Chapter 11: Breaking Down At Lunch

Notes before Chapter:

Here is them having the first talk, but they won't find out the details right off the bat, only the general information. It takes time for someone to talk, even if they don't care or realize it. Error does not trust these Monsters, but he also has no will to live besides keeping the kids safe. So in some places, he may be more talkative, in others, he keeps the answers close to his chest.

But they will be finding out bits and pieces as the story goes on if Error does not say anything. And they are not stupid, they can read in between the lines and hear what Error is not saying.

CHAPTER START:

It took a few minutes for Error to come back to reality. By the time he was out of his head he was sitting down in an outdoor chair at the head of the outdoor table with the kids in his lap. By his right sat Ink, who looked worried as could be, and on the left sat Blue, who seemed to be thinking about something.

Looking down the table, Error could see them mumbling to one another. Or in Death's case, curling in himself and trying not to touch anything. All the kids were twitching as if wanting to move or go running, but also curious and determined to know what is going on.

Null slowly lifted his head and peeked out from Error's arms, looking with wide eyes at all the different skeletons. His eyes stilling when they caught another's. An older kid with goggles on his head was leaning onto the table looking bored before their eyes met. The other child's white eyes went wide before blue overtook their face. The other skeleton just seemed frozen. Null just blinked in confusion and just as quickly tucked his head back into his Father's chest. Void giggled as if finding this whole situation hilarious.

"Why don't the kids go and play while we talk?" Orbit asked softly. He knew this talk was going to get worse, maybe even bloody, and he did not want the kids to see or hear any of it. In his mind, even if they have been through so much they are still kids. "They can go play and get to know one another."

Error tightened his hold, trying to think over the other children's objections. Watching the others swiftly putting them on the ground, and making them go to the 'playground', Error eventually looked down to the two in his arms. "StAY wIThIn YElLiNG dIStANce bOyS. KeEP vOID SaFE." He glanced at Tick, with the pocket watch in his eye, chain coming out of his mouth, and clothes stained with blood when he said that. The Horror types were always a wild card, some were protective/possessive if they liked something, others would hurt or kill without a second thought. But Error was not taking any chances. Putting them down, Void in Null's arms, Error then gave them a nod ignoring the insulted, shocked, pity, and worried looks he got from the others.

These two were under his protection until a better home came along. There will be hell to pay if something happened to anything that is his. Don't let it be said that Error is not one possessive Monster or over-protective one. He takes his responsibilities seriously unlike others, so it will be a cold day in hell if they think they could try anything funny on his watch.

Null took a glance up at Error before turning and squaring his shoulders. His Daddy has something important to do, he is not stupid he knows something is about to go down and is trusting him to keep Void safe. Null will make sure to stay within yelling distance, he has never seen or met other kids other then Void, so he has no idea if they will try to hurt him and his little brother or not. 'But I have to be brave! Like Daddy!' And with that in mind, Null started to walk to where the other children stood, looking like he was going into a war zone to the shock of all the other adults. Error just nodded, it was good to see Null still had common sense to keep a lookout.

Turning back to the adults, Error silently looked them over. Sure he wanted to know just what was going on, but different versions of these skeletons have hurt him before. He was not going to let his guard down any time soon.

"So!" Ink clapped his hands, breaking the awkward silence. "Let's go over what we know and share information, we'll break this mystery if we find out all the facts." Ink paused, remembering that there wasn't a lot of info to share, then changed his mind. "Better yet, let's take turns asking our new friend questions." Ink looked to Skull, who was frowning at Error's dry snort at being called a friend, who was sitting in between Blue and Hop. "Why don't you start Skull?"

Skull paused because he had a lot of questions to be sure, but he also feared the answers he would get. 'Ah, at least I have a strong stomach from the mob life.' Mentally snorting, Skull glanced at a weary-looking Error. "Ya mentioned not knowin' the last time ya ate, can ya explain that?"

There was a lot of muttering and choking at that question, some even looking to the wrapped food that was in the middle of the table. Error just frowned. "i hAvEn't eATEn In YEaRS thAT mUCh i AM foR sURE. JUsT doN'T KNOw THE exAct DAtE. HAvEN't FOUNd THe timE TO DO iT oR gET aNY fOOd." Error waved off the concerned looks, he saw no problem with this. "i HAvE nO nEEd TO eAT TO liVE, So IT'S nOt likE iT IS iMPOrtANT."

"I think it is very important." Honey darkly muttered to himself and Maple, who was sitting by him. Maple gave a bitter snort. 'How can someone carelessly wave that aside?'

Murder growled to himself. He knew what it was like to starve, his whole AU is on rations and killed for food. But they still tried everything to get rid of the hunger pains, but this Monster just took it for years! He didn't know if he should be impressed - This Monster has lived with the hunger for years and hasn't snapped like him. - or horrified that someone can live that long without food. All in all, he really wanted to chop someone with his axe, most preferably the one who taught this Monster that it was okay to not even care about eating.

Red just shifted, thinking back to a time he and his bro had no food. Back when they had to starve and fight for what they needed. It was not a fun time and he didn't wish that on anyone else. 'Is that what he went through every day? But instead, he just slowly starved? His skull does look a bit brittle....'

"Then ya mentioned ya don't know where ya from." Skull plowed on over the muttering and whispering. "Do ya have memory problems? Like amnesia?"

Ink perked up at this. If that was the case then everything got much simpler, but also a lot more confusing at the same time. He can still remember what Error said about 'Inky'. 'Something about finishing what he started? That he had no more care about...What was it? I can't remember. I'm really not liking how that sounded....'

"i CAn'T REmEmbER mY aU. AnYTHinG aFTeR AnD BEfOrE thAT mAy bE hAZy, BuT NO. NO AMNeSIA. I ReMEMbeR tHE pASt dAYS qUITE weLl." Error stated simply. He hesitated for a moment before going on. "i wAS PLaCED iN thE anTi-VOId AnD mY AU gOnE, THAt'S aLL i cAN REmEmbER." Talking about the Anti-VOID was a calculated risk. If they knew about it, then chances are they know about him. He is the only one to be stuck in it after all, and make it his home. He watched closely to see if any reacted to it, only to see the confusion. 'Well, this talk just got a whole lot longer hasn't it.'

"Anti-VOID?" Hearts blinked in confusion. "But there is only the Multi-VOID." He waved his hand around, gesturing to the area around them. "I have never heard of anything like that!"

"iT's NOtHInG bUT wHItE, TimE is MEaNiNGleSs." Error quickly explained, leaving out the Voices. None of the others could hear them and he didn't think it was that important. He was yelled at every day by them but it was his problem if only he can hear them, so he didn't see the point in mentioning it. "NOt EvErYOne CaN GeT TO iT-"

"Placed?" Blue cut in sharply before Error could go on. Error mentally cursed, he hoped that no one would have caught that, hoping they would be to focused on the Anti-VOID to notice his wording. "You were taken from your AU!? Gone?! And it was destroyed? Who?!"

"Someone can take us from our AU?! And kill it off?!" Daze gasped out, reaching a hand out to tug at his Brother. "Are they looking for you?!"

"Calm down." Misery hissed lowly at Daze. "Now is not the time-!"

"Totes hella not happenin'!" Fresh growled out, making Red and Geno, who were sitting by him, scoot away from him slightly. But you can see on their faces that they were worried about that too.

Death just curled in on himself more, tightly clenching his arms as his mind running. 'How can someone take another and their AU be gone from it? Error took the kids and it just rebuilt its code! So how can someone make it be gone?!'

"Can this happen to us?" Hop muttered to himself, sweat starting to form. His mind racing, trying to imagine being torn away from all he has known and love and being helpless about it. He suddenly gagged, it was not a pretty picture.

"But how does that even work?! The code should rebuild itself!" Killer growled out, angry that this could even happen to one of them and not realize it. To do that was worse than having that demon run around. And now something that was worse then it was running around.

"Apparently not." Murder growled back to his seat neighbor. "Maybe he came from away older AU? One that we had no idea about?"

"What is the Anti-VOID?" Ink questioned himself, trying to come up with an answer.

"Well...This is going to hell." Echo muttered to himself. "And now we just have more questions than answers."

"What is going to happen to the kids!" Orbit was quick to point out. "They would be the first targets!"

"If they even are targets!" Geno shot off. "Were getting off point! We're here to find out just what is going on!"

"I wish I brought my gun...." Skull muttered to himself, rubbing his head looking tired.

Suddenly everything went to hell. Apparently being ripped from your AU and it being destroyed is one of the worst things that can happen. That, or they were scared that someone can do that to them. He was going with the latter. Error glanced over to see the kids glancing over, but luckily not making any moves to come over. Error sighed and scratched his head, making some marks worsen as the talking got louder, it was going to be a long day.

-With the Kids, a few moments before the talking began-

TK gulped when the pretty Monster walked up to them, his face turning a light blue as the younger's blue dress swayed in the wind. He frowned at the snickering from behind him as the Monster finally stood only a few feet away from them with his baby brother in his arms. "..H-hi...." TK gulped as he took a step forward.

Null gave a small smile as Void waved excitedly at the new children. He only came up to the other kid's chin, so he had to look up at him. "Hello.....I'm Null and this is Void." Void giggled in delight, arms waving around.

"I'm KT-No!" TK slapped himself, blushing in embarrassment as they other laughed behind him. Null and Void just flinched back at the sudden slap. "TK! I mean my name is TK!" TK's face was now starting to look like a light blue sun with how bright it was getting much to the other quantum kid's amusement.

"I know, we heard before." Null blinked at this weird Monster, he never actually spent time with other kids besides Void and a little bit of time with Pup, so he had no idea what to do. But he could not just give up, Daddy believed in him! "I'm Null, this is Void."

Void gave a giggle, his hand opening, and closing in a wave to the others. All these new colors and sounds! How he just wanted to crawl everywhere and see everything that was in front of him. It was too bad that Da wasn't here by them, he really wanted to explore with him.

Null slowly put Void down, making sure to stay close to him as the other children came up. Null twitched, feeling surrounded, and took a step closer to Void. But soon few of the kids caught his and Void's attention. The tallest one had one something over one socket, a scare on his skull. Another dresses in red and looking edgy also had a scare on his skull, and one even had blood, scares, and other injuries on him. The brothers glanced at one another before a determined gleam interned their eyes, they knew how to help now.

Before any of the kids could react, Null lifted Void back into his arms and quickly run up to Gaz. Gaz just blinked, then grumbled as they both waved him down. He leaned down to see what they wanted, only to freeze when they both lightly pecked his scares. He stayed that way even as they run off to Cherry, doing the same thing making him turn bright red, making him look like his nickname, and turn into a stuttering mess when Void just gave him an extra kiss when he started crying.

Peace and Cloud glanced at one another and shrugged, maybe this was a thing they did in the new AU? Every AU was different and had their own way of doing things after all. Orange just chuckled at everyone's faces, especially TK's. He's jealous and shocked face was the best. TK just wanted to know why Null and Void were going around kissing a few of them. Never mind the fact that he really wanted a kiss from Null too.

But everyone froze in horror when they both went up to Tick. Tick was a horror Sans, making him very unpredictable on a good day, very murderous on a bad day. Everyone had no idea how he would react to them, and they had no idea how their Father would react to them getting hurt by Tick if he does something. Tick himself just leaned down slightly, giving a bloody grin, making his chain rattle, waiting for them to scream and runoff. But then he got the shock of his life when they did not do that.

Two lips pecked all his scares on his face, making him feel warmer then he had ever had. He was frozen when they finally kissed all the marks, proud looks on their faces. "Kisses make boo-boos feel better!" Null puffed out his chest, Void lightly patting a still frozen Tick's face. "No more pain, right?"

Orange sighed, amused. He understood what was going on now. They were kissing away the injuries, something their Father probably did, so they are copying what they saw hoping they would feel better. But Orange did quickly grab a hold of TK's jacket when he looked like he was seriously considering getting hurt for a kiss. "Don't even think about it."

Cherry wiped away his tears, feeling more loved than ever. While he loved his bro more than anything, his bro didn't always show it. So getting those kisses, even from other versions of himself and his bro, was the best thing that ever happened to him so far. Cherry just wanted to keep them forever, but he had a feeling that their very strong, and very obviously over-protective Father would not like that.

But it turns out that Tick had a similar idea, and not caring a bit about what Error would think or do.

Null and Void just blinked when they were both lifted into Tick's hold, cuddled close as he started to tick and tock, laughing creepily. 'It's been so long since someone made me tick.' Innocence was not something his AU had, and it wasn't something that he was going to kill. He looked down at the two in his hold, both blinking up at him innocently with Void giggling as he patted his face. He decided. "They are mine now."

"Um...I think their Father would have something to say about that." Orange was quick to point out, only to get a grin and shrug in response.

"Who says their yours?!" TK's face twitched, he wanted to rip them out of Tick's hold. He took a step forward, making Orange facepalm. Gaz joined in when Cherry also growled out. "Yeah! Don't hog them to yourself!"

"I don't think that is what Orange meant...." Cloud hesitated, glancing to see Peace was just laughing at all the chaos that was about to go down if nothing stopped the train wreck in front of them.

"I have a feeling this is just going to get worse," Gaz muttered to himself, getting ready to break up a fight when a commotion caught all their attention. Turning to look at all the adults, they all gave a gasp.

Null and Void both quickly jerked themselves out of Tick's hold. Grabbing Void, Null started running for all his worth back to Error. Void starting to cry out, little pastel orange tears falling down his face as he made grabby hands out to Error as they got closer. All Null could feel was anger, how dare these Monsters make this happen to his Daddy. Ignoring the other kids running after them, yelling for them to stop, Null just ran faster.

"DADDY!"

"DA!"

-Back At The Adult Table, A Few Minutes Before The Commotion-

Eventually, they were yelling, making Error's body glitch harshly. He looked down at the white table. It was clear and pure white. His SOUL froze as everything around him distorted, the yelling fading until it came back, only it was much familiar.

'You WORTHLESS piece of shit!'

'What are you doing lazying about?!'

'Everything is going to crumble and it is going to be your fault!'

'Did you forget about the balance!?'

Error started clawing at his head, leaving marks and making some of the bone fall off. His glitching worsened as the Voices screamed at him. "sTOp....." He was no longer in the Multi-VOID. He was dragged into his memories, he was back in the Anti-VOID. "S-S-ST_0P...."

Ink paused, thrown out of his thoughts when he heard Error's glitchy mutterings. He quickly looked to where he sat and flinched back at what he saw. Error was harshly clawing at his face, glitching every which way, and crying. "GUYS STOP-!" Ink called out to stop the others, only for Error to scream.

"St000P Ye_LlI-NG aT M_E-E_e!" Everyone flinched back, watching the now horribly glitching Monster start to claw at his own face, blood falling from the cuts. "PlEa-SE N0 M0R-E!"

Everything after was like a blur. ERROR signs started popping out around Error, he shoved himself up, making his chair clatter to the ground. All the Monsters soon following as Error stumbled back, screaming out that he wanted the yelling to stop.

"What do we do?!" Red panicked slightly, he knew what a panic attack is like, flashbacks and all. But that doesn't mean he knows how to deal with them. Watching Error freak out so bad, because of him and the others yelling out, made him want to him himself.

As the others panicked and tried to think of something to do, Ink just reacted. Stepping up, his SOUL shot out, and without thinking of the consequences, he pulled Error into a confrontation to see what he SOUL says, too see if there was anything that they can do to help out of panic.

A scared, stitched together by blue strings as if to stop it from falling apart, yellow, slightly black and blue glitchy SOUL came out from Error's chest. Soon powerful magic, screaming out for help, begging for death poured over them, actually making Hearts vomit from it all.

And when Ink hit CHECK; Skull really wanted his gun, Echo's eyes turned yellow from anger, Blue's eyes started flickering blue and yellow, Red growled out, Killer started twitching as he rubbed his knife, Murder clawed at skull as he reached for his axe, Hearts dry heaved again, Misery closed his eyes in pain, Daze started crying for the other, Fresh wished he could beat someone with his skateboard right about now, Honey wanted to strangle someone, Maple felt anger unlike any before, Geno cried as it was too much for him, Hop pulled his hood tighter around him to hide his ferocious face, Orbit puked everything up, and Death just stood still in shock and horror as he read the words in the box.

And Ink? Well, Ink was frozen as tears fell down his eyes, anger, and disgust flaring up in his SOUL. He actually hated himself at that moment when he saw what was in the box, even if he is not sure what was going on anymore. They all watched the always changing glitching stats, but what caught their attention was the effects and facts in place.

Error - Forced God Of Destruction

LV: 9999999-ERR0R

HP: 00000.0000001/ErRoR [EFF: Depression, Self-Hate, Fate-Touched, Destiny-Touched, VOID]

MPP: 2596-000110-ERrOR

AT: 1-999_574-000___ER-5855-ror

DF: 0000___8959__78-ErRoR-557_9

EXP: 9998959-E-R-R-o-R

[EFF: Forcibly changed into what he is by Fate to be half of the balance. Can not die no matter what for Fate will not allow that to happen.]

[FACT: Error is the Yin to Ink - The Creator and God Of Creation - who is the Yang.]

- Was formed after Ink went too far in creating and ignoring Fate's words. Error then was forced to kill off AU's as Ink did not stop. He has given up a long time ago and had jumped into the VOID to die after his Multiverse had gone too far in trying to kill him.

-Still wants to die - no matter how many times he failed to end it himself and where others have failed.

Notes From Author - Harrish6

Error's stats are glitchy and are always changing because of this. The reason so much is popping up while Ink is checking his SOUL is because he is having flashback after flashback, feeling all the memories. In short, his SOUL is unguarded at this point so they can see more about him then they could if he was in his normal state.

Needlessly to say, no one is going to be happy about what Error's Multiverse did.

Error has the fear of yelling and screaming, or more like their being too much of it or if too many screams/yells at him. This comes from the Voices and Fate.

In the next chapter, we get the fallout of everyone finding out this info about Error, and them trying to calm Error down. Then you add Null and Void with the other kids coming to them because of all the yelling, it is going to get pretty crazy.