Wounds Heal, Scars Fade

Chapter 6: TimeVerse

Of course, he immediately gets to work on mitigating the pain, knowing everyone is in shock.

The Fells and Geno immediately yell that Error is lying and Ink is brainwashed, to which Error flinches violently, opening some cuts that Ink had just healed.

Ink sends a fearsome glare towards the Fells and Geno.

Classic and Sci wander over, but Error just flinches away from them as well, trying to pick at the marks. Ink grabs Error's wrists, catching the hyper-vigilant and scared Destroyer.

"Calm down. If anyone tries to attack or hurt you, I'll send them to the Void." Error's eyelights shift for the first time to small clock symbols before forcefully going back to normal.

"0-0k4y...p-pr0m!s3?" (O-okay...p-promise?)

"I solemnly swear that if anyone tries to harm or attack you, Error Sans, I'll personally yeet them into the Void." Error's trembling and picking lessens or stops respectively as he nods in response, allowing Classic to use green magic on the marks. Sci pulls out a tablet and Error winces away but doesn't flinch as Sci slowly runs a scan on Error's soul, gasping at what he reads.

"We've been wrong about him this entire time."

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"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE GOOD SANSES HAVE CAPTURED ERROR?!"

"Sire, do not yell. I mean what I say. Ink took Error from OuterTale, and current location indicates he's in their meeting room."

"I knew it was a bad idea letting him live. Shoulda killed him sooner."

"I agree. Error shouldn't have been allowed to teleport away, he should have had an anti-magic collar."

"He was strapped to an anti-magic table by anti-magic cuffs. He really shouldn't have even been able to get free." Cross raises a brow.

"He was able to get free from that? Wow. I'm impressed."

"It felt strange, like there was something else the magic cuffs didn't catch that he was able to tap into. Because any attempt to repair the cuffs or table was met with them reverting back to a broken state. It's like Error forced them into a time of disrepair and his residual effect forced them to remain in that state."

"Then we really need to hurt him, don't we?"

"Indeed."

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"What do you mean we've been wrong? He's the destroyer, multiple people have seen him destroying AUs and called for us."

"Not like that. Dream, Ink. You both know about other multiverses, right?"

"Yes. We're called the UnBalancedVerse. Why?"

"If Error were really our Error, and thus a member of one of our timelines, his Multiverse would be ours, right?"

"That makes sense."

"But that's not the case." Sci zooms in on Error's Multiverse, which reads simply TimeVerse.

Ink taps his chin, recalling the small time gear shift.

"Could it be...I thought...hmmm...he really did get pulled here...huh. Strange."

"Ink, spill it."

"Not yet. I need to confirm my suspicion with some alternate me's, but I won't be leaving Error alone with any of you. You all want to hurt him or have hurt him. He only barely trusts me." Everyone in the room shivers as a chill covers the room, Dream and Error going pale from the new visitor.