As the King of Negativity, Nightmare always knew when something was wrong. Even in Dusttale, in the thick of his murder spree, Dust was in control. Hell, the AU could be on fire, and Dust would just cackle and kill everything he could before fire consumed everything. That wasn't the case now, though, and it made Nightmare fear the worse. Dust was panicked. Uncertain and borderline afraid. Nightmare could sense pain, and he didn't hesitate to call on the other two instantly to back Dust up and help him while Nightmare himself retrieved Blue. He hated to cut his date short - he was feeling a lot happier since he got that warning, but Nightmare knew it still weighed on his mind. Now it was happening. Dream's warning had been honest, and they were going to bail his hot-headed teammate out of this situation, no matter the cost. "killer, horror. go all out. don't hesitate a moment because ink won't hesitate either." He released the Murder Time Trio upon the AU before opening up another portal to Outertale. Of course, he didn't even have to think about it. It was Error's favorite AU. Stretch would be safe at the castle, for the time being.

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"i never thought you would leave frisky. you took to magic pretty damn well." Dust was panting, paint chains tying his arms apart via the trees. The rest of his body was restricted, too, the chains binging his legs together. 'Ink' tilted his skull with an unsettling smile. "it wasn't that hard." 'Ink' replied. "the paint stuff does all the work for me! this vessel didn't even see it coming, he was so hyper focused on you!" Dust snarled, trying to keep his cool, but he was terrified of what this meant. "cut the shit, chara! you're not supposed to be there. give the dumb squid his dumb body back, and we can go back to what reallly matters... the game!" 'Ink' only giggled insanely in reply. "but aren't you so bored, sansy? i am. over and over, you try to take all my lv, and over and over you win until your bored again. i wanna play a game where i win for once! so let's play, dust!" The axe came out of nowhere, shattering the paint as if the chains were real. Killer appeared out of a shortcut and nearly cut 'Ink', but Chara was faster, getting him to jump out of the way.

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The possessed skeleton stared at their new enemies with a growing smile. "more sanses to join our game? how fun!" Horror stabilized Dust, staring at Chara while the smaller skeleton tried to catch his footing after being tied up. Killer's grin grew, almost as insane as 'Ink's as black tar started to drip down. "killer ink... heheheheheh... i never thought i'd ever see the day! hate to tell you, brat, but there's only one killer around here and that's me!" Killer lunged at Killer Ink and the skeleton pulled out Broomie to block the blow. "oh please, comedian! i'm not just gonna kill you! t h i s i s a g a m e a f t e r a l l ! ~" They hissed as knives surrounded Killer. He teleported out of the way with ease, summoning a knife of his own. Killer Ink was pulling out the rest of their paints to see what they could do, but they forgot about Horror. The larger skeleton didn't hesitate to chop off Killer Ink's arms and swing for the head. Killer Ink ducked, grin still wide. "now this... this is fun!"

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