Redemption requires action
The two girls sat in the darkness as everything in this world reset around them. Aurora's appearance has switched back to normal, and she was holding the snow globe in her hands like it was her life line. "So, um, how much did you hear?"
"Not too much," Segoe assured,"You were mumbling anyway."
Aurora nods relieved,"I was talking my heart out and it was a bit embarrassing for me..." she pulls the snow globe to her heart.
Segoe's eyes flashed back to a painful memory. Then she nodded, "I understand...Talking to myself helps me, too."
"At least you have friends to talk to, I am alone for most of my life... you saw my wounds right? Well not all of them where from a fight." Dancetales' megolovania plays from the snow globe.
"What do you have there..? Dancetale?" Segoe frowned thoughtfully. Moving to find a seat next to the dragon shape-shifter.
"yes, this is my favorite memory" Aurora smiles down at it, then starts to cry "It is also where I learned that no one remembers me once I have been removed from their world."
Segoe sits gently next to Aurora, "I'm so sorry...Oh, here!" She did an odd spiraling motion with her hands, a small figure apearing underneath her gloved palms. Ink magic. It looked live a silhouette of Dancetale Sans. Then, as if Segoe were it's puppeteer, it danced as she mover her fingers with it. "It's just a little party trick, but I hope this helps..."
"I can do one better, though it always ends." Aurora smiles sadly and gets up and walks out a little bit and starts to hum along, as she does so the snow globe begins to expand and engulf the girls. Segoe finds herself on the sidelines as Aurora curtsies to Sans and begins to dance.
Sans smiles, shaking his head,"How many times have you done this, and this time you brought a friend?"
Segoe's eyes widened to full moons, orb-like irises swapped for stars. "I-Is he real..?"
Both Sans and Aurora laugh at Segoes reaction. "I am real to an extent, I am her memory of me, I know everything that I knew before this, and what she has told me, but the real me is still in his world."
Aurora hugs Sans and begins to cry as he hugs her. "I miss you, Sans."
"I know my little Draco."
A small streak of purple appears on Aurora's face as she pulls back from the hug, wrinkling her nose at him,"I asked you not to call me that!"
Segoe's knees buckled, "I-I've never seen m-magic like this!" She scanned over her thoughts frowning in defeat, "How?! It doesn't fall under any listed category!"
"My connection to the Void has strengthened my mental will, and with me ability to manipulate a person's personal timeline, I am able to also make copies of times and places and return to them at will. Though there is a price to this kind of thing..." Aurora says as some small cuts appear on her body. "Each memory I freeze requires a bit of myself to sustain the magic."
"Which is why I asked you not to do this when you first told me about it." Sans says gruffly. Aurora just looks at the ground in shame.
"I couldn't let this memory fade." She turns to Segoe "Each snow globe is made up of one of my scales, which is why it is possible for me to do this."
"Oh..." Segoe deadpanned. Her fingers traced the scale in her jacket pocket gently.
"It was nice to see you again, and to met you miss, but it is time to go." Sans gently pushed Aurora away.
It's like she made this before he met me...Segoe thought.
"I know but still, thank you for understanding." The walls slowly close in as the snow globe is back to it's original size. The dark room that we where in has started to be pieced back together as the world slowly loads. Aurora looks around,"It wont be long now."
"Never doubt Courier," Segoe nodded. Then her eyes averted in embarrassed triangles,"What now? I didn't plan this far ahead!" She released a nervous chuckle.
"Well, I haven't finished the job, so I will have to do that, don't get this wrong, but I am not in any rush to finish this. Though I will do it, so I will be staying here and going with them in this run." Aurora tilts her head to one side. "I have a plan for when this is over, this world will not be Reset again."
Segoe nodded, filled with a brief sense of determination. "Sounds good! But I need to get back home, I've got a couple a' knuckleheads to check on...The ones from the snow globe I mean-Heh..." She remembers what Aurora said earlier, and feels guilty.
"It is alright Segoe, It has been roughly two hundred years from that day, my heart only feels an echo of that pain, I shall keep him in my memories, even though I am not in his." Aurora walks over to the snow globe, picking it up she holds it close to her heart. "Do you mind if I could meet this Courier person? I wish to thank them."
"Oh of course! She'd love to meet you, I'm sure the others would too!" Her irises swapped for stars, bouncing back and forth on her feet.
Aurora blinks. "you are so much like him..." she says, a sad smile on her face. "To the Void?" she held out the hand that wasn't holding the snow globe.
"To the void!" Segoe chirped, then her face turned serious,"Him?" Her eyes became a rhombus and an upside-down question mark.
"You remind me so much of Blueberry and Ink," she smiled at the thought,"They where so much fun to be around." A purple light flashes in the room, when it fades nothing remained.
-In the Void.
After the flash faded the Girls found themselves in the void once more. "Ah, it always feels good to be home!" Aurora smiled happily.
Segoe pulled out her "walkie-talkie" and sent a group message: "Segoe Script to crew, meet at coordinates x-34 y-28 z-16 for a meeting!"
"Sounds fun, want me to bring anything?" Aurora smiled a bit nervously.
"What would you like?" Segoe asks quizzically.
Aurora smiled a bit evilly, and reached out and pulled a life sized puppet of Error "want to scare them?"
"Aww yeah! This'll scare the socks of Avenir!" Her pupils became a star and an upside-down heart. Excitement evident at the thought of her friends' reactions.
"This is going to be a bit weird but...Lets Do This!" Aurora's entire body turns into a purple mist and enters the puppet, making it more real. the Puppet stood up and begin to move around. "T-t-t-this is alwa-a-a-ays a bit uncom-m-m-m-fortable at first."
"I know what to do!" Segoe pulled her stylus from her bag, selecting a dark blue, and running it in the air in front of herself,"Hold on a bit, and don't freak out." The coils of blue ink wrapped around her not unlike tangible threads. They mimicked Error's strings and they expanded to suspend her from the ceiling. "Go puppet," she joked gently with a lidded grin, mimicking Sans.
'Error' nods "Do yo-o-ou want t-t-to pretend f-f-fight?" there is a note of suppressed joy.
"Oh..." Segoe blushes uncomfortably, "I-If it's for the act," She worked her way out of the strings.
"Wait...Can you mimic his magic?"
In her normal voice she side "After fighting him a couple times I time froze some of his attacks here in the void that I can pull up if need be," she laughed,"Surprised him when I fired his own Gaster Blaster at him!" 'Error's' eye glowed and a Gaster blaster appeared, "See?"
"Woah!" Segoe repressed a shiver, "that's pretty realistic!"
The echo of an opening portal resounds through the void, Segoe's face paled,"Someone's here!"
*Aurora challenges Segoe to a battle*
A sudden staticky glitching noise erupts as the title changes to:
*Error challenges Segoe to a battle*
"I f-f-f-found you you dirty Gli-i-i-itch!" with a wave of his hands 'he' sent a wave of bones at Segoe.
A horrendously shattered, cyan soul erupted from Segoe and she tried to hide it as she dodged. Her face flushed as she met eyes with 'Error.'
'Error' look at her and smiled,"I-i-i-it looks as we-e-eak as ever!" with another wave ribbons erupted from 'his' fingers, almost unnoticeable a purple light surrounded the soul shielding it.
A small notice appeared in Segoes sight: *The Void shall protect your soul, don't fear for I don't judge*
Segoe nodded unnoticeably. False-struggling against "Error's" attack, she shouted indignantly, "You'll never destroy the AUs, Error!"
"What the h*** is going on?!" A feminine voice shouted: Aclonica of Underfell.
"Wha-Segoe?!" Another gasped: Courier of Outertale-Nekotale refugee.
The act was going great as "Error" cackled.
"Augh! Error!" wailed the voice of Avenir of Underswap.
Score!
"Nu! Moma!" That was not the right voice. Helvectia of Horrortale protected two small children.
"Th-h-he look on yo-o-our faces" with a wave of 'his' hands a Gaster Blaster appeared, "Well, I wouldn't gr-r-r-race it with a desc-c-c-cription.
Another note appeared: *want to stop?*
*I don't want to scare Snowy and Chara! So, yes please!*
Suddenly all of the attacks froze in mid air. A quiet laugh fills the air as the Void swallowed the bones, the strings, and the Blaster. "I am sorry but that was to funny!"
Segoe dropped from her bindings, recollecting her patient soul, and rushing to the two behind Helvectia.
"I'm so sorry you two! I didn't know they would bring you here!" She embraced the Elementtale siblings.
Aclonica appeared to be the only one enjoying the joke. The Helvectia laughed. Courier tried, too.
Avenir was crying,"Segoe!" He wailed,"I thought it was Error and he got you!"
"Not too far from the truth," A purple mist leaves 'Error' as it does so it becomes a puppet once more. "It is nice to meet you all! Oh, and welcome to my home everyone!" out of the void a table appears with Enough chairs for everyone. "It has been a good many years from the last time I had people over."
Segoe chuckled with something unreadable. The group settled at the table, though the youngest two were wary of the shifter. "So your..?" Aclonica growled.
"Call me Aurora, I am a denizen of the Void. I have taken up a request with Segoe to fix a few things, and I wanted to meet her friends." She turns to Segoe, she waves her hand and the purple glow that was surrounding her soul faded away. "Oh and please don't freak out!" as she said this the mist came together and formed Aurora's dragon Form.
Snowy gripped Segoe's jacket as she picked him up, he buried his face in her flank. Chara hovered threateningly over her head. "Aurora...please," Segoe rolled her eyes, adjusting the bundle on her hip. The rest of the group was taking it quite well, only exchanging hushed questions.
"Fine!" Her form is once more covered with mist, when it vanishes Aurora appears in her child form. She then walks over to the table and touches it, whispering something in an unknown language. Out of the Void food appears on the Table, a mix between everyone's favorite food. "Is this Better?"
"Woah!" Chara exclaimed,"Snowflake, look!"
"Is that ButterscotchCinnamon pie?!" He whipped around in Segoe's lap, she chuckled at his response.
"Better," she smiled thankfully.
"So your not a frigging dragon god or are you?" Aclonica was looking edgier than usual.
"If you want to call me that, go ahead, I am simply an old part of the Void, I have had a long time to practice my magic." She snaps her fingers and suddenly she is on the other side of the table, and she was wearing Aclonica's hoodie,"Like so, this thing is actually quite comfortable."
"H-HEY! Give that back!" Aclonica yowls.
"Why...Is it your BOYFRIEND'S?" Segoe smiled wickedly.
"N-No I-" Aclonica turned red.
Aurora Snaps her fingers again, this time Aclonia had her hoodie back but the table was now on the 'ceiling' of the Void. she snapped again and everything was normal once more. "So can I have your names please? I don't want to be rude, but the only person's name I know here, besides Segoe, is Chara."
"Helvectia!" Hissed an off voice, slamming her bloodied axe on the table,"I'm from Horrortale!"
"You know my name..." Segoe passed the question to the skeleton in her lap,"This is Elementtale Sans, Snowy is easier." The skeleton took a bite of the pie Segoe sliced for him. His pinpricks made contact with the shifter: right normal, left a snowflake-earning him his nickname.
"Aclonica..." the girl pulled her hoodie over her brunet head. "Underfell."
"Avenir!" the bandanna wearing boy exclaimed, eyes stars,"UNDERSWAP!"
"Courier," the catlike girl twitched her tail in greeting,"I was from Nekotale before it's collapse, but Segoe got me stationed in Outertale."
"It is nice to meet you all, I am Aurora the Void Dragon." She Does a small curtsy, she turns to Courier. "I thank you for creating the True Reset for us while I watched over Frisk." Her eyes flash purple. "Darn it, I got time for one question from each of you, except for Aclonica, before the world is back up and running. So who wants to ask first?"
"HEY!" Aclonica frowned.
"You can have my question," Segoe motioned to her,"I'm up to date."
"WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO?!" Avenir slammed his gloved hangs on the table, claiming the first question.
"Many things, most of them center around time manuplation, besides that I can also 'eat' a persons LV." was the quick response. "though some of the stuff I do also is because of my link to the void, primary thing of that is my shape changing. Also the reason I said Aclonica didn't get one, was because she already asked one."
Aclonica crossed her arms and blew her bangs out of her face.
"Have you ever KILLED someone?!" Helvectia smiled evilly, fingering her axe.
"Quit asking unrelated questions!" Segoe spat.
"Yes I have, and no I am not going to talk about it." Aurora didn't even flinch at the question.
Alrighty...moving on," Courier spoke up,"What did I Reset exactly?"
"Finally a real question!" Segoe sighed with relief,"Who's answering this one?" She glanced at the shifter, seeing who would take over this explanation.
"Me and Segoe where asked to stop the Genocide runs in an AU by that world's Gaster, the only problem was that Chara had corroded Frisk Data, so that even if we did reset Chara would still be in control. After this I am going back to make sure that it worked," Aurora said with a slight smile.
"We need to go, too, guys," Segoe collected the two kids,"Ink must be wondering what happened.
"Yeah, I was chilling with my home slice until you decided to intervene," Courier twitched her ears,"See ya."
"I'm headed home, too," Aclonica growled.
"Oh! Byeee~" Helvectia dragged.
"Blue has probably finished the tacos by now!" Avenir pouted. All but Segoe and her accompanying tykes were sent back to their AUs.
"Do you need any help?" Segoe asked.
With a wave of her hand a portal to the world opened showing Frisk lying down on the Flowers. "No I am good, but if you want to talk to me use the scale, hold it in your hand and call me."
Segoe nodded her head, retreating to her adoptive AU. The shifter was left in silence. Aurora walks over to Frisk and looking up into the sky, suddenly growing wings she flew to the top of the pit then she snapped her fingers letting time once more flow. She allowed herself to fall down into the patch of flowers with out slowing herself down.
*Thud* The pain was more that she suspected and she soon here vision to black as she faded into unconscious.
