Alphatale: Broken!Gradient

2 years later

Everything...has changed for Gradient. Not just in himself, but his whole life, and it was...complicated or him, as he does not know whether it had changed for him in a good way he a bad way. Needless to say, Gradient felt very conflicted at wha has happened to him from this point on. Because on one hand, he manage to learn some new skills, he felt far more powerful than ever before, and he even manage to master the Error heritage within himself. Hell, he even manage to finally have somewhat of a close relationship when his father, Error. But on the other hand, fate had to trade this relationship with Ink Sans, who has now become his enemy, and the most personal one yet. Needless to say, Gradient really hates the situation that he is inside of right now, but knows that there is nothing that he can do about this mess.

It has been 2 full years. 2 years since the day Ink Sans had been corrupted by his new soul. 2 years since he had been trained by Error404 Sans in growing more stronger than before, and 2 years...since he had been separated form his loved ones. Even though he has a bad memory, even a bad memory like the one that Gradient has will not allow him to forget what had happened to him in the past. And ever since he had been with Error404, his memory has improved much better than before, to the point where he can only temporarily forget what was inside of his mind, only to remember what it was that he had forgotten.

The training with Error404 Sans, it was much more harsh compared to the training that he has with Ink Sans, though Error404 was a bit more  patient compared to Ink Sans, his own father. Error404 kept on pushing him to his limit, and past it, and kept on trying to make him grow stronger. While he did learn to do strings, first from Error Sans, who had to get used to the presence of his eldest son, and taught him to control people, Error404 taught him more strings. He was taught to use the red strings, just like Error Sans, though the damage of the body is far more physical and not mental. But unlike Error, the other strings that he has were far different compare to Error Sans himself. Gradient learned to use yellow strings, which can act as a temporary pathogen to those he targets in wrapping their souls around, in order for him to control them for 2 hours. And the Grey strings, which can act as a sedating trap of sorts to those that are caught in it. And Gradient himself learned to make a new string of his own, which impressed Error404, since it is a string that he has never taught before, and a set of strings that he never thought that Gradient Sans could make. The strings for when he went to Glitchtale, and stole a piece of the Punk Soul of Fear, and used the magic of the Pink Soul to make Pink Strings. These strings work similar to the black strings that Error Sans has, except that unlike the black strings, when the pink strings wraps around a soul, they will hallucinate with the very thing that they fear the most, if that person has any fear at all, and Gradient can control the hallucination that they are seeing before their eyes, which can vary from person to person.

Due to Gradient having developed some powers that are similar to Error404, such as his pixel manipulation, Error404 taught Gradient to manipulate pixels to an extent greater than ever before. Gradient, when under the control of his Error personally, he can only use these pixels to destroy any different Alternate Universes that he can find himself in. But now, thanks to Error404, he can manipulate pixels to use it for construction, and when using it on himself, he can use it to heal himself. And with his new Pixel Manipulation skills, he can use the pixels to make a whip that is similar to the Glitch Whip that Error404, except that it is not as long as the Glitch Whip, and is in fact half of his length, and unlike the Glitch Whip, he uses the stylus as a handle for his own variation of the whip.

And just like his father, Error, he has been trained in making a weaker version of the God Ray that Error404 has, which is called the Defect Ray. It is very powerful to the point that any person or object that gets in the way it the Defect Ray, is instantly destroyed from the moment that they get struck with it, whether at point black range or at a distance, or can destabilize their powers to the point that it can work against the one using their powers. But that only applies to people that exist in their own universe that are extremely weaker compare to Gradient, to those that are not gods. To those that are slightly weaker, or to those that are as strong as Gradient, and are gods, they are simply damaged and slowly weakened for a temporary amount of time, always for about a minute. But despite how poweful it may seem, the firing power is actually just as poweful as the Glitch Ray, which his father, Error has.