This has been yesturday's chapter! I'm just. So apeased I'm writing again. Plus it's downright my characters' past so that'll fit right between the already written chapters and that's 😢👌💞
I'm simping on Isme a lil too much, now knowing how courageous that lil dumb -ss has been. Kinda think on how he felt befriending Sheep in a few years as he already know how the skeleton will turn. It's kinda like someone befriending Geno after already having been left half dead by Error. You're like: "Welp. I'm gonna regret it but at least I won't be on his bad side anymore???". Easier to play nice while being secretely afraid of your best friend than go and make him another reason to hurt you in a few years.
The thing's kinda simple, to be honest. But there's this entity, Haiiro, who is turning AUs into neutral-zone for Outcodes and Multiverse travelers. Opening a portal in a timeline then slowly building hostels, attraction parcs and interesting stuff. When the AU is crowded, Haiiro puts one of his men -a prisoner with a black box and a tracker device inserted in their head- in the neutral zone to guard it. There's cameras too and the guardian has to ensure no one is breaking the rules, like killing or destroying something.
Right after having stolen Light's wallet, Isme carried on a little doing a few mishiefs in her timeline that had been actually turned into one of those neutral zones. He was a feral outcode teen having to care for three younger siblings so, yeah, screw rules, need money and food cause streets are cold at night. He had a fight with one of his victims- that had every right to get upset, honestly- and saved his -ss by making the guy tripp and fall. Yet the guy knocked his head hard to a furniture in his fall and Isme find himself covered in dust, just becoming a murderer in one of those places where you just can't kill anyone.
Got captured, his siblings too, everyone separated and locked away in a prison. As Black, one of the prison guards working for Haiiro, recognizes Isme from the time when he was Sheep, he negociates with his master the life of the kid- Isme will be experimented on and turned in one of those who has to keep a Neutral Zone clean. He'll be assignated an Outertale(2) timeline but be badly received by the original inhabitants, as they have already tried to fight the invasion and have lost many of their friends, Outer included, in the act.