As Ink entered the AU he could already tell that his friends were there... Waiting for him... He walked up the porch steps of the house he'd made them all, but before he could even open the door, two colourful Skeletons jumped on top of him... He wasn't worried though... This was normal... And it's not like he cared anyway... But he knew he had to show some type of response, even if it wasn't real... Good thing he was a pro at faking...

"GAHHH! G-Guys what the hell?", Dream and Blue looked up at him. The shorter looked worried but a little pissed at his use of profanity... Not like he cared... "Ink! We were worried! We haven't seen you in two days!!!"... Dream was right... It had been two days... But it was no fault of his own... The timelines affected the Multiverse as well... Hell, they knew this... He thought that after the first time, where he'd spent over a week in UnderLust, not by his own wishes, and it translated to a month in their AU, 'That's what I get for asking Lust where Babies come from... I'm still surprised and lucky he never went all the way with me...', Ink shivered at the thought.

Ink was brought back to reality by the Smaller's sudden gasp, "Ink Your Hurt!!! Your-Your Eyes! An-An-And Your Arms!!!", Ink now noticing his arms were uncovered, standing up he pulls his sleeves down. "I'm fine guys... Really just a small fight that ended with a blow to my mid-forehead. It was close to my eyes so Sci had me wear this! I'm fine! Now let's get this meeting over with, I still gotta go fix a FlowerFell after this.", this of course was all a lie, after all, Ink had never once gone to Sci for medical help... Even when he needed it... But he knew the others would buy it so it didn't matter.

There was a small pause as Dream and Blue looked at each other, they were clearly worried, but put it aside for now, "Alright If You Say So... Come On I Made Tacos For Our Meeting!", Blue ran inside as Dream and Ink followed. Ink really didn't want to be here... He'd rather be in the Doodlesphere adjusting to his new state of being...

It'd been a long time since he'd felt this empty, he still needed to adjust... But that'd have to wait for now, Blue entered from the kitchen as Dream and Ink sat on the couch, Blue's cooking had gotten a lot better then it used to be... Thanks to Dream informing him what should and shouldn't go in food... So it was at least semi-edible.

The meeting started with Dream and Blue talking about their respective jobs, Dream having fights with Nightmare, whether it be over which monster gets a dream or a nightmare... Or just fighting in general... Blue on the other hand just spoke about Stretch, UnderSwap Papyrus, cooking and or the multiple other !Sans that would come visit him.

Finally, it landed on Ink, he debated on telling them about him losing his emotions and being rendered Soul-less once more... But he'd kept that a secret before so he settled on, "I had a fight with Error a few hours? Or days? Anyway, he was destroying a FlowerFell, we fought and he got away."... The others fell silent for a moment, just looking him up and down like they were trying to catch him in a lie or something, it wasn't until Blue yelled out that they stopped, "Oh My Gosh! Ink What Happened To Your Satchel!!!".

Ink not realizing he was still wearing it looked down, he could tell the colours were all out of place and were noticeably darker then the last they'd spoken, that and the Yellow was now missing, "Oh that... Yeah, Error took it in the fight and smashed the Yellow vial, uhh, they've been getting darker every since!", Ink did his best fake smile as if this wasn't a big deal which the others seemed to believe... For now.

"Ah! Uh ya know guys it was nice talking to ya and all, but I can sense an AU being destroyed so I'll catch ya later ok? Bye!", before they had the chance to question him further he jumped back into a portal to his AU, he wasn't entirely lying... He generally did feel something break here... That's when he remembered he'd left Error trapped here...

Ink walked into his house... Nothing seemed broken... Except for a plate in the kitchen next to a very jumpy Glitch with toast in it's mouth.

Ink went over to start cleaning it with his hands, when Error stopped him, "Oh no you don't! I'm not fixing you up again! Now go sit down! I made the mess! I'll clean it up!". Ink didn't take too kindly to being yelled at normally... But then again he didn't care, so he went out to sit on the porch...

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Error had finally finished cleaning up the plate, it'd taken him forever to find the broom within all of Ink's art supplies scattered everywhere... And even then it was just a large Paintbrush........ But hey it worked!

He was just tossing the broken pieces in the trash when he heard it... The sound of glass breaking... He paused for a moment, 'Did I miss hear something....?!?', suddenly he heard it again but this time he knew where!

Error ran outside just in time to see Ink throw his Purple vial towards the already broken fading Red vial. He was about to throw the Green one when Error stopped him, "What the hell do you think you're doing!!!"... Ink paused before answering, "Throwing away my emotions... They don't work anymore... And there's no way to fix it anyway...", as he threw the Green one at the ground, shattering and dissipating into thin air.

Error was stunned... He didn't know the vials were his emotions... He knew they were important, but not THAT important! "Wait! But emotions come from the Soul?", "Oh... Yeah... I don't have that...", "WHAT!?!", "I don't have a Soul... Ripped it up... Destroyed it... Those vials were acting as my Soul, though I don't need them to live... Huh... Your the first person I've ever told... Well on purpose that is, the other's all found out on their own, that's probably why they took me to that lab? It's also the reason I never told anyone... Though they did give me the vials that helped me escape...".

Error stood there stunned by the information that had just been loaded on him, only snapping out of it as Ink threw the Orange vial and it smashing on the ground, "Wait so why tell me? And how were they your emotions?", Ink stopped for a moment, he had the Brown vial in hand, "... Well... You sorta already found out so I saw no point in hiding it from you anymore... Don't get me wrong I was still skeptical about it since I've seen how you are with your little brother... But I've also noticed you've been getting better around him so...", he paused before throwing the Brown vial at the ground, Error had enough at this point and grabbed the two remaining vials, Blue and Pink, "How they acted as my emotions well when all put together they gave me the illusion of emotions, even just wearing them on my Satchel would give the effect, drinking them on the other hand, would give a stronger effect... It's also why I spit up ink so often, let me tell ya... Never drink all of them at once! If I could laugh I would be... Anyway, each colour was an emotion,";

"Red= Anger,"

"Blue= Sadness,"

"Yellow= Happiness,"

"Purple= Lust,"

"Pink= Love... Not L.O.V.E..."

"Orange=... Well, that was just conflicted emotions it never really had a set one in mind..."

"Green = Disgust,"

"And Brown= Fear..."

"They'd all be displayed by my eyes... Never really understood the shapes myself, but that doesn't matter now...", Ink then layed back in a relaxed like state, Error looked down at the last two vials in his hands, 'Ink's Sadness and Love... And I destroyed his Happiness... Both literally and figuratively...'.

Error stood there conflicted... There had to be a way to fix this... It was then that he remembered what had happened when his brother, Fresh, met his, *Best Friend*, he started and still is regaining his emotions... 'That's It! I Just Gotta Do The Same Thing!'.

Suddenly Error let out his Strings, wrapping them around Ink, who let out a surprised squeak and then turned to give him an unamused glare.

"Hey don't give me that! We're gonna go visit somebody!".