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30 - Test

Error.

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"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Dad questioned.

"Absolutely!" Blue nodded happily. "This will be excellent training for the future!"

"What if something goes wrong?"

"I'll handle it! Besides, everyone who knows about resets has agreed to play along!"

"What about those who don't?"

"They'll be evacuated!"

Dad sighed. "Are you sure he won't be hurt?"

"Absolutely!"

"I'll be watching."

"I know!" Blue looked at me. "All right, Error! Are you ready for your simulation?"

"Yep!" I grinned and jumped a little.

"Very well! Let's get going!"

"Okay!"

Blue opened a portal to Underswap, his home, and we went through it. It was three months before Crossy was going to help Dad, Kills, Horror, and Dusty, and it was nine months before I was going to be the Destroyer. I had gotten my strings three months ago, on my birthday; it hurt really bad when they were coming in, but I was doing okay now! They didn't hurt anymore, and I  could use them really well! I had also realized why the multiverse gave me a sewing kit for my birthday; my strings were very strong, and I could make awesome presents for my family! I was trying to make a scarf for Crossy's birthday, and I knew he would like it! It was hard to keep it a secret from him, but I was managing! Dad had helped a lot with the sewing, since I wasn't very good at it; he had experience sewing things, but I didn't know why, since it was something about his past. Dad didn't like to talk about his past very much, but he would if we asked him. Today, Blue was going to give me a training course for when I started destroying, and we were going to pretend I was destroying Underswap; it was going to be super fun! When we entered the portal, we were in a weird purple place; Blue called it the Ruins.

"Are you ready, Error?" Blue looked to me.

"Yep!" I nodded. "What do I do?"

"First off, you're going to want to kill everyone. Now, you won't actually be killing anyone here, since this is just a test, but in nine months, you will be killing people. Here, just shoot your strings softly at people, and anyone participating will fake death, okay?"

"Okay..why do I have to kill everyone, though?" I didn't want to kill anyone.

"Well, if an AU is destroyed and people are still inside it, the people will fall into the void, which would give them a very bad and painful death, but if you kill them, you can make it as painless as you want. They won't like it at the time, and they may be very angry with you, but you have to remember that it's for their own good; if you don't kill them, they may be in agony for the rest of their lives. Do you understand?"

"So..if I don't kill them, they die a worse death?" I frowned.

"Unfortunately, yes."

"Okay.."

"But you don't have to kill anyone here, since this is only training! Are you ready to pretend to destroy?"

"Yep!" 

"Okay, we're going to first get rid of the soulless being who meets the fallen child; in most AUs, it's a talking flower, but in swaps, it's likely to be a Temmie. Do you know what a Temmie is?"