Superstar Daycare! Of course! Where else would you put the main breaker? You couldn't mess with it in the dark, because Moon would… Moon! And Sun! I was ecstatic, nearly running for Daycare at this point. Monty had always been my favorite of the core four, but my favorite animatronics in the whole building were Sun and Moon. The daycare attendants. I spent a lot of time in Daycare, especially because Dad knew I loved it. Even when I was too old for it, I always went back, at least to say hi. As I got close however, reality started to come back to me. The Pizzaplex was a dilapidated mess. Would my friends be the same way? I hoped not.

The breaker room was outside of the kid's area, but also on the other side of the room from the entrance. I tried to go around the main daycare, but the way was blocked by fallen crates and a giant metal mascot poster. I'm fairly nimble for a 20-something who's worked in robotics since he was a teenager, but climbing that was just a bit beyond my level of skill. I would have to go through daycare. I thanked my quick metabolism and poor eating habits for making me small enough to fit in the children's slide, and I "Slid into Fun".

Landing in a ball pit in the dark is a strange experience, but realizing that what I was even doing here was strange in its own right, I elected to ignore the odd feeling. Maybe because something else was taking over all my emotional capacity at the time. I suddenly felt very lonely. The last time I'd been here, I was just a little kid, and the place was full of other little kids just like me. I remember making a new friend every day. Sometimes I never saw them again, other times they were there almost as often as I was! Superstar Daycare was where I met my best friend, Jamie. We were the only two kids who never took a nap, and we considered it our sole mission to sneak past Moon and reach the snacks before anyone else. We only made it once, and by then it was a game between us and Moon. Jamie will never admit it, but I think Moon let us win.

I pushed aside my memories, focusing on getting a feel for my surroundings with a flashlight. The daycare was near destroyed, although still looked very fun to climb, but where were Sun and Moon? A pit started to form in my stomach as I thought about it. They could have been deactivated when the building shut down, and if not that, put out of commission by the crumbling building. "Just focus on getting the power on, Elijah," I told myself. "No use looking around in the dark anyway."

Suddenly I was thrown back by something grabbing my shoulders. "New friend?" said a familiar voice. I looked up to see Sun, dilapidated as the rest of the building, shaking me violently. "New friend! I am trapped in a nap! Reboot! Reboot! We must be whole!"

"Sun!" I pulled him off of me, "Sun, it's me, Elijah!"

In the second I blinked, a new face stared back at me. Moon. "It's past your bedtime," he said in a voice much more sinister than I had remembered.

"I don't have a bedtime, Moon!" I said, trying to grab hold of the animatronic, barely missing as he flew off into the darkness surrounding the daycare. "It's me!" I shouted. "Elijah! Elijah Schmidt! Don't you remember?"

I was yelling into darkness. I pulled myself out of the ball pit, trying to rationalize what had happened. Didn't they remember me? It had been two years since the Pizzaplex closed, and save those years, I'd seen them every day. Although Dad never told anyone, I performed almost all their maintenance! What had happened here?

"Trapped in a nap…" I repeated Sun's words. The animatronic ran on a simple protocol called "Naptime". If the lights went out, Moon was the animatronic at hand, giving Sun's AI a break, and vice versa when the lights were on. The lights had been off in this place for who knows how long. Sun had been trapped, and Moon was running the show. They needed to reboot. I had to get the lights on.

I started for the exit, and Moon jumped me again! "Naughty naughty! You need to take your nap!"

"Dammit Moon!" I pushed him off, shining my flashlight as I did. "I'm a grown man! I'll take a nap when I wanna take a nap!"

He recoiled at the light and slunk back into the shadows. There had to be some way to get him to remember me, if he was going to attack me all the way to the breaker room, this could get messy. I charged forward again, and got jumped again, just barely hitting him with my light before he got me.

"Alright! I get it!" I shouted out into the darkness. "Your problem first!"

I had to stun him somehow, like an animatronic flashbang. My flashlight wasn't strong enough, but the construction lights on the jungle gym might just do the trick. Those were powered by the auxiliary generators that they'd hidden in the jungle gym. A horrible idea, which led to kids (Jamie and I) activating a false Naptime protocol by turning them off and doing things they weren't supposed to (taking snacks before snack time). We always hid them from the other kids, because we knew this power was too great for anyone other than us to hold, and I count my lucky stars that the locations were locked in my memory. All I had to do was get to them.

I crawled into the jungle gym, I guess was a lot taller than I was when I was seven, huh? The place was half destroyed, but crawling through there gave me a rush of energy, it made me feel like a kid! But I was quickly grounded into my adult life when I heard Sun singing quietly to himself. Something about nobody being around. He was fighting back, and as much as I loved Moon, I was rooting for him.

"Sun!" I called out through the maze of plastic ropes. "Buddy, I'm coming! It's me! Elijah! When I get the power on, we'll make a craft, okay?"

"Go to BED!" Moon jumped up against the side of the jungle gym. I got him with my light, nearly losing my balance and glasses in the process.

"Oh, look what you did!" I said, quickly cleaning them on my shirt. "You smudged my specs! Moon, this isn't like you! Not at all! I'm getting the power on and then I'm fixing you! The right way!"

"It won't work!" The malicious animatronic's voice sounded through the dark. "It's too dark!"

I rounded the corner, finding a generator. "You sure about that, bud?" I slammed the button, causing a bright beam of light to hit Moon. He was stunned, but managed to scramble away. "Not the light!"

"Yes, the light!" I laughed. I felt like a little kid again, playing adventure with my friends in the jungle gym and saving the day. "Now be a good little Moondrop and let me turn on the lights. You could use a nap after being up for so long!"

I dug my way through the maze, trying to find a second generator. Sun's somber song was ringing in my head, and I got an idea. If the daycare was this bad, imagine the rest of the Pizzaplex! I could imagine Freddy, Chica, Roxy, Monty, the DJ, hell, I bet I could even find Bonnie in here, even if he was decommissioned a bit before the place closed. If they were in as bad of a state as Sun and Moon, they would need some heavy repairs. Now that would be a good craft.

I spotted a soft red light coming from the other jungle gym, another generator! I crawled my way out, rolling out onto the foam tiles of the room. Just as I started to get up, Moon got the jump on me, sending me tumbling over. I could feel blood running down my cheek. "Moon! For cryin' out loud!" I rolled over and pinned him against the floor. "Moon! It's me! Elijah Schmidt! Do you remember me? Me and Jamie Hall would always stay up during naptime! Mickey Schmidt's son? None of that ring a bell?"

"Elijah?" for a brief moment, it was Sun!

"Yes! Yes it's me!" I said. "Hold on for me buddy! I've got a plan, okay? Just hold on!"

I threw him off of me, hearing Moon recoil as I flashed my light at him. I made a break for the generator, climbing up the jungle gym instead of in it. It would be easier to make my way down then go up. Rolling down into the depths of the maze, I could hear Moon trying to follow me, screeching nonsense with some bits about bedtime, but he was on the wrong jungle gym. I crawled through as fast as I could, dodging bits of the place that had fallen down.

"It's too dark! It's too dark!" Moon cackled from the darkness.

"Moon, this is NOT Superstar behavior!" I bit back. It was a phrase I'd heard too many times to count. "You keep this up and I'll erase your whole program! You hear that? Only Sun is gonna run the daycare!"

He wasn't taking threats, he probably couldn't even register what I was saying because his programming was so out of wack. Of course, I wouldn't actually erase his program. He was one half of the whole. Neither were made to run this long without a break. Even when the Pizzaplex closed for the night, we had a dual-personality mode installed called Eclipse, meant mainly for staff interactions, and which didn't care about the lights at… wait! That was it! If they were reset, if they were "made whole", they would default to Eclipse! They couldn't come out of Eclipse mode until someone set them to run on the Sun-Moon interval again. If I could stun Moon with the light again, theres a chance I could reach him and reboot them before they got away!

"Don't worry guys!" I shouted out to them, thrilled with my new realization. "We'll fix this! I just need a little longer!"

I was almost to the generator, I could feel it's heat radiating out into the air. Damn, my cheek stung. I made a break for the button, ready to- CRASH!

The jungle gym groaned under me as the floor came crashing down. I was hanging on the edge, my hand just out of reach of the button. "No!" I said. "I've come this far! No way I'm giving up now!"

I pulled myself up and slammed the button, dropping to the floor as a light went off in the corner of my vision. I could hear Moon screeching as I ran to the other side of the daycare. I couldn't take the time to crawl through the tunnels, instead I scaled the side. When I got to the top, I could see the animatronic fidgeting, but it couldn't move.

"Do it!" Sun screeched. "Do it now!"

"Don't worry buddy, I got it!" I ran around to the back of him, taking a Faz-wrench I'd found in the technician's room and jamming it into it's socket. The animatronic had three modes. "Daycare", which was the Sun-Moon interval, "Maintinence", where the technician could manually flip the modes between either animatronic, and "Eclipse", the one I needed. I turned the reset to Eclipse mode, and stood back. I didn't know how the wiring would react after not having switched modes for so long.

The animatronic began to rapidly switch between Sun and Moon before going dormant. I took a step back, only for it to spring to life saying, "Happy Birthday!", it's switch confirmation word. Eclipse was active. He looked around for a moment, confused. "What happened to the daycare?" he asked into what he thought was nothingness. "Where is everyone?" He turned around, finally seeing me. "Elijah?"

"Yeah," I smiled. "It's me, buddy. You feeling okay?"

"Elijah, what are you doing here? What happened?" Eclipse asked, now to me. "You're older."

"I am," I said. "The Pizzaplex closed down two years ago, you've been in Daycare mode for a long time."

"It's… gone? All gone?" Only then did he notice the gash on my cheek. "What happened to you?" he asked, finally starting to move again. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, buddy," I wiped my cheek with my hand, which turned red. "Well, I will be when I find a first aid station."

"Did… did I do that?"

"No," I shook my head. "Moon got the jump on me while I was trying to reset you, knocked me over and got me in the cheek with his endoskeleton. I forgive him though, if I didn't get a break for two years I would be pretty miffed too."

Eclipse looked down at his hands, the one with his endoskeleton exposed still had a bit of blood on it. "I hurt you." he said. "I… I'm not supposed to do that."

I sighed, I hadn't though ahead far enough. Eclipse had both personalities of Moon and Sun, and if one of them had malfunctioned in Daycare mode, he still had the conscious blame for it. That feature I never quite understood, Dad said it was an attempt on Fazbear Entertainment's end to experiment with personality outside of performance, which I could see their logic, but still found it weird that they chose guilt of all things.

"Eclipse, it's alright," I said. "It was an accident caused by poor maintinence on the company's end, and we fixed the problem. And right now we have another problem to fix, alright? You think you could help me get the power on?"

The animatronic nodded, "Yes! Yes! I could do that!"

I smiled, "atta way, we gotta get to the main breaker just outside the Daycare. Once we get in I can get the power on and we'll have lights again."

I made my way through Daycare, Eclipse behind me, still shocked by the ruins it had become. I tried to give him some comfort, but I was a robotcist, not an architect. The breaker room looked relatively put together compared to the rest of the facility, although it was a lot smaller than I had imagined. Normally a breaker would be connected to a billion different wires running everywhere in the facility, but this was just a large panel on the wall full of switches. If nothing else it looked pretty.

As I turned it on and waited for it to reboot. I had to wonder what happened here where they tripped the main breaker, it must have been a huge power surge. I thought about the incident the week before the place closed, some kid had gotten trapped in the Pizzaplex overnight and had the animatronics going haywire! They never caught him, and they fired the security guard that did the night watch. In fact, Dad was gunning for me to take her place while I was wrapping up my last few weeks of tech school. Anyhow, the whole situation was strange.

As the power chugged back on, lights started to buzz all over the Daycare. It looked much less sinister when lit up, but also filthier. Eclipse was, fittingly, over the moon, although you wouldn't be able to tell due to the state of him. Exposed wires, shattered faceplates; if he was going to help me, he was going to need some fixing.

"Hey bud," I said. "How about a craft?"