Hey guys, whats up? I'm back with another chapter, and here is where we will start our voting portion again. Two main things help drive the story: Karma and Favor. Karma is a general rating of how good of a person Bryan has been in the story so far. Favor affects individual interactions; positive favor results in friendly conversations, negative causes neglect, distrust, disgust, or in extreme cases hostility. Choices will affect these two stats, so choose wisely. ;)

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[Sans]

"hey! what are you guys doing in here?!" shouted Sans as he opened his door. All of the MDF members were stuffed into his living room, all centered around a table in the middle. The place somehow wasn't a mess like they left it; likely because Papyrus decided to clean it up when they arrived.

"We're reading a map!" shouted Blue from across the room.

"Yeah, a f**king dumb one," scoffed Red. He began to laugh but he shrunk into his coat (again) when he saw Carrot standing over him.

"Hehe, sorry…"

"Hm, okay." Carrot stuck his cigarette in his mouth and turned away.

Bryan followed in behind him and pushed past to reach the center. Sans followed the opening that Bryan left and found the humans looking at a crudely drawn map that laid out the Underground. Sans was surprised to see how big the Underground actually seemed to those who didn't normally live there.

"So, what did you find out?" asked Bryan. Peter looked up from the map with an dissatisfied expression.

"Ugh, a lot, but none of it is good news. Error has re-stationed all of the Undertale souls at their normal locations, along with some minor groups of Void soldiers. At least, that's what we could see. That doesn't mean Nightmare or Dust or AU Manifests could be present as well."

"error is probably trying to lure us out," interrupted Sans, "leaving it this organized isn't like him. he's probably been ordered by the void king or is working with someone else to execute this."

"So what you're saying is is that this whole thing is a trap and we're already screwed?" asked Nathan. There was silence between all of those present.

"no, not yet." Sans grabbed the map and brought it closer to him. "we've been able to recover other manifests with relative ease, although i expect error and the void to have stepped up their game yet again. if we can surprise them and get them at a time error doesn't expect it, we may be able to recover at least one manifest before being pushed back by…whatever is out there." Sans analyzed the map.

"So, Sans, what do you think?" Sans was still silent. He was trying to run as many scenarios as possible through his head. Luckily, having lived through multiple resets allowed him to do this without any problems. He also had his own secondary objective that the others, except for Bryan, did not know about.

"first of all, if we want to surprise error we have to send a small contingency group of two or three people-."

"Are you insane?!" shouted Ink. "Even if the most powerful of us were sent we'd likely be outnumbered by such a magnitude there would be no hope that they would survive!"

"i know ink, but it's our only shot." Sans pointed towards Waterfall.

"undyne is too powerful to be taken on, unless we take frisk along. however, i have a feeling that a certain someone else will appear if we do that." He could hear Frisk gulp in the background.

"napstablook may cause mettaton and alphys to join the party, so that's a definite no." Sans peered at the extremely bad representation of Waterfall. There was something missing still from the equation, and he had to convince the others that the location he would meet Freddy was actually the correct one.

"aha! that's it. it's tem to get temmie." Mutters of confusion went through the crowd.

"SANS, WAS THAT A PUN?!"

"hehehehehehehehehe-."

"SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANS!" Everyone started to laugh.

"okay guys, in all seriousness, the only legitimate option right now is to take a shot at alphys. we would use whatever temmies we can find to distract undyne long enough to get into hotland, then once we get there we have to try and turn alphys around fast enough to allow her to interfere with mettaton's circuitry remotely to make it easier to turn mettaton. it's a high risk operation-."

"Sans, we don't even know how to turn someone around that fast. It's impossible."

"wrong. ink, remember what happened with the kid?" Everyone turned towards Ink, who was shocked to be called on. Sans saw him gag a bit before responding.

"Which kid?"

"frisk."

"What happened?"

"you used the special chrome paint thing-."

"Oh you mean that." Ink smiled a bit before he realized what Sans was leading him on to.

"Oh…you mean that."

"yes, i mean that."

"Sans, we don't know if it's reliable," said Evan, "it only worked once."

"Not only that Sans, but I used most of it already," commented Ink. "I only have a little bit left. It doesn't take that long to make it, but since we've been kicked out of the Shooting Star we don't have access to the folonium."

"you have to make it count then," said Sans, rolling up the map and putting his hand on Ink's shoulder as he passed him. He came in front of Bryan.

"whaddaya think kiddo? is it a go?" Sans sweated a bit. He knew the others, including Bryan, were reluctant. He hoped Bryan caught on to the fact that the reason he was using the Temmies to distract Undyne was not the simplest option, but because he thought he could find Freddy there.

Bryan made eye contact with Sans, and at that moment Sans knew that Bryan was in on Sans' plan.

"Yeah, I think this will work. It's worth a shot in my opinion."

"the kid and i will go. ink, you're coming with us." Ink sighed and his eyes turned into dodecagons.

"Ugh, okay. I guess I'll go."

"don't forget the folonium paint." Ink pulled the chrome paint out from one of his paint slots.

"I always have it on me-"

"good, then we're going now."

"Uwa!" Bryan and Sans walked out the door, followed by a flabbergasted Ink.

"You do know you could just teleport to Hotland, right?"

"lets not go over the minute details kiddo. we gotta job to do." The three exited Snowdin Town, but about five minutes out Sans suddenly turned around and grabbed Ink by the scarf, causing his eyes to turn to exclamation points.

"Classic, what the hell are you-"

"ink, no matter what, you don't tell anyone about this." Ink gulped.

"Y-Yea, sure Sans…" Sans reached his hand out to Bryan, who grabbed it.

"good." Sans focused all his energy into teleported, then closed his eyes. A click went off in his head, and he opened his eyes, finding himself in an empty Temmie Village. He dropped Ink's scarf and turned around, Bryan drawing his sword.

"Sans, it's…empty." Ink stood up and drew his paintbrush.

"Sans, we're not here for Temmies, are we?" he questioned. Sans nodded.

"no, we're here for something much, much more important." Ink's expression conveyed a sign of acknowledgment and acceptance.

"Okay, I guess I've been dragged into this one." Sans walked over to the Tem Shop and opened the door, but the lights were off. Tem was gone.

"wha…" He closed the door and turned around to see the other two looking as well.

"No sign of anything Sans," shouted Bryan. Ink didn't seem to have any luck as well.

"This place looks like it was abandoned awhile ago," said Ink. "Even though they are Temmies I can still tell this place is decrepit."

Sans was a bit confused; he didn't understand why Freddy would leave a sign like this then wind up not attending the party. Unless he was here, still hiding, since something extremely cliché was probably about to happen and Sans wasn't aware of it until-.

Sans activated his blue eye and summoned a bone katana just in time to block a downward slash from Error.

"error old buddy, how's it going?" asked Sans sarcastically. Little error signs popped all around Error's frustrated face. Bryan and Ink turned around, surprised.

"Grrrgh, Classic. Long time no see." Error jumped back and held his sword out to the side. Ink walked up to Sans' side and pointed his paintbrush at Error.

"What did I tell you Error? The Void won't let you destroy these universes. Nor will I, but that's beside the point." Error scoffed at him, and Sans noticed a couple shiny new gadgets Error had.

"error-"

"Oh, y-you mean these bad boys?" He held up the two metal bands he had.

"This allows me to extend m-my powers throughout the multiverse, past the Underverse. They work really well, I must say."

"wait, that means-" Sans jumped forward, startled by the giant thunk behind him. He turned behind, a nervous look in his eyes, as a glitched Freddy looked down at him from above.

"Sans," murmured Freddy, "don't resist. Just turn yourself and the kid over and we will be fine. The Void will not harm you-." Manny turned Sans towards Error and pointed the bone katana at him.

"How dare you use your powers on someone outside your control like this," shouted Manifest, "You're breaking the basic laws of the Manifestation."

"Says the god," laughed Error, his voice fluctuating. Manifest instantly retreated, leaving Sans to himself.

"manifest, you okay bro-"

"ENOUGH OF THIS BANTER!" shouted Error, "I want to have a rematch. A real rematch." Sans wiped his face and gave Error a smile.

"well, if a fight is what you want it's what you're going to get. bad times await you." Sans let loose a battle-laugh and teleported up to Error, slashing his sword towards Error's torso. Error jumped back as the katana swooshed by him, leaving errors in his stead. He leaned back then threw blue wires towards Sans, who jumped up and teleported to dodge them. Error's left eye then glowed brighter, and Freddy jumped up in the air to strike down on Sans with his microphone. Sans teleported behind him then hit him with the pommel of his katana, causing him to crumple to the ground temporarily.

"GRAAAAAH!" Bryan charged in from behind Sans and jumped up to bring his sword down on Freddy but Sans blocked it with his bone katana.

"hey kid, remember, we can't kill them, only heal them." He glimpsed back at Ink to see him prepping his paintbrush with the folonium paint.

"Oh I don't think so Ink." Error threw a flurry of blue wires at Ink, tying up his arms and legs.

"No!" Ink wrestled to get out of the wires. Sans rushed over to cut them, but Freddy appeared in front, his eyes blocked by the black glitch. Sans teleported up, slashed him in the face, then proceeded to kick his legs out from beneath him. Freddy threw a microphone grenade as he fell to the ground, causing Sans to push Bryan back as the grenade launched shrapnel throughout the cave. Sans glimpsed towards Tem Shop before turning back to Freddy, who had just gotten up. Sans watched as Freddy spun a watch on his left wrist and transformed into a small human, who was now fourteen or fifteen instead of twelve or thirteen as the images had displayed.

"god dammit kiddo, we can't get to ink without getting by him." Error was rapidly pulling in Ink with his strings, but there was nothing he could do. Sans and Bryan both charged Freddy, who summoned a magical microphone stand out of thin air and spun it around like a staff.

"oh crap." Sans slid to dodge the swipe of Freddy's stand while Bryan vaulted over it. Sans slashed down towards his legs, and Bryan to his neck, but Freddy blocked both with his stand. He kicked back Bryan and uppercut Sans, hitting him in the chin.

-.1 HP

"ow," muttered Sans, wiping a bit of ketchup off of his chin. Ink was almost to Error now, and there was no time to attack.

Sans summoned a Gaster Blaster in a last ditch attempt to slice the blue wires, but a bone attack came out of nowhere, shredding through the wires and freeing Ink.

"Wait, what?!"

"Time Kid to the rescue!" shouted TK, falling out from the sky. Error fired more blue wires and some glitched bones at TK, but he dodged them with ease. Ink picked up his paintbrush from the ground and wiped off his arms with his scarf.

"Nice going kid."

"You little TIME BUG!" TK jumped and countered the blue wires with a Gaster Blaster, then teleported over to Sans.

"I heard you'd need some help," laughed TK, while Sans was drinking some refreshing ketchup to heal himself.

"who told 'ya that?" TK pointed towards Freddy, who's glitched eyes darted back and forth frantically.

"That guy." TK suddenly fell over, his legs pulled out from him by Error's blue wires.

"Welp!" Ink ran over and painted a red line over the wires, slicing them in half.

"Grrgh," Error summoned a glitched bone katana and threw out a wrapped up Determination Soul, which began to glow red as it reformed. Sans' left eye began to flash between aqua and yellow faster than ever before, his patience beginning to wear thin.

"oh you have to be kidding me." Error ran forward as Chara reformed to his right, following him into the fury. Freddy joined Error to his left in the charge straight towards Sans. Sans stuck his ketchup bottle back into his hoodie pocket and began to channel his power.

"ready manny?" No response. They were getting closer.

"hello? manifest?" Still no response.

"aw, forget it." Sans jumped back and summoned a Gaster Blaster to fry his opponents, but Chara jumped up, kicked him back, and slashed the blaster in half. Sans somersaulted to land back on his feet. Bryan ran up behind and attempted to shield bash Error, but Error teleported out of the way, causing Bryan to run through an error storm and fall over.

Ink drew a blue circle around him on the ground, which materialized into a shield. Freddy's microphone grenade bounced off the shield, causing Freddy and Error to move out of the way to avoid getting hit by the shrapnel. TK came up behind Error and tried to bone attack him, but Error grabbed his arm and threw him against the wall. TK fell to the ground, unconscious.

Chara charged Sans, who dodged the knife attack. He brought a bone attack up from the ground, but Chara side stepped and ran up to Bryan, who they cut across the chest with. Bryan stumbled back, blood oozing from the cut.

"Gaah," Bryan leaned against the wall, holding his cut. Chara came up and attempted to stab him through the head, but Bryan moved just out of the way to dodge. Chara was too fast, and they stabbed Bryan through the heart on the next attack.

"GRAHAHA!" shouted Bryan.

"noOOO!" Sans unleashed a fury of Gaster Blasters on Chara, who turned around, surprised. The blasters fried Chara, causing the world to go dark, and the red outline of their soul to shatter. Sans wasn't too terribly worried about this, since the kiddo would just attempt to reset and start over.

Sure enough, the world reloaded back to where Chara was charging Bryan on the wall. Chara was about to stab Bryan again through the head but Sans teleported over and pushed the kid back with a bone blast.

"not this time kiddo."

"Thanks, I guess," stammered Bryan, whose hands were beginning to bloody up from the deep gash Chara left. Sans hit a microphone back at Freddy like a baseball before quickly tossing up his cube. He quickly snapped his power glasses back on and the cube latched onto the side. Evan's picture came up in the top right corner, the glasses analyzing Error's unpredictable and rash fighting style.

"Yo Sans, what's up?"

"bryan got a deep gash, tk's unconscious, error was waiting for us. we need support, stat."

"I'll send Carrot and Toriel over, stat."

"thanks." Evan blinked out of existence just in time for Sans to slid under a Freddy stand swipe. Ink, meanwhile, blocked a knife slash from Chara then stomped on the ground, causing a black ink bubble to appear below Chara. Chara fell into the ink puddle, surprised, then popped out of a second bubble, where Ink drew a blue rune in the air, changing their soul blue. He slammed them against the wall several times before he lost control of Chara's soul.

"reinforcements soon, just gotta hold out until then." Sans turned around and saw Error bringing TK in with the blue wires. Sans teleported over and slashed them just before TK hit Error. TK woke up in midair and landed himself.

"Geez, what did I miss?" Sans tossed him his bottle of ketchup and turned back towards Error.

"finish it kid. i'll take it from here." Sans chopped towards Freddy, shattering his worn microphone stand.

"Aw man, now I have to get a new one- OOMPH!" Sans shot him back with a Gaster Blast before turning to Error.

"nowhere to run error." He heard a woosh in the background, meaning Carrot had just arrived with Toriel.

"Hahahaha, HAHAHA!" laughed Error. "You've changed Classic, you all have changed. Think about it. Since when were you this ambitious or vengeful?"

"i've always been vengeful error, i just take my chances." Error laughed again, slowly backing up towards the wall. Sans watched as he began to near the Tem Shop door. He felt a little nervous.

"This boy," he mocked, pointing at Bryan, who was being treated by Toriel, "has changed you Classic. And not necessarily in a good way."

"you're the one to talk. you're the bug here. now get out before i swat you out of the sky." Sans had Error up against the wall, his bone katana up against Error's chin.

"last chance error, give up." Error just smiled.

"No." Error swung open the Tem Shop door and ran inside, leaving Sans to realize his worst fears were coming true.

"oh shit." Sans followed Error in, but he had already jumped down the secret trapdoor in the back left corner of the room. Sans jumped down as well, seeing Error running up to the fragile Undertale Fragment, ready to strike it down. Error was suddenly frozen in place just in time to prevent him from hitting the crystal. Sans turned to see Carrot holding him still.

"Hehe, no." Error turned with a nervous look just as Carrot snapped his fingers, causing a giant cage with a hyper Blueberry in it to appear.

"HOOMAN HOOMAN HOOMAN HOOMAN HOOOOOMAN!" Blue ran around, continuously running into the bars. Sans looked back at Blue, disturbed. Carrot gave him a glare, telling him to go along with it, since Error seemed just as disturbed.

"Remember that day in the Temmieverse-"

"No, no NO! Not that again!" shouted Error. Blue stopped momentarily and saw Error, stars in his eyes.

"MWEH HEHEHEHEH! I, THE MAGNIFICENT SANS, WILL CAPTURE ERROR THEN TURN HIM INTO A HOOMAN THEN GIVE HIM TO ALPHYS THEN EAT MORE SUGAR!" Error frowned, unamused.

"Nice try Carrot." Carrot froze. Blueberry stopped running around and he looked at Carrot.

"So, how did I do?" Carrot got hit back by an Error bone blast and he trapped Blueberry in the cage with more bones. Sans teleported in front of Error just in time to block him from hitting the crystal, half of which was covered with blue wires and was dark, and breaking it into pieces.

"error, don't." Sans felt Error slowly overpower him, but without Manny's strength there was nothing he could do.

"don't…do…it."

"Goodbye Classic." Error continued to press down, but suddenly Sans felt Manny come back to life.

"I-I'm sorry…"

"lets do it."

Sans transformed into Manifest Forme and blasted Error back with a second katana.

"GRAAAAGH!" Sans used telekinesis to take Error outside of the Fragment holding room and place him outside Tem Shop, held down by Sans. His soul occasionally glitched out, but there was nothing to allow him from escaping.

Freddy and Chara were both laid out on the ground, the glitch still covering their eyes. Ink was leaning on his paintbrush, the folonium paint in hand, with TK and Bryan standing off to the side with Toriel, a weakened Carrot limping over then falling over.

"Papyrus?" She poked him, but Carrot didn't move.

"Queen?" Toriel laughed.

"You must be thinking of your Toriel."

"Oh, darn. I'll just be sleeping then…" Carrot began to sleep, causing Sans to laugh.

"GRASIRHPWEIWE!" Error began to wiggle, his soul starting to flash away from blue more and more frequently. Blueberry opened the door from the Tem Shop.

"MWEH HEH HEH! Lazy me, how are you?" Sans' blue eye got dim for a moment.

"kinda busy at the moment-"

"GRPWIEHFPWOEFPWOEJFPWEOJFPOJ!" Error's soul began to shift to predominantly glitch, meaning Sans couldn't hold him down for much longer. He turned to Ink.

"bro, how much of that paint do you have left?"

"Only enough for one charge!" he shouted in return. Sans gritted his teeth. Only one charge…

"Sans, who should I use it on?!" Sans was about to speak before Bryan stood up, clutching the bandage wrapped around his torso.

"I know."

I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter!

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Credit for all characters besides Peter, Bryan, Kurt, Kaitlyn, the Void King, Manny, and the Elite Squadron belong to their respective creators in the Undertale Community. Freddy belongs to Scott Cawthon.

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-Blox