Shell_Sea on Discord Idea 09Shell_Sea09 on Wattpad ^_^: Ink, the creator wants to be seen as the hero so he makes error with the sole purpose as the destroyer to his creator. Gulible newly created Error sees this as a game with his creator (dad) and does as he's told. However. with experiences, etc he learns and changes and now he doesn't want to be the bad guy. He's made friends with the bad sans and he doesn't want to do as his father tells him to. its why he kidnaps blueberry, he wants a friend. soon all the bad sans and blueberry learn that Error is technically a little kid. like he's technically a child mentally, no learning experiences, he can only read code. Error: What's that? Horror:....pie.... Error: Oh, what's it do? Horror, sweating increasing: Its food. Somethin funny: Error: what is that Nightmare: the bathroom, where you take showers and stuff Error: wait, not in a stream? Another trophe of the fgod is Error not knowing any kind of self care. Limbs falling off, badly wrapped injuries, cleaning off by jumping in rivers. *one of errors ribs falls off, landing on the floor Error: this is nothing Cross: but it's....your rib! Error: happens all the time Cross: *concerned flailing

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The AUs were peaceful in the beginning. The AUs rarely died, and Ink was happy. But things were boring. There was nothing to do because there was no one to fight. There was nothing to protect anyone from. Ink's primal fear kept rearing it's ugly head.

They are forgetting you.

You should do something.

You can create anything. Surely you could make a BaD gUy.

Ink pauses, looking at the AUs.

"I've made HorrorTale, KillerTale, DustTale, FlowerFell, DreamTale, AfterTale, ReaperTale, GZTale, Handplates, X-Tale, UnderFell, UnderFresh, SwapFell, SixBones, GlitchTale, and many others." Ink looks at the doodlesphere, his eyelights shifting colors and shapes as he thinks. "What could I make that would be more bad then these? Who could I make?"

Maybe a Destroyer. You are the Creator after all.

But what kind of story would you begin them with?

Why begin them with any story at all? Make them an Outcode. Something that doesn't belong. That is why they Destroy.

Ink taps his fingertips against the table, humming softly in thought.

"But that means that I'd have to raise them like a kid..."

You can control what they learn and do then!

If you say that you're their father, they'll listen to you!

And you can tell the surviving AUs that this Destroyer is so dangerous only you can deal with them. So that nobody has to know.

Ink smiles slightly, slowly nodding.

"And I won't be forgotten."

~

Ink stands across from the slowly solidifying form, smiling as the Glitch comes into being.

What will you name this thing?

"Error. That will be his name in the outside world."

What about in private with just you two?

"Hmm...how about listing some synonyms and I'll pick from there?"

Miscue, Flaw, Omission, Erroneous, Erratum, Deviation, Bug, Err, Misprint, Slip, Fallacy, Misnomer, Lapse, Beam, Prone

"What was that last one?"

Prone?

"The one before it?"

Beam?

"The one before that."

Lapse?

"Lapse. Define it for me?"

Lapse is a noun and could mean "an Accidental or Temporary Decline or Deviation from an Expected or Accepted Condition or State; a Temporary Falling or Slipping from a Previous Standard".

It can also mean "A Slip or Error, often of a Trivial Sort (like Memory); Failure".

It also means "an Interval or Passage of Time; Elapsed Period". As well as "A Moral Fall, as if from Rectitude or Virtue".

This isn't including the Verb meanings, which are "To Fall or deviate from a previous standard; fail to maintain a normative level:" and "to come to an end; stop:" respectively.

Ink gently raps his fingertips against his brush, smiling as the glitch blinks, looking around at the white Anti-Void.

"𝕄𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣? 𝕎𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕨𝕖? 𝕎𝕙𝕠 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦? 𝕎𝕙𝕠 𝕒𝕞 𝕀?" Ink sends a gentle smile to the glitch, humming softly.

"Well, We're going to play a game, okay?"

"...ℍ𝕠𝕨 𝕕𝕠 𝕀 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕪 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕘𝕒𝕞𝕖?"

~

The glitchy skeleton slowly steps into an AU marked for deletion, hiding in the forest.

Remember your mission.

The glitch slowly nods, his eyelights shimmering as he studies the two skeletons.

Get to it.

Remember, you are only Lapse around Ink. For the multiverse, you'll respond to 'Error'.

Error nods, sending his strings towards the two skeletons, not playing with them.

~

Ink winks down at 'Error', placing a pointer finger on his 'lips'.

"Don't worry! I got the Destroyer on the run! He won't come here again! And if he does, well, your Creator will protect you again!" Error feels the blood running from the wound, the brush sticking out of Error's ribcage.

His eyelights dim as Ink turns his gaze back down to Error, white pinpricks studying the injury.

He hasn't taken his paints.

The thought is muted, and Error isn't even sure if it's his own thought, or the voices of the Creators.

"So, Error. Are you ready to suffer for your crimes?" Ink's voice is getting muted, Error's eyelights dimming as he begins to think of another place, and another time, his mind curling inward as the assault begins.

~

"𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕤𝕟'𝕥 𝕒 𝕘𝕒𝕞𝕖." E̴r̴r̴o̴r̴ Lapse mutters softly, knowing that his father, Ink isn't listening. The Creator keeps discussing with excitement how many AUs have come to him, and pledged their support to him. Thanks to Lapse's threat.

Lapse looks at an AU ripped in half, walking over to the two pieces. One piece is a purple to cyan gradient, the other being a gold or yellow.

"Lapse, that's Dreamtale. It was the home of Dream, my friend you'll get to meet eventually, but his evil brother destroyed everything. Dream still struggles with PTSD, but as long as that doesn't get in the way of him assisting me, I don't-Lapse?"

~

Lapse steps into the AU, looking around at the ruin and destruction, a frown working its way on the small skeleton's face.

"𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕤...𝕚𝕤𝕟'𝕥 𝕒 𝕘𝕒𝕞𝕖. 𝕀𝕥'𝕤 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕗𝕦𝕟. 𝕀 𝕕𝕠𝕟'𝕥 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕕𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕪𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖."

Just do your job.

"ℕ𝕠. 𝔻𝕒𝕕...ℍ𝕖 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕕. ℍ𝕖 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕟 𝕥𝕠 𝕞𝕖!"

E̴r̴r̴o̴r̴...

"ℕ𝕠!" Lapse's voice echoes in the empty AU, tears of a blue sky dripping down his cheeks.

Error!

"𝕄𝕪 𝕟𝕒𝕞𝕖 𝕚𝕤 𝕃𝕒ℙ𝕤𝔼!"

"Lapse, huh?" Lapse freezes, turning to the voice, reaching his hands up to his strings, halting momentarily.

"I'll always find you when you pull on your strings, Lapse. You can trust your dad to protect you from the world, okay?" A shadow crosses Lapse's eye sockets, and he unsheathes the knife resting at his hip, brandishing it in hopes it'll be enough to scare the goopy and cyan colored monster away.

"𝔸𝕟𝕕 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦?!" The monster studies Lapse for a moment, a soft smile crossing his features.

"I am Nightmare. I was the guardian of Negativity with my twin. People misinterpreted my job and made my life a hellscape. I was pushed to the edge, and ended up hurting my twin dearly."

"𝔻𝕠 𝕪𝕠𝕦...𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕜𝕟𝕠𝕨 𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕞𝕖?" Nightmare shrugs, slowly sitting on the ground, his eyelight level with Lapse.

Ink never does that with you.

"Only if you offer up such information. I can tell you're an Outcode. You are a very small skeleton and there are very few AUs with a current babybones skeleton. I also know your name is Lapse, and your Creator is probably Ink. Not sure why he'd make a babybones who has LV, but I won't look into it unless you want me to know."

Ink never respects you. He'll probably want you to tell him everything that is happening now.

Lapse slowly tears up, blue sky tears streaming down his cheekbones.

"𝕄𝕪 𝔻𝕒𝕕 𝕤𝕒𝕚𝕕 𝕚𝕥'𝕕 𝕓𝕖 𝕛𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕒 𝕘𝕒𝕞𝕖...𝕓𝕦𝕥 𝕒𝕣𝕖𝕟'𝕥 𝕘𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝕤𝕦𝕡𝕡𝕠𝕤𝕖𝕕 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕖 𝕗𝕦𝕟? 𝔻𝕒𝕕 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕀 𝕔𝕒𝕟'𝕥 𝕘𝕠 𝕒𝕟𝕪𝕨𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝕥𝕠𝕘𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣. 𝕀 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕙𝕦𝕣𝕥 𝕡𝕖𝕠𝕡𝕝𝕖 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤. 𝔸𝕟𝕕 𝕨𝕙𝕖𝕟 𝔻𝕒𝕕 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕠 '𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕡' 𝕞𝕖...𝕀 𝕗𝕝𝕠𝕒𝕥 𝕒𝕨𝕒𝕪 𝕓𝕖𝕔𝕒𝕦𝕤𝕖 𝕚𝕥 𝕒𝕝𝕨𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕙𝕦𝕣𝕥𝕤." Nightmare opens his arms, and Lapse flinches away slightly, the goopy skeleton's face betraying worry and concern.

"Lapse...do you know what a hug is?" Lapse slowly shakes his head.

"𝔻-𝕕𝕠𝕖𝕤 𝕚𝕥 𝕙𝕦𝕣𝕥?" Nightmare frowns, slowly and gently wrapping his arms around Lapse.

"Does this hurt?"

"ℕ-𝕟𝕠."

"This is a hug. It's a way for monsters to show love, affection, and comfort." Lapse nuzzles closer to Nightmare, the two not noticing a portal opening.

"Lapse! Get away from Nightmare!" Lapse freezes, tearing up as he looks at Ink, hiding into Nightmare's side. A golden companion who looks like Nightmare stumbles through, a worried look on his face.

"Sweetie. Please. Come with me. It'll be okay. I'll keep you safe." Lapse keeps his gaze on Ink, the twins noticing this steadfast focus on Ink.

"Ink, what have you done to this kid? Is Lapse his name?" Ink's eyelight turns to a red target, Lapse flinching and pushing into Nightmare's side.

"ℝ𝕖𝕕 ℙ𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕥. 𝕀𝕥'𝕝𝕝 𝕓𝕦𝕣𝕟. 𝕀𝕥'𝕝𝕝 𝕙𝕦𝕣𝕥." Lapse' voice is very quiet, but drifts across the empty and quiet AU, Dream's eyelights snapping to a red coloration as the context clicks.

"Like Acid? How do you know how it'll feel?" Nightmare takes a little longer to click, focused on comforting Lapse. Lapse slowly nods in response to the first question, his throat tightening up when he tries to answer the second one. Thankfully, someone else can answer.

"YOU USED THAT RED PAINT ON A CHILD?!" Dream's shrill voice fills the suffocating silence, Nightmare taking the time to pull Lapse's hand to his goopy chest.

"Breathe with me, Lapse. Breathe." Lapse shakily follows Nightmare's instructions, Ink's presence leaving the AU, and Dream steps closer to the two, sitting down.

"𝕎𝕙𝕪 𝕙𝕖𝕝𝕡?" The twins look at each other, before they focus their Cyan and Gold eyelights respectively on the small glitch.

"Nobody deserves to suffer through feeling like they are suffocating or can't breath." The golden twin sighs softly.

"And Ink shouldn't have used Red Paint on a child." Lapse looks down at the ground, tears streaming down his cheeks.

You are such a crybaby, Error.

"𝔼𝕣ℝ𝕠ℝ 𝕚𝕊 𝕟𝕆𝕥 𝕄𝕪 ℕ𝕒𝕄𝕖!" Lapse shouts, more tears streaming down as he sobs harder. The twins reach out to touch Lapse, but his soul halts their motions, his CHECK box appearing without either of them CHECKing him.

* Lapse Error Comyet

* Babybones

* 'Son' of Ink

* Destroyer of Worlds

* LV 40

* HP 1/100 ATK 200 DEF 30

Nightmare's cyan eyelight blows wide and he quickly scoops the small Lapse into his lap, faint green magic flickering into existence and trying to heal the numerous small and big injuries covering Lapse.

"Stay with me kiddo. Stay with me. Don't fall asleep right now." A frantic edge creeps into Nightmare's voice, Lapse mumbling that he can't fall asleep. Ink didn't give him that ability.

Nightmare cusses loudly, his green magic flickering out.

"Dream. I wouldn't ask this of you if it weren't important." Dream's gold eyelights focus on Nightmare, the goopy one shaking from emotion. Dream nods.

"I'll heal him the best I can."

The two twins sit in complete silence, Lapse' HP rising slowly as they heal his numerous injuries, all caused by Ink, thus far.

~~

Nightmare frowns when he meets Error, remembering the glitchy child from Eons ago.

"You'll always have a home with me and my gang." Error slowly nods, looking at the group.

The skeleton with the hole in his head is hogging all the food, his massive axe sitting closeby should anyone decide to go for the food.

A skeleton with black tears and empty eyesockets is simply cleaning his knives, focusing.

Another skeleton sits on the couch aside the black teared one with a hood covering his face holds his scarf close to him.

Yet another skeleton sits on the couch, his red scarf contrasting his white sweater with a red streak of blood through it as well as his black shorts and cheap slippers.

Another skeleton, this one leaning on a doorway between the kitchen and this living room area, has notable black marks from his eyesockets going both down and to the sides of his skull. His eyelights flicker between blue and pink.

A monochrome skeleton with one red eyelight and one red scar stands at attention relatively near to the goopy skeleton extending the offer towards Error.

The next skeleton Error actually already knows, since he steals chocolate from this one all the time.

The next, next skeleton Error is also familiar with, though in a more "I'm annoyed by his presence so he makes it his business to be around me all the time" way.

The final skeleton looks like a mix between The chocolate victim and Error's best friend that Error may or may not have kidnapped. Oops.

"ℙ𝕖ℝ𝕙𝔸𝕡𝕊 𝕚'𝔻 𝕔𝕆𝕟𝕊𝕚𝔻𝕖ℝ 𝕪𝕆𝕦ℝ 𝕠𝔽𝕗𝔼𝕣 𝕄𝕠ℝ𝕖 𝕊𝕖ℝ𝕚𝕆𝕦𝕊𝕝𝕐 𝕚𝔽 𝕪𝕆𝕦 𝕀𝕟𝕋𝕣𝕆𝕕𝕌𝕔𝔼𝕕 𝕋𝕙𝔼𝕞 𝕋𝕠 𝕄𝕖." Nightmare chuckles softly at Error's speech, but nods.

"I'll let them introduce themselves." With that, the skeletons all get up.

"Wiggidy whassup broseph!" Fresh, the walking parasite, is the first to blare his greeting, Error scrunching his nose up.

"ℍ𝕖𝕃𝕝𝕆 𝕗ℝ𝕖𝕊𝕙." Error doesn't give Fresh a chance to respond, looking at the two 'Fell' sanses.

"Well. 'm Red, an' this 'ere is Razz." Red, Error's chocolate victim, introduces the Swapped UnderFell Sans as Razz.

"YES. IT IS AN HONOR TO MEET THE MAGNIFICIENT AND MALICIOUS SANS, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS RAZZ." Error slowly nods.

"ℝ𝕖𝔻, 𝕣𝔸𝕫ℤ. 𝕚𝕋 𝕚𝕊 𝕒 ℙ𝕝𝔼𝕒𝕊𝕦ℝ𝕖 𝕋𝕠 𝕄𝕖𝔼𝕥 𝕐𝕠𝕌 𝕥𝕎𝕠." That simple response and Error turns to the next member, blinking slightly as he studies the one with the markings.

"M' name's Ganz..." The Sans, Ganz, keeps his eyelights pointed towards the ground, blue shifting into pink as another more sultry voice speaks. "And I am Mel, short for Melancholy." The pink eyed one, Mel, turns his gaze to meet Error's with all the confidence of a man unafraid of what Error could do.

"𝕎𝕖𝕃𝕝 𝕀𝕥 𝕀𝕤 𝔸 𝕡𝕃𝕖𝔸𝕤𝕌𝕣𝔼 𝕥𝕆 𝕞𝔼𝕖𝕋 𝕥ℍ𝕖 𝔹𝕠𝕋𝕙 𝕆𝕗 𝕐𝕠𝕌." Error focuses on the next one, meeting the bleeding skeleton's one good eyelight.

"I'm from Aftertale, but go by Extinction, or Ex for short." Ex holds out a hand, Error tilting his head and studying the extended hand.

"Are you gonna shake my hand?" Error's eyelight drifts to meet Ex's eyelight, Error's response spooking everyone.

"𝕎𝕙𝕐 𝕨𝕆𝕦𝕃𝕕 𝕀 𝕤ℍ𝕒𝕂𝕖 𝕐𝕠𝕌𝕣 ℍ𝕒ℕ𝕕? 𝕆𝕟𝔼, 𝕚 ℍ𝕒𝕍𝕖 ℍ𝕒ℙ𝕙𝔼𝕡ℍ𝕠𝔹𝕚𝔸, 𝕚𝔽 𝕚 𝔾𝕠𝕋 𝕥ℍ𝕒𝕋 𝕣𝕀𝕘ℍ𝕥, 𝔸𝕟𝔻 𝕥𝕎𝕠, 𝕀𝕤 𝕀𝕥 ℕ𝕠𝕋 𝕖ℕ𝕠𝕌𝕘ℍ 𝕥ℍ𝕒𝕋 𝕚'𝕄 𝕤𝔸𝕪𝕀𝕟𝔾 𝕚𝕋 𝕚𝕊 𝕒 ℙ𝕝𝔼𝕒𝕊𝕦ℝ𝕖 𝕋𝕠 𝕄𝕖𝔼𝕥 𝕐𝕠𝕌 𝕒𝕃𝕝?" Ex looks at the ground, a ripple of an unnamed emotion running through all the Sanses standing around Error.

"Nevermind. Cross, introduce yourself?" Ex's question quietly drifts toward the monochrome skeleton, said skeleton nodding.

"My name is Cross...Though you probably knew that...cause Ex said my name." Cross slowly flushes purple from embarrassment, Error shrugging.

"𝕀𝕥 ℍ𝕖𝕃𝕡𝕊 𝕞𝔼 𝕥𝕆 𝕣𝔼𝕞𝔼𝕞𝔹𝕖ℝ 𝕪𝕆𝕦ℝ 𝕟𝔸𝕞𝔼. 𝕚 𝕊𝕦ℂ𝕜 𝔸𝕥 ℝ𝕖𝕄𝕖𝕄𝕓𝔼𝕣𝕀𝕟𝔾 𝕠𝕋𝕙𝔼𝕣𝕎𝕚𝕊𝕖." The skeletons flinch as their gazes cross over the terribly large scars covering Error's skull.

"My name is Scarf." The quiet voice drifts from the hooded skeleton, Error able to note clumps of dust coming off of this skeleton.

"𝕆𝕜𝔸𝕪. 𝕋𝕙𝔸𝕟𝕂 𝕪𝕆𝕦." Scarf shrugs in response, turning his gaze to the one dripping black gunk from his eye sockets.

Said skeleton leans uncomfortably close to Error, making the small glitch step away for fear of triggering something bad. The skeleton's grin widens before the black gunk dripping down increases to the level of tears, but clearly this skeleton isn't sad or upset.

"Well, ain'tcha just a cutie?~ My name is Slayer. I hope you won't ever forget me." Error shrugs, running his fingers along his blue scarf, feeling the hum of his magic just below the surface of the cloth.

"𝕀 𝕨𝕆𝕦𝕃𝕕 𝕊𝕒𝕐 𝕚𝕋 𝕚𝕊 𝕒 ℙ𝕝𝔼𝕒𝕊𝕦ℝ𝕖 𝕋𝕠 𝕄𝕖𝔼𝕥 𝕐𝕠𝕌, 𝕓𝕌𝕥 𝕀 𝕙𝕆𝕡𝔼 𝕨𝔼 𝕟𝔼𝕧𝔼𝕣 𝕄𝕖𝔼𝕥 𝔸𝕘𝔸𝕚ℕ. 𝕥ℍ𝕒ℕ𝕜𝕊." Error tries his best to keep discomfort and weakness out of his voice, Slayer bursting into loud belly laughter.

"Nightlight, you sure picked a fun one!~" Nightmare rolls his eyelight.

"Stop making Error uncomfortable before I turn you into a pretzel, Slayer." Slayer pauses, studying both Nightmare and Error, before suddenly backing away from Error.

"Yea, make sure the bud is breathing." Error blinks, feeling someone getting close, and his vision goes white. When he comes to, he's against a wall across the room, nearly fifteen feet above the ground, his eyelight focusing on all the skeletons. The one approaching was Nightmare

"Error. Can you breathe?" Error slowly nods, slowing his breathing down without Nightmare's prompting.

"ℍ𝕠𝕎 𝕞𝔸𝕟𝕐 𝕞𝕆𝕣𝔼 𝕡𝔼𝕠ℙ𝕝𝔼 𝕕𝕆 𝕚 ℍ𝕒𝕍𝕖 𝕋𝕠 𝕄𝕖𝔼𝕥?" Nightmare furrows his brow.

"Just Blade and then me. Blade is the skeleton hoarding food with the giant hole in his skull." Error's gaze flicks to said skeleton, Blade sending up a voiceless wave. Error responds with a nod, flicking his gaze back to Nightmare. "And I am Nightmare. I was hoping you'd join, but if Slayer fucked that over, I'd understand." Error strokes his scarf, the hum of magic comforting the high strung skeleton.

"𝕃𝕠ℕ𝕘 𝔸𝕤 𝕐𝕠𝕌 𝕕𝕆𝕟'𝕋 𝕙𝕌𝕣𝕋 𝕞𝔼, 𝕒ℕ𝕕 𝔻𝕠ℕ'𝕥 𝔾𝕖𝕋 𝕚ℕ 𝕞𝕐 𝕨𝔸𝕪, 𝕋𝕙𝔼𝕟 𝔻𝕠 𝕎𝕙𝔸𝕥𝔼𝕧𝔼𝕣."

~

Blue and Dream slowly step into the castle, Dream and Nightmare nodding slowly, having settled a truce shortly after Lapse vanished into a portal. Blue's eyelights settle on Error, whose glitches are far more all over the place than normal.

"ERROR! FRIEND, ARE YOU OKAY?" Said skeleton looks up, sending a faint smile towards Blue.

"𝕃𝕖𝔸𝕣ℕ𝕚ℕ𝕘 𝕎𝕙𝔸𝕥 ℙ𝕚𝔼 𝕚𝕊." Blue smiles thinly, like he's had similar discussions before with Error, the Bad Sanses and Dream all looking at Error with a strange emotion.

"WELL, WHAT IS PIE?"

"𝕀𝕥'𝕊 𝕒 𝔽𝕠𝕆𝕕 𝔸𝕡ℙ𝕒ℝ𝕖ℕ𝕥𝕃𝕪. 𝕐𝕠𝕌 𝕖𝔸𝕥 𝕀𝕥 𝔸𝕟𝔻 𝕗𝔼𝕖𝕃 𝕘𝕆𝕠𝔻?" Blue pats Error's skull gently, nodding.

"GOOD, SO YOU HAVE BEEN LEARNING. DO YOU KNOW WHAT A BATHROOM OR BATHTUB IS?" Error's silence as he suddenly finds interest in the very boring floor is enough for Blue, as the blue-clad skeleton simply sighs, waving his hand.

"Simpler question. Do you know how to clean yourself?" Error gives a soft nod to Blue, whose voice has quieted down slightly. Blue smiles.

"Well, Bathrooms assist in keeping clean. A bathtub is how you clean off dirt and grime. And before you say anything, a bathtub can allow you to get a better clean than any river could." Error sighs, but nods.

"ℂ𝕒ℕ...𝕪𝕆𝕦...ℍ𝕖𝕃𝕡 𝕄𝕖 𝔾𝕖𝕋 𝕥ℍ𝕖 𝔹𝕒𝕋𝕙 ℝ𝕖𝔸𝕕𝕐?" Blue slowly nods.

~

Ink stands in the Trap AU, having long forgotten his role in the creation of Error, simply enjoying the breeze of this creation before Error's arrival. A portal opens, but a goopy tentacle wraps tightly around his neck, Ink unable to get even one word of his "Holier than thou" rant out. Nightmare's cyan eyelight is blazing, meanwhile, golden arrows of positivity aim at the back-up, Ink blinking slightly in surprise.

"Dream?"

"You have treated a skeleton you created badly. I will not stand for this blatant misuse of power."

"Your working with Nightmare?"

"We made a truce, shortly after we met Lapse, who now goes unironically by Error, unable to remember the life of the child created to allow the Creator to play unimpeded and without worry of being forgotten."

~

Error is knitting on the couch, Cross silently watching the glitch's fingers move like lightning, the blue strings happily obeying their owner. A phalange falls off right in front of Cross and Error, only one of the two freaking out. Error simply grabs the phalange, putting it in his pocket.

"WeLp, GoTtA rEaTtAcH tHaT lAtEr." Cross' eyelights shimmer and he seems to shake for a moment, catching his breath.

"Uh...That's not...normal." Error deadpans.

"CrOsS, mOsT oF tHe GaNg FiTs ThAt DeFiNiTiOn. YoU gOtTa Be SpEcIfIc."

"Most of the gang doesn't randomly lose limbs." Cross' clipped tone is due to his understanding that getting mad and shouting at Error won't help. Error simply shrugs.

"I'm NoT a NoRmAl MoNsTeR lIkE tHe ReSt Of ThE gAnG, cRoSs. LoSiNg BoNeS iSn'T a BiG dEaL cAuSe I cAn ReAtTaCh ThEm." Cross sighs, looking away from Error, Nightmare and Dream walking in to a whirlwind of emotion from Cross and an astoundingly peaceful lake of emotion from Error.

"Well, Error must've lost a limb in front of Cross."

"I'll siphon Cross, you make sure Error is healed." Dream nods and the two twins get to work, Nightmare calming Cross down as Dream uses a small amount of healing magic to ensure this time the phalange will stay on. Error didn't stop knitting during this time at all, nodding when he completed his piece of work, handing it to Cross.

"I nOtIcEd YoUr CaPe, ScArF, tHiNg LoOkEd PrEtTy WoRn DoWn. So I dEcIdEd To MaKe ThIs FoR yOu. YoU cAn WeAr It, TeAr It, Or ThRoW iT aWaY. tHoUgH iT's BaSiCaLlY iNdEsTrUcTiBlE, wIlL mAtCh YoUr BlAnD cOlOr ScHeMe, AnD wItH mAgIc HuMmInG tHrOuGh It, It FuNcTiOnS aS a CaLmInG tHiNg To RuB aNd StUfF." Error tosses the gift to Cross, getting to his feet and opening a portal.

"Thank you!" Cross stumbles over his words, Error sending a soft glance over his shoulder.

"NoT a PrObLeM, kId."

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Yeap. That's a massive ass cliffhanger.

Nope, not gonna fix it.

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