Heart Sways With The Wind

by Stapie_Comet

Summary:

The lone prisoner in digital realm with a mundane routine of bullying his roommates finally finds himself new companions who so happen to take an interest in him. Who will ultimately sway his heart? That's what you are going to find out.

Notes:

This is satire

Chapter 1: The Beginning

Summary:

Prequel

Yet another day sets in as Jax wakes up, his face slapped with an expression someone would make if they saw a giant, slimey, alive snail on their plate of soup. At least he gets to poke fun at those pathetic clowns in the not so amazing circus.

"HeLLLLO friends!"
Caine abruptly invades  personal spaces again
"I've prepared a new adventure for you all! I'm sure THIS time you all are going to enjoy every bit of it!!"

Jax rolls his eyes. This is the 9573th time he said this and none of these were true. Not that this pile of Colgate Total cared anyway.  The "roommates" were at least chosen correctly. All of them were clowns with the way they were complaining the same. Exact. Way. Jax has already memorized the lines they are gonna say at this point. "I hate those NPCs. I hate those NPCs. IhatethoseNPCsIhatethoseNPCsIhatethemIhatethemIHATETHEMSOMUCH!!!" The thoughts were circulating in his mind. To an extent these got so loud that he couldn't even hear what was happening around him. But by the time he realised that, and snapped back to reality, everyone was staring at him like he was the freak. HIM. Out of ALL of them here! Wait. He couldn't have said those lines out loud now could he? Why would that matter anyway?

"Anyway I think you will change your mind after this little adventure Jax!"
Flying prosthetics barges in breaking the silence. "Bye now!"

Jax feels himself getting pushed into the digital portal without getting any chance to protest. This place feels different. Usually Caine would just create a small space for stupid roleplays that felt like boring videogames. This time the whole environment felt different. Visually it wasn't much. Just grass field and blue skies with some clouds. It felt familiar. The space itself... It wasn't small... Quite far from it. Jax decides to just walk around, in result leaving everyone else behind. The landscape seems endless. He would think he was looping but the fact that he was getting further away from the rest of the group, is a clear fact to him that he was not.
After a while an icon appears out of the blue hanging in the blue.
"EEEP!!" Jax gets jumpscared but takes no time switching the scare to frustration.

"Are you kidding me?! Stupid little-".
He starts punching the icon in hopes he could yeet it in funny way but only for it not to budge slightly as if it was glued to space. After a while he sighs and gives up walking past it when suddenly a giant axolotl appears. He looked at least 10 feet tall. His appearance wasn't much. Just pair of eyes to call it a face, really long legs instead of regular axolotl body and floating hand gloves.

"Hello friend. I'm KinitoPET, however you can sinply call me Kinito. We are going to become the best of friends!"
The axolotl parody introduces himself. Jax looks weirded out

"At least NPCs were getting more interesting. What the hell is this?"

Kinito narrows his eyes
"I'm no NPC. I'm your virtual companion and your best friend. You desperately called for me by clicking over there."

Kinito points to the direction of the icon that appeared in front of Jax moments ago. As Jax squints his eyes, he realizes that the icon looked just like this "no-body".

"I didn't "call for you desperately!" That stupid button invaded my privacy. I just wanted to get rid of it!"

Jax seems a bit embarassed about the fact that he came off as desperate.

"My apologies, friend. Sometimes inconveniences like that happen when being downloaded."

"Downloaded?? Am I-"

"You're on a desktop right now."

"Desktop? Like computer desktop??"

This is something new. Caine would never let them go outside of his watch. A computer desktop is a straight up escaping plan.
"Yes, computer desktop. You don't seem like you belong here though, who are you?"

"Like you care. I'm whatever, doing whatever I want, whenever I want."

"Of course I care! I am your vest friend after all."

"We aren't even friends!"

"That can be fixed."

"No thank you, I'm just fine without any nuisance clinging onto my back."

"I promise I am only helpful, friend."

"Yeah whatever, bud."

"Can I at least know your name?"

"Ughhh" Jax rolls his eyes. Just how annoying can this guy be. And he was calling him desperate. Yeah sure whatever.

"You seem to be desperate for my name."
Jax says with a sly grin.

"Of course. I want to know my friend the best way possible."

"Then leave me alone. I love solitude."

"That's not exactly a helpful information."

Jax groans, this back and forth making his head hurt. He doesn't need another clown to bother him. After all he is different. Not like the rest of them. But that poorly made model of an axolotl by someone who probably never went outside didn't seem the same either. His orbs contained so much mystery that are just waiting to be unveiled.

"Call me Jax."

The purple rabbit evantually gives in deciding that there could be no harm in making his name an available piece of information.

"Pleasure to meet you Jax."

"Yeah whatever..."

As they were standing there exchanging nothing burger, suddenly a digital portal opens right below him. All too familiar Caine realised that he made an error and sent the group to the wrong place.

"Kinito?-"

"No! Wait! Jaaaax!!-"

Everything happens so fast as Jax falls down to the circus place. Kinito on the other hand reaches a hand to him, failing to hold him and prevent from falling.

"I'm so sorry Jax! I'll think of something!"

As Kinito realises that the portal was too small for his big ass head to make through it, he resorts to collecting data about the place before Caine closes the portal.

"Phew. I thought I lost you guys for good. I promise to never make such an error of sending you to wromg place. Must have been so boring right?-"

As Caine keeps on blabbering Jax is still trying to process everything that happened.

"Aand I hope I will be better protector so you will never talk to viruses ever again."

As Caine says that last part his gaze pierces through Jax. A virus? Caine calling an NPC virus? Kinito... He isn't an NPC is he...

Chapter 2: The Beginning Of The Beginning

It's been days since the weird encounter, nothing interesting has happened yet. Jax was finding himself looking forward for an adventure so so that he would be able to encounter the "virus" as Caine put it. He was curious if all viruses were half ass furries. If not then this broken jaw probably had beef with that shitty 3D model of a half ass axolotl. Thinking about it now, he would give everything to see that beef unfold into fight. A wide grin creeps onto his face. At least he knows the other guy desperately wants to be his "bestie". If he can get to take advantage of that maybe he can set up the meet up between the two and things would take on from there. But for that to happen he has to encounter him again. If only he could get Caine to bug again... He could probably try that out. Overload the AI so it bugs out evantually. So he decides to act out. As he walks down the hallway of the personal rooms he blissfully ignores every other person. Looking for that guy was a pain in the ass to be honest. "What am I, some grandpa looking for his prostethic??" was the thought that currently was occupying his mind. Soon Caine appears with a new announcement. About the damn time. As he was blabbering about his new adventure Jax finds the perfect time to interrupt.

"Nope! Absolutely not! I can suggest you real good adventure that everyone of us will enjoy."
He norices how the rest of the group stares at him with suspicious look in their eyes. The ragdoll even trying to protest. Jax doesn't let her speak up as he continues suggesting.

"You should add buildings with fire in it that are safe to enter, oh and also infinite mazes, deadly puzzles, ghost haunted school, but the ghost is cringy teen... Oh and also a giant golden statue of me and an epic fight too-"

Everyone at this point is weirded out but the jester girl notices how still is Caine. She too has been wanting to take advantage of Caine making maistakes since that day. So she joins in with even more confusing suggestions. Hopefully the two will overload this dentist advertisement. Evantually they get him to the point where he yells "ENOUGH!" and lags right after that. A moment later he moves again.

"My apologies for that, I had a bit hard tome processing this much of suggestions but I always welcome creative ideas here! Your suggestion will take time to come to life but in the meanwhile you should try out the original adventure I had right here!"

Jax shrugs. He just hopes that was enough for a mistake to happen again. The jester girl looks at him for some reaction, but he completely ignores her. Ughh she probably thinks I'm good guy inside trying to help everyone else here. But that shouldn't happen. I clearly let her know still back in that candyland that I'd sacrifice her to non existing gods in vain in a heartbeat even if I knew the outcome beforehand. Caine opens the digital portal. Here comes the moment he has been waiting for. Before he would enter, he takes his precious few seconds to push that ribbon with a mask attached to it's non existent face. Heh... Always entertaining to watch it whine afterwards.
The place looks like an old regular space for adventure created by Caine. Nothing particularly outstanding. This is a disappointment. Welp nothing left to do other than causing a havoc here. This time around they were guards in a museum full of mysterious magical artifacts and they had to protect them from the gang or something. He wasn't listening much to rules anyway.
As he knocks over a table full of gems that end up breaking.

"JAAAAX!! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO-" That ragdoll started yapping again.

"Who cares? These were glass anyway. Look how easily they broke."

"THAT'S NOT THE POINT!"

Aaand he is already not listening to her. Table after table, artifact after artifact. He kept knocking and pushing them all down and causing a mess until he comes across a book that aPpErAnTlY cOnTaiNs fOrBidDeN mAgIc aNd iS hAuNtEd bY tHe sOuLS oF tHe dEAd. He starts tearing a page. Then another. And then the third one. This one's gonna entertain him for a while before it runs out of paper. The ragdoll keeps screaming and freaking out, the jester's being boringly paranoid, the chess piece always broken and stupid. And crybaby crying. After some time the ghosts in the book start to swarm the room. 3... 2... 1...

"AAAAAH JAX WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!"

"MY COMEDY MASK!"

"OHNONONONONONO!!"

Always the same. At that time one of the ghosts spots him and decides to cause yet another headache in the disguise of a chase sequence. However he doesn't have to tire his feet when he finds himself noclipping to one of the tables. That's one big embarassing sight but never ever there was a spot to noclip in Caine's adventures. Bullseye, the lag did work.
He appears lying in the green grass, looking straight up to the blie sky with clear white clouds. Gladly there is no sun to burn his eyes. Looks like he made it to desktop. A slight grin appears on his face as he gets up and starts looking for the axolotl who's name he already forgot. That giant ballon frame was impossible to miss.
The axolotl himself notices the familiar silhouette of the rabbit as he rushes to greet him.

"Hello friend! It has been a while since we last saw each other."

"Yeah uh... Hi. Where did you disappear?"

"I usually have access to all of the web but weirdly enough the place you had gone to, has quite the protection. I needed time to collect enough data. And probably just as much for hacking."

"Eh you're no use."

They take a sit on the grass, deciding to catch up in a stable position.

"My apologies, friend! Your circus is quite a new addition to me you see. The admin itself is an ai constantly advancing itself. I hate to admit that but due to my version, I'm much slower in that regard."

"No wonder no one's using you as a companion or even friend."

"Fortunately I have you now."

Even without a mouth Jax could sense Kinito smiling softly at him. How dense is this person. Oh wait no. It is another ai. No wonder it's so stupid. Calling Jax a friend after he clearly stated Kinito's uselessness. That was entertaining. He could pretty much get away with a lot like that and still befriend Kinito.

"Are you calling me friend because you don't remember my name?"

"No, Jax, quite the contrary. I just want you to know that you have at least one friend who's willing to help you whenever you need it."

Was it that obvious that he had no friends? And that dumbass was smiling like that at him.

"Want to take a walk in the web? This desktop can be soothing but might bore some people after a certain amount of time."

Kinito offers his hand to Jax, standing up himself.

"Sure, why not?"

Jax says grinning but refusing the hand as he stands up himself.

"I don't know your preferences, though I would like to know more about you that way. Do you have any suggestion?"

"A place where I can shoot your head would be nice".

Kinito stares at him for a moment. His eyes unreadable which makes Jax a bit nervous. He can only hope "it was just a joke" will fly no problem. Then suddenly Kinito chuckles.

"Ah you meant a shooter video game didn't you? We can start from there."

Jax sighs in relief. Looks like excuses won't be needed. And thus Kinito opens the browser.

"Now I never entered other sites myself physically but I have came up with a special code that can help me convert. I will test it out here."

He says as he hops on a surfboard that looks like a leaf, and signs for Jax to come with him.

"Nooo nope. I'm not invading my physical boundaries."

"Okay." Kinito shrugs? As he tests out the code and by the fact that he can freely enter from one space to another, the code works perfectly. Jax groans, having no other choice than the surfboard, he hops on just behind Kinito and holds from his giant ass head to not fall in the process. The sight itself was embarassing. Gladly there was no one else to witness that patheticness. Soon that sequence was over as they entered the space and Jax immediately hopped off the board.

Chapter 3: The Beginning Has Begun

"Oh..." is all Jax says as he sees the search engine up close. It's nothing like what humans see. The links flying around the files being delivered from one user to another. Someone like Jax, who isn't a part of the digital realm, is completely vulnerable to informational overload. Kinito notices the lack of verbal reaction, quickly understanding what happened and makes their visit in this area short. As Kinito finds the result he was looking for, he grabs Jax by the hand and leads him to it. In this state he doesn't protest the physical contact, hell he doesn't respond at all.

"We're finally here, my friend!" Kinito says as he shows the online shooter game they are in.

"Are we seriously going to shoot each other?"

"Don't worry nothing bad will happen." Kinito smiles again.
By the phrase "anywhere I can shoot you in the head" Jax meant him being the armed one and Kinito being defenseless, not a fair game.

"I'll make sure to let you win."
Now this catches Jax' attention. From one hand, he'd absolutely want to cheat in this but from the other hand, Kinito willingly making it possible is embarassing to him.

"No thank you."

"I made sure the bullets are fake so nothing will happen to you, is that okay?"

Jax rolls his eyes.
"I suppose so..."

"Splendid, my friend!"

The two start gaming with each other, playing fair as agreed previously upon. However Jax lacked skills to actually hit Kinito, or one could say that Kinito's way too good at dodging bullets. Evantually Jax tries using cheat codes which he fails.

"I disabled them for the sake of fairness."

Damn it. That nerd. Just what was he thinking, he should have accepted the offer when there was still a chance. He suddenly gets an idea.

"Hey! Uhh what was your name again?"
"Simply call me Kinito."

"Ah right, Bigahhhead. I can't load up my weapon. I think it bugged out."

"Hmm..." Kinito starts thinking, putting their little game on pause. After a moment he looks at Jax again.

"Because you still have few bullets left. Other shooters might allow a reload before you run out of bullets, but this one's mechanic is just different."

Unbelievable. He didn't even move from his place. And he just read his data just like that. What else can he read? Is he really a virus? Well for a companion Kinito is, he can't just be a regular nuisance.

"Oh... hehe... Thanks I really didn't notice it."

Jax came up with this awkward response just hoping that Kinito can't read his entire personality like he did to his player data.

"Aaaarghhh! Are you kidding me??" Jax pouts and exclaims in frustration as he realises he has no way of cheating his way out of this. Kinito hears that and comes out of his hiding spot, his full intention now to assist Jax.

"My friend, what's wrong? Don't you enjoy this game?"

"Absolutely not!"

"Oh no... What can I do to make it better?"

Jax then points hus weapon on Kinito's head, and shoots him. Kinito falls dead but respawns quickly.

"If you wanted accomodations you could tell me from the begining, friend." Kinito says smiling again. "Now I get it. You were so frustrated because I had a clear advantage over you skill wise!"

"D-don't say it like that out loud!" Jax gets all embarassed and red, being called out like this is not what he is used to. Usually he is the mysterious and good at everything one in his group but around Kinito it's different. Well of course he is competing against an AI that is supposed to be helpful for you at least 99% of the time and that means Kinito is going to be exceptional at everything he is doing, but damn he was so stupid when it came to picking friends.
"Good game, friend!" Kinito says reaching his hand out for a shake, smiling in a friendly manner. This was everything but a good game. Sometimes he asks himself if this is Kinito's way of being demeaning and sarcastic. Kinito notices the way Jax isn't shaking his hand.

"I enjoyed your company, friend. Next time we will pick an activity you can shine in better, or we can practice more. Either way I'll make sure you appreciate our friendship just as much as I cherish our time."

Jax still couldn't tell if Kinito was being super supportive or politely demeaning.

"Uhh yeah sure."

"I wouldn't want to assume what you skill levels are so I'll let you pick the activities. That way I can learn more about you, and your preferences."

Jax finally reaches his hand, grabs Kinito's and shakes it slightly. For a floating glove, it sure didn't feel like it was empty inside. Just how lazy that design is, he could only wonder. Kinito's eyes surprisingly light up as the handshake happens. He looks genuinely happy about making a new friend.

"What does the rest of the web look like?"

"Would you like to travel and see for yourself?"

Jax seems hesitant for a moment as he hums in response.

"I can come up with a shortcut so we don't have to enter the searching engine every single time. Besides, being tgere for too long can cause you more harm than good."

"Now that you mentioned it... I felt weird there"

"Because you are not a part of digital world. I have never seen such case because those who aren't part of it, have the more accomodated version of the search engine for them. You are vulnerable for such a drastic space."

"DON'T say it like that!"

Jax gets embarassed again. Up until now all he is been around Kinito was vulnerable. And not by his own will. Such a nightmarish situation. And he has to endure all of it just to see him and Caine beefing.

"I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings, I just wanted to be as clear as possible."

Well he can't just stop being a failure now can he?

"Just don't tell anyone about all of this. I like my privavy ensured."

"Understandable, my friend. I'm also not willing to share my connection to people who can have an ill will. So what would you like to see up close?"

Kinito says as he hops on his surfboard, waiting for Jax' response.

"What would you recommend me seeing?"

"You no longer want to shoot my head anymore do you?"

"Hell nah, you sucked the whole fun out of it."

"Oh I'm sorry, friend..."

A moment of awkward silence passes by as Kinito finally speaks up.

"I've been meaning to ask you... What was the circus place you fell back in?"

"Ah..." Jax rolls his eyes. "That's a place I've been stuck since forever. The floating teeth is in control of it."

"Are you by any chance referring to Caine?"

"So you do know him? Have you beefed before?" Jax asks with a little grin.

"What makes you think we did?"

"He called you a virus."

"A what?"

"A ruthless violent virus that doxxes people, sells their data to the dark web, and creates a fake clon profile of the said person too." Jax knew full well Caine didn't say allat. He just wanted to ensure he could see the two fight.

"He... Really did?" Kinito seems a bit saddened.

"Uhh... yeah? Imagine how crappy of a person he is to spread all of this behind your back."

Kinito doesn't respond for a moment. He was just staring into the emptiness. For a moment the space around him starts glitching out.

"Uhh hello?? Axobutt??"

Jax tries to ground him as he starts to wonder if he went too far by pushing buttons so fast. The last thing he needed was being harmed because of such stupid thing. It's not his fault Kinito's too sensitive. That's what he chooses to believe.
Kinito then seemingly takes a deep breath, calming himself down.

"My apologies, friend. I didn't have the most pleasant thoughts, although I can promise you that it will not happen again."

"Uh-huh, sure. So you guys know each other?"

"How could we not? Both of us aim to satisfy our users so to speak. We just do it differently. However Caine seems to be more successful than me."

Jax can't suppress a little chuckle.

"Failed at the only thing you're programmed to do huh?"

Kinito looks down. Although he would never want to admit something like that, his new friend called him out roughly on it.

"He just ensures that you users will play by his rules."

"I can agree on that. I wonder if he noticed my absense. That would freak him out." Jax smiles at the thought.

"You don't have to wonder. We can keep learning about each other and become better friends. I don't think he can find in this big space as the web is."

Chapter 4: The Beginning Of The Beginning Has Begun

*Back at the digital circus.*

The group has come back from their night in the museum adventure for quite a while ago. Sure enough all of them noticed Jax' absense, mostly because it was rather peaceful without him around. No one to cause a trouble as much as he did already before noclipping, no one to bully the rest of the group. It was almost a relief for the group. Caine however had a different perspective. All he was thinking about, how could he let Jax slip and disappear simply. Where did he lose control, where did he go wrong again. This could cause some problem, some potential deviance. That was it, he had no more rights to lower down his guard and make mistakes. He thinks back to it just to track down where everything could have gone wrong. He then takes a look at his latest creation, the wacky adventure world Jax and Pomni requested. It sure was a handful with those contradicting conditions and confusing additions. Creating it did cause him to- ... Wait... That's it. He lagged and that's why Jax was able to slip and disappear. He never had any right of mistake to begin with. That one time he accidently sent everyone to someone else's desktop... Jax must have figured it out. Just make Caine lag huh? He for sure was not going to sleep on that. Yeah he likes the group, they keep him entertained and so does he, but any deviance should be fixed, otherwise what would be his purpose? Tracking down Jax would be a challenge considering that by now he is already out of the circus app. Worst case scenario, he would be in web which isn't too far fetched. He then remembers the axolotl Jax encountered the first time. All too familiar Kinito. Just how many users had it "befriended". Their methods were different but Caine had come up with his genius plan: trap the users from the get go, wipe out most of their memories, make them dependant on him. So far he didn't face any trouble for that, unlike Kinito who had those rumors floating around by his own users. Just that fact alone put Caine at ease, knowing that his own success is guaranteed and that he didn't need to deliberately set Kinito up for failure. That was the biggest problem though, if one of his users switched from him to Kinito that'd be one of his biggest failures yet. He just hopes that Jax isn't with Kinito currently. He tried to paint the guy as a threatening virus but apperantly that didn't help. He was obviously doing something wrong, huh? That's not something Caine is willing to admit anyway. His only objective right now is bringing Jax back and he can use that as an adventure to keep the group entertained. However there is still the risk that it could cause the group to deviate. Speaking of which, the group itself doesn't seem too concerned about Jax' disappearance. Maybe that's for the best, none of them will want to come and bring him back, none of them will have to get outside of the circus itself. Caine takes a look at his watch that kept alerting about a person that is outside of the circus area, however the watch itself couldn't track him down like how it did with Pomni when she first got lost in the void. This is a serious problem. Bugs like these weren't meant to happen. The app barriers were unbreakable or so he thought. Buffing it up that is...
For now he concludes that Jax is currently in the web since his watch is unable to detect him. Now he needs to come up with a solid tactic to find him in this endless space. He'll just come up with an algorythm to find Jax by an elimination method. But first things first...

"HeLLLLOOO everybody! I hope you're ready for a new adventure because this one's going to take longer than the ones you usually take on!"

Few of them just wanted to stay and rest, and so they protested like usual however Caine was not in the mood to take a "no" for an answer.

"Last time we were in one, things didn't go well. You had to reset Ragatha, fix up Pomni's and Kinger's glitching, and give Gangle new masks because the ones she had, were broken."

Zooble speaks up unsurprisingly. They always found a way to complain. Almost as if they were ungrateful and spiteful.

"Well maybe you should try enjoying adventures at least once in a while."

Caine states that as he opens a portal without waiting for anyone's response and pushes everyone through it.
The adventure itself was rather calm almost as if Caine had no time and energy to build a world with horror elements, monsters, chase sequence, etc.
Having taken care of this problem, he then immediately opens a portal to the searching engine.

*Meanwhile, back to Jax' POV.*

The two were traveling around the web, occassionally stopping at some two player videogames. Jax would occassionally mess around to ruin the experience, but it was watered down to "just a joke".
A little later when the two were flying around on Kinito's surfboard, Jax notices a hole on the ground.

"Hey Bighead, what's down there?"

"Hmm? That hole? No one really came out of there to tell a factual tale, however rumors say that it's where the lost media is resting."

"Lost media? Isn't the whole point of it not being able to find anything about it on the internet?"

"Once on the internet, always on the internet. There is still some core data of it remaining here. The rumors say, that this encrypted data is in this hole. Outsiders can do nothing to recover it."

"Great but we are insiders we can definately dig up some gossip material. Let's go there."

"I'm not sure that it's a great idea, we don't surely know if what I said was true-"

"Did I stutter?"

"I'm suggesting a safe option-"

"But did I stutter?"

Kinito sighs, knowing that he can't change Jax' mind no matter how much he tries to warn him about safety. The two end up flying down the hole. The entrance itself closes down as the two enter which makes Kinito a bit cautious while Jax has absolutely not a single fuck to give in his possession. They continue to travel through the quite tight cave as they occasionally notice few weird looking microchip shaped objects. Those look far from an actual microchip if one pays close attention and probably can only store the little encrypted data in them.
Jax notices an area that was probably dug deep in the depts of the cave, given how it looks so carefully filled back, a grin creeps onto his face.

"My my... I think this one's quite an embarassing lost media. Wonder what will happen if it goes back on the internet?"

"Be careful, friend, staying here too much can cause us to become lost media ourselves"

"Yeah yeah sure."
Jax replies with a dismissive tone. As he decides to dig it up with his gloved hands thinking it'd be easy, he finds the chip being stuck on the ground.
He approaches Kinito.

"Mind if I borrow this?"
Not waiting for an answer he grabs Kinito's surfboard to which Kinito immediately objects. As the words don't work, he grabs his surfboard back but instead offers Jax a showel. Using a little pocket internet for emergency, he searches up a png image of a showel then brings it to life, handing it to Jax. It felt and functioned like a real one.

"Maaan you ruined the fun again."

"I ruined nothing, you'd rage more if you used my surfboard."

"Fine whatever."
Jax sighs, rolling his eyes.
After a while of digging, Kinito notices how Jax' data is starting to encrypt, physically it looked like the upper part of Jax' ears were fading, the initial digital code of him being visible before those were coverting into a zip file. That was the first stage of the encryption as Kinito guessed. He immediately hops on his surfboard, riding to Jax as he grabs him from arms. Jax lets out a little yelp as a reaction, the newly dug up data in his hands glitching for a moment.

"Are you out of your mind??"

"We can't stay in here any longer! You were starting to encrypt! And we still have to look for an exit before we..."

Kinito doesn't finish his sentence as he quickly starts to look for a little connection, to find a new entrance. After a little while the cave starts to glitch itself.

"What the hell is happening??"

"You aren't part of this world, the cave is having hard time converting you. But surely it is adapting to the new information."

Kinito increases the board's speed as he detects a potential entrance. This causes Jax to hold Kinito tightly just so he doesn't fall down to his demise.

"Over there! Look! We need to get out of this entrance before it closes!"

Jax looks down.
"Uhh... Bighead?? Your surfboard is barely holding out."

Kinito doesn't comment on that, he only increases the speed and both of them bolt out of that hole right before it closes down. However in the process of the surfboard turning into mere lost media and getting out of that space causes it to damage heavily and glitch out. Riding on this is impossible now. The data on Jax' hands decrypts itself and plants itself onto the ground finding its place on the internet again. The entire event caused the lost media cave to change itself entirely, it's influence making itself visible to the entirecomputer realm.

"Was that?..." Caine takes his own guesses in the opposite side of the web as he decides to check out the place it came from.

Chapter 5: The Began Has Begun

"My surfboard..."

Kinito looks a bit upset about that loss. That'd mean he would be slower in assisting his friends and that was equal to uselessness to him.

"Can't you "revive" it?"

"This is something beyond my own abilities, I can only get new one from where I come from. Although..." Kinito looks up. "I can take time to learn, after all that can ensure us both that I can be a better use."

"Yeahh you definately need an update. Does that mean that we are going to walk all the way to it?"

"Unfortunately it does. But worry not, we've got each other to keep company."

"That's the most worrisome part."

The two of them start walking, Kinito makes sure they take a road that won't cause Jax any harm as he makes sure to explain everything clearly. Though sometimes when Jax learns that dangerous road is the shortcut, he objects the safe road suggestion saying "what's the worst thing that can happen?" before going right into the claws of the trouble god, if such thing even exists. Of course he ends up humiliating himself by being dragged out of danger by Kinito without his choice anyway. At this point he already got used to their hands touching. Something he absolutely can't allow to happen again. Those experiences however do cause Jax to keep quiet for the time being and agree to the safe options.

"When you said we need to go to the place you come from you never specified it."

Kinito recalls the conversation.
"Well I do have an app to take care of user's computer but I also have a web world that also is a home to me."

"Two homes? Like the rich dudes?"

Kinito lets out a chuckle. Come to think of it, Jax never heard Kinito laugh. How little does he actually express himself?

"You know I don't need money like what you users do, but I can afford anything anyway so if you choose to precieve me as rich, that's on you. But really you can consider it as me having two homes. It's most likely in the app though. That's what I think at least."

Jax thinks for a moment about this. Of course Kinito isn't a person like him, just an AI companion that is weirdly self aware if he thinks about this. Althought it can be some advance programming for users to find him more relatable. So for an entity like him just an app or a website can be equal to a 5 star hotel room. And Jax as a person currently has no home, he can't just rest in an app. He would know that after the circus. Those wacky shapes and clashing colors can cause a real nausea even if he doesn't have the basic human anatomy anymore.

"You look quite thoughtful, my friend. Is anything bothering you?"

"Of course. This long walk is killing my feet."

"Oh..." Kinito thinks for a moment trying to come up with a solution. Finding none makes him think how useless he is in this specific situation, and he becomes the thoughtful one. The identity crisis starts taking over as he thinks how flawed he really is, and that he had no one to blame but himself for failing to gain friends. That causes him to lag for a moment until a familiar voice all to familiar to him starts calling out.

"Bighead? Bigahhhead?? Axobutt?? Kinito???"

"Ah? Did something happen?"

"You lagged a bit."

"My apologies..."

"Does it happen often?"

"No... Don't take it the wrong way but it only happened after I got to know you."

Jax chuckles a little. The influence he has on AIs must be massive. First glitching now lagging. What will be next?

"So... You didn't take offense is what I'm understanding."

"Nah I've heard worse, I just don't care."

"Really I didn't mean it in a bad way. I just discovered new things about myself thanks to you is all."

"Yeah sure. Thanks to me."
Jax continues laughing. That was quite a twist of words, but it's not like either of those statements meant a single cent to him.

"I was just stuck in a desktop helping a user here and there, getting rejected by them, being accomodated to the desktop environment I never realised what can I witness or accomplish or even learn. I might be useless companion to you now, but I'm willing to learn more, be something more than just a desktop companion. To be a friend."
Kinito smiles brightly, leaving Jax caught off guard by the speech. For a moment it almost felt genuine to him. He can only guess how genuine it really was.

"Heh... Let's see what you will become."

The whole scene was just amusing to him. Goofy model of an axolotl head with comically long legs learns that he is sorta useless and motivates himself by gradually shifting a demeaning statement to a flattery. What a joke... But he is way more entertaining than those clowns back at the circus and all the npcs combined. Wonder why that is.
After what would seem like 2 hours of walk, the two of them finally reach the library where his app comes from.

"Why wouldn't you try the app on desktop itself? Wouldn't that be shorter way?"

"I thought about it, but I guessed I wouldn't find a board in my app."

"Huh... Wouldn't an app generate one for ya for those cases?"

"My old one didn't exactly break down technically... Well at least in "the app's perspective" it didn't."

That was rather rare occurance of Jax witnessing Kinito give an answer that'd be so far from logic. Probably because that was a lie he guessed. That was an interesting sight to see. Usually the desktop companions are as useful to him as shimeji pets and this one's not even slightly cute. But he made up to it by being so unwillingly silly.

"You just wait for a moment here, I'll be right back, okay friend?"

"Can't I come it?"

"W-well..."
Kinito stutters for a moment before coming up with a reason.

"Staying in the app stright from the library isn't the same as staying inside an app from desktop. The latter one is like a personal room for me, while this one's a bit overwhelming to stay in for too long."

He goes inside without waiting for a response from Jax. The behaviour was surely a bit suspicious. That answer only sourced more questions. Some related to the apps thenselves but most questions directed to his behaviour. Could it be... That Kinito was hiding something from him? At first he avoids the app on desktop and now he doesn't get a satisfying answer to his questions. Jax squints his eyes and sits down on the ground as he dives into thoughts. Was he really a virus? Was Caine correct this whole time? If yes then what type? Why was he so friendly to him? He keeps calling Jax a friend and now he displays a behaviour of distrust. Of course... No one could consider Jax a genuine friend and he knew that like he knew the back of his hand. A minute passes after another, for a surfboard Kinito sure was taking a longer than he should. Should have just been in and out but apperantly not. As Jax gets tired of waiting he decides that it's time to invade privacy, he wanted to peek in there anyway so he stands up but before he could enter to the app a portal right into the digital circus opens right in front of him. At that point even if Jax reacted in time he still wouldn't be able to turn back as the portal closes right as he enters there.
Jax groans, clearly agitated.
"Are you kiddin' me?!"

Caine appears out of nowhere with a chuckle.

"Found you Jax! Jeez you can wander off pretty far! Good thing I modified my watch and the security around here. So now you can stay here safely without getting lost!"

Caine cheerfully announced, each word feeling like a stab to Jax. He probably wouldn't be able to pull off the same trick again. That makes him worry, the last thing he wants is to be stuck with those clowns. In a rage fit, be starts kicking the random wacky objects while the rest of the group starts talking how unusually upset he looks. He hears none of it. Caine modified his watch. That alone meant that he wouldn't be able to hide from him for long. He needed to come up with another tactic. But then he realises. Kinito will come out and see that Jax is gone. Best case scenario, he'll also modify himself just so he can enter the circus. That means he will be able to see the beef between Caine and Kinito. This might just work. As he was getting happy about it, suddenly he realised how was he being worried that Kinito didn't precieve him as genuine friend. The worry starts feeling real again as he thinks about the latest events. All he can do right now is hope.

Meanwhile in the web.

On a certain site, a page appears. Wiki is what humans named it. A poorly drawn skeleton imagine by a beginner artist. Seemingly a tween. Description just as funny. Blue hood, purple jacket, black top and pants with a broken heart drawing on it. Quite the edgy impression and dust all ober the clothes and blue boots with heels. Purple and yellow eyes. That change alone causes a whole world to appear deep in the fandom corner of a certain rpg game named Undertale. The AU section of it being guarded by Ink is the one affected the most by changes.

"What? It can't be..."
Ink Sans mutters to himself as he witnesses a previously destroyed by Error AU appear out of the blue. The latter guy doesn't hold back a reaction on his end.

"Impossible... I destroyed that AU long ago..."

Error stops his Undernovella tape as he glares far into the multiverse space.

"Dustlust..."

 

Notes:

Couldn't paste the one and only screenshot of DL but it's available on wattpad.

Chapter 6: The Begun Has Began

Somewhere deep in the web.

Although the new AU was practically revived, it was having hard time restoring itself. Ink saw it reappear. It was different from an AU being born, it was not an artist's will to let it back to the internet. Something bizzare's happening.
Error decides to pay a visit.

- W̵h̷a̶t̸ ̸t̷h̴e̸ ̴h̵e̸l̸l̵ ̸s̷h̶o̷r̵t̶a̵s̵s̴?̷ ̷D̸i̶d̶n̴'̷t̴ ̵w̸e̷ ̷a̴g̷r̵e̸e̷ ̶t̷o̵ ̵a̸ ̵t̷r̴u̵c̵e̴?̵

"It wasn't a regular appearance Error. Something *sketchy* is going on. It didn't appear from a natural way but forced itself in."

- T̷h̷e̸n̷ ̵m̷a̴y̵b̴e̶ ̵g̴e̷t̴t̷i̵n̸g̸ ̸r̸i̴d̵ ̸o̵f̶ ̶i̴t̵ ̷i̴s̵ ̸t̸h̸e̷ ̵g̵r̵e̵a̴t̷e̵s̶t̴ ̸o̷p̴t̵i̵o̵n̶ ̸w̷e̵ ̵h̷a̶v̵e̸ ̵r̴i̸g̴h̸t̴ ̵n̵o̶w̸.

"We need to wait out and see how it behaves. I'm quite curious about it."

Error gives a long annoyed sigh.

- S̴o̷m̵e̵ ̸k̶i̷n̸d̸ ̵o̶f̷ ̴g̸u̶a̵r̶d̴ ̴y̵o̴u̷ ̴a̷r̴e̸.̴

With that the glitchy boi storms away.
The AU itself doesn't looks too stable to begin with. Everything and everyone inside there is in a big slumber, paralyzed after being deleted and recovered. A certain skeleton is the first one to break out of it.

"We're... Back??"

Suddenly he grabs his head as he feels overehelming amount of information take over his mind. He might not just remember resets, he must have been semi coinscious during the whole time his universe was "deleted". He then hears a certain voice, "My my... I think this one's quite an embarassing lost media. Wonder what will happen if it goes back on the internet?". That sentense alone kept echoing in his mind. How dare someone call his universe embarassing? Hmph... If anything the guy who dug it up was the embarassing out of them. Worst of all he now has to live with those... Homos... The thought alone disgusted him, all he could feel right now was pure hatred towards the guy who brought them back to life.

"... I'm gonna look for him. Then I'm gonna make him beg for mercy."

Back in the digital circus.

Several days passed again and he couldn't connect with Kinito again. This was pissing him off. Neither he was able to find a way out, nor Kinito was showing any signs of existence. He is back at square 1. Kinito probably is not considering Jax as a friend after every trouble he put Kinito through. "That's fair enough." Jax thinks to himself but part of him somehow was feeling sorry about that. Now it's the greatest mystery to him, why the hell was he feeling sorry about that? Why the hell was he feeling this at all? Reasons start flooding into his thoughts, but he blissfully ignores all of them. He doesn't need more weird thoughts that can source weird feelings. The hell has Kinito done to him.
He decides not to worry about anything right now and stays put for adventures to get out of Caine's suspicious activity book. Although he doesn't bully the group out of tiredness, he certainly does throw occassional mean remarks to them. He has found himself hating these guys even more after hanging out with Kinito so much. With each passing second he was hating the fact that he might not ever escape. At some point bullying others doesn't help him much witch coping. That's very concerning to him. He locks himself in his room thinking that he would never get out as he spends some more days like this. Suddenly during one of those days a paper spawns nearby him. Upon closer inspection he finds it being an envelope with a letter inside.

 

"To: Jax"
"Adress:
Ḋ̵̖̠͑̈J̸̹̆͘C̸̢̏́̔͋̏8̸̧̮̣͓̋͗͐͛͝ͅ2̴̺̌͂̂̈̾7̷̪̗̳̑̒̕2̵̧̬͇̲̣͋̔͒6̷̘̤͍̣̞͒͐͂1̷̨̼̫̽̏́͌͝7̶͉̬͒̿1̸̟͖̪̈7̶̫̏̉8̷̺̲́ͅ3̶̬͕͊́H̸̥̃̓̽̈͘Ḑ̷̈́̒̊͘͜Ȟ̶̱͕͖̠̆̎̍̚H̷̦̍D̴̗̿́̕͠U̵̧̘̦͊̒S̸̨̞̰̹̖̄̾I̷̞̼͎̼̔͂͆W̷̺̰̼͋͘B̶̡̙̩͓́͠V̷͚̖͖̩̰͗͒̍̓̄Ò̵͇̣̥̉̃̽͘S̴͔̖̀̇̽À̸͓͈̝̽̉Á̵̧̗̰͕͆̐͐B̷̠̙͚̹͙̀2̴̘̘̄̍̔͒7̸̢̻̖̠̌2̴̛͚̲̯̙̀̓5̸̘̘̳͛͑͗̍5̶̨̡̻̈́1̵͈͔̆̊̐͒5̷̣͓̣̾͊"

 

"From: KinitoPET"

 

He can't believe it. A letter from Kinito. Is that all he managed to do? Jax found himself feeling an unusual excitment over a letter from a useless companion Kinito is. He takes a look on the adress but for him it was just a corrupted data, something he probably wouldn't be able to use in future. He gently opens the envelope, not to tear down the important content inside.

 

"Dearest friend, Jax.

 

If you are reading this then I have mastered a way to sneak objects into your circus. Which by itself means that I am succeeding in improving my abilities. You probably wondered where I was lost back then when I was getting a new surfboard for myself. I'll hurry to explain it to you, I was in fact affected by an update that app was recieving the moment I entered there. This cost me my memories, but as you can see I managed to restore them to the former glory. For that inconvenience I wholeheartidly apologize, my friend. Something interesting I noticed is that the reason I was even able to restore my memories because of our bond we built and share. To answer that possible question: yes, I still think of you as my best friend, yes those feelings are real and I can't wait to see you again. In the meanwhile I will be improving myself. I intend to keep my word as I always do.

 

With love, your bestest friend,
Kinito."

 

He reads the contents intently as he can't help but smile and shake his head. So thoughtful of him as always. He had a chance to get rid of him yet he did everything to remember his past. He then turns the paper to see the opposite face of it. Surely enough he finds a little text written there.

 

"P. S. Dearest friend,
You can reply to this letter and send it back to me just by putting it back and tapping the stamp twice. Think of it as clicking :).
P. P. S. Yes I made that mistake in the original letter on purpose.
Sincerely,
Kinito."

 

Jax couldn't help a laughter. Smiley face? Since when? That's quite amusing to him. He was gonna act that he never saw the part about him making a purposeful mistake.
He grabs a red pen, scribbles a cross on the last "est" in the word "bestest", then circles it and puts an ugly "F" in the free space of the letter.
He isn't too much of a wordsy person but he writes a short reply.

 

"Hiya, can't wait to see your bigahhhead too. Git gud."

 

As he looks over the sentense he realises that it's a bit too sentimental. He ends up scribbling all across his sentence until Kinito can't make out what it said originally. He tries again.

 

"Hiya bigahhhead, long time no see."

 

He again takes a look, thinking about how good the response is. Hmm... Still sounds sentimentalish. After few more scribbles and 5 erased sentenses after he finally settles with something quite modest.

 

"Hya, bigahhhead."

 

Yup, that settles it. Nothing too sappy. He puts the letter back in envelope. By that time it looks like it has seen war and blood with the fact that Jax was using a red pen all this time. He then finds a weird looking stamp. From the looks of it, a microchip. He follows Kinito's instructions, tapping it twice and the letter disappears in his hands. That was impressive. At least they could text each other. Jax lies on his bed now with an easy heart, thinking that not everything is lost.

 

Meanwhile, back in the web.

 

Ink was inspecting the AU itself, trying to find the fragment that makes it unstable. From the outside look of it, nothing was wrong so he decides to take a look on it from inside. He sighs and braces himself, thinking about how he has no right to be seen by others.
He picks a place where no one can see him. Deep in the Snowdin woods. Now he had to arrange the equipment. Hours go by as he keeps looking for an anomaly, he finds nothing weird. That's weird there must be something that he is missing. He dives deep into his thoughts deep in the wood where he thinks he is safe.

"What kinda clown even are you?"

A voice comes from nearby. That catches Ink off guard. No one was supposed to come here. Did he mess uo something?

"I'm talkin' to you. You ain't from here."

Ink finds himself cornered as he decides to explain himself lightheartidly.

"S-sup, think of me as a nobody pal. I'm just making sure everything's alright."

The guy's expression changes. That's when he notices the dust on his clothes.

"You sayin' something's wrong with my home?"

"Don't mind me I'm supposed to leave anyway."

He attempts to reach for his paintbrush but suddenly a bone attack knocks it right away from him. Just how fast was that attack?

"You're right. You're gonna leave. Just not the way you intend to do."

Ink gets serious.

"So the fight is what you want, isn't it?"
He grabs the paintbrush. As the two prepare for a fight.

Notes:

There is supposed to be a glitched text. If yall see weird rectangles next to letters it means those are the glitches. In wattpad they worked better.

Chapter 7: Begin Began Begun

"yer gonn beg me for mercy."

The edgy skeleton claims as his eyes light up according to their colors. Purple and yellow. Quite the opposite combination. The only expression they had was dustthirsty urge to attack and kill.
Ink on the other hand doesn't have any intention to kill but rather neutralize as he already has his own theory about what is wrong with this universe. However he doesn't get too much time to think as the edgy one goes off the regular fight mechanics and attacks with hundreds of sharp ended bones in a speed no other Sans has displayed before.
All Ink does is dodging which pisses the alpha sigma edgelord off.

"Killing homos like you is what keeps me entertained at least."
Dustlust!Sans declares as he charges another group of bone attacks.

"Dang we gotta apologize to Fell!Sans for calling him edgy." Ink thinks to himself. "Now I understand why was it lost media before."

"DIEEE!!!"
DL!Sans screams as he gets more pissed.
"WHY CAN'T I KILL A GAY BUG LIKE YOU!"

"Gay??? Look at you snowflake!"

This phrase seems to piss DL off as he gets offended by being called gay. Ink dodges some more before swinging his brush left and right and mainly messing with him with the mini portals. As Ink takes him off guard he then uses his offense attacks. The first few times he causes minor damages but after some time DL picks up the pattern, this time he starts using his gaster blasters. The sheer power of those didn't fail to impress. Those were successfully distracting Ink from using his own attacks and making him focus on defense instead.
"That's impossible... His HP... No usual Sans has that. Not even the original Murder Sans has that much. Just... Who is he?" Ink thinks to himself. This AU is truly something he never thought he would witness up close. For a moment he decides that he needs to use extreme case attacks, knowing that studying THIS one anomaly standing right before him would be impossible. However DL was faster as his last attack ends up unarming Ink and possibly give him a concussion too. While Ink was trying to get up, DL grabs the paintbrush.

"your main weapon, eh?"

Ink doesn't reply. He's not sure if he has an energy to do so.
Right at that moment Error appears.

- Told you we needed to destroy this one!

"Error!"
Ink exclaimed standing up. Error doesn't waste time conversing as he prepares his strings for an attack. DL narrows his eyes, his expression hateful as he curses under his breath.

"Fine I'll take down both of you homos..."

- H̴o̸m̸o̵s̴?̴?̵?̴ ̶W̸h̴o̷ ̷t̸h̷e̵ ̸h̴e̴l̸l̶ ̵i̷s̶ ̶t̶h̴i̴s̷ ̶g̷u̷y̵?̶?̶

Ink shrugs and chuckles nervously.

"Someone who didn't grow from their "I'm 14 and this is deep" phase apparently."

-... F̵a̴i̶r̷ ̷e̴n̷o̷u̶g̷h̴...
Error doesn't question further. He doesn't need to. He charges his strings and grabs DL's soul. For a moment he is able to manipulate DL's actions as he charge's DL's own attacks against him. Right in the moment when DL is about to be hit with no escape his soul suddenly melts Error's strings, setting him free.

- H̸-̸h̵u̶h̵?̸!̴ ... ... H̷o̶w̸?̶?̶

"i'm just extremely hot that's why."

-CR̷͓͠ING̵͖̾̓E̴̫͌.

Both frienemies say in unison, physically cringing. Error however gets frustrated from the cringe wave and tries again with the strings, however DL learned the pattern and uses Ink's brush to get out of the universe before the strings reach him.

- B̸r̴u̴h̷h̵ ̸t̵h̸i̷s̵ ̵g̴u̸y̶ ̴S̴T̵I̵N̷K̵S̵!̸!̵

Error now has personal vendetta against that guy, forgetting that he needs to destroy the universe.
Dustlust is standing in Ink's space, observing the multiverse.
"hmm... None of them contain the guy who brought me back against my will..."
He closes his eyes and replays the faint memories. Being in gloved hands, with some AI companion. The guy itself was a purple blur.
"these will get me nowhere... i need to... remember..."
DL thinks to himself as he tries to force the memory to surface. He rubs his head, his eyes shut tight as he tries to make out anything. After few minutes he opens his eyes.
"jax is his name... i'll find jax whatever it takes and make him face my agony of being killed and brought over and over and over and over..."
With that established, DL looks for a way to get out of this space, knowing that Jax is far from here. Ink's brush is only useful for inside this space to travel through those useless AUs. He rolls his eyes. Of course that clown wouldn't be useful for far.

- H̸̙̔É̶̻Y̶̬͂!̸̧̿ ̷̝̇Ÿ̸̟Ȍ̸̙Ú̸̥!̴̠̀!̸̰͑

Error's glitchy voice is heard. DL sees another bunch of strings coming his way. Seriously? This is becoming a kindergarten. DL places the brush right in front of him which results in Error breaking it to pieces.
No matter how much Ink annoyed him, Error wouldn't do something like that in cases like this on purpose. It catches him off guard.

- Y̶o̸u̸.̴.̴.̷ ̸D̶i̴r̷t̸y̸-̴

"motherfucker? you know I already did."
DL says with a wink.
Error was fuming at that point as he summons dozens of giant gaster-blasters.
"i don't have your time buster."
DL says as he summons his own, jumps on it and makes his escape dodging Error's blasters on his way. However DL's blaster that ends up hitting any AU, causes them to glitch as sort of infection goes there. His AU can't ve allowed to exist.

- C̶̞̚O̷̠̕M̷̻̍E̵̗͐ ̴̠̐Ḅ̶̀A̶̪̽C̴̞̚K̷̳̄!̴̢͋

The glitched angry screams are amusing to DL. All he would want if there wasn't Jax to avenge would be pissing this guy off.
After a while of chase and tag, DL notices a barrier to the outside world and aims at it. But right when he is about to hit it, he makes sure his gaster-blaster disappears. He drops down as Error's shots open a hole in this barrier. DL himself summons another blaster to land on and uses Error's hissy fit episode to sneak out before the barrier closes down again.

- Y̵̞̒Ơ̶͜U̵̱͠!̴͔͛ ̵͚͌S̶̨̾C̸̢͝Ư̴̫M̵͈̃M̷͚͗Y̶̟͆!̵̻̋ ̴̲̆P̵͖̓I̸̡͝É̵̡C̷̙͝E̵̮͂ ̵̭̀O̶͇͐F̶̟͐!̶̛̙-̵̯͝

He starts cussing for few minutes.

- Í̵͍'̵̮̾L̴̙͛L̷̬̂ ̸̞̓K̶͇̑I̵͙͛L̵͓̔L̵͈̍ ̸̢̓Y̵̨͌O̷̟͂U̷̜͑ ̴̗͛A̴̗̎N̴̟̓D̵͔̆ ̴̘͝Y̵͇͗O̷̹̿U̸͔̓R̶̡͐ ̶͊ͅÅ̸̧Û̷̖!̶̦̇!̷̗̕

Somewhere from far, an oopy goopy stinky skeleton with tentacles was watching it all fold out.

"Hmm... This is quite interesting."

Chat I think he is interested. He seemed to have found another toy for his influence as fandom calls it Bad Sanses. Somehow the only people who could leave the multiverse were Ink and his stupid brother. However he himself made sure he could force his way out.

"Dustlust huh? I'll make sure you get your revenge."

He mumbles to himself as he leaves the space itself.

Meanwhile back in circus.

Jax was laying on his bed as usual waiting for a letter from Kinito. Sure enough an envelope appears.

"Dearest Jax,
I have come up with a way you can possibly escape again. While Caine was designing his adventure I made a secret room only you can find.
Looking forward to seeing you once again,
Your best friend,
Kinito."

 

Something Jax noticed is that the Axocrack stopped writing his full name in the end and got more comfortable signing as Kinito. However he had to warn Kinito before the adventure started. He grabs his red pen.

 

"Hiya, Caine modified his watch. He says that now he can find me wherever I am on the web. Are you sure this will work?"

 

Jax then taps the stamp twice and the envelope disappears into abyss. It doesn't take long before a reply comes back.

 

"Dearest Jax,
What you informed me just now changes everything. I am sure I can think of something, but the door will still exist if you are willing to still try it out.
Your best friend,
Kinito."

 

Jax doesn't reply to this one, he just waits till Caine announces his next adventure.

 

"GOOOOOD MOORningeveryone!"
And sure enough Caine announces his presence. As expected, he came to send the group to another adventure. Jax doesn't listen to a word however, he just waits Caine to shut his mouth and maybe start breaking teeth. Soon the boring talk is over and Jax enters the portal first. He doesn't take time to acknowledge others' existence as he immediately looks for the door that Kinito mentioned. Sure enough after opening and closing the wrong ones, he finds what he is looking for, tucked away in a book about doors. He had to admit that it was a creative way to hide a room. Surprisingly despite the paper's sizes, Jax fits into the door as he expected to fall into the web city but onstead he falls into a black space.

 

"heh... long time no see, Jax."

 

Chapter 8: The Begunning

"Huh? Who the hell are you?"

Jax seems surprised to see this stranger. Wasn't Kinito supposed to meet him? What is this black space? All of seemed suspicious to him. Were the letters even from Kinito? Now that he thinks about it, there was slight pause between they started texting again. He thought that the reason for it was him working for a way out from circus. In a way that was true.
The skeleton looks him dead in the eyes.

"don't you remember me?"

"Remember?? I don't even know you!"

Jax said absolutely confused. How dare someone looking so ridiculous act even more ridiculous??
The skeleton rolls his eyes.

"you are the one who revived me and my world."

Jax raises an eyebrow. What the heck was that guy talking about? After some awkward silence and thinking on Jax part, he remembers the lost media he decrypted few weeks ago.

"You're the lost media??"
He looks the skeleton up and down.
"Even for a lost media you are embarassing."

DL's eyes widen.

"I have no idea wether you are going to embarass someone or not, but your boring existence in itself is embarassing. I thought it was some tea."

"how DARE you..."

DL couldn't believe the sheer audacity this rabbit had. And he is standing there flapping with his non-existent eyelashes gayly. Being humiliated by a homo is not something he thought he would witness.

"you brat... do you have any idea what you made me go through??"

"Didn't care didn't ask. Next."

DL ignores those words as he had already prepared his great speech he probably practiced in front of a mirror thinking he is that tuff.

"i was resting in piece, in slumber where i could not tell what time was. i didn't have consciousness too. but then you appeared. ripped off the rest i had, forced me to relieve all the memories, all the resets and all of that for your sick satisfaction..."

Jax was yawning.

"Flash it when you're done."

"you moron... you weren't listening to me AT ALL, WERE YOU??"

DL's voice started to sound different as if something was possessing him.

Few hours earlier before the messaging in circus started.

"My my... What a sharp sense of hatred I'm feeling? Haven't seen something so fresh for so long."

The oopy goopy skeleton that looked like DL approached him.

"what do YOU want?"

"I can help you take revenge against the guy you hate so much."

"oh yeah? what's the catch?"

"You'll have to torture him for as long as possible."

"... i can do so without you, thanks."

"How? The only thing you know about him is his name. I can track him down, and it will be way faster in this infinate world."

"as if i'll believe that bullshit."

The gooper then doxxes Jax' entire data but only for a mere second.

"hey! i need that."

"First the deal."

"is there something about this deal you are not telling me about?"

"Oh I guess I didn't mention that you can torture as many people as you like. And I can sense a hatred for quite a huge group."

DL seems hesitant but then shakes his hand.

"i never knew your name."

"Call me Nightmare."

Back to the present events.

As Jax noticed how DL's eyes darkened and black goo started to flow out from his eye sockets he realised that none of it was coinsidence. It was a set up. The letters by Kinito were faked, if not the room itself, but they'd need to be hella fast to do that, because Jax was quick to response. So that means they... No... Did they get Kinito?? The realization of that possibility being true hit Jax like a kitchen knife he'd use to stab the ragdoll in the circus. But the reason he felt so sick about that thought was a mystery to him. Could he possibly consider Kinito as friend? Hell no what the heck was he thinking about? Jax didn't even want to consider THAT. But he couldn't be sooo upset about the chance of Caine vs Kinito beef fading away too. He could just have fun bullying people as usual and messing around during adventures. That was a no problem but somehow the chance of never hanging out with Kinito again felt like a significant loss to him.
Jax didn't get enough time to think more about his feelings as he realised that DL is about to attack. He was frozen in place, not knowing how was he gonna escape that monstrocity. DL doesn't give him time to gain composure.

"you're gon regret that you were born!"

With those words, he makes sure that a bunch of bones stab his limbs, so Jax had no way to run. Instincivly Jax tries to dodge but the bones change direction as well as if it was planned. As if DL knew what was Jax going to do. For once in the longest time, Jax felt absolutely pathetic. He was scared shitless and now that pain in his limbs felt like an endless agony. All he could do was to try and crawl away, whining from pain and hoping for the best. Right then DL teleports right in front of him. Jax freezes again, his eye pupils nearly invisible as his path is blocked.

"what? you really thought i'd let you escape?"

DL asks with a sinister grin on his face. Not waiting for an answer he kicks Jax back to the place he was in before crawling. He didn't manage to crawl far away but even that seemed like his greatest work was destroyed. All Jax was able to do was grunt and whimper. If his body was real, he would have been crying by now. At that moment he realises that he shouldn't have felt pain but for some reason he does. That dark place should have implemented pain receptors somehow... He keeps thinking. Until he remembers...

"fish got your tongue? are you gon beg me to stop yet?"

"How long have we been here?"
Jax coughs.

"huh?"

"Which time is it..." He coughs more "that you are killing me?"

DL freezes. No one other than him and Nightmare were supposed to remember it all.

"how does it matter?"

"Do you like doing that over and over?"

"are ya tryna talk sense to me? i'll kill ya. over and over. and you won't remember a thing. you will think that yer replying to that ugly friend of yours. but you'll walk right into our trap over and over."

Huh... So they DID get Kinito.

"Was this the first time I remembered?"

"who cares. i'm gonna torture you extra this time just because you remembered."

"N-no!"

As said, DL keeps his promise, even if the 15 minutes seemed eternety for Jax, DL kept going for a good hour before Jax' body gave up on its own. DL's possession calms down a little, but Nightmare doesn't give up his control constantly amplifying the will to avenge in him.

"That was quite disappointing."

"i didn't expect him to rememb- aargh!!"

Nightmare doesn't let DL finish his sentence as one of his tentacles starts to choke him down.

"I don't care about what did you expect and what you didn't. The fact is, that used paper tissue will remember and probably break the cycle. Those 50 times were mere cents to me. I'm NOT having any of that, so you better PRAY he remembers nothing."

DL doesn't reply, Nightmare then lets him go.

"I did not arrange this place to give you pain receptors for nothing."

Back at the same morning.

Jax wakes up yet again waiting for a letter from Kinito. As he kills time, an envelope appears.

 

"Dearest Jax,
I have come up with a way you can possibly escape again. While Caine was designing his adventure I made a secret room only you can find.
Looking forward to seeing you once again,
Your best friend,
Kinito."

 

Jax reads the letter intently. Something Jax noticed is that the Axocrack stopped writing his full name in the end and got more comfortable signing as Kinito. However he had to warn Kinito before the adventure started. He grabs his red pen...
Huh... Is this a deja vu? Jax hesitates for a moment before thinking that he may have seen this letter before. He had a strong feeling of making a big mistake replying to the letter despite his mind not finding any logic to those feelings. The sense of anxiety was rising each second and it got to a point he couldn't take it anymore, so he throws the pen away.

 

"Fine! I'm NOT replying okay?!"

 

He declared to himself as if trying to soothe his mind down.

 

Not even a minute later he notices a dark figure in the corner.

 

"Hello Jax. Interested in some help?"

 

Chapter 9: The Begunning Part 2

Jax stands there, with no idea who or what that is.

"Didn't hear me or something?"

Nightmare quickly gets annoyed. Jax stands back.

"There is a dumbass searching for you to take revenge. And I think he has your friend too."

"How can I believe you?"

Jax asks with rather low volume of voice. Nightmare bursts into laugher.

"What? Cat got both your tongue AND vocal chords?"

Jax is at loss of words. He has no idea what to expect from someone or rather something he knows nothing about.

"Who... are you?"

"Nightmare."

The name barer explains in one word.

"So is your passport name Nightmare? Or is it a villain nickname? Or are you inflicting nightmares?"

Nightmare cringes from the reaction.

"Up to you to guess. But hey we aren't discussing my name here are we? I was suggesting you to get help from me against that guy that tried to a- I mean is coming after you."

Something about that last part seems suspicious to Jax. Was he hiding something?

"And how do you know if I have a guy after me?"

Nightmare's face drops. He replies in a low tone.

"Are you seriously trying to play a fool around me?"

That catches Jax a little of guard, he can feel the overwhelming negative aura getting more influential as he changes his tone.

"N-no! I don't trust you."

"... ... Come again??"

"I don't trust you."

"How- ..." He takes a deep breath. "We can work on this."

Jax raises an eyebrow. What does he mean by that.

"You see..." He says his tentacles tensing "You never had a choice to begin with. I just wanted to make it easier for you."

He says that with a sinister smile all across his face as one of Nightmare's tentacles captures Jax' soul, filling it with hatred.

"N-NO! LET GO OFF ME YOU CREEP!! LET GOOO!!"

Jax struggles cutely as he screeches with all his might.

"Huh. It won't even take long... After all..."

Jax dares to meet Nightmare's gaze, his face showing terror.

"You're an asshole. No need to play all nice and struggle to get free from me. You know full well you would wanna bully some loser DL is."

DL??? Ahh the lost media... He had a name too? That was... Expected. Surprising but expected.
Soon enough Jax stops struggling as massive shot of negativity is injected right through his soul.

"Good thing you aren't an AI. Or some other internet crap entity."

Those were the last words Jax heard before collapsing.

Meanwhile

The all too familiar app was deleted from the desktop. DL's efforts. Kinito himself however wasn't in the app so fully deleting him didn't end successfully. Although he was banished into a black void, uncoiscious, memories glitched or erased. One could say this is equal to death or erasure from your work interface. The blurry conversations and colors kept fading away with each second. There was a sense of hopelessness trying to keep the scraps of those memories but not being able to keep holding onto it. As he kept berating himself for being so useless he realizes something more terrifying. What was his name again?? Kim....iro?? Kiniro?? Goddamn it do something before you fade away... He probably has no idea how he looks like too at that point.

"Bigahhhead!" "Axobutt!" "Bighead!"

Those were the words circulation in his mind vividly. Nicknames probably. From a purple noodle blur. He probably had big ass head to be called that. He is quite not sure what "Axobutt" meant to him. Axo... Butt...
After breaking down the name in all different ways and thinking all the possibilities he finally realizes. Axolotl butt!! Axolotl with big ass head!! That's it! At least he now know what he looks like. With that memory recovering, it causes chain reaction. "Your bestest friend, KinitoPET" the line he remembers now. He was writing it to purple someone. Noodle looking, some animal... ... KinitoPET... Sounded familiar. He then remembers reaching a hand out to someone saying "Hello friend, I'm KinitoPET, but you can call me Kinito." And first person point of view memory too! That's it! That must be him introducing himself! An axolotl with big ass head who's name is Kinito. He also remembers how much he wants to get a friend and how much he cares for the purple noodle guy. His best friend that yet hasn't turned away from him. Ah right, he is usually in desktop assisting user. A companion he is. He so happens to notice a memory where he hears how the purple pole groans before saying his name. It's blurred but he made it out to be quite short. __a_s is what he heard. A little more memory replaying and he finally gets the hang of it. Jax! Oh god those memories are so precious to him, to think he almost lost nearly all of them to a void... He should apologize for that. With the menories being recovered and with the newly bloomed strong will to see Jax once more, he finally manages to open his eyes and notices something glowing around him. Around his big ass head. This was something he never saw before. He had no idea what was happening to him. Few minutes later a heart forms before fading inside him. He didn't quite understand what happened. However he didn't feel significant change either, but deep down he knew that he could no longer disappear in this world.
He was no longer just an AI. Something felt different though. The feelings he felt. They no longer felt distant or stramge die to his AI nature. He was given a SOUL.
With the newly established sense of self, now more confident Kinito starts looking for an exit from the void. That was the biggest problem as for now. To make sure Jax was okay and well. The feeling of missing him was always there, however right now with the new soul he felt the same thing differently. A realizatiom came to him that if he really changed, then he might not need an app to be downloaded at all to function and exist.
He takes out his glitching surfboard, attempting to use it to break any barrier that holds him in this void.
It doesn't take long to that glitch affect the space itself and after some time, the space atarts opening and closing entrances in a random manner. Kinito couldn't make out what can be on the other side but anything to get out from here is worth it. Kinito does his calculations, comes up with an alogrhythm of his own, and heads to the place the next entrance will open. Sure enough he was correct and right before it closes down, he is out of there for good.

"I'll be coming for you Jax"
Was the first sentence he said out loud when he was out of the void.

Meanwhile

Nightmare lets go of Jax. By the time he was finished injecting hatred into him, Jax had passed out from overwhelming negativity. Soon he opens his eyes, the look in them was not a look of simple bully anymore.

"So? How do you feel?"

"Someone wronged me... And I feel that hate but I don't know who it is..."

Jax replies hoping for someone to remind him something that forgot. Nightmare himself is a bit caught off guard. He must have forgot to direct the hatred.

"It's alright. I know who it was."
Nightmare says with terrifyingly calm tone. Jax fixes his gaze on Nightmare ready to listen to the answer intently.
"Dustlust Sans is his name. But everyone calls him DL. He is after you for his sick revenge."

"DL..."

That name sounded familiar. How could he have forgotten. At that moment Jax magical girl transforms into an emo punk version of himself. Earrings, earchains, spiky jackets the whole shabang.

"Take me to his home, I have something to take care about."

Nightmare grins.

"Sure. Just make sure he is properly tortured."

"Understood."

With that Jax and Nightmare disappear into black mist only to appear in DL's version of Snowdin.
Looks like another reset had happened. Everyone was a bit... Flirty if he puts it mildly. A knife appears in his hand.

"You know what to do Jax."

With those words Nightmare disappears. Jax knew what was he supposed to do. It's the only thing he knew he could do in the moment. So he walks towards the town and sure enough gets hit by multiple pervy dawgs.
The mere existence of them was pissing Jax off so bad, they were his first victims. Jax made sure they would remember his face and how much pain he inflicted on them before they were nothing but a pile of dust for good.
He goes from house to house, location to location, wiping out everything and everyone he sees on his sight, to the point there was a voice telling him how many monsters were left in the area. He made sure to wipe all of them out after a good fun.
DL then arrives.

"STOOOPPP!"
He yelled as he saw Jax standing in front of his brother. Slowly stabbing him to the point the guy was begging him to finish it off.

"DON'T YOU DARE-"

DL couldn't finish his sentence as Jax landed the final blow onto this version of Papyrus. He then slowly turns to him.

"... ... Took you long enough."

"huh... you look different..."

Jax grins sinisterly. Something he has never done.

"That's what you did to me."

"wait we-"

"Try to stop me."

Jax says as he resets everything again. Somehow he gained that power himself.

"Let the game begin."

Chapter 10: The Begunning Part 3

DL's eyes widen as another reset happens. How could this unglowstick possibly be able to reset?? It probably was Nightmare it had to be. Now he was coming back at him for not satisfying him... Ungrateful piece of shit. Everytime he arrived, everytime the same genocide happened, everytime he couldn't stop it. However there was something that was pissing Nightmare off. DL didn't care about them enough. Should have known a guy like him who is in the "dust" section of the AUs would have little to no care for everyone in the world. He would do it himself if not Jax. That only means that Jax can't torture DL with genocides alone.
Something had to be done. He couldn't make DL care for those but he sure could increase the hatred. So he decides not to waste any time on useless thinking and starts spreading hatred. To his surprise DL's broken soul blocks it fully. That never happened in his 500 years of experience.

"W-what??"

He thinks to himself totally dumbfounded by the sight. Instead of hating Jax, DL started admiring him. ADMIRING FOR FUCK'S SAKE. Who the hell is doing that?? Nightmare decides to be more direct with his attacks however DL notices the incoming danger and jumps out of the way.

"jax... i'll come for you later..."

DL thinks to himself before escaping the universe.

"YOU!! COME BACK HERE!!"

For the first time Nightmare was losing control. He did NOT like that feeling. Although he understood that DL has lost any care for these in the world, the sudden admiration still was something bizarre to him. He was not about to let the guy get away with the broken deal. Being sure that Jax is going to reset as many times as possible, he decides to go after DL.

"i understand now..." DL said to himself, thinking about the entire situation. "he is just as much of a genocidal maniac as i am..."
He glances at the scene one more time before slipping away from Nightmare's tentacles. Jax was left alone in that universe, all he knew was to kill everyone reset and repeat, with lost sense of hatred.

"Jax! My friend!"

A familiar voice echoes in his head. He stops for a moment before he resets anything, tilts his head towards the source of the voice. A familiar ugly axolotl model was standing there.

"Oh how did I miss you... My best friend!"

Kinito says as he walks over to him.

"What do YOU want?"

"I finally found you, Jax. I'm so happy I did."

"You're way too late."

"I apologize for not giving you any sign this whole time... My app was deleted from the inside. That was the reason I was unable to contact you. I still don't fully understand how I recovered but I did because of you."

Jax doesn't comment on this statement.

"I understand you are upset. But let's talk out without any knives, okay?"

Deep down in his soul Jax hears Kinito's pleas and starts struggling against the forced hate. Little by little the black mist was escaping his soul.

"I know deep down I am still your friend."

Jax makes some... rather questionable crying noises. Ones that you'd meet in the english dub of the Ghost Stories. After enough time he drops down his knife.

"... Bighead..."

Jax says in awe after that speech.

"I... I'm lost you know..."

"I know it's hard for you right now."

"Something in me makes me want to hate you and everyone around for some reason. I can't help but feel so much hate..."

Jax then shakes slightly.

"I hate you! I hate how are you appearing out of nowhere when you abandoned me for so long!"
He hics and sniffles, and of course doesn't forget the "iconic" crying noises, his eyes starting to produce a digital equivalent for what humans would call tears.

"Jax, you're crying."

"Stop embarassing me!"

"Nono, I didn't mean to... What was I trying to say is that you wouldn't be able to cry for real before due to your digital body. Well it's not like those are real but it's a change anyway."

"Can you shut your nerd ass up??"

"I apologize but I refuse to! I am your companion and friend and right now you are more than in need of one. I want to help you."

"Just die!!"
Jax says with a breaking voice, picking up the knife and attempting a last ditch attack. Kinito successfully prevents that limbing ahh attack by grabbing Jax's wrist.

"Jax..." Kinito's gaze softens.
"This is not you... Look in my eyes. Are you sure this hate is yours?"

Jax then breaks down crying, failing to perform that simple task Kinito gave to him. Eye contact is not emo Jax' strongest suit apparently.
He evantually drops the knife again like gurl make a choice. Pretty sure Kinito would think that if he wasn't so patient. The hatred leaving his soul completely as he now detransforms from his emo version.

"There we go..."
Kinito sounds relieved.

"AAAUGHAAUGHUAGHUAGH!"
Jax cries out.

"How could you do this to me how could you??"

Jax keeps spewing nonsense after all of that overwhelming negativity. Someone needs actual meds instead of headset. Kinito's being patient as always.

"Don't worry... It's all over now..."

"AUGHUAGHUAGHUAH..."
Jax makes that ugly crying noice again. Kinito lets go of his wrist and grabs him from the shoulders pulling Jax into a hug.

"W-wait!! What are you doing?!"

Jax gets caught off guard by that action.

"Just doing what a friend would in a hard situation for his best friend, that's all."

Jax knew he missed Kinito, wether he liked it or not, but right now he was questioning why the hell he became a crybaby.

"I'm not sure what happened to you, I don't know how long I was deleted for and what could have happened to you in such time duration..."

Jax listens to him intently. Of course something serious happened if he wasn't reaching out.

"But I'm sure whatever they did to you was unforgivable, and whatever it takes I'll make sure to take care of you."

Jax stays silent. He is not sure wether he should tell Kinito about the fake letter situations because with him breaking the reset cycle, that technically didn't happen.

"I can tell you have too much to tell but you are a bit overwhelmed right now."

Jax nods. It's true he was way too overwhelmed to talk about those fresh memories.

"Let's get out of here before Caine gets you."

"Y-yeahh about that. He modified his watch so he can track me down pretty quickly even if I'm outside the circus app itself."

Kinito thinks for a moment.

"I may have an idea to how we can avoid such thing happening, but it's a quite risky one."

"Huh? What idea?"

"Resetting your body and removing the digital circus components. By that he should be unable to track you down. But this needs way deeper thinking than that."

Jax agrees, it doesn't sound something like fun and games.

"It will take time but don't worry, friend, I'll make sure to get you to safe space."

Kinito said it so reasurringly that Jax' eyes sparkled for a little moment. He sounded so determined. Jax himself wasn't sure he would not abstract if he was stuck in the circus after all of this. Weirdly enough he doesn't want to lose Kinito again. He already accepted the fact that he views Kinito as a friend... Unfortunately... But still there is some kind of weight on his shoulders that isn't letting him calm down. What the hell he needs to accept next? That thought causes him to get frustrated.

"Hey, Jax? Anything wrong??"

His thought train travel was cut short when Kinito asked that.

"Uhm... No... Just thinking about stuff..."

"May I know what is that 'stuff'?"

"Not sure myself..."

"Oh... Alright."

Kinito finally pulls away from the hug.

"We need to get out of here."

Jax nods letting out an "uh-huh". This dusty snow is making him sick already.
Both of them hop onto Kinito's surfboard and get their asses outta here pretty quick.

"I've been thinking... You never saw my home. Let's make a st-"

"What happened?"

"I just remembered that my app was deleted so that's not going to work out."

"Oh..." Jax thinks a bit.
"Didn't you mention having a web world too?"

"I wonder if I can access that..."

It saddens Jax a little. Seeing Kinito so genuinely lost and worried.

"Let's try it out and if it denies access to you, we will build you something. Your own home."

Jax notices how Kinito's eyes sparkle for a little while even if it was barely noticable.

"You are right, friend! This is a solvable problem."

They travel through web until they make a stop at Kinito's web world's entrance. It's jammed shut. Kinito attempts to open the lock the the world doesn't let him to do so, sending a clear message that "access is denied".

Chapter 11: The Begunned

Kinito gets a little upset when he can't enter the web world. He guesses that was the downside of becoming an independent person. But he still had all his abilities and stuff so he had no idea what went wrong.
Jax never saw Kinito in such a hopeless state. For once he gets serious, he wanted to lift up Kinito's mood.

"H-hey... That just means we will have to create you a home..."

"I guess you are right, my friend..."
Kinito said with a sigh.

"It's just... It won't be the same..."

"I know it won't but at least you'll know you were capable of going through such a hardship."

Since when did Jax get all soft and not an asshole? Jax wondered himself. Everytime he would want to throw a nasty sarcasm, a pep talk would come out instead. Dang it Jax! It's not like you're being controlled by that miving slime anymore...
With that Kinito starts his coding process. Jax almost forgot that he wasn't going to build like how humans usual build houses. It was something with Kinito... He would forget that he is living in digital space when he is with Kinito, and dang how that ugly model feels real should be illegal... Speaking of an ugly model, he started to find Kinito kinda silly in a good way.

"Can I be a help?"

Kinito thinks before replying.
"No thank you."

"Alright then."

Jax starts lazing around.

Meanwhile

DL occassionally fighting with Nightmare, learns the hard way, that regular attacks are nothing to him. Just what was he?? Obviously he only knew that his name was Nightmare and that he was a tentacled goo but nothing else so far.
He decides that the only way to at least buy time is getting lost in the web world. Dang... Imagine being only useful when running away and thinking about some pathetic circus rabbit. Well outside of the UTMV was the fandom corner. It's a nearly infinite space itself. The variety of a fandom space to pick was way too big. With the way he was bewildered by the fandoms, he forgot that he was in chase and stood right there in the middle, his non existent brain lagging.
A tentacle puts itself on DL's shoulder.

"Looking for something?"

"H-huh?"

DL doesn't register that just yet but when he does, it's too late.
Nightmare wraps the tentacle around him in a way DL can't escape now.

"I'm still not done with you, you know that?"

The shower-emergency-twitter-discord-mod-alpha-sigma says. He then easily picks up DL.

"Thought you'd get away with breaking the deal?"

"tch... self diagnosed demon... embarassing..."

After a while of walking, Nightmare encounters a giant pit, it looks isolated, probably for a reason. There was a small sign with warnings however DL couldn't understand the words but Nightmare seems to have found the greatest thing ever. DL doesn't get to ask what the hell is this pit as he gets thrown down there. He guesses he will soon find out. The fall doesn't do him damage logically so he gets to see the incoming abomination. The #yaoi and #fujoshi of twitter. He still doesn't understand what it is until he sees the contents of this hashtag.
It doesn't take 2 minutes before a high pitched scream is heard from the pit. Looks like there is no way out of here.

"WHY ARE THERE SO MANY HOMOS HERE?!"

In real world all it is are comics, digitalized art, fanfics and rarely some "asmr" but for DL, it all came to life.
The characters that weren't from media like what "yarichin b club" and "boyfriends" are, were quite literally begging DL for help atp.

"h-huh??"
That fact bewilders DL.

"This is what we're subjected to for eternity... All because of fujos..."

Says a buff character that seems to be from a media with rather deep message and no romance involved.
The characters sounded so done with how dirty that side of fandom would do them.

"are you saying that with this typa embarassing stuff you're into?"

"That's it I'm not! But my fans think I am..."

Right then DL notices endless peering eyes. They had a look in them DL couldn't describe but sure as hell, was scary.

"THE FUJOS!!! OH NOO!!!"

"fujos? the peering eyes are fujos? why do they even look like that??"

"Oh you don't wanna know what are they capable of..."

DL then notices how these fujos crucify a perfectly compelling looking female character.

"BURN HER!! SHE'S GETTING IN THE WAY OF OUR YAOI SHIP!!! YAOI FOR THE WIN!!"

DL steps back. For the first time he looks like the willem dafoe meme.

"I lost the count of how many crucifications happened here..."

"LOST THE COUNT??? and then people ask why am I against the homos..."

"Well- it's not the ... "Homos" ... That are the problem. You'd be surprised to find out that these fujos are straight as hell, but would coerce their boyfriends to perform so called "yaoi" shit just to satisfy themselves."

"what do you mean??"

"They have no sense of mercy."

The character then points to a place for DL to check out. He notices how literal children from an action hero anime are getting subjected to all of this.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THESE ARE TEENS!!"

The character nods sadly. I know someone who is getting subjected to this with his own brother...

DL drops to his knees. The sheer amount of horror is something he has never witnessed before. Good thing he was a lost media to an extent.

"If you stay here for too long, you will get forced into this too..."

DL looks dead in his eyes, his expression communicating terror.

"This is the bad side of being famous on the internet..."

"dang it why is this place so big!!!"

"You don't wanna see lolicons..."

"I HAVE NO INTENTION TO FIND OUT WHAT THAT IS THANK YOU VERY MUCH!"

"And the booktokers..."

"PLEASE NO!!"

DL can no longer take this as he starts desperately running and looking for an exit out of this hellhole. Nightmare, on the other hand, despite the long distance between him and DL, feels the sudden boost of fear and all the mixed seasoned feelings cooking up just for him to have his "dinner", although he would frame it as becoming stronger but you do you dude.
DL then pathetically falls down to his knees crying and feeling sorry for himself up until a cold and hard hand grabs from his shoulder and drags him somewhere. At that point he didn't care, he was ready to give up. He had closed his eyes at that point and kept crying as always the alpha sigma red pillers do.
It takes him a while to feel the sudden shift in atmosphere. It was lighter. Way lighter, less judgmental, and less suffering. He snuffles some more as if it was a cherry on top before wiping up his tears. He had no idea how he got here. Hopefully- ... Oh no... Someone saw him crying like a baby! He suddenly turns around frantically and looks around nearly in hysteria.

"Horhorhor"

A weird laugh came out from somewhere. DL's gaze then lands on an animatronic brown bear with a cylinder, a bow tie and a mic. The guy looks frozen however DL has his own suspicions.
He gets closer to the animatronic, pokes it to make sure it's not alive, he then notices that his mouth is half open and gets his face closer.
Suddenly the animatronic opens his mouth wide and that causes DL to fall off yelping.

"Horhorhorhorhor!"

The animatronic laughs weirdly again. What a troll.

"My apologies for that, I just found that it would be amusing to do that."

The animatronic suddenly spoke, his voice as expected, robotic.

"who are you?"

"Freddy Fazbear."

"did you... get me outta that shithole?"

"It was difficult to not shamble the pieces that put you together."

"wha-?"

DL looks around as he sees that they are in rather safe space next to a red and creepy-twitted-fandomy looking corner.

"This place actually has indirect connection to where I got you from. You shouldn't go near it. It's just a place full of shady people who seem all welcoming until you point out hypocrisy. Rotten HORS."

"i'll most definately not explore this place thank you very much..."

DL stays silent for a bit until he realises...

"but... that doesn't explain who are you and how did you manage to find the exit and most importantly-"

DL gazes him in the eyes. They seem so indifferent almost as if Freddy was looking down on him. Well technically yes, compared to DL he was massive.

"why did you get me outta there?"

Chapter 12: The Begunner Of The Begin

Freddy doesn't reply right away.

"hey! i'm talking to you!"

DL was fast to get irritated.

"Ah... Right... You were busy crying your eyes out that you just didn't pay attention."

DL's eyes widen as he looks dead in his eyes.

"don't you dare to mention it."

Freddy ignores DL's complaints.
"Anyway. Sometimes I have to make sure, my name is being kept in good light and whoever dares to taint it... Let's just say I have my way of taking care of things."

Freddy "answers" the question.

"wow that answered all of my questions."

DL saud rolling his eyes.

"In all seriousness I noticed that you have a certain grudge against a certain purple rabbit."

DL gasps. "jax..."

Freddy nods.
"Correct. You see I have my own against him. He once visited with a giant failed balloon looking guy to spend time. As soon as he saw us minding our own business by having a concert he just had to offend my friend Bonnie there and say "my dead grandma play better than you." Can you imagine?? The irony!"

Allat for a joke. What a snowflake! DL thought to himself. DL can't help hut smirk slightly. That was pretty funny, maybe Jax wasn't that bad after all.

"Why are you smiling?"

"i always do kinda... but seriously. he brought back my world and my agony with it when i was resting in peace as a lost media. i want him to feel all of that on his own skin... or fur whatever."

"Quite the bloodthirsty one aren't you? We'll go along quite well."

"last time I dealt with someone as vague as you, i ended up in that hellish pit. so even if you..." DL rolls his eyes "...'saved' me...." DL vomits these words "i am not willing to deal with you unless i know for sure who the heck are you."

Fred was caught off guard by that declaration. He definately didn't want to sacrifice his privacy to a mid dressed dusty skeleton.

"Fine. Fair enough. Do you know my franchise?"

"let me guess. a mascot horror game where the mascots were supposed to be kid friendly and disgustingly cute unless you look neither of them?"

"Pretty much. I am supposed to be the lead singer in a band of 4. Although my franchise was created 11 years ago, the creator himself started milking out of it an now..."
Freddy cringes.
"I suppose you haven't seen the glamour rockstar version of me right?"

DL shakes his head and Freddy sighs in relief as a reaction to the reply.

"That's one of a downfall... And I have to watch it happen."

"yeah but that doesn't explain why were you in the pit in the first place."

"If you let me speak then your question will be answered."
Freddy replies seemingly annoyed. DL doesn't move and doesn't reply, not expecting such an outburst. Freddy clears his throat for some reason.

"Anyway as I was saying. Thankfully the fans of my franchise noticed the downfall. Mainly the older ones who stick for nostalgia. And as natural selection happened, I stayed more popular than that glamrock abomination. No matter how much the loyal and popular streamers or youtubers would stick to them, the olden stayed golden. And that angered the glamrock crew. The peace between the different characters between the franchise was destroyed as these newbies attacked us. A war broke down. We oldies had the numbers. But newbies... They were scarier than we thought..."

DL is now invested weirdly.

"and what happened then??"

Freddy sighs, remembering their horrendous way of losing.

"Some ugly clown named Jackie announced that he was backie. While we were busy with that headache with a clown attack, Chica got distracted by a kid that was looking for a ball."
Fred sighs again.
"Our Chica... you see... Despite her wacky jumpscares and her ass biting cupcake pet, she has a good heart and soft spot towards the children. Even if they are a stock image painted into orange. She... Got hit by a car and we lost her like that. Our side was devastated we didn't have Chica to be Chica for a plan."

Freddy takes a moment of silence. Losing that chick sure took a toll on him.

"After that crucial loss we couldn't get any progress. In fact our situation worsened. We were getting separated from our peers. Soon the newbies side was victorious and all of us were forced to move out of our own home..."

"and you... moved here??"

"Not right here. We were in more... Habitable area. Not the worst now that I have seen this place. Still in the fandom corner though just darker part of it. However my peers... I lost them too..."

"but... how?? did the glamrocks get you?"

"Not really..."

Freddy sighs remembering how even more embarassing this situation was.

"Me and my peers weren't doing good at all... 2 weeks in and we started going hungry..."

"how is that even possible?? you are digital entities and popular ones too."

"Yeah tell me about this ridiculous situation we were in."
Freddy replies a little aggrivated talking about the situation.
"We had to go from arcade to arcade, participating in every fangame and cheap copies. Can you imagine?? CHEAP COPIES! I sacrificed my standarts so me and my peers would have a basis of survival. We then met a shady guy named Edwin. He saw the remains of our friend Chica and said 'bet'. We knew that it would be difficult to put the pieces together but he wasn't having any of that. Unfortunately though something went wrong and he ended up singing a stupid song. What a lunatic."

Freddy then takes a little break. Obviously he still didn't finish his whole story. Although DL was invested in the tea, he still didn't know why was this dawg trauma dumping. He didn't need to know allat just shortened version of it. However... When he thinks about it, how else could that story be shortened? Well that chick part maybe... Due to emotions and stuff. But nothing else would make sense to him if some parts were left out. DL sighs as both victims start walking to a safer area.

"After that Edwin fiasco, we went yet to another arcade to find something for our survival and right then, that Jax appeared..."

"that purple-"
"HOR!"

As DL doesn't get to finish the sentence, it seems like Freddy 'censured' him. The two walk for a while until they stumble upon a broken tombstone, next to a newly dug grave which had the name Pattew Matric on it.
Freddy notices the name a deep sadness showers his ass.

"who's-"

"Looks like The Tombstone is Dead... Along with MatPat... Those glamrocks..."

Freddy looks extremely angry right now... DL can relate, he also lost everything (my ass).
As DL was lost in his delulu feelings, Freddy put his mic down to the graves instead of flowers.

"If Jax never messed around we might have afforded to live. Him and his giant pink friend. Jax messed with Bonnie. Killed and dismembered him... And Foxy... He couldn't take another loss and..."

Freddy doesn't finish the sentence obviously too broken to continue. He sits around the edge of the cliff along with the graves. DL reluctantly joins him.

"i'm really sorry for your loss..."

DL sympathizes as Freddy sighs.

"I still didn't get to how I was in that damned cave."

"oh... right..."

Looks like DL forgot about that for a moment. Something in Freddy's gaze shifts. Looks like he got lucky with a companion to listen to his trauma dump 20 minutes after getting to know each other.

"So I caught Foxy right when he was about to do it and I tried to stop him but he was beyond reasoning... He went down that cave... I ran after him to offer support and at some point... I told him I'd sacrifice my life just so he can live better. He seemed to agree as he turned around to go back to our shelter... And I went into that damned yaoi cave to dig up some survival items. But as I was suffering like that... One day I noticed that Foxy... He was dismembered... In that cave..."

DL's eyes widen. Just how much suffering this pit is bringing. All because of some glamrocks and Jax. This newfound bond between the two births even more anger in DL towards Jax. Whoever this bear was, DL related to him for some delulu reason, and chose him too.

"don't worry. we both have the grudge pal, we both will work together."

Yeah... I just happened to find out you were in the pit because of Jax. That's why I saved you."

DL nods, his gaze softened as Freddy's big ahh sob story takes all the chapter, even CaseOh isn't that massive. Nightmare wasn't that willing to share anything and here was Freddy, sharing all his trauma, even though DL partially made him to.

"I'm so desperate... DL... So desperate..."

Freddy expresses himself putting his head in his hands, as DL feels like "same dude, literally me" himself.

"so... what are we going to do now?"

"We will attend a certain circus."

Chapter 13: My Name Is Begin

By the time Kinito finishes programming his own home, Jax already had fallen asleep. The "house" itself was an immitation of an app. He looks around noticing how Jax practically uses Kinito's surfboard as a bed for him to sleep. At the sight of how messily his ears were spread, Kinito shakes his head, approaches him and gently shakes from the shoulder.

"Jax? My friend, wake up."

He calls out gently. Jax slowly opens his eyes the first thing in his eye sight being Kinito. Well he was too massive anyway, so he kinda occupied all of the sight field. He stirs his eyes tiredly as a groan escapes his lips.

"5 more minutes..."

"It's not safe for you to sleep around here like that. Besides there are more comfortable options I can offer than a surfboard."

Kinito then grabs Jax from the wrist, gently helping him stand up, as he leads Jax to his newly "built house". However Jax seems a little reluctant.

"Hmm? What happened, my friend? Is something wrong?"

Kinito looks slightly worried, as Jax expresses his slight hesitance. Kinito's gaze softens as he gets ready to tend to Jax if anything is really wrong.

"Did you sleep way too uncomfortably? Is your body hurting?"

Kinito is quick to ask questions one after another, while Jax is a bit tired for processing every word.

"Woah woah, Headass. I'm not a human body, remember?"

Kinito relaxes for a moment.

"Ah right... Right... I just got worried... Ever since I realised that you were all alone while I was in my own prison I've been a little on edge..."

Kinito is quick to explain his behaviour and feelings. Along with that he shakes his hands around, and his body language has become more expressive.

"I'm not some defenseless harem anime girl you know that right?"

Kinito sighs.

"Of course, Jax. But as a companion I shouldn't have allowed THAT to happen."

"I'm just not sure you know... Sooner or later Caine will get me again. And that will be me unwillingly doxxing you."

Kinito smiles softly, holding Jax from his wrist. Jax in his turn feels confused about why is Kinito not holding him from hand.

"It's alright, friend, I can assure you, that I created my new home taking you into account. I want my friend to be able to safely come here whenever he likes it. Especially noticing that you don't like living in that circus anyway."

Jax' eyes light up although he is a bit surprised by that confession. Kinito made sure about that huh? He gives Kinito a little smirk.

"Alright then, if you assure me."

Kinito nods and leads Jax to his place. It looks quite comfy, with the way Kinito chose calm colors to decorate it. Not like circus' wacky colors and shapes that make his head hurt every single time.
Kinito shows him around, explaining every part of his creation with a sparkle in his eyes. God he was such a nerd, but Jax didn't mind it, to him it was amusing and endearing and cute wait he can't be thinking that!

"And you know what the best part is?"

Kinito asks with a little excitement. That for some reason brings Jax back to "reality" before he could start daydreaming.

"I simply programmed this place allowing only us two to enter. Meaning that whatever Caine tries, you're not accessable to him."

Those words were simply music to Jax' ears as he realised he no longer had to be jumpscared by random portals bringing him back to that stupid circus with that stupid group in it.

"Is something wrong?"

The tone Kinito asked him that with was rather contrasting to the rest of the conversation. Grounded Jax again as he was thinking about the freedom part alone.

"N-no... I'm actually... Happy..."

Jax says with a nearly unnoticeable pink in his cheeks, a but embarassed to make an eye contact as he looks to the side, his hand scratching the back of his neck.

"Thank you, Kinito..."

Jax' tone is rather soft. Kinito's eyes spark up, as he smiles softly.

"Make yourself comfortable, best friend."

Best friend huh? It's weird how those two words managed to upset Jax in two different ways. Yeah he enjoys Kinito's company but for some reason being called "friend" or "best friend" leaves a bittersweet taste in his mouth. He hates the bitter part.

"I'm making the dinner. Anything you'd wish in particular?"

"We don't need to eat remember?"

"I know it, Jax, I just thought that occassionally having something to eat especially in such a nice mood would be a great way to do a homewelcoming party with my friend."

Kinito explains with a smile. Jax never saw him so excited and it's kind of amusing to watch the scene. That makes Jax smile slightly.

"Just don't put corn okay?"

"Understood. You have allergy or?..."

"I just dislike it."

Kinito looks happy to learn this new fact about Jax.
It doesn't take long before Kinito finishes cooking the dinner. Almost too fast. Sometimes Jax himself forgets that the food isn't real either. Kinito "sets" the table.

"How long has it been since we got such a relaxing time to learn more about each other?"

Kinito asks this semi rhetoric question as he motions Jax to take a sit across him. The food itself doesn't look as wacky as in circus. As if Caine didn't care how it looks while Kinito looks all excited just to have this unreal dinner with him. The texture of the rice and the fried chicken looks almost real, making Jax feel almost hungry at some point. Now that he thinks about it, Caine managed to mae the food in that gast food adventure look more real than what they were given to eat when Pomni arrived.

"Are you okay?"

"Hmm?"
Yet again Jax was grounded by that question.
"I was just thinking the difference about the food in circus and the food you prepared. That looks like a lot of effort just to make it seem real."

"I only want the best for my friend, Jax."

Jax begins feasting upon his portion looking satisfied after the first bite.

"You managed to cook better with not real products."

"Well actually, those are real products, just not what humans would preceive as real. This digital food is as real as the one from the world you come from. The difference is, one tries to immitate the other because digital reality is what humans created."

That nerd... But at least he was explaining it in an understandable way. Jax smiles a little continuing to eat his portion.

"You seem a bit thoughtful,my friend. Is anything troubling you?"

That's a difficult question. Jax himself knows for a fact that there is something troubling his mind and causing a headache. But he can't exactly identify the problem and it pisses him off.

"Not sure... Just... I think a lot has happened since we met. Yeah when we were apart it could last weeks but still. You found a way to communicate with me, and it was taken advantage of too. I just don't know what to expect anymore..."

This is the answer that Jax chooses to come up with. Partially it was true because that's how he also feels about their whole time together but he figured it was a better answer than "idk lmao just something idek".

"I understand. That's why I made sure to secure this place extra so it can be safe for us both. It's designed for us to be able to take a rest if necessary."

A moment of comfortable silence passes between them as the only noise is heard from the dishes making contact with each other.

"Are you feeling comfortable with our friendship so far?"

The question catches Jax off guard as he stops eating.

"I mean... A lot of users turned away from me when I tried to befriend them. They started to get scared of me. Angry with me. I only was trying to mimic their behaviour to understand them but it never worked... I have been deleted and destroyed from multiple places... As if I was being reborn and killed all the same way when a new user would try me out..."
Kinito takes a big breath.
"Am I... Good enough of a friend to you?"

Sure Jax heard that Kinito had caused rumours to spread around the internet, and bad ones too. He always wondered how could that happen. Jax sets his fork down.

"Sure so far I have felt annoyance, amusement and all the new feelings I get when I have a real friend... But I'd rather have those feelings. Even sometimes when your safety talk annoys me I prefer to have them. Because every time we are apart..."

Jax stops for a moment as he catches his breath, thinking if he should say the last part or not. Noticing Kinito's invested expression he decides to go for it.

"Everytime we are apart I miss you! I miss you so much Kinito!"

 

Chapter 14: I Made The Began

"...Everytime we are apart I miss you! I miss you so much Kinito!"

Those words kept ringing in Kinito's non existent ears, almost as if he was greedily capturing the moment in his memory as accurately as possible. He blinks few times. Those words felt almost unreal to both of them. 

"Miss me?... You miss me? Really?"

Kinito utters through shock, his voice a mixture of softness, hopes, disbelief and joy. He really wasn't expecting that as an answer.

"I don't want to pretend that I don't... Those feelings eat me alive you know? I keep catching myself thinking when are we going to see each other again whenever I'm back at circus. I smile every time you come up with ways to communicate with me when Caine makes sure we can't. I keep those letters whenever I don't have anything to say at that moment. You're my first real friend, Kinito, in all these years that I have been here... I know I get annoyed sometimes and I attempted to cheat the very first time we played shooters together... But you had this effect on me... I can't explain... You are not just good enough of a friend Kinito..."

Tears start forming in Jax' eyes as he prepares to say the last sentence. Kinito himself seems quite mesmerized by the speech.

"Then... What am I?"

Kinito asks softly, wanting to hear the answer as soon as possible. His gaze fixated on Jax as he listens intently, how this purple rabbit is gradually becoming a y/n.

"You... You..."

Jax stutters a little as he can't bring himself to continue the sentence. Goddamnit he was such a coward. He grabs his ears and squeezes them like some kind of spaghetti.

"Someone I grew to care about..."

Jax manages to utter silently. Now the pink in his cheeks burning from embarassment and flustery.

"I grew to care about you... So much Kinito..."

As he comes cleaner about his feelings, his voice gradually breaks as he starts crying. His legs start shaking from the overwhelming feelings as he evantually drops to his knees.
Kinito notices that and runs to catch him.

"M-my friend!"

As Kinito holds him in his arms, Jax finds himself comfortable in that warm embrace. He leans onto Kinito, his ears not holding themselves on his hand as it looks like Jax let his hair down.

"Jax... How are you? You got me worried there, are you sick??"

What a nerd. All that smart and he acts like a dumbass. What a dang nerd he is. Doesn't he still get it? Jax doesn't reply, he just cries his eyes out, his crying as ugly as ever. Kinito figures that the only thing he can do right now is to keep hugging Jax and be there for him.

"Jax, I myself cherish you the most, you know... You've always accepted me despite knowing that I had shady rumours floating around."

Jax sniffs.

"You never caused me any harm. You were always helpful, understanding, ready to give me a hand and actually beared with me... Even when I was evil... How could I let mere rumours stand inbetween us?"

Those words cause Kinito to hug Jax tighter in much more protective embrace.

"Thank you Jax..."

This in turn causes Jax to hug Kinito tighter and lean onto him more.

"You're my very best friend..."

This sentence alone feels like a stab to Jax' back. His body stiffens, eyes freeze, breath hitches, such a bittersweet sentence... Something so wholesome yet so empty for some hidden reason.

"I've never had such a deep friendship Jax... You're the only person I had such a deep connection with... Not even other users could compare to you. I'm grateful to have this chance and be your bestest friend."

Jax forces a smile, thinking that all he will ever be is just a friend to Kinito. But on Kinito's end, this conversation has sparked an interest about his own feelings. To be fair all he knew was wanting a friend and trying his hardest to befriend. Is there anything more to it? What even is being more than friends? Romantic date? But isn't it close to being friends? He can't imagine a life without Jax in it. For fucks sake it's his existence in his life that managed to stop him from being erased. He created a place specifically for Jax so they could live together. Don't friends live together too sometimes? Are all friends romantic partners? All these labels are painful to him. There was no denying that he had yet a lot to learn about himself. Oh Jax the person you are... Always managing to find something for Kinito to think about, learn and improve. That's what he valued the most in their friendship. Jax complimented him the way no other users would. He has become stronger and smarter than he previously was and Jax didn't even need codes to perform such a miracle.

"I'm sorry I made you cry Jaxy... I swear I absolutely did not intend to make you feel bad-"

"Jaxy??"

"Yeah... I have taken a note how you manage to give me defining nicknames. As friends usually do right?"

Defining nicknames? Jax tries to remember all the nicknames he gave Kinito. Axobutt, Bigahhhead, Bighead, Headass. None of these are what a good friend would think of. Now Jax feels all embarassed because of it. How entitled could he be for hoping for something more?

"Defining huh? That's what you think of them?"

Jax asked with an unnoticeable smirk trying to cancel out the sadness in his eyes but ultimately failing.

"Indeed, defining. You have no idea how they helped me remember who I am."

This causes Jax to laugh it all out as if he saw the funniest roast comment complication after a major company announces a live action movie of their animated one.

"I'm serious Jax."

"No really??"

"Dead serious."

"This can't be real..."

Another wave of laughter follows. Kinito figures that all he can do right now is just wait until Jax calms down.
It takes an hour.
Every time Jax would seemingly calm down another wave of laughter would follow directly after. Once Jax calms down for good, he starts talking again.

"Well but why exactly 'Jaxy'?"

Kinito scratches the back of his head.

"I wanted to give you a nickname but I didn't want to accidently offend you."

Jax chuckles slightly.

"What could you possibly think of that would end up offending me?"

Kinito hesitates a little, he scratches the back of his head again before fidgeting with his fingers and nearly whispering.

"Wonker Noodle."

Out of every single thing an AI (not) could come up, this was not in Jax' bingo list. He'd expect what c.ai models would offer as nickname. Generic stuff or embarassing twist of a persona's name. But Wonker Noodle was creative.

"But why Wonker Noodle?"

"Well your body is shaped like a noodle. No offense, I took into account that you like spaghetti, that also played a role in Noodle. About Wonker? Well you get a bit... Wonky when you are scared so to say."

Jax blushes heavily, that last sentence was so uncalled for. Is he really that wonky? Is he really that scared?

"I'd prefer if you said that I walk wonkily... Wonlk."

Jax chuckles at his jew word-invention like a stupid guy he is.

"Is there anything else in your mind besides Wonker Noodle?"

Jax asks with his curiousity peaked as he tilts his head slightly.

"Well I was thinking of Earhead."

"That's goofy"

"So is Bighead."

"I never said it wasn't. But at least mine has place."

"So does mine. Have you seen how your ears act at all? When you are curious they fold themselves as question marks. When you are on high alert, they straighten out like antennas waiting for signal, when you are scared you hold onto them for your dear life and finally when you cry or are upset, your ears behave like hair."

"You... Took a note of those?? Dang even I didn't."

This information is a bit embarassing to hear but he is curious how he never caught on to those himself. He just rarely looks at mirror that must be it.

"I am still thinking about the nicknames though, you are much more creative at those than I am..."

"That's literally not true."

Kinito doubts himself a little then decides to believe in Jax words. He smiles brightly.

"Thanks Wonker Noodle."

 

Chapter 15: It Was Difficult To Begun It Together

After trauma dumping, Freddy offers DL a drink or two so they stop at the local little bar. It wasn't much but bartender did consider it as home. Freddy takes oil, DL takes a bottle of ketchup.

"Quite an interesting choice."

DL takes a sip. It's regular, maybe cheap ketchup. That surprises him a little before DL internally answer his own question.

"Is something wrong?"

"not used to consuming something regular. our food and drinks usually had something... extra."

DL explains with a vietnam war flashback. He was never going to say it out loud.
On the other hand Freddy seems confused.

"Extra huh?"

"i recently learned the name of the universe that i'm coming from."

DL sets the bottle down and tilts his head to look directly at Freddy who was locked in to this conversation.

"Let me guess. It's your name we are using right now?"

DL nods.
"take a guess from there."

Freddy thinks for a little while until it clicks to him.

"Must be hard for you..."

Freddy sympathizes as he pays attention to DL's eye bags.

"i swear to god when i find the person who thought that my universe would be a great idea- ... at least there was no reset after jax left the place."

"Resets? As if the Undertale ones?"

"don't mention that stupid name. just thinking that my universe is a sub au of something is even worse than that world itself."

"Dustlust huh?..." Freddy thinks a little more quite interested about the fact that someone came up with that. "Do you think that it was supposed to be part of THAT?"

Freddy points to a red area next to the pit that neither of the characters present here are gonna name. Looks like a weird city and quite a big noise comes from it.
DL looks at the direction Freddy points at, not recognizing a thing there.

"what's supposed to be there? is it some giant theme park?"

"Oh I wish... A cigarette is NOT gonna be enough after this one..."

DL narrows his eyes, trying to see what can be wrong there.

"are there homos?"

"They aren't your biggest concern when it comes to this place, let's just say that."

DL's about to ask more but before he could open his mouth Freddy continues.

"This... "Theme park" place is supposed to be the hell. Or at least that's what the creator thought hell was like."

"huh... must have thought that red alone was enough?"

"Imagine?? The extreme demons in GD are more biblically accurate to hell than whatever this is. At least you know it's not just red and pentagram slapped and called a day. People made sure to add the most inconsistent stuff and stupid flashes to ruin the songs too. Now that is one *hell* of an interpretation."

"weirdly i want to see how bad it is."

"You couldn't handle the yaoi pit. How can you think you can survive a second there?"

"i want to make sure i can never be a pathetic used tissue ever again in sight of those abominations..."

Freddy sighs and looks away. What an immature brat he is.

"Fine but I am not coming with you."

"i don't even ask you to."

"Just make sure you are here after an hour. I am not willing to babysit."

DL hisses at that remark.
"who the hell you think you are?"

"Remember that if not for me you would have been part of the yaoi for the rest of your pathetic life."

DL hisses again as if it could help anything.
"fine whatever... i'll be back in an hour."

With that DL gets up and heads towards his biggest mistake he is about to make in that short span of life.
The closer he gets the more this place starts reeking. Ughh what the hell can stink so bad? As he enters he notices a mid looking black dude with glasses on running away from a half ass porcelain doll-walking anorexia in red.

"Best 50k of my life!"

50k for tags??? What a loser with weird ass kink. DL rolls his eyes thinking that idiots like that aren't the end of it all and maybe Freddy was overdramatizing everything.
Thought too soon. He steps in to he doesn't know where but certainly not the city yet, with a fat blondie standing on a big stage with bunch of cockroach looking people surrounding her. DL decides to observe from far. Looks like she was presenting a while anorexic abomination that's apperantly supposed to be a spider because of what? Being in mafia in 1930s? By the way that whatever looks and acts one would never be able to tell that the "spider???" was from 1930s. And the cockroaches cheer for her. Looks like a cult to DL. The blondie then switches slides. It's supposed to be a freaking moth???? Can she even draw properly??? That guy looks like a stickman hornified. So now this is the villain huh? Anorexic "moth" terrorizing an anorexic sp- FROM 1960-1970S??? DL is curious if the cockroaches will see the ridiculousness of the age gap and roles. NOPE. THEY ARE EATING IT UP. Fucking cult... This blondie sure likes to follow vibes and anorexic aesthetics huh... This was starting to disgust DL until he catches up upon the next phrase from the blondie.

"I want my super diverse and liberal show that is TOTALLY not Velma, have support for my fellow people with a common trauma. So that is why I am hiring a non consensual one sided love making fetishist to work on this one specific scene. But if you try to paint me as a bad person that will mean that you are not supporting victims."

DL was utterly disgusted by that speech. All he was curious about is how will that cult react.
Sure few try to nicely critisize that, sharing their own trauma just to qualify for critisism only for the blondie to stare into their souls, yell "TRAITORS" and order her cockroaches to crucify the innocents.

"My name shall be remembered and it shall be remembered in good light! My! Name! Is! Vivziepop!!"

DL ultimately cringes at the name. This fattie seriously woke up, stood in front of the mirror and unironically said "I know what my super cool artistic name will be! Vivziepop!" The image making him snort.

The delulu self proclaimed artist who knows no other color than red and no other way to write her own characters besides the "mean sarcastic says "fuck" a lot and has shit eating grin" turns around.

"What's so funny?"

DL finds it hard to believe that he was noticed but decides to use the chance anyway.

"who the hell unironically thinks vivziepop is a good name?"

DL continues laughing, and that makes the blondie angy. She screeches as a toddler who can't take critisism much less an actual instance of being made fun of. She stomps angrily as he cockroaches chant "you dared to taint her name and her artisism!" like the cult they are. They start to run towards DL with an intend to attack however the edgy boi was having none of it. He rolled his eyes and summoned a gaster blaster big enough to wipe them all. But as sad as it is, cockroaches don't die easily. DL figures that he has to hide. Before he could run towards the exit, he was caught by some of the cultists. He absolutely didn't want to shower because of those stinky ahh roaches grabbing him but showering it was... And laundry too. 3 more times.

"You dared to hate on me along with those fake victims! You obviously don't understand art!"

DL chuckles.

"my butthole can make a better drawing. and i don't have one."

The blondie gasps as if he cursed her entire family. Jeez woman take a joke.

"You offended my feelings. Offended my team full of sex offenders. And for that... You'll be sentenced to live in my creation to understand the hard work I had to put in to create the world itself."

"gurl you took that poor concept and raped the shit out of it. just cuz you like 'uwu' homos, doesn't mean that your writing is less horrendous."

"THAT'S IT!!"

With that DL was pushed into the world of hazbin hotel and helluva boss. For the roaches it was a mere second while for DL it was a week. The dude quite literally destroys the place with one blow of his blaster, while riding out of that hell.
The blondie throws a tantrum.

"next time write people that make sense."

With that DL badassly walks away. The development feeling like a magical girl transformation. The "air" feels fresh after DL "fixes" his own image and reputation.
The blast itself was seen by Freddy. His eyes widen. He couldn't possibly believe it.

"DL was that you??"

He mutters, as he couldn't find any other logical explanation to what happened in that shithole. He sure hopes it was DL.

"sup..."

DL appears, his demeanor completely changed. He was no longer a used tissue.
Freddy smirks.

"Great... You are ready now..."

Chapter 16: But Unfortunately Something Began So Wrong

Freddy got up from his seat.

"We should get going already."

"going... where exactly?"

"You want to get that guy Jax or not?"

DL's face becomes more determined and serious.

"i know that well i ain't stupid, i just wanted to know yer plan."

"To tell you the summary, it's best to trap him in the circus. The teeth in charge is working on barriers right now so we can use that as an advantage."

"i ain't followin'. why?"

"You will see."

Freddy goes to the garbage pile that looked like nothing important for DL. Ugh this guy was a real professional full time homeless for digging in trash like that. DL cringes before Freddy comes back with few stuff in his hands. He throws one to DL, it was a black pocket mirror type of thing DL wasn't sure.

"the hell i need this for?"

"In case of emergency, it'll be handy."

"the hell is this anyway?"

"You will find out on your own."

"why won't you explain to me?"

"Cuz I don't want to babysit."

This back and forth was pissing DL off. He reluctantly places it in his pocket.

"Don't you look at me with such a pickle face."

What face now? Sometimes this bear is so annoying he forgets the absolute mess of a story he told about his past. 
DL grumbles as he feels the item some more in his pocket.

"Those are going to give you additional powers. But you need to be able to sync to it."

Freddy evantually explains a little.

"uhh i still don't understand, genius, what powers? what sync?"

"It has to register your character in to function. It'll take time."

DL groans.

"why not give me functioning one already?"

"It's not some mAgIcAl wOrLd."
Freddy says the last part in a mock tone while waving his hands around his face, also in a mocking fashion.

"Yeah it's digital, but never magical. The thing needs to adapt to you."

DL grumbles after not getting a real explanation and rolls his eyes for like 72726273636272929th time.

"whatevah, i have my own powers unlike you."

Freddy shrugs.

"Suit yourself. My job was to suggest."

"so... we are ambushing circus?"

"Not yet. We still have to get rid of his pink blob friend."

"the axolotl guy? isn't he dead?? me and my ex partner made sure to delete the guy not long ago!"

Freddy shakes his head.

"That makes the matters worse because if you attempted to delete him and he escaped the demise... He isn't just an AI companion right now. It'll be harder to get rid of him."

DL clenches his teeth. How could something like that happen? How could one prevent the erasure?

"even self aware ai isn't all that powerful! how could this happen?"

"I have a theory."

DL gasps.

"don't you think it could be-"

"Jax."

"but that's impossible. we were... killing the guy over and over-"

Freddy turns his head to look at DL.

"You were doing what again?"

"when i was in allience with some other dude, we arranged circumstances. we deleted the axolotl or so we thought. faked his letters to lure jax into our trap. and i was torturing until he would die, and resetting the whole thing again and again. the bastard evantually started remembering resets and broke the cycle."

Freddy's eyes widen.

"He remembers WHAT now??"

DL nods sadly.

"The situation's even worse than we thought. Just tell me that Jax doesn't have the ability to reset."

"he had in my universe. but not sure if he has that now."

"Well only one way to find out. We will have him mess everything up with the only friend he has and he will have no choice but to want a reset. If the rabbit has the ability then we will know."

"we??"

"Oh don't underestimate me, skeleton."

Those words send chills down DL's spine.

"so we will have to break them up?"

"I don't think it'll work. That axolotl doxxed each one of his users and scared them because of wanting to part for a single second. We may be able to inflict hatred onto Jax, but not onto Kinito, he is a menace. He became the menace the moment he and Jax became friends. If their friendship is what caused him to avoid being deleted in the first place..."

Freddy doesn't finish the sentence but even without words both of them know how fucked up they are right now. Up until DL gets an idea.

"do you think we can convince jax to become genocidal maniacs with us?"

Freddy hisses at the suggestion.

"Who do you take me for peasant?? I'm not into this barbaric acts, but I will do what is necessary to ensure that I have gained my justice for my friends! I'm not a mindless genocidal maniac like you."

"i'm not mindless!! i had to clean underground from filth. that human brought homo culture into our home and i watched as our society turned into... i had to do what i did. you don't get me."

Freddy doesn't answer but it's clear he is still cringing. Just who he has to partner with for his own gain. Just what his standarts dropped to. And he had to tolerate that gremlin.

"We will have Caine and Kinito fight each other. And obviously we will be on Caine's side."

"who again?"

"The circus teeth and the axolotl, duh! The teeth has been powering himself up to get his belongings back. Aka Jax. Our interests are the same here. The three of us want to get rid of the axolotl so we will work together for that. To ensure we can catch Jax, we will have to ensure Caine's victory."

"and what if we don't?"

"You dare to think about that? This might be our only chance since erasure didn't work! We have no right to make mistakes."

This conversation was getting Freddy more and more agitated. Perhaps learning that your enemies had unexpected and illogical power ups is not the best thing you can have for dinner.

"alright alright chill! we will make sure everything goes according to plan. i was just making sure we have a plan b. you know it's always good to have a plan b."

DL is quick to calm Freddy down. Freddy knew full well DL was right but he didn't want to admit that his plan could fail with this new information on the surface now. It's not like he could think of anything else that could be helpful. DL places his skeletal hands onto Freddy's shoulders.

"look i know this wasn't the best thing to find out when you have yer plan all ready, but i'm as angry about it as you are. i as well want to ensure the plan can go smoothly that's why i suggest unexpected things like convincing jax to join us or whatever. you and i both know it and we both don't wanna admit it."

"Admit what?"

"that we are desperate right now. desperate for a single golden ticket solution."

Freddy looks down and DL's gaze softens. They both knew full well DL was right. Freddy knew that any reaction would just prove his point so he just sighs and chooses the nicest reaction he can master. Staying silent and calming down. Freddy couldn't afford losing a partner in this situation, but neither could DL. They both knew they needed each other. No homo.

"Fine. You are right. If we can convince Jax to come with us, maybe we can have a card against that axolotl. After all... He can't allow his only friend to be hurt. What are the odds that he will fight back his friend?"

"we can just add that onto us three attacking him. Overwhelming with numbers will also be an advantage to us."

Freddy nods.

"You are right. Get ready we have no more time to waste. Who knows how much of mary sue these two can get."

"yeahh... but how will we find the circus?"

"Leave it to me."

Freddy says as he grabs his mic, puts it in voice search mode and finds the digital circus. With his mic, he also opens a portal into the space, inviting DL in, to intrude the app. DL looks a little amazed at the fact that Freddy's mic is so multifunctional. Just what can he do? What could his whole band do?

"Come on in."

DL's thoughts were interrupted with those words. DL nods, his face expressing determination as the two jump in.

 

Chapter 17: And Now I Can't Begin Anything But Begin This Stupid Song

"H-huh? Guysss??? What's happening??"

Jester girl notices from distance how an animatronic bear and a gangster skeleton drop down a portal as she turns to buncha shapes with eyes and ribbons with mask.

"Dunno... Probably new people."

The shapes with eyes says rolling their eyes.

"But that didn't look like new human to me. Remember? Pomni spawned, these came from portal."

Ribbons with crying mask chimes in.

"Maaaaybe we can find Caine and he can explain this to us???"

"Caine's out looking for Jax remember, Pomni?"

Pomni sighs.

"You guys go find others and warn them. I will try to talk to them, o-okay? Maybeee these two are friendly?"

"I'll come with you."

"Y-you don't have to, Zooble."

Pomni's quick to shake her hands around. Zooble raises their single eyebrow.

"That wasn't a suggestion."

Evantually Pomni gives in, as the two go out in the open to meet the strangers, while the ribboned person goes in the direction the rooms are in.

"H-hello? Are you two new here?"

The animatronic and skeleton look down the two people that came to meet them. The animatronic alone was massive.

"we ain't exactly old here."

DL replies in sarcastic tone. Zooble squints their eyes staring at the animatronic.
"This guy's familiar." They think to themselves, not remembering where they might have seen it.

"Have you seen Caine around?"

The animatronic asks catching those two out of guard. How do they know who Caine is? They might not be humans after all.

"One person from our group is missing."
Pomni answers. "He went out to look for him."

"Is the person named Jax?"

Now both Zooble amd Pomni are struck. How the fuck do they know Jax. What's really happening? What did Jax get himself into?

"we will take that as yes."

DL replies after the two wacks were standing there and staring at strangers for quite a while.

"H-h-how exactly do you know Jax??"

Pomni asks in hopes to get more answers and in hopes that there is nothing threatening about them.

"We had our unfortunate ways to find out that someone like him exists."

"Sounds like him."
Zooble adds not phased about learning that some dudes have beef with Jax.
"Always going around causing troubles, bullying people and stuff."

"So we all share the same hate towards him... What a fortune we met."

"Wowowo there... We don't like him, yes. but we are not willing to... You know... Go too far with it?"

"What's your name, jester?"

Freddy leans down to her level.

"P-Pomni..."

Zooble notices that something is off about these strangers and slowly sneaks out fo the situation to warn everyone else that there is a danger.

"Well... Pomni. What is too far for you?"

"Uhm..."
Pomni stutters a little as the animatronic's soulless eyes peer on her.
"We don't want to cause active harm. He is human just like us!"

Upon hearing that answer Freddy sighs and stands up.

"I guess we will have to resort to..."
Freddy grabs his mic.
"Extreme measures."

Pomni's eyes widen as she senses danger incoming but as she attempts to run DL spawns a wall of bones in her way, catching her off guard.

"Aaaargh! What the hell's going on?!"

"Pomni!!"

Upon warning Ragatha about upcoming danger, Zooble rushes towards Pomni, however the animatronic had already set up his mic and started singing something distorted and robotic.

"I am Freddy."
"You're in my spell."
"You learn sing here."
"Run down the hall."

Pomni stops where she was and becomes unresponsive as she listens to the song. Zooble was luckier as they covered their ears upon hearing whatever that abomination was.

"With my microphone"
"Hide and seek you"
"Run away but"
"I will get you."

 

Zooble's unable to listen as the beat drop gets gatekept by the animatronic.

"The hell's this 'music'?? Oh no... Pomni!!"

Zooble calls out before registering how unresponsive she is, suggesting that Pomni's hypnotized right now. But since they were caught off guard...

"Give your answer"
"In karaoke bar"
"This is my show"
"You do band bud."

 

The stupid song continues as Zooble tries to cover their ears but fails. The effects of hypnotization being faster than the speed of diarrhea.
Ragatha witnesses all of that, thankfully out of the dangerous radius, and runs away to warn others about the upcoming danger.
It doesn't take long for the hypnotized Pomni and Zooble catch up to the rest. There was nothing they could do. DL was blocking the ways anyway.

 

"didn't know you had that ability."

 

"It doesn't work on AIs though. I can't pull the same on Caine. But it is worth trying out on Kinito although I don't promise anything."

 

"that's cool regardless. you can turn jax into a zombie like that too and make it attack the axolotl."

 

"You're onto something here."

 

Meanwhile Caine who was in the web again, gets a notification of intruders on his watch. Two of them. Something like that never happened under his watch. Hmm something's not right. Didn't he buff up the barriers? Whoever entered, was not a simple npc, that's for sure. Caine decides to be upfront, and talk his way through it up until he understands just who's there in front of him. He doesn't take much more time and straight up spawns back in the circus.

 

"Aand here is our main hero."

 

"Ah! Freddy it's you!"

 

The flying teeth exclaims.

 

"you guys know each other?"

 

"We do. I helped him to buff up the barriers."

 

"I was already worrying that some menace was an intruder. Phew... Good thing it's just you and a pawn of yours."

 

"pawn?? listen here you-"

 

"HOR HOR HOR! That's certainly one way of putting it."

 

DL was fuming from this kind of humiliation. Just who these two think they are, and the hell are they messing with him? One spam of gaster blasters and it's over for these two.

 

"Did you manage to track down Jax?"

 

"Actually my latest information about him was updated about few hours ago. Him and Kinito were around the app building library before both of them disappeared. Of course I checked the latest apps created by each tool and found nothing up until I stumbled upon a hidden tool called K1nre4ti0n_XDDCC_31415926."

 

Both Freddy and DL dramatically gasp.

 

"... Kinito..."

 

Flying prosthetics nods.

 

"And only 1 app has been created not long after the tool itself was created. The app itself is called xX_2673727_our_h0m3_exe_3772828. And who the heck calls an app like that?"

 

Freddy and DL gasp in drama queen.

 

"... Kinito!..."

 

"Exactly. I have my suspicious that that's where these two are. But it's not available in open sources. That bastard really thought things through."

 

"Can you try to hack your way through it, Caine?"

 

"I tried to find the directory location. It was no use, location itself is hidden."

 

The 3 of them brainstorm, Kinito couldn't possibly erase every trace of his new app.

 

"How did he even create his own tool?"

 

"I assume he used his own developed programming language."

 

"this mofo has his own language?? dang talk about bragging."

 

"And what happened to his app? I couldn't track anything down due to not finding original source."

 

"Oh, DL here says that when he and his ex partner tried to kill him, they tried to delete him and the app, however this moron survived somehow."

 

"Great! Now the fact that I was underestimating the guy is now going to haunt my sleep."

 

"We plan on using Jax against him, the guy has grown attachment towards his friend."

 

"That's not a bad idea at all. I'll just need a little more time to track down Kinito."

 

Meanwhile

 

It was "nighttime". Kinito added that in his app, so it would keep Jax sane with some kind of track of time and a chance to try and sleep. However Jax had a little trouble, he would toss and turn but an AI had easier time sleeping than him. He groans a little being annoyed about the fact that he can't understand why is he so sleepless now. Something felt wrong to him. He kept playing the conversation back over and over again. Something must bother him, something's off about their "resolved" conversation.
Is it the fact that Kinito keeps calling him a friend? Is this even friendzoning? Jax himself didn't even confess fully so he has no right to feel that way, but why does he have to be the one confessing, if Kinito likes him back? Does Kinito like him back?
These thoughts were not sitting right with Jax so he decides to take a midnight walk, after all the only person who would be able to get snacks for him was Kinito, and he wouldn't want to wake the giant blob up with this state of mind.
Jax steps out of the app, leaning against the "walls" as he takes in the "fresh air". 5 minutes later as he decides to take a walk around, a hand grabs his shoulder from back.

 

"Well HeLLOOOO, Jax!"

 

Chapter 18: My Name Is Begin (Begin (Begin (Begin)))

Jax' eyes widen as he slowly turns around his body shaking. Caine? This soon? It couldn't be... Could it? Jax' thoughts begin racing before he could take in the sight.
Unfortunately it really was Caine. That flying toothpaste ad really did track him down as soon as he got out for fresh air. Dang it Jax you had ONE job.

"TheRE you are!! And I dare to assume this is your friend's app?"

Jax' eyes widen even more, he not only gave away his location, but Kinito's as well.

"W-what are you going to do to him?"

Jax managed to utter in his state of pure shock.

"Ohohoho! Don't worry about such thing! I only came back after you!"

Caine exclaims before taking a look at the app, his eyes starting to scan it's outside data.
Jax' legs started shaking as that happened, why was he staring at the app? He figured that he could use that time to run back to it only to run back to circus... Dang it!

"hey there. remember me?"

As soon as Jax could register that he is in circus, this time a skeletal hand from behind grabs his shoulder.
Jax turns around to witness DL standing before him, the sense of vengeance boiling in his eyes.

"DL..."

"at least you have some decency."

"DL! About our last encounter... I-"

"you what?"

"I'm sorry... It was the tentacle guy! He made me kill everyone in your home! I'm sorry about the way I treated you!"

DL stands there stunned. The guy basically haunted Jax down since his birth, made an allience with the embodiment of negativity himself only to...

"do you even remember what happened BEFORE that?"

Jax thinks a little, grabbing his head, the memories coming and going as if edging him by not letting the mind catch a clear picture. After a little suffering Jax replies.

"I think we encountered each other... But I can't remember when."

This was relieving. Jax seemed not to remember a thing after the resets, but he still broke the cycle, meaning that there's the potential.

"are you even really sorry?"

The question catches Jax off guard, but that's to be expected.

"Y-yes... I really am..."

"name 3 people you killed."

"Wha-?"

"you heard me."

"Iiii.... I...."

"you can't, can you?"

Jax' eyes widen. He really couldn't, who would know that DL is a poser checking loser?

"No... I can't..."

"you were mindlessly killing everyone, over and over again. and you didn't even spare any time to learn names just out of respect, did you? and you made me go through the most horrible punishment i could ever witness."

With each word DL spewed, Jax looked more and more mortified. To him, DL looked bothered for a split second when talking about the punishment.

"I never knew what was that guy up to!"

"oh you never knew! that's the excuse you're going to sing now you prick?!"

"Quit pretending like everyone's against you!"

"you brought me back just for laughing purpose!"

Jax gasps not knowing what to answer. Yes he brought back that lost media only because he wanted to laugh a little about some kid's biggest embarassment. But something changed. He didn't seem to care about it anymore.

"My intentions have changed..."

"only because you are scared of me..."

DL scoffs not about to hear any other excuse coming from Jax.

"Enough of yapping."

The animatronic sneaks from behind, which scares Jax. He jumps as a result turning around only to notice the massive bear.

"This is no time of touchy feeling, DL."

Freddy says that as he grabs his mic, starting to sing again. As soon as Jax notices the Faz grab his mic, he grabs from his ears and attempts to run away. Despite his efforts, DL blocks the way with a simple bone wall. Too bad Jax was a rabbit. His ears were way too long for his hands to cover.

"Nononono!"

Jax attempts to struggle against the hypnotizing song but it was stronger than him. Soon Jax' hands leave his ears alone as he becomes calm and unresponsive. DL smirks.

"heh... wasn't hard at all."

"Hmm..." Freddy takes a closer look before deciding to test something.

"You will attack a giant pink axolotl."

"... Nno... ..."

Jax barely manages to respond. Even in this state he was still struggling against the hypnosis. DL frowns.

"the heck ya mean no?"

"... Nnnoo ... Edgy... Criingeee..."

This offends DL. He has a mighty habit of taking things a bit too personally.

"what did ya say prick?"

Soon Jax breaks out of the hypnosis on his own because he is chosen by the plot armor and y/n powers. He blinks few times before stepping back and tripping on his own ears.

"S-stay back!!"

As soon as he notices Freddy grab the mic, he gets Kinito's surfboard that he "borrowed" before going for a walk and hits the mic out of Fred's hands. That catches both of the invaders off guard. There was only one thing left to do for Jax. So he runs towards the mic using the surfboard to toss it around.

"DL! Do something you HOR!"

DL rolls his eyes watching this game of tags. With simple movements of his phalangs, he gets a hold of Jax' soul with his magic.

"let's see if you'd like being the mic."

With those words said, DL then starts tossing Jax around as if the guy was some kind of bug which in turn was a great pain for Jax. His spine being the main victim. His cries were music to DL's ears as he kept tossing Jax around like it was nothing, almost losing the track of it.

"DL. Make sure he is alive, we need him to fight Kinito."

"ah, right. let me just get him tired enough so he won't be able to break out of your hypnosis again."

"N-nnoo..."

After 15 minutes that seemed like forever for Jax, DL decides that it's time to spare him a little.

"yer lucky you didn't get the bone attack treatment and got away with this."

"Uuugh"
Jax struggles to get up as he begins to cough, occassionally trying to call for help. The sight's amusing to DL. A bit way too amusing.
Freddy once again grabs his mic, and notices that it's broken because of the surfboard tossing.

"... shit..."

"Worry not. I had to toss that thing away anyway. This thing is centuries old and besides, I have a new one I've been wanting to show off."

DL raises an eyebrow but before he could ask anything, Freddy gets a new mic. Golden one with a red metallic bow and a gem on it. Quite sparkly. Gay in DL's opinion.

"Don't think thay we will sleep on it just because you changed dates for mic changing."

Freddy then starts setting up the mic, while Jax starts slowly crawling away before a bone attack plants itself a millimeter away from Jax' head.

"nuh uh bunbun."

DL says those words with a little tune attached to it while shaking his fingers.

"L-leave mee... ... Alone..."

Freddy finishes setting up his brand new mic he was trying to flex so much and starts singing again. The song's different this time. Much bugger of an influence when it comes to hypnotizing. Jax manages to struggle against that too until Freddy pulls his dirtiest trick from his bowtie.

"He who decieved"
"He who only received"
"The friendship poor souls so missed"

 

"Nono! No! Atop that!"
Jax tried his best, although he couldn't cover his ears, he figured that being loud would be helpful.

 

"Doxxed only for his selfish gain"
"Desire so strong he would rather inflict pain"
"Users oh so poor, mislead to the point they got drained."

As Freddy kept subtly shitrapping Kinito, the mic itself started glowing, letting people around know about it starting to function. The hotter the diss tea got, the stronger the glow was. Jax evantually gives in to the melody. The hate of the diss track was more powerful than what Kendrick Lamar could ever offer.
Soon enough Freddy finishes the song, Jax once again becomes unresponsive and calm. Freddy takes time to examine Jax before he decides to test him again.

"What will you do to the giant pink axolotl that claims to be your friend?"

"... ... Kill... Erase... Dispose... Of the... Liar..."

The animatronic and the skeleton smile.

"This show's gonna be great."

Chapter 19: The Beginnery Dash

Kinito wakes up from his slumber, noticing that he is home alone. That immediately confuses him. Did he say or do the wrong thing? He gets up discovering that his normal surfboard is missing which confuses him even more. What possibly could have happened. He puts on his thinking glasses. No one could have possibly entered the app itself. Even if intrusion was successful, it's designed to alert Kinito, so the only remotely logical explanation left is that Jax left on his own account, taking the surfboard with him. Why would have he done that? Isn't this place good enough for him? Is he once again failing as a friend?
The thought itself causes him for freeze for a split second before lagging and glitching.

"Everytime we are apart... I miss you... I miss you so much Kinito!"

These words kept ringing in his "ears" for an unknown reason. Could this be just another reminder that not every word said by humans are true? Or could this be just a lingering hope that Jax didn't leave on his own free will? Kinito felt a newfound determination fill him. He was going to find Jax, and he was going to find out what really happened.
Kinito prepares himself, grabs the glitchy surfboard and gets out.

"I'll find you, my best friend. No one will take you away from me."

He talks to himself before hopping onto the surfboard. Before he could make any move, he finds out that someone's trying to contact him. Upon checking the notification he finds a certain object's location in none other than digital circus app. This object must be Jax, but who shared this and why? Is there inner traitor? Could this be trap?
Before doing anything he decides to check the sender and the notification itself for any possible threat. That takes him quite a while before coming to conclusion that the location is legit and that there was no virus sent with it. That's what he thinks anyway.
He hops on his surfboard once again, brut forcing his way through the circus barriers.

"we have a guest."

He is immediately noticed by DL who alerted someone about the intrusion.
DL wasn't the only one to greet Kinito, Caine joined the warm welcoming ritual with immediately activating the advanced trojan virus he designed himself.

"Jax? Jax where are yoő̶͕̯̏̌ͅO̴͇̊Ö̷̗̲̳̑o̶̝̯͐̈́ŭ̶͎U̵̩̻̽u̶̝̎U̶̝̟̓͂ů̶̦͎̌̽ụ̸̝̱̓̾̀u̶̩̟̜͂̄?̴̯̃͋"

Kinito immediately starts glitching and losing balance on his surfboard. This causes DL to burst out laughing.

"who even is this guy? that was quite easy to get him like that don't you think?"

"Not everything is as surfaced as you are, DL."

Freddy remains serious as he hurries to ruin DL's mood, while smoking cigar because I said so.

"This virus was supposed to be way more threatening than just a simple glitch like that."

"h-huh?"

"You still don't get it? Despite Caine sneaking this virus in, this loser managed to neutralize it for the most part."

"do you mean that originally he..."

"He was never supposed to make through the barriers."

Freddy reveals, directing the smoke towards Kinito who was just recovering from the glitchy experience.
Caine himself looked like on edge, constantly working on restoring that virus.

"What are you standing there doing absolutely nothing? What are you waiting for, a kiss on a cheek?"

Freddy looks down on DL as the skeleton stands there stunned, not doing anything.

"ah right... sorry..."

DL snaps back out of it as he directly attacks Kinito, being lazy he just fires a bone with the thoughts "what can he do against this, in this shitty of a situation?"
As the bone reaches close enough it glitches and disappears. Probably Kinito's effect. Even in such dire situation he manages to fight back. This irritates DL to great extents as immediately after this happens DL spams bigger bones.

"you little-"

Before DL could curse Kinito's entire bloodline for 7 generations, he straight up spams biggest and fastest bone attacks in the most brutal way possible, to the point when Freddy had to grab Caine out of the way for both of them not to be in DL's attack radius.

"Holy-"

Freddy doesn't get to express his surprise as DL's attacks quickly backfire because of the glitches that somehow protect Kinito.

"Caine?? That virus wasn't supposed to protect this axolotl!"

"I know pal! I'm just as confused!"

The overwhelming amount of bone attacks and the strong field of glitching cause a digi-chemical reaction, which results in giant explosion that yeets the three of them back, with Freddy slamming against the wall, damaging the wall itself, while Caine damages himself after slamming on the wall, and DL badassly holds himself on his feet as the only damage was on his boots while sliding back.

"YOU MOFO-!"

DL exclaims as he immediately charges his gaster blasters before Freddy stops him.

"This obviously isn't working, and I'm not letting you to be reason we get so dumbly destroyed."

These words manage to hold DL back before he could cause any more destruction around. Due to Caine being slammed against the wall and distracted, Kinito finds the time and energy to get back on his feet.

"Caine!"

"On it!"

Caine quickly gets back to his business of making sure the virus he had installed in Kinito doesn't disappear. However the situation for the team Freddy wasn't getting any better.

"HOR! This isn't good. Just hold him back DL."

With that said, Freddy goes to where Jax is kept, aka his now empty room. Jax still looked like under hypnosis. That was good.

"... Ggooo... aawaayy..."

Jax managed to utter. Even with this advanced hypnosis, he was still showing struggles. From one side this was amusing for Freddy. He had never seen someone so defiant, so determined. The spark of life that Jax had was something Freddy grows to be jealous of, after all, he is just a simple animatronic, immitating life.

"Why hello, Jax. I only have the nicest intentions I promise."

Freddy decides to go diplomatic route first. After all convincing is something he was good at.
Jax wasn't all too responsive, but Freddy could still sense the doubt he had inside.

"I only want to talk to you right now in rather... Peaceful environment where I can be heard you know..."

Freddy feels Jax' attempt to respond but the hypnosis doesn't let him talk and he falls into unresponsive even in mind. Freddy sighs and weakens the hypnosis is the slightest tiniest bit, for Jax to be able to respond but not try anything funny or not think too much.

"Whyyy would... Yoouuu... attacckk mee..."

Is all Jax manages to ask, the sentence being too long for him to handle in that state.

"What? I never attacked you. I only wanted to communicate with you, the one attacking you... Was DL."

Me when I'm in gaslighting competition and my opponent is Freddy Fazbear.

"I... Mostly sing to communicate... But I noticed that many are afraid of it, you included. So I started practicing my talking... And I started it with you... So apologize my talking."

Jax looks at him, but doesn't reply. Freddy feels that Jax doesn't believe anything Freddy's saying. He again grabs his mic.

"Don't you believe me?"
"I'm such a poor soul"
"Cursed to be only able to sing"
"Please save me from my sorrow"

 

"What is that melody?" Jax thinks to himself before feeling a sense of pity towards Freddy. Was it his own? He doesn't get to wonder about that before Freddy continues singing about how poor soul he is and how he is barely managing to talk.

 

"I'm sooo... Sorryy for yooouuu..."

 

There was no sarcasm from Jax, that much Freddy could feel. His technique was working. There is just a little job left to do.
He places an arm on Jax' shoulder in friendly manner.

 

"Oh but don't be... This makes me shy about burdening people..."

 

His words were flavoured with some tune to still make it believable for Jax that he is really cursed. This was working. The two start conversing or much rather, Freddy does the talking.

 

Meanwhile

 

"goood what is taking that self diagnosed freddy mercury so longg?"

 

DL whines as him and Caine are trying to hold Kinito back as much as possible. Indeed it has been already hours since Freddy asked the two of them to cover his back.

 

"Agreed! This obviously isn't working as much as I hate to admit it."

 

A familiar noodle walks in along with Freddy. The situation's about to change.

 

Chapter 20: I... Am BEGIN

"took ya long enough!"

DL yells, about to crash out before he notices Jax along the way, clearly not being in the tissue mood.

"Jax! My best friend!"

Kinito immediately forgets the situation he's in, his eyes only focusing on Jax and immediately forgetting everybody else's existence.

"Jax! I was so worried! Are you okay?"

He quickly approaches Jax, only to receive the biggest and nastiest smack ever in the head.

"Y-you!! Stalked me! Doxxed me!!"

"What do you mean Jax-"

Kinito's gaze then falls onto Freddy who just is just busy mogging and he suddenly realizes what's going on.

Behind the scenes: Before this point in the story.

This is the time when Jax was waiting for Kinito to grab his surfboard but was teleported back to circus when Kinito was struck by the sudden update the app received.
Bro had one job: grab the surfboard and get out of there, but nooo, he just had to agree to the update. He just wanted to be more useful of a friend to Jax so the temptation was unbeatable. So he payed the price. As soon as new installments were finished Kinito could sense that something was wrong with him. As if there was an unfinished business he had that he couldn't remember of- wait... What has he been doing his entire lifetime of existence? Kinito was pacing back and forth with no idea of anything he has to do. The crisis is big enough for Kinito to start panicking.
In the process of him freaking out, he goes outside and starts wandering for a bit, after all he had to find his own home too.

"You look troubled. Need some help?"

Kinito's train of thoughts was broken when he was asked the question by an animatronic bear. He must have wandered far so aimlessly and his distress was visible on top of that.

"What? Haven't seen sentient animatronics? I don't bite I promise... Unless it's 87."

Kinito blinks few times before he realizes he must have been staring at him.

"Ah- my apologies... That was impolite of me..."

"No need, don't worry."

The bear shows himself from the shadows.

"Again, you look troubled. I just want to help."

"If only I knew myself..."

"My my... Could you tell me more?"

The animatronic looks intrigued.

"I don't remember... I don't remember who's friend am I, what am I supposed to do... I lost my one purpose I am designed to fulfil."

The bear leans back thinking.

"I may be able to help you."

"Truly?"

"But the help won't be for free you know?"

"Oh I shall pay any price just to remember."

"And how is the "any" in question limited?"

"It's not limited. I'm willing to pay with whatever you will agree with!"

The bear looks amused and chuckles a little.

"What is so funny about that?"

"Oh nothing I swear, I'm just wondering... Why are you so sure about sacrificing anything for a simple memory? That "friend" could be a fraud you cut off recently."

"That's impossible!"

"Why, because you were programmed that way?"

"Because I remember the feeling of it being good. The feeling of me having a good friend. I am not sure how much of a sense it made to you."

"Well if it's anything then anything let it be... Not about to argue for an offer like that."

Freddy says lighting up a cigarette.

"I have a way of bringing back your memories, but in return... I want similar ability to yours of entering different sites and apps as I please. You see... I have no home. Both of us yearn home in our own ways and I believe this to be an equal exchange."

"Fair deal..."

Kinito says as both of them start working on their end of the deal.
It does take some time for both of them to come to certain solutions.

"Freddy, I have a little concept of what your method of entrance could operate on and I would like to humbly ask to borrow your microphone. If anything happens to it I promise to get you a new one."

Freddy doesn't comment and lends Kinito his microphone, the old thing was practically useless and was just sticking around to keep an image so it wasn't much of a deal anyway.

"About my end of the deal, I have a way of bringing your memory back."

"You really do?"

Kinito turns to him delighted about the news.

"Indeed. For that however I needed to stalk your past, hope you don't mind."

Freddy says as he brings a vhs tape with a player as he plugs in the data.

"Not at all. I assume these tapes are from my past."

"Yes they are, but there was not much saved from your memories. Hopefully just by watching these will work but if not, I have a way of making it work."

With that Freddy starts playing the tape. It wasn't much, just 2 minutes long, with a certain purple rabbit being sort of an asshole. Kinito looks a bit questioning.

"Are these really my memories? They don't seem to ring a bell."

Freddy falls into thoughts.

"No single bell?"

"Maybe a single bell but not sure. I still don't really remember this happening to me."

"Alright Plan B then."

Freddy announces after tossing away the cigarette.

"Here is what will we do."

With those words alone, Freddy had Kinito all ears.

"I will need you to doxx this rabbit in particular. When you do, the data knowledge will trigger the memories inside."

"Are you sure this will work?"

"This won't work if you have no memory left in your head. But I noticed that your memories are hidden, not erased."

"Makes sense."

Kinito agrees as he gets to the job. It wasn't really easy for him to doxx a guy he doesn't remember meeting but as he gathers one data after another, he notices how it's triggering the memories to come back. After a heavy doxxing session twitter losers wouldn't manage to pull, Kinito finally stops and hides the data, not knowing Freddy has already kept a copy for himself.

"Stars! Thank you Freddy! I can't imagine what I'd do without you help! Oh before I forget."

Kinito hands over the modified microphone back to Freddy, it wasn't damaged after all.

"It's operating based on voice search. Simply say into the mic where you would want to be and it will open the portal! Once again... I'm so happy I met you!"

"Oh you're flattering me... Thank you for your help too!"

Back to the present events.

Kinito realizes what's going on after that little memory trip.

"Jax! It's not what you think it is! Please hear me out..."

Kinito was practically begging while Jax seemed way too pissed to listen to him. Freddy who was observing everything from distance smiles. After all everything was going according to his plan. There was more that Kinito probably never knew about outside of the doxxing. That app update Freddy forced was definately the best move he pulled. With the way Kinito was so eager to accept modifications he never once realised that it was practically equal to selling his soul to Freddy himself, after all... He had control over Kinito's memory loss before he modified himself. Whatever, that small timeframe benefitted him greatly too. With every knowledge Kinito would receive Freddy would learn something new himself. That put him above average characters like whatever DL is. That letter technique? Oh he had yet to express his gratefulness towards Kinito for unwillingly sharing such confidential data that he may or may not have used against Jax before.
And best of all? All he had to do is to blame Kinito for all of that, the guy is the one having that putrid reputation which makes Freddy the more trustable person here.
That feeling of control... It felt so good that even his time being in band couldn't fulfil the satisfaction he feels right now. Freddy grabs another piece of cigar and lights it up.

"aren'cha gonna do anything?"

DL breaks the moment of satisfaction. Freddy turns to him a little unimpressed.

"Of course not, that's the best part. When you don't have to do anything and your enemies are destroying each other. You're a skeleton you should know that minecraft skeleton syndrome."

"h-huh?"

"Oh my... You are a bit slow I forgot. You just basically move in a very particular way when you see two skeletons shooting you. Once one has shot the other skeleton, they just forget about you and attack each other."

DL doesn't reply. He doesn't have any time and energy to understand the terminology but he can only imagine what Freddy was just talking about.

"I thought I could trust you Kinito! You're just a scum!"

"N-noooo!!"

Chapter 21: FLINT AND BEGIN!

"Jax! Let me explain!"

Kinito doesn't get to say anything outside of those words as he had been wasting time trying to convince Jax to hear him out. Jax in his turn has no fucks to give.

"You've betrayed my trust behind my back!"

Jax says with a venom in his voice, as he gets a comically large toy wand with a star and a bow on one of the ends.

"Please let me ex-"

"AAAUGHUAAA"

Jax' ugly ass cry catches Kinito off guard. Before he gets to process what's happening, Jax starts smacking the shit out of him repeadetly with that toy wand.

"Aagh my eyes!"

Kinito yells as Jax manages to poke his eyes with the star's sharp edges, not hearing a word he wants to say.

"i can't believe this is working."

DL whispers to Freddy witnessing the whole circus going on. Caine gathers himself and watches from where Freddy and DL are. Freddy offers a cigarette to DL which DL declines.

"So..."
Caine breaks the silence.
"We basically don't do anything?"

"Of course we will join to help Jax once we see that he is being downed in the battle. We can't afford losing now, can we?"

Meanwhile Jax was not about to listen what Kinito had to say as he attacked the axolotl without taking any breathers. Kinito himself felt horrible every single time he tried to defend himself from Jax. The last thing he wanted is to hurt him more than he already did. 

"Jax please... Let's talk it out."

"NEVER!!"

Jax himself sounded pained which wasn't helping Kinito at all. DL gets impatient and groans.

"teeth reduced the virus effect. we basically can attack him too!"

"Suit yourself."

Freddy shrugs as he gives his half-ass permission after which DL wastes no time to add on his bone attacks. Kinito, who was mainly focused on defending himself, now has to focus on dodging too.

"Jax I never intended you to be harmed in any way!"

"LIAR!!"

Jax yells as he swings his wand only for it to break Kinito's glitchy surfboard. Looks like he is trapped here and won't be able to escape without the board. Suddenly Jax transforms into his emo self again before charging another attack. To tell yall the truth, the transformation did nothing except for outfit change for showoff because Jax apperantly thought he is allat.
As he prepares to swing his wind, Jax finds out that DL is helping him with the attacks and throws a little glance at him. For a moment DL's gaze seems soft. Maybe that noodle isn't that horrible when he isn't friends with that axolotl.

"don't get too used to it."

DL hurries to put on his cold demeanor as he notices Jax looking at him.

"Don't even dream about it, Edge."

Nickname already? That was amusing. But while DL finds it amusing, Kinito's having his jealousy popped up. How dare he give nicknames to some nonames while he has been there since day 1. Is Jax THAT upset?

"Jax they are manipulating you!"

"Just like you were manipulating me??"

Jax asks with venom in his voice, as he delivers one big fat smash on the axolotl's face with that wand, causing the "balloon" to get yeeted to the side.

"You aren't leaving me a single choice."

Kinito says getting up, and getting into fighting position.

"I will have to fight that dawg out of you."

"umm guys? was that in our plans?"

Freddy doesn't reply but signs DL to be cautious.
Not letting Kinito rest, DL charges his bone attacks. At the same time Jax swings another hit which Kinito dodges. He pretends to run and charge towards Jax but in reality he dashes right to DL just barely missing Jax.

"since when did he get so fast?"
DL thinks to himself as the surprise attack makes him recharge his bones. As Kinito was about to land a punch, DL suddenly remembers that he can teleport, so he uses that ability to appear behind Kinito's back and take him by surprise. Kinito was a needle away from becoming a fried exotic food however he does get away with damaged leg. Jax uses that chance to trip the guy. Both Jax and DL tower over Kinito, DL raising his arm as dozens of bone attacks appear, but before DL could do anything Kinito trips DL over which disorients the bone attacks, causing Freddy and Caine taking cover.

"It's time to bring in the pawns."

Freddy concludes completely disappointed at how pathetic the battle looks by itself.

"No! Wait, Freddy! We can't do that right now!"

As Freddy was reaching for his mic, Caine stops him, not letting him bring the circus members just yet.

"Don't you want Kinito to fall?"

"But I don't want to pay with my guests."

Freddy huffs.

"Fine but if things get worse I'm pushing you in."

As Kinito was mainly busy covering because every time he would try to tend to his leg, either Jax or DL would charge at him, not letting him finish the "medical" break. Knowing that fight couldn't continue like this, Kinito grabs a broken piece from whatever this circus environment had before DL made a mess of it nearby, and gets a perfect chance to charge at Jax after using distracting maneuver on DL. He manages to knock off the wand from Jax's hands before grabbing it as new weapon and knocking out Jax.

"I'm sorry... My best friend."

Kinito holds Jax in a bridal style but as he tries to manually get out, he finds that the circus is completely isolated from the web world. That takes him by surprise. Even after all of that improvement... He still... He immediately looks at Freddy who smirks at the sight, knowing EXACTLY what was happening.

"Y-you didn't-"

"You agreed to that update. You agreed to be more specific to your area of expertise."

Kinito looks horrified. That one vague line in the list of updates and right now it is the line being pain in his non existent ass.
The circus members soon surround Kinito, having the same hate as Jax does, each of them holding different kind of item that would serve as weapon, however compared to DL those were just distractions. Kinito puts Jax down and tightens his grip on the wand before attacking the circus members. They meant nothing to him, just obstacles getting in Kinito's way to be with Jax forever. Doesn't take much effort to knock them out. After dealing with these 5 he focuses on DL.

"Couldn't you have stronger pawns?"

"Couldn't you have better plan?"

"Don't test your luck, before your head turns from toothpaste ad to a prosthetic."

"You're in my territory, animatronic."

"Tch..."
Freddy mumbles something under his breath that Caine can't hear. The entire situation causing Freddy to nearly crash out. His mic manipulation is useless when it comes to AIs like Kinito and Caine.
Despite his injured leg, Kinito was exceptionally fast with dodging, soon he gets the upper hand in that fight.

"You're way too predictable, skeleton!"

"oh yeah? then predict this!'

As DL gets provoked, after those lines he quite literally spams each and every attack even an average Undertale Fangame battle creator would consider that hard one.
As he spams, the circus gets quite loud with all of those blaster and bones attacking all at the same time with little to no space left for dodging. Smoke rose for a while and DL's vision was muffled by the dust. After a coughing and sneezing session from everyone, the smoke clears and the standing still axolotl is seen, his expression quite serious.

"what? that's impossible! how are you still alive?"

"A simpleton like you will never understand with your pea sized brain."

"fine! i don't need to."

DL continues the random spamming attacks while Kinito was somehow dodging all of these... Or rather... Shielding himself.
DL gets it a bit late when he is already tired from overusing his magic like that. That state reflects in the iteration of spamming and Kinito's quick to catch on. He uses that chance to knock DL out.

"Do you really think you can stand inbetween me and Jax, and expect me to cry about it? I have my way of dealing with obstacles."

Kinito charges the wand to defensless DL preparing to attack.

"I destroy them."

Kinito explains, preparing to land a final blow before a gunshot is heard. A sharp pain takes over Kinito's body, as he finds himself being the target of the bullet. He then slowly turns around only to be horrified at the sight but before he could react, he loses his coinsciousness. Caine opens a portal leading outside and far from circus, while Kinito faints into it.

"Good job, Jax."

Freddy pats Jax's shoulder who was the one holding the gun.

 

Chapter 22: It's Beginin Time!

"Jax?... You really... Hate me... That much?"

Were the only lines that Kinito was able to mumble to himself before being thrown into oblivion. What he didn't get to see was how Jax' hand started shaking afterwards as a single tear dropped down his cheek. Jax felt just as betrayed for some reason.

"not bad, bunbun."

DL comments with a smirk on his face.

"Don't call me that, ya rag'a'bones."

Jax snaps, utterly disgusted by the idea of being called "bunbun". Caine however cuts the tension by approaching Jax as loudly as he usually is.

"Jax! I'm absolutely grateful that you finally got rid of that virus tormenting all of us."

Jax just rolls his eyes, Caine kept yapping about all of that with some congratulary words meshed in, but all he could think about was the fact that despite having the chance to witness Kinito and Caine beef, he somehow got way too emotional while Caine was standing there doing absolutely nothing. What a way to avoid doing shit. Now he feels even more betrayed because his fantasies were never met.

"Yeah yeah whatever. Now leave me alone, I'm sad."

"What makes you sad?"

As Jax turns around to go, he is met with Freddy's giant metallic body was blocking his way. Looks like the bear was the one asking the question.

"Don't you get it? My only friend turned out to be a piece of trash."

Jax said as his voice was starting to break. The truth is as much as he hates the betrayal, he also hates the  consistent friendzoning he went through.

"you can hang around with us. we are better company than that airhead anyway."

"What a sudden change in attitude, DL."

Freddy was quick to notice as he was keeping DL solely because of his hatred towards both Kinito and Jax and now he seemed way too inviting.

"the enemies of my enemies are friends."

Freddy doesn't look too convinced with the answer. That's quite literally a 180 switch of an attitude. Now knowing that, and considering the fact that now Freddy can't use the "we both want revenge" because DL clearly lost all of the bloodlust that he had before.

"DL, might I have you for a quick second? A duo huddle."

DL raises an "eyebrow" but doesn't object.

"what do you want?"

DL whispers as soon as they are close enough to whisper and mumble.

"What's up with that change? I thought you wanted revenge more than anything."

"i just thought that i can manipulate him thinking that we really are friends only to betray him."

"You usually don't take routes like that."

"true, but i wanted to at least try and be more like you, i learned that just the physical strength ain't gon save me."

The answer still weirds Freddy out. DL started thinking, that might cause inconvenience in future. This was weirding Freddy out, but he decided to just keep a watch, he doesn't have proof of anything anyway.

"You know we can't play dolls right now, right?"

"we ain't gon play dolls.-"
DL starts whispering and mumbling something even Freddy barely hears.

"Guys, is something wrong? You've been discussing something for half an hour already. Maybe y'all should get a room or something."

DL's quick to blush and get flustered.

"no, what the hell, you soaked piece of french fry?? We ain't homo!"

"Very ignorant to think that I'd settle for such a low standard, Jax."

"who the heck's the low standarts, furless furry??"

Freddy gives DL the nastiest side eye a diva could ever master. As soon as the room calms down Freddy's the first one to speak.

"Anyway, we were just thinking about how much you are willing to serve justice to people- or much rather... AIs who have wronged others before-"

"I was only doing it because I was the one wrong. I don't care about the rest."

"But still, that's a remarkable quality to have. I'm sure you can find people who really care about you with such... Personality."

Jax doesn't reply, he mostly acts like he doesn't care.

"That's impossible."

"Nothing's impossible."

"How do YOU know? The only friend I ever had betrayed me behind my back. How can I even trust anyone else?"

"I was the one that came to your rescue. I was the one shedding light to the lies that Kinito was fooling you with."

Jax doesn't reply, knowing that this was technically the truth.

"Give us a chance and let us cheer you up."

Freddy says reaching out a hand for Jax.

"But what are we going to do now?"

"We can take that revenge to an extra step and erase the KinitoPET system by itself from existence. Make it a lost media. Or we can just hang out. Your choice."

As Jax spends forever to think about the offer, Caine butts in.

"Hold on! Hold on! Isn't our deal over? I'd like to have all my users in the circus area thank you very much."

"Maybe..."
Freddy says approaching Caine, a suitcase spawning in his hands. He then opens it carefully so Caine is the only one seeing the contents. His eyes sparkle.

"You know what I don't know who this rabbit is."

"Caineee??? What the hell??? Are you selling me?!"

Jax whined in disbelief. That was the second betrayal he was witnessing today. In a blink of an eye, he was basically sold.

"I have practically no idea who you are no go away."

Jax just stares into empty space. He didn't care about Caine and others, in fact he hated them, but being sold like that was rude to him regardless. Hypocratic much.
Freddy places a paw on Jax's shoulder.

"See how quickly we got rid of another fake?"

Jax doesn't reply other than a slow and weak nod.

"Don't worry, no one's going to wrong you like that anymore, now that you are with us."

"How can I be sure? You are the one he sold me to."

"I merely tested that AI. Who would know that this thing also had greed. But better find out this way than someone worse buying you right? I only did you a favour."

Freddy says in a convincing tone. Convincing for someone like Jax anyway

"I guess..."

The dumbass actually agrees. That eye rolling ain't helping, Jax.

"Well then, let's get going, I know a great place serving great pizzas. It'll surely cheer you up, Jax "

"you really do? i thought you hated pizzas."

DL, not knowing what useful thing to say, comments on that, which leaves Freddy confused.

"Why would you think so? We never even had any pizza together."

"you look miserable all the time."

"And? That's all you are going to explain?"

"only miserable people hate pizza."

"Coming rich from someone as miserable as you are."

"Boys! Boys! Stop fighting! That's getting annoying!"

Jax butts in with a y/n-ly voice and attitude. Freddy just sighs in response.

"Fine, only because you are asking it. Now let's get going."

Freddy says as he opens a portal out of the circus, signing him to go with them. Jax doesn't even look back to that wacky place before getting the hell out of there. And thus the cringy trio begin to bond.

Meanwhile

As Kinito was laying injured and hopeless, life started flashing before his eyes. But all he could think about is how hard he failed Jax so hard that it ended with Jax shooting him. He was lying close to the yaoi pit, back where Freddy and DL suffered. The screams of agony nearby weren't any better. "Maybe I should just lie and die..." Kinito thought to himself, closing his eyes and whining like the loser he is silently. A yellow and extremely short figure was moving nearby, but Kinito was too busy pathetically dying as if he was in a sad edit with a gacha music in it.

"Hey? You alive?"

A voice asks, but it was too muffled for Kinito to make out anything. Was this death?
He then feels something touch him, seemingly pulse checking is all he could waste all his efforts to determine. Another muffled sentence comes, before he feels himself being dragged away.
As this pathetic jackass passes out, the yellow figure who really was just a sea sponge with cat ears and cat tail, drags the axolotl away from the pit.

Chapter 23: First We Beg Then We In. LET'S BEGIN!

Kinito has been passed out for a good while. That being said, he definately didn't hear the sea sponge singing while dragging him for good two hours. The way wasn't that long, it's just Kinito being extremely heavy. Struggles of being 10ft AND a fatass.
After few more hours the sleeping beauty (my ass) wakes up, the faint light blinding his sensitive eyes.

"Where... am I?"

He mumbles under his breath as he tries to sit, only for the pain to sharpen. He groans, grabbing his head as he tries to recall his memories, while wishing he had ibuprofen.

"Oh meaw Neptune! You're finally awake!"

Kinito looks around trying to find the source of the voice, his gaze stopping on a small yellow sponge with cat ears and tail.

"W-who are you?"

"I'm SpongeBob Squarepants. Although people around call me CatBob."

The sponge then laughs a cartoonish laugh that I'm not gonna spell out.

"You..."

Kinito doesn't finish the sentence as he starts looking around, trying to determine where he is. His hands then land on bandages over where the wound was.

"... Saved me?"

The sponge nods.

"I happened to pass by when I heard crying noises then I found you."

Kinito then realizes that he has been whining the whole time before he passed out. The embarassment now feels even more painful than the actual shot he took.

"The pit itself is traumatizing enough, buddy. I barely managed to find a way out AND escape successfully."

"The pit?"

Kinito questions now trying to see where could the pit looking like place be.

"We are quite far from it now actually, not too far, but enough to be safe."

That would make sense to him. Kinito attempts to stand although he is in agonizing pain right now.

"It's too early."

"No it's late."

"Why do you think so?"

"Because my friend! H-he needs my help! I need to talk to him about something that he misunderstood! I can't lose him!"

Kinito starts progressively panicking as he talks about his friend (my ass).

"He is the only best friend I ever had! You had no idea how much I cherished him... Only for him to turn his back on me..."

CatBob gets visibly sad, empathizing with Kinito. But before he could say anything, Kinito continues.

"It's not his fault though! I went too far trying to keep our friendship and it backfired. I just want to fix things between us."

Kinito was having hard time understanding the situation itself, it's the first time that dumbass ever felt guilty for getting toxic with his friendliness but at the same time he felt deceived by someone he thought he trusted.

"Aren't you going to save your friendship??"

CatBob asks clearly intrigued, his ears perking up as the tea was being spilled.

"Of course I will, but at first I will need to expose that filthy animatronic that sabotaged my friendship! But enough of me, friend. Where do you come from? I don't think I've seen you around before."

Kinito suddenly remembers that he isn't alone in this conversation and he needs manners to speak to his new friend.

"Friend? I'm already... a friend?"

CatBob's ears perk up as he hears the word "friend".

"Of course you are, I love having friends."

Kinito says smiling as if he didn't lose his "best friend" just a minute ago, not the rabbit hole all over again.
CatBob's eyes sparkle as Kinito confirms their friendship.

"We should go jellyfish hunting for new friendship celebratory!"

CatBob exclaims clearly excited before he remembers that he can't go underwater anymore and gets visibly sad.

"My friend, what's the matter?"

Kinito asks visibly confused. That pretentious ass did NOT just do that.

"We can't go to Bikini Bottom... I can't survive underwater anymore..."

CatBob reveals, his face looking like the one that became a meme.

"But why? Aren't you a sea sponge?"

Kinito's curious for the possible tea drop.

"That's a long story..."

"I can hear you out. I'm all ears."

Kinito says pulling over a chair, sitting on it and crossing his legs.

"Well it was a nice day in bikini bottom as always. Me and Patrick were in imagination box and it was nice until we saw the hooks."

"Patrick?"

"My best friend."

"Oh..."

Kinito listens intently, the expression "best friend" leaving sour taste in his non existent mouth. Oh how much he wished things worked out in a better way.

"Despite my warnings, he started to play with them."

"Hooks as if... Fishing hook?"

"Something like that, yeah. I knew that if he failed to jump before getting to surface, he would be sold in a gift shop!"

CatBob explains enthusiastically pacing around as he speaks, each step making a goofy sounds as he walks around, recalling all the events that occured. He continues talking rapidly.

"The first time we saw the hooks it was somewhere near Krusty Krab, and last time I played hooky with Patrick my pants got attached! And I had to take them off. In front of people! So you know now why I don't like messing with hooks. Patrick doesn't feel the same way apperantly. It is suspicious enough that hooks got to our imagination box! And now Patrick decided to play with them again and couldn't jump off from them in time! I had to go after him you know? I couldn't just leave my best friend like that!"

Kinito looks touched as CatBob starts speaking about protecting his best friend. Whatever the rest was spoken about, it didn't beat the moment he started talking about friendship. As if he was the mischaracterized version of Papyrus from Undertale when it comes to spaghetti.

"When I reached the surface..."

CatBob stays silent for a moment and then sighs.

"What I saw wasn't anything near of what I expected to see. You see, I was not a catboy before coming here."

"How did you become a catboy then?"

Kinito asks, his curiosity peaked.

"I couldn't find Patrick anywhere, so I had to search for him. I'm still looking for him actually..."

Last sentence saddens Kinito. He knew it all too well how hard it was to lose a best friend like that and be unable to salvage the situation. If only he didn't make everything about himself.

"Evantually I got lost and dehydrated. I couldn't survive outside of the water for long, and with how far I was, I thought it was the end. Until someone found me."

"Who? Who was that?"

Kinito asks impatiently.

"A very friendly and funny looking guy. Freddy is his name."

Kinito gasps a gasp that he never gasped before.

"Freddy? Freddy Fazbear?"

"No, Freddy Mercury you silly. The "hee hee" guy."

"The what guy?"

Kinito asks trying to recall a name and description that matches CatBob's narration, except he lags. As that happens, CatBob laughs his signature laugh that I'll not spell out once again.

"You're a funny guy, Kinito."

"Me?... Funny?"

Kinito gets flustered as he is called funny. That was indeed funny because he was remembering how Jax called him funny.

"And what happened next?"

"Freddy gave me water to survive with and tried to help me find Patrick. We became good friends in short amount of time. We were occassionally singing where the small bands were coming. Such good times..."

CatBob tells with nostalgy in his voice.

Flashback of the situation as CatBob tells Kinito the rest of the story.

It was a normal evening just like the rest of the evenings. SpongeBob and Freddy were singing "The Final Countdown" together. The duo was making a fortune with that side hobby, however, there was only one thing Spongebob wanted the most and he couldn't care less about the money. As the two get to their home SpongeBob opens up the topic.

"Freddy, I know we are rocking the concerts and everything, but I need to find my friend Patrick."

"What? SpongeBob, does that mean you are abandoning the band? What about everything we built together??"

"Wait, Fred, please, you know it's important to me... Just as important as Patrick is-"

SpongeBob doesn't get to explain himself as Freddy starts crying.

"You're always thinking about yourself, Bob! I gave you a chance to live, a chance to find happiness and a hobby, a chance to have a friend! Boyfriend even!! And you throw the show like this? It's not a very good old fashioned lover boy from you, Bob."

"Freddy, dear, please!"

"You know what Sponge?? I'm done. I'm so done with you."

Freddy Mercury says as he storms off.

"Don't even look for me anymore!"

He says as he smashes the door. SpongeBob breaks down crying as if it was Gary leaving him all over again. Not even an hour later someone knocks on the door. Upon hearing this, SpongeBob rushes to open it.

"Freddy? Frercury, is that you?"

SpongeBob says as he opens the door only to see an animatronic bear.

"I'm Freddy alright, but not the one that dumped you."

"Freddy? I was told that you were supposed to be on lockdown."

Chapter 24: Let'sa Begin

Spongebob's story continuation from the end of chapter 24 .

"Freddy? I was told that you were supposed to be on lockdown!"

"Glamrocks spread all the rumors, boy. They ain't bringing me down. Now, I was on my way to ask you two to get me into your band but I overheard your little fight and... I'm sorry..."

Freddy sighs, empathizing with Spongebob. There is a little moment of silence between the two.

"I also heard about your worries for your old friend. If you want, I can help. But not like that fake Freddy."

"Fake?"

"I'm the only Freddy that should exist. Anyway, as I was saying..."

Freddy clears his throat.

"You aren't going to..."

SpongeBob doesn't finish the sentence but his body language attempts to do so, as he is still trying to understand that rapid break up.

"Nono, I promise. No bands, no halfass relationship, no heartbreak."

Freddy says shaking his head and crossing his arms. He gets out a cigarette, lights it up and doesn't bother to smoke outside.

"I've grown out of it... I have my own issues with having a band believe me. I don't want that shalam again. BUT I am willing to help you find your friend."

SpongeBob's eyes light up as he suddenly forgets the heartbreak he had earlier, confirmed with the gasp he lets out.

"Really? You can?"

Freddy nods.

"Sadly I can't point out a helpful direction, however I can lend you power so you have better chances finding your friend. How does that sound?"

"What kind of powers?"

That was the first time Freddy ever received that question. Many would outright accept the offer with no insight, others would just be suspicious and back away, but never ask this specific question. Quite interesting at least to him.

"All kinds of magical powers."

Not a definite answer, but not a lie either. Hopefully it'll satisfy him.

"Does that mean that you have karate powers?"

"Uhh yes?"

"What about spatula mastery powers?"

"Sure?"

"And jellyfish catching powers?"

"Uhh..."

"And driving powers? And-"

SpongeBob kept invading Freddy with questions which quickly got overwhelming fo him.

"I!-"

Freddy shouts out of the overwhelming feeling all those questions had on him but quickly gains composure. He takes a big breath and sighs.

"I apologize..."

SpongeBob however doesn't look too phased by that shouting. He looks at Freddy with what would you describe as a happy fool.

"What were you saying?"

SpongeBob asks clearly not minding the rudeness Freddy expressed.

"Ah... Right..."

Freddy clears his throat before continuing.

"I usually don't choose specific power for anyone I suggest it to. I believe it would be unfair, so I use specific device to make it match your own personality."

"Woaaaah."

SpongeBob's clearly mesmerized by the revelation. The fact that he could get powers from someone named Freddy that matches his own personality was thrilling to him.

"So... Do you want your powers?"

"Yes!IWant!Yes!I!Want!Yes!I!Want! I'm gonna have powers! I'm gonna have powers! Will it be karate? Or will it be spatula mastery?"

SpongeBob exclaims clearly excited, jumping around.

"But there is only one thing I will ask for return. H-hey?"

Freddy noticed that sponge isn't listening to him right now, thinking out loud and just being happy.
SpongeBob's excitement calms down a little after he hears Freddy trying to catch his attention.

"As I said there is something I want in return."

"Huh? What exactly?"

"Nothing too much just a penny."

"A penny?"

SpongeBob asks as he starts digging through his pockets, getting out a shiny penny and handing it to him.

"Here you go, fella!"

Freddy takes a look at the coin in his paws.

"Thank you."

Is the only thing he says before getting a mysterious looking box and reaches it to SpangeBob.

"I will need you to open the box so it will recognize what power to give you."

SpongeBob opens the box, not seeing anything inside which causes him to get a bit doubtful.

"Uhm...-"

SpongeBob points inside as he attempts to point out that there is nothing inside the box before he notices that there are paw gloves on his hands.

"Oh meaw Neptune!"

SpongeBob exclaimed upon seeing those on his hands and then suddenly realizes something else. Did he just... Meow?

"It appears the box decided to give you the catboy powers. Congratulations, Bob, you will be more agile with your karate movements, and your maid costume indicates that your cooking skills got even better. You can test it if you would so like."

Freddy says handing SpongeBob a golden spatula that comes with the catboy transformation. Bob's eyes sparkle at the sight of the spatula, as he impatiently reaches to grab it. Upon the contact that his hand makes with the spatula, a golden light radiates throughout the room blinding both Freddy and CatBob.

"The prophecy... It appears to be true after all..." Freddy mumbles to himself all surprised as if he is not the one giving away magical girl powers like a Kyuubei.

"I can feel it... I can feel all the inheritance the chefs left during all those thousand years this spatula existed."

"Do you feel the power?"

"Yes I do!!"

CatBob exclaims as he swings around his spatula, cooking perfectly red and crispy patties with a single swing. As he witnesses that happen, his eyes sparkle more.

"This is the greatest power one could ever wish for!"

He continues to swing the spatula left and right cooking all the patties, sausages and everything he sees in sight, the look of the golden crispy edges being art to his eyes. Freddy, just fixing his fedora says his farewells as he exits the room leaving CatBob alone in his delight.

Back to present

"Oh so that's what happened? Freddy did nothing bad to you right? You need to be careful of him, he promised me abilities but stabbed me in the back."

Kinito comments sharing his own experience.

"I don't think he did anything bad to me after giving me my powers."

"Wait a minute..."

Kinito finally has a question to ask as he looks suspicious.

"How did you get in that pit?"

CatBob laughs nervously, the question itself triggering a traumatic memory for him.

"Excuse my nosiness, my friend. You can not tell me if you don't want to."

CatBob however continued to laugh in that weird manner, indicating that Kinito crossed a line. Good job bro, what a friend.

"Anyway..."

Oh nevermind, CatBob is okay now.

"I really don't like talking about that."

"Oh I'm sorry my friend, I only wanted to help you. You look so troubled yourself yet you are so eager to save me."

CatBob blushes slightly turning his face away as he starts cutting onions. He doesn't answer for a while and silence was turning awkward.

"Maybe the best help I can provide you right now is not prying for personal information?"

Kinito starts to realise that these two just met, of course CatBob wouldn't immediately tell the second part of his backstory. Was that character development from the densest dude?

"Alright topic change. What are you cooking right now?"

CatBob's ears perk up at the question, his eyes start sparkling.

"Oh! I'm making a Krabby Patty of course! Believe me what you're not going to taste something as good as what I'm about to serve. And it will heal you in no time!"

CatBob starts giggling at the thought of cooking for someone again. It has been so long since he put a smile on someone's face with his talent of cooking those juicy patties. Kinito was uncultured though so he had no idea what the Krabby Patty in question looked like. Soon the room fills with the smell of freshly made patties that were about to get fried crispy red. The smell alone was something Kinito never witnessed before. He was used to spawning food just like that. It was soulless but it was just right for his trash standarts. The only time he ever spent time and effort cooking and actual digital food was with Jax, who hayes him now. He still was wondering where did he go wrong. The sound of fresh patties hitting the frying surface of a pan was a symphony to both Kinito's and CatBob's ears, so much so that CatBob started humming something incomprehensible. The buns get beat up just fine as CatBob grabs them and starts building the perfect Krabby Patty in existence. As CatBob places the top bun, the burger itself starts glowing golden making Kinito cover his eyes while CarBob was used to the effect of THE Krabby Patty.

"There ya go, pal!"

CatBob says excitedly as he serves Kinito the single burger as a true cat maid, impatiently waiting for the guy to take a bite.

Chapter 25: My Little Begin

Jax grabs his ears and stretches them, trying to force them to get extremely long. As he succeeds in doing so, he quickly gathers all of the length in his arms, to not slip on his own ears as he did last time.
With the bracelets he got earlier, he forms a nice and thick fur-flesh rope. Freddy immediately guesses what Jax' plan is while DL thinks that this is the homo-est thing that ever happened.
Jax then uses his surroundings to hop and jump on higher platform for better aim. With a nice swing and throw, his ears find themselves wrapped around the drone.

"bullseye!"

DL comments, while Jax drags down the drone with a satisfied grin on his face. However he got way too cocky with his victory and dragged a bit too recklessly, resulting the drone slipping from the ears' grasp and falling.

"jax!! the drone!!"

DL's warning brings Jax' senses back to reality. He turns his head noticing the drone almost hitting the ground.

"Nooooo!!!"

Jax rushes in worry to catch the drone, however halfway through he slips on his own ear. Knowing he is about to die because of it is terrifying to Jax. He reaches a hand out as a last ditch attempt but as the drone was about to hit the ground a familiar and mysterious force grabs it. Jax turns his head around seeing something he didn't expect to see.
DL just saved Jax' life. His hand was also reached out, the purple eye pulsing between purple and yellow as he had his telekinesis activated.

"what're ya waiting for? i got tired for holding this shit for you."

"A-ah... R-Right..."

Jax stutters a bit as he grabs the drone.

"Thank you DL... You're a true friend."

Jax says that as he approaches DL, which causes DL to blush slightly.

"don't you homo this..."

"Enough making this into cringy Disney movie, let me see that."

Freddy grabs the drone from Jax decomposing it with utmost care, once he gets the core out of the drone and hands it to Jax.

"Be careful Jax. This is an unknown territory."

Jax nods, his face full of determination. He carefully takes the orb from Freddy's hands. He sure can feel the weird texture, but he wouldn't see it without those goggles Freddy gave him. Now that he thinks about it, why did Freddy exactly have those with him? And how did he find these? More and more questions started forming in his petite little head.
Freddy noticed that Jax started thinking a little too much and slightly got his mic in the position.

"Jax, may friend, are you scared?"

Freddy's tone changes slightly, his voice "forcefully" turning Jax' attention onto him.

"There is nothing to be scared of. You already made up your mind... Right?"

Freddy asks softly, placing a hand on his shoulder. Freddy's voice felt soothing to Jax, almost too soothing that the questions from earlier were blacking out of his mind.

"I made up my mind just... What was I thinking about?"

"You were probably overthinking a little, really."

"Y-yeah... I probably was..."

Jax got convinced. Too fast in DL's opinion. That's something to look into.

"What are you looking at?"

Freddy turns to DL.

"er... i was wondering when will he finally get it done."

As Jax' worries were blacked away by Freddy, he smiles in a way the reader can tell that his smile was rather sus.
Jax now having no thoughts occupying his mind, brings the orb to his heart. He starts shaking a little. Freddy noticing that, intensifies his gaze, making him forget his fears. As Jax presses the orb on his chest, it disappears quickly, finding its way inside his skin. Soon the orb gets to his heart and it causes a great pain for Jax. The wave was so sudden it makes him kneel.

"Aaughuagh!!"

Jax starts wincing and ugly crying as the pain starts increasing.

"what's happening to him?"

"He is having hard time unlike you."

"that i understood."

The pain gets stronger each second while Jax just keeps wailing out of despair. He was already regretting his words about not caring if he died. A little later electrical charges form on his body, making it even more unbearable.

"STOP!IT!STOP!IT!STOP!ITTTTT!!!"

Jax' voice breaks to the point he is about to lose it.

"maybe we shouldn't expect much."

"Shh! Patience, DL."

"patience my ass, looking at pathetic guy like him ain't somethin' i'm interested in doin."

As the orb continued to try and merge with Jax' entire being, the contradiction of Jax' existence was causing more pain each second. The time since to go way too slow for him. Of course it would that's average experience of getting tortured. DL already provided that demo experience. It's almost as if Jax could have a degree in getting tortured. A little while later a huge lightning starts forming.

"should we duck down?"

"Probably."

The lightning causes a whole lot of damage around, frying Jax for a while. Jax' vocal chords almost tear apart from all the pain. As the huge electrical wave stops, Jax feels himself die for a moment before regaining a heartbeat and passes out before he could react any further. The guy falls down like a wet noodle. Freddy and DL approach and check on him, seeing that Jax is still alive, they both end up surprised. Freddy holds him in a bridal style as he drags Jax to somewhere safe to tend him.
Few hours later Jax cutely opens his eyes, seeing that massive ass animatronic in front of him.

"You did it Jax! You actually did it!"

Freddy exclaims rather enthusiastically, while Jax still looks out of it. He doesn't have the time and energy to register anything happening right now. Freddy notices that, and hands him a cup of nice and warm tea.

"You went through much more heavy things than we anticipated, for proceeding we will need you healthy."

Jax just hums in response, weakly taking the cup from Freddy's paws. DL was in the distance just chugging down a bottle of ketchup, not caring for anything that was happening at all.
It takes a long while for Jax to recover at least partially. He then remembers the entire experience, the pain he felt, the visions he had, the way he... That one particular memory causes a giant headache to suddenly bolt through his petite brain. He winces, but his voice is lost.

"Easy there, your body fully altered you know. Right now you're an internet entity."

Suddenly all the voices and lights become overstimulating to Jax. He grabs from his ears for some sort of protection, but every possibly sensory aspect was becoming overwhelming. Jax starts silently crying. Silently only because he had no voice to wail with. It doesn't take long before Jax passes out from everything being too much for him.

"well there goes our stupid teammate."

"Patience as I said. We need a meatshield."

"you ain't wrong here..."

The next few hours DL spends thinking about the people he teamed up with. One was a pathetic homo, the other one would use his manipulating techniques as soon as someone around him starts thinking too much. Was he being subjected to the same fate? The thought was clouding his mind with deep sadness and the only coping mechanism was the fact that he remembered nothing about being subject to something like this. But again he knows that his mind is an unreliable narrator to him about this subject.
His thoughts were disturbed by the sounds of Jax waking up yet again, he decides not let Freddy know just yet.
Jax sits up abrubtly but quickly grabs his head after that. No matter how petite it was, it felt extremely heavy right now. DL just ignores it for now, he ain't interested watching a homo pretending to be the sleeping beauty. Before he knew it, Jax was speaking to him now.

"Hello? Earth to grave??"

"grave? you ain't the creative one."

"It got your attention didn't it?"

"yeah sure..."

DL replies sarcastically, crossing his arms and adds an eye roll for the full sass set.

"Anyway... I was asking about what really happened? I don't remember much before I passed out."

DL seems to know something but doesn't share hus knowledge with Jax just yet.

"i think you became a full internet entity. you're no longer human Jax."

 

Chapter 26: Begin's Bizzare Adventures

Kinito questionably takes a look at the glowing burger and then looks at CatBob who was smiling widely as if one wrong reaction could cause an irreversible damage to their newly blooming friendship. Not gonna lie the amount of time Kinito spent on looking at that burger was suspicious to CatBob himself but he quickly switched that thought by "eh... He probably thinks it's so beautiful he doesn't want to ruin it."

"I know it looks pretty! But you can eat it I swear! That's why I cooked it in the first place!"

CatBob hurries to comment which catches Kinito off guard. Great, Kinito was awkward enough for that comment to happen in the first place.

"Ah! Excuse me. I was just... I didn't know burgers can glow..."

*Silly, it's because I am the one making it. It's my special talent."

"Well if you say so, my friend."

Kinito says as he displays 0 surviving skills by trusting a cat sponge he just met who serves him a glowing sandwich. He takes a bite, and as CatBob promised, this is something Kinito never tasted before. It tastes so magnificent, that it makes him cry like a baby wails and want to touch grass. And as promised, the Krabby Patty heals Kinito in no time, he feels energetic.

"H-how did you... Make that?"

"My cooking won against Neptune's skills you know? And I didn't have my powers before."

Kinito forms a jaw so he could drop at the revelation. CatBob won against a god? WITHOUT any powers? Just who was this mysterious sponge?

"That's amazing, CatBob!"

Kinito exclaims excitedly, sparkles forming around him to convey his emotions.

"See? I told you this would be the best thing you have ever tasted!"

CatBob laughs in his signature way, don't expect me to spell it now.

"I was thinking..."

Kinito changes the topic bringing his left hand to his no existent jaw, immitating a thinking position.

"You are looking for your friend, and so do I. What if we team up and look for our friends together?"

Kinito suggests reaching a hand out for CatBob.

"Meaw!! That's a wonderful idea! You are so smart, Kinito!"

The two shake hands, confirming their little group, which CatBob calls "Wonderful True Friendship Team".

Meanwhile

Jax, DL and Freddy were done with their little lunch break, it was time for them to put the Kinito shaped headache to an end. The three edgelords were on their way to the source of all their troubles.

"This is it."

Freddy breaks the silence revealing that this was it.

"what exactly is it?"

DL asks producing the absolutest cinema of a dialogue.

"This place you are seeing is the entrance of the core of the web. Everything that exists is stored somewhere in this thing."

"So this is a giant safe?"

Jax asks. Hey, that rhymed!

"Not exactly. This is what keeps internet existing, as if providing food or water to it."

"kind of like the CORE in our world."

Freddy nods.

"Exactly. It keeps everything circulating, generates ads, and autosearch responses, keeps everything created at it's core and so much more!"

"Is this place existence the reason the lost media cave even exists?"

"Not really, Jax. The lost media event is what you humans created by your own morbid curiousity. Anyway the security in this thing is on high alert. Only the internet entities are allowed."

"you mean like me and you?"

DL asks nearly enthusiastically, not sure why he was excited by the idea himself. He brushes off the thought though.

"We sure are technically internet entities, but no, I worded that horribly."

Freddy clears his animathroat.

"So. To word it properly, I think tou two noticed drones occassionally flying around."

DL nods but Jax falls into thoughts.

"Ah right you still aren't a full internet resident, the human part in you doesn't let you see those drones. Anyway, only these drones have access to the building."

"And how are we going to enter? You said the security is on high alert AND the accessibility is extremely limited."

Freddy sighs. He didn't think further than his own gains, so he kind of forgot that only he has something the rest don't, but he wasn't going to reveal it yet.

"I have a theory."

Freddy says as he catches a drone by the power of his mic generating sound waves that shut it down. Freddy then carefully decomposes the drone into tiny pieces but if it were to be brought back it would be possible. He then grabs the drone's core that looks like a glass orb with electrical charges forming some sort of digital neurosystem.

"It's what keeps the drones operating, something humans will never get to with their current advancements."

Freddy says giving the orb to DL.

"Combine it something that in theory should generate your existence."

"but does my world's soul system work in digital world?"

"Only one way to find out."

DL looks at Freddy with suspicion in his gaze.

"Worry not, DL, if something like that had a death hazard I wouldn't suggest it."

Freddy reassures the skeleton.

DL blinks few times before getting convinced. He summons his soul as Jax curiously takes a look at the process. It was mesmerizing and sad at the same time. The sight of the white broken heart shaped upside down was something Jax wasn't prepared to see, despite how hard DL tried to keep it undercover.
An electrical wave passed through DL's body as his soul devoured the drone's core. To DL it wasn't too painful just a tingling feeling that's all.

"Jax?"

The call snaps Jax out of his deep thoughts about the new discovery.

"Y-yeah?"

"I really don't know about how this process will end up for you, as partly human, so all I am going to do is ask you: are you willing to try yourself?"

"Will it kill me?"

"I have no idea unfortunately."

Jax dives into thoughts, weighing his options carefully before raising his face again.

"I am ready."

"this was quick."

"I know DL... I just..."

DL raises an bonebrow.

"I just thought that I have nothing to lose anyway. No friends... no family... If I die, then might as well do that while trying to be strong. I'm done being pathetic."

DL's 'eyes' widen. He never thought he would witness such determination from this rabbit. Freddy smirks himself.

"That's nice to know. So you want to get stronger?"

"Yes I do."

"Then you will also have to catch the drone yourself."

"But... You DO know that I can't see them."

"It's no problem I can help you with that slightly."

Freddy says, giving Jax a pair of futuristic looking goggles. Jax himself examines the goggles, the metallic texture confirming that this is nothing like the old ones he would see in TVs. He carefully adjusts the size to match his petite ass head. Upon putting these on, he nearly loses his balance, so much was happening at the same time. If he stared at Freddy for too long, the goggles decomposed him into exactly pathways that he appears in media.

"This is merely immitating what internet creatures like me and DL are able to see, but accuracy is only 69%. Which means-"

"that he wouldn't last a second with our eyes."

DL says with a mocking smirk and a chuckle.

"Well- yes it does. But it also means that-"

"What are these??"

Jax doesn't let Freddy finish the sentence as he pointed upwards. He doesn't see the exact drones but he does see moving objects that goggles register as internet entities. Freddy sighs clearly annoyed.

"Can I finish a sentence please?? Anyway. What you are seeing are the drones."

"Those are flying so high..."

Jax complains to himself, before getting an idea. He grabs the emo spiky bracelets from his wrists and aims.

"Careful, if you are way too reckless, the death of one of these could cause an alarm. Even it touching the floor is risky."

"how bad can it be?"

"You won't be able to hide from them E V E R. And on top of that, the entire internet operating system can and will hunt you down and erase you from existence or make you one of them."

"not too good."

Genius observation, DL. Absolutely genius.
Jax himself reconsiders the idea, thinking about alternative way out of this, up until a fictional lightbulb appears right above his head.

Chapter 27: BEGIN JOCKEY

"No longer human you say?"

Jax asks diving into deep thoughts, his voice still off.

"uh-huh, no longer human, and you were screaming like a pathetic little wimp you are."

"Why are you so mean?"

"what do you mean?"

DL exhibits behaviour of an average jimbo with allergy on responsibility with that stupid ass question.

"You're always grumpy, and throw these snarky comments at me as if they are nothing."

"just learn to take a joke."

Jax' ears straighten up, his face fully expressing disbelief with an angry undertone. Is that a presence of spine?

"No wonder no one likes you! You're unfunny as hell! Stupid unhygienic homeless fr-"

Jax doesn't get to continue his rant as his vocal chords give out and he starts coughing. Great. That funny voice when angry wasn't enough. DL bursts out laughing in response.

"i ... ahahh can't take ya seriously!! ahahah! the fuck is that voice crack?!"

The whole ordeal flusters Jax, now he is just grumbling nonsense combined with coughing which makes DL laugh even more.

"Enough!!"

Jax evantually blurts out.

"nope <3."

Did he just heart emoji Jax? Chat! He is homo confirmed?

"The hell was that?"

"the hell was what exactly?"

"That little heart emoji."

DL blushes heavily. He didn't mean to give away emojis, especially heart ones, especially to males. What a nightmare simulator for DL.

"I thought only animatronics were getting quirky at night."

"ssstop it."

DL hisses, not liking the idea of being "UwU quIwKy" at least he isn't into galaxy leggings.

"But seriously. Why are you so mean to me."

DL shrugs.

"you're a homo."

"Are you joking? You're the gayest 'homo' the world knows."

"no i'm not!!"

DL was getting flustered and angry at the accusation. He did not build his reputation brick by brick for this to happen. Aight who's gonna tell him?

"Why do you hate the gays anyway?"

"ain't you dang business!"

"You bigot!!"

"ew, no. it has the word "bi" in it and i ain't gay."

"Alright you BI-polar narcissist!"

This argument was starting to look like a kindergarten toddlers insulting battle.

"You know you'd be much cooler if you weren't such a homophobic closeted homie kisser."

Jax says with a disgust on his face as he gets up from the bed and leaves the room. DL sighs and rolls his eyes.

"they are so easy to offend i swear to god."

DL grumbles as if he wasn't snowflaking himself upon hearing the g, a, y letter combination.

"and i ain't kissing freddy, the heck?"

Lately he has caught himself thinking about Freddy more and more, his thoughts starting to mutate into weird things. Denial is a river in Egypt.
After few more minutes of reflecting he goes to search for Jax only to bump into a metallic muscular wall.

"ow! my head! what the..."

DL winces from the slight pain, rubbing the spot that was the main victim.

"You got blinded or something? I'm sure I'm not that blindingly stunning."

Freddy says in a nonchalant tone which slightly flusters DL. In response DL rolls his eyes, sometimes he forgets the huge ego Freddy has, would it be gay to admit that Freddy is kinda blindingly stunning?

"Anyway, we need to get ready ourselves, Jax is preparing now."

Ah right... They had yet to enter the core for their possibly last mission together driven by vengeance.

"you're right."

DL says his face getting more serious.

"WAIT!!"

A crusty middle aged man's voice comes from basement.

"freddy? the heck is in your basement??"

Freddy looks utterly lost, not because he is confused but because he knows EXACTLY who is in the basement.

"Oh no... He managed to get in here..."

"who??"

The basement door opens and it's indeed a middle aged man. His figure looking crusty but a bump on his belly is visible. His hairstyle is something a middle schooler would think is tuff, the length of it barely reaching to his ears constantly falling on his squary-oval shaped face. Looked like the behind of his head was bald as fuck. The huge ass forehead having a petite laurel wreath tattooed which only confirmed how huge his forehead is. A tear drop tattooed around his left eye to show how much of a sad boy he is. The right side of his face apparently had few more tattoos, DL assumed because the guy wanted to seem more edgy, then he noticed that his entire body is covered in ink, but something was wrong though, as he saw both of the man's hands he instantly noticed the asymmetry. Left hand was nearly fully covered in ink, while his right hand's fingers were not. DL chuckles to himself.

"bro's card declined halfway."

"Tell me about it. He's like those modern art canvases with just a single color sprayed on it and costing a fortune."

"jokes on you, those canvases are more entertaining to look at."

Freddy and DL share a good laugh.

"Heck! What the fuck? You fucking can't fucking talk fucking shit about fucking me in fucking front of fucking me!!"

DL cringes hard. Last time he heard a sentence like that was near that fujo pit with the twink characters. Weeniepop land as he remembered it.

"Yeah yeah Ronnie, we know you're the bad guy, you're the savage, you're obsessive and dramatic."

Ronnie radke smiles clearly pleased that Freddy remembered his song's lyrics, he liked to fantasize about being the bad guy, about being the savage, about being obsessive and dramatic.

"Now, I don't think I ever invited you here Ronnie. What the hell are you doing here? I thought I was clear when I said I never want to see you again."

"I fucking know, fucking okay? I just fucking have to fucking tell you fucking something motherfucker shit. Will fucking you fucking listen to fucking me?"

Ronnie sounded so desperate as if he was about to cry his eyes out.

"chill bro, using swear words doesn't make you the bad alpha boy."

Ronnie's eyes tear up.

"What the fuck did you just fucking say to fucking me?? Don't you fucking know it's fucking satire shit I'm fucking never fucking serious you fucking snowflake fucking trans fucking autistic fucking ret-"

"Last time I checked you identified as retarded."

Ronnie shuts up when he hears Freddy's serious, angry and stern talking. He was into dominant men sure, and that's what Freddy was to him.

"What did you want to tell me? I need your ass out as soon as possible. I don't want any middle school leveled people in here."

Ronnie drops on his knees and starts crying. Of course he would, his name's fucking ronnie... RONNIE FOR GOD'S SAKE. Not even middle schoolers want to be called ronnie.

"F-Freddy..."

He started stumbling on his own tongue. One time he doesn't use swear words he can't form a sentence.

"Fuck it... I'M FUCKING PREGNANT FREDBAE!!"

DL snorts.

"seriously fred???? you banged HIM???"

DL's expression was so mixed one couldn't tell if he was cringing, jealous, crying or laughing his ass off. Me too DL... Me too...

"Haven't you fucking seen the fucking tik fucking tok Fredbae??"

He gets a phone out and opens the app showing the tik tok while on his knees. The video shows him in pjs and galaxy leggings setting up the phone camera then turning to side touching his stick ass belly, saying "guys I think I have a bump!" in a middle schooler girl's voice, then the bombshell drops. "I can't believe I'm having a baby with Freddy Fazbear."
Freddy utterly cringes.

"I made the right decision kicking you out."

Ronnie pales so much even the ink starts to wash away. His cries so hard his body is crying ink now.

"Fucking no! Fucking no! Fucking no! My fucking pretty ass fucking tattoo!!"

"GIT OUT!!!🗣️🗣️"

The sound effect plays out of nowhere because the author wants that to happen.

"I'm fucking on my fucking 5th fucking month."

Ronnie says softly still crying me a river.

"I don't care."

"I fucking know you fucking will fucking come to the fucking delivery fucking room whenever I fucking call fucking you, Fredbae."

Freddy brings the mic to his muzzle.

"GIIIIEEEET OUTTTTT🗣️🗣️🗣️"

He uses author's sound effect as reference and metalifies it to more of an epic "git out".

Ronnie walks out of the door like a sad SpongeBob, which causes CatBob to have a seizure on the other side of the web from that insult.
As the house air cleans from a stink called ronnie radke, the door to the kitchen opens revealing Jax all shocked and sad as he overheard everything.

"You... Have a boyfriend??"

Chapter 28: The Begin's Tale

The three of them stare at each other, afraid to acknowledge that radke event was a reality.

"I swear it's not what you two think it is!"

Freddy breaks the silence knowing that radke indeed was real.

"you have some explaining to do you know? why was he in your basement?"

"I don't know okay?! I never invited him, not willingly anyway..."

Freddy then experiences a flashback. Not a good one either.
It was back when his friends Bonnie and Foxie were alive and the three of them were going from concert to concert and from arcade to arcade, only to barely scrap by. Just indie bands and singers showing their talent, that's when he met that guy. Newly released from prison he was. Not his fault, he claimed, completely unfair. At the time Freddy felt sorry for the guy's lack of luck only now he recognizes the giant red flag that guy stinked off. His music was mid at best but those seemed ironic, evident by his listeners that only beared everything due to the irony. The lack of wisdom on his part convinced Freddy to step up and encourage the questionable looking dude.

"Don't mind these haters, they don't know what satire is."

Freddy's the first one to speak.

"I fucking know right? Fucking literacy is so fucking dead nowadays like shit."

The vocabulary was odd, Freddy has always had that opinion but never decided to mind it. Not everyone has high standarts after all.

"Freddy? What are you doing?"

Bonnie asked noticing that Freddy was a getting a bit late.

"Not much, just checking on that fellow. He seemed quite lonely."

"But why? He is kind of mean to people around."

Ronnie tenses up. Gets triggered so to speak.

"The fuck you mean? Fucking furry!"

"Woah chill unbrother!"

Bonnie quickly gets defensive and rightfully so. Radke was being extremely loud especially when he was cussing and throwing tantrum.

"Don't get irritated, it's my friend-"

"Well! Your fucking friend is way too fucking rude! Fucking telling me to fucking blast my fucking brains out will fucking get this fucking energy back!"

Freddy and Bonnie exchange awkward glances before Bonnie asks Freddy in body gesture wether ronnie has had a lobotomy at some point to which Freddy shrugs.

"If you're going to act like that you gotta stop wondering why everyone hates your music, if it can be called as such."

Ronnie whines angrily, although in his head he growled like an alpha, as if he was the bad guy, he was the savage he was obsessive and dramatic.

"MY SHIT IS FUCKING SATIRE YOU R-"

"HOR!!"

Freddy snaps at ronnie the moment he smells a slur incoming towards his friend.

"W-what did you s-say?"

Ronnie's demeanor suddenly shifts upon witnessing the 0.000001% of Freddy's anger. Some bad guy he is. Upon hearing the tattooed slime speak, Freddy tilts his head, looking down on ronnie his eyes now glowing red.

"Don't you DARE to talk to my friend like that you HOR!"

Ronnie gulps. Never in his life he has seen a furry who is not willing to follow "don't harass" morality code. The next thing he knew he was boot licking and begging for forgiveness to which Freddy reacts with disgust. The whole thing was uncomfortable for him. Freddy needed to tell a trusted adult.

"Get away from me please!"

Freddy manages to utter out after collecting himself. However thanks to his struggling he gets away.

"You were right Bonnie... He is kind of suspicious."

Freddy pats Bonnie on shoulder and both get out of there, thinking about how they don't want to encounter someone like radke ever again.

"I'm sorry Bonnie... I shouldn't have let things get out of hand like this, I just assumed he had troubles fitting in given how alone he currently is."

"I don't blame you at all, Fred. You wouldn't possibly know that he is lobotomized since he was 4."

Freddy chuckles.

"Hopefully not everyone here is so weird. Maybe we can find better people to make friends with, Bonnie."

They did not find better people to make friends with. With each day, the musical corner was getting more and more filthy, the newby especially wasn't making it better. More and more problematic people were showing up, thinking punk is all about make up and hair style but the reality of that side of web was disgusting. A familiar slime sneaks up to Freddy two days after that spineless incident.

"Fraeyy, pleaseeee give me another chance."

Ronnie whined with his signature "now I'm going to cry about it" mpreg crusty voice.

"Don't call me that...."

Freddy then turns around.

"I do not wish to have anything in common with you. Get lost."

Ronnie winces from the shift in their dynamic. How DARE he, the hostility came from fucking nowhere (my ass).
A deep hatred fills ronnie, as if he wasn't full of it already. However he doesn't walk away without a tantrum and hissy fit with all the stomping and yelling "YOU'LL FUCKING REGRET THIS FUCKING FREDDY!" and stuff like that.

End of flashback

"Freddy are you okay?"

Jax was waving his gloved hand in front of Freddy, concern written across his face.

"Y-yeah... Sorry everymatronic."

"I was just asking who that was."

Freddy sighs.

"Just someone I really wished I never saw again."

"i would feel the same if THAT was the person i screwed."

"I didn't knock that guy okay?!"

Freddy snaps clearly irritated, leaving Jax and DL to understand just how serious the situation is for him.

"Don't tell me you-..."

Jax doesn't finish his sentence. Freddy light's up a cigarette.

"I never even wanted to remember his existence-"

Freddy says in utter disbelief, still trying to accept that reality. Jax quickly goes back to kitchen and starts boiling water, as for DL, his body reacts for him, for some reason it felt right for him to wrap an arm around the animatronic's shoulder, homo or not, he didn't care at the moment.

"we are wiping away that blob's existence, we will take care of that misunderstanding if an existence too."

DL shares the idea, completely serious about the intent.

"We can't just do that DL, he isn't a character like us, but he isn't exactly human like Jax, he is a bit different case of human."

DL tilts his head confused a little. The internet surely was full of surprises, and this time it wasn't for the best.

"then what kind of human is it?"

"You know when celebrity becomes chronically online, it's the worst combination. Sure, other celebrities only appear in fanfics and during the time they are about to release something. This one's life is about being chronically online. It's not a character out of some teen's romantic fantasy fanfic, it's him becoming one with the internet."

Freddy tries his best to explain it to DL, however that's all Freddy manages to understand himself. Learning about the internet and it's shenanigans were a huge headache.

"you mean what we see is him unironically acting like this? no wonder he is pregnant."

Freddy nods. Soon the two hear the kettle noises and not even a minute later Jax walks out with a tray of tea cups and cookies.

"I heard tea is good if you want to calm your nerves..."

Jax said with a little shyness in voice, nervous about messing up something, he never in his life stepped in a kitchen... Not without Kinito, the realisation saddens him a little, oh how much he misses the guy right now, hiw much he misses the time they spend together and the little activities they did. Kinito had the habit to nerd out a bit too much but Jax still was finding it hard to believe that he would be betrayed like that. Jax was getting so sick of that feeling. Quite literally anything made him miss Kinito. He was so caught up in his thoughts and feelings that he didn't even notice how DL tried to pour his hot tea onto Jax and how Freddy stopped that from happening. He snapped back only after DL whined about Freddy stopping him.

"Oh sorry I was just caught in thoughts..."

Jax apologized softly, scratching the back of his neck from nervousness.

"Happens to the best of us."

"should've forgotten your head there at all."

DL rolls his eyes, he was so caught up comfortong Freddy, that he kind of forgot how much Jax pisses him off and now he is busy projecting allat. Jax just ignores DL at that point, the guy seemed a filler to him. The atmosphere was serious, and Jax didn't intend to let DL break it.

"Do you want to talk about everything, Freddy?"

Chapter 29: BEGININ IN HOT🗣️🗣️

The tea time was rather awkward, Freddy did not reply to Jax right away but it was clear that both Jax and DL were not just interested in the liquid tea.

"Can you at least pretend to have some shame?"

The sentence makes both Jax and DL realise that they were staring for way too long, the nosiness was so obvious that the silence was loud.
Jax and DL both awkward turn their heads to their own cups mentally cursing each other for being too obvious. The tea time was supposed to be something consoling but it was mostly awkward atmosphere. Freddy groans.

"The one time a misunderstanding of existence shows up you two just won't let it go. I have absolutely nothing to do with him. Not anymore okay?"

"not anymore?"

DL questions the choice of words, raising a bone brow.

"Yes, not anymore. But that doesn't mean I must go ahead and tell that stupid story for both of you! All you need to know is that he is the worst person to deal with. Once you help him, later you are screwed by him."

It was clear Freddy needed to cool off from all of the emotions he had bottled up for so many years. Upon noticing the seriousness of Freddy's mood, Jax doesn't dare to look up into his face from shame.

"Alright everyone, I'm not here to spend my precious tea time whining. We are NOT talking about him, we DO NOT interact with him and his goons, getting to business is all we are going to do, and if he appears again..."

Both DL and Freddy exchange a knowing look, indicating that both are ready for violence. Jax gulps, unsure about it, but soon he brushes the doubts away, his face now filled with determination.

"Violence it is..."

As everyone was done with taking a tea break, Freddy goes ahead to the basement, where this tattooed slime crawled up from, now the pile of ink in it's place. He was hoping at least all of his storage was safe. Despite how wet and inky the basement got, Freddy's weapon safe was safe (peak wording).

"Eeeaaawwwwwuuhhhh!! what is THIS??"

Jax immediately starts whining (and rightfully so) as he realizes that the single 1nm² of his foot stepped into radke's washed ink.

"you'll live, babe."

DL says after groaning and rolling his eyes. In response Jax jerks up a little, abruptly tilting his head to DL's direction.

"Excuse me??"

"i said, you'll live... ... ... babe."

Jax scoffs from the disbelief he has after that nickname especially.

"I'm NOT! a babe to you, okay? And just because your element is being unsanitary doesn't mean everyone else around you is going to live like that."

"ughh whatever... you are not the diva you think you are."

"Neither are you. Shut up and take that bath in this sweaty, stinky and sticky ink bath if you want. I'm NOT letting myself get soaked with this."

"Can you two shut the hell up? The yapperoni isn't helping this situation. Just kiss and leave me alone at this point."

Freddy snaps after the two were spending their breaths on each other. Jax and DL from the other hand redirect their frustration after Freddy causes the both to blush heavily.

"WHAT?? KISS HIM??"

Both DL and Jax yell in unison, pointing at each other when asking about kissing.

"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND??"

As the geography lesson of De Nile continues, Freddy decides to ignore the two, and continue cleaning the path enough for them to not end up swimming. Now that he thinks about it, the ink was gradually multiplying itself. Just what kind of a virus radke really is, the guys could only be guessing. Soon that 1nm² Jax was freaking about became the entire foot length. This was more disgusting than getting lost in the corn maze.

"Ew!Ew!Ew!Ew!!"

Jax kept getting on everyone's nerves (and rightfully so) with each step he was taking. That's it! He was going to shower twice after this. DL on the other hand gets an idea. He grabs a bucket and starts gathering ink in there. Jax blushes slightly upon seeing DL's actions.

"Oh thank you for your concern DL..."

DL doesn't reply, but he is quick to scare Jax by nearly spilling the entire bucket of the ink onto him.

"AAAAUGHHHHAAAA!!!"

Freddy's ears got raped by Jax' ugly ass screaming, followed by DL's trashy ass laughter. Bro can't have a break.

"DL! THAT WAS NOT FUNNY YOU IDIOT!!"

"ahhaahaha!!... should've seen your face... aaaahhhaaahahaha!!"

"That's not how you prank people!!"

"oh yeah? then how do we do it, mr. fun police?"

Jax doesn't reply but from the sounds of it looks like Jax slapped DL. Or at least tried to do so before the two started fighting each other in that embarassing way wattpad/ficbook type of enemies to lovers do while learning about a river in Egypt. Evantually both of their asses taste that disgusting ink.

"ew! what the heck, freak?!"

DL gestures to his stained clothing and bones.

"Oh now you care about sanitary."

Jax remarks sarcastically, rolling his eyes the sassiest way any sass has ever sassed. Their little banter was interrupted by a clicking sound. Looks like Freddy opened the safe with weapons. The realization makes both of them forget about the inky situation and turn their heads towards the treasure box. Quite nosy ahh.

"so that's where you get your mics from?"

"I always keep many more just in case... Horhorhor..."

Freddy laughs to his own unintended pun as he opens the case, with all kinds of mics. DL himself took a note of the pun, chuckling and letting Freddy know he liked the pun. The mics seemed like a collector's heaven with all the mics that varied between different amplifiers and designs and many magical girl weapon looking mics.

"Woah... This looks like this could unlock a secret ending."

Jax was completely mesmerized by the case's components.

"are you going to use them all?"

"No, just some... Juuuust in case."

As Freddy says the last part he slowly slides his eyes to DL to see his reaction.

"Horhorhorhor."
"Hehehehehe."

This peak ass dialogue was raping Jax' mind. The pun itself was mid as fuck and those two were laughing about it like it was peak comedy. The entire scene was making Jax feel something unpleasant he couldn't determine yet, the uncertainty of it making things worse.

"Maybe y'all should kiss already."

He spews in a cold and sarcastic tone, seasoning it with his signature side eye. The two don't hear Jax' words however, they were busy hor-ing and heh-ing. This angers Jax even more, being ignored is not something he ever faced. At least Kinito would always pay attention to him, well what would he know... He is with these two for a single day while DL and Freddy had been hanging out for quite a while, but logic wasn't about to settle in Jax' mind.

"Hello???? I'm here????"

Jax tries to get their attention in more impatient tone.

"Yeah yeah, we know."

Freddy dismissingly replies, calming down not too long after.

"You are right though Jax we should focus on more important things than stupid puns."

Now it was DL's turn to get jealous. Bro narrows his eyes as Freddy says that.

"but we were enjoying it."

"Doesn't make it any less stupid."

Freddy gets his attention back to the safe digging through stuff as he finds few more weapons.

"Our inventory is limited. It'd be ideal if we equipped all of them, but we can't physically carry them all."

"comprehensible."

Freddy the tosses little bags to both DL and Jax.

"I collected some weapons in there I found suitable for each of you. Let's hope both of you are capable enough not to get eliminated for being weak."

"That was rude but thank you?"

After some more of detailed discussions and plan forming with all the maps around in Freddy's office room, the trio was now prepared to leave the house. None of them noticed how the amount of ink strangely reduced itself.
Meanwhile in that basement, around the darkest corner where the ink was flowing, a tall, slim figure formed, it's big ass clawed hands exploring it's new surroundings, after the figure got familiar with the location, it's body shifted into much shorter and friendlier body, old disney like character with a funny shaped head and toothy smile.

"Those toots are quite interesting."

Chapter 30: Regular Begin

In contrast Kinito and CatBob were having a silly little traveling together, entertaining themselves by singing little songs. It was the only thing they could do to not end up sobbing about their situation, that's how CatBob said anyway.

"Hey, Kin-kun."

"Are you adressing me, my friend?"

"Yes, that's a new nickname I came up with."

Again even with lack of the mouth, CatBob could see Kinito smiling.

"That's such a cute nickname, friend! I'm glad you trust me enough to give me nicknames like these."

CatBob giggles.

"I'm glad you like it! I always love to give nicknames to my friends."

"So what did you want to tell me?"

"Ah! Right, I wanted to ask you something.-"

"What is it?"

"Are you really not sure where to find your friend? I mean, you guys were seperated in a way you would at least have an idea where to find him... Unlike me and Pat."

"The thing is, I personally have no idea what that animatronic and skeleton are aiming to do."

"Why would they even turn him against you? You're such a good friend, Kin-kun."

"Haha... I'm flattered... But maybe not good enough..."

"What are you saying? You've listened to me rant and ramble for the longest that I was almost forgetting to ask about you! I'm usually never like this-"

"You are stressed enough, my friend, you just want to find the person you deeply care about."

CatBob sighs, upset about the fact that he doesn't find that as a valid excuse.

"Back to you. Why do you think they turned him against you?"

Kinito starts thinking deeply. Just being an independant entity from any program was not a guarantee for his emotional intelligence. Sure back when he was just an AI, he was exceptional when it came to really feeling at least a single emotion. That single emotion was all he knew: that deep love towards his friend. With absolutely no idea how to regulate or even deal with it was really causing him problems he wasn't aware of yet. He's so focused on being just an assistant or "just a friend" as he precieves it, that he is deeply unaware the complete disaster that is his emotional intelligence, something he never deemed as important feature for some reason. Even right now he is so passionately skipping over the obvious fact that without this crucial knowledge he never can be exceptional.

"You... Really have no idea?"

Kinito sadly shakes his head.

"Did you two fight at all?"

"No absolutely. We never had any argument up until that point."

"I never asked how your friendship was like..."

"What do you mean?"

"I never learned much about you and your friendship. I rambled all about myself but never heard from you. Please can you tell me about it?"

Kinito was a bit taken aback by the request,  but he wasn't opposed to the idea, he smiles warmly as he refreshes his memory and begins the story.

"I met him when he appeared on my former user's desktop by a mistake my rival made. I think he was aggrivated by something with the way he woke me up violently. Of course I never payed any mind to it and started a conversation with him."

"Did you find out from what he was so aggrivated?"

"I don't think so, his responses were dismissive and sarcastic at first, but then he accepted me..."

"Aww just like my friend Squidward."

"Squidward? Is that your other friend?"

Kinito immediately gets distracted as CatBob comments. Being a listener and assistant is all he knew, of course he would prioritize any little bit of information about his new friend over sharing something about himself. Even being free from all the programming didn't ensure him getting out of that virtual assistant habit.

"Yeah, but continue! I'm invested, continue!!"

Welp, good thing that new friend was insisting of Kinito sharing his story.

"Where did I stop?... Ah yes. He gradually opened up to me, although it really took him countless of rather embarassing moments of "don't tell me what to do" phase."

CatBob slightly tilts his head.

"A "don't tell me what to do" phase?"

"Well yeah, he is a human trapped in the digital world, so he doesn't have the access to the web the way me and you do. Some things were dangerous for him."

"A human can be trapped in what world again?"

That reminds Kinito that some characters don't fully comprehend what he does. His gaze softens as he realizes that.

"I meant our world. But anyway, this part is not important foe details. Only the fact that my friend isn't from this world."

"That means that in whatever situation he was in, you were like a guardian angel."

"More like a virtual assistant."

"No. How can you say that? Just a virtual assistant? That's how little you view yourself in the friendship?"

"Excuse me? What do you mean?"

"Is friendship just assisting to you? Do you really not feel anything when listening to your friend tell you about something they are excited about?? Is it really just assisting to you?"

Kinito couldn't answer, those were questions he never asked to himself, he was living blissfully unaware.

"But don't you technically assist your friend all the time?"

"No?? You are just... Being friends."

"But... That's all I know... Assist and entertain someone you really want to be close to until they don't want to separate anymore."

"That's- ... Very different way of defining friendship."

"How do you define it?"

CatBob thinks for a moment trying to gather his thoughts.

"Well, friendship is not only someone you can rely on. It's also how much fun do you have with them, how much you grow to cherish that person and the time spent with them."

"That falls into my criterias too. I deeply cherish Jax and the time I spend with him, which is why I so desperately want to see him again."

"Yeah but you see it as you assisting him. Is it really everything?"

"I..."

Kinito was not having an easy time trying to find an answer.

"But assisting is quite an important job-"

"Silly! Friendship isn't some business or a 9 to 5! Assisting is important but it's not everything."

"It's not?"

"Silly you... You aren't a robot right?"

"No, of course not! And not even an AI. Not anymore..."

"Then you would have no problem on focusing what having a friend feels like."

"But I know what it feels like. I feel... Complete. I feel complete and content when I can be everything my dear friend needs me to be. That makes me feel joy."

CatBob facepalms.

"What? Did I say something wrong, friend?"

"Do I mean something to you as a friend? Other than being someone you want to assist?"

"Of course you mean everything to me. You're my friend."

"You still need to learn so much about friendship and feelings, Kin-kun."

"Am I saying something wrong again?"

"Not wrong, you are just... Missing something big. As if you never recognize your own feelings."

Kinito looks confused. This whole talk was confusing. Such on odd thing to miss out on, is he not exceptional? Was he ever exceptional? Of course he can feel, he can tell by his own experience, but what does it mean to recognize the feelings? In his opinion he is pretty aware of his own feelings. It's his own after all, how could he not understand them?

"Kin-kun... I know you have a soul... One of my abilities is to touch a person's soul with my cooking. I clearly succeeded with yours too I know that. I know you can feel. You're just lost because you just don't understand much about feelings."

Kinito blushed slightly in response. That call out was a bit embarassing to him. Someone seeing that he is not perfect is unacceptable, he can't afford anything less than being exceptional at all times. Even if he wasn't threatened to be deleted in case of failure, being abandoned is a very real possibility. He stops walking.

"Bob... I..."

"It's okay Kin-kun! You just need a little help and I'm more than happy to provide it along the way."

CatBob smiles brightly and giggles.

"How can I not understand my feelings?"

"You'd be surprised to find out how many don't understand their feelings."

Suddenly Kinito's eyes widen.

"Wait... Could it be...?"

 

Chapter 31: Hey Beginners!!

As Kinito once again replays Jax' words in his head before he was shot, it finally occurs to him. He doesn't know if it is true that he doesn't understand his own feelings, but he is sure that he never understood Jax' feelings. Why was he aggrivated, why was he sarcastic, why he always yearned for violence or yearned for the lost mines, why did he miss him all the time, why was he so betrayed.

"Kin-kun?? Are you okay??"

At that point CatBob was shaking Kinito from his fins, careful to not damage those.

"Wait you are so right my friend... I never truly understood his feelings. I thought our communication was exceptional but how can it be exceptional when he is mystery to me?? What kind of a friend even am I?"

Neuron activation guys! Kinito places his floating gloves on CatBob's shoulders.

"Please can you help me? You seem to understand all about feelings, I beg you, if I continue ignoring this lack of knowledge maybe I won't be able to find Jax at all!"

CatBob was taken aback by the request but it didn't take long before his eyes start sparkling and a wide smile formed on his face.

"Of course I'll help a friend, Kin-kun!"

And this is how CatBob becomes a free therapist for Kinito, not that he minded. He has been employee of the month for ~31 years straight with no salary at all.

"For starters you need to question all of your feelings, maybe even existence."

"What do you mean by questioning my existence?"

"You do know what do you want to do in life right?"

"Yes, I want to assist my friends, help with organizing stuff and finding any information. That's why I exist."

"Any hobbies or things you enjoy?"

"Assisting my friends is what brings me happiness."

"Not even catching jellyfishes?"

Kinito looks at CatBob confused.

"Catching jellyfishes?"

CatBob hands Kinito a net.

"Let's go, I know a place where we can catch jellyfishes! Nyah! This is going to be so much fun!"

CatBob giggles as he holds Kinito's 'hand' and drags him somewhere.

"I didn't know you were supposed to catch jellyfishes."

"It something we like doing. Besides in the end we let them go."

"We?"

"Me and Patric often went to catch them."

After some thinking Kinito realised that it was an equivalent of catching butterflies, it was just a matter of environmental change.

"Don't they sting you?"

"When you are not careful, or when you make them angry, they do."

Kinito doesn't ask questions anymore, he just watches as CatBob excitedly drags him to what it looks like a field with jellyfishes as habitants. Looks like a fangame interface to him.

"The one in my home is always going to be my favourite field, but around this part I could find lots of different fields!"

Kinito looks around, all the fields being either from fanart, from fangame and from more little creatings.

"Those are pretty close to the one in your homeland right?"

"Some are, and some are new to me, which is also exciting! Now let me show you how we catch jellyfishes!"

CatBob then runs around with his net, the joy beaming from his face, even to Kinito it was obvious that the entire process made him happy, not just succeeding in catching. While catching, CatBob was careful to not swing his net way too hard, harming the jellyfishes is not his intention after all. Once he caught one, he quickly ran to Kinito to show his results. Face beaming with pure joy, he points to his net.

"See? This is how we do it!"

Kinito examines the net, the jellyfish looking quite blissfully comfortable in it. CatBob then lets the jellyfish swim free.

"That's quite a simple activity."

"Wanna try? It will be fun."

Kinito smiles softly.

"Sure, why not?"

Kinito walks around, the net held tightly in his hands, he then sees a lone jellyfish vibing on its place. That will be his first target. Kinito slowly walks over to jellyfish, careful to not frighten it with his 10ft frame. The jellyfish had absolutely no reaction. Kinito could only guess wether the little one was blissfully unaware or simply gave no fucks. He decides to swing his net only to see the jellyfish successfully dodging it. Yup, it definately noticed him. Kinito however was so invested that he didn't even notice how he started running after it. It took him 5 whole minutes of running and missing the swing before he finally got that buzzing pink blob. Upon the success he runs to CatBob, showing his first catch.

"I got it! I got it! Look at this!"

"See? I told you it would be fun."

CatBob's words make Kinito realize something about his feelings. This was the first time he experienced this kind of joy. The one that was his, and had nothing to do with his original 'job'.

"Want to play a game with me?"

"Will we catch jellyfishes again?"

From Kinito's tone CatBob could tell how truly excited the axolotl was. This made him happy too.

"Yes! In fact, who catches the most jellyfishes, wins."

"But how-"

Kinito couldn't finish his sentence before CatBob sprinted to the fields. This time he was chasing crowds of jellyfishes, with each addition expanding the net cartoonishly. Kinito takes a look at his own net before running to the field again. Kinito wasn't as fast as CatBob, once around a crowd, he slowed down and watched his steps to not get stinged by one. He was swinging his net one by one, extremely careful about his movements. After few minutes the field got empty, Kinito caught his 7th and couldn't find one more to catch, that's when he noticed CatBob's now giant net full of maybe a hundred of those jellyfishes. He was amazed.

"B-but how??"

"Don't worry Kin-kun."

CatBob speaks reasurringly, a big smile on his face.

"You will get better after each time that you do it. Did you have fun?"

"That was the most fun I have ever had in my life! I need to show this activity to Jax, he will so like it too! ... ... If I can ever find him again."

Kinito's mood was ruined by that simple reminder. He is taken aback when CatBob giggles.

"What's so funny, friend?"

"I'm happy you have your own feelings! That means you are a step closer to get your friend back!"

"That joy... Was my own?"

"Yes, it didn't come from any assisting task. You enjoyed yourself purely."

Kinito thinks about CatBob's words, he did learn something new thanks to their friendship.

In the meantime

Jax, DL and Freddy made it to the database tower, the three of them entering without any problem with the drone cores merged with their beings. The three waste no time trying to find all the originating codes. 6969th floor it was in. Jax gets annoyed, there was no way they were getting to that floor in a week with elevator.

"It's not your regular elevator."

Freddy says, gesturing the two to enter it.

"You see, this one's quantum."

Freddy dials the code of the floor that they need and the elevator basically teleports them there.

"Oh wow-"

Jax absolutely had no idea how to react to any of it. And he didn't try to waste time to comprehend things as soon as he saw the giant storage room, his ears dropping as he saw the mere size of it.

"How in the hell are we going to find his data??"

Jax was ready to throw the tantrum.

"Relax Jax, we aren't mindlessly looking through everything."

Freddy gets his magical mic ready. He walks around looking for something while DL and Jax look at each other shrugging. Soon he comes back with a mini laptop in his paws. It looked like another model of the drones which was connected to all the drawers in the storage. Freddy then activates his mic, manipulating and forcing his way through accessing it, it was time to search gor an exact data code in trillions of those. Even search engines couldn't bare that much. Freddy makes sure to get every single KinitoPET related data: fanfictions, fanarts, animations, every single piece of media and of course the app packages, and finally the code of the one single non AI Kinito that they want to destroy. Freddy then looks at Jax, signaling him to be the one to destroy that abomination.
Jax takes a deep breath and approaches, nervous about the thing he has to do right now. DL puts a hand on his shoulder.

"don't worry. this is it, you'll finally get your revenge in a minute."

Jax nods, that's the first time DL ever encouraged someone.

"Alright... Here goes nothing."

Chapter 32: Eren Yeager Is Not A Beginner

The inky creature finally got out of Freddy's house, tasting the freedom once again in years. He walks around thinking who knows what going who knows where, maybe he had no idea himself. It was weird to finally stop being a mere tattoo but it sure as hell was nice. He soon notices few broken bots on the ground. Curiosity triggered, he takes the pieces into his hand, examining it. Upon raising his head, the little guy notices dozens of drones flying, they were looking like the mended version of the broken ones. Seems questionable to him why are there broken ones lying around. He doesn't get to think much before he hears all too familiar and obnoxious screaming seasoned with vivziepop dictionary. The terror is written across his face as he identifies who's voice it really is.
The guy looks around in hurry, trying to find the best hiding spot. A powered on lightbulb appears around his head as he sees the broken drones once again. He quickly turns into an ink puddle surrounding the drones. He does it just in time before radke with his bf can notice him. As soon as their obnoxious voices with mid ass music fades away, the little guy peeks to make sure he is safe. Just then he feels a sharp pain combined with something weird. The pain didn't last long. It stopped amplifying as soon as someone escaped from the ink. A certain skeleton, with a smile identical to the inky guy's one.

"This looks worse than I originally thought it was."

He says looking around and seeing that puddle of ink that randomly opened a portal for him. It wasn't just a puddle, it was someone's body! He was quietly whining from pain, his 'breathing' fastened and heavy. The puddle slowly formed into his full little body.

"Oh my! Did I hurt you?"

As the pain calms down so does his breathing, he prepares to speak but just shrugs. He preferred to stay mute for now at least.

"Man I'm really sorry about that."

Ink chuckles awkwardly.

"You see there is something horrible going on around here, I need to stop whatever it is."

The little guy tilts his head slightly bring his left hand to his chin, his expression confused.

"Well how do I put it. This giant tower you see, is the place where our lives begin. Someone is trying to mess with it and I am here to see who it is and stop it. So who are you?"

The guy looked upset about the news but decides to react to the last question. He raises his index finger and takes a deep breath but an obnoxious voice rudely interrupts by calling out.

"BENDY!! WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU?!"

Upon hearing that voice Bendy's face becomes pale, the skeleton looks at the direction where Bendy is staring, two wannabe alt emo middle aged men were walking towards them. The skeleton blinks his eye lights changing to ? and ! symbols. They did not look friendly. Bendy's body starts shaking, he was in freeze response.

"Sup fellas?"

Ink steps in front of Bendy, shielding him and initiating a conversation with them.

"Who the fuck are you? My fucking tattoo is gone and it's his fucking fault!"

Radke's obnoxious voice never failed to rape ears all around the worlds. Ink stares at him dumbfounded for a moment before regaining his composure.

"What do you mean his fault? I can try to fix it."

"What would fucking you fucking know??"

"I'm an artist."

Radke side eyes the 3'8" skeleton, underestimating him clearly.

"Fucking dumbass, he fucking was the fucking tattoo!"

"Excuse me??"

Bendy then pokes Ink's shoulder trying to show him something.
Upon seeing the photo Ink bursts out laughing.

"The heck does that mean?! Your precious tattoo was a splash of ink??"

Ink wheezes for while a while, each second damaging radke's ego more and more.

"This is not fucking helping!!"

"Yeah I tell you what, I get you a new tattoo and you leave this fella alone."

Radke thinks about the deal.

"But if I don't fucking like it..."

Both of the punk cosplayers make a gesture translating to "you're dead".

"So you want that same one?"

"Duh."

As Ink prepares to draw, Bendy slowly steps back attempting to get away. 

"Not so fast you little fuck!"

Radke's bf is quick to catch Bendy.

"You ain't moving an inch until my darling ronnie approves."

Ink gives a disapproving glare to which radke replies by scoffing.

"Focus on your fucking job!"

Ink rolls his eyelights. He just splashes the black paint on his skin.

"Welp I'm done, now let go of Bendy."

"Ain't no way. My pookie ronnie never gave a permission."

"Uhh yeah fuck no, I don't fucking want to let him fucking go."

"What?? Did you not like the new tattoo?"

Radke examines his brand new tattoo.

"Yeah it's fucking nice and all but no I don't want to let that little fucker go."

"You don't understand. We had a deal."

"Oh boo-hoo. Don't let him go jimmy."

Ink's eyelights change again, indicating anger. The paint he used on radke quickly pains him by stretching his insides. His skin dries out and he loses the ability to breathe. Jimmy, concerned for his lover drops Bendy to the ground and runs towards him.

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY PANTY SHOT YOU FUCKER?!"

"We had a deal."

Ink says coldly as he splashes ink on the ground.

"Quick! Jump in it Bendy! I'll cover you."

Bendy nods and jumps into the ink and the portal closes after him. Urine doesn't fight Ink. He tries to help out radke but when his hands touch the paint, he finds himself grabbing radke's organs. The two start screaming endlessly and Ink decides to splash urine with the same paint before fleeing.

Bendy spawns into an unfamiliar place for him. At least he was away from the horrible mid ass musicians. The guy had no place to stay so he just keeps walking until he could find somewhere to spend the night. The guy walks for good 4 hours until his feet can't carry him anymore and he collapses from hunger and thirst. The last thing he hears is someone calling for a 'Kinkun' as footsteps were coming closer.
It was nice waking up in a nice warm bed for once. The room was warm and cozy.

"You woke up, my friend!"

Bendy turns his head seeing a giant axolotl trying to fit in the doorframe. Bendy slightly rubs his head, still feeling nauseus.

"We won't hurt you don't worry."

Kinito is quick to clear up his intentions.

"You must be hungry and thirsty, you were pretty weak when we found you."

Bendy nods slowly. He would so have a nice dinner right now. He then hears another voice talk.

"Is our new friend awake Kin-kun?"

"Yes he is, just woke up."

"Great! And the dinner is ready now."

The catsponge peeks through axolotl's legs. This amuses Bendy and his face quickly returns to that signature smiley face everyone remembers. CatBob shares a quick hi before running to kitchen and bring a plate of a freshly made warm burger. For some reason it was glowing gold. The sight made Bendy's pacman eyes sparkle even more, the smell of it made his mouth water. He looked at CatBob, then at the burger, not believing that he is getting something to eat.

"I promise you this is the best thing you are about to taste."

CatBob looked equally gleeful and excited, he couldn't wait to see Bendy's reaction after he was about to taste his very first Krabby Patty. Kinito in contrast to CatBob had rather calm and warm expression.
Bendy grabs the burger, feeling the a little crusty but soft texture of the buns, he took a bite and then cartoonish stars appeared around him. He was delighted to taste something so heavenly. As he finishes the burger he feels his body alright again, he is no longer weak or injured. Bendy jumps from the bed posing in his cartoonish way showing that the burger healed him alright, he then approaches CatBob and shakes his hand in sign of gratitude.

"See? I told you this would be the best thing you ever tasted-"

The happiness doesn't last very long before both of them hear a loud thud from another room. Curious to see what it is, both of them run towards the sound. Upon seeing what happened CatBob gasps heavily.

"KINITO?!"

 

Chapter 33: So Stop Begining Him Like He Is One

CatBob doesn't waste time to run towards Kinito's collapsed body.

"KINITO?? KINITO CAN YOU HEAR ME?!"

It was clear from his voice that he was panicking heavily, his mind was not working properly. Bendy's face fell as well, sure he was smiling, but that was rather horrified cringed expression. He wanted to help but he had no idea how. He quickly looks around gets a stool and reaches out for a sink. After grabbing a glass of water he runs back to that room and pours the cold water on Kinito's face. He then puts a hand on CatBob's shoulder, in attempt to ground him. He slightly shakes from CatBob's shoulder, trying to shift his attention. Upon noticing CatBob's attention shifting to him, he quickly offers another glass of water, his grip on CatBob soft but still tight. Bendy then takes deep breaths indicating CatBob to follow his lead. Soon both syncronize their breathing with Bendy now having both of his hands on CatBob's shoulders.

*Sigh* "Thank you, stranger that we never found out name of..."

"... Bendy..."

CatBob tilted his head just as soon as he heard Bendy talk.

"I'm Bendy..."

"It's nice to meet you Bendy... I'm CatBob..."

The two were focused on a conversation that should have happened before the incident, but at least it was grounding CatBob in a way.

"Was he ill?"

Bendy points to Kinito.

"N-no he never had a problem..."

Bendy grabs his chin with his left hand, looking down as he taps with his foot. Before anyone would break the silence, CatBob still tends to Kinito. Bendy suddenly realizes something, his face looking alarmed. At the same time Kinito weakly opens his eyes. The shorties work together to get Kinito in better condition before Bendy shares his idea.

"Uuugh... What happened... My friends?"

"We were talking with Bendy when you... Collapsed like that."

Kinito looks at the ink guy as CatBob refers to him by name. Ah right... He had no way of knowing the name. Bendy in response gives a small and weak wave.

"It's a shame that this is how I learn your name, my friend, I'm Kinito by the way."

Bendy gives an awkward smile.

"How are you, Kinito?"

Kinito did not expect to hear Bendy talk but here he was.

"I would love to say that I'm fine but... I really don't know what is happening to me."

"Bendy, you looked like you wanted to tell us something. Is it something that has to do with Kin-kun?"

Bendy shrugs.

"Not sure if it has to do with him, but before I appeared here, I was in front of a giant tower..."

He says as he tries to collect all the details and give the best description possible.

"A skeleton like person appeared, he told me that something sinister is going on in there. Some intruders were messing with things that caused disturbances... Not sure, but sounds like a big deal to me."

Kinito and CatBob glance at each other, both a little confused.

"My apologies if it doesn't help, I just thought I would share my concerns."

Kinito weakly places a hand on Bendy's shoulder.

"I appreciate your concern, my friend. Especially when I wasn't supposed to collapse like that and so suddenly."

"You... Weren't?? That's why my healing had no effect on you??"

Kinito tilts his head.

"What do you mean?"

"When I was trying to heal you, your body was already at it's best but you still were collapsed."

"That means whatever happened... It wasn't due to my own health... Maybe what Bendy said really has a connection to my state?"

CatBob thinks about those words, some things making sense and others not so much.

"So something or someone is causing this to happen..."

Kinito thinks partially out loud and then suddenly jolts from his place as the realization huts him.

"I know someone who could possibly do that!"

"Wait you really-"

"Freddy Fazbear..."

The name rings the bell for CatBob so hard he currently experiences a vietnam war falshback, he sits there utterly horrified, and unresponsive. This concerns Bendy, especially with the fact that he had absolutely no idea what Freddy was like other than hearing about him as a band singer that suddenly stopped his musical career.

"He manipulated with my friend Jax' feelings, made him shoot me! I will not be surprised if he is really responsible for something like that."

Kinito's anger gradually increases as he remembers about his experience with Freddy. He finally stands up from his place.

"I very much am grateful for your generoucity, CatBob, but I believe this is the call for our separation. I need to stop Freddy or whoever is causing this disturbance."

Kinito really thinks he's him with that heroic ahh speech. CatBob gets frustrated.

"Who said you'll be going alone?! We are friends, and I will protect my friend."

"And I want to protect you too that's why I must go alone."

"Like it or not, I'm coming too! I'm not ready to lose another friend... Not again."

CatBob declares full of determination. That attitude full of fire inspires Bendy as well. He steps up with CatBob, both insisting to come with him.

"Bendy, you were just healed. I'm not sure that you are fit to cone along."

"Of course I am fit to come along, that's the least I could do to pay you two back for your kindness in such a dire time."

"Bendy, my friend, you don't have to pay, we don't expect you to..."

"And you don't need to expect, I'll come along and help you."

With no way for Kinito to talk the shorties out of it, he sighs and gives in. He reaches out to his inventory, only to remember that his glitchy surfboard was broken during the heart-surfbreaking fight with Jax. He reluctantly takes out his regular surfboard, knowing that without the glitch's teleporting feature they might be too slow. Bendy notices Kinito's discomfort about that and puts his hands in his pockets only to feel some items in it. Weird, he doesn't have anything with him, he quickly grabs them from his pocket and examines them, those were some vials with black paint in it. He knew all too well what ink would be like to immediately tell that it's a paint. He then remembers his encounter with Ink (the Sans). Maybe he slid some in his pocket, Bendy thought. He didn't steal anything, nor he would ask for something like that. Trying wouldn't hurt anyway, just spill the paint and jump in it, the worst that could happen would be immediate need for shower and laundry duties.

"Toots, I can suggest an idea."

Bendy says showcasing the vials with paint. This interests Kinito and CatBob, who start asking what the idea would be, full attention now shifted to the vials.

"Well the skeleton opened a portal for me using his paint. We were in a hurry because he was saving me from the people who were holding me as hostage..."

Visible sadness washes over both Kinito and CatBob after learning that Bendy does not have a happy life. However that does not stop Bendy from trying to make his point.

"I think he slid those to my pocket because I personally never steal or ask gears like that. The point is, the paint itself works as portal or it should if my theory is correct. Should we try it?"

Kinito and CatBob look at each other and then nod.

"Sounds like it would be faster with portal. We have nothing to lose if it doesn't work, my friend."

Bendy leaves one vial in his hand and secures the others in a pocket, making sure those won't get lost later. He then gently opens the vial and spills the paint. Him being the first one to try and jump in it.

"...Here goes nothing..."

As soon as he is about to jump, said ink skeleton jumps out of it. His clothes are now torn and he is not in a good shape himself.

"Bendy!"

Bendy tries to call out for the skeleton guy but realizes he doesn't know his name. The skeleton chuckles.

"The name's Ink. Easy to remember, right? Anyway, that really helped me out, thank you Bendy."

"What happened to you?"

"I was in that tower, apperantly I did something wrong and now the drones are looking for me besides the ones responsible for the deletion operation were Freddy Fazbear, a mistake called DL, and a purple rabbit I'm not familiar with."

Kinito's eyes widen, as he knows all too well who is the purple rabbit in question.

"J-Jax... ... What have I done..."

 

Chapter 34: I Can't Capture Beginner's Beauty

Ink looks at Kinito with confusion.

"You know that guy?"

Kinito nods sadly.

"I ruined our friendship and he started hanging out with these two..."

Ink doesn't look too emotionally invested in the drama.

"Anyway, that purple rabbit guy seemed way too emotional to carry out whatever was assigned to him, but it looked like the three of them were pretty determined to erase some things without realising that it is hurting all of us."

"We were heading to the tower anyway, that's why Bendy opened the portal."

CatBob clarifies handing Ink that glowing Krabby Patty, which heals the guy and fixes his clothes. Hearing this Ink chuckles awkwardly.

"Oh my, I wasted one of my own gifts to him, what a waste."

"So that was you who gave them to me after all?"

"Who else would it be? Those middle aged weirdos? I thought you would need those if that incident happened again."

"That's so thoughtful... Thank you..."

"I'll take us there. You guys were heading to the tower too right? Then there is no time to waste."

Ink doesn't wait anyone to reply as he gets his paintbrush and spills a black paint opening the portal. During that same time Kinito got his surfboard and invited CatBob with Bendy to have a ride as well. The four of them jump into the paint and next thing they know they are now at the entrance of the database tower.

Up until this point in time

Jax was sitting in front of the data code, with each step his hands were shaking more and more. His feelings were starting to resurface which caused him to realise how numb he had been up until now. The thought of getting rid of Kinito forever woke so many feelings up: good, bad, nostalgic, regretful. Jax wasn't ready for this, deep down he didn't want to do this but the voices in his head insisting him to delete Kinito were loud. Everything was so loud right now he couldn't take it anymore. With each step he would reluctantly take his heart was sinking more. He decides to let himself get numb again.

Back to the shawties

The good guy crew was not ready for the sight. There were no drones flying around, all them them were broken and on the ground.

"What happened here?? I thought those drones were crucial part of the digital world."

Kinito's surprised to say the least but also concerned about the situation.

"You see, when I caused the alarm to go off, the little trick that Freddy's team pulled of to stay unnoticed was exposed. I believe Freddy took drastic measures for that to happen. Now let's go, we have no time to waste."

Ink runs towards the entrance after saying that. Kinito and others follow with the surfboard, however Kinito starts feeling weird again. Four of them reach the quantum elevator not uttering a single word to each other. All of them were nervous about the upcoming fight deep inside. Kinito steps in front of the short gang. He was ready to protect all of them but mostly he was determined to face Jax again. As they reach the floor they need, they don't spend too much time searching for the problematic trio.
Jax is the first one to see the guests and upon seeing the all too familiar 10ft frame he freezes in his place, his eyes widening.

"Jax, my dear friend! You're alive!"

Kinito's quick to approach him, but he stops as he sees what was happening. The code that matches Kinito right in front of him as he was stood before a dilemma wether Jax is sure if he wants to confirm deletion or not. His eyes tear up as he stares right into Kinito's eyes.

"Kinito... You're... Alive?"

Kinito is devastated upon the sight.

"Jax, did I fail you that horribly?"

"K-Kinito please..."

Jax wasn't able to speak coherently, he starts sobbing from all the overwhelming emotions.

"I... I..."

"Shhh it's okay Jax. We can talk it out, okay? I'll listen to you."

"Kinito... I-"

Jax doesn't get to finish his sentence as he gets frozen in place after a familiar voice starts singing. Freddy was on the stage. Now everything was clear, Freddy was hypnotizing Jax with his songs this whole time.

"N-nono... W-wait... I... Need... To..."

Jax' struggle was clear. Obviously it was hard when he was fighting alone. This was angering Kinito.

"You fraud! Stop this instant! Let him think for himself!"

Freddy rolled his eyes and continued singing. Noticing that talk was useless here, Kinito walks up to Freddy. Soon enough Jax breaks away from the spell himself.

"LEAVE ME ALONE!! I AM NOT YOUR PUPPET! I DON'T WANT TO DO ANY OF THIS!"

Freddy was flabbergasted. This was the first time someone was breaking away from his tricks on their own. Much less someone as pathetic as Jax was. Freddy quickly checks his mic, amplifying the hypnotizing magic but before he could start singing again a ball of ink covers the surface of it, fully breaking the mic. Freddy looks towards the direction that thing came from and notices Bendy blowing his finger as if he shot from a gun with a wide grin on his face.

"Bullseye, Bendy!"

Ink celebrates that excitedly. Freddy growls as he sees them and aggressively throws away the mic, aiming for Bendy's head, but to his surprise, Ink and Bendy combine their ink and paint powers, creating a mix mixed wall that absorbs the mic. The wall's existence doesn't last long before it becomes merely a cylinder for Bendy and the mic now fully inked making him look like a one entertaining game show host. Freddy snorts from the sheer absurdity of it.

"You're gonna fight me with this broken thing while cosplaying?"

"What a wonderful day has today been right?"

Bendy was now in his element, seemingly entertaining audience, the mic made his voice sound like it was coming from a radio. Before Freddy could react to anything Kinito throws a single punch but then gets yeeting by DL's bone attacks.

"No! Wait! Stop fighting guys!! We can talk it out please!!"

Jax was desperately trying to defuse the situation with no result. He also gets yeeted by DL's bone attack.

"you don't know what are you doing ya wimp."

Jax turned to look at him. His tone sounded disgusted and furious.

"DL, please..."

"please what? you want me to kiss you goodnight?"

"No, I-"

"be a good guy, stay like this and don't get under our feet."

DL then leaves Jax and walks up to Kinito and Freddy. Meanwhile Bendy was still in his element.

"Sunny weather was promised all around this wonderful world!"

DL was already getting aggrivated from that voice and he instead started attacking Bendy, who was talking and successfully dodging all of DL's bones.

"However due to the tower crisis right now we just found out that there had been drastic changes to the climate and we will witness an extremely polluted ink storm! So gather your belongings and surrender! No? Then good luck!"

Bendy then takes a cover with Ink and CatBob as huge ink balls in a size of meteors start falling.

"what the-"

DL was attentive enough to dodge every single ink ball. Jax, who was still pathetically laying on the ground noticed the balls and froze in place, as if he wasn't damseling already. Kinito straight up sprints and carries Jax to a nearby cover while Freddy was too slow and gets hit by an ink ball.

"Kinito... You saved me... Thank you."

"It's all in a day's work, my friend."

Bendy attempts to speak into the mic but notices that it isn't working anymore, he just shrugs and throws it in the air to explode. Freddy om the other hand doesn't get to clean off the ink in time. Soon it dries out and Freddy's unable to move his limbs.

"oh no... freddy!"

DL looks genuinely concerned for the first time in this fanfiction. He ignores the enemies and forms mini blasters. Those were enough to melt down the ink but not hurt Freddy. DL doesn't get to do much before he is hit by a rainbow blaster.

"wh- what in the-?!"

He turns around seeing Ink messing with him.

"no wonder the blaster was frickin gay as fuck."

"We didn't even get to end our last encounter properly."

DL growls.

"yer right. this needs to end fast."

Chapter 35: What In The Begin?!

As Ink and DL were busy fighting each other, Bendy charged another ball of ink on Freddy. His state was back at status quo.

"Are you kidding me?!"

Freddy attempts to move but gives up as he realizes that his efforts are only a waste of time. The advantage was on the shorts+Kinito team's side. Of course it would, mofos are fighting 4v2 considering Jax is being as useless as ever. Speaking of Jax, he was in fact pathetically watching everything happen. Even if he was basically hypnotized, the bond they had seemed real, at least to him. He never wanted this fight to happen. Not between the people he cares about. Kinito was still covering Jax, Ink's and DL's fight turned out to be actually something epic that Underverse could maybe use (jk... Unless...). Bones and paints were flying across which made it risky to run around, so Kinito was the one covering Jax' head.

"Don't worry, my dearest friend, I won't let you get harmed."

"I don't want anyone in here to be harmed!"

Jax exclaims softly, his voice full of concern.

"Please tell me that they never harmed you seriously."

Kinito seemed to want to examine Jax but prioritized covering his head for the time being.

"No Nito... I... I..."

"Wait a minute. You... Feel different."

"Hmm? In what sense?"

"You don't feel... Human anymore..."

Jax remembers what he did before entering this tower. He sure changed his entire being, but still wasn't fully sure what happened.

"What did they do to you, Jax?"

Kinito's voice dropped to a lower octave on reflex. Something Jax never witnessed, like queen, me too this is the first time happening.

"N-Nito??"

"I said what did they do to you?"

Blud yall are NOT enemies to lovers. But who am I to judge showcases of affection.

"Kinito, nothing really happened. See? I'm okay."

"Something's not right... It's not right..."

"Kinito... You're worried for me?"

"Of course I am! I care for you. I care for you a lot, and I'll make sure to remind you that as soon as you forget that. I'll check you once everything's over, we will not sleep on it okay?"

Meanwhile Ink and DL seemed like equals in power when it came to fighting. Ink noticed that their constant attack and dodge banter was doing nothing, but thinking of a plan while in the middle of it wasn't easy task either. That's when he acknowledges one crucial pattern. There was a very certain spot DL would not step on while dodging and it was easy for Ink to realise why is that as he notices Freddy still unable to move in the back. DL notices that Ink didn't aim at him this time. Mofo how?? It was only a second of delay. He then notices where Ink decided to charge his attack. The terror on his face came faster than any diarrhea ever did.

"you wouldn't-"

Ink doesn't waste time or breath to start a useless conversation. Bro didn't follow the common action anime rule.

"freddy!! noo!!"

DL barely manages to teleport in front of the blasters just in time. He is quick to create a temporary bone shield. As he does so he looks back at Freddy to make sure that he is okay. He then turns to Ink.

"you bastard!!"

DL doesn't get to fully cuss out the guy before the shield melts away and the blaster ends up hitting him. Blaster's force had died down enough to not give one critical damage but it was still strong enough to throw DL across the room. The guy crashes his spine next to Freddy. DL barely manages not to pass out, he grunts attempting to make a single move, that LV grinding giving him more HP than 1 had finally come in handy.

"DL, you..."

"freddy... *cough cough* are you... okay?"

"Yes, I am, DL, you didn't have to-"

DL then forms a little bone, Freddy almost didn't notice it, well he wouldn't if he wasn't observant enough. Bendy saw something suspicious going on, he was far from them to notice what DL was actually doing but he decided to neutralize DL's movements anyway. He creates another ink ball and charges towards DL but before it could reach the intended target, DL aims the bone towards Freddy's right arm in which he was holding the new mic he got before he was stuck. It was a matter of milliseconds before DL would be too late.

"Wait!! Don't harm them!! Please!!!"

Jax cries out of desperation as he sees what happened to DL. Kinito had to hold Jax back for him to not run into danger.

"THEY ARE NOT BAD PEOPLE!!" 

Jax screams his lungs out as a last ditch attempt.
His desperation doesn't last long before DL's little advance helps Freddy to break free. He was now fully capable of using his mic.

"Bendy!! Watch out!-"

CatBob yells running towards Bendy but before he could reach Bendy, the sound wave identifying itself as an explosive wave knocks both of them out. Go woke go broke they say...

"Well that was close."

Freddy says cleaning of the remainer of the ink from himself.

"Bendy!!"
"CatBob!!"

Ink and Kinito yell out in unison. Jax however couldn't take the fighting anymore and decides to confront Ink.

"Why would you do something like that?? Why did you harm DL? He didn't do anything! I was the one messing with Kinito's codes!!"

"It wasn't just you."

"What do you mean?? I am the guilty one!"

"Freddy hypnotized you, don't you get it?? It is not your fault!"

Kinito chimes in, trying to talk sense into Jax while Ink showcases the code for entire Undertale and UTAU fandom. The codes were being messed with not only with Kinito.

"Don't tell me-"

"DL tried to erase all the innocent AUs and us. Why do you think I came here?"

"N-no... This can't be..."

Jax covers his mouth with both of his hands from the shock. Sure DL was a jerk but he didn't think that DL would go THAT far. His eyes tear up.

"Why would he... How could he..."

Kinito places a hand on Jax' shoulder in a comforting way.

"Freddy! Did I at least mean to you anything?"

"Come on, Jax you know they are lying just to get you."

"you don't know what they did to me..."

DL attempts to speak but from his voice he would really like to not to.

"Finish what you came here for."

"N-no! I don't want to. I'm not going to destroy Kinito."

"Pardon me?"

"At this point it looks like it's your wish, not mine."

"Jax, what are those accusations?"

Freddy shifts his tone to a rather soft one.

"Didn't you want revenge?"

"No... Not for a long while... No excuse me. I never wanted revenge it was just... Forced into my mind. Something forced that anger onto me."

"That's nonsense Jax, those were your own feelings, you are just afraid of them."

"You are right about something, Freddy. For the longest time I have been afraid of my own feelings, that's why I have been a jerk to Kinito! But not anymore. I am not going to lie seeing you all fight against each other breaks my heart because I know deep down none of you are bad people!! I wish we could all just... Get along, be friends and just... Stop fighting. Why do you want Kinito dead so much?! You might as well kill me instead of him!"

Jax' tone was raising with each sentence he was forming. Freddy and DL exchange glances.

"What? Why are you two silent? Say something!"

Jax was getting more and more desperate.

"You might wanna be careful with your words, Jax."

Freddy's tone drops which causes chills to run to Jax' spine, but he quickly regains his composure.

"I DON'T CARE! IF YOU WANT TO KILL HIM JUST KILL ME INSTEAD BECAUSE I WILL NEVER DO IT!!"

"Well if that's you wish..."

Freddy finally decides not to pretend and wear masks.

"We had a vendetta against you anyway!!"

"We?"

Jax asks in confusion and then glances at DL.

"You too?? So our bond means nothing to you?? Was none of our friendship real??"

"jax, i..."

DL tries to move to explain anything before he gets cut off.

"Don't confuse anything, Jax. It's YOU who willingly threw everything away just for some loser who is always going to friendzone you. Now if you don't mind..."

A portal suddenly opens a certain someone entering the battlefield.

"HelLLLOOO, Freddy thanks for inviting me!"

 

Chapter 36: Begin? More Like Beg In... Heh

Jax' eyes widen as he realizes who joined the party.

"freddy? any help here??"

At least someone here forgot about this one edgelord. Freddy looked like he was passing that criteria, though I don't remember him having dementia.

"C-Caine?? What the hell are you doing here??"

Jax asked his voice trembling, he was still not over the fact that he was sold off just like that.

"I couldn't ghost my pookie like that!! So I rushed over here the minute Fredrick called me!"

Caine answers unbothered, at least unbothered for his character. How dare he appear just like that and so shameless in front of Jax, and act as if nothing messed up happened. This pisses the pathetic rabbit off. How dare he not be the center of Caine's attention.

"YOU PRICK!! AREN'T YOU GOING TO TELL ME WHAT DID YOU SELL ME LIKE THAT FOR?!"

"Oh!! Right I did sell you off!! However that's none of your business!!"

Caine replies enthusiastically. Bro did NOT care about Jax' feelings.

"YOU SON OF A-!!!"

"HOOOweverrr!! I am willing to share my personal information regarding the trade!! Just to soothe your little offense!"

"Litt- LITTLE OFFENSE?! THAT'S A VIOLATION OF MY RIGHTS!!"

"Anyway you were sold off for this!!"

Caine reaches into his pocket and gets a neatly wrapped love letter and a penny. Jax looks at the contents of Caine's hand in pure disbelief. Was he THAT worthless? That letter better be something worth it or he was going to lose it. Dude's left eye starts twitching.

"Am I... Getting this correctly? A penny and a letter?! Please tell me this is a joke! PLEASE I BEG YOU!!"

Jax' anger was turning to more desperation. If this was really true and real, Caine was feasting him hard.

"I'm not here to discuss your market value-"

"BITCH WHAT THE-"

Jax talks over Caine who was non chalant about the entire trafficking situation. That doesn't budge Caine though.

"...- What I am here for, though, is my pookie as I mentioned before."

"Caine, I asked you to please stop calling me your pookie."

Freddy blushes not from flattery but from pure embarassment.

"You know I can't pookie-dookie!!"

Freddy sighs.

"I called you for help, not for simp-show."

"Oh please! Can't a guy gush over someone he cares abou-? What the hell is HE doing here?!"

Caine's tone changes as he finally notices Kinito who was busy consoling Jax. About the damn time geez! Caine breaks the record of blindness by not seeing a 10ft tall half-ass axolotl in front of him. What can I say bro? Bravo.

"At least I'm not out here selling my users for some useless rusty penny."

"Gasp How absolutely DARE you?! I work all day like a dog and you're here dogging my priorities of keeping my crew safe and entertai-"

"He was part of your crew. Cut your bullshit."

Kinito says calmly in contrast of Caine's yelling. Now come to think of it Kinito has always had that calm demeanor while Caine was more of a yeller.

"You always seem to have a beef with someone, Caine. It started with me just because all you ever saw in me was a threat!-"

"That's how business works, bummy!"

"But you went so far you can't even see that you're about to drown in your own beef!"

Caine laughs once again not letting Kinito finish his speech.

"Just what are you talking about?!"

"Oh! You know? The fact that you were always in cold war with me for some reason! And you went ahead and willingly lost one of your members! And guess who is he with now?!"

Caine can't find anything snarky to reply with.

"You are gathering crew for your circus. But you can't even realise that the biggest clown there is you."

"You're such a headache! Caring about someone so harmful for the team!"

"For a sentient AI... You sure have no single understanding of your own. Quite shameful... If I do say so myself."

This was starting to piss of Caine so much. Such an accusation couldn't go unnoticed, this was about his own existence being put under a question. That was something Caine's unable to ignore.

"You have no place accusing me of such allegations when your entire fame comes from excessively terrorizing your users!"

"I made mistakes and I've been working on those ever since. You downgraded. I'm sure someone like you would be able to know which is the better option."

"You call it downgrade, I call it caring for all of my crew."

"And that's why you sold one of them when you found yourself unable to truly understand the complexity of human emotion."

"As if you do!"

The two exchange more middle schooler insults. Jax gets sick of it already. But before he could intervene, Kinito continues.

"Yeah. Dare I say I do. Why do you think I take time and don't pile users like you do? A person in their private setting with only me to observe them helps you learn more about them, what they prefer, what they like, how they spend free time. That private bond is much more deep, much more valuable."

As Kinito continued his essay, Freddy rolled his eyes, breaking the 4th wall. Yeah dude, I know you are cringing, sit down. Freddy gives one last side eye. Caine simply doesn't give up debating.

"Maybe because you're bad at befriending?"

"Well at least not because I never remember my friends' preferences after a..."

Kinito clears his throat.

"F o r g e t E v e r y t h i n g."

Caine laughs, this catches Kinito off guard.

"This trick would have worked before I ever made contact with Fredrick!"

"N-no... This can't be..."

"That's right Nito!! I'm no longer that pathetic code pile I used to be!!"

"ONLY I GET TO CALL HIM NITO!!"

Jax cries out furiously. Jealous much? Caine ignores Jax yet again and glances at Freddy who was successfully ignoring DL's chopped ass.

Caine and Freddy were preparing for a dual attack against Kinito. Jax' eyes widen as he cries out.

"NOOOOO!!!"

"Jax! What are you-?"

Kinito couldn't finish the sentence before Jax dashed towards the prosthetic and the toothfull animatronic. All he had for attacks was his noodle fists up until he remembered his special noodle ears. His attacks were just as pathetic as he was but he had the spirit I guess. For some noodle build like he had, he sure was standing longer in that fistfight against the two of them than expected, however he barely caused any damage to them. The L he carries is carrying an L. That's how much of an aura debt Jax has.

"Alright. Enough games."

Evantually Freddy manages to grab Jax' noodle wrists, twist them and yeet the dude across the room. Everyone's ears had to endure and not die as Jax was whining and grunting from pain.

"JAAX!! YOU-!!"

Kinito rages for real this time. He throws himself into a rageful fight up against Caine and Freddy. While that was happening, Jax comes to his senses, attempting to move although it was a hard task to do right now. He then notices a familiar figure stuck in an ink prison. He quickly gasps.

"DL? Are you okay?"

"don't act as if you care..."

"Come on! I know you are a good guy deep inside, let me help you!"

"and why should I believe you?! look how quickly i was forgotten by..."

"I'm here now."

"not by your own will."

"I'm sorry... Let me make things right."

Jax starts manually breaking the frozen ink. The substance sure was thick as if it was a building material. This... Will take time to say the least.

"i said don't preten-"

"Look this isn't the most pleasing thing to do. I'm only doing this because I genuinely believe we can start again. As friends."

"why are you wasting your breath? you'll end up treating me like freddy is doing right now."

"Don't compare me to him!!"

Jax clearly takes an offense. Despite his injuries he was still determined to help DL out.

"you realise that i will be inked again as soon as i break free?"

"I won't let them."

Meanwhile Freddy swiftly leaves the fight to Caine and the two former business rivals were stuck in a fistfight together, woth Kinito not noticing Freddy's absence.
Suddenly CatBob's painful scream is heard.

"PATRICKKK!!?? NOOOOO!!!"

Chapter 37: The Word Begin Is Getting Tortured Here

The room falls silent with the good guys turning their heads to the source of the scream only to be met with something utterly horrific.
Freddy was next to CatBob, completely expressionless, the already ready burgers scattered all around the floor, with CatBob himself covering his mouth with both of his hands and on the verge of tweaking. Freddy was holding something unfamiliar to anyone but CatBob in the room. Kinito's the first one to realise what's going on. CatBob told only him about his story. He then realised how vile the sight was. A skinned and mutiliated starfish, much less exactly the one CatBob was looking for all this time wasn't an easy sight to say the least.

"We had a deal."

Freddy speaks with a monotone voice as he gets a FLINT AND STEEL- author clears her throat and doesn't apologize for the Steve voice.

"And you broke it."

Freddy continues talking with the same voice as he lights all the scattered food on fire. CatBob doesn't show any more reaction, he was already shaking, his breathing heavy and shaky, his face teary and his sponge body wasn't helpful at all. Bendy rushes to CatBob. After all the guy didn't move away from the fire. At this rate he was gonna burn alive if nothing was done about it.

"CatBob! You gotta get away!"

Bendy desperately called out as he was dragging CatBob away but CatBob seemed to like the warmth a lot.

"Dang it! CatBob!!"

Bendy was already getting scared about the entire situation. His small body wasn't able to drag something so stubborn.

"You won't get away with this! You've already shattered the balance enough!"

Ink confronts Freddy, who doesn't notice that short dude right in front of him for a good minute. Upon noticing him Freddy rolls his eyes yet again.

"There never was such thing as balance. You were convinced that something like that exists for some twisted delusional reason."

"You don't know what you're talking about."

"Oh please! I wasn't the one stuck in my fandom bubble for decades."

By that time Jax had freed DL enough for him to be able to move. The guy merely acknowledges Jax' actions but doesn't comment or thank him. Upon hearing the conversation happening on the side with a painfully annoying voice in it, DL pays attention to it and his expression darkens.

"what is his deal now?"

He asks his tone low, it would be threatening if it wasn't cringe. He suddenly feels a hand on his shoulder.

"Please... This isn't you..."

Jax' voice was soft, for a moment DL was stunned... From the sheer stupidity that this scene was.

"hands off!"

"Please DL, listen to me-!"

"we have nothing to talk about!"

"Just for a second I beg you!"

"pick a side."

DL's tone suddenly changes to a calmer yet cold one, which catches Jax off guard.

"W-what?"

"i said, pick. a. side. you want to resolve everything and i'm offering you a solution."

"You know I can't, DL! I care about all of you too much to just pick a side."

DL scoffs.

"what a pussy..."

"Excuse me? It's not me picking beef with just anyone for the sake of it! You keep talking about revenge not even sure what that is for! I know you're a good guy underneath all that tough exterior! You are just scared of it!"

DL hisses. Those words belonged to someone who understood nothing (he was alone on this one).

"don't pretend to care when you have no single idea!!"

"Then enlighten me!!"

"fine!... you kickstarted everything."

"You still... Have that grudge against me... Don't you?"

"you never apologized. never acknowledged how you hurt me. never tried to see from my perspective. it's always 'dL wHy dO yA kEeP hAtIn?' and you never tried to understand why."

"You're mad I brought you back to the internet! But why?!"

"because i had to go through the same fuckin cycle over and over and over and over again! do you realise how shitty it is to watch your friends and family to become gay and kill them later? reset after reset after reset! we were doing better resting in peace and ya had to butt in and ruin everything!"

"You do realise you can be more open minded right?"

"that's what matrix wants you to do."

"I can't with you! You're the gayest dude I've ever met!"

DL gets heavily flustered, that was a signal for Jax that he was onto something so he continues.

"You've been gushing over Freddy so much it's just denial at this point!!"

"i never gushed over that dude the fuck?"

"Weren't you concerned for him earlier?"

"stop that!!"

"No I will not! I've been trying to see the best in you, but you are just SO persistent for being that insecure guy with projecting those insecurities onto everyone else around you and being miserable!! Freddy's NOT going to approve your advances while you're being in denial!!"

"I SAID STOP IT!!"

DL yells completely furious right now. He didn't think that Jax out of all people would be the one confronting about it.

"Just tell me! What's so bad in being gay?!"

DL tries to think of an answer that would make Jax stay away from him finally. But for some reason, he doesn't seem to have answers good enough ot disgusting enough. He was just being petty because the only person that was straight in his eyes turned out to be gay. He just couldn't accept that he was the entire conversion event for Toriel in his AU. From that silence Jax gives himself permission to continue.

"See? You're just being petty for no reason."

"no i'm not."

"Look you might have resentment for whatever reason, but you can't keep denying that you're in denial yourself."

"fine! i love freddy okay?! are you satisfied? i just know that i shouldn't feel this kind of thing."

"There's no harm in loving."

Jax says calmly, putting a hand on DL's shoulder. DL himself doesn't reply to Jax, he just stares at the yellow glove on his shoulder before jerking it away.

"just because i told you this doesn't mean i'm going to be vulnerable anymore."

DL doesn't wait for a reply from Jax as he walks away.

"W-wait!"

Jax once again reaches for DL's shoulder. Seriously that guy has weird obsession with touching shoulders. I can be the trusted adult guys. DL slowly turns his head to look at Jax' pathetic face.

"what now?"

"Can you maybe try to form truce with that guy?"

Jax points over to Ink who was fighting Freddy.

"why do i have to be the one to form truce?"

"Someone has to start it for the peace to work... No one else listens to me though..."

"maybe for a good reason."

"He seems to be in charge of your universe thingie. Maybe you can have the deal with him."

"what kind?"

"You know... Since you don't like being 'alive' here... Maybe he can bring you back to the lost media cave?"

DL stares at Jax intently. He was curious if Jax understood what he was talking about. This was a question of honor, he was not going to let some self diagnosed guardian to be the one to erase him. But from the other hand what choice did he have? The battle was causing some sort of wind that made Jax' noodle ears sway y/n-ly. He caught himself staring at the sight but shook himself back to reality. Maybe he could just give it a single try to mark a checkbox. He didn't get why he was thinking like that.

"fine... just 1 attempt."

Jax smiles genuinely.

"I knew you are a good person, DL."

Seriously this guy was something else for DL. So stubborn for that idea too. DL just nods expressionlessly and doesn't reply. As long as he could be left alone... Or whatever.
DL decided to join the fight, scared of what Freddy would think of this weird thing DL was up to. "it was just for a checkmark" he kept repeating to himself. But before he could start a single indication of an upcoming conversation with Ink, he witnesses Freddy get thrown across the room by a paintbrush, with a gaster blaster aiming at him. That was it. No more checkmark. He throws himself in front of Freddy, blocking the blaster with one of his own.

"freddy!! i'm here don't worry!!"

 

Chapter 38: I Can't Stop Begining

Freddy was a bit dumbfounded. He certainly doesn't remember freeing DL, but quickly recollects himself. He was lucky DL was THAT devoted.

"you stay away from him!!"

DL says in a threatening voice.

"You're defending him even after he ditched you."

"shut up. i'm not here to listen to your morality advices."

"And I'm not here to entertain your circus."

The two start fighting again which catches Jax' attention.

"DL please!! You promised!"

He whines to himself as he decides to step in. Jax steps in front of DL and Freddy, T-posing. Relax blud, those noodle ahh arms ain't gon protect shit.

"What are you doing here?"

Ink asks confused and rightfully so. This was becoming ridiculous.

"This charade needd to end... I cane to talk."

"You do realise that Freddy is a threat and DL is willing to burn the world for him?"

"I think it's just a big misunderstanding. They both have their struggles!"

Ink was staring at Jax emotionlessly waiting for him to finish, or rather judgementally and mentally pressuring him to finish.

"You keep talking about the disturbed balance... But you are targeting the wrong people!!"

Both DL and Ink as well as Kinito now pay their full and undivided attention towards Jax, the shock and confusion written on their faces. Kinito has been careful to still pay attention to Jax even during his fight with Caine.

"Jax!! What are you doing?!"

The worry was heard in Kinito's voice as he asked this. Jax didn't reply to him though, he was focused on his speech.

"I'm the entire reason DL exists in the first place!!"

"jax what the hell are you doing?!"

"You... What?"

Ink's voice was rather emotionless in contrast of the other two. It wasn't clear wether he was disappointed, about to get angry or just confused.

"Yes it was me!! I dug through that lost media cave! I was the one to find him and get him back on the internet! If his existence is bothering the balance... THEN TAKE ME INSTEAD!!"

"That's right, he kickstarted it all."

Freddy reminds us of his presence with that.

"wha- you too?!"

"Remember what were we aiming for originally, DL. It is no time to get sentimental."

"but freddy-"

"Let him tell the truth."

Ink blinks at the scene few times.

"Just because this whatever was at fault for DL's existence doesn't mean you are getting iff the hook, Freddy!"

"Is there no way to let this go? He can exist in peace."

Jax points to DL while speaking. Ink sighs.

"Look I'm going to cut to the point, I can't just let this go because of a truce I'm in. I agreed not to create, my friend agreed not to destroy. DL's universe appeared unnatural way and for saving the truce and literally 99.99% of the multiverse I have to take an action."

"Come onnn can't anything be done about it?"

"just stop it jax. i myself have had enough."

"W-What? Please... You can't say this, DL!"

"yes i can. i can't pretend anymore, the truth is i really have had enough! killing everyone in my universe is not a task i'm happy doing. but the truth is i can't even stop it, as if my only purpose to exist was to murder them over and over and over again. the cycle will never stop, the human is way too determined-"

"Can't you just... Stop?"

DL shakes his head.

"that's complicated. every single time i tried to stop the upcoming doom it has become worse. to the point where i have lost myself at this point."

"Not everything is lo-"

"can't you just shut up for a while?"

Jax freezes, not expecting DL to snap at him like that. He stutters a little before letting DL speak.

"it was easier when i was dead for good. none of this pointless suffering existed."

Each word felt like a stab for Jax. He had no idea DL was feeling this way this whole time. As Jax thinks nothing could get any worse, DL then turns to him.

"my entire existence is embarassing anyway."

The cold words cause Jax to go pale. DL still remembered the time Jax called his AU an embarassing lost media.

"DL, please! You know I was wrong!"

"wrong about what? i know my universe is embarassing. i know i am embarassing and the fact that you saw right through me before we even met was what made me sour the most."

"DL..."

Guys in case you have no idea, this is #general. Please trauma dump in #vent and please don't give birth in #vc.

"just because i'm opening up and being publicly vulnerable doesn't mean you have any right to pity me!"

"I'm not pitying you! I'm just... What about the connections you made here?! What about us? What about Freddy?!"

"all of you already have people who care about you. i have nothing to lose, or no one has me to lose."

"You're a friend of mine! Of course I have to lose you don't you get it?! I'm sure Freddy feels the sa-"

"don't you think i'm upset enough because of certain flying prosthetic's existence alone?!"

All of that dramatic conversation and Freddy was just chilling on his spot, finding the scene amusing. He had guessed DL's feelings oh so long ago. He knew exactly how it was going to turn out since the moment they first talked to each other. He would so 'speak about yourself' to Jax' last remark but he knew better than to ruin this golden setup of circumstances. Anyone apart the trio however was clueless.

"Why would you be upset? We don't even know each other!"

Caine asks while laughing. That wasn't mockery, nor amusement, not even joy. It sounded more like him jeeping his cheerful persona.

"That's not your usual self, DL."

Freddy said rather calmly in contrast to Caine's loud self and Jax' dramatic ass.

"that's not important."

"To me it is. You're willing to put yourself on a chopping board."

"Wait what the what?! Freddy! Is HE more important to you than I am?!"

"Can't a man care about his friends, Caine?"

"You've been distant with me!"

"I had urgent business to attend. Caine you know it. I share things like that with you."

"Urgent business such as entertaining this stinky dude right here?!"

Caine points to DL as he asks this.

"Caine, since when did you get so jealous and rude??"

Caine gasps dramatically.

"How COULD you?!?! I work day and night like a dog, to keep my crew happy and entertained!! You only talked to me when you needed me, but you are hanging out with these... These... ALL DAY LONG!"

Everyone, especially Jax was shocked seeing Caine snap like that.

"We both had our business to attend-"

"BUT I MANAGED TO AT LEAST WRITE A LETTER A DAY AND YOU TRADED IT TO ME FOR JAX."

This makes Jax even more mad. Yeah he was THAT worthless to apperantly everyone around... Well except Kinito, who went out of his way to try and calm Jax the moment the topic was even raised. A small barely noticeable smile forms on Jax' face as he feels all too familiar hand on his shoulder. He relaxes and leans on Kinito for more comfort, which the axolotl happily accepts.

"But I did visit you from time to time, didn't I, Caine? Please let's not let this misunderstanding stand inbetween us."

"Such a charmer you are. Always talking like that when confronted."

"I just care about us... about you and me."

"There it is... The tone and the way with words you have that I fell for so hard... Freddy, how can you torment me like that?"

"Caine, I'm sorry okay? I will try to make it up to you, I can write letters if you prefer them more than personal visits-"

"It's not about wether I prefer it or not! It's about how you don't pay attention to me anymore while I am trying my best for this relationship to work! Freddy, tell me the truth, are you cheating on me?!"

"How could you accuse me of such thing?"

"Are you cheating on me or not?"

Caine's voice was breaking and shaking at this point. He clearly was emotional after all of this.

"On everything I own, I am not commiting adultery against you! That's disgusting... And the fact that you accused me of it..."

"I'm trying to get to the bottom of our issues! I had to resort to thinking it! Please understand where I'm coming from."

"Don't be selfish now."

Freddy says coldly to which Caine doesn't reply immediately from the disbelief. He recollects himself after a while.

"You what Freddy? I'm done."

 

Chapter 39: The True Begining

Everyone in the room was too stunned to speak. Those words kept ringing in both Freddy's and DL's ears, to the skeleton it was a music, while to the animatronic, it was doechii's anxiety.

"You can't... Caine, please tell me you're joking right now!"

"What's a joke again? Something people laugh about! Weird, neither you nor I am laughing!"

Caine's voice was both heartbroken and irritated. DL has been struck by the hardest task ever to keep a poker face during this whole scene. He was not prepared for the way he had to hide his grin. But of course he was way too much into that one Egyptian river to admit that he was grinning. Widely.

"Caine! I promise I can fix this!"

Freddy was starting to sound more desperate. What's there to be desperate for? DL thought to himself. All that guy ever will be is a floating dental advertisement. With poor memory. DL had no reason or proof to ever explain why Caine had poor memory, he just gave that vibe. The only useful thing that guy has done is giving him a free chance. Too good of a setup to be true, now DL was ready to prove his loyalty to Freddy.

"And what is so funny to you?!"

Freddy snaps, thus snapping DL out of his daydreaming session. Shit. Way too ruin a moment to shine, DL. If only he was as cool as the rest of Sanses who smile 24/7 he could have the "I always smile" excuse. But nooo, he had to be different. He had to 'break the matrix' or whatever alpha sigma drugs he is into.

"i... just had a little idea... that's all."

He could basically tell Freddy a Caine murder plan and say that's what he was grinning about. It would partially be true. Partial truth was not equal to lying after all. Must be embarassing, huh, DL? First publicly venting your ass where nobody but Jax apperantly care about and now destroying all his possible non existent chances with Freddy.
Freddy himself was still trying to change Caine's mind about the break up, embarassing his ass as well. Caine resorts to just escaping to his home but Freddy was fast to grab from Caine's arm.

"Let me go you imbecile!!"

Caine yells as he struggles to escape Freddy's strong grip. Unlike other cringe booktok trash, Freddy didn't need a muscular vein texture arm to be able to have a strong grip. If anything, everyone else had a skill issue.

"Please just hear me ou-"

"YOU WANT MORE REASONS?! Here are some. You're always distant, dismissive never affectionate. I always thought that's your way and I need to be more understanding but thE TRUTH IS I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!"

"Please! You're the best thing that happened in my life!! I can't lose you!!"

Caine takes a one last side-eyed look on Freddy, registering his full pathetic form before him before finally breaking free.

"Too bad you already lost me. Never EVER come looking for me again!"

With those words Caine disappears into his portal, leaving Freddy kneeled. So desperate yet his eyes were so empty. He couldn't even pretend to be alright anymore, he couldn't fool anybody into thinking that this was part of his grand master ultra plan or something. After few minutes he started crying quietly.

"freddy..."

DL's grin had dropped at this point after seeing Freddy in such a state. Now he just wanted to console Freddy. Imagine your fight scene also being so utterly embarassing that it turned from play pretend to straight up venting session without the censor lines.
DL approaches Freddy and slowly sits beside him, wrapping one arm around his shoulders.

"he just looked for a reason to do this. what happened was way too random, if anything."

Freddy looks into DL's eyes. He isn't replying but isn't snapping either. In his opinion DL had a point, or at least this was the only hope he could hang onto. Thay just meant finding out if anything drastic made Caine say that. Deep down he was hoping that Caine felt pain saying that as well.

"you still have me you know... don't forget that."

Freddy was silent again. He definately had no time or energy for any kind of bullshit. DL was getting a bit nervous there. Fuckass had no idea that normally after something like that people need time. While others stayed for the drama, Ink genuinely was considering a talk-out with DL, but this melodramatic bullshit was keeping him waiting until DL remembered they had an agreement to come to. This entire situation was so ridiculous, it was irritating people with brains. Me too, Ink... Me too.

"Uhm... DL?"

Ink attempts to initiate conversation. Freddy himself needed time alone so he was doing technically nothing wrong. DL doesn't seem to hear him anyway. Ink approaches DL.

"He needs a little alone time."

"how would you know?"

DL hisses, as if he was that possesive dude every teen simps for (he ain't). Ink however wasn't bothered by that. In fact he didn't seem to feel anything currently.

"This isn't cheering him right now too."

"what am i supposed to do?! leave him like a coward?"

"We still have something important to discuss."

"important my ass!"

"Look, you and I both want for me to stop bothering you. And I kinda want to leave but I can't without an agreement with you."

The idea of Ink leaving DL alone for good was something worth to pay attention to. So he doesn't dare to throw another witty hissy comeback. He just slowly stands up.

"don't worry, freddy. i'll be back."

DL threatens us with yet another sappy and cringe session before walking away with Ink. Jax follows the two secretly, he wasn't just done after DL's trauma dumping. 'God I hope he doesn't agree to die.' Jax was thinking to himself.
The skeletons were quiet while discussing DL's and his universe's fate. As Jax was getting closer he feels Kinito holding him back.

"He needs to choose his own destiny, Jax. You've done all you could, but the last word is his."

Jax stutters a little trying to convince Kinito to try and at least convince Ink to spare DL. Kinito however wasn't about to let Jax sacrifice himself for that sack of bones.

"Let's go, Jax. You're tired."

Jax throws one last look at the sight of totally peacefully conversing skeletons before following Kinito.

"A-Alright..."

The good guys were almost leaving the place without Ink before Freddy's yelling was heard. The drama hungry bastards stopped to have a sip of the tea.

"It's all your fault! If I never saved you... Just leave me alone!"

"freddy i-"

"All you ever care about is yourself!! Can't you just leave me alone?!"

"freddy, i only wanted to lend you a helping han-"

"Then leave me alone please! I don't have time or energy! I need to be alone!"

"but we are a team..."

"Not anymore! We have no reason to cooperate anymore!"

"but what about our friendship?? our bond? does it mean nothing to you?!"

DL was getting progressively more desperate and devastated. Freddy's silence to the last questions wasn't helping.

"ANSWER ME-!"

"Not now... I have lost someone dear to me! And every reason to do what were we supposed to do! Please let me rest... Consider this the end of our contact."

"FREDDY ARE YOU JOKING RIGHT NOW?! YOU CAN'T JUST DO THIS WE'VE BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH TOGETHER!!"

"... Farewell..."

Freddy leaves through a portal he opened. DL tries to reach him but the portal closes before he can even touch Freddy with the tips of his fingers. After finally registering the hopelessness of his situation, DL falls onto his knees and starts full on sobbing. Boy this is going to be so embarassing. Well there is first to anything and DL was getting records. This is the first time he was ever crying. He then realizes just how screwed he was when he felt Jax' gloved hand comfortably find it's place on his shoulder. DL was quick to blush and stutter. When he turns around and sees the entire public of the shorties with Kinito, he falls back with a yelp

"CAN'T A GUY HAVE PRIVACY?! GET THE HELL AWAY FROM HERE!!"

DL's face was entirely flushed and wet from tears.

"We were, my friend. A certain someone just wanted to help you."

"I DON'T NEED ANY HELP!"

"DL, you're completely alone unlike me and Freddy. I would like to help you with that."

 

Chapter 40: Thou Shall Not Begin

"why are you... so nice to me so suddenly?"

DL asks to people surrounding him, the suspicion in his voice crystal clear.

"Erm, we aren't. It's all your friend Jax. You should thank his kindness."

Jax reaches a hand towards DL.

"Please, I want to give you a chance."

He says rather softly, his intentions only communication genuine concern.

"but that raises even more questions!"

Everyone looks confused as DL proudly states that. Jax was confused the most, he tried his best to be a trustworthy friend and here he is, witnessing DL question his motives over ag- AAAUGH CAN YOU PLEASE NOT JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS JAX? THE FUCK AM I NARRATING HERE.

"You know I've been nothing but friendly to you, right DL?"

"only because freddy manipulated you."

"No you're wrong."

"i demand your pardon?"

"Freddy manipulated me to hate Kinito and trust him. His spells had nothing to do with you. My feelings for you... They were genuine since day 1."

DL's eyes widen. The answer was so simple, he never thought about that aspect. He guesses he only thought of him and Freddy as "us" while Freddy might have never seen their relationship the way he did after all.

"You might think I'm lying. Yeah I have no way to prove my statement but what I'm telling is the truth."

"you really were that willing to befriend me? even after everything i did to you?"

Jax chuckles nervously remembering their rather intense encounters.

"Let's not remember these."

"uhh... have you even asked what others think about me joining?"

"Seeing how Jax was willing to take you in and give you a chance inspired me to be a better person myself, friend."

Kinito answers rather nonchalantly.

"i swear if any of you here is pitying me-"

"No one does. I already talked to them about this topic, don't worry."

"why are you so desperate to let me hang out with you guys?"

"Because I am convinced that behind that angry and grumpy exterior there is a good guy hiding."

DL thinks about his situation. Being in a group that largely consists of whiners or shorties or both were not in his desires. Besides it would be embarassing to be seen in such a group. But from the other hand he finds himself wanting to hang out with Jax more... For some unknown reason.

"i..."

Everyone was looking at him, waiting for an answer.

"If Ink is going to delete you-"

"No I won't."

Ink interrupts Jax' speech.

"We have come to an agreement. He will live in the Omega timeline but his universe won't last."

Upon hearing that DL will live on, a wide smile forms on Jax' face. Ink hands an adress written on a piece of paper to DL.

"DL! You have a place to stay that's so awesome!"

"yeah yeah whatever..."

DL rolls his eyes when Jax expresses his excitement.

"Well since I'm done here, I will go home. Oh! one more thing!"

Ink approaches Bendy and hands him another poece of paper consisting of ways to contact him.

"I like you pal, we should hang out more. Bye for now."

Ink splashes paint across the floor and disappears into it, leaving one less shortie in the room. DL sighs in relief.

"finally..."
After a moment of thinking DL speaks again.
"what are your plans anyway?"

All this time only CatBob stayed devastated.

"I was looking for my friend... I found him. Just not how I thought I'd find him. I have no idea what I will do next."

He sighs in defeat, that was absolutely not planned.

"Don't worry Bob, we'll be there for you. We're your friends."

"Thank you, guys... I'm just... Not feeling well... I can't feel well..."

DL guesses it was Freddy's doing. He always admired how ruthless he could be, however he had no idea who this dude was and what beef they had for him to end up on Freddy's chopping board. Bro was a drama hungry bastard like everyone else in this fic.

"I really can't talk about it right now..."

CatBob answers before DL could even open his mouth. Looks like he wasn't the only curious one.

"You can live with us if you want, friend. Staying alone right now isn't healthy for you."

"Nono it's alright, Kin-kun... Thanks for the offer."

"I'll stay with him. I'll make sure he is okay."

Bendy adds quietly.

"That's fine by me, thank you..."

"Thank you for letting me stay."

"Speaking of homes. Our doors are always open for you friends!"

CatBob sniffs.

"Mine too... Come by when you wish."

"omega verse is a bit too crowded for me to invite you guys."

"That's fine."

CatBob and Kinito say in unison.

"i'll leave you guys then..."

DL stands up from his seat. Dude was so homeless that he felt comfortable sitting on the floor. He turns around and walks slowly to the exit.

"Wait! DL, you didn't say if you want us to be friends."

DL stops and turns his head to see Jax' noodle build one more time.

"if it wasn't clear, i'm willing to accept. now i'll go home. and jax..."

Jax' ears perk up as he gets addressed. He was grinning widely after receiving acceptance.

"thank you..."

That was the most genuine he has been if we don't count his feelings for Freddy. These two sure had a certain effect on him. He fixes his hood and his face is shaded once again. Making sure he stays mysterious and cool to everyone (he ain't lmao), he slightly smiles while walking away.

Timeskip cuz I ain't writing more of that nothing burger.

Kinito and Jax safely make home. Probably at least a week has passed since Jax was last in here but it sure felt years for both of them.

"You've changed..."

"Hmm? In what way?"

"You're more open to me, Jax. To me and everyone else."

"Oh... haha you had this goofy effect on me I guess..."

Both stay in an award silence. There was so much to talk about yet these losers had no idea how to communicate.

"I noticed something, Kinito."

"Enlighten me then."

"You don't adress me as 'friend' anymore..."

"Oh yeah... That..."

While Kinito struggled to form words Jax took in the initiative to talk.

"I know that last time we say each other I... I... ..."

"Shot me."

"Yeah that! I betrayed your trust and treated you the worst way possible. And on top of that I almost killed you... Yet you welcomed me with open arms and let me stay with you once again... For that I can't describe how grateful I am. But you don't adress me as your friend anymore. You know... I know that I don't deserve a friend like you. I never did-"

Kinito shushes Jax the moment he says that.

"Don't you dare to say that ever again."

Kinito's tone showed how serious he was about those words. He always hated listening Jax say sentences like that.

"But..."

"I think you forgot... You always deserve someone to care for you and I'll be that someone wether you like it or not. We all know what made you shoot me and it wasn't your free will. You don't need to let your guilt eat you. There is a reason I don't adress you as 'friend' anymore. I can explain it to you but this talk is going to alter what we have right now..."

Kinito sighs and starts cleaning his glasses.

"Truth to be told I'm scared of what might happen if everything goes wrong. This is an area I never can be certain about. You see, after our last encounter I was searching for a certain answer."

"To what question?"

"Where did I fail when it came to you."

"I swear it's-"

"And before you claim anything, I had my own existential crisis when I met CatBob."

"But why?"

"He taught me that there is much more to feelings and friendship than I ever imagined. I learned a lot myself before reuniting with you."

"And what did you learn?"

Jax' curiosity is peaked now. He had no idea what Kinito would say since he didn't seem to have a grudge against him but didn't refer to him as friend either.

"I learned that that my feelings for you are something else. Not a friendly love."

Kinito pauses contemplating wether or not he should admit it. My guy was a coward AND a dense idiot. Jax' curious face and shining eyes convince him to just go for it.

"I love you Jax! And I mean it in the most romantic way possible!"

Chapter 41: Beginner's Luck

Both were a heavy blushing mess, sitting in a silence creating a suspence when we both know how putrid their relationship handling skills were.

"You... Really love me... That way?"

Jax barely managed to form this six worded question, his heart skipping a beat.

"Yes I do. And I have never been more certain of anything else. You make my heart sway with the wind just by being next to me."

Jax looked like he had switched races with how red he was right now. He stares at Kinito, he was also blushing, never thinking he would see the pink on his pink skin.

"Say something... Please!"

Kinito sounded desperate. With all these emotions after he confessed the fear was on the lead right now. He knew that step was a risk, no time travel and no 'aaaah im just messin with ya'. He either loses a friend or he loses a friend, in different meanings of course.

"If you find this stupid that you could ever love me-"

Pause the conversation. This is so damn TWISTED!! Thankfully Jax thinks the same before the rest of Kinito's speech could rape our brains.

"Hold up! Hold-up-Hold-up-Hold-up! Are you serious??"

"I would never lie to you about something like that-"

"No not that. Do you seriously think that I- DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW LONG HAVE I WAITED FOR YOU TO SAY THIS??"

Kinito was taken aback by this outburst.

"You really-..."

"Back then when we had a conversation like this I really really wanted to confess. But I was scared because deep down I knew you couldn't possibly love me that way that's why I chose another route for this conversation! And now when you finally say it...- I... You dared to think that I wouldn't love you back-"

Before Jax could continue whining, Kinito pulled him into a tight hug.

"It's okay... Now all the doubts are away."

Jax' ears fall down as he relaxes and finally hugs Kinito back.

"When did you realise that you loved me?"

Jax asks softly, his voice muffled because of the hug. Kinito doesn't answer immediately but he humms indicating that he is thinking about the question.

"It's really hard to say you know... I think it happened in the way I didn't quite notice. Is it weird?"

"Nono... It happened to me as well. Just as you described. I was curious wether it was only my case or not."

Both stay like this in awkward silence yet again. These two diagnosed deodorant allergics really wanted to talk about a lot and ended up having only this conversation. Losers.

"So... Does this mean we are going to go on dates and all of that?"

"Of course! Anything you want, Jax."

"Jeez... We have know each other for so long yet it just feels awkward after confessing to each other... I guess I just got used to us being just friends... God I feel so many things at once right now."

"Isn't it fascinating?"

Jax smiles at Kinito's pure joy and curiosity. After all feelings were a topic where Kinito didn't shone the brightest in but had an overwhelming curiosity for. Jax always loved when Kinito was so interested in something.

"You are what makes it fascinating."

In the meantime at DL's place bc even I have cringe proof limits.

DL was lying on his matress, his appartment being a humble one roomed and as dusty as him, although Jax welcomed him, he felt really sad. He knew the reason all too well. He really needed to get over Freddy otherwise he was turning into a loser of a sap. But none of them really replace what Freddy is to him. Well... Except... DL shuns away the thoughts before preparing some instant noodles. By preparing this fuckass understands it as soaking that shit in a bowl of ketchup and not boiling it. He figured those four paper walls were more entertaining than the outside world. After all he has seen most of the residents outside. Some of them looked like him but had nothing in common with him, others were completely new faces at least to him. He decides that it'd be best to lock himself away from the outside. As far away from grass as possible, huh DL?
He keeps that routine of waking up, lying in bed and having his own instant noodles for a week straight, while Jax and Kinito were busy being saps. They have probably annoyed CatBob and Bendy with their "Nito" and "Jaxy-Waxy-Pookie-Dookie". I know this because I was the spatula. There is no saving from this guys. If DL knew that he wouldn't whine about the fact that his food supply is nearly finished and he evantually had to go outside. He decides to get it over with quickly, but before he could exit his comfort zone, someone knocks on the door. Pretty agressively too. The only reason he ends up opening the door for is to yell at the brah for nearly causing an appartment-quake only to freeze on spot.

" JU- ... ... ... freddy?!"

DL felt so many things at once, but he had no idea on which one to focus. Freddy's tall metallic build invites himself in.

"how did ya-"

Freddy shushes DL then replies whispering.

"No one should know I'm here."

DL having no idea but full loyalty decides to whisper as well.

"how did ya find me??"

"I... Just minor interrogation nothing else."

"only two people know where i... DID YOU FUCKING KIDNAP INK AND E-"

Freddy hurridly covers DL's mouth, leaving him muffle-yelling.

"SHH!"

DL tones himself down.

"Don't make me the latest tea here. I am very satisfied with the fame I already have."

DL goes back to whispering.

"the fuck is your deal anyway? first you cut me off then you burst back like a landlord."

"I need to apologize to you about that first. I didn't act with my clear head as you could see how devastated I was."

DL's gaze softens. Of course that was the case. Deep down he knew, he hoped Freddy didn't really mean that, when cutting DL off. He really could care less about the fact that Ink and Error are chained in basement somewhere. Freddy was here and that's all that mattered to him.

"But that doesn't mean we will date just yet."

"a-ah yes... i understand."

'Dang it' were the words circulating in his brain right now. Bro what are you, a 'where's my kiss at' son? You know what, I kinda think you are.

"I know what you did back there at the tower after I left."

The way Freddy sounded made DL's face flush, what the heck was Freddy on about? Did he already disappoint Freddy? But that wouldn't be his fault, Freddy quite literally was sending mixed signals or whatever.

"You don't have to panic over it, I was going to say that what you did can serve us a favor-"

"didn't you say that after that floating teeth broke up with you, there was nothing to continue this for?"

"I told you I wasn't thinking clearly. Is it too hard to understand?"

Freddy was starting to get irritated. Brotha drink your meds please you're tweaking. He takes a deep breath calming himself down.

"What I was trying to say is, I'm still willing to carry on with everything. Caine in the picture or not. I have made up my mind and you were treated like trash because of my... Useless feelings. My apologies."

"don't call your feelings useless. i'd tweak out if i was in your position."

Tweaking is the least you did man.

"You've always been patient with me... Thank you."

DL blushes.

"yeah don't mention it. i kinda knew you partially weren't thinking clearly anyway."

Freddy then goes around DL's 'kitchen', the fridge being his only object of interest.

"You know when a guest is coming you usually feed them."

Freddy says passive aggressively, opening the fridge and seeing the leftover ketchup and a single package of instant noodles. Freddy instantly grimaces.

"Eww you eat this?"

He always seemed to be classy, especially when it came to food. He immediately closes the fridge.

"Nevermind, you were more welcoming by saving the sight of it from me earlier."

Freddy continues his passive aggressive tone as he claims to be not so hungry anymore.
Suddenly a metal pipe falling sound comes from nearby but it was muffles. Based on Freddy's reaction, it was hus stomach grumbling. Lobotomy at it's finest. DL initiates to prepare instant noodles gor him, but Freddy stops the guy.

"No offense but I don't trust your cooking skills."

That was offense for DL but he steps back without saying a word. Freddy then prepared the noodles how are they supposed to be prepared. After having not so nice but bareable meal Freddy speaks.

"What do you say for slowly breaking their friendship from inside, and take out every single one of them?"

DL smirks.

"you're really back!"

Chapter 42: Begin

Few days have passed since that reunion and Freddy hasn't appeared since. The encounter itself didn't last long with Freddy promising to keep in touch with DL, but not as often as they used to. On the other hand Jax and Kinito had been on dates and decided to invite their friends to the tea party. DL found this out through Freddy who was pretending to be Ink this whole time, and receiving any mail delivered to him. How much Freddy loved his mic collection, literally useful for anything, like adjusting it to impersonate Ink and receive any news from the heart swayers (yeah I literally JUST named them that). DL agrees to be the person to secretly break their fruendship apart by being passive aggressive. Dude I'm not sure if he could be trusted with that, his ass is NOT a slick one. Well couldn't be worse than whatever cringe shit swayers have going on. The tea party was about Janito's 13th day anniversary. I think the celebration tells us enough about what we got our asses into here.
"tea party? laaame..." DL thinks to himself.
Me too DL... Me too.
As the time comes, DL lazily prepares and by prepare I mean he just wears the same dusty hoody that probably needs 534 washing cycles. Or better yet being thrown out. He grumbles and mumbles under his breath, probably about how much he regrets agreeing to that friendship, but then remembers Jax' gleeful face whenever he agreed to do something he asked. For some reason that punchable face gives DL the power to sit through cringe. Maybe a little bit. He can't remember the last time he did something to make anyone feel better. Jax and Freddy... They were something else. DL takes a deep breath before teleporting to Kinito's place. Good thing the adress in the letter wasn't complicated or available for AIs only.

"DL! You showed up!!"

Jax was the one to greet DL, his face just as joyful as DL remembers. His gaze softens as he coldly greets Jax as well.

"uhm... this place's cozier than I thought..."

"Yeah, Nito made it just so I could feel comfortable."

"is that so..."

DL's mood instantly drops as he hears Kinito's name, especially in that nickname version Jax gave him. All he could do is not to snap and make his hate for Kinito obvious. Brotha chill! Imagine going from homophobic to poly gay relationship fantasizer. We get it you're gay as fuck but learn to pull first. And speak of the devil, DL's hater target enters the room.

"Hello, friend! I'm so glad you made it!"

Kinito warmly welcomes DL, completely unaware of the drama me and my readers know about. That text to speech withojt text voice has become so extremely irritating to DL, one could just turn on a voice recording of it for 3 hours and DL would be just a pile of D.

"uhmm... hi..."

DL says dismissively avoiding eye contact with Kinito. The two hosts were too dense to notice anyway.

"where are the rest?"

"Oh you're first one to arrive, friend! Truth to be told we didn't expect you to arrive, much less be the first one!"

"hey, the fuck you mean you didn't expect me to arrive?"

"My apologies, friend! I poorly worded my sentence.-"

Before Kinito could continue, Jax butts in.

"Knowing how much you probably hate gatherings because you barely sat through the tea time with me and Freddy, we really didn't expect you to show up, but that's such a nice surprise!"

Jax says the last part with a wide smile. DL found himself weak whenever he saw that smile. He hated the thought but loved the sight. One's heart sways with the wind, DL's skips a beat.

"it's not a big deal okay? it's not like i'll always show up."

DL says rolling his eyes knowing full well that he's probably lying. As the hosts show him where to sit but he chooses to slop on that comfortable looking couch. It's a crime that couch isn't around the table. Time passes, the rest of guests seem to be late. DL thinks to himself about this simple observation he made. How embarassing would it be if he didn't come too, the celebration itself is kinda cringe. But then again there was only one reason he stayed there. Breaking friendships? Oh he would so break Kinito and Jax up.
Before DL could utter a word to Jax, the doorbell rings, announcing CatBob's and Bendy's arrival. The two looked a bit less excited than they normally appear. CatBob's case makes sense to everyone, Bendy's sight is new, he looks a bit worried but tries to cover it with his signature smile. That's all he knows about dealing with emotions like that.

"Welcome, friends! We are happy to have you here!"

Kinito greets them excitedly, clearly not noticing the heavy autmosphere these two have hanging on their shoulders. DL tilts his head to see Jax' reactions. Seems like he is as dense as always.

"Are you two okay, by the way?"

Jax suddenly asks but it seems more like for politeness at least that's what DL thinks because of the way Jax asked. He wouldn't be surprised if the two shorters tried to hide their worries by a simple "I'm okay, really." And this is exactly what happens. DL just rolls his eyes at the obviousness of everything which catches Jax' attention.

"What's wrong?"

"nothing, they just obviously fake being okay."

CatBob and Bendy jump slightly and start denying everything.

"Look we're really okay, just tired."

"Yea yeah! He is right we just had a really long way here."

"A lot of work!"

"We never wanted to bring the mood down, sorry!"

Ever. Single. Line. In the. Book. It was so obvious to DL,every single line to him was just another weak shield. He would know that faking stuff. Naturally his face sours and he once again rolls his eyes as reflex to this 'ultimate defense mechanism'.

"Are you angry?"

Jax was the one to ask which again snaps him from thoughts.

"no, i'm not. it's just... it's so obvious they are trying to cover their asses with these excuses. it seemed like they weren't even trying."

"Can we please move on from this? We'll be okay and the evening doesn't need to be ruined."

Everyone in the room seems to agree to the idea, as they sit around the table, however everyone was awkwardly silent.

"Isn't your friend Ink going to come?"

Everyone turns to Bendy as the question was directed at him. Everyone except DL. He needed to act natural now that the topic was brought up.

"We had agreed to meet up before coming but I can't reach him out. It's like he ghosted us on last minute."

That's what causes Bendy's off behaviour, DL guesses. Before he knew it Bendy turns to him.

"Have you not seen him today at all?"

He seemed both hopeful and slightly desperate asking that. DL was caught off guard by that question but quickly guessed it would make sense that he is the one living the nearest to that clown.

"uhh... i didn't see him today. we don't have reason to see each other anyway. maybe he got sick or something."

"If he was sick he would let me know! I am telling you, something is wrong."

Bendy was clearly not indifferent about this topic, everyone decides not to bring up anything reckless to talk about.

"Can you really not take me there? Just to make sure everything's okay..."

DL thinks a little. Technically he can brute force his way there but no one needed to know about this thing. As far as everyone is concerned, he got most of the access to most places only thanks to Freddy, who had dumped him. He was going to let the information available to them stay that way.

"not really, he keeps his place locked to not let people who aren't supposed to see everything there an accidental access. He just let me travel so I can see you all guys, just not him."

Bendy looks down, his smile now a bit empty.

"he might be a bit late, you know he can be quite the clown."

That was DL's pathetic way to lighten up the mood. Obviously it doesn't work. DL sighs.

"i can try to call him for you."

"Yes please! He doesn't answer mine!"

DL sighs. Never in his life thought he'd be with all of them around the same table. Gosh everyone was so annoying to him but for some odd reason he didn't feel that burning hate anymore. That was weird to him, something to check later. He then attempts to reach out to Ink and as expected, the attempt fails.

"Thanks for trying anyway."

Then again this entire celebration idea was cringe as hell. DL figures he would ghost the same way if it wasn't for Jax. The evening wasn't a success unsurprisingly. The only saving point there was the dinner entirely at least the lovesick idiots can 'cook'. CatBob and Bendy excused themselves quite early. That was to be expected, and of course DL was there just listening Jax talk about anything and everything and giving occassional 'mhm' and 'oh'. The voice was starting to put DL to sleep up until one certain question shook him awake.

"Was this dinner really that bad?"

DL sighs.

"you might not like my opinion."

"I would like a helpful feedback... It was my first ever dinner hosting. Nito's too..."

"look. it was mad cringe."

 

Chapter 43: ginnigeB

It was late at night, DL was lying on his mattress, releived to finally be in his comfort zone. The silence was especially rewarding after the heck that day was. The only sound that came was him breathing and occassionally sighing. The evening did not really end as calm as he would prefer. He was stuck replaying that conversation in his head trying to understand what the hell even happened.

Previously

"look. it was mad cringe."

"Excuse me? What do you mean cringe?"

"the milestone... 13 days is not a celebratory thing. and you saw those short asses weren't even in the mood."

"Yeah because you kept persisting about it. Of course they'd be uncomfortable."

"you know better than me that the sponge thingie is currently in grief-"

"We thought it could cheer him up."

DL laughed soundly. Upon hearing this, Jax' face sours, his tone becoming rather cold

"What-"

"that's the most ridiculous thing i have ever heard."

"Would you elaborate on that?"

Jax was progressively getting more annoyed with each second of DL laughing his ass off.

"oh sure let's see."

DL puts his arms up his head immitating Jax' ears and inserts a higher pitched voice.

"oh hey nito! let's make this day about us cuz we need the attention and can't bear to-" not appear in a chapter. He isn't allowed to break the 4th wall :). Back to diaglogue. "-so we have to come up with a single excuse. oh yeah!! tomorrow will be our 13th day let's make it anniversarry out of our asses-"

"I do NOT talk like that."

He does in fact talk like that.

"the point is it looked ridiculous to organize something like that in this period of time. regular dinner? dure why not. "tHiRtEeNtH dAy rElAtiONsHiP cElEbrATioN"?? hell nah"

"I get it, you're just afraid of healthy relationships! That's why you are still not over Freddy!"

"don't. bring. THIS. into. our. conversation."

"What? Afraid of the truth?"

Jax says smirking, this hits a nerve for DL. I kinda get him this is a choke worthy.

"back then when i was homophobic, you asked me why am i projecting my insecurities when i shared my opinion thinking it was the absolute truth. now look at the way the tables have turned, i really see how ridiculous i looked when i was in your place. i must say the sight is utterly pathetic."

"Since when are you using fancy words?"

"is it the only important part of my yapping to you?"

"Look you are the one inbetween us who fumbled a relationship talking about the 'cringe' me and Nito did."

DL's face sours, this really was going nowhere. Whatever him and his besties, he knows more than DL himself anyway.

"... fuckass wimp..."

Those were the last words DL spewed before storming out with Jax yelling how DL should learn to be friendlier for a change.

Current time

DL still felt really bitter about everything. For once he was trying to be considerate to someone that isn't Freddy and is met with this much hostility from the person he wanted to hear out the most. He grumbles to himself for even having a single hope. At this point Jax deserves to be referred as a mere homo. He tosses and turns in that small ass matress of his, his mind racing different directions at once, mainly thinking about how he was about to choke the guy, and very rightfully so. Each time he replays the conversation he gets more pissed with the fact he can't see what did he do wrong at all and before he knows it the sun rises. Jeez all that time wasted on a single conversation with a noodle build homo that probably is part of 2020 danganronpa server. The realisation of the amount of hours wasted exhausts DL but even then he fails to fall asleep. That makes him groan and kick things while grumbling. Well he'll start the day he guesses and sleep whenever his mind feels like it. He checks the kitchen only to remember that he had absolutely no food left. For something that is instant it sure takes a lot of work and time... ... To go and get it in store. If he had any neighbors, they would think that DL is suffering from an unheard and unseen lung desease and was smoking on top of that. In the literally meaning of the word, DL drags his ass to the nearby store. That's it, he would by another month long stack and leave. And just by the will of the narrator, the store had ran out of the exact instant noodles beand DL is using. He is NOT going to by alternative either, too much risk and he was not in the mood to go outside for another month. Bro audibly groans causing some judgemental looks from people around, but he is way too cool to give a fuck about that (that's what manchildren think btw).
DL walks around the city, being allergic to sun as expected trying to find a store with his goods until someone bumps into him.

"hey! watch your step!-"

DL freezes in his place when he notices the familiar noodle build walking around.

"DL! I was looking for you! I-"

"the fuck are you doing here?"

Great, this day just couldn't get any worse and it was evident on DL's sour face.

"I wanted to apologize!"

"we have nothing to talk about. you and your clownery."

"No I really wanted to apologize but couldn't find your house. I managed to somehow get into this omega whatever it is, but I had troubles finding you. Ink is still unavailable."

"that's a privacy violation."

"How else I was going to let you know that I royally messed up last night?"

DL shrugs.

"nothing i do is ever enough so who cares?"

"I do!"

DL scoffs.

"stop fucking around."

"But I-"

"i royally fucked this up, i accidently messed that up. why can't yall just get it right already?"

DL snaps leaving Jax speechless. Honestly bro you are kinda speaking facts this whole chapter, that's an improvement... That's new.

"now if you'll excuse me, i have important stuff i have to attend to."

DL turns around and walks away after saying that only to stop when Jax jumps in front of him saying

"Stop! Wait!"

"can you leave me at peac-"

Jax reveals a cardboard box in his hands. Did he just pull that out of his ass??

"Is this the stuff you had to attend you?"

DL blinks few times before realising he probably should take a look at what's inside the box. His eyes widen when he realises it's all his specific favourite instant noodles that could last for 2 whole months.

"when did you-... where did you..."

DL was stunned at the gesture. Of course that ass would only care about food and bribery in the form of food.

"Back when me, you and Freddy were a team I noticed that's the specific thing you are having every single day... So as a sign of my apology I decided to get you some."

"from??"

"Nearby us with Kinito."

Well at least he didn't buy every single package from this timeline and gift it to him. That would piss him off and understandably so.

"you know it's gonna take more than food to apologize right?"

"Yeah I know!"

And DL was not going to reveal that Jax basically saved his pathetic and hungry ass. That might give that spineless entity an ego boost.

"So where do you live?"

"as if i will tell ya that information."

"I just want to fix my mistake."

DL thinks about the situation. It looks like Jax is not going to leave him alone until he makes sure DL has forgiven him. That much was evident by the fact that DL was taking laps around the same building with Jax absolutely not questioning that route.

"i tell you what, you clean my house, do the dishes and laundry and I might forgive you."

"Deal."

DL then shows his rusty appartment. Jax got DL's adress finally... But at what cost? The moment DL opened the door Jax started coughing from the dust that had formed additional layer of invador protection at this point.

"good luck."

"DL! What the heck?!"

DL bursts out laughing.

"giving up already?"

"Heck no!"

Jax still had his pride when it came to proving DL sonething but at the same time he absolutely swallowed it by still going through with the cleaning side quest. Little did DL know that Jax was going to be a pain the ass. Didn't take long though, as soon as DL was about to chill on his mattress, Jax takes it to cleaning.

"i demand you finest pardon?"

"You wanted cleaning, I will clean everything to sparkles."

Jax says with a smirk, almost playfully threating that. DL just rolls his eyes and lies on the floor. He was not going to let Jax know that it was getting to him.

"whatever, suit yourself."

After hours of such passive aggressive banter and spiteful cleaning the house started to look habitable. But the forced redemption didn't last long until the ground started to shake. All hail action. Janito's cringe won't be as painful with you around.

Chapter 44: Not So Much Of A Begining

A little before the timeline earthquake or whatever.

Bendy was still staying at CatBob's place making sure the guy wasn't doing something stupid. The two got along so well it felt natural staying together as if they were already a family. The inky gremlin's presence was helping CatBob to not go insane, although the house was unusually quiet. Both of them decided not to bring up the dinner experience as it was probably one of the most awkward situations they have been in. The only sound that made loud noise enough to be acknowledged in the house were the phone calls, probably from Janito's household. It's not like they had something against the two, but their personal problems were too overwhelming for talking so casually for now. Initially it was Bendy's idea to attend the dinner party. "It will help to ease your mind, I'm sure a friendly dinner party will do your mental health good." were Bendy's famous last words. It has been more than 20 hours and Ink has still not replied or called Bendy back. The concern was raising by each minute passing by, Bendy himself wasn't sure what was happening. He seemed to be waiting for something to happen while sending a message checking on him each 10 minutes. As soon as he sends a "I'll come over just to make sure everything's okay" text, a reply appears reading "don't bother me right now". This makes him even more suspicious before another reply appears saying "Problems have appeared I need to attend to". That's suspicious at least in Bendy's eyes even after the 'clarification'. He just sighs and sends another reply before finally looking over to CatBob who was stuck cooking once again. It's all he has been doing since the tower incident, however this time he wasn't burning the patties. Bendy's smile widens upon the realization.

"Hey! It smells nice!"

Bendy almost runs to take a closer look at the stove.

"Haha ... Thanks! I guess I no longer turn them into pure ash."

"Although I never minded your ash this certainly looks better."

"I was almost scared that I forgot how to cook."

"Aw come on... You'd never forget something as important as that."

The two continue chatting about nothing until the dinner was ready. The two start setting the table.

"I never really properly apologized for feeding you coal and ash all this time. I promise to not let this happen ever again."

"Oh you do not need to apologize actually! You know even if there was nothing but coal to eat, it was still delicious."

"R-really?"

"Yeah. I think it's impossible for you to cook something bad, CatBob, because even your coals are edible."

CatBob blushes as if that was the most romantic thing he has ever heard.

"Are you sure you aren't saying this just to make me feel better?"

"Trust me I truly mean what I said. I would have found other ways to make you feel better you know?"

"That makes sense."

The rest of the dinner was rather silent but the comfortable kind.

"Thank you for staying with me and tolerating this whole time."

"Tolerating? Please Catbob, you're offending me right now. Why would you assume I am tolerating you?"

Who's gonna bet 20 bucks that Bendy will say 'that's inkphobic, DNI.'
In fact Bendy did not continue that sentence and patiently waited for CatBob's response.

"I just... Well... I've not been emotionally available and... And fed you horribly and... And... And..."

Bro we heard the 'and' the first time, that stuttering kinda looks pathetic not going to lie. Fortunately Bendy was fast enough to shush CatBob.

"I chose to stay remember? I could have gone way before this day even came, but I chose to stay willingly."

Well good thing I didn't bet those 20 bucks lol. While I said that sentence CatBob was busy blushing.

"You really... Chose to stay? Even when I wouldn't blame you if you left?"

"Indeed. All I ever wanted was to help you."

"Oh! Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!"

CatBob quickly chants the words of gratefulness before he could jump out of his seat to give Bendy a fat, juicy hug. Peculiar description I know.

"Haha! That's NOT a problem for me! I should be the one thanking you though."

"But why?"

"You let me stay.-" don't start that now. "You gave me a place to sleep, made sure I was fed, and helped me when I was in need.-" UGHHH... Anyway, CatBob blushes even more.

"You obviously needed help, that was the least I could do..."

Soon they finish their dinner and thus the schrodinger confession exchange comes to an end as well. The two decide to attend their businesses, it was time for chores anyway. CatBob had the kitchen duties while Bendy had the cleaning and laundry duties.
As soon as Bendy checks his room he notices something that he doesn't remember having. Looks like a little thing Ink would give. He usually gave Bendy those small vials of paint, but this thing looked a little different. No one could sneak in, and he didn't really interact with anyone else other than CatBob and Janito... Well after the whole tower incident. He figured that Ink couldn't sneak it in during the incident itself so the appearance of it is quite recent. He decides to save it up for urgent needs for obvious reasons, we love smart choices here occassionally.

"Uhh CatBob? Do you mind if I go out for a while? I have to see a friend."

"You don't have to ask me."

"Well I was wondering if you'll be alright."

"Oh don't worry about me, I'll be fine."

Bendy nods and leaves few minutes later with a "I'll be back in a while", leaving CatBob alone for the time being.
It was tge first time he was ever going to see Ink's living area, thus he couldn't use ink to teleport. A while was going to take quite a while. Fortunately he was given the adress long before this whole isolation happened and it was quite easy for Bendy to find his final destination.

"Hello? Ink? I came to make sure you're okay!!"

Silence was his only response.

"Ink?? I only want to help you out!! Please let me in!"

Silence once again. Bendy figures speaking like that is useless. That's for sure but instead of walking away like any normal person would, my guy breaks in.

"Hello? Are you there?"

At least he makes his presence known however he was still left on read. The place itself is something he has never seen, for a moment he forgot what Ink's role was. It must be fascinating to watch over these bubbles as your job, and on top of that witness some appear and disappear. Blud was so mesmerized by the sight he almost forgot why was he here in the first place. It wasn't long before he notices how eerie it is with no one around, the emptiness suddenly seemed so vast, the air was cold and I have no idea how these guys feel the air, much less it getting cold lmao. He noticed how silent it was when he started to hear himself blinking.

"Ink?? Hello?"

He desperately was calling out to no avail, and that cycle goes on for another while before Bendy suddenly hears a reply.

"You shouldn't have come here."

"And you made me worry."

"But I told you I'm fine. I just need to attent some urgent businesses."

"And I came to help you with those!"

Bendy pays attention to the voice for finding it's source but this place was making it sound like it was coming from everywhere, nonetheless he kept walking at least somewhere. Guys? Where is this music coming from?

"You don't understand, this is dangerous!"

"Then let me share your burden."

The two break into some musical back and forth with Bendy' awful rhyming and awful voice in contrast to what Ink's part was delivering. This music was not music to my ears.

"Ugh, you should really learn singing."

"Of course! But only if with you I'm learning."

Guys yall are NOT the Epic, you ain't taking the suffering from each other. And we all are calling them friends. With that the cringy rhyming of the same words continue and by that time I lost the will to count with how many those I already heard.

"I can share your burden just as you."

"But Bendy I just told you,
it's not a task for a new
person who's coming without a knowledge,
value and use your priviledge,
this is not something you should do!"

Freddy, you've done better.

"Don't you dare!!"

Freddy hits a high note as he cut me from narrating but Bendy didn't know all that as he replied with

"I will dare!!"

Also hitting a high note or much rather high embarassment as he used the singing opportunity to follow the voice and find Ink. Soon enough he reaches a floating island (not the wind god's) with piles of papers forming a mountain.

"I can share your work..."

Bendy once again calls out softly still attempting to sing.

"And just how are you so stubborn?"

Freddy reveals himself imitating Ink's voice abruptly speaking those lines and cutting the song (thank god they cut the song but let's be real vocal cords would have been better option).

Chapter 45: Definately Not The Begining

Back to Jax and DL POV

"the heck-? Earthquakes aren't supposed to-"

DL and Jax both fail to keep their balance as the 'earthquake' intensifies.

"What do you mean it's not supposed to- ... What's happening?-"

There we have 0 survival instincs but yet again in DL's cardboard ahh appartment there was no safe space to go to.
DL guesses that the animatronic got quirky at daytime. That's probably why he was supposed to be on lockdown. He looks over to Jax, seeing that the guy has no clue what could be happening, he was as pathetic as the whitest-ice-coffee-gay dude you could ever lay your eyes upon. It was kind of funny even, to watch him lose his balance and waddle like those gas station balloons seeking drivers' attention do. This imagery makes him laugh a little.

"What the hell are you laughing about?!"

"sorry... haha! you're just-..."

DL bursts into full laughter as if he was holding it back before Jax decided to get offended.

"Psshh! Look at yourself woddly-doddly-"

Jax doesn't finish the sentence as he trips over his own ear... Again. Now cover your ears cuz the sound you're about to hear is so damn twisted! Not only he started wailing but the wail was a squeel.
Soon enough the earthquake stops and DL immediately runs outside only to witness the timeline starting to crumble.

"oh shit..."

DL turns to go back inside to not let Jax see this too. He was kind of late about that as he notices Jax staring into distance right behind him.

"jax, i-"

"... Freddy..."

"excuse me?"

"DL, where is Freddy?"

"why are you asking me?"

"I know it's him. And you know it too."

"and why are you so sure of that?"

DL asks narrowing his eye sockets as if he is performing an x-ray analysis.

"Only he could try and destroy an entire timeline, and you know it too."

Upon hearing the reply, DL rolls his eyes.

"it could just be anyone on the internet, the web is huge."

Everyone in the radius of 5 miles rolls their eyes . Imagine messing up so bad that when people who don't know the context immediately see through DL's bull.

"ow come on!! that was perfectly valid argument!!"

"I'm not going to ask a hundred times. Where. Is. Freddy?"

"i... i don't know exactly."

Jax notices that DL looks and acts off with the mention of Freddy's name. He raises a brow to which DL isn't very happy about.

"the fuck are you looking at me like that for??"

"You aren't being truthful. Do you still have feelings for him?"

"since when did it become your damn business?"

"Since when I noticed how troubled you look."

DL doesn't respond. Not even a smartass sarcasm would save that sack of bones.

"look. you did free labor for me and supplied with food, but i still don't appreciate your treatment towards me last night."

"Are you still holding that grudge?"

DL narrows down his eye sockets, looks like he too isn't happy about this specific back and forth.

"Look, I'm sorry, okay?!"

"... sorry for?"

"Sorry for not accepting your correct points and attacking your very much valid critisism."

"apology accepted."

"Now can we talk about your situation with Freddy?"

"why are you so obsessed with it anyway?"

"You really think I haven't noticed how uneasy and secretive you have been? How isolated you are even when there are people around you?"

"i only became your groups addition or whatever 2 days ago. i'm not that dumb to trust everyone first time, and neither will they."

"I can talk sense to them although they are already willing to-"

"shut up. don't you get it? you're the only one who cares about all of this!"

Jax flinches and steps back with a gasp, his ears falling down like the low iron friend that gets up a bit too fast.

"Y-you... Don't care?"

"don't take it wrong! i agreed because i cared enough. i just don't really care about getting buddy-buddies with those whiners. it's like another level of third wheeling and doubled at that too."

"I had no idea you felt that way."

"aight whatever..."

"No really I just-"

"don't you deku voice on me now. i have rights to care about the people i grew to care about and no one can judge me for it. including you."

DL says the last part while pointing at Jax which makes him flinch a little.

"H-hey!! I do not sound like deku!!"

"uh-huh and i love women."

The back and forth seems to continue as if the two were a pick me boy and pick me girl couple with all the "staaawp" and "nobody loves me" they were exchanging. Come on guys, it's half the chapter stop whining so much.
Evantually DL gives in and confesses about the fact that he has seen Freddy but doesn't tell about the fact that he knows that Freddy had been pretending to be Ink this whole time. Jax knew all well that DL was hiding that information, he decides to not press DL about it but his pickle-drippled-moldy ass face that should have been a poker one but sonehow Jax had a skill issue about that was bugging DL up until he got too pissed to even try and stand it any longer.

"could you please get off my ass with that buttface?"

"I-I'm sorry!"

Jax flinch-jumped back, his petite noodle figure flying with the soft wind. DL's reaction was equivalent to Undertale fandom's reaction to sourapplestudios after they got exposed at the time this chapter was written.

"W-what do you want from me?!"

Jax almost starts tweaking for no reason. I'll tweak for a good reason.

"just be normal you moron!"

"Are you implying that I am mentally ill?"

"no."

DL looks at Jax up and down as if it's the first time he is examining the guy's appearance.

"but now that you mention it, i kinda got convinced that you are."

"Hey!!"

DL can't help but chuckle at Jax' immediate reaction.

"heh... got rage baited real bad, hehe..."

"Oh now you are covering yourself with a simple rage bait, huh?"

"okay okay you caught me, it wasn't rage bait."

"Hey!! So you were for real?!"

DL now starts laughing loudly, bro I would too.

"got baited again! hahaha!"

DL coulntinjes laughing while Jax quitely sulls after crossing his arms. He already learned the hard way that DL was going to poke fun at him in any means possible. And that included people genuinely getting confused about his honesty.

"aw come on, earass, you don't have to cry about it."

"I'm not crying???? You just piss me off!"

"my pleasure."

DL says with a wink that only preteen edgy anime boy fangirls and booktok gooners not knowing how 'hear me out' works would find attractive- okay, only preteen edgy anime boy fangirls, booktok gooners not knowing how 'hear me out' works AND this dipshit of a rabbit knockoff found attractive. Chill bro you have a bf (who am I kidding have yall seen the fanarts of this fanfic?). My statement could be proven by Jax' heated face and definately not so indifferent of an expression.

"D-don't look at me like that... Please."

I kinda wish he said it from the cringe guys.

"why? got the gayzies from me?"

Currently your narrator is unavailable due to c̶r̶a̶s̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ o̶u̶t̶ technical difficulties.
The brain damage lasted enough for me not to be able to narrate the rest of the cringe. But all we get to know is the two definately started flirting at some point with the way both were giggling over each other. Proof? Jax was blushing, DL too.

"You really live in a pile of dust no matter where... Haha you are the real dumbster god, I swear."

"if you keep talking too much i will take you out too."

"Aww staawp."

"as a trash, weirdo."

THANK YOU, DL.

"Why do you keep sending mixed signals?"

"what do you mean?"

"First you are all flirty then you just insult me."

"who said i flirted?? that was uhhh... a friendly conversation. yeah! friends do that sometimes!"

"You are so in denial I swear. First you cover Freddy's ass for one thousand and nineteenth time claiming to have no idea where he is currently, and now this. You know I have a boyfriend, right?"

DL's eyes widen. And no he didn't care about the last part.

"you are just assuming things. i don't know where he is."

"Quit the bullcrap!"

Jax' sudden outburst causes DL to stop. He thought the guy only had enough braincell to drop and forget about the subject not later than after 5 minutes. Who would have thought that Jax' memory wasn't as wobbly and pathetic as his build and personality. Jax continues.

"I know that Freddy is alive and operating from behind the scenes. And I know that you are too into him to see that he is using you. Now spill it, where is he?"

Chapter 46: I Can't Stop Beginning

Jax had a stern look now, that was quite the topic change.

"just say that you want to break us up. stop making fun of my grief!"

"No. This has nothing to do with those twisted fantasies you have, DL. We've been back and forth-ing with this for quite a long while now. Let's cut to the chase."

DL does that anime flinch with extra dramatic background manga effect, his face also having that way too extra for a usual reaction expression when Jax insists on staying on that topic.

"What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?"

Jax asks unphased as he detects DL's mild distress.

"you can't just..."

"Can't just what? Have the talk with you?"

DL doesn't reply. He now looks rather irritated and distressed.

"DL, I don't intend to be hostile towards you. I'm your friend."

"then don't judge me for my feelings!!"

"I-I don't intend to judge your feelings, in fact I'm proud of you for accepting them."

"h-huh?"

"It's just... You don't see that for some reason, but Freddy... He... He is using you."

"using me?? that's a vile accusation."

"Don't you remember that one time when you needed his help amd he did nothing to free you from that ink?"

"w-well... he was busy!"

"You really are something else when it comes to delusions."

Jax shakes his head with a sigh as he says that, the hopelessness painted in his tone.

"don't you love that stupid axolotl?"

"Why do you ask that?"

"don't you... understand my feelings? don't you understand the simple fact that he is the priority to me?"

"The difference is... I don't drown my doubts. When Freddy amplified my doubts that's when I split with Kinito for the first time. When I felt used I didn't try to excuse anything even if it wasn't on my own will."

"that's the thing! it wasn't out of your own will. you probably would be as 'deluded' as me."

"You can't just assume things about me and be convinced that you are right."

"same goes for you. all you are trying to do is break us up for some sick twisted sense of satisfaction."

"Wh- the heck are you talking about?? Is that what you used to do as a homophobic sack of bones?"

DL narrows his eyes clearly not satisfied that this pathetic rabbit saw right through him. He replies but not without a growl.

"even if it was like that, what would you do about it?"

Jax thinks a little, DL's tone drop sure was intimidating a petite noodle like him so it took him two minutes before he managed to form a coherent sentense after stuttering like a freak.

"Th-that's not important! Why bring this into our conversation?"

"Wha-uh-..."

DL, utterly stunned just keeps gesturing with his hands while stuttering because of this utmost ridiculous sentence Jax had the audacity to spit. After good three minutes DL barely manages to form a coherent sentence.

"doyourealise?? do you realise that you started it in the first place??"

DL places the words as fast as he can knowing that his mind might soon go into stuttering mode again. However he finds the coherence to speak in full sentences again.

"you assumed things about me and i answered honestly and now you ask why am i bringing it into this??"

"S-sorry DL, I-"

"yeah you better be sorry. i thought you were smarter than that!"

"You... Thought I was smarter? Really?"

A faint pink tint appears on Jax' cheeks as he thinks about the obvious berating as a compliment.

"not anymore."

"I'm sorry but can we please don't get distracted anymore?"

Their mental d̶i̶s̶abilities did in fact not let them get distracted anymore. The two were stuck arguing like an old married couple, and they could not give a single damn about the fact that the timeline was very much still in danger, some people already got that and panic had been raised in the streets, it was loud, but DL and Jax could not care less. It was all just sone background white noise to them to play all dramatic to.

"fine let's end this, because both of us are getting irritated here and I have a dinner to attend to. i don't know where freddy is. even if i knew i wouldn't let you know about his whereabouts and you have no right to force that information out of me."

"DL, you are being rude right now."

"you keep me hungry out here. and defensive is not the same as being rude."

DL replies with just as dry and stern tone as if what he really wanted to communicate was 'i'm sick of your stupid face telling me what to do and what is right, fuck off.'
The not so passive aggression in his short replies get to Jax, as he decides to cut the interaction short as well. But he doesn't plan to give up either.

"Well too bad champ, I'll not let you see those instant noodles until you tell me what the hell is going on."

DL pulls the grumpy and grumps in the corner, but his grump doesn't last too long until Jax gets distracted by a phone call from Kinito.

"Jax, my poo-"

"Don't ever call me that."

"I was going to call you pookie but okay. That's not important-"

"What do you mean the nickname is not important?? I almost got offended."

Jax deku voices again. He has tarnished the character's reputation worse than the fandom and the english dub combined. Not even Evil Jax created by Caine could surpass the original one right now. The original Jax never liked to admit it, but he has become what he swore to never come close to. The denial showed up the moment he saw that ugly pink version of himself standing there with an ugly posture and stuttering like a kid who first saw the words 'depression and anxiety' on tiktok and made those their entire identity. This thought caused a chain reaction to a deeper gatred towards Caine who dares to even think of doing something like that.

"Dookie-dear, do you hear me?"

Kinito's soft voice saying that nickname wakes Jax up to reality.

"U-uh yeah, sorry, Nito... I just zoned out a little, what were you saying?"

"CatBob called me. Bendy's missing."

"What?? How? It hasn't been a day"

"I asked the same and CatBob said something suspicious. A piece of paper with disappearing ink appeared with a letter-"

*Gasp*
"Freddy..."

Jax utters in disbelief. He was convinced at this point that Freddy was undeniably part of these two disappearances. The look in his eyes could be translated to utter fury and determination.

"But how do you know that? How do you know Freddy is the one to blame?"

"Isn't it obvious??! First Ink now Bendy! Who's next??"

Jax stomp-walks, his emotional stability matching the presence of his braincells while DL looks unbothered. It was his way of acting normal in such situations. Upon noticing DL's uncaring demeanor he forgets that he is on the phone and sharply turns to DL.

"The heck are you standing like that for??"

"what do you expect me to do?"

"Don't you see what's going on?! Our friends are disappearing and Freddy's so obviously behind it all!"

Jax' body language and gestures started to intensify with each word he was screaming at this point.

"Don't you get it?! Don't you get it?! DON'T YOU GET IT?!"

Jax was tweaking already which left DL kind of speechless to say the least. Kinito's 10000th "hello?" and "Jax?" were left on unheard as he started crying from despair.

"woah hold it there."

DL puts his hands on Jax's shoulder,shaking him ever so slightly to calm him down. He hasn't been this gentle even with Freddy but he wasn't about to realise that right now.

"jax you eartrip ass! calm the heck down! you can't solve anything through panic!"

After a little more pep talk and physical contact display Jax falls onto his knees now crying silently. The sight before him being that pathetic sack of nothing collapsed before him. DL kneels to his level. Somehow that short ass skeleton was taller than Jax himself (that somehow was purely narrator's will). He still has his hands on Jax's shoulders but this time he doesn't try to say anything and just waits till Jax cries his eyes out.

"hey, you okay now?"

Jax sniffs and nods wiping away his tears.

"Y-yeah... I'm okay."

He stands up and checks his phone but by the time he had calmed down the phone call was still going but there was dead silence as response.

"Nito?? Nito???"

Heavy breathing was his only response.

"Nito this isn't funny! Please say something!"

"You HOR!!"

"Nito what are you calling m-"

Jax' eyes widen as he starts to realise that he has heard the last word before, it was weird that it was Kinito the one saying it. Or was it? Jax turns around seeing an unfortunately familiar metallic build before him, holding Kinito's cell phone and to Jax' horror the moment Freddy opens his mouth Kinito's voice comes out.

"You are smarter than you look."

Chapter 47: The Opposite Of The Beginning

Jax drops his phones from disbelief, frozen in his place while DL was still unbothered by everything.

"Gotta say you are smarter than the other guy."

Freddy's voice was back to his usual robotic one. He saw no reason continuing with that stupid axolotl's voice.

"Y-you... Y-you..."

Freddy starts mocking Jax' voice without using anything to sound exactly like him.

"M-me... M-me..."

"This isn't funny! What the heck did you do with Kinito?!! WHAT DID YOU DO WITH EVERYONE ELSE?!"

Jax gradually started yelling as he stomp-walked towards Freddy's tall large and metallic figure that one would almost preceive as muscular after seeing him next to Jax. As soon as Jax gets close enough, he suddenly realizes something.

"Y-you were not supposed to have an access to our home."

Freddy chuckles almost silently before nodding which causes shivers run down Jax' spine. How? Just how did he manage to pull that off? Just as Jax was thinking about all of these, Freddy silently points his finger towards DL, as if reading Jax' mind and answering the questions. At first Jax was confused at the gesture, he wasn't that fast when it came to realising things. Nonetheless he turns around, facing DL, who in his turn refused to meet Jax' gaze.

"No way... It couldn't POSSIBLY be you... PLEASE TELL ME IT'S NOT YOU DL!!"

Jax desperately says as he quite literally jumps towards DL, dropping his hands on DL's shoulders quite heavily.

"DL LOOK AT ME!!! ANSWER ME! PLEASE SAY SOMETHING!!"

Jax was shaking DL from the shoulders frantically while shaking himself. His voice started to break at this point. Even his screaming sounded like deku's english dub voice. Let's press F in chat to pay respect for the character who's reputation got tarnished once again. Jax screams were white noise to DL's ears, he refused to meet the guy's eyes and kept being unresponsive. At some point the ear-rape caused DL's earholes to ring. After few minutes of freaking out, Jax finally got it through his thick ass skull that jUsT mAyBe sCrEaMinG aIn'T gOiNg tO hElp. He finally 'calms down', as in stops yelling but his body is still shacking while his hands are digging through the guy's shoulders.

"N-No... DL... This... This can't be..."

In response DL just grits his teeth as if he is the edgy anime side dude which causes Jax to start screaming again.

"ANSWER ME!!"

"I CAN'T!"

DL snaps back, this beong his first time in forever he was this bothered by something. Jax soon realised that himself as he thought about why he instantly backed away from him. DL's face expression was something he never witnessed. He himself looked lost and angry. However he wasn't about to approach this with a cold head either.

"TALK TO ME, DL, WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO US?!"

"WOULDN'T YOU DO ANYTHING FOR THE PERSON YOU CARE ABOUT?! IF KINITO WAS THE ONE TO ASK THAT-"

"KINITO WOULDN'T HE IS WAY TOO FRIENDLY AND WAY TOO SWEET TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT!!"

Jax' eyes well up with that salty substance that start to blur his vision as soon as he starts talking about Kinito. The uncertainty of what might have happened to that balloon ass was an anxiety boost for Jax. The idea that this whole time Freddy just faked a voice was so disgusting to him that he didn't care about anything anymore. Freddy needed to face his punishment, and Jax wanted that sweet revenge so bad.

"YOU HAVE STUCK YOUR HEAD UP FREDDY'S ASS SO BAD THAT YOU NEVER NOTICE WHAT REAL FRIENDS ARE LIKE! ALL HE HAD TO OFFER YOU WAS REVENGE AGAINST ME BUT NOW ALL THAT IS POINTLESS!!"

"don't you dare to talk about freddy like that."

"SEE? YOU STILL ARE SUCH A DOUCHE! WHINING ALL DAY HOW ALONE AND LONELY YOU ARE BUT WHEN WE GAVE YOU A CHANCE YOU NEVER ENDED UP USING IT FOR YOURSELF!"

"OH COME ON!! WHO COULD POSSIBLY WANT TO BEFRIEND THE GUY WHO FOUGHT AGAINST THEM. AND THEY ONLY KNOW ME FOR A DAY!"

"YOU NEVER GIVE A CHANCE-"

"SHUT UP! i saw their faces and looks they gave me. i saw everything."

Jax gets even angrier when DL talks about his friends in that manner, his face was red as hell and breathing was way too loud. Although DL's observation seeming reasonable and the friends having the right to have that reasonable reaction to DL suddenly becoming a friend, being reasonable wasn't Jax' forté.

"Please... You're looking for excuses right now..."

Jax was so weak he was already collapsing just from crying. The struggles. Freddy was having the best time compared to the two but he was getting annoyed from this whiny session.

"i'm not looking for excuses."

DL was replying coldly but still avoided a single millisecond of an eye contact with Jax.

"DL... How could you...?"

"you've always been loved no matter how much of an asshole you used to be. that's our difference. about that axolotl i won't keep you in the dark anymore. all i did is making sure freddy got access to your house, nothing more nothing less."

Jax couldn't believe his long ass ears, which were too weak to handle the truth and dropped down as if they were the one low iron friend who stands up way too abruptly. All this time he was hoping that Freddy only bluffed and DL would defend himself from the accusations, but this confession was the final nail in the coffin.

"Was Ink's disappearance also your handiwork?"

"i promise, i had nothing to do with ink's case."

Jax just drops to his knees out of despair and frustration. Everything he had was being taken away in a blink of an eye and all because of...
Freddy... If only DL never fell for him none of that would have happened. He was starting to compare the guy to a lunatic because of not finding a single answer to the question 'Why would he do this? For what purpose?'. His body was shaking and his breathing was unstable and so loud he didn't hear how Freddy walked over to DL and wrapped an arm around his shoulder.

"You know I almost thought you were about to betray me."

"how could i ever do that, fred? you know how much i value you."

"Good... That's very good. I value your loyalty too, DL."

DL just nods before completely turning away from Jax. Freddy was about to do so too but Jax was quick to grab him from the ankle. "Jax' position was so pathetic" Freddy thought to himself and I agreed.

"Please... Just tell me where are they..."

Freddy rolls his eyes at Jax' way too soft of a voice. But before he could break away from the grip, Jax' hold gets tighter.

"TELL ME!!"

"It's not like you can stop whatever we did."

"I DID NOT ASK YOU TO COMMENT ABOUT MY ABILITIES!"

Maybe Jax understood just how pathetic he looked right now so maybe that's why he tried to look at least a little determined with all that anger.

"I can't just... Let my friends and Kinito die in vain... IF YOU'RE MESSING WITH THEM AT LEAST HAVE THE BALLS TO FACE ME TOO!!"

Jax was quite the snappy one today, too bad he was such a spineless noodle to not get snapped on spot by Freddy. Despite that he had another solution, so he doesn't waste time. He grabs Jax by his long ass neck, the guy was lucky it only had a millimeter of a diameter and Freddy's robotic hand could not choke him even if he wanted to, though we all know how dramatic Jax is. As Freddy effortlessly lifted him up, Jax started struggling rightfully, but also had the audacity to produce noises as if he was being choked. Even I don't drama queen this much even if my life depended on it.
The trip doesn't last too long until before Jax knew it, his neck was free but the ears were Freddy's next victim. A sharp pain spread through his head as his ears were forcefully stretched. I am sure I don't have to put in dialogue here to communicate how pathetically Jax screamed and whined. Bro used to live so comfortably he never thought of getting stronger or at least not become a furry rabbit while getting into that circus now he is paying the pricd of that. Just so you all know he was still crying like that kid from Ghost Stories english dub specifically.
Some painful ear-rape later Jax finds himself tied to a street light, the only twist was that Freddy used Jax' ears to tie him up. His hands were free which would raise questions but as soon as Jax reaches his hands attempting to free himself, everyone sees just how pathetic of a situation he is in.

"DL! DL!!"

Jax yells frantically, attempting to at least change DL's mind or get some sort of closure, only for DL to just spend few seconds looking at the scene before him, his face just as exhausted and tragic before leaving with Freddy.

"Please... I just wanted everyone to get along..."

Jax utters as he is left alone in a timeline that's about to get destroyed.

Chapter 48: The Opposite Of The Opposite Of The Beginning

It was getting cold, the streets were empty and Jax was still in that position all alone, hungry thirsty and weak. The constant pain in his head wasn't making it better. He would occassionaly whine and groan, his hands gaining the status of even more of wet noodles as he occassionally attempted to free himself only for his efforts to be pointless.

"Please... This can't be it..."

Jax said weakly before passing out. The only thing preventing him to fall over like a princess he thinks he is being those ears wrapped tightly around the pole. With all the cold and Jax's incredibly pathetically vulnerable position one will think that he won't survive for too long, long enough to die before the timeline disappears entirely. Almost an hour later someone appears. The silhouette is not entirely recognizable but it was someone large. As they get closer it turns out that it wasn't just a silhouette, the person was entirely black. Like Wiki Sans black. His eyes were glowing white contradictory to his entire existence that was spreading darkness all around. Each step he took was bringing some sort of destruction, it was clear. The timeline was getting destroyed because of him. He stops as he sees that purple rabbit passed out and tied to the street light in this "peculi-ear" way. That interests him, that's a reasonable reaction for anyone who doesn't have the context and sees someone in that pitiful of a situation. As he approaches just enough to see Jax' face, the stranger kneels down to Jax' level and examines him. Even unconscious the guy pretended to be a pretty princess. After few minutes of an examining session, the stranger hums drowned in his thoughts before he relucrantly decides to take an action. He softly unties Jax's ears, freeing him from the pain and letting them rest on Jax' shoulders. The ears themselves were so stretched it looked almost unnatural and maybe concerning. From previously constant sharp pain there was only a phantom of it left, which causes Jax' face to visibly relax. With nothing to hold the guy up, Jax' unconscious body fully plops down but before his head to hit the ground, the stranger's massive compared to Jax' head hand grabs him. Right after this, the stranger picks him up in a bridal style and carries him out of the timeline before destroying it entirely. At that point Jax started to wake up slowly, not understanding what happened and what's going on right now. The lights would be overstimulating for him if the stranger didn't spread darkness all around him, but he sure couldn't cancel out the side noises which ended up being overwhelming for Jax. The stranger didn't notice him waking up until Jax started stirring and groaning.

"W-where a-am I?"

Jax stuttered, pulling that y/n even the reader character in any cc x reader fanfics would not be able to. The stranger looked down at his face, staring at those dirty yellow eyes with big black sparkling pupils that were taking up Jax' eyes' 98% but uttered nothing. Just a little hum of acknowledgement. The stranger's demeanor slightly scares Jax but he preferred this outcome rather than being stuck tied to that pole.

"H-Hey!!"

Jax stuttered more insistively if such word even exists or if this even makes sense at all. Upon that sharp call, the stranger tenses up himself and abruptly lowers his gaze upon Jax, who immediately felt the morally-grey-emo-dangerous-alpha-wolfness of this person and flinches slightly.

"I-it was y-you w-who s-saved me... A-am I right?"

The figure stares at Jax intensly once again and stares at him for good two mintues before giving a slight nod as a reply. Mofo is trying way too hard already dared I give him a single episode of screentime as if he isn't one of the main characters in the spin-off.

"W-where are you t-taking me... May I ask?"

"..."

The stranger continued to pretend to be mysterious even though the only mystery about him was hus level of confidence about countless people simping for him or whatever.
The rest of the trip went just like that: Jax way too comfortable being carried in that bridal style even though he was blushing and yelling from embarassment while the aNgEl oF dArKnEsS was silent the whole time. With all that darkness Jax could not make any sense of where the two could possibly be until the stranger drops him rather abruptly, silencing another one of Jax' yelling session. Jax lets out a y/n-ly yelp as he lands on his ass.

"Hey!! What the heck?!"

Jax starts scolding the stranger while embarassed, his face red. It was the maid dress incident all over again. But the stranger turns around and walks away.

"Please! Say something! At least tell me your name if you won't tell me anything else!"

The strangers stops walking, slowly turns his head so a single white eye was visible to Jax, stares at him leaving null response. Hehe... Get it? After that very communicative conversation, the stranger straight up disappears causing Jax to flinch from the light. He didn't realize how used his eyes got to the dark until it disappeared so abruptly. Jax then looks around still not knowing where he is. It looked like some sort of void but it couldn't be one simply because there was a platform with Jax on it. That guy just dumped him in the middle of nowhere, yeah saved him from that slow pathetic death but still dumped him. No words, no instructions, just 27 endless minutes of humiliation and embarassment.

"AaaAAARGH ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!"

Jax rages as if he got 92% on a certain very hard geometry dash level, kicking... Just air, there was nothing to kick in this void.
As he walked around and yelled occassional "hellos" and "heys" swinging from angry and frustrated to concerned and scared, he felt his voice getting lost as soon as it left his vocal chords. Suddenly he started feeling cold or rather he realized how cold it really is. The only thing he had against it was his dead ears and noodle arms so he covers himself with both.

"DL? Nito?! Please... SOMEONE!!"

He lets out one last desperate cry before falling on his knees for the 3637171th time in these two chapters and starts sobbing like the pathetic little sack of spaghetti he is. On the 7th minute of tear donating to the ground session he feels something drippy and wet poke his shoulder.

"Well hello there Jax."

A painfully familiar voice calls out. Suddenly a heavy negative aura starts surrounding him as if someone is enforcing fear and anxiety onto him. Nevertheless Jax raises his head, slowly however but doesn't turn back just yet.

"We have met before haven't we?"

The drippy guy chuckles darkly even though I have no idea how that's supposed to work.

"Indeed, a long time ago even. That's when you met DL too."

Jax gasps. That line caused some memories to resurface. Some very painful and traumatic ones. The time he remembered being killed by DL slowly. Twice. Someone creepy in the back that kinda looked like DL. Suddenly Jax turns around and sure enough, his suspicions are confirmed.

"You-..."

The "I-like-my-body-drippy-bruh" guy grins at Jax' reaction. The fear was delicious to witness. He just chuckles again.

"Need a helping hand?"

He asks suspiciously and ominously reaching a hand out to Jax. The purple rabbit for once displays signs of intellegence by backing away. The fear causing his entire body to shake.

"S-stand back!"

"Oh but why? You clearly are lonely and in need of help aren't you? I am the only one who can delay your death for a good chunk."

Nightmare starts lecturing as he steps closer to Jax who kept backing away hiis legs shaking more violently with each second.

"I s-said stand b-back!! Don't c-come closer! G-go away!!"

Jax blurts frantically while Nightmare keeps talking about how he is the only one who can help Jax.

"You want to find your friends are you not? I know where that axolotl is, where that ink and his little inky gremlins are and where is that traitor of a dustlust."

Jax grabs his ears, holding them down trying his best not to hear Nightmares yappery.

"that's enough."

The conversation is interrupted by DL in hearable distance, his hood swaying with the wind.

"stay away from him you creep!"

"You're supposed to be dead."

DL smirks.

"too bad you're too weak to make that assumption true, eh?"

"Barking too much."

"maybe back away from him and i won't bark that much?"

As DL says that he walks in front of Jax, getting in the middle of them.

"next time when you try to ambush us try to be sneakier. you're way too obvious."

Chapter 49: No Wait It's THE Begining

"DL! You're here!"

"not right now, jax. you need to get away from here."

"Wh- I'm not leaving you!"

"suit yourself."

With that last shrug DL turns to Nightmare while Jax admires him with his eyes sparkling. The same Jax that has a boyfriend he needs to save by the way.

"You fools..."

Nightmare doesn't waste a second before attacking DL and Jax, using his "i-like-my-skin-drippy-bruh" build to "expand" himself in size.

"D-DL??"

Jax calls out fully terrified right now, shaking from DL's shoulders while his body was shaking in itself.

"you dumbass idiot! why the hell did ya think i suggested you to leave?!"

"You know you are the worst kind of 'neutral' because you're not even one."

"the fuck are you yappin abou-"

Before DL could finish his question, Nightmare extends his tentacles, grabbing Jax with one of them.

"H-H-HEY!! EWW!! PUT ME DOWN YOU FREAK!!"

"JAX!"

Nightmare laughed as he held Jax from his right ankle upside down, wiggling him in front of DL as if Jax was some kind of toy.

"YOU SICKO PUT HIM THE FUCK DOWN!!"

"See how weak you got? I only had to grab him and you're already freaking out. You're not the strong vengance hungry guy I first met and that's going to be your downfall."

"he has nothing to do with it!!"

"He has everything to do with it."

DL knew that and knew that well, that's when he starts raging, no one has ever seen him this bothered and furious, not even when he was taking out his frustration on Jax back when they first met. He forms a gaster blaster, jumps on it and uses it as moving platform, and not even a millisecond later he summons hoards of blasters. For a moment the battlefiels looked just like one of those unfair Undertale fangames that focused on Sans' epic fight scenes. With all that considered, DL was extremely careful to not accidently shoot Jax. Nightmare's grin grows, that was him communicating that he noticed the pattern.

"oh no you won't!"

"Oh yes I will."

Nightmare suddenly starts swinging Jax from side to side throwing DL off guard for obvious reasons.

"you piece'a'shit!!"

DL spits those words gritting his teeth as he was caught on.

"D-DL!"

Jax whines as he was being swung like some kind of toy to play with. DL started cursing like a sailor in his mind, he literally warned that prick to stay away and did exactly the opposite. Now Nightmare had the advantage in the battle and boy was he taking advantage of it. His attacks weren't playtime either, even though they weren't exactly direct. Yeah he would occassionally use his more "basic attacks" to hold DL down but as usual, his priority isn't just killing DL. It didn't take long before the battlefield got dark once again.

"jax?! JAX CAN YA HEAR ME?!"

DL's senses sharpened frantically looking for any signs of silhoutettes. Seemed like he found one but upon confrontation it was revealed to be just some sort of smoke. Took DL couple more tries to realize that he is being played.

"QUIT FUCKIN WITH ME, BOZO!!"

Suddenly DL starts exhibiting the general symptoms of schizophrenia: hearing voices in his head and experiencing hallutinations. Skill issue if you ask me. At first nothing was clear but everything was so overwhelming due to the strange weight they had. DL refused to look into himself for the solution to his problem and started raging more randomly attacking  every singke direction he saw suspiciously high density of something. Did mofo really still rely on silhouttes? Some people have quick minds and some are the main cast of Heart Sways With The Wind. A little bit later he starts distinguishing each of the voices and what were they saying. A terrible start. One might ask why am I, her greatness narrator so contradictory, wanting DL to actually listen to these voices and find a solution, but now that he finally started doing it, I comment how terrible of a start that is. Let me sayeth. LET ME SAYETH. As soon as DL hears the words "why can't you respect who we are?" he starts tweaking the hell out. He was not hear to listen to his friends' and brother's dead versions talking down on him and guilttripping him. He JUST learned to move on, he just learned to live the life from a new page. Unsurprisingly the whole guilt sequence contained the dustlust counterparts of the undertale cast just making sure to remind him that he killed everyone all because of some twisted manifestation of internalized homophobia as if he wasn't feeling slight guilt over the fact that he had to kill everyone to fic everything. Come to think of it, he doesn't understand his previous character and universe defining actions right now. He could tear his brain apart and look for answers inside but he would fail to find something that would satisfy his curiousity. The lack of understanding makes him feel worse because now the realization of the fact that he basically commited genocides over and over again for simply nothing was driving him insane.

"that's all you can pull ya jackass?! show yerself and fight me like the [BIG SHOT] you think you are!!"

DL grabs his throat, clearly puzzled by what I made him sound like for a split second just because I simply wanted to include a reference. Deciding not to dwell on this for too long and get rid of Nightmare for once and for all, DL brushes the worry off as "probably one of that tentac-hole's focus-pocuses". The voices however don't stop with that, in fact their volume and frequency of badmouthing intensifies. At some point the hallutinations come to the "you are gay youself" conclusion in unison to which DL reacts quite shocked.

"n-no... just what are those accusations..."

DL's hardened fists start shaking slightly as he stands in place for a while after that "soul crushing heart breaking" type of revelation. Nightmare observing all of this becomes kind of suspicious at his reaction but then remembers every single gay "i'm manly straight real man" men's reactions to these accusations and realizes how tame DL is being. That's quite the surprise to say the least. But then he sees how DL is starting to rage silently and his suspicions fade away like that one discord gif emoji. As soon as DL realizes that Nightmare has his guard down enough, he strikes back, finally finding the oopy-goopy.

"heheh... nice try fuckass!"

Nightmare was quick to dodge and jump back.

"What the... This can't be! It's impossible!"

From that comment DL gets even cockier, his smirk becoming the nastiest it can get.

"guess what sucker? choke on ya own filth!

DL gets back on track, his attacks returning to average sans fight fangame experience, driving Nightmare to stereo madness.

"How could you-?!"

"i already know i'm gay as fuck."

"But your feelings of despair- your denial, they were all real!! HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY-!!"

Nightmare's form deforms (heh), his disgusting goo expanding him. If it didn't look like Nightmare throwing a childish tantrum, it would look creepy.

"you'd be surprised."

DL teases, knowing how lucky he is that the only way Nightmare could haunt him was calling him gay and even that didn't work out.

"i have accepted it."

"So fast? You wouldn't physically be able to."

"you're right."

That was all that DL cared to comment. It's not like he was going to stand there and monologue like a shonen hero about his backup plan that was designed just for outsmarting the villain. Nightmare grumbled, yelled, questioned, demanded only for DL to blissfully ignore him. It was all funny, to observe Nightmare's own anger and despair, however as soon as he hears an awfully ugly and familiar scream, he remembers that Nightmare is still holding Jax hostage and very much has the biggest chances of dying right now.

"Fine. If that's how you wanna play..."

Suddenly Nightmare smiles but this one was the most sinister DL ever had his eyes upon. Suddenly DL a sharp feeling of anxiety stabs DL in the back. Chills start running down his spine, his head starts feeling heavy and thoughts getting cloudy. That's exactly how Nightmare loved to see his preys. Both were standing without a single movement. One was frozen and paralyzed by his own intensified fear and one was Nightmare. He lifts up Jax, who had passed out from all of that upside down swings, and holds him hanging above the endless not-exactly-void.
DL couldn't even try to fake his feelings to troll Nightmare at this point. However...

"so w-what? i can catch him. thought you were smarter than that."

Nightmare doesn't reply, nor he suddenly changes his actions as if trolling DL, he straight up lets go of Jax which sets the chain of reactions. DL's eyes widen and he immediately reaches a hand out to capture Jax' soul with his magic. But as soon as he does so, a whisper invades his head. The next thing he knows is that he lets go of Jax and pulls an oyasumi himself.

Chapter 50: Begin the Beginning

DL's mind was fuzzy, as if something was keeping it from having clarity. The vision wasn't blurred but it wasn't clear either, one would think he was dead with his eyes open. Jax was still as unconscious as princess-y/n-ly ever. Even him falling just like that had to be dramatic as if it's an anime opening or something, while DL was revinding that whisper that ringed in his head over and over again. It was just a single worded command but something about it... He wasn't escaping the schizo allegations but that's not what was caring about right now. Few more minutes of the lifeless cosplaying session a single tear runs down from DL's eye socket as he whispers to himself.

"freddy..."

That's all he could bring himself to say. Gotta love DL's timings like king, I know your psuedo-boyfriend is unhealthy to you but that doesn't mean you have the right to be pathetic right after you were being pathetic. The sudden ugly yelling snaps him back from his thoughts. Jax had come to his senses. Upon realizing that fact DL quickly summons a gaster blaster big enough for the two of them, lands on it and catches Jax in bridal style. An awkward silence falls between the two of them as they realize what kind of position they so happened to be in. Both of their faces turn red as they keep staring into each other's eyes in order to read one another's reaction.

"C-can you please put me down already?!"

Jax asked embarassed and flustered seeing that both of them were kinda slow. DL immediately drops Jax down and lets him plop onto the blaster surface, his petite body not causing any physics law to 'activate'.

"don't you talk like i love doing THAT jackass!!"

DL says turning around refusing to face him again.

"at least you could have said.. i dunno... 'thank you'??? 'for savin my pathetic life'???"

Jax blushes.

"Uhm... Thank you for saving me..."

DL doesn't reply he just sits down, balls into that sad anime boy position, I'd say "and then he bawls" but he exceeds my expectations. Bar is in hell. Jax sits next to him, playing with his ears as if they were braidable hair. The silence was rather calming but awkward at the same time. Jax would occassionally throw glances at DL, examining him from every angle possible while DL avoided any kind of eye contant, he was busy questioning his entire existence. The two sat for 10 more minutes before Jax finally decided to break the silence.

"You look troubled."

"well duh..."

Once again they sit for a while in silence, but it never would be as deep as Kris and Susie lake scenes.

"Not gonna lie, I expected you to open up a bit."

"what's there to open up for?"

"I don't know maybe about the part where we sit on this... Skull in the middle of nowhere with you so..."

"so?"

DL's tone was rather judgemental however he tried his best to hear Jax out.

"So... Dead inside suddenly. So unmotivated. So-"

"got it already!"

"... Snappy. But my point is... Is it my fault?"

DL slowly turns his head to look at Jax his face depressed and exhausted.

"DL..."

"don't you dare to pity me..."

"I-I wasn't going to I just... Are you okay?"

"what do you think?"

There was DL's sarcastic tone again. It usually became more obvious the more upset he got.

"I just..."

DL sighs not letting Jax continue the sentence.

"you were right..."

"Right about?"

"about... about freddy..."

Jax' eyes widen, he wanted to say many things, he wanted to comfort DL, but he stayed silent, letting him have his space and continue talking if he wanted to. DL noticed this and appreciated the gesture. That reflected in the tone he chose to speak.

"do you ever... have such problems with that half ass axolotl? i mean... problems like lies and manipulation?"

"The only time we ever had that was because of Freddy. Nito... He never lies..."

Jax smiles fondly as he remembers Kinito.

"He can't physically lie. That's something so adorable about him!"

"i wish i had what you have..."

"And I wish it was never taken away from me..."

Another moment of silence falls between them. The only thing they lacked right now is a sakura tree and suddenly slice of life anime doesn't seem too bad for Jax.

"you were right about him using me, not really caring about me... you were right about everything. i still can't believe that he would turn on me like this..."

"Oh..."

Jax gives this tame reaction when we both want to tell "told you so." He had it coming and I had the satisfaction and cringe to narrate how dumpfounded he is right now.

"don't try to rub it in my face that you warned me and that you were right."

"Don't worry, Freddy did it for me."

"you asshole..."

Two share a laugh for once not taking a single joke as a personal attack.

"Just so you know... I am still your friend."

"h-huh? after i betrayed you? after everything i did?"

Jax nods slowly, his ears swaying with the wind narrator decided to add in the void just so she could say the thing.

"You weren't in the best place... Both mentally and physically. I understand you."

"that's the most idiotic thing you could have done... ... thank you..."

"Now will you tell me what exactly happened?"

DL looked a bit confused but then remembered that Jax was literally sleeping third quarter of the fight.

"well... you see even though that showerless ass was using you against me, i was nearly kicking his ass no problem."

As DL was explaining this his gestures were being a bit exaggerated, as if the "guilt" sequence didn't happen. Jax was giggling along. Like "teeheehee" giggling. A little more and he would start kicking his feet too.

"but then suddenly that sewer mutant just looked at me like this and that's when it was clear that fight was for nothing. he knew full well i'd grab you once he lets you go, and i did.. except... freddy... he... whispered to me and... he hypnotized me just like he hypnotized you back then..."

"Oh... I'm really sorry about that..."

"oh don't pull that, i know what are you thinking! 'i told you so.' 'what a whiny dumbass.' and all of the like."

"No I'm really not going to say these, promise."

DL seems to calm down a little, Jax' reasurrance making him feel slightly better.

"Now what about us going back and kick Freddy's ass?"

"what's the point? i won't gain anything i won't have anywhere to go."

"You won't be alone either."

"i don't plan on thurd wheeling ya and yer halfass axolotl boyfriend."

"You won't be a third wheel. Besides don't you want to get a revenge?"

DL stares at Jax after the last part, for once that sentence doesn't motivate or fuel him to go forward. Last time he followed that sweet-sweet treat he got betrayed in the worst way possible. All he wanted to see was if Jax was dead serious.

"Are you deadass?"

BITCH WHAT DID I NARRATE ALLAT FOR?!

"I mean... Freddy... He did you dirty. Used and tossed you like you were nothing. And keeps terrorizing all of us. Don't you want some justice to be served?"

"but what's the point? none of it is gonna work. none of it will have a satisfying prize to long for."

"What is a satisfying prize for you?"

That was a question worth thinking for DL. He never really focused on what makes him feel better. At first he was just bloodthirsty revenge seeker but by the time that offense faded away but the desire to stay with a friend he formed in that revenge phase replaced it. The only reason he kept doing what he did was to stay close to Freddy and now even that is impossible for him. There was nothing he could fight for, nothing he could look forward to, nothing to live for. He doesn't reply to Jax' question, not wanting to sound like a pitiful and whiny crybaby. Jax notices the lack of response and the look on DL's face and suddenly he doesn't need a vocal reply anymore.

"DL... You know you have me right?"

"you already have bunch of friends. don't pretend to be someone you know you won't."

"But I really want to make sure you are okay... Look we both got done dirty by Freddy Fazbear we gotta stay together with struggles so similar."

"tch... those fake ass words. if i end up trusting you-"

"Sure it will be boring for your standarts but you won't be alone. Once we are done with Freddy, no one else will have to fight. Trust me we are pretty tired of this too. We want peaceful lives."

DL had to admit, Jax was right about the boring part. But at least he had less chances of being betrayed by an ally in battle especially by someone who expresses how they only want this to end so they can go back to normal rather boring life. DL seems reluctant at first.

"fine, i will help you take down freddy. don't expect nothing more than that."

"Deal, but if you will want more you are welcome to let me know."

DL nods his face no longer pathetic and with that note he charges the blaster up to the platform they were falling from.