Day 5Ax5 - Solar Eclipse

"Well look who it is! You're going in time out!"

At the bottom of the lobby the two bots don't notice you. However, as you pass by the clear window of the cafe you catch 4 eyes glaring at you then disappear. You tap Bonnie to get his attention.

Suddenly the doors to the Cafe burst open, two distorted security bots coming out of it. They ignore Bonnie and charge you holding a spatula and coffee pot. They shout something distorted but you can't make it out.

Before the one with the coffee pot could reach you Bonnie grabs it by the throat, slamming it against the wall. It reacts by smashing the coffee pot against Bonnie's face. He doesn't even react to it but rips the head off the bot instead. It falls to the ground. Bonnie lets out some kind of roar.

The other one continues charging at you, Bonnie distracted. Before he could strike you with the spatula you grab its arm and bring it close, activating your tazer and hitting it right in the chest. Everything lights up as the metal chest distributes the volts all over. The bot shakes for a second before dropping the spatula and you let it fall to the ground. It trips and falls down the stairs. The rubber armbands the bot had shielded you from the resulting shock.

The crashed bot rolls down, inertia increasing its speed before it slams into one of the security bots by the statue, knocking it down too.

The other bot rolls off seemingly not noticing its fallen allies. The entrance to the plex was clear but looking down you could see the door was shuttered off. Even if you wanted to leave there didn't look to be any conventional way.

"Doing alright?" You ask Bonnie. He nods, serious expression on his face. You go over to inspect the bot Bonnie decapitated. "O-oh, sorry. I didn't mean to." He said, worried he may have gone too far.

"It's fine. Just don't do it to Sun." You shrug.

It did occur to you that after tonight you'd probably have to fix each bot. That was even assuming this whole situation didn't get you fired. Nah. Based on the report, Gregory practically burned down the entire plex and they were still cool with him. Looking at the bot it looked like only the wires had been ripped out. "It's an easy fix." You say to ease Bonnie's anxiety.

You pick up the bots head, examining the distorted face, feeling it too. It wasn't painted or carved on. This was the actual expression it had. It must have been some alternate face mode they had.

Why would the designers have even done this? You figure out that all the bots must have some kind of 'scary' mode, maybe to ward off robbers. Or Maybe it was a Halloween thing? Those are the only things you can think of as to why they would even have this ability.

Just before you continue with Bonnie you get an idea. You look around, checking if there were any more bots.

"Can you protect me for a second, Bonnie? I need to do something." He looks anxious. "Are you sure? Do you need to fix it right now?"

"I'm not fixing it, just need to examine something."

"Alright."

Using your screwdriver and wrench you disassemble the chest plate and take it off. The wires inside were tangled. Brushing them aside you get to what you were looking for. Inside the bot was a dimly glowing blue battery. It was a much smaller version than what in Bonnie. Disconnecting wires you extract it. It fits snugly into the ring on your pants. The ring was meant for hammers but the battery fit perfectly.

Cutting a few wires you pack them in your pocket. Bonnie looks at you quizzically.

"Watch this." You take the spare wires and attach them connecting the battery and tazer. You turn on the tazer. The small electrical glow current doubles in size, almost looking like a torch now.

"Woah." Bonnie said starring at it. Not wanting to waste any more power you turn it off. "This should help us if we need to deal with any bigger animatronics."

"That won't-it won't kill them right?"

"It shouldn't, no. Worst case; I can always just fix them remember?"

"Oh yeah." Bonnie said putting a finger on his chin.

"Let's get going." You motion to Bonnie and continue. Down the hallway there didn't look to be any more security bots for the time being.

"This wasn't happening before you woke me up was it?" Bonnie asked concerned. You knew exactly what he was getting at but decide not to play into it. The last thing you needed was him blaming himself for tonight’s events. You notice his ears droop as he asked.

"No. Everyone has been acting weird tonight, even before I got you." You bite your lip. That wasn't technically a lie. Monty was acting 'off-character' earlier what with the saxophone.

"Are you sure?"

You turn to Bonnie. "This has nothing to do with you, I swear. I'm just glad you're here to help. I-" From the end of the hallway you hear the Daycare door gate make a sound. It rises, opening up. You briefly catch a glimpse of two endos. Not wanting to deal with them you jump onto the raised platform holding the fake palm trees. You motion for Bonnie to do the same. He's about to say something but you shush him.

"Endos." You whisper.

You hear the announcer repeat his warning about the lockdown in the distance. It also mentions something about being the last time it warns during the lockdown or something about conserving power. You tune it out.

Not even trying to be quiet Bonnie loudly hops into the fake dirtied and ducks behind the raised wall, lowering his ears too. He looks to you as you motion to keep low. You hear two sets of heavy stomps come out of the daycare. You want until they pass you. Slowly but quietly you peer up. It was two endos wandering. As they walked they twitched and occasionally paused in each step. Next to you Bonnie pops his head up.

You wait a few minutes until they're gone. You decide to assume the worst and figure they were 'corrupted' as well.

"They never come out from the back areas." Bonnie remarks.

"We gotta get going." You say as you rise up and get back on the ground.

Bonnie follows. Just before you could activate the gate you notice a few vending machines. An idea hits you. There were still two free slots left in your tool belt.

"Hold on a sec, Bonnie." He nods quietly. He seems to have calmed down from his earlier cheery attitude. You couldn't blame him, he gets up and is immediately accosted into defending you and dealing with a messed up plex.

You use some of the spare change you have and buy two drinks. Monty's Melonade and Roxanne's Raspberry Soda.

"Woah! When did they get their own drinks?" Bonnie ran up to the machine and grabbed it, starring at the various Fazbear-themed soft drinks.

You shrug.

"I don't know, sometime before I came. You never had a drink?"

Bonnie shook his head. "No...but I did have my own ice cream flavour! It was called the Bonnie Blueberry Blast! You gotta try it!" His upbeat attitude had returned.

"Well I'm sure there will be time to try all of them later. For now, these are not drinks, but weapons." You put them into your tool belt after giving them a good shake.

"How so?" Bonnie looked curiously.

"In case we need to short circuit a bot."

"Wow. Good thinking!"

The two of you enter the daycare.

Now Playing...

Artist: T. Kamada, A. Koshi, T. Nakamura

Song: Fruits Waltz

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-63fFXaT2A

The first thing that you noticed was the music playing. Yesterday you’d barely heard some sort of ‘wacky’ song playing in the daycare. Tonight a different song was playing. From across the daycare you heard some sort of ‘carnival’ echoing. It wasn’t too loud but was definitely being broadcasted from the daycare. It was lo-fi and sounded almost distorted as the notes played. It was some sort of waltz.

The lights were on full and compared to the rest of the plex it looked completely normal. The TVs were not functioning but otherwise everything looked okay. Had the lights been off coupled with that song you would have gotten scared. You hoped Sun was okay.

"AAAAH!" Bonnie screams suddenly. You turn to him. He's grabbing his ears and appears in pain. "ARRGHH!" He starts to get angry. Not looking straight he turns to you and stomps forward. You ready your tazer.

"Bonnie? You o-okay?" You stammer. He looks to you, eyes blinking. Carefully he pushes you to the side while trying to clutch both ears with his hand. He walks forward and then you see it.

One of those floor sign bots. It was starring directly at you. "MAKE IT STOP! ARRGHHHH!!!" Bonnie shouted. He grabbed the sign bot and smashed it against the wall and began punching it. You keep your distance. He was furious and punched a hole in the wall smashing the bot with it. As soon as its light went out Bonnie fell to the ground.

You weren't sure what happened. You run to Bonnie. "You okay?" You ask concerned.

He just pants in response. "I'm ff-fine...now. D-did you not hear that?"

"Hear what?" You were confused.

"That sound! It was so loud. Y-you didn't hear it?" You shake your head. "Nope."

You help Bonnie up. He shakes his head, rubbing his ears mindlessly. "I-I guess you wouldn't. It was an alarm but I guess people can't hear them."

"This is the first I'm hearing of some kind of alarm."

"I think they were getting rid of it before I was knocked out. I guess not all of them were removed?" Bonnie said unsure of himself.

"Well we're almost there. We can figure out everything in the daycare. You good to go?" You hear a rumbling from outside. It's extremely quiet.

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"Yeah." Bonnie smiled at you. "Lets-" He started to say but paused. He looked to the Daycare gate and you saw his eyes go wide. He looks to the daycare fence briefly. "We gotta go. Now!" He shouts.

"Why? W-" He doesn't wait for a response before grabbing you bridal style. He starts running towards the fence. You peer over his shoulder and see the daycare door open. Out it a horde of security bots pour out. They all have the same twisted expression. They enter the daycare charging towards the both of you, knocking over tables and chairs in the process.

"Hold on!" He shouts. In an instance he crouches down and jumps, sending the both of you flying into the air. Everything goes slow motion as you see Bonnie just barely clear the fence and cross over it.

You hold on to Bonnie as tightly as you can. You close your eyes, screaming into Bonnie. Before you know it he and you land in the ball pit, the balls cushioning most of the impact. While underneath the pool of balls, Bonnie holds you down, putting a finger to your mouth to keep quiet. He points up and you see his ear twitch upwards.

He looks to be listening to something and after a minute he allows you to rise to the surface.

You look up to see the horde of security bots had dispersed. You felt the hairs on your arms prick up, fear running through your veins. It felt like you were on the verge of a panic attack, yet another brush with death fresh in your mind.

You turn to Bonnie who just has a dumb look of happiness on his face.

"That was awesome!" Bonnie shouted. A few of the plastic balls were stuck in his ears. "I didn't know that would be so fun!" He said laughing. You sigh. Your heart was beating rapidly and you were still trying to process Bonnie having jumped several metres high. It felt like your stomach was burning, butterflies in it.

Bonnie shook himself, knocking loose the balls. He held out a hand for you to grab.

There was no time to react to Bonnie's offer as immediately you feel something grab your ankle from below the mass of balls. You flash a look of horror to Bonnie before you are pulled under and through the pool. In a an instance your flung up to the surface, Sun holding you up by the ankle. You see his glowing yellow eyes gone, replaced with black spheres and a small white dot in the centre. He was staring right at you. He shakes you tauntingly. The movement causes all the items in your tool belt to fall out, landing on the ground.

Now Playing...

Artist: I Don't Care About the Spirits Haunting Me

Song: Five in the Grass

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO8A7rrEncM

"Well, well, well, look who it is! You're not supposed to bring this stuff into the daycare!" Sun said cheerily. "No bad stuff in the daycare! You're going in time out!" Sun said excitedly, heavy distortion present in his voice. He picks up your wrench and reels back to strike you. Thinking quickly you push his core aside and it causes him to lose balance, dropping you and falling over.

"Sun!" You hear Bonnie shout from behind you. You see Bonnie running towards the two of you.

"That's not nice! You know how many people are looking for you! I'm just trying to help them!" You quickly get up and get your tazer ready. In the commotion it became disconnected from battery.

Acrobatically, Sun does a flip and gets up. He looks ready to grab you. You figure whatever happened with the security bots also happened with him. "You're coming with me. They want you." He says ominously. Yep, this wasn't the Sun you met yesterday. You weren't sure who 'they' were. You had no intention of finding out.

You get ready to stab him with the tazer as he etches closer. But, just as he gets within reach he jumps back. He lands flat on the ground, then flinging himself off the ground to kick at you. It was a perfect fake out. He kicks right into your stomach sending you tumbling down. You drop the tazer in the confusion. It hurt.

"SCREEEEEEEECH" A loud guttural scream emits from behind you. On the ground you see above you Bonnie's form lunge at Sun. It was a purple blur. You peer up to see Sun masterfully dodge out of Bonnie's way and he landed down on all fours.

Though he dodged perfectly Sun didn't register who it was that lunged at him. He turns to face Bonnie, his eyes having gone red as blood.

He steps back upon seeing Bonnie. "H-how?! I-it can't be. You were destroyed! You should never have come back!" He shouts.

You quickly get up; grabbing the wrench Sun had tried to hit you with. You jump upon Sun's back trying to pin him down, or at least choke him.

"Why you little delinquent!" Sun shouts and he rips the wrench out of your hands easily throwing you off him. You grab a screwdriver that had fallen, ready to attack.

Bonnie had gotten up and was now walking towards Sun. His eyes showed murder. Not wanting a repeat of the other two bots you decide to try and command him.

"Grab him!" You shout to Bonnie. It seems to work as his eyes turn back to their normal colour. Sun looks behind just as Bonnie gets close. He does a spin and faces Bonnie. Then he looks back to you.

The two of you had him encircled. He looked to you and then to Bonnie. "H-hey this is bullying!" The two of you got closer. Sun unsure of who to attack. "That's cheating!" He protested. With no way of escape Sun did the one thing that worked against Gregory. "S-security alert! SECURITY ALERT!" Sun began shouting. You pretend to charge him so he turns to you. "Grab him!" Bonnie does so and pinning his arms at his sides he grabs Sun, holding off the ground. He puts him into a bear hug. He continues to shout security alert in vain as he struggles in Bonnie's grip.

"What do we do!?" Bonnie shouts. "He's gonna call the bots!" Thinking quickly you decide to summon Moon. You recall yesterday something about Moon coming out in the dark. What if you could shut the lights off?. "How do I kill the lights?" You shout to Bonnie. "I-I don't know!" You look around and see what appeared to be a management desk. You run towards it.

Sun's shouting had only gotten more frantic when you mentioned the lights. He started struggling even more! "Don't do it!" He screamed. "No!! Don't bring him out!" He shouted again. It started to look like Bonnie was losing grip, the way Sun was struggling.

You scan the console. There was nothing about the lights, just tons of buttons with unclear names. While scanning it you see a cartoony Freddy head. It opens as you get close, a key card present in it. In your frantic pressing of the buttons you pull the card out. The lights instantly start dimming. It must work like a plug, you think.

The lights go dark in the daycare as does Sun's screaming. "They'll find you! YOU CAN'T HIDE!" He shouts one last time before going limp in Bonnie's grip. Looking at the console there were options for ambient lights and you flick those on to the max setting. Even though the daycare was still mostly dark you see lights around the play structures light up blue. Around the floor tiles a neon blue outline starting glowing, as did various symbols on the walls and fixtures. Light started emitting from the various stars, butterflies and moon fixtures across the daycare. It was bright enough that you didn't need your phone light. You see Sun shake violently then stop. Bonnie was watching closely, ready to react to any movements.

First you see Sun's eyes light up, a deep blue shade this time. You notice the spikes on his head retract as his the colours on his body change. He looks up slowly, at first trying to move but is unable to. He stares at you. You see the pattern in his face had changed colour. It looked to be Moon.

"Moon?" You ask, approaching cautiously.

"Why am I being restrained?" He asks slowly. He sounds calm but confused.

"Well, you, err, Sun tried to kill me." You cross your arms. You weren't sure if Moon was okay either.

"Sun is..I..I can't hear him. W-what have you done?" He asks groggily.

"Put him down." You say to Bonnie. He drops Moon to the ground. Moon nearly faints upon hitting the ground. He was moving slowly and lethargically. Moon gets up, rubbing his head. "What happened?"

"You don't remember anything do you?"

"I-I remember Sun cleaning his room, then everything went...black. And now I am here." He got up slowly, clearly disoriented.

"W-why can't I hear Sun?" He asks. Though his smile faded slightly. His eyes shone enough that he was scared.

He almost falls again. Bonnie goes to help him up.

You knew that Sun and Moon shared stuff but could Sun being 'corrupted' really had affected him so?

"You gonna be alright?"

"Yes, I am just-just not used to not hearing Sun." He looked at Bonnie's hand as he held it. Suddenly he turned around, shocked.

"B-bonnie? It is really you?" Moon said breaking his monotonous speech.

"You remember me?!" Bonnie said. Moon practically jumped into a hug with Bonnie as the two animatronics embraced. Any doubt in your mind that Moon was corrupted was gone.

You chalk it up to the way they're designed, probably using different memory spaces. As the Bonnie and Moon catch up you receive a text.

Gregory: im in

Gregory: almost at the daycare whats your status

(Y/N): The daycare is secured. In there right now.

Gregory: what about the attendant

(Y/N): Got it under control. It's all safe here.

Gregory: ok, be there in a min

You wonder how he even got into the plex but decide to ask later. Looking up from your phone you notice Moon had vanished. Bonnie's attention was turned to the area in front of him. He was setting up pillows on the ground around a small table. He was tidying things up.

"Where did Moon go?"

"Oh, he went to get something from his room." Bonnie said.

"What do you think about Moon? I think he's fine. I guess it's just Sun that's gone corrupted."

"Yeah! He's fine. Whatever happened to him only affected Sun."

"I thought so. What are you doing?" You hesitate on reprimanding Bonnie for letting Moon go. You hoped he hadn't lied his way and retreated.

"Well, Moon told me to set it up so we can figure out what to do." Bonnie said.

From the ceiling up high you see Moon leave his room and jump off the balcony, landing in the ball pit.

"Alright. Sounds good. The, uh, caretaker will be here soon too."

"Since Moon is okay do you think Freddy and the others would be?" Bonnie asked concern. Though he hadn't said anything he was deeply worried about what happened to Sun. He was looking for some encouragement that whatever happened to Sun didn't affect the others.

You shake your head. "I don't think so."

"Aw." Bonnie said, ears drooping.

"We'll see. Maybe we'll go check him out later, as a group." That statement causes Bonnie's ears to perk up.

You plan in your mind that a combined force of you, Bonnie, Moon and Gregory would have no problem taking down Freddy if need be.

You're reminded that your tool belt was empty from the scuffle with Sun. When he grabbed you some of your gear fell out.

"Hey Bonnie, Sun dropped some of my tools. Could you go grab them? I think they should be around the pit.

"Okay!" He looks down and his eyes light up, creating a searchlight effect. He skips off, prance in his step. He was looking carefully for any dropped items.

You hear movement behind you. Ready for anything you grab a nearby kiddie chair. Moving carefully you see the vent from next to the desk pop out. There was light coming from it. You hold the chair above your head ready to hit whatever comes out.

Out crawls a kid covered in dust. The light was emitted from Fazbear flashlight. It was Gregory. He coughs getting dust everywhere. You put the chair down.

"Hey." You say as you help him up. Still covered in dust you could see him now. He was wearing a dark purple shirt with flower designs on it. The colour was of a royal purple. He also had blue running shoes and khaki shorts. This time he was wearing a Fazbear baseball cap too.

"You must be Gregory. Names, (Y/N). Lead technician at the plex as of tonight." You shake his hand as he looks at you.

"You were the one helping Freddy a few days ago." Gregory says, remembering you from your last encounter. Looking at him now you notice he was carrying a laser gun in his pocket. It was sticking out.

"That's right. We had some things to discuss."

"Were you able to find him?" He asks as he brushes himself off.

"Nope." You shake your head.

"Darn."

"I understand what you meant though. Most of the animatronics have gone crazy. I've already had to...decommission a few bots." Upon saying that you see Gregory become a little more alarmed.

He sighs. "It's all happening again-wait. W-why are the lights off? Where's Moon?"

"Moon's just out. He'll be back soon. Don't worry about him."

"We gotta go then. Moon's dangerous. We'll to go to Rockstar Row. I'll explain on the way." Gregory said tapping on his watch. You'd only spoken to him for a few seconds and he was already taking charge.

"Woah, slow down. Rockstar Row is way too dangerous. We can't go yet." Gregory looked up from his watch. Seeing something behind you he grabbed his laser gun. "B-behind you, it's M-Monty!" He said.

You turn seeing Bonnie and Moon on top of him. Bonnie was carrying some of your equipment and Moon others. It looked like he was giving Moon a piggyback ride. He waved to you with his free hand.

"Oh, that's just...." You hesitate. Were you allowed to tell him about Bonnie? While you were weighing your options you see a light beam flash right by you, Gregory shooting Bonnie with the laser blaster. He drops your stuff and Moon gets off him. The laser gun does nothing much but causes him to blink a few times.

"Hey, cut that out. He's on our side." You say to Gregory, lowering his gun.

"W-what was that for?" Bonnie asked, annoyed. He rubs his eye.

Moon collects your stuff, placing them on the table. Bonnie gets closer to you and Gregory. Seeing more clearly now Gregory steps back, not recognizing the rabbit-like animatronic in front of him.

"You're not Monty. W-who are you?" Gregory asked, looking up and down at the new animatronic in front of him.

You decide screw it, he might as well know.

"Gregory, this is Bonnie, former bassist for the Fazbear 5." You say motioning to Bonnie." "And Bonnie, this is Gregory, the caretaker I was talking about."

"You brought a kid here?!" Bonnie said surprised, a hint of worry in his voice. "B-but the plex is so dangerous right now!"

"Oh he's no ordinary child." Moon said, joining the three of you. "He's a rule breaker and an anarchist." He sounded genuinely annoyed at Gregory's presence.

You notice that Moon is now donned with a long scarf. It had a pattern of the night sky on it with a crudely drawn moon on the side. It glowed faintly in the dark. The moon looked to have been drawn on with a glowing marker. You also notice that he now smells of blueberries. You guess he had one of those scent bottles as well.

"Humph." Gregory said.

Grabbing a nearby blanket Moon picked it up and brought it to Gregory. "Hold still." He began wiping down the kid with the blanket, getting the dust off him. "H-hey, cut it out!." "No! I don't want you tracking dirt in my daycare." Moon chided and continued to clean the boy. "Argh." Gregory muttered.

"Alright, alright. Let's sort this all out." You said, herding everyone to the table.

As the two animatronics walked back, Gregory whispered. "Can they be trusted?"

You nod to him. "They're the only ones acting normal right now."

"Well, I hope so." Gregory scowls and mutters something under his breath you can't catch.

"How did you get in anyways?" You ask, remembering that the door was boarded up earlier.

"I snuck in. I know all this places secrets." Gregory responded.

You two take a seat at the table.

The next chapter will be titled The Purple Squad.