#outererror

Error would roll his eyelights and groans slightly at Outer’s explanation. He places his hand on the ridge of his nose cavity and sighs. Yeah he’d rather not face the wrath of Outer’s Gaster…no less several others that really don’t like him. He can already picture Asteroid thoroughly judging Error and glaring at him sharply. He was in no mood to deal with that today.

“Alright, alright, ya got a point. But…why my place for the date? It’s empty there and nothing beats a good view in your home, well okay one thing can. But not my point. Why not just have the date here? There’s a lot more to do here.” Outer would pause and sigh. It might be too much of a risk to really explain in his home since anyone could come in if Ink suddenly enacts the plan a little early, the artist was truly unpredictable at times…and that kind of scares the normally calm and collected sans. He would look to Error and give a calm smile.

“I’ll tell ya when we get to your place. Plus, I think it’s about time you maybe hosted me at your place, yeah?” Error would sigh, knowing that he probably won’t get a straight answer till they actually went to the anti void. Her would signal to Outer to follow him and Error keeps the portal to his home opened. Outer would soon follow his friend and would hear the portal fade.

Outer would look around at the endless white space around him. There was no wind…no detail to anything. Much like a blank canvas, the place was completely empty…well, almost. Outer would be lead to where Error would stay. From what Outer could see on the ground, it didn’t seem like much, just a beanbag on the ground, a few chocolate bars here and there, some unfinished dolls and crochet supplies and yarn everywhere. That’s when Outer would look up…that’s when he was surprised to see so many strings, a few holding some human souls, and many holding completed dolls of many Au’s. A small grunt from Error would draw Outer’s attention away from the many blue strings above them.

“Soooooo? You going to explain?

“Oh, right.” Outer sighs as he sees Error go to sit down in his beanbag, leaning back in it as he looks at Outer. Outer rubs the back of his skull before she starts to speak up. “I…I wanted our um…date to be here because I…heard something really bad at a multiverse meeting that um…surrounded you.” Error would place a hand on his cheek and lean on it a little bit. He murmurs a little about this. Course the multiverse was talking shit about him. When were they not? He’s the destroyer of worlds, of course people are not going to like him. What made this any different from any other meeting he’s heard about?

“Okay? Outer that’s normal. Course people are gonna say bad things about me. I’m not exactly “saint of the multiverse” ya know. If that’s all you’re really getting worked up about, then maybe don’t attend those meetings-“

“I wasn’t finished explaining.” Outer would cut Error off, his voice slightly sounding a tad more serious than usual. Error goes quiet and leans back in his beanbag chair. He was a little irritated that Outer interrupted him…but he would set it aside for now. With that, Outer thinks about what he is going to say next before he slowly pieces together a sentence carefully. “I…I was there long enough to hear that they were making a plan. A-a plan that…hurt you…to imprison you in a void in my universe.” Now, this caught Error’s attention. A plan to imprison him in OuterTale? Yeah, that wasn’t going to go through well if it was just the Star Sanses. Error would scoff at this and look to Outer, thinking the sans was just overreacting to something.

“Outer come on. It’s a stupid idea that Ink probably made within the day along with his friends. How many are going to be in this plan? Dream, Swap, and the squid?” Error would let out a laugh as if to mock those damn Star Sanses thinking they could stop him forever! What fools they were!

“The whole multiverse…” Error would abruptly stop laughing. Outer’s simple statement changed everything. Oh, this was not good. Sure he could take down a legion of universes with ease…but the whole multiverse? No…he would be overwhelmed eventually. How did that numbskull Ink even convince so many to join his clause? The glitchy skeleton would then look over to Outer, his eyelights filled with suspicion towards his fellow skeleton.

“You aren’t with them, are you?”

“No…I…only let them use my universe as the place because Ink suggested it. He said he meant to ask me before the meeting but said he forgot-“

“Bullshit!” Outer would flinch a little at the sudden yell from Error, his voice glinting and echoing through the anti void. The glitch soon realized that…maybe that was a bad thing to say without some explaining. “Sorry, let me elaborate a little. I’m not saying that to you, Outer. I was saying that to Ink’s statement. I totally believe in what you’re saying, I just saying that Ink was definitely lying to you. He probably didn’t forget and decided to ask to use your universe as part of his plan that way you wouldn’t have a choice to really say no. Cause he knows if you said no, a ton of universes would start to question and get suspicious of you. Ink can be a dunce sometimes, but he isn’t stupid. He can’t feel actual emotions, but he knows how to read them…and how to set up situations to be in his favor.” Outer seemed to calm down a little bit from this, but now feels a little uneasy about that information about the protector of timelines. Error would huff as he senses Outer’s uneasiness.

Error would think for a few moments about what to do next before he facepalms and scoots over on his beanbag to let the shorter sans sit next to him. “Here, just sit down and stop worrying about things. You said Void date or Anti Void date, whatever the hell ya called it. It’s a date, now come on.” Outer would look in slight surprise at the offer to sit next to Error. He would have been fine with just sitting on the Anti Void floor, but he accepted. The space themed sans would walk over to the beanbag and sit next to Error, making sure to give Error some space.

“You um…have enough room? I know that you have an issue with touch.”

“It’s fine…you’re far enough away.” Outer would nod a little and looks up at the strings again. He couldn’t help but wonder where the strings are tied to. “I’m surprised you aren’t actually helping the multiverse.” Outer would gaze at Error as the glitchy skeleton would speak this.

“Why would you be surprised? You’re my friend, I don’t want you to get hurt by them. No less trapped in a void for all of eternity.” Error would chuckle a little at the irony of that statement. Outer can’t save him from the anti void, but he’ll save him from the actual void? Funny.

“Yeah well, the multiverse has a reason to want me gone. I mean hey, without me they’d probably be happier, course they’ll be in for a horrible shock once timelines suddenly start crashing into one another. But who am I to know that? I’m just the destroyer.” Error would say with much sarcasm laced in his voice. Outer would look at his friend and sighs a little. He doesn’t really like when Error decides to degrade himself with the words of the multiverse…it always made the starry skeleton worry for him.

“Come on, don’t say that…you’re much more than a destroyer. You’re a creative individual. I mean you make dolls that are just so detailed. They’re cute. And you’re an important part of the multiverse. You’re my friend and well I…I care about you a lot. And I…” Outer would trail off as he nearly says something that may be speaking a little too much about how he felt. This didn’t go unnoticed by Error though. The destroyer of worlds would look at Outer confused as he expected Outer to say more. He waits for a response, some type of continuation to whatever Outer was about to say.

“And you…what? What were you about to say?” Outer would gulp a little but as he shakes his skull.

“It’s nothing…”

“Well that’s a damn lie. Come on, why don’t ya say it?” Outer would hesitate, great…Error was not going to let this go. Why did he have to slip up now of all times. He looks down a little to avoid eye contact with Error.

“I care about you…a lot. I’m starting to think it’s a lot more than just…caring. Like um…”

“Love.” Error would state as he looks at Outer. He hasn’t fully processed what Outer says, his mind basically still taking in this new information like a slow running computer. Outer however would freeze as Error seemed to have figured it out very quickly what the OuterTale Sans was trying to communicate. Oh how he wished he could hide in his hood right now and never leave again.

“I’m sorry…I’ll go. I um…here just take these. I meant to give them to you earlier but got distracted. Sorry.” Outer would say quickly as he hands Error a couple of chocolate bars from his jacket pockets that he put away. He gets up to leave the beanbag chair and to possibly return home when something surprising happened. The warmth of someone grabbing his hand…Error just…grabbed his hand. Outer would look back in shock to see Error’s expression just as shocked as he was.

“You love me?” Error would ask before inevitably crashing due to grabbing Outer’s hand so suddenly and quickly. The progress bar above him saying “Error.exe has crashed” and soon changes to “REBOOTING” and a small percentage scale to show how far along Error’s rebooting was. Outer would stand there silently as Error slowly started to reboot. He sighs before sitting back down next next to Error on the beanbag and huffs. He’ll probably answer him as soon as the glitch reboots.

(AN: Okay, so this may now be a three part story. It’s been fun writing these two. Anyways part one is in the link below)

Characters used: Error Sans by CrayonQueen/Loverofpiggied, Outer Sans by 2mi127

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Error: LoverOfPiggies