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The next day, Sun blinked his eyes open. With a groan, he reached over and unplugged himself, revealing a battery of 100%.
As he stretched, he wondered if Moon was already up. Probably not, considering his dear brother was not a morning person or bot. Sun figured the demeanor was fitting considering Moon’s lunar appearance. That left Sun no choice but to be the one to get an earful each morning. Every day was the same story.
Sun’s gaze passed on to his two sleeping cats, who's’ purrs echoed throughout his room. In all honesty, Sun didn’t know when his obsession with the felines started. Maybe it was because they reminded him of Moon. Cuddly and friendly on a good day, and vicious and harmful on a bad one. The only difference was that Sun couldn’t exactly understand them, but did he understand Moon? Perhaps there wasn’t that much of a difference after all.
Sun left his room and soon found himself in front of Moon’s. They both agreed to never lock their doors as an emergency could occur. Sun grabbed the handle and pushed it open. Moon was still charging, eyes open, staring creepily at Sun.
Sun shivered, he forgot found creepy both him and Moon looked while they were asleep. Mentally preparing himself, he crept over to Moon’s plug and yanked it out.
Moon’s body jerked as his systems all booted up, eyes blinking rapidly. “W-where what-” he cut himself off as he saw his beloved sibling in front of him. “Ugh, are you serious?”
Sun rolled his eyes, “Moon, it’s eight in the morning.”
“Still too early.”
Sun sent him a light-hearted glare. “Come on, also don't you have a gaming plan for today?” he asked.
Moon did the gesture of rubbing his eyes before blinking at Sun. “Gaming plans–oh.”
Sun placed his hands on his hips, “Yeah, I figured that you had a plan, since you refused to play the one I offered.”
Moon got up from his position before glaring back at his brother. “If you recall,” he hissed, “That game, if you could call it, could have a virus. I’m not risking my tech equipment for channel content.”
Sun looked everywhere but his eyes. “But what are we going to tell the fans?” he cried.
Moon shrugged, “I don’t know, I’m sure they won’t mind. I’ll start looking for something to play.”
Sun sighed irritably before starting to tap his foot on the floor repeatably. “Moon.”
“What?” Moon asked as he settled on his computer.
“You know what,” Sun responded simply.
“How many times do I need to tell you?” Moon growled. “I said no.”
Sun clicked his tongue, “I know how much you hate being late, Moon. If we start recording now, we might be on time.”
The nighttime animatronic was silent for a moment, before a sigh was heard. Moon turned to him. “Fine! Can you stop that annoying tapping?”
A smirk formed on Sun’s face as he stopped the action. “I’m glad you’ve seen reason, brother.”
Moon scoffed, standing up after shutting off his computer. “Whatever, you push my limits Sun.” his eyes suddenly darkened. “However, if anything happens to my tech, you are in deep trouble. Understand?”
Sun nodded, slightly flinching away. “Of course.”
Moon’s terrifying demeanor vanished in an instant. “Alright, let’s get this started.”
…
The two had decided to use the pair of new ones, because why not? Sun honestly thought it was pretty neat.
Moon was in the process of setting up the recording as he always did while Sun was getting the game ready.
He opened the DVD to reveal a game disk, however there were no instructions. No neat pamphlets which told you how to work the game.
Sun shrugged; once it was booted up, the game would probably just tell him anyway. Plus, the game didn’t look too complicated. How hard could it be?
He reached over and turned on the PlayStation that they owned and watched with glee as the familiar logo filled the TV screen. He quickly signed in to his account and watched as the game came on the disk options.
“Moon, are you ready yet?” Sun looked over to his brother, who seemed almost ready.
Moon gave him a nod. “Yeah, you can put the headset on.” he replied. “I’m coming. I’ll start recording once you’re all set up.”
Sun saw the instructions to place the headset on and proceed to do so. Happy to see the world through VR again, it took him by surprise to see another command flash before him.
TWO PLAYERS NEEDED. PLEASE CONNECT ANOTHER HEADSET.
Huh? When did VR ever need more than one player? Oh, Moon won’t be happy about this…
Sun felt the couch move as Moon settled besides him.
“Um, brother?” Sun faced his direction.
“Yeah, I see it Sun,” Moon replied glumly. He suddenly got up. “This seems very sketchy,” he remarked.
“Please?” Sun begged, still trying to figure out where his brother is.
“Why are you facing that way?” Moon demanded from somewhere else. “Just take the thing off.”
Sun fiddled with the back of his faceplate. “Ugh, I think I made it too tight,” he complained. Strange, with the other one, he was usually able to take it off with relative ease. This one feels…glued to his head.
“You need help?” Moon questioned, footsteps coming closer.
Sun brought a hand out in the sound’s direction. “N-no I’m good, I’m not taking it off anyway. Can’t you just play for once?” Immediately sensing his brother’s hesitation, he added, “For me?”
That seemed to do it.
“...Fine. Here, I’ll plug the other one in. Just give me a moment.”
After some minutes of shuffling, Moon’s voice came again, “Wow, these things are pretty tight.”
“Told you.”
Seconds after saying that, the command blinked away from Sun’s vision, replaced by a weirdly colorful loading screen.
During it, Sun heard Moon curse something under his breath.
“What is it?” he asked.
“I forgot to start recording,” Moon started to move around the couch a bit.
“Why are you moving so much?” Sun was getting annoyed by the movement.
“T-trying to get this stupid thing off…it’s like it’s stuck. Can you get yours off?” Moon’s tone was getting desperate.
“Moon, the game is about to start.” Sun said.
“I don’t care–recording was the entire purpose,” came Moon’s reply.
Sun didn’t say anything and just listened to the calming and catchy music of the game.
“Sun!”
Sun rolled his eyes. “Alright, wait a second!” He started to pull his headset off.
Wow, this headset really didn’t want to come off, he thought. He tugged at it harder and yet it still didn’t budge.
Moon started to breathe faster his fans turned on. Sun knew that Moon really didn’t like having covering his vision, and not being able to get this headset off is probably freaking him out.
“Moon,” Sun put on a calm façade, trying to feel for his brother. “It’s alright.”
“No it’s not!” Moon shouted, thrashing around. “This isn’t normal! This is wrong!”
“Moon-” Sun tried again, but was cut off by the sound of laughing echoing throughout his headset.
Alarms were setting off in his head, what was happening?
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