Artsy was smiling at what glitchy's cheerful attitude as she watches him played with the others.

Chronos is looking outside & is still looking at the rift,while holding some crystals he kept from the pond.

Nightmare and Night are quietly debating with each other about the boat that was made of the dolls to play around with.

Acrylic and Faith we're watching others play with smiles on their faces, meanwhile Acer was in the tower watching over Path.

Glass hummed to herself as she went to one of the cabinets in the living room area and pulled out a few bolts of fabric and a dress pattern before dragging out a folding table from the closet as wee as a sewing machine.

Glitchy moved his dolls to push Night and Dream's raft a bit to make it float away from the beach. Glitchy's doll waved to the two raft dolls before Chro started a splash war between their dolls.

Night panics at seeing the dolls he was in charge of being moved without his consent.

Glitchy looks at Night and tilts his head in confusion. "What's wrong?" Glitchy asked.

Night flinches as he hugs himself unsure how to explain how what glitchy had unintentionally done was affecting him mentally.

Chro took a moment to analyze the situation. "Glitchy," Chro called. "You can't just move someone else's things without asking. What if someone took your dolls away without asking?"

Glitchy frowned in thought. "I would cry because my dolls were from Recon," Glitchy replied. "Especially since they are me and Fresh."

"That's what you did to Night and his dolls," Chro explains as he moves the raft with the dolls back to where they were. "Now apologize to Night."

Glitchy looked towards Night with teary eye sockets. "I-I'm sorry Night," Glitchy said in a slightly shaky voice. "I d-didn't mean to take your dolls away from you. I just thought you and your brother would l-like to float around the lake."

Night mumbles a "it's alright." As he moves the dolls off the raft residing they wouldn't go on a boat because Nightmare probably would not want to be on something with limited space to move if they somehow end up in trouble. So, he just moved the dolls to be sitting by his brother's doll.

"Cheer up Glitchy," Chro said as he put a hand on his shoulder. "Look, they didn't want to be on the boat because they didn't like it. At least they're getting use to the game thanks to you!"

Glitchy thought for a second and his face lit up. "I did!?" Glitchy received a nod and he got excited before turning to Night. "May I please use your boat then? I'll give it back when I'm done."

Night shrugs not having any interest in the boat before saying "sure."

Faith spoke up to her eldest brother "you know, they remind me of us when we were younger. Or not on missions like right now." Acrylic sighed and nodded "yeah, miss Path though. Acer has been taking it worse than anyone really. She's beat up over it and refuses to change and just watches him nowadays. He needs to wake up soon." Acrylic replied, looking out where the others were.

Glass hums to herself as she sets up her fabric to be patterned and cut.

"God you are so pessimistic at times you know." Faith huffed "how long before she passes out from an overuse age of magic?" She asked. "Two days." Was her reply.

Glass keeps up her work on the fabric and once the pattern was pinned to the fabric she started cutting it.

Glitchy took the boat and placed his dolls in it. He then proceeded to push the boat around the lake with wide eyes of awe.

Nightmare watched for a moment before refocusing on the book in his dolls hands attempting to see if he recognised in.

Glass smiles to herself as the last piece of fabric is cut and she goes over to her sewing machine and starts showing the pieces together.

"She needs to stop worrying, Path is going to wake up soon." Faith said nonchalantly. "She's not going to stop." Acrylic said. Shaking his head.

Glass then says "worry taints the mind and makes time run faster or slower then it actually is. The more you focused on the worry, the worse the effect gets." She then hums to herself as she folds over a part of the fabric "it's only when you remind yourself that your worry is unfounded that you realise time hasn't been going the way you thought it was."

"Well said," Recon praised Glass. "That is the main reason I focus on other things, like caring for Glitchy and Chro. Time could be better spent with others and doing other things than purely worrying."

Night and Nightmare looked at each other, knowing it was true, but being unable to follow those ideals. They were in constant worry for their lives, even here, and that worry had been bread deep into them over... to long to really remember. Till it just became part of them they couldn't get rid of anymore.

"Where is Reese?" Glitchy asked Recon suddenly. "Also, where did Elm go?"

Recon turned to face Glitchy. "They're out," Recon said. "Reese is keeping the balance and Fresh in check in your Multiverse. Elm is in Partialtale with Reboot."

"Who's Reboot?" Glitchy asked.

"Reboot is another person who was brought here by the rift," Recon replied. "He came here with Eraser last night when everyone was asleep."

"Can I meet them!?" Glitchy asked excitedly. Recon simply nods as Glitchy starts to cheer and talk wildly to his Fresh doll as if it was Fresh himself.

Glass frowns worried about the panic attack Reboot had earlier. While she didn't know exactly what caused the panic attack she did know that her talking for a little bit had made the other panic more... how would Reboot deal Glitchy who had so much energy to make friends directed directly at him.

Recon sighs softly. He had to deal with Glitchy trying to meet Reboot, who wasn't really a social butterfly. Then there was the thought of Night and Nightmare, who have yet to meet the newcomers as well. Both parties reaction could be dangerous with Nightmare reminding Reboot and Eraser of Hallucive, while Nightmare might be threatened by the two new presence in the tower.

Glass then says more to herself then any of the others "well, the next few hours sound like they are going to go to chaos."

"I agree," Recon said with a sigh. "This meeting will be problematic. Elm doesn't plan on coming back until lunch. ... I guess I should try and get Glitchy ready for the meeting with Reboot. Eraser is still healing so their meeting won't be much of a problem." Recon moved to pick up his dolls and put them in his hood. "Come along, Glitchy. I need to tell you something very important if you wish to meet Reboot and we can practice with Eraser."

"Oh what are we going to do!?" Glitchy asked excitedly.

"We're going to practice meeting Reboot, because he's very ... sensitive around others. I'm sure you would like to make your new friend to be comfortable right?" Recon received an excited nod. "Then let's go meet Eraser and practice meeting Reboot." Glitchy nods and puts his dolls in the pockets of his jacket before making his way over to Recon and followed him upstairs to the infirmary.

Nightmare watched this in confusion, he knew there were new people he and his brother hadn't interacted with, but the way Recon was acting about it made him worry that they would be a danger to Night.

Recon glanced back at Nightmare and noticed his expression. "Don't worry Nightmare," Recon said on his way up the stairs. "Glitchy just has too much energy to meet Reboot. I need to teach him how to stay calm or Reboot will have another panic attack. Eraser is currently unconscious and restrained so he's going to be good for Glitchy to practice on to meet Reboot. You and Night can keep your dolls, as they are yours to keep. Have fun while I'm teaching Glitchy." As Recon finished, Glitch and himself where at the top of the stairs.

Nightmare calmed down partially at hearing this as his brother seemed to get excited about keeping the representations of him and his brothers.

Glass calls up to Recon as she looks over the stitching she has made "good luck."

"I'm going to need it," Recon called back. Moments after, everyone downstairs heard Glitchy cheering and running from the stairs as they can assume Glitchy saw Eraser.

Eraser lay out cold on one of the med-bay beds, ventilator controlling his breathing.

Glitchy ran up to the side of the bed and greeted Eraser as if he was awake. "Hi there Eraser! I'm Glitchy! It's so nice to meet you! How are you? What's with that thing in your mouth? Are you-"

"Glitchy, calm down," Recon asked as he made his way to Glitchy's side. "Eraser is sleeping, so he can't answer you. I just wanted you to meet him before he's awake because he uses bad words and I don't want you around him when he's awake."

"Aww, why not?" Glitchy asked. "I want to play with him when he gets better."

"Because he's a meanie," Recon replied. "He would be mean to you and I don't want you to get hurt. That's why I thought it's best you meet him while he's sleeping. We're also going to get his help for you to learn and practice how to greet Reboot."

"Is there something wrong with my greeting?" Glitchy asked.

"No," Recon replied as Glitchy frowned. "It's just that Reboot gets scared and overwhelmed easily. You running over to him and talking loudly will scare him."

Glitchy frowns a bit longer before looking up at Recon. "Do you think you can help me?" Glitchy asked Recon hopefully. "I really want to meet a new friend."

Recon nods. "I will help you," Recon said. "But you need to listen to me carefully and remember what I say. Even if Fresh has told you a different way, you're not home, so the same rules don't apply."

"Okay, I'm ready!" Glitchy exclaimed excitedly. Recon nods and proceeded to teach Glitchy how to approach Reboot and other helpful pointers that could at least get Glitchy to say hi to Reboot without scaring him into a panic attack right off the bat.

Eraser continues his unconscious sleep for the majority of Recon's teaching but started coming to a bit towards the end, leading to shifting and giving a hum of discomfort.

It took Recon a good hour and a half, but he at least got Glitchy to be more calm and quiet about his approach towards others. Just as he was going to have Glitchy practice one more time, noticed Eraser's movements and turned to his brother. "You did very well, Glitchy," Recon praised. "You can go play with Chro after you tell Ms. Glass to come up here. Okay?"

Glitchy nods and quickly walks down the stairs. Recon stayed and watched over Eraser as he waited for Glass.

"Ms. Glass," Glitchy called as he walked over to her calmly. "Recon wants you upstairs. I think it has something to do with Eraser."

Glass hums for a moment before saying as she stops her sewing machine mid run "alright heading up." Before heading over to the stairs and up them.

Eraser meanwhile wakes up a bit more and hums again in discomfort as his teeth clench a bit against the plastic bite guard.

Acer went up to the balcony and she subconsciously hummed the tune Inuyasha's lullaby

Glass gets up the stairs right as Eraser seems to realise that there was something keeping his mouth open and something put down his throat.

"I suggest you don't bite down," Recon said to Eraser. "That tube in your throat is helping you breathe."

Eraser seems to panic at this trying to move his restrained hands to pull out the tube.

Recon moves his hand and placed one on Eraser's cheek. "Do you seriously want to suffocate again?" Recon asked. "At this very moment, that tube is proving you with air in your lungs. If you remove it, the wound in your throat will start to drown you in your own blood and magic. Do you want that?"

Eraser shakes his head, but still panicking, because while the machine was breathing for him, his body was panicking because it wasn't doing it.

Recon sighs and make sure the restraints were secured. He didn't want to use his other abilities other than his ink and strings around creation who he might not see later. He waited patiently for Glass to come, but if she couldn't calm Eraser, then he'd have to use his other abilities to calm Eraser.

Glass enters the med-bay from the staircase.

"Glass, Eraser is panicking," Recon stated. "What should we do before he opens any new wounds and attempts to suffocate again?"

Glass sighs to herself and mumbles "and situations like this are why we keep people on ventilators sedated." As she heads to find where she put the sedative she used last night.

Recon nods and just watching over Eraser as to make sure he doesn't get new wounds, bites the tube, or break the restraints.

Glass finds the sedative and grabs a new needle as Eraser's eyes flicker around and his jaw clamps down on the bite guard protecting the tube.

Oblivion comes into the room and sees Eraser, immediately she looks fed up and calmly walks over to Glass "let me administer the sedative," she suggested

Glass shrugs and just hands the the unknown person the filled needle.

Recon watches Oblivion careful. He didn't know what Oblivion might do, but he hoped it wouldn't hurt Eraser.

Eraser shivers as he pulls at the restraints, he really did not like the feel of the tube in his throat.

Oblivion stalked over to Eraser and simply stabbed him with the needle, waiting a second before slowly pressing down to inject him with the sedative.

Eraser flinches when suddenly stabbed with the needle. A few moments after Oblivion started injecting the sedative his limbs slowly relax and still as his eyes close half way.

"Rest well," Recon said softly to Eraser. "Hopefully when you awaken again, you'll be healed."

Eraser falls into a dreamless sleep.

Recon opens a portal. He sends his hand through, only to come back another crystal the shape of a Soul from Sanctuary Lake. He used his strings to fashion a silver choker with the crystal. He then moved and put it on Eraser. "With the size and how close the crystal was to the wound, it should take a few days or so to heal his throat injury," Recon said. "His other wounds are a different story, but at least it's not too serious."

Glass nods before saying "we're lucky none of the frozen magic passed though his soul, that would have been a much harder to deal with."

"Breeze never uses frozen magic on the Soul," Recon said as he turned to face Glass. "Not after almost killing Savage and Defcon."

Glass shakes her head before saying "I know they wouldn't use their ice magic on his soul, but magic has to pass through the soul to get nutrients, meaning some of the frozen magic had the possibility of reaching his soul."

"I'm just glad Elm kept his hand above Eraser's Soul," Recon stated. "He melted the ice magic before it entered the Soul. Speaking about my brother, I think it's about time to start lunch. Elm is going to come back soon with Reboot, and I still need to teach Glitchy on volume control."

Glass nods before asking "any suggestions for what to make?"

"Tacos or lasagna," Recon suggests with a shrug. "Either way, I still have to feed Glitchy."

Glass thinks for a minute before saying "lasagna sounds like something most of the skeletons here should like." Before going downstairs to start cooking.

Recon goes down to the middle of the stairs and looks towards Glitchy. "Glitchy, let's go," Recon called. "I still have one more thing to teach you before we meet Reboot." Glitchy nods and quickly makes his way up the stairs to practice with Eraser once more.

Glass hums to herself as she gathers the ingredients to make lasagna.

Nightmare watches Recon call clutch in confusion as his brother leans on his shoulder staring at the ceiling seemingly lost in thought.

Acer was interrupted in her long mood of sorrow by a groan from nearby, her eyes widened and she was at the bed instantly, just in time to see Path's mismatched eyes open.

Glass sets about making the lasagna.

After a few minutes of prep, glass places the lasagna into the oven and starts working on making soft pretzels.

Recon was upstairs teaching Glitchy the difference between shouting, talking, and whispering so Glitchy could whisper quietly as to not overwhelm Reboot.

After a few more minutes of baking Glass pulled out the lasagna to cool for a bit and stuck in the ready to be baked soft pretzels.

"Acer? Where am I?" Path asked his adopted creator, slowly sitting up. Only to be caught in a hug by Acer herself "I was so worried you wouldn't wake up." She stammered out. Her tail was draped along the ground and her head was on his shoulder.

Glass smiles to herself as she pulls out the finished soft pretzels and sets them down to cool before she cuts the lasagna while yelling "guys! Lunch is ready!"

Recon ushered Glitchy down stairs to the table. On the way, he passes Night and Nightmare. "Come you two," Recon called put to the Dreamtale brothers. "Time to eat. Even if just a little." Then Recon sits Glitchy at the table and looks around to see if he can find Error nearby.

Error was laying on a couch staring at the ceiling as Night got up excited to see what item Glass had made for lunch, pulling up with him his clearly uninterested brother and pulled him to the table with him as Glass placed pieces of the lasagna onto plates and paced them to the people at the table before placing the soft pretzels onto a large plate and putting it in the center of the large table.

"Error, come eat," Recon said as he made it to the couch. "Let's eat. Even a little bit is fine."

Error blinks at them in confusion as he sees them, he had been kinda lost in though and hadn't been paying any attention to the world around him.

Recon chuckled a bit. "I know you were thinking pretty deeply, but it's lunch time," Recon said. "Time flies when you're kept occupied."

Error nods as he gets up and heads over to the table with the others.

Chro gets up and sits in the seat on the other side of Glitchy, while Recon takes his seat and feeds his excitable younger brother.

Night happily takes one of the plates of lasagna as his brother just stares at it in disinterest. Nightmare decides he doesn't want the strange red paste leaking dish and just grabs what he assumed was a role. Error just watches the other with little interest in getting food at this second, deciding to see how much the others enjoy it before taking a plate.

Glitchy was eating very quickly, as he enjoyed the lasagna. Chro wasn't too different, as he was already reaching for seconds. Even Recon, who is indifferent about eating, was enjoying the lasagna as he remembered MelT making the dish for dinner with his siblings.

Glass smiles at the people enjoying her food as she gets herself her own serving of lasagna and soft pretzels. Night meanwhile had taken a night out of his lasagna piece and want stary eyed at the taste before starting to devour the piece. Meanwhile Nightmare took a small night of the pretzel before his eyes widened, almost going starry eyed like his brother before quickly pushing it down as he ate the pretzel a bit more quickly.

Just as everyone, including Error who decided to try the food, was eating a portal opened in the living room. Out stepped Elm with Reboot in his arms. Elm took a deep breath and exhaled. "Heaven's food is on the table and you didn't tell me?" Elm said quietly to Recon. "You know freakin well that I love the divine's food. I would have come earlier if you had told me!"

"One, you forget who you're with," Recon replied after he took a bit of lasagna. "Two, I had to make sure Glitchy wouldn't freak Reboot out right away. Three, if you had game back earlier, you would have left just as fast and missed lunch."

Elm stayed silent as he made his way over to the couch and set Reboot down. "I'm going to get us food," Elm said quietly to Reboot. "I'll be right back. Try to focus on your breathing and block out any other noise."

As Elm made his way to the table, Recon had to remind Glitchy his lessons and to stay put or he risks Reboot freaking out.

"Come on Path, you look well enough to walk. Do you want to meet some people?" Acer said, getting up from their long embrace. Path smiled and easily swung out of the bed "I would like that." He replied and together they came down the stairs, coming out into the entrance.

Chronos is eating as his eyes sparkles.

Artsy just eating slowly savoring the taste as she chuckles at Chronos face

Reboot had his eye sockets closed since Elm took him through a portal. He tried to focus on the sound of his breathing, but the sound of footsteps alerted him. He opened his eyes to see two people who came down the stairs. Then quickly looked around and saw even more people. Reboot, unknown to him, decided to run over and hugged Elm tightly as he started to have another panic attack. "T-t-t-ta-take m-m-m-me b-b-ba-back!"

Elm, reacting quickly to Reboot's actions, opens a portal under them to back to Partialtale with some lasagna.

Acer and Path came into the room "so what did we miss?" Acer asked. Acrylic and Faith, who had been eating lasagna had seen them and tackle hugged the duo. Oblivion watching off to the side with a soft small smile on her features.

Glass watched all this before saying "whelp, I'm going to say a disaster and leave it at that."

"Cool." Acer said. Untangling herself from the heap of fur and bone. "So people meet Path, the youngest of the three." She gestured to the black boned Skeleton being crushed.

Glass smiles at the younger skeleton and waves a hello to them. Night meanwhile looked at the new person in cautious interest as his brother glared at the new skeleton, attempting to determine if they were a threat to his brother. Error just watched uncaring about introducing himself.

"Hello Path," Recon said. "I'm Recon. Besides me is one on my younger brothers, Glitchy. Next to him is my other brother, Chro. The rainbow being that just left was my younger brother Elm. He took Reboot to our AU and may return at dinner again for Glass's wonderful food."

Glass blushes a bit at the complement.

Glitchy frowned slightly. "I didn't even get to say hi."

"You'll get your chance," Recon reassures Glitchy. "The both have to eat, especially since there's absolutely nothing in Partialtale."

Glass gives a nervous smile as she watches this as Nightmare continues to stare where the black weirdly dressed and covered skeleton was as well as the colorful fire elemental.

Glitchy nods and Recon continues to feed him as he looked at Nightmare. "The strangely dress skeleton is Reboot," Recon said to Nightmare. "The colorful element is my younger brother Elm. MelT has a similar form. They both had to leave for Reboot's sake."

Nightmare frowns before asking while taking another bite of the pretzel "why?"

"Reboot gets a lot of anxiety around people," Recon replied. "I'm not sure of the exact reasons, but he does have anxiety attacks and he becomes very overwhelmed and unresponsive."

Night frowns before saying as his brother's expression goes blank "poor guy."

"At least Elm is trying to help him," Recon said. "Elm took Reboot to Partialtale, so he'll be okay for now."

Night nods happy that the other is getting help.

"Yeah," Recon said in thought. "At least Partialtale is being occupied. It's usually not in use at all."

Nightmare shrugs before saying quietly to himself "kinda like the tree most days."

"Well at least you had a tree," Recon said offhandedly as he heard Nightmare. "Partialtale only had my siblings and I. We don't go 'home' because there's really nothing to go back home to except endless grass, white, and quiet."

Nightmare stares at the table at this, it made him... uncomfortable? No, sad, because some days he wished it was just him and his brothers like it use to be. Sure the nothingness described would have probably left his brothers board out of their minds, but then at least they wouldn't have had to deal with all the threats that eventually came to the little corner of their world.

Chro thought for a second before he turned to Recon. "How can Elm take Reboot to an AU?" Chro asked. "I couldn't get to my AU, but Elm can take Reboot to Partialtale?"

"Partialtale is within the Alpha timeline," Recon explains. "It's one of the few places my siblings and I can go without being obligated to keep the balance." Chro nods before going back to eating. He still wondered if there are other AUs in the Alpha timeline that they can go to than being cooped up in the tower.

Glass speaks up then saying "I'm pretty sure there are many other sub worlds that the creator's here have created, I mean I know my tiny "bigger on the inside" garden exists as a part of the Alpha timeline."

"My crystal caverns that I created are also a part of the Alpha timeline, although situated in the more unstable area it holds as a last resort sanctuary." Acer said. Smiling softly at a memory of three siblings playing in those same caves... and not her adopted creations but her first three creations.

"Huh..." Glass says, "I didn't know there was an unstable area to the Antivoid."

Glass blinks to herself as she notices her verbal mistake and corrects herself by saying "I meant alpha timeline."

Glass then stares of thinking for a minute before saying "you know, my shift at the tower is going to end in a day or two, and even though I know the guard wants me on call to be in charge of taking care of the people falling from the rip we won't be able to stay here. The next person on duty is going to need the tower and there is already way past the normal capacity and distraction levels for this tower."

"Where would we go?" Chro asked. "I know where Breeze, MelT, and Defcon live within the Alpha timeline and could house us all, but I'm not sure if everyone is willing to go to either home besides those who know them."

Glass then says "my garden is set up to house lots of people on occasions, a large amount of Creators and Annons seem to like renting it out because, and I quote, "it's super spacious and the only place in the timeline where people can spend an hour skiing and then go surfing without having to spend hours driving to get there."

"To answer the first thing you said Glass. There is in fact an unstable are to the alpha timeline. It is in the place where the creatures currently reside. As for Chro's question I agree with Glass. Her garden is most likely the safest place to go and most definitely easier to access than my caverns." Acer said. Path thought for a minute before realising "Acer you never showed us or talked about the crystal caverns. Why bring it up now?"

Glass blinks in confusion about the crystal caves part.

"I don't see anything wrong with going to Ms. Glass's place," Recon said. "Night, Nightmare, and Glitchy would be able to get some air and be outside. Elm and Reboot would travel between our home and there. My only issue is Eraser. He would still need the ventilator for about 3 more days."

Glass thinks on it for a bit before saying "I know I have one in my garden, so we don"t made to worry about that we're just going to have to take him temporarily off the ventilator and have him on oxygen and under constant watch till we get there."

"Then it's settled. We head to your garden once your shift has ended." Acer said. Looking thoughtful

Glass nods as she eats a bit more of her lasagna.

Chro, Glitchy, and Recon nod as well and go back to eating. Recon froze up for a second until he moved to pick up two plates of lasagna and sent them through a portal before he continued eating and feeding Glitchy.

Glass watches recon send out two pieces of lasagna and sends them off somewhere before surging and continuing to eat her food as Night and Nightmare go back to eating their desided foods.

Glass then asks "anything you guys want to know about my garden before we stay there for likely an indeterminate amount of time?"

"Yeah!" Glitchy said excitedly. "I wanna know! I wanna know! I wanna know!"

Glass laughs a bit before asking "alright what exactly do you want to know?"

"What's the environment like?" Recon asked as Glitchy was think of a question. "You mentioned skiing and surfing, so I'm assuming the layout is different."

Glass nods a bit before saying "yeah, my garden is broken up into different parts by dividing walls to allow for different plants to grow without issues. I like growing plants, so I have to keep them in places that make them happy. So a beach environment and a snowy mountain is kinda necessary."

"How many environments are there?" Recon asked. "I would like to explore all of them if I can."

Glitchy finally thought of a question and started jumping in front of Glass. "Is your home colorful!?" Glitchy asked. "Fresh and I lived in an AU called Underkeep! Our home was very colorful! Is yours colorful too!?"

Glass thinks for a moment before saying as she counted "yeah, it's super colorful Glitchy. Lots of bright colored plants. As for the environments... well there is a tropical forest, a temperate forest, a taiga, a Savannah, temperate grassland, a desert esk environment, a tundra that links to a mountain, a marina with a beach, and a good few lakes and rivers."

"Well, I know where Breeze will be hanging out," Chro mumbled. "How are the living situations? Like where we would sleep."

Glass looks up at the cealing before saying "there are a bunch of cabins throughout my garden, as I said people rent out my garden for parties, most of which go for a few days, so sleeping places are kinda required. I also have tents that can be set up for sleeping in, though I will probably be sleeping in my hammock."

"Oh! Oh! I wanna sleep under the stars in a tent!" Glitchy exclaimed. "That would be so much fun! We can have a camp fire and something called s'mores!"

Recon chuckled before setting his hand on Glitchy's shoulder to stop his jumping. "Oh course, Glitchy," Recon said with a smile. "You, Chro, and I will go camping there at night if that's what you want. Night, Nightmare, and anyone else who would like to join can come as well."

Nightmare speaks up saying "I just want to go back to sleeping in a tree."

"Oh! We can camp in a forest then," Glitchy said. "That way you can join us!" Glitchy was extremely excited about Night and Nightmare joining them.

Night looks excited about this "camp out" thing blotchy was talking about as his brother takes a large bite out of his pretzel to keep himself from doing his normal scratching at something tick as Glass says "well, you won't have to go far to do that. The central area is a deciduous forest with the cabins in a large clearing with room to set up tents in addition to a fire pit."

"Yay!!!" Glitchy yelled. He got out of he seat and started to run around the table as he held up his Fresh doll. "We're going camping!!!"

Recon smiles at his brother's enthusiasm before he catches Glitchy. "Calm, brother," Recon says as he sits Glitchy on his lap. "We still have a few days here. Plus, we need to wait for Breeze, Eraser, Defcon because moving them would be a slight issue."

Glass nods in understanding before adding "pulse we might have to deal with another set of outsiders before we finally get to go to my garden after my shift."

Hearing that did not deter Glitchy's mood. He tried to escape from Recon's grasp, but Recon held him close. "Calm down Glitchy," Recon said. "You don't know your own strength and you might cause an accident in your excitement."

Glass adds "or accidentally knock someone of their chair."

"Ms. Glass is also right about that," Recon said. "You still have yet to learn about your magic. I know Reese still has to teach you, so please stay calm. You could accidentally use your magic and I know you don't want to do anything wrong." Glitchy slowly stops his squirming in Recon's lap and pouts cutely. Recon smiles and snuggles Glitchy making his brother giggle happily.

Glass watches this with a smile.

Glass then says "don't get to existed or you might pop out the lights."

Recon laughed at that. "Elm, Reese, Just, and MelT did that once," Recon said. Then he looked down at Glitchy. "I believe you're capable of blow out lights if you got too excited." Recon started to tickle Glitchy, who giggles uncontrollably. Glitchy squirmed and begged Recon to stop. After a minute, Recon stopped to let Glitchy catch his breath.

Glass laughs before saying "please don't pop out the lights, I don't want to go buy new bulbs."

Once Glitchy caught his breath, he leaned against Recon as his eye sockets started to close. Recon smiles and picks Glitchy up. "It seems like it's nap time for you," Recon said softly to Glitchy.

"I...," Glitchy yawns cutely as he rubs his eye sockets. "I don't wanna."

"I don't think you have a choice," Recon said as he moved upstairs. "We can play some more when you wake up."

Night says "yeah Glitchy, we can play more after your nap!"

"Okay," Glitchy said with a yawn. "When I wake up, Night or Nighty tells us where ... we ... go ...... next." With that, Glitchy fell asleep on Recon before they were upstairs and out of sight.

Glass chuckles at the young ones behavior. Before Nightmare asks "you think more of us "fallen", as you called us earlier, will come through that void thing?"

"Well Nighty," Chro chuckles at Glitchy's nickname for Nightmare. "Hopefully not, but it's had to say if Chaos and Discord Will strike another Multiverse. They already affected what? Like 6 Multiverses already? I'm hoping they only mess with one more. I'm pretty sure Fate and others are already suspicious of our absence."

Nightmare's eye twitches and is about to say something before an earthquake slams through the tower.

"Hehe, I didn't think they would be working so fast," Chro said as Recon made his way down the stairs. "Did the quake wake Defcon or Glitchy?"

Recon shook his head. "Glitchy was lucky in my hand when the quake hit. Defcon is unfortunately still out cold," Recon said. Chro nods sadly. He still was upset his creator was still unconscious.

Glass groans before slamming her head on the table, mumbling something to herself, and then getting pu and heading out the window as a Kaleidoscope of butterflies.

"Imagine it being someone other that an alternate version of Nightmare, Ink, and Error," Chro said to Recon. "Who do you think they would be?"

"I know there's a few Multiverses where Dust is hated by all," Recon replied to Chro. "Dust thought he was doing other Sanses a favor by killing everyone except 'Sans' in the AUs he attacked. Many Sans and Papyrus had to band together to put him down. However, another Dust would rise in his place because another's AU fell into the same cycle of Dust's origins." Recon was very thoughtful for a second. "Maybe a Fresh would come around. After all, Glitchy is very fond of them and maybe they will be fond of Glitchy as well."

Nightmare then asks "how are you all so calm about this?"

"Uhhh, well," Chro rubbed his neck. "I can't die and I uhh... I've been through worse in all honesty. This is nothing compared to my past. In fact, this is very relaxing compared to my original job."

"I'm usually dealing with this type all the time," Recon said with a shrug. "I'm a Creation of Balance. Nothing really surprises me. All I can do is stay calm and rational to deal with any and all situations."

Nightmare frowns at this before asking "what about the flower girl?"

"Ms. Glass?" Chro asked. "Well, she works in this tower. So that means she's been trained to hand situations like these. Other than that, I'm not sure how she's calm about this. We don't really know much about Ms. Glass." Recon nods in agreement with Chro.

Nightmare tilts his head in confusion "wait, Don't really know much? You all seem like you have known each other for a while."

"We only met what ... 2 days ago?" Chro asked. "I was taught to be polite to other Creators when encountering them from my Creator." Chro looked towards Recon for his answer.

"Polite is what I was taught," Recon said. "However, Fate made it so that I work in unison with other due to my True name. Cooperation is key to get things done quickly and efficiently."

Nightmare stares at them in shock for a bit at the Insane level familiarity. After a few minutes frantic knocking comes at the downstairs door.

Recon portals to the front door and opens it quickly.

Glass is standing at the door shaking holding two crying infants that looked to be a dream and a Nightmare, and in opened car door an adult fresh looked to be trying to calm down at least a crying child Error, though there were likely more children, and maybe another adult, in there from the volume level.

"How many children and adults are there?" Recon says as enlarged one of his hands and used strings to cover the hole. He quickly takes the two babies from Glass and laid them on his larger hand.

Glass holds herself once she children are out of her grasp before saying "three kinds two adults and at least one more infant."

Recon moves to the Jeep with Glass. "Who is what?" Recon asked. "It could help us with what happens next and how to go about each person's care."

Glass rubs her arms in stress as she says "the adults are a fresh and i think the other is a dust, the kids are an Error, a geno, and I can't even make a guess at the third kid. As for the remaining infant I can identify partially, I can't tell because the dust is hiding them against their chest in a blanket."

"Are there any injuries?" Recon asked. "Or do we have to find out from Fresh and Dust?"

"Oh there are a lot of injuries." Glass says rubbing at her arm as a few flowers popped up in her hair "we're going to have to ask the Dust because I can't see anything, but the Error had one of their legs completely broken off as well as one of their arms, the geno had part of their skull broken off and I'm pretty sure the Fresh had a few broken vertebrae in addition to a possible broken pelvis. I don't see anything on the last kid, but there could be something under all the clothes they have on."

Recon made it to the Jeep before looking at the Fresh. "Do you have any who can't walk?" Recon asked. "I only wish to help all of you and the young ones. So please don't lie as we can help heal those injuries as soon as possible."

The fresh gives a laugh through his obvious pain as he holds up the Error's leg he was holding in addition to the Error's arm "my baby bro's missing one of his legs, I don't think he can walk, and I can't tell if geno is even thinking well enough to stand. I think I can get up and into that spire thing, but it's going to hurt like hell. Can't tell ya about the other homies though."

Recon nods before opening a portal for Chro to land next to him. He hands him the two infants before turning to Fresh. "I'm going to move you and your brothers onto my hand. That way none of your injuries will get too jostled. Alright?" Recon asked.

Fresh thinks on it for a moment slightly confused before nodding.

Recon carefully moved his enlarged hand next to the Jeep. He helped Fresh onto his hand first, then helped him sit Error and Geno beside him.

Recon turned to the Dust in the Jeep. "How are you and the other children?" Recon asked. "Are you and the other child able to walk, or are you injured as well?"

Dust didn't reply right away from where he was laying on his side wrapped in a blanket holding a wrapped up infant to his chest before saying "i-i n-need a-a mi-minu-nute p-please. Ju-just a min-inute plea-ease an-nd I w-will wa-walk."

The child who had a hood covering most of their face and a scarf to obscure more of it quietly mumbles almost unintelligible "I ok to walk."

"Are you sure?" Recon asked both of them. "I can help you move to the medical room so we can heal any of your injuries."

The Dust shivers for a second as they grab the other side of the blanket to keep himself covered as he says "p-ple-please, i-i do-don't wa-want t-to b-be t-tou-touched."

Slowly Dust sat up keeping the edges of the blanket they were holding tight in their grip as they held the swaddled baby in their other arm saying "I-i ju-just ne-need-eded a m-moment to col-collect my-myself."

"Of course," Recon said as he backs off. "I'm sorry if I'm overwhelming you, especially since you're in an unknown place around unfamiliar people. If you need anything, and I mean anything at all to help you or the young ones, don't hesitate to ask us. We are different from those you knew before coming here."

Dust nodded in understanding before slowly getting up from their seat keeping their body covered with a blanket and walk out of the jeep, limping slightly. The child who was fully covered up by cloth follows soon after.

"Come, follow me," Recon said as he just decided to open a portal to the infirmary after seeing Dust limp. "We'll be in the infirmary to heal any of your wounds."

Recon entered the portal after his enlarged hand entered with Fresh, the Error, and Geno. Chro, who hasn't moved since being handed infants, waited for everyone to enter so he could pull up the rear of the group, and if needed, help if someone couldn't get through.

Dust mumbles something to themselves about "not much anyone can do for an old injury." As they enter through the portal. The cloth covered child hesitates, shivering slightly, as they look at the portal before heading through. Glass follows soon after giving Chro a look that said 'do not drop them.'

"I would never," Chro mumbled as he entered the portal.

Recon moved to set Fresh, the Error, and Geno on beds close to each other as to not separate them and so they could see each other and not panic. Recon then turned and gestured for Dust and the kid to take two other bed near Eraser, before turning his attention to Fresh.

"Where are you and the other two injured?" Recon asked. "The more that you tell me, the better we can treat you. We will also do an examination just in case you may not know of an injury due to other ones."

Fresh stares at her in confusion "before saying pouting to his brother's, one of which (the Error), was still crying and saying "their main Injures are kinda obvious, Error has two limbs completely broken off and Geno is holding part of his broken skull."

"And you?" Recon asked as he tilted his head. "Where are you injured?"

Fresh chuckles nervously before saying "kinda fell hard on my spine to protect those little guys." Before pointing at the infants Chro was holding.

"I see," Recon said. "Yet you avoid telling me your pelvis is also injured." Recon looked at Fresh knowing.

Fresh cringed before saying "most homies don't like talking about down there.

"Well, I'm not normal," Recon said as he moved his hand to light touch Fresh in the spine. "I'm 'pure of mind' or 'strictly professional' my siblings would say. You're not the first person I had to heal their pelvis, and with my brother Reese being as reckless, you won't be the last." Then Recon lightly tapped Fresh's spine twice.

Fresh cringes as the spot Recon taps glares with pain.

Recon brushes the glare off. "Sorry," Recon said. "I testing sensitive levels on your spine."

Fresh glares a bit at her before saying "yeah, well, I'm pretty sure that a spine is going to be really sensitive to touch after taking a hard fall."

"Can you lift the back of your jacket and shirt?" Recon asked. "I'd like to see how bad the damage is. The faster I get you healed up, the faster we can help your bros out. I'm going to need you to comfort them when I start the healing process for them."

Fresh nods before pulling off his jacket and shirt to reveal the highly bruised and spiderweb fractured spine, in addition the parts ovv his ribs connected to his spine were in a very similar state.

Recon moved his hands above the fractures and started to use healing magic to close the fractures on the bones. "I'm Recon by the way," Recon introduces. "I'm glad you're not in worse shape. I didn't want to put you to sleep and operate, but I would if I really had to."

Fresh laughs a bit before saying "don't say that to Error, he would keep crying for the next week."

"That's why I need you to be healed first," Recon said. "You know them best. You know what makes them panic, but also what calms them. Are they afraid of anything? Like yelling, the color white, strings, ink, or crystals?"

Fresh blinks in confusion at some of the suggested fears before saying "Error prefers if people don't yell, he can stand it for an hour or two but he gets fussy and paranoid if it goes on to long, he also hates needles, like deadly afraid of them. Geno is generally fine with most things, would probably prefer to be as far as he can from medical equipment, he also doesn't want our brother out of sight or he'll lose it.

"I was very mindful to have all of you in sight of each other just in case one of you couldn't have the other out of sight," Recon said softly as he moved slowly down as the spine and ribs healed nicely. "As for Error and Geno's condition, that would mean I would have two options if we can't use medical equipment. But, seeing as we want you all in good condition, I will just have to deal with it. At least they'll be healed with no real lasting damage."

Fresh cringed a bit before saying "sort about the restriction, the two have had some... bad interactions with most things medical related."

"Let me guess. It has something to do with their past?" Path questioned. Coming into the conversation "you know I could just use my strings to heal them."

Fresh shrugs before saying best to try any ask them if it's ok first. It would probably help keep them calm if they can have input."

Recon sighs softly and backs up as he finished healing Fresh's spine. "I'm done," Recon said with a smile. "At least I have methods of healing without medical tools. My siblings and I didn't have anything to heal ourselves but our magic. So I took it upon my to learn as much healing properties with my magic."

Recon turned to Acer. "Error is missing limbs and Geno has a hole in his skull," Recon said to her. "I'm fine healing Error. Can you heal Geno?"

Glass watches before going over to Chro to check on the twin infants who were still crying.

Recon enlarged his hand again and helped Fresh onto it. "We can heal your pelvis later when everything settles down and others are asleep," Recon said as he moved and set Fresh gently beside Error. "I will be back. I need to ... do and get something really quick. In the meantime, I would suggest you two think of a nickname for Error. We have someone here who also goes by that name, so think of something." With that, Recon quickly left to another room on the floor.

Fresh blink in confusion before deciding to go with it and start calming his brother down.

When Recon came back, he came back with what looked to be an exact replica of Error's broken off arm and leg. "We won't be needing his broken limbs," Recon said as he held up the limbs in his hand. "I'll be using these to heal him."

Fresh looms down at the broken off limbs he was holding before looking at Recon and asking "is it safe?"

"It's safe," Recon said to Fresh. "These are ... special limbs. Or if you want me to be more precise, these are your brother's limbs. So his body won't reject them."

Fresh blinks in confusion before looking at the limbs he was still holding again then the ones Recon held.

Recon holds out the limbs to Fresh to allow him to hold them and see that they are the same as the ones he held. They were authentic and perfect limbs of Error after all.

Fresh looks them over confused before asking "just to be clear, they won't make him sick if they are used instead of his old ones? And they won't stunt his growth?"

"Not at all," Recon reassures. "They are exactly the same as his old ones. It's a simple process that you can actually do with the new limbs because it's his whole arm and leg, not just where his limbs broke off. They will fuse and grow with his body because they are his limbs."

Fresh nods in partial understanding thinking that these will probably be better then putting Error through weeks of waiting and pain.

Recon decided to hand the new limbs to Fresh. "I'll let you heal your brother," Recon said. "I'll guide you through with his leg. From there, you can do his arm on your own with how easy it is. Error, you'll feel better immediately after we get your limbs on. Okay?"

The Error looks nervous and is shaking holding onto his brother's arm with his intact arm as he says "fresh, I'm scared."

To witch Fresh replies by rubbing his brother's back and saying "I know fault, but I promise to do everything I can to make sure it doesn't hurt."

"Fault, everything will be alright. I've done this too many times with my own younger siblings," Recon said. "Once Fresh gets the limbs on, the pain will immediately go numb, then a few minutes later, you'll feel your limbs as good as new. You know your brother won't hurt you right?"

Fault nods holding onto his brother as he says "fresh loves us too much to let anyone hurt us..."

"Then trust that Fresh can heal you," Recon said with a soft smile. "I know your brother can get your limbs on. Those limbs are special and with Fresh healing you with them, they're even more special. Fresh, we'll start with his leg. You ready?"

The two brother's look at each other before both getting a look of determination and nodding to Recon.

"Lay down," Recon said to Fault. "It will be easier on Fresh to line up the leg."

Fault nods a bit of his nerves coming back as he lies down for his brother to do what Recon is instructing.

"Fresh, line up the leg from his hip above it," Recon said.

Fresh nods and does his best to do as she is explaining, though it takes him a moment to figure out exactly what they mean.

"Then slowly lay it on top of his leg," Recon said.

Fresh slowly played it on top of Fault's leg.

As Fresh did, the leg immediately fused onto the broken leg. It looked as though it phased into it. Once Fresh laid the leg on the bed, the leg was completely attached. After a few minutes, Recon turned to Fault and asked, "How does it feel?"

Fault shivers a bit before saying "weird, like fuzzy and numb."

"That's a normal feeling," Recon said. "Give it a few minutes and you should be able to feel it and move it without trouble. Do you want to wait to move it around, or do you want Fresh to attach your arm since it's the same process as the leg?"

Fault gives a nervous, quiet, "I don't know."

"Then we'll wait for your leg," Recon concludes. "Once your leg feels better, Fresh can work on your arm."

Fault nods an ok before letting go of Fresh to point at Geno and asks "help brother."

Recon sent over his hands to use healing magic to at least relive Geno of pain. "I can help him once you're okay," Recon said softly. "Then we can all go to him and comfort him as I heal him. How does that sound?"

Geno sighs as the pain dullard leans slightly towards the magic.

Fault takes a minute to think on the suggestion before nodding.

Recon moved his hand to Geno's shoulder and lightly laid him down while still using healing magic. After several minutes, Recon asked, "How does your leg feel now? Can you move it?"

Fault frowns before attempting to move his leg and smiles happily as he can move it fine.

Recon smiles and then turns to Fresh. "Now just line the arm up with his shoulder and lay it down on it like the leg," Recon instructed. "After that, all we have to do is wait for Fault to be able to move it and then we all go to Geno and help him."

Fresh nods and does as Recon said, laying the new arm on top of the old one watching it seemingly faze into place earning a shiver from Fault.

Recon waited patiently for Fault to move his arm. Then he could move the two to Geno, and decide on how to help the other skeleton.

After a few minutes Fault moves his arm and gains a happy look since he wasn't in pain any more.

Recon smiles and moves one of his hand over and enlarged it. "Now that you're feel better, let's go make Geno feel better," Recon said as he moved his hand next to the bed. "I'm sure he'd appreciate your company." Fault quickly makes his way over to Geno as Fresh slowly gets onto Recon's hand. "We have two options for Geno," Recon said quietly. "We could either use the remains of his skull to patch him up, or we could do what we did with Fault. However, they both have risk depending on the option."

Fresh frowns before asking, "what are the risks?"

"I could use my ink and strings to hold his skull in place, but he can't be doing too much moving around and he would be in some pain. But the pain could be managed," Recon said. "Or I could use the method I did with Fault, but it's a whole skull that's Geno's and it could cause memory loss or hallucinations. I would suggest the first option, but I would need Geno to take pain meds before moving forward. The decision is up to you." Once Fresh was on his hand, Recon moved to stand beside Geno's bed and allowed Fresh to move beside his brother carefully as to not hurt his pelvis.

Fresh frowns as he thinks over the two options, geno having mental issues would make Fault cry, but in the other case Geno would be in a lot of pain. But the pain can be managed, so that would probably be a lot better. Leading Fresh to say "yeah, option one seems like the better option."

Recon reached into his hood and pulled out a pill and water bottle, then handed it off to Fresh. "Help him take that pill," Recon instructed. "It will alleviate all the pain. After a few minutes, we can can see to fixing his skull." Recon was glad that his healing magic was helping Geno, even just a bit.

Slowly Frech coaxes Geno into taking the pill, and smiles when his younger brother takes the pill.

After a few minutes more, Recon stops his healing magic. He carefully takes the broken piece of skull from Geno and examines it. He then moves his hand to hold the fragment of skull carefully in his strings right where it belongs in Geno's skull. "Don't move," Recon says lightly. "I'll make this quick."

The strings stitch into the skull to hold it in place. Then Recon produces his green ink and lightly rubbed it on the stitching. Once he was done, he backed away. As he did so, the ink and stitches became almost invisible. "There, it's done," Recon said. "If you're in pain, Geno, tell your brother. I'll get you painkillers right away. Maybe I'll make you something to make the healing process faster, but until then, don't move around to much."

Geno hums in agreement, happily not in pain at the moment, as he leans against his older brother.

"You three can rest up," Recon said. "If anything else hurt or comes up, just tell Ms. Glass or I. We will help you. Fresh, I'll help with your pe- ... your other problem later. Here's another painkiller for you." Recon handed Fresh another pill before he moved over to Dust.

"Tell me where your hurt and how bad," Recon said. "I know you have a limp, but I want to help heal you fully or at least where you won't have pain. Also, how is the infant? If they are hurt, we need to take immediate action before it get to a point of permanent damage that could affect their growth."

Dust cringes and is about to say something before the seemingly sleeping baby against his chest starts crying. Quickly he moves the blanket enough to net him get out the baby, revealing bare ribs and a summoned eco-body covered in scars, both old and new, before it is again covered as they bounce the crying infant mumbling nonsense phrases to try and help them calm down. The baby was mostly covered by the blanket they were wrapped in, but a few cracks on their skull were visible.

Path having been watching the operation noticed the baby. "What's their name?" He asked curiously

Dust blinks in confusion before looking at Path before saying quietly as he bounced his baby "chalk."

Recon holds out his hands above where Chalk's skull is and at Dust's back as he used healing magic that he was sure that the cracks and scars would heal even if they were covered. "Don't worry, I'm not touching you," Recon said softly. "I'm just healing over the cracks and scars you and the baby have. Do you or the baby have any open wounds?"

Dust cringes before mumbling "don't know, stopped keeping track."

Recon sighs. "I guess I have to do a full body examination on both of you," Recon said. "I want you to be healed and healthy for you and your child. Speaking of child, do you know the name of the kid on the other bed?"

Dust shakes his head as he says "I don't have children or know anyone that age."

"So it's just you and Chalk then?" Recon asked.

Dust cringes a bit before giving a sort of gesture.

Recon nods. "I won't pry any further," Recon said. "I will heal you and Chalk. Have both of you rest up and later we can talk." Recon did just that. Recon didn't touch Dust or Chalk, but continued to heal the two just in case there was any other injuries anywhere else.

Dust sighs in relief as they don't pry into their situation right away and just relaxes while rocking his calmed baby.

Once Recon was sure his hand roamed above Dust and Chalk, he stepped back. "You can rest for now. I'll check on you later and then we can all chat about everything you may have questions about and why you're here."

Acrylic walks up to Fresh "So how long have you been looking out for your brothers?" He asks.

Dust nods before just desiring to curl up on the bed with his baby.

Fresh blinks, not having expected to be questioned "um... since they were born? I was ten then Geno joined our family as a baby, so I was always helping out, and Fault came like 5 years after Geno ... so yeah, all their lives."

Recon then moves to the other bed with the unknown child. "Hi, I'm Recon," Recon greets. "What is your name?"

The covered up child stares at them for a bit before saying quietly " Copic."

"Copic, are you hurt anywhere?" Recon asked. "I just want to help you feel better."

Copic adjusts their scarf covering their face as they ask "define hurt..."

"Heh, know that feeling. See the black bones skeleton with the green tear marking? See the cat/skeleton hybrid. They're my siblings." He gestured to Path and Faith

Fresh chuckles before nodding.

Recon glances back at Acrylic trying to get to know Fresh and his siblings a little more before turning back to Copic. "Any physical pain or injury," Recon said. "Emotional and psychological pain is not my forte to heal. So I ask again, are you hurt anywhere?"

Copic shivers a bit before pulling down his scarf as he says "I don't think you can help." Revealing metal wires weaving through his jaw, some areas of wire were covered partially over by bone regrowth. Their glove covered hands shook as they filed with the end of their scarf.

"I'm the eldest, then there's Faith, Path is the youngest. We're family so we look out for each other." Acrylic glanced at them with a warm, soft smile.

Fresh nods before asking "ever have any crazy incidents happen?"

Glass looks over the twins Chro is holding to make sure ther weren't injured during or after the fall.

Chro held the infants close, bouncing them lightly, rocking them while humming. He was actually able to get them to quiet down a bit. He looked over to Glass and held out the the Dream infant to her. "Here," Chro said. "Daydream, isn't squirming as much as little Nightlife here. You can check him over."

Glass nods as she takes the young Daydream and starts to look them over.

Nightlife starts to get a bit more fussy when Daydream was handed to Glass, but Chro stayed close to Glass as it seems they baby twins could sense each other's presence.

Glass sees this occurrence and gives a quite "interesting" before continuing examining Daydream, happy to find that other a small crack on the skull the little one was fine.

Chro then held out a very fussy and squirmy Nightlife to Glass to examine as he took Daydream from her.

Glass switched out babies with Chro and bounces the little one as she examines them, slightly surprised to find that while the little over was mostly unharmed like their brother, there was one more injury besides the small crack to the skull, fractures spanning across one of the little one's hands.

"Ms. Glass, could you help me?" Recon asked Glass. "I don't know how to help young Copic here. I was hoping you could help him. Are the infants alright?"

Glass comes over after handing Chro Nightlife again because she does not want to risk a tantrum. Looking over the wire embedded in Copic's jaw she mentally went over what the best option would be to get it out before asking, "Anymore metal we need to know about?"

Earning a nervous mood from Copic.

Recon motions over Chro to look over Nightlife and Daydream. After seeing the cracks and hand fractures, Recon just used healing magic to heal the damages. After healing the twin infants, the two seemed to settle down in Chro's arms and cuddles him for warmth as they drift off to sleep.

"Have a seat on one of the beds here," Recon instructed Chro. "I wouldn't suggest separating anyone here, just in case one of the other patients would panic over their absence." Chro nods and lightly makes his way in the bed with the infants, while Recon turned his attention back to Copic and Glass.

Glass frowns before asking "can you show us where?" Copic finishes before holding himself as he mumbles "you'll get mad at me."

"Why would we get mad at you?" Recon asked curiously at the statement. "You have done nothing wrong to warrant our anger towards you. All we want is to see where else the metal is. We want to help you, but we can't do that if you don't cooperate. I, as well as Ms. Glass here and many others, have helped heal people in this room and further. Can you show us where the other metal is so we can help you?"

Copic curls up saying more to himself then them "you'll get mad at me, he says people will get mad at me."

"Who are you talking about?" Recon asked softly.

"Mr. Gaster." Copic says as they scratch at their face, like they were trying to get something off.

Recon moved his hand and lightly held Copic's wrist. "Please Copic, I beg of you," Recon lightly pleaded. "Let us help you. We want to help you heal. Can you please show us where the other metal wires are?"

Copic whimpers before asking "c-can you get the thing of my face first, it burns. Allot."

Recon moved Copic's hand to see what he was talking about.

Where Copic has been scraping there looks to be flakes of what looked like a paint like substance over a splotch of black bone.

Recon moved one of his hands to use healing magic, while the other produced green ink and smeared it over the inflamed area to counter the burning of the paint substance. "The Ink should counter and stop the burning of the paint," Recon said as he pulls his hands away. "How are you feeling now?"

Copic sighs as the burning dulls, before saying "better."

"Good," Recon said with a smile. "Can you show us where the other metal is? Ms. Glass may have a way to help with healing healing you."

Copic shivers before off one of his gloves and pulling up his sleeve to reveal metal screws and hinges embedded in his finger bones connected to wires. His arm was in a similar state, except there was a rod instead of hinges attached to the bones with long pins, wires were wrapped around some areas where the bone likely had started to fracture. I. Both cases some bone had started to grow on top of the metal. Before Copic mumbled quietly, "all my limbs are like this."

Chro, who was watching the three, started to cry at the sight and what he heard. Recon stared as green and purple tears flowed down his face. He has met another who has met the fate of unbearable pain and suffering. Daydream and Nightlife begin to stir from Chro's emotions, but weirdly enough, their aura's began to comfort him. If Recon focused on the three, Nightlife seemed to be absorbing the negative aura Chro had around him, while Daydream started producing a positive aura around all three of them.

Glass stays calm as she looks over the metal laden arm, going over her mental medical knowledge before saying "yeah, this is going to need surgery to get all of it out. If the bone wasn't growing over it I would say we could remove the wire and nuts without much issue as long as we bandaged up the injuries right after, but with the bone overgrowth, there is a large possibly of bleeding out and we don't know if any of the metal has been broken off and enveloped in the growth process."

Recon wipes away his tears and turns to Glass. "Do you think it's possible to get most of the metal that's causing any pain and hindering his movements at least?" Recon asked. "What would we need in order to do the operation?" Recon was determined to help Copic as much as he can. Even if it meant giving up a huge secret to his magic.

Glass frowns before saying "it's possible we could do it here, but it would need a large amount of prep. First off we would need to completely sterilize a place to even do the surgery, second we would need to find all the equipment needed since other tower operators seem to like pranking me by hiding medical equipment in different spots in the room. Most important is that we have to figure out if any of the magic and blood we have stored here is compatible with his. Generally I wouldn't worry, but with the fact that the bone is growing on the metal his biochemistry could have adapted to a more acidic blood with higher amounts of free metal. So we need to know if this is the case and a just the blood and magic we would have to use to fit those specifications if it is the case. Pulse we might want to check if he is allergic to any additives or generally used medical equipment."

"Do you think we'll be able to get everything ready and perform the surgery before we leave the tower?" Recon asked. "I know I can get you compatible blood and magic for Copic, but everything else is out of my hands when it comes to medical equipment and procedures. Do you believe we can do this?"

Glass thinks about it before saying "I believe if we start prep now we can either do it late tonight or early tomorrow, but we are going to have to get everyone out of here and I'm going to have to start cleaning right now and won't have time to make dinner. Also we're going to have to make sure Copic eats and drinks nothing from at least now till after the surgery."

"We should move everyone then," Recon said. "Eraser can't really move. Daydream, Nightlife, Chro, Dust, and Chalk can go to the top floor to rest. Fresh, Geno, and Fault can go to the living room floor and keep the others company. Does that sound like a good plan?"

Glass clicks her tongue as she thinks over the proposition before saying "not a good idea, once I get the room as clean as I can no one who isn't apart of the procedure can come through, else we risk Copic getting an infection, so it would be better if everyone is downstairs in the main area connected to the barracks. And much as I hate to say, that includes having to move Eraser downstairs."

Recon thought and shook his head. "It would be too crowded," Recon points out. He thought for a second before an idea came to mind. "We can have them up there and downstairs. We can block off this whole floor. I can create a portal to connect both floors. Does that sound like a compromise?"

Glass thinks it through before saying "yeah, that sounds ok, but I still need to be able to more out to get Colic and probably you Recon for the surgery when the room is set. Pulse again, we still need more out of Eraser so that no contamination issues.

"Would it be better to have Eraser on the top floor or downstairs?" Recon asked. "We can move him quickly there with my portals, it's just the issue of which floor he should stay."

Glass thinks about if before saying "downstairs, down there there is at least people who aren't hurt and can identify quickly if something is going wrong."

"Alright then," Recon said. "I'll move him now. There is a corner with outlets for the ventilation system." With that said, Recon moved to stand by Eraser. Right as he unplugged the ventilator, a portal opened up underneath Recon, Eraser's bed, and the ventilator and the portal moved up to take them downstairs, which surprised some who were down there.

Nightmare jumps at the sudden appearance of the portal, objects and people and before he can stop himself hisses at them. His brother just sits there frozen in shock.

Recon plugs the ventilator in before turning to Night and Nightmare. "I'm sorry for dropping in so suddenly," Recon said. "We have a few new people who will be joining us soon enough. They can't stay in the infirmary as we need to prepare for an important surgery to help a new arrival. Please don't be hostile to the newcomers. They are like you, as they have been through a lot and hurt by others. Do you understand, Night? Nightmare?"

Nightmare glares as his brother weekly nods his head, while he was nervous about more people he at least didn't expect to be hurt by the new people.

"Nightmare, do I have to restrain you?" Recon asked. "I just healed some them, but two of them are still injured. So I ask you, Nightmare, will you behave yourself around one adult and two children and later another adult, their infant along with two others?"

Nightmare flinches at this before picking lightly at the cast in his arm mumbling something that even his brother couldn't hear, leading to Night giving his a confused look.

"Nightmare, please," Recon pleads. "You can stay close to your brother, but please don't do anything rash. The three coming here are all brothers as well. So please, at least be a little nice to them. Can you do that?"

Nightmare keeps picking at the cast before giving a nods he moves himself closer to his brother still picking at the cast nervously.

Recon smiles softly at Nightmare. "Thank you," Recon said. "Don't destroy your cast too much. You have until after tomorrow before we can take it off. I'll come back to fix it again after I complete a few tasks." Recon moves to the stairs to the infirmary.

Nightmare nods not looking up, still lightly picking at the cast.

Recon made his way up and motions Chro to come to his side as he stood by Dust's bed. "Dust, please get up," Recon said as Chro was by his side with the infants. "I will take you to the top floor where you and Chalk can rest."

Dust nods clutching the blanket around him hard as he gets up with his baby quietly asking "d-do you have any clothes I could borrow?"

Recon nods. "I can actually make some," Recon said. "Would you like to have your original clothes or something else?"

Dust shakes his head as he says "an-anything is f-fine."

"As you wish," Recon said. "I'll get them to you after we get upstairs." Recon opens a portal under them and moved them to the top floor of the tower.

Dust stumbles slightly after going through the portal losing the grip on his blanket for a moment as he moved to clutch his tighter revealing for a second he was... well,... without clothes. Quickly though he catches the blanket and repositions it to cover himself again while shaking.

"Are you alright?" Recon asked, clearly unfazed by what he saw. "Anything injured?"

Dust shivers clutching the blanket harder, happy they hadn't noticed... he didn't want to think about it,before saying "y-yes, f-fine, I-I'm f-fi-ine.

"Alright then," Recon said as he watched Chro put Daydream and Nightlife in a crib. "Go make yourself comfortable. I'll be done with your clothes in a minute." Recon sit down on a stool and gets to work on forming clothes out of his ink and strings.

Nightlife and Daydream started babbling to each other waking Mallory up who is in a crib nearby as well as Cherry who had been sleeping on top of his brother.

Dust nods and sits down on a nearby windowsill bouncing Chalk.

Recon made quick work and made Dust's clothes. Recon made a gray tank top and shirt, a faded blue hoodie that was fluffy on the inside, gray boxers, and black sweat pants. Recon even made him socks and fluffy blue slippers.

He goes over to Dust and holds out the outfit. "Here you are," Recon said. "I hope you find them to your liking." Recon looked over to the Chro who was fascinated that the Dreamtale infants were basically communicating with Mallory. Recon then turned to Cherry to see Alpha was slowly waking up.

Mallory babbles something crawling to the bars of the crib before lifting himself up to look over at the crib with Daydream and Nightlife. Dust mumbles a thank you as they look around for somewhere private to get dressed and temporarily put down Chalk as Alpha wakes up because of his brother jumping off him and walking on all fours over to the crib with the dreamtale babies.

Recon opens a portal and gestures to it. "You can change through here as it leads to a bathroom," Recon said to Dust. "I'll watch over Chalk for you."

Dust nods shakaly as he hands his baby over to Recon before going through the portal to change.

Recon held Chalk close in his enlarged hand as he made his way to stand next to Chro. Chro and Recon both watched as Dreamtale infants babble with Mallory and to Cherry.

Cherry shakaly uses the crib to sand on two legs and look at the Dreamtale babies. Mallory squeals happily after the twins babble something. Chalk looks on confused, his hand going into his mouth as he sucks on it.

"Do you think we should put them together?" Chro asked Recon. "All of them seem like they want to play."

Recon continues to watch the young ones before replying to Chro. "We will wait for Dust," Recon replied. "Then we'll ask both Dust and Alpha if it's okay. We can't ask Alpha because you don't know sign language and I'm holding Chalk."

"I could-" Chro started.

"No," Recon said. "Dust entrusted Chalk to me. We will wait for his return to ask."

Mallory babbles back to the Dreamtale twins earning a laugh from Daydream and a coo from Nightlife.

Dust takes a few minutes to return, having taken a few minutes to clear up... an issue... before coming back through the portal, happily dressed hold a now folded up blanket, witch he quickly puts down as he heads over to Recon to get back Chalk.

Recon smiles at Dust and returns Chalk to him. "I'm glad the clothes fit you nicely," Recon said. "I was wondering if you'd let Chalk play with the other infants in a crib. They seem to be talking with each other, but the decision is up to you." Recon wait patiently for Dust to think his proposal over.

Acer appeared from a suddenly summoned portal in the infirmary, dressed in a white cloak with long sleeved gloves and closed in shoes. "If Glass cannot make dinner then Path can do it. He's an amazing cook. I would rather be a part of the surgery where I can help if necessary. Oblivion could also be of use since she is precise with a scalpel and has performed surgery on others before." She informs Glass.

Meanwhile Acrylic and Path were downstairs. "So what do we do now?" Path asked everyone.

Glass frowns before saying to Acer "ok, but first I still need to prep the room for said surgery. So, out please so I can clean."

Dust looks over at the other young ones she were chatting with each other In baby tongue before saying "wh-while I think let-tting them p-play together is an aw-awesome idea, I do-on't think letting them do that in a crib is a good idea, little ones are very impressionable and it could lead them to associate cribs with play instead of sleep."

Recon nods before turning to Alpha. 'Is it okay if we let Mallory and Cherry play with Chalk, Daydream, and Nightlife on the floor?' Recon signed to Alpha. 'They seem to have taken an interest in each other. Would you be willing to watch them as they play on the floor?'

Alpha reads through the signs before thinking for a minute and signing back 'I do nott mind Chery playing with them, and I do not believe Glass would mind Mallory getting to play with some Cubs closer to his age. I would have been watching them anyways, you never know what can happen when Cubs are together.'

Recon smiles and nods. 'Thank you Alpha,' Recon sign. 'Please be careful with the newcomers. I just healed their injuries as they came for the rift. Especially Dust here, as he may have some trauma from his past.'

Once Recon finished signing, he picked up Daydream and Nightlife and set them on the floor a few feet away from Cherry. Then Recon moved to lightly pick up Mallory and set him besides Cherry. Recon turn to Dust and said, "You place Chalk on the floor just to see how they interact."

Dust hesitates, holding his child closer for a bit before sitting and setting them down so that they were sitting with support from his legs. Meanwhile Mallory crawls over to the dreamtale twins who were lying on the floor, Daydream having flipped himself from his back to his front as props himself up shakaly on his arms.

Chro watched as Nightlife was on his stomach besides Daydream and watched as Mallory came in front of them. Recon had his hands hover above them, ready to lightly move them apart if an accident occurs.

Mallory looks over Daydream, cooing in curiosity as Daydream's arms can't hold him up anymore, leading him to plop down on the floor and start crying, causing his brother, then Mallory to start crying.

Recon was by Daydream's side in a matter of seconds. He was on the floor and scooped up the twins. He held them close and bounced them in his hands and whispered reassuring things to Daydream. Recon didn't use healing magic because this would help the infants gain a bit of pain tolerance. Like earlier, Daydream and Nightlife's auras were flaring as to comfort Daydream, Nightlife, and Mallory.

Mallory calms down as the Dreamtale twins calm down as well.

Recon smiles and lightly set the twins on their stomachs again as they faced Mallory. Recon made a mental note that the Dreamtale infants use their auras instinctively to always comfort those around them if in high emotional distress.

Mallory looks over the twins cooing in curiosity, meanwhile Daydream is also cooing in curiosity and reaches for one of the hands Mallory was using to support himself on all fours. Nightlife though is playing with the fluffy carpet and trying to grab some and put it in his mouth. Chery meanwhile watched from afar.

"Awww, they're so cute," Chro said. "They remind me of Paps when he was little." Recon chuckled. "I still have to move a few people," Recon said and signed. Then he opened a portal in the wall by the ladder. "This portal leads directly down to the living room at the bottom of the stairs. You can't use the ladder because the other floor needs to be sterilized for surgery." Recon then goes down the ladder and closes the hatch to the top floor and makes his way back to the infirmary.

Alpha watches the little ones to make sure that more accidents don't happen as his brother cautiously walks closer on all fours to the groups of babbling infants.

Glass meanwhile is searching through the cabinets to find everything she would need for the surgery as Copic sits watching while Fresh and his brother, well really Fresh and Fault, sit there chatting.

"Fresh, Geno, Fault, time to go," Recon said as he enlarged one of his hands and helped Fresh onto it. Then he sat Geno and Fault besides Fresh. "I'll take you three down stairs. There, you'll meet Night, Nightmare, and Error who might be in the kitchen. I would suggest you three be careful with them. Like you, they have been hurt by others and don't trust easy." Recon starts moving towards the stairs with the three in his hands.

Fresh frowns before asking "exactly how little trust we talking here?"

"With newcomers? Night is willing to trust," Recon replied. "Nightmare, however, doesn't trust until he knows you have no intention of hurting him and Night. If either of you three approach Night, be ready to for his brother to be extremely protective of him. They've both been hurt, but Night likes to trust people." With that, they made it to the living room floor and were immediately spotted by Night and Nightmare.

Night looked on curiously as his brother, who is sitting right next to him, still picking at the cast but stops for a moment to glare at the newcomers before going cask to what he was doing, now with a glare.

Recon moved to set Fresh and his brothers down on the couch that was across from Night and Nightmare. Then he moved to stand in front of Nightmare to block his view of the other three and held out his hand. "Let me see the cast," Recon said. "I need to fix the damage or else we have to recast your arm. And we both know that we don't want to do that when you're going to have it off a day after tomorrow."

Night sighs as he shows Recon the cast, that had been picked apart in places, but wasn't too extreme and was staying in one piece.

Recon smiles at Nightmare before materializing his string to patch up the holes. "I'm glad you didn't do too much damage," Recon said. "How are you feeling? Any pain?" Recon asked both Night and Nightmare.

Nightmare shrugs since he doesn't really notice pain unless it's really bad. Night shakes his head feeling perfectly fine.

Recon backs up after he patched up the cast. "Night, Nightmare, I would like to introduce you to Fresh, Geno, and Fault," Recon said as he gestured to each as he called them out by name. "Fresh, Geno, Fault, this is Night and Nightmare."

Fresh and Fault wave at the two, Fault more excited then his brother, as geno gives a short nod before going to sleep.

Night meanwhile waves back as Nightmare glares at the group before deciding he was not dealing with this and hugs his brother hiding his face in his brother's shoulder.

Recon smiles lightly before creating a red blanket and laid it over Geno. "The portal by the stairs leads to the top floor," Recon informed everyone who was listening. "We are preparing to heal someone and can't have anyone come through. The top floor currently has the infants, so be careful if you're gonna go there. I'll be back. I need to get Defcon and Glitchy. I'm sure he's going to wake from his nap and I need them down here."

Recon opens a portal and seconds later Glitchy hops out as Recon holds Defcon in his hand. He laid her against the wall next to Eraser's bed. "Glitchy, this is Geno, Fault, and-"

"Fresh!" Glitchy exclaimed as he rushed over to hug him. "I'm so glad you're here!"

"Glitchy, that's Fresh, but not your Fresh," Recon said as he pulled his brother away. "This Fresh is a new friend of yours, okay?" Glitchy looked sad at hearing that this wasn't his love, but was excited that he could be friends with this Fresh and the other two.

Recon smiles before heading to the infirmary. "Watch over my brother, Night, Fresh," Recon said. "Entertain and later feed him." With that Recon was up the stairs before he could hear any protest.

Night and Fresh blink in confusion before looking at each other trying to determine if recon was talking to them.

Glitchy quickly made his way over to Night's side and pulls out his dolls of him and Fresh. "You want to have a tea party?" Glitchy asked Night. "Recon seems busy and you said you'd play with me after my nap." Glitchy was bouncing in his seat next to Night as he held out his dolls, which Fresh seemed to stare at the doll that looked like him.

Night blinks at the request before asking "what's a tea party?"

"Well Chro said it's like drinking flavored water," Glitchy explains to the best of his knowledge. "He said it's a good time to talk and get to know each other."

Night shrugs, deciding that there was no harm in doing it before saying "sure, why not." Before taping his brother's shoulder and asking him "you want to join us?" Getting back a mumbled reply that sounded like a "don't care, just want to hug you."

"He doesn't have to do much," Glitchy said. "We can just talk instead of play with our dolls. That way Nighty can still hug Night and talk if he wants!" Glitchy thought this was a better idea as he hugged his dolls close.

Nightmare groans a bit at the nickname, but stays quiet as his brother says "yeah, that will work, we can even have Fault and his brother possibly join in!" Earning him a tighter hug from his brother.

Glitchy got excited and turned to Fault and Fresh. "Do you two want to talk with us!?" Glitchy asked happily. "You don't have to get up! But do ya wanna join our conversation!? Do ya Fault!? Do ya Freshy!?"

Fresh blinks at the nickname as Fault bonuses excitedly in his seat and repeats "yes!" Over and over again, earning a smile and a "why not." From Fresh.

"Well since you're new here, you can ask a question first," Glitchy said to Fault and Fresh with a smile. "We'll all answer the question if we want to! We'll go in a circle. After everyone who wished to answer, answered, then someone else can ask a question."

Recon made it to the infirmary and mad it to Copic's side. Without a word, Recon taps his forehead to Copic's before moving away a second later.

Copic blinks in confusion not understanding what just happened.

Meanwhile Fault asks "what is you guys homes like!? My brothers and I like in an apartment in the city!"

Recon walks out of the room with no explanation to any one.

"My home is a colorful castle!" Glitchy cheers happily. "Is big with heart shaped windows, and we even own the rest of the colorful kingdom!"

Night smiles before saying "well, looks like Nightmare and I have the least interesting home, we kinda like in a tree."

Glass meanwhile watched Recon in confusion for a minute before shrugging and grabbing the last of the tools they would need for the surgery.

"Freshy's turn to ask us all a question," Glitchy said. Then Nighty, then Night, and lastly me!" Glitchy liked talking with everyone here. It was very interesting to him. He really liked his new friends.

Fresh shrugs before asking since he had no ideas "favorite activity?"

"I like playing, talking, coloring, and cuddling with my friends and family," Glitchy said. "Especially with my Fresh."

Recon came back into the infirmary with a cooler. "I was able to get ten IV bags with compatible magic and blood for Copic's surgery," Recon said to Glass. "Do you have everything needed for the operation, Ms. Glass?"

Glass says after looking over all the equipment "everything but a sterile area."

Recon tilts his head a bit. "Is there any way I can help?" Recon asked Glass. "I don't know how to sterilize an area, but I'm willing to help."

"Nighty, Night, what do you like to do again?" Glitchy asked. "I forgot. I just remember one of you like reading."

Night raises his hand as he says "I like reading." Before listening to Nightmare mumble something and saying "my brother likes hunting and helping my brother and I with our hobbies."

Glass then says "what we need to do is thoroughly clean everything in the room and seal any cabinets that we don't have the possibility of getting stuff out of."

"Nighty's turn!" Glitchy says as he looked at Nightmare in excitement. After all, Nightmare seemed so distant. It made Glitchy very curious about Nightmare.

Recon nods and leaves for a second before coming back with disinfectant wipes, a mop, and a blanket, then got to work with mopping the floor with one hand while wiping off counters, trays, and others things with the other.

Glass starts cleaning up the equipment in a sink to make sure they were clean.

Nightmare freezes at the suggestion and has to force himself to not pick at the cast as he tries to think up something, getting a blank so he just tries something random, quietly saying "favorite food?" Before hide

Path watched the others with mirth in his eyes, enjoying watching them talk and have some fun. Laughing a little when Nightmare hid

"I haven't eaten much in my life," Glitchy admits. " ... hmmm, Oh! I like the thing we had for lunch! Uh ... lasagna!" Glitchy cheers. Then he waits for the others to answer.

Nightmare shrugs before saying quietly "the pretzel things were good." Night then says "I liked that pizza we had last night."

Fault bounces as he says "I like chocolate!" Before he asks "do pixie sticks count?"

Path comes up to the group "whatever is edible counts. I personally prefer cookies." He said, smiling a little.

Fault then says "well Fresh likes pixie sticks!" Excitedly.

"What are pixie sticks?" Glitchy asked in pure curiosity.

"Um..." fault says before turning to his brother to get an explanation, earning a laugh from Fresh as he says "it's like a really fine grain sugar that had been flavored and stuck into straws."

"So ... you eat powder and straws?" Glitchy asked in confusion. "My brother Reese always tells me eating straw is a no no."

Fresh laughs before saying "no, you don't eat the straw. You eat the powder in the straw."

"Ohh," Glitchy said in awe. "Maybe my Fresh and siblings will let me try one!" Glitchy got excited of the idea.

Fresh gains a nervous look before saying "that might depend on your reaction to large amounts of sugar. If you get super hyper from it they may not give you it."

Glitchy tiles his head and turns to Night. "What does hyper mean?" Glitchy asked. "Is it a bad thing?"

Night blinks in confusion at the question before saying "no, I think it just means the person has to much energy and will run around without regard for others as much. But I don't really know for sure."

"Oh! I do that all the time," Glitchy says happily. "I get so happy and I feel like I can't sit still that I have to move! Then my Fresh or my siblings chase me around until they catch me and tickle me! It's so much fun!" Glitchy laughs as he remembered Recon tickling him earlier.

Fault, Night, and Fresh stare at Glitch in confusion at the answer.

Once Glitchy stopped laughing, he looked at the other and tilted his head. "Why do you guys look like that?" Glitchy asked. "Did I say something wrong?" Glitchy started to frown at the thought of doing something wrong.

Fresh quickly waves his hands before. saying "no, no. You've said nothing wrong, you just kinda made it seem like you would easily go hyper from sugar."

Glitchy thought for a moment before nodding. "Oh, okay," Glitchy said with a smile. "Hmm, I think it's Night's turn to ask us a question."

Night shrugs before asking "any favorite books?"

"My brother Reese read me a book about an archer who took from rich people and gave it to the poor," Glitchy explains. "I don't remember the name though."

Fresh then says "Robinhood, the vigilant that took from the greedy rich and gave to the abused poor. That the story you're talking about Glitchy?"

Glitchy's eye lights lit up. "Yeah! That's the one!" Glitchy cheered. "Reese would always read me that for a bedtime story."

Fresh laughs a bit before saying "I use to read that to Error every night."

"It is a great story," Glitchy admits. "What's your favorite book, Freshy?"

Fresh shrugs before saying "there is a book series called the inheritance saga, it's about a warrior who finds a dragon egg eventually leading him to fighting an evil king."

"Woah," Glitchy gasped. "That sounds so cool. I wonder if I can see a dragon one day. I'm sure my siblings would be willing to show me!"

Fresh shrugs before saying "who knows."

"Fault, Night, Nightmare, your favorite book?" Glitchy asked.

Fault thinks about it for a bit before saying "I kinda like this book series called the Kane Chronicles! It's about a pair of twins to get the powers of ancient gods and have to defeat another ancient god!"

Glitchy, for once, stayed oddly silent after Fault spoke. He was in a daze due to something Fault said.

Fault blinks in confusion before asking "did I say something wrong?"

Glitchy shook his head. "I... I remember Reese telling me I was a god," Glitchy said. "He said... he would teach me one day. ... I was just thinking of what he would teach me."

Fault, Fresh, Night, and Nightmare, who actually took his head off his brother's shoulder, look as Glitchy in shock and confusion.

Glitchy shook his head and turned to Night and Nightmare. "What are you favorite books?" Glitchy asked as if he didn't say anything out of context.

Nightmare stares at Glichy for a bit before laying his head on brother's shoulder again as he says "the trials of Lancelot." To which his brother added onto by saying "my brother's and I really like the stories of King Author and his knights of the round table, I personally prefer the tales of the noble king Author, Dream likes the journey of the kings wizard Merlin, and Nightmare likes the tales of the kings most prominent knight, Lancelot."

Glitchy was in awe at hearing about kings and knights. "That's so cool!" Glitchy says. "I bet it's a very cool story! Maybe Reese could read it to me!"

To which Night says "it's not one story, it's a set of stories that are not all interconnected."

"That makes it even more better!" Glitchy cheers. "More adventures to tell! More things to learn about each person in the story! More things to learn about their friends and lives!"

Night laughs at this before saying "yeah, I guess so. Plus there are way more then those three to read stories about, so you will have a lot of people you can read about."

Glitchy nods. "Okay, my turn," Glitchy says. "What your favorite color!? Mine is anything but white!"

Nightmare says with out a thought "black." Before his brother says "purples."

Fault thinks for a bit before asking "does Galaxy count?"

Glitchy nods. "Yeah, Galaxy counts since I said every color but white," Glitchy replies.

Fault nods happily at the fact that his favorite thing could count as a color. Fresh then says "well then I'm going to say pastel rainbow is my favorite colors."

Upstairs Mallory gets board wanting one of the types in a box under the crib and crawls over to it trying to pull it out only to be unable to move it leading to the little one to start crying, and soon cause the dreamtale infants to start crying as well.

Chro sees what Mallory was trying to get and pulls it out from under the bed. He looks at it confused, but placed it on the floor in front of Mallory to see what he does with it.

After noticing the box was out Mallory stops crying and scoots over to the box and pushes the lid open before shakily using the box to stand and looks in dropping out a multitude of block, a few rattles and a few baby support sit up pillows before finding what he wants halfway through the box, a teddy bear. After pulling the bear out the little one plops down on the floor and starts playing with and babbling to the bear.

Chro moves to grab the support pillows and helped Daydream and Nightlife sit up. Then he sat on the floor beside them and decided to make dolls for the two infants.

Daydream and Nightlife watched Chro make dolls, cooing at the bright material.

Cherry meanwhile after seeing the box be dragged out and opened rushes over and jumps into the box before crawling out with a beaten and chewed up, fluffy, rabbit, stuffed toy before starting to run in circles dragging it around.

Chro looked at his handy work after he finished the dolls. The dolls looked like Daydream and Nightlife and he helped both in front of the two to see which on you would grab.

The twins stared at the dolls in wonder before each reaches out for the one that looks like their sibling.

Chro smiles as he let the two hold their dolls. They were cute, as they cuddle the dolls he made close.

The two infants cuddled the dolls close babbling to each other and the dolls. Cherry meanwhile is still running with the rabbit stuffed animal and axidently trips on it, tearing of a foot, not that the little one noticed right away, and keeps running with the toy that is now dropping stuffing on the floor.

Chro watched as Cherry ran around and waited to see if the young one would notice the toy losing stuffing. He just readied himself to quietly go over and fix the toy.

After a few minutes Cerry noticed that his toy was surprisingly lighter than it usually was. Confused, the wolf skeleton looked down at the toy and starts wondering as he notices a white thing was pouring out of his toy.

Chro moves to pick up the foot and fluff on the floor before he knelt down to Cherry. "Can I see your toy?" Chro asked softly. "I'll fix him so that he's good as new."

Cherry looks at Chro in confusion still whimpering as he drops the toy is about to start crying.

Chro picked up the toy and turned away from Cherry as he didn't know how the sight of stuffing the toy would affect Cherry. Chro made quick work at stuff the toy back up in the right places and then sewing the foot back on. After he was done, he turned back to Cherry and held out the toy to the young one.

Cherry stared wide eyed at the fixed toy and starts jumping excitedly, happy at the magic fix.

Chro smiles and hands Cherry the toy and takes a seat near Dust.

Cherry happily takes the toys and starts running around happily with it again.

Dust watches this as he checks on his child who was currently happily sitting propped up on Dusts leg sucking his hand before Dust says to Chro "that little one es very excited about you fixing their toy. And also seems to be to fill of energy to sit still.

"So what would you all like for dinner?" Path asks the group.

Chro chuckled. "Yeah, I don't think he's had a toy fixed so quickly," Chro said to Dust. "Besides, some kids are very energetic when they're happy and feel safe. My brothers showed me that."

"Oh, Freshy should choose," Glitchy said. "They are new here, so they should pick."

Fault and Fresh just looked at each other before shrugging as Nightmare says "don't care." Night meanwhile says "maybe we could do a salad and some cooked meat?"

Fresh shrugs at the suggestion before saying "I'm fine with anything, no preferences."

Dust laughs at Chro's comment before saying "I guess so if that little one is anything to go by."

Meanwhile Mallory desides to build a block tower while holding his bear.

Glitchy nods in agreement with whatever the other's suggested. He didn't know anything about food anyway.

Chro slightly smiles at Dust. "Watching over these young ones is so refreshing if not slightly saddening," Chro said. "Reminds me of caring for my brothers, but I can't get to them right now. It's the reason we're all here."

Dust gives Chro a sad look before saying "I'm sorry you can't be with your family, I don't really know much about caring for your family, since only real family have at this point is Chalk, and he hasn't been around for long. So I'm not fully sure of how to care for children." Ad he says this he wraps a hand around his stomach.

"Well, if you need help with Chalk, don't hesitate to ask Recon, Glass, or even me," Chro said. "We can help you. Trust me, despite my form and looks, I've lived very long. Some of us have seen and experienced things that we shouldn't have. We're lucky that we've lived and learned from our experience. We can help you, all you need to do is ask us."

Dust smiles at this before saying "Thanks."

A minute after that a growl comes from Chalks stomach leading the little one to start crying, which in turn caught Nightlife, Daydream, and Mallory's attention and lead to the three of them also started to cry.

"It seem that Chalk is hungry," Chro chuckles. "Are you breastfeeding or do you need me to get you a bottle of milk? I might have to get some for the others as well."

Dust blushes before mumbling "breastfeeding..." as all the babies continue crying.

Chro nods and get up. "Alright then. You can use your blanket to cover yourself," Chro said. "I'll be back in a minute with the bottles of milk." Chro quickly made his way through the portal and to the kitchen.

Dust quickly grabs the blanket and folds it to cover himself as he uncovers his uperhalf and summons his breast and picks up Chalk pulling the little one under the blanket to start feeding him as the other little ones continue crying.

Chro quickly came back with three bottles of milk. Chro decided to hand one to Alpha since he had to deal with the other two. Using his strings, he held the bottles in the air so he could pick up Daydream and Nightlife. Once they were in his arms, he lowered the bottles to their mouths to feed them.

Alpha shrugs, use to this sort of thing around Glass and scoops up Mallory easily and starts feeding them the bottle. Daydream and Nightlife on the other hand stare at the bottles in confusion before starting to cry in hunger again not understanding what the strange thing In front of them was.

Despite the twins crying, Chro stayed calm and continued to coax them to drink the bottles. Chro didn't want to get Recon to breastfeed them. That was a last resort that he didn't want to resort to.

"Alright I can work with that." Path says. Dragging Acrylic into the kitchen. "ALRIGHT MY ASSISTANT! PREPARE THY SELF FOR COOKING!!!" Path exclaimed from the kitchen. An audible groan could be heard from Acrylic.

Meanwhile Acer was waiting outside the infirmary for Glass to finish prepping.

The Dreamtale infants continue crying not understanding what the thing in front of them was. Nightlife, out of reflex in an attempt to get the thing away, bites the nib of the bottle. Instead of getting a yelp and the thing moving away, Nightlife instead got a squirt of a good tasting liquid, leading the little one to slowly learning how to drink from the bottle. Daydream on the other hand still doesn't understand what the thing in front of them is, so they keep crying.

Meanwhile, Fresh, Fault, Night, and Nightmare watch as Path drags Acrylic off to the kitchen, hopefully not to cause a disaster.

The sound of pots and pans came from the kitchen as well as other loud noises. Faith appeared on the couch near the others "don't worry about the food. He may not look like it but Path is an amazing cook."

Chro saw Nightlife's action and decided to put the tip of the bottle in Daydream's mouth. He was sure the baby would get a taste of the milk and understand like his twin did.

Daydream helps a bit in confusion at the thing now in his mouth and bites it out of reflex, earning something tasty squirting into his mouth. Slowly the little one figures out how to keep getting the tasty thing into their mouth. Leading to the room finally not being filled with crying.

Meanwhile, Fault and Fresh jump slightly at the sudden appearance of this new person.

Chro smiles and the two infants in his arms and starts to rock them softly while humming a bit. Chro found it cute that Daydream and Nightlife were still cuddling the dolls he made them.

Meanwhile, Glitchy giggles at Fault and Fresh's reactions. "It's just Faith and Path," Glitchy says. "They won't hurt us. I'm glad Path is awake! He was asleep when he came here."

"Yeah, it was fortunate he woke from his coma," Faith agreed.

"Do you know what Path's cooking?" Glitchy asked. "I might like it and ask my siblings or my Fresh to make it for me."

Fresh then asks Night, "do people pop in from out of nowhere often?" Earning his a sort of gesture from Night.

Night then asks Fault "since you guys are some of the newest people here, were there more people that ended up here with you?"

Glitchy looks around before getting and running into the portal by the stairs. He looks around and goes over to Chro. "Hey Chro," Glitchy said. "I see you have babies with you! Who's that and what are they doing?" Glitchy said gesturing to Dust.

"Well, I'm holding Daydream and Nightlife," Chro introduces to Glitchy. "That, is Dust and they're feeding their baby, Chalk."

Glitchy nods before running back through the portal and sat beside Night. "There is three babies and someone named Dust upstairs, besides Chro, and the other three who are watched over by Ms. Glass," Glitchy informs Night. "Daydream and Nightlife are so cute! They even have dolls of each other! They remind me of you and Nighty!"

Nightmare blinks in confusion at comment of "they remind me of you and nighty" before taping his Brother's shoulder and whispering something to him, getting back a "sure, why not." Before the two stand up.

"Where are you guys going?" Glitchy asked. "Can I come!?"

Night then says "we just wanted to see the babies you say look like us Blotchy. You can come with us if you want, but you've already seen them so it might not be as interesting.

"I'm coming with!" Glitchy cheers. "You will really like them! They're so cute! Maybe Chro will let you hold them!" Glitchy moves ahead of the two and runs through the portal to Chro's side.

"Glitchy? What are you doing back?" Chro asked. "I thought you were going to play with the others?"

Glitchy shook his head. "Night and Nighty want to see Daydream and Nightlife!" Glitchy said. Chro was curious of the two Dreamtale brothers meeting the Dreamtale infants. It was going to be an interesting encounter. Though, Chro hoped that Dust didn't have a bad reaction at seeing Nightmare.

Nightmare and Night entered though the portal to upstairs, Nightmare being the more cautious of the two of them and viewed the room for threats before fully letting his brother though.

Dust just stared at the newcomers in confusion and curiosity, there were very few people who he ever got to see in his world after... but these two were now and curious to him, a nice contrast to how he would feel in his world.

Chro relaxed ever so slightly that Dust was okay with the Dreamtale brothers. He just had to see how they would react to baby versions of themselves and their brother Dream. "Night, Nighty, over here!" Glitchy called over. "Come see! Don't you think they look like you guys?"

Night goes over quickly, curious of the little ones, while his brother came over more cautiously before freezing as he got his first real look at the little ones.

"This is Daydream and Nightlife," Glitchy said while gesturing to said baby. "They look like baby versions of you two."

Chro stepped closer to Night and Nightmare, but stopped once he was closer to Night. Daydream and Nightlife looked up at Night, but that wasn't what caught Chro's attention. It was their auras flaring along with Night and Nightmare's. It was weird as Nightlife was trying to absorb the negativity while Daydream tried to spread positivity to Night and Nightmare.

Nightmare continues to stare frozen in at the infant Dreamtale twins as his brother cut closer to stare in aw at the little ones. Both seemed to be unaffected by the aura produced.

Chro smiles at Night. "Do you wanna hold Daydream?" Chro asked. "They're done with their bottles and bottles you seem really interested in him."

Night nods as his brother watches, Night really wanted to hold one of them.

Chro slowly hands Daydream off to Night and backs off a bit. With Daydream flaring his aura, Chro figures that Nightlife wouldn't cry that his brother wasn't by his side.

Night holds the little one who is staring at him before suddenly smiling at him, causing his heart to leap. In that moment he promised to protect them with his life.

Chro smiles at Night before moving to stand in front of Nightmare, so both him and Nightlife could see each other. Oddly enough, Nightlife reached out to Nightmare with one of his little hands.

Nightmare stared at the little one before lifting his uninjured hand, and holding it out for the little one to do as they will.

Nightlife held Nightmare's fingers for a second. Then the baby brought it closer to his face and nuzzled it. Nightlife happily babbles to Nightmare, not letting go of his fingers. Chro watched and concluded that, even as babies, Daydream and Nightlife seem to have quite the attachment to their counterparts and are trying to make them happy. Chro could help but find the whole situation so cute and adorable.

Nightmare stares at the holding part of his hand before saying to his brother, "they are out baby brothers now."

Chro smiles at that. "I'm glad you feel that way," Chro says before he frowns softly. "I wonder who was caring for these two." It was obvious that these two infants were from Dreamtale, but he wondered who was caring for them. Chro wondered why send these two through. Were the babies in danger and Chaos and Discord took it in their hands to take them here to protect them? So many similar questions swirled within his mind and the thought of these infants being away from their caretakers.

Nightmare asks quietly "can I hold them?"

Chro thought for a second before he quickly made a small blanket with one hand from his strings. Then Chro held the blanket out to Nightmare. "Here," Chro said. "Lay it on your cast. Then you can hold Nightlife without him getting uncomfortable."

Nightmare blinks in confusion, not understanding why that was needed, but does as Chro said.

Chro handed Nightlife to Nightmare. He was happy he gave the blanket to Nightmare, because Nightlife's legs laid on the cast. He was sure the hard cast material would have been uncomfortable for Nightlife to lay on, so the blanket made it comfortable for the little one.

Nightmare watches the little one he was holding and lightly smiles as they babble at him, meanwhile Night was cooing at Daydream as he played with him.

Chro watched the four of them before he turned to Glitchy. Glitchy, however, was no longer in the room. Chro chuckled as he figured that Glitchy wanted to stay near Fresh because he missed his Fresh. Chro then moved to sit on the floor by Dust again. It was refreshing to see counterparts of his old friend and his siblings get along. Chro smiles and enjoys being in the presence of everyone around him as two out of eight people from his old family were present in counterparts here.

Dust sighs when Chalk finally finishes eating, quickly making himself decent again, before asking "are you sure those four won't siblings already?"

"We're sure," Chro answered Dust. "Night and Nightmare are triplets. Their brother Dream is still in their AU. Daydream and Nightlife came here with you, Fresh and the other kids. I'm coming to the conclusion that you and your son, Copic, Fresh and his siblings, and Daydream and Nightlife all come from separate AUs seeing as you don't hold much recognition for the others."

Dust shrugs before saying "besides Chalk I only ever saw one person regularly."

"It's your baby's father?" Chro asked. "Unless it was Fresh, but I highly doubt it was."

Dust frowns before saying "I didn't even know the rainbow guy existed till this."

"Rainbow- are you talking about Fresh?" Chro asked

"He dressed up like a giant RAINBOW! And I can't seem to remember his name." Dust says as he burps Chalk.

Chro chuckled at how accurate the description of Fresh was. "Who visited you regularly then?" Chro asked.

Dust stays quiet as he sets Chalk down in his lap, who sneezes, expelling some chalk dust.

Chro sighs softly. "Can you at least confirm that it wasn't anyone who came with you?" Chro asked. "You don't have to answer my last question."

Dust then says "no, he isn't here." Quietly mumbling "thankfully."

Chro nods before looking directly at Dust. "You don't have to go back you know," Chro said. "Some who were brought here were taken out from their painful environment. Night and Nightmare were attacked by the nearby villagers every chance they got. I know that Nightmare doesn't mind staying here if we bring his triplet brother Dream here. We won't force you to go back, so keep that in mind."

Dust sighs before saying "I don't want to go back to him."

"Then you can stay," Chro said. "I'm sure one of the Creators would be willing to adopt you if you let them. They would give you a very nice home and you wouldn't have to deal with rests. You would probably have 'siblings' and 'cousins' if that happened, so you wouldn't be bored or lonely." Chro was lost in his thoughts of Dust allowing himself to be adopted by a Creator in the Alpha timeline and how his life would improve.

Dust shrugs before saying "I'm happy as long as I don't have to see him anymore."

"You realize you need to tell us who 'he' is right?" Chro asked. "We can't guarantee you won't see another version of 'him' if we don't know who your talking about. The only reason I asked earlier was to tell Recon so he can make sure you stay comfortable and calm. Recon and Elm have accommodated a creation known as Reboot. Reboot can't handle being around people he doesn't know, so Elm and Reboot are in Partialtale, which is completely empty to help him. Can you tell me who you're talking about so I can make sure you never have to encounter 'him'?"

Dust sighs as he rubs his face "look, I never got his name, he wasn't the type to stick around long enough to talk after he got what he wanted. All I know is that he had a belt going from shoulder to hip that held colourful vials."

Chro growls lowly, knowing exactly who Dust was talking about. "Ink you disgusting freak," Chro lowly hissed in anger. "I don't pity that soulless monster anyhow." Chro has observed Dust to know what possibly happened between him and Ink. It made his anger rage inside of him. Though Chro didn't realize he was radiating negativity, destruction, or that he was slightly warping time around him.

Dust gave Chro a confused look.

Chalk, being young and attuned to emotions, like all babies are, starts crying at the negative angry emotions. This in turn caught Nightlife and Daydream's attention who being natural attuned to emotions could feel the anger, causing them to cry. In addition Mallory like all babies when they hear others cry starts crying as well.

"Crap," Chro said as he calmed his nerves. He didn't mean to make the babies cry. Hearing all of them cry made him feel bad. "Well, there goes my emotions. Man, and here I thought I had a better handle on them. My bro was right. I need more practice and some positive outlets so this doesn't happen."

Dust gives Chro a "you think" look as he bounced Chalk in an attempt to calm the little one down. Nightmare and Night in turn was panicking unsure what to do to calm down the Dreamtale infants. Alpha just shrugs slightly as he does what he normally does to calm Mallory.

"Hey, this doesn't usually happen," Chro said as he made way over to Night and Nightmare. "This is actually the first time it's happened. Plus, who you described sounds exactly like someone who basically abused me because he could." Chro moved Night's arms to bounce Daydream in his arms, then made Night shift his weight from each foot slowly to sway his whole body. This slowly calmed Daydream. Chro got Nightmare's attention, then motions for him to copy his brother's movement.

Nightmare quickly starts copying what Chro is having Night do, slowly causing Nightlife to calm down.this caused Nightmare to release a sigh of release as Dust says "in a way my guy did the same."

"That's the other reason I got mad," Chro admit as he sat back down after the twins stopped crying. "I told you, some of us have seen and experienced things we shouldn't have. I can read some people fairly easy, and you're no exception. The guy you described earlier most likely goes by the name Ink. Across different Multiverses, he's abused his power, title, and others. You're not the first to experience what you did by his hand, nor will you be the last. I'm not saying all of his counterparts are like that, but most are. I get a very touchy on the subject of him as well."

"Which is why I didn't want to talk about him!" Dust yells.

Chro chuckles and shrugs. "Hey, I had to know," Chro said before he sighs in content. "I had to make sure for your sake. Your comfort here is a mission I, as well as Recon and his siblings were given a while ago by our creator. Even if it upset you in the beginning, knowing what makes you uncomfortable or upset helps us with future situations. Thanks for yelling at me, by the way. It's very refreshing."

Dust stares at Chro in confusion, now uncertain about what just happened.

Chro smiles softly. "It's been a long while since I've been yelled at," Chro admits. "Even when I mess up, I never get yelled at anymore. Not by my siblings, family, or Creator. Plus, you yelling remind me of my brother Dust."

Dust blinks in confusion, even more lost now.

"Don't worry about it Dust," Chro says as he waved his hand. "Forget what I said. Maybe you'll understand later on, or maybe not. It doesn't matter. I'm just glad you're here with us."

Dust stares at Chro still not fully understanding before saying "I am happy I am here to."

Chro sat in comfortable silence as he watched Night and Nightmare play with Daydream and Nightlife. It was adorable to watch the four of them.

Mallory starts fussing in Alpha's arms as he finally noticed something he didn't earlier. His mom wasn't here. Leading his to coo out in distress trying to get his mom to come like she normally would.

"Uh oh," Chro said. "Someone is looking for his mom."

Meanwhile, Recon finished of sanitation within the whole floor. He cleaned corner to corner as to not miss a spot. Recon turned and walked over to Glass after he put away the cleaning materials he had used.

Glass does a visual and mental once over of the room to make sure that everything was clean to prevent issues before saying "I think we're ready to do this." Before pulling a scrub top over her shirt to try and make seem more planned then it was.

Recon follows Glass's lead and puts on scrubs. He washes his hands before he puts on surgical gloves as well.

Glass quickly pulls on some scrub pants and a surgical mask before watching her hands and pulling on gloves, after which she turns to Copic before saying "hope your ready, this is going to take a bit."

Recon puts on a surgical mask as the final touch to match Glass before going over to the cooler with the IV bags and hooked them onto the IV stands. Once he got that done he turned to Glass for further instructions.

Glass starts preparing another IV full of painkillers and sedatives before hooking it up to Copic. After she was sure Colic was under she picked up a wrench from the tool tray besides her and asks Recon "you know how to use a wrench?"

Recon gives a sort gesture. "I know how to use it in a mechanical sense," Recon said. "If you tell me what to do, I can do it though. If I don't have the nerve to do it, I give you full permission to command me. This operation is necessary, so I don't mind getting commanded if it helps Copic. I know how much pain he's in."

Glass nods before saying as she points to the nuts and bolts holding some of the metal rods in place on Copic's bones "there are nuts and bolts holding the pipes in place, see if any of them can be unscrewed easily and tell me if you spot any that have bone growing over it." After which she grabs an item off the table one being a small buzsaw, before continuing "if the bolts or nuts are being encrusted in bone we are going to have to cut the bone layer growing over them to try and free the metal enough to get it out. If not, we might have to move to more... drastic methods."

Recon nods and gets to work on unscrewing some of the nuts and bolts from Copic's hands and feet and removed some of the metal as he moved towards his ribs. However, there bone growths on the nuts and bolts around Copic's shoulders and hips. Examining the rib and spine area, Recon saw that it was worse than the bolts and nuts at Copic's shoulders and hips. "Ms. Glass, I think we can use the saw on the nuts and bolts on Copic's hips and shoulders," Recon stated. "However, Copic's ribs, upper pelvis, and spine are a different story."

Glass looks at what Recon mentions and frowns as she sees how bad the pelvis and spine were, she could only see a bump indicating where the nits and bolts had been on the bone and the rod going down there back was partially covered as well. Slowly she runs through potions before saying "we're going to have to just cut off as much of the pipe as we can and leave any remaining metal there." After which she grabs the small saw and a pair of wire cutters before handing the cutters to recon saying "you can try and cut and remove wire if you want, but if it makes you nervous tell me and I can work through it."

Recon hesitantly moves to remove the wires on Copic's face, arms, and legs. However, Recon turned to Glass when there was only wires on Copic's ribs and pelvis. "I... don't think I have the nerve to do the rest," Recon admits sadly. "There's a lot of wire and there all intertwined around his rib cage and pelvis. I fear I might nick his bones."

Glass then says "I am expecting that to happen." As she cuts away at the spine pipe "the bone can heal though from a Nick, and it would probably be a whole less painful than having wire tightly wrapped around your ribs." Glass then pulls off a piece of slowly being removed pipe and drips it in a box. "You always expect that you are going to likely do a bit of damage in surgery. But again if your uncomfortable, I can do it."

Recon thinks a second before he shook his head. He continued to cut the wires out slowly as he shrugged off his nerves. He was only nervous because he's never had to use tools to heal others. It's never come to that point, because Recon would find a magical alternative. Slowly, but surely, more and more of the wires were removed. Little by little, the wires began to dwindle in number until Recon removed the last bit of wire.

Glass watches out of the corner of her eye as she remover the last major about of pipe she could, there was no way they were getting it all off, neither of them had the nessecery level of medical experience for that. Still, she set about removing chunks of metal from between where each vertebrate would be. It would probably need more surgery to remove the last pieces, but at least Colic should be able to bend their back. After witch she went on to the stuck bolts in the shoulder and hip region.

Recon checked on the blood and magic IVs and moved to get more for Copic, seeing the other ones were almost empty.

Slowly, Glass pulled up the last of the metal she could without breaking bone and or some high tech equipment to assist in the process. Looking Colic over she was pleased with the results, the other could soon start to have a better life with much less pain once they stop the bleeding from the holes in bone left behind.

Recon started to use healing magic to at least stem Copic's blood from where he bleed out of habit to heal others. Though, Recon didn't heal anything else, in fear of healing something that had to heal naturally for Copic to maneuver around better.

Glass raps Copic's bones in gauze to help stem blood flow before frowning and staring at Copic's spine as she works on deciding what to do for Copic's spine.

Recon sighs. "If Reese were here, he could get the nuts, bolts, and metal out," Recon said. "He's the only one I know personally that can phase through objects. He could help, but he's keeping balance in Glitchy's Multiverse." Recon could do it too, but he was already running out of magic and energy.

Glass nods in understanding as she decides on what to do, Copic's spine is going to need some support till it regains its strength. So, after wrapping the spine twice in gauze she went and grabbed something, a cack brace, which she straps with Velcro straps onto Colic to act as a support for the healing back.

Recon sighs, knowing he wasn't done with Copic just yet. Once he recovers enough magic and energy, he would see to helping Copic get the rest of the metal out of his body and heal him up. Though, Recon remembers that Fresh still needs his pelvis healed. Recon decided to take a few minutes to recover some of his energy.

Glass sighs in relief once she is done and starts to put away everything that didn't need to be cleaned.

"Do you need me to do anything else?" Recon asked Glass. "Or can you handle everything else, Ms. Glass?"

Glass waves her off as she says "I can clean up the tools and area, it's fine. Could you go check to make sure no one died while we were away."

Recon nods before walking a bit away from Copic's general area and removed all the clothes he had to have on for Copic's surgery. Once that was done, Recon fell through a portal that led him upstairs. Once he got there, Recon was met with the adorable sight of Night and Nightmare playing with Daydream and Nightlife. Recon moved to stand besides Chro, Dust, and Chalk. "Anything I should be aware of?" Recon asked Chro. "Anything to help the others out?"

Chro nods. "I figured that that all of them came from four different AUs," Chro replied to Recon. "I'm thinking they came from separate Multiverses as well, but I haven't really confirmed that between Fresh, Copic, and the Dreamtale babies." Recon nods as he spends a few minutes watching the older triplet counterpart set play with their infant versions.

Nightmare coos at Nightlife as he plays with infant, meanwhile Night was playing pecaboo with Daydream earning a lot of laughter.

"How are you doing Dust?" Recon asked. "You're not too uncomfortable here, are you?"

"Hm?" Dust says looking up from playing with Chalk before saying "i' m fine, everything is... nice."

Recon hummed for a second. "I feel like something upset you before I came up here," Recon said. "Are you sure nothing upset you in any way?"

Dust focuses on Chalk playing with them as one of hands wraps around his waist "it's fine. I just got asked a few questions I didn't really want to deal with."

Recon instantly turned to Chro, who flinched under his gaze. "At least I know we need to keep Inks away from him," Chro tried to defend himself.

Recon sighs and shook his head. "Chro, you know your not that discreet," Recon lecturers. "You shouldn't be asking such things from anyone. Especially knowing your bad blood with Ink, you probably made the babies cry."

Chro cringes hard at the fact that Recon was right about the last part, and looks away. "Sorry," Chro said, a bit ashamed. "I just wanted to know to make sure Dust doesn't get upset in the future."

Dust then says "I could have handled it myself. I've handled what he did for years and never broke. I can deal with a little distress from a lookalike."

"Not when you have a baby!" Chro shot back. "I can have You stressing when you-"

"Chro, that's enough," Recon cuts off. "I understand your concern for Dust here, but he isn't like the one you once knew. I know how much you miss your Dust but-"

"But what!?" Chro hissed as tears gathered in his eye sockets. "I know there's no bringing, but that doesn't mean I can stop myself from caring about his or the other's counterparts." Chro shot up and ran through the portal as tears rushing down his cheeks.

"Geez," Recon sighs as he rubbed his face. "Even If Chro has lived so many years, he still acts like a child."

Dust stares in confusion not understanding what just happened.

Recon saw Dust's expression and sighed once more. "Chro use to be really close to a counterpart of you," Recon tried to explain. "He doesn't remember what happened to your counterpart or anyone he was close to just yet, but Chro knows they didn't survive whatever happened to them."

Dust sighs at hearing this before saying "while I understand that he probably wants to prevent a repeat of whatever happened to his friend, I am not his old friend. I may look like them, I may have some personally quarks that they have, we may even share some of your past. But I am almost positive that they never went through what I have, never dealt with all the repeated... stuff I went through for years on end. I know they want me to live, but they don't need to worry about that. I was never in danger of death, I have learned what to do to survive. I can survive without others, I can survive through what he did."

Recon smiles at that. "I'm well aware of this," Recon stated. "However, Chro himself has been having a hard time separating past and present. Since he's gained a new family, he's gained control over time aspects. This, however, lead Chro to feel in a constant state of confusion. Without his brother Tk nearby, Chro's past is messing with his present. Therefore confusing Chro enough to forget your not the same as his Dust."

Dust sighs before saying as he looks like chalk "I would have assumed this little guy would have been a huge reminder that I'm not their Los friend."

Recon frowns as he made his way to the portal that led down stairs. Before he entered, he turned to Dust once more. "Now how would you know if Chro has never met Chalk before?" Recon asked. "After all, you also don't know anything about Chro's long past." With that said, he walked into the portal to the living room floor. There he saw a confused Glitchy sitting across from Fresh and his siblings.

"Recon!" Glitchy cheers. "Do you know why Chro's upset? He ran down the stairs to go outside."

Recon sighs then smiles. "Don't worry, Glitchy," Recon assures. "Chro needs some time alone for a bit. He just needs some air. Fresh, how's the pain?"

Dust sighs as he plays with his young one, he was fairly sure no him but him would have let what happened to give Chalk life happen, after all everyone else would have been able to fight themselves free.

Fresh watches Recon and glitch talk confused on what happened through that portal thing.

"Fresh?" Recon questioned. "How's your ... injury doing?"

Fresh hums before saying "fine, can't really tell there is anything wrong at the moment."

"I'm glad it's not hurting you. I'll have to heal it later," Recon said as he took a seat beside Glitchy. "I've used too much magic and energy healing everyone and helping Copic." Recon leans back on the couch exhausted, that he eventually fell asleep sitting up.

Fresh watches this chuckling a little at their antics.

Glitchy then proceeded to poke and prod Recon. To him, it was weird seeing Recon sleep. Ever since he met Recon, Glitchy found that his older brother always wake around him. So this was a new change of pace.

Fresh then says to try and stop Glitch "hey, why don't we play a gave while Recon recuperates."

Glitchy quickly turns to Fresh after he smacked Recon once in the face. "What kind of game!?" Glitchy asked in excitement that Fresh wanted to play with him.

Fresh pulls a metal box out of his jacket asking "ever played dominoes?"

Glitchy shook his head, but moved to sit next to Fresh in excitement. "I wanna know how to play!" Glitchy cheers.

Fresh laughs as he places the metal box on the table and opens it before flipping it over, letting all the dominoes fall out. All the little white rectangles with two sets of different numerals dots forming a pile on the table.

Glitchy marveled at the new item on the table and picked one up to examine it. He's never seen anything like it and it got him to bounce in his seat.

Fresh flips all the dominoes to their blank side before mixing them up by hand, after whitch he says "take seven dominoes." As he does as he said.

Glitchy nods and picks up dominos, but he picked up eight instead of seven. Then he looked at Fresh for instructions.

Fresh looks at glitchy, laughs, grabs one more domino to be even with Glitch, then grabs a domino from the remaining pile and flips it over in the center of the table. After which he says "the point of the game is to make as long of a connection of dominoes as you can from the center point." He points at the domino he flipped over "each domino has two sets of dots that each make a number between 0 and 12. Your job when making the chain is to put together two sides of a domino that are the same number, if you don't have a domino with a number that can continue the chain, then you do one of two things. 1. You take a domino from the still ungrabed pile, if it has the number you need you can put it down, if not it stays in your set till you can use it. 2. You can make a branching off chain if you have a domino that matches the linked side of a pair of your dominoes. We each take turns putting down dominoes till all of them are gone, after which we count our longest chain, and whoever has the longer chain wins."

Glitchy nods, despite not completely understanding. Match the dots with the other dominoes he got, but the chain part he didn't understand. He looked at the first domino Fresh had on the table that had one dot on one side and three on the other. Glitchy took a domino that had one dot and four on the other side and placed it beside the first, but with the four dots touch the one dotted side. "Like this?" Glitchy asked.

Fresh chuckles before saying "close, the one sides go together. Same to same."

"Ohhh," Glitchy says, then proceeding to fix the domino. "Fixed it! But don't understand how we're making chains out of dominos."

Fresh chuckles before sayin "you just started a chain. A chain is just multiple sets of dominoes linked together like what you just did."

"Ohhh! Okay!" Glitchy cheers in understanding. "It's your turn right!?"

Fresh nods as he takes out a three and ten domino and places the three side of the domino on the three side of the starter domino.

Fresh and Glitchy continued playing dominos, with Glitchy getting stuck at some points and Fresh helping him out. Even after their first game, that Fresh let Glitchy win, they continued to play with the dominoes because Glitchy was having so much fun.