The Animals Inside

Chapter 23: Foolery

AN: I can't get Papyrus's skull right but I can draw detailed feathers how does that make sense??? Papyrus's skull isn't even realistic! It's cartoonish!

"Hello"- talking | "Hello"- yelling | "Hello"- unholy screeching | *Hello*- action | Hello- emphasized | {Hello}- secret code

.・゜-: ✧☾✧･ﾟ:* *:･ﾟ✧☽✧ :-゜・.

Frost POV:

I had just jumped onto Dream, knocking him down and sitting on top of him to pin him to the ground, and Flame just knocked Ink out. "Alright. Now what do we do?" asked Dust after calming down from his fit of giggles. "W3ll, f1rst th1ngs f1rst, w3 n33d t0 g3t Fr0st back w1th0ut Dr3am al3rt1ng 1nk wh3n h3 wak3s up 0r try1ng t0 st0p us. S3c0nd, w3 n33d t0 g3t Ax3 h1s t1ny ax3." "...oh yeah, I forgot you said that if I stopped crying you would give Axe a tiny axe when I slipped earlier." "Can I get off from Dream now?" Apparently I was forgotten. And Flame. Also, for some reason, Potion was floating in the air with a bucket of popcorn, apparently watching us fight. I just had Flame look at his charm, seems he discovered another ability; he can fly, but levitate seemed more accurate. "G0 ah3ad. H3 s33ms t0 b3 1n a t3mp0rary sh0ck-1nduc3d tranc3 s0 w3 d0n't hav3 t0 w0rry ab0ut h1m attack1ng unt1l h3 snaps 0ut 0f 1t."

... "Hey guys, wanna see something cool?" asked Flame, breaking the heavy silence that draped over our group as something felt wrong. *sigh* "What is it Flame? And it better not be something cool you found out you can do with fire; I know that's a high probability since I've been with you the longest." "It's not, don't worry." "Sooooo, what is it?" There was an exagerated inhale. Very worrying, x2 since it was coming from Flame, x4 since he asked if we wanted to see something cool that wasn't related to fire tricks.

"ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ.・゜-: ✧☾　☽✧ :-゜・.
✧･ﾟ:* *:･ﾟ✧ ✼　 ҉　 ҉　 ҉　 ҉　 ҉　 ҉　✼
*＊✿❀ ❀✿＊* .｡*ﾟ+.*.｡ ﾟ+..｡* +
ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ (•ө•)♡ ...ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷくコ:彡
꒰⑅ᵕ༚ᵕ꒱˖♡ₓ˚. ୭ ˚○◦˚.˚◦○˚ ୧ .˚ₓ♡˖꒰ᵕ༚ᵕ⑅꒱"

... "HOW THE FU-"

*insert that music that cuts people off in a bunch of videos just as they're about to exclaim 'what the fuck' that goes like 'du-du du-du-du du duuu, du-du du du-du-du du-duuu'* Timeskip an hour of Flame teaching the rest how to speak emojis later

Dream POV:

"Uughh..." I was snapped out of my trance-like state hearing Ink groan, waking up, looked around, and was faced with the Bad Sanses somehow saying emoji-like things while Blue was watching from behind us. "Oh hi Dream!(✿^‿^) Are you okay Ink?/ᐠ｡ꞈ｡ᐟ\" ...how are they doing that...??? "Blueberry, how are you saying emojis?" There was a slight twinge of annoyance and a hidden but noticable flinch, but Blue still played it off as fine. "That, dear Ink, is a secret I am going to keep for the rest of my life until you stop calling me Blueberry and start letting me do my own thing instead of being the cheery and naive Underswap!Sans," replied Blue, adopting a barely noticable but incredibly dark voice near the end of his statement. I shivered, feeling malicious intent building up, but Ink either didn't notice or didn't care; I'm pretty sure it's the former and not the latter. "What do you mean, Blueberry? Isn't that your name?" There was a slight glare before Blue gave a closed-eye smile, most likely to hide his glare. "No, Blueberry is Babybones me, I'm Blue. Berry is Swapfell!Sans." He opened his eyes and dropped the smile so he was glaring at Ink, eyes filled with dangerous intent. "So I would appreciate if you respected that instead of calling me by the wrong name."

What have they done to Blue to make him say these things? "Don't worry Blueberry, that horrible glitch that trapped you in the Anti-void will wear off soon. Then, you'll come back to your senses!" Blue's eye twitched and there was a small yet large murderous intent that I wouldn't have noticed if I wasn't paying attention. Then all his emotions dissapeared and he shook his head as if shaking water off. "Don't worry Ink, I'm fine now! But the Bad Sanses are still behind us! I don't think they noticed that you guys are awake yet, and they ignored me because I was 'harmless'! Mwe he he!"  Suddenly, we heard Nightmare's voice ask "What is it, Horror?" We tensed up, but Blue seemed to be faking it and moving his hands around. "B-behind you, B-boss... they woke up..." We turned around |Frost: When did they turn around? Forest: Yeah, I was wondering that. Me: SHADDUP!!!| and were faced with all six of the Bad Sanses looking at us, Frost in fox form in the circle they formed with Nightmare kneeling down.

Nightmare POV:

I got up from my kneeling position and turned around to face the Stars. "B-brother, please, come back to me!" Dream pleaded. "Ugh, when is he ever going to realize that you're Nightmare and not just some corruption covering yourself? And that he disowned you the moment he decided to believe the villagers over you when you told him about the bullying?" I nodded in agreement with Flame but made it seem as though I was just thinking things over in my head and had just come up with a conclusion. With a quick sign from a pair of tentacles I shaped into hands to tell my boys + Flame and Frost my plan, I let my singluar cyan eyelight adopt a hopeful expression. "R-really? You'll trust me again?" I mentally gagged, but managed to hold it in and a quick glance backwards at the rest, pretending to consider it, showed me their looks of fake shock. I turned back around and ran(Not really, we were all dragged around by Killer, who is a literal cheetah, at some point and decided to start training so that we could keep up with him and not trip or bump into anything so now we can all reach speeds up to at least 50 miles per hour; Killer is still the fastest, I think he can go up to 100 miles per hour? I'm not sure. -Nightmare) to him, hugging him like he was my life force and carefully controlling my aura and goop to burn him just the slightest bit.

*hisss* I pulled away in 'panic'. "Oh my god, Dream, are you okay? I'm sorry, I guess I can't hug you now..." I said, 'worry' and 'upset' and ignoring the cries of 'shock' behind me from my boys. Immediately, Dream tried to reassure me. "Nononononononono, it's nothing! Just burns a little but you're fine!" He offered a smile too big and too wide to not be strained, but to keep the entertainment, I had to keep pretending a little longer. "Are you sure?" "Yup! Also it's good that you're back, brother. I missed you!" "I missed you too, Dream." I mentally gagged so hard I had to hold in physical gagging and that weird feeling. Frost taught us the secret code they use to communicate with Flame when others are around so that we can also communicate with Flame. And not just Flame; if others know we could communicate with them as well. So basically, this is just a different sign language that only those taught by Frost know. {Alright guys, should I melt off my goop and then have you suddenly attack him, or should I have a 'panic attack' and attack him?} I went in for another hug while waiting for Flame to convey what they said. "The Murder Time Trio wants you to burn him a little more before making the burn return to what it was before and shaking your head violently before turning on them and attacking them as if you're 'controlled' and 'not yourself'. Frost and Error want drama, and Cross doesn't care. My advice is to do a mixture as well as make it show-like, since Potion is floating above with popcorn watching the fight." {Alright. I'll burn him, retract, shake, attack, and when I'm shaking my head, I want Frost to rush over to me while the others attack. You start lobbing small fireballs everywhere but make sure to be somewhere around Potion's height and not stay still for too long.}

I waited for Flame to give me the confirmation my boys + Frost gave before I upped the level of burn my aura and goop gave Dream and he hissed a little louder than before. I then upped it to a third of what it would normally do, then pulled away and started violently, like extremely exagerattedly violently, shaking my head. I could hear yells and the sounds of battle while Dream tried to confort me and Frost pressing against my legs while discreetly scratching at Dream but pretended everything was muted. Then, after a particularily hard nudge from Frost and a tap on the head from Flame, it. Was time. To S T R I K E.

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OoOoOoOh, creepy!

~Toodles!