Static Burgundy

Chapter 5

They woke up with a groan, their body felt like lead with their head feeling as though it was stuffed with cotton balls or if you asked Error; it felt like getting tossed into a pit of spinning razor sharp blades before falling face-first into acid.

Ink really was a creative bastard.

'What the fuck-'

The cotton balls seemed to vanish.

'Oh yea, you're here too.'

'Of course I'm here ya glitch.'

'Get creative with insults, would you? It gets tiring having to hear the same insults over and over again because you abominations lack the mental capacity to come up with new ones.'

Error ignored 13's yelling as he forced his eyes open only for them to squint from the blaring whiteness of what could only be the Anti-Void, except something felt....off. Like the base coding had been changed into something different-though it does make sense considering this was a whole new multiverse so maybe the way the world here is coded is different from how it was back in the original multiverse.

"𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙴𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚔𝚎!"

{Translation: "The Elder is awake!"}

"𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙴𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚛?"

{Translation: "The Elder?"}

"𝚈𝚎𝚜! 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙴𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚛!"

{Translation: "Yes! The Elder!"}

"𝙳𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚗 𝙴𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜?"

{Translation: "Don't you mean Elders?"}

"𝙽𝚘, 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎'𝚜 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚘𝚗𝚎."

{Translation: "No, there's only one."}

"𝙰𝚛𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝?"

{Translation: "Are you sure you're counting right?"}

"𝚈𝚎𝚜! 𝙾𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚘𝚗𝚎! 𝙿𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚢 𝚜𝚠𝚎𝚊𝚛!"

{Translation: "Yes! Only one! Pinky swear!"}

"....𝚆𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚒𝚎𝚜."

{Transaltion: "....We don't have pinkies."}

"𝙾𝚑! 𝚄𝚑-...𝚟𝚘𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚜𝚠𝚎𝚊𝚛?"

{Translation: "Oh! Uh-...voice swear?"}

"𝚅𝚘𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚜𝚠𝚎𝚊𝚛."

{Translation: "Voice swear."}

Chuckling, Error couldn't help but feel relieved that there was at least something familiar he could get from this situation, even if these voices were more childish than the voices that occupied the old Anti-Void.

Fell, despite himself, couldn't help but feel slightly amused by the voices conversation after the shock when he first heard the voices weared down. Though it did bring some complicated emotions as Fell had heard the whispers about how the glitched destroyer could hear voices that lived in his domain and his head, and Fell-like many others-didn't believe that, writing it off as the destroyer being insane 'cause that's what he is..insane. I mean who-..how else are you supposed to describe the glitch as anything else but insane? Like, no sane monster just confesses to hearing voices and destroys literal worlds for no reason. The destroyer was insane, there weren't actually voices, just his own twisted ones. Simple as that. Nothing more, nothing less. Straight facts. However,....now Fell can't help but question the facts that once laid clear before him. The voices that he had believed to be nothing more than the glitches' own messed up thoughts...were now real, they were here before him, Fell could clearly hear them, and he knew it wasn't coming from their head, they would sound different, the voices are clearly coming from the Anti-Void. Fell couldn't for a moment push away the little voice that made him...doubt a few things, if the destroyer was telling the truth about this..was he also telling the truth about other things? Or was this just a one-time thing? Was Ink....wrong? Was everyone wrong? Was Fell wrong?