"Lord 404, subject Star is nowhere to be found and it's the likelihood they are being held by either the Moon or the Sun Kingdom."

"......"

"....Sir? Orders?"

"....Tell me, am I going too far in all of this?"

"S-Sir?"

"Will this really bring back my son? No, my nephew so easily?"

".....I....can't confirm anything. Those who got the ritual scroll do say that information may either be outdated or wrong due to how.....vindictive the other was towards you."

".....Do you think.....Alpha would be disappointed in me, Bill?"

"......"

".....I see."

".....Your orders?"

"....The objective is still at hand. Find the Star and take them to the meeting point. I've come too far to stop all of this."

"As you wish, Lord 404."

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"My Lord!!!!!"

"Hmm? What's got you all up in a twist Abyss? Did Ganz fight with Mal again? Or did Razz finally convince Ruler to do his duties?"

"No!!!! Lord 404 is making his move and searching for Lord Starr."

"Oh? Does he finally make his move? It seems my Original was right...."

"My Lord?"

"Ignore that. Gather the Guardians and call for Sci. Change is going to happen and we have to prevent massive casualties."

"What shall we do if we find Lord Starr?"

"Bring him here and being the other rulers if they ask. It's about time the other rulers knew of our existence."

"Yes, Lord Shifter!!!!"

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Deva hummed as he looked at the oven while the cake inside looked almost ready to decorate. He stood up as he looked at the counter while massive amounts of cookies, pastries, pies, various other foods, and fresh juice were placed. Everyone was also in the kitchen while eating the food of which Horror was eating massive amounts of it with Cross and Error eating the most chocolate that he made for them.

It was after everyone finally processed the information of which strategies were going around to solve the very dilemma they now had to face. They all stopped when they realized how late it got of which dinner was just around the corner. Deva immediately went into cooking mode as he made various foods and sweets that will calm their hunger and satisfy Horror at the same time. The atmosphere turned calmer after they all got some food in their systems of which Deva was glad about it.

Bardo was shocking all of them by eating a whole chicken with one bite with the bones and all. Deva wasn't really shocked as her magic pretty much made her immune to getting sick or choking on anything bad. Deva caught her trying to eat a spoon but she just ended up bending the spoon then really eating it.

Both Deva and Bardo share three inclined magic's.

Void, Space, and Time.

But Bardo is more connected to Anti-Matter with a hint of Chaos while Deva has more connections to the Cosmic forces.

Thanks to these inclined magics, both Bardo and Deva are extremely powerful due to the magics' nature. They've built up immunities and have vast control over them due to both knowing how dangerous yet useful they are. The Cosmic Forces more so for the fact that Deva could rewrite everything if he didn't have control over his magic. To be truthful, Deva found the magic too overpowered but he knew Cosmic Energies held connections in everything. Take the Phoenix Force for example. It was an entity of the cosmos of which represented life in all forms. It was a cosmic entity that no one could defeat or destroy as it was the cosmic entity of life itself in the Marvel Multiverse.

Deva has seen and heard of the Phoenix Force from some comics and movies but even then Deva knew the Phoenix Force was unyielding to those in its path. Deva may have magic inclined with the Cosmic Forces but he was just a small fry compared with the various others with the same powers he has. And he was in a relatively safe multiverse compared to various others out there.

Deva shook his head as he got the cake out then decorated the Death by Chocolate cake for both Cross and Error. Once he was done he set it down then ate the chicken alfredo he cooked for himself. He smiled at everyone enjoying the meal of which made his soul warm from content. Then it struck him.

He forgot about Gen. He was a terrible plant parent!!!!!

Just as Deva was about to go search for his tree child did he hear a small poof and Gen was right there beside him still underneath his illusion barrier. Gen gave off feelings of 'I'm okay' and 'hungry!'. Deva relaxed as he fed his magic to Gen who soaked up the magic happily and cheeringly. While Gen was feeding, Deva looked at the twin leaders and saw that they could feel the extra emotions. While Nightmare looked calm and collected along with Dream, Deva could tell that Nightmare was trying to pinpoint the area the emotions were from while Dream looked at him with a knowing look.

Deva could already imagine the reaction of Nightmare but he ignored it as he continued to eat his alfredo and Gen acted like a happy child eating their favorite food.

*~{Timeskip brought to you by Deva being hounded by twin rulers over Gen.}~*

Deva sighed as he sat in what looked to be a living room. Bardo sat close to him on his left with Horror purring audibly on his right while snuggling him. Cross, Killer, Dust, and Blue sat across from them with Nightmare sitting in the luxuries loveseat with Error while Dream sat in a lone chair. Ink was just sitting on the floor while looking at the ceiling with a bored look.

Deva saw that Nightmare was sitting close to Error while having one tentacle on the back close to Error. While it may not look close to many, Deva could see that their closeness wasn't all friendship. Deva filed that away for the moment as he found that interesting.

Empireverse was completely unknown to him. His memories of his human life were leaving him due to his new life but he can't completely forget his sisters or topics he adores. The Undertale Fandom was amazing to him due to new Au's and how they can correlate to everything though he could deal without the more.....meh ones. Empireverse was a whole Multiverse/AU that made him question everything due to its more Victorian style and actions.

Now, Deva has seen many ships and some he has shipped due to them being too adorable. And he may have had a small crush on certain skeletons due to certain influences but they were small and just natural. Hell, it wouldn't be the first time someone fell for a fictional being. Though they aren't exactly fictional anymore to him. Back on track.

One of the ships was Errormare or Nighterror of which was obvious from the name alone. Though Deva did call the ship Lapsed Terrors from time to time in his own head.

Now, Errormare was something he could see happening in the right setting or going terrible due to the Multiverse itself. Deva has no ill will to the Original Error and Nightmare but the Originals are toxic to each other.

Error was an unstable monster due to being alone with a white void that drove him to insanity and fear of being touched. The Original Error is insane and hypocritical while hearing the very voices of the Creators or Anomalous others. Deva was empathetic towards Error of which bled into protectiveness over time. Deva doesn't see the need for Error to stop destroying as Deva admits that some Au's or Multiverses were too cruel or corrupted to even be continued. He could never find it in his being to stop Error as Deva could see where the other was coming from in sense. Error was hypocritical but it was less so than Ink. Ink was a whole other can entirely.

Now, the Original Nightmare isn't actually the true Nightmare. The Nightmare covered with the slime/tar-like substance was actually a parasite that overtook the Original Nightmare while the Original either went into a coma or died. The parasite dubbed Corruption by many could only feel the negativity with no positivity. They found joy in the negativity of others as it gave them power and life. Corruption liked living so they spread negativity all around while making everyone miserable as a result. Oh, and they were homophobic and the same with the Original Dream if Deva remembered correctly.

Jokublog didn't like the fact of who Dream and Nightmare were being shipped with so she made both homophobic as a result. But Deva could be wrong. He isn't sure about that fact. Of course, everyone didn't like she did that of which everyone just ignored what she did and continued on with the many stories, fanarts, and au's made. Dream and Nightmare were well-known in the Undertale Fandom with Ink and Error being the most shipped compared to them.

Seriously, Ink and Error are the most shipped skeletons in the community of which he can understand why due to them acting like frenemies/friends in many comics with it being confirmed by both Creators of them that if they ever met then they would most defiantly be friends.

So, he doesn't care for ships unless it was pedophilic, toxic, or downright wrong. Deva remembered when Fresh was shipped with a shipchild of Ink and Error. Now, he did find it cute at first until he found out some facts. PJ, or Paperjam the well-known ship child, already had a date-mate/spouse along with a child and mixed with the fact that Fresh was a parasite with no emotions and you get all sorts of fucked up things. Deva thought PJ was just naturally short until he found out that he was literally a child in those fanarts.

That was when he lost the will to ship those two. PJ already had his own family while Fresh was just that weird uncle everybody knew by default.

Then came the family dynamics.

Deva mentally shook his head as he moved his mind elsewhere instead of that rabbit hole. The Undertale Fandom was just an oddball of nonexistent logic and imagination high on paint. Deva is just glad that his Multiverse held some logic, unlike many others.

"Soooooooo, what do we do?"

Deva looked to see that Dust was the one to ask the question which made Deva pause in his thinking while then putting it into overdrive to solve that question.

What were they going to do?

Deva could derail all of this and rewrite the entire timeline but something in his soul just told him that it would be a bad idea. Deva could do that but it wouldn't entirely solve everything. Error 404 may start everything all over again and even the slightest change in the timeline could make everything into a darker direction. Everyone's very existence hung on the line of which made Deva dismiss the option of overwriting the timeline. Though.....he is not exactly the thing that 404 needs.

He blinked as he mentally looked at that one thought that flashed in his mind. Everyone thought he had no markings of which may be the reason 404 was coming after him now but if 404 saw that he held both markings then it may pause everything until they find what they are searching for. He went after those who had both markings of which he then turn towards Deva after getting something from the markings. Everyone that held both markings lost one of them and from what little he could remember of the report, they seemed much happier with one marking than two.

As if both markings gave a heavy burden they couldn't handle.

Dream, Blue, Ink, Bardo, and Genesis knew of his markings but nobody else knew. And the fact that they only knew about Genesis as well......Sheesh, Deva has more packages than he realized.

Deva was about to speak up until something in him pulsed. He paused, as he watched everyone around him talk but ringing noise was all that greeted him. He couldn't move, nothing came out of his mouth while the ringing noise grew louder as seconds passed. Bardo finally noticed that something wasn't right with him while moving their teeth of which he couldn't hear a sound. Then, a drip greeted his hearing after the ringing vanished. His body could move again but he felt the very liquid drop from his mouth and eye sockets.

Bardo looked horrified at something with Dream and Horror immediately coming into his vision. In fact, as he looked at everyone, it seemed everyone was either horrified or ready to run to him. With shaking hands, Deva carefully touched the liquid falling from him to feel the very warmth from the liquid. He thought it was blood, but why would he be bleeding? But once he saw the coloring did confusion swarm his mind.

The liquid was gray with a mixture of black and red.

Information clicked in his mind as his body started to sway. He felt multiple hands over his body while someone yelled over him. His vision was falling him while feeling the distress from Genesis and Bardo in equal amounts.

Deva Starr has finally felt the effects of a poison many years ago.

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"Lord Shifter!!!!!"

"Abyss? What's wrong?"

"The poison of the Cherub's Seed has activated in Lord Starr!!!!"

"WHAT!?!?!?!? I THOUGHT THAT POISON WAS SEALED UNTIL WE CAN ADMINISTER THE ANTIDOTE!!!!!"

"It was!!!!! 404 activated it to find Lord Starr!!!! He's en route to Lord Starr after activating it!!!!"

"How long are the other Guardians towards Deva and the others?"

"A day!!!"

"Error 404?"

"Three days at the longest but a Day at the shortest!!!!"

"Get my battle robes......it seems a battle is going to happen sooner than we thought."

"Yes, Lord Shifter!!!!!"