IMPORTANT A/N AT THE BOTTOM, PLEASE READ!

Chapter Six: Confusion

"...up..."

"...ke up...!"

"WAKE UP!"

"Ah!"

Blueberry bolted awake at the sudden scream. He attempted to move but his body was back in the restraints of Error's cables. Even if it weren't, his head throbbed too much from the magic he had used before for him to even think about moving.

The first thing that came to Blueberry's mind was Sans. Where was he?! Was he alive?! He knew that Sans was frail. That wound could have very well dusted him...

"Blueberry..."

Blueberry turned to the voice, seeing Ink beside him, ensnared in the same cables he was. Ink looked...different than when he saw him before. His eyes no longer had the expressive shapes and colors they had before. They were just neutral, white colored. Blueberry could see tearstains on Ink's cheeks but no emotion at all in his expression.

"Ink?!"

For a moment, the little skeleton forgot about the cables he was in and tried reaching a hand towards Ink. Bad idea. No sooner could Blueberry put his hand out, his SOUL felt as if a knife were stabbing it and his head throbbed. His arm soon began to shake before he had to drop it back to his side.

"Don't try to move." Ink advised, his eyes averting Blueberry's concerned gaze. "All it will do is make your SOUL hurt worse. A mortal like you might even get dusted by them. I am sorry that I could not stop Error from dooming you in the end..."

"Dooming?!" Blueberry didn't want to hear or beleive those words. "How do you know that I'm doomed?! You don't-"

Blueberry stopped midsentence as memories of the fight that resulted in him being here poured back into mind:

Death would be Mercy to you...

YoU cAn'T hIt a gLiTcH!

Closing his eyes, teleporting when he wasn't fully sure how he did...

The bones flying everywhere...

The liquid leaking from Sans...

In the back of his mind, Blueberry knew that Ink's statement was right - he was doomed. He and Ink both were at Error's mercy. He already knew that Error had no mercy. Beyond talking to. Just a careless glitch. The very thought hurt Blueberry's SOUL worse than even the cables. Up until now he had always beleived that he could find good in everyone, that no one was ever truly evil, that people just make bad choices and with friends they can change.

Today he learned that his old philosophies were wrong. Sometimes, the only good mercy for some is death. That was Error's case. There was no bringing him to light - the only light he could be brought to was the afterlife.

Yet, Blueberry wondered. Why? Who changed Error? Who made him feel this way?

He sighed. He likely will never know.

"I'm sorry I got you into this..." Ink said after a moment. "I thought I could save you. I didn't think Error would even mess with Classic. He loves that timeline..."

"It's okay, Ink! It's not your fault!" Blueberry's instincts urged him to attempt to cheer Ink up. "You were only trying to protect me. And I'm really grateful for that, honest!"

"It was for nothing in the end ..." Ink frowned. "At least you will see your brother."

Blueberry looked down. Yes. If he did get dusted he would see his dear brother. However, he didn't feel excited to meet him. Something told him that even his lazy, smoking brother would be disappointed in him if he were to dust now. There was more he could do. He could make this situation better.

But what was he supposed to do?

"Where's Sans?" Blueberry found himself asking. Surely the multiverse creator would know.

Ink closed his eyes. He didn't know how to put what he was about to say. He knew what happened to Sans. He had seen a glimpse of it when Error tied Blueberry up here.

"Sans...is alive, I can say that much." Ink said. "As for where he is, I can't tell. Even if I wasn't like this, I was never able to track the SOULS of those I didn't create myself."

Blueberry frowned. He felt tears forming in the corners of his eyesockets. For the first time, the Magnificent Sans was feeling helpless. Helpless and worried to death about Sans. What was Error even doing?! There was no telling. Whar's worse is he was tied up here, unable to do a thing to help. Error was probably tourturing Sans!

"I want to do something! There has to be something, anything, we can do!" the stressed skeleton shouted, eyes shut tightly as if screaming hard and loud enough would grant him an answer.

"I wish there was, Blueberry...really." Ink said, grey eyes sparking a bit in the white void. "But there isn't. This is Error's realm. Classic is his timeline. That...was the agreement of the truce..."

"What kind of agreement was that?!" Blueberry yelled, upset.

"Error wanted to control something." Ink said. "And in all technicality, Classic isn't even an AU. I have no right to meddle around in it. So, in exchange for Error to quit messing with my creations, I agreed to leave Classic be his universe to control."

"So...you put me there, knowing it was his universe to control?!"

Ink looked down. It hurt to admit his mistake. The mistake he knew he had made the moment he put Blueberry into the Classic timeline. Tears fell down his face once more, fading to nothing before they could hit the blank floor.

"I did." Ink finally up and said it. "He has never gone into that world directly. All he does there is keep the child RESETTING. He never kills anyone from Classic directly. He has always beleived that Classic had the perfect story, afterall. It wouldn't be the same if he personally took someone out of the picture, right? I didn't think he would ever come there and see you. I thought you'd be safe..."

"But you knew, Ink...you knew that was...his story to control, right?" Blueberry asked, tears in his eyes. The poor little skeleton felt upset. Angry, betrayed...alone.

"You KNEW Classic was at Error's mercy. You AGREED to it! Yet you still sent me there! Right into danger! And now Sans is in it too!"

Blueberry's eyes were shut tightly as he said this, tears falling down his face and sliding down his cheekbones. He just couldn't beleive it. Ink had shoved him facefirst into danger. Made him beleive he was safe when he knew that it was anything but a safe situation. How could he do that?! Blueberry trusted him!

It took some time for Ink to respond.

"I know what this looks like, Blueberry." he said. "But please, beleive me when I say I did not want to put you in danger on purpose. You're my creation. I love all of my creations as infinate as they are. I would never purposely send one into danger. Truly, I thought Error would never change the story of Classic himself by going in there. With the circumstances, putting you into Classic was the best chance of your safety."

Blueberry calmed but only a little. He was still hurt that Ink hadn't told him everything. However, he also knew that Ink was really just trying to give Blueberry the best chance of survivial. Had Ink placed him in a random AU, Error would just attack it directly, right? Attack it, kill everyone in it...

Cause another Sans to lose his brother...

"Alright. I understand, Ink...I'm not mad at you...it's just..." Blueberry felt more tears coming. "I didn't want it to end like this!"

"I didn't think Error would ever take things this far." Ink admitted. "Maybe he's getting bored too. With us stuck like this, there's no telling how this story is going to end up. But now that he has Classic Sans, the outcome can't be good..."

"SANS!" Papyrus's angry voice sounded as he kicked open the door to the house. "Sans, it is MIDNIGHT! Stop boondoggling around out here and get to bed! You'll get sick if you don't and I don't want to babysit-"

Papyrus stopped midway through losing his noodle, seeing that his brother was not on the porch. The first place he glanced towards was Grillby's. He could usually always see his brother's blue hoodie through the glass walls of the place when he was there. However, all of the lights in the resteraunt were off, the normally crowded tables empty and chairs pushed in nicely. The CLOSED sign on the door swayed a bit in the silent, icy winds.

"...Sans...?"

The second thing Papyrus saw was the damage to the side of the house. Sans's mailbox was charred and knocked over, the junk mail in it spewn through the snow, most envelopes either burnt or soaked. His own mailbox was barely standing, hanging sideways. He'll have to reattach it tomorrow. As well as paint the house! There was a huge char mark on the side! How on earth did no one notice?!

But seeing all this made Papyrus worry. Yes, he was mad at his brother. But all of this damage set alarms off in the skeleton's brain. There was a fight here and an intense one. The char marks were no doubt made by Gaster Blasters. That meant Sans had actually faught - and Papyrus knew that his lazy brother would never fight unless the situation were dire.

He had to gather up the human and let Undyne know immediately! She would know what to do!

Rushing inside, Papyrus almost ran right into Frisk, who had wandered downstairs after seeing that Papyrus was no longer on the couch with them. The red blanket they had been wrapped in was trailing behind them as they looked at Papyrus with a confused expression.

"Human!" Papyrus yelped in shock. "The Great Papyrus did not expect you to be awake so soon! Is something troubling you?"

Frisk was always a mute. They had been this way since they were born. Never said one word, no matter how hard their parents tried every day to get them to speak. They'd been taken to the doctor and found that their vocal cords were perfectly healthy and that Frisk would speak when they were ready. However, here they sat at 8 years of age and had still not spoken a word.

Frisk looked towards the window quizzically, tilting their head as if to ask 'what happened?'

"That is what we are going to find out! I'm calling Undyne right this minute!" Papyrus yelled as he rushed past Frisk and towards the phone.

Undyne would not be happy to get a call at nearly 1 o'clock in the morning...

A/N:

Okay. Okay... I know. It has been 4 months without an update and I bet everyone is tossing tomatoes and ketchup bottles at me. Before you readers give me a bad time, please allow me to explain.

These past few months have...not been exactly easy when it comes to writing. A long story short, after the holidays simmered down and I could begin on this chapter things began getting intense here. My father had been ill and it had required trips back and forth to the hospital throughout the end of January and Febuary. With me spending most time either helping with him or sleeping, I could not even write. He ultimately passed away and it hasn't been until now that I could get done with the grieving part of things enough to even churn out this chapter. For letting my readers hang, I am sincerely sorry.

In midst of all of that, I have decided to revamp this fanfiction as during my free time I did get, I have been able to RP out my concepts a bit via 1x1s as well as learn more about Undertale AUs and form more headcanons with that knowledge. As such, I now have a firmer idea of how I would like this to go and how I would like to present this little "AU" of Undertale and its multiverse to you.

First of all, I do want to state that this series will be two, possibly three books long. I am not sure of how many chapters a book solidly, but each chapter should be my usual: around 2-3k words of content. Whilst Blueberry and his adventure will be a prime focus as origibally planned, there may be mentions of other AUs in the story as well. All expected warnings will be covered on the first page of the rewrite.

The rewrite is scheduled to be released within the next two or three days and I wlll be editing the chapters in which I have already written (up until this one). Due to that I should be able to keep updates at a solid 1-3 days per, but then going to once a week after I have to write everything from scratch, which is a chore to do on mobile.

I want to thank everyone for the reviews and the faves and follows. It truly makes me happy that this random little concept bunny I got os being read and enjoyed. I do hope that you look forward to a rewrite with a clearer purpose and more frequent updates and that you will continue to review, follow and favorite it when it comes out.

Until then, happy reading!

-Icee The Hedgehog