Hey guys, Arana here. And, I have something to say.

So, somebody put, in a review, that this story should have a Q&A. However, I cannot do this, as there is a rule saying it is not allowed.

Now that's outa the way, let's introduce our first OC! This OC is… Kyle Rener, whose Creator is AngelMaster14! (random applause from the Gumdrops series cast) Ok then. Anyways, it seems that Kyle was made specifically for the Gumdrops series!

Want to see your OC possibly make an appearance? Go check out my profile, it has a outline for sending me an OC.

And now, onto the story!

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Chapter 9- Kyle?

I was with Lucas again, and we were walking about the forest, talking about this and that. I had decided to ask him about the clay fox I had recently spotted going into the forest (maybe that meeting with Arana really wasn't a dream!) and he was surprised that I could see such a spiritual creature.

Apparently, the clay fox represents his mother, as it was one of her favorite things to skulpt. Ever since her passing, some people had reported seeing clay foxes, but those who followed them actually manage to do heroic things, like save someone from falling off a cliff, or literally finding the most wanted criminal… asleep. So, with a tilt of my head, I then asked him about Arana.

He was even more surprised that I knew that name. But, he knew little about her, only that she once appeared to his mother to warn her about her coming death.

Strange, I thought, that Arana would willingly intervene with those of our multiverse.

I then mentioned that a clay fox had led me to Arana, and Lucas had responded, "Well, I heard she uses the clay fox as a guide to people."

She had probably been using the clay fox as a way to intervene without her needing to be there.

And then, that's when I spotted said fox, and exclaimed, "There it is!"

"Huh?" Lucas said, turning.

The clay fox was just sitting there, and then a spark of life lit it's eyes. It raised it's head, yipped once, and darted deeper into the forest, stopping only once to look back at us.

"It wants us to follow it!" I exclaimed, rushing after it. Maybe it could give me some answers I needed.

"Wait up!" Lucas yelled behind me, rushing after me.

We followed the fox back into the clearing, where it then dissolved into dust, as a rift opened and a human jumped out, and face-planted into the the dirt with a groan. The rift closed after that.

Looking at him, I was surprised to see that I recognized him. As soon as he sat up, I was even more surprised that it was Kyle Rener, a human who had suddenly disappeared around a year ago in Gumdrops.

Kyle didn't seem to see us at first, muttering about his failure at landing (apparently this happened a lot?) as he dusted himself off. When he did spot us, his brown eyes widened with surprised, seemingly locking on to my Save Point necklace.

"Ariel?" he asked, a sense of disbelief in his voice.

"Uh, hi Kyle," I said, slightly confused. "Did… you just open that rift?"

Kyle shifted, looking back to where the rift once was. "Welp, I guess that secret is out," he said, sighing.

"You're a multiverse traveler?" I asked, puzzled.

"Wow, I must've missed a lot in your AU… speaking of which, where is here?" Kyle asked.

"The forest closest to Magic Town in the Omega Timeline," Lucas said after a moment. "This isn't Gumdrops, you see."

For a moment, Kyle seemed startled. "Did get destroyed?" he asked.

"No," I laughed. "Mom, Dad, Aunt Chara~erh Choco~Uncle Asriel~Cinnabun~Uncle Jordan and I came here when I learned about the truth behind the Legend of the Angels," I explained. "I still have no clue why Choco and Cinnabun choose those names as their multiversal names."

"OK then?" Kyle said. "Welp, I guess I should go say hi to Frisk…"

"You mean Challenger right?" Lucas asked. Kyle looked at him with confusion. "That's her multiversal name."

"Oh, then yes."

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Getting back to Magic Town involved the clay fox, which Kyle apparently didn't see at all, even when we pointed it out to him. Still, we managed to get back to my house, and led him inside to the surprise of my family.

"Kyle!" Mom exclaimed. "How'd you get here?!"

"Uh, I kinda can open rifts…" Kyle explained. "Learned it from… uh… someone I met when my AU got destroyed."

"How'd it get destroyed?" I asked.

"It got destroyed by a goopy black skeleton named Nightmare," Kyle said, slightly growling.

Mom, Choco, and Jordan stared at him with faces that said, "Uh oh, we ran into a problem."

"Well…" Mom said. "You don't really have to worry about Nightmare anymore, he's… uh… back to normal. And… he doesn't remember anything from when he was a goopy skeleton."

Kyle raised an eyebrow. "What?" he asked.

"I kinda fixed him up during the whole Dark World event…" Mom said, before seeing that Kyle was slightly confused. "You do remember the Fun Festival, right?"

For a moment, Kyle closed his eyes. I tilted my head, my eyes changing brown as I grew confused. Taking advantage of this, I used my brown magic to look at his soul without physically taking it out.

And then I was surprised to see that it had four monster souls surrounding his yellow soul, one of them being slightly tinted with the colors of the six human souls.

"Um… why do you have five souls?" I asked, my eyes turning a darker brown as my confusion rose.

Kyle's eyes snapped open with surprise, as if he didn't expect me to ask that.

"Sweetie, were you looking at his soul with brown magic?" Mom asked.

"Yeah, and he has four monster souls, one of which seems to have absorbed the six human souls," I said.

"I had no idea she could do that," Kyle said after a moment. "And to answer your question, I have no clue how I have Sans, Undyne the Undyne, Mettaton Neo, and Asriel Dreemurr combined with me. It just sorta… happened."

"welp, this is weird," Dad says. "did your sans experience any genocide runs? undyne and mettaton seemed to have."

"Uh yeah," Kyle said. "Wait, you know about genocide runs? But… I thought Gumdrops never had any…"

"Boy, you're mistaken," Choco sighed. "I mean, I may be reformed now, but back in the Reset days, I was a… monster I guess."

"We all promised not to mention the genocide runs," Cinnabun sighed. "We really don't want to talk about what happened."

"Our timeline is a failed genocide turned pacifist run," Jordan sighed. "With no more Resets, which I would be able to do had we not had Asgore break my Reset Button."

Kyle looked from person to person, before saying, "Well… three of my monster friends are a tad mad about this. But, I can see why you didn't talk about it. Not everyone remembers Resets…"

I tilted my head. I, of course, knew about the Resets and how Mom became a skeleton monster. "So, were you talking to them just now?" I asked.

"Oh, I was trying to see if any of us remembered the Dark World, and we all have the same answer," Kyle sighed. "We slightly remember it, but it's fuzzy."

Mom sighed. "Well~"

And suddenly there was a knock at the door, which made Mom rush to open it, allowing the person in.

I was not surprised to see that it was Ink (he had been coming over every now and then), but Kyle seemed to be shocked to see the skeleton.

When Ink spotted Kyle, he did something that I guess no one expected of him. His eye sockets went blank… and he barfed ink, causing those closest to him to jump back. We all stared at him with disbelief, and I was extremely confused now.

"Great, there's a mess we have to clean up," Choco said with a face-palm.

"Erh, uh, sorry! That happens when I get really excited!" Ink said, quickly regaining composure. "I just didn't expect to see Kyle Rener here!"

For a moment, we all paused. "You know Kyle?" Jordan asked with a raise of an eyebrow. "And here we thought he was from our AU entirely. He blended in so well..."

"You were in Gumdrops all this time?!" Ink gasped, having star eyes, wide with surprise. "How come I didn't see you there?! How could I missed you?!"

Kyle seemed to shocked to answer, but I decided to say something. "Sooo… if Ink knows Kyle, is he the one who taught Kyle how to travel through the multiverse?" I asked.

"Why, yes!" Ink said proudly (slightly making a pose as well) before smiling with a little embarrassment. "I found him after his original AU got destroyed, and took him in. I was… sorta his caretaker for a while, I guess."

Kyle seemed to finally regain his senses. "This day is getting weirder and weirder," he said with a odd face. "And, uh, I guess I never was around the Dreemurr family when you were in Gumdrops?"

"Ink didn't actually visit Gumdrops proper," Mom sighed. "He usually was in the Void, with Gaster," and to this, Dad had a look of pure surprise, "checking in on us to make sure everything was alright."

I tilted my head. Gaster? Who was he? Was he… my grandfather? Dad never talked about his father, and Uncle Papyrus couldn't remember him at all. Nor their mom, which confused me to no end. Mom never mentioned this "Gaster" before, at least, when talking about our AU.

"I didn't even know you were friends with the Dreemurr family!" Ink said, a look of slight despair on his face. For someone who didn't have a soul (yes, I checked) he sure seemed to act out emotions with ease.

I knew that those without souls couldn't really feel emotions~more from learning about Flowey, and old flower who was now a separate entity from Cinnabun (he stayed home with Alphys, who was working on making him his own soul) that he had no feelings. So, taking this in stride, I asked, "Do you actually have emotions, Ink? You don't have a soul…"

Ink paused, looking at me with confusion. "W-well…" he said. "It is true that I don't have a soul… (I don't even know how I came into being without one)... but, when I was in the Anti-Void, a Creator gave me emotions and a meaning by… uh… painting me? I literally almost drowned in paint that day. But, at least it gave me emotions."

"You've met Creators before?" I asked.

"Why, I talk to them constantly… well… only those who wish to talk to me," Ink said. "Sometimes Creators don't want to talk to me for one reason or another. Like Error's Creator is hard to talk to sometimes."

"Whose Error?" Kyle asked.

Ink tilted his head. "Oh, right, Error wasn't really a problem when your AU got destroyed..." Ink said. "Well, Error is a Sans with a very buggy code. We're still trying to make it so he stops glitching… but some damage has already been done. He, and uh… PJ, his son," to this I was confused, because he didn't seem to want to say that PJ was also his son, "will be some of the few skeletons with black bones. But… at least Error's code with be patched soon."

"That didn't explain anything," Kyle said. "I have no idea why 'Error' has a 'code'."

"Everyone has a code," Mom chuckled. "It's given to use when we are created. It's sorta like DNA. And glitches and viruses are like colds and flus to us. Some are really dangerous bugs, while others last only a little while."

"That explains more to me than what Ink said," Kyle chuckled.

Ink looked at him with a look that told me that it was some kind of inside joke. "Hey!"