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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-

Real quick, sorry for the late reaction to the poll. I believe Twisted Brotherhood had the most votes so I am going to work on getting everything for that sorted and hopefully soon I can drop some more general or in depth details about the au. I have a few things worked out already though, and if anything else is added to it I'll amend the post as needed. Thank you to everyone who participated in that btw, preesh.

(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-