Error In The System

by PyraFlare

Confrontation

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As Starlight walked out of Sugarcube Corner she had the strangest feeling that she was being watched. Of course she was, Error was hiding away making sure to only appear when she was alone, glitching from alley to alley, roof to roof as he followed her from a distance, also making sure that no other ponies noticed him.

Starlight began to feel a magical disturbance nearby, like when Error Moon had appeared. As she took one step inside the castle ropes immediately wrapped around her body and Error appeared in from of her. "Hello-o-o-o Starlight. Let's h-have a little talk." She wanted to scream, but soon found herself in the middle of a garden, Toriels garden.

The ropes were gone but Error still stood before her with his hands in his hoodies pocket while he looked at her with his teeth forming a frown. "W-What's going on? Where am I?"

"Y-Y-You're in my f-fiancés underground garden." Error answered simply. "This is-is-is my home." He spoke as softly as possible. This was an important conversation, one that he needed her to be calm for. Sure, his methods of him getting her there weren't the best way to achieve this, but it sped things along.

"Why bring me here? What do you want?" Starlight asked, her fear slowly sending away as she took in the calming sight of the garden around her.

Error reached into his pocket and pulled out a scroll and unfolded it, causing Starlight to gasp as she saw its contents.

"That...that's the time travel spell! I thought it was destroyed, how did you get it?!"

Error frowned and rolled the scroll back up. "So y-you remember this-this spell?"

"Of course I do! I did terrible things with that spell. I can never forget what I saw using that spell." Starlight exclaimed as she tried to tear the spell with her magic, only for Error to snap his fingers and a rope tied itself around Starlights horn, cancelling her telekinetic magic. "What the?"

"I made s-s-s-sure that this spe-e-ell would never be completed. And y-yet, you find a-a-a way to enhance it." Error shook his head. "That damn w-wizard never kn-knew when to just-just quit."

"Wizard? Do you mean Starswirl?"

Error nodded before he snapped his fingers and a Gaster Blastet appeared and destroyed the scroll as Error threw it into the air, causing Starlight to stare in fear. "I've f-f-fought to keep t-this world balanced. To kee-eep it from fault. T-Tike travel is dama-damaging to the w-world, it breaks it apart at the seams. Creates m-mistakes in reality." Error explained as he sent the Gaster Blaster back to wherever it was from, "I have t-tried to ke-e-ep this world working f-for millennia, and n-now you come along an-an-and create more p-p-problems."

Starlight just stared in shock, confusion and regret. "I...I didn't realise...I didn't know that it would-"

"O-Of course you didn't." Error interrupted, rendering her silent. "I k-k-know that, that's why-y-y I'm not going to-to-to-to hold it against you." As she was about to thank him he silenced her again. "However, y-you must know tha-that even though no one wa-wa-was harmed, the u-universe could have shut down." He warned in a strict but calm voice, well, as much as he could with his speech.

"The world could have shut down?" Starlight asked with fear.

"Yes. The code of the-the world would have b-been broken, everything w-w-would disappear. I would be-be-be able to fix things sure-ure, but I wouldn't be a-able to save all of the l-l-living things in this w-world. You'd die-ie-ie and never move on, you'd cease to e-exist, your consciousness an-anyway. It would j-just be a copy o-of you taking your place." Error explained as his frown lowered even more. "It's a sad fac-act my friend. That is why I-I-I cannot stop fighting, t-this world doesn't n-need more errors."


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Deep in the void a large cloud of dark purple mist watched everything take place. It watched as Starlight and Error had their little conversation while also paying attention to the others going on in the world.

Anyway. It watched everything happen, a series of dark laughs could be heard as the mist began to converge on one spot and a body began to form. It was humanoid in appearance, its face only having two wide circle shaped glowing yellow eyes as the rest of its body began to form. It had no mouth and took on a shape similar to that of a young human male. It grew four dark tendrils out of its back and looked to the world he was watching.

"Those Errors and glitches get way too much fun in this world." It spoke darkly as it changed its fingers into claws and glared at Error Sans. "Oh right, another one of Authors displaced, I can tell this is going to go swimmingly."

The creature stopped looking into the universe and let out a loud growl of some sort that appeared to reach a number of people or other beings in the distance. Soon the darkness around it began to light up with more glowing yellow eyes with more mist entering the area.

"We have found another one of the displaced that pose a threat to our Kings and Xrams plan, we must destroy this world before he becomes more of a problem than he already is."

There was whispers amounts the gathered creatures before all of the eyes vanished and the mist seeped into the universe with the first creature following close behind. It looked to its claw for a moment before clenching his hand into a fist and charging off to find some way of causing a disturbance, it wanted the ponies and other beings to know that they were there.


Author's Note

And now we're getting more and more into the main storyline which revolves around these creatures.

Sorry if it seems of poor quality, I've been slipping as of late with a few of my stories. Point out any errors or mistakes I may have made.

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