The Ghost and the Painter

Takes place after the events of The Puppet Books 1 & 2

## Chapter 1, Reborn

In the far outer reaches of the Multiverse Ink was drawing away when he heard the loud sound of lightning.

"What in the creators is that?" Ink said as he then teleported over to the location where he heard it from seeing that it was at the edge of the Multiverse where a large portion of it had been destroyed by some black fog like thing with red lighting.

"What's going on?" Ink said looking around as he saw AUs beginning to get sucked into the darkness. He then used his brush to get rid as much of the smoke he could, as he did it only revealed another sans like figure floating inside the smoke being reconfigured and remade by tentacles coming from the smoke. The figure had a long white hood with some fluff on the outer rim of it.

"A Sans!? HEY! Just what do you think your doing!? Your destroying the Multiverse!" Ink shouted

Inside the skeletons mind whispers and chants rang through his head.

"You let them die all for mercy" said the voices

"Destruction" they said

"Hate is what you bring" they repeated

"You let William die all alone" Ten said as with that the skeleton woke up with beating red eyes and black tears running down its face before it then looked down towards the random skeleton near it. Ink instantly put his brush away as to not look dangerous to the figure as he then backed up a few steps with his hands raised.

"Hey look I'm not here to harm you ok?" Ink said

"What the hell is this place?! WHERE AM I!? WHERES JACOB!!!?!" the skeleton shouted

"Who? Jacob? Is he your friend??? I can ta-" but before Ink could finish the skeleton lifted up it's hand summoning a black blade that seeped with corruption and hate as he then swung it towards Ink sending him flying backwards.

"They're denying you your vengeance!" Said Ten in the skeletons head

"Your the Alpha now, no one can stop you, no one can best you. Kill this fool and then topple this world until you find the one who would dare strike you down, until you find Jacob" Ten whispered. Ink's body jolted and twitched in pain as he tried crawling to his brush.

" Arghh...what was that!? It didn't feel like anything else I'd been hit by." Ink continued to crawl as Alpha stared at him.In a nearby place Dream and Swap were looking at the events happening with shock and despair

"What's happening with the Multiverse? A large portion of it , rumors of a new killer going around and...the white demon and now THIS!? just what is happening !?"  Dream shouted as Swap then noticed a shadow began to emerge from theirs.

"Hey Dream i think Ink w-" but before Swap could finish he was decapitated by what looked to be a unknown force with his body falling off the blaster. Dream got his boy and looked down at the shadow only to see nothing.

"SHOW YOURSELF!!!" Dream screamed firing several arrows only to have it destroyed moments after he and Ink were casted to fall hundreds of stories to the ground. Dream woke up moments later as he felt his head beating and in pain, he looked over and saw Ink lying down still unconscious. Dream got up only to have something he couldn't see grab him by the neck.

"Now finish him and then next the rest of this cursed Multiverse" Ten said,  Alpha got ready to stab Dream only to then get blasted by a random blaster sending Alpha miles back. Dream looked up in shock, Ink opened his eyes for a bit as he then saw Error standing above him.

"Ya'know there's a reference i could make here, but that's beneath me" Error smirked.

Alpha looked over at Error and Ink as he saw Error pointing and laughing at Ink.

"Look at you, down on floor and another man beating your ass, is it Saturday already Ink? Hehheeh" Error chuckled

" Fuck...off..." Ink stuttered as he got up onto one knee.

"Who the hell did you piss off this time Squid?"  Error said smirking

" I...I don't know, I'm not sure who this is" Ink said as he got up weakly. Alpha  looked at them with annoyance as he then turned into smoke.

"Oh shit!" Error shouted

" Oh no!" Ink said only to get himself kicked in the face by Alpha who then got wrapped in strings and slammed to the ground by Error.

"I don't know who you are, but this ends now!" Error said only to have Alpha come to him and kick him in the jaw nearly breaking it and sending him flying backwards, Ink watched with mild amusement.

Alpha and Error traded blows until Alpha stabbed Error in the shoulder and then blasted him away.

" Well this could be going better..." Error said as he got up weakly, he thought to himself on the strength of this foe. Alpha looked to  Error and then teleported to him stepping on his chest.

"OW! Gonna guess you don't have a thing for personal space" Error grunted as Alpha lifted his blade only to get pulled back by a blue force. Error got up and looked over, Ink looked towards the blue force too only to see 404 holding Alpha in the air with his blue mastery.

"Took you long enough old man" Error said annoyed, but grateful

"I leave you alone for a second and this is what happens" 404 said as he looked over at Alpha seeing the dark figure walking towards him and Error. Ink got up weakly as he saw 404 standing there.

"That pale skeleton again" Ink thought to himself as Error got up and stood next to 404.

"So what's the status?" 404 asked as he then threw Alpha far back using blue mastery before using a Dark blaster next to stun and knock back. Error then also used his blasters to keep the heat on.

"It looks like some weird, ghost like guy seeing how I noticed as I entered Dream nor Swap could see him" Error said

"Swap is here?" 404 said

"Well he was" Error replied as he saw Swap's head in the distance.

Alpha got up and deflected a few of the attacks before sending a giant slash attack towards 404 and Error who dodged out of the way. 404 looked at Alpha and tried studying his code only to have it blocked from him viewing it, Error tried as well, but had no luck either.

"The hell, why can't I scan this guy." 404 said

"No luck with me either!" Error said. Ink got up as he watched the fight continue to go on. 404 dodged and fired a god ray only for it to go through  Alpha. Error looked in shock.

"Woah, now thats a new o-" before 404 could finish Alpha tackled him, 404 grabbed onto the blade before it could stab him, but it began to burn him with the hate and corruption seeping into him. Alpha began punching and headbutting him only to then have Error wrap his strings around Alpha's arm, Error tried pulling him only for Alpha to yank his arm pulling Error to him so he could close line him.

"Is this what you've been wasting your time on for all these years? A stupid boy and your puny little beams" Alpha smirked as he picked up 404 by his neck lifting him up and then stabbing him multiple times in the chest, 404 coughed up blood as Alpha gained widely.

"Time to die so called God of the Multiverse" Alpha said as he got ready to decapitate 404 only for Alpha to dodge a attack from Ink. 404 fell to one knee healing himself as he saw Ink get in front of him.

"You.." 404 said

"Don't get it twisted, I'd still never work with you, but i believe this is a good conflict of interest right?" Ink said with a quirky smile with 404 looking back at Error who only shrugged as he got up.

"Heh, you better just keep the banter to us squid" 404 said as he kept healing and Ink kept holding off Alpha

404 watched as Ink battled with Alpha dodging and weaving around attacks he then looked back at Error as he tried getting up.

"D-Damnit! Even after all that training, I still can't even match up against guys like this!? No...no I am stronger its just this guy is on some whole other level"  Error thought to himself as he watched  Ink then smacked down to the ground.

" This isn't good, we need a plan of attack on this guy" 404 thought to himself, but then he turned back and looked at Error and then back to Alpha.

"Or maybe we just need one person" 404 said to himself as he then got up weakly finally healing himself completely.

"HEY SQUID! don't die just yet" 404 said as he ran over to Error.

"Ge- Error i have an idea!" 404 said with confidence

"errrrr why do I have a bad feeling about this" Error said as he looked to 404 who was looking at him too. Alpha knocked Ink to the side sending him far back, Ink held his side as he was heavily wounded. Ten invisible to everyone's sight watched everything unraveling, they tightened they're grip on Alpha even more then before.

" Highly impressive, far better than your last resurrection in the Multiverse before. Do you recognize him even? Does not matter now though, this will be a excellent opportunity to collect some data for the next encounter" Ten said as they stabbed they're tentacles into Alpha and began to buff him even more than more pumping cosmic essence into his soul and body.

"We can always start again" Ten said as Alpha's body began to infuse itself with his blade turning his body into a sword like skeleton fusion with his head something of a long blade. Everyone looked in shock at the transformation with Ink and Error being the most horrified and 404 staring in complete disbelief.

" Ah yes, just like an old king I pull you out of the ground, my mighty blade, my unbreakable blade...my holy sword Excalibur" Ten said as Alpha's head split p

Open revealing rows of teeth as he howled into the sky striking fear into the entire Multiverse.

## Chapter 2 Excalibur vs God

An unsightly beast it was, the skeleton they were fighting was now a large abomination with many arms and a sword shaped head, Error was frozen in fear along with 404 and Ink.

" HOLY SHIT!! WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING!?!?" Error screamed as Excalibur roared at him and ran towards him

"BOY MOVE!!" 404 shouted as he then used blue mastery to push Excalibur, but all it did was then grab of the energy coming from blue mastery and turn it into a blade shocking everyone.

"THATS IMPOSSIBLE!!!" 404 and Error shouted out, Excalibur then reverses the effects of blue mastery onto 404 and moved the blade around  sending 404 flying around and smashing him into the ground and into Error and Ink until he finally smashed him into the floor.

"ACK! So...thats what that feels li-" but before 404 could finish Excalibur smashed its foot on top of 404 crushing him nearly to death. Excalibur roared only to get blasted by  Error's blasters, Error then used his strings to string up Excalibur and kept blasting and summoning bones to stab into the large enemy, but it was no good for Excalibur then gathered up some strings using one of his many arms and turned his strings into a sword to witch he then swung at Error wrapping him in strings.

"ARGAH!! JUSY WHAT THE HELL IS THIS FUCKING THING!?!?" Error grunted as Excalibur escaped his strings and then pulled on a piece of the Multiverse and turned it into a sword as well.

"OK that's just...I don't even know what that is!" Error said only for Excalibur to lift up its blade and stab him in the stomach, as it twisted and pulled Ink then jumped on its back.

"Heya pal, sorry can't have you wrecking up everything!" Ink said as he then teleported him, Error and Excalibur away to ReaperTale to which they all then began to fall down the side of a far away mountain. Error summoned his blaster to stop his fall while Ink grabbed a hold of it to prevent his fall too while they watched Excalibur fall down a large canyon.

" Phew, talk about a lucky break right?" Ink chuckled only to have error grab him by his scarf and pull him close to his face

"YOU IDIOT!! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU'VE DONE!!! THANKS TO YOU MY MASTER IS ALL BY HIMSELF AFTER GETTING SMASHED INTO OBLIVION!! AND YOUR GRAND IDEA WAS TO SEND US TO THIS SHITHOLE!? BE LUCKY I NEED YOUR ASS OTHERWISE I'D HAVE YOUR HEAD PLACED ON THE FRONT OF MY BLASTER!!!" Error shouted in anger

"Woah woah woah! Last I checked you came to save me! Besides the heck was i supposed to do!? Let that monster start destroying everything and have us all be toast. Sending us to a Au was my only choice!" Ink said

"You mean your old idea, seeing how your brain lacks any means of making up others you goddamn bonehead!"  Error shouted

"Wait a second, were those big words? Your vocabulary is getting better glitchy" Ink said only to get pushed to the ground by Error, he scoffed and looked at the Cliffside.

404's eyes began to open as he saw Chara, but Chara looked dressed in dark cogs and with dark longer hair.

"C-Chara? Is that you? What's going on?!" 404 said as he tried to get up only to get a spike of pain and fall to the ground again.

"Tch tch tch, such a pity white demon, such a pity indeed" said a figured with menacing glowing eyes

"WHO IS THAT!?....Who's there?!" 404 said weakly as he tried to reach out to Chara who backed up towards the dark figure who wraps his arm around Chara's waist.

"Fine treasures your home had, yessss i think I'll be keeping some of these precious things heheheh" the dark figure chuckled as it walked towards him coming barley into sight showing an orange color to his head.

"Don't worry now, soon we'll meet and when we do hehehehe well let's just say that you'll made into a example of what playing God gets you. Till next time blue" said the figure as it disappeared with 404 passing back out again.

Soon afterwards 404 would wake up again with King!Multiverse near by

"Oh boy what a treat, the so called God of the Multiverse beaten to bloody pulp just for me to finish off" King!Multiverse said only for 404 to get up causing KM to cower away scared

"...you..." 404 said weakly as he struggled to stand as KM looked at him slightly unsure on his status.

"Are you? Uhh" KM questioned

" I'm alive you dolt brain." 404 said much to KM's disappointment

"Ugh where am I anyway? Or better yet which part of the Anti-Void is this?" 404 asked

"Man that thing really did hit you hard, your back at King's Quarters or my domain that you so KINDLY gave me" KM said as he sat on his throne, 404 looked around still dazed and hazy as he looked over to King!Multiverse.

"Where's Error?" 404 asked

"No doubt still fighting with that thing in ReaperTale, but who knows if he's alive seeing how long its been" KM said as he scratched his chin with 404 regaining some strength and looking back at him.

"What do you mean?" 404 asked

"Oh, sorry to say "sir", but you've been out for three days" KM said only for 404 to then grab him by his scarf.

"THREE DAYS!? YOU'VE BEEN SEATING ON YOUR ASS HERE LETTING ME SNORE AWAY TO LALA LAND WHIKE ERROR IS OUT THERE FIGHTING THAT THING!!?!?" 404 screamed at KM as KM looked at him in fear and disbelief at the burst of emotion.

"Oh, calm down before you give yourself a stroke" said a voice causing 404 and KM to look back and see Loading emerging from the ground.

"Loading" 404 said

"William" Loading replied much to 404's displeasure as he let go of the cowering King!Multiverse and walked to Loading. 404 knew that if Loading was here that it was two things, one he wanted to kill him or there was something worse at stake.

"What brings you?" 404 asked

"Lets say there's been a bit of disturbance" Loading responded

"I don't have time for your long cryptic messages you black freak, just tell me  what the hell it is you want!" 404 said angered, Loading then turned his head 360 degrees and readjusted his hands while 404 just watched.

" That creature from before is being fueled by a unknown source of energy. That energy is making it hard even for me to get rid of them. The code of that skeleton is being obscured by all that weird "energy", however I believe I have made a way for you to beat it"  Loading said as he then presented a large visual of two souls.

" What is it?" KM asked

"None of your business, now go find Nightmare!" 404 said

"What?! But I didn't even-" but KM didn't finish his sentence as he saw 404's face was stern and irritated.

"...Fiiinnnee" KM answered as he then teleported away as 404 looked over to Loading

"...anyway, I've studied your soul and found out something unique about it, your soul is able to absorb other souls and substances weakening or hardening it as you choose" Loading said shocking 404

"Interesting, but why are you telling me this?" 404 asked, the screen then changed to two souls becoming one.

" but that's not all, with that you also can combine your soul with another without fully absorbing them" Loading said

"So like some kind of fusion?" 404 asked

"Now your catching on, well I ran some test and you and the boy seem to be quite compatible with one another, a fusion between you and him does not seem too out of left field now does it" Loading said as he closed the presentation. 404 thought about it heavily as he watched Loading begin to fly away.

"Wait! Will it kill him?" 404 asked only for Loading to ignore him and disappear.

404 then summoned his soul and looked at it.

At Nightmares Castle, far away from everyone else, King!Multiverse teleported in to check on him just to see the hideout was empty, all but Killer, Dust and Horror were there and remained

"Well well well, if it isn't the so-called King, come to grace us with hi-" but before Dust could finish he was smashed against a wall with Chains and suspended above the ground understandably scaring the shit out of everyone in the room.

"Holy shit!" Killer shouted as he and Horror looked to KM with they're hands up

" I don't have time for your fucking games! Where's Nightmare!? And don't lie to me, otherwise I'll be using your heads as decorations for my throne" KM said with frustration

" Idk making ha ha with Dream or something" Killer said only to have KM use his Asset Reset on him turning Killer back into his Classic state shocking Horror, His chest plate fractured a bit,but thanks to the Mainframe code running through him his body was healed immediately.

"You next? Or are you gonna learn to speak boy?" KM asked

"OK ok ok, we haven't seen him! He hasn't been here in days" Horror said shaking, KM then looked back and disappeared leaving everyone. Horror took a breath of relief as Classic!Killer was pissed and stomping on the ground due to his change back to his regular look.

"Someone help get me down!" Dust shouted as Horror then used his axe and threw it breaking the chains which dropped Dust onto the ground. As they did the main doors opened to the castle letting a large gust of wind come through, all of them looked forward as they saw the door fling open.

"Hello boys" said a voice behind them as they turned to see who it was and saw a figure sitting on Nighamre's throne.

"Who the fuck are you!?" Horror shouted

" How the hell did you get in here!?" Dust shouted as everyone got their attacks ready towards the figure.

"Now now let's not get hasty, wouldn't want to start something we can't finish now" said the figure as it looked at them. Classic!Killer and Horror chuckled at each other.

"Heheheh, and just who do you think you are to sit in that chair punk? Some new big shot?!" Classic!Killer said

"Just the new guy on the block who wants the death of a certain pale god." said the figure with wicked grin.

They all looked at one another only for Horror to slam his hand on the table getting everyone's attention.

"THATS IT WISE GUY!" Horror shouted as he began to move towards the menacing figure in the shadows. The figure looked at him with a wide smile as his gloved hands gripped onto the throne, then two slim figures came from behind the throne and wrapped they're arms around the mysterious figure, one of the slim figures then pulled a jar of gum drops and set it in front of the figure as he dug his hand in it and ate a hand full in front of everyone. Horror looked on in confusion as one of the slim figures opened what looked to be they're eye showing a crimson glow to it as it stared at everyone else.

" Tell me something "Sans", what is the opposite of Hope?" Asked the figure

"What?" Horror said

" Wickedness, its is notorious for being also known as the hollow soul, kind of like a hollow tapestry or hollow ink so to speak" the figure chuckled along with his other two figures who had a higher pitched voices cementing the idea of them being perhaps feminine in nature. Horror then began to back away as Dust and Classic!Killer began to put they're weapons away.

"So what do you say boys, are you in or out? Want to....come along on my joy ride to rid this world of nuisances?" The figure asked, not wanting whatever fate to be bestowed upon them the figure had in mind if they refused Classic!Killer and Dust reluctantly nodded while Horror picked up his axe off the ground.

"LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I THINK!!" Horror shouted only to have the figure pull a gun out from behind him and point it at Horror causing him to stop.

"Bang" the figure said as he fired a shot which then had the gun shoot out a present towards Horror which he caught, he looked at it confused an then at the figure who's wicked grin was showing again while his two maidens chuckled as well. Horror looked at them and then the present again as he began to open it.

Horror looked in terror as he saw the contents of the box, such terror, it was far too much for him to handle resulting in his soul to burst out of chest and pop like a balloon scaring Dust and Classic!Killer shitless.

"Now then, with no more interruptions shall we begin getting to the best?" The figure chuckled.

## Chapter 3, Summer Heat

Error woke up in a dark room with chains attached to his head with spikes coming out of his eyes blinding him as all he could hear as he woke up were whispers and silent cries in the distance.

"Hello? WHOS THERE!? SHOW YOURSELF!!" Error shouted into the darkness only to hear his own voice return to him

"...Sir?...where are you?...Fa-" but before Error could finish he then woke up in a cold sweat, The sound of birds in the distance a cold morning seeped through barn doors not too far from him. He could hear the sound of plowing against the dirt outside, he then shuffled his body only to find out he was laying on a large stack of hay and not too far from him was a figure sitting against the wall of a pig stall with a bucket over his head as what looked to be a bunch of purple orbs were lying on the ground, they almost looked alive. To his right Error looked over to see a small puddle of white mush, but the worst part was that it moved, it had a head with a petrified face. It moved very slowly and had the small fragile wails of a child as it did.

"This must be some sick fucking dream" Error thought to himself as he tried to get up only to hear a crack come from his arm. He fell back in pain, he lifted his now broken arm and then looked at the rest of his body, the sight was horrid, his ribs were fractured if he had any left, his legs nearly crushed and he had just now noticed that he was seeing out of one eye.

"....just my luck" Error sighed as he fell back against the hay trying to hopefully get over everything he saw.

"Hey best buddy" said a annoying familiar voice, Error's eyes jetted towards the barn doors to see Ink, he was standing with a tray of food, his injuries looked like Error's, but he clearly had time to heal.

"Glad to see you're alive" Ink smiled with Error wishing otherwise.

"I bet your wondering, just how you ended up here. Especially alive hehe" Ink chuckled as he set down some toast with scrambled eggs next to Error as he leaned on the pig stall in front of him. Ink looked at Error waiting for a response, but didn't get one, Error didn't even touch his food.

"...What's wrong with you glitchy? Still thinking about that mentor of yours?" Ink asked, but Error still refused to talk and even turned away.

"...Doesn't matter i guess, well anyway this is FarmTale or what's left of it, you probably don't remember, but you and me fought that monster for hours on end...first time we've worked together before...good time" Ink said

"Get on with it" Error groaned as his eye looked to Ink who turned to him.

"Well, after a while some weird mumbo-jumbo started happening and the creature reverted back to normal, but by then I was nearly dead and I was sure you were already. So I brought us here, luckily Farmtale is known for holding lost or wandering Aus such as ourselves. Look, we already have friends! Meet weird paint monster thing and purple bucket man" Ink said in a gleeful tone as he pointed to the others in the barn. The cold wind seeped through blowing away some of the hay, the figure with the bucket on his head woke up and then began to look around as he stumbled to get up. Error looked at him and then to Ink who still was looking back to him, Error then took a quick glance at the petrified white thing and looked back to Ink again.

"How long have I been out for?" Error asked

"In Anti-Void time, 4 - 5 Days. Here in FarmTale, about 5 months" Ink said without a care, Error nearly choked on his own reaction, he then cooled his temper and laid his head back down. Hours went by as Ink sat down by Error as he was still bed ridden due to his injuries.

"Hey Error?" Ink asked as he put a thing of hay in his mouth laying a ways away from Error.

" Why do you think King hasn't called us back yet?" Ink asked, Error looked over to him for a moment and ignored him.

" Not that I care you know, its just....didn't it give your life some meaning? Having someone command you, having to follow something? I'll tell it's definitely a lot better than being abandoned by your creator who only made you for artist pleasure AND NOTHING MORE!" Ink shouted, Error looked at Ink shocked at his outburst. Ink then grabbed at his shoulders as he rolled over his eyes meetings Error's who were cold and calm.

"Yours eyes have changed...you've changed" Ink said as he then reached out to Error, Error looked as Ink's hand attempt to touch him.

"Gay" said the figure with the bucket on his head in which Error looked over and kicked Ink away.

"Whatever" Error said as he looked to the figure who then grabbed on of the purple orbs near him.

3 Months later

Error walked out the barn pushing the doors open, he looked st the gray sky, it was rainy week and none of the clouds had cleared up yet. He looked around as the crops were thriving in such good downpour. Ink pushed past him as he held the whit bloody thing and ran out with it like a toy laughing, Error took a deep breath and walked a bit only for his legs to buckle and fall down. He his hands were buried into the dirty mud, his reflection looking back into his soul.

"Weak" He heard 404's voice say in his head, Error took a deep breath and stood up, as he did a bucket went flying over his head and landing some feet away.

"Leaving? Without saying goodbye" said a deranged voice behind him, Error looked back and upward to see Infected sitting on top of the barn.

"Your awfully springy today" Error said as Infected landed behind him.

"What can I say? I'm a man mad" Infected said with a smile

"...what?" Error said confused

"...was that right? Damn I need to work on my paraphrasing" Infected said as he crouched to the ground and began playing the mud.

"So...are you leaving?" Infected asked as he drew his brother's face in the mud.

" No, just came to stretch my legs once I could feel them" Error replied as he leaned against the barn.

"You know, from all the time I've been here i haven't once asked you anything " Error said as he played with his strings

"Questions are like flies, ask too many and you'll soon find yourself unable to see past them" Infected said as he finished drawing in the mud, he looked at the face, he took a minute before spitting in it and stomping it out.

"Tell me something, your from AlphaTale aren't you?" Error asked, Infected froze for a moment before his grin returned to him.

"How'd you know? Was it the hair?" Infected chuckled

"Call it a lucky guess" Error said as he looked at Infected walk back and forth

"I imagine you have questions" Infected said

"Not really" Error said as he looked at Infected would didn't keep eye contact

"..s...no no no...how do you know?" Infected asked a bit shaky

"That does not concern you, I'm asking the questions here...Adam" Error replied in which Infected scoffed

"Not him then" Error thought to himself

"How'd you come back?" Error asked as Infected chuckled some more.

"Wasn't, your little au buddies brought me back to life" Infected laughed

"I see, hmm you don't look like an Ares" Error said as Infected looked who was beginning to lose his smile

"That makes you him doesn't it?" Error asked in which Infected stopped and looked towards him as they both stared at each other for what felt like hours.

"....I had to do it you know...they were sick, betrayed me and...well...it was filthy there too...not true...YES IT IS!" Infected screamed as he talked to himself for moment to, he then looked at Error.

"Is that you?...Will?" Infected said

Error looked at him slightly shocked at the idea he may be his brother, This guy was clearly made, however even though Error was finding out some juicy info Ink ran back to them and collapsed tripping over his own feet as he arrived to this tense moment...what a idiot.

"GLITCHY!!!!" Ink shouted out

"SHUT UP!!!!" Error shouted back, it was quiet for a moment. Infected began to contemplate what the actual fuck he was doing here anyway for there was no strawberry cows or milk in sight.

"...Can I talk now?" Ink asked with a dorky grin

"...sure" Error asked

"Well ya see i was playing with the little blobby guy when suddenly I lost him and now I can't find him anywhere" Ink said as he chuckled nervously, Error was so annoyed he was so done with this tedious adventure with Ink and Infected and was ready to go back to 404 wherever he was...wait a second, actually what had they been doing before? He knew was injured, but from what?! And by who!? It was if Error had completely forgotten what had he had been doing here and with Ink entirely or more like who he was fighting in the first place. He needed to go and think so Error walked inside the barn to cool off while Infected with no one to kill right after a hot discussion decided to just sit down and play with the mud and make mud pies...it always helped when he was in tense situations.

Ink watched everyone go to doing they're regular thing and decided he'd go out and look for that weird petrified...thing, as he searched the fields Farm!Asgore told him that supper would be ready soon and Ink gave a subtle wave as he continued his search for his weird friend, he didn't even know why he was searching guess it just felt right or maybe he wasn't looking to spend time with anyone. To be honest with himself Ink figured he didn't want to get along with any of them, minus his intimate time with Error at the barn and while he slept he did watch him none of it mattered compared to what was basically meaningless time wasted for with no real soul all time and moments were meaningless.

"...what am I doing" Ink asked himself

"Playing in mud" said a voice behind him, not expecting a response Ink turned around to see another skeleton standing behind him, crying through one eye socket.

"Who are you?" Ink asked

"...You don't remember?" Alpha asked him

"Remember what?" Ink said again

"Hmm, it would seem that after my undoing of that alternate form I caused a massive mind deletion or something. Would explain why you don't remember" Alpha said as he sat in the air crisscross apple sauce style. Ink looked at the figure as he had no idea who they were, he would have sensed for sure if another Au got made which left two options, either he's old or he could be a already existing Au.

" What Au do you come from?" Ink asked

"...AlphaTale" Alpha replied with a bit of a sorrow tone, Ink couldn't recall such a thing

"Don't bother, was made way before there was such a thing as Multiverses" Alpha said as he looked to Ink

"WOW! Thats crazy, you know when you say things like that it makes me wonder, why not bring back AlphaTale? Think of all the amazing achievements we could get! The things creators could learn fro-" but before Ink could finish Alpha slammed his fist on the table shaking Ink's plate. Alpha's hands shook in anger as he had flashes towards that old day of reckoning. He had brief flashes of himself being cut in two and seeing his mother burned at a stake.

"Uhh are you?" Asked Ink as Alpha leaned back in his chair while Farm!Toriel looked at Ink from the kitchen wondering who he was talking to as she cooked eggs and sausage. Alpha looked at his shaking hands, he grabbed onto it trying to calm himself only to then see a child version of William bouncing a ball which sets him off.

"NO!....You....you call this a achievement? Its a curse. My home was a curse, back there nobody was free and nobody was safe. If AlphaTale was still alive you'd have the French revolution as this Multiverse's base foundation." Alpha said as he got up and walked to the window looking out to the fields, he looked out as he saw Error meditating in the rain as it down poured outside.

"Aus shouldn't be like this" Alpha mumbled, Ink eating his food looked over to Alpha and then out the window and then back to Alpha.

"What?" Ink asked

"What did you say made these special again?" Alpha asked

"Uhh the creators make these worlds, they fill them with creativity and love" Ink said

"Love? Hmm...does your creator love you?" Alpha asked which Ink looked to him with a baffled expression.

"Of course they do!" Ink said

"Do they? Or do they like what you provide them? God never loved man, but only the wine we made the prayers we prayed and women that littered this world. He cast his son, Jesus down upon us and with that he cleansed sin, but what he brought was worse than sin. Jesus brought expectations and false promises, promises of a place where our father would never judge us and yet hell exist anyway" Alpha said, hours later Ink was thinking about Alpha's words as he had no idea on how to feel about them.

"Just sounds like bull. Yea just a load of crap from some old head" Ink said as he tried drawing his creator in the mud.

"I know they love me. Why would they create me if they didn't love me, the best show of love is birth...right? Why can't I draw what they look like?" Ink asked himself as his hands shook only for Error to come and step in the attempted drawing by him. Ink looked up in anger and grabbed onto Error's shirt only to let go after seeing Error's cold expression.

"Hehe what you doing here glitchy?...y-you trying to spend time with me or something?" Ink jokingly said

"Nope, just thought I'd see how your holding up, seems like your not used to life here in Aus hu?" Error said as Ink walked past him

"...Just don't normally....I'm not normally down this low ya know...its been a while" Ink said as sweat went down his face as the rain added to it the pitch blackness of the night only illuminated by the lights from the barn. As the rain got worse Infected deep in the mountains far from the barn walked along as his head filled with water him having to occasionally empty it every once in a while, He then saw a small camp site where he saw a family altogether, for a moment he saw hallucinations of Jacob with his brothers Ares and Peter. Infected shook his head as he continued to stalk the family them hearing him and hiding in their tents thinking him to be a bear, Infected's eyes drifted around as his breathing got heavy his hands shaking as he scratching into the tree he was hiding behind.

"Murder, kill, devour, slaughter them all" whispered the wisp as they leaked out of his head, Infected then began to bite and eat away at his fingers as his eyes drifted further apart until blood was drawn from how far away they were. As he did he then saw the faces of the residents of old AlphaTale in the  trees behind him.

"YOU THINK YOU SCARE ME!?! IM THE MONSTER NOW!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHeheheh...heheh..hehe...I'm the monster now" Infecte cried as he then looked to see the little boy from the camping family leave his tent, he over hears the boy saying he needed to pee. Infected stalked the little boy until he knew he was far away and rushed towards the campsite.

5 minutes later

"Man, I hate beans" said the little boy as he turned to his family's camp, he then looked around and immediately knew something was wrong, he looked in every tent for signs of his family until...

He looked inside his parent's tent as he saw with horror Infected covered in blood eating away at the young boy's baby sister while next to him he saw his mother had her face peeled off and her body defiled all while his father's head was stuffed in a pillow case with his body nowhere to be seen.

"Welcome back, you might wanna pee again after this" Infected said mimicking the boy's father's voice.

Infected strung the child up on a tree as he continued to dine on his parents. Infected's face fell apart and his body began to go limp.

"I can't feel my mind anymore...what's happening to me" Infected said as he then looked into the flames of the campfire as they began to change and move until the flames turned black and darkness surrounded him. He would soon open his eyes and find himself at the unholy chapel, the Wicked Throne, Infected got up and looked around as he saw Ten'no'Kami slithering around looking at the architecture.

"What took you so long?" Ten'no'Kami asked

" Hey cut me some slack baby, it takes a lot to show some appreciation towards your favorite God above all right?" Infected giggled as Ten looked at them for a moment. Infected continued to watch them move around, the kingdom was huge and the scale looked to be made for giants above giants, he was merely a piece of dust compared to the massive scale of this place. Soon though even he would find himself enveloped by the architecture too as he would begin to look around and check out statues one being of 2 large women and a small girl.

" Olalal, Now just who are these babies? I'd sure like to get a taste of those hehehe" Infected said as he scratched at his face.

"How has things been?" Ten asked

"...He does not exist...I've been looking for decades, every nook and cranny and hell even in fannys! WILLIAM IS DEAD! I CANT FIND HIM!!" Infected screamed out exhausted

"Please...I'm ready for this nightmare to be over....I can't stomach this any longer...grant me death oh Ten'no'Kami!" Infected pleaded only for Ten to stop and look at them.

" When Muffet dragged your worthless corpse from the snow and gave me your life I promised you vengeance and you got it, in exchange your services are mine and all I ask is for you to continue to entertain me and make things interesting" Ten said as they're tentacles wrapped around Infected lifting him up.

"You've gotten worse, its as if your own madness defies my control, no matter, with the brain if Menses now near by I can finally taken back some old secrets of this place" Ten said as they looked towards a hallway

"I'll find it all soon enough" Ten said as they looked to a depressed Infected

"You've lost it all, so much pain, so much heartache, but I can remind you, give you the purpose again you strive so long for. Unfortunately how you are now is no good to me" Ten said as they placed a small tentacle on Infected's head and erased 30 years worth of memories.

"There that should have you back up to your old self" Ten said as they then saw Infected licking they're tentacles, Ten dropped them onto the hard dark marble floor.

"OoooOoooOOOOOOooooOOOOweeee! Is it good to he my old self again, thanks for the wash up toots. So what can I do for ya? Crush some skulls? Rape some orphans? Or maybe both? You name it and I'll do it of course if William was to ever show his ugly mug I'll have to cancel yaknow AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!!!" Infected laughed as he scratched at the floor.

"Something is happening right now that I think you'll be interested in, two worlds ours and another are converging as we speak irs subtle,but soon everything-" but before Ten could finish loud clapping began to ring through the entire Wicked Throne,  Ten and Infected looked back only to see a mysterious figure in a suit clapping.

"Soon everything, Will be Chaos" the figure giggled as he stopped laughing and started moving towards them his head covered in shadow

"Who the hell are you? And how did you get here!?" Ten shouted as Infected kept quiet.

"The front door of course" said the figure as he made his way to them

"INFECTED! KILL THIS CLOWN! NOW!" Ten shouted, but as they did Infected stayed motionless as he just stared at the figure

"What in the nine hells are you doing!? I said KILL HIM! NOW!" Ten shouted, but Infected didn't move.

"What the hell is wrong with you!?!?" Shouted Ten

"He won't do it, he knows, knows that if he so much as inches towards me he'd be doomed. Don't you bonehead?" Said the figure

"...just what are you?" Infected asked as the figure walked out the shadows revealing his head to be that of a pumpkin

"THE NAMES GENTLEMAN JACK!" shouted the figure

## Chapter 4, For the Future

in the Au known as FutureTale where Alpha and Ink stand ontop of a far away rooftop looking for danger

"You mean like destroy it? No, no way" Ink said as he walked to the other side of the roof.

"So you'd let this world suffer? And for what? Just to keep that silly little oath of yours, these freaks you told me about could be anywhere doing anything. To let the scum of the world remain just so they can do as they please because everyone is afraid to press the right button?" Alpha said as he looked down at the people, everyone was happy and walking around in perfect shape and in the perfect illusion.

Ink looked to Alpha with concern as Alpha looked at his hands and got flashes to the past for a brief moment. Ink then readjusted himself next to Alpha and looked down at everything.

"You mentioned your home before, was it like this?" Ink asked, Alpha just stared at everything giving no response.

"Right, of course sorry" Ink said as he looked away again, he was excited to be with Alpha to be with someone who for all he knew had seen the Multiverse from its starting moments the first true Alternate Sans, but something felt off about him. He didn't feel like a hero, but more like someone trying to do what they think is right and to Ink...is that so wrong?

Ink looked back to Alpha as Alpha continued to stare at everything down below.

"Hey, well, I know you and I don't get along too well now, but I have a good feeling that we'll make a great team" Ink said with glee

"Your really corny" Alpha smirked

"Finnally I get you to smile heheh" Ink chuckled as him and Alpha both began to laugh.

Suddenly however the two looked out as a large explosion went off and one of the buildings in the distance fell down and collapsed on another.

"What the hell?!" Ink shouted as he looked out and got his brush ready

"Hold on! We don't have any idea of what's happening here! We need to remain vigilant and on our toes here. What timeline of this au are we in?" Alpha asked as he looked at the people below running away except for Future!Frisk who sprung to action and was running towards the chaos.

"Uhh, I Believe this is the neutral timeline here why?" Ink asked nervously

"Something definitely isn't right then" Alpha said as he looked out to the chaos and then saw what looked to be a giant spider like thing running through the streets.

"The hell" Alpha thought to himself

He was unsure if he should help or let this world perish, he was sure that this was a sign of his previous hunch, but he then shook it off and worked up his courage.

"You go and get the people put of here and I'll focus on whats going on in the center of the plaza down there" Ink said smirking at Alpha who looked at him too.

"Fine, don't die playing hero" Alpha said as he flew down towards the screaming people and. Ink jumped forward towards the main plaza landing on a building not too far from the destruction where he saw a sight of horror, Ink stared in horror as he saw mangled and distorted corpses all over the place. His eyes were then averted towards the large spider like creature from before going around scanning and searching for something.

"The hell is going on" Ink said in his head as he looked around some more.

Ink jumped down and ran over towards the flames, as he did Ink had to nearly cover his eyes, the corpses of men, women and children littered the place and the fires raged all over the place, but then he made eye contact with it. The giant spider like thing from before, he watched the spider walked over and telported all over the place.

"Hey!" Ink shouted before immediately regretting it and hiding instead, The large spider turned around for a second looked in another direction before crawling away someplace else. Ink went to follow it, but suddenly something grabbed his arm and as he turned around he was met with Alpha who put a finger over his mouth signaling silence. The two then ran inside the building behind them, they both ran to the second floor of the building before stopping.

"Looks like I got you just at the right time, thatt thing for sure would have nailed you" said Alpha as he wiped his head of sweat with Ink looking at Alpha a little skeptical.

"How'd it go with them? Did they make it out?" Ink asked with Alpha looking at him and looking away again as he began to snicker and giggle uncontrollably.

" heheheheh I-.....hehehHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I LOVE THAT!!!" Alpha continued to laugh only for Ink to use his brush and try to smash his skull with Alpha rolling out of the way.

"WHO ARE YOU!?" Ink shouted, thats when Alpha stood up tall and continued to giggle and laugh as he then removed his face and clothes to reveal...

" heheheheh SURPRISED ARE YOU!?" Infected laughed hysterically as he threw his Alpha costume to the ground. Ink backed up shocked and in disbelief.

"Just what are you doing here!?" Ink said with a stern tone keeping distance

"Here to see you of course" Infected said with a large smile

"What the hell are you talking about?!" Ink said as he back away

"You see while I laid in that barn I had a dream about you, a dream where you turned into a giant brown shit and doomed us all here and then you rode out towards a land of peaches and honey" Infected smiled as Ink just looked at him in confusion until then using his purple paint threw it at Infected wrapping him in chains.

"Oooo cozy" Infected chuckled

"I don't know what any of that means, but were you the one to cause this fire!? Did you murder these people?!" Ink shouted

"Why do you care, you only love this world so longer as the creators that love you keep they're eyes focused on you and all that you "protect" Infected smiled with Ink smashing his brush against his head. Infected looked up and saw the Void Empress for just a moment before Ink punched him in the face.

"DONT YOU EVER QUESTION MY LOYALTY TO THEM!! I wouldn't expect some dog like you to understand!" Ink growled as he got ready to hit him again before a blast came from behind him and sent him flying into the wall behind Infected knocking him out. Infected looked up only to see D+ and a few other people he didn't recognize.

"Here to give little old me a hand?" Infected smiled

"Hmp, no, I came here hunting down DustTrust, heard he came here to hide once he figured out I had him next on my list" D+ said witha cold tone as he looked behind Infected to see the unconscious Ink. Infected's smile wavered a bit before he continued to smile again, D+ turned to the others behind and with a nod they all left.

"So what are you doing here?" D+ asked

Infected looked at him slightly confused before recognizing the figure completely.

"AH! D+ if it isn't my favorite slaughter to the slaughter kind of fellow. What do I owe the occasion for?" Infected asked

"...Looks like your all tied up here, would be a shame if someone were to try to end your sorry existence now wouldn't it" D+ said as his eyes began to glow brighter. Infected chuckled as he already knew what was going to happen, D+ smirked too.

"You looking for a early grave aren't you?" Infected asked with a smile

"After my fight with that blue God I think I'm more then a match for you" D+ said as he summoned a blaster and fired it at Infected who jumped out of a window behind him. Infected fell right through one of the holes in the floating city and began to plumet towards the ground hitting terminal velocity in just a couple minutes of his decent, Infected tried wiggling free of the chains, but It was no good.

He then looked over to see D+ burst from under the city riding a large Blaster, D+ looked around the sky for Infected before finally seeing him diving down towards the ground. He began fire large blast at Infected trying to vaporize him, but Infected even while chained up was dodging them as he dove and spun his body in ways thay allowed for him to mostly not get hit, but one blast him and vaporized his entire lower body sending the embers and chared remains into the air.

"NOWHERE TO RUN NOW MONSTER! ITS OVER!!" D+ shouted as he blasted at Infected.

"Sorry not today pal!" Infected said as he dove straight for the ground and crashed into the planet going down 30ft, D+ stopped his assault as he watched the massive dust cloud emerge.

"So annoying" D+ said as he then flew off. Infected decided to just chill out 30ft under as he thought about what he had learned.

"Blue god hu?" Infected said

D+ looked up as he saw the city blowing into more pieces than before.

"What!?" D+ said when suddenly his phone rang and he picked it up to hear one his partners shouting.

"HEY YOU GOT TO GET OUT OF HERE!!! THIS PLACE IS-" but before they could finish static was all that came up. D+ looked up pissed and flew up towards the doomed flying city, once he got back he saw absolute chaos spurning everywhere and people tearing apart other people and children eating other children.

"What the fuck?!" D+ said to himself as he then saw the origin of the madness as he saw a Familiar figure with a black hood zip up his face and then turn towards him revealing his face to be a long zipped up face.

"Hysteria" D+ said

" Jolly good son of determination, Welcome along fearsome fellow companion of mine? Does thoust needeth death? Or come to feast upon the carnage of thus world?" Hysteria said in a riddleisck way to which of course D+ has no idea of what he said until he heard other footsteps coming near him, he turned backwards to see Syno and Vape standing over a large wreckage of people and debri.

"Howdy stranger" said Syno in a sexual manner while D+ gaged, he then looked to Vape as he breathed his blue smoke. D+ knew he was in over his head so he began looking for ways to escape the situation.

"Your not who I expected" Vape said as he looked down to D+ who also stared at him.

"So I'm gonna guess your not here for the future tech " D+ said

"No, I'm here for him" Vape said as he pointed upwards only for everyone to look up and see nothing. D+ and Syno looked to him in confusion until finally 404 teleported exactly where Vape had pointed landing on a building not too far away.

D+ knew for certain he was over his head.

Alpha appeared in front of everyone, however nobody saw him. Vape and the rest looked up to 404 who was also looking down towards them.

"Just the beautiful blue God I wanted to see" Vape said as he continued to smoke more blue smoke.

"I'm not in the mood for games, just what is it your doing to this Au?" 404 asked before he saw the large spider watching from inside a broken building. 404 looked confused before he jumped down and began walking to Vape.

"I did this for you, i needed to speak with you" Vape said

"I'm all ears" 404 said as Alpha continued to listen in everyone unaware of his presence.

" You see, I'm a huge fan of your work and puppets hehehe, but I do believe the creators are seeking to one you up, so I believe a good way to solve this is to go after said adversaries and wipe them out" Vape said as he continued to smoke, 404 looked at him and then to the destroyed city around him.

"...No thanks, I don't make deals with comedy central clowns like you" 404 said as he got to walking away from everyone.

"What if I told you I had something you want?" Vape said

"You dont have anything I want nor will you ever" 404 said as he got ready to fly away

"Not even this" Vape revealed all of AlphaTale's code in his hands as smoke covered him and it, 404 turned around and looked in shock.

"Where did you get all of that" 404 asked still trying to keep some composure

"Thats not relevant, what is are the names of who i need gone, Subject 0, Patient Friday and Mr.Black. these names are what I need in order for you to get this back, fail me and this code is history, but until then" Vape said as he then three a quarter of AlphaTale's code to him, 404 looked at it and then to Vape.

" I don't work for people, only with, consider this a partnership of equal interest" 404 said

"Oh you can bet I'm interested" Vape said as he began to disappear into smoke

" I'll keep in touch" Vape said as he vanished leaving everyone in shock and dumbfounded, 404 looked at the code and then walked away before teleporting. Alpha looked at the ground completely in a state of disbelief as he could never understand why some random guy wearing blue would ever care about Alphatale so he had to know the truth.

Alpha went searching for 404, he needed answers as to who he was and why he desired AlphaTale and its code, not to mention he had believed that there was no more code of AlphaTale left.

"What the hell is going on?! Code of AlphaTale, deals being made left and right...I need to get some footing" Alpha thought to himself in the Anti-Void as he sat down and gathered his thoughts. Ink dropped by to comfort him as he sat next to Alpha.

"Theres so much going on behind the curtains, I never would have thought that all this was going...what should we do?" Ink asked

"...we need to stabilize our own strength and meet these half way, if we allow for them to harness the power or code of AlphaTale this could get dangerous whoever that guy is...he must be stopped and I won't rest till he is" Alpha said as he got up.

" I need to protect AlphaTale" Alpha said

"I wanna help to" Ink said

"This isn't some small little collab between your creator buddies. This is really dangerous and I won't have lives risked" Alpha said

"I risk my life everyday fighting Error, whats the difference?!" Ink said annoyed

" I sense something far darker in this guy, not like that Black friend of yours. He can't be reasoned with, action is the only solution to this...he won't spare your life even if you beg" Alpha said as he then dissappear from sight leaving Ink by himself, Ink stomped his foot frustrated and annoyed as he sat down furious.

"This is bullshit, I fight all the time and this is how he treats me, some mentor" Ink thought to himself as he then got distracted by 404 walking right past him, he didn't pay any mind to it until he realized who had just walked right past him.

"HEY! YOU STOP!" Ink shouted as he ran over to 404 and pulled on his jacket only for it to come off, Ink's eyes widened in horror as what he saw was nearly incomprehensible, a large 10 story large completely black entity was crouched in place of who he throught was 404 a moment.

"......w-w-w-w-w-w" Ink couldn't make out any words as what looked to be the head of the figure turned around and looked at him. Its eyes were similar to 404's and it's teeth too, But everything else was pitch black so black it looked like Ink could walk right through the thing.

" Xvertabra Mopharbia lamara" said the entity as it stood up to its fulll height

"...J-Just what the hell are you!?" Ink said as he shook in fear, Ink then noticed how he was feeling, he was feeling something around this thing. His fear disappeared in place of Curiosity. Ink looked at the Entity as it just smiled back its lanky body standing perfectly straight without any dips at all, it's long arms nearly touching the ground.

"Just what are you?" Ink asked in curiosity to which the Entity then put its open "palm" in front of Ink and showed him the entirety of the Metaverse and 11th Dimension wot which flashes of events to happen and could possible happen flashed for nothing then a zeptosecond to which drove ink mad nearly instantaneously. Ink toppled over and began to twitch and hurl as his brain tried not to comprehend any of the information that was just shown to him. The large entity then kept walking eventually dissapering in the blinding light of the Anti-void.

Eventually Alpha would come back hours later and see Ink lying on the ground completely paralyzed.

"Kids i swear" Alpha said annoyed