Thank you all, I wouldn't make it here without everyone's support.So on with the show (bows)

The god known as Ink was floating, in the empty space between here and there.

Becoming whole again was exhausting, so he'd needed to rest.

"Are you going to sleep away the whole day?" a voice asked.

"Shut up, Time," Ink grumbled, waking up.

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There hadn't been a genocide run, or even a no mercy run in six months, not since the event that most had come to call the Golden Flash.

In fact, everywhere was rather peaceful.

Dream had seen some of the darker AU's Sanses looking bewildered.

Yet... they weren't causing trouble.

Oh, he knew they would in the future, they wouldn't be able to resist.

But for now... it was calm.

Only Blue and himself knew why.

The multiverse was in balance again, its god was whole once more.

No one had seen Ink or Error in six months either.

This hurt more then either of them would admit.

Ink was a friend of both, and Blue had been close friends with Error.

"Stop taking so long and come home, Ink," Dream cried to the sky.

It wasn't a crush anymore, though. He had realized in the end that the feeling he had had towards the Creator, whatever it was, had been caused by his reaction to Ink's powers.

"Stupid Inky, your friends are waiting!" Dream whispered sadly.

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He moved in a place where body and gender didn't exist, although he thought of himself as a him because he'd spent so long in a male body.

Or at least much as skeleton monsters had gender, anyway.

There was a lot of work, he was very behind.

If he had a mouth, he would have sighed.

There was so many things to do which he couldn't do when he was incomplete.

For one thing, his two selves had been stuck in demi-mortal forms, unable to access the higher codes.

He gave a mental groan. This would take forever.

He hoped everyone could wait a bit longer.

Wait, how in the name of the Omniverse did this code happen?!

Yeah... this would take awhile.

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"Almost a year," Blue said, the two were in Outertale, watching the gorgeous star-filled night skies.

Dream smiled sadly as a trio of shooting stars flew across the cosmos, memories of their trio of friends watching the stars here flickering through his mind.

"At least the AUs seem more normal," Dream said. A few genocide and no mercy runs had started to pop up now, but were still much rarer than before.

Heck, no AUs had been created or destroyed since that day, and the darker Sanses were only causing chaos in their home AUs. Or at least the ones whose AUs still existed, that is.

Nightmare had actually talked to him without a battle breaking out.

Well, after throwing a tea kettle at him.

He really needed to learn to block out his link with Nighty again, his twin was always teasing him about the random stuff he thought of.

"Hey, we're going to be late," Blue said, skipping over. He had his blaster hammer strapped to his back, still glimmering from the time it held Inks soul, however short-lived that may have been.

"Right," Dream responded after a moment.

The guardian of positivity opened a golden portal and the duo slipped inside.

A figure smiled, unseen and unheard.

Then they were gone.

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The parasite known as Fresh wondered the Anti-Void. It seemed even emptier than before, as Error had been gone almost a full year. The blue strings still glowed above, holding their prizes of souls and puppets.

"Aha!" he said triumphantly, finding the rare puppet of himself.

Grabbing it, he grinned at the awesome mini-him, this one he would be careful with, as it was likely the last one he'd ever get. After all, Error was the one who made it, and... well, he was gone.

Suddenly, he spun around, looking around in confusion.

"Error?" Fresh called.

He swore he'd felt the grumpy skeleton.

Last he heard, the Destroyer had rejoined with Inky, and then they both vanished.

"Whoah!" he shouted as a huge wind hit him, throwing him into the air.

How the funk was there wind in the anti-void?!

"Uh..." he said trailing off.

"I'm outta here," he said and vanished with a poof.

Above, the strings, dolls and souls were gone.

Laughter briefly filled the air.

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Geno blinked.

For a second, he'd thought he'd seen something out of the corner of his eye.

Then, he realized there was a plate on the 'ground' of the Save Screen.

On it, there was a beautifully fresh piece of pie.

"If this is a hint, I don't get it!" the eternally bleeding monster yelled.

He spun around, and for a second he thought he saw a familiar tan scarf.

"Ink?" he called, bewildered.

But nobody answered.

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"Having fun?" Classic asked, his constant smile even wider than usual.

"Sans, who are you talking to?!" Papyrus called.

Classic stared for a moment, then smirked.

"Nothing," he said, and strolled away.

Laughter followed him.

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"This was fun, a picnic between a whole bunch of the AUs is just what we needed," Blue said, smiling. The blue-bandanna'd skeleton looked much happier then he had in months, the happiest he had since both Ink and Error had seemingly vanished.

"Yeah, it was very nice," Dream replied, grinning. Then he realized that Blue had paused.

"Dream..." Blue said, trailing off, and pointed down the road.

Dream had to stare, two small dolls sat on a large rock. One looked to be modeled after Blue, and the other after himself.

The dolls were slightly dusty from passing vehicles, but despite that, Dream could sense the sheer power of the magic in them. It made him want to sneeze.

"These... have Error's magic in them," Blue said quietly, picking up his Doll. He gently touched the stitches keeping it together, taking comfort in the former destroyer's magic.

"They're definitely the ones from the Anti-Void," Dream said, carefully picking up his own.

He admitted that it was very well made, but it was probably just Fresh messing with them- after all, the parasite was one of the only ones with the ability to even get to the Anti-Void, and Error's dolls were probably still there- not that anyone had checked since just after he and Ink had both disappeared.

"Dream, open a portal to base now!" Blue demanded.

"Why?" Dream asked, bewildered.

"Just do it," Blue said firmly.

"Alright," Dream said, still rather confused, but he opened a portal and Blue rushed through.

Quickly, he followed.

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Blue rushed through the Star Sanses base, one that hadn't been used in a long time... not since that day.

'Too much dust,' he thought irritatedly, he'd have to clean later.

The place was dark, but he didn't need to see to get where he was going.

He paused in front of a brightly colored door, the door that led to the trio's shared bedroom.

It had always seemed like a never ending sleepover.

Slowly, he opened the door, and a warm stream of light from the bedside lamp seeped out.

A figure sat in the middle bed, making a small doll... a Sans wearing a taco hat of all things.

'Sweet! It actually exists!' Blue silently cheered, he was so going to visit!

"You're late," Blue said, startling the figure.

They looked up, and their ever changing eyelights briefly flickered to a familiar pair, with one being bicolored, integrity blue ringed by justice yellow, while the other was a solid justice yellow.

"Sorry," Ink said with a tilted grin, one that a certain dark-boned skeleton used to give during his rare happy moments.

Blue growled, and punched the other before collapsing down on his bed, with its blue star-printed quilt. Dust flew into the air, and he coughed.

Ink fell back onto his own brightly colored and patterned bed, surprised by Blue's punch.

"Okay, I deserved that," Ink said, rubbing his face where the smaller skeleton had hit him.

"Very much deserved it," added Dream, softly settling onto his own bed with its sunny yellow quilt.

"Hey, where's Broomie?" Blue asked, not seeing the giant brush anywhere.

He also noted that the strings were appearing from nowhere, not from the eyes like they had for Error.

"I still have it, but I don't really need it right now," Ink said, smirking, before tossing the finished Taco Sans to Blue.

"I... was afraid, afraid that I'd lose both of you. I'm glad that not all of Error vanished," Blue said, crying tears of happiness.

"Silly Blue, I just returned home," Ink said, his voice briefly corrupting.

"It's going to be a bit weird, but I look forward to getting to know you again," Dream finally said, still absorbing the new information.

"That's all I ask, I still want to be friends. And now I don't have to depend on my vials to feel emotions," Ink said.

Huh... they hadn't even noticed the vials were missing.

"Sounds fun," Blue said happily, and the trio shared a smile.

It wouldn't be easy, but they were the Star Sanses.

Friendship is their specialty.

END