Error.

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Dad and the others were asleep. Crossy had gained his aura last week, and it made people confident! He now joined the others in aura training, and I was very proud of my big brother! Actually, I was proud of all of them! They were all so cool! I..wasn't that cool. Sure, I destroyed universes, but..I didn't like killing people..it was wrong; the multiverse was mean for making me the Destroyer, but I couldn't argue..Dad said that I would be punished if I argued..and I didn't want that. So I just..did what I was told to do. I enjoyed being with my family more than destroying. Tonight, I couldn't sleep; I had destroyed five universes today..with countless billions of people. Although I didn't destroy the surfaces directly, I still destroyed them! If there was life on other planets, they were also wiped out, despite the fact that I didn't want to kill them. I lay awake, silently mourning the lives I had taken, when I heard a voice..one that I knew.

"Destroyer." The multiverse spoke to me..

"Y-yes, multiverse?" I responded, sitting up in my bed.

"It has come to our attention that you are inefficient in an aspect of your duty."

"Wh-what?!" I didn't want to die!

"It is not as serious as you believe, but it may cause future problems."

"O-oh? Then..what am I lacking in?"

"The human souls that you collect from every universe must be stored properly."

"But..we have soul jars..isn't that enough?"

"No."

"Then..where do we put them?"

"We have located a suitable storage area for the souls. In order to provide you and the Guardian of Negativity with an easily accessible point of entry, you have been granted the ability to create a portal to this place. In addition, a permanent gateway will be placed inside of your quarters in the Guardian of Negativity's castle."

"Okay.."

"That is all."

The multiverse stopped speaking after that, and I looked around my room curiously; I wanted to see the entrance to the storage area! After a minute of searching, the sound of a portal's opening behind me startled me, and I turned around, finding..a white portal. I hesitantly shuffled up to it, finding a space that looked entirely white behind it. Well, if I went back to sleep, there was a good chance that Kills would get too interested when he came to wake me up and go through, which only left staying up and exploring! With that in mind, I changed my clothes and entered the portal, where I immediately jumped back slightly, hearing..voices. The multiverse's standard punishment for me was voices that came out of nowhere, berating me for my disobedience..but these voices sounded..different. I decided to listen to them, although that was a difficult task, as most of them were indiscernible from others; they were all talking at the same time. I decided to try, nonetheless.

"No way! Phones don't need radiation sensors!"

"Yes, they do! Everyone's always got their phone with them, so it would make sense if one is in a highly radiated area for the thing to warn them!"

"But what about cupcakes? I like cupcakes!"

"Then we turn the flour into a monster worthy of recognition: a flowey! Hi, I'm Flowey the flour!"

"But what use is there for caterpillars except as a light source?"

"You idiot, everybody knows giraffes are better at the trapeze than jaguars!"

"They are not! A jaguar would go up and go straight down like-" One voice paused. "Yo, who's that?"

"Is it a jaguar?"

"No, silly! It's..a monster."

"What kind of monster? A bed monster? A closet monster?"

"He's talking about the species, you ding-dong! It looks like a skeleton!"

"Hey, skeleboy! How'd you get here?"

"Are you sentient?"

"No one's been here in so long!"

"Maybe he's a..permanent resident?"

"We could watch anime together!"

"Nah, he looks like the type who would be into Spanish sitcoms."

"How would you know?"

"Well, I don't think he'd be into war movies!"

"How about we ask him?"

"Hey, skelly! Do you like Spanish shows or anime better?"

"Uh.." I wanted to go back home.

So I did. I turned and ran out the portal as fast as I could, and I began to run to Dad's room, because Dad would know what to do better than I would, and he would help me! When I reached Dad's room, I approached his bed and lightly shook one of his arms, waking him softly.

"Mm.." Dad yawned. "What..Error? Do you need something?"

"The multiverse did a thing, and it's scary!" I may have been overreacting, but I didn't know what else to do!

"What?!" Dad sat up quickly upon my mention of the multiverse. "What happened?"

"It made a portal to somewhere in my room..because we're supposed to store the souls there..but it's scary!"

"Did you go through the portal?" Dad sighed when I nodded. "From the looks of it, you came back just fine; is the portal still open?"

"The multiverse said it's permanent."

"All right, let's go."

"Okay."

Dad and I then went back to my room, and Dad looked at the portal curiously; it seemed to interest him, although I wasn't sure why anyone would want to be interested in a scary portal! 

"Is it completely white in there?" He questioned, after a minute.

"Yeah.." I nodded slightly.

"Anything else?"

"There are..voices..but they're not the type that punish me.."

"What did they speak of?"

"..A lot of weird things..what's a sitcom?"

"Short for situation comedy; it's a type of television show. Were you injured in any way?"

"No, I'm fine..just afraid."

"I see. Did the multiverse say anything about me?"

"This portal is to help you access the storage area..I don't recall anything else."

"Very well, shall we go, or shall we wait until the others are up? Should I go alone?"

"Can we wait?"

"Of course. It's still rather late..do you want to go back to sleep?"

"What if Kills finds it when he tries to wake me up?"

"We can place a sign in front of the portal telling him to avoid it."

"Okay."

The sign was made, and both of us went back to bed. The storage area was scary..I wouldn't have wanted to be there for very long, even if I was just a soul! It..was a good idea, though; we had two entire rooms full of soul jars, and we couldn't keep doing what we were doing long term. The white space certainly seemed infinite, and it would no doubt be large enough to hold the souls from the destroyed universes. With that in mind, I drifted off to sleep, dreaming of caterpillars. My rest was peaceful, and when I was woken up, no doubt by Kills, I felt ready to tackle the day! Except for the fact that there was a portal to a scary white void in the corner of my room that couldn't be ignored.

"Good morning, Error!" Kills greeted, his gaze plainly shifting to the portal at random intervals.

"Good morning, Kills!" I smiled, getting out of bed. 

"Error, you slept in your regular clothes!" Killer laughed.

"Oops.." I must have forgotten to change back into my pajamas..

"Eh, that's okay. So..what's over there?"

"Dad'll tell everyone."

"All right. Shall we go to breakfast?"

"Yep!"

With that, Kills and I went to the kitchen to eat. I sometimes wondered why we only ate meals in a dining room upstairs, but when I asked, Dad told me that the lower house's dining room table was too large for conversation; we wouldn't have been able to hear eachother! Eating in the kitchen made more sense now. As soon as we arrived, we began to eat; I loved bacon!

"So..are we gonna talk about it?" Kills wanted to know more about the portal.

"About?" Horror didn't know.

"Yes, we are going to talk about it." Dad confirmed.

"We're going to talk about what?" Crossy questioned. 

"I've asked the multiverse for details about it, and I've learned much."

"Asked the multiverse?" Dusty seemed afraid.

"A portal to a place that is to be known as the 'Anti-Void' has been placed in Error's room. Its purpose is for storing the human souls from the universes, and it is only to be used for that purpose; prolonged exposure inside can lead to very serious consequences..we mustn't remain there for longer than two hours, at most."

"What happens if we do?" Kills was interested.

"Soul damage."

There was a moment of silence before anyone dared to speak.

"What about Error?" Crossy inquired.

"Placing souls there won't take long after we move the ones we have now; we will be doing that today." 

"Will we be hurt?" Dusty didn't want that.

"Not if we make short trips. If any of you feel even a little bit of pain in your soul while we do this, tell me and stop helping; I don't want you boys getting hurt."

"Can Matrix help?" I hoped.

"The blasters will be beneficial in helping, yes."

"Yay!"

Breakfast ended soon after that, and we got straight to work. First, we moved one room-full of souls into the hallway outside my room, since that would make it easier to get them into the Anti-Void. When that was done, our blasters were summoned, and we began to move the souls. There was just one problem.

"Where do we put them?" I wondered.

"It's cold in here.." Dusty shivered slightly, pulling his jacket closer around him. 

"Um.." Dad looked around. "I have no clue."

"Hmm.." I looked around, finding..nothing. "Matrix, does this place have a roof or walls?"

Matrix hummed, but my blaster couldn't do much to assist.

"Maybe Blade can help!" Kills took a soul jar off Blade and gestured for us to move out of the way. 

After we were clear, Blade fired a blast of determination in one direction, but there was no contact. A different direction came up still empty. No matter the point, there was no evidence of boundaries..until Blade fired up. A splat rang out from what seemed to be the roof, but it was very high..we were going to have to get up there. I had an idea, of course. I shot a string upwards, until it touched the ceiling; it stuck.

"Well, that's one way to fix a problem." Dad chuckled, looking up. "Error, I think you know what to do; don't you dare fall."

"I won't!" I was a good climber!

So the souls were wrapped in my strings and sent up to the top, where I began to attach more as more souls came down the line. Soon enough, the blinding whiteness was a bit less intense, and blue strings conquered the ceiling; I liked that color better. Soul by soul, the web grew, and I navigated the strings with ease, but I still had a safety rope tied around my vertebrae, just in case. 

"How long have we been doing this?" Crossy asked, at one point.

"I'm not sure." Dad sent up another soul. "Are you feeling all right?"

"I..I don't think so.." 

"Go back inside, then; we'll finish up here."

"All right..can Star still help?"

"Absolutel. The blasters don't have souls, which means that they won't be affected."

"Okay.." 

Crossy went inside, and the rest of us continued. Dusty was next to leave, since his soul began to hurt. Horror left what felt like an hour later, and Killer, albeit reluctantly, was forced to leave as well. Only Dad, the blasters, and I were left to transport the souls, and we still had a lot left!

"Are you feeling all right up there?" Dad called up, at one point.

"I'm feeling fine!" I assured; my soul didn't hurt a bit! "Are you?"

"No pain, but I don't want to leave you here alone if I have to stop; we don't have to do everything today."

"All right!"

We continued for a while longer, and the blue strings covered a very large area on the ceiling of the Anti-Void..then I heard something..lots of somethings.

"Woah, who ordered the redecorator?" A..voice inquired.

That..startled me! I slipped from the string I had been balancing on, but the safety rope caught me.

"Error, are you all right?!" Dad was worried.

"I'm okay!" I replied, beginning to climb back up the rope.

"That was entirely my fault." The same voice spoke. "Sorry, not sorry!"

"You're lucky you didn't kill the kid!" Another scoffed. 

"That would have been interesting, though!" One admitted. "Could you imagine the look on that goopster's face if he did die?"

"Oh, come on!" A voice shouted. "You people are all sadistic, ya know that?!"

"Like you're any better." A soft chuckle.

"At least I don't laugh!" 

"You'd walk into a funeral and laugh, dimwit!" A cackle.

"It was a part in a play!"

"Error..are you hearing what I'm hearing?" Dad confirmed that I wasn't crazy.

"Yeah.." I responded, descending my strings. "What..are they?"

"I'm not sure..are they the same ones that were here before?"

"Yes, but..I thought I was just tired.."

"Hey, don't leave now!" A voice whined. "We haven't had any company since.."

"The beginning of time itself!" Another laughed with an evil twinge behind it. "We need companionship; everyone here is a loser."

"Who're you callin' a loser, loser?" One was angry.

"You realize you're included in everyone too, right?" One of the voices stifled a laugh. 

"I'm not going to deny it at this point!" The voice who had made the claim said.

"Fair enough."

"D-Dad, I'm scared!" I didn't like voices; they were too much like the ones from my punishments!

"All right, we're going to take a break, then." Dad picked me up and carried me into the portal; the blasters followed after us.

Over the next few days, we finished moving the souls into the Anti-Void, but it was difficult to focus with the voices that resided there; they were permanent, although the multiverse refused to tell us what they were the voices of. We didn't exactly want to know, after hearing a few conversations; they were weird. Despite everything, the souls were moved, and everything turned out all right. 

I still didn't like those voices.

~~~chapter end woot~~~

Bean family discovers Anti-Void!

Took long enough-

Thanks for reading my voided writing!

Bye!