(I do not know how this chapter will end, but this battle will obviously be boring, so I probably have to narrate on my own behalf, but a little later.)

Pov: Max

Error 404 and I looked into each other's eyes. Tension was building between us. I knew that a battle could not be avoided. So I was going to fight him one-on-one.

Max: Betty.

Error Betty: Huh?

Max: Get out of here.

Error Betty: What?

Max: Go away.

She looked at me with excitement.

Error Betty: What are you talking about?

Max: I'm talking about you having to leave. You can't help me in any way. Especially since you don't remember anything about your past. Not to mention your abilities.

Error Betty: My abilities?

Error 404: Have you finished talking already?

Max: Yes. Now go.

But Error Betty still wasn't listening to me, for some reason she
didn't want to leave.

Error Betty: No. I won't leave you...

Max: Betty go away. If you want to stay alive, then you need to run. Error 404 will not spare you. So do what I say.

Error Betty: ...

Error Betty closed her eyes and clenched her fists. She was probably trying to use her abilities. But in the end she didn't succeed and she ran away.

- I don't care what happens to her, but she will only get in the way here.

Error 404: No wonder everyone is running away from you. Apparently it's your vocation to be an outcast.

He grinned.

Max: Let's get down to business.

Error 404: Take your time.

He snapped his fingers and I was surrounded by his associates.
Among them were themselves:

Error,

Fatal Error,

Nightmare,

Killer

and Bill Sans.

The other three I already knew: Dust,

Horror

and Insanity.

I have already seen these guys on TV when they faced each other and other versions of themselves.

- Nine... Too much. And this is despite the fact that some of them are almost invulnerable. Unless, of course, Error 404 does not have such guys in stock yet.

Error 404: We can solve this peacefully if you give up and let me use your soul. But if you refuse, then I'll have to do it in a less secure way.

Max: I think you're going to kill me anyway.

Error 404: Of course... no. To do this, I need not only a soul, but also your body.

Max: So even if I lose my limbs, will you still take me away?

Error 404: If you don't want this to happen, then just do as I tell you.

- Well, that's the moment... A choice between good and evil. Although there is practically nothing to choose here. No one will come to my aid. And even if the Alpha realizes that something has happened to me, it will be too late.

Error 404: What will be your decision?

Error 404 was still smiling, as he was looking forward to my next actions.

- What would the Creator do in my place? Probably nothing. It is very difficult for me to imagine myself in his place. Therefore, it would be better if I...

Max: I refuse.

Error 404 stopped smiling.

Max: I refuse it.

Bill Sans: You see? It's just like I said.

Error 404: I thought so too. Well...

Suddenly he smiled again.

Error 404: Then let's move on to the part where it all starts...
blasters 404 appeared over me.

Error 404: And ends instantly!

*Blaster shot*

I instantly avoided the shot, but then Error Bones rained down on me. Since they were flying fast, I barely managed to avoid them. Several wounds remained on my body and clothes, but then red threads grabbed me by the neck. It turns out it was Fatal Error, who was still smiling.

Fatal Error: This is for you for Papyrus!

I tried to get my knife, but he tied my hands. Then he threw me with all his might towards Nightmare, who caught me with his tentacle.

Nightmare: Do you mind if I...

He started abruptly throwing me back and forth.

Nightmare: I'll beat all the emotions out of you!

Since Nightmare was hitting me on the ground, it was hard for me to concentrate because of the pain and dizziness. Then he threw me to Killer. This time I tried to fight back. I activated the shield and crashed into the Killer. It looks like he didn't expect such an action from me and decided to teleport behind my back. Killer called a Killer Blaster aimed at me. I wanted to run away, but Dust pierced me with blue bones.

- Well, why exact-

*Blaster shot*

Max: Aaaaa!

- I admit it was very painful.

I tried to get up, but Dust stepped on my back with his foot.

Dust: What's the matter? Already deflated?

Overcoming the pain, I took advantage of the jump and threw Dust off myself. But then Insanity appeared out of nowhere and hit me with his brother's skull. When I fell to the ground, my legs and arms were pierced by sharp bones.

Max: AAAAA!

- No... This is even more painful...

A smiling Horror loomed over me.

Horror: One Head-dog is ready!

He smiled at me and raised his axe to strike...

Horror: Hmm?

Error 404 snatched the axe from him with the help of threads.

Error 404: I told you not to kill him.

Dust: Come on! We were just playing!

Error 404: Your "games" almost ruined everything!

Killer: But he's alive. And this is the most important thing.

Nightmare: Killer, don't forget that's not why we're here. And you're a Horror too.

Horror: And what do I have to do with it? Better say it Insanity.

Insanity: *Madly smiling*

Nightmare: *Sighs* Let's get this over with... Argh!

A bright arrow pierced his chest. Everyone looked in the direction of the shot and saw that it was a Dream.

Nightmare: Where did he come from here!?

Error 404: It doesn't matter. Just deal with it!

Nightmare: I'll deal with him myself!

Dream: Then you will have to deal with the rest!

Dream smiled and next to him were: Ink,

Alpha,

Delta,

Epic,

Geno,

Cross

and some other two Sans.

- Probably the one with wings is Abyss, and the one with three eyes is Omnipotent.

Error 404: Take care of them, and I'll take the hybrid.

Max: Aaah!

When the bones stopped holding me back, I could feel the blood pouring over my clothes. Error 404 was going to grab me, but he was prevented by an Alpha who hit him in the face.

Alpha: I won't let you hurt others anymore!

Then the real slaughter began. I couldn't get up or crawl away. Since my limbs were badly damaged.

Sansa: Oh my God... Max! What did they do to you!?

Sansa appeared next to me. She was scared when she saw my wounds.

- And where did it just come from?

Max: How did you end up here?

Sansa: Thanks to Core Frisk. It's good that she managed to find you, otherwise we wouldn't have saved you.

Max: *Trying to get up* Argh!

Sansa: Max! Better not move! I'll pick you up myself...

Max: AAAAAA! Stop. Don't touch me.

Sansa: I'm sorry! Are you in pain?

It was clear from my appearance that I was in "very" pain.

Sansa: Oh... Sorry again. I just...

Max: Can you teleport me?

Sansa: No. I don't know how to do it through AU.

- What to do? The others are busy fighting right now. How do we
get out of here?

Suddenly I noticed how Error drew attention to us. He smiled and opened the portal from which the Player came out. His wounds were worse than mine. However, Player called the blasters in our direction.

Max: Sansa.

Sansa: I see.

She shielded us with her bones. Fortunately, it was enough to withstand all the damage. Then the Player called the blasters again, but suddenly the purple braid cut the threads on which he was hanging. When the Player fell, the purple braid returned to Error Betty. At first she was happy with what she did, but when she saw me, she immediately ran up to me.

Error Betty: Max!

Sansa: Who is it?

Max: She's not our enemy.

Error Betty: What happened to him!?

Sansa: His limbs are severely damaged. Can you move us from here?

Error Betty: Move us? How? Where to?

Max: Forget about it. She doesn't know how to do it.

Error Betty: Maybe I can heal his wounds?

Sansa: No. He needs to go to the hospital. We need to get out of here somehow... Watch out!

Unfortunately, Error Betty didn't understand what she was talking about, so Phantom Papyrus knocked her down.

Error Betty: What is that!?

Sansa: I don't know! Deal with him!

Suddenly I noticed how Nightmare turned in our direction, its tentacle quickly rushed towards us. I whispered weakly.

Max: From behind.

But it was too late. As soon as she turned around, a tentacle pierced her body. Sansa looked at her soul in shock and started coughing.

Sansa: *Coughs* Cough-cough... what...

*Crackle*

Then Nightmare pulled out her soul and Sansa began to turn into dust. When this happened, someone's blaster fired in Nightmare. Then I heard someone screaming, but I had already started to disconnect.

The scene turns into...

- What? Where am I?

I was in the dark again. But it wasn't a dream. After all, at least in my dream I could walk, but not here.

- I feel like I've been here... Or is it just dejavu?

Suddenly two symbols appeared in front of me:

                "LIVE"                                                      "DIE"

- What is it? A choice between life and death? Why does it look so familiar? It was as if I had already been here...

Only now I discovered that my body was unharmed, there were no wounds on my arms and legs.

- This place is looking weirder and weirder. I think there can be only one way out here.

I looked at the "DIE" symbol. I knew what I was going to do.

- Maybe I'm doing the wrong thing, but I'm so tired of living... Moreover, now I have to heal my wounds, hide from Error 404, put up with the consequences of what is happening... It's probably time for me to retire.

As if hearing my thoughts, my hand reached for the "DIE" button. But at the last moment she stopped. More precisely, something prevented me from doing it.

????: *Sighs heavily* And how long will you run away from your problems?

An unknown female voice rang out behind me. For some reason, that voice seemed so familiar to me, but I still couldn't remember.

- Who are you?

????: You probably want to ask: who are you? Right? Well... It doesn't matter. The main thing is that you disappointed me again, Max.

- Who is she? How does she know my name? What does she even want from me?

I felt someone's arms around my shoulders.

????: You know you're going to have to live in this world anyway. Why are you trying to kill yourself? You could have done it before, so why now?

- ...

????: Let me help you again.

My hand started reaching for the "LIVE" button.

- No. Wait.

????: When the time comes, I'll bring your memories back, but for now, you'll have to forget about this conversation.

She literally whispered it in my ear. I could have sworn that even though I didn't see it, I could feel that smile on her face. And this smile was clearly not kind.

Pov: Author

As soon as the battle began, Alpha hit his brother and summoned Alpha blasters. Error 404 summoned his 404 blasters. As a result, they both fired and neither of them was injured. Bill Sans watched this battle with interest until he dodged the Omnipotent fist.

Bill Sans: Seriously? Is it really so difficult for you to be a spectator in this battle?

Omnipotent: Not this time Bill.

Bill Sans: Heh. Well okay. How about moving our battle to another AU?

Omnipotent: Ok. Just don't think I'm going to let you go.

They went through the portal to fight one-on-one. Abyss fought Insanity by launching crystal-bones into it. Insanity easily dodged them and started shooting at him with his sharp bones. Abyss immediately teleported to the side to hit him in the back of the head. Horror struck blow after blow, but his victim did not respond with a counterattack. Epic put his hands in his pocket and yawned sweetly.

Epic: Bruh. Is there any way you can do it faster? I am bored.

Horror: As you wish.

He tried to pierce it with his bones, but Epic only stepped aside. Horror was then about to decapitate him, but Epic blocked his attack with a rubber chicken. Geno took damage after damage, as Fatal Error was stronger than him, he managed to avoid another attack. When Fatal Error tied him up with threads, he was going to kill him, but...

Suddenly, Vhs Sans appeared and inflicted a huge Fatal Error damage with one blow. He tried to get up and continue the battle, but then turned into dust. The last thing left of it is Delete completed. Geno looked at the distorted Sans with surprise, while the latter only looked at him briefly and disappeared. Error tried to catch Ink with threads, but he dodged them quite easily.

Ink: Hey Error! Maybe after all this we'll look at the Undernovella?

Error: Shut up! All I want now is to get rid of you and your anomalies!

He called Error blasters, Ink in turn answered him with Ink blasters. As a result, Error Blasters were able to hit him, so Ink had to drink the bottle while Error summoned one of his puppets. Dust tried to minimize the damage from quick strikes with his dice. As a result, she broke down and Delta, not missing such an opportunity, went behind his back and shot a brave ray from his mouth. Dust didn't suffer much from such an attack, so he called on his brother to help him. It cost Phantom Papyrus to sneak up on Delta, and he received a strong blow to the cheekbone with a U-turn from him. Dust took advantage of this to pierce him with bones from which he almost dodged, but still suffered. Phantom Papyrus noticed Error Betty and decided to attack her. She didn't expect him to appear, so when he knocked her down, a blue ball with a terrifying smile crashed into him.

Error Betty: What is that!?

Error Kumu just continued to attack Phantom Papyrus, and Error Betty just stood there and did not understand what was happening. Until she noticed the Player. He still lay there and didn't move. When she came up to him, he whispered softly.

Player: Help me...

Error Betty cautiously approached him and examined him.

Error Betty: What happened to you? Why did you attack Max?

He didn't say anything because he lost consciousness.Cross and Dream fought against Nightmare and Killer. When Dream shot arrows at his brother, he only dodged them easily. While Cross himself tried to dodge the Killer's attacks, since he was stronger than him. When Dream finally hit his brother, he just groaned in pain trying to pull the arrow out.

Cross: Dream! I could use your help!

Dream: I'm coming!

As soon as he was distracted by Cross, Nightmare took advantage of this moment to deal a fatal blow to his brother, but then he saw Sansa and then a brilliant idea came to his head. While Killer was barely dodging Dream's arrows, Cross turned his head towards Sansa for a second and noticed how she was turning to dust.

Cross: No! No! No! No! No! Sansa!

Cross realized who did it and stared at Nightmare.

Cross: I'll kill you!

He shot him with a blaster and continued to attack him.

*Fresh-poof*

Suddenly, Fresh was next to Max, he was in complete shock from what he saw, because Max was bleeding and did not move.

Fresh: Wow! Dude, what happened to you!?

Max didn't answer anything because he was unconscious. Fresh did not hesitate and picked him up.

*Fresh-poof*

(Yes, I know it's not enough, but it's hard for me to describe a battle with so many characters.)

Pov: Max

The squeaky sound reverberated in waves in my head.

- That sound again... Why is he so loud?

Max: *moans*

Only now it dawned on me that I can't move my hands. As well as legs.

Core Frisk: Max.

Max: What?

Core Frisk: Are you sleeping?

Max: No.

As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw Core Frisk next to me.

Core Frisk: You better lie down. Your nerve cords are badly damaged. Not to mention the bones.

Max: How much can we talk about bones? I'm already tired of talking skeletons and flying bones.

Core Frisk: Hee-hee. Don't worry. It's all over now. The main thing is that no one will disturb you now.

Max: What are you talking about? Error 404 is dead?

Core Frisk: *Sighs* No. His associates are also alive, with the exception of Fatal Error.

Max: ...?

Core Frisk: Geno said he was killed by some distorted Sans. His face was stretched out, and his red eyes were leaking out like tears.

- Vhs... What was he doing there? And why did he kill Fatal Error?

Max: So he just killed Fatal Error and disappeared?

Core Frisk: Yes. Although he could have easily killed Geno, but that didn't happen.

Max: What about the others?

Core Frisk: Basically everyone is alive except Sansa...

Max: ...

Core Frisk: Sorry. I'm just...

Core Frisk briefly turned away, wiping her face with her sleeve.

- I didn't think Sansa would die so easily.

Core Frisk: I still can't believe she's gone.

Max: At least she's with Frisk now.

Core Frisk: ...

Max: I mean, after death, the dead are always reunited with their loved ones. Isn't that right?

Core Frisk: Probably... I also believe she's in a better world now.

Max: By the way, where is the Player?

Core Frisk: Alpha took it with him. Since he is unlikely to be cured in the hospital, so he himself will try to put the Player on his feet.

- So the Player is still alive. I wonder how long he was held captive by Error?

Core Frisk: By the way, Max, I wanted to ask you something.

Max: What?

Core Frisk: Who was this girl who helped you?

Max: You mean Betty?

Core Frisk Yes.

Max: Where is she now?

Core Frisk: So far it is in the Omega timeline. If you want, I can call her.

Max: Don't. He'd better stay away from me.

Core Frisk: Why?

Max: It's better this way. She doesn't cause any problems, does she?

Core Frisk: Yes, it seems not. She looks pretty confused and scared, but mostly harmless.

Max: That's good. I hope you don't mind if Betty stays here with you?

Core Frisk: Let's see... Maybe she wants to stay with you?

Core Frisk winked at me with a smile.

Max: Core. Let's not joke about it.

Core Frisk: Well, what's the big deal? This girl is clearly attached to you, so she herself must decide where to live and with whom to live.

- I really hope Betty stays here.

Max: Tell me how long I'm going to lie here?

Core Frisk: You should ask Dr. Sans about it.

Dr. Sans: What should I ask?

Max: When will I get out of here?

Dr. Sans: Oh... Max. I don't even know.

Core Frisk: Let me leave you alone, I have to go now anyway.

Dr. Sans: Of course.

Max: ...

Dr. Sans: *cleared his throat* Well, Max... I have some bad news for you.

- Well, it started...

Max: Tell it like it is.

Dr. Sans: Your bones were badly damaged. It's amazing you haven't broken anything yet.

Max: And what does that mean?

Dr. Sans: Max, you have a high pain threshold, don't you understand what that means?

Max: No.

Dr. Sans: Your bones are covered with cracks. In the presence of such pain, a person cannot restrain screams. But in your case, it's different. There is a small chance of healing, but this... It's impossible.

Max: So I won't be able to use my legs and arms?

Dr. Sans: I'm afraid so...

Max:...

Dr. Sans: I understand that this is not encouraging...

Max: Doctor can you leave me alone?

Dr. Sans: Um... Are you sure?

Max: I need to think about this in peace and quiet.

Dr. Sans: Of course. If you need anything, I'll be there.

Max: Yeah.

As soon as he left, I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.

- Why didn't I just die? Am I destined to always face problems in
this universe? Can't I live my life in peace without unnecessary acquaintances, fights and injuries?

At such moments I begin to understand some of the inhabitants of Omega timeline.

- They live here without any threat, while I survive. I'm trying to find food and drink. And most importantly, I'm still looking for a place where no one will bother me. Of course I have a house in the void, but it's no longer a secret to anyone.

The mention of the house saved me a little from worrying questions.

- Maybe I should go back to Xtale? At least I'm welcome there. At least XChara doesn't look so angry anymore. Although who knows ...

From these thoughts, I did not notice how I fell asleep again. However, I needed it now. After all, I feel safer in a dream than in reality.

(Oh my God... Probably now each chapter will contain more than 3000 words. Damn it! How tired I am of this...)

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