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The Anti-Void was as empty and blinding as ever; not much of a surprise for the destroyer of universes, seeing as he liked keeping his ‘home’ as devoid of literally anything.
Ah yes, the destroyer of universes, Undernovela superfan, killer of millions- wait what? What was that middle part?
Whatever. The destroyer- Error -decided to take a break from erasing timelines from existence and instead, decided he deserved to relax for a while.
Despite the fact that the Anti-Void is normally fairly empty, there was one thing there, a rather dull green couch.
Error sat down on the couch, opening a one-way portal to watch his favorite show Spanish soap opera, Undernovela. He grinned as his favorite character, Asgoro (Asgore), appear on his ‘screen’.
“ Frisk ha sido secuestrado! ¡Debemos salvarlos !” Asgoro’s tone was serious as he explained the situation.
The camera shifted to show Sin (Sans)... the skeleton Asgoro’s ex-wife- Toriel -was supposed to marry!
Sin merely frowned, as much as he hated Asgoro, the other was right. ”... estoy de acuerdo, debemos guardar el registro. te ayudare.”
The destroyer realized after a few more lines of dialogue that this was probably a rerun, or something like that. Sure, he couldn’t really understand Spanish, but he basically figured out what’s going anyways.
This episode was the one where Papiro (Papyrus) told the gang about Frisk’s kidnapping. Asgoro and Sin supposedly team up and put aside their rivalry to save Frisk, but so far Error hasn’t seen what happens next, as most if not all the universe’s timelines tends to get hijacked or collapse not soon after this episode.
And like the other times, the portal cut to static not long after the room where the ‘episode’ was focused on started shaking, like there was an earthquake going on.
The skeleton watching sighed, of course. He closed the now useless portal, a little disappointed that the show didn’t finally reach its conclusion like he wanted.
Error weighed his options now; he could go back to destroying some more universes, seeing as that’s his job; or he could go to Outertale, but wouldn’t that annoying creator find him? He really didn’t want to deal with that right now...
Then, Error felt it; a presence- an uninvited presence. Of course he knew how to detect whenever someone enters his domain, but who comes in he doesn’t know.
The destroyer got up from his seat, approaching the area he thought the ‘intruder’ was at. He instinctively prepared an attack.
The guardian of positivity himself, Dream. Also known as one of the destroyer’s worst ‘enemies’; enemies in quotation marks because the two never really had a reason to fight each other personally, they were just on opposite sides.
Speaking of Dream, the other was just... sitting there. He got closer to the guardian to see why the other was sitting there, what if this was a trick to-
Wait.
Dream was crying. Full on sobbing. That was... unexpected and awkward.
Error dissipated the blaster that was starting to manifest, opting instead to approach the other and he doesn’t know- ask why the other is crying in the fucking Anti-Void?! The home of the literal destroyer of universes!?
“a-“ Error couldn’t even get a word in before the guardian turned to him, expression showing more exhaustion, despair than the destroyer ever thought could be on the other’s face.
Dream eyes widened with fear, he didn’t expect anyone to be here, much less Error. “I- Error- I didn’t expect you to be... here.”
“...i live here.”
“Ah- Well yeah, I realized that but-“ The guardian flinched when the destroyer interrupted him once again.
“why are you here ? ”
“I...” The guardian knew he was going to be asked that, but he couldn’t help but start breaking down as he said his answer.
“I’m sorry I just... it’s so hard being a guardian and it just gets so overwhelming when everyone have problems that need fixing and I just can’t solve all of them by myself and this is the only place I can go when I need a break so- I just- I-“
Dream sobbed into his hands, but simply sniffed and wiped away his tears. “I’m sorry... I know that we’re on opposing sides and you probably don’t even want anyone here, especially me...”
The destroyer didn’t know how to react to that. It’s not like the guardian was wrong, but Error knew how it felt to be overwhelmed by others, case in point the Voices and Ink.
And so, Error made a decision. Something that he’ll probably regret later, but not now.
“...you can stay.” He merely said, looking away from Dream and towards the white void which was much more interesting now.
Speaking of Dream, the skeleton was kind of at a loss for words. The guardian had expected Error to kick him out and fight him to be honest.
“You’re... serious?” Error winced, and Dream was about to take back that statement before the glitch nodded slowly. “Oh- thank you Error! I-“
Error held a finger in front of Dream, signaling the other to be quiet. He looked serious and stern.
“but, I have a few terms you have to follow and agree on.”
“first, if you’re going to take breaks here don’t make a mess, i’m not some housekeep cleaning up after you.
don’t be loud, I don’t want to hear too much blabbering, that rainbow ass already does that.
and last, no bringing anyone here, or i’ll kick both of you out immediately,”
“got all that?” Error knew he wouldn’t need to repeat himself, but just in case
Dream nodded, thankful that Error was letting him stay as long as he wanted. “Okay. I promise to follow all your rules.”
The destroyer seemed satisfied with this answer, he nodded before looking serious once more. “good. and dream?”
“Um... yeah?” What now, Dream was probably wondering.
“...don’t let those idiot asses get you down. they’re stupid and some of them aren’t worth your time.” The destroyer had turned away from his ‘guest’, glancing at the other once before walking away.
And so, Error left, leaving Dream alone with his thoughts again. The guardian had to process what the other said for a few moments, before smiling.
“Thank you Error.”