-foot-tall robots who wrestled them to the floor especially when an enraged Gator showed up for back-up. The men soon found themselves beaten and rammed into a wheely bin each to be being taken to Lost and Found until the proper authorities could be called.

Freddy knelt by Gregory who was still trembling in shock, before he could say anything the boy leapt into his arms and hugged him tightly. Freddy held him gently as the boy tried his best to keep a brave face and only failed slightly as tears trickled down his face.

“Freddy! That man was going to kill us! Oh god if you hadn’t shown up…” he cried.

“Its alright now Gregory, you are both safe.” He said softly trying to calm him down, it took Gregory a good couple of minutes to get his breathing under control and felt safe enough to let go.

Ballora could hear the shouts and watched from the security feeds as the Glamrocks abandoned their chases and rushed to the main stage, knowing the jig was up she grabbed her stuff and started to erase her presence from the systems.

“Sorry boys but you know what they say about honour amongst thieves…”

Glancing back on the feed she noticed something as the camera showed shots of Balloon Boy and Bon Bon being shoved into a room and blocked in by Monty and Roxy. If the bear was on stage and the those two were there…

Where’s the chicken?

She slowly looked over to the only door to the security room just in time to see a flash of white and a beak peeked through the door frame.

“Staff only!” Chica exclaimed cheerfully. Ballora rushed forward and slammed the security door shut, taking a moment to breathe as Chica banged on the door outside, she looked around. There had to be a way out somewhere!

Her eyes locked on the air vent and she laughed in relief, she had plenty of time to open that and get through before the power on the door went. With practised ease she unscrewed the vent hatch and opened it giving only enough time to give Chica the middle finger before she made her escape. As she started to clamber inside, she heard a quiet sound of a music box playing that got steadily louder, she looked ahead into the gloom and saw a pair of blank eyes staring at her chittering white teeth and six spindly legs.

She screamed as the Mini Music Man rushed up to attack her face.

#daycare attendant #sundrop #fnaf superstar daycare #moondrop

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