Requested by:SnazzyOwl

Fresh quickly opened up a portal to UnderLust and hopped through it, running into the forest of the AU. He had heard that Ink was currently in another fight with Error. Error had tried to destroy another one of Ink's AUs, UnderLust this time. Fresh had joined an alliance with Ink and the Star Sanses a little while ago and had been helping them for a few months.

Normally, Blue and Dream would have helped Ink but they were busy stopping Nightmare and his hang from terrorizing people in different AUs. Fresh was the only one who could help Ink this time.

Fresh ran through the forest, following the sounds of grunts, groans, gaster blasters and other sounds that sounded like fighting until he reached the two.

He quickly fired a gaster blaster at Error and then ran over to Ink, who was on the ground, pulling him off of the floor. "Ya Aight?"

Ink nodded and coughed. "Thanks." He picked up his paint brush and slashed a couple of waves of paint at Error, who dodged them and shot his strings out in return.

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The battle went on for about another hour even if it was Ink and Fresh against Error. Error had a lot of stamina and was not one to give up easily.

All three of them were tired and Ink was currently defenseless since he didn't have his paint brush. Error had knocked it up into a tree about a moment ago. Fresh was down for the moment.

Ink was quickly climbing up the tree to grab his brush but jumped off when Error shot a gaster blaster at him and grabbed Ink's brush with his strings.

Error grinned and used Ink's brushed against him, slashing a wave of red paint right at him. (I know that Error can't use Ink's paint brush but in this he can because I couldn't make this OneShot request work if he couldn't)

Ink didn't realize the wave of paint coming at him and by the time he did he didn't have time to dodge.

"Watch out!" Fresh shouted, quickly running over and pushing Ink out of the way, taking the hit for him. Unfortunately for Fresh, the paint hit him right where his 'ears' were. It went through one side of his skull and straight out of the other side, leaving a big hole in his skull.

Fresh fell to the floor and let out a scream of pain. He clutched the sides of his skull as he screamed, doubling over.

Ink took a step back and Error dropped the paintbrush on the ground, it hitting the ground with a 'thud' and rolling in the ground. Sure, he was trying to hit Ink and it didn't matter if Fresh took the hit for him but he didn't expect him to get hit like that.

Fresh put a hand on his head and looked at Ink. "I-Ink, help me! T-Take me to Sci! H-He should be able t-to d-do something!" Fresh nearly screamed out.

Ink just watched Fresh there and shook his head slowly, picking up his paint brush that had rolled over to him. "I-I'm sorry, Fresh!" Ink apologized before he made a portal and hopped through it; retreating. He didn't want the same thing to happen to him.

Fresh didn't even hear what Ink said. He couldn't hear anything at all so he only saw Ink's 'lips' move before he left. "I-Ink!" Fresh cried before everything went black and he passed out, going limp on the ground.

Error stood there shocked as he just watched Ink run off like that. Ink was seen as the 'hero' and he was seen as the 'villain'. Even though Error knew that he was was the true hero of their multiverse since he was forced to destroy AU's, and without him destroying the AU's the whole place would plummet into hell, he didn't think Ink would leave an ally like that. He knew Fresh had only been with the Star Sans for a little while but he didn't take Ink as the type of person to abandon anyone in his group.

Error looked down at Fresh before he looked away. He was thinking about leaving him there but he couldn't do that even though he was technically is enemy.

Error sighed and picked Fresh up with his strings. He made a portal back to the Anti-Void and walked through it with Fresh. Error closed the portal and laid Fresh down on the floor.

He sat down beside Fresh's body and opened a box he had, pulling out a couple of first-aid materials. Fresh wasn't bleeding or anything so he just put patches over the holes in Fresh's skull to cover them.

He put the materials away but kept some pain killers out. He sighed and then waited for Fresh to wake up.

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Fresh slowly started to wake up, his eyes opening after a moment. He blinked a few times, to clear his vision. He groaned and then sat up, putting a hand on his head. "What.. happened...?" He murmured to himself, looking around. Fresh shrieked and jumped back when he saw Error.

Error seemed to be saying something and could see his lips moving, but he couldn't hear the words coming out of the other's mouth.

Fresh put his hands to the side of the skull, feeling the patches that were there, covering the holes in his skulls, as he remembered what had happened before he passed out. He frowned and rested his hands in his lap. Fresh stared down at his hands, his shades going blank as he did so. He was upset and he was trying not to cry about what had happened.

Fresh always hated crying and most of all he hated crying in front of people. Hearing wasn't such a big deal anyway. Sure, you couldn't hear people speak, but they always right what they were trying to say down. He could still see after all, but after a while it would get annoying to have to bring a notepad and a pencil with you everywhere you go so they could try and tell you something, so that would be a problem...

Another thing was, Fresh's favorite thing to do was to listen to music and now he couldn't do that anymore. He could remember the songs form when he could hear but it would never be the same again...

Fresh gripped onto his shorts as tears welled up in his eye sockets and rolled down his face a moment later. He wiped at the tears but more just replaced the ones he wiped away.

Error heaved out a sigh as he watched Fresh start to cry from beside there. He watched the him cry fro a moment before he wrapped his arms around Fresh and hugged him. He glitched up from the contact and as Fresh buried his face in his chest, but they slowly started to calm down.

Error let Fresh cry into his chest, stroking the smaller's skull as he cried. He felt bad for him. If he was in Fresh's situation then he'd probably be crying as well.

Once Fresh's crying died down he grabbed a piece of paper that was randomly laying around and a pen, writing 'Are you okay now?' on the paper before he gave it Fresh.

Fresh took the piece of paper and nodded in response before he spoke. "Wh-Why are you helping me...? We're enemies. Why didn't you just kill me when you had the chance...?" He was really loud, but that wasn't exactly his fault. He couldn't hear how loud he was speaking after all.

Error sighed and wrote on the paper again. This time he wrote, 'Despite what you might think, I'm not a monster. Yes, I destroy AU's, but I don't do it because I want to. I do it because I have to. Ink creates too many AU's. Imagine our MultiVerse is a box full of bubbles. Each bubble represent an AU. Our MultiVerse is represented by the box. What will happen when the box gets too full? The bubbles run into each other and pop each other. That's what will happen if I don't destroy AU's every now and then.' then passed the paper to Fresh.

Fresh read the paper before he murmured, more like loudly said to himself, "Ink never told me about any of this.."

'That's because he doesn't know. Every time I try to talk to him he cuts me off. He always says he doesn't want to listen to my "lies".'

"Oh... I'm sorry."

Error shook his head. 'Don't be, it's not your fault. You could help me if you want to. That would help me out a lot.'

Fresh shook his head. "No, I wouldn't be any help now that I can't hear," He said, his voice wavering. He was close to crying again.

Error pulled Fresh's shades off and set them down. He cupped Fresh's cheeks. 'Don't cry, Fresh. It'll be alright. It doesn't matter if you can't hear. Just because you can't hear doesn't mean you're useless'

Fresh shook his head. "Y-You should have just left me there."

Error sighed softly. 'I couldn't just leave you there hurt. Especially not since I have feelings for you.'

A blush spread across Fresh's face as he stared down at what Error had wrote on the piece of paper. Even though he was always constantly fighting Error he couldn't help but be attracted to him. "I, Err, A-Are you serious...?"

'I'm one hundred percent serious'

Fresh felt a smile creep onto his face and his blush darken. "I-I have feelings for you too..." He said after a moment, hugging Error tightly, smiling up at the taller.

Error pecked Fresh on the teeth and then kissed his forehead. 'So what do you say, will you help me save this MultiVerse?'

Fresh nodded and took Error's hand, intertwining their finger. He squeezed Error's hand, Error squeezing his hand in return, before he responded. "We'll do it together!"

Yes, Fresh is the submissive one in this OneShot

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