Welcome to the latest Chappy and probably longest one there will be,  ChaosDancer12 helped co-write it and edited the chappy this time. Poor Trance

Trance wanted to cry in relief, when he found a city.

"Where are all the people?" He asked himself, he was confused, it was a beautiful day, and the city was empty, but it didn't look abandoned.

Hot breath steamed against the back of his neck.

Quick reflexes saved him from his head being taken off, and he turned to look at his attacker, from several feet away.

"Is that a mutant shadow lizard?!" He cried, in shock.

From the buildings, more matching beings crawled or oozed.

Trance knew how to fight, because Papa Ruru had wanted them to be able to defend themselves, and the tree of feelings. But this, this was way too many.

The small child guardian fled.

He didn't get too far, as the creatures quickly caught up, with him, and slammed him, into a wall.

"Gah!" Trance cried in pain, but thankfully, nothing was broken, but that wouldn't matter as he was about to be eaten.

"Sorry, not today!" A voice cried, and Trance found himself being grabbed.. and pulled into the sky.

At that point, the stress got to him, and he passed out.

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"We made it in time..." The traveller said in relief.

Down below them, the monsters prowled and roared angrily, their prey had escaped!

He spared a look at the being he had rescued, a Nightmare, but it wasn't the Nightmare from this Multiverse.

If there was anyone else alive in this Multiverse, he could not find them in the codes, the Nightmare had appeared, just as he was about to leave.

This Multiverse was doomed, and it was about to collapse back into nothing.

So.. yeah.. He was not leaving the kid here.

And with that in mind, the Traveller ripped a hole into the Multiverse and he left.

Moments later there was a flash...

Then nothing.

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"This.. was not the Multiverse I was aiming for.." The traveller said, as he'd barely had time to rip a way out of that broken Multiverse, before it collapsed.

The Nightmare was still unconscious, which worried Traveller, as he hadn't sensed their counterpart Dream.

"Hi!"

Traveller jumped and he almost dropped the Skeleton in his arms, and he turned around.

A cute tiny Shin stood there, they looked familiar.

"I'm in CodeMultiverse! That must mean you're Canvas!" He said a bit excitedly, he hadn't been to this Multiverse for a very long time. Actually... he never did introduce himself then, and that mess had ended after he arrived.

"Yep! I'm Canvas!" Canvas grinned, at the new Skeleton.

"You can call me the Traveller kiddo, now is there a Healer around here... I think that this guy needs to be looked at..." Traveller asked, with a look of worry, on his face.

Canvas nodded his head. "We can ask Mommy to heal him!"

"Lead the way," Traveller said relieved, adjusting his grip on the tiny Nightmare. Gosh... so young and tiny, maybe looking eight years old?

"Lead the way," Teaveller said relieved, and he adjusted his grip on the tiny Nightmare. Gosh... so young and tiny, he looked like he was an eight year old....

Canvas hummed, and he showed them the way, to his Mommy.

"Mommy! Mommy! Someone needs your help!"

"Canvas?!" Chaos ran over to her child, and she saw the Skeleton that was following him.

"Sorry about this, it's a little Mulitiverse jump issue. I found him, before a Multiverse collapsed, but I need someone, better at Healing, than me, to look him over" Traveller softly told her.

Chaos nodded her head, and she patted Canvas, on the head. "You did a good job showing them the way to me Little Print."

Canvas giggled, and he hugged Chaos's leg. "I'm gonna play with Daddy, and you can look after them Mommy!"

Chaos smiled, and she kissed Canvas, on the head, and the excited shin ran into the house, to find, and play, with his Dad.

"I'm really really sorry, I was trying to hit my kid's Multiverse. I don't even know where this Nightmare's twin is..." The Traveller said, apologizing again, which was amusing, because he looked a few years older than the child Nightnare, in his arms.

"It's okay, everything is going to be fine." Green light started to appear, on Chaos's hands. "Let me help him."

"Thank you." Traveller said, relaxing.

Chaos smiled, and she healed the Child Nightmare, in the Traveller's arms.

"Is everything okay?" He asked her.

"He's going to be okay." Chaos told him. "But he's going to be hungry, when he wakes up."

"So... pretty much like every single child that age." He grinned, behind his scarf. "

Mmmm...." Trance said, waking up. "

Welcome back to the world of the living Kid." Traveller said, as large purple eyelights opened.

Chaos chuckled, and she looked at Trance. "Do you feel better now, Kid?"

"Hungry..." Trance mumbled. "Where am I?"

"You're in the Codeverse Multiverse kid, I brought you here from the collapsing Multiverse that somehow, you had found yourself in..." Traveller said.

"Aren't you a Kid too?" He muttered.

"I only look like one." Traveller said, with a single purple eyelight gleaming, with mirth in it.

Chaos chuckled. "I have some left over tacos, in the fridge, and if Grey hasn't eaten them, you can have them Kid."

"My name's Trance." Trance said making a face, as the Traveller helped him to his feet.

It was at that moment Grey.. or rather, the local Ink walked around the corner, with little Canvas jumping around his feet.

"Dear, do you know why Dream left with Fresh?" Ink asked, with a worried look, on his face.

Trance froze...

With terror going through his body....

Images of Ink attacking his twin and himself, and Papa's death.

And he screamed.

Chaos reacted to his screams, and she hugged Trance, and she blocked his view of Ink, with her body.

"Shhhh... It's okay.... He's not going to hurt you. We're not going to hurt you." She gently rubbed Trance's back.

"No.. no... you can't be here, Reverie... I want Reverie and Papa!" He cried, and somehow, he jumped.

"He just.. blindly jumped, between Multiverses!" Traveller said, in shock and fear, and jumping blindly, between Multiverses, was bad.

Chaos froze... Trance... He reminded her of herself, and the Meme Squad, when they met the Dream of this Multiverse, after they had escaped the Dream from their Multiverse...

"Mommy!" Canvas ran over, to his Mommy, and he touched her left hand.

"Mommy, he'll be okay." He told her.

She looked at her son.

"I can sense the path that his Hope will take." Canvas had a smile on his face. "He'll have a happy ending."

"I hope so, I'm sorry that it ended this way. I have to go, and hopefully, I'll find him..." Traveller said weakly.

Chaos nodded her head, and she sat down, on the ground, to hug Canvas.

Canvas smiled, and he hugged his Mommy.

"I hope that we meet again, and by the way, I'm the Traveller." He grinned, and then, he opened a door outside the Multiverse and he left.

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Trance woke up, in another strange place... like a cool room, but it was hidden, in the void.

"You know... with Ser about to hit the final temple in a few months, I didn't think that I'd be dragging random kids out of the time stream." A voice said, and Trance blinked, when he saw a darkly garbed figure.

"What?" Trance asked, with a confused look, on his face.

"Try not to blind jump Multiverses kiddo, you jumped back in time, by a year, by accident." Umbra, the shadow Guardian grinned.

"WHAT?!" Trance screamed.