Oh yes~
This is gonna be SOOO fun to write.

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"So, Indigo, are you ready?" Dream asked quietly.

"Heck yeah. We should probably wait for Ink to get everyone together though, for maximum drama," said Nightmare.

"I like drama," Lust muttered. "It's fun." (For once I agree with Lust lol)

"I just wish I knew what's going to happen," grumbled Red.

"Okay, Nighty, just wait until Ink starts the meeting. Then we can start the drama, and it'll be very entertaining," whispered Dream.

"Got it. I'm going to text the boys now though. They promised not to kill or maim anyone," Nightmare whispered back.

"Thank you for making them promise. Can you make them promise not to hurt anyone unless they attack them? I feel like that would be safer, as we really don't want to be on everyone's bad side any more than we already will be."

"Yeah, I'll do that. Now hush and let me text them."

Dream hushed, and he kept a careful eye on Ink as he made his way over to the speaker's platform in the meeting hall. The meeting was about to officially start.

"HEY! GUYS! MEETING'S STARTING!!! GET OVER HERE!" Ink shouted, trying to be heard over the many groups of people chatting.

Almost everyone quieted down, and the few who didn't were hushed by their friends and soon were also quiet. Within a minute, the meeting hall was nearly silent other than small clicks of bone and shuffling, and of course the ambient music, which was very similar to that of the Doodle Sphere - after all, it was located there.

"Hey guys! I called you here for a reason- one of our fellows, Blue and his brother, Stretch, were taken by Error- um, what is it Dream?"

"I have an announcement of my own to make. Error didn't take Blue and Stretch. And if y'all won't listen, then I'm leaving," said Dream. "In fact, I'm leaving either way- I refuse to stay with a person who would attack with one of their friends in the crossfire. I would rather stay with my brother. He might be considered evil, but at least he's got a policy of leaving nobody behind, and he checks to make sure that he won't hurt his friends."

Ink looked rather stunned, and he just stood there, like a deer in the headlights.

"NIGHTY GET OVER HERE!!!"

"Fine, I'm coming, I'm coming," grumbled Nightmare as he made his way over to the platform. He climbed up onto it and stood next to Dream.

"You're scared of Nightmare because he makes you feel all 'bad' emotions and he is a 'relentless killer' right? Well, he's been here for this entire meeting- chatting with some of you, chilling, and he hasn't harmed a single person," said Dream. "Hey Nighty, wanna talk to them, or do you want to get out before they get over their shock?"

"We should probably leave- I'd prefer to not have to call in backup. Even with a promise, Horror and Killer are rather unreliable."

"Lust and I want to come with you," said Red. "We don't want to be in danger of being in the wrong place at the wrong time with Ink. It seems that it's safer with you, and I may not trust Nightmare, but I trust you Dream. So may we come with you?"

"Of course, the more the merrier! Just come over here, Nighty and I will be portalling us."

Lust and Red joined them on the stage, and the Dreamtale bros began to open a portal. They did it together to make it extra dramatic, as their opposing magic created cool swirling effects in the air as the portal formed.

The group then stepped through into Nightmare's castle, and they immediately closed the portal to prevent anyone following them.

"Well, welcome to my castle."
"Hey boys! Get over here! We have some new people to greet!!!"

"Coming Boss!"

"Who'd ya bring?"

"Did you get food while you were out?"

*SENPAIIIIII* (Cross?! Lol)

The group of 'evil' skeletons ran in from different parts of the castle,

"Killer, Dust, Cross, Horror, Raspberry-"

"HEY! I TOLD YOU, DON'T CALL ME RASPBERRY!"

"The original Fell Sans is here, so I'm not going to call you Red. Besides, Swap Sans is Blueberry, and since you wear a dark magenta colored outfit, you can be Raspberry. See? Perfectly logical reasoning," said Nightmare.

"Fine," said Raspberry, rather annoyed.

"Now, back to introductions. Gang, this is my twin brother, Dream, and those two are Red and Lust. They're on our side, yes, even Dream."

"Why are you and Dream suddenly getting along?" Killer asked. "Normally you're fighting like Ink and Error."

"We've never truly been enemies. We just pretend, to keep everyone safe. But now, the Multiverse is in grave danger, and we can't do that anymore.

"If we let Ink create any more AUs, hundreds of thousands will die without cause," added Nightmare. "We have to find a way to stop the creator. If we don't, then AUs will crash into each other, and entire AU lines will be destroyed."

"Imagine the Multiverse as... well, honestly I can't think of how to describe it, so I'll just draw it," said Dream. "This is a really simplified version, because I didn't want us to be standing here all day."

"Ink doesn't make new AUs- he just makes copies of the original ones with slight changes. The main reason we don't see the Judges of those AUs is because they are rather weak compared to those of original AUs and can only leave their AUs if they are destroyed, and if that happens and they survive, they end up in the Omega Timeline," added Dream.

"Original timelines- like ours- can't be destroyed by anything except some very rare, very powerful occurrences when they become unstable. Dreamtale, where Dream and I come from, was a good example of an unstable timeline. Freshtale, where that 90's parasite comes from, was another. Aftertale, where Geno comes from, was destabilized and is now gone, and Xtale, Cross's home, is extremely unstable as well, but it hasn't 100% self-destructed yet. Inktale and its kin were destroyed by... something, but we don't know what," said Nightmare.

"I wish Lusttale would get destroyed," muttered Lust.

"Yeah, me too. Sadly, everyone is rather scared of Lusttale though, so I doubt that'll be happening anytime soon," said Dream. "Ink never made any copies of it, thankfully."

"Error is terrified of Lusttale. I think any sane person is, really," said Nightmare. "I'm the GOD of fear and I'm scared of Lusttale."

"I'm from Lusttale yet it still scares me," said Lust.

"Yup. Nobody likes Lusttale," said Horror. "Now can we go back to explaining why the Multiverse is going to shatter into a bazillion pieces?"

"Yes, sorry about getting off topic," said Dream. "Now, where were we?"

"We were getting to how unstable our Multiverse is," said Nightmare.

"Thank you Nighty. Actually, I think we covered all that we can, really. We can't say anything about it, and to go any farther would require explaining it."

"This would be a good time for Fresh to randomly pop in," muttered Nightmare.

Fresh did not show up.

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I'm tired. It's barely noon and I'm already tired. Lovely.

- Snow ❄️

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