Short Stories

Another glitch in the system

Error was sitting in the anti-void, eating chocolate; when he heard what sounded like someone crying. 'I thought Ink was the only one who can come here without me and that doesn't sound like Ink crying.' It sounded like it was coming from behind him and to the right. He turns around to face the sound. He sees a glitchy opening with light blue outlines. Inside he sees a space colored blue, purple, and red with purple strings hanging around with no real explanation as to why.

As he approaches the opening, he can hear glitched murmurs in between the sobs. Error quickly finishes his chocolate before stepping through the opening. He looked around this previously unknown space before spotting a small skeleton sitting curled up on the ground, their back facing Error.

Error wasn't normally the caring type, especially to monsters he didn't know, but something about them screamed familiar and that he should help them. He decides to approach them and the murmurs become loud enough for him to hear. The glitched-out voice sounded a bit childish but it was full of sadness and a little bit of anger or bitterness. "Stupid glitches! As if one wasn't enough! What am I going to do? I can't tell anyone about this and Error wouldn't know or care enough to help me. Everyone is going to be so worried when I don't come home or meet up with my friends! I wish I knew what to do..."

'I don't recognize the voice since it is all glitched out but I do recognize them as another sans since they mentioned me. Is it Dust? He has a glitch. No, his voice is deeper than this skeleton. I should talk to them.'

"Hello? Who are you?" Their body completely stiffens when they hear his voice. They pull the hood of their hoodie up. It was orange and way to big on them. "Error? How did you get here?" Their voice sounds hesitant and unsure, scared even. "There was a hole in the anti-void that lead here. I heard crying so I went to check it out." Error pauses for a second. 

"Who are you? The only one with a glitch that I know of besides me is Dust but you don't seem like Dust." The smaller of the two flinches. "If I tell you, will you promise not to tell anyone? I don't want anybody, not even Ink, to know about this right now."

'Even Ink doesn't know this person has a glitch? Geez! They must have met before their other glitch got in his system.' "I promise. As unnatural as it sounds, I just want to help." The other skeleton giggles for a second before taking the hood off and turning around. 

(I'm too lazy to explain so here is a base edit I made)

It took a minute for Error to recognize them since they didn't have their signature scarf on. "Blueberry?" They nod. "I don't know what happened. I woke up looking like this. I already had one glitch but I can't hide this with an eyepatch." Error had noticed the eyepatch Blue would wear sometimes under the excuse of ramming into the wall and hurting it.

"Want me to help you hide this? I know how but someone else prevents me from doing it." Blue nods and wipes away his tears. The taller skeleton teaches them how to turn back and forth. It doesn't take long for Blue to get a hang on their strings though.

Right before Error turns to leave, a dark blue hand grabs his arm. He turns and sees Blueberry smiling up at him. They hand Error something. "We'll talk again sometime, ok?" Error smiles before nodding. Blue grins before turning back into their old form and teleports away.

Error steps back through the opening from before to get back to the anti-void. When he sits back down where he was earlier, he looks in his hand at what Blueberry gave him. It looked like a purple coffee mug that Blue had made with their strings. Error tested it and found that it worked just as well as a normal mug. He smiles as he realizes that someone appreciated him and that he had found a friend in the shorter glitched skeleton.

A/N: THIS IS NOT ERRORBERRY!!! They are just friends!