Mr. Erratum

Chapter Sixty-Five

Pigment looked like a deer caught in the headlights, and he started to shake more. "I have to take him home" He muttered, "Promised- no, no, no, don't hURT ME" Pigment cried out. "Ink, It's me Error" Erratum tried again, whispering. Pigment looked at Erratum, "Erratum.." He muttered. "YeS, thaT's Me" Erratum told him, letting go of his hands. Pigment looked around the room, and then suddenly started to fall to the left.

Being quick, Erratum managed to grab Pigment by the shoulders, and then slowly let him down. Erratum looked at the now unconscious skeleton, and then back to Ink, Who looked worried and startled, "What was that?" Ink whispered.

Erratum frowned, and looked back to Pigment, "I hAvE nO Idea" Erratum admitted.

The three of them sat on the couch in silence. Pigment was in the corner, sitting tensely, while Erratum was sitting next to Ink, both of them with different degrees of worry on their faces. "PigMeNt... WhAt HapPEned?" Erratum asked, looking at Pigment. Ink stayed silent, watching the two of them, while Pigment replied, "What are you talking about, Erratum?" He questioned, his white eyes staring back at Erratum coldly.

Ink stared at Pigment. "YoU KnoW WhAT I'M TalKinG aBOuT PIgMEnt- TeLl uS, PlEasE" Erratum begged, frowning. Pigment's face rested into a small frown, as he leaned back into the couch. He seemed to contemplate something, before saying, "okay".

He looked around restlessly as he spoke, "Well, what do you want to know?" Pigment asked, grinning at them. Erratum went to reply, but Ink interrupted him, "How about the beginning?" Ink asked, speaking up for the first time.

Pigment gave a short laugh, "Great idea! hmm... that'd probably be when Nightmare kidnapped me.." Pigment muttered. Erratum gave him a bewildered expression, but said nothing. "So, Three months after you threw yourself into the void, Nightmare came Into the star sanses base..." Pigment started.

 "Where have you been? it's been months! haha"

"I forgot how annoying you were"

"You're getting Error back, I don't care if you don't want to"

 "you were figuring this out! you're so smart!" 

"So, I jumped into the portal" Pigment told them. Ink nodded, "So that's when you appeared here...?" Ink questioned. Pigment shook his head, "nope! I first landed in another multiverse" Pigment told them. Erratum nodded, "WhAt hAPpENeD afTEr That?" Erratum asked. Pigment sat up, "Not much really, I looked around for you, got kidnapped by-" He paused, "Bird Dream" He said.

Shaking, Pigment then said, "I hoped around multiverses for a bit until i got here, and that's the end" Pigment explained. Pigment went to stand up, but Erratum stopped him. It was obvious that Pigment wasn't telling them everything. "PiGmeNt- nO, TeLl uS wHAT HappENed" Erratum asked.

"Promised- no, no, no, don't hURT ME" 

"wHAt hAPpENed? wHat mADE yOu..." Erratum didn't finish his sentence, he didn't need too, Everyone knew what he was asking. Pigment seemed mostly unaffected by the question. The only signs that it had upset him in some way was the way his shoulders tensed. Pigment looked around the room, as if expecting something to be there. When he realized what he was looking for was not here, he relaxed, if only somewhat.

"ha..haha" Pigment looked away, lost in thought. The way his soulless counterpart looked even just slightly emotional right now made Ink uncomfortable, almost similar to the way seeing robots trying to look like humans made him feel.

The look quickly faded, and instead a calm, unreadable one replaced it. Ink might of asked him to stop changing and being so contradictory every few minutes, but he felt like his humour wouldn't be welcomed right now. The silence around them was suffocating, though Pigment and Erratum didn't mind. Times like these made Ink remember that they were God's, that they weren't normal.

Pigment stared at Erratum, and Erratum stared determinedly back. After awhile, Pigment let out a sigh, a fake and forced one, but a sigh nonetheless. "I guess what you want to know happened in the third multiverse i landed in" Pigment spoke. Erratum smiled at him, and stayed silent. "I snuck around for a bit, pretended to be the other me- who, I named Splatter" Pigment told them.

"Everything was going well, Until Splatter reappeared, In a meeting no less!" Pigment exclaimed. "That multiverses Dream wasn't happy" He laughed darkly. Neither of them understood his joke, if it even was one. "AfTer tHAT?" Erratum asked him. Pigment sarcastically hummed in thought. "I was questioned who i was, of course!" Pigment finally answered.

"Multiverse- what?" This multiverse's Dream asked, complexed. The sound of confused ramblings came from the other skeletons, but Dream quickly shut them up, with a loud, and somehow commanding cough. Ink, who was rambling about something, he couldn't remember what, was startled out of his chatter, and looked at Dream questioningly. "Just who are you?" Dream questioned, glaring at him aggressively. As if he remembered something, Dream turned to Splatter sharply, "And where have you been?" He hissed out. Before the other could answer, Ink offered, "Oh! I tied him up, rather easy too" He said nonchalantly. 

As if he was Embarrassed for the other, his cheeks puffed out in anger. "Who are you?" Dream asked him quietly, but he was obviously upset. "oh! I'm Ink" Ink replied truthfully, "But not your Ink" He added, "Confusing, right?" Ink laughed.

Suddenly, without any warning, Splatter attacked Ink, using his Broomie. Ink easily deflected the attack, using his own identical Broomie. "Oh!" Ink exclaimed, surprised. "I didn't know we could be that aggressive!" Ink then frowned in confusion, "Or just you- It may be more different here than i originally thought" He said to himself.

Dream then shouted in anger, "Ink! stop now!". Splatter instantly stopped, looking at Dream with a look Ink couldn't fully comprehend. Ink looked at Splatter with interest, in thought. Dream glared at the other Ink, "Come here, Ink" He commanded.

Splatter sat next to Dream, "I'm sorry" Splatter apologized. "I thought you'd want me too-" Dream interrupted the skeleton, giving him a smile, that looked nothing like his own Dream's smile. "Next time, wait for me to tell you too" Dream informed him, saying it as if he had said it many times before. Dream gripped onto Splatter's shoulder tightly, and said, "Understand?" He asked. Splatter shook his head, an uncomfortable look on his face.

Dream smiled at him again, wider. He then looked back at Ink, a smile so forced that even Ink realized it wasn't real. "Well then, Ink" Dream spoke, His name sounding like poison. "You said you were looking for someone?" The skeleton asked him, still gripping onto Splatter.