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A false hope

Dream finished sawing the chain feverishly with both his machetes when Ink had started the last attack.
Mischief just watched before the mask switched to Masky, him just watching the world around him, not saying a word, not even a sound.
Dream looked at the fight quickly, noticing Ink slump to the ground before he snapped his machetes together to form his bow, aiming for Dust's head through the iron bars and firing the aqua arrow quickly.
The arrow was designed to explode into yellow positivity made into smoke when it hit anything, it worked like an explosion or smoke bomb if so needed.
Dream silently prayed that it landed.

Dust blew out an exasperated breath as he looked at Dream, "Oh sh-" He spoke to himself as he saw the arrow barreling towards him before he tried jumping out of the way.
The arrow was shot too low and hit his leg, he winced and collapsed, the exhaustion and pain getting to him as the arrow exploded into stars and yellow smoke. "Motherfu-" Dust tried to speak but ended up in a coughing fit from inhaling the yellow smoke, pain spreading through his ribcage like a plague.
Dust stared at the roof as he wheezed a little, knowing he screwed up, he was defeated by the king's little brother and a small painting rat.

Dream grabbed Masky's forearm and teleported out of the cell quickly. "Grab ink! Let's go!" Dream yelled out to Masky urgently, running up the cellar stairs.
Masky nodded quickly like a soldier given orders on a battlefront and put Ink on his back, although slow because of the metal around his wrists, running up the stairs after his positive warrior of a companion, careful not to trip.
Masky and Dream ran out the back door they had come in and ran into the forest left of the door, hiding the bushes in a fit of exhaustion and pain.
Dream huffed for more air like he was deprived of it for years. "You-... You got Ink? Are you alright?" Dream asked Masky through breathes, looking at the masked skeleton in front of him.
Ink lied asleep on Masky's back, his chin resting on the masked fellows shoulder.
Dream reached out to touch Ink's face in case he was hurt.
"He's out cold.. Let's find Error and get out of here." Masky spoke calmly, but tired, his head whipping around to see Cross run out the back door, holding his knives carefully as his stern gaze scanned the treeline.
"I know you're hiding out here!" Cross yelled into the trees, his tone stoic like that of the knight he was.
"And I suggest we go right about now." Masky said quickly as Dream nodded and they started moving quietly but as quickly as they could through the thicket of bushes that covered the ground below the dark aqua leaves of the trees.

Dream and Masky appeared from the side of the castle, moving slowly as they poked their heads out of the bushes at the glitch in the bushes.
"Psst! Error-! Come here!" Dream whisper yelled from behind one of the white fences of the garden, he really really hated how exposed they were, where was his brother?
Error looked to his right and saw the two crouching in the bushes, he didn't see Ink for he was being shielded by the bushes around the fences.
The glitchy skeleton crouch walked over to them and hissed quietly, "What happened? and is that-" He was cut off by a thud coming from inside the castle, causing him to snap his head in that direction.

Dream's eye sockets widened as he took off his crown, he was fixated on the castle, intrigue peaking his every thought as he watched it, preparing the portal in the same manner he did to get into this dimension in the first place.
Masky looked at the castle and placed Ink down next to Error in case all comes to battle. "You able to watch him for now?" Masky asked Error calmly, hoping he could in case Masky had to fight to survive.
Error nodded to the masked man and moved towards the small skeleton leaned against the fence, checking for any bone fractures, and finding a couple ribs that had been damaged in the fight.
The glitch looked at Dream and shook his head. "They're probably going to come out here to fight. if that happens, I will need to take Ink and leave. The idiot got beat up in battle and can't take another hit." Error narrowed his eyes at Ink like he was annoyed, but something shown behind those lying eye lights, a care and concern that Dream could feel from a mile away.
Dream paused at the feeling he felt from the other, a small twang of something ate through his soul before dissipating in a deep breath from the guardian of positivity.

Dream nodded to Error with a polite smile. "He gave his all against Dust, so he's worn out, and that wack on his head certainly didn't help." Dream said simply, placing his crown on his wrist and starting to spin it around once again, looking down at Ink as he did so.
Ink was very peaceful when asleep, it was hard to believe that this small skeleton fought others to protect creation itself.
Dream found a soft blush on his face as he snapped back into reality, looking to the portal he was making, it would take a while to open since it needed to be a large portal for all of them to enter.
Masky watched the door of the castle, not seeing anything.

Error looked at Dream, and watched as the blush fell across the guardian's cheekbones. He shook his head slightly and looked back at Ink.
'Please be okay. I need to yell at you for fighting Dust so recklessly.'
He thought desperately, a look of pain in each crevice of his facial features.
The glitch looked to Dream, intending to complain for it taking so long to open the damn portal, but just then, Dream opened the portal completely, it seemed to lead to an alternate universe in the overworld.
"let's go!" Dream said quickly, standing to the side to let them all through. Dream didn't know what it was, but he felt like something was wrong.
This was too easy.
Masky entered, forgetting about Ink and leaving him for Error to bring into the portal.
Error picked up Ink gently in a bridal position and nodded at Dream before walking into the portal, He looked to Dream from within the portal. "Now you."

As Error spoke, Dream shot around as his eye sockets widened immensely, a tentacle shot from behind Dream, grabbing him around the torso like a child grabbing a baby doll roughly.
"Oh, well well.. A little songbird! In the land of darkness... I have to wonder why you of all monsters would be here." A tentacle squeezed the life out of Dream's ribcage as 3 more tentacles raised up the goopy skeleton behind the guardian, forcing Dream to look him in the eyes as he spoke. The king's gaze was sharp as a serpent's.
Masky hissed from behind the portal, stepping forward determinedly before speaking. "You let him go." Masky spit the words out like venom as he summoned a bone attack, a sharpened bone with black and white strings hanging off the edges it wrapped around.
"You amuse me, Harlequin." Nightmare scoffed as he placed his hands behind his back. "Like you can do anything, I'll be taking my brother back now, bye bye~" Nightmare sounded passive aggressive to hell as he waved like a cartoon character.
As the portal turned back into a regular crown, one of Masky's bone attacks shot through at Nightmare's eye socket, exiting the portal just in time.
It aimed directly for the king's skull.
"Now-" Nightmare looked from the golden crown that glinted on the ground to Dream as he caught the bone, snapping it in two with one tentacle, a sickening crack ringing out through the trees as he looked to Dream with hatred lining his cyan glare.
"I have a few questions for you."