"Sun?"
Sun, having just restacked the last can that had been knocked over, looked down at the young brunet under him. The kid stared up at him with big chocolate eyes, all innocence and showing none of the devious little gremlin Sun knew the boy could be. But, for right now, the kid showed no malice. After all, Sun had not tried to harm him at any point that night. "Yes, Gregory?" Sun put pep in his voice despite the exhaustion of semi-constant activity.
"When I went into the basement, I saw a whole bunch of endoskeletons," he claimed.
Right. Moon had seen the kid there. But had he really gone that far?!
Sun exclaimed, "That was very dangerous, Gregory! You could have gotten hurt!"
"Yeah," the boy agreed with a mild shrug. "But I made it! So, uh, I know that's what Freddy looks like on the inside. But you don't have an endoskeleton like that? They had a whole bunch of kid stuff and lots of Moon stuff. Why didn't they have an endoskeleton that looked like yours?"
"Oh! That's because we weren't made with the same blueprints," Sun answered cheerily. "Freddy, Chica, Roxy, and Monty all come from similar endoskeletons. Or the same ones? I, uh, we–we were made differently."
"Yeah, so you could turn into the moon man," Gregory stated plainly. "So, if you're not like them and weren't made there, where were you made?"
Sun chuckled. "Oh, that's a funny question! I was... er... we were..." Sun's cheer trickled out of his words. He put a finger to his chin. We couldn't have been made...
A weird feeling of wrongness crept up on him. It was a weird feeling, like the kind he got when the lights turned out around Gregory. But it wasn't about Moon. It was more like the end of the day when the staff would come to bring them to Parts and Services to get fixed. It was the need to hide. To protect himself. But also to not?
Sun instinctively went to Moon for help. He quickly reminded himself that he would find no comfort from his brother right now. However, the confused feeling of fear deepened when Moon's unrightful anger dimmed in the wake of confusion and unease.
Sun jumped when Gregory patted his wrist. "That's okay," Gregory stated with all the calmness in the world. "I didn't like where I was born, either."
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HorrorSun and Moon have been the Daycare Attendant since... well since they were made. They were created for the job. That is that. The other bots were created for their jobs, too. But the others came from uniform endoskeletons, most of them hidden beneat...
