Cript stood at the border between deepest void and creation. Hollow's home. The chaotic balance and beauty ruined by corpses and blood from the front lines spilling out. "Hollow!" Cript called out.

“Yes?” Hollow said standing right behind him.

"Hey there. God this mess…" Cript said, looking around.

“Seen worse in the Void.” Hollow said. “But yes. This is a mess. Why’d you call me?”

"Two reasons. One has to do with these bastards." Cript said, pushing away the floating corpse of a Nexus monster. "We need you help to-" Cript turned, shooting off a powerful pyromancy spell, obliterating a hidden assassin. "Sneak passed the front lines, and take them further on and expand into their territory."

“I have some ways. I’ve been keeping an eye on Max as well. His Kings are currently hitting some Nexus facilities. At least he isn’t with Nexus.” Hollow said as he snaps his fingers cause spikes to kill some invisible monsters.

"That's good." Cript sighed with relief. "So, how many ways?"

“Not many. The Mother made a few artifacts that will detect most ways to enter. A few of the only other ways are either completely hidden from them or under serious guard.” He said.

"Good. Any artifacts that can help the others with Void Attacks? King's Adventure into the Heroes Tomb has given them more than enough raw void materials."

“Hm. A couple. Some I’ve made myself or discovered. One can convert Void into another energy source. I’ve made a few copies of it and it powers some defenses I’ve made. It’s like comparing a AA battery to a Nuclear Reactor. Another thing I found is an artifact that allows specific teleportation in Void, but for only up to five different areas.” Hollow said.

"Better than none. Got a spare armory or two? Against the Nexus brats we can deal with that, but any Deletes or Void Beast will need either Nothingness or Void weapons to kill."

“I have an armory hidden on a Dishonored world, and I know the irony, unfortunately a large Nexus platoon is sitting on it with their own armory. My holds not only an assortment of void weapons, a few void artifact weapons that I was planning on giving John. One of which is the same dagger...that created me.” Hollow said.

"Good. We can get Nexus off that easy. Oh. A bit ago when King explored Coco's memories, he learned Void Key was hidden in the bottom of a well of sorts. Know any in the void that have any significance?"

“A well? Hmm.” Hollow put his hand on his chin and thought of that. “Possibly. Depending on if it’s an actual well or if the place is called a well or something like that?”

"Just that it looked like an old well and was likely in the Void Mother's territory." Cript said.

“I’ll look into it when I get the chance. For now one of the hidden ways is through a special temple. It’s one of those bigger on the inside temples. It has many different openings in the void. One is in my territory.” Hollow said.

"That will work great for sending troops. Setting up bases, supply shipments. Any other or that the only one?"

“It’s the safest. The other two are… difficult. They have a machine like race in them that quickly adapt to any damage. They also pack a very mean punch with their attacks. Every Avatar I send in there gets destroyed. Farthest I got was two exits and..a vault of some kind. Not the only one either. I can’t open them and I doubt you could either.” Hollow says.

"You know you'll lose that bet." Cript laughed. "Now, on to something of greater importance."

“Like what?” Hollow asked.

Cript oddly crossed their arms, there was a bright flash of light, and there was a baby in their arms. "Look how cute our daughter is!"

Hollow looks at the little girl before giving Cript a deadpanned glare. “...did you seriously just bring/summon a baby to the front lines?”

"Check again." Cript said, Hollow seeing they were now elsewhere, outside a small house surrounded by grassy flatland.

“Where are we?” Hollow asked as he looked around.

"You don't recognize your own childhood home?" Cript asked, opening the house door, inside brought back floods of memories to Hollow, the toys, the beds, the crack in the wall from when he and Core pushed God into it. That memory made him chuckle.

“...it’s been so long I forgot. Time passes differently in the void. I completely forgot this place.” Hollow said looking around the house. “So one of your Clones stays here and raises her?”

"Actually they raise her and the others back home."

“Then why bring us here?” He asked

"Little trip down memory lane. You know Core is back and alive. Still have no idea how Kexez pulled that off. And as part of a plan I have to break/erase history, meaning no more time travel, God will too. I want them all to see our kids."

Hollow looked at his daughter. She looked human, her head with small amounts of jet black hair growing, deep brown eyes. She was dressed in a small pink shirt branded with a Hello Kitty, and a clean diaper. Cript placed her in a small, new and modern little playpen, filled with fluffy blankets and stuffed animals.

“Never imagined I’d have a kid.” Hollow said, looking at her.

“Kids, actually… You forget how my family… and me, breed right? That one time load from you gave me enough to have several… billion.” Cript said, wrapping her up in blankets. “Carla here was just the first born.”

“Any of them touched with Void?” Hollow asked. Curious to know if they inherited it.

“Most yes, but it all varies actually. Carla here is one of the stronger ones, she already has her own Void reserves she’ll be able to utilize once she’s older, for now it’s just there. For others the most they have is Void Resistance.”

Hollow nods. "Well, that's good at least."

"I think it's good, and the ones who don't take after you void wise take after you looks wise."

"Hmm… In any case, this doesn't mean I'm joining your family."

"Awh. Well, guess I expected that. Though, if you ever wanna just cuddle or a little something extra, or to just check in, give me a call." Cript said, a snap of their fingers as what looked like an old flip phone with void symbols scratched into its plastic appeared in his hand. "I'm the only number in there. Sorry it couldn't be more fancy, but it's not exactly easy mixing void with modern tech."

“Unless you know what you're doing.” Hollow pocketing the phone. “On another matter how’s the others training?”

"Heart, Eclipsa and King have all done impressively. While King turned himself into an immortal like me to pull it off, it works out considering it would have taken much longer Via normal method. That being said, Lord discovered a lot about how the storage drive stores data. Us. It's interesting to say the least."

“Good to hear. Johns is going well also. Trying to get his body and base form stronger to better use his power. He is currently looking for me so I’ll have an avatar of mine appear for him. The other Kings of his are still searching for the last kings. While the one John found, Asura, is training to use Void as a substitute for Mantra.” Hollow said.

"Huh. Looks like for now things are going well. Hey Hollow?"

“If you weren’t holding Carla here I’d hit you for just saying that cliche jinx you just did.” Hollow deadpanned.

"I did say for now. I expect things to go south at some point soonish. But, that's besides the point. Hollow, I've been… well, it's not a cure, but it's like a treatment, if you are interested."

“Treatment for what?” Hollow asked.

"Well… I know you can't be cured of your void, doing so might kill you, but you can have it suppressed from my attempt on you taught me. So, I managed to make these." Cript pulled out a white pill bottle from their Assistant. The label said it was for Hollow, held fifty tablets and that was all. "It's basically Pure Nothingness in small pill form. Take one and for three or six hours of the day, you'll be basically human. You can still use void but it will be significantly weaker and using it reducing the amount of time you have to feel human. They're yours, if you want to take them or not. I just remember how… happy you seemed when you were human for that day and thought, even if it's for a few hours a day, it would be something."

“I’ll think about it.” Hollow said looking round the field. “Thanks..though.”

Author's Notes:

I am sure some of you saw this post from Xinrick or others if you follow them, but I will be posting this story and all others on hiatus to stockpile chapters so we can all release weekly chapter posts. Unsure on the length but we hope you keep us all bookmarked so when we do start posting, you will be notified.