All It Took Was Their Obliviousness.

So Um... Hi Group Of Murderous Skeletons, Please Don't Kill Me.

Error stared at Dream's limp body, "wElL, tHaT wAs EaSiEr ThEn I tHoUgHt It WoUlD bE" Error thought, amused. He made a portal to Nightmare's castle, and he and Dream went through it. He was still using his strings to move Dream, as he has haphephobia.

Once he entered the portal, he saw Horror running around with Dust chasing him. He also saw everyone else, except Nightmare, screaming bloody murder. Oh, fire. Lots and lots of fire surrounded him and the others. Not only that, but Nightmare looked like he wanted to walk into the fire and burn. "That's a mood" Error thought amused, before trying to access the situation.

Nightmare noticed Error and Dream, and he sighed. He went and got the fire extinguisher, and put out the fire. Everyone was still screaming... that is, until Nightmare yeeted it at Killer. Killer dodged it, but gave Nightmare an offended look. Everyone started to do their own thing after that, after all, this was a normal thing in the castle.

Although, they noticed Error. They went to say hi and tease him, but then they saw Dream and was on full alert. The room that was once lively and happy, went full on tense and confused. "What is he doing here?!?" Nightmare asked, completely not amused.

Error let out a nervous glitchy chuckle. "I, uH, fOuNd HiM?" Error almost crashed while saying that, not liking all the negative attention from his friends. Nightmare sighed before trying to calm down, he didn't want Error to crash. Everyone else tried to do the same. That is... until Dream started to shift.

Killer freaked out and picked up the yeeted fire extinguisher before yeeting it at poor unconscious Dream. Luckily, it missed. Unluckily, Dream woke up from the resulting crash.

Dream jumped and looked at where he was, internally panicking when he realized he was in his brother's base. Everyone was staring at him, and he started back. Not to mention, he was still being carried by Error's strings, so he had no way of fighting back. It was silent.

Nightmare cleared his throat, "Ah, Brother... what are you doing here?" Nightmare asked rather tensely. "Oh, um... ya know, I was on a stroll. On my way though, I have seemed to be caught up in some strings. So um... if you wouldn't mind, would you please let me go?" Dream asked nervously, along with a tense chuckle. He didn't want to reveal too much, after all, these were his enemies.

Nightmare stared, not knowing whether to be amused or annoyed. "Take Dream into the dungeon, Error because you caught him, you watch him." Nightmare ordered. Dream sighed, while he wasn't happy to be going to the dungeon, he was relieved to not have been killed on the spot.

Error grumbled, but complied as he could see Nightmare was tense. When that happened, he's either in a bad mood, stressed, or both. Knowing from experience, he would not do anything to tick him off. Although, the others were stupider, and would probably do anything to tick him off just for the heck of it.

As they were leaving, the rest of the Sanses were confused on what to do now. "Um, boss? W-what do we do now? I mean... if Dream's here and missing, then the rest of the Star Sanses will try to find him" Horror asked nervously, he didn't exactly want to fight Blue. Nightmare sighed, "we'll just have to hope for the best. Dream now knows where our base is, we can't let him go. He would tell Ink and then we would be on the run... again."

Nightmare has to plan this carefully, one wrong step and he could send him and his crew to their death. He knows Error knew of his strong dislike for his brother, not to mention his goal of killing him. He wants to kill him, and he would if he could, but they're connected. If Dream dies, so does Nightmare. So he needed to get the golden apple without killing Dream, serious damage to the other didn't really matter.

While Error brought him randomly, he was glad that someone finally managed to catch his brother. His brother usually was hiding, helping AUs, hanging out with Ink, so it was rather hard to find him at times. "But now... I have him! All my plans are coming together!" Nightmare thought excited, he had been working on his goal for over 500 years. Now, he had the huge piece of what he had been needing.

While he was silently celebrating, the others were talking within each other. "Uh, boss's grin is kinda... off putting. Should I be concerned!" Dust mumbled to the rest of the Murder Trio. Killer and Horror shrugged, not really caring. Dust rolled his eye-pics, before walking to the destroyed kitchen to hopefully salvage some food from it.

Back with Error and Dream, Error was closing the door to the cell. Dream was still hung up with Error's strings, but as soon as the cell door shut, the strings unattached and Dream fell with a thud. Dream just laid there, face down, done with life. Error didn't care nor paid any attention to him, and played with his now freed strings while he was sitting in front of the cell.

About 30 minutes pasted and he was already bored. Error sighed, leaning back. He glanced at Dream, seeing him still laying on the floor. "HeY, aBoMiNaTiOn, YoU sTiLl AlIvE?" Error asked, as he continued to play with his strings. All he got in response was a groan, so he took that as a yes.

Dream was just done, he has had a horrible day today. Although, if he had to choose, he'd pick Nightmare's castle over the "Star Sanses" base, any day. Even if he was locked up in a cell, he still felt free. Ink only wanted him for his positivity, and Ink argued with him tons. In the castle, no one really talked to him. No one seemed to care about his aura, and best of all, there was no Ink. He'd been with Ink for years, and this has been one of the longest times he's been away from him.

Dream relished in that fact, not caring that his brother might kill him. Although, Dream knew Nightmare would never purposely kill him. If he died, so did Nightmare. But, Dream knew that his brother had a plan. A plan he most likely wouldn't like, and that plan would probably be getting that last apple from him.

Dream sighed, before lifting his head to look around. There wasn't much in the cell, but there was what looks to be a bed. There was no covers on it, a thin blanket, and a flat pillow. That was about it, unless you count the cracks on the walls and some rocks around the cell. He carefully got up, his limbs were a bit sore from being held the way Error's strings held him but he didn't comment on it.

He walked to the bed and sat on it, laying down facing the wall. He knew he'd be here for a bit, so he decided to try and take a nap. As he slowly drifted off to sleep, he was completely unaware of Ink frantically looking in the Star Sanses bass for him.

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