Goretober 2024

26. Nosebleed

Swap fcking falls in The council room bc he works harder than anyone in this fackning facility

D he just passes out 🤭

He wasn't immortal, or impervious to damage. He was considered an "easy kill" and continuously stepped on and looked over because of his low HP and positive attitude.

Many people underestimated his skill and ability. So many didn't trust him to protect the multiverse.

But he knew he could. So he did.

He committed himself to working tirelessly and focusing on small jobs, to build rapport around the Omega Timeline before fully assisting the Council on protecting AUs from outsider harm.

He worked his way up to where he is now; taking care of emotional judges.

Arguments filled the council room as many universes argued for their universe and against others. No one could agree on anything when it came to the importance of issues about single universes. When it came to the multiverse, many had different opinions on it.

some thought that their universe's rules, should be how the universes are run

Some think there should be a council

Others think the gods of the multiverse should worry about the multiverse.

Of course all these arguments came up AFTER the council was put in place. So no real going back now.

Swap tried to be a peacekeeper. A neutral party. He did question why the council was made up of only judges who were holding more than just their roles in their universes and not a diplomat or someone to represent their universe.

Council meetings could either go nowhere, because everyone wants to argue, or, nothing gets done because every judge is being lazy. It's great!

Recently Swap has been running for 16 hours straight, very little time for a break when everyone is at everyone else's throat. He had errands to run for the council in the Omega Timeline, then visited Sci whose house was on fire, so he had to relocate. A few problems arose in the Omega timeline he had to fix which made him late to a few errands.

Then he had to come to this meeting about a bug going around universes. A lot of people were worried about their universe and wanted to know of the contingency plan to deal with this bug.

Most were panicked arguments and shaming Ink and Dream. Many always argued against any idea that was given and any idea that was proposed was shot down.

No one could agree on anything.

"Okay, maybe if we all calmed down!" Swap tried to keep the peace but a StoryShift judge, a Chara, shot back at him

"AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW?! THE BUG CAME FROM YOUR UNIVERSE!"

"Wha— No it didn't!"

"IT CAME FROM A SWAP-VERSE!"

"YOU SHOULD BE QUARANTINED!"

More and more judges ganged up against him. He had nothing to say or defend himself with. Dream tried to gain back the main point of this meeting but everyone was too rough and pointing fingers to listen.

Chara looked at what they caused and seemed to regret and rethink their place in the council.

A blaster went out that had many ducking under the table and hitting the ground. Its blue eyes in hollowed out sockets looked around the council room, its curved horns made it look intimidating alongside the calm but disapproving look it gave.

Altertale Sans, or Alter, desummoned his attack and glared at the council.

"Everyone needs to calm down. all we're doing is hurting each other and not solving anything!"

"WE GAVE SOLUTIONS!"

"So think of ones that can work!" Altertale Toriel, Cinder, spoke up.

"The bug itself eats a universe's code. Its attacks are random and we don't know when or what universe it'll target next." Ink re-explained

"So every universe needs a contingency plan" Swap began. He still got flares from other judges, but one by one each universe thought of ideas.

Calling Ink when they saw the bug, tried to physically kill the bug, warning their universe of a "terrorist" so everyone knows what to look for, calling an outcode to fix it, see if COREfrisk has anything to say, and other ideas.

Sometimes people would talk over others and it would start to cause a ruckus, but Swap, Alter, or any of the other neutrals who were tired of meetings ending up like screaming matches,

Surprising that they've never tried threats before.

Swap was glad that everyone seemed to have calmed and the meeting seemed to be getting calmer. Then, the topic of the origins of the bug came up once again.

"So what about Underswap? They're the ones that started it" a Birdtale sans brought up.

Swop became nervous as most of the council turned towards him. Probably suspicious of him once again.

"Well, it's too late to quarantine him now isn't it?"

"Well, I wouldn't want to stop the flow for information a duties around the multiverse and Omega Timeline" Swap considered. He didn't have anything to do after this meeting, not that he knew of anyways. But he still wanted to check up on Sci and the rest of the Omega Timeline before returning to his Universe.

"Oh you can miss a few days!"

"You need a break anyways!"

"We're not useless! We can handle ourselves out here!" Council members began to argue against his persistent and hard-working self.

"Well... with how many errands I run a day, you all really live up to the term "LAZY BONES"" He meant it in a light hearted way. Maybe a petty comment hidden under there but it was all in good faith. This meeting was going so well!

Then a punch to the skull was all that needed to be sent to get the message across.

Someone didn't seem to like his comment.

Swap held firm as the council hall came to silence. He was on a fourth of his overall HP, everyone knew not to get physical as most judges only HAD 1 HP. Swap included.

Marrow slowly fell down his nose as the world around him got fuzzy and began to turn. He held his head in his hands and could faintly see the panicked looks of those around him.

He tried to stay awake, grabbing onto the table to keep himself up, but he slipped and ended up on the floor. Passing out as marrow stopped rolling down his nose and sockets, but his HP continued to deplete.

And his consciousness faded.