Umm... Papyrus? Where Are You?

Part 14

 "So, you found his world huh? Well, what you said about the world could be why he's out and about. Remember our whole ordeal with Cross? This could be like that, but not as major in a sense." Ink stated as he crossed his arms. Blue huffed at his colorful counterpart. "Not as serious? I know he's not destroying worlds, but he's probably going to kill our brothers!" The others nodded. Ink looked off to the sighed with a sigh.  "Yeah, I know, I know. It's still pretty bad, but he hasn't killed them yet, that's for sure. You all can go back to HQ, we'll be there shortly ourselves. I just need to round them up and make sure Demon stops trying to kill the SwapFell brothers for throwing snowballs at him. Hey, I said stop!" He screamed to the left of his image before he faded out. The group looked at each other amused before Error opened up a portal to the anti-void. "Well, let's head back to "HQ" before Ink does. Might be able to see him covered in snow." Blueberry lingered at the entrance of the portal staring back into the forest. It was depressing seeing a world in such a state. He hoped the kidnappings wouldn't lead to their brothers dying.

 When they got back, D Paps looked at them and waved. He stayed to keep an eye on things, and take care of Hamster Sans. He was a cute little guy. "So, how did it go?" Error grinned as he walked to the kitchen area. "Yep. We found his world. It was trashed. We just gotta wait for Ink and the others to come back." The group grabbed some things to eat as they waited. It took a half hour got the other team to come back, the SwapFell brothers were beaten up and Ink was covered in snow that he was still crushing off. Demon walked through with a smug look on his face as Crimson spoke to him in a low tone, most likely congratulating him on a job well done. Flowey soon unwound himself from the edgy skeleton's arm and shivered as he curled around Demon's. "I can't believe it. It was not funny dumping me in the snow Sans!" The little guy yelled as the other laughed at him, wiping a fake tear away. " Yeah it was. Sides, it couldn't have been that bad.You usually tunnel through it with Frisk." "Well... I wasn't expecting it. Besides, you were warm and the sudden cold wasn't appreciated!" Demon chuckled as he sat down next to Team Error as he waited for the meeting to continue. The rest gathered as Ink and Error stayed standing with a list of ideas the groups came up with. "You know what, I think I know what's going on." Error announced as he crumpled the list up and handed the wad to Ink. "He's trying to figure out how to revive his world, and he needs something from them to get it back to it's former glory!" Ink stared at the crumpled list before glaring at him. "We all know that, but what could he get from them?! Wait... what if he wants coding? Coding is what makes us all up. But why only your little brothers? What do they got that he wants?" None of them spoke after that, not sure what to say.

 Mystery popped back into his area to find all his prisoners staring at him. He tilted his head in confusion and approached the cages, Hamster Paps in his hands."So... you gonna ask me the question that's burning to be asked?" Fell stood in front of the others and nodded. "You said you needed a piece of us. That's false, isn't it? all you need is some codes that will screw our memories up. But why do you need the code?" He fooled around with his glow sticks and hummed. "Well, I need it to fix my world. It was destroyed by the human resetting so much. Some files became corrupted the more they did so. The human, Frisk, was very depressed and wanted to end it all for themselves, but they didn't know the consequences of resetting our world so much." This confused everyone.Honey spoke up next. " Wait, why reset? They could have just, well, not." Mystery shook his head and cracked open the left glow stick, letting the gooey liquid drip down his fingers and sleeves. "It wouldn't truly end it for them. They said they were always stuck in this pitch black room with two options; continue or reset. Chara, as I just found out, told them they actually had a limit of resets before they would permanently die, and they were so close to that number. So, she kept resetting, the world kept getting darker, and everyone else became depressed like them. It didn't affect me or my brother as bad, but I hated seeing him that way." He shrugged and pulled his hood down to preoccupy his hands, green stains began to spread on it. "How'd you find out about the code thing anyway?" Error Paps held his hand up. " I... I figured it out. You just want certain memories of happiness and such for your world to make it bright again.You needed some other elements as well to make everyone normal like anger, sadness, and love for that. And, unfortunately, we are pretty easy to nab compared to our brothers and friends." 

The glow stick lover chuckled and nodded. At least one of them was smart enough to understand. Classic's eyes widened hearing his human was depressed. But didn't they have the monsters underground as friends? "Um, Mr. Mystery, weren't you friends with the human? Why were they still depressed if so?" He sighed and fiddled with the other glow stick, chipping at the container. "That's what we all thought. It seems like we weren't their real friends. They were obsessed with getting killed in different manners, not once were they killed the same way 'till it came down to me on their genocide runs." He went to petting the hamster as a saddened expression crossed over his face. The innocent skeletons felt determined once again to help this skeleton out. The others might have felt guilty but were not sure if the more innocent ones should help him, or attempt to. He could turn violent and harm them if they weren't careful. What surprised them was to see green tears trickle down his cheeks. "I... I don't want to do this, but it's the only way I could find that could work. Chara... she is a plague in our world. Even now she thrives in the shadows of our empty underground. I was her key on taking many lives. She could shift forms at her will, and I was a favorite. She would walk around as me and go to my depressed friends and influence them to commit suicide. My depression allows her to take control of me eve when I'm outside of our universe. That shows how strong she has become." He cracked the second glow stick, the liquid splattered all over the front of his jacket and face. A grunt escaped him as he pulled his hands away to look at the beautiful shade of green.