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The Star Sanses have been quiet the lately and it was getting on Nightmare's nerves.

The Gang has been destroying AUs non stop for 1 year now and for the last weeks they hadn't been showing up to try to 'save' the AUs.

The Void Guardian (he was not the Negative Guardian, not anymore, he doesn't care what Dream say) has been having a bad feeling about it, a really bad feeling.

His Mother has also been very quiet lately.

He was confused, first his mother told them that they need to destroy the AUs faster, and now she wasn't talking to them?

...Fate does something to her? But that wouldn't made sense, Fate's strings can't affect void, the only reason Error was under her command was because the Anti-Void mess up with the void in his Soul.

Maybe Reaper would know something? He knows that the other god can also talk with his Mother thanks to the soul bound that have with Geno before he turns into Error, so maybe he would know something Nightmare don't? Maybe Void thought it's was something they don't have to know for now?

...Maybe she finally found a way to free Error from Fate's strings?

Nightmare's soul jumped at the thought of his brother finally free from Fate's clutches, that they could finally abandon this ungrateful multiverse and go to the one universe that neither Fate nor Ink could enter, his Mother, to go to Undertale and be safe under the protection of her void.

But he also knows better than believe in such a childish thought, Fate's grip on Error was too strong and his mother couldn't get rid of it without hurting the other skeleton or worse, and hurt them was the last thing she wanted to do, none of them know if Error would heal properly once if they ever tried that.

Maybe something happens in Undertale, he remembers vaguely to her being mad at Frisk for something, maybe she just decided to finally stop the actions of his so-called sibling?

Ugh ...Thinking into it too much won't magically tell him what he wants to know, his mother would tell them once she decided to let them know, Void still a deity and even Fate has a reason for her terrible actions, his mother has to have a reason for her silence.

And talking about silence...

His brothers have been quiet for a few minutes now ad that was never a good thing.

What the hell they broke this time?

Making his way out his office, he makes his way through the convoluted castle, dark corridors and stairs that would make anyone get lost, but that for him and his kind it was as natural to walk through them as to breathe.

Nightmare himself design the castle to be like that, just a few zones were meant to be habitable, the rest were just empty rooms and labyrinthine corridors made especially so that if his home were ever found, he and his family would have enough time to flee somewhere else.

The smell of food was the first thing he noticed as soon as he reached the lower part of the castle.

The second he notices it was the abnormal silence, just a quiet mumbling was overheard while he walks to the living room.

Then, he feels the void of his mother.

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The first thing Error remember, even before the white emptiness of the Anti-Void, even before the pain of Fate's strings around his Soul, he remembers being surrounded an endless darkness.

He remembers the feeling of being scared of the darkness, then, something change and the darkness (the void) stop feels like a prison and was home.

(There was another darkness that feels like home but in a different way, but for his life he can't put a name or a face to that darkness).

Somehow that made everything better and worse once Fate left him in the Anti-void.

His Soul felt like it burned every time it was in direct 'contact' with the Anti-void, one of the favorites punishments Fate gave him when he didn't destroy universes the way she likes. The void in his Soul always trying to get away from the harmful 'light' that encompassed everything in sight.

The Voices were... not as bad as they could be.

Oh, they made sure he knew how despicable his actions were, forced or not, they loved to remind him that he was hated by everyone in the multiverse, that no one would miss him if he died, that no one missed him from where Fate took him.

Except ... that wasn't true.

Yes, before he met Nightmare and the Gang, before they become his family, he was alone, forced to destroy and restricted himself to let Ink beat him each time they have the disgrace of meet in an AU.

But he never come to believed that no one miss him or no one was looking for him from wherever he come from, even trapped in the Anti-void he could feel something (someone) trying to reach him, trying to find him, someone care for him outside the hell that was the Anti-void...

But even knowing that didn't lessen his surprise to learn that he had a mom of all things.

A mom that, right now was telling him b̵u̶l̷l̶s̵h̵i̸t̴

"Did HaVIng All These ChildREn FinALly Get OvER Your HeAd? BeCAuSe I SeE No Way That You of All PeOpLE Come to TeLL Me To Walk DiReCTly To My DeAtH, WITH My BrOThers With Me No LeSs!"

"I know it sounds bad Error, but it's the only way we have found to free you from Fate, and please breathe, you are glitching and worrying your brothers"

"ThEY aRe goINg to be moRE wORriED as SooN tHEy knOW WHat yOU aNd DEsTINy wANt uS to Do!"

"...My child, please listen to me"

That make him go quiet, they mom always call them by name when she talks directly with them, it was her way of showing them that she saw them as individuals, that they were not just a hive mind that had to do what she wanted when she wanted, that they had the freedom to do what they wanted with their lives...

"Please trust in me, you know that if there was another way to free you from Fate I would never ask you to do something like that, but I'm sick of seeing you and your brothers get hurt by Ink and his blind followers"

But what kind of life could he have while was under Fate's power? He was being unreasonable, his mother was offering him the chance for freedom he always wanted, and besides, she is the last person who would want to hurt him on purpose ...

"... ArE yOu... sURe of THis? I would be free after this?"

There were gasps of surprise throughout the room, but Error ignored them in favor of hearing Void's next words.

"I promise you, after this you will never have to worry about Fate anymore, you and your brothers will be safe"

"...Ok then, please tell us how this plan is going to work". He finally said before sitting next to Cross, the youngest simply put his hand on his arm, his haphephobia had improved over the years but he did not think he could deal with more touch than that in his current state.

As her mom told the others of her and Destiny's plan, Error was busy recapitalizing everything he had learned in the last few minutes.

Void had learned of Ink's plan to ambush them, a desperate attempt to kill him and capture the rest of the Gang and decided to use the ambush for his own benefit.

She wanted them to go straight into that trap and fight practically every Judge in the Multiverse, two gods and a bloody ball of energy with the strength of a Sans and the stamina of a Papyrus.

He and the boys were strong, but not invincible.

That... was really the part when he stops listen to her, so he really doesn't know how she intends to take advantage of that ambush to free him.

As he expected, the rest of the Gang was also upset by such a request from Void, even Nightmare, who was the one who had the most respect for her, refused at first to listen to her plan.

It took a little longer to convince them to listen to her, none of them liked the idea even if said idea of freeing Error was so tempting, they were not like the Destroyer, they could leave whenever they wanted and leave him alone with his ungrateful work.

But they would never do that, and that was what made them agree in the end to listen to their mother's plan, she sounded so confident and the payoff for it sounded so good and they were so tired even when they didn't say it, did they really have a choice at this point of their lives?

So, they listen.

The plan was simple, Ink planned to create an empty copy of Undertale, if he and the Council did not achieve their goal, they planned to let the AU collapse with Error (and in the worst case the rest of the Gang) inside.

That's where Void came in, being a copy of her Universe, she could enter the code and take advantage of all the magic that used for that fight.

Magic that, combined with her own and Destiny's magic, she would use to lead them out of the Multiverse, where Fate's threads could not follow them.

The answer to that last part was silence, and perhaps not so surprisingly, resignation.

In recent years, failed and discarded plans, years of just having themselves and their mother against the hatred of a multiverse of blind judges, they had resigned themselves to the fact that whatever results they might have they were not going to like at all.

Separating from the same entity that gave them in one way or another a reason to live, that led them to a family that could accept them when everyone else had turned their back on them...

Void had been there for Nightmare when the abuse of the villagers had become too much and his own 'brother' refused to believe him and take his side.

Void was for Horror after his brother handed him over without hesitation to Undyne in exchange for food.

Void was there for Dust after his AU stopped forgetting resets and instead of blaming Frisk or Chara for the Genocide, they blamed him and attacked him.

Void was there for Killer after his soul remain fused to Chara's, even when reset after reset happened, when in each of them the monsters around him accused him of stole a human soul out of sheer selfishness, completely forgetting who they were talking about, never let him the chance to explain anything.

Void was there for Cross after his AU was destroyed, not before everyone he trusted and loved betrayed him and tried to kill him for following their plan, she was there keeping him company in the immense white drowning out Chara's hateful voice.

And Void was there for Error even when he didn't remember her, and he knew in his soul that she had been there for him too when he was at his lowest point.

And if the idea of leaving her hurt for them, the idea of separating from their children must be destroying her.

They were not her creations, not like Undertale, but they had her void in their souls, they were her children and she loved them just the same (and a selfish part of them liked to believe that she cared more for them than for the original Universe).

All this time that she hadn't talked to them, she did it because she felt ashamed that the only way she had found to help them was basically to abandon them in some unknown multiverse with nothing more than what they could put in their space pockets.

But sincerely? The only better options than that was after all these years to find some way to cut Fate's strings and hide in Undertale, probably living the rest of their lives in fear that Fate would try again to take them or even more impossible, do for Ink to finally hear (and believe) them about the Balance of the multiverse...

The more thought about it, Error knew they didn't have many options, this multiverse was his mom's, but Fate was stronger than her outside of her domain and even that was limited considering that, even if couldn't enter, Ink still could observe Undertale.

"I'll do it"

That got everyone's attention, even his mother's void seemed to freeze, she probably didn't expect him to be the first to accept.

"I know you wouldn't propose this to us if you weren't completely sure that it is our best option, not when it involves us separating from you." Then he looked at his brothers, those who had decided to be by his side trying to maintain balance, who could easily have abandoned him at any time and never did. "I want you to know that if you decide not to accompany me, I will understand it completely, you have already been hurt too much by me, you deserve better than ending up dragged to another universe because of me"

Dust's voice cut him off before he could say something else. "Bold of you to assume that this 'beautiful' talk will prevent us from following you to punch the Star Shits in the face one last time, much less leaving you alone in a completely unknown multiverse."

"Dust's right knowing you, you will end up creating a cult simply by being you" Horror laughs a little after saying that, probably remember the time that something like that actually happen.

How would he have known that Helltale and its copies had been worshiping him since its Sans found out about him and waiting for he to come destroy them?

The talk only branched out from there, Void didn't push the plan further, they answer was obvious.

Another week passed before Error could feel a copy of Undertale form and hear the Voices yelling at him to go destroy it (something they had never done before), Void hadn't left them all that time, wanting to seize the last moments that she would have with them.

Opening a portal to apparently empty AU, Error took a last look to his home, for years the castle had been his refuge from the whiteness of the Anti-Void, whenever he was forced to return to the endless whiteness he only wished to return here soon and have his family close, leaving it behind almost felt like leaving another member of his family behind as strange as it may sound.

"We're ready?" Killer said beside him, his knife already out.

"...Yeah, everyone has everything?" Since they were not coming back, they had made sure to put everything important in their space pockets, among those things was a necklace that their mother had made for them a few days before, filled with her void in pure form, a parting gift to be they would put as soon as they were in the other multiverse.

After everyone checked one last time and confirmed they had everything, the portal widened and they entered.

Whatever will happen today, he only has one thing clear.

One way or another, today he and his brothers will stop being the scapegoats of the multiverse condemned by Fate.

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Edit: Gramatical mistakes has been fixed.

I change a bit the stories of the Dark Sanses, just because I felt bad separating Horror from his brother for no good reason and ended up changing the others too I think Cross is the only one to remain 'canon' in his origin.

But yep, the next one is the ambush and then we go to Hollow Knight!!