Walking backwards in my footsteps

Chapter Eight: Of Choices made...

sorry for the wait. work kicked my butt and migraines...

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There was no warnings, one moment the AU was there and moments later it was gone all lost to the void.

Ink started freaking out, how dare Error destroy one of his creations.

Error...

Yeah...

About that, he was still a bit... Resetting.

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"There has to be a way to stop it, he's my friend," Blueberry cried out, Error was his first true friend that allowed him to be himself.

Error was the one that made cute jokes when he thought no one could hear him.

They giggled over hard liquor that couldn't even make them tipsy, and planned to track down an AU that had liquor that could get them drunk.. or at least tipsy.

He didn't want to loose his friend.

"This could be his only chance to escape being the destroyer you know, a reset will free him from fate," Nightmare said with a glare.

"I know... I know he wants to be free, but hes my best friend," Blue said, magic tainted tears slipped down his face. He knew about the balance, and in truth he hated Ink for not being able to stop himself.

"Is there any way for the reset to happen.. but keep Error self safe from being lost?" Outer asked.

Blue gave them both very hopeful looks at that.

"You won't give up will you?" Nightmare said grumpily.

"I never give up on my friends," Blueberry said with a glare.

"Che... Error was right, you do have a backbone," Nightmare said, Blueberry just started at him his eyes mere white dots instead of his usual blue ones.

"You realize that its dangerous, it could kill you.. you might be caught in the reset too," Nightmare said staring at him blandly.

"What's a little danger between friends, and if i died or got caught in it at least Error won't be alone," Blueberry said with a smile, that promised retribution on anyone that got in the way.

Nightmare was now interesting, Blueberry definitely wasn't as light as people thought, and definitely smarter then the other Light Sans.

'Kind of expected, he does get along with Error' Nightmare thought.

"How does it work?"? Outer said breaking the silence that lasted several minutes.

"One of us would enter enter Error's subconscious mind, find both Error and his past self and get them agree to become one. Otherwise there both likely both loose out, and the reset will fail and Error dusts," Nightmare said.

"Oh is that all," Blue said simply.

Nevermind Nightmare took it back, Blue was as idiotic as the other light Sans.

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"Ten.. Ten AU's destroyed in five minutes," Dream said in shock, Error had never had such speed before.

"They were just gone, and..." Ink said trailing off.

"Ink?" Classic asked.

"He always kills everyone in the AU, but this time he didn't. That meant when destroyed, they were lost to the void," Ink said.

There was a horrified silence at that.

To be lost in the void was the end, at least when Error destroyed in the past he'd take the soul of the Frisk/Chara of that timeline. If they got the soul, the timeline could be reset and reborn.

Not, that they'd ever managed it.

He still had nightmares of the times they'd tried to get one of those precious souls.

"We need to find Error now, and stop him for good," Ink said.

Sans had a bad feeling about this.

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"This looks so cool," Blue said, the walls, ceiling and floor were glowing with symbols and weird letters. He'd seen a few of the symbols before, as Error had once shown him the weird screen of his that allowed him to view the deeper codes of AU's to search for AU corruption.

"Outer and myself will have to be outside to activate it, just remember the memory versions will not be able to see or interact with you. Error and his past self will though," Nightmare said making sure Errors self was in the middle of the room.

"Be careful Blue, and remember to eject yourself if it gets bad. Really don't want to self everyone you accidentally lost yourself this way," Outer said worriedly.

"Don't worry, I the Great Sans is always careful," Blue boated.

"Lets... just get on with this," Nightmare growled.

Moments later Blues was alone in the room other then the resetting Error.

"Ready?" Outer asked.

"More then ready," Blue answered.

"Activating the coding now," Nightmare said, the room flared white then went pitch black.

"Good luck," Outer said, the voice fading out.

Then he was falling.

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"I can't locate Errors emotions, but Nightmare seems to be in Outertale," Dream said, he'd been searching for a few hours and thankfully only two AU's had been destroyed in that time.

"Hmm... lets try not to start a battle there is possible," Classic said.

"Lets hurry," Dream said "Before Nightmare moves on."

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He landed in snow, the cold and wetness to it seemed to be muted, and fairy soft snowflakes falling from above.

But that would be expected, as this was memories.

"Just outside Snowdin," he said looking around.

A child's giggle fill the air, followed by a much older persons laugh.

Spinning around he stared, and wanted to coo over the cuteness factor.

Well, he finally had an answer on what type of AU error came from. A swaptale! Papy was the same age as at home, but the blueberry.. well Error of this timeline was pretty much a baby bones.

"Hold on Sans, we'll get home before the storm hits," Papyrus said cheerfully, this Papyrus also seemed more at ease then his own.

"Going sew, make Dolly for Chara," Mini Error said, wow.. so cute his voice.

"I'm sure they'll like the Doll Sans, just remember not to make too much a mess. Were still packing up for the move to the surface," Papyrus said, he grabbed the tiny toddler and placed them on his shoulders.

"Sun, wanna see the sun" Error chirped.

"Just three more days bro," Papyrus said.

With that Blue followed them, a gnawing in his body. He didn't like this feeling, after all... he had a feeling he would see the end of this Sans and Errors birth.