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He said as he looked up at the group. His eye lights move like those of a clock face. "We don't care who you are! what did you do to the boss!" killer demanded as he gestured to Nightmare. "Oh I made it so that he and his brother have been frozen in time!." He said and in a blink of an eye he was now laying on one of nightmare's tentacle's. "I have been watching the fabric of time for sooo long..." He held his hand up and let a cloth run in between his Phalanges before he gripped it tightly, almost ripping it. "It got boring..." He said with his tone going flat before he was now as he was gone once again in a blink of an eye. He was now standing a few feet from the others as they whipped around to turn to him when he spoke again. "But! I plan to make some changes to that!" He said happily as he held one arm behind his back and snapped his Phalanges. In doing so Dream and Nightmare were unfrozen as they attacked one another, but seeing the others were distracted the two turned to see what they were staring at. Shift just smiled at them and waved at them as if he was an old friend of theirs. "Now... let's rewind this nightmare... Into a new dream." He said as his eye lights disappeared and a wide sadistic grin spread across his skull as he held his hand up and with another snap of his Phalanges a ball of cloth appeared behind the group, making them jump and look at it, the cloth was tan in color till it started to change into yellow and purple, Voices from Dream's and Nightmare's past filled the area as the cloth unfurled from the ball showing key events from their shared past. Dream and Nightmare went pale at seeing their past play out in front of them, happy and painful memories showing on the cloth as if it was a reel to a movie. "Boss..." Dust said with rising concern in his normally flat toned voice. but Nightmare didn't hear him as he held his head as memories of what happened filled his head, from the name calling and then to his eventual death. but he snarled and looked at Shift. "You think you can play mind games on me! I am the King of negativity! this will do nothing to me!" He yelled as he raised his right hand and cut the air with it as he spoke. Shift just smiled at him, and that made Nightmare go on edge as he backed up and stood protectively in front of those he was in charge of. "You think I just wanted you to see your past... no... I want you to relive it!" Shift yelled as four bolts tore out of the cloth. A sickening sound of them sinking into bone rang thought the air as Dream yelled in pain as his arms dropped to his sides. two of the bolts had hooked onto the bones in his arms while for Nightmare he blocked the bolts from hitting Killer, only for them to sink deep into his shoulder blades. "Dream/Boss!" the five yelled as they tried to tend to their fallen comrades but it was all for nothing as the chains connected to the bolts started to slowly pull them into the cloth, the five tried to stop the chains, even tried breaking them, but nothing put a scratch on them, and desperately Dust clung onto nightmare as the chains started to pull nightmare to the cloth while Blue did the same to dream. But for both of them, their grip slipped and the two were pulled into the fabric of time that they had left behind. All the two could hear was their friends and comrades yell their names out, and for the first time, they saw the fear on the guardian's faces, before the cloth enveloped them and blinked out of existence. "Well... this is going to be fun~" Shifter cooed as the five quickly turned to them. ready for battle. (hated the fact I had to break this up into two parts lol)
‘tick tock tick tock.' Went the clocks that hung on long fabrics, with the ticking of the clocks more fabric was made, this land was the time verse, this was Shifters home. "Tick, tock, tick tock~" A voice rang somewhat above the ticking of clocks. "Looks like outertale is doing well." The skeleton said as they touched the clock as it ticked away. "As expected..." They said as their smile slowly turned into a frown. "It's always the same.... " They said as they walked away from outertale and looked at the other clocks and watched them tick away. humming a bit they walked to a clock that was hanging from a pink cloth, with a smirk the skeleton reached out and stopped the hour hand of the clock making undernovela pause at a pivotal moment in the whole show. "OH COME O-O-ON!!!" The skeleton snickers when Error's scream reaches them. "Always love that sound~" they said as they let the hour hand go to continue the show. "As entertaining as that is...'' they walked away from the clock. "I want something different..." They said as they walked over to two glowing clocks, one teal like the night sky and one bright like the sun, the cloth that came from them were always twisting around one another. with a wave of their hand the cloths from the clocks whipped out to the skeleton and went taught as if it was on a loom and scenes started to show things currently happening. Dream and Nightmare were currently fighting like they always have and always will. The skeleton watched as Ink tossed Blue towards Killer who just laughed as he threw a knife at Blue who easily blocked it, only to be tackled by Horror as he rode on one of Dust's blasters. "Brother! Once again I implore you to stop this!" Dream begged as he used his bow to protect himself from two of Nightmare's tentacles only to get struck by the other two making him yell out in pain as the two tentacles wrapped around his neck and body and lifted him off of the ground. "When will you realize I will never stop! I will delve into the dark embrace of negativity!" He yelled as he started to slam dream into the ground only to drop dream to quickly get out of the way as Ink swung broomie making sharpened bones of ink shootout at him. "Ha! You really think we will let you do that!!" Blue yelled as he Blocked Horror's bone ax from crashing down on him. The skeleton that watched them soon had a wide smile spread across their skull as they snapped their fingers, the two clocks stopped completely.
on the battlefield the two groups stopped when their leaders stopped moving completely. Blue ran to dream and grabbed their arm and gave it a bit of a shake, well tried to, Dream was as solid as stone and didn't move an inch. Killer ran to Nightmare and started to wave his hand in front of his face as Dust and Horror tried to get Nightmare's attention.
"Oh no matter what you do you won't be able to wake them from their suspended state!" A voice called out to them, making the five quickly turn to the voice. "Ink.... I didn't know you had a brother..." Blue said as he took a step back. "I... I don't." Ink said as he held up his brush in defense. The skeleton just laughed as a grin spread across his skull. "Oh I am not a brother to you ink, I am a variant of you!" They said proudly as they spread their arms out wide before bending forward into an elegant bow. "My name is Shifter, Or shift if you so wish to call me." pt 2