Martyr is owned by Camera-Face on Tumblr, I got permission to borrow their baby. Fragment is by fragmentedtale-official-blog/Quacky also on Tumblr

Dream dug through the trash a frown on his face, he felt gross but its not like he could get a job or had this ID thing.

His hand touched something, it felt dirty but didn't feel like scrap metal.

Frowning a bit more, he moved away trash.

"Is this glass?" he asked picking it up, it was a gem of some type and seemed to contain something. Humming he cleaned it with a cloth he'd been using to keep things as clean as possible, a rather pale yellow gem was revealed.

"Pretty..." he said.

He placed it in his item space and continued digging, he had a feeling it wasn't thing he could sell.

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Martyr frowned as he searched the latest multiverse, there was definitely a void crystal but its presence seemed muffled.

And definitely moving.

Which meant, it was likely held by someone.

Stars darn it... hopefully it was as easy as buying the person off for the gem, battles were a pain.

Mind you, it could also lead to.. was Fragment considered a friend? He'd ask later, he did often drop by for days.

Frustration could be his friend here though, he let out quite a few swears when he lost track several times.

This place was messed up, the local Stars Sanses were weird even for him.

The Dark Sanses, were more evil then usual. He preferred when they were more neutral as less a hassle when he had to deal with the Goop lord and minions.

Some days, you just didn't want to get out of bed to find the Void crystals and their souls within.

Specially now, when he realized the Void crystal was being carried in an item space by a babybones.

"Funk," he swore, then twitched realizing a Fresh must be near to be changed like that. Fragment would never forgive him if he hurt a child, and the crystal would get destroyed if he killed them.

A squeak escaped the babybones, a Dream? As they'd noticed him.

"I just need to talk," Martyr said.

Insert fleeing baby Dream.

"Shiitake! Crabapples!" he swore or tried to swear, and chased after the baby Dream who had the void Crystal. He ignored the Fresh making remarks in the background, he did not need a language talk right now.

What followed was a ridiculous chase, he avoided trash cans tossed at him, staircases up side of buildings, jumping between building and going down a fire escape three time.

This brat was fast, but starting to flag as their stamina started loosing.

He let them think he lost them, carefully following them and keeping out of sight so the locals would not think him a creep. He didn't plan to stay, but he didn't need that rep if he ever came back.

A frown lit his face as the child crept outside town, through trees and finally climbed into a mostly hidden cave. Likely the locals wouldn't notice, but Martyr was used to looking for hidden places.

He heard the child move for awhile, before settling down. Carefully he slipped into the cave, keeping to the Dark parts spotting the baby Dream sitting tiredly by a small campfire.

They cried as he reached out, lifting them up in a way they couldn't bit or slip from clothes to escape.

Likely, also a way Fragment would give him annoyed looks for.

"Sorry kid, you have something I need," he said, maybe he could drop the kid with Fragment they were way too light and there bones thin.

The last thing he expected, was for baby bop of a Dream to break out in happy tears that he didn't freeze to death.

What?

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Martyr watched the kid eat what he swore was there body weight in magic heavy food, being careful pull back any emotions he felt as the Dream was very sensitive to emotions. The Void Crystal was in his item space, thankfully baby bop was allowing him it for a meal. The local version fo McDonalds, hadn't even blinked at his large order for monster type meals.

"You can come with me Baby Bop, there are other multiverses you can settle down in. Fragment would love you to bits, being homeless with powers like a little storm tempest in a body can be dangerous for you also," Martyr offered.

"No thanks.. I.. want to find out what made Nighty suddenly change, it wasn't the apples like you suggested. He never ate them," Dream said, then made a face "Don't call me Baby Bop please"

"Since there seems to be two Dreams then, how about tempest?" Martyr suggested, Dream looked thoughtfully at the first monster immune to his powers that he knew of.

"Tempest is fine, but is Fragment your Boyfriend?" Dream no Tempest asked curious.

"Wha..." Martyr blue screened at the question "No! He's a guy who may be a friend!"

"Huh.. okay, you just talk a lot about them," Tempest said, Martyr shoved some fries into the babybones mouth.

"Your a babybones, your not suppose to talk of dating," Martyr scowled.

"What's dating?" Tempest asked innocently, Martyr sputttered shocked at the question.

"I am not giving you the talk!" he actually squeaked.

"Talk?"

Why had he stayed again?

He escaped Baby Bop as soon as possible, he was never telling anyone of that talk.