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Visit from another dimension
11:26 AM
04/16/3272
Yionus's moon, Zuter - IMC testing site Echo-918
Chamber 137
Music
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - Briefing Room & Ambience Theme
While the Shadow was busy hunting the Hive to extinction, Michael was checking up on the World Gate. Suddenly, his helmet picked up an extra-dimensional communication channel. He put it on, and a familiar voice was heard. "Hi, Michael."
"Error Sans! How are you?"
"I've been better, but not by much. How 'bout you? Did the Shadow 'take' anything new?"
"I'm doing well. Yeah, the Shadow took Samus's archenemy, Ridley."
"Who's 'Ridley'?"
12:47 PM
04/16/3272
After telling Error Sans all about Ridley, Michael decided to open the portal. On the other side was Error Sans... and another 'Sans'. This one had what looked like black paint on the right cheek of his skull, a jacket tied around his waist, brown and long sleeves with blue lines, a giant brown scarf which is almost as big as himself, a work belt crossing his chest, with different paint vials containing various colors on it, has pants which have the same color scheme as the sleeves, light brown shorts over the pants, sports shoes with a tiger print on the sides, fingerless gloves, and a freaking giant paintbrush.
"Who's this?" Michael asked.
"You know how I'm 'Error' Sans?"
Michael nodded. "Yeah?"
"Meet Ink Sans."
The newcomer, 'Ink Sans', looked the Pilot up and down. "So this is the guy you've been telling me about? He doesn't look like a Sans."
"That term still confuses me, but anyway, I'm Michael W Johnson." Once Error Sans and Ink Sans crossed the portal, reality around the latter distorted for a split second, causing a blink of light to illuminate his chest for that split second.
As sudden as the distortion occurred, it ended, leaving confusion in the group. "What just happened?" Ink Sans wondered.
"Well, when Error Sans entered our dimension, our reality forcibly stabilized him for good."
Error Sans joined in. "I was all glitchy before. Now I'm not. You didn't have a soul before, so I think this dimension permanently restored it."
"I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear the whole 'didn't have a soul' thing."
"I definitely feel different. Back to what I was gonna ask: how is this an AU?"
Michael misunderstood once again. "Do you see an Aurora Unit around here?!"
"A... what?" Ink Sans was confused.
"Biological supercomputer. On one of those ships in this dimension, known as the IMS Olympus, is one of them, Aurora Unit 242." Error Sans explained.
"Oh, you have something else here that's known as an AU. Sorry for the confusion."
"Where's the Shadow?" Error Sans asked.
"Death and some of his Taken are on Saturn's moon of Titan, hunting the Hive there to extinction." Michael replied.
"I see. The Hive brought about what you call the Collapse, and by hunting them to extinction, you are eliminating the possibility of it ever happening again."
"Yeah. He's sending them back to hell."
"When's he coming back?"
Suddenly, a Taken rift opened up, and the Shadow came out. "Right now." The Shadow answered.
"Let me guess... You left one of your Echoes on Titan." Michael stated.
The Shadow nodded. "Yup. Who's this?"
"Another 'Sans'."
Ink Sans introduced himself to the Shadow. "The name's Ink Sans, and you are?"
"They call me the Shadow. The name is Death. How may I acquaint you?"
"What are the Taken?"
Michael responded. "The Taken were once our enemies, in two respects. The first being that they were originally controlled by a Hive god named Oryx. The second being that the members of the Taken were once Fallen, Hive, Cabal, and Vex. When Oryx was dethroned, the Shadow became the new Taken King."
1:09 PM
04/16/3272
After quite a bit of explanation, the two 'Sanses' were up-to-date on current events, and Michael and the Shadow had recorded new information. "So, the Traveler's Light is the source of any Guardian's powers, but the Eye of the Traveler gave you unique capabilities." Ink Sans was understanding it.
"Wait until you see his version of the Gaster Blaster." Error Sans whispered to him.
As if on cue, Michael summoned an Andromeda Cannon.
"OK, that looks different!"
"He calls them Andromeda Cannons. They resemble wolf skulls, and they pack a seriously stronger punch. In every respect, they are superior to Gaster Blasters."
"What about bone attacks?" Ink Sans wondered.
"Uh... What?" Michael was confused.
"Try summoning a different attack." Seeing about Ink Sans's theory, Michael channeled his powers, causing a large rock spike to break through the floor. "...he's definitely different, that's for sure."
"I've never seen him do THAT before."
Michael looked on with fascination. "You try something new, and the result surprises even yourself."
"I noticed that Cross Sans is missing. Do either of you have an idea as to where he went?" Ink Sans asked.
"He's imprisoned on the Dreadnaught within Saturn's rings." The Shadow put plainly.
"Why?!"
1:13 PM
04/16/3272
The Dreadnaught
The Hanging Crypts
Music
Destiny - The Dreadnaught
From a Taken rift, the group appeared. "That definitely takes some getting used to, as does the sight of the Dreadnaught. I'm used to it already." Michael stated.
"Welcome to the Dreadnaught." The Shadow announced.
Ink Sans seemed extremely uneasy in the Dreadnaught. "Did... Did that patch of wall just... blink at me?"
"Nah. The Dreadnaught just likes playing tricks on your mind." The Shadow stated.
"Creepy, disturbing, and terrifying tricks. You get used to that too." Michael added.
Out of the millions of deep pits, three seemed to have closed lids on them, with floating symbols above them, and only the Shadow could read them. "No... Not that one... There you are."
One lid opened, and a nightmarishly mortified Cross Sans was levitated out of the pit. He was completely unaware of being out of the hole, and was babbling incoherent gibberish, shaking like an earthquake, and curled up into a ball with his hands on his skull head, which exhibited multiple scratches and gashes; even his outfit was tattered. The fear he was plunged into for days had driven him to insanity.
Ink Sans freaked out. "OH MY HOLY FREAKING STUPID CRAP! What did you do to him?!"
"I let his worst fears and nightmares take hold of his mind." The Shadow chuckled.
"Is... Is there a way to... bring him back from that?"
"I never thought about that. Let me see what I can do." The Taken King removed his half of the Yin Yang Switch from his arm, then attached it to the right shoulder of Cross Sans, causing the Shadow to turn into black particles which entered his mind once more.
Cross Sans's mind
Music
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - Corrupted Phazon Pool
Once the Shadow had entered Cross Sans's mindscape, he saw the full extent of the damage he had allowed to happen. "Whoa. Nasty nightmares."
It was then that he heard an unholy growl. The Shadow turned around, seeing one of the mutated fears he had released. He extended a hand, and the fear was pulled to him, compacted into a small glowing purple ball. He held it in between his skeletal fingers, seeing that there were more to round up. Fortunately for him, they all appeared, surrounding the Shadow. The Taken King held up the small orb, and the fears and nightmares were sucked into it.
Even with the mutated horrors contained, the mind of Cross Sans was still in a tremendously devastated condition. He had to find a way to restore this mental world.
The Shadow made his way to the back of the mind, seeing where the fears and nightmares were once held. With them placed where they were once contained, the mental world appeared to slowly piece itself back together.
Two beings were revealed to be laying nearby; the owners of this mind; Cross Sans and a human-like entity with a similar outfit.
Once they regained consciousness, they saw the Shadow, reacting in terrible fear. "The one calling himself Ink Sans has come for you two." Just then, he vanished, leaving their mind.
The Dreadnaught
The Hanging Crypts
Music
Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded - Castle Oblivion
Black particles erupted from Cross Sans's head, and the black half of the Yin Yang Switch went with them, reforming the Shadow, who had a skeletal hand on Cross Sans's forehead.
He came to, seeing the Taken King standing before him. "Welcome back, Cross Sans."
Cross Sans reacted in fear, scooting away until he was up against a wall. He was afraid for his life. "For some reason, I expected that reaction. Ink Sans, I have done my part. You may bring him to where you choose."
"Let's put him back in his world."
1:17 PM
04/16/3272
Dimension 6
UNKNOWN
Music
none
The group, save for the Shadow, who was busy looking over the World Gate, entered the dimension. "This is where we found him. Hang on... Error Sans, you said these alternate universes were made of data, right?" Michael asked.
"Yeah?"
With that, Michael took out his Data-Knife and held the button on the hilt, causing it to hack into the data of the world, causing an interface to appear in front of the Pilot.
X̷-̶T̵A̸L̴E̸
S̴T̷A̶T̶U̶S̷:̵ ̶D̵A̷M̶A̶G̵E̵D̴
"Looks like the data that made this dimension is damaged. I'll see what I can do."
P̷R̵E̵V̸I̶O̸U̶S̶ ̴V̶E̷R̶S̴I̷O̶N̸S̸ ̷A̶V̴A̷I̸L̶A̶B̴L̵E̵
"What does that say?" Error Sans asked. "I think I can undo whatever did this to the dimension. Restoring previous version... NOW!"
Music
Metroid Prime - Escape from Frigate Orpheon
I̷N̴I̵T̴I̴A̶T̴I̶NG PREVIO̴U̷S̸ ̸V̸E̸RSION RES̴T̶O̷R̵A̸T̴I̷O̴N
ALL EXCLUDED ENTITIES MUST EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY
"WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE!" They ran back to the portal, making it out of the dimension with Cross Sans left behind.
Yionus's moon, Zuter - IMC testing site Echo-918
Chamber 137
Music
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - Briefing Room & Ambience Theme
"What happened in there?" The Shadow asked.
Before an answer could be spoken, the portal seemingly closed itself, ejecting the Dimension Key... into a wall.
"I think Michael just hacked into that dimension and set it to restore a previous version of itself." Error Sans stated.
"That was... interesting." Michael said as he went over to the damaged wall and pulled the Dimension Key out of the new hole, then returned to the World Gate and tried to reopen the portal. The green energy rift opened like normal, revealing a massive landscape.
Dimension 6
UNKNOWN
Music
none
Once they entered the newly restored dimension, the group saw a few beings laying on the ground, getting up as if just now regaining consciousness.
"You... You did it! You just restored a dimension!" Ink Sans praised.
"Let's see what else I can do." Michael then took out his Data-Knife and summoned the interface.
X-TALE
STATUS: STABLE
LOCKING CONDITION
CONDITION LOCK COMPLETE
DATA MANIPULATION RESTRICTED
"There we go. If whatever happened to it before happens again, the dimension will be unaffected. It's locked like this."
"Not only have you restored this world, but you made it permanent?!" Error Sans exclaimed.
"All in a day's work."
He... He did it... He restored X-tale! It's a miracle!
See you next time, and good luck to you all.