Puppet In chains

Nim

"Hello Sans." Geno said, calmly, it must have been a good day for the rather antisocial monster.

Well.. if it wasn't Papyrus anyway.

Sans relaxed. "Hello Geno." Sans didn't know why Geno didn't remember being who they used to be, maybe it was a side effect of the Reset, and Determination, or because of how small the shard of Divinity was in Geno, but Geno did remember what they were trying to create here.

"So, Dream is a parasite, or rather, the thing driving the body is." Geno hummed, staring at the notes.

"Yeah... I have been trying to find a way to expel it, but all my tools are old, and out of date. I used to lose all of my notes because of the Resets, until I found a way to stop that."

"Hmm.." Geno said, looking over the pages, and then, he pulled a white board over, and he started to write codes on it.

"Geno, what are you doing?"

"Technically, Dream is an Outcode now, but you're reading the Codes wrong... It's hiding the fact that the parasite is an outsider... A Multiverse Outcode." Geno replied, circling a code.

"A Multiverse Outcode?"

"We have AU's, and copies. Ink called this a multiverse.. Who says that it's the only one out there? The virus being from outside our Multiverse is why normal ways wouldn't work."

"That would explain why I can't use Magic to get rid of it, but then again, I wouldn't have enough of it to do that.."

"You would have to have the opposite of it's Magic to effect it, I think, and since it's in Dream's body, you will likely need to bring Nightmare in on this. Maybe.. force a shutdown.. too much negativity for the body to handle." Geno mumbled, and he scribbled on the board again, in full science mode. "Likely Error to contain it, or make it unable to grab another body..."

"Another body..." Sans mumbled... Could it really be that simple? Had they been looking in the wrong place to get rid of the Parasite? "Geno... What happens if a Parasite sees a body that is stronger than it's current host body?"

"They'll try to take it, of course."

"It's possible that I have been going about this the wrong way... Instead of forcing it out of Dream's body... What happens if I make it want to leave Dream's body?"

"We would have to make it think that it's won." Was the reply, and a savage grin appeared.

"So, if I make a fake body that looks, and feels, more powerful than Dream's body..."

"Can one be made without a Soul, or sentience, we don't need to create a real being to sacrifice them. Ink has enough issues being soulless." Geno pointed out, he had enough issues himself, without creating a being to use as a tool to murder a virus.

"It could be possible... Isn't there an AU with a spell that allows one to temporary control an item, or an object? And if we can't find an AU like that, we could wait for it to appear... It could take me quite some time to make a realistic enough body that can fool the parasite..."

"It would be a puppet, a doll, would both of us be needed to control it?" Geno said, frowning, after all that thing was getting closer to his son.

"It could be possible that both of us would be needed to control it... And well, just the feeling of our Souls could be enough to get it's attention.... But we will need to be careful... I have a feeling that it's preparing for a way to stay here if anything happens to Dream's body..."

"Palette is the most likely choice for that, they are very powerful." They grumbled.

"Yeah... Which is why it probably had Palette. If we don't hurry, he'll be the third generation of his family to be that thing's body."