Chaos groaned as she woke up, what the hell just happened to her?! She gasped as her memory came back to her, summoning her Soul to see the damage, only to see that her Soul was now surrounded by a cage of chains.

"What is this?" She asked. "What did that thing do to me?"

She couldn't hear anything and she turned to look around, only to find that this was not the alleyway that she had been attacked in, it appeared to be a graveyard and not just any graveyard.

This was the graveyard that Dream had built for the villagers, and not just any villagers, these were the graves for those who lived in her village but how did she get here?

She could see the Tree of Feelings in the background and unlike the last time that she saw it, she could see the glow of the apples from here.

Something was wrong here, the apples should be gone. Chaos frowned and she headed to the tree, taking the shortest path.

The Tree itself was undamaged from Dream's transformation and Chaos even found a sleeping Dream under it's branches. He didn't look so good and if her memory was right, Nightmare preferred to sleep in it's branches.

The Tree bark was worn from all of the times that he had climbed up it, She followed the path up, until she reached the top of the tree.

She could see the village from here, her home that she had left a long time ago, some part of her wanted to go back to the time that Dream was sane and not a stupid idiot but the other part knew that Nightmare was happy with their current situation, he may be an outlaw but the villagers that hated him and hurt him were long gone and he was free to be himself.

She sighed, before she ducked back down into the tree, he had to be on a branch somewhere. It took a few more minutes of searching to find him. He was on a branch.

"Nighty?" She reached out to shake his shoulder, this was her chance to find out what happened to him, if she could wake him up but just as she touched his shoulder, the branch underneath her broke, sending her falling to the ground or it would have, if someone didn't grab her hand.

There was a flash of light and then, nothing.

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Cross, Error and Ink were trying to fight off the child kidnappers, they had come out of nowhere, surprising them.

Ink was trying to prevent them from taking the children while Cross found himself holding the front line with Error providing support, but they were losing ground.

But just as they thought that they were done for, a legion of purple blots created a barrier between them. Cross turned around to see Chaos standing at the entrance of the Town Square with one of her arms raised to the sky. Her open hoodie was swaying in a breeze that wasn't there and a glow was coming from underneath the hood, right from her eyes.

One of the kidnappers hissed at the sight, like they thought that Chaos shouldn't be here.

Cross didn't have time to think after that, mainly because the blots changed their shape, to bones.

"Knock, knock, who's there? Not my laughter..." Cross heard Chaos mutter, right before the bones started to attack the kidnappers, in a tornado of bones and magic.

Chaos then disappeared and Cross tried to find her in the madness, only to hear one of the kidnappers scream, he turned around to see them nearly be impaled on the spear staff that he had normally seen Nightmare use...

What the hell?!

Chaos quickly spun the spear staff around, aiming for the chest of her opponent, who turned to dust and reappeared on the other side of the Town Square, rising their arms to the skies.

Rips then opened up in the skies and a new legion of the creatures that they had been fighting off earlier appeared. Cross watched as everyone tightened their grips on their weapons before they charged into the fray once more.

But it was not long before something went wrong, Cross found himself being herded away from his group. It was Error that realised that something was wrong.

"CROSS!" He yelled, right before a creature tackled him, sending him flying into the fountain, while another one grabbed Cross from behind, making him drop his knife, before it took off with him.

"Let me go!" Cross yelled, summoning a bone and sending it flying through the creature's throat, which caused it to drop Cross.

Right into the mouth of another creature.

"Cross! Error!" Chaos yelled, before the blade of her weapon glowed and she swung it, the scythe blade slicing deep into several creatures in her way as she rushed to the fountain, where Error was dragging himself out of it.

Ink was still holding off the creatures when they just stopped, and some of them dissolved. "What's going on here?"

The creatures then started to move again but this time, they headed towards the rips in the sky. The creature that had eaten Cross was joining them and Chaos growled, tightening her grip on the scythe, before she leaped into the air.

"You're not getting away from me!" She yelled, swinging the scythe back. "Now, give Cross/my minion back!"

She was about to bring the scythe down when another one of the creatures slammed into her, sending her flying into the fountain.

Error rushed forwards, sending out his strings in an effort to grab the creature before he went through the tear in the skies, only to it to close before he could.

The sun rose to reveal the aftermath of the fight, the entire Town Square was destroyed or had been damaged, by the defenders or the creatures. The fountain was completely wasted and the remaining members of the Meme Squad had been soaked by the water.

None of them came out of the fight unscratched, they were bruised, battered, low on Magic or bleeding.

The scythe dropped from Chaos's hand, turning back into a staff and she dropped to her knees, resting her hands on them.

"Well, at least, they didn't get the children, so, it does count as a win!" Ink grinned. "Despite all of the property damage caused from our battle."

"No." Error said as he bent down to check on Chaos. "This isn't a win Ink, they took Cross, we have lost. Come on, let's get out of here, before the Guards come."

Chaos reached out for the staff and she used it to help her get back onto her feet before she and Error, after he picked up Cross's knife, made their way out of the battleground, with Ink following them.