Cross gasped as they woke up, they fell into the Void... How were they still alive?! The Void was known to destroy any, and everything, that fell into it... Why were they still alive?!

"The Void can't touch you."

They froze when they heard that familiar glitchy voice.

"Error..."

They started to shake, was Error here to being them back?

To their suprise, the Destroyer that would string them up, like a puppet, and make them look like a fool, sighed, and wrapped a blanket around them.

"Huh?"

Error smiled at them, it wasn't their usual insane grin, but it was a softer, more kinder, smile. "Ditching Nightmare?"

Cross didn't say anything, fearing that Error would have a negative reaction to their plans to run away, but instead, he smiled, again, and he started to knit something.

"You're... You're not mad?"

"In more ways than the one that you know..." Error chuckled. "But yes, I'm not mad... I'm proud... You woke up."

"What?"

"The Multiversal Reset did more than to bring us back in time Cross... For some of us, it brought us back to a more stable mindset."

"Mindset?"

Error nodded his head. "Yeah... A lot of minds deteriorated over time, some from the natural progression of time, many from illness and Determination, a few from the endless amount of questions, and power, that they had, one or two of them did it to survive... Many fell into insanity, some recovered, and some didn't, but there was a key factor in all of it..."

"What was it?"

"Blessings... Fate and Destiny aren't the only Deities to exist Cross, many others do too... Most choose to stay out of the mortal realms, and just focus on running their domains, but sometimes, they bless mortals, or someone ascends to become a Lesser Deity... They can bless Multiverses too, and ours was one of the unlucky ones... Our Multiverse was blessed, and it bled into us, twisting our minds, and leaving them weak to what eventually claimed them."

"Oh..."

"Healing us of it won't change things, I have seen others try to do that, but it failed in the end, and it didn't change anything..."

"So, it can't be changed?"

"No, and forcing it to change won't help either, it just makes things worse..."

"So, we have to live with this? You'll lose your mind again, and I can't save you from it?"

"I can't be saved from it, this is my atonement, but you can be saved..."

"What... What do you mean by that?"

"Cross, you fell into the Void, and when it doesn't destroy what falls into it, it takes it to another Multiverse... And there is no coming back from that..."

"No!" Cross screamed. "You're lying! You have to be..."

"The only way back is to take the long way around, by travelling through many different Multiverses, until you find this one again, and there's no grantee that it will still be around when that happens..." Error sadly smiled. "So, live for us little one, we'll only have one life, but yours will be a life without an end..."

"A life without an end..." Cross started to shake, why did they have a bad feeling about that?

"When you left your AU Cross, you broke your story... By the way, I liked the fact that you left it on fire... Got a few pictures of your Gaster's face when he realised that you had destroyed his life's work, when you left." He handed the softly crying Babybones a book with a few photos in it. "By breaking your story, your Codes had to change to stabilise your body, and to make it possible for you to survive outside of your AU. They did this by locking you into the form of a Babybones, and what that Outer did to you, only finalized the changes."

"So, I'm never going to grow up?"

"In time, you might be able to learn how to take on a temporary Adult form, but yes, you are never going to grow up...

Don't worry about your mind, it should adjust to this, eventually, it is quite strong, and well... I think that it's part of the reason why you're so different from everyone else..."

Cross had a confused look on their face, and Error chuckled, as he placed a garment on Cross. The garment was a black hood, lined with white fluff, that led into a black scarf that wrapped around Cross's shoulders, with the end of the scarf hanging around their knees, the end of the scarf was linked with white fluff too.

"So, run little Runaway, run, and fall off the world someday..." Error said, before he gently pushed Cross, sending the Babybones flying, right before it all went dark for them...

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Error softly smiled, as he closed up the holes in the defenses around the Multiverse... It wasn't often that he got to see someone change their path, to the point that something new was created. He hoped that Little Runaway found themselves a new home, someday... Somewhere were they could belong...

"You better not destroy this chance of yours kid." He muttered to himself. "Don't make the mistake that I did..."

Error took a deep breath, and he prayed, the Greater Deity that he used to work for, didn't respond to him anymore, but just this one time, he hoped that he had a chance for them to listen to him.

He may not be a Lesser Deity of Change anymore, having fallen after he had made a mistake, but, for once, he was hoping that someone would have a happy ending...

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And so ends the first part of Runaway, Cross is now on their way, having left their old Multiverse behind, and taking their first steps into what lies beyond it.

It's time that they find themselves, and learn to cope with the news that they are an Eternal Babybones now, one with the abilities of a Gorgon, that they need to learn how to control...

The main theme song for this part of Runaway, is the song, Runaway, by AURORA, which is also where I got the name for this story from. I feel like it describes what Cross is going through...

Cross just wants to run away from everything, and find a home where they belong... And they don't know just how long the journey will be, or what the end will be, they just know that they have a new road to walk, to become something more...