New Territory

A lone skeleton stood in a world void of color. The bright white world reminded him of the anti-void so much. The skeleton wore a long dark blue coat with lines, runes, on his sleeves. Scars lined down his face right under his eye sockets.

The skeleton came from another story, another Eden orb. Almost similar to the original Alphatale. The skeleton's name was William, but went by the Alias, Error404 or 404.

Emptiness, it’s all 404 felt at the time. He lost practically everything. Error, all of the Alphatale code he had been saving, his friends and family. He was lost.

404 peered at the small mainframe pool, an infinite pit of code that held seemingly infinite power, that was under the locked over bed. He stared intently. “Could this be a dream?” 404 thought as he continued to stare.

“I assure you it is not.” A voice said from behind 404 quickly turned as he summoned a dark blaster only to not fire it. 404 looked into the darkness of the room where he was met with two eye sockets, one red eye and a wide white grin.

“Loading.” 404 growled only for a chuckle to come from Loading, a fully black skeleton that had no body except his hands, head and jacket, as he floated out of the shadows.“Loading.” 404 growled only for a chuckle to come from Loading as he floated out of the shadows.

“Please, William, don't let me distract you.” Loading smiled. William lowered his eyes as he crossed his arms.

“Right, the guy with a night light in his head doesn’t want me distracted.” 404 said with a cold tone. Loading shook his head in displeasure with a shrug.

“Oh please, spare me your banter.” Loading said.

“How about you start explaining what the hell is going on.” 404 demanded as Loading just giggled, acting as if this was all just a game to him. Loading sighed.

“Well it’s difficult to explain.” Loading said as he floated towards 404.

“Stop moving.” 404 said as Loading stopped in his tracks. Loading smiled again

“Or what?” Loading said with a smug expression.

“I know for a fact if I let you get closer you’ll try something.” 404 said only for Loading to shake his head.

“If I wanted to do something, I would have done so already.” Loading said as just then another Loading came from the mainframe and grabbed 404’s legs, holding him up in the air.

Loading laughed at the sight of 404 who seemed less than pleased. 404 looked towards the mainframe, reaching out to it but…nothing. Loading chuckled. “Your not connected to that mainframe pool.” Loading said, a little excitement in his voice seeing 404 at his disposal.

“What do you mean?! I should be connected with it!” 404 exclaimed, confused. The other Loading dropped 404 onto the ground, 404 looked up to Loading as the clone disappeared.

“You’re no longer in your original Eden Orb anymore, your in ours now.” Loading said as he floated past 404 who stood up, glaring at Loading. Loading floated above the seemingly endless pit of the mainframe as he smiled.

“Enjoy.” He said as he slowly descended within. 404 watched with skepticism as he looked into the mainframe pool. He got on his knees, looking at his right hand then shoving his arm right into the mainframe. He could feel the power surge through him, more power than his last orb even had. Something was off to him.

404 looked to a door that seemed to lead to nowhere, although upon opening it he found that it led to a hallway. “Where am I?” He thought to himself. He looked at the hallway closely and saw multiple doors lined up. Upon closer inspection he saw they had nameplates. He went door from door looking at each one, although most were not named one caught his eye.

Error.

404’s eyes widened as he quickly rushed in only to be met with something else. 404 looked sternly at what was inside. Small giggles of laughter was heard in the corner.

“You…you…you, you YOU!” The glitchy entity said as it screamed at something. 404 looked around as he finally saw what it was, Error. Error was on the ground, tied up by Fatal\_Error. 404 acted quickly by using his blue mastery on Fatal and throwing him outside of the room.

“William?!” Error exclaimed as 404 helped him up and embraced him in a hug. 404 was slightly holding back tears as he had reunited with Error.

“I thought I’d never see you again.” 404 said as he got a better look at Error. His appearance remained the same although he had a yellowish gold scarf which seemed odd to 404.

“Where’d you get that?” 404 asked to which Error seemed confused.

“What? My scarf? I’ve always had it. Are you okay?” Error said as 404 seemed slightly concerned. All of a sudden, Fatal busted in as his strings flew straight to 404 and Error tying them up.

“YOUU!!!” Fatal screamed as 404 narrowed his eyes. He began to chuckle at Fatal's pathetic attempt. Fatal looked in anger as he clenched his fist in hopes to erase 404 and Error but it didn’t work. Error and 404 glitched through the strings and punched Fatal at the same time, sending him flying through the door once more

404 and Error follow Fatal out of the room who seemed even more angry and determined to put an end to them.

Fatal quickly sent bones and blasters towards 404 and Error who were still warming up to the new world of Staffverse. The two glitches blocked Fatal's attacks as they both went flying towards him.

404 punched Fatal away as Error glitched behind Fatal as he was flying back, kicking him into the ceiling. Fatal quickly summoned blasters that fired at 404 and Error who were blasted back. Fatal quickly teleported to Error and held two sharp bones with a large grin.

Just as Fatal was about to pierce Error, 404 teleported behind Fatal, charging his God-ray. Fatal stopped in his tracks as he turned to look at the ball of energy spiraling from 404’s fingertips. “Best you leave him alone.” 404 said in a cold tone.

Fatal turned to Error, a psychotic grin across his face as he teleported away accepting the stalemate. 404 grabbed Error's hand, pulling him up.

“It seems as if you made a new friend.” A voice chuckled. 404 and Error looked around only to see nothing there.

“Who said that?” 404 asked to which a small light came down from nowhere. The ball of light floated towards a different room just beyond the hallway. 404 and Error followed cautiously as they made their way to what seemed like a lounge or living room. The ball of light floated over a chair within the room, a box of chocolate chip cookies and chocolate sitting on the table.

“Come, eat.” The light said as 404 stayed away from it, not wanting to get caught up in another fight.

“What are you?” 404 asked to which the light glimmered brightly, the figure morphed into many things including 404 and Error then back to a ball of light.

“You may know me as a creator. I built this world, this Eden Orb as many call it, just for you.” The creator said, which puzzled 404 and Error.

“Why?” Error blurted out in confusion.

“This world is supposed to be a perfect world, free from danger. I only figured it was justifiable that I make the world for Alphatale. So I found the closest version, you.” The creator said.

“Version? I’m the only one! There are no other Alphatales I’ve checked!” 404 exclaimed to which the creator simply laughed.

“You’ll know in due time.” The creator said with a chuckle. A door suddenly swung open on the other side of the room to reveal a library.

“For now, why don’t you go check up on the history. Maybe it’ll fascinate you. Welcome to Staffverse.” The creator said as he slowly disappeared. Error and 404 looked at each other before looking at the Library.

404 and Error entered the library, looking around they found old books and relics that predated even this world. Error looked amazed at all of the knowledge while 404 seemed intrigued.

404 grabbed an old book off of the shelf and moving over to a table, sitting down as he opened the book. The paper was old, practically hard to read but 404 used his holographic panels to transcribe some of the text.

‘It’s the second year of the war. Loading said it would have been over by now, unfortunately not. I do hope Asgore could try to pull through and get us the Intel of Infecteds next move.’ The book read. Just by the name Infected made 404’s blood boil, he gritted his teeth before closing the book and calming down.

Error looked over to his Mentor as he picked out a book from the shelf. “Staffverse Myths.” Error mumbled to himself.

“Sir, you may like this.” Error said as he brought over the book.

404 suddenly stopped at a page titled ‘cores’ as it had caught his interest.

Meanwhile over in another room, a skeletal entity stood with a large smile. A large hole was on his skull that trickled down to its eye. A patch on the other side of the head. He had a glowing white eye that illuminated a part of his face. “Hehehe” the being laughed

The skeleton grabbed a hold of a cleaver that laid upon his back, holding it close to his face looking into his reflection. “Won’t this be FUN! HeheHAHAAHAHAHA!!!!” He laughed maniacally as he turned to look at the door.

“I sense you…William.” He smiled as he grabbed the door knob and opened the door.

Back with 404 and Error, 404 had closed the book, although it was old it was at least somewhat informative about the ‘Cores.’ 404 put the book in his pocket for safe keeping.

“What now?” Error asked to which 404 stayed quiet, thinking of what to do next. “Sir?” Error said only for 404 to put his hand up to Errors face, annoying him slightly.

“I’m thinking, boy.” 404 replied as he looked at the many shelves and books. “I need to check something” 404 said as they all heard an alarm. 404 and Error looked confused as 404 got flashbacks to Alphatales sirens. 404 shook them off as an announcement came on.

“Hello, new Staffverse characters. I’d like to introduce a few new guests to our mansion here. Enjoy your stay.” Said the creator who sounded like a radio. 404 and Error looked at each other as they walked out of the room towards the dorm hallway.

404 and Error walked past a couple of doors, most with names they didn’t even recognize. ‘Spade,’ ‘901,’ ‘909’ and so on. 404 kept walking as Error suddenly stopped.

“404, Look!” Error said pointing to a door that read ‘King!Multiverse’ 404 seemed surprised as he opened the door. The door led to a white void, much like 404’s own room, although instead of a mainframe a throne sat atop a large sum of stairs, King Multiverse slouched on it sleeping.

404 looked to Error once more, disappointed in King as he turned back to him, stomping his foot onto the ground, shaking the entire pocket dimension room as well as the universe outside the door.

King Multiverse woke up in a fright, jumping up from his seat. “WHAT THE?!?” He shouted as he looked down to 404, his eyes widening. “Uhm 404! Boss! Great to see you!” King said nervously as he smiled, walking down the stairs.

“To what do I owe the visit?” King continued, trying to make small talk.

404 remained quiet, lost in thought as King looked nervously at 404. “Error.” 404 said, Error turning to his mentor. “Fill King in on this world. I need to be back.” 404 said, turning to leave the room. Error nodded, looking at King with a smug look.

404 left the room, heading to his. He entered his room, the white grassy floor being the same as his HQ’s he walked over to the Mainframe pool, red eyes staring back at 404 who starred in.

“Hehe. Come crawling back?” Loading smiled as he rised from the mainframe pool. 404 looked at him with his usual cold and stern expression.

“I have questions, you have answers. Tell me what I want to know.” 404 demanded to which Loading narrowed his eyes at 404, crossing his arms.

“Oh really? And why should I assist you?” Loading said with a shit eating grin.

“Because I know your job and about the cores.” 404 said as Loading's smug face quickly went away. Loading's eyes widened as he tackled 404 into the ground, causing a large shockwave.

“How did you find out about that!” Loading exclaimed as hundreds of black hands appeared behind him. They all charged a weird energy that bubbled and sparked, awaiting for Loading’s command.

“Get off of me and maybe I’ll tell!” 404 exclaimed as Loading’s furious expression went away as he thought.

Loading floated off of him, backing away from 404. “Hmm, perhaps you could be of use. I’ll let you live if you aid me.” Loading said to which 404 nodded. “First rule. don’t. Tell. Anyone.” Loading demanded as 404 rolled his eyes.

“Yea, yea.” 404 said annoyed as Loading had a serious expression.

“I mean it.” He said.

“I know. Now tell me.” 404 demanded as Loading sighed.

“What is it?” He reluctantly said as 404 asked him about the cores, their purpose, what is Staffverse and more. Although Loading didn’t want to answer, he did.

It took a few hours of constant asking of questions and listening but eventually 404 was satisfied with his answers, taking notes within his mind.

“I’m done answering your questions.” Loading said as 404 dug his hands into his pockets.

“Fine by me, I’m good with what I got.” 404 said as he turned, putting his hand on the door knob, although as soon as he did he felt like something was odd. Loading smiled

“Good luck.” He said before descending back down into the mainframe pool. 404 looked back at Loading then back to the door. He slowly opened his dorm door only to find that the hallway was completely dark, every light in the mansion was turned off.

404 stepped out of his room, looking around. He saw large scratch marks torn into the walls and floor by something. 404 made his way to King’s room just in case. 404 looked at Kings room, the door slightly open as he could hear the shrieks of terror from King within.

404 quickly busted in to see King and Error being confronted by someone familiar, Infected. Infected laughed as he slowly turned to meet 404 eye to eye.

“Well, well, well. Isn’t it you Blue.” Infected smiled insanely. He stumbled around like a zombie, shuffling towards 404 who just starred with rage in his eyes. Infected chuckled as he stopped. “Well good thing you're just the guy I wanted to see, hehe” infected said, gripping onto his cleaver, holding it up to his face.

404 could see himself within the reflection of Infecteds cleaver. 404 quickly flew towards Infected at high speeds only for him to get caught up in an explosion from nowhere. 404 tumbled down as another explosion went off right under him, then another. Infected was laughing maniacally at the sight.

“You like that William?! It’s a new trick I’ve learned! AHAHA!” Infected laughed 404 looked up with anger in his eyes.

404 quickly moved at the speed of light towards Infected who grinned as he quickly caught 404’s punch, punching him instead as he sent 404 straight into the ground. Error got ready for a battle but 404 had stopped him.

“No, this is my battle.” 404 said as he breathed in and calmed down. 404 focused on his battle with Infected as he blitzed forward once again, summoning and firing many Dark Blasters towards Infected who simply dodged the beams, only to get punched by 404 sending him flying.

“GAHH!” Infected stood up wiping a small amount of black blood from his mouth that hardened his bones slightly. “Lucky shot.” He said as he gripped his hand into a fist, running straight towards 404. 404 readied himself only to be struck by Infecteds god breaker.

404 was sent flying back into Error and even Km who all fell down with 404. Infected looked to his strained arm, healing it with his Black Blood quickly. “I have a fun idea, why not take this outside! I’d LOVE to see how fast I rip you and this universe apart!” Infected laughed as he teleported away.

404 quickly teleported outside to a beautiful flower field. There he saw Infected who stood still with a wide smile. “Hehehe.” Infected laughed slightly as he looked at 404. “How’s your fag boyfriend” infected giggled.

404 gritted his teeth only for Infected to gasp. “Did I make you angry? Hehehe” he teased. 404 clenched his fist as Infected summoned a trident. Infected bursted into hot flames, scorching the area around him as he flew straight towards 404 who blocked, only for Infected to use his God Breaker on him once more, wounding him badly as well as sending him into the ground.

Infected flew towards 404 faster than light, punching him down deep into the planet's core. 404 looked up and flew up fast, uppercutting Infected as he summoned hundreds of Dark blasters that all fired at Infected, enveloping him in the powerful beams. As the beams from 404’s Dark Blaster dissipated, he could only look at a large dust cloud that surrounded the area only to see a glowing bright light.

“Ouch! That hurt Blue. Hehehe. I must say you had me there for a second” infected smiled “BUT I'M NOT DONE JUST YET! AHAHAHAHAHA!!” Infected laughed as a bright purple light erupted from Infecteds cracked skull. He laughed maniacally as hundreds of thousands of Wisps poured out. Infected covered his face with his hands, only exposing the large white pupil, as he kept laughing.

The wisps surrounded Infected, carrying him into the air. The wisps formed up into what seemed to be a large full bodied Infected. “WHY DON'T WE PLAY A NEW GAME WILLY?!!” Infected shouted from the head of the gigantic wisp Infected. As he looked down at 404, he noticed a familiar entity standing beside 404.

“Don’t do this…” Jacob said from within Infecteds subconscious. Infected shook it off as he turned his attention back onto 404.

404 growled as he pointed right at Infected, charging a God-ray. He fired it only for Infected to block it with the arm of the large wisp Infected. A large explosion occurred but it simply reformed itself.

404 clenched his fists, flying towards Infected only for the giant Wisp Infected’s hand to grab 404, trying to crush him but to no avail. “Oh you look so pathetic! Just like the day I killed that brother of yours!” Infected said, trying to get a rise out of 404, and it worked.

“I’LL KILL YOU!!” 404 shouted as a power surged from within. The wisps that held 404 quickly died out due to a mysterious aura that surrounded him. The wisps were quickly replaced. The giant Wisp Infected slammed 404 down to the ground, pinning him. Infected smiled in victory as the arm blew up as a chain reaction began. The entire Wisp army that was once a giant Infected, swallowed up 404. Loading suddenly appeared, enveloping the many haunting of wisp in pure dark energy as the hauntings exploded. The explosion was that of 50 big bangs, possibly stronger.

Inside the orb of pure dark energy, Infected smiled at the sight of 404, laying on the ground barely alive. Infected walked up to 404’s dying corpse with his cleaver in hand. “Well, Willy, I must say I had a lot of fun. Unfortunately I won’t let you join them yet! I still want to have a lot more fun.” Infected giggled as he noticed 404’s finger twitch.

Within 404’s room, something was bubbling. The mainframe. It suddenly burst out from the ground, flying out the door at immense speeds, Loading witnessed in shock as the Mainframe quickly sped right past him. The mainframe entered the orb of pure dark energy. Infected was then shocked too as he was then flicked away by the Mainframe, making him hit the wall.

The mainframe surrounded, enveloped, 404 encasing him in a cocoon of sorts. Infected tilted his head in confusion only to laugh. “Oh William, poor poor William.” He smiled as he burst into flames once more. White eyes illuminated from inside the cocoon as suddenly, 404 bursted out with a slight alter to his clothes. His butterfly had multiple colors, along with two more on the fur of his coat.

The entire reality shook as 404 made a step, almost destroying the universe entirely. The orb of dark energy disappeared as 404 flew towards Infected at immeasurable speeds, grabbing him by the jacket. Butterfly!404 flew up as he suddenly broke through the dimensional barriers that separated the Universes from the multiverse. Butterfly!404 had no idea what he was doing, his mission was clear; Kill Infected.

Butterfly!404 dragged Infected across the Universal flowers, destroying them as Infected took barely any damage only for Butterfly!404 to snap, breaking more of the dimensional barriers until they arrived at a mass of orbs all containing multiverses, they had entered into the hyperverses. Butterfly!404 began to throw Infected into different Hyperverses, firing ultranova blasts from each of his wings.

With each blast, it tore straight through reality itself. Infected was left as a mangled piece of a skeleton. Butterfly!404 quickly grabbed Infected once more, who began to turn black and almost ghostlike. Butterfly!404 was suddenly swatted away by a large hand, as he looked he saw Black Being roaring.

Back at the mansion, Error and King Multiverse ran outside to see Loading looking up at a holographic panel. They witnessed Butterfly!404 clashing with the Black Being.

“What the hells going on?!” Error asked in shock as Loading looked on quietly. “Answer me damn it!” He demanded, turning Loading around.

“I don’t know.” Loading responded as he continued to watch the fight. Every strike shaking the entire reality.

“How the hell didn’t they destroy everything?” King asked, astonished but confused.

Loading sat quiet for a second, watching the fight unfold before he entered a few commands on a console. “The universes, multiverses, hyperverses and so on follow the original Orbs structure. We took the liberty in making sure everything was exactly the same. From the 4D and 11D universes to the 11D multiverses. Although we had to change the coded universes and multiverses to cosmic essence so you lot wouldn’t be able to alter anything. This Eden orb, Staffverse, follows the same structures which means this Eden orb contains things like Sets, M-theory, K-theory and more. Although you probably don’t even know what that is.”  Loading said as Error and King didn’t understand a thing.

“Huh?” Error and King tilted their head only for Loading to sigh.

“Forget it.” He said.

Back with Butterfly!404 and Black being. Butterfly!404 fired a beam from his hand, hitting Black being and freezing it in Space time itself. Black Being could only roar in response. Butterfly!404 then fired hundreds of reality beams at Black Being that sliced straight through it, exposing a small portion of Infected. Butterfly!404 then grabbed Black being, firing more Ultranova blasts as he then began to descend down into a different multiverse at incompressible speeds, slamming Black Being down into the ground with enough force to destroy millions, possibly billions of universes.

Black Being screeched as the black matter slowly went away, revealing a dead Infected underneath. Butterfly!404 looked down to Infecteds corpse, now turned stone. The butterfly transformation began to distort and trickle down 404 as he powered down, the mainframe taking back its code. 404 fell to the ground, dead…

Or so he thought.

5 hours later.

404 awoke atop his bed within his room in the mansion. He breathed heavily as he looked around confused. “H-how am I-“ before he could finish, Loading materialized in front of 404 who looked at him.

“Congrats.” He clapped. “You did it. You must be so confused.” Loading said

“What happened?! How am I not dead? The butter-“ said 404, getting interrupted again by Loading.

“There was one thing I forgot to mention. The last core I never told you about.” Loading smirked. “The undying core.”

“Sounds like a stupid name. What is it?” 404 asked which Loading looked disappointed.

“Well if it’s so stupid how about I don’t tell you.” Loading said annoyed. 404 sighed.

“Fine, sorry. Now tell me about it.” 404 demanded. Loading shook his head in displeasure and rolled his pupil.

“Fine. You see the undying core is what saved you. In short terms it allows the dead to resurrect. When you died it brought you back to the universe and revived you.” Loading said as 404 nodded back. 404 got out of the bed, looking towards the door.

“Where’s Error?!” 404 asked worried.

“What are you so worried about? The brat isn’t even your Error.” Loading replied as 404’s eyes widened in shock and slight horror.

“What?” He said concerned. He could tell Loading was telling the truth.

“It isn’t your Error. He comes from a different Eden Orb than yours.” Loading said as he smiled. “Oops, I forgot. Yours was left behind” Loading snickered as 404 looked down. A sudden wave of guilt and regret washed over him.

“If I were you, which thank goodness I’m not, I wouldn’t stress about the fact that Error isn’t yours. No one is from the same orb. All you can do is just accept it.” Loading said as 404 tried not to tear up. He shook off the tears, putting on his usual facade as he walked to the door and touched the door knob.

404 held the side of his coat, a remembrance to his original Error. He sighed before walking out of the room.

Meanwhile, over in Infecteds room, he screamed loudly although no one could hear it from the outside. “FUCK YOU WILLIAM!!!” He shouted angrily. “ALWAYS GETTING IN THE WAY OF MY FUN!” He continued, kicking over a chair, breaking it by the sheer force of the kick.

“FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU!!” Infected screamed as he set his whole room ablaze. “When I get my hands on you…hehehe oh we’ll have FUN forever.” He smiled. “But until then, I’ll be watching.” He said, talking to himself

Back with 404, he stood outside Error's door. He sighed, reaching for the door knob but hesitated. He turned the doorknob and opened the door, he saw Error sitting on a beanbag. Error quickly turned as he heard the door open and to his surprise he saw 404.

“William?! How are you?!? How is this?!” Error said stunned, incapable of even understanding what and how this happened. 404 stayed quiet for a second before snapping back to reality.

“Don’t mind it. Why don’t we go do something worth our time. I’m sure you haven’t had your training in a while.” 404 suggested to which Error smiled with a cocky expression.

“Sounds good to me, but don’t be surprised if I amaze you.” Error chuckled as 404 cracked a smile. 404 and Error walked out of the room, heading to the opposite side of the flower field 404 and Infected were fighting at. A few boulders of various sizes sat there.

“Alright boy, I want you to try and use your novice ray and blue mastery to move and destroy these boulders.” 404 said as Error nodded. 404 laid down to rest while he monitored Error. He saw a lot of improvement within Errors training. Although as it continued on he felt tired from his battle with infected despite being resurrected. And soon enough he had fallen asleep.

Several hours later, a shadow loomed above 404, slowly waking him up from his sleep. 404 sat up, looking ahead of which Error sat. He looked nervous to say the least. “Sorry Error, I was pretty tired. We can continue training later.” He said standing up.

Error looked to the side slightly then back to 404. “Uh, sir. There’s something you may need to see.” Error said catching 404’s attention.

“What is it boy?” 404 asked to which he felt a familiar presence behind him.

“Hello Will.” Said a voice from behind. 404’s eyes widened as he slowly turned to see Alpha!Chara standing right there in front of him.

“It’s been a while.” Chara smiled