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Sun’s expression was nothing short of pure despair, glancing between the counters, the floor, the walls, and his brother. Finally, his eyes stayed on Moon, all his hope, faith, and belief in his twin was lost in a matter of hours. Said naptime attendant was laughing his ass off, prepared to block any projectiles that were probably about to be hurled at him. Sun just sighed, there was flour everywhere . Including all over both the animatronics. Sun still continued to stare with the utmost disappointment on his face one could ever dream of having.
In Sun’s peripheral vision, he could see that, on the counter beside him, sat an egg. One, uncracked egg. An arms length away. And his, still cackling, brother who doesn’t know any better, currently leaning against a wall as he clutched his stomach ,was distracted. A devilish grin spread across Sun’s face, though he quickly dropped it in favor of not being suspicious.
“I- hAh- I’m sorry-” A very unsuspecting Moon choked out between chuckles, trying to catch his breath. “Uh huh…” Sun deadpanned, slowly but surely reaching for the egg. The lunar-bot let out a small whew! Sound when he finally quit his snickering. Right as Moon stood up straight again, an egg was barreled at his head and hit him square in the forehead. He flinched and let out a small shriek, jumping away from the attack as egg whites slid down his faceplate. The two were silent for a beat, then two, three… Moon slowly glanced back up at Sun, who had a sinister smile, and tilted his head. “....... Oh you are so paying for that.” That was Sun’s only warning to start running, which he did. He was quickly followed by Moon around the kitchen island for multiple laps, Moon even at one point jumped the counter and got a hold of Sun and pinned him to the ground. The latter yelped, laughter bubbling up as his brother shoved a handful of flour in his face. The flour puffed around Sun in a cloud of powder as he cough-giggled.
Moon, still having Sun pinned, just grinned, completely satisfied with himself and his horrid crime, glancing down at his brother, who was now screeching in the most Sun-like ‘agony’, though laughter kept somehow managing to break past his voice box without permission, so Moon knew he wasn’t actually hurt. “Let me- hehe - go you foul beast!-” The daytime animatronic tried his best to put on a dramatic act, though he wasn’t very convincing with his cackles filled with nothing but mirth interrupting him. Either way, Moon played into it by sighing. “I don’t know, brother… I mean, how do I know you won’t chuck an egg at me again?” Moon tutted, his voice filled with faux sorrow.
Sun took a minute to think of an argument to support his case. “Uhhhhhh- because…uhm- there’s… no more eggs in the open for me to throw!” He declared after a bit of struggling, though his tone was chipper as he was confident it was a perfect defense for his freedom. Moon considered him, before ultimately groaning. “I suppose I don’t have any valid argument to keep you here..” And with that, the animatronic rolled off of his twin, granting him the liberty he absolutely deserved because he had committed no crimes whatsoever.
Sun immediately hopped up and off the ground, stretching with a grin that unmistakably screamed chaotic. “There’s no more eggs in the open , but there are some in the fridge.” Sun made a beeline to the fridge, sadly being beaten by Moon by a fraction of a second. “Nope! Nuh uh, no more eggs for you.” Moon’s tone was set in stone as he guarded the fridge, no more eggs for Sun. Sun responded by sticking out his tongue, which earned him a flick on the forehead, which he just flicked the other back, resulting in them both bursting out laughing. When they finally calmed down, Sun glanced around the room, a complete mess. His cleaning protocols were going a bit haywire, sure, but he hadn’t laughed so hard in a while, and well… they still had plenty of ingredients left..
“Back to baking, yeah?” Sun looked back at his brother, who raised an eyebrow at him but nodded after a moment of thinking. So, they got right back to it. Sun dusted off all the flour he could from himself, which admittedly wasn’t a lot, and grabbed a somehow still clean bowl to use. Moon grabbed a measuring cup per his brother’s orders, and grabbed some salted butter from the fridge and scooped the needed amount, bringing it over to the bowl Sun had and plopped it in. Looking down at the piece of paper, Sun began reading off the other things they would need.
Ingredients
3/4 cup salted butter, softened
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1 tbsp vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup favorite chocolate chips
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350° F.
In the bowl of a stand mixer or with an electric hand mixer, cream together the butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar until light in color and fluffy in texture.
Scrape the sides of the bowl and add in the egg and vanilla extract. Mix until well combined.
Add in the flour, soda and salt. Mix until a soft but not sticky dough forms.
Fold in your favorite chocolate chips.
Scoop the dough out into 1 1/2 tbsp portions (a #40 cookie scoop works great here) and arrange on your cookie sheet. Can use parchment paper, a silicone mat or an uncreased cookie sheet.
Bake at 350° F for 8-10 minutes or until the cookies have spread and are just beginning to turn golden brown on the edges.
Allow the cookies to cool on the pan for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire cooling rack.
The twins both collectively called dibs on grabbing certain ingredients, with Moon being very adamant on being the one to get the egg and Sun refusing to let Moon reach the flour, putting them all in the bowl once they’ve retrieved them. Moon, who was supposed to get the granulated sugar, realized something. The sugar was in a small shaker, damn near identical to the salt one they had, which happened to be right next to it. They needed both, but they each had different measurements. Deciding to just yolo it, he picked one and took a half-cup to put in the bowl, the other he only took half a teaspoon. Thoughts and prayers for what might possibly be god-awful cookies.
Now, all that's left is to follow the directions. If they could manage to put the ingredients into a bowl without a full on food fight, they could absolutely do these simple instructions, right? They didn’t seem that complicated, how hard could it possibly be? The oven was already preheated, so step one is out of the way. They already mixed everything, step 2 is complete. The next steps were easy enough, literally just putting the dough onto a piece of parchment, put it in the oven, and then leave them to bake. Letting them cool would be the most difficult, it was obvious Jack and Dazzle caught wind of their kitchen shenanigans and snuck downstairs to stare and wait.
“You two better not touch these, they need to cool.” Sun spoke in the most authoritative tone he could muster, he narrowed his eyes and pointed at them for emphasis. Dazzle just slumped down on the floor, looking past Sun and inside the kitchen. Jack pouted, but followed Dazzle’s lead to the ground. The twins kept a watchful eye the entire time for the sneaky duo. The four sat there and stared at each other for approximately ten minutes before Sun decided the baked goods had cooled for long enough. He grabbed a couple of paper plates and placed two cookies on each before putting it down on the dining table.
As expected, the two dashed for the cookies before Sun could even mutter a word for them to come eat. Moon gave a small snort, watching as the children practically devoured the cookies that were so graciously bestowed upon them. Moon grabbed a small container from one of the cupboards and placed the remaining cookies inside, though not without snatching a few cookies for him and his brother. When that was done, the container was placed on the counter and hidden behind a few things with the hopes that the children wouldn’t go after them without anyone else’s knowledge.
Sun glanced around, looking at the absolute disaster the kitchen had become with absolute dread covering his features. Almost every surface had flour, eggs, eggshells, and chocolate chips thoroughly covering it from top to bottom. Now that all the baking was done, there was no more distraction for Sun to just ignore the mess. Those cleaning protocols that were going crazy earlier were now going batshit insane. After a second of thinking, Sun made quick work to start cleaning.
First, he picked up the eggshells and used a few paper towels to wipe up the egg. Next, he grabbed a broom to hopefully sweep up the majority of the floor-flour into a single spot so it was easier to pick up. After maybe five minutes, give or take, there was a pile of flour pushed into a corner of the kitchen. All that's left was to grab a dustpan and a bag, which thankfully Moon got the idea of Sun’s cleaning plan and already got them from the cleaning closet. Sun made quick work sweeping flour into the dustpan while Moon held it still and emptied it into the bag. Not soon enough, the floors were cleared of the evidence of their chaos baking. Now the counters needed to be cleaned. The counters, being a smaller surface and all, were a lot easier to clean. All Sun had to do was get a paper towel and swipe the flour into the bag. When the flour had been deposited into the makeshift storage, the bag was tied up then thrown away into the actual garbage can to be later disposed of.
There were dishes in the sink that needed doing, but those could wait until the morning. Especially with the kids, who finished eating their cookies, now wanting to play games with the twins. Though they were told they would need to wait, as Sun and Moon were still covered head to toe in flour. Unfortunately for the twins, Dazzle and Jack didn’t care about the mess and had an excellent argument as to why they should play with them, that logic being ‘because you and uncle Moony haven’t played with us all day’. The argument was strong, no real way for Sun and Moon to combat it, even the court, which consisted purely of Earth as she was very fair, would rule this case in the favor of the kids. So, with no defense to, the two brothers had to admit defeat and surrender.
When Lunar, Earth, and Solar got back from their shifts, they quickly spotted Sun and Moon sitting against a wall with Jack sprawled across both of their legs on his stomach and Dazzle was being held in Sun’s lap with the little space Jack left. They were all sleeping. They had flour covering them, but with Sun not currently freaking out about it, it might not have mattered too much at the moment. The smell of cookies made Lunar pause, before walking to the kitchen and beginning his masterful search. It took him a grand total of like ten minutes to figure out where in the hell the sweet treats were being hidden, but it was very much so worth it when he did find them and fished out a few cookies for him and his still awake siblings. Solar considered if he should wake up the small group sleeping so they could go to bed, but decided against it, not wanting to disturb them.