Glassplant: ... this wasn't my original idea for how the chapter was going to go, but I think it needed to happen to make sense of exactly Error got to the point of needing to go to the doctor as well as fleshing out Error's "normal" live and his relationship with Nightmare a bit more. Hope you like it.

Error spent most of his time since he left Nightmare's home bouncing between worlds destroying them as quick as he could to keep up with Inks new creation spree as best as he could. He hadn't thought Ink would be up and about this quickly, but he had a job to do to keep the balance so he just kept going even with the partial fracture still visible on his leg and having said fracture stinging like hell. And right now he didn't have any time to rest even though he was extremely tired and had his vision fading in and out at some points while he was destroying some AU's.

Yet he persevered through it all. Through the killing off monsters, the destruction of worlds, and the battle for control with Ink, he persevered.

Right now he was dealing with one very grumpy creator. Paint was flying as Error dogged with the help of his strings. His magic quickly materialized his gaster-blasters off to the side of Ink and fired off, but Ink was quick to dodge with a few summersaults backwards. Afterwards Ink used his over sized paint brush to create a line of paint brushes which he quickly sent flying Error's way. Error quickly brought up a wall with his strings and stopped the paint brushes in their tracks and let them fall to the ground of the half empty AU. Quickly Error sent any and all undamaged strings from the impromptu to wall at Ink, but they were quickly destroyed by a slash of paint by Inks paint brush. The paint slash didn't stop its path though and kept going towards Error forcing him to bend awkwardly to doge without losing his footing or the help of his still repairing strings.

It was after subjecting himself to the awkward, horrible, position to doge the attack that he felt an excruciating pain cover his body almost sending him to the ground with a screech of pain, but he gritted his teeth he keep himself quiet. He could not show weakness at the moment he needed to keep up the front that he was still fine or Ink would start bearing down on him like there was no tomorrow and leave him in a state where he would not be able to do his job for a few months if Nightmare had any say in the matter.

Even as the pain throbbed through his system Error looked for a way to use the terrain to make a clean get away. Currently the two were within the waterfall area of Storyfell, the flowing clear waters and shining crystals above were in great contrast to the dust covered paths and grasses that traversed the area something that hadn't been changed in the slightest by his annihilation of all the beings that lived in the underground. Nothing around the area initially caught his eye as a good escape route, but as he took a second look he noticed something that was just what he needed. Right above the two of them mostly hidden by the light produced by the crystals was a crack in the ceiling leaking dust and sand. A perfect impromptu smoke screen, and he had just the thing he needed to break in open.

With a swift motion he called up his gaster-blasters again and sent them shooting at Ink forcing the creator to dodge his attacks or risk getting injured. As Ink dogged the blasts of pure energy Error grabbed one of the discarded paint brush projectiles, hissing a bit as the ink the brush was made of burned away at his bones, and quickly threw it at high speeds at the cracks. Before Ink even got a chance to attack again the brush hit its mark and caused the area around the crack to reach its limit and break apart sending a cloud of sand and dust down over the two obscuring them from each other's view. Error took his now presented chance to escape to open a portal beneath his feet and allowed himself to fall through into the Anti-void leaving behind a very annoyed and sandy Ink in Storyfell.

Error didn't end up in much better shape though as he and at least a pound of dust and sand crashed down into the Anti-void hard. The crash didn't really register to Error though as the throbbing pain that had started in Storyfell intensified to levels that were even unbearable to him. He curled up there on his side as the intense pain continued mentally begging for it to stop, as time went on though the pain didn't lessen and he started crying from how bad the pain was.

He didn't know how long it took for the pain to finally decrease to more manageable levels, but it was long enough that the fallen sand and dust from Storyfell had time to have either settled onto him or disappeared into the expansive of the Anti-void. Slowly Error pushed himself into a seated position sending sand and dust flying again, excluding the dust and sand that was stuck to his clothes and tear stained face. Numbly he pulled out the inter-dimensional cell phone that Nightmare had basically forced him to have after he hadn't shown up for three month to their weekly meetings worrying Nightmare to near death and causing him to search through the entire multiverse for him. Nightmare hadn't been exactly happy with Ink when he found Error basically zombie like as he worked through destroying worlds trying to keep up with Ink's current creation spree. Nightmare had quickly stopped Error at that point with the one moment of stillness finally causing Error to pass out.

Error didn't really remember anything after killing the four hundredth-ish AU in a row, he kind of lost track by that point, and all he really remembered before passing out was seeing a ton of souls dusted before having Nightmare grab him and turn him to look at him planning to say something before he lost consciousness. He didn't wake up for an entire week after that, if Nightmare was right, and spent another week after that stuck in Nightmare's castle under Nightmare's direct orders to rest and regain his strength. He still had no clue how Nightmare kept Ink distracted for that entire time, but at some point during the week Nightmare had gotten him the phone from somewhere and explicitly told him that if he didn't get his call answered if it had been a week and Error hadn't shown up to their meeting them he was coming to find him and he was dragging Error back to his castle, he didn't care if Error was in the middle of destroying an AU or fighting Ink he was going to drag him back to the castle.

Slowly he opened his contacts and tried to remember witch contact of the two was Nightmare's and which was Blue's, now was not the time to accidentally call the sweet and kind Sans from Underswap. After a few minutes he figured it out and called the contact putting the phone to his "ear" as waited for the call to go through.

After two rings he heard the click that signified that the call had been picked up before hearing Nightmare say "hello?"

Error sighed a bit as he heard his friend on the line before saying "Hey Nightmare… can you come pick me up?"

Silence was what greeted him for a few minutes before he heard Nightmare ask "From were?"

Error almost snorted at the fact that Nightmare wasn't asking questions but he didn't as he realized that Nightmare probably heard the pain and fatigue in his voice. He didn't take long to reply as he said "The Anti-void."

After a second Error heard shuffling akin to if someone was just getting out of bed, most likely Nightmare had been asleep doing his job and fighting his brother Dream in the "Dream realm" better known as the plain of existence were people's minds went when they slept since they still hadn't thought of a better name for it that didn't involve Nightmare's brother's name, before Nightmare said "I'll be there in a few minutes."

With that the call ended and Error put away his phone as he let himself stare into the place he called his home and work place for a long time. Looking around initially you wouldn't think there was anything at all in this place except the pure white, silent, expanse that seemingly made up this place but a closer look revealed that in the expanse above a crisscross of blue strings that had not just souls captured in it but also a good few puppets and souvenirs he had grabbed from AU's he had to kill off. For the most part though it was souls that traversed the color and size spectrum as well as a few even being in different shapes then the normal souls. Personally Error enjoyed the look of one soul that looked like a bouquet of colorful flowers from one of the Gardentales.

After a few minutes Error was pulled out of his thoughts as he heard a portal opening and turned to see Nightmare, without the tar like substance that he normally let cover his body when he was about to fight, exiting a black rimed portal. Nightmare didn't ask any questions as he helped Error to his feet and instead seemed to be waiting for Error to explain why he needed him to pick him up, though he probably had a guess from the sand highlighted tear tracks. Error Answered the unasked question though with "The pain got that bad again."

Error watches as Nightmare's features went to shocked then worried before turning neutral as he said "You are going to a doctor then, but not right now. Right now, you need to get all of that sand off of you as well as to get some rest, you look like you just spent five days running then got caught in a sand storm."

Error gave a tired chuckle at the comparison before saying "Yeah, I kind of did." Before Nightmare lead him through a new portal into to the castle.

The portal dropped the two off in one of the castles many corridors onto the muted blue rug that covered the gray tiled flooring. After landing Nightmare was quick to grab Error's arm and start leading him through the castle. Error didn't make any comment at basically being dragged around because he had no clue on navigating Nightmare's castle. Sure he basically lived in this castle for a few years now but he was no good at getting around the place. He had once gotten lost in here after trying to find the kitchen when he was staying overnight during one of his first few visits after he and Nightmare had become friends and ended up in one of the towers and kept ending up back in said tower when he tried a few different paths to get back to somewhere more familiar. He had to wait till morning when Nightmare had noticed he was missing and found him in the tower to finally get anywhere beside the blasted tower. The problem never got any better after that, he always ended up getting stuck in some random room even after Nightmare had given him not only another tour but also a map of the place. Neither of them was at all sure how this kept happening, but both of them had given up on the idea of it at this point and decided that Error was better off just being guided around by Nightmare and that he should not try to get around himself.

After a few turns Nightmare opened one of the doors to reveal a sky blue tiled bathroom equip with a shower as well as a separate jacuzzi bath tub. On one of the walls next to a full-length mirror was a towel rack. Upon opening the door Nightmare let go of Error and gave him a light push into the room as he said "go get yourself cleaned, just leave your cloths on the floor, I'm going to go get you something to sleep in."

With that Nightmare closed the door and left to gather Error some night clothes. He didn't mind doing this in the slightest, especially after learning after one of the first meet ups with Error that Error actually didn't own any other clothes then the ones he normally wore, then again it kind of made sense when he realized that Error was usually extremally busy and barely had time to eat much less buy or change cloth. Error had even gone on month long killing sprees just to keep up with his counterpart to keep the multiverse alive. Besides Error was his friend, the least he could do was loan his friend a change of clothes, even if he was going to have a bit of fun with Error by what he gave him.

Error only sighed as the door closed before he started getting undressed dumping the sand cover clothes on floor as well as removing his slippers and leaving them by the pile before entering the shower. For a bit after turning on the water Error just stood their letting the heated water run over his body and dull all the pain that usually covered his body including the new addition of the ink burn on his hand. He didn't stay like that for long though as he felt the dust and sand still on him get stuck in his joints. With a few mumbles of annoyance he grabbed the nearby bar of soap and started cleaning himself up, mentally thanking the multiverse that he wasn't having to bath in a waterfall like he use to before he and Nightmare became friends, by no means was that fun and it didn't do to much to actually get him clean.

After he cleaned off all the soap Error turned off the water and stepped out of the shower, not caring that he was dripping water, and walked over to the towel rack grabbing a towel off it and started drying himself off. Absentmindedly Error let himself look in the mirror at his uncovered body noting all the still healing and healed over wounds that traversed his body. Some were just simple cuts and scratches that had happened when he had just barely dogged an attack, missing most of it but barely getting hit, others looked like holes or slashes in the bone from when random attacks from other monsters besides Ink that he had to battle had managed to hit and do damage to him. The most prominent were the burns that were on any areas that were not normally covered by his clothes. All of those wounds were caused by Ink and his blasted paint and were fairly slow to heal, usually taking on upwards to a few months to heal in most cases. Though he didn't usually notice them much like most pain so he often forgot he had them.

Error was quickly pulled out of his thoughts as he heard the door open causing him to turn his head and look and see who it was, not bothering to cover himself up. Upon turning he saw Nightmare at the door carrying a bundle of cloths showing no indication of being bothered by seeing the other unclothed, modesty was something the both of them had long ago gotten rid of with each other albeit for different reasons.

Nightmare waisted no time and threw the bundle of cloths at Error who just dropped the towel and caught the clothes without batting an eye as Nightmare said "change into these."

Without a thought Error put on the night clothes and once he looked at himself in the mirror after he had gotten them on could only laugh at what he saw. He was wearing a fairly common long sleeve, button up, white, top and a pair of white pajama pants. What really got him laughing was the fact that it for some unknown reason it looked like it had paint splats on it. After a second Error could also hear Nightmare cracking up as he said "you look like Ink when he's in the middle of creating a new AU!"

Error could only nod in agreement as he continued laughing.

After a bit the two finally got ahold of themselves and left the bathroom with Nightmare in the lead finally taking Error to a guest bed room and directing him inside, after which he said he had some work to do to get Error set up for tomorrow before he exited the room and closed the door behind him. As soon as Nightmare was gone Error gave a sigh and plopped down on the bed. Error wasn't really excited to be going to see a doctor, no matter if it was for a good reason or not, but he had promised to go see a doctor if the pain spiked up that bad again and he was going to keep his promise. With that Error got under the covers and let himself fall asleep as thoughts of what could possible happen, mostly bad, passed through his head.

Glassplant: And there we go, chapter two. Hope you guys like it. If you did leave a comment below telling me what you think, I love to read them. see you next time when I got another chapter of this ready.