"When we last left our Trio, Weaver and Hope finally got sleep. X was angsting as he still couldn't sleep, and a new player entered town!
Who is this mystery person... A friend? A foe? Or am I just being being overdramatic?
Also, we welcome to the Storyverse a special visitor... SkyTheAlmighty!!!" Fire exclaims dramatically.

"Visitor? I'm offended," says Sky. "What makes you think I'm leaving?"

"Because we can kick you out," says Snow, giving the newcomer an icy look.

"Relax, I'm joking," says Sky cheerfully. "Besides, that'd be cold," she adds, grinning.

"Hey guys," Fire says as she wanders in, squealing over the sleeping Weaver and Hope.

"They're cute when they're sleeping," Sky says, giggling.

"Yup. And the fluffy baby bean is also adorable," says Snow, awwing over the tiny bundle of brown fluff.

"Just wait till Hope wakes. Instant chaos," Fire snickers before eating a Snickers bar.

"Chaos, chaos, I can do anything!" Sky laughs in Jevil's voice. "I'm Sky. Nice to meet ya," she says in a normal voice, introducing herself.

"Right, another fangirl... okay, now who are you?" X asks the Pokémon at the cave entrance.

Snow nods. "Should we wake them up, you think?"

"Please DON'T!" X begs the Creators.

"Let's find out who the person outside is first," Fire suggests, wondering who the bedraggled person from the end of the last chapter is.

"I'm Frisk," says the tiny Eevee.

"Frisk, huh? Bet you're frisky," X cackles, his bad joke waking Weaver- who whaps him on the head. "OWWWW!"

"Pfft," snickers Sky. "Weaver, calm down, it was just a pun. Don't f-risk it."

"Why do you do this?" Weaver groans. "And don't you DARE wake Hope."

"Too late," Hope singsongs.

"Puns, yeah!" Sky says, grinning.

"They're puntrocious," Hope chirps.

"Hope, I swear, if you start singing," Weaver grumbles.

"Fine, fine..." Hope says, pouting.

"No, they're puntastic," Sky corrects.

"We got a skele-ton of them," Hope continues.

Frisk sweatdrops as only characters from anime and game omniverses can.

"Good, 'cus my well of puns is BONE-dry," Sky shoots back.

"I've heard better," X says, unimpressed. After all, he's lived with the Meme Squad.

"Will they ever stop?" Frisk whispers to X.

"Nope," he whispers back.

Weaver groans. "Stop with the puns already!"

"Awwwwwwww," Hope says, his ears drooping.

Sky laughs. "I'm not stopping, I'm on a roll," she jokes, perched on a cinnamon roll seat.

"Really?" Weaver deadpans. "Also- sorry bro."

"I'll live, nice to meet you Frisk!" Hope says in all his hyper glory.

Snow facepalms, before calmly grabbing one of the cinnamon rolls from Mel and Kay's destructive rampage and taking a bite.

Weaver smiles at Hope's happy attitude and Sky continues to grin widely and infuriatingly.

"It's nice to meet you," says the Eevee quietly, looking up at the taller Pokémon.

Hope, meanwhile, has pulled a book labeled 'Pranks' from his item pocket to plan for Dream. He uses a claw to scratch out 'Tarred and feathered' from the list.

Weaver floats midair. "Nice to meet you too."

"More fluffy things," Fire muses from where she is covered by her plush collection.

Sky sips her eggnog like it's a slurpee, laughing internally at the soon to be chaos. She then throws a marshmallow at Fire.

"Oh! Hi other Chara!" X exclaims excitedly, seeing a red-eyed Banette staring at him from just outside the cave mouth.

Fire sighs and flicks it away, causing it to somehow escape the Storyverse and fly towards X.

"Hi!" Hope says, waving at the new ghost.

"Chara, it's okay," says Frisk.

X catches the marshmallow on one of his twig-horn-things.

"But- marshmallows are fluffy!" Sky protests.

Weaver jumps. "Uh- sorry, I didn't notice you. Hi there, Chara."

"We are visitors from the Planet Z!" Hope says dramatically.

Weaver groans. "These references.." he mutters sotto voce.

"How about we have a Tardis, want to be a companion?" Hope asks hopefully.

Chara slinks into the cave, hiding in their partner's shadow.

"Oh my stars! Doctor Who, I haven't seen that in so long!" Sky exclaims, her eyes sparkling.

"Chara doesn't speak," says Frisk softly. "Something about how they became a Banette prevents it."

"Banettes do have the mouth thing," Weaver points out. "That's probably not too fun. I wish I could help, but I can't do much."

"Aww... That's not fair, what about sign language?" Hope asks, pulling out a giant book labeled 'Sign language for idiots.'

"Hope, that literally says 'for idiots' on it," says Weaver.

"That means even idiots can learn it," Hope protests.

"So you're calling Frisk and Chara idiots?" Weaver asks.

"No, silly! It's a book series for everyone!" Hope huffs.

Chara shakes their head no, they don't want it.

"Well then, apparently everyone's an idiot according to that book." Weaver once again points out.

"I thought that was obvious?" Fire asks.

"Pfft-hahahaha!" Sky laughs out loud.

"I can kinda speak to them... but not much, it's more just feelings and images," says Frisk in explanation.

Sighing, Hope puts the book away, then he pulls out another called Fourth Wall Breaking, 6th Edition- by Shell.

"Hope, no," says Snow firmly. "You are NOT summoning Shell right now."

Fire somehow looks over Hope's shoulder, then edges away. That way leads to insanity, it's probably only safe for Swap Sanses- and Lea- to read.

"I'm not... I'm trying to get the hammer," Hope replies.

"Oh no," Weaver groans, facepalming with his tail.

"You sure?" Sky grins. "I'm gonna ban ya for that."

"That's even more of a no!" Snow groans. "That thing could destroy a world at full power, Hope. We DON'T want that, okay?"

Several multiverses away, Shell decides to lock his multiverse away for the moment.

"Was that a pun?" Weaver asks Sky.

"...no?" Sky replies with a shrug.

"Sky? That pun was terrible," says Snow distractedly.

"But I want to hit DS!Dreamy with it," Hope sighs.

"Even bird-boy will die if you hit him with that," says Snow exasperatedly.

"Don't kill anyone again, please?" Weaver groans.

"Pooo..." Hope grumbles, putting the book away. He then smiles, and looks at Chara with a toothy grin.

"Again?" Frisk and X say in unison, staring at the Zorua.

"Again what?" Hope asks innocently, you can even see a halo.

Then the battery dies, so Hope kicks it away.

Snow sighs.

Weaver takes the halo. "That was from my Halloween costume! How dare!"

Fire sips her caffeine, amused.

"Um... that's from the Storyverse. I even have a receipt, see?" Hope says, holding up his receipt.

"That says it's for a box of whoopie cushions," says Frisk.

"Whoops... wrong one," Hope says, digging in his wallet. "AHA! Found it!"

Sky grins like Reaper, slurping yet another slurpee.

"I bought it, you crossed out my name, look!" Weaver says, snatching the receipt and pointing to a crossed-out part.

"How is a Zorua carrying a wallet, anyway," Snow mumbles.

"Subspace pockets," Fire says, laughing.

"...logical," Snow grudgingly admits.

"My money though," Hope giggles.

"No, you stole that from me too!"

"Actually it was Hope's money," Fire finally says.

"I was sick that day, remember Weaver? I asked you to pick it up," Hope replies truthfully.

"Anything goes here, haha," Sky says, taking another slurp of her slurpee.

"And how come I don't remember that?" Weaver shoots back.

"Hope, give it here. And stop trying to look like a bush," Snow says. "And that's because Echo and exploding potions."

"...Fine, you win," Weaver says, giving in.

"Echo as in Echotale Sans? G?" Sky questions.

Hope sniffs, flattening his fur.

"Nope. Not him," says Snow.

"Wait... what were we doing again?" Hope asks, confused.

"G's cool though," Sky points out.

"Uhm... Meeting Frisk and Chara." Weaver explains.

"Echo's... well, nobody really knows where he came from. But he's good at making potions, and they either work perfectly or explode," explains Snow.

"I like him already, explosions are cool," Sky says, grinning wider.

"So how can we help you?" Hope asks, as if they hadn't just been discussing that he'd killed someone before.

"It's just really cold... I was hoping that Chara and I might be able to stay here for the night, if you don't mind," Frisk says softly.

Chara nods in agreement, miming shivering.

"The more the merrier! Have some berries!" Hope cheers, pointing at the giant pile of berries they'd collected.

"When did we collect those...?" Weaver asks, confused.

"Um... while we were waiting for Snow a while back," Hope responds.

"Fair enough," Weaver says.

"And I've got to go for a bit! Don't mind me!" Sky chirps, snapping her fingers.

"Bye," chirps Snow.

"Um... Sky realizes this will probably end before she gets back, right?" Fire asks Snow.

"Yeah, that's true. Oh well, she'll find out when she discovers that she's locked out of this Multiverse," chirps Snow.

Hope yawns and curls up with Weaver again, as their sleep had been disturbed by the visitors. Quickly the duo falls asleep.

"Cuteness returns," Fire giggles.

Frisk curls up into a tiny ball of fluff as close as they can get to Hope without touching, seeking warmth but not wanting to disturb him.

Not that it would, he's dead to the world.

Chara curls up on the floor, but does not sleep- after all, like X, they are a ghost. X floats next to them, quietly staring out at the frozen forest.

"Not impressed," X comments about the dead to the world remark.

It is night, a moonlit wonderland where all is right for the moment.

And that's just fine.

They know that chaos will come soon enough.