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The multiverse was quiet for 2 months, with no destruction, creation, meetings, or fights. Everyone was relaxing in their homes. In their own universes. Nightmare’s group hasn't spread negativity and dream hasn't spread positivity for the past 2 months. It was all so balanced, and that wasn't normal at all.

2 months before Error’s and Ink’s disappearance.
-Nightmare's pov-

It seemed to be a casual day. The boys and I along with Error were doing our jobs. The star sanses came, trying to stop us as normal. I looked around, finding my boys having fun with blue and Error fighting with Ink. I'm so glad that error introduced us to blue, he was indeed the coolest. I went back to focusing on dodging Dream's arrows and the whole "Brother please come back" talk. Not long after, I heard a scream, not just any scream, a glitchy one. Immediately everyone stopped fighting and looked at the glitchy skeleton that had fallen to the ground. (What happened, did Ink hit him?) I looked at Ink expecting a smug smile or him saying something along the lines of "AH, I got you Glitchy!", but that didn't happen. Instead, his eyes turned into an exclamation mark and a question mark.

Horror and Killer were quickly on Error's side, I was too stunned to do anything. I just watched as my boys tried to help Error. He said something but I was too far to hear. Then an unexpected thing happened. Error flung Horror and Killer into a tree. I was in complete utter shock. Error would never do that. I could see Error curl himself into a ball, Crying, I had never seen Error cry before. Everything happened so quick, to quick for me to even comprehend.

All of a sudden, red strings started wrapping around Error pulling him into a portal. I saw Ink by Error's side, trying to rip the strings off. Gosh, What was happening today? Another portal opened behind Ink and essentially sucked Ink into the portal, that time allowed the strings to pull Error further into the portal. The two portals closed, and silence covered the area.

After a few minutes, everyone (including me) started panicking, we forgot we were even fighting at this point. Cross and Dust went to help Horror and Killer out, while Dream and Blue started running around, like children, and I, well, I just completely shut down.

Ink and Error were taken.

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2 months after Error and Ink’s disappearance.
-Nightmare's pov-

N19Htm^r3, nI9hTmAR3, ni9hTMar3, NIgHtmAR3, NiGHtMaRE PleASe HleP...
CoNtRo- *BEEEEEEP

"ARG- huh huh huh, what the."

"Boss you ok?"

"Yea I'm alright just had a weird dream- W-Wait, why are you up? It's like... 4 am."

"I just didn't feel like sleeping."

"... Really do you think I would believe that? What's the actual reason?"

"... … ... I… ... I had a bad dream, a nightmare."

"Yeah, mmm, not buying it."

"But it's true."

"1."

"I, uhh."

"2."

"Ok OK, I'll tell you!"

"I'm just so worried about Error. Come on, No one has seen him since the battle, there has been no destruction, and It's quite clear that he is in the anti-void, but the only person that can make a portal there is gone aS WELl a-and I- I’m j-just s-so s-so worried. I-I know h-he can't die b-but Wh-what if we never see him again..."

"And I-I Don't know w-what I'll do."

"... Oh, Dust, come here."

*Dust, moves closer to Nightmare*

"So, you're worried about Error."

*Dust nods*

"And that's why you can't sleep."

*He nods again*

"How long has this been going on for?"

"A-About a month."

"Dust, You need to stop, this is taking a toll on you. You really need your sleep. We can't really do anything about this, except hope that he will be ok. Have you slept?"

"Umm, for an hour or so."

"How about this, I'll take you to your room and we'll go sleep there, away from everything, just you and me."

"O-ok"

"Let's go"

I took Dust to his room, placing him on his bed. Dust isn't really a crier, he's strong and resilient, but when he does he needs all the help he can get. It's tough. I started cuddling Dust and he leaned forward. His depression is getting worse. Error disappearing isn't really good for anyone. Come to think of it, everyone’s been having an episode recently. Dust is having sleeping issues, seems like Killer's having trouble figuring out his emotions again, Horror probably doesn't know what I noticed about his eating problem, and Cross, well I don't think this is that much of a problem but he’s been a lot more crafty. I don't know but I think I have everything under control, or at least I think I do. well doesn't matter now, dust is finally asleep and it makes me happy to see him calm again.

Would this peace last, Because I think something worse is about to happen.

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- The doodle sphere -

-- Star sans' pov -- 

"Hey!  Blue come quick! I might have figured it out!" 

"OHH, You Have! That's Wonderful, Coming!"

"SOO, Where!?"

"Ok, ok, so you know the place that Ink forbids us from entering, right? The Doodle Sphere one?"

"Yeah?"

"It's possible that Ink’s there, I mean if he's not anywhere else in the whole multiverse. 

"Umm, I see. Ok So what do you suggest? Y-you know about last time. Ink was really, ... umm, mad."

"Yeah, I know but what are we gonna do, lose our chance of finding him? We should uhh umm... get back up!"

 "That's... not a bad idea, ok let's do it!!!"

They had a plan to save their dear friend.

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-Dust sans pov-

Murmur… Murmur… Murmur  …Dust...  Murmur… Murmur… Murmur…  hey Dust…  Murmur… Murmur… Murmur...  Dusty, wake up, come on, sleepyhead wake the fuck up.

"Umagr-, I'm up, I'm up."

(Gosh, I'm so fuckin tired?)

"Let's go! We're hungryyyyy."

"Umm y-yea got it."

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"Mmmm, could you guys help me to the kitchen? Heh heh hehhhh, sorry."

Cross, killer, and Horror helped me to the kitchen as they emphasized, "they were so hungry." As we were 10 rooms or so away from the kitchen, I tried to make small talk. All of them flinched (that is odd). I was about to ask them what was wrong until Killer started to answer. 

"I slept pretty well, especially since we had that cuddle night."

" Yea, Haha, I was dreaming about dancing food again." (nervously answered.)

I looked at Cross, the only one that hadn't answered.

"Uhhh, ah me, uh I-I slept good, you-AKr?"

(Why did Cross look nervous?)

I was confused, was Cross asking me how I slept? I'm going to assume he did.

"umm, I slept well... you know I feel like something happened yesterday but I can't seem to wrap my skull around it?"

"Umm, wait! cuddle night. Why was I in my room then?"

I looked at all three of them, waiting for an answer.

"Uhh well, you see uhh something did happen yesterday, uhhmm, Ahh yes, we decided to move the cuddle nights to each of our rooms, we just happened to start at your room." 

"uhh.."

It took me a solid minute to figure out what Horror was saying.

"Oh, that makes sense ok. Did you guys leave early or something?"

"YES! Huh heh heh yes, we did! heh heh" (Cross shouted)

The rest of the way was just pure silence, as we approached the kitchen, Nightmare stood at the entrance looking at us. He probably saw how tense Killer, Horror and Cross were since he had this unreadable expression on his face. Nightmare asked the 3 skeletons what happened, probably out of curiosity. (I was on the same page as him, why were they so tense and jumpy today?) Looking at the bunch I saw Horror and killer Looking at Cross, Cross staring at Horror and Killer then went to look at Nightmare.

"Hey!, wait Why me, what about the others!" (Cross cried out)

looking at Nightmare, his face was full of suspicion. 

"Huh, What did you three idiots do this time?"

No one answered, it was just silence for a very long time until he started talking again.

"Oh, Come On! what did you fuckers do already!"

The trio behind me flinched at the harsh tone, but that still didn't break the silence. I didn't know why they were acting so strangely this morning. I was kind of done with their shenanigans, I wasn't that dumb. I know they are trying to hide something from me, It's obvious. It's just I had no idea what they are hiding from me. I had my suspicions. As more silence covered the place, I decided to break it.

"Well uhh, if you want to know what happened this morning uhh Horror, Killer and cross woke me up telling me that they were hungry, Then they helped me to the kitchen since, My legs decided not to work for me. Over the time we got here, we had some conversations about how we slept and...  are you okay?"

(wow Nightmare looks like he is about ready to stab someone.)

"Umm, I See Dust. Well, Who Started This Conversation about,... Nights."

"Umm, I actually did."

(wait, was that why everyone flinched, did someone have a bad dream?)

"Did I ask something wrong?"

"No, no nothing you asked was wrong Dust. Hey, Dust, would you mind setting up the table? We'll be right there. I just need to ask them something."

"Oh, ok. I can do that"

"Can you walk or... "

"No, it's fine I can make my way there."

As I left, I can't help but wonder what that was all about. Should I ears drop? Nah, they can tell me on their own accord.

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-Nightmare's pov-

As Dust left I looked back at the three idiots standing there. Horror was glancing to the kitchen nervously, Killer was giving me that shitty grin like always, and Cross was staring at the wall like it was the most interesting thing in this room. 

"You mentioned something about yesterday to him, didn't you?"

Seems like Cross was looking at Horror and killer to answer for him but they didn't talk. Cross sighed and started talking.

"Heh, I-It was an accident, I-I didn’t mean to do what I did. He understood what I said by the time, I tried to take it back... B-but hey, at least dust didn't remember what happened last night."

"Sigh, I swear you're gonna be the death of me, I gave you one job, one job!... Ok, welp you asked for it... your punishment or new job 'whateveryouwanttocallit' is to clean the whole castle within a week."

Horror and Killer snickered at Cross' expression. He looked like he was seriously considering murdering someone.

"WHat WhY!"

"Because you did the one thing I told you not to do."

"But-"

"No buts. Well, unless you have a way to change my mind, I will think about it."

As Cross stared at the ground in defeat. I knew I had won, but I didn't want to celebrate my victory so quickly, so I gave Cross several more minutes to answer. When I heard nothing I smirked.

‘Welp, that's what I thought.’ I started to walk to the kitchen, Cross gasped in amazement. I turned around curiously raising a brow.

"Wait! "

Nightmare stopped and looked at Cross.

"I have an I-idea! ... uhh, ... "

"what?"

"W-Wha... Oh yea, W-What do you think the star sanses are planning? I mean we practically saw Ink get sucked in the portal, so I guess he’s been gone for 2 months as well as Error. So what do you think they’re planning?"

"What do ya mean, and why all so sudden 'bout the star sanses? Wait, aww are ya worried about lil' blue." (Horror)

"N-No I-I'm not! I-I mean that their leader “Ink” is gone and that you know the star sanses would have a plan to find him right?’

"Yeah, yeah, just get to the fucking point." 

"Ok, we go to the star sanses and help him to find Ink so-"

"Wait why the hell are we trying to help find that stupid forgetful asshole.’

"I’m not finished talking yet! As I was saying we help them to find ink. If it is successful, we force Ink to make a portal to the anti-void. After all, Ink is the only one that can teleport there."

Horror, Killer and I stared at Cross with a blank expressions. Wow, that was actually a solid plan. The hell, why didn't I think of that?

"Oh my, that’s... that’s a great idea Cross, why didn’t I think of that!"

"S-so does that mean I don’t need to clean the castle?"

"Ummm..... ahh fine."

"YESS!!!"

We all chuckled at Cross as he celebrated. Gosh, he could act so much like a child sometimes. I love my boys.

"Ahh, now now, come, guys, we don't want to keep Dust waiting."

"Wait, Boss, so when are we gonna help them to find Ink?" 

"I don't know Killer, umm we have to check with blue. I'm sure he would tell us."

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(Horror's pov)

After the talk, we all made our way to the kitchen. Dust was sitting at the table waiting for us patiently, he was such a gentleman. We all apologised to dust for the long wait, and sat in our usual spots. The meal then began, “Welp, guys, bone app a tea,” Killer said as he started munching on the delicious treat Nightmare had made for us. Everyone had groaned at the joke Killer made. It was so bad that no one wanted to enjoy it. I stared at the food, feeling sick, there was no absolute way I could get away without eating. I didn’t want to eat, but then, of course, they will know something is wrong, and they already have so much on their plate. I can't be another problem, the plate is already full, so that means, there is no way I could lie out of eating this time.

"Horror? Is something wrong? You haven't touched your food yet and that's not like you?"

Ahh well shit, Nightmare has that tone again he knows, doesn't he?
"No, nothing's wrong, just trying to find the best part to eat, ya know wanna savour every bit of it."

"Umm, ok, if you say so."

It took me a few more minutes to try and find a way out, but I found none, so I picked up my fork and knife and dug into my food. When the food entered my mouth, the flavour was just astounding. It simply felt like the very first time when Nightmare, Killer and Dust took me into the castle, and how they gave me so many different varieties of food when they saw me clearly starving. The taste was so amazing that I completely forgot to make the connection between the first time I felt this way and just kept eating. A bite, a crunch, a chomp, then it repeats until my plate is empty. It was amazing, marvellous. It felt nice, great even. But then I remembered, and forgot the consequences of eating so suddenly, after weeks of starvation, weeks of worry, of sadness. I should’ve known when that feeling hit me, but didn't. Haha, lord, I was going back to old habits.

Killer and Cross got all the plates and started to wash them, Nightmare stood up, probably going to do paperwork. I just sat there, staring at nothing in particular. Dust did the same. 15 minutes have passed. At the moment Killer and Cross were bickering about who should wash the last two dishes, Dust and I were still sitting at the table in silence. I was waiting, I knew if I did anything that would cause me to move, it would come sooner and I rather it comes later.  

"So, you ok Horror? You look pale, well uhh, paler than normal."

I nodded, not trusting myself to talk. 10 more minutes passed and Killer and Cross joined us at the table. I was beginning to feel dizzy and queasy, I needed an escape before anything serious happened.

"Uhh, Horror, are you sure you're ok, you don't look so good."

Now all eyes were on me. 
I̶ ̶n̶e̶e̶d̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶e̶s̶c̶a̶p̶e̶.

I nodded again.

"I don't think you're ok, what happened when we were washing the dishes?" (Cross)

̶I̶ ̶n̶e̶e̶d̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶l̶e̶a̶v̶e̶. 

"He wasn't like this when we left?" (Killer) 
̶N̶e̶e̶d̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶g̶o̶.

"Horror, please are you really ok?" (Dust)

n̶e̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶.̶.̶.̶̶ B̶e̶f̶o̶r̶e̶.̶.̶.̶̶
I̶t̶.̶.̶.̶ ̶H̶a̶p̶p̶e̶n̶s̶.

"I-I- I'm f-fi-fine." And that was my biggest mistake, I shouldn't have talked. All of a sudden all the dizziness I felt clashed with everything else, every passing second made me feel sicker than the last.

 ̶̶I̶ ̶s̶h̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶l̶e̶f̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶m̶o̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶I̶ ̶f̶i̶n̶i̶s̶h̶e̶d̶.

I knew if this kept going I was going to puke. This has happened before, many times. I forgot how my body would reject the food I ate, and not absorb the magic in it correctly when I starved myself. when I went back to old habits.

Before anyone could lay a hand on me or speak to me, I used the last bit of magic that I could control and teleported out of the room. I landed on the cold floor of the bathroom. I quickly stood up and locked the door, at last using the last bit of energy I had.

Unfortunately, I knew that I would not like what was about to happen next.

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(Nightmare's pov)

“Nightmare, please, calm down I’m sure he’s ok.”

“OK! DUST, HE’S BEEN IN THE FUCKING TOILET FOR ALMOST 2 HOURS, TELL ME HOW IS THAT OK!”

“Boss, please calm down” (Killer)

“CALM DOWN! H-HOW! H-HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO DO THAT, H-HE HID THIS FROM US AGAIN AND I SHOULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING, I KNEW THAT WAS HAPPENING BUT I-I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! I HAVE TO HELP, WE NEED TO CHECK IF HE’S ALRIGHT! WE CAN’T JUST STAND HERE AND DO NOTHING!

“Well, being worried isn’t going to help his and our situation. I get it we are all worried, but we need to find another way to help him. We have to understand why he didn’t tell us and give him some space-

“I know but-”

“ BECAUSE, No matter how long it takes, I know he won’t like everyone barging in to help him, heck I know you wouldn’t even like that. Wouldn’t you want some time to figure yourself out, before everyone helps you?”

“And plus he stopped puking 1 hour ago. We just have to wait until he feels comfortable enough to come out.”

“… You have a point Killer. But still, why would he keep this from us.”

“He probably doesn’t want us to worry after all that

 erorrrrr- ahhhhh y-ya know everythin’ that happened yo.”

I Facepalmed. Of course, Cross will do it again. 

“Why the fresh tone and did you say error?” (Dust)

“Uhh ah hahaha, Nah didn't say error, just nothin' yo ah ok I'll stop.”

Dust started laughing at Cross, we joined him but for a whole another different reason. Cross was so embarrassed, he started blushing purple. Killer was right, there is no point in being worried. We continue chatting amongst ourselves, giving time for Horror to come out at his own paste. We didn’t want to rush horror no matter the situation his in.

10 minutes past by

Then

20

Then

30

Then

50.

It’s been another 1 hour since Horror’s been in the toilet. It was getting quite troubling as Horror was still inside. The bittering died down and Killer, Dust, Cross and I looked at each other unsure of what to do. The room was covered by deafening silence as we all looked at the door where Horror was. I then decided he had enough alone time, so I announced it to the others. 

“I think we should go check up on him. I can feel all the negativity rolling out of him.”

“Negativity? Why didn’t you tell us.” (Cross)

“Well, Killer did say that he needed to figure it out on his own.

“Yes that’s what I said, the only way he can get better is if he figures it out on his own. No, I think he needs a bit more time, how bad is it?”

“Not that bad right now, but still it can get worse.”

“When it gets worse, then we can check up on him.”

“Oh, ok”

Another 25 minutes have passed and the negativity was a lot stronger.

“Uhh, sorry to interrupt but it’s been 5 minutes since Horror’s negativity got stronger, And I think we should go and check up on him, I don’t like how much negativity he is producing.”

Cross got up and walked to the door then softly knocked on the door.

“Horror are you alright, you’ve been in the toilet for quite a while now. I think you should open the door for us. We're worried about you.”

No response came from the other side of the door, but the negativity grew stronger. Cross tried it again.

“Horror, please at least tell us that you are doing alright? 

Another minute passed, and nothing seem to happen, so Cross took a few steps away until a soft click from the door startled him to turn around.

*The door was opened*

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WARNING: Vomiting, depressive thoughts, suicidal thoughts, feeling worthless/weak.

(Horror’s pov)

Another searing pain shoot up my chest, it felt excruciating. Quick as I was I immediately reacted by covering my hands up to my mouth, as if it could magically prevent me from vomiting again. Of course, it didn’t work, so I puked. Now it felt even worse. Having my head down, and my hands resting on the toilet seat. I tried to take deep, sharp breaths. Why, why is this happening? Why can’t I be normal? It hurts, it just hurts. Can't this just be over already? How long have I even been puking? I laid my head down even further and closed my eyes and tried to calm all my sporadic thoughts. 

5 minutes passed without anything bad happening, so I quickly got up much to my body's dismay, as it disagreed and made my way to the door. I needed to tell them that I’m fine now, I’m all better, that it was just a fluke. 

But my body refused to move anymore and just straight up collapsed right there onto the cold, damp floor. It was so painful. It hurts. I- I think . . . ‘m just gonna. . . g-gonna take a na-p. . .

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No one knows where he is… Cross is 100% sure that you’re in the anti void but that's just a speculation…. Why, why am I forming Error's voice in my dream? It’s never been this realistic with voices before.

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Static is talking over the voice. -n-- -o-d? What. is… that?

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I woke up with a startle. Ugh, it hurts so bad. What was I dreamin- wait, Error! I was dreaming about Error. Was, was that really Error? Heh, no way. I have dreams like this all the time, but then and again this was more realistic than all the others. Ahh, I can’t remember what he said. Something about a message, I’m pretty sure. All of this is giving me a growing headache. . .

I tried standing up but everything hurts right now, so I decided to wait 25 or so minutes before trying again, I feel really grateful they’re not barging in. Heh, I wonder if the others were behind the door this whole time. Are they just waiting for me to come out? Haha, wow why do they care so much? I… I’m nothing. Nothing at all. I sat there in silence, thinking about absolutely nothing for about 20 minutes. Until I went crawling back to the depressive thoughts of how I’m not even strong. I’m just broken pieces that the others picked up and put back together. I don’t help anyone. I-I can’t help. I just bring people down. People probably only think I like eating and killing everything. Why am I like this? Why did Nightmare, killer, Dust take me, help me? Cross is stronger than me. Why don’t they just replace me, it will be better off that way. Heh, no, I will be better off dead than anything else. I d-don’t deserve a loving family. I’m so weak. So so so so so so so so so so so so so weak.

I started hugging myself to get what was left of the warmth out of my jacket, but it didn’t work to any avail. The room felt colder by the second, and it was getting unbearable. On top of that, I could feel my headache getting worse.

Why, why was it like this now, maybe, maybe, this room even agrees I should just be better off dead. Heh, maybe I should just k-

*knock knock knock knock 

“Horror are you alright, you’ve been in the toilet for quite a while now. I think you should open the door for us. We're worried about you.”

It’s Cross. Cross is here! Oh gosh, how long have I been here? It’s never been long enough for them to get that worried and knock on the door. What kind of friend, no family member am I to make them this worried? I’m so stupid. I hate my-

“Horror, please at least tell us that you are doing alright?"

I need to go out… but how am I going to explain. I probably can’t even speak in sentences. I don’t want to worry them anymore. Dust will probably remember about yesterday, so he will need help and, and his way more important than me…

I heard shuffling outside and realised I still haven’t answered any of their questions, so I reached for the door and twisted the nob. A soft click from the door sounded.

*The door was opened*

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 In the counselling room (which is in the centre of the doodle sphere)

(Dream’s pov)

“UMMMMM, I swear, why did we ask Red to go and spread the news?!”

“Hey, don’t lash out at me, Dream. You were the one that asked him to do the job.”

(Oh frick, Blue is right, I did haha.)

“And plus I, on the other hand, chose the best sans to do the job! CLASSIC!”

“Ha? You chose Reds partner, BLUE!”

“Ah! Yes precisely, but at least my sans doesn’t swear and pull the middle finger up at everyone we sent him to go.”

(Pff- my sans! Wow, Blue never makes mistakes on his grammar, Guess that he's really tired. Well, it doesn't matter. A perfect opportunity to make fun of him.)

“Well, since when Classic was your sans, oh wow I didn’t know you own the original sans.”

“MMWWWEEHH, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!”

“Do I? Do I Blue?’  (sarcastically)

(I smirked at Blue knowing after that comment he was going to explode.)  

“OH SCBHDJNFDW, I SWEAR, YOU ARE WORSE THAN STRETCH!”

“PPFff- O-Oh, I didn’t know that you wanted to swear at me, and really, I’m worse than stretch, please I take offence to that.”

“... AHSDSJHEFDOUJKWS, I CAN’T STAND YOU ANYMORE DREAM!”

(Ooooo, perfect pun opportunity!) 

“Oh, you pff- You don’t need to stand there’s a chair right there. Ppfffff.”

(That was when I knew I broke Blue. It’s really fun to mess with blue but sometimes we go overboard and that’s when it gets scary.)

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-Somewhere in the distance- (Red’s pov)

“Ummm, we should go before Blue rips sunshine lollipops head off.”

“I don’t know Red, kinda enjoying this, wanna see how it turns out and besides Blue will never do that.”

“Oh fuck class, you don’t know what that tiny devil can do when he’s mad, I’ve seen it first hand.”

(That day was the last time I tried doing a prank on blue. Never again.)

“Umm, really?”

“Yeah, trust me when I say you do not wanna fucking go on his bad side.”

(learnt that the hard way.)

“Well then, noted. Don't be on Blue’s bad side. So what are you waiting for let’s go help Dream.”

As we teleported in front of the two skeletons, Blue was on the urge of choking Dream. Class went to stop blue from approaching and eventually doing something he was going to regret later on. On the other hand, I was stuck trying to stop Dream from laughing his head off. This all took about an hour for us to calm the two skeletons down. I was so pissed by the end of it. Sunshine head here wouldn’t stop laughing which made blue fume. I fuckin’ used all of my energy just for this. Gosh, I just wanted to sleep now, no doubt Class is thinkin’ the same thing. He looked like he could fall asleep right on the spot, but then and again this is Sans, Classic we’re talkin’ about. He does that all the time.

I asked the two idiots if they were done. Blue had calmed down significantly, he nodded and said that he has already forgiven Dream for everything. It was going to stay that way, I didn’t want another repeat of what just happened. I quickly blocked Dream's mouth before he could even say anything and answered for him. 

“Dream 100% agrees, he is so sorry for what he’s done. He would also like to have a truce.”

Dream chuckled and gave a thumbs up showing that he had agreed. I took that as a sign that I could trust him enough to remove my hands away from his mouth.

“Uhhh, so now that’s all handled, could we go now? We’ve been helping ya all day.”

“Ahh yeah, might as well, Blue and I are also done for today. We can continue telling everyone about the meeting run for another day.

Sooo, separate or same universe?”

“Nah, Reds going to my universe. He’s having dinner there.”

“Yeah, it’s a few hours so we can sleep for the time. I’m exhausted.”

“Really? Ok, well don’t want to keep you guys waiting. Have a nice rest and dinner!

Dream had made a golden portal right in front of us.

“Thanks, Dream.” (Classic)

“THE MAGNIFICENT BLUE DOESN’T WANT YOU TO BE LATE FOR YOUR DATE! GO ON!”

“Heh, thanks blue, haha it’s not a date, family's  coming.”

“Well ya know we ca make it a date, cha know.”

“Shut it, haha anyways cya guys have fun.”

“Haha, cya.”

As we entered the portal, I knew the bed was calling for me.

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OH, Error I’ve Missed You So Much, How Have You Been?

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Hey, Are You There?

Why Aren’t You Talking? 

Haha.

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Come On, Talk To Me Glitchy, You Haven’t Talked To Me For Ages.

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What, This Is Like The Sixth Time Already.

Gosh, haha, When You Think Of It That Way It’s Kind Of Sad, Don’t You Think.

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Weeellllll I’ve Only Checked Up On You The Previous 5 Times, Soooo, I’ll Excuse You For Your Minor Mistakes....... You Know It’s Been A While Since The Last Time I Was Here And I Feel Like There’s An Abundance Of Things We Need To Catch Up On.

Don’t You Think?

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Come On Pal, Buddy, ERROR. You Can’t Just Keep Giving Me The Silent Treatment You Know… …

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You Can’t Just Ignore Me Forever. I Mean It’s Clear, Nooooo One Knows You're Here Right? Not Even Your So-Called Friends Know. Well, Some Have Their Suspicions, But If They Want To Save You, Ink Needs To Be Found First. (Which His “So-Called” Friends Also Have Their Suspicions) Other Than That People Won’t Find You, Or By Then I’m Already Done With You, And Changes Are Done. So There’s No Reason For You To Be So Quiet. *Huff, You Already have Been Here For Two Months.

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I, Recore Your Last Escape Attempt. It Was Pathetic.

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Can You Just. Stop. Ignoring. Me. 

Hehehehe, Come ON, Let's Just Have Some FUN. You Like Fun Right? After All, It’s Your Turn Now.

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(Cross’s pov)

The door still hadn’t been opened, I sighed, maybe he isn’t ready to talk or come out yet. I took a few steps to where I was originally sitting when I heard a soft click, It startled me to turn around. 

I was shocked to see Horror drop on the floor. He said something, it was incoherent to me, and I doubt the others could have understood.

“Horror? Oh my gosh, Horror are you ok?!”

Killer rushed to Horror’s side in a flash. He helped him up. The others rushed to his side and I quickly did the same. Killer, Dust and especially Nightmare started bombarding Horror with questions. I looked at Horror and he looked very overwhelmed. It seemed like he was frantically trying to find a way out. I quickly silenced everyone so that Horror could have a breather. He was very thankful for that (I could tell). I repeated the same question Killer had asked before but much calmer.

“Horror, are you ok?”

He appeared to be very contemplative, but I didn’t know why. (why would he?) Horror opened his mouth once, then twice, he closed it again. A few seconds passed by and he opened his mouth again but this time words actually came out, well if you could call it words.

“S-rry g-uys, I c-n’t ta-k r-igh-t no… i- h-rts.”

I really didn’t like how broken Horror’s words were, I could barely understand him.

“Shi-zzz fricky doodle, you need tea right now!” 

And there goes Dust. Out of all things why the heck would Horror need tea, he could have got medicine or absolutely anything other than tea. And I know dust always says weird things when he’s panicked but what is the hell even is “fricky doodle”?

“Fuck! How badly did you vomit to make your voice that bad?!” 

Ugh, there it is, Killer’s rude comments. Well, ok, it’s not completely rude when he doesn’t know he’s doing it. It’s just sometimes his emotion fades away, which means he doesn’t know that he’s saying something offensive. I saw Horror wince and it looks like I wasn’t the only one as Nightmare swiftly slapped Killer in the head.

“OWWA, Why the fuck did you do that!”

“Because you made Horror uncomfortable you damn idiot.”

“N-o g-ys it- it’s o-”

“ I, did? O-oh, Horror I-I didn’t to-”

Killer stopped and then put on a mischievous grin and said.

“Horror, I get it, shuuu, you don’t need to talk anymore, you must be in a lot of pain, don’t worry help is on its way.”

Welp, there it is, Killer’s seriousness was there for 4 seconds, and, pop, gone, back to his original self. Nightmare groaned and face-planted.

“Killer, why, why do this. Please, not now.”

“But why.”

“Cause no!”

“But, it’s fun.”

“NO, it’s not!.”

As the two fought, I turned to Horror.

“Heh, don’t worry about them. You know them they always fight like this.”

Horror nodded.

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So… was it really bad?”

Horror gave me a hesitant nod.

“Looks like this one was the worst one huh?”

He nodded again.

“Is this, Was it, was it caused because of Error's disappearance, you were anxious so you didn’t want to eat?”

It took a few minutes for Horror to reply but after a few moments of silence, he nodded.

“It’s fine Horror, all of us is anxious about Error’s disappearance, and some of us have an umm, interesting way to cope with it. Heh like I-  

*Crash*

After the loud crash, everyone went silent.

“AAAAAHHHH IT BURNS!”

“Ugh, you two help Horror onto the bed, I got to go help him in the meantime.”

“Got it, boss” 

“AHHH!”

As Nightmare left, Killer and I helped Horror onto the bed. No one said a word, just enjoying the silence and waiting for Nightmare to come back with dust. A few minutes passed by, and Nightmare returned with Dust in hand. I could see that he had burnt marks and cuts on his arm and hands. 

‘Hey, I got your tea.”

‘Huh, Dust was rushing and slipped”

“Pff, wow Dust real smooth, real smooth”

“Fuck off”

“Oh, I’m sincerely sorry”

“Shut up you fuc-”

“No, we are not having another argument. Huh, anyways here drink this it will help your throat.”

Horror seems to look at the tea in disgust. He shook his head to confirm that he didn’t want it.

“Why, it would really help you.”

“Yea and I risked my arm and hand for you?”

“No, you didn’t you were just being clumsy.”

“NO”

“Yes”

“N-”

“WHY don’t you want it?” 

Nightmare made it clear for Dust and Killer not to start an argument again.

Chara materialised next to me and told me he had an idea.

“Hey, why not get him something to write on like paper or a notebook, instead of talking or just nodding to everything.”

That was a really good idea, I smiled, showing Chara that I liked his idea.

“Here write on this to respond to us.” 

Horror picked up the pen and wrote his responses.

I can’t drink it because it makes me feel nauseous.

“That does make sense. We don't want to trigger it again, umm why don’t you sleep instead, you can get a little shut-eye then drink it later?

Nightmare suggested that to Horror. I thought that was a good idea and I saw Chara nodding as well.

Not tired

“Come on, you need to do something that will help you recover please.”

Horror just pointed back to the note he wrote.

“Huh, please.”

he pointed to it again.

“Mmm”

We were all out of ideas on what to do. Nightmare could cast the sleeping spell but we do not know if that will cause effects or not. Killer smiled his big grin and exclaimed,

“Oh, how about we go and watch a movie together for the whole day, do nothing else and just watch. Heh, it’s not like we have anything to do.” 

“Killer, that’s a great idea!”

Nightmare praised Killer. I was excited about the prospect of a movie night so I shouted,

“WOOO, MOVIE MARATHON, LETS GOO! Horror what do you think!?”

I think that’s a great idea, let's do it

“ HELL YEAH, HORROR AGREES!”

“Well, let’s set up then.”

As Nightmare left to get the extra beds, at the same time Killer and Dust went to get all the movies they owned in the mansion. I wanted to get some snacks and popcorn for everyone, so I excused myself. We left Horror alone for a few minutes. It was about 10 minutes later before everyone came back. Everyone was acting like children, especially me. Nightmare was acting, of course, as the mother of the group, watching his children in happiness. We were very excited to do the movie marathon.

The gang let him pick the first movie. Horror picked his favourite movie, Ratatouille.

I know he LOVES how Remy the rat, was inspired to become a chef, and that there were many challenges along the way but he still made it to his goal. (He also loved it because duh food) Horror has probably watched this over a thousand times and each time he watches it, it gives a new experience every time. He will never get bored of watching this.

How do I know that, well he’s repeated those lines so many times that the whole gang can recite them?

Over the day they have watched and watched. Animated movies from comedy to Horror to action. You name it they most likely went through. It was very fun and relaxing, hanging out with his family. Through the 15th? 20th? … 11th??? Through one of the movies, Horror started to drift off. The others noticed and turned down the volume and stopped their chatter. Horror was tired, he wanted to stay awake but couldn’t keep his eyes from closing. Slowly but surely he fell asleep.

Nightmare closed the tv and thought it would be a good time to sleep as well. The rest of the gang agreed from what Nightmare could already see, Cross was getting comfortable, Dust already had his eyes closed and Killer turned the other way signifying that he didn’t want to be disturbed. Today might have started off terribly but it surely ended better than anyone had expected.

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(Horror’s pov)

I groaned as I woke up feeling more tired than I was yesterday. Blinking my eyes sockets open, The first thing I noticed was that all the others had apparently left when I was still sleeping. I didn't really care at this point as all I could think about was my fucking throat. It was killing me. I really was relentless with puking my whole non-existent guts out yesterday. Maybe I could have toned it down just a little bit. Oh and don't even get me started on my body because it feels like jello.  Ha, yeah, I guess you can say that this has been a fantastic start to my day.

I tried to sit up but unfortunately in the hellish state, I was in I failed and fell back down managing to hurt myself even more. Just great. Welp lying down it is. I sighed, closing my eyes. Well, I guess sleeping some more wouldn't hurt.

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I heard clashes and mumbled talking. I begrudgingly opened my eyes. Where was all the noise coming from? What time even is it? Looking at the clock beside the bed it shows, 10:20 am. Ahh, whoops, that's very late, my bad. Well, at least my body and throat don't feel as bad as before. I should try to sit up again, maybe I'll have enough strength this time. Fortunately, I did and sat up in bed. I stretched, satisfied with the loud pop that came from my spine. The mumbling got a little louder. Me being a curious bean, I tried to decipher where the noise came from. It's not upstairs as it's too loud for that and it's definitely not in the other room next to me. I heard clashes, maybe clashes of pots? The kitchen? Yeah, I think that's my best guess.

I wanna get out of bed. I hate being on my bed for an extended period of time. I can't even call them. So I just stared at the wall, waiting until someone goes to check or wake me up, thank goodness I didn't have to wait long as I heard footsteps coming from the kitchen to my room. The doorknob turned as I faced the person who had done it.

“Horror? Are you awake?"

Blue!? Why was blue here? I thought he would be too busy to come to the castle.

“B-”

“Woah there, it's ok! You don’t need to talk, I know about your voice. They told me.”

I nodded as I went to reach the notebook that was on the table right next to me and started to write.

It's funny seeing you here. I thought you were too busy to come since you know everything that’s happened

“Mweh heh heh, yeah, I was busy, like, super busy but luckily you know me. I'm very productive, finished all the work I needed to do today and decided, why not come visit my besties and get you all updated on the situation right now.”

Workaholic

"Ha, you can say that. Come on let's get you out of bed, I made you some tacos!"

I smiled, I loved Blue’s tacos. It was always delicious but I don't know if I can take them right now. I nodded and started writing again

How long have you been here? Oh and tacos, I love your tacos though, I don't know if I can take them?

“I've only been here for an hour! After I finished all my work, I called Nightmare up to see if I was able to come over as it's been a while since we've hung out, and of course, he said yes. Once I came over, Nightmare told me about your situation. I offered to make breakfast for everyone and now we're here. Don't worry about it, you can try eating the tacos slower or we could cut it into quarters to help you consume it better."

oh ok, thanks for explaining. Oh and Thank you for making breakfast. Shall we go then?

"Yes, we shall!"

Blue started helping me out of bed as I wasn't fully recovered yet. This all took about 5 minutes, and the worse part was that wasn't even the hard part. The hard part was for me to make it to the fuckin kitchen, goodness me, it was a frickin workout for me, that at least took 20 minutes. I was so exhausted after all of it. I didn’t even realise how much this sickness could take a toll on me.

As we entered the kitchen, Killer was the first one to see us. He was quick on his heel to help us out. They sat me down and then went over to help the others to carry all the dishes here. Upon looking I saw Cross was sitting with me.

“Morning Horror.”

I waved back to Cross.

“How are you feeling?”

I gave him a so-so gesture.

“ahh, would you like me to get the notebook?”

I quickly shook my head.

“Oh, ok... You know, I'm really glad blue came over today, we haven't seen him in a few months.

I smiled fondly as I nodded to Cross' statement. It was true. This is the first time seeing blue since... when Error and ink disappeared.

"Well, the others should be coming soon!”

I nodded. 

Cross and I wasn’t waiting too long as the others slowly trickled out one by one. The table was set and everyone sat. Nightmare asked me if I was feeling ok.

I did the same so-so gesture I had done to Cross.

And so we began eating. I had to eat smaller portions in order not to throw up and it was working. I appreciated Blue's advice, it was working swiftly.

"So, I didn't just come over to hang out, well, mweh heh heh, that's actually 3/4 of the reason why b-but besides the point, I wanted to catch you up on the situation right now."

"Is it the Ink search thing?"

Nightmare question.

“Yes, precisely! We ar- w-were looking for him until we, uhh, Dream and I might have found the location he’s at.”

"Ohh! Ya do."

"Yes, Killer, we do. There's a place in the Doodle Sphere where Ink forbids us from entering, I actually have no idea why but the last and first time Dream and I went there Ink was furious, like mad-mad. It wasn’t just the, 'Oh no, Error destroyed my creations!' or, 'Nightmare's gang is at it again!’. He was enraged and very creepy from my standpoint. Anyways, yea I think he might be in there."

"Heh, that rainbow asshole can be creepy. Come on Baby blue, he could have just drank that red liquid thing. The one that makes him go mad."

"No, I swear he did not drink any of his vials?! His eyes were pure white dots, and stop calling me baby Blue, Dust?!"

"Well, did you do anything with that information?" (Cross)

“Yeah, we aren’t sure if we should go there by ourselves as of the incident before. So we decided why not bring a bunch of judges with us in case Ink was really there and needs saving. Classic and Red is also helping us spread the news about it. We are going to have a meeting where we discuss the matter. It's in like 6 days. So yeah, that’s what’s been happening.”

Wow, that has been a lot of work. Jeez, I hope his not overworking himself again.

“Uhh, umm, I see well, ok, how do I say this... ok. Well, we also have a plan but this time it is to save Error. Ok, so basically What we were thinking was that we help your little "search group”, to find Ink as for some odd reason, he is the only one that can get to the anti-void, and our theory is that Error is there. But this is going to be so fucking hard as we are still “the bad sanses” and why would we help you guys to find Ink. I've been fucking hearing all the damn rumours about how we are planning a massive wipeout in the multiverse because Ink, the fucking leader is gone. And why is it that every single time we go out, people are calling you left and right, so we have to retreat."

“OHHH, NIGHTMARE, THAT IS A FANTASTIC IDEA! Mweh heh heh heh, fret not as I, The Magnificence Blue has got an idea. Oh and yeah, we have been getting calls constantly that people have seen you guys in their universes, but when we get there you're gone in a flash. Many people are saying that you are checking their au, so you can destroy it. I thought you were doing a supply run as you always tell me your plans first.

“Yeah, I always do. So, you're gonna help us with our plan with your plan?" (Nightmare)

"Of course, I will! I'm going to see if my plan works when I see Dream again so don't worry."

"Too much chit-chatter goin' on here, let's finish eating and have some fun while Blue is still here."

And as soon as Killer said those words we all went back to finishing our meals. After we finished eating and washing all the plates. Killer wanted to play tag as he said it was really fun when blue joined. But this time they added cameras since I couldn't play as this game acquired a lot of running. This allowed me to see where everyone is and is going. 

As the game progressed, The rougher everyone played, it was getting to a point where bone attacks were everywhere in the castle and some of the cameras were broken too. Cross started sitting with me 10 minutes ago as he said it was getting too much for his taste. We sat there in blissful silence as we waited for the others to be done with the game, though we didn't have to wait long as Nightmare stumbled into the room.

"Yea, no, I'm done, they are more, roughhousing than playing a simple game of tag."

I heard Cross snort as I smiled.

"So, when would they be finished with their, roughhousing."

"As soon as they notice that I'm not there anymore."

"Yeah, that will take a while.

Can we watch movies again?"

"Again. Well, I guess there's no harm."

So here we go again, setting up the screen to watch whatever movie we desired. Cross went to the kitchen and presumably went to get popcorn. Nightmare passed me the remote and told me I could pick the first movie as he goes to collect pillows and blankets. I gave him a thumbs up. I was really feeling like watching something animated so I scrolled to see what was there. Skimming through the options, I stopped on one particular one called, "The Bad Guys". It looked perfect, The title definitely fits us, and there were even 5 members like us. I had to see what this was all about. I was about to read the description it gives you in the movies until the other 3 finally came in.

"Hey horror, oooo what's this." (Killer)

"Are we watching a movie!" (Blue)

I nodded.

"Got popcorn! Oh, hey guys finish roughhousing?"

"Ha, we did not!" (Dust)

"Umm, yeah, sure you didn't, anyway, The Bad Guys huh? That sounds like a great movie, let's watch it!"

I gave a thumbs up. Killer decided to plot himself right in front of me, Cross went to sit next to me again and Blue sat next to Cross on the couch. Then Dust went to the kitchen.

"Alright, I'm back. Ahh, I see you kindly joined us."

"We sure did!" (Blue)

Nightmare then through a pillow and blanket at Killer then carefully handed us our share of the pillows and blankets. Killer wined as Nightmare smirked. He then sat on his own chair. Now, all we were waiting for was Dust.

"The Bad Guys. Huh, interesting name."

"Hurry the fuck up Dust! We have a movie to watch!" (Killer)

"Coming, coming. See I'm here." 

"Yea, Just play the movie already!"

Goodness me, Killer is very impatient today, I clicked play when Dust just sat in his spot.

This was frighteningly perfect. All 5 characters in the story at least fit or acted kind of like us. 

Nightmare is like Mr wolf

Killer is like Mr snake

Dust is like Mrs Tarantula

Cross is like Mr shark

And

I'm like Mr piranha

And don't get me even started on the story. I know it's not completely the same, but I feel like the situation 

they are in is exactly like ours. This movie relates to us frickin damn too much. I think everyone agreed with me as they were all gushing about it. After that, Blue wanted to choose the movie. He really wanted to watch something adventurous, so he picked this movie called Lightyear. He was so engaged with the movie and I thought it was ok. We watched 4 more movies before Blue had to leave, he did say he'll come back, "hopefully" with good news.

It's been another good day.

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-Somewhere in the most isolated part of the doodle sphere-  (A month of imprisonment by ∂̶͒ß̸̆͆∂̶͒ß̸̆)

OH, Inky, Where Are You! 

Oh, Helloooo! Where Are You? Oh, Inky There You Are. I Have Wonderful News Inky. Do You Want To Guess?

“Ummmm let me see, OH I know, another session, OH OH OH, even better, making me overdose with paints again. Oh, that will be SO fun!?”

Ummm, Close But Not Quite. Why Don't Sound Excited When Saying That?"

“That's because I'm not. I'm really sick and tired of this. you can't keep me here, I'm done. Isn't this enough of a punishment? I learnt my lesson.

Umm, Really, I Don't Think This Is Enough For You. You're Still Fighting With Me And Plus You Now Know That Error Has The Same Fate As You. We Can't Have That Here, Now Can We?

"Why can't we have that? If I knew that Error was going through the same thing as me, I would of made a truce with him! We wouldn't even have to fight anymore!"

Now That Wouldn't Be Fun Anymore, Now Would It?

"You're Sick!"

Ha, I Guess You Can Say That. I Made You Guys In My Control For My Own Entertainment. If I Send Both You And Error Out, You Guys Will Both Likely Know That You Don't Want To Do Your Jobs and Then You'll Make A Truce Like You Said Or Just Stop Creating and Destroying entirely. If That Happens I Would Have No Entertainment What So Ever And It Would Be Soo Boring For Me.

"So you're just toying with other people's lives to be entertained."

Yep!

"You sick fuck."

How Rude Of You. Language. 

"My friends will save me and after that, I will go and rescue Error."

Pffff, HA, No Way. Come On, No One Knows You’re Here, So Sorry To Disappoint You Inky But You’re Stuck Here With Me, And If They actually rescue you. I Will Make Sure That Saving Error Will Be A Pain For You.

Ohhhh, And You Definitely Wouldn’t Be Here If You Didn’t Try That Stunt, It Was Only Supposed To Be Error Who’s Getting The Punishment, Not You Too.

“WELL, YOU DIDN'T TELL ME THAT ERROR WAS UNDER YOUR FUCKING CONTROL TOO!

Yeah Well, You Didn’t Have To Know? And I hate That You Did.

"You are hurting him for no Fuckin reason."

Umm, You're Really Using The F-Bomb Today. Do You Even Know Why Error Needs To Destroy Your Creations?

“Yea! Uhh no, But what I do know is that you’re forcing him to do it!”

Yeah, That's The Tiniest Part Of The Reason.

“So, what is it, are you gonna tell me or what?”

Umm, Why Would I Tell You, That Will Be No Fun?

"Ugh, Can't you ju-"

Hush Inky, I Gave You Too Much Information. I Suggest You Stop Talking If You Want Your, "Friends" To Stay Alive. 

Anyways Shall We Continue From Our Last Session.

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(Blue’s pov)

Leaving Nightmare’s castle, I landed straight in the living room of our base with a happy sigh. I was about to leave the room and find Dream when I heard a voice.

“Hey tiny, yer finally decided to show up huh.”

“Oh? Hey Red! What are you doing here? Where’s Dream?”

“Ahh, sunshine’s still doing work, apparently, he’d still had other things to take care of. And me, well finished early, so thought I'd come and pay ya a visit since I know yer always finishing your work so early but surprise surprise didn’t find  ya weren’t here so just waited.”

"Ahh, haha, Yeah about that, I, sort of got distracted and, uhh lost track of time. Sorry, Red. Sorry if you waited for a long time, did you need me for anything?"

"Haha, yea, thought you did, and nah nah, didn’t wait that long. Well, I Just wantedta hang wit ya that was all."

"Oh! I see. Well, I supposed this is a good time to do it then."

"Yep, perfect."

"I haven't had a good 'friendly' competition in the arcade with someone for a long while. Class is just too lazy and others don't play as well as ya do."

"So what do yer say?"

My eyes turned into stars.

"OOHHH, OH MY GOSH! YES. I'M GONNA BEAT YOUR ASS THIS TIME."

"Wow. Never thought you could use such vulgar language."

"I'm not as innocent as most of the sans' and my brother thinks I am, and out of all of them you should know that the most."

"Haha, yea, yea, I know, just playin' wit yer." 

"Now, come on Red, let's not waste any more time, let's go!"

I grabbed Red and created a portal to the arcade we always go to. Waving to the owner, I let go of Red’s hand and told him we’d got 2 hours to get the most points. Whoever wins gets 10 favours from the other. Red was all down for it and we promptly started. Since we are fairly regular and very close friends of the owner of this establishment we can just play whenever we want. No card or anything. He told us that before we came he had made this scanning thing on all machines where his friends and family can just come here and play by scanning instead of getting a card to swipe. 

  We haven't done this for such a frickin long time, haha. The last was probably about 6 months ago. Red won that one, but it was only because of that stupid OP machine. He would hog it as if his life depended on it. Red would definitely do the same thing and if that is happening then I need to find a better plan. 

Before the whole Ink and Error situation, I did a little research on what arcade game gives the most points, and if my memory serves me right, I believe it was Tower Of Tickets, Crossy Road, and Zombie Snatcher. I'm also really good at ice ball/ skeeball and shooting games, so I guess that gives me a good amount of tickets and games. I quickly rushed off to my first destination, Crossy Road. Out of my whole time playing here, I'd never touched this game before. Reading the description the aim of this game is to move a character via an ongoing course of static and moving obstacles as far as possible without dying. It seemed easy enough. Scanning and starting the game my character (A little chicken by the way) poofed out onto the screen, and then a whole new level was in front of me. Pushing the giant red button in front of me, it moved my character forward once, Doing it again did much the same. I moved my little chicken all the way to the end of the road until cars and trucks were passing by. For that, I had to wait until the right time before I could move my character forward. After that, there were a few more cars and trucks and a bit of walking space before I stumbled across more obstacles. This time it was a river with different wood sizes floating in the water passing by. I had to time all my jumps at the right moment before I got to the next side. I was super proud of myself, considering that I'd never played this before. There was another obstacle coming ahead and it looked to be a train stop. I stopped near the train not knowing what to do. A red light started to appear and a train zoomed across the screen, and then the red light was gone. 

Ahhhhh, ok, so I zoom when the light is not red and I stop when the light is red, ok got it. 

...

After a few minutes, there weren't any other obstacles and I was honestly sad. I think they made the game too easy. I was already on 245 steps and I can go a whole lot more.

...

I died after 33 minutes at 1150 steps which gave me a whopping 2010 points! That is frickin a lot. Usually, I get that in an hour, not 33 minutes. If I kept this going and got the same amount of points, I would have 4640 points. That would make me easily win. Now, I would have taken the bait with that but I couldn't. I have no idea if I can get 1150 steps for the other three times I play. Not only that will lose a lot of time, but it would also make me rage, and raging me is not a good sight.

I stood up from the seat and said goodbye. I wasn't that sad as there were other games I could play. 

Running around, I saw that red was playing some shooting game and decided it wouldn't be a bad time to drop in and see how is he doing.

"Hey Red! Mmm, I thought you would be in the OP game by now?"

"Mmm, oh, Hey Blue. Yea, I would've been, but one of the err, employees said that they have gotten rid of it a few months ago. Said it was too old or somethin'."

"Oh, Really. Such a shame. Such, a, shame. I feel really bad for you. Really."

"Oh fuck you. Well, you better run, time is running out if you keep talking to me like that. So go and have your kiddy play."

I snorted

"Ok, ok, I get it."

Walking away I had my next game in mind. Tower of tickets. I had played this before, it was so time-inducing, but if I could get lucky this time that will be amazing. I think I would spend about 20 minutes, I really don't want to spend all my time here. Scanning I looked at the all cones spinning in a circle. There were a 20, 50, 150, 200, 250, 350, 500, 650, 800, 1000 and 1500 ticket points. I actually was hoping to get the 800 so I had 2850 points. Watching it carefully going around the circle, I press the button and the poll started to slide through the course and moved the 800 towards the edge. to my sadness, it only reached a third-quarter of the way there, but by doing so it also forced a 1000-ticket cone to the side into the edge. I was shocked. Wait! How did that happen, I wasn't even aiming for that one. Now I got 3010 points.

Heh, I guess I am lucky today. I was very confident that in the next 20 minutes, I would have plenty of points 

...

I think I should have lowered my confidence a bit. Over the 19 minutes, the only thing I got was a 50. well, it's bad, but at least I got 3060 points. I still have a minute left. I can fit another round in, I can do this. Watching the 1500 cone, I hit the button and watched the poll slide and hit nothing along its path. Great. just great. Got lucky at the start and nothing else. with a big sigh, I left the machine and went somewhere else to fish for more points. Luckily there was one more machine that could help me get more points before I do mine. Zombie Snatcher. Again, I've played this before, it's like Tower of tickets but much easier. Instead of big surfaces that can effortlessly slip off, these are small circle prisms that can actually hold a grip and slip along with the poll. I've made like 2000-4500 points when playing it previously, so there is no way I can't do it this time. Walking to the machine, I gasped, there were two E's (E's are worth 2000 by the way), and there were also lots of 500 and 250. Oh my gosh, this was going to be amazing. I was only going to spend 30 minutes here but it looks like I should spend a bit more time here. 40 minutes should be enough. I started doing the same thing I did in Tower of tickets.

...

40 minutes passed by and I honestly loved it. This was much easier than playing Tower of tickets (more fun too). I actually got a lot of points, gosh the internet was right. Why didn't I play this sooner? 

I did get both of the E's, plus 10, 250 and 6, 500. which in total it's, 5500 points. Gosh, that is sick. This leaves me with 8560 points, and on top of that got I Still have 20 minutes left. This was the best round ever.

For the 20 minutes left, I can either do ice ball/ skeeball or some shooting games. Well, I only know that 3 of the games here give you points (All shooting games by the way) and they aren't really good at giving points, but on the other hand, iceball/ skeeball gives a lot more points. 

Ok, I made up my decision. Let's go to the ice ball/ skeeball machine.

So for the next 20 minutes, I tossed the balls into the 10,000 points hole. (Some, of course, missed)

...

I was in my last round of ice ball/ skeeball machine since we only had 1 minute left.

"Hey Blue, finishing your last round."

"Yep! You finished?"

"Yea, it was an easy one."

"*Yawn* That was damn tiring."

"Wha- NO! You say that was damn tiring. You don't even move out of your damn couch, that's why it was so, 'damn' tiring for you!" 

"Maybe."

"Ugh, Whatever, just let me finish this game already."

"Yea, yea, ok."

A few minutes later, I had finished my game.

"And, all done. Ok, how many points did you get!"

"Woah, Woah, calm down, I don't know, have ter check."

"Oh, hahah, sorry I, umm, counted all my points."

"You did what! Gosh, Blue, Why are you so productive."

"Well, I'm still a papyrus type, remember? Of course, I will do that."

"Oh, yea, you're right. let's check how many points I have."

"Indeed."

As we were walking to the front counter I saw something, something that a certain skeleton would love. It was a medium-sized chicken leg. A plush of a chicken leg. I gasped. Horror would love that. 

"RED, RED, I WANT THAT! COME ON WE CAN SEE YOUR POINTS LATER!" 

"Woah! Hey, wait! Oof- ... Would you fuckin stop dragin' me round, and what got you all so entran-

...

...

...

Uhh- wha- a plush chicken leg? ... Is that what got you all excited about."

"YESS!!!"

"I- Ok, you know what, not my place to judge."

"I am going to get it!"

I started playing. I needed to get it. this is a great gift to give horror.

...

After 10 minutes I finally had gotten it.

"Ok, Red, I am done."

...

...

...

"Red... RED, IT"S ONLY BEEN A FEW MINUTES, HOU ARE YOU ASLEEP ALREADY!?"

"MMmmm, heh, sorry you know me, too long for me."

"Yeah, I should have known. Let's just go already."

"Yeah..."

There were no more stops along the way as we made our way to the counter. Red was speaking to the owner and then scanned his finger to see how many points he had gotten. He then said a few more things to the owner and then started walking back to me.

"K, yep, got it. Ya wanna check if you did your maths right?"

"Umm, you know what, yeah, I will do that.

I walked to that count and scanned my finger as well. Seeing the screen, I smiled. Yep, I did my maths right. Walking back I excitedly told Red that, I, in fact, did my maths right.

"Heh heh, Ok, ok, Ya ready to see who's the winner."

"Yes! I think I did pretty well."

"Well, then, Let's just see. You wanna go first or do you want me to."

"Well, since Last time I went first, You do it this time."

"That means sense. well, the total amount I got waaaaasssssss, 9100."

"That is, umm, a great score."

"Wait! HA, does that mean I beat you! Hahahah, oh yes!"

"Ahh, well no, because I GOT 10,000 BABY, HAHA BEAT YOUR SORRY FULL ASS. HAHAHA."

"Wait what... How?!"

"HAHAHAH, THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!"

"Oh, gosh. What do you even do!"

"I searched for the best way to get tickets. We never technically said we can't do that, so I did it."

"Oh, ahhh, that is genius. Why did I think of that."

"I don’t know but, it's nice to win and it's nicer to get 10 favours."

"Ahhh, I fuckin forgot about that, well you did win fair and square, hahah, gg."

"gg!"

"Welp." let's go that spend our points."

"Yep! Let's go!"

I was so ecstatic, I am so glad that I searched it up. We walked towards the prize corner and started spending our points. 

Today has been a great day.

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- In the base of the star sanses - (Blue's pov)

"Oh, Blue, there you are."

"Hey, Dream!"

"Why do you have so much stuff with you... and is that a chicken bone plush?"

"Oh, haha, Red wanted to go to the arcade and have a simple competition, that is all. Yes, that is a chicken bone plush. So what's tomorrow's schedule?"

"Oh, no need Blue, Classic actually just finished that last of the list."

"That's amazing! Wait... did we set up a meeting space?"

"No, I have not, but it's ok, class made an interdimensional chat between everyone we invited, so now we can repeat the messages if some people forget and where to meet us."

"Then why couldn't we do that in the first place instead of going to every universe."

"Well, in order for the chat to work, we needed the coordinates of the Au, meaning we would have to go to their universes anyway. Plus, Classic thought of it when we were already halfway through the list (and also reminded me that we forgot to tell the meeting place). Yeah, so poor Classic had to portal to all the other aus that he did not do, but it didn't take that long because there was no talking needed this time."

"Ahh, that explains it, ok. You're not thinking of doing it in the doodles sphere, right?"

"Well, I was. It seems like it's the better choice."

"I don't think so. I don't think we should, something about the doodles sphere lately feels... off. Haven't you felt it? Sometimes it feels like someone is watching us and sometimes it feels like something is listening to us."

"Well... Yea, but didn't it feel like that when Ink was still here?"

"Yeah, it did, but this one is more prominent, and regular too." 

"So then, what are you suggesting?"

"OH, I'll just show you! Come on!"

I'm not saying it here, That... thing is listening again. I can tell and I really don't like it. It feels ...wrong. I never really thought about that presents before. Honestly, I thought it was always a part of the doodles sphere, cause of all the aus being in the same place, but now I am not sure anymore. Grabbing Dream's hand I jumped into a random au, then closed the portal and jumped to the destination I was planning to go. I don't know doing that stunned made me feel better like now the present won't follow us.

"Why did you jump through two portals?"

"Oh, sorry just a habit of mine. It's just, I had a bad feeling in the other au. Anyway, ta-da, I was thinking about this au to have our meeting."

"Umm, what about the citizens?"

"Oh, umm yeah, I forgot, this is an empty au, so there are no monsters or humans here, It's just the Scenery."

"... How is that possible?"

"I actually have no idea. One day I was hanging out with a couple of my friends and we stumbled across this place."

Well, it wasn't a total lie. I did hang out with the bad sanses, but this au wasn't an accident, it was all done by them or well, Error.

"Really, well it is peaceful, and there are no distractions as well. Umm, alright Blue, we can do the meeting here, I'll tell Classic about the location... What's this au called?"

"The au is called Fusetale and it's copy 13#."

(Fusetale is owned by me, it's a new au I've been working on)

"Fusetale huh? I never heard of that au before."

"It is a newer au. I checked the au books that Ink has, and apparently, there are only 20 copies made of this au."

"Huh really? That's interesting. Ok, well then, we are getting closer to saving Ink."

"Yes, we are! The meeting is in 4 days right?"

"Yes."

"Ok, I'm going to go then, If you need me for anything else, just call me. If not then I will see you at the meeting. Oh, Red, Classic, you and I need to be there early right?"

"Will, do Blue. Yes, we do. Umm, the meeting is starting at 2 pm, So maybe just arrive 30 minutes earlier.

"Ok, so 1:30 it is. Well bye, Dream!"

"Bye Blue."

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(Killer's pov) - Back in nightmare's castle -

After Blue left, we continued watching movies, cuddling closer to each other. These are the times I enjoy the most. Now, don't get me wrong, I love killing (when it's necessary) and taunting that ink head and happy-go-lucky guardian, but being calm and hanging with all the people I love is an experience I will never get rid of. Even if my emotions aren't the same as everyone else's. I still have them, Not like Inky... I will never be like Ink, no never.

"So, is Blue coming back today or tomorrow?"

"How are we supposed to know that you dumb-dumb." (Dust)

"That doesn't matter, Blue will come whenever he is finished with that plan of his." (Nightmare)

"I'm bored, I don't want to keep watching anymore."

"Then sleep like what Cross is doing."

"But, Night, it's too earllyyyyyy to do that, and plus that is booorrring too."

"Then go and weep somewhere else. Cross is asleep and all three of us what to keep watching so, bye bye."

Dust pushed me off the sofa and shooed me off. I let out an offended squabble and in style, I made my way out of the room. Welp, I'd just find something else to capture my attention in the meantime. Looking out the window I looked at the trees one by one, watching them slowly move left and right by the wind. That sparked an idea in my head. I haven't done wood carving for ages, maybe it's time to go back to it. Taking my knives and tools. Putting my headphone on, and choosing me, It's 'knifing time' playlist, I left the castle and started travelling to find a good tree to do my masterpiece on. 15 minutes of walking later, I found a perfect tree. I was so enthusiastic, I just started straight away. Grabbing my big blade, I began to cut chunks of wood off, trying to make the main shape before I refine it. My brain was working on overdrive, thinking about where I should cut, what angle I wanted to do it, what type of style, etc. I just do what I do best, cutting. Over time, I changed many tools and knives, went to the back, front, left and right and heck I even climbed the tree to fix the things higher up. I was exhausted by the time I finished. Literally, Lying on the grass panting. How long have I been here? Wait, did I tell them I was going to leave the castle... I think I did... right? Taking my headphone off I checked the time. It was 7:23 pm. Shit. 6 hours.

I got 2 calls from Nightmare, 2 calls and 12 messages from Dust, 10 messages from Horror, and 20 messages from Cross. Oh Crap, Oh Crap. I did not tell them, I repeat I did not tell them. After 10 minutes of panicking, I finally got my senses back and actually started walking back to the castle. Forgetting all about my carving. When I was only 10 minutes from the castle something felt different...off. Before I was nervous and worried about what would happen when I got home, but with each step, I got closer to the castle I could feel my emotion slowly fading and getting replaced with this hollow feeling in my soul, something I felt way too often over the 2 months. Ahh, my emotion was fading again. I would be panicking even more by the second now, but I just didn't care. Ugh, this music is hurting my fucking brain. Grabbing my headphone I threw them out of my sight. It smashed onto a tree, breaking it in half. The rest of the walk was silent.

As soon as the door creaked shut, I could hear 3 footsteps coming downstairs. Why only three? I didn't get to think long as four figures stepped out. Ahh, no wonder there were only three footsteps, Horror was being carried by the boss.

"Oh my gosh, where were you?! Killer you know how long you've been gone for 6! 6 hours and you didn't even think to tell us!" (Nightmare)

"Yeah, Kills we checked everywhere for you in the castle, but once I saw your headphones were gone, I knew you went out. So we went out to find you but you weren't at any of your wood carving places. (Dust)

"S-so we concluded you might have just gone on a walk but... but I couldn't stop thinking that something happened to you... what if- Wait, where're your headphones? (Cross)

"Jeez, why are you guys such a worry wart? I'm fine, nothin' happened to me. It's just one tiny-incy-mincy-mistake I did. Oh, the headphones, threw it away."

"An Incy mistake... Really, cut the bullshit. You made Cross cry, He really thought something happened to you. What is wrong with you." (Dust)

"Ummm, nothing is wrong with me, But I remember a certain red and blue-eyed skeleton, shoved me off the sofa and told me 'to go and weep somewhere else', So that's just what I did.

Dust winced and tried to make a stupid apology to say but it looks like he couldn't put it into words.

"Heh. That's what I thought."

"Killer... That is still not an excuse not to tell us... You could have just texted... You cou-"

I turned my head right in Cross' direction and that Immediately shut the white and black skeleton, but what made me confused was, it wasn't out of fear, it was out of... something else. Ugh, whatever, I don't care. I'm leaving.

"Nice to have a chat with all of you but I think it's time for me to go... A bye-bye."

Walking straight past them, I was about to travel the stairs, when I felt hands wrapping around me. Before the skeleton could talk, I constructed a bone and turned around slicing their cheek open. I heard gasped and saw dust running towards us. Before he could reach us and give me a ludicrous lecture, I said 5 easy words and teleport out of that whole situation.

"Don't you fucking touch me!" 

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(Dust pov)

"Cross, Cross, you ok?"

"H-he... a-attacked me. D-did... did I do s-something wrong?"

"No! You did nothing wrong, Frankly, he did a huge fucking mistake... What was fucking that."

"Dust, I know you're angry, I'm angry too! But could you calm down, I think I know what's happening."

"You do?" (Dust)

"Yeah, You know when Killer has problems with his emotions?"

"Yea I do, but they are never like this. This is something different!"

"Well, not really. Well, Killer was the first one I recruited, when none of you was here yet. That... behaviour was more the norm."

"What... really?" (Cross)

"Yeah, he would lose it way more often like 10 times every 3 days. He was like you when you first joined, would almost break everything in my castle. Heh, even start fights with me. (Well not technically like you since back then you would only break things in your room and you didn't start fights with me) This lasted for like 2 years, each time getting better but still too frequent for my liking. It's not his fault, I can tell you that, every time he snaps out of it, he is so disappointed in himself. We can't forget that he's not doing this on purpose."

"Really... Oh, Killer. You're right, it's not his fault, but why did he go back?" 

"I don't know Cross, these months, he has been less with us, more distant, so maybe he was trying to protect us from an occurrence like this from happening and tried to hide it from us."

"Yeah, sounds like Killer. How long do you think this will be over?" (Dust)

"Tomorrow at noon, maybe. These episodes of his, never happen longer than 16hrs, yeah. So, the shortest would be in a couple of hours and the longest would be 16hrs. We can only wait. He might not remember."

"Heh, alright, operation 'Help Killer' is a go." 

"You got it right Dust! Can we have another cuddle night?"

"Yes we can, but first let's go clean that wound of yours."

As all of us made our way to the living room, Nightmare started to patch Cross' wound. I could see Nightmare putting the sleeping Horror on the couch and then using a tentacle to pick up a blanket and drape it on Horror. Boss is such a workaholic. I don't know when Horror went to sleep, but he must be really tired. A ding from my pocket pulled me out of my thoughts. Entering my password I saw I got a message from Blue. Clicking Blue's contact I started to read the message. 

- Baby Blue - 

Tuesday 4:32 pm

Yeah I know, Dream was so frustrating. I was tired, that’s why I made a mistake in

my grammar!

That is so funny! Go Dream

HEY, whose side are you on?

HHAHAHA

Today 7:43 pm

Hey, Dust. I will come tomorrow if that’s ok, I also got my plan to work. :D I am

going to hang out with my brother for a bit. Can you repeat the message to the 

Rest of the gang? Thank you.

Ahh, that’s ok. You can come tomorrow. I’m glad that your plan worked. Go and

                                                                                                           hang out with you brother, no one is stopping you.

And yes, I will spread the message. See you tomorrow

See you tomorrow!

"Hey, guys, Blue is coming tomorrow."

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-Somewhere in the most isolated part of the doodle sphere-  (2 month of imprisonment by Fate)

Oh, Inky, Your Blue Friend Is So Smart, I Really Praise Him For That.

“Blue! What are you doing!”

Oh, Nothing! Hahaha, Your Friend figure Out I Was Hearing and Watching There Conversations. So Your Friend Left The Doodles Sphere, But He Forgot One Thing. I Can Go Anywhere In This Multiverse Without People Getting The Feeling Of Me Watching Or Listening. The Reason Why The Doodle Sphere and The Anti-void Feel Like That It’s Because I’m Always Watching And Hearing Those Places, And It Would Never Stop.

“Don’t you do anything to Blue, he did nothing!”

Why Should I Listen To You, Inky? I Can Smash Him Into Piece Or Make Him To Be My Next Puppet Or-

"OK, I understand… I, I won’t fight back, I won’t talk back and… and I will… I will listen to you. Just… Just don’t hurt my friend or anyone for that matter."

Heh, Ok, You Promise.

 "I- I promise."

I Guess You Got Yourself A deal, Alrighty Now, Let's Get Started In Our Next Session. This One Is Gonna Be Great.

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Killer's pov

This is ridiculous, god damn ridiculous. Why are they bitching about this, it's not like this is my first rodeo of doing this stunt. Those shit bastards. I really don’t need to tell them everything about me, you know, like some privacy would be nice.

Opening my eyes I stared at the knife-covered wall in boredom. Boss is going to kill me when he sees this, but then and again, would I care... No, I would definitely not. Everything is so god damn annoying. Why did I even take the goop mess' deal, it's not like it's benefiting me or anything, rather it's giving me more work to do.

I was so enraged that I didn't even notice when I summoned my magic and began to trash my already trashed room. The only thing I could possibly feel right now is complete rage. Nothing went passed my head at this point, all my common sense went crashing out the window as I destroyed anything and everything in my room. Dust started to fly around everywhere, it didn't matter if it was regular dust or monster dust, it just made me even more manic to trash everything. All the dust told me of a story that happened again and again, day by day, and... I d i d n ' t l i k e i t o n e b i t. Countless
piles of dust, countless piles of bodies. It's really just the same for me, the memories will always torment me, always be hunting for more and I know it will never stop any time soon. Killer. That's the word everyone signifies me as, not just because that's my name, not because it's our little stupid group's duty, it's because I am that word. Ugh, I can already hear Dream, Ink and everyone else in the shit council talking about it.

"How dare you kill!"
"Do you even have anything better to do!"
"Why do you even take pleasure in this!"
"Look at all the people you've killed, look at their faces, their fear!"
"You're a true monster."
"You're sick."
"Idiot."

"yOu MuRdErER...."

Heh... mUrDEreR, N-no... N-oo, no, NO.... I FUCKING NEVER WANTED TO BECOME A MURDERER, IT WASN'T MY FUCKING INTENTION TO KILL EVERYONE I LOVED, OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND GOD FORSAKEN OVER AGAIN. ALL I EVER WANTED WAS FOR THE LOOP TO STOP. TO STOp seeing everyone die... I'm n-not a murderer...

...
...
...
Am I?

...
...

I just wanted my family back.

I don't know how long I just stood there staring into the nothingness (could have been seconds, minutes or hours) but I finally snapped out of the mental breakdown when I felt something sticky and streamy dripping out of my eyes and falling onto my hand. The liquid started to seep through my hand and it slid through the bloody cuts and scratches that weren't there a few minutes ago. it stunt. The pain was actually welcomed. It felt nice, but that wasn't my concern. The concern was that I was crying... It wasn't just hate leaking out, hate isn't supposed to be this watery so why is it now there is only one option, tears? Gosh, when was the last time I cried? The black-stained tears didn't stop there, they started to drip in a steady rhythm. I didn't know what to do, I don't cry, well not since the loop happened, more matter a factly, I don't do emotions. I felt nothing before, but why is it now I'm feeling everything? I don't like this. I wanna go back. Go back to the emptiness, the numbness, the emotionless. Everything is too much.

I tried to take deep breaths to calm myself down, but nothing was getting in or getting out. I felt like vomiting now. More hate was being created and it felt like I was suffocating in water. I could do this. Help. HElp. HELp. HELP! Please, anybody! Just help me! I'm sorry! Please, I-m, I-m not a m-murderer...

"Shuu, it's ok, I'm here. breath, breath."

"I-i *hic c-ca-"

"No, you can. Here, just follow my breathing, ready. breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out."

Following the person's breathing I noticed I was beginning to remember how to breathe. With the last command, I let out a big gasp.

"There you go, good to see your back Killer."

Still breathing hard, I looked up to see the person that entered my room.

"B-blue."

"Yep it's me alright, I heard that yesterday you weren't doing too well and I was going to bring some food to hope you feel better, then uhh your door was covered with bone attacks (and a few knives). When I came in you were begging someone to help you.

"*hic o-oh."

Yesterday??? It's already the next day. It only felt like it's been 2 hrs. Oh gosh, I had another episode, did I?

"It's ok Killer. You... you had an episode yesterday if you remember."

"I know."

"It will be ok, The guys aren't mad at you, they know you've been dealing with a lot and it's not fair that Error is also gone. Listen, whatever you did, it's not your fault... and your not a murderer in my book. It wasn't your fault when everyone in your world died, It wasn't your fault when you decided to join Chara to kill all of your friends, and it isn't any of your guy's fault that you have to protect the balance. It's just fate... It had to happen. You know the saying, light can't exist without the other half."

I broke, everything Blue said up to this point was right, it isn't me that is wrong, it's just the world. I started sobbing, I couldn't hold it back. As I tried to wipe away the oncoming tears, I glanced up at Blue (when was I on the floor?), Blue was glancing at me with a combination of sympathy and compassion. It was nice to know that Blue didn't see me as a Killer like the rest of the universes, instead, he saw me for who I really was.

"Thanks, Blue, You are a real lifesaver you know that."

"Mweh heh heh, Of course, I am!"

Blue really did give the best smiles.

"you know, I'm always here for you and if the stars don't approve it, well, they can all suck it, and we are ALL here for you."

"Yeah, yeah I know that."

I rolled my eyes playfully and started to get up until I paused, staring around the room, I discovered that I had just obliterated my entire room, even most of the wall separating the two bedrooms was gone. Taking a frustrated breath, I tried to calm down. What was stupid me thinking, now look at all the mess I have to clean up. Uhhh, I don't think I could do it now, that whole mental breakdown really drained me, making me feel like I actually was drowning in my sorrows.

"I really don't feel like cleaning this room today."

"Yeah, no. You're not cleaning your room today, just look at your hands I don't think you can do anything with those at the moment. We can clean your wounds first, Let's go, the others are downstairs, and besides, we can all help clean your room, and maybe you finally can have the bigger room you wanted."

"OH, HECK YEAH!"

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(Blue's pov)

I'm so glad that was over with. Killer really did a number on his room. This situation with Error being gone hasn't done anything good to the team.

"Do you need some help?"

"Nah, blue blue, I'm right."

"Well, you are pretty unstable on your feet. You must be exhausted, you did use a lot of magic."

"I should be fine."

"Well if Nightmare kills me because you passed out on the floor, I'm blaming you for my death."

"You wound me, good sir."

I rolled my eyes, as much as I love Killer, he could be so infuriating sometimes, screw that all the time.

As soon as we got downstairs Killer got tackled by Cross.

"Killer! You're ok, Oh my gosh, I was soo worried."

"Heh, hey there kris-cross. Sorry... I lost my mind there. What's the bandage on your face?"

"Well, I-"

"He fell like a moron."

"Dust." (Cross)

"Well, it's true isn't it."

"Mmmm, but I'm fine now, so you don't have to worry about it."

"Oh heh, it's good that you're better."

"As much I love seeing the bonding happening we have much more important things to discuss, like your bloody hands." (Nightmare)

"Ahhh, heh heh, yeah..."

And there we have it, the family is back together again, Nightmare picked up Killer and went to the infirmary and of course cross went with them. Dust stayed with me.

"Horror's still sleeping?"

"Nah, he woke up 5 minutes ago."

"Ahh, ok good."

"How... How was it upstairs? How was Killer?"

"Ummm, I mean, his stable now, He trashed his room, like really trashed his room. three-quarters of the wall separating the other room is completely gone."

"Umm, I thought I heard gaster blasters."

"Yeah, when I got there, he was asking for help and saying that he wasn't a murderer. He looked very panicked when I came in. I think he was having a mental breakdown or like a panic attack, well some sort of it."

Poor, Killer.

"It's ok, I have the plan and we can go save Ink and Error." (Blue)

"Yeah, Error we're coming for you."

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(Blue's pov)

The day everyone's been waiting for had come.

It was the meeting day. A whole bunch of sans' across the multiverse was coming to this meeting, from copies to originals to outcodes. This was a serious matter, meetings like this have only happened once or twice, (The x-event that almost happened and hate corrupting AUs, like glitchtale) usually multiverse outbreaks.

...

This one... This one was so different. In the whole existence of the destroyer and creator, they have never gone missing before. Not a lot of AUs know about this but the destroyer and creator are immortal. Dying is a concept they themselves never have to deal with... well that is a stretch, Ink can die but he can just come back. Anyway, this is also the day Nightmare and his gang crash into the meeting, with my help of course. Error needs to be found, I know no one really cares about Error (except for us) in this crapped-up multiverse, but we need him. No one knows Error like the gang and I do. He's not a merciless killer that finds enjoyment in killing, in fact, his quite the opposite, he rather spares, but keeping the multiverse in balance won't let him. Ink keeps creating AUs, I'm sure he has a reason why. Everyone has a reason for doing something, and finally for once we can finally teach everyone that the multiverse has a balance and Error is actually doing his job, not just killing for funnzies as people like to put it.

After Killer had significantly calmed down from his panic attack and Horror was now able to talk but still weakened from his food incident, the next three days were preparing for the meeting break-in. We planned for any occasion that could possibly happen, from straight-up attacking them to Sans' making a break for it and leaving the AU. Since this is an AU that the gang and Error found, they have made a few changes, first of all, this AU is hidden from everyone except the gang, Error and me. Secondly, only we can bring people there, meaning that if we leave you, you're stuck. That's why I was there with Dream, cause he needs to get out somehow, right? Since there are so many sans' that hate the gang, it could definitely kill one of the members when they enter the meeting. So, I'll be the deviator. Many sans' think I'm always the sweet and kind person, too naive for his own good, too trusting, well, I'll show them. Trust can get you anywhere if you use it right. This can also cause more issues along the way. If this does happen, people will either think, I've been brained-washed (which is just ridiculous) or I've been helping the bad sans' and therefore being a traitor to the stars. Luckily, being the magnificent Blue, I have solutions for those situations as well. If they think I'm possibly being brained-washed, Dream is the answer for that. My emotions and morals would have changed which means that Dream can feel and sense it, giving that whole scandal a lie, oh and if they think I'm a traitor, heh, I got a plan that I didn't even tell the gang. I can't, this is what will exactly happen and I need everyone's reaction to be completely real. This is what will make everyone crack.
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"So, you guys know what you're doing?"

There are only a few minutes left before I had to bring everyone to Fusetale. Dream said that it felt weird that he couldn't open a portal along with Classic and Red. I just told them that it may have been a glitch and will be glitched until Ink is saved. Portals can be glitched but most of the time it's the AU that is glitched. I wasn't technically telling them a lie, since changing the code of an AU is close enough to a glitched world. To add more evidence I told them that my other alternate buddies could make a portal there too, so it might be a glitch in some sort of system. It worked as they brushed it off and made the decision to portal everyone in the Doodles sphere and make me portal everyone there.

"Yep, allll set baby blue!"

"Ugh, Killer don't call me that."

"Ok, baby blue."

"Ookk, anyway, are the speakers working?"

"Yeah, we can hear you loud and clear." (Dust)

"Good, so the signal for you guys to hop in is any time when I talk about you, ok? Surprise me, so my reaction is more real."

"Are you sure this is gonna work?"

"Trust me nightmare. This will work."

He then smiled and put his hands up like he was surrendering.

"Heh, alright then, everything should be sent then. Good luck, we will see you on the other side."

"You bet we will. Bye, guys."

As the rest of the guys waved me goodbye, I left for the Doodles sphere. Arriving there, everyone had just arrived, said my hellos to a few skeletons, and I made my way towards Dream, Classic and Red. They had just explained everything to everyone and we were ready to go. Creating several portals we started to gather people to go in.

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So far so good, the rescue mission for Ink was going really well, almost every AU said yes to help us locate Ink, which was amazing by all means. Only a few copies said no, so I sent them back to their AUs. The meeting was almost over, after an hour and a half of non-stop talking. But it wasn't done for us, I still had the plan I made for Nightmare. I was ready to activate it right now.

"So, I think that's everything we need to explain."

"Wait. I still have one more question. What about Nightmare and his gang and well, Error? Don't we need to deal with him?"

"Yeah, we do need to find Error, baby blue."

I flinched as I heard Killer's voice right next to my skull. Jeez, that was fast. Well, I did say surprise me, time to act.

"EEEK! Killer, what the fudge! To close to comfort."

"Awww, sorry I don't understand boundaries."

"Ha, hahaha, Killer."

Killer smiled and I know what he was going to do next, ducking as I felt the air swoosh passed my skull. Killer had thrown the knife as I predicted.

"Getting slow baby blue."

And that's when the rest of the gang teleported here. The plan is now in action.

"Nightmare's gang! Blue come back!"

As I stood there, thousands of gaster blasters came to life, and everyone was on edge, you could see the moment when people realised that they could not leave the world to escape as we planned, Killer quickly snatched me by my scarf (I think harder than he intended cause I began to cough (he would probably apologise later)) and put me at knifepoint.

"ah, ah ahhh, I wouldn't do that if I was you. How about you guys put off the magic attacks and we have a civil convo, how 'bout that."

"Nothing you guys are doing is civil! Just look at what you're doing to Blue." (Razz)

"Ehhhh, no, sorry, baby blue is capable, now you on the other hand."

"WHY US LITT-"

"Gasters down."

"Are you serious dream?! Just look at Blue!" (Red)

"H-he, he's not scared."

"Of course he's not, he's probably in shock or somethin', the reason is that he needs help."

"Now, now, red red, Blue is capable, remember."

"Yeah, yeah, shut it asshole."

"I said, Blasters down. Now!"

Immediately all gaster blasters and magical attacks disappeared. I had never heard Dream yell like that before even Nightmare's gang was shocked. Killer let me go and I stumbled forward, catching myself just in time. Ok, well I think it's time to stop pretending and discuss what's important.

"Ok, now-"

"No. How did you get here?"

"Dream-"

"No blue, because it really looks like the "friends" you were talking about that can make a portal here are them."

Oh, I really didn't expect anyone to figure it out that fast. I could see the nightmare and other people in the council tensing up.

"It's not what it l-"

"Looks like?! Because it clearly looks like it. Bring us to an AU that is unknown to basically all the skeletons here and tell us that it's a glitch. Yeah, not what it looks like. What are you brained washed?! Cause it looks like it, helping the bad sanses, are you stooping that low!"

I never thought those words would ever come out of him. Is he the crazy one?! What. How. Why. That is the stupidest thing I heard brainwash is just a tactic to manipulate people, It's not an actual thing. No magic can cause that.

"Ha, I would bet that he has been with them since the beginning and is being a fucking traitor."

A random sans started spitting out. then all of a sudden a chorus of sans' started to agree with him. Dream looked shattered, he looked between full-on believing it or sticking to his original idea. Some other outcodes and originals like Classic, Red, Reaper, Outer and Abyss were trying to calm the situation. Nightmare's gang looked like they were about to grab me and bolt, which was probably exactly what they were going to do, but before Dust could reach me one comment made me and the gang freeze up.

"Come on! He's a swap sans. He's overbearingly trusting. Do you think it's a good idea to introduce them to the multiverse? Look at this! This is what it brought us too. They're just gonna fuck everything up."

Something inside of me snapped, I don't know what it was. All of a sudden and just felt all the bend-up rage I'd been trying to hold inside come out of me all at once, to the point I saw Nightmare step back as all of his tentacles drooped down in my provisional vision. Killer was about to act before he saw my fury.

"W H A T. HA! REALLY! THAT'S WHAT YOU THINK OF ME. SOME DUMB SWAP SANS, A FUCKING OVERBEARING IDIOT THAT TRUST TOO EASILY."

Everyone stopped doing whatever they were doing as soon as I started talking. My swearing caught literally everyone off guard. I don't swear, in fact, I hate swearing, but after the two months Ink and Error has been gone, it has been getting to me. No one dared to speak, well except one happy-go guardian.

"Blue, this is serious, you can't jus-"

"CAN'T JUST WHAT! MAKE FRIENDS. I AM JUST FUCKING SICK OF IT. YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING! HA, you don't even know what your brother's like anymore... Nightmare's gang, the bad sans', the murderers, the joke. I can't believe this. Sure, yes, I've been friends with them for almost 8 years. Do you believe someone would fuckin' try and manipulate someone for fuckin' 8 years? HAHA, you know, that's a joke to me. I'm not fucking stupid, sure I trust easily, but it's because I know what I'm doing. I HATE people judging me like a stupid moron, Heck, I already get that so much at home. Their. Not. Dangerous. They are just doing their job. Keeping the fucking Balance."

"Balance, HA HAHAHA, there is no such thing as that. You're just making this up to make us think you're all-knowing. Face it. Their using you. So just stop whining." (Razz)

"Oh, don't you dare treat him like this! I'll show you-"

"Killer... it's ok."

"Really... you don't think the balance is real, let me give you an example. Dream, do you remember when you had that positivity boost and all you could feel was happiness?"

"... Yes."

"Well did you feel any other emotions than joy?"

"What are you talking about, he is the guardian of positivity, of course, he doesn't-"

"Enough Razz. No, only joy, not even a hint of hate. What was that have to do with the balance?"

"Well, that was showing negativity was dying."

"Isn't that good, no more negativity."

"No, not at all. You wanna know what happens with negativity dies out? Every AU would be wiped out of negative emotions, meaning that if someone kills someone or if a loved one dies, you would just be happy about it, no more sadness, no more morning, no more crying. Instead, you would just be laughing as you watch them dust and die. But that's not the worst part about it. Now, I'm sure no one would care about this because you guys are just fucked up but, no negative feelings mean no more Nightmare, meaning that Nightmare would die."

"W-what... N-no you're wrong, Nightmare wouldn't die. How can you be sure?"

I could see people were starting to break, well, the originals and the outcodes. That doesn't mean all of them believed me (the copies were more sceptical too), for example, Razz, who is an original.

"Fine then, let's switch it this way. Remember when you got really really really sick, the time you couldn't even lift a fork and everyone just thought you were really sick."

"Yes, the time when hate just came."

"Yes, that was a sign that negativity was getting too much. Your body was trying to hold on to the minimal amount of positivity you had left, making you weak. Dream you were so close to dying. It got me scared. So if it wasn't for Nightmare doing something like absorbing the hate from some of the AUs, you wouldn't be here today. Negativity will then rule out positivity, making everyone angry, sad, and scared."

"Hey, give yourself some credit, if you didn't tell me that was happening, I would have lost-"

"Bullshit, that is some serious crap if I ever heard one. Does everyone believe this?!"

"Actually, I do. Blue is right, I don't know why I didn't think of this. Without some sort of balance in the multiverse, the multiverse wouldn't even exist. If positivity and negativity have a balance and have guardians to protect them. That means life and death would also have one. This makes more sense now, Life needs to make a certain amount in order for me to reap the souls. If that was unbalanced then who knows what will happen? Meaning that there must be a balance between creation and destruction. That's why Error is destroying the AUs because there are too many being created."

"Bingo." (Blue)

"You're not seriously believing that are you?!"

"Razz enough, please. Blue had all the evidence and Reaper just proved it. Blue I'm very sorry I thought you were brained-washed by Nightmare and thought you were a traitor-"

"NO, he is a fuckin traitor! Look at the nonsense he's spouting about. When that gang of murderers is involved it's always terrible. This is just probably a way so that they can rule the multiverse quicker!"

"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU RAZZ!" (Blue)

"Nothing, you are the one being wrong! Ugh, I still don't understand how you got one of the roles in the star sans'. You are nothing, just go back to your AU where everyone can baby you again, and YOU KNOW WHAT, WE DON'T FUCKIN NEED YOU HERE!"

Before anyone could act, a gaster blaster was summoned right in front of me. Their jaw opened and a high beam of magic shot right at me. I heard shouting but before I could do anything. I got hit.

CRACK

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Point three - My Nightmare's gang theory (heights) -
I dunno, I like thinking Killer is the shortest and Horror is the tallest. :D

(Dust Pov)

It happened so quickly.
No one could’ve been prepared for what happened next.

I could barely hear Dream screaming for Razz to stop as the blaster shot at his prey.

A large crack sound resounded through the area. With no hesitation, I teleported to the half-broken tree, (that thankfully didn’t land on Blue). I saw him lying unconscious hunched down with a big, ugly crack on his skull. His right arm also had a spider web of cracks through his humerus to his ulna, not to mention that his radius had snapped. His left arm wasn't doing too good either, but thankfully his legs were looking better, not good but definitely not as bad as his arms and who knows what more was under his clothes.

Thinking fast, I quickly checked him not prepared at all for what I was about to see.

Blue (Underswap sans) -
15/550 HP
85 ATK 1500 DEF
Tired. Really tired. But glad most people trust him.

Shit. Was he low on HP before? If so, I understand the damage, but if not. How does one attack do so much damage, and even with the broken tree it wouldn't have done that much? Grabbing Blue carefully through all the rubble, I teleported to dream, knowing that he was a healer.

"Heal him now!" I shouted breaking whatever fight was going on.

Dream turned around, face souring at the sight of Blue. I could see Killer holding Razz in a tight choke hold, ready to stab him (probably in the neck). Luckily Horror was there to actually stop Killer from doing it, as much as I love the idea of Razz getting paid what he deserved. I don't think that would have solidified Blue's argument. Dream sat down and told me to put Blue on his lap. He started to focus on the cracks and slowly poured green magic into Blue. At this point, the fight ceased. Well, only because Nightmare wrapped Killer in one of his tentacles. Everyone else was looking at Blue, either with an expression of guilt or something like that. I could see after Razz was able to stand fully, Red started berating him for how stupid he was acting. Yea, that's what he gets.

"I got it!" Cross screamed out of nowhere. Tripping all the way through with some of Horror's healing food and our med kit.

Skidding to a stop he passed all the medical supplies to Nightmare and in return, he lowered his tentacle and dropped off Killer in Cross' hands.

"Hold Killer, please. He's being a feisty cat again."

To us this occurrence happens every Wednesday, as Killer always gets into shenanigans and has to be, he probably kill me if I said this out loud but, 'babied by someone'. He's like an unhinged child (even though he is in fact the oldest besides Nightmare). Well, I guess I can't really say anything about that since I'm the same. Killer and I can easily get into a lot of trouble, but what makes this occurrence always amusing is that Killer is the shortest out of all of us. He is so carriable. Most of the gang can easily carry him anywhere, (this is especially good as Killer has a nac for hurting himself in battles very easily).

The rest of the Sans' all looked in shock as Killer was just carried by Cross. Cross didn't even look surprised, He just adjusted his hold and stared at the scene in front of him.

And there was Killer in all his glory, trying to get out of Cross' hold so he can stab Razz for real this time, but his use of energy was futile.

"Let me gooo! I needa stab someone!" Killer wined.

"No. You can stab someone when Blue is in no fear of dusting. Plus, If you do stab someone, you'll be trigger-happy and it's not always a good thing, then all of Blue's efforts to put us in a good light would be in vain." Cross explained.

"But-"

"No."

"You're no fun."

"And you're too much fun," and with that Cross dropped Killer onto the ground.

"Ouch, that hurts. Why you gotta do that to a man." Killer said in a sarcastic voice.

"A baby man." Retorted Cross.

"You wound me, good sir."

"And you annoy me, you dick."

"Why can’t you-"

"Alright, that’s enough, both of you." Nightmare then budged in.

"Killer, stop being a jackass."

"Why is it always me?"

"Because it’s always you."

"Ouch, that hurts."

"*sigh* Anyways, it’s too crowded here. Many of you need to go back to your aus. The plan has been discussed and that’s all we need from you. I’m sure Blue doesn’t want all of the attention at this moment. If you want to get caught up with this situation, we'll have another meeting very soon. We'll tell you the date later since you guys have that chat thing. Anyways, thank you for your participation. I’m sure we won’t be having this meeting in this au ever again."

Almost 3/4 of the sans' disappeared with a flick of his tentacles. The only ones that were left were the core originals and some outcodes. For some reason, Nightmare didn’t think to send Razz home.

"*sigh* That’s all I can do. The way he hit the tree brutally hurt his spine, and don’t mention how he hit his skull. I think we need to go to a hospital. His HP is still pretty low." Dream started to explain.

"Give him to me. I’ll do the best I can. We need to do everything possible before going to the hospital. I’ll heal him." Nightmare said with a neutral tone.

He is the second-best healer out of all of us, (Definitely not on the level of Dream) but still decent enough. The problem with his healing magic is that it feels a bit uncomfortable, being with negativity and all. Cross can heal too, but he can’t really do well in stressful situations especially when someone's hurt.

"HA! You can Heal?!" Razz spits out.

"That’s enough! Razz stop you’re not helping!" Reaper, looked so angry.

"I’m not trying to help."

"Nightmare’s gang, can one of you please send Razz back to his au? This is not helping (I don’t know why Nightmare didn’t even do it in the first place), but don’t worry. If Razz doesn’t listen, I’ll make him."

Ha, no one messes with wine, he can be one of the scariest sans ever. That’s why we don’t really attack his universe. Well, we can, but don't want to. He’s like one of the oldest sans' in the multiverse. Besides the guardians, the gods and some others. Wine can be responsible as shit.

Before Razz could shout. Outer spoke.

"Razz, I think you might wanna hold that thought. You do not want to mess with Wine at this state or any state at this rate." Outer helpfully added.

Razz made the right decision to stay quiet, he looked like, no, he was dying from embarrassment. As I walked up to Razz, I grinned.

"You know, I would let Killer send you home, but that will be the literal death of you, so maybe think of this as a warning.
Don’t.
Ever.
Do.
That.
Again.
Understand? Now, you know, (or don’t, I don’t really care), usually we don’t destroy originals, but if you do that again, we won’t hesitate to rip your whole world apart, one by one. Capeesh."

With that, I clapped and a portal showed up.

"Alright, there you go. Have a nice trip home, don’t trip and snap your legs off."

I turned around and walked back to where Nightmare was using his minimal healing magic. I didn’t even have to turn around to see Razz was scared shit out of his mind. He left with no hesitation. After that silence ensued. Everyone was watching as Nightmare healed blue. After he did all he could do, He grabbed the plastic bag full of horror's healing food.

"What's in the bag?" Reaper politely asked to break the silence.

"... Healing food Horror made." Nightmare answered.

"Ahh.... It... It doesn't have... human-" (Reaper did not say this, assume it's a random sans)

"No. It doesn't. Can everyone stop assuming things? As popular as Horrortale is known for its cannibalistic nature, not everyone did it. Maybe you should do more research before assuming. Horror is an excellent cook, and he won't stop being that."

It became silent again.

"Yeah, big guy can really pack a punch with cooking. It's delicious every time." Killer stated more.

Everyone went back to watching Nightmare feeding Horror's healing food to Blue and within a few seconds, we could see specks of green magic floating up. It was cool to see them flying up, but it also means Blue was too weak to absorb it all. Minutes of this went by as he slowly ate through the meal until he woke up.

"Mmmmm, N-nightmare..." Blue mumbled.

"Shu, Blue, It's ok. I've got you." Nightmare said in a comforting voice.

I started to check Blue again.

Blue (Underswap sans) -
190/550 HP
85 ATK 1500 DEF
Confused. Why does everything hurt?

"W-wha... happen..."

"You don't need to worry about that right now."

"W-why every- everything hurt... I... tired..."

"You'll be ok... Just... Just don't go to sleep, yet, ok. Killer, make a portal to Sci's world. Horror, you go in first and make sure you tell Sci what's going on. Dust, please grab more of Horror's healing food, and Cross, come with me. Everyone else..."

After that, I didn't stay for the rest of the conversation and quickly made my way back to the castle. Making my way to the kitchen, I took more of Horror's cooking and left. Teleporting back, I saw that most of them had left and only Reaper, Classic, Wine, Geno and Killer were there.

"Ahh that was quick, you might want to stay. It's chaos in there. They won't need the food for a while." Wine suggested.

"Okay, umm if you say so," I answered still worried for Blue.

"Yeah, don't worry. Baby Blue would be fine. He's tough. What you're worried cause you haven't confest your dying love to him yet." Killer said with a smug smile.

All of a sudden all eyes turned to me. I started to blush.

"Oh shut the fuck up. No way would I-"

"Oh, come on, just face it, every time he comes over you are trying to impress him and then when they were talking shit 'bout him today, I could see the rage in your eyes. Just face it. Dusty's in loooooovveee."

"Holy shit. Dust is really-"

As Geno was about to finish that sentence I jumped in.

"Well, it will be a real shame if Nightmare found out that you have a crush on his brother before you could confess it. I mean having a wood sculpture of him in the middle of the woods isn't really hiding your love, more... Expressing it. Such a shame to be betraying the gang like this. He is on the enemy's side after all."

With that, it was Killer's time to start blushing profusely. He probably never thought someone would see it in the woods but, he's not the only one that goes walking in the forest. It's just too bad for him. The other's jaws dropped at what they were hearing. I just smirked and laughed at Killer's blushing face.

"What!? N-no, you got it all wrong... I-I... I was just using it for t-target practice." Killer tried to defend himself.

"Yeah, yeah, for sure. Tell that to your blushing face you fucker!" I then retorted.

"Why you little!"

"Oh my gosh. Wow, you know what. Ha, I think Nightmare's gang is just a bunch of simps." Classic was astounded.

"I do not get what's all the fuss about. They're not dangerous at all. More teenagers going through puberty." Wine added in amusement.

"Shut the fuck up!" Killer and I both said at the same time.

Oh, I am going to so kill Killer for starting this. Smirking, I picked up Killer and held him up high in the air.

"Well, at least you're gonna be the short king for Dream. Heh, It would be so funny if Classic outgrew you. Meaning that you might become an option to be the shortest sans."

"Let me the fuck go! Stop making fun of my height. I may be short but I'm like a feral dog, I got the bite. What do you have, you're not even that tall and you got no bite."

"Oh, I'll show you what I got."

Before I could tackle Killer, a voice at the entrance of the portal startled me.

"So, are you guys done playing?" Cross voiced out with an amused smile like he was here the whole time.

"Oh, Cross you just missed a whole show that was full of good blackmail material... So... What happened was-"

As Reaper was about to spill, Killer and I both screamed No as loud as we could. The others all looked amused and Cross just started laughing.

"Hahaha, wait, this is about your crushes, isn't it?" Both Killer and I froze at what Cross said.

"Hahaha Yea, no need to hide that, Horror and I already know, come on, you thought you were being sneaky. I can see those blushes from a mile away. Come on let's go, Blue is being checked on right now. We can wait in the lobby with everyone else. Oh, and you better not let Nightmare find out, both of you. If you do, ha, you guys would be not excited about the outcome."

And that, Cross started to walk away. I was about to agree with him until Cross started shouting for Nightmare. This made both of us scream profanities at Cross as we started to chase him. The last thing I heard before rounding the corners was Wine saying...

"Yep, a bunch of kids."

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(Blue’s POV)

Everything feels so warm. It's Nice, comfy and relaxing. I don’t remember when was the last time I felt this way. Maybe, life before knowing the multiverse, when it was just Pappy and I, with no interference, no other me’s, no problems. That was a long time ago… But now, it seems like every day there is a new problem arising.

Please fix this!
I need your help!
Could you help me travel to universes?!
I need your help!
The bad sans’ are attacking my universe!
Help me travel!
Please fix this!
They're attacking!
I need your help!
Help me travel!
I need your help!
Attacking!
Attacking!!
Attacking!!!
Attacking!!!!

QUIET! Quiet… Please… It's too much. I- I just want a break from all of this. I want to sleep forever. I never want to leave. I never want to leave this warmth ever again. Let it swallow me whole. Swallow me so that life's problems can go away.
...

"--ue?"

What was that noise?

"H-- --ue. Y-u --w-k-."

There is it again. Voices.

"B-ue? Co-e on."

Who? What are they saying?

"He- bud, yo- he-e, come -n Blue."

Blue, that's me.

"Eas- easy, st-y with -e Blue."

"E-easy?"

"Yep, easy."

"B-ut it- it's so w-warm a-and n-nic-e."

"Heh, yeah, drugs will do that do you."

"W-hat d-drugs?! I-i don't d-o dru-gs."

I opened my eyes, quickly blinded by the brightness of the room but shook it off as I tried to get up and get the answers I wanted, but before I could even get a few centimetres off the bed, I was being pushed back down again.

"Jeez, easy there Blue, not that kind of drugs, the medical ones." A deep yet comforting voice replied.

Turning to the voice I saw Nightmare sitting right next to my bed, face full of relief. Looking around, I noticed more faces, Cross, Dust, Killer, Horror, Dream, Classic, and Red, each looking at me amused at my reaction. It took me a few seconds to realise what I'd just done and immediately began to blush.

"You know what, I'm not even surprised. Of course, that's the first thing you will say when you wake up."
Killer chuckled out.

That just made me blush even more.

W-wha happen?" I quickly interjected, attempting to steer the conversation.

Dream looked confused. 

"You don't remember?"

"He did get a nasty crack on his skull."

"I g-got wha?"

Classic looked sheepish as he started looking at me.

"Ahh, we should remind you. You see, we had a meeting discussing the whereabouts of Ink and Error. Then well, Nightmare's gang popped in."

Dream continued the conversation, "We discussed the balance and uhh, well, Razz wasn't really happy. You got hit pretty bad." 

Then Red interjected. "Razz- that fucking bastard got trigger-happy and pulled a fuckin' blaster on ya," 

"But, don't worry you're safe now, we took care of you. Dream and Nightmare healed you pretty well, but we were still concerned so we called Sci to check up on you just in case" Cross finished up.

Suddenly everything that happened came back to me all at once, the 'glitched' universe, the meeting, the plan I had for Nightmare and the gang, everyone thinking I was a traitor and being brainwashed, the fight with Razz. I winced.

"Are you ok, are you hurt, what happened?!" Dust rushed to me concern evident on his face.

"Y-yeah, I'm ok. J-just remembered what h-happened today."

I smiled at him, trying to reassure him. I could see in the corner of my eye that everyone was giving each other looks. I was about to ask what that was about until Cross started to speak up.

"Yeah, about that, the meeting was actually a few days ago... You'd been unconscious for 5 days."

"Yeah, got us worried there baby Blue." Killer stepped forward. "Glad to see you decided to show your presence."

What?!  5 days...

"It... it was t-that bad huh?... Y-you guys didn't kill Razz, r-right."

"No, he's not hurt, though some of us did try too, * cough cough * Killer. Heh heh, but you should've seen it. Cross was carrying Killer like he was a puppy." Classic said as he tried to lighten up the mood. 

"Hey!" Killer shouted.

"Aww, man! I wish I had taken a photo, I could have added it to the album." Dust chuckled.

"You do not have a fuckin' album." Killer laughed.

"Ooooh yes, I do short-stack." As Dust pulled out his phone, Killer's face filled with disbelief. Dust was serious, and Killer wasted no time tackling him to the ground.

The two then began to squabble like children. Killer, trying not to get embarrassed further, and Dust, trying to make sure Killer doesn't delete that honestly, precious album. I could see Nightmare getting agitated, making the scene even more hilarious. I started to laugh, plainly a pretty pathetic attempt with my messed up voice and all, but it was a good thing as Immediately after I could tell that the tension still in the air had dissipated. Nightmare even stopped his advancements to stop the fight and just watched as the two continued to bicker.

Man, that album was our little secret from Killer, it was made shortly (Yes pun) after the first time Killer got picked up. That day was when we all realised how short Killer was. Well back then, he was even shorter.

--
(Dust's pov)
"Killer! Killer! Where the fuck are you. Ugh, I swear, every time dinner is almost ready, you disappear and it's like playing hide and seek with a child. Killer! Come on, I know you're here! Horror is gonna be mad if you don't get your sorry ass to dinner! Besides, Error and Blue are here. They are joining us for dinn- AHK!-" I didn't even get to finish my sentence when I heard a swoosh above me and felt a figure crash on top of me.

"Error and Blue is here! Dust, why didn't you say so? I was just gonna ignore you until Nightmare eventually comes and finds me." Killer said with his annoying voice as he said on top of me.

"What the fuck! Get the fuck off me. How did you even-! Where did you even-!" I started to push the idiot skeleton that was proudly sitting on me.

"Came from the tree." He said nonchalantly, which is not even weird at this point.

"... Tree?! Ugh, I don't even wanna know what you do in your free time. Let's just go." I got up and started dragging him to the castle.
--
"Finally found him," I announced to the whole room full of skeletons.

"Wow, that must be a new record, where did you find him this time," Horror asked still preparing the last dish along with Blue.

"Tackled me from a tree 'cause he was just gonna ignore me until I mentioned Error and Blue," I said as I sat next to Cross.

"Damn really, how many times is that now?" Cross asked with a smirk.

"Excuse me?! What?" Did I hear it right?

"Yeah, wait that has never happened to you before???" Blue asked, both turning around looking shocked.

I was about to say no, cause that's not a normal occurrence that happens in my lifetime until Killer answered it.

"Nope. I had to find the right time. I couldn't do it when Dust was first recruited, back then he was insane and very murderous. and over the past years, we haven't been out together where there were trees to climb and jump out of. Oh, plus Dust is so grumpy all the time, just doing that could have ended my existence. I wanted to give Dusty here a very big surprise by doing the furthest I'd ever jumped from... Anyways, hi Bluey nice to see you again, where's Error? I haven't seen him in ages." 

Killer finally finished after dropping that bomb of information on me. Then he has the balls to move on to a completely different conversation. Like hell I'm just gonna move on from that. He planned all of this from the moment I got recruited, and apparently, he's been doing it to the others several times, and not nearly the amount of force he did to me. I was about to answer before I was interrupted yet again.

"I-I'm here t-tears" Error answered as he entered the room.

"Oh, hey Error! I haven't seen you for so long. How have you been?"

"I-I'm do-"

"NO! Wait wait wait wait wait, hold on?! We are not just gonna skip through that whole conversation. How did I not know this?! And yeah, I'm mad, I think falling out of a tree that high would fuckin hurt." 

My eyes started to glow as I prepared a magical attack. It's been a long time since he pranked me. The last time he pranked me, he went too far like he usually does. Then again, he's not doing it intentionally, but still, if he was thinking about this prank when I was first recruited, it can't be good. As I was about to grab him, Error did something that made me completely stop.

"N-no fight-ing, w-we alread-y have e-enough of t-that. R-Relax Dust, H-he has done i-it to all of u-us before (S-some harder t-then othe-rs). Y-You were the last o-one he d-id it to, s-so m-meaning tha-t he likes y-you to m-much t-that h-he c-ares a-about your fee-lings. H-heh, Me and N-night-mare should k-now, He d-didn't e-even th-ink before do-ing it to u-s. I-I a-almost kill-ed him the f-first time he d-did it t-to m-e... W-what? W-why are y-ou a-all s-staring at me li-ke that?"

"Error?... Did you just pick someone up?" I let go of my magic, shocked.

"Y-Yeah? I d-don't s-ee the p-pr-" 

"OH MY GOSH!!! ERROR! This is an amazing step forward!!!! I am so happy for you!!!" Blue shouted, cutting Error off.

"Error. This is great." Nightmare said for the first time since I came back with Killer. He looked at Error so proud of what he accomplished. To be honest, everyone was happy at what Error had achieved. We have been trying for ages to help Error with his haphephobia, even before any of us were recruited. The first couple of years when I first met him, he was still using his strings to communicate, and couldn’t even think of patting people on the shoulders or giving them a hi-five. As time progressed it became much better but this, this is the first time we have ever seen Error willingly hold someone up.

Error seemed to be still confused as he looked at everyone to see why they were so excited, and then his eyes landed on Killer. 

"Hey there, up here's great!" Killer said head turned to look at Error.

Things finally clicked for him as he started to lift Killer up and down. He looked amazed when he didn't glitch.

"Uhh, Hey Erros, 'm happy for you n'all but I would really appreciate it if you stop lifting me up and down like you're trying to make a baby happy." 

"I'm mean, isn't that what Error is doing." Nightmare said rather smugly.

"Fuck you!" Killer then gave Nightmare a death stare.

"Have any of you realised that Killer is actually really short?" Blue piped up.

"Holy shit! Wait! HA, you're right!" I laughed out.

"I'm not that fuckin short."

"Oh really! What? You're like 5 foot?" I said fully knowing that Killer was going to lash out.

"Fuck no! I'm 5.28!"

"Very specific." Cross chipped in.

"H-hey, hey, stop b-bullin-g the child, H-he has a s-short t-temper."

"UHHH, Not you to Error. I thought we were friends." Killer put a hand on his chest sounding devastated. 

Everyone started to laugh, while Killer, still being carried by Error looked unamused.

---
Oh. that's right. It was the day we also took a step to help Error with his haphephobia. That was three years ago... Time really does fly by.

"Blue? Are you with us? We can leave if you want, I know you are still recovering from the injuries." 

I looked up at Dream, realising the fight Between Killer and Dust had stopped and everyone was looking at me concerned again.

"O-oh, s-sorry, I sort of drifted off into my own head for a bit. I'm ok. You guys don't have to leave. I really don't want to go to sleep right now. I actually have a couple of questions. How long am I going to stay here? It can't be for that long right? And you all know that Razz can't be booted off the rescue mission? We need all the help we can get."

I asked. I really want to be out of here as soon as possible. What Razz did was uncalled for and I doubt that anyone would be pleased to see him in the future but when I get better, We will need all the help we can get. Cause I have a bad feeling that it's going to be the hardest rescue mission that we have done.

"I guess it's ok if you don't go to sleep right now. You need to recover from a lot, Razz really did a number on you. We healed you pretty well. To my knowledge maybe just a week and you would be able to leave. With our healing magic and food, it shouldn't take that long. Blue, I understand that you want everyone to help but are you sure that having Razz in the battle when he just attacked you is a good idea? To be honest I don't think most of us here will be able to hold ourselves from attacking him." Nightmare stated.

"I-I see, thank you, guys, for helping me, I'm sure that Razz didn't mean to do that. I just think that over these two months, everything has been going wrong and I know that doesn't excuse what Razz did to me, but just try to work with him for a while. We have never seen anything like this that would take two Gods, let alone the Creator and Destroyer. It's going to be big and like I said, we would need all the help we can get. Besides, if Razz is still a brat, I'll just go and talk to him. Have a little chat about his behaviour." 

"You sure that's a good idea," Dust said.

"Yep. An excellent idea." Only a few people know when I'm truly angry, well, that's not really the case anymore since I snapped at the meeting. Sure I planned to snap but I wasn't supposed to snap that hard. Razz's words did hurt. But besides that, I can be scary if I want to. Error, Ink, Dream and Red should know.

"Oh yea, let 'em, I wanna see Razz's face when ya done chatting with 'em. It's gonna be priceless!" Red chimed in grinning.

"I would like to see that as well, haha, I'm guessing you guys haven't experienced it yet?" Dream joined in with Red.

"Experienced what?" Cross asked confused looking at Red and Dream.

"Yeah, what?" Killer being the nosey person he is asked.

"Nah, don't worry 'bout it, if ya know, ya know. Besides, if you haven't experienced it, the better. Trust me, not a good experience."

"I second that Red. " Dream looked slightly nervous looking at me.

I laughed.

"Now I really want to know," Killer said.

"You will probably find out later in the future." I winked.

"Hey, you can't just sa-"

"Anyways, now that is all sorted, I'm craving to watch a movie. Wanna choose Killer?"

"Movie?! Oh, I'm choosing alright!" 

And there we go, that's all you need to make Killer forget the previous conversation. This week has been stressful even though I wasn't awake for most of it.

As everyone started to get settled, Killer picked Lights Out, which was a horror movie (Good thing I love horror movies) and got it ready on the screen.

"Ya sure a horror movie. Blue and Dream might be pretty terrified." Red asked Killer.

"Don't worry about Blue. Dream, ehh, probably-"

"Hey!" Dream interrupted.

"Yeah, yeah, now you on the other hand, eh, not sure. You might probably cry, heard this movie was pretty scary." Killer grinned at Red.

"Fuck you, Killer! As if I would get scared."

"If you say so."
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The movie was amazing, at first it was really scary but then after finding out it was a demon, it didn't hit the same. So when I found it boring I started to look at the other's reactions. Nightmare and I are alike, both of us like to watch horror movies, so at this point, we hate the same reaction. He just started to read. Killer was just being a maniac, laughing at everything. Cross and Dream were hugging each other, they were scared out of their minds. At this point, I think they forgot that they were enemies. Dust was being his regular self, scared at the appropriate places. Classic and Horror were just uninterested. Not even 30 minutes in they both fell asleep. (I mean, this is what they typically do so, I'm not even surprised) Now Red it the other hand, oh my gosh, it's amazing! Killer was right! Red was hugging Classic like a lifeline, like at any moment another jumpscare was going to be the death of him. I could see him flinch from a mile away. Out of the nine of us here, he's the third most scared, though I have to give him credit here for at least being braver than Cross and Dream. 

I am happy that I have friends like them. I don't know what I would do without them. Maybe once I am all healed up and will save Ink and Error, I can help everyone get along like this and maybe in the future, there will be more memories like this one.

Chapter Text

Currently in the anti-void -

Error’s pov -

Pathetic.

So fucking pathetic. I don’t know what to do. I don't want to hurt any of my friends, more than I already have. It’s risky if I keep going forward with my plan. She’s already suspicious, but it’s not enough. I̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶n̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶e̶n̶o̶u̶g̶h̶. Nightmare… Dust, Horror… Did they even understand anything I said? Did they actually realise it was me who was talking, not just something that their mind conjured up as a trauma response? Heh, I mean it’s unlikely. This whole dreamscape thing is known as only something Nightmare and Dream can do, not me. Why would they think I could as well…

But…if I don’t do anything soon, anything that would alert them to my situation- To our situation. Fate’s going to destroy this multiverse. Destroy everyone in it, and well, start this whole multiverse all over again, right? Because it’s not to HER perfection. 

I’m not a fuckin’ idiot. I remember things… Remember memories that I shouldn’t even be remembering, and it’s certainly not from this current multiverse. These memories scare me. W̶h̶y̶ ̶a̶m̶ ̶I̶ ̶r̶e̶m̶e̶m̶b̶e̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶n̶o̶w̶? M̶e̶m̶o̶r̶i̶e̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶I̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶t̶r̶i̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶g̶e̶t̶. Memories that I’ve done. If nothing is done, all those memories will turn into a reality. I̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶. Than what… We are just going to turn on all our friends. It’s not fair to them…

I mean, it’s fucking already happening. Ink is getting hurt. Fate’s breaking his mind, and well… She’s breaking me too. B i t. B y. B i t.

And, well, I don’t know how much longer we can fight back… 

…

…

…

Fuck it. It’s time, and I don't care if I get even more hurt in the process.

This needs to end now.

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(Dream’s pov)

“Aww, come on, do we have to wake him up? He looks so peaceful.” Killer smiled as he looked at Blue sleeping form. Why did Killer agree to come with me? That’s not what I was expecting.

“As much as I don’t want to Killer. Blue needs to eat, or else he will never heal at this rate.”

“How ‘bout just give him five more minutes,” Killer replied with a pleading face.

I sighed, I looked down at Blue, who was spread out messily on the bed and somehow not in a way that could cause harm to his injuries. I mean, Killer has got a point, he looked so peaceful. Maybe a few more minutes wouldn’t hurt.

“Fine,” I told Killer.

Killer pumped his fist in the air, celebrating his victory. I chuckled at Killer’s antics. He is such a dumbous. I don’t know what my brother was thinking when he was recruiting people. Was it the strength? The Lv? The mindset? How much impact could they make?

Or was it because it was too much for him to handle… Was I hurting him all along… I always thought that my brother was gone. No longer him. That after the apple incident he changed… But maybe he never did change… Maybe when I was spreading positivity, he was just trying to live. Survive. Ink and I were a team, we would stop him. Then, Blue joined, and there was more of a disadvantage. He couldn’t handle it, we were overpowering him. What if Nightmare never tried to get people on his side? What if we continued and he couldn’t spread negativity. What if he died because of m-

“Earth to Dream, Hey, hi, are you in there.” 

I jumped as I was snapped out of it by Killer.

“Yeah, you were awfully quiet there, I don’t know how to explain to the rest that you broke when we were waking up Blue, because they will blame me, and well yeah, lot’s of things, it’s usually my doing, but this time I did not break you.” Killer finished off.

“Heh heh, sorry about that Killer. I was just… Thinking about things, no big deal. I think it’s time we wake Blue up-”

I was shushed by Killer as he pointed a finger up to my mouth.

“Nah, I’m a nosy person and it seems like you wanna say something. So spill it.”

I was really caught off guard. I didn’t know what to say.

“Umm… Well… You know, we are not really close, and well, we were enemies not even five days ago. This just feels… weird.”

“Aww, so you’re saying you still don’t trust us,” Killer looked at me rather smugly.

“Yeah… Exactly that.” I said, staring at Killer directly.

Silence filled the air. Until moments later Killer finally responded.

“Oh shit… W-well, don’t ya want anything, I have juicy intel.” Killer sounded really frantic.

At this point I’m just more confused. Why does he want me to ask? I sighed. For some reason I don’t want to see Killer sad. I’m just gonna humour him.

“You know what? Yeah, I do want to ask something. Is there any reason why Nightmare chose to recruit you guys, like was there a requirement?” 

To my surprise, he didn’t look stunted at the question. I was actually thinking that he was bluffing.

“Ahh, that’s a good question. More over it has changed over the years. I was the first one to be brought in by Nightmare. Even though there was no one left in my world and I had completely nothing to do, I didn’t want to join this goop-covered skeleton to do his bidding. I answer to no one, but I didn’t really have a choice, he kinda forced me.” Killer Paused.

I gasp, I was about to confront Killer until he started to speak again.

“Yeah, sure, he's not the same skeleton you see today, but back then he was the overlord you should’ve been scared of. He had no mercy. Especially when you went against him. I’m not gonna say too much about what happened, but just know, when you first saw me, I was not… totally there. And I know your next question. What changed? What made him stop and actually think. It was actually Error. Heh, Error made sure to get it into Nightmare’s skull about what he was doing all wrong. I mean, yeah, it didn’t work at the beginning. Dust, Error and I are probably the ones that know the best. Dust was recruited when he was still, not the best but it was getting there. Error always knew how to deal with the situation, especially when Nightmare knew that he couldn’t defeat Error, Yeah sure he was evil, but he wasn’t insane. Basically, all I’m trying to say is that Nightmare has changed. It went from recruiting us to gain power and control, to recruiting us because he could sense the confusion, the insanity, the desperation, the loneliness. He wanted to help. Give us a place, a better environment to live in, and all we needed to do is spread negativity.” 

I watched Killer as he finished speaking. He looked blank. Emotionless. I̶'̶v̶e̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶e̶x̶p̶r̶e̶s̶s̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶m̶a̶n̶y̶ ̶t̶i̶m̶e̶s̶ ̶b̶e̶f̶o̶r̶e̶. Yet looking at his soul I could tell everything. It was shaking.

“Did… Did Nightmare regret it?” I asked only to get Killer’s mind off what he was thinking.

“Huh?”

“Like, did he regret doing the things to you. Not having the choice to do anything.”

“Oh, that, Yeah of course, My gosh, it was annoying actually. He would not leave me alone. I’m not a child. Trust me, you should’ve seen him. Not everyone has made the king of negativity look so pathetic because he did something bad. He looked like a puppy begging for forgiveness when they did something bad.” Killer laughed.

“Yeah, back when we were little, people would always say I have the most terrifying puppy eyes, because I could do practically anything with it and I would get it. What people didn’t know is that Nightmare had them too, and I would say, it could rival mine.” I told killer as I thought about back when Nighty and I were kids, talking about anything we could think of as we protected the tree. It was good times.

“Yeah, no shit. Those eyes could do anything.”

Killer and I started to laugh. It’s so weird. Having a conversation like this with the other side. Is this what Blue wanted? As the laughter subsided, silence settled in again. Killer was actually really good to have a conversation with. Know I really feel bad how I acted in the meeting. I should’ve just listened instead of throwing accusations at Blue. That was really uncalled for.

“You know, Killer…I’m- I'm so sorry for being so harsh during the meeting. I never knew that a balance between the sides could exist. I really thought it was an ambush, an elaborate plan Blue had thought up. That one of my best friends betrayed me- Betrayed us. It was terrifying. I didn’t know what to think- What to do. I needed to protect them. So I just accused Blue without hearing him out. I’m a terrible friend.” I finished off, realising that I had been terrible. Like?! What was I thinking, oh, that’s right, I wasn’t.

“Woah, woah, woah, ha, that jumped from a 1 to 100 real quick. Hey, let’s dial it back. First of all, I’m not the one you should be apologisin’ to. Think that’s the one who’s sleeping like a log here. Secondly, yeah, I’ll admit, you were a massive dick, and could’ve handled it better.”

I winced, yeah, that sums it up. Even Killer agrees. Before I could spiral even more I saw Killer’s expression change.

“B-but who hasn’t, I know I have multiple times, and you know what, they all have forgiven me.” Killer rushed out.

“Did they really?” I was confused at the shift in Killers' statements.

“Ok, well, not really. Dust hasn’t, Cross hasn’t either, oh and that one time with Horror where I- Actually, nevermind, forget that. The thing is, it’s Blue. No matter what you do, he will always find a way to forgive you. So, you’re fine. Don’t worry about it cupcake.” Killer finished off rather weirdly. Cupcake? Usually people just say sunshine. I was so confused, as I just blinked at Killer. 

“Ahh, shit, i’m not good at feelings,” Killer said rather frantic.

“No, no… it’s not that. Thank you Killer, for helping. I understand what you’re saying and appreciate it. It’s just- Ahh, nevermind.”

Something in me told me not to mention the weird statement.

“Nevermind, you can’t leave me here with a cliffhanger, tell me. I wanna kno-”

“I fully remember Nightmare said to wake Blue up, not have a little chit-chat,” Classic said as he entered the room abruptly cutting Killer’s sentence short.

“Oh, fuck off.”

“Oh, damn, this one is feisty,” Classic said fully knowing that it would set Killer off.

“Heh, I can be more feisty if you want me too,” Killer said with a manic grin plastered on his face.

I was so confused by what Killer said. What do you mean you’ll mean more feist… Wait a minute…

“...Killer!!!” I shouted out as I finally realised what he meant.

“What, come on, it’s-”

“W-what’s going on?” Blue said as he started to wake up, cutting off what Killer was going to say.

“Welp, that’s one way to wake Blue up,” Classic said as he smiled at Blue. “Good morning sleepy head. How does it feel to be in the land of the living?”

Blue groggily rubbed at his sockets.

“Huh? I-I- Uhh, f-feels like I got run over by a car.”

“I mean, close but no. Change that car into a fuckin’ Gaster Blaster. Same thing if you ask me.” Killer stated.

What? No, they're not similar at all.

“N-no. Cars and blaster are not similar at all. Gaster blasters are 100% more deadly than a car.” I pointed out.

“Well… How ‘bout that. Anyways, how are you doing baby Blue?” 

“D-don’t call me that,” Blue said still half asleep.

“Yep, doing fine. It’s time to eat, you’ve been sleeping like a log. Dream and I were in charge of waking you up, but as you can tell, we got distracted. Horror is probably just about finished making the food. Soooo, let’s say we get you sitting up.” Killer explained to Blue as he moved closer to help Blue up.

“Welp, I’ll leave you guys to it, gonna tell the rest to bring breakfast, or well… brunch. Ehh, you know just bring the food.” Classic said as he started to leave.

I looked at Blue as he rubbed the remaining sleep out of his eyes. He still looked tired, but he looked a lot better health-wise. His wounds were fading, thanks to a bunch of factors. The big crack on his skull was also looking better. Just overall really good. If this keeps up, Blue could be out of the bed by the end of the week. I smiled at the prospect. 

“Alright, that’s it baby Blue.”

“Killer, I said don’t call me that,” Blue said rather annoyed.

“Oh, really, could’ve sworn I didn’t hear ya?” Killer had the biggest mischievous smile on his face.

Blue looked like one more word out of Killer’s mouth, he was going to snap, and since I’m the hero I would never want to put Killer in that situation. So I decided to speak up before anything happened to Killer.

“Alright, alright, that’s quite enough Killer. Blue’s still healing and the others will be here shortly, so let’s set up the tables and chairs so that it won’t be a hassle when they come in.” I told killer as I started grabbing the chairs.

Killer seemed contemplative about whether he was gonna help me, but then one look at Blue, Killer straightened up and started helping me right away. When Blue is angry, I swear he can make people do whatever he wants. I’m restating the fact that, Blue’s scary.

“Ha, now I finally know about what you guys experienced!” Killer shouted.

“Uhh, experienced what exactly?” What is Killer talking about?

“You know, the thing, the thing that you and Red talked about.”

“Ohhh, that no, that wasn’t it,” I said.

“Y-yeah, plus, I’ve been annoyed at you like that many times.” Blue joined in.

“I know, I just wantta be special.” Killer pouted.

“I don’t think you wanna experience it. Plus how have you not experienced it yet? You’re like… Impulsive, you get people easily annoyed. No offense.” I was generally confused, like how?

“None taken, I pride myself for being annoying, I’m really good at it.”

“Yeah, you are.” Blue sounded so done.

“Aww, thanks.”

“S-Shut it. Anyways, yeah Killer’s annoying but I don’t know, my anger is not that high with him, plus some of it is really funny.” Blue stated.

“Wow, not being enough to bring your anger to the top, never heard of. Damn, I broke eveyone else’s anger metre.” Killer said, actually in shock.

“I-I’m resilient!” I smiled as I could hear Blue’s confidence coming back.

“Fuck right you are!” Killer joined Blue with his confidence.

“Alright, let’s get back to setting up,” I said.

Killer and I started to set up again while talking to Blue. Eventually, the conversation shifted into playful banter as Blue and Killer bickered back and forth. I laughed at them as they were on a roll. As we finished, I slowly began to tune them out and drifted into my own thoughts. 

How do I apologize to Blue? I need to do it soon because I feel really bad. I shouldn't have acted like that. Like, what was I thinking?! Oh my... What happens if he doesn't accept my apology? What will I do then? What happens if he hates me for it? He's going to hate me, and... And then everyone will hate me... and- Ugh, get it together, Dream. No. No, Blue won't hate me. Come on, it's just like what Killer said, he will forgive anyone. No, it's okay. I've got this. I've got thi-

"Sorry for the long wait. Cross saw chocolate and you know how that goes.” My thought was cut off as Horror and the rest entered the room.

“Ya know, I never knew Cross can be soooo… Possessive over chocolate?” Red said as he seemed amused and scared at the same time.

“Possessive?” I questioned.

“Ya, he was like hunched over and- and” Red was thinking of a word to describe Cross.

“Like a gremlin.” Dust finished off, smirking.

“Exactly!” Red said as he clicked.

“Hey! It’s not my fault that I haven’t had chocolate in a long time.” Cross tried to defend himself. Not a strong defence if I say so myself.

“That’s why we monitored the amount of chocolate you eat criss-cross,” Killer said smiling.

Cross glared at Killer.

“Ok, that’s quite enough, I’m sure blue is awfully hungry and would love some peace and quiet right about now” Nightmare stated as he started putting the food on the table. 

“N-nah, I’m fine here Nightmare, loving the drama so far” Blue chirped out.

“Of course, why would I expect anything else.” Nightmare rolled his eyes, smiling as he sat down at the chair right next to Blue. Blue started to laugh.

After seeing Nightmare sitting down, everyone else followed.

“Oh yeah. Sci was gonna come but something happened in the Omega timeline that needed his attention, so he said to say sorry to you. He’ll be here in the next few days though,” Classic told Blue.

“O-Oh, no, that’s alright. I understand, I’ll speak to him when he comes back.” Blue replied to Classic.

“Sooo, how did you sleep?” Cross asked.

“I slept well, I feel way better than yesterday.”

And after that, we all started to chat amongst each other. Everyone started to pass the food round.

“Horror, this is delicious! I’d never known you were such an amazing cook!” I said as I couldn’t get enough. 

Horror blushed and thanked me.

“Ya, sunshines right, this is great. Man, wish I had food like this in my underground.” Red chipped in.

“Yeah, well done Horror.” Classic also joined as he sipped his ketchup.

Horror blushed even more. I laughed.

“Yeah! Take the compliments Horror! I would literally DIE without your food.” Killer added.

“J-just eat the damn food.” Horror said begrudgingly.

Laughter erupted around me. I never expected to see Horror blush, out of all things… It seems the multiverse judges without understanding the whole story, and I'm a part of it. We always pose them as the villains, the people that you should run away from if you see them and call us, but, we were the villains that are stopping them from doing their jobs. From balancing the structure. How could I have not realised at all the fact that they haven’t killed a single civilian in such a long time? The last time I remember is when I shared that massive boost of positivity throughout the multiverse. We-I judged too quickly. All this time I thought I was fighting someone who was no longer with me, but he was here all along, or well, present now... Maybe it's time for us to change. Maybe we should show how Nightmare's gang really acted. Maybe we should stop this nonsensical fighting and... Maybe it’s time for a truce between both sides.

...Well, actually not now. Our main goal right now is to find Ink and Error. Still, showing Nightmare’s gang their true colours wouldn’t be a terrible idea. I smiled to myself. Leaving my thoughts in the back of my head, I rejoined the conversation.

“Wait, Blue.” Dust turned to him.

“Y-yeah?”

“I completely forgot to ask you this but why was you’re HP so low?” 

“L-Low?” Blue sounded rather confused.

“Yeah, on that day when we had the meeting, after Razz tried to kill you, you were on 15. There’s no way Razz did that much damage to you with one gaster blaster, and even with you hitting that tree.”

Yeah, wait a minute. Dust is right. There’s no way Razz could have done that much damage.

“Oh, yeah, I noticed that too.” I pointed out.

Blue seemed confused. 

“T-The meeting day, and Razz… I-I was on 15, after that attack…” Blue started to think. “Y-You’re right. There’s no way I should have lost that much HP. I’m pretty sure I was on a stable health point. What could I’ve done to- OH… Oh-... Heh, u-umm, so if I said something stupid like, I don’t know, I didn’t heal myself at all since 4 weeks ago, and been losing HP because of stupid minor tasks, and thought it was unnecessary. Y-You won’t get mad at me… R-Right…” Blue finished as everyone just stared at him.

“H-Hahaha, that would be pretty funny right.” Blue faked laughed as he rubbed his neck.

Everyone was silent for a moment, before all hell broke loose as shouting filled the room. What am I supposed to do with him?

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Blue was doing a lot better compared to a few days ago. He could actually leave the bed. Though we didn't allow him to walk too far. His magic was pretty stable, and the cracks looked healthier. Not to mention his stutters were completely gone. Ever since he revealed that he hadn't been taking care of himself, everyone practically surrounded him like a hawk. I don't think he got a moment of alone time, and rightly so, considering how scared he made us. Even when Sci came back, there were no relieved hellos exchanged, instead, Blue received a full-on lecture about how to take care of himself. He was definitely not happy about that. I could see it in his eyes.

Plus, there was no reasoning that could have stopped Sci, and oh, believe me, Blue tried. I don't think that saying, "I know how to take care of myself," worked in Blue's favour. He really just made his situation worse.

Red and Classic eventually had to leave, which opened up spots for others to check on Blue. Sci was stingy about the number of visitors allowed. It had something to do with the patient's privacy and well-being, especially since he allowed more than he normally would. Among all of them, Wine stayed the longest. As the mother hen, he also gave Blue a lecture about his behaviour. Blue was miserable. Killer, on the other hand, was not. He practically thrived on it, finding every opportunity to annoy Blue. I had no idea how Blue managed to stay sane; his response of "This is normal" only made things worse. I know annoying. Ink is practically the word annoying at the best of times. But this takes it to the next level.
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"So you just live with this?" I asked as I watched Killer mocking and impersonating Wine for the seventh time.

"Yep. You learn to live with it." Cross replied as he just walked away.

"Huh?" I just questioned how sane they all were as I watched Cross leave.
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Reaper and Geno visited frequently as well, but Reaper mainly spoke to me and Nightmare about the balance. As I learned more about it, I began to question why Ink and Error had never mentioned it during our battles. Did they not know it existed? No, that isn't right. Error definitely known. After all, my brother knew about it. Why did he not tell me then? I know we were enemies, but all this fighting could have been avoided if he had just told me. Did Ink know? This is just way too complicated.

"Why didn't you tell me there was a balance? We could have stopped all of this fighting already," I said, hurt that my brother had kept this from me.

"Would you even have believed me if I had told you?" Nightmare replied, turning to face me.

I remained silent, knowing he already knew the answer.

"Yeah, that’s what I thought." He just walked away, leaving me and Reaper just standing there.

Reaper was about to speak, but I didn't give him a chance.

"If that was all for today, I'm leaving. I need to check up on Blue anyway. Talk to you later, Reaper," I didn't even look back as I walked away.

I know our relationship has a long way to go before it will be like what it was back then, but I really thought we were on the path to recovery. When Killer had that heart-to-heart moment with me, he said that in the past, Nightmare was the type of person you should be scared of. I can't help but think back to that time, I still believed that the black covered skeleton wasn’t my Nightmare. That the black apple he consumed had also consumed him, and that my brother was just inside, behind the sludge. Just trapped. Screaming for help. Screaming for me to save him. The only reason I stopped thinking that was because I began to see the Nightmare I remembered. Bit by bit. Fight by fight. He started to change. I can't remember the last time I saw Nightmare and his gang actually kill someone. They used to massacre the entire underground without any hesitation. It's been years. Was I really so blind that I couldn't see this? They only started to kill again after Classic's world finally reached its happy ending. It brought hope to the multiverse, showing that not all hope was lost and that it could be achieved. That recent positivity boost came not long before Ink and Error were taken. It was around that time that Blue started to act... Differently. I can worry about recovering my and my brother's relationship later. Currently, there are more important matters to tend to.

First, I need to apologise to Blue. I said I would do it after dinner four days ago, but I’ve been putting it off. Secondly, be a decent friend, and well, lastly, just be a decent person... Frankly, I’m scared. I don't want to say anything that could harm my relationship with Blue even further. I've been a really bad friend lately. I know I'm not the most observant person, but I can tell that Blue has difficulty making eye contact with me. He's upset at me, and I am too. This will be the first time since the whole Razz incident that Blue and I will be together, just the two of us, without any other skeletons interrupting to break the tension.

I took a deep breath as I reached the room where Blue was staying. Killer had insisted on putting a whiteboard on the door to decorate it for Blue. I smiled as I looked at the messages written on the board. I couldn't help but laugh again at what Classic had written for Blue: "Don't Wine, you'll be fine." Another reminder about Wine's lectures. There were also many crude drawings of Blue scattered across the whiteboard. Some looked more cursed than others. I zeroed in on a specific message. "Recovery is full of ups and downs. There is no such thing as a linear life. But you can always turn your setbacks into setups to come back stronger.” Nightmare had written that one. Apparently, it was part of a book that he and Blue enjoyed reading.

My happy mood was suddenly shattered when I realised how broken my relationship with my brother had become. One of my best friends now has a better relationship with him than I do. We no longer sit together under the tree of feelings, laugh as we explore the surrounding forest, or go to the lake to splash each other. All of that was just part of a distant memory.

I sighed. No more negative thoughts, Dream. I bumped my forehead, trying to clear my mind. Everything is in the past now; the only thing I can do is just keep going. I was about to open the door when it opened first. Blue stood there, about to walk by, but paused when he saw me.

"O-Oh, Hi Dream. I swear, I'm only going out to put away my plate, nothing more. Did Sci or Wine send you here? They always know when I get out of bed. It's crazy, like do they have a camera watching me?" Blue said as he tried to laugh it off.

"I'm not sure if I believe you, last time you were out of bed for like 5 hours and cooking yourself a meal," I said, looking exasperated at the reasoning

"Ok, yeah, that was completely my fault. I thought I was good to go. Since you know, I was feeling much better." Blue smiled at me.

I stayed silent, making sure that Blue knew that was not a good reason. Magical sweat started to appear as I continued to stay silent. I sighed.

"Yeah, alright, and no, Sci and Wine did not send me here. Wine left two hours ago, and Sci left with Dust and Cross to take a look at what Core had asked them about. I actually wanted to talk. Just the two of us." Blue appeared relieved, but then tensed as he heard my words.

"Of course. Come in." He said as he placed his plate on the table and walked back to his bed.

I walked in and closed the door. Why is this so awkward?

"Are you feeling much better?" A simple yet effective answer.

"Yeah, Sci said I would be able to do prolonged activities again." He laughed, "The first thing I'm going to do is have a talk with Razz about his little stunt." He said with a devilish grin.

I gulped, fully aware of what that meant. Despite knowing what Razz did, I still felt bad for him. Having Nightmare's gang visiting you would have been better than what Blue would surely do to him.

"You should record it. You know, for blackmail purposes." I smiled, not registering what I said.

"Who are you, and what did you do to Dream! You really brought your inner Reaper there." Blue was impressed.

I was confused. Brought my inner Reaper??? Oh... Oh, yeah, I really did bring my inner Reaper there, didn't I?

"I've been hanging around Reaper way too much, I swear." I started to laugh, and Blue joined.

This was nice. For a moment, everything felt ok again. Ink was in the other room on a creative spree, Blue wasn't hurt, and there was no multiverse search going on for the two gods. It was just a normal. Fine. Day...

But... That would just be wishful thinking, wouldn't it?

I glanced at Blue, who began to look out the window. I followed his footsteps, looking out at the beautiful scenery. Sci, like me, had been living in the doodle sphere for a long time after his au became too unstable for him to stay there. Eventually, Ink had the brilliant idea of transforming a dead au into a place where Sci could live and conduct his research without interruptions. Sci was thrilled about this concept. This is how this au was created into what it is today. Originally, it was intended to be just Sci's home and laboratory, but over time, he turned it into a kind of healing centre, a hospital. People from the Omega timeline started to work for Sci. Then it spread through the multiverse.

There was so much going on, I didn't even question why Sci didn't even flinch when Nightmare's gang came to he's au. I'll just have to ask him later. I sighed for the third time today. I can't afford to be distracted anymore; I need to do this now, or I may never get it done. This shouldn't be this hard. No more being scared.

"Blue," I called his name to get his attention.

"Yeah." He said, without looking at me, as he continued to gaze out the window.

Now or never.

"I... I-...I'm sorry." I waited for him to show any movement. I didn't want to read his emotions; I wanted it to be real. But he showed no reaction. I panicked.

"I'm very sorry, Blue, and I know that’s not enough. I’ve been such a terrible friend lately, and I don’t want to keep walking on eggshells anymore. I should have listened to you. You had all the facts laid out right in front of you, and you presented them with such confidence and evidence. Yet, I still didn’t listen. I never meant to ignore you. You have never steered me wrong, and I have always trusted you. But this time, I just shut down. There was too much going on, and not just today. It's just too much all these two months, and at that moment, everyone was just looking at me as if I were supposed to be the beacon of light.

I felt your emotions, and they revealed the truth. But for some reason, my mind just wouldn’t accept it. I couldn’t comprehend it. If you were telling the truth, then that meant my brother had actually been there the whole time, not just there, but since I woke up from the stone. I tried to believe he was gone. At first, I had no hesitation, but there were times my mind would falter and insist that my brother was standing there. I forced myself to believe he was gone, and if you were right, that would mean I had been a terrible brother, just like how I’ve been a terrible friend to you.

A-And, I know that’s no excuse for not believing one of my best friends. I was scared, I was tired, and I was being an idiot. So, I’m sorry. I’m truly sorry for never apologising before. I was afraid I had broken our relationship, and if I apologised, that would have solidified the fact that it was broken. So, you can be mad at me all you want, because I'm mad at myself, too!

All of this. All of the fighting between Razz would have never happened! If I just listened to you. I was just like Razz. You would never have got hurt. Everything that led up to this point is my fault! I-I just never thoug- I just didn't think-" I was interrupted by two hands on my shoulders. I looked up, realising that I had been looking down in the first place. Blue was no longer sitting; he was standing and looking at me with blue magic dripping from his eyelids. Just as I was about to speak again, Blue started first.

"Y-You really are an idiot, Dream! Just a big, dumb idiot. I was never mad at you, Dream. Never at one point. All of this wasn't your fault. You don't have control of Razz, of anyone. This was out of your control. Razz is just a fucking dumbass that needs to get a grip on life. You will never be like Razz. You were trying so hard, so hard to keep everything afloat these couple of months. I should have known the stress was getting to you. I was just disappointed. Disappointed that you didn't believe me. But I will never be mad at you. There is no way I'm ending our friendship after a stupid misunderstanding. So you dumb fool! I forgive you!" Blue tackled me onto the bed as he began to cry even harder. I looked at him, started to hug back, and let out everything I had been trying to hold back since the beginning.

"Y-You're not a b-bad friend or a bad b-brother. Y-you never will b-be. Got it, Dream. So, stop thinking stupid." After Blue said his final statement, I lost it. We both lost it.

We both cried as we leaned on each other, like our lives depended on it. I felt as if a weight had been lifted from my shoulders, making me feel lighter than I had in a long time.

The next thing I know, my eyes started to close on their own. I have a faint memory of someone with a red glowing soul tucking me and Blue into bed, but I will probably forget about it by the next day.

There are still many things and numerous problems that need to be addressed, but for a moment, everything felt okay, and it was nice to rest.