Behold! A chapter focused entirely on the Undertale side of things since I have no idea how to proceed with the other sides of this story! Profanity, injured creator, poor healers who have a lot of work cut out for them, and the Council... Oh! And don't forget the author popping up occasionally!

CHAPTER 8: INTEREST IN A GLITCH'S PAST, INTENTIONS, MOTIVATIONS, AND WHY HE DESTROYS

BASICALLY: WHY DOES ERROR DESTROY? WHAT'S HIS SIDE OF THE STORY?

ALTERNATE CHAPTER TITLE: THE COUNCIL HAS QUESTIONS

OTHER ALTERNATE CHAPTER NAME: THE COUNCIL'S REACTION

~~~~ With Error (and a very beat up Inky) ~~~~

After a few hours of beating Inky up, Error wiped Inky's marrow and dust off of his hands, and opened a portal to Underfell. After all, that was the AU where he put all the trash he had in the Anti-Void in. Without a second thought, he swiftly kicked the whimpering Creator through the portal into the somewhat dusty snow of Underfell. Inky's marrow began seeping into the snow and the dust that trickled down his bones began to drift into the dusty air. Nobody would really notice or care that there was more dust in the air- it was part of their lifestyle after all. Then Error threw the Creator's brush right into Inky's ribcage, causing it to shatter even further. Though Inky had brought the glitch's wrath upon himself, and he was the reason why he had to destroy, and he brought up the painful past by looking through stuff that didn't belong to him and came up with wrong conclusions... Error still felt a little guilty. Error was petty, yes, and even hated the Creator to a degree (to be honest, he hated Jerry more than he hated Inky)… But Error never really wanted to torture someone or make them experience some of the stuff he went through until now. Error was tired of the blood and marrow staining his hands, drowning him in his sins.

But he didn't feel guilty or tired enough to regret what he did. After all, it was a long time coming, Fate be damned. Yeah, there would probably be consequences, but he didn't care. Error was still a Judge, and since he was probably the only other Sans who knew the whole truth, it had been almost painful to pull back his punches when fighting the Creator. So when he finally went off on Inky, eons of pent up lack of proper JUDGEMENT just... came out all at once. His inner judge and the trait of JUSTICE he had in his SOUL was satisfied. With a final cold glare at Inky that just dared him to mess with what was Error's, the Destroyer closed the portal with a wave of his hand. His anger and howling need for justice settled down, faded, and left Error exhausted. He took a deep breath before quickly cleaning up the dust and putting away everything he held dear. And with a sigh, he closed his eyes, and waited for the screams.

~~~ When the Council finds Inky (and discovers his condition) ~~~

"Where's Ink?" A Sans asked, as the Council was meeting in Dreamtale. "I don't know, he should be here by now." Dream frowned, worry for his friend rising up in him. "Eh, whatever, I'm going back to my AU, my ribs still hurt." Fell grumbled, turning away and forming a portal to a random location in Underfell, and everyone's eyes widened, eye lights shrinking. Whimpering and bleeding out in the snow was a very injured Creator, his paintbrush laying in his broken ribcage. Everyone scrambled through the portal that Fell had made, and surrounded Inky, unsure how to help him without injuring him further. Though upon closer examinations, some of his wounds looked familiar to them somehow. Then realization sunk in. The wounds looked familiar because the wounds had been the very same wounds that each of them had given to Error, at one point or another. Which meant only one thing... Error got his revenge, in the end.

He punished both them and Ink. He punished them by using the very same methods they used on him on Ink, punishing Ink by just attacking him. Was it because they attacked him? They normally would have assumed that that was why he had attacked someone, especially his arch enemy, but somehow this felt personal. Just what did Ink do to get Error to attack him so viciously? And if Error could have gravely injured Ink this entire time, then why didn't he before? "Was... Was Error holding back his punches the entire time?" A Sans asked cautiously, fear in his SOUL even as his curiosity began to make him doubt Ink a little more. He wasn't the only one. "WILL HE FINALLY DESTROY THE ENTIRE MULTIVERSE?!" Dream panicked, even as he reached the flinching, trembling mess that was the Creator in an attempt to heal him. "If he always had this much power, then why didn't he destroy the multiverse already?" Outer wondered, making the Sanses wonder once more just how much they knw about Error. Not enough.

"Obviously, because this is all just a game to him." Stretch scoffed, refusing to believe that Error had any good in him. "If it was all just a game to him, then why did he yell at us about never asking for his side of the story?" Outer shot back, suddenly wishing that he had pressed just a little more, had actually taken the time to know Error and get his side of the story instead of just fishing for the information Ink and Dream wanted. Because of Outer's spying and constant calling of the Creator and Dream to Outertale whenever Error was there, Error had stopped visiting, and Outer lost his chance of ever knowing his side of the story. "E...Er… Error..." Ink groaned, bones trembling, pain clear on his face. Everyone stopped speculating and focused on the injured Creator. "You're okay, Ink, Error isn't here, he won't hurt you while I'm around." Dream reassured, determination in his eye lights.

Ink shuddered, bones creaking painfully... exactly like Error's. If Ink was in such a severe, critical way, and completely unable to function like he normally would, and Error had the same exact wounds, maybe worse, then how did Error manage it? How could he still function and destroy? Ink didn't look capable of creating an ant, and definitely not capable of making an AU. Everyone's attention went back to Ink as he shuddered once more. "Error... has... a... a... family... a... son..." Ink coughed up some marrow, which Dream wiped away as gently as he could. Judging by the way Ink yelped in pain, it wasn't gentle enough. Is that why Error hates being touched? Then Ink's words finally registered. Everyone gasped, and then Stretch's eye sockets blazed with fury. "That bastard doesn't deserve to have a family after killing so many other families!" he snarled, and while they agreed to some degree, they all inched away from the almost foaming-at-the-mouth kind of hostility Stretch was projecting.

"The... son... doesn't... doesn't know..." Ink managed to say, before groaning in pain, his eye lights normal white eye lights, if a bit dim. Everyone leaned in and listened to what Ink had to say. Deep breath, painfully creaking ribs. "I... had looked... through... Error's stuff... and found out... the mother... left Error... and... it... was only... after she... died... that Error... found out... himself... that... he... had... a son..." Ink paused, painfully panting and wincing. "The mother left him? As in, she was willingly in a relationship with him?" Stretch looked shocked and a bit disgusted. "Maybe she left because she found out that Error was the destroyer, a mass murderer." Dream offered, though he looked more interested in what Ink had to say then deal with Stretch's deep hatred of Error blinding just about everything that was important in what Ink had to say, about what he had discovered. Something that had led up to the injuries he was dealt with.

"They... looked... so... happy..." Ink breathed in. Breathed out. "... in the... the photo I saw..." Ink grimaced in pain before continuing, everyone hanging onto his every shaky, pain-filled words. "Error... must have been... devastated... when she... when she left him... because... he... he... had a ring... that... he... never got... to... to give her...and... a speech... about SOULMATES... that... he never... got... to finish... (Error would have gone even more Destroyer Mode on you if he found out that you found and read that, Inky)" As the Creator whimpered in pain, everyone wondered, Was Error destroying because he was suffering from a broken heart? And he wanted everyone else to feel pain, to feel as broken as he felt? Is that why he held back all this time? He wanted to physically feel the pain that came from his broken heart, his wounded soul? This would explain why his SOUL looks the way it does. (… Not the correct conclusion, but at least they aren't 100% sure that they were right and Error was just a killing machine that did what he did just for fun. Or, well, that's what I was aiming for, at least.)

"Error... told me... to stay away... from his son... or else... and... I think... that what he did... to me... that resulted... in this..." Ink grimaced, glancing at himself. Everyone else grimaced too. They were getting at what he was trying to say. "Was just a warning? A taste of what would happen if we went after his kid?" Classic asked, already knowing the answer, but he had no intentions in the first place to go after the Destroyer's son. Everyone knew that Boss Monsters were insanely protective over their kids. He was just confirming it for the more bloodthirsty Sanses and Papryuses. After all, not everyone was intelligent enough to realize that Protective Boss Monster + Kinda Insane Destroyer with Destruction powers= certain, painful, slow death and high chance of your universe no longer existing. Ink managed to nod before wheezing in pain.

"We should call all of the best healers out here - no, we should move him somewhere safe before calling over any healers. Okay? Okay." Dream nodded, remembering that as a Sans, he could float Ink somewhere safe if he moved him fast and gently enough. And so the long and difficult task of getting Ink healed began.

Yeah, it feels OOC and it's definitely rushed, but I'm being slowly crushed to death by Writer's Block and school. I started the beginning part of the chapter before "time to get registered" happened, so I feel as if that's the best part of the chapter. Also, I wanted to let you guys know that now they think that Error's destroying because he has a broken heart. That's going to be important later, because in this vague storyline I have, I know Error needs to do something other than mope, visit Bendy and destroy or whatever, and I also decided that this story could use a bit of some strange comic relief that I might regret later on, but still. Can you guess what might happen? ;)