Something weird was happening.

Children were disappearing from the AUs and no one knew why.

Dream was harsh on anyone who blamed the 'Meme Squad' for this, he even spoke about it in a press release.

"I know that these pranksters have a line that they never will cross, kidnapping children is not something that they would ever do. I've even seen them donate clothes, gold and food to orphanages."

It was one of the nicest things that Dream ever said about them.

And he was right.

The Meme Squad did have their limits, they would never hurt children.

'But then again, Nighty has the body of a preteen.' Chaos thought as she scrubbed one of the frying pans that they used for cooking. 'He didn't skip puberty like Dream did after he ate those apples, he just ages slowly instead, it should quite some time before he hits puberty. I really want to see Dream's face when that happens.'

She could hear the boys as they talked about the press release, Nightmare may not show it but he was just as worried about the children as Dream.

There might even be a chance that we offer JR a truce in order to find them, but how should we do that without giving them a chance to stab us in the back? The only way that could happen is if we had a common goal to work towards, and a reason for any of us to not stab the other in the back.'

Chaos gasped as the wet frying pan slipped out of her hands, as a thought came to her mind. 'Nighty! Oh stars! No!'

She rushed to the living room to see the boys heckling each other with popcorn kernels and she sighed in relief, they were okay. She wanted these days to last forever, she froze when she realised that the boys had stopped moving and she stepped forwards, reaching out with her hand as Nightmare turned to Dust.

"NIGHTY! NO!"

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"No!" Chaos yelled as she sat up, reaching out with her hand, only to realised that it had been a nightmare.

It had been two days since Nightmare just disappeared, he hadn't come back from the last time that they went out to prank JR, they would have thought that JR took him but to find out from Blue that Dream had collapsed and he was now in a coma, told them that they weren't the ones responsible.

Cross had been trying to get to Ink ever since, he didn't like the current plan but he had to suck it up and agree with it.

"Alright boys, I have a plan but you're not doing to like it."

"It can't be just as bad as the time that we used the 'Live bait' Meme to distract Ink and Dream long enough to rescue Nightmare, right?"

"Nope, it's worse, we going to be offering them a truce."

"What, Chaos, are you crazy?! They won't take that offer!"

"No, wait Cross, I think that she might be onto something, let's hear her out."

"Thanks Error, anyway, as I was trying to say, both of our groups are in the same boat, our leaders are missing or in a coma and both of us want them back. We know that the other group is the only chance, at the moment, we have to get them back, which means there will be no backstabbing, at all."

"And how are you going to convince them to agree to this?!"

"It's quite simple, we use Ink's lack of a soul against him, it's because of Dream, he can feel something resembling emotions and without Dream, he'll go back to pure logic as a way to cope, which means he'll be looking at the truce offer logically, and see it as a chance to get Dream back."

"And because the Squid is currently without emotions, he's more likely to hear us out when we explain our reasons why we need their help and they need ours, without trying to capture us or kill us."

"Not to mention the end goal of this truce, to get Nighty, Dream and the kids back, he'll be taking out, at least, three birds with one stone and not even Dream will blame him for doing that."

"You're right about that, he always liked it when he could do the least amount of work to get the biggest reward."

"But how do we know that by getting the kids back, we'll be getting Nightmare back?"

"Nighty may be as old as Dream but unlike Dream, he physically didn't skip puberty after eating the apples, which means that he can be mistaken for a child by those who don't know him and if JR didn't take him, then the only explanation that we have for his disappearance is that he was mistaken for a child and kidnapped."

"But, how did that happen?"

"I don't know but that can wait until after we get him back."

"But, what if we don't get him back? Ink will take the chance and stab us in the back!"

"Because we'll be giving him a chance to look good in front of Dream when he wakes up by letting him have the credit for saving the kids?"

"That's a good point."

Error was calming his nerves by knitting a scarf while Chaos just sat on Nightmare's bed in his room, crossing her legs and resting her hands on her knees, taking deep breaths and attempting to meditate, there was another possible way that they could find Nightmare that she didn't tell the others about. She just needed to focus, she had never done this before and she didn't know if it would work but she had to try and so, she closed her eyes.

It was so easy to find the magic once she knew what to look for, she had been carrying around traces of it since that day. The white moons of the Sun and Moon markings that appeared whenever she used her Magic, slowly started to turn purple, a sign of who she was trying to find as she reached out.

'Come on Nighty, please, answer me! Nighty!' She opened her eyes and she removed her glasses, wiping at her eyes. "Damn it! It didn't work!" She let herself fall backwards, sighing, so that she was now lying on Nightmare's bed, as she looked at her Sun and Moon markings, the purple Moons where turning white again and she found herself tracing the Sun markings.

Wait, her Sun markings, because if the Moons were Nightmare's marks then could the Suns be....

She closed her eyes and she reached out again, the Sun markings slowly started to turn gold. 'Dream, wake up you fucking idiot! Dream!'

She opened her eyes when she heard the front door being slammed open, the Sun and Moon markings fading away. There was only one skeleton that would do that. She grabbed her glasses and she headed downstairs, hoping that Cross had some good news.

She found him in the living room with Error, Cross had a nasty scratch on one of his cheeks that was still dripping narrow and various other wounds scattered around his body.

"What happened?" She asked as she placed a green glowing hand on his cheek.

"Ink didn't believe me." Cross leaned into her touch. "And he attacked me, even after I explained everything."

"So, does this mean that we're on our own for this?" Error asked.

"No." Chaos eventually said, pulling her hand away from Cross's cheek before she quickly checked him over to make sure that he was fully healed. "I'll go and talk to him."

The boys looked at her as she grabbed her hoodie and put it on, throwing the hood over her head, before she did a final check on herself. "I'll be right back, he should still be where you met up with him, right Cross?"

Cross nodded his head before he created a portal with a flick of his wrist. "Be careful, he's just as dangerous on pure logic as he is when he is feeling his false emotions."

"I will."

She stepped through the portal.