Throughout it all.. All of the chaos... The disarray of the UnderVerse...
These Two Remain.... Despite it all....
Ink... The Protector of the UnderVerse... The one fighting for the creation of AUs... And inspiring AUs to thrive....
Error... In opposition to Ink... Sees the Multiverse as nothing but an unorganized mess of glitches... Thay needs to be fixed... Tamed only by destruction....
Despite their differences... In the end... They're two sides of the same coin......
Throughout it all... They had each other in some odd way... Despite having their differences.........
They've both seen their fair share of traumas and distortions in the UnderVerse...
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Did these distortions give Error any Merit?... To his destruction...
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.... I held my head against my hand, sitting in my doodle sphere... Only a couple days had passed since then... I... I can't stop thinking about that girl.... Why the hell would she want to live?... After everything she went through... The option to live... After everyone in her AU died... And her body having burnt off chunks of it... Yet she still desired to live... I... I struggled to grasp emotions well sometimes... Reasonings for why people do the things they do... Maybe... I'll never quite understand it all....
But maybe that's what makes it beautiful........ The oddity... The... Beauty in the Chaos... I don't know... Just a passing thought....
"Hm?..." I looked off in my view of the multiverse, the AUs laid out before me... Before I saw it... Blue Wires wrapped around an AU... Trying to destroy it from the inside out... My eyes widened a bit before narrowing... I knew whose wires those were... I picked up my brush and swiped it, opening a portal to Errors domain... I couldn't let him get away with this... Not now... I owed it to that girl to keep fighting for every AU... As no matter how bleak... The urge of survival is there... And merely surviving can lead to a brighter future....
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"Error!" I shouted as I stepped through the Doodle sphere into the Anti Void, Errors head turnt around as he gritted his teeth, "I knew you'd come... And before you start blabbering on and on about how precious life is, and how my actions are wrong... Just know... There's no stopping me this time, old friend... I've made up my mind... This senseless charade has gone on long enough... The Glitches must die-..." Error spoke as I held my brush... "I figured you'd say something like that... But that's not gonna stop me... Error... What about the truce we made?....." I asked as Error glanced at me....
"For us both to take a break from creation and destruction of AUs... To simply just... Spectate the happenings of AUs... Heh.... We've been doing it for months now... Looking at AUs from so many different walks of life... You're telling me not one has shown you that... Their existence is precious-" I said as Error turned to me, with his other hand, wires sprouted out and began to entangle me,
"NO! Not a single one of them has changed my stance! From that big burly prick with the axe, to the fuckhead with the baseball bat, all the way to... Whatever the hell the Anomaly I've come across is... My point still stands... It is a mess! A mess that must be cleansed! Have you not noticed one constant in these AUs?.. Suffering! Suffering is something they all go through in different shapes and sizes!... Have ya seen UnderWorld?... HelpTale?... So on and so forth, people suffer and die horribly? And you say that's worth fighting for!" Error began to ramble as he flicked my brush, wiping the wires off of me as I clenched my fist...
"I see now... You truly are just a close minded person aren't you Error?... In those AUs... The ones with more suffering than most... There's always something in it... Hope... Determination... A chance for things to be better-" "We've had this conversation a thousand times Ink... So let's just cut the BullCrap..." Error interrupted me as he turned away from the au in his grasp and summoned several bones, lunging them towards me as I teleported out of the way...
Error had always been this way, I can't blame him for the way he sees things... But this has gone on longer than I could ever remember... It's Mind Boggling to me how long the two of us stayed in opposition... But I knew one thing... I was getting tired of it... This whole yin and yang, good vs evil shtick we had going on was getting tiresome... Me and Error never changed... Not after all of our lifetime...
So now... Its time... One of us needs to change... Or this'll be the end of one of our stories... I clenched my fist and summoned a bone, launching it past errors hand, cutting multiple of his wires clean off before I held my brush and spun it around, flicking it upwards and opening a portal underneath me and Error that we both fell through... We were put into a brief freefall before we landed in a Judgement Hall, grunting as we hit the ground...
"C-Cliche Prick-" He grumbled as he summoned multiple Gaster blasters aimed directly at me, as he quickly fired them I summoned my own set and we entered a beam standoff, each of us holding our own... Each of us equal... "I-I ain't stopping until you stand down, Error!" "Then you'd better get comfortable! Because neither am I!" He shouted as I flinched slightly, being pushed back...
I began to get pushed back more, grunting and clenching my fist... Before I remembered... My brush... It was still in this realm somewhere... My eyes widened slightly... I snapped my fingers as my brush flung around a little, and swiped open a portal behind Error as I smirked a little...
"What's with the smug look, huh?! In case you're unaware, my blasters are overwhelming yours! Hehehe!" Error chucked coldly, I kept my smirk, "Maybe so... But I'd watch your back if I were you-" I said as Error perked up, before being able to turn his head... A Gaster Hand emerged from the portal, charging a blast up and firing onto Error, Error perked up and teleported out of the way quickly, our beam standoff ending as Error appeared on the ceiling, holding himself on the ceiling with his wires, "Heh... Can't even fight your own fights, Ink huh?... Who'd ya bring to back you up?... Hope you know they're gonna die..." Error said coldly as a figure rolled out, I could see that Error recognized this Sans variant...
"It's you... The Dimension hopping one!" Error shouted as he glanced at me, "Wrong.... Names Asterisk... And if you are think it's just me... Then you're wrong.... Gaster, Now!" Asterisk shouted as several portals opened up around the judgement hall... Different people from different AUs that looked all too familiar... The AUs me and Error had been looking into over these months... Error had a shocked expression on his face... "Tch... Fine! Hope you don't have any attachment to them... Cause I sure as hell don't!"
As I caught my breath I let the different beings ravage Error, Error trying his best to fight back with wires and blasters galore, Asterisk teleported beside me
"You owe me one for this Ink... I ain't a big fan of teaming like this...." Asterisk said to me as I looked down, taking a deep breath, "Don't worry... After Error is stopped... You'll never see my face again, Asterisk... Unless you seek me out-" "What're you gonna do about this lot you and I summoned forth though?... What if they die?... What if they survive and bring the memories with them back to their AUs..." "You act like I haven't done this before Asterisk... Everyone besides you as you don't have a true AU, will be accounted for by me...." I said as I looked on...
Error lifted up a bone wall, one of the Sans shooting blasts of DT bullets at him with a pistol-like device as Error gritted his teeth, "Grh!" He pushed the bones forward, locking Sudden Changes down in a corner as a baseball bat swung at the back of his head, Errors wires caught the bat before it hit him; "Shit!" Scoundrel shouted as Error flung him against the wall, cracking it, Scoundrel falling onto the ground beside Sudden Changes Cage "IS THAT ALL YOU GOT, HUH INK?! KEEP THROWING EM AT M-" Error was cut off by a a sudden Sans' in a cut open straight jacket charging at him, "ITSREALITSREALITSREAL-" Asylum shouted as Error fell onto the ground, hitting him in the head with minuscule damage repeatedly
"BACK OFF!" He shouted, kicking Asylum off of himself and breathing heavily, Asylum tried to stand up but Error Bound him in wires and hung him by his legs over the ceiling, Error was looking all rattled up... "These people Error, you know their stories just as well as I do! Look at them, after being told the simple fact that you put their existence, their whole worlds at stake, they'll fight for it!" I shouted as Error turned to me; not even responding as he charged towards me, "You Don't Understand!" Error shouted as suddenly blue and Orange bones flung in Errors direction, Disbelief Papyrus and DustTrust Sans stood side by side, holding their respective weapons out...
"You're not my Sans... So you may not hear my words here... But... Even in the hopelessness... I can't let you destroy all I live for-" Disbelief spoke as DustTrusts eyes glimmered Purple, "Just stop this... Please... We've gone through enough- Destroying our AUs... Solves None of the problems!" DustTrust said as they barraged him with bones, Errors jacket was getting torn up badly before he summoned a massive Gaster blaster, aiming it at the two... "Tch!... I'm not listening to you your simple minded argument!" Error said, as DustTrust and Disbelief dashed out of the way, as Error proceeded to summon more wires tripping them up and tying them tightly... Grunting and falling to his knees, he was having to hold all of these different people down with his wires, wearing himself thin....
We didn't summon everyone from the stories we've read... But we summoned enough to wear Error Thin... As Sudden Changes, Scoundrel, Asylum, Disbelief, and DustTrust alone were hard to all hold down at once... As Asterisk walked over to Error who was kneeling trying to hold them all back...
"... Error Right?..." Asterisk put his hands in his pockets... Standing over the kneeling Error as he looked down at him... "Heh... You can't even hold me down can ya?... Listen I don't know all too much about you and Ink... Or your beef but... I got a kid out there in an AU... Names Seriff... With your existence... Or... At least your urges... He's at risk... I can't lose him..." Error began to weakly chuckle...
"Y-You don't get it... N-None of you get it! I'm not destroying every AU!... But it's such a mess! It needs order! Ink spouts off about how the will to survive in any AU is a reason to keep it around... As long as there's even a glimmer of hope... There's reason... ALRIGHT FINE! I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT INKS "HOPE" LOOKS LIKE!-"
In an Instant, Error dropped all of the People he was holding down, and opened a portal, a massive creature plopping down on the ground between him and Asterisk... A Goat-Creature seeping White puss... Crying in pain... Horns sprouted from the head dripping blood... All of my group all stepped back in disgust at the creature as it howled in confusion and agony.... Only mumbling the words, "Mama" over and over again....
I perked up and teleported Asterisk to my side... To look at it... I... I hadn't seen this AU..... What could have possibly....-
"Meet Elo.... Result of an AU Merge... AUs CodeName UnderAnomaly... H-Heheheh... I was there when it merged into one..." Error looked up at me... Standing up as his wires were free now... "I saw every bit of it... Every scream... Every cry for help as friends and family merged into one... Many of them being too far gone... Turned into animalistic beasts that lack enough intelligent... Only focused on breeding to further the merge....... To create a beast..." Error said, looking at me.... I... I didn't know what to say... I stepped back a little as I caught glanced from Asterisk and the others... "I... I-I didn't know of this AU-" "Oh you think this is the only one like this?!... Try HELP-Tale, UnderWorld, I know for a fact you saw GoreTale... Why is it now you're feeling pity?!" Error shouted at me as Elo squelched and laid on the ground, wailing in agony.....
"..... This is fucked..." Scoundrel murmured as he glanced at me... "Yeah... I... I was here to protect my AU... And others alike my own... Not... Whatever that is..." Sudden Changes looked at me as well... Even Asterisk looked over at me... "You let shit like that slide?..." Asterisk asked legitimately as I shook my head; "No! N-No I... I didn't know! I swear I didn't...."
I saw the people begin to put down their weapons... And fighting stance... Unsure as to which side to take... I saw DustTrust aim his sword out at my back... "LIAR!" He shouted as he charged me, I snapped my fingers and teleported all the variants back besides Elo and Asterisk...... This... Whole meeting between me and Error took a different turn.....
"... You told us we were fighting for the safety of our worlds... Our AUs... Not... Whatever this thing is..." Asterisk narrowed his eyes... "You lied to us Ink-... You made me lie to all of those people.... They thought their worlds were at stake!" "They are! They are at Stake! Error won't stop at just whatever this thing is! If I allow him to destroy that AU then-...." "Tch... This is why I don't get involved with higher powers like you......... I'm outta here.... Best to leave you two lovebirds to yourselves.... If our AUs in threat of Error... I'll stop him myself...." Asterisk said coldly as he teleported off..... Leaving me and Error.....
The two of us looked at the tumor-infested beast, puss seeping out of it... The words "Mama" echoing from it as Error just took deep breaths, narrowing his eyes at me.....
"I-I... There was an incident Error... AlterTale it was under attack I... I wasn't the same after-" "Well while you were off helping AlterTale with whatever..... I watched the suffering of two universes.... 15 Days Ink.... 15 Days of.... This..." Error said, crossing his arms....
".... What do you want me to do Error?! Let you destroy AUs at will?!... Honestly... I try, and I try so hard to make everything alright! Everything stable... I try so hard to even make you better but... It's never enough...... Listen... AlphaTale attacked... One of the brothers attacked... Slaughtered that AU beyond any sort of... Repair... I had to reset the thing from the beginning...." I said as Error looked at me... "More than a True Reset... You wiped the slate clean huh?... If AlphaTale got involved.... You had to remake it from the ground up....... You erased them all to make new-" "N-No... No.... Their souls... Their souls were long dead at that point Error... I just put the pieces back into place I guess" I said as I sighed.......
Me and Error just stood there awhile as I took my brush out, swiping it sending us back to the Anti Void, Error clenched his fist and teleported Elo back to their AU... Error put his hands in his pockets...
"... What Judgement Hall did you send us to anyway?... That was completely empty... Almost... Like no one had been there in ages..." "Does it matter?.... But since I know you'll make a big deal about it....... If you gotta know... It was AxeTale... A timeline where... Monsters see the surface freely now... And the act of Reseting died with Flowey... It's... A peaceful place now.... The kid that broke the barrier lives happily up there on the surface with monsterkind..." "..... Must be nice....." Error said, sitting down in front of his view of the Multiverse..... Looking at UnderAnomaly....
"......." I sat beside him... "One of them survived.... From AlterTale I mean... Their Judge survived..... After everything they went through... They wished to survive... To persevere... Instead of die in the reset...." "....." Error scoffed, "Good for them... Doesn't change the fact all of their friends are dead... And the world they knew is completely gone... That they were replaced with a carbon copy of herself... Doesn't change the multiverses fundamental cruelty... Why not just keep the AUs of peace around?... The AUs that... Don't cause trouble......"
"... We've had this conversation a thousand times.... Because hope... There's hope for survival even in the cruelest places for happiness to sprout... For Mercy...." "... Even in a place like that?..." Error grimaced and looked at UnderAnomaly... I peaked into it and gasped, before looking down... ".... Yes... Even.... Somewhere like that... There's always a chance......." I said... Error looked at me... "We'll never see eye to eye will we?... Because... Even now... I still wanna destroy all these nasty things... I just... Want order for christs sake..." He grumbled......
".... We might not ever agree.... And maybe.... Maybe that's okay..." I said, looking aside... "I started this truce with you to see... To see if I could make you see things my way... So maybe... I could have a friend who saw the UnderVerse like I did... Maybe... Going into the depths of it as deep as we did... Just... Made that gap worse between us..." "Yeah no kidding........"
"........" I looked up at the AU in the center of the UnderVerse, AlphaTale, and sighed... "Alright Error... How about... So we're both not diving into our own mental trap of what is righteous in the grand multiverse... How about... We plan visits and stuff?... I have friends in Omega Timeline... Maybe we can just... Talk amongst each other... See if we can salvage... Anything between each other...." ".... Sure... But... Ink... Just... Just let me have that one... Please..." Error said, pointing at UnderAnomaly... "... Just let me wipe it off the fucking map!... I can't stand it, it's everything I despise it's... It's cold, it's cruel, it's a damn glitch I-..." I put my hand on Errors Shoulder, Error perked up, visibly hating what I did, as he despised touch... ".... Let's just give it a week... Who knows... Maybe... Hope will emerge from it... Maybe not... After a week passes... I'll let you destroy it....."
I made a hefty deal offer... I already convinced Error to slow down on this AU destruction nonsense... And I gave him his one chance... If a week passes... And hope is truly nonexistent for this AU... Then I'll let him destroy it....
".... Thank you Ink... Those are terms I can get behind... Don't think this means we're friends though...." He murmured as I nodded, "Yeah... Yeah of course........ Its been fun hasnt it?... Looking into AUs for such a long portion of time?..." I asked as Error nodded... "Not sure if fun's the word I'd use for it... But... Yeah... It was amusing................"
"..... Wanna just... Sit here a little bit?..." Error asked me... "I sit here looking at the AUs every day... But never with someone else... Just don't touch me and we'll be fine... I just... Maybe it'll be different with someone at my side for a little bit....." Error grumbled as I smiled... sighing and sitting beside him
"... Aright... Old Friend..." I said, sitting beside him and looking at the AUs... The beautiful... The horrifying... The middle of the road... They all made... The UnderVerse... Heh..... The One thing me and Error can agree on is that... Despite its flaws.... The chaos.... It truly was something special.......
As we sat there... For what felt like ages... I looked over at UnderAnomaly... I felt what Error felt... The pain... The Ruin... The Chaos... What I felt in AlterTale during the incident... But... I felt something deep beneath the surface... A sparkle... A glimmer of hope... A name.... Anahi.....
I sighed softly.... Looking over at Error who didn't even notice the human girls prescence... I just took another deep breath... And sat with him... Enjoying the peace... With a slight bit of ease... Knowing... There was still a chance...
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And maybe... A chance is all anyone ever needs to keep going....
The End