diff --git a/packages/combinator/lib/src/combinator/chain.dart b/packages/combinator/lib/src/combinator/chain.dart
index e2c5377f..03022f2f 100644
--- a/packages/combinator/lib/src/combinator/chain.dart
+++ b/packages/combinator/lib/src/combinator/chain.dart
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ class _Chain<T> extends ListParser<T> {
   @override
   ParseResult<List<T>> __parse(ParseArgs args) {
     var errors = <SyntaxError>[];
-    var results = <T?>[];
+    var results = <T>[];
     var spans = <FileSpan>[];
     bool successful = true;
 
@@ -62,9 +62,14 @@ class _Chain<T> extends ListParser<T> {
       }
 
       //TODO: To be looked at
-      //if (result.value != null) {
-      results.add(result.value);
-      //}
+      if (result.value != null) {
+        //print(result.value.runtimeType);
+        results.add(result.value!);
+      } else {
+        //print("Add NULL");
+        // Add dummy "NULL" String
+        results.add("NULL" as T);
+      }
 
       if (result.span != null) {
         spans.add(result.span!);
diff --git a/packages/combinator/lib/src/combinator/combinator.dart b/packages/combinator/lib/src/combinator/combinator.dart
index 8f7429ae..821b8991 100644
--- a/packages/combinator/lib/src/combinator/combinator.dart
+++ b/packages/combinator/lib/src/combinator/combinator.dart
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import 'package:matcher/matcher.dart';
 import 'package:source_span/source_span.dart';
 import 'package:string_scanner/string_scanner.dart';
 import 'package:tuple/tuple.dart';
-import 'package:optional/optional.dart';
 import '../error.dart';
 
 part 'any.dart';
@@ -199,7 +198,7 @@ abstract class Parser<T> {
       }
       var preceding = v.isEmpty ? [] : (v[0] == null ? [] : [v[0]]);
       var out = List<T>.from(preceding);
-      if (v[1] != null) {
+      if (v[1] != null && v[1] != "NULL") {
         v[1].forEach((element) {
           out.add(element as T);
         });
diff --git a/packages/combinator/lib/src/combinator/index.dart b/packages/combinator/lib/src/combinator/index.dart
index a92561e7..e52860a7 100644
--- a/packages/combinator/lib/src/combinator/index.dart
+++ b/packages/combinator/lib/src/combinator/index.dart
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ class _Index<T> extends Parser<T> {
 
   @override
   ParseResult<T> __parse(ParseArgs args) {
-    ParseResult<List<T>?> result = parser._parse(args.increaseDepth());
+    ParseResult<List<T>> result = parser._parse(args.increaseDepth());
     Object? value;
 
     if (result.successful) {
diff --git a/packages/combinator/pubspec.yaml b/packages/combinator/pubspec.yaml
index 95fec8f4..1ba7ae13 100644
--- a/packages/combinator/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/packages/combinator/pubspec.yaml
@@ -15,6 +15,5 @@ dependencies:
   source_span: ^1.8.1
   string_scanner: ^1.1.0
   tuple: ^2.0.0
-  optional: ^6.0.0-nullsafety.2
 dev_dependencies:
   test: ^1.17.3
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/packages/route/lib/src/grammar.dart b/packages/route/lib/src/grammar.dart
index 59fab6ec..05c59149 100644
--- a/packages/route/lib/src/grammar.dart
+++ b/packages/route/lib/src/grammar.dart
@@ -20,7 +20,12 @@ class RouteGrammar {
     regExp.opt(),
   ]).map((r) {
     var match = r.value![0] as Match;
-    var rgxMatch = r.value![2] as Match?;
+
+    var r2 = r.value![2];
+    Match? rgxMatch;
+    if (r2 != 'NULL') {
+      rgxMatch = r2 as Match?;
+    }
 
     var pre = match[1] ?? '';
     var post = match[3] ?? '';
diff --git a/packages/route/pubspec.yaml b/packages/route/pubspec.yaml
index cdea689c..527a12bc 100644
--- a/packages/route/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/packages/route/pubspec.yaml
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ environment:
   sdk: '>=2.12.0 <3.0.0'
 dependencies:
   combinator:
-    path: ../combinator
-#    git: 
-#      url: https://github.com/dukefirehawk/angel.git
-#      ref: sdk-2.12.x_nnbd
-#      path: packages/combinator
+#    path: ../combinator
+    git: 
+      url: https://github.com/dukefirehawk/angel.git
+      ref: sdk-2.12.x_nnbd
+      path: packages/combinator
   string_scanner: ^1.0.0
 dev_dependencies:
   build_runner: ^1.11.5