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What if Solar had gone with Nexus...?

A Familiar Safe Space (Twisted Brotherhood AU ft. Nexus and Solar)

"Will it stop? If I go with you?" The celestial animatronic asked, his voice low and tired as he looked up at the taller, Lunar animatronic, his black and orange eyes meeting purple and red. Well maybe "lunar" wasn't the right word anymore. He looked more like a mad scientist, complete with goggles hanging around his neck, the same pair Solar owned before he died. Nexus shrugged then nodded a little.

"Sort of? The voices and hallucinations won't ever really stop but there's enough to distract from those things, for a while anyway."

For the last few months Solar had been hearing and seeing things, but any time anyone asked himhe'd say he was fine. He couldn't even bring himself to tell Earth everything. But this...while he didn't doubt her ability to handle heavy stuff, he didn't want to worry Earth with ALL of his problems.

A light chuckle left his lips as he realized how Ironic this was. From what he'd heard of Nexus doing Solar was doing the same things he did- hiding or lying about how he felt, bottling up emotions or even forcing himself to work on projects until he was well under 50% charge, and Jack or Earth would drag him to bed to rest. All of this certainly wasn't helped by the part of his own code that was made and intertwined with Eclipses', a familiar yet strange itch to constantly prove himself itching under his skin, insecurity and inferiority buzzing through his circuits.

He glanced up, and for a moment he stared behind Nexus, seeing Sun. But not this dimensions Sun, no.

Sunny. His own original Sun.

Sunny stood behind Nexus, silently shaking his head as if he knew what Solar was thinking. Maybe he did, even in death Sunny always seemed to know no matter what.

Then he heard a voice, raspy and familiar near his ear.

His Moon, Moonbeam.

Moonbeam was whispering to him over his shoulder.

'You should do it.'

'Go with him, Eclipse.'

'You've already lied to your family, hidden things. The same things he experienced and they think he's crazy. What will they think of you?'

'Why not say fuck it, be an Eclipse. Sooner or later you all fall to madness no matter what. And you'd be with your best friend again, too. You know I'm right.'

Again, he saw Sunny shaking his head and even mouthed 'please, don't do it Eclipse...'

Solar shook his head and covered his ears, fingers moving up to grab and lightly pull his rays, only for a moment before he felt hands gently grab his wrists and pull his hands away from his head. His eyes rose to meet purple and red, something like concern etched on his face.

"Solar? You with me?"

Solar took a few deep breaths, closed his eyes, and nodded.

"Yeah, I...I'm solid, Moon."

Nexus smiled a bit. Solar was the only one he'd ever allow to call him 'Moon' again. No one else had that privilege.

"Good. So, Solar? Do you have an answer?"

The Eclipse looked at him, then away, then closed his eyes and took a breath.

"Yes."

Moon looked at him, a wider grin forming on his face and a hint of eagerness and excitement in his voice. "Really? Even though you'd be leaving Earth? Jack?"

A twinge of guilt settled in his core at that thought, feeling a bit bad since they went through so much to have him back, but if Moon couldn't be here, neither could he.

"I'm sure."

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Sunny shake and lower his head and vanish, Moonbeam taking his place with a sharp grin, but he said nothing.

"I'll meet you outside then, if you need to take anything." Nexus said as he stood and handed him a small box before he teleported away.

Solar took the box and teleported to Moon's lab. At a counter he felt for a switch underneath, pressing when he found it, which opened an adjacent panel. Inside were five purple crystals crackling with energy. Putting them in the box he went home to get ready.

Solar sighed as he returned home, tucking the box and his blueprints and notebooks into a bag. He left his toolbox and clothes behind. He'd get new ones in his new home later. He left a note on the bed.

'Sun.

I'm sorry but I left. I don't think I can stay here without Moon. I'm alive but I just can't stay without him. Please tell Earth, Jack, the others that I'm sorry. Sorry for leaving, sorry for lying and hiding everything, sorry I didn't say goodbye this time. Please, don't look for me this time. I love you guys, all of you.

-Solar'

With that, he shut off the lights, closed the door, and made his way outside, joining Nexus at a portal. With one look back, he entered through with him.

Yeah, it hurt to leave his family again. But he'd rather have just Moon and no one else than everyone but Moon. After all, Moon was something extra special to him. Moon was safety, warmth. His own little safe space.

-end-

Aftermath Of The Attack

(small spoilers for yesterday's SAMS episode, also have a follow up fic to the event (could also be considered a followup to this one))

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Sun was at the house playing with Jack, Dazzle and even Molten had joined in with them, when he heard muffled shouting near the door. Looking up he saw Monty and Solar. Monty was carrying something that he quickly realized was Moon.

As he stood he asked Jack, Dazzle and Molten to go up to their room for a bit, the three agreeing and going up as Sun went to open the door.

“Monty? Solar? Moon, what's going-”

“Ask questions later, move.”

Sun stepped back as Solar and Monty rushed inside to the couch, Sun following.

“Guys what's going on?” He stopped and looked down at Moon.

He was curled up tight, the back of his head lightly smoking and his whole body shaking. Sun could feel a faint wave of negative energy coming off of him.

The feeling made him grip the back of the couch as he asked again.

“What happened to him?”

Solar left to get something cold for Moon's head, leaving Monty to answer.

“I don't know entirely but I heard screamin’ from Parts and Service. I went to check it out ‘n found Nexus holdin’ him down. Threatened to shoot ‘im if he didn't step off and he left. I don't know what the bastard did to ‘im but he nearly broke his circuit board in half. I think the bastard tried to kill ‘im.”

That made something tighten in Sun's stomach. This was twice now that Moon had encountered Nexus, but this is the first time he's actually hurt him so badly.

“Is Earth here? Or Lunar?” He heard Monty ask.

He managed to shake his head no, stuck in his thoughts as he stared down at Moon, shaking horribly like he was freezing.

“Luckily we managed to hold ‘im down long enough to saulder the board together again and had to repair a little in the cylinder thing.” Monty said.

“And he kept screaming “I'm sorry, I'm sorry Johnathan. No idea why though.” Solar mentioned as he came back with a cold cloth.

Sun swallowed hard as he sat down next to the couch.

“Johnathan was one of the few kids that wasn't scared of Moon. He took a liking to the kid. He found out things weren't good in his home and one night he snuck out, followed him home to see what the problem was…whatever happened there Johnathan never came back to the daycare. He never left that house alive again…I don't know if Moon killed him, or someone else did. But it's torn him up ever since. Not as bad as it used to but it still bothers him now and then…”

“So that's why…” Solar muttered to himself..

“His system is cooling down a bit…his battery's pretty low too…”

“S…un…?”

He looked over to Moon, his brother trying to weakly reach for him.

Sun moved to kneel in front of the couch and placed a hand on his shoulder, firm and comforting. He saw now that Moon's eyes were completely dark- had the encounter left him blind too?

Trembling fingers lightly grasped his wrist, the shaking easing a bit when they did.

“S…ta…y…”

Then he completely shut down, body relaxing a little as he did.

Sun sighed, staying for a moment before going to get the portable charger.

“Someone…hurt Moon?”

Sun looked to the door of his bedroom, Molten standing at the frame.

“I thought I asked you to stay with Jack and Dazzle.”

“They are…napping. Who hurt him.”

Sun sighed. “Molten, you can't go after him. As much as we'd like to see someone hand his ass to him, if you tried he'd kill you easy. Not to mention the dragon…we aren't entirely sure where he even is anyway so trying to find him right now would be pointless.”

“But Moon will be fine,” Sun said, more to reassure himself than anyone else. “We'll make sure he's OK, Molten. For now just stay with the others. If they ask just…tell them Moon isn't feeling too good right now, ok? Please?”

Molten was quiet. He made a promise to himself to protect his friends, his family.

“Fine…but will you…tell me…if you find…anything?”

“I don't know. Maybe? That might be more for Moon or Solar to decide though. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it though. For now just go on to your room, alright? Moon will be ok, he just needs to rest for a few days is all.”

Sun left the room, coming downstairs again. Solar had already covered Moon with a blanket, while Monty was trying to explain to Earth, in the best way possible, what had happened.

Telling Lunar would be trickier, to try and not let him get too worked up.

Sun hooked Moon up to the charger and sat by the couch again, watching Moon silently as he charged.

“Next time you meet him, I'll be there. Maybe this time I can protect you from him…”

-end-

(Another fic. I've got a couple more to add- I've got an SU au short fic three chapters long and I've got another that you could consider a follow up to "Aftermath Of The Attack". Ive also got a wip fic for Comet (redemption arc Nexus) and Solar in the works. If anyone has any fic ideas they'd wanna see feel free to let me know and I'd gladly write something for it! For now though, enjoy this one!)

I'm Not Me (Twisted Brotherhood AU ft. Nexus, Antumbra (Solar) and Apollo (Solar's Sun)

The two of them worked near tirelessly, between hunting Wither Shards and whatever Solstices' plans for Sun were.

Antumbra had been living with Nexus for a month or two now and while he had met Solstice, spoke with him even, he didn't really trust him.

It was clear Nexus didn't either.

Understandable. He had been all but abandoned by his family, compared to a person that wasn't even alive, fixing problems that weren't his own, and an inferiority complex often preyed upon by enemies, why wouldn't he be wary even though he'd helped him?

Antumbra shook his head of his thoughts, focusing back on the chassis laid out in front of him, while Nexus worked on a computer, typing away.

Both were working on the components for a new Sun model.

Well, not "new" exactly. It was a body for Antumbra's Sun and surprisingly Nexus agreed to it. Maybe because it was Antumbra that asked, or the promise that Sun was not and would not be like Nexus' ex brother Sundrop. Sunshine would be more welcome, if only because he'd be sticking with Antumbra more often than not, and that was fine by him.

Antumbra pushed himself from the work table and stretched out, glancing over to watch Nexus' back.

"Is there something on me? You've been staring for like a minute." Nexus suddenly said and spun around to face Antumbra.

Antumbra jolted and sat back, crossing his arms. "No, just taking a small break is all."

Nexus watched him a moment. Over the time Antumbra had been here purple crack like marks appeared across his face, even turning one eye purple from his exposure. He looked away and shrugged.

"Code's just about done, just waiting for a body to transfer into." Nexus said, a somewhat, if not at all, subtle hint for him to hurry and finish assembling the body.

Antumbra sighed and rolled back to the desk and got back to assembly.

After another hour the body was finally done- it looked similar to an Eclipse with some variations, wavy rays, puffy wrist length sleeves, bells at the wrists and ankles, and a Wither Shard embedded in his chest and covered by Nexus' negative star power infused titanium to help his body withstand the new dimension and its energy.

"Ok, it should be going now. Did you add your chip with the memories and all?" Nexus asked as he plugged a cord from the computer into the head of the body.

"Yeah, it's in. I did change one thing though."

"What was it?"

"His name. I figured you wouldn't want to hear the name Sun anymore so I changed it."

"To what?"

"Apollo. He always had a little fascination with mythology back home before he died."

"Oh. Sure he'll appreciate that then." Nexus turned to his computer. "Halfway done already, huh?"

"Really? Wow..." Antumbra sat back again. After another half hour or so Nexus' computer let off a small ding, signaling that the transfer was done.

Antumbra sat forward and stood, watching tur still body, seeing the fingers and limbs twitch before the eyes slid open.

The first thing Antumbra noticed was his eyes. Instead of blue and white, one had a black scalera and purple eye.

The eyes flickered with light, darting around before the bot gasped and shot up, calling out frantically "Moon?! Eclipse!?"

Antumbra gently grabbed his shoulders. "Hey, hey Apollo, take it easy, calm down. I'm right here." He spoke softly to him, watching as he turned to him.

"...Eclipse?"

He felt hands on his face, fingers tracing the marks on his face and rays. "What happened to you?"

"It's a long story, Apollo. And I don't go by Eclipse. It's Antumbra now." He said, getting everything unplugged from him.

"Ok..." Apollo looked over and saw Nexus. "Moon?"

"I'm not your Moon. I'm Nexus. Try to remember that." He said.

"Here, follow me Apollo. I'll explain what I can for you." Antumbra lead Apollo to a bedroom, explaining most of what had happened when he died, holding him as he cried when he heard their Moon was dead.

"You died too?"

"Yeah. Someone helped bring me back though."

Apollo hugged him. "I'm glad you're back then. Even if Moonie isn't, at least I still have you. I missed you."

Antumbra hugged back. "I missed you too Apollo."

-end-