From Murder to Dust

42 - Jailbreak

Our quartet had just set out for Ink's hideout, which was apparently stationed in the original Undertale. I had seen it a few times in the past, but it was so changed that I didn't even recognize it; there was a giant building covering what used to be Snowdin, and there were a lot of skeletons surrounding it. It seemed as if Ink had recruited them from different universes, but I didn't understand why they would want to help him. I decided to ask Papyrus, who replied that Ink had the power to create and alter codes, and he edited theirs to force them to assist him; Paps is the best. We spent a few more minutes going over backup plans and strategies, which the kid thought was a waste, but we didn't care. Get in, save Error, and get out - that was our simplistic plan; we had, of course, planned for unexpected occurrences, but we were hoping we wouldn't have to use those plans. When we were ready, Papyrus walked up to the building with Chara, beginning the distraction that would allow an opening for me and the kid. When the distraction was made, the kid and I made our way to the entrance stealthily, and we made it inside.

The inside of the facility looked rather advanced for a building that had only been around for four years, but I attributed that to Ink's power to make just about anything; he made Cross and Chara, so why couldn't he make a giant building? It was a good thing the kid was small and I was trained in stealth, or we would have been noticed almost immediately; the place was flooded with security details, and we had to find a place to hide rather quickly. We speedily hopped into a random room through a random door that we randomly found next to us; we must have been lucky today, since it was a stairway leading down - Error was down, and we had to get there too. We briskly descended down the stairwell, hoping they didn't already know we were here; that would have been bad - we moved fast. The stairs seemed to go on forever, and we wondered if we there was even a bottom; we didn't dare try to find out, though. After twenty minutes of descent, we still had a long way to go, and although I wasn't getting tired physically, the kid certainly was.

"How much longer?" The kid whined. "We've been going for ages!"

"As long as we have to." I answered. "There has to be an end to this."

"What if there is no end?"

"That's ridiculous; we'd reach the center of the earth!"

"My legs are jelly!"

"Quit complaining, it isn't like we're climbing a mountain."

"I have climbed a mountain! It was easier than this!"

"Hate to break it to you, but I think I see an end."

"Really?"

"Be quiet, I think there's somebody down there."

"You be quiet!"

"Shh!"

We descended down the steps more carefully when the end was in sight, which was good, since there were indeed guards down here; the kid and I had little trouble rendering them unconscious, since there were only two. When the guards at the bottom were passed out, the kid and I found a single door at the bottom; it had a cliche window in it that allowed us to see inside - we had to stand on the tips of our toes, though, which was ridiculous. Inside, we noticed a few more guards, which we sized up in our minds, and a sole cell that they were protecting; a familiar glitchy skeleton was inside. We opened the door slowly, so as to not alert anyone to our presence. As soon as the open door was noticed, we wasted no time in engaging battle; if any of them were to trigger an alarm, our situation would become much worse than we could hope for. Once most of the guards were unconscious, the kid began to open the cell, which required extensive lockpicking, while I knocked out the remaining opponents - we didn't want to dust anyone, since they were virtually all originals that were simply being mind controlled in a sense. When I finished off the guards, Error saw my face and immediately started letting tears fall.