A Splash of ink

Chapter 79- What have i gotten myself into?! (Ship Children Multiverse)

Error 404 believed he had seen everything that the Omniverse has to offer. He is very much proven wrong thanks to this insane family (he isn't very happy about it)

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AntiVoid

Error 404 expression was a complicated mix of things that even if he was asked would not be able to even begin to know how to explain. He would be able to tell you where it all went wrong though, when he had first 'agreed' to help the crazy couple to find their eclectic groups of children.

He truly wondered if any of this was worth it as while he was pretty sure they had fully planned to dust him if he said no, this outcome didn't seem much better. He had hoped that once he did his part of this 'deal' he could leave but that was clearly some false hope he had deluded himself into believing.

The Council room he had ended up in had been odd but not too bad. Watching a babybones try and gnaw off a Destroyer's arm was strange but he could just about deal with it. He could barely comprehend when a Fresh popped in and dumped a trophy on the downed Ink with a 'no.1 idiot' on it before teleporting away which was strange but was on par for Fresh types.

...seeing Origin and End summon their magic before the multiverse popped like a bubble around them had been truly horrifying.

He was going to have nightmares about this for years and just when he thought it couldn't get worse he felt a slight tug on his trousers. He was in the AntiVoid, a place this insane family seemed to have no issue standing in but it was hardly a destination point or a place you could casually stroll in.

He warily looked down when his trousers were tugged more insistently and was soon faced with a Paperjam babybones, a rare monster type in general due to more factors then he could count. The body issues those types dealt with was the main issue, the Creation and Destructive magic needing to be perfectly balanced or they tended to melt.

Then there were the issues of most Ink and Error types being enemies so they usually accidently made a child which was abandoned or not fed the right magic to grow up. That was not even mentioning the social issues caused by lack of socialisation due to fear by the general population who couldn't understand or even accept the rare type of ink monster.

He had been briefly in shock to see a fully grown Paperjam and had been a bit wary as those types always ended up aggressive due to terrible socialisation. He had been stopped way too many times by the type to 'fight' in order to boost their ego and gain attention. It was even worse when they gave him the damn puppy eyes and acted like a kicked puppy when he said no, usually feeling enough pity to place them in multiverses with no balance keepers so they could have a quieter life and do whatever they wanted.

The one currently tugging on his trousers and frowning at him wasn't giving him any of the vibe he was familiar with though and instead felt like he was looking into the face of a tiger that was trying to decide whether to eat him or not.

It felt like hours he stared into the babybones sockets, unable to look away and felt all his joints lock up.

"...you can stay"

Those words were simple and yet so ominous he felt like a few years of his life had suddenly withered away. His eyes twitched when he spotted the other 'children' some of them looked to be fully grown and was not going to parse out the weird family dynamic began swapping money like it was all a fun game.

What exactly had he been dragged into?!

...and why was the annoying dog casually lounging nearby? He was getting a stress headache and he'd barely been with this whole family for ten minutes.