(Drawing by me)

Error was now roaming dream and nightmare's castle in search of...well he didn't really know what he was looking for...but he was looking everywhere...

Maybe it was for his new 'friend',maybe the dolls,maybe just the bathroom,he didn't know...

He wandered around for a while before coming to a stop in front of a door with a name on it...ink...yes! Error thought,he could get his dolls back and then go back to the void,if that 90's nightmare wasn't there that is,and if he is still there he could just hang out with his frie-...

Error stopped his own train of thought

He didn't have any friends...wait...is nightmare a friend?he had to ask him,but where was he?

That didn't matter for now though,all that mattered was to get his dolls back without being caught,so,after his little internal debate,error entered the room,luckily if anyone did see him wandering the corridors at night they wouldn't notice it was him,not at first glance at least

He had really taken to this persona of 'strings',changing up his look almost entirely,black everything except his hoodie which was a black fading to blue,he kept his hood up at all times and was wearing a bandanna underneath,add that to his glasses and he was almost unrecognisable (I based his look mostly off of dreamswap error with the hood and the glasses and stuff,I tried to draw it)he also wrapped multiple strings around his body to try and make it look like the name 'strings' made sense,he also used them to make a sort of tail,waist scarf,thingy,and as hands...

He peeked his head inside the room,it was messy and littered with drawings and pieces of art,paint splatters and more drawings covered the walls,in the corner if the room,next to the bed,there was a drawing desk,on this desk sat errors dolls,perched on a little shelf bit of the desk

Error slowly opened the door and crept inside,walking as straight as a gay man could into the room,as he approached the dolls he heard the sound of a door closing behind him,followed by a voice...

"Hello"

Error stayed silent,Sure his outfit could hide who he was to an extent,but his voice was still glitchy and he couldn't risk being recognised,not yet at least...

"..."

"Uh,can you talk?"

"..."

"Hmm guess not,that kind of matches the description of what outer said you were like..."

"..."

Error grabbed the dolls and jumped through the portal,too quickly for ink to realise what was going on or to stop him...

His portal took him directly into nightmares room,right where dream was hiding out...

"N-nightmare?"

Dream had only been in one or two fights with error so his voice was not as distinct to him,plus error was trying his best to hide his glitches...

"Who are you,why do you have dolls of us,why are you in my house,why are you looking for my brother,WHO ARE YOU!"

Dream bursted out of the shadows,surprising and confusing error,but just as he was about to run away,nightmare ran into the room and stopped dream

"Brother,stop,I want strings to be my friend,leave him alone!"

"B-But Brother,he-"

Before dream could finish that sentence,error jumped out a nearby window into the castle gardens below,using his strings to decrease the impact

He dashed through the gardens as far as he could until he reached a strange wishing well next to a bench in some woodland area behind the castle,he heard footsteps following him and turned to see nightmare

"You betrayed me"

"No,I didn't know they would do this,I'm so sorry strings!"

Error sighed and took a seat on the bench,soon to be followed by nightmare sitting down next to him

"It's not like we've known each other very long anyway"

"I know but I just...I thought"

"Thought what?"

"That we could ...be...friends..."

"R-really!"

"Nevermind it's stupid,I mean,who would want to be MY friend..."

"I would"

"You...would?..."

"Yeah!i mean you're smart,funny,kind and really talented,you would make a great friend"

"Yeah...fReInD"

While saying the last word,his voice began to glitch way more than normal,causing his new 'friend' to become concerned

"Uhh,strings?you ok there"

"Yeah I'm fiNe"

And with that final sentence,error crashed,freezing in place as his eyes filling with errors and his body covering in glitches,the words 'error.exe has crashed please reboot' appeared above him,nightmare then proceeded to press the reboot button,blissfully unaware of what was going on...

He decided not to ask or mention it to the others,as they would no doubt try to find his friend and capture him again

once error was conscious again,he asked his friend if he could visit again,to which nightmare happily replied with 'yes',and with that now said,error walked off,opening a portal to the anti-void once he was far enough away from nightmare...

Once back in the white desolate place he called home,error changed back into his normal clothes and hung the dolls on the ceiling with the others with his strings,then...the voices returned to him...