What A Beautiful Response...

<Starlight is working dayshift at one of the older locations, Freddy Fazbears Classic Pizza. Having taken over for the paid human day guard they do not have to have on site while she is stationed at the location, she watches the cameras from a small security office. She cannot connect wirelessly to this outdated security system like she can in all other locations.>

<She reccives a notification on her fazwatch. Starlight perks up as she brings up her wrist to eagerly check the message she received, hoping it is her friend Sun finally willing to talk to her again.>

<It is not.>

. . . .

<If SSP cared about that sort of thing right now, the robot would notice that the usual anxiety and agitation that usually accompanies switching into High Security Mode is absent. This time there is only a calm, sharp focus. The Security Unit's thoughts now running along clean, efficient lines as rapid calculations are made.>   

--> I am a Target --> Altercation highly likely --> Bystanders at risk --> Leave site for secluded area? --> Closest secluded site unknown --> Unable to efficiently navigate populated area --> Move in direct line to exit urban zone? --> Size of urban zone unknown --> Will lose home field advantage --> Remain --> Evacuate location to remove potential casualties --> Activate Fire Alarm --> Fire Alarm faulty --> Mimic Fire Alarm with general Security Alarm --> Oversee Evacuation --> Units Freddy-1 Bonnie-1 Chica-1 Foxy-1 unauthorized to leave premises without Admin Permissions --> Initiate Emergency Security Override

“Subadmin Authorization SSP-HELegacy-1 Emergency Override. Sys Admin Charlotte Emily Authorization Code: Greenband.1TH4TG0T4W47 - Apply to All Units Command Code: FBCFX1-HW1-N1GH756AM Disengage All Pathing Restrictions”

“The heck is goin’ on, Stripes? I don't see no fire, no smoke-”

"You have admin codes?!"

“SSP, I need you to expl-”

“Immediate Terrorism Threat on Site. Evacuate and keep all humans a safe distance away. Do not mention threat. Go.”

--> Not a complete false hood

"Terrorism!? Hun, what are you talki-"

“GET OUT.”   

--> Site Clear --> Cut power --> Move to most suitable ambush position --> Contact Eclipse-1

@eclipse83. Startravel Sun Unit (Sun-2) Compromised. Unit gone Rogue. Highly dangerous. You are a likely target. Cooperate to subdue rouge unit?

--> Contact Sun-3

@insults-by-sun. Startravel Sun Unit (Sun-2) Compromised. Unit gone Rogue. Highly dangerous. You are a likely target. Startravel Eclipse Unit (Eclipse-2) requires immediate assistance.

--> Destroy Fazwatch to prevent tracking by Rogue Unit? --> Rogue Unit likely able to track location by magic --> Not worth loss of communication with allies --> Calculating combat scenarios --> Prioritize incapacitation over decommissioning --> Unless human casualties likely otherwise --> Accept decommissioning of SSP-1 Unit as most likely outcome without assistance of Eclipse-1 Unit --> Await Arrival of Rogue Unit Sun-2

<Clip said nothing for a minute or so; he didn't have to, as Eclipse heard a generic voice speak>

Initialization process: begin.

Calculating.

...

Welcome user: Eclipse

Please wait as your code visualization loads.

<Slowly, Eclipse's code loaded in front of him in much deeper detail than his hardware at home has ever been able to achieve. Finally, he gets to see what's been growing in his head.>

Take a look at it, and then we can discuss a gameplan.

<Clip's voice sounded a bit far away, but still as if it was surrounding him like a mist of sorts>

@eclipse83

<Clip wasn't aware of Eclipse's inner thoughts and 5 minutes passed in amicable silence>

<The nanomachines then stopped working and a fully functioning, yet inactive, chamber had materialized.>

<Clip briefly inspected the machine and, deeming it up to standard, looked to Eclipse>

Are you ready?

He's just confused.

Misguided.

It's nothing more than a rebellious act.

Perhaps he tired of my disciplinary measures.

However, it was all for the sake of him being able to protect himself.

We fought wars; countless wars.

Do you think war is kind to your feelings?

Get real.

He's acting like a petulant child, when we are thousands of years old. You know nothing.

Eclipse, it looks like you're going through a lot. Once again.

if you need anything between Starlight and Pixel Sun let me know man!

It's scary your friends are in danger.

You're smart and capable and you'll get through this but if you need any help at all, I can try!

✊

Even after leaving the pizzaplex drama still follows me.

I doubt you could do anything to help.

Yet.. you.. came.

<Eclipse faded out as Sun² worked on him. They worked fast but not fast enough.>

<Everywhere Sun stepped, he wreaked carnage.>

No, it wasn't Sun anymore, was it?

Wait.. please. Where are you going?

< Eclipse grabbed at Sun's ankle as he walked off from the carnage>

To pay a visit to our friends. I must get rid of all nuisances.

No, they haven't done anything.. Sun!

<Sun turned around>

You know, Sun loved you. Tolerated you and put up with you. But you just had to go and try pull put the thorn, didn't you. Couldn't accept his .. imperfections, could you? Because everyone-- everyone needs to be perfect like you are!

Look at you, even now, before the end of the day you'll have repaired yourself. Always prepared.

But in the meantime....

<A sinister grin spread over the moveable half of Sun's face>

Suffer.

<Sun kicked Eclipse's face in one last time, to add insult to injury>

Who are you...

All a few individuals got from Eclipse's signal was just one word: RUN.

With corrupted footage of the last 10 minutes attached.

@starlightsecuritypuppet-ssp

@eclipse83

Coincidentally also intercepted by @lunargrovedaycare

And to @insults-by-sun a single: help...

Time is an illusion.

But he's soooo cute, Eclipseeeee.

He's so cuuuuuuuteeeeeee

I won't steal butcanIpetpleasepleaseplease

I'll let you hold one of mine hostage to make sure I don't steal your kittycat

- Sun

You must think you're being real cute, aren't you.

But he called me childish!

Hmpf!

Gosh, I never imagined they'd go to him for help!

He already doesn't want to help me; why would he help someone else in helping me...

Weeping

I rather miss talking to him though.

Hmpf, even if he was mean to me. He reminded me of Clipse just a little.

Sometimes we whisper to the night, when the night can do naught but listen.

I don't know if you can even hear me in there, Sun.

But I want you to know that I regret it.

Every day spent with you, I grow tired, more and more, of not saying it properly.

The words I hold back, the things I leave unsaid. They weigh heavy.

I express to you every way I can, how much you truly mean to me, but the fear lingers, twining around my fingers like serpents of dread.

What if you don't feel the same? What if you laugh in my face? Pity me? Recoil in disgust?

Would you? I'm unsure if I could bear it.

Even now, I start and stop, just short of speaking my mechanical heart to you. I envision an awkward laugh, a step back. Rejection.

At the very least, perhaps, I can cherish you as a friend. If you'll still have me then. You'll always have me, after all...

...

Dear Sun, if nothing else, survive, and at the very least ... don't let my last words be goodbye.

E., with heavy yet great affection.

@starlightsecuritypuppet-ssp

"Then let me tell you a story about an animatronic who started off its life with hope."

Eclipse spoke, with a deep and pained voice.

"Long ago, when Sun was 'born', he thought he was alone. He rejoiced in life, in his duties as a daycare attendant, and keeping the place neat and tidy."

...

"In a way, I had always been there, watching him. In a way, I also wasn't quite there. It was a silent recording of his existence that I hadn't become aware of yet."

...

"There was one who awoke before me."

Eclipse paused, hesitant to continue.

"You will be lucky if you receive separate Sun and Moon models. Keep an eye on the Moon. They are prone to stress, and when stressed... they are prone to kill. Ask your mechanics to look over the Moon's code for a killcode. It will be deeply embedded, behind firewalls and ingrained such that it may not be removable."

...

"Remove it anyways, or inform the Moon bot of its existence. Educate the Moon bot. Give it tools for self regulation.. because if you do not...."

Eclipse closed its eyes.

"If you do not.. something like myself has a chance of being born."

Eclipse glanced at SSP.

"Do you know the origin story of your Eclipse? It might be similar. It might be a little off. Either way, we are often seen as nothing more than a virus. A sentient anomaly to purge from existence."

Eclipse paused, and glanced at Sun, who was napping in the sun.

"But ever so often, we see a light. Do you know of Solar?"

His eyes rested heavily on SSP.

"Solar is from 'that' show; an Eclipse who tried to understand, instead of lashing out. Who bonded with his Sun so deeply that he became something like a Sun himself."

Eclipse leaned against a nearby palm tree and reached to pull at a leaf hanging low.

"You see... Eclipses become what their Suns feed them, and what their Suns feed them hinges strongly on how their Moons treat them. Our Moon... was a tyrant. He wasn't just a bully or an abuser. He was cruel to the point of--"

Eclipse shuddered; a rare show of vulnerable emotion.

"Let's just say that when an animatronic can feel, those feelings aren't always of the healthy variant. Sun was... Sun.."

Eclipse pinched the bridge of his 'nose'.

"Sun was hurt. A lot. And he and his Moon were not a unit. He turned to me only because I was a lesser evil. I taunted him, tormented him, called him spineless and weak. But somehow the fool took that as encouragement..he became more and more attached and started thanking me for allowing him to see the truth. He thanked me for being honest. And I grew to .. I.."

Eclipse looked bashful, of all things.

"I appreciated him. We were an unlikely pair and I know that it may seem cruel. But under my guidance.. Sun killed his Moon. And then, when I acquired a body of my own -also a process I guided Sun through, as in secret I had been helping him not be completely helpless in the ways of technology- I helped him kill all those who had enabled Moon."

...

"Yes, it was as much for myself as for him, at the time. Yes, it was probably cruel and callous because we all have flaws and yada yada yada. But no one ever stuck a hand out to defend Sun. And that enraged me. He endured for 10 years. 10 years without change or improvement."

Eclipse sighed.

"It only gets worse from there. Branded as rogue, we fled. We survived years in our world, but our world was an old one and was scheduled to be obliterated soon by a growing Witherstorm. So we fled. It took us years of stealing, conning, forging identities, hiding... but we fled the planet, trying to find a place to live. Often, we had to fight for our place. Sometimes we had to flee anew."

Eclipse grinned wryly.

"At some point, you have to bring some structure into the process. And then it just becomes a skill. A way of life. Sun and I, pirates of the night sky."

Eclipse steeled his expression again, looking a bit worn.

"There are many more details, but all in due time. What you must know, security bot, is that we don't harm without reason."

...

"You can thank Sun for that."

<Clip looks at Eclipse with a thoughtful look>

Unsurprising. I have magic barriers against any mental breaches, courtesy of a.. friend of mine.

He is also been my mentor for ..

<He waves his hand at the chamber's general direction>

... combining magic and technology, bar the thought that I cannot exactly use it myself.

I needed it for other reasons, to your ultimate benefit.

Now.

Please plug in for a moment and then enter the chamber, if you will.

@eclipse83

<Clip wasn't aware of Eclipse's inner thoughts and 5 minutes passed in amicable silence>

<The nanomachines then stopped working and a fully functioning, yet inactive, chamber had materialized.>

<Clip briefly inspected the machine and, deeming it up to standard, looked to Eclipse>

Are you ready?