Same Person, But So Different (Undertale AU)

Wrong Word Choice (Chp. 8)

DS Nightmare pov:

HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN? I HAVE NO CLUE.

There is absolutely no time here, so I can't tell when the heck to sleep or whatever. Shockingly, I'm not hungry. Yet.

I'll have to ask someone how the heck this works.

All of a sudden, there's this black puddle on the floor. Looking at it makes my eyes hurt. I'm not used to that colour.

BUT I LOOK AT IT ANYWAYS.

I stare at the puddle intensely.

I poke the puddle, but my finger just keeps going through.

This puddle is weird.

"Can y- -ve?" I hear from the other side of the puddle.

"What?" I say to the magic puddle.

Maybe it's liquid Hate?

"Can you move?" I hear more clearly.

Oh. It's asking me to move.

I remove my finger from the puddle and step back.

Suddenly, the other Ink pops up out of it.

OHHHHHHHHHHHHH. IT'S MADE OF INK!

That makes sense.

After Ink came up, the puddle vanished.

I need answers.

I'm hungry for answers.

"Three things: How did you do that, where's our friend, and how the heck did you do that?" I said to him, sorta rudely? Nah, I sounded fiiiiiiiiine. Maybe.

"Geez, he should be here sooner or later, if not, then I'll just go out agai-" He cut off when a portal opened from what looked like Outertale.

"Why didn't I look in Outertale? I have no clue." The other Ink said to himself.

The other Error walked through the portal, but our friend wasn't in sight.

The portal closed and right beside the other Error, a massive thing of glitches showed up, faded and left our Error.

Oh, I just noticed that our Ink was back as well...

I was hoping he could've stayed in whatever Universe he was in before...

Guess not.

DS Dream pov:

As of right now, I'm highly confused.

Both Ink's had disappeared for a short time, but both Error's had been gone for even longer.

But now they're all back.

I overheard from the other obnoxious, loud Ink, that maybe all of our codes are tied to our corresponding person.

Mine being to the other Dream who only has a fraction of my positivity.

Actually, on the topic of positive and negative auras, I'm shocked that the goop mess of a person is far more negative than Nightmare. Then again, Nightmare never ate any Negative Apples, so there's that fact...

But the goop mess is actually fairly good at fighting. I doubt he'd be able to best me in a fight though, if it had gone on long enough.

Although, if anyone ever attacked him with any physical attack, it'd do nothing because he would just absorb the attack. Even if someone managed to tear him apart, he's literally just goo so he would just bring his pieces back together.

Strange...

I need to know more.

I walked up to him and asked:

"I'm assuming that you're one the Guardians here?"

This drew the attention of pretty much everyone to our conversation.

Tch. Rude.

"I mean, I was I Guardian." He responded with an eye roll.

"How do you mean?" I asked.

"I got sick of the people, turned the Positive Apples to Negative ones, ate them, then destroyed the Tree~" He replied darkly.

"Not all of them!" The alternate me piped in.

Doesn't anyone know how to mind their own business?

"I had a Positive Apple with me at the time and ate it because you were attacking me!" He added cheerily.

He is oddly happy.

Strangely happy.

There's only one fact about this disturbs me (besides the creepily cheery alternate me), and that is that technically the goop mess is stronger than me by an apple because I only ate 198 apples, and he ate 199.

"Ok... do you have the same combined fate as me and my Nightmare do?" I ask the two brothers.

When I asked that, I saw Nightmare stick his tongue at me. I roll my eyelights in response.

"I'm sorry? I'm not sure I know what that is?" The creepily happy Dream asks.

"It's basically where if one of you dies, so does the other." I respond blatantly.

"I am so hoping that you're kidding, because I seriously want him dead." The goop mess said, pointing at his brother.

The other Dream looked away sadly when he said this so cruelly.

When he said that Nightmare walked over to the goop mess and slapped right in the face. Hard.

That's probably gonna leave a mark.

"Screw you! You should never want your brother dead! Nonetheless, your twin. Even if you're not even brothers." Nightmare said to him, adding the last part quietly while shooting me a dirty look.

Maybe... that wasn't just meant for the alternate Nightmare...

Nightmare stormed back off to his friends.

The other Nightmare glared at my Nightmare, his tentacles waving dangerously behind him.

I sighed.

"I'm going to go talk to some other people. Maybe I can actually hold a conversation where people don't get slapped." I said as I walked away to my Ink.