so. Lets be blunt here. It's 3:15 am where I live. I am not sleeping anytime soon. My brain is foggy as fuck. I saw an angst prologue art. *grabs thee @vacantfields * and now I'm gonna torment him after a kiss fic because why not since we are on the topic of dreams here.
So to clarify a little thing before I start. Technically, in theory of mine, they can dream but their dreams are a mishmash of what theyve seen, heard, ect.like how humans dream, except theirs is more detailed and they remember it perfectly.aka maximum angst and fucked up trauma. So.
Warning ya cunts (lovingly): DEATH, lots of blood, torment, some detailed descriptions of violence, lots of agony and pain. If I missed any, do let me know.
Prologue and epilogue and past prologue belong to this little fucker (respectfully and nice friend) @vacantfields ....
Starfish belongs to moi because of course I'm gonna use myself as the tortured guineapig because i dont have the heart to use another. Ironically. I think.
And a surprise guest interlude because why not involve him?
Interlude belongs to this fuck (again, respectfully and nice friendo) @meridiantears ....
Now this might be a small fic. Who knows. But let us B E G I N...
Soft. Thats the texture of the human body compared to them. Children, adults, both of then so soft compared to their harsh metal body. Yet despite it, they always felt something like softness when around their star. She was always gentle when she touched them. Like a curious babe exploring the big world around them. Her fingertips always tracing something on their chest, face and arms. Such a very gentle touch when epilogue showed her his wired hand. So gentle. So kind.
It was a sleepover night. Starfish just woke up from hers, mentioning an odd dream she had but it was whisked away when prologue and epilogue leaned down to pepper her with kisses to keep any non happy dreams away. It worked for a while before moondrop came back. Prologue was reluctant but he let starfish go so she can eat a snack that moondrop got for her from the closed cafeteria. She sat by the coffee table in the other room. Happily munching while watching on her phone an odd movie she liked while moondrop left again to do another round of security.
Prologue laid back down on the covers and blankets and pillows. Sure, he could join moon in security check but he deserved a small break. He needed to preserve his energy since he is low on battery so entering sleep mode sounded nice right now. He looked at starfish as she ate. Noting down her small muffled laughs and smiles at whatever she was watching. He smiled then closed his eyes as he let out a sigh and entered sleep mode.
Sleep mode was a fascinating thing for him. He is aware yet not. He sometimes wondered if humans ever felt like this. He looked around, noticing the darkness he knew for so long then sat down on the dark floor. Crisscrossing his legs as he looked ahead of him, and before him sat epilogue. The two facing each other once more. It was rare at first but now they got used to seeing the others face.
"Hello. My dawn." Epilogue grinned and murmured out as prologue sighed then smiled "hello moonglow. Tonight seems like an odd nice night huh?" Prologue teased as epilogue playfully scoffed and leaned back on his hands "dont jinx us. Yet. Dawnboy." He teased back as they two then laughed before they each surveyed their respective floating screens of security. Due to their splitness, they each have a different footage depending on if epilogue was on or not but epilogue had the right eye view camera while prologue had the left eye view camera.
They kept checking their old footages until epilogue hummed "we can. Try dreaming. If youd like my dawn" he looked up to prologue who hummed "i suppose we could. We havent let that dream program run for a.. A month now?" He shrugged as epilogue nodded silently. Prologue thought abit more before he nodded to epilogue who began running a simulation.
The dark void was filled with pixels that merge and build before it constructed the daycare prologue once knew. Prologue groaned while epilogue frowned. Of all the places the dream code chose, it was this one. Epilogue leaned over and whispered "I can stop it my dawn-" but prologue held up his hand and sighed before smiling "its ok moonie... I know i can handle this, just need time to focus is all... Besides i... I miss it" he smiled sadly.
Epilogue nodded and the two stood up to walk around, hand in hand, to look around the old daycare. When prologue reached the main area, he saw his old self. Happily playing a game for memory recall in the children. He smiled at his oldself when he noticed among the crowd of children was starfish when she was younger. He didn't realize he even had saved the old records and photos she showed him and that other sun before. He was a bit shocked before he reminded himself. Its just the code simulating a dream. None of it is real to him now.
That was his thought as he watched the game. He wanted to walk closer, talking a step forward but then he was stopped when he felt epilogue grip his hand. Hard. Prologue turned to his counterpart and his eyes widened. Fear was etched into epilogues face. Silent and unable to speak. Trying to keep prologue from reaching for the dream. Prologue was confused and worried. Why did epilogue stop him? Its just a dream code. Why was he so worried? He turned back to face forward and took a shaky step back in a hurry. He was face to face with his old self but it.. It didn't feel like him. Any more. His old self had full pitch black eyes. Dark voids staring into prologue.
The old sunny chuckled, his voice echoing "oh my. So thats what I'm reduced to? How...pitiful" he reached a gentle hand and yanked harshly on prologues ray. Causing pain through the both of them. Sunny pulled back, chuckling darkly as he hummed "i see..." He murmured then turned around to where the children were. Prologue looked despite the pain and gasped. The children were gone but in the spot where starfish as a child sat, there sat her adult version. Humming happily as she was making origami while sundrop sat opposite of her.
Sunny watched, his dark eyes observing before he chuckled, then laughed "oh how lovely! A human caught our heart. Or what equivalent to one that we have....how adorable." He walked to her and prologue tried to lunge for her too but epilogue held him back. Still silent and scared. Sunny hummed as he kneeled down by the table and looked at her. "My my, such a young face. Round eyes, I bet she pulls a cute pleading look. Star you nicknamed her? Well it fits...but it needs something...." He looked to sundrop who was helping teach her the origami. It made sunny laugh "and this is our replacement? Cute fellow. And he is stealing our stars attention sometimes hm? Well he doesnt matter now...does he?" He lunged a single arm to sundrop. The simulation not catching up in time as sunny grabbed then crushed sundrops head like it was nothing. Sundrops headless body fell before it turned to pixels. Sunny got up then slowly walked and sat down in front of starfish.
He watched her managing to finish the origami and happily show it off. He smiled softly and reached his left hand to caress her face "so soft....so fragile...a weakness-" he grabbed her roughly by the neck. The simulation catching up now as sunny stood up and dragged her to stand a few feet away from prologue. He dropped her as she took deep breaths before managing to simulate her back to normal, as if she wasnt manhandled. She smiled and waved to prologue "hallo sunny!" She waved excitedly.
Prologue watched in horror and worry as his eyes met his old self "keep her out of this-" but sunny held up a hand. Wagging a finger as if scolding a child "tsk tsk, why can't I have fun? Hm? I'm sure she'll enjoy it." He smiled, the warmth replaced with a dark feeling to it as he slowly patted starfish's head and cooed "star. Why dont we play a game? I know a fun game." He kept his dark eyes fixed on epilogue and prologue while the simulated starfish, that copied her perfectly, nodded eagerly. Sunny chuckled and held her shoulders "lets play hide and seek" he moved to stand behind her, still facing the two. "Ill seek, you hide. You have 1 minute to hide little star. Now go" he let her shoulders go and she ran off.
Sunny crossed his arms behind his back, humming a tune as he smiled "i wonder where she'll hide in this daycare. I remember she had a lovely hiding spot and she always used it whenever we played. Do you remember?" He looked at prologue who was seething with anger. Sunny clicked his tongue as his smile got unnaturally wider as he chuckled menacingly "I didn't think so... Pity. Ready or not, here I come." He turned and began to slowly walk around. Prologue didnt notice at first but epilogue did. Some glitches were appearing around the simulation but it didn't raise any alarms.
Sunny hummed as he walked around before he began savagely tearing at everything as he chuckled and checked every hiding spot. Knowing starfish hid in the last place he wants to check. Until then he kept destroying the daycare, some cushions leaned blood despite no one being there. He would hum when he pretended he didn't find her. "Not here.... Not here either... Not here either... Or here.... Not here... " every time he got closer he would laugh and chuckle lowly until he did find her. "Sstttaaaaaarrrrr.... I found you..." The simulationed didn't fully catch up, like with sundrop, and sunny grabbed her by the neck.
When the simulation did catch up it began running something it didn't before. Creating a new expression and voice tone in the simulated starfish as sunny began to visciously rip her apart slowly. First he broke her legs as she tried to crawl away. Then he broke her left arm while he mockingly kissed her right hand "an artist like myself. I could never hurt an artists hand so consider yourself lucky." He laughed before he flipped her into her back as he choked her with one hand while the other tried to rip off her jaw. All the while blood was seeping onto the floor, showing a gruesome sight to prologue and epilogue.
Prologue watched, horrified before he tried to fight epilogue to let him go, to save her, to stop her screaming, to stop her pain but epilogue refused. He just held onto prologue and finally tried to speak but his voice box wasnt working. Finally sunny ripped open her chest and tore out her heart. It still bled and beat in his hand as he got up then walked to prologue as he held out his hand with a smile "go on...feast on this pathetic flesh organ that captured your attention-" he grabbed prologues face with his other hand and tried to force feed prologue the heart before he groaned and cried out in agony. Sunny stumbled as he clutched his head. Shifting and changing to a yellow rabbit instead with purple void eyes. The rabbit glared then vanished.
Epilogue and prologue stared at the bloody mess and the heart that dropped on the floor. The two of them couldn't stay up right so they dropped to their knees. Prologue couldn't stop himself. He reached for the heart that still beat as he began to murmur apologies but epilogue hugged him back and a fight incude.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU LET ME HELP HER?! SAVE HER?! SHE WAS IN PAIN!" prologue tried to fight epilogue but epilogue held him tightly. Epilogue still couldn't speak but he tried to calm prologue down. Suddenly he looked ahead and saw the simulation fading and someone running over. He looked like prologue but darker.
The bot kneeled down and grabbed prologue by the shirt and began shaking him in a panic "calm yourself! You activated your dream code in the worst possible timing! You need to wake up!" He slapped prologue which did help shock him up. The bot grabbed prologue by the shoulders and maintained eye contact as he began to whisper as codes flooded their visions "I am interlude. I will be deleting this memory from YOUR brain but I will keep it with me instead. You will be ok, star is fine. Wake up"..
Shock filled prologue as he gasped and sat up quickly. He looked around with worry before he calmed down. Odd. Why was he worried? Did something happen? He rubbed his head then murmured "Moonie? Do you remember what happened?" He asked worriedly as epilogue came online and groaned "mmm no... Not really. I'm sorry. My dawn." He frowned but prologue sighed "it's fine..." He got up and noticed starfish was asleep on the table.. In a bad posture. He tsked then smiled. "Why do you not just move to bed? Lunatic" he playfully teased. Picking her up with such gentle hands. He couldn't help but feel oddly subconscious of his touches. He didn't know why but he was extra careful with carrying her.
He laid her down, kissing her forehead, her eyes, her jaw line then her lips. He was going to move away when he heard her beating heart with his increased senses. He didn't understand why but he leaned down then kissed her pulse point before pulling away and smiling. He wanted to savor this heart but he didn't understand why. Oh well.... He's sure to remember why later...
Interlude watched from his corner of the glitchy mess. Growling as he shoved the memory into the torn bookshelf with the others. That glitch managed to nearly corrupt them again. It was a good thing he stopped it.... Otherwise the simulation wouldve become reality. He sighed then murmured "dont worry star... Or you sunny and moon... Ill keep you safe the best I can in here.".
So yeah. It's now 4:21am, my stomach hurts badly and uh...yeah... See ya later. Maybe. Idk if Ill sleep now with the pain lol.
Again prologue, epilogue and sunny (old prologue) belong to @vacantfields ...
Interlude belongs to @meridiantears ....
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