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Another Chance

Summary:

Karl goes back in time to save Dream and stop the server's collapse because of its lack of Admin. Karl is very distrustful of all the people he once viewed as his friends and only focuses on making sure Dream never goes down the villain route. What Karl doesn't know is that Dream's soul traveled with him into the past and entered old Dream's body. And another soul followed...

Chapter 1: Back in Time

Summary:

"Goodbye Quackity" A large beam of light shoots from the floating grimoire and everything disappears. The chime of a grandfather clock rings in Karl's ears before everything is silent. Karl looks at his surroundings and he is surrounded by doors with clocks set at different times. A sigh leaves Karl as he begins to walk down the row of clocks.

Karl walks until he reaches a worn-down door with broken letters and the smell of death and despair. Karl puts his hand on the doorknob and walks into the door. Karl was going to make sure this "future" never happens.

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(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

Karl paces back and forth anxiously in front of his bookshelf, something big was going to happen and the young admin didn't know what. Frustration creeps into Karl as he stops in front of the bookshelf and grabs onto it with a grunt. The wood underneath Karl's hand splinters and crackles from his sheer force. The admin huffs before inhaling and exhaling deeply.

He does this a few more times before letting go of the bookshelf with shaking hands. The feel of impending doom hadn't lessened at all after Karl had managed to clear his head the feeling only became more prominent. Karl's body was trembling as he staggers out of his library. Once he steps outside his heart drops.

The sky was completely black and thick fog lay on the ground heavy. Karl quickly summons his communicator and opens the world chat.

KarlJacobs: What the fuck is going on, why is the sky black??!!

Message unable to send

System offline

Karl grunts as he exits the world chat and puts away his communicator. Karl's stomach curls with unease the longer he stares at the sky, something was wrong entirely. Karl huffs and tears off his jacket, with a pained groan, two large black wings burst through the skin of his back. Karl takes off into the air quickly, his large wings break through the air sharply as Karl speeds through the air.

In less than ten minutes The Greater SMP appears in Karl's sight, Karl snaps his wings back into his skin and he curls up in a ball as he tumbles to the ground. Without wasting time Karl jumps back up and sprints onto the path and towards the nearest home. Karl knocks on the door of the base quickly, anxiety creeps up inside of Karl as he waits for the door to open.

A few seconds later the door creaks open and Karl sees Puffy peek her head out in confusion. "Karl sweetie, are you okay?" Puffy opens the door fully and stares up at Karl with concerned eyes. "Uhm, no Puffy, I'm not, haven't you seen the sky?" Karl gestures to the sky in exasperation. "It's nighttime right now Karl" Puffy frowns as she leans against her doorframe.

"Puffy, I just came from my home, it isn't nighttime over there" Puffy's eyebrows turn downward and she steps outside, her hooves clinking against the ground. "Hon, it's too late for a prank..." Puffy stands by Karl in horror as she stares out into the distance. The sky was discolored and both the moon and sun were shining bright in the sky.

"I don't understand Karl, what is happening?" Puffy hugs herself as she stares at the sky. "Puffy, how long has it been since you've visited Dream in prison?" On the topic of Dream, Puffy's face drops. The sheep hybrid sighs before turning around to face Karl. "It's been a few months dear, I couldn't bear to see Dream like that so I stopped visiting" Karl grits his teeth before exhaling and nodding at Puffy.

"Okay Puffy, I'll see you later, bye" Karl dashes away before Puffy could add anything else. Everything felt off to Karl and the closer he got to Pandora's Box the more that feeling intensified. Karl opens his wings again and takes off into the air. The admin speeds towards Pandora's Box, his heart thumping harshly in his ribcage. Karl knew that something was horribly wrong, he couldn't look into the server's code anymore.

This was a huge red flag, along with the fact that he was no longer connected to the Hivemind Network, and his communicator told him that he was offline. All of these signs pointed to something horrible and Karl was only praying that what was happening wasn't what he thinks is happening.

As Karl flew closer to Pandora's Box, his heart dropped even more and his suspicions were starting to connect. The state of the biome that held Pandora's Box was in drastic condition. The grass was brown and the smell of mold and rot was strong. Large cracks in the ground spread throughout the dead land like a spider web.

Karl dives closer to the ground and touches the earth, the admin yanks his hand back in pain. The server was wailing loudly, and the code of the server was crumbling between his fingers. Karl's heart went out to the server, he could feel its pain and sorrow. Now he could only imagine the pain for the server's owner, Dream.

Karl knew that Dream wasn't a good guy, but no one on the server was innocent. But Karl knew why Dream was the way he was, the glitches, the Doomsday, everything that hurt the server hurt Dream. The appearance of The Egg was due to a corrupt code because the server's admin was slowly becoming corrupted. Once an Admin's server becomes corrupted the Admin does too, the server is the Admin's mind, body, and soul.

Karl grits his teeth as he slows to a stop in front of the prison if one could even call it that. Karl could smell death and blood before he even entered the prison. This was the root of everything, the obsidian walls of the prison faded and shook as the code tore itself apart. Karl pushes his hand against the obsidian and his arm passes through.

Karl had expected this, wherever a corrupted admin lay, corruption would follow. Karl phases into the obsidian walls, it's painful but he pushes through it. Going through corrupted code was never easy, pins and needles stab through Karl as he finally makes it to the other side. A groan leaves Karl as he looks down at his right arm and sees that it's see-through and he could see the code that made up his body.

A curse leaves Karl as he staggers through the prison, it was hot and the walls were covered in lava. As Karl walked he could feel impending doom, Karl stops once he is met with the back of a green shirt and gold armor. "Sam" The creeper hybrid whirls around before pulling out his sword. "What are you doing in here Karl?" Karl scoffs and lifts his arm, Sam suddenly starts to glow and Karl throws his arm back. Sam goes flying into an obsidian wall, a loud crack echoes through the room but Karl can't find it in him to care.

Karl opens his wings and flies straight into the wall of lava, Karl doesn't feel any pain as he is encased in the lava. Once he finally makes it through, his heart stops. Blood, vomit, rotten food, and more covered the walls of the prison cell. Karl tries his hardest not to gag as he looks at the sight in front of him.

Quackity stood over a barely alive Dream holding a large axe with a sinister grin stretched across his scarred face. "Quackity what the fuck are you doing?!" The duck hybrid turns around quickly, the axe was dripping with blood. Karl felt sick to his stomach at the sight that was laid out before him. Dream was missing limbs, he didn't even look like a person anymore, matted hair had missing patches, Dream was missing an eye, one of his arms was cut off completely, the bone hanging out cruelly.

Blood gushed from a gaping wound on his neck, holes were ripped into the thin skin of his mouth, exposing his broken cracked teeth. Karl gags before looking over to Quackity who had blood splattered all over the apron that Karl had given him for his birthday.

Karl stumbles lightly and Quackity rushes over to help him but Karl jerks away. "Do you know what the fuck you've done, to all of us, to HIM?" Karl shudders as he walks over to Dream with trembling hands. "Karl please-" Karl yanks his arm out of Quackity's grasp with a snarl. "I don't know why you did what you did, but you had no right to do this!" Karl's wings flare up and Quackity backs away from his ex-fiance.

"Why are you defending him? He ruined our lives, we used to be happy-" Quackity's words die in his throat once Karl turns around with a snarl on his face. "Do not blame Dream for the fact that your obsessiveness broke off our engagement. Your greed caused that, not Dream. You've become power hungry and evil" Karl grits his teeth as he summons his grimoire.

Quackity eyes the book before taking a step forward, Karl thrusts his arm out and opens his wings to cover Dream's figure. "Sometimes Quackity, I wish I never met you" Quackity's eyes widen as the grimoire in Karl's hands begin to glow and the cell begins to vibrate. "Karl! What are you doing?!" Quackity tries to move but he is stuck in place and the walls of the cell deteriorate in the bright light of the grimoire.

"Goodbye Quackity" A large beam of light shoots from the floating grimoire and everything disappears. The chime of a grandfather clock rings in Karl's ears before everything is silent. Karl looks at his surroundings and he is surrounded by doors with clocks set at different times. A sigh leaves Karl as he begins to walk down the row of clocks.

Karl walks until he reaches a worn-down door with broken letters and the smell of death and despair. Karl puts his hand on the doorknob and walks into the door. Karl was going to make sure this "future" never happens.

 

 

Notes:

This is the first chapter, I hope you enjoy this chapter, the next chapter will be coming out soon. The chapters from here on will also become longer, so don't expect short chapters :)

Chapter 2: Not A Chapter

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Just wanted everyone to know that I switched this fic over to my alt account, but I am still updating it <3