Introduction:

Continuing from the events of AskErrorSans blog, Underswap Sans sits alone in the antivoid with a single human soul in his possession. He starts to notice he is hearing the voices that Error claimed to hear, and he's been feeling strange feelings that are indescribable. He has not seen Error in years, and being alone with his thoughts, feelings, and the voices does not bode well for the little blue.

Chapter 1: Too Long in the Void

In the vast blankness of white that is the antivoid, a lone small skeleton donning blue armor, and a little red soul sat alone listlessly. The silence of the anti-void was deafening; as the usual sounds of Error's voice and the echoes of Undernovella that once dominated the space were absent and the lack of interaction with another made the void echo with an intense malevolent silence.

The small skeleton leaned over to the little red heart shaped soul with a lifeless and hopeless look. "Do you ever think he's going to come back human?"

He looked up at the proverbial ceiling of the antivoid and saw the vast amount of twisted thin blue strings sway like loose cobwebs in an attic. They were empty and devoid of any souls that usually were kept there by Error. He had been gone for so long that the souls that were there decayed and ceased existence.

Blue sat there looking for a while until he heard faint indistinguishable whispers. He couldn't make out what most of them said until he heard a few echo louder than the others.

'It's hopeless, why do you keep trying, what is the point in hoping for something that will never happen" these voices got louder with each passing day that blue stayed in the void. He did his best to ignore these voices, but sometimes they would win, and blue would curl up in a ball, faltering to his emotions of hopelessness to the thought of never returning to his home, to his Papyrus ever again. A strange ting started to manifest within his body from time to time, but he thought maybe this was just his mind trying to keep him safe from the insanity of isolation by letting his body feel any hint of sensory stimulation just to feel something other than the growing loneliness that slowly crept into him.

Days continued, the voices got louder, the tingles and strange sensations got stronger. He was determined to see himself through and not break and hope that Error came back. He had thoughts back to his past about when he tried to become part of the royal guard, how he helped monsters feel positive about their situations and gave them hope, how he was rejected from the royal guard but still tried to tell himself he could do it no matter what they thought.

But what if he was wrong this whole time?

days continued on, the hope of leaving this place wavered, until the day would come that it would be realized he would never leave this place…at least in the way that he came in.

One day, Blue finally snapped, "I can't do this anymore, human I just can't. I'm never getting out of this asgore forsaken place" Tears violently flowed from his eye sockets.

He violently paced back and forth in front of the soul as the reality of his situation finally set in. "This is all your fault, you stupid human!

He pointed an angry finger at the listless soul, "Had I not tried to rescue you from Error, maybe he would have never left me here to rot and we might…have actually been friends," his hunched shoulders froze and then released, realizing the venom in his words came out of left field he clasped his mouth and his eyes widened in regret.

"Oh my gosh, I am so sorry human, I didn't mean that….I promise" he held up the soul gingerly.

"It's just so hard being here all alone. There's nobody here to talk to, other than the voices Error heard and even they are not the best at conversations mweheheh….heh…" he shrugged his shoulders down again but he felt a sharp tinge in his eye, and some very blurry blackness in his vision. Just as quickly as it appeared, it disapeared.

"What? what was that?" he clasped at his eye socket.

He felt another tingle moments later, and saw the faint off pixelations on his leg that looked like the stuff he saw on Error.

Blue's eyes widened "What is going on? am I turning into Error?!" blue panicked.

"I can't let this happen!" he looked back and forth around the anti-void with a desperate gaze trying to hope that maybe some open door might magically appear or maybe, just maybe Error would appear to save him. The glitching was increasing, progressing from his feet, and then to his legs, he looked at the human soul with the contemplation of absorbing the soul.

"NO, I mustn't do it, I can't do it after everything I endured!" he stiffened up his stance trying to resist the temptation.

The voices that were once whispers became louder and louder, the called out "absorb the soul sans, absorb the soul"

He felt the glitching progress even more to his waist, some of the glitching was now starting to distort and invert his colors, he saw it in his hand that held the soul. He couldn't do it anymore. He had to absorb the soul!

and absorb it he did, and with the hope it would allow him to escape his fate, he closed his eyes tightly hoping for a miracle to happen…..but nothing.

Realizing the horror, Blue Screamed in terror "no! nononononono! IT SHOULD HAVE WORKED, WHY DIDN'T IT WORK!" He screamed out even harder as the glitching continued to progress it became painful. It was so crippling that it sent him falling to his knees. Curling up into a fetal position. Blue resigned to his fate,

"Papyrus, I'm so sorry. I wish I could have done better for you brother," his last cries rang out before the last bit of his normal color pallette glitched out of existence

Chapter 2: A Familiar Stranger

"Aaahh, free cookies, complete silence, and no interruptions," Error tossed his hands up and behind his head clasping them lightly.

"This has been the best vacation ever" He remarked inhaling a nice deep relaxing breath.

"I do suppose it's time I get back into the antivoid, I'm sure there is a good layer of dust starting to settle on my beanbag chair back home."

He took one good long stretch, hopped out of his hammock and opened a portal to the blinding whiteness of the antivoid which momentarily blinded him like switching on discord light mode due to his time in outertale. He let his vision adjust and stepped back into the antivoid with all his plushies and items in a small blue bag he knitted.

"Ah, home sweet antivoid," he took another inhale before using his strings to grab the bag and tie it up to the cieling of the blank space with his gaze following it. He dropped his gaze back down and noticed a figure he had not recognized.

A small black skeleton sporting a red bandana, black armor with yellow trimmed sweats, and purple and blue gradient arms sat quietly.

"so you finally decided to come back did you?" The skeleton remarked.

Error stepped back startled. Something seemed familiar about this character, but yet it was different. Uncanny even.

"What was it you said before you left me here alone to rot?" The skeleton slammed his hand down on the antivoid's floor. Error stood his ground unwavering.

"Oh yes, I remember," his voice snapped with a little tinge of spite, " 'let's play a new game, LEAVE THE BLUEBERRY IN THE ANTIVOID UNTIL HE BEGS FOR ME TO COME BACK!" his voice intensified into malice and his head snapped back to Error's direction. His cyan eye sockets lit up with an intense magenta and yellow stare from his eyelights. His cyan teeth revealing themselves in a nasty angry smile, stars adorning the sides of his eye sockets"

"WELL GUESS WHAT?! YOU NEVER CAME BACK!" He stood up with a stiffened stance and fists clenched. "After I cried and begged for so long until my voice gave out you STILL DIDN'T COME BACK!"

Error blinked his eyes for a moment, and then it clicked. This was the underswap sans he kidnapped so many years ago, but he was different. He was changed by the antivoid, accompanied by the same floating errors and glitching that he himself also suffered with.

"Oh my god..Blue, is that you?" Error inquired trying to bridge the gap between his memory and the confirmation or denial of this skeleton's identity (edited)

"oh so you finally remember who I am huh?!" Blue's voice sharply retorted.

"How super generous of you!" Blue stomped his foot and what followed was a deep rumble under the antivoid floor followed by a fisure that darted like a speedy snake towards Error. Error jumped to avoid the bone attack that erupted under the ground just in the nick of time.

"Do you know how long I was trapped in here?! do you have ANY idea what you took away from ME?!" Blue's voice boomed with a glitchy studder as his emotions began to run high. His thoughts racing with flashbacks of all his past experiences and his thoughts of what will never be again.

"YOU TOOK EVERYTHING AWAY FROM ME!" he yelled out summoning two large long bones in front of his hands which he quickly brandished. He ran towards Error who now realized he couldn't think about processing the situation and had to take a defensive stance.

"Most people would have given up and tried to eliminate you, but I felt sorry for you!" Blue swung at Error with one of the bones but Error blocked it with one of his own bone attacks.

"I wanted to believe you were only doing these things because you were alone and had nobody to share experiences with. I thought maybe if I just try to be friends with him he might stop causing so much suffering because he was suffering himself!"

Error's thoughts started to race. Something in that last comment brought back a very fuzzy memory. A memory of skeleton dressed in all white donning a red scarf who sat in the emptiness of a familiar place with a blood stained shirt and hoodie sitting alone in the void. His body language showing a saddening stance. Error shook his head trying to get himself focused but it was too late as blue landed a blow before his focus returned.

"But no!" Blue cupped his skull in his hands and clenched his fingers. " All I see is a greedy coward who makes everyone's lives miserable for his own gain. Who cares about the others right?!" Blue laughed hysterically as bright golden stars materialized from his star shaped markings on his face which he grasped in between his fingers.

"You hear me Error!" You are a greedy coward!" Blue yelled throwing the stars at him like shurikens. Error saw them coming and leaped out of the way.

Error now welling up with confusing memories and anger mustered up his own energy to stand up and take a more aggressive stance.

"SHUT UUUUUUUPPP" Error's voice rang out whipping his strings at Blue blocked the attack but the strings coiled around his bone weapons and ripped them out of his hands.

"You don't think you haven't crossed me little blueberry?!" Error grabbed the bones he stole from blue and struck them into the ground.

"I was starting to actually enjoy your company but you decided to double cross me and steal one of the souls in my collection thinking you would be the goody two shoes who would save an anomaly and become some hero of the Royal guard!"

"Well guess what blue, it wasn't going to happen!" Error summons his Gaster blaster and aims it for blue when it fired blue leaped away and went into shock with Error's words.

Blue's voice wavered, "Wh-what are you talking about?!"

"Oh silly little blueberry did you really think your precious captain Alphys was going to let you into the Royal Guard?" Error plucked a little string with his index finger from his eye socket and started stiffly twanging it. "Remember what I told you about how I analyze a universe's code before destroying it? Well your probability of being accepted in the Royal guard was even less than the probability of your universe existing."

"No! That's a lie!" Blue shook his head agressively as if trying to shake away the invasive thoughts and anxiety that plagued him post errorfication.

"Oh no, it certainly isn't." Error tensed the string on his finger and curled his phalange around it. "You know for as 'greedy as I'm supposed to be, I certainly am generous in letting you know this information, rather than you continuing to live a lie"

Error opened a strange glitchy screen revealing coding from his universe. In the line of code read the very truth of Errors words.

Blue dropped to his knees at the realization that lie before him. He was paralyzed and overwhelmed with negative emotions. He had no words, no thoughts, and an overwhelming sense of feeling useless and that everything he did was pointless. He began to glitch and his eyes filled with multiple error messages. Error took this opportunity to tie up blue and suspend him from the antivoid cieling.

"Well blue, welcome to the life of being an Error. Enjoy the reboot," he laughed in a way that was most forced and unnatural.

Error felt a wierd heavy sensation in his chest. Normally destroying most anomalies was the fun part of his job, but this time, it was different. It felt wrong, it felt horrible and it made him feel tight in the chest. He wasn't injured aside from the bruising he sustained getting slammed by blue, but the sensations didn't reflect those Injuries. He dropped himself down on his beanbag chair and ruminated about the conflict and about the emotions and memories he experienced.