Error’s POV:

“Anyways we should head out,” I suggested, wanting to be by my family’s side again.

I miss them but I’ve cried enough. I’ve cracked some jokes, glad Ink doesn't know that I say jokes when I’m hurting. I don’t like to say I'm hurting right out since I was taught by the voices to never let anyone know. So Nighty suggested this way. Nighty… No, we’ll find him soon. We’ll find our family soon.

“Right!” Ink chirped, snapping out of his thoughts.

I opened up a portal from the living room to a library that contains every single book to exist. I lead Inky through the darkly colored wooden place and up to the front desk where a purple-haired human typed away. She looked up to see me.

“Hi Misprint! Hi Roto!” She smiled kindly.

“Um, our names are Error and Ink,” I said. She blinked a few times before giggling.

“Ah sorry sorry! There are so many multiverses and I’m used to only seeing one or a group at one time. Once they leave, another comes. So how may I help?” She rambled.

“Can we access the multiversal plains?” I politely asked the female.

“Sure! What for if I may ask?” She hummed as she looked through a drawer.

“Our multiverse fell and we need to find the council and ‘bad’ sanses to restore it.” Ink explained.

“Kay! Use this orb to open a portal to the Multiversal Astral Plains! It’s not like other orbs that you have to drop. Just double-tap it and a portal will open in front of you! I’d start with Dreamswap personally.” She explained while handing us a spacey orb.

“Got it. Thank you!” I thanked her.

“Your welcome!” She chirped as we walked away.

“Lunar did you mix us up again?” I heard in the distance. When I looked back with Ink, I saw a cloned version of us talking to the girl.

“Yeah, Sorry Roto! You guys do often look similar.” The human giggled.

“How are you able to travel multiverses is beyond me.” My clone sighed.

“Let’s see if this works,” I said, turning to Ink. He turned his gaze back to me.

“Right.” Ink agreed.

I tapped on the orb twice. It opened up to an astral plane with a strip of ground that’s in-between the orbs. We walked through as the density changed from normal to light and airy. I gasped at everything around us, and so did Ink.

“Wow I heard of multiverses being shaped like orbs but I've never seen any!” I gasped as I looked around the space-themed area.

“It’s so pretty!” Ink said as he covered his mouth with his hand. It reminds me of OuterTale. Actually that’s where Nighty and I met. Nighty… Right we have to find them.

“Well, we should get started.” I hummed, snapping out of my thoughts while getting Ink out of his.

“Right. Do…we know which one DreamSwap is?” Ink asked. I blinked.

“No… Hm… Ah! I can just look for its code!” I chirped and pulled up a screen. I started to scroll through the codes of this place as Ink walked over and looked over my shoulder.

“What’s that color code?” Ink asked as I paused for a bit to read the codes.

“It’s our codes. Each monster or person has their own coding that’s colored in. Yours is the rainbow while mine is the Dark Blue one. Black codes are for places such as this. It makes up the entire place. Get rid of one piece and they place falls down.” I explained, gesturing to each piece of code as I explained it.

“Cool! Hey, what is the place that you gestured to?” Ink wondered. I re-read it and lit up.

“Dreamswap! First orb to the left!” I chirped as we headed there, leaving the screen to fade away.

We entered the multiverse to end up in a clearing at night. I look over to see a version of a passive Nightmare, Cross, and Blue.

“Ruru? Is that you? Do you know what’s going on?” Nightmare asked.‌ Wait… is that Nighty? Tears start to build up in the corner of my eye sockets.

“Nighty…?” I questioned. What if it’s not him? What if it’s just this AU’s versio-

“Yeah? What happened? Why can’t I turn back?” Nightmare pondered.

I couldn’t hold back. I ran up to him and hugged him tightly as tears streamed down my face. He stared in shock before he face relaxes. He hugs back and rubs circles onto my back. I sobbed apologies, not noticing Blue, Cross, and Ink talking about what happened. Nightmare tried to calm me down but it only reminded me that I failed them, causing my words to go faster.

Nightmare pulled me into a kiss, which I immediately kissed back, tears still streaming down my face. We pulled apart as he rested me on his chest.

“Ruru you have nothing to apologize for.” Nighty quietly hummed as he rubbed circles onto my back.

“B-but I didn’t keep the balance.” I quietly sobbed in his chest.

“Erry everyone else could have done something more,” Blue said as he walked over with Ink and Cross.

“You’re the only one who did everything in their power to keep it stable,” Cross added on as they stood around us.

“You guys should have to do anything though! It was my job to keep it stable. I failed.” I cried out.

“No, it’s our job. Now that Fate finally explained it to that I can hear, it won’t be imbalanced again. Error you didn’t fail.” Ink assured me.

Nighty picked me up as my sobs started to quiet down. I leaned into his chest right away, missing us snuggling on the love seat. Nighty, Cross, Blue, and Ink walked through the portal as I was carried. I closed my eye sockets as I felt the soft shirt turn slimy. I felt tentacles wrap around me as I adjusted myself to lean deeper into my lover’s chest.

I opened my eyesockets halfway to see that we are back in front of the castle just as we walked through the portal. I yawned as we headed inside. I looked at the clock on the grey walls to see that it’s 10 pm.‌ I yawned again as Nighty sat us on the loveseat with Cross and Blue sitting in the armchairs they claimed and Ink sitting on the couch.

“Tired?” Nightmare teased me as I yawned for the third time. I glared at him with heavy eye sockets.

“It’s currently 10 pm. What did you expect? You all got me to sleep daily.” I grumbled as I buried my face into my boyfriend's chest, closing my eye sockets.

“It’s 10 already? That was fast.” Blue commented in shock. I made a sound to confirm his question as everything started to relax.

“We should go to bed and search in the morning then. It’s obvious we’re tired.” Ink said as Cross and Blue both yawned.

“I’ll take you to a guest room Ink.” Cross hummed.

“I’ll take this one to our room. Night guys.” Nighty added on as I felt us get up and walk away. I felt Nighty walk upstairs as I fell completely asleep. I hummed once more time and adjusted myself to lay into Nighty’s chest completely.

Nightmare’s POV:

I woke up to the feeling of something hitting my cheek. I quietly hummed confused as I looked at the time. Who woke me up at 5 AM? I felt myself get slapped again, fully waking me up. I turned over to see Error thrashing around in the bed, sobbing out apologies.

I quickly sat up, pulled Ruru into my lap, and hugged him. He instantly stopped thrashing around but he still choked out sorries. I gently rocked him as I spoke kind words to the glitching skeleton in my arms. He slowly starts to stop crying. I wipe his tears as his dream turns fully positive.

I laid us down but he refused to let go of me. I hummed lovingly as I wrapped my arms and tentacles around him, slowly starting to fall back asleep.