Free?

'I'm free...? I can go back at any time, they can drag me back at any time...but-'

Daunt's words started to echo in his head. "You think I'm gonna let them take you away? No way. You think they're gonna hurt us instead for treating you nicely? Ha. Who do you think we are? We may not be the strongest, but we have one of the strongest weapons in our arsenal."

In the end, it was up to him to choose whether he truly wanted to fulfill the purpose of his formation to destroy and protect his Multiverse or to stay here. He was free to choose between the two.

Mono watched him and sighed. 'Well, at least Alph's "Reality Simulator" was accurate... even so, we haven't gotten the full picture, so... still gotta be careful... even then, when was the last time we weren't careful because of Al's machines?...' Mono's thoughts trailed off.

"fREedOm DoES souNd niCe..." Error muttered to himself. Neutralize and Dread quickly realized the situation.

"Will San—er, Daunt mind us tortu—I mean—...talk to the people who are supposed to be him?" Dread asks themselves. Neutralize stares at them, and for the first time, thinks of ways to potentially use their fears against them. The not-dead-yet-human asks the ghost that always floats beside them. "Maybe we can make them think all their fears had come true and break them mentally before capturing them and leaving them to Al—er, Apprehend for her experiments?"

"YO PUNKS!" A yell sounded out, an Undyne running through the mechanical doors. Error freezes at the sudden loud sound. 'White.' The wall was white. But something was touching him. The slight sting in his skull reminded him of the pain.

"ERROR" signs started popping up, he started glitching more. Karma, Undyne, sweat-dropped. 'I forgot the guy was afraid of sudden loud sounds. Didn't even think he'd be here... well, sh*t. I messed up. Cue the guillotine of death having me for its next execution.'

Neutralize was still quietly chatting with Dread of how they should tort—I mean..., talk with Daunt's counterparts. Apprehend, Solitary and Mono notices. All in all, it was quite quiet.

Error notices that there was no more screaming. Were the voices gone? Did they finally leave him alone? But..., why would they stop?

He looks around again, noticing that he was surrounded by an Alphys, Undyne and Toriel. No skeletons around...

'I'm not in that Multiverse. I'm in this lone-standing AU. There's no Inky... no Fate...' He gradually calms down. Noticing the Undyne—er, Karma who was rapidly spewing out apologies and the Alph—Apprehend calming her down but also seems to be waiting for something. Soli-Tori was waiting patiently for something. Neutralize and Dread were...still quietly chatting about how painful this and that are.

"Oh, dear. Are you done?" Solitary asked once he looked at her. "DonE wiTH whAt?"

"You were about to have a panic attack so we all stopped talking..., except for my children, they seem to be talking about how to cause you and Daunt's counterparts the most pain. Both physically and mentally.-" 'And I thought that the Toriels would have freaked out if they heard them talking about that... I need to re-evaluate them.' "-But you are done now, so can you please accept Karma's apology? She is acting like if she doesn't be forgiven soon, then death's guillotine will have her executed next." 'A guillotine? Death has a guillotine apparently!'

"SuRE. uHHh..., I foRgIvE YoU?" It's funny how he forgives Karma so easily while Fate is nowhere near being forgiven.

"Oh, thank goodness. Oh and by the way, S-Daunt is freaking out over where you are." Error was confused. Why would Daunt be so worried? It's not like he was going to die...

Apprehend took a look at her computer. "He is currently very scared and is wondering whether you were taken back or if you are somewhere and he just doesn't know. Hehe. The look on his face is absolutely priceless right now! Carp-a c'mere."

Karma grumbled. "It's Karma. Not Carp-a. I am not a carp! I don't actually know what fish I am but I am certainly not a carp!"

"Hehe. How can you be so sure?" It was Neutralize who teased her this time.

"Why you—!"

Error didn't listen to the rest of their bickering. Solitary would throw in a pun some times. Mono would make sure that they don't get into a bet or something stupid like what he says as "last time" or "Candy Incident Number 6". Error didn't know what it was and after a few thoughts, decided that he didn't want to know.

In short, they were all acting like no breakdowns had ever happened.

He was slightly grateful that they didn't mention it again.

Now...! Now...

Wait, uh..., now what? Oh, right! Lets check in on our favorite creator! And our favorite Magic's Judges!

Back at the OM

They shouldn't have assumed that the Dark Sanses' AUs had crashed.

Now they were coming back at them full force.

How did their lives come to this again?

Oh right.

They were just copies from the original universe.

At this moment, a lot of the Sanses has thoughts like this. Depressing thoughts, to be exact.

Why this is?

No one knew what was happening! Only that they apparently needed Error to be alive to survive! Now the AUs are self-destructing and they have no idea how to stop this.

They were all panicking. None of them wanted to die! Sure, they hated their lives sometimes (Genocide runs) but they weren't suicidal or wanted to die for good!

As I've said before. Not many are like Error who hated living with a passion.

Hopefully, "not many" is no more... but then again, the hardcore sadists would probably like seeing this...

...is Fate a hardcore sadist?

...probably...

Anyways, they were all panicking. Ink was stressed beyond stressed. His creations were all dying! They were all dying and he didn't know how to solve or even reduce the problem until that destructive bastard came back.

Everyone who was aware of a bigger picture can only be relieved that Ink had stopped creating new universes when he realized he problem was getting worse each time he did do that...

Oh well, at least he wasn't that stupid... only, he didn't understand much about emotions or feelings. He didn't get how much of a drive emotions give. Didn't get how impulsive someone can be when it includes their feelings.

Even though it was because of his "feelings" that he created so many universes. Because he "felt" lonely and wanted company.

He would be unable to feel emotions if it weren't for the vials of paint he had originally got.

This was a guarded secret that probably not even Error knew. And he was right. Error doesn't  know this.

Let's hope he doesn't find out, actually. It... might not be good for his mental health... hehe, but seriously. Wait, now I wonder how Error would react if he finds out that his opposite and the one he thinks is manipulating everything actually doesn't feel anything. Maybe wonder how and why in the hell of every world that Nightmare and Dream didn't catch on to this...

Or~ maybe snap and destroy several hundred AUs... who knows?! Maybe he'd try to make Ink not feel anything by taking away all the paint vials for f*cks sake!

But, eh... it's not like we're going to see that happen...right?

Hehe..., right?

Somewhere...that isn't real

A 14-year-old human boy quickly ran to a portal he made.

"FEAR!! YOU GET BACK HERE, RIGHT NOW!!"

"Haha, Ol' Fate, are you still angry that I played around with you? Oh, come on, I'm just a kid, can't you have some mercy?" Bright purple eyes narrowed, mockery and something else filling them. "Besides, I was just playing around! Hehe, anyways, goodbye!"

Fear fell back into the portal and closed it. He sneered. "The gal's a coward." 'And is a lot like them. No wonder no one likes her, hehe. People fear fate, but I can make fate fear puppies and kittens! Hehehe...!'

Said puppies and kittens were later released and caused a mini stampede, much to Fear's amusement and everyone else's dismay and confusion.

Fear can admit it to himself, he was a damned asshole sometimes.

Only to those he doesn't like or deserve it, that is...or when he's in the mood and wants to see someone's reaction to him completely destroying all their reputation by making them deathly afraid of something as harmless as an ice cube. Hehe. It was always so fun.

"Ehh, did that Apprehend really open another portal? She's gonna get everyone killed someday, haha." Fear talked to himself while watching Apprehend type stuff into the computer and charging up the portal. 'It looks like she's gonna actually make one to another universe...let's see, oh. This one is an ordinary universe... hmph, so boring...'

Yep. This is getting boring. Maybe because the author just can't decide on who to put Error in a relationship that will actually be healthy for him... or maybe because author also completely forgot what they were gonna do to put Null and Void in here...

"Oh whatever..., I just gotta make sure that that Destiny's child and Daunt doesn't die there..., this could also be interesting. Just gotta go tell Time 'bout this." Fear quickly left to find his friend to tell him about this development. Not like the guy didn't know, but just to tell him he was going with.

'After all, none of them can gauge anything about me because of them. Really, sometimes I wish they can.'

Back with our dear destroyer and co

Daunt was daunted.

Really, he thought that he had lost someone important to him.

That "someone important to him" is Error of course.

He couldn't help but feel like an older brother. How long was it since he had to care for someone who didn't know much about normal things?

A long time... Daunt was silently remembering everything that made him scared to lose everyone.

At least, he calmed himself down and stopped the memories before they got to the worse parts. They were already dealing with someone emotionally and mentally unstable, they don't need him to throw a tantrum right there, right then.

He sighed. "So you're saying ya called me here to test your portal again. But why the hell didn't ya tell me he was here? If I didn't think of the possibility then I wouldn't be here, really. You are really just outright an ass sometimes, ya know?"

"Hehe, Karma would like that, wouldn't you, sweetheart~?" Karma's face was flushed. She glared at Apprehend. "I won't be watching any of your anime with you later on for that!!"

"Aw, come on!"

"No!"

"How about an episode of that action anime you like? Hmm?"

"You— stop tempting me, you evil lizard!"

"Hehe, what's wrong my dear knight in fishy armor?"

"You—!!"

'It seems like every Undyne is hot-headed. But why does this scene seem like it's supposed to be reversed...?' Error watched the two who were at it...again. Mono was now listening to "make sure they don't do something stupid like last time again".

Why was last time called "Candy Incident Number 6" though? No one would ever know~...

Neutralize suddenly walked up to Daunt and asked. "What would be worse to you, to have vague hints of everyone you know and love being tortured to death so you have no idea how but only know that they were and it probably hurt a lot and know that you're probably next or to watch them be tortured to death yourself then be forced to rewatch everything again and again and again?"

Daunt sweat dropped. "Kid, aren't you supposed to be all innocent and stuff? Why are you asking me this? I will not answer that! Please don't make me imagine it...,"

Solitary just watched everyone with a smile.

Error was currently wondering how the hell she was smiling so nicely while her child is talking about things a child definitely should not know... unless they're the Charas of an extremely horrible world...or something like that.

In short, everything was back to normal... almost.

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Hehe, I actually updated! Finally...

Let me sum up what happened between Fear and Fate here.

Fear: *makes Fate fear puppies and kittens. Then brings a whole f*cking mountain of puppies and kittens to their gathering spot.

And you can guess what happens next. Fear is a damn asshole to anyone he doesn't like or anyone who deserves it. Just...don't anger him. If you do, then get ready for indirect torture sessions!

Also, I am not gonna explain Candy Incident Number 6..., probably because I can't stop laughing if I do.

Oh. And in Karma and Apprehend's relationship, Apprehend usually takes the lead. Karma is quite obviously a tsun-tsun. Also, I just wanted it to be like that unlike the normal Alphys X Undyne.

Thanks for reading!

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