The Cipher's secret (A Bill404 story) [TEMP HIATUS (again (sorry))]

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Bill POV:

I blearily opened my eyes, a high-pitched ringing sound in my 'ears'. I saw other people, some already up, some in a similar state to me and others on the ground, out cold. Where was I again? I looked around trying to identify the place. I didn't notice how everyone was staring at me.

It seemed like Nightmare's little realm, yes, there were the shadow Papyruses. What was I doing? Right right, of course! I was going to tell you guys about my past. Well, hang on, just gotta break the fourth wall again-

No.

That doesn't sound right.

What happened?

Did I fall asleep?

How?

Please, please don't hurt him...

Bill is very dangerous and I've never seen him so... that.

Oh.

somehow, something is controlling him!

Oh.

GET. OUT. OF. MY. HEAD!

Oh God.

He... he actually did, didn't he?

That's not good.

I became aware of my surroundings again, after zoning out. Everyone was up now, apart from a strange skeleton that looked like some kind of artist, lying a few meters in front of me. He had some smashed glass vial things on a satchel around his torso. They seemed to have had different coloured paints or inks in them, as his satchel was now multi-coloured.

I remembered their name now. Ink. Damn, during whatever happened I must have hit my skull real hard, my memory was seriously fragmented. Three people were walking up to me. One was... Nightmare, right. Another was 404, at least I remember him clearly. And then another, one that I didn't recognise. I jogged my memories for any mention of them but nothing. Then, I remembered something about Error, him saying that, um, the artist guy, Ink, had found the original AU.

So that's why he looked like-

"hey, uh, bud? you okay? not gonna try and blast me into the next universe again?" I jumped, who was talking? I looked for who made the sound frantically, my eyes narrowed to slits. "whoa, whoa, okay, uh, not in the best state, are ya?" I saw it was the original, the one that Ink had supposedly found. He was holding his hands up and smiling nervously. He was tense, ready to dodge at a moment's notice. I relaxed a little, and finally got up off of the floor.

I subconsciously ignored the OG (i'll just call him Sans for simplicity) and turned to 404. "The heck happened? I'm just about to... and then my memory just blacks out, apart from little flashes- did I do something bad? I-I think I hurt one of you- no, at least 4-" My ears were ringing again, I was panicking.

What had I done?

"Hey, calm down," He said. I stopped. 404 inhaled, "Let me run you through what happened. Classic, back me up." He said, turning to who I had assumed was the original. "we don't know each other why would he trust my word more than yours-" "You were the closest person to me, and I thought that you might want a catch up as well," "ah."

Classic POV:

I honestly kind of zoned out as 404 was explaining what happened, saying a light "uhuh" or "yup, sounds right" whenever he turned to me. I realised I hadn't actually CHECKed most of the people here, I was severely lacking in terms of my normal knowledge of the monsters around me. So I turned on my eye and started looking through people's files inconspicuously.