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Lost in the Void (an Error!Sans story)

Summary:

A story where Error is banished to the AntiVoid by Ink and Dream in an effort to stop him destroying. He can’t escape, he can’t view the outside world, and he has no idea that everything is going to shit around him as he gets weaker and weaker. So he does the only thing he can, and sleeps.

He sleeps for a long time.

While he’s asleep, AUs touch, and begin to crumble. Nobody knows what is happening, even Ink, and the multiverse is swallowed by the Void.

Everyone breaks. Everyone shatters into fragments of themselves, turning into monochrome echoes of their lives, even the gods. Except for one, who might be able to save them.

But why should he?

Chapter 1: It Was At This Moment That He Knew. He Fucked Up.

Summary:

I just want to say thank you to OceanBrease for looking at my rhyme and coming up with a better one! It’s so good, so credits to you for that!

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

The MultiVerse was in chaos.

Ink stood in the Doodlesphere, trying to figure it out, trying to understand what was happening, but he couldn’t remember anything like this happening, not ever.

Sheets of paper from the corners of his sight collided, with immense force. He could hear the screams coming from the AU residents as they were forcibly crushed against one another. Every single time AU touched AU, they shot apart, finding contact with another one.

He couldn’t stop it. He’d never heard of this, never in thousands of years, not once in his long lifespan. This was worse than the time he’d convinced the Star Sanses to watch Nightmare on Elm Street together, because it was real.

Dream ran up beside him. “Ink, what’s happening? Have you seen Blue?!”

Ink shook his head, still dazed and horrified, as he clutched Broomie tighter than ever in his hands. He didn’t even need to drink his vials now. He knew what he should be feeling.

Confusion, for one thing. How? How had this happened? Error couldn’t destroy more than one AU at a time, let alone cause the effect he saw now. The Bad Sanses also could never do something of this scale, even if Fresh helped them, which was a possibility now. The parasite had grown dangerously unpredictable since… well…

His attention snapped to ReaperTale, as a black cloaked figure stumbled out of it. “Ink, what’s happening? What did you do?”

“I didn’t do anything!” Ink snapped, scared. Yes, scared. He should be scared in this situation, he thought to himself. But it felt strangely real for a god without a SOUL. “I was just drafting up another AU and suddenly things went boom!”

“Ink, I swear to Life herself if you do actually know what’s going on-” Reaper’s eyes went wide as the entire Doodlesphere shook, shoving all the AUs together once more. Dream went sprawling, and Ink had to use Broomie as a crutch to keep himself stable.

“Reaper, please,” begged Dream. “We have bigger problems.”

More shapes erupted from five different AUs, as a Sans burst out of each. Ink took in each one of their panicked faces as they felt the Doodlesphere shake beneath their feet.

“Ink, what in the ever loving fuck is happening?!” growled Red from Underfell, balancing on the quaking floor as best he could. “One minute Boss is telling me to go get him some chocolate, next the whole place is shaking like crazy! And it’s not any better here, is it?!”

Dance balanced easily on the floor, but the look on his face told Ink that he had other problems. “We had the ceiling collapse on us. I think Undyne broke a leg.”

Lust nodded, sharing Dance’s concerned look. “Same with us. I don’t think our AUs have very good builders.”

Sci from Sciencetale was shaking all over, poor guy. He was a younger version of Classic, but easily one of the smartest monsters in the Multiverse. “Are we going to be ok?”

All eyes fell to Ink and Dream. Dream was pulling himself up, wincing. There was so much fear and panic, he could barely think.

Ink paused as he glanced at the last Sans, Classic, who met his eyes. Classic looked as calm as it was possible to be, but something about his stance told Ink that he was worried. He was keeping it together so that everyone else could.

Ink couldn’t lie to him.

“I don’t know.”

That wasn’t the thing they wanted to hear, but as Ink looked around at his life’s work, he didn’t know what else to say.

That was when the last straw happened.

Outer came bursting from his AU, panting and shaking. Eyes swung from Ink to him as he fell, Classic short cutting to steady him. Even surrounded by friends, Outer looked horrified, on the verge of a panic attack.

“Hey, hey, Outer, buddy. What’s wrong? What’s the hurry?” Classic held up his hands, trying to calm him.

Outertale Sans looked up slowly, eyelights blinked out.

“The Void.”

“It’s coming to us.”

 

 

The multiverse was doomed, and everyone in it was condemned to a FATE worse than death.

 

The tragic thing was that below them lay the thing that could have been their salvation. Someone they had abused, fought, mistrusted, taken for granted, and locked away, so even if they knew to look for him, to see that he had been telling the truth for hundreds of years, they wouldn’t have been able to reach the one who could have been their hero.

 

And looking down on them, a deity with hair that flamed like the magic of a determined SOUL, smiled and chanted, playing with her fingers and red strings that danced between them.

 

Every good rhyme starts with Once Upon A Time.
Long ago, far away,
Centuries before our day!

The chosen lived,
The taken roamed,
Both shared all the worlds as home.

Yet this peace,
came undone,
War was waged and the chosen won.

Cast below, The taken fell
The chosen trapped him with a spell.

Listen, chosen, to my words:
The void will eat you,
Beware the curse!

Destroyer strings go snap, snap, snap
Now it's all gone and
You can't come back!

Skeleton
Skeleton
Balance unkempt

Skeleton
Skeleton
Do you hear it yet?

Skeleton
Skeleton
Aus crashing down

Errors worries were not unfound.

Oops dropped your heart
Be careful in the dark
Fate might take it, break it apart

Trouble on the left
Trouble on the right
Save them or leave them to the night?

Oops dropped your heart
Be careful in the dark
Fate might take it, break it apart
Trouble on the left
Trouble on the right

Will you save them
Run or Fight?

Behind a barrier of SOULs, the Destroyer slept. And no one could reach him. 

Notes:

I just want to say, in this story it is partly Ink’s fault that the Multiverse is now screwed, but I’m not going to demonise him. Error has also tried to explain about the Balance before, but due to Ink’s horrid memory (plus a bit of Fate being a determined piece of shit), Ink never retained the information and Fate convinced him and Dream that Error was insane.

I get that canonically, Ink’s kind of a piece of crap, and sometimes not! He’s a confusing character, but I’m basically going to treat him like I would a toddler.

If you don’t like it, I’m not going to make you. But please remain respectful of other people’s opinions.