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  Rating:
      Explicit
  Archive Warning:
      Graphic_Depictions_Of_Violence, Major_Character_Death, Rape/Non-Con,
      Underage
  Category:
      F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi
  Fandom:
      Undertale_(Video_Game)
  Relationship:
      Sans_(Undertale)/Original_Character(s), Papyrus_(Undertale)/Original
      Female_Character(s), Chara/Asriel_Dreemurr/Frisk, Asgore_Dreemurr_&
      Toriel, Mettaton_(Undertale)/Original_Female_Character(s), W._D._Gaster/
      Original_Character(s)
  Character:
      Sans_(Undertale), Ashlee_Dreemur_(Original_Character), Papyrus_
      (Undertale), Calli_De'Angelo_(Original_Character), Frisk_(Undertale),
      Asriel_Dreemurr, W._D._Gaster, Bonessa_(Original_Character), Alphys_
      (Undertale), Undyne_(Undertale), Undertale_Ensemble, Papyrus/Pappy_
      (Underswap), Sans/Blue_(Underswap), Papyrus/Boss_(Underfell), Sans/Edge/
      Red_(Underfell), Original_Monster_Character(s), Sans/Ink_(Inktale), Sans/
      Error_Sans, Sans/Fresh_(Underfresh), Sans/Nightmare_Sans_(Horrortale),
      Gaster_Sans_-_Character
  Additional Tags:
      Explicit_Language, Canon-Typical_Violence, Domestic_Violence, Bad_Puns,
      Bad_Jokes, Explicit_Sexual_Content, Interspecies_Romance, Friendship/
      Love, Hate_Crimes, Racism, Racist_Language, Heartbreak, Alternate
      Universe_-_Monster_Hunters, Alternate_Universe_-_Time_Travel, Magic_and
      Science, Alternate_Universe_-_Underswap, Alternate_Universe_-_Underfell,
      War_Era, Alternate_Universe_-_Errortale, Alternate_Universe_-_Horrortale,
      Inktale_Sans, Alternate_Universe_-_Underfresh, Alternate_Universe-
      Echotale
  Series:
      Part 3 of True_Undertale
  Stats:
      Published: 2016-10-14 Updated: 2018-01-31 Chapters: 22/? Words: 75861
****** Undertale - True Paradox ******
by 80_Kegs85
Summary
     Sequel to True Soul - two and a half years after the Underground
     Monsters escaped Mt Ebbott have passed and there are still problems
     between humans and monsters. And if that wasn't enough, an
     Organization of Monster Hunters have arisen up to attention,
     attacking monsters and their humans allies, causing fear and chaos
     for humanity and monster kind. And people are starting to wonder if
     the Monster Hunters are right or if they are wrong.
     The question is, will there be a new war and just how many will die
     this time? And what the hell did Gaster do this time to cause a
     paradox in reality?!
     And who is messing with the timelines and alternate dimensions?
***** Prelude One:: Fallen Timeline *****
Before everything had happened, with his time in The Void, there had been
something that Gaster had wanted to know while he drifted in the darkness.
The very moment he saw that crack, he had been curious. But there was just one
thing he had forgotten to think about. One little quote he should have thought
about.
Curiosity killed the Monster.
Though in this case, it hadn't. But it sure as hell came very close when he
went through a red crack he had found in that darkness. He really shouldn't
have messed with that. He should have realized what it had been.
But thinking it was his escape from the Void, he went through the crack and
discovered a timeline he really shouldn't have meddled with.
But he had.
He had messed with it and things went very wrong in that time line. He had
messed with something and the results were two things.
Two very dark, nasty things with extreme violent tendencies to everyone around
them and even to each other.
The world he had found through that crack in reality had been a nasty world. It
had been so dark, twisted, everything opposite to his own world. It had looked
just like his own Underground but......
Everything there, in that Dark Underground had been wrong. The monsters had
been all wrong. They all had been so violent, vicious towards him and each
other. He had seen humans fall into that world and he watched from the shadows
as they were brutally killed by the monsters for their souls.
Normally he wouldn't have cared, for he too had wanted human souls.
But to watch how these monsters treated them, it was agonizing to see how
brutal they were to the fallen humans.
However, during his time of exploration of this world, he had found a piece of
what he had been looking for. He had caught a glimpse of his beloved. He
managed to get his hands on it for just a little while and it caused him to
make the biggest mistake he ever made.
He created the two mistakes he made. He knew he shouldn't have done it. But he
couldn't have helped it. He felt like this had been his chance to do something
else with his life.
Maybe he could have started over here. So he allowed it to happen. He create
the big one first and then the small one, which turn to the opposite of how it
should be. Sans had came first this time, being the oldest of the two.
And then Papyrus.
They had been just as adorable as his own two sons, though technically these
two were his as well. It was strange how they resembled his own sons like this.
And even stranger he named them as such.
But because of the brutality of this world, they began to grow twisted, violent
towards each other. Nothing Gaster could do could stop them from fighting and
hurting one another. And then the soul he tried so hard to keep a hold of
slipped away during one of those little fights that the little ones caused.
Angry at the two, Gaster said some nasty things to them, calling them failures,
pieces of worthless shit for making him lose the soul of Bonessa and he went
after it, slipping back into the Void to chase after it.
Abandoning those two small ones, not caring if they had needed him or not in
that dark world. He couldn't have cared less if they died.
All that mattered was the piece of Bonessa ' s soul. He had to get it back.
And when he finally left those two things, he swore he would keep that timeline
a secret, even though he knew he shouldn't have. He didn't know that one day,
he was going to need those two.
He didn't know that one day, those violent versions of his sons were going to
come back and kick his ass for abandoning them.
The thing he had forgotten about though was, they were not the only ones he had
created.
There were others.
***** Prelude Two:: Swapping Timelines *****
Before everything had happened, with his time in The Void, there had been
something that Gaster had wanted to know while he drifted in the darkness.
The very moment he saw that crack, he had been curious. But there was just one
thing he had forgotten to think about. One little quote he should have thought
about.
Curiosity killed the Monster.
Though in this case, it hadn't. He went through an orange crack he had found in
that darkness and found a whole different timeline. He really shouldn't have
messed with it. He should have realized what it had been.
But he did.
He had messed with that timeline and the results were very much different than
before.
He had created two mistakes.
The world he had found in that timeline was completely insane. He had never
seen a world like this. And it wasn't just the appearence.
No, it was completely just like his own. The Underground he found was just like
his own. It was full of monsters who were so kind and caring and they treated
each other with respect.
It was so peaceful.
There was no fighting, no arguments.
Love and kindness everywhere he went. It was just like his own.
Except.......one thing.
Humans fell into the Underground and Gaster was prepared to watch the monsters
attack them, kill them for their souls so they could break the barrier. He even
watched from the shadows, waiting for his own chance to snatching up the human
soul if he could.
But......
No monster hurt any humans that fell.
No.
It was completely the opposite of how his own world could have been.
Monsters would see the humans and they helped them.
It shocked Gaster but he watched it happen.
The monsters would help the humans. They would heal them from any injuries,
feed them and then escort them to the Capitol to meet their Queen, who would
let them leave through the barrier.
These Underground Monsters didn't even seem to care about their freedom. They
didn't care for leaving their Underground prison.
And when Gaster asked why they would help humans instead of taking their souls,
they answered the same. Because it was not nice to hurt people, even for the
sake of freedom. Why hurt people for something such as freedom when they could
have what they already did?
Love. Friendship. Kindness. Family. Peace.
They had that and they were content with it.
Gaster was amazed by it and did decide to give it a try for a little while. He
even found the soul of Bonessa for a little while and tried to settle down with
it. And for it, he created his two mistakes.
He shouldn't have done it but he had. He had made two mistakes that just
resulted in utter failure of his intentions and he had been greatly
dissatisfied with the results.
But for now, he would live with them. He would raise them and there was some
happiness with them. Even though the oldest was quite a lazy little brat. He
was very close to his younger brother though. He was.very protective of him.
He loved his Little Blueberry, as he always teased the small babybones, making
the small one puff out his cheekbones at him for his teasing.
Even Gaster found humor in the teasing nickname and would tease the little
skeleton with it. He felt happy and content with this world and figured he
could start over here. He had his beloved ' s soul, he had his two new versions
of his boys.
He could be happy here.
And then......a nasty human fell down in the Underground. Someone so nasty that
they began killing monsters that wouldn't fight back. It frightened all of them
as this human would slaughter monsters.
But no one fought back.
Except Gaster.
He went to fight the human and he did win. He did stop the human from hurting
his little boys of this world. He did take their soul and gave it to the Queen
as the first of a collection so they could be freed.
And he was ridiculed for it.
The Queen had been so upset that he would give her this soul. That he would
kill the human, even if they had been so bad. She told him he was a monster and
he blew the fuck up at her. He snarled at her for her foolishness, for her
blindness of being kind to such nasty humans. He roared at her, scaring her for
being such a coward for not fighting back.
He told her that it was to kill or be killed in the world where humans could be
nasty. He told her it was her fault that any monster would die because she
wanted to be peaceful. It was her fault that the monsters didn't fight back!
And it was her fault they would be trapped forever because they just wouldn't
fight back for their freedom.
And he did it in front of his boys.
It scared the youngest when he had blown up. Scared him enough that he backed
into the glass container that held Bonessa ' s soul and broke it.
And Bonessa ' s soul fled.
Gaster nearly lost it right there. He blew up in such a rage and screamed at
Little Blueberry, calling him a failure, blaming him for the loss of his
Bonessa ' s soul. It frightened the poor little skeleton enough that his oldest
brother had to step forward to defend him from their father.
Papyrus had struck back to protect his little brother, which resulted Gaster
snapping at both of them, calling them worthless pieces of shit and he chased
after the soul back into The Void, abandoning his two mistakes.
Never knowing that one day, those mistakes would come to him.
And saved his ass.
But not before the oldest and laziest mistake kicked his face in for abandoning
them and saying such bad things to his Little Blueberry.
The thing he had forgotten about though was, they were not the only ones he had
created.
There were others.
***** One *****
Chapter Notes
     Songs Used:
     Showbiz-Undertale song by Groundbreaking feat. Shadrow
     Spooky Scary Skeletons remix by The Living Tombstone mix (Original
     mix by Andrew Gold)
It had been two years and six months and fourteen days since the Underground
Monsters had been freed from Mt Ebbott.
A lot had happened in that time.
Good things and bad things.
The good things were that monsters were being accepted by the world now. Most
people treated the monsters with respect, worked with them, worked for them,
fell in love with them.
People loved monsters.
Relationships started up with them, friendship and love with the monsters.
People were accepting them in so many ways.
The monsters even had their own laws and freedoms being apart of humanity. They
followed the laws. They gained more liberty. They were happy.
The bad things......
There were still a lot of people who did not accept the monsters, nor their
relationships. Monsters were still being ridiculed and attacked verbally and
physically by some people. Some monsters got seriously hurt and those who hurt
them were fined and jailed and did receive punishment for it.
That just egged on the monster haters.
And there was some point of fear with the monsters with the anti-monster
protestors. The monsters did everything they could to avoid trouble. It just
wasn't easy for them when it came to the hate and racist ways of some people.
There were a few signs of No Monsters Allowed up but there wasn't much people
could do with that. Not even the government could make people accept the
monsters, no matter how much they tried.
But life went on.
As it was, there was still searches going on for the dreaded Armati gang, an
Italian Gang slash mafia type group that had ruled the city years ago, striking
fear into people until the monsters came up.
Because of the monsters, people were not afraid of them any more. But it still
made them nervous.
The Armati was still on the loose and no one could find the Amati Mafia Leader,
Giovanni Armati, who had sworn revenge against the monsters who had been
responsible for the death of his son, a jerk named Jameson Aramti.
There were a few occurrences with The Armati but not much. They still struck
trouble in the city but always go away like shadows when the police turned up.
Plus there was the hint of a group called the Luminosity of Gai, Monster
Hunters who preyed on monsters, killing them for the sake of self righteousness
and good. Problem was they weren't doing good. They had even tried killing
innocent people who allied their selves with the monsters.
No many people had been hurt because of them. Just two but they escaped without
being killed thanks to several monsters.
And then they went quiet.
No one had seen nor heard of the Luminosity for a long time now. It was like
they didn't even exist. There had only been one seen from them and he was dead
now. Killed by something so mysterious that even now, monsters and people
involved wondered if it had even happened.
It was like a dream now to them.
No evidence that beings of a different reality existed. There was nothing. No
sign or word of them.
And made things worse was that W.D. Gaster had vanished after that incident. He
had left word of where he was going but no one could find him when they went
looking for in back in the Underground. No one could find him.
Not even Sans when he went looking.
Gaster was gone and no one knew where he was. And it made them all so mad that
he would leave like that without a single word. It had pissed Bonessa off that
he would leave without telling her where he had gone or why he had gone.
But life went on.
Things had changed and we're getting better.
For Frisk and Asriel, and even Ashlee, a baby had been born and her name was
Chara. They swore that she would receive love this time. They would take care
of her than her previous life's parents had.
And she did grow into a very happy baby girl. She had loving parents and a
loving sister. Her loving grandparents. She was happy and she was cheerful just
like how Frisk used to be when she was a child.
She had gotten her second chance like it had been promised.
And now, she was turning one years old. It was about her birthday and everyone
was going to celebrate it.
And to make things more fun, it was going to be a Halloween party since her
birthday was only a few days before Halloween. Which was perfect because Gar
De'Angelo had a surprise for everyone that dealt with their friendly, favorite
skeletons and his new partner in the media world, Mettaton.
Who was very excited to show everyone his new commercial advertisement for his
new personal talk show.
"Oh, you're going to love this so much!" Mettaton said excitedly as everyone
gathered into The Dreemurr's big entrainment room, where they were having
Chara's first birthday party.
Everyone had been decorating the house for Halloween and the party, all
pitching in for it to make it successful. And of course, Mettaton and Gar had
to pull everyone away so they could show the new commercial and the Halloween
surprise to everyone.
Gar was already setting up his laptop to Toriel and Asgore ' s TV and everyone
was sitting around or standing in the room, all smiling at the excitement that
Mettaton was showing.
"All right, everyone. Here is what Mettaton and I have been working on." Gar
said grinning as he looked at everyone in the room. Everyone was there. The
Dreemurr's, The Gasters, Undyne and Alphys, The De'Angelo's and even Undyne's
partner, Officer Jim Jones as he finally told them his full name.
And he hit play.
On the big screen TV, it started off as just black before a single spot light
turned on, showing.....Mettaton's old form. The boxy form he had once been
before he became the outstanding beauty he was now.
And he began to sing with fog now starting to swirl around his boxy form.
"I am the star of every program...
I run the networks with high ratings!
And if you think you can list me under canceled...
My robot killer instincts will rip you into pieces!"
Everyone turned to give the robot blank stares for that last line but he just
grinned and motioned towards the Tv. So they all turned back just as there had
been a blast of fog and the music really picked up.
Within the fog, his form had changed and there stood the Mettaton they all knew
now.
"My name is Mettaton!
My prime time is 24/7!
I’m the star of every single show,
super celebrity everywhere I go!
Everybody knows if you control the media,
you control what everybody knows
Oh, uh-oh, oh no, let’s go!"
"You’re tuned in, TV marathon!
You’re tuned in, TV marathon!
You’re tuned in, TV marathon!
You’re tuned in, we are live!"
"It’s time to plug in our wonderful sponsors!
When all the fame you obtained turned you into a monster!"
There was flashing lights as Mettaton danced and sang on the TV, images of his
fashion designs now appearing on the screen as well as his new talk show.
Citcoms he was going to be doing and even some news he was going to be doing.
"Welcome back to endless entertainment
You’ve got your eyes glued to the screen in beautiful, hyper, realistic, ultra,
HD, golden, arrangement!
Everything we do is based on all our media
the story of the day is this human- WAIT!
Violence is ratings, let’s play games!
Who can play with the Human before we go to BREAK?"
"My name is Mettaton!
My prime time is 24/7!
I’m the star of every single show,
super celebrity everywhere I go!
Everybody knows if you control the media,
you control what everybody knows
Oh, uh-oh, oh no, let’s go!"
"You’re tuned in, TV marathon!
You’re tuned in, TV marathon!
You’re tuned in, TV marathon!
You’re tuned in, TV marathon!
You’re tuned in, TV marathon!
You’re tuned in, TV marathon!
You’re tuned in, TV marathon!"
Truth betold, it was an entertaining commercial and it did hold everyone's
attention as they watched Mettaton on the screen, showing beauty shows, models
who were showing off his clothing designs, as well as new fashion statements he
was creating.
It even showed Gem De'Angelo making her own designs, showing them off to
promote her line of beauty products and clothes.
"I’m just a soul, inside this empty cold,
But drama is good for us all!
I know I seem psychotic, but behind all these robotics,
Is just a guy who loves the biz of show!"
"I’m just a soul, inside this empty cold,
But drama is good for us all!
I know I seem psychotic, but behind all these robotics,
Is just a guy who loves to let you know!"
"My name is Mettaton
My prime time is 24/7
I’m the star of every single show,
Super celebrity everywhere I go!
Everybody knows if you control the media,
You control what everybody knows
Oh, uh-oh, oh no, let’s go!"
"Your tuned in, TV marathon!
Your tuned in, TV marathon!
Your tuned in, TV marathon!
Your tuned in, TV marathon!
Your tuned in, TV marathon!
Your tuned in, TV marathon!
Your tuned in, TV marathon!
Your tuned in, TV marathon!"
And the commercial ended as Mettaton took a striking pose on the screen with
flashy words beside him saying THE METTATON SHOW!!
"So!" Mettaton said excitedly as he looked at everyone with a big grin on his
lovely face. "What do you think?"
Everyone stared at him for a moment before Papyrus was the first one to
applaude enthusiastically and nodding his approval, much to the humor of
everyone else.
"That was actually pretty good, Mets." Ashlee said grinning as she went over to
hug the robot, who gushed happily.
"It was definitely something." Sans chuckled as he stuffed his hands into his
blue jacket pockets. "Catchy song. Not sure using the words killer robot is a
good idea though."
Gar huffed as did Mettaton, who was pouting at Sans but the human looked at him
grinning. "It's why we used it. I know anti-monster protestors will try and
make something out of it but it's like a big fu-" he was hissed at by Frisk and
Toriel as they gave him a warning look as they motioned to Chara in Asriel ' s
arms. "Uh......eff you at them. It's to get their attention to watching
Mettaton's show and see if they can't use something against the monsters. But
when they see he is all about fashion and entertainment, maybe that will start
changing their minds."
"That's a good logic, I guess." Sans said shrugging grinning.
"Okay!" Gar said as he typed something into his laptop and brought a black
screen on the Tv. "Okay, now this one. It's a Halloween music video I helped
with. The music is done by Blooky. Since he has his new album coming out soon,
he wanted help to making his first big music video. And.....because it's a
parody song that has become his biggest hit, he asked for three certain
skeletons to help out."
There were a few snickers as eyes turned onto the only three skeletons everyone
knew. It was a surprise that Bonessa was even being mentioned. She must have
helped out too, judging by the big grin on her face, as well as Sans'.
Papyrus actually looked very nervous about it. He was grinning but twiddling
his fingers as if something was bugging him. He just shook his skull when Calli
looked at him with concern.
"All right! Here we go! Spooky Scary Skeletons, remixed by Napstablook!" Gar
said brightly as he hit play.
The video played and showed Blooky sitting in darkness with only blackness
surrounding him, looking right at the screen with his big headphones on.
And then the music began to play just as right behind Blooky, cartoonish
versions of Sans and Papyrus began flashing in lights.
Everyone laughed as soon as they saw the flashing lights of the two. The words
even began as someone sang. It was the voice of the old singer and creator of
this song but with a more electronic and rock version of it.
And just as the first bit of the song began, the lights flashed as well as
magic flared to life on the screen.
All around a black studio room, glowing blue and orange bones were floating
around the adorable ghost and now the two skeletons on the screen.
It made everyone laugh to see Sans and Papyrus now dancing on the stage next to
Blooky, both grinning wide grins as they danced in sync, waving their hips side
to side and waving their hands high above their skulls.
Laughing, Ashlee looked at her Bonefriend, who grinned and winked at her before
turning her attention back to the music video.
In the video, the bones were bouncing up and down, to the beat of the music and
as the music seemed to take on a more dubstep sound to it, the screen flashed
black and purple strobe lights. And everyone could see Bonessa as she began
walking onto the screen, almost model like, a wicked smile on her pretty skull
until she was right in front of the camera.
Beside her now, stood her two boys.
As the music continued, it showed flashing bones, moving all around the stage,
around the three skeletons who were now dancing in the same fashion.
There were even flashing Gaster Blasters moving around off and on the video,
spinning all around the skeletons and the ghosts.
It was an awesome piece of music and dancing on their part. Great dancing,
excellent music of flashing skeletons and the Blasters. There was no way to not
enjoy this at all.
And when it finally ended, everyone was cheering for their work.
"Wait! It's not done yet! There is one more thing!" Gar said grinning when
everyone moved to say something to the three skeletons. But they all stopped to
watch.
The video changed and it was of Papyrus, standing in what looked like his
apartment with Sans and Bonessa, who were grinning. He looked very nervous in
front of the camera.
It was curious and did make everyone glance at Papyrus who was shifting
nervously and looking right at Calli, who smiled curiously at him.
"Is it on? Is it g-going? Ah. Okay. My dearest, Calli," Papyrus spoke on the
video and several stiffened and even Calli stiffened with wide eyes. "It has
been two very wonderful years being with you. I have grown to love you very,
very much with every bit of my soul. Every moment I have spent with you, it has
been the best of my very life. What I must ask of you now, it is a big step I
want to take."
There were gasps and hands covered mouths and Calli whipped around to look at
Papyrus, who was kneeling down to one knee.
"Oh, my god." Calli gasped covering her mouth as tears filled her eyes. Even as
Papyrus pulled out a small velvet box from his pocket and opened it to show her
a gorgeous silver ring with an small white diamond in the center that sparkled
in the light.
"Will you spend the rest of your life with me?" Papyrus asked from the video
and in real life. "Would you make me the happiest monster by marrying me?"
The video ended.
Everyone was holding their breath, looking in between Calli and the tall
kneeling skeleton.
Calli was crying with a big smile on her face, hidden by her hands. She nodded.
"Y-yes, Paps. I will." She choked out and everyone cheered happily as a big
grin formed on Papyrus' face as he carefully took the ring out from the box,
took her left hand and slid the ring on her ring finger.
The moment he did, Calli swooped in and captured him in a passionate kiss, even
as everyone just cheered and applauded. Papyrus stood up, wrapping his long
arms around her and lift her off her feet, kissing her back.
Mettaton was flapping his hands wildly, trying so hard not to cry. He failed,
as had Ashlee, Frisk, Toriel, Undyne, Alphys and even Gem.
Either way, everyone was so happy.
***** Two *****
Chapter Notes
     Long over due smut between Ghoulfriend and Bonefriend.......
The birthday party was a huge hit.
It might have been for a one year old girl but everyone had so much fun. They
had played games and watched some movies, everyone talked and even
congratulated Papyrus and Calli on their new engagement.
According to Gar, Papyrus had already asked their father, Rotini De'Angelo, for
permission to marry her and he had recieved the blessing from him and even Gar.
It taken a lot of sneaking around to get things done, thougg. And a lot of
planning.
The idea of proposing had started out with Papyrus saying he should make her
dinner and have the ring in a plate of spaghetti but Gar had immediately told
him that hand been a great idea. Who knew if Calli would have accidently ate
the ring.
And then Blooky had asked Gar to help him with his new music video and that was
when the idea came to him. He shared it Papyrus and Sans, and even Bonessa,
since they had been involved with it in a way.
So they went with it.
Papyrus had been planning for it a good while now. He had been wanting to ask
Calli to marry him for a while. He just hadn't known how to ask.
Either way, Calli as happy with it. She hadn't stopped staring at the ring,
even as she sat against his side while everyone was now enjoying a scary movie
since Chara had been put to bed.
Ashlee couldn't help but smile as she leaned into Sans' side, looking at the
newly engaged couple. She was so happy for Calli and Papyrus. She knew they
would so well together. They had been together for two years now. They were
closer than ever, always spent together. Sure, they had a few arguments like
any other couple did but they never let it get to them.
And the new restaurant that they ran, Papyrus' Italian was doing so well. It
was where the old De'Angelo's was but now bigger, better, had so much success
going for them.
It was in the top five restaurants in Ebbott City right now.
Things were going so good for Calli and Papyrus. Plus they got to.....
Ashlee's eyes brightened as she remembered something and she looked up at Sans
who was watching the movie with a lazy grin and shaking his skull. He obviously
counting on how many ways the movie was cheesy and probably could predict who
was going g to die in the movie and who would survive.
Biting her lip, Ashlee watched him for a moment before she reached up to
pretend play with his jacket zipper, that was right above his hipbones. She
played with it for a moment before pressing down, rubbing at his short at the
center.
Sans stiffened when he felt some friction of her playing with his zipper. He
looked at her, raising a brow and smirking, almost asking what she was doing.
Ashlee just smirked back at him before pulling out her phone and typing
something in her memo pad app for him to read and then showed it too him.
'I'm going to be 21 in a few months.'
Sans just grinned at her and nodded, the excitement t clearly showing in his
eyes. He obviously couldn't wait for her birthday to come up. It had been such
a long time since they got to spend THAT kind of quality time together.
Sure, they found ways around Asriel ' s ban on sex for their relationship. It
was mostly hand jobs, or oral they could do, sometimes just merely touching
their selves right in front of each other, sending each other into their own
climaxes from their own touching.
It just wasn't enough.
There had been plenty of phone sex too, which revved Sans up at the idea. He
really, really couldn't wait until Ashlee was......
Ashlee showed him a new note with a sly smile on her face.
'Mom talked dad into lifting the ban earlier than expected. Dad wasn't happy
but he finally caved.'
Sans stiffened immediately, now feeling the heat shoot right up his spine as he
slowly grinned before shifting and lightly pushing at Ashlee to get up.
"I'm gonna go get me a drink. Ya want anything, babe?" Sans asked grinning at
her as he started making his way towards the kitchen.
Immediately, Ashlee was up and following him, taking his hand. "Ill come with."
There were a few eyebrows raised or eye rolls. Asriel was scowling as he
watched them go before feeling Frisk nudge his side hard, making him grimace.
She mouthed, 'Leave them alone, Azzy. It's been long enough. Let them be
together.'
Asriel sighed before settling back to watch the movie. Did he like it that he
knew what Sans and Ashlee was doing?
No.
He didn't.
Ashlee was still his baby girl. He did like Sans. He did approve of Sans. He
was glad that it was Sans who had her heart in his hands. But it still bugged
him to know that Sans was going to.....he shuddered at the thought.
Forget it.
He wasn't going to fuss about it any more. Not after how patient Sans had been
with him, honoring his request that he didn't sleep with his daughter for two
years.
It was time to just let go of it.
The very moment they stepped into the kitchen, out of view everyone else, Sans
whirled around, grabbing Ashlee and pulling her to him, his toothy grin quickly
meeting hers into a passionate kiss as he held her tightly to him. He felt her
wrap her arms around his own waist, crushing him to him as she kissed as
furiously as he did.
And then he teleported them back to his place.
It took a few jumps to get home but the moment he did, the moment he brought
them to his room, he had her up against a wall, fighting her in a dominant
kiss, his hands already roaming and touching her.
Ashlee gasped as she felt the heat spreading, her head tilting back as she felt
him nipping her jaw and moving down to her neck. She scrambled for his shirt
and pushed her hands under to touch his ribs, now rubbing at them, stroking
them, making him moan.
His hands moved to cup her bottom and gave them a firm squeeze, massaging her
cheeks and then moving downward to cup her groin, rubbing at her.
Liquid heat immediately shot through her, making her gasp as she moved her
hands along Sans' ribs and then to his spine where she began stroking him. She
ran her fingers along his vertibrae, thumbing the plates and then moving
downward to his hip bone, touching the wings.
"Uh!" Sans groaned as he felt the pleasure burning now as he locked and nipped
at her neck and collarbone. He moved his hands from behind her and slid them up
her shirt, touching her bare skin and then to her breasts, pushing her bra up
so he could touch her skin. He felt how perky her nipple were now, aroused by
his very touch.
Ashlee's hands moved down to his pubis and she thumbed it until she felt the
warm magic began to form in his shorts, his ecto-member forming which she
wrapped her hand around to start pumping as it continued to grow.
Sans groaned real long and loud as he felt pleasure building as he felt her
starting to pump him. He ran his thumbs over her nipple again before with fluid
speed, he had her shirt and bra up and over her head, tossing them to the side.
Once, he wrapped his around her waist, pushing bareback against the cool wall
of his room as he began nipping his way downward her chest until he took one of
her nipple into his jaw, his glowing blue tongue now circling one.
Ashlee hissed as her head tilted backwards until it met the door, her hand
never stopping to pumping him. She felt the heat spread downward until she
could feel her underwear getting wet from being so aroused. "Sa-Sans....." she
whimpered as she felt him suckling on her.
Sans moved his hands downward to her jeans and he began undoing them, shoving
the flaps to the side as he slid his hands under her underwear, now touching
her sensitive nub and clit until his finger tips slid inside of her. He began
easing his fingers inside of her, rubbing hot, wet muscle inside.
Ashlee's legs shook, threatening to give out from under her and he wrapped an
arm around her waist to keep her falling.
"God, Ash. I've been waiting too long......too long....." Sans groaned as she
began pumping him faster and harder, making him so hard under his shorts.
"M-me too......." Ashlee whimpered as she felt him continue to rub her deep.
"Bed! Now! Clothes, off!"
In quick movement, Sans backed away, hos hand slipping out of her so he could
quickly removing his clothes.
She let go of him at the same time and began scrambling to get her pants off.
Both moved quickly towards his lumpy bed, now bare as ever. They kicked off
their clothes, reaching for each other. He practically tackled her to the
mattress and with fluid speed, he moved his hips towards her and slid inside
with ease.
Ashlee gasped in sheer pleasure as she felt him connect with her, her arms
around him and now on his shoulder blades, digging her fingers into bone.
His hands on her hips, digging into skin but not enough to hurt her as he began
to move urgently. He couldn't help himself. He had waited too long to be inside
of her that he was desperate to feel every inch of her warmth.
"Ugh.......!" He groaned as he thrust hard and fast, his skull now pressing
against her shoulder and chin as he moved his hips quickly.
"Oh, oh, god......Sans......!" Ashlee moaned as she raised her hips every time
he moved into her and sank them when he moved out. "Oh......!"
Sans was now pistoning in and out, his groans growing long and louder as he
just moved. He felt her tightening around him, already starting to climax. He
sped up to catch up to her.
Their cries grew together as they rocked harder into one another before the
white blinding heat grew so much for them that they practically screamed as one
as they hit their limit.
His hips snapped forward, hard and deep as he felt his magic explode deep
inside of her, his skull thrown back as he gasped.
Ashlee did scream in sheer ecstacy as her back arched and her legs spread so
wide for him as she felt him spray his magic inside of her, coating her insides
and then she and he collapsed, panting hard.
For a good long moment, they just laid there, precipitation coating their
bodies in a thin sheet of liquid, he was still deep inside of her.
"Oh......oh....god......way too long......" Ashlee gasped as she pried her
fingers from his shoulder blades and ran them to the front of his sternum. And
she hissed when she felt him slowly rocking again and she grinned at him, her
eyes glazed with passion. "Yes......again." she begged him.
This time, Sans moved slowly, agonizingly slow but kept moving in and out, his
jaw now nipping g at her skin as he began again. He had to keep having her.
Touching her everywhere.
He had two years to catch up on by loving her. And by god, was he going to
worship every inch of her tonight.
"Ugh.....ugh...." Sans groaned as he stroked slowly, in and out.
"God......Ashlee.......I love you so fucking much....." he groaned as he slid
out and then sank back in.
"An-and I love yo-you.......Sans.....oh, I love you.....love
you......love.....love.....oh! Please, right there again!" Ashlee begged as she
felt his length slid against a bundle of nerves deep inside of her.
Stilling for a moment to find that spot again, Sans began slowly moving against
the spot, earning squeaking gasps that struck him hot and wanting. The sounds
she made when he was making love to her....oh by Asgore he had missed making
her sound like that.
"Fa-faster again.......Sans....." Ashlee moaned as she pressed her head back
against the matress.
Sans merely nodded as he began speeding up, in and out, deep and shallow but
surely speeding up.
 
Outside, in the living room, there were five very still beings just lounging
around, listening with wide eyes. The orange hoodie wearing brother immediately
slapped his hands over the smallest one's ear holes to block out the sounds,
his skull glowing bright orange as he tried so hard to keep his little brother
from hearing the noises they heard deep within the house.
"Jesus Fucking Christ!" Growled the gravelly voiced skeleton as his skull
flared up deep red in embarrassment. "I think we came at a bad time to talking
to Sansy."
"YOU FUCKING THINK, RETARD?!" Boss growled as quietly as he could so not to
disturb the obvious lovers they could hear in the next room. He shot the larger
rounded skeleton a look as he grabbed a throw pillow and tried to cover his
skull. "WIMP."
"M'sorry, Boss. But I ain't listening to this." Edge mumbled as he buried his
skull under the pillow.
"Jesus, how long do you think they'll be?" Stretch asked as he kept trying to
hold his hands over the wriggling Blue's ear holes, who was whining but not
fighting too hard. He looked right at the tall, thin form that sat slouching in
a chair, looking so miserable and guilty.
"They haven't been able to touch each other for two years because of her
father, Asriel. It's going to be a while before they pry their selves away from
one another." Gaster said gloomy as he lowered his head, sighing softly as he
buried his white mask into his white hands.
"IT'S YOUR FAULT, YOU KNOW?!" Boss growled viciously as he glared at Gaster.
"SHOULD HAVE TOLD THEM THE FUCKING TRUTH."
Gaster just bobbed his head still burying his face into his hands before
finally lowering one to touch the black bound book beside him, on the love
seat. "I know. And I told you, I am so sorry I did what I did. But if what you
have told me is true......you're right. I need to tell Sans the truth. I need
to tell all of them the truth."
All four, who could hear grimaced when they heard a pleasured scream from the
other room, making them all feel more uncomfortable than they already were.
"I think we should just'a leave and come back when they're done. Sansy's gonna
be pissed when he finds us here." Edge grumbled as he eased the pillow off his
skull again.
Gaster just shook his head as he lowered his hand and looked dimly at the
ground. "No. Once he is done with Ashlee, he needs to know now what is going to
happen. He needs to be warned of what the Luminosity is about to do. He needs
to be prepared for what is going to happen. He needs to warn everyone else. I
cannot do it, myself. Not without his help. My hiatus of two years will most
definitely have angered everyone. They may not believe me. I've already done
terrible things to them. Going missing like I had probably has shattered their
trust of me. But I had to have known. I had to remember." He looked back down
at his journal with pain. "And now that I remember.......by Asgore, I am such a
fool. I am such an idiot for what I have done. I can only hope that Sans and
Papyrus will forgive me. That ones said and everyone will forgive me."
"Tch! You fucking brought this upon yourself, Dad!" Edge growled as he sent him
a scathing glare.
"Edge, be nice. He's already killing himself for what he did. We don' need ta
make it worse." Stretch remarked still covering Blueberry ' s skull holes.
"Tch. Fucking pansy. You're too forgiving." Edge growled folding his arms and
looked away only to get slapped over the skull by Boss, making him yelp loudly.
Suddenly, it went quiet.
"Oh, fuck." Edge whimpered as he looked over at the closed door.
"NICE GOING, FUCKER!" Boss growled narrowing his eyes at his rejected brother.
Suddenly the door slammed open and a pissed off Sans came storming out of the
room, pulling on his shorts. He looked ready to kill someone with his blazing
blue left eye.
And then he froze in alarm.
All four look alike and his father waved sheepishly at him, all still kind of
blushing from what they had heard.
"Hi, Sansy. Sounds like ya having fun in there." Edge said grinning his shark
like grin before yelping as Boss slapped him hard over the skull for his
remark.
Gaster stood up, looking grave, his pinpricks eyes meeting Sans' and then
flickering to the door to see Ashlee, wrapped up in a bed sheet, looking
shocked, horrified and very embarrassed.
"Sans, Ashlee," Gaster said softly, looking very grave and guilty. "We need to
talk. It's very important."
Yep. It was going to be a very long night.
***** Three *****
"WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON, GASTER?! WHO ARE THEY?! WHAT ARE THEY?! AND WHAT
THE FUCK ARE THEY DOING HERE?!" Sans snapped as he used his magic to grab his
father and slam him against the wall. "AND WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!"
It was obvious he was furious that he had been interrupted in his time with
Ashlee, especially after so long.
But this......this was something else.
He would have understood if it had been an emergency, say like someone was
dying. But this.....these strangers that wore familiar faces.....yeah, Sans was
a little pissed off right now.
Gaster winced but held up a hand when it looked like Stretch was going to step
forward to defend him. He shook his head before looking back at Sans. "I went
looking for answers that I have forgotten, Sans. I understand why you are
angry. But I need you to listen to me carefully."
"Who are they, Gaster?" Sans asked dangerously his eye blazing.
"What does it look like, Sans?" Gaster said carefully, firmly. "They are you
from a different dimension. You and Papyrus. Mistakes I made but right now they
are the best chance you have to stop the Luminosity from destroying
everything."
"Aww, thanks. We fucking hate you too." Edge growled as he stood off to the far
side of the room with Boss, Stretch and Blueberry.
Sans shot him a look before looking back at Gaster and then released him from
his magic, stepping back. He looked over at his door, seeing Ashlee had closed
it again so she quickly get dressed without prying eyes. He was still standing
there with only his shorts on, not wanting to let these strangers out of his
sight.
"All right. Explain to me what the fuck is going on, Gaster."
Gaster sighed as he pushed off the wall, moving over to where he had been
sitting to pick up the journal. He turned back to Sans, motioning to the other
four skeletons. "When I was in The Void, in my banishment, I did look for your
mother. I did look for her. And did catch glimpses of her soul. I found a few
cracks in the Void and I went through in my own curiosity to see if where they
lead. The first world," he motioned to Boss and Edge. "Was their's. It was just
a mirror world to our own."
"Why do they look like me and Paps, Gaster? When you reset our Underground? Why
do they look how you made us when you tried fucking with Ashlee for her soul?"
Sans asked darkly, still tense as ever.
"A memory of them. When I reset our Underground, I used a memory to apply their
world to ours. Because I wanted to draw Ashlee out. To make her afraid to
thinking that her only chance of surviving was through me. I didn't know she
would have been able to make you remember her. To change what I had done."
Gaster stated.
"Do you remember what I did when I fucking looked like that?" Sans growled
shooting Edge a glance.
Edge looked amused by the sound of this and even smirked. "Oh, this should be
good." He remarked and recieved a dark look from the original Sans.
"I do, Sans. And she never held it against you. If I remember right, she was
more worried about you hating yourself when she could have been worried about
what you were doing to her. But she wasn't." Gaster said before sighing. "Sans,
let's not worry about that. Let me explain."
Sans glared at him, tightening his arms around his ribs. "Then fucking explain!
What are they?" He demanded.
"Paradoxes. Duplicates of you and Papyrus in a different time and reality."
Gaster said with another sigh. "I went into their world, wanting to explore. I
found your mother's soul and I created them. They are technically you in a
different way but also technically your brothers. Because I made them in the
images of you of trying to start over from what I did in our world. I
duplicated you and Papyrus, trying to start over. To redo everything I had
done."
Sans stared at him, now surprised by it all. He did glance over when the
bedroom door opened and Ashlee stepped out meekly looking at the other Sans'
and Papyrus'.
"So," Ashlee spoke up shyly before going over to her Sans and clinging onto his
arm. She cringed when Edge grinned at her looking her over only to yelp loudly
when Boss slapped him hard over the skull to make him knock it off. "So, they
are just different versions of Sans and Papyrus?"
Gaster slowly nodded as he looked at her. "Yes. And they are not the only
ones." He spoke up and now all eyes were on him in surprise.
"Huh? Ya mean there's others like us?" Stretch was the one to ask.
Again, Gaster nodded. "Yes. There are six different Sans' and Papyrus'. Six for
each fallen human." And now everyone stared at him curiously and he sighed.
"Before I was banished into the Void, I was doing something with the souls of
the humans that had fallen. The first had been Chara. She had been the soul of
our world. I took a piece of her soul and her Determination as a part of
studying the souls of humans. With each piece from each child, I experimented
with The Core ' s power."
Sans stared at him, alarmed. He looked like he was remembering something. It
was like something was coming back to him.
He remembered this. Or something about it.
"The souls I was experimenting on had their own versions of Determination. I
used them to splice into pieces of The Core ' s power. By using the power of
the Core and the Determined soul pieces, I made portals into the very fabric of
reality. I created the different timelines without realizing I had until I had
been in The Void. When I found the cracks in time and space and reality."
Gaster explained. "And six times, I went through each crack and meddled with
it. When I chased your mother's soul into each world, I would catch it finally
and try and start over my life. And six times, I lost her soul because of them,
because of you."
And he was glowered at by the two pairs of different versions. Well two and a
half. The little bouncy blue one actually looked like he was ashamed about it,
actually. He was cringing a little behind his really tall brother, which caused
his older brother to give Gaster a look of warning and made Sans and Ashlee
frown curiously.
"Ya ain't gonna be holding that against Blue, are ya, Gassy? Cause if ya do, ya
full of HOT air." The tall hoodie wearing Papyrus said which the little Sans
groan and shook his head while a grin cracked on both Sans' and Edge ' s, as
well as Ashlee's.
"Holy shit. You weren't kidding when you said they were like a mirror to us."
Sans said now chuckling and he recieved a grin back from Stretch, who stepped
forward and shoved a hand towards him.
"Eh, thought that was PUNNY, eh? I'm full of plenty of puns. By the way, ya can
call me Pappy or Stretch. It'd be easier than calling me Papyrus, wouldn't it?"
Sans hesistated as he eyed him before slowly taking his hand to shake it. "I
guess it would be a TALL order of confusion if you met my Paps, wouldn't it?"
Two pairs of groans, several other laughs followed.
Stretch ' s grin widened as he took back his hand and shoved it into his
pocket. "It'd be a LONG day if we kept saying Papyrus and kept hearing, 'What?'
from all of us, wouldnt it be?"
"OKAY!! ENOUGH OF THE PUNS!!" Both Boss and Blueberry snapped irritable which
made everyone else laugh.
Ashlee nudged her Bonefriend ' s side, shaking her head. "Come on, Sans. Stop
making our other guests mad. You know Paps would be yelling too if he knew you
were making puns with his two look alikes." She told him as if scolding him
before grinning. "Besides, the really dark one and the little one seems to have
SHORT tempers."
There was a pause before three sets of snorts erupted and two Sans' and one
Papyrus roared with laughter, bending over to clutch their ribs from laughing
so hard.
"Oh, my god. I like your girl there, Sansy. Anyone who appreciates a good or
bad pun is okay in my book! She's a keeper." Stretch laughed as he slapped his
knees.
"I WILL FUCKING END YOU, HUMAN." Boss growled as he glared at her but she
didn't pay any mind to him at all.
"AND HERE I THOUGHT THE HUMAN WOULD PROBABLY BE COOL IF SHE LIKED THE OTHER
ME." Blue spoke up finally, his cheekbones puffing out as he seemed to pout.
"Oh, my god! That was fucking HUMERUS!" Edge had to add in his own only to yelp
when he got kicked in the big ass by his Boss. "Ow. What? Sorry, Boss. She's
just......she reminds me like Charity."
That got curious looks from the others as they looked at him, rubbing his
bottom from getting kicked.
"Who's Charity?" Ashlee asked curiously and frowned when both Edge and Boss
sobered up, all humor gone as they either glared or looked forlorn. She had a
feeling she shouldn't have asked.
"Charity is their human, Ashlee." Gaster spoke up now gravely. "That is what I
am trying to explain. Like Frisk and you are Sans and Papyrus' human, Charity
was Edge ' s and Boss' human, and Hope was Stretch and Blue's human. And they
are the real reason why both pairs came looking for you."
All humor was gone and it seemed like another tense moment was there.
"Wh-what happened to them?" Ashlee asked uneasily.
And it was Blue who sniffed, glowing blue tears in his eyes. "GONE. HUMAN HOPE
JUST DISAPPEARED." He suddenly wailed and got a look from the Fells for it.
Stretch nodded as he dipped his skull down, looking serious for someone so lazy
and high looking. "Hope was our human. She went missing a while ago. Way back
before we showed our selves to you two years ago. It's how and why we were with
Boss and Edge in the first place. We don't know where she is or who took her
but it took a lot of work to manage to track down Hope's trail. Someone took
her from our world into the Void. Me'n Blue, here, went looking and we met
Boss'n Edge. Believe me when I say this, Pal, our reaction was just like
their's and yours."
"Yeah. Same thing to our human. Charity was our human slave." Edge remarked and
he got looks for that. He glared right back. "What? Our world ain't like yours,
morons! Yeah, we got human slaves! So what the fuck ya gonna do about it?! It
ain't like we hurt her anymore!"
"Any more?" Sans asked blankly.
"WHAT WE DO WITH OUR HUMAN IS OUR BUSINESS." Boss growled his arms folded. "AND
AS MY IDIOTIC BROTHER HAS SAID, WE DON'T HURT HER ANYMORE. SHE CLAIMS US
AS......" he made a disgusted look but there was something else there. A mere
hint of a fond look in his burning red eye sockets. "FRIENDS. SOMEONE TOOK OUR
HUMAN AND PROBABLY HURT HER BY WHAT WE FOUND AND WHEN WE FIND OUT WHO DID IT,
THERE WILL NO SPARING. NO FUCKING MERCY FOR HARMING OUR HUMAN." He growled.
It showed right there in his words. He and Edge cared about their human. They
weren't going to admit it but they did.
"So what does that have to do with us?" Sans asked looking back at Gaster, who
lowered his head but remained looking at him.
"Sans," The monster said slowly. "According to them, both of them, their humans
were half humans. Both of them."
That struck like lightning in their bones; Sans and Ashlee. They stared at him
with alarm as it clicked to them.
"True Souls? They were True Souls." Ashlee said feeling cold as unease rushed
through her.
Gaster nodded as he held up the book in his hand. "Everything is in here.
Everything I did in my experiments. Everything I saw in their worlds. In the
Void. And according to these past two years, Sans, I have been back in The
Void. I went back to their worlds. It's why they are here. I brought them back
here to see you. Because of Ashlee. Whoever took their humans, they are
attacking True Souls. I need your help to find their humans, Sans. For Ashlee's
sake. It has something to do with the Luminosity. The trail leads back to the
Luminosity."
Sans couldn't stop himself from grabbing Ashlee's hand and pulling her close to
him, as if protecting her from the very words he spoke.
"How do you know this?"
Gaster slowly shook his head as he dipped his head lower. "I......The past two
years, I've been researching it all with them. Trying to find the leads. When I
went to their worlds, it was my intentions to make sure they never left their
world again. I didn't want them near you. It would be too confusing for all of
you to know each other existed. Too......it's difficult to even explain what I
had done. Not without already breaking what little trust you had with me after
what happened in the Underground."
Sans gave him quite the look as he folded his arms again. "Ye-eah. You kind of
failed that by disappearing when we wanted to know what was going on when we
saw them, Gaster. Do you know how pissed off mom was when you vanished?" He
asked thickly.
Gaster lowered his head. "I know, Sans. She must be wanting to Dust me right
now. But it was for the best. I couldn't let this happen. Interlinking the
timelines like these two pairs did, it would cause so many problems. To cross
over timelines and dimensions, it could only cause a complete disaster on all
worlds. But.....they didn't do it first. Someone else has been doing it. And I
truly believe it is the Luminosity. Someone from the Luminosity has discovered
the rips in reality and space that I accidentally made when I was doing my
science experiments. And they took the humans that mattered the most from their
times. I fear for all worlds that exist right now. And we got to stop it before
something disastrous happens. To be catching True Souls from different worlds,
it would mean one thing."
"What? What could happen?" Ashlee asked as she looked in between all of the
skeletons in the room. "Is it really that bad to know that there are different
world's out there?"
Gaster slowly nodded. "Let's put it this way, Ashlee. Different alternate
dimensions mixing with each other is like.......trying to forcefully mix the
earth with the sun. If you do it, people will get hurt. The Fell world," he
motioned to Boss and Edge. "It is not a kind world. They see kindness as a
weakness."
"Ya got that fucking right." Edge muttered gruffly. "Our world is a little
hardcore for yours if ya wanna put it that way."
Sans frowned as he took it all in. "So you think someone is taking the True
Souls to force the other dimensions together as one?" He asked frowning.
"It would be bad, either way. Crushing world's together would cause an
apocalyptic end. There would be wars for control and order as doubles fight
doubles because it confused them yo see a stranger wearing their face." Stretch
spoke up a little lazily.
"And I believe that is the point of all of this." Gaster spoke up again.
"Whoever is meddling with the timelines wants the worlds to meet. To become so
confused and scared. To fight. To kill. Monsters against monsters. And
humans.....would most likely get caught up in the fighting."
"And that would force the humans to react against us." Sans now said it dawning
on him. "To prove the Luminosity right. And those who don't like us."
Gaster nodded. "Yes. And I fear it might be more than that. While I was in Swap
universe," he motioned to Stretch and Blue. "Something was happening there.
Their humans reacted badly to them when their barrier broke. The Luminosity has
already taken over in their world."
Stretch nodded as his lazy look died away. "The humans are trying to catch
monsters in our world and are enslaving us. Blue'n I managed to escape from it
with some others. The Luminosity in our world has ruled it that all monsters
are to be recorded, documented, and enslaved. As it is, none of our monsters
like to fight. We prefer peace and kindness over everything else. Any monster
who does fight back either gets Dusted or enslaved. Blue'n I......we went
looking for Hope. Cause she can Reset still. Even with our Barrier broken. We
want her to Reset so we don't break that barrier." He told them.
Sans and Ashlee shared a glance with one another and then looked back at
Stretch. "Just a Reset?" The skeleton asked though there was a hint of a smirk
on his skull.
"NOPE! PAPPY AND HOPE ARE DATING!! I, THE MAGNIFICENT AND MOST POPULAR AND
HANDSOME-IST SANS APPROVE OF THEM AND CANNOT WAIT UNTIL HUMAN HOPE IS MY
SISTER!" Blue exploded with glee.
Stretch ' s skull dusted with orange but he did have a goofy smile on his face.
"Ew. Gross." Edge growled but even his skull was dusted with red.
And he got a look from Boss, who tapped his foot at him. "REALLY, YOU PATHETIC
FATSO? THAT COMING FROM YOU IS EXTRAORDINARY HYPOCRITICAL SEEING HOW YOU AND
CHARITY FUCK LIKE BUN-BUNS." He growled but smirking darkly.
There were a few other blushes but snickers as Edge ' s skull resembled a
cherry now, his cracked skull dipped down way past his shoulder blades, almost
hiding it into that leather jacket.
Sans chuckled before shaking his head. It seemed that no matter what world they
were from, there was someone there in a relationship with a human. "All right,
so what do you expect from us?" He asked now reaching to stuff his hands into
his jacket, only to be reminded he wasn't wearing it. He grumbled but then
grinned when Ashlee held it up, having brought it and dropped it on the back of
the couch when he hadn't been looking.
"Just help trying to sort this out, Sans. If we can find Charity and Hope, and
help these pairs get their humans back, and discover exactly what the
Luminosity is trying to do, I believe we can fix all of this." Gaster stared as
he shifted his weight. "We stop the Luminosity, find their humans, and return
them to their respectable worlds, I think we can all find some peace."
"Sort'a anyway. Not much peace in our world but it'd be going back to normal."
Edge remarked.
Sans frowned thoughtfully as he took it all in. He did see something good
coming out of this and also something bad. He knew he couldn't make this
decision aline. It wasn't just him who could make it.
"You need to tell everyone else, Gaster. Ya know I can't say yes or no." Sans
told his father. "This impacts everyone. Frisk. Asriel. Tori. Paps. Everyone."
Gaster slowly nodded with a sigh. He knew that was just how it had to be. He
knew it wasn't just Sans he needed help from. He and the pairs of alternate
beings needed all the help they could get to sorting everything out.
However, before he could say something about it, Ashlee's phone went off and
she took it out. "Oh, shit. It's Dad. He's probably going to freak out on us."
She grumbled before stepping away from the group to answer it. "Hi, Dad. Do t
freak out but I'm at Sans'.......huh?" Her face fell into confusion and
bewilderment. "Yeah, he's right here.....okay. Dad! Calm down! What the
hell......?!"
Sans stiffened as he looked over at her before slowly moving over and snatching
her phone, getting only a squeak from her. He held up the phone and put it on
speaker. "Asriel, it's Sans. What's going on?" He asked frowning.
'Sans, you need to lock your door and protect Ashlee! Or even better yet, get
her back to the Underground! You need to run and hide, right now!" Asriel was
saying frantically and there were screams and shouting in the background as
well as familiar crying from Chara.
Growing so stiff, Sans and Ashlee looked at one another and then at the other
four skeletons and Gaster, who were tensed up now.
"Azzy, what's going on?!" Sans asked tensely.
"It's the government! It happened too fast! It's all over the news right now!
There has been a sudden decree that all monsters are gathered, processed and
locked up! The National Guard is in the city right now! There are special
forces out in the streets right now, arresting monsters! They came to New
Ebbott Town! There has been a seige! Monsters are being gathered and locked up
in armored vehicles!" Asriel said quickly.
"Okay! What?! What is happening, Dad?!" Ashlee asked now fear showing.
"Run, Sans and Ashlee! Now! Shit! They've spotted us! Run, Frisk! Dad, mom! Go!
I'll hold them off.......!" Asriel was yelling and there was a crack and the
line went dead.
"Dad?!" Ashlee asked her hands covering her mouth.
Sans frowned as he looked at the phone before looking at Gaster, who was very
tensed. "What's going on, Gaster?!" He demanded.
"That's what happened to us." Stretch said firmly. "The government and the
Luminosity allied and then began catching monsters. Ya can't fight back. They
got some special equipment that will lock up your magic. Some.....nets or
tranquil guns that will freeze everything."
"Indeed. I have seen it happening in both the Underfell and Underswap
universes, Sans. You cannot fight them. Not until I can figure out how to
reverse it." Gaster said quickly.
"But what about my family?! Mom?! Dad and Chara?!" Ashlee asked fearfully as
she looked at him.
"For some reason they are not killing monsters, Ashlee. They just catch them
and use some kind of anti magic bands on them so they can't fight them." Gaster
said quickly. "It completely blocks out the magic that one has. Freezes it,
keeps any monster from using their magic!"
Sans gritted his teeth but shook his head as he grabbed Ashlee's hand. "We have
to help the others! We have to get to the bottom of this! Paps! And Calli and
Mom! Everyone! We have to help them!" He said quickly.
"We cannot if they've been caught, Sans! If you are hit by the anti magic nets
or a tranquil dart, you will not be able to fight back! No teleporting to
safety, no healing, no anything!" Gaster told him firmly.
"Well, we just can't just fucking stand here, Gaster! They need our.....!" Sans
was arguing.
Suddenly, there was a loud bang and the door to Sans' house was blown off the
hinges, making everyone jump and spin around with alatm.
Armored men with guns came running in.
"FREEZE, MONSTERS! DO NOT RESIST! ALL MONSTERS ARE TO BE DETAINED AND TAKEN TO
A SPECIAL FACILITY FOR PROCESSING! IF YOU RESIST, YOU WILL BE TAKEN BY FORCE!"
One man yelled.
Sans snapped up his left hand, glowing with blue magic as his eye flared blue,
green and yellow immediately. "Ah, hell no!" He growled as he grabbed Ashlee by
the waist to push her behind him.
"FIRE THE NETS AND DARTS! TAKE THEM DOWN!" The man ordered and the armored men
raised guns.
Sans stiffened and Ashlee clutched onto is jacket with shock and fear just as
the soldiers fired glowing balls of loght at them as well as what looked like
an electrified nets at them.
This didn't look good. It didn't look good at all.
***** Four *****
Chapter Notes
     Song Used:
     Royal Nightmare-Underfell remix
     Passive Megalovania-Underswap
     War of Faith - Two Steps From Hell
It happened too fast before any of them were prepared for it. The nets and
darts flying at them; Ashlee shrieked in alarm and there were shouts that
followed.
Sans threw up his hand to catch the electifying net but missed a dart.
The dart slammed into his shoulder, piercing through his jacket into bone and
he felt pain. He felt his magic immediately drain the moment whatever was in
that dart flowed into him. His magic flickered and he couldn't feel it any
more.
He tried to grasp for his magic but it left him drained. He felt drowsy all of
a sudden and he slumped, clutching for his magic.
The net was coming at him and Ashlee who was grasping tightly to him in her
fear.
And then a large blacken burned and fiery red bones went crashing up through
the floor boards, catching the nets in mid air as did fiery orange magic,
throwing them hard away from them. Black, inky shadows lashed out and snapped
the darts aside.
Sans and Ashlee turned with a jerk to look wide eyed at the five now stepping
in between them, their hands raised with magic as they reacted quickly.
Stretch was now next to Sans, wrapping an arm around his ribs, under his arms
to keep him from falling. His left eye was burning with orange fire, much like
how his usually did with blue.
"EDGE! KNOCK THEM DOWN!" Boss snapped as he wiped his hand through the air and
threw black and red bones at the soilders.
"On it, Boss!" Edge snarled as he suddenly flashed deep red and teleported
right behind a soldier, grabbing him by the shoulders and slammed him down hard
to the ground.
Blue bones suddenly went flying through the air and knocked hard against the
soldiers, who yelled in pain or surprise before they too went crashing to the
ground, as if gravity amped up too high for them, making it hard to move. Blue
was throwing them with a familiar attack to Sans, one he recognized as his own
brother's Blue Attack.
"Sans!" Ashlee cried in worry as she ducked under his arm and helped Stretch
keeping her skeleton from falling. "Are you okay?"
Sans was hyperventilating at the moment, feeling so tired and drained. He felt
like he was going to collapse any moment. And it was definitely harder for him
to move.
"Looks like there was some sedatives in that dart." Stretch said quickly as he
held up Sans' other side. "We gotta get outta here. We're pinned down if we
stay here!"
Gaster nodded as he watched Boss, Edge and Blue attack the soldiers, moving so
quickly to at least knock them out. He was more satisfied that the two Fells
were not killing the humans. They were controlling their selves on that part to
just force them to submit to unconscienceness.
"We need to go into hiding! Now!" Gaster said as he stood next to Sans, Ashlee
and Stretch. "Gather our wits and find out what has changed in the government
to ally in their selves with the Luminosity!"
"Welp, we better fucking hurry it up then! Cause I hear more coming!" Edge
snarled as he looked outside the house and did see more armored men coming. "We
gotta 'port! Cause if we go out this way, we gonna have a shit ton of humans on
our asses!"
"We can't! Sans was hit with one of the anti magic darts!" Stretch shouted to
him as he kept a firm grip on the smaller skeleton. "We teleport, he gets left
behind! The anti magic syndrome won't let any magic work, even if we try and
take him with!"
Boss snarled before he marched forward and shoved Edge out of his way. "THEN
IT'S MY WAY!! EDGE! YOU GET BEHIND EVERYONE WITH GASTER! BLUEBERRY FUCKTARD!
YOU'RE WITH ME! STRETCH, YOU AND THAT HUMAN CARRY THAT LUMP OF BONES!! WE WILL
MAKE A BREAK FOR IT AND IF ANY HUMAN TRIES TO FOLLOW US, WE INCAPACITATE
THEM!!"
Gaster nodded as everyone looked at him, a fierce look on his mask. "We need to
get to Mt Ebbot! It's the only safe place and even if it becomes over run by
human soldiers or Luminosity mages, there are plenty of places to run and hide
in! Until this blows over!" He ordered.
Everyone nodded as they took in the orders before moving into position.
Gaster looked at Ashlee, firmly. "Stay with Sans and Stretch at all times,
Ashlee. Do not break away and do not let yourself be taken from the group. I am
very sure the Luminosity is looking for you right now." He said warningly.
Ashlee nodded shakily as she held tightly to Sans. "O-okay. But what about Sa-
Sans? Will he......" she was asking fearfully.
Gaster just nodded. "Once the syndrome wears off, he can use his magic again.
But right now, he can't move. It's locked every part of his magic and body. It
will be hard carrying him but let Stretch worry about that. He is rather
strong. You just need to stay close to him and Sans. Don't worry about who
attacks us. Let me worry about them. Me, Edge, Boss and Blueberry."
Again Ashlee nodded as she looked at the other two skeletons in the front, who
were looking outside at the soldiers.
"LET'S MOVE!! NOW!!" BOSS barked before he and Blue ran forward with the others
right behind them. They all ran out into the darkness of night, trying to
ignore the yells and shouts and screams they could hear throughout the
neighborhood.
Together, quickly, they all ran down the streets, Stretch eventually lifting
Sans up onto his shoulder and grabbing Ashlee's wrist to keep her from falling
behind.
There were shouts of soldiers when they were spotted and demands to stop.
Immediately, Boss, Edge and Blue were on that, throwing bones when the firing
began. There was just so much going on that it disturbed Ashlee greatly. She
even saw soldiers attacking monsters right on the streets.
It frightened her to see it happened. It broke her heart to see the fear on the
monsters' faces. She wanted to go to their defense and almost had but the grip
on her wrist tightened and she looked up at Stretch.
"Sorry, kiddo. But ya can't do anything for them right now!" Stretch told her
as he tugged her along.
Ashlee grimaced but ran with him, her eyes meeting Sans when he weakly tilted
his head towards her. There was such a haunting look on his face that scared
her. To see him like this, it scared her badly.
What could have happened to make the government turn on the monsters like this?
Things had been going good for them, hadn't they?
Something must have happened. Something bad.
It took a long time, and a lot of fighting on three skeletons and a shadow like
monster, trying to keep soldiers away. And a lot of running through alley ways.
By the time they approached Mt Ebbott Town, all of them were exhausted from
using their magic and running. It had taken a lot of energy to keeping their
selves from getting shot by nets or darts or even letting the humans follow
them.
Not to mention on how heart breaking it was to see how many monsters had been
attacked and gathered on their escape. So many cries and pleas had haunted
Ashlee as she had ran with Stretch.
Want g so much to go help them, she had wanted to. She was suppose to be their
Princess. Their Savior. Their Jury and Protector and here she was running away
because of what was happening. She didn't understand why this was happening so
suddenly.
What. Had. Happened?!
She wanted to.......
As the group had been running for the trees of the mountain, it was right then
that things went wrong.
Ashlee had been running when she felt as if something grabbed her. She felt
something simply grab her.....no. She felt something grab her soul and yank her
backwards very hard, right off of her feet.
She did the one thing she could.
Scream.
And being yanked right out of Stretch ' s grip had hurt pretty bad, even
throwing him right off balance. She had seen him stumble, having to throw out
his now freed hand to catch himself from face planting. He almost dropped Sans
in the process.
"Ashlee!" Gaster yelled in alarm when she went flying across the ground right
past him and Edge.
Who surprised him when he reacted quickly, lashing out and catching her by the
ankle, stopping her from moving too far. He was almost pulled right off his own
feet by the force but digging his heels into the ground, he kept himself and
Ashlee from moving.
Though, whatever had her by the soul was pulling pretty hard and making him
skid on the ground a little.
Nonethless, Edge looked up with everyone else to see that Ashlee's diamond like
soul was out of her and hovering in between them and the obvious person who was
pulling at her.
A tall, thin man standing in the shadows with a glowing purple hand
outstretched towards them. He was probably in his 50's judging by the gray in
his finely combed back hair and the wrinkles in his face. He wore a fine black
suit with a rich purple tie. It was too dark to see his face too clearly but
the purple glow in his eyes showing they were dark.
And judging by his glowing purple hands, he was a Mage from the Luminosity.
"Pal, ya bett'a let go of this girl. Right now." Edge growled as he held onto
Ashlee tightly, trying to keep her from pulled away.
"Ow! Ow!" Ashlee cried painfully as she was being pulled physically and her
soul being pulled by magic.
"Give me the girl, monster. She is coming with me." The man spoke in a deep,
dark voice as he tried pulling the soul towards him, therefore Ashlee.
Suddenly, an orange light surrounded Ashlee's soul, mixing with the purple, as
did a deep blue. It felt more comforting that the magic seemed to be shielding
her now, and with a pull towards Edge, Ashlee felt the tight grasp of the Mage
loosen as she was pulled free. It had been Stretch and Sans who grabbed and
protected her soul from being pulled any longer like it had been.
She almost fell to the ground when she was pulled from the Mage but thin black
arms wrapped around her and settled her back onto her feet as her diamond soul
retreated quickly back inside of her. She found herself in Gaster ' s arms,
clutching back onto him as he and Edge pulled her back towards their group,
where Boss, Blue, Stretch and a very shakey Sans now stood in between them and
the mage.
"Sans!" Ashlee cried as she pried herself away from Gaster and hurried to his
side.
It seemed that the anti magic syndrome was finally wearing off since he was
barely standing on his own now, his blazing blue eye now lit up as he glared at
the mage.
He immediately had his arms around her, pulling her close to his side.
The Mage scowled as he dropped his hands and then stood firm before all of the
monsters. He did not look pleased. "It would serve you well if you handed that
True Soul over to me, monsters. If you do, your punishment will not be severe."
He said apathetically.
"Not....go-gonna happen, buddy." Sans growled as he held Ashlee tightly.
"And who might you be? You are a Mage of the Luminosity, correct?" Gaster asked
tensely as he stood with his skeleton sons.
The Mage merely dipped his head as he stood there, tall and firm. "I am. I am
Giovanni Armati of the Luminosity of Gaia." He remarked and the three, Ashlee,
Gaster and Sans stiffened.
"Wh-what? James' dad then?" Ashlee asked shakily.
Giovanni merely nodded as he looked at her. "Yes. My son was Jameson Armati.
And while he was a foolish boy, his death still angered me and I will be
avenging his death." He said rather darkly.
Sans chuckled darkly as he kept his hold onto his girl rather tight, as if she
was going to be pulled again. "You're a little late for that. The one who
killed him was that prick, Fiero." He told him, still a little weakened.
"I do know that, monster. But it was because of your brother that made James so
irrational that he irritated the wrong person. I will seek the justice served
to him. Once we find him, of course." Giovanni said darkly.
Sans' eye flashed dangerously. "Ya touch my brother, Pal, and you will have a
bad time. I don't know where Paps is but he's probably playing it smart by
hiding." He growled as he shifted.
"Why are you doing this?" Ashlee asked her voice now hardening with anger and
Determination. "Why are the Luminosity so against the monsters?! We were doing
fine before all of this! Monsters weren't hurting no one! And you ruined it
all, didn't you? Why did the government turn against the monsters?! Against
us?!"
Sans tightened his hold onto Ashlee as he glanced at her but he did not stop
her from asking. He was pretty curious, himself.
Giovanni just dipped his head down as his eyes narrowed. "The Luminosity of
Gaia wishes to put the monsters back where they belong. In the Underground,
trapped away from humanity. You interfered with what they had done so many
years ago. You do not realize by freeing monsters from the mountain, you have
betrayed the human race. Humans and monsters do not belong together!"
There were a few growls from the monsters but Ashlee narrowed her eyes as she
clutched onto Sans. "That's a lie. Monsters and humans have been working
together very well until you showed up! They were getting along just fine!" She
snapped.
Giovanni narrowed his eyes right back but lift his head. "Is that so? Maybe for
a little while, Miss Dreemurr. The fact that you are so deluded in your
fantasies of your monsters is just sad. And that you have seen what the
monsters are capable of, and yet choose to ignore that, it is just sad that you
would choose those creatures over human kind." His eyes sparked with purple as
he glowered at her. "But then again, you are a half monster, aren't you?"
"Yes I am. And I am proud of it! So far, I've seen better from the monsters
than a few humans! Not all humans are bad but you sure cut the cake!" Ashlee
snapped as she glared at him.
"Proud? You're proud?" Giovanni chuckled darkly. "Would you be proud to know
what monsters truly did to humans before the Great War, Miss Dreemurr?"
Ashlee saw Gaster stiffen and she glanced at him. "What are you talking about?"
She asked confused.
"The true history of the Great War, Miss Dreemurr. Why don't you ask your
'friend', Doctor W.D Gaster what he did that caused humans to rebel against
Monsters." Giovanni said spitting the word friend like poison.
Ashlee glanced at Gaster, who looked back stiffly but then she looked back at
Giovanni. "He made a mistake. His wife had been killed by Monster Hunters! He
was angry and hurting! He is still paying for it, sir!" She said harshly.
"The Luminosity did not kill Bonessa, Miss Dreemurr. If you knew the truth of
why humans turned against the monsters because of him, you would have second
thoughts about your monsters." Giovanni said darkly.
Frowning, it did make Ashlee curious but she just shook her head. She wasn't
going to believe it. "If The Monster Hunters didn't kill Bonessa, then
enlighten me. Who did and how would you know what happened?! That happened so
many years ago! You weren't alive back then!" She snapped.
"Ask him why the Luminosity formed then." Giovanni stated his hands folding
behind his back. "I might not have been alive, Miss Dreemurr. But the Head
Elder of the Luminosity was. They saw it all. It was because of Gaster did they
form the Luminosity. Why the Monster Hunters existed in the first place?"
"That's bullshit. Humans don't live that long! Even with magic, they can't live
that long!" Sans growled.
Giovanni merely smirked at him. "Who said that they were fully human?" He asked
darkly.
And all of them stiffened in surprise.
"You mean they're not?" Stretch asked frowning as he glanced at Gaster, who
lowered his head, now looking pained.
"No. They too are a True Soul. And Gaster is the reason why they exist. Isn't
that right, Doctor?" Giovanni asked now darkly smug.
Everyone looked at Gaster, who was now clutching his chest as if he was now the
one in pain.
"Gaster, what is he talking about?" Sans asked thickly.
Gaster merely lowered his head but then sighed. He lowered his hands and looked
back at Sans. "He's telling the truth. I know who their leader is now. If I am
correct, it is your older brother he is talking about."
Sans stared, his eyes widening at him. "What?" He asked blankly.
Giovanni chuckled darkly. "A bunch of experimentations gone wrong. Cheating on
your wife just for the sake of science. He is very pissed off at you, Gaster.
And the fact that you did it to an unwilling host.......I'd say monsters are
not above raping humans to get what you want. You're no better than humans,
Gaster. And you lied all about it, didn't you?" He asked darkly.
Gaster looked at him angrily but also painfully. "I didn't mean to hurt G,
Armati. I didn't even know he survived the birth. Until now." He said solemnly.
Sans and Ashlee as the other Skelton brothers stared at Gaster, completely
shocked. Was he serious? Did he really.....?
"Doesn't matter, Doctor Gaster. Because of you, he was raised by humans. He
learned how to hate his own kind. And seeing what you were doing, he is going
to make sure that monsters go where they belong. Either locked up back in the
mountain, or they are the servants of humans." Giovanni said sneering before he
raised his hands and the purple magic formed again. "Now, give me that True
Soul. With the True Souls in G's hands, we will either eradicate monsters or
enslave them."
Sans tightened his grip again on Ashlee as he pushed her past him. He didn't
know what was going on but he wasn't going to allow this man to touch her.
Especially when it was James Armati ' s father in the first place. He was
definitely going to have a Ling talk with Gaster after this.
"Ya really think most humans are gonna throw their alliance to you, Armati?"
Sans asked darkly. "Most of them were friends of ours. Humans liked us."
"That was before they knew the truth of what monsters were capable of,
Monster." Giovanni said smirking. "The news broke two hours ago. Images of what
you did to James. And they sure know about the Underfell world now. Or
rather......think they know about it. The news broke it today. People are now
afraid of you because of the story that broke. Why do you think the government
turned on you so fast? Why do you think people even told the military where
most of their monster neighbors lived? Why do you think the Luminosity is
succeeding so quickly in just a few short hours since the news broke?"
There was a very tense moment as everyone took it in and it was Edge who hissed
as he shared a glance with his own brother. "They're making our world look like
yours!" He growled as he shot Sans a look.
"Tha - that's a lie though! Our world........! Monsters don't have monsters who
enslave humans!" Ashlee said horrified.
Giovanni just chuckled darkly as purple electricity began crackling all around
him. "The public will believe what we want them to believe, Miss Dreemurr. And
fear......fear makes humans react very quickly. Now. Do yourself a favor and
come with me so you can join the other True Souls. Or I will kill your
monters." He said darkly.
"Ya ain't taking Ashlee, Armati. You'll have to go through me first." Sans
growled as he stood in between them. "And if you're smart, you will go back to
the rest of the Luminosity, clear this up and stop this from going on. What
Gaster did, he will deal with it later. But you know very well that we aren't
hurting humans. We just want to live in peace on the surface with them."
Giovanni just sneered at him. "No. I actually want to see all monsters Dusted.
You ruined my empire as it was. The Armati was in charge of everything until
you all ruined it all. So this is personal to me. I will make sure you're all
destroted. Including her, in the end when we are done with her soul." He said
darkly.
"Pal, I don't know if ya counted right but you're kind of out numbered here."
Stretch said lazily hos hands in his pockets again.
Giovanni smirked as he looked right at all of them. "Am i? Or are you?" He
asked in dark way.
And just as he said that, lights flashed on from all around them, blinding the
monsters and the True Soul for a moment before they saw that they really were
surrounded.
There were twenty men all around them. And judging by the similar clothes they
wore to Fiero, they were all Mages.
This was actually very bad.
Because even though it had been two years ago, they remembered just how strong
Fiero had been. And that was just one Mage. This was twenty. Things were
definitely bad right now.
"Well this is definitely gonna be a challenge." Stretch said as he looked
lazily around before slowly smiling. "We might even get killed fighting all 'O
these Mages. Welp, guess we can have one advantage."
Everyone else looked at him with a frown. But he just surprised everyone by
turning to his small brother, pulling something out of his pocket.
Holding up a small lollypop.
Blue groaned giving him quite the look. "NO. NO, NO, NO. PAPPY, YOU KNOW WHAT
THOSE DO TO ME." He groaned slumping.
"I know, lil' bro. But the way I see it, we need a little speed on our part.
And a good distraction. You're good for it, Blueberry. Come on. Help us out. Or
we're aall kind of screwed." Stretch said grinning.
Blue sighed before reaching out and snatching the lollypop and unwrapping it.
How the fuck is a lollypop gonna help us?" Edge growled skeptically.
Stretch just smirked lazily at him as he waited for his little brother to stick
the pop in his mouth. "Trust me. Ain't no one faster than my bro when he has
had sugar. These Mages, they ain't gonna know what hit them." He remarked.
Everyone frowned, as did some of the Mages.
"Enough of this. Kill them and get me the girl." Giovanni said darkly as he
prepared his magical attack. And as he gave the order, the mages moved to
attack, their magic sparkling to life.
Sans tightened his hold onto Ashlee, his left eye blazing to life as had
Edge's. He knew he needed to protect her at all.......
And then Blue started giggling madly as the blue in his own eyes popped
brightly and the yellow stars he had grew larger. HUMANS!" He blurted out
wildly, making everyone look at him in surprise as a magical blue glow formed
around him.
Stretch grinned. "Blueberry, the Mages are gonna hurt our new friends. Get 'em,
lil' bro. Be the Royal Guard ya know ya are." He remarked.
Blue gave an almost insane giggle as his yellow stars practically popped out
and he literately zoomed across the clearing, startling all but Stretch. He was
literately a blurr as he ran at the Mages who yelped in alarm as they tried to
jump back from him.
They didn't get very far at all.
Because Blueberry was whizzing right by them, knocking them off their feet in a
blurr. And that gave the other skeletons the chance to strike back.
Immediately with the distraction, the two Sans, the two Papyrus' and Gaster
whipped up their magic and sent bones and shadows flying. There were shouts as
Mages scattered to avoid getting hit while throwing their own magic.
And if that hadn't been enough, Ashlee threw her fire towards Giovanni when he
made to throw purple lightning at Gaster. She deflected his lightning with her
fire before whipping out vines.
It became a mess of a fight as magic was being thrown in every direction and it
took a lot of speed and movement t to not be hit.
But nonetheless, everyone seemed to be working together.
With Blue running around in a blurr, knocking Mages off of their feet and his
own brother capturing them with his orange magic and tossing them to the side
where they were intercepted by Edge's fists, it was better than everyone could
have hoped.
And while Ashlee had seen Gaster fight before, she had to say she was impressed
with how he moved. He was the lithe and flighty monster she remembered as he
moved with her to attack Giovanni Armati.
But there seemed to be more grace and agility to his step than she remembered.
It was just the way he moved to dodge the magical attacks coming at him. She
had always seen him as black blur before, when he had been attacking her in the
Underground. She now saw his every movement.
He was either slowing down greatly or she was just getting faster that she was
finally able to keep up with him.
She hoped it was the latter.
Dodging a blast of electricity, Ashlee moved in sync with Gaster towards
Giovanni, her fire thrown hard and fast, nearly burning him. He moved out of
the way with a good amount of speed and even dodged Gaster ' s shadow magic as
he tried to hit him.
From a glance to the side, she saw Sans working well with his doubles to
attacking other mages. It worried her when he came very close to being hit but
with the speed and agility he did have, and uit reflexes of the two Papyrus',
he seemed to be doing just fine.
Until one particular Mage suddenly phased right out of the ground right behind
him, a silver sword flashing.
"SANS!" Ashlee screamed out in warning and terror as she saw it coming close to
striking him through the vertibrae.
Suddenly there was a flash of white, red and orange as something dropped down
in between Sans and the Mage and a bone sword flashed, deflecting the other's
sword from striking his brother.
Sans whipped his head around to see who was now at his back, protecting him and
a wide grin formed to see his Papyrus. He had never been more glad to see
him......well, that wasn't true. There had been a time where he had been so
glad to see Papyrus that he broke down and cried and that had been after one of
the Resets that happened before all of this. The very first time that there had
been a genocidal run by Frisk, whom he remembered had been controlled by the
malicious Chara at the time.
But now.....Sans was just so happy to see his brother at his back, bone sword
up and facing off with the Mage with sword.
"SANS, WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!" Papyrus immediately demanded sternly as he
glared down the Mage. His pinpricks eye sockets flicked to the other doubles,
who had glanced back and he did look briefly surprised to see them again after
two years. "ARE THOSE THE SAME.......?!"
"Yes, bro. And long story short, Gaster was fucking around with the timelines
when he was in The Void. Apparently they're our brothers from other time lines
and dimensions and they came to help us with the Luminosity, who fucked with
their times too." Sans said as he turned to face the Mages that were coming to
attack.
Papyrus merely frowned as he took that in before lashing out with his sword
when the Mage swung at him. He deflected the blade several times with a little
fancy footwork, pushing the man back away.
"Paps! Where is everyone else?!" Sans asked over the noise of the fight.
Papyrus deflected the Mage ' s sword again, spinning once and slashing out now
clipping the man's hand and making him yell out in pain and alarm, retreating
back. "CALLI IS OVER IN THE TREES WITH FRISK, CHARA, GAR AND BLOOKY! THE OTHERS
WERE TAKEN CAPTIVE! WE HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO RETREAT OR ELSE WE WOULD HAVE BEEN
TAKEN AS WELL!"
Sans shot him a glance of worry. He didn't like that at all. Even his mother
and Undyne were taken captive?! That was not good at all. "Any other monsters
escape?!" He shouted as he threw bones.
"UNFORTUNATELY, NO. THE MONSTER COMMUNITY HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY TAKEN INTO
CUSTODY! I HAVE NOT SEEN ANYONE ELSE BUT YOU AND ASHLEE AND OUR UNUSUAL
DOUBLES! AND OF COURSE, FATHER!" Papyrus shouted back.
"Shit! We don't have a choice then! We have to run and hide!" Sans growled
before looking around at everyone else, precipitation on his brow. They needed
to run now. He didn't like where all of this was going.
And as if his words had been heard, all eyes went to him, all monsters looked
right at him and one by one, all nodded.
They all understood.
They all agreed.
Eye sockets flaring up brightly with magic, Sans tensed himself up with as much
magic as he could and saw everyone else do the same. And then he lashed out, as
did the other skeletons.
Suddenly bones began exploding from the ground of all colors. Shadow spikes
even burst out from the ground and the trees. Fire exploded on the ground,
creating a barrier all around them, keeping the Mages from rushing forward
again.
"EVERYONE! RUN!! NOW!" Sans shouted before teleporting to Ashlee, grabbing her
wrist and forcing her to book it.
With only a flick of her wrist, Ashlee drew up another wall of fire in between
the Mages and her group, trying to keep them from following. There had been
shouts of protest and anger from the Mages. But none of them could follow with
the flames in their way.
From the side, Ashlee saw Calli, her mother, Gar and Blooky coming after them.
She WA surprised to see Blooky but pleased nonetheless that he managed to get
away.
Everyone ran for the foothills.
It was a good few hours before they found their selves on the high cliffs, near
the mouth to the Underground. They were all a little exhausted from the run and
the climb but all of them made it.
Ashlee had not stopped hovering around her mother and baby sister, looking them
over with concern but was content that they were unharmed and safe. Chara
hadn't stopped crying but it was to her own relief that it didn't seem to bug
The Fell brothers with all of her crying.
They had ignored her, actually, mostly looking back to make sure they weren't
being followed.
It was strangely Stretch who reacted to her, asking if he could hold Chara
while they climbed and Frisk had been hesitant about it at first but relented.
She handed her crying toddler to the stranger, who took her carefully.
And a moment later, he had Chara giggling while making faces at her, and
eventually falling asleep.
It made all smile through the tormented looks they all had been wearing not
long ago. They saw that this stranger from another dimension was not bad with
kids at all. If he could get Chara to giggle and fall asleep like he had, he
seemed to be well trust worthy.
As of now, he was carrying her in his long arms, holding her close to his chest
with her head resting on his sternum.
However, making it to the look out, at the entrance of the Underground, they
looked back towards the city. And they could still hear the raids going on.
They could shouts and screams, filling the air as monsters were being taken.
They could barely see the activities happening in New Ebbott Town as monsters
were being attacked by humans, locked up.
It was heart wrenching to Ashlee and her family.
Everything they had, everyone they loved were being ripped away by cruelty.
Locked up and probably to be forced into slavery.
Ashlee, Frisk, Calli and even Blooky were crying as they listened to the sounds
echoing towards the mountain.
"We're gonna fix this, Ashy. We will fix this." Sans promised as he wrapped his
arms around her as she cried hard. He looked at Papyrus as he wrapped his own
arms around Calli and even Gar as he looked painfully towards the city.
Frisk just took her baby back from Stretch and held her, pausing when Ashlee
pulled away from Sans to hurry to her, wrapping her arms around her while Sans
stood at their side, glaring down at the city.
He hated making promises but he swore he was going to fix this.
"Gaster." The short skeleton growled now turning to face his father, his blue
blazing with cold fury. "You better fucking tell us what is going on. And who
the fuck G is."
Gaster balked a little but looked guilty at the same. He knew he had to tell
them what he had done. Especially if G was the one behind The Luminosity. It
was just going to be hard.
And very painful.
***** Five *****
Chapter Notes
     Now that we are finally caught up with the Fells and Swaps story
     line, on with the main story.
Taking refuge in the Underground, the group of monsters and humans were sitting
in Toriel' s house, drinking what leftover golden flower tea and coffee that
the Queen left in her home.
And all stares were on a forlorn Gaster as he sat in front of a fire place with
a warm fire built. They waited for him to begin.
And waited.
And waited.
It was until Edge growled and slapped his cup of coffee down hard, growling. He
was not going to put up with the silent treatment they were getting from
Gaster. "Well?! Ya goin' to tell us what the fuck is goin' on, Gaster? Me'n
Boss only knows a little bit! An' ya sure haven't told us much since ya been
with us for the past two fucking years!" He snarled irritably.
"LANGUAGE!" Blue blurted out grumpily.
"Ah, shuddup, ya blue twat! I ain't givin' ya money for your damn.....ooff!"
Edge was growling, only to get an old couch pillow thrown into his face by
orange magic. He ripped it off and threw it down, pointing at Stretch, who was
glowering at him. "An' you! Don't be throwing fucking shit at me just cause ya
don't like how I talk to him!"
"Do not talk to my brother like that, Edge. I already warned you before I won't
put up with it." Stretch growled.
"ENOUGH!!" Boss snapped as he stood up, glaring around at everyone and Edge
sank a little when he was glared at. He instead looked right at Stretch. "DON'T
THROW THINGS AT MY ANNOYING BROTHER, STRETCH!! WE WON'T STOP WATCHING OUR
LANGUAGE FOR YOUR INNOCENT LITTLE BRAT ' S SAKE SO MAKE IT CLEAR TO THAT TO HIM
NOW!!! NOR WILL WE PAY HIM FOR HIS STUPID JAR!!" He turned his dark glare onto
Edge next, who cringed just a little. "SANS!! IGNORE THE BLUETARD!! AND LEAVE
HIM ALONE!!"
".....Fine......." Edge grumbled.
"However, Edge is right." Sans, the original spoke up seriously as he looked
right at Gaster, who seemed to sink a little from his glare. "What the hell is
going on, Gaster? Who is G? What does he want with the True Souls he is
stealing?"
Gaster heaved a heavy sigh as he lowered his head some more. He had a weight on
him that no one could but it was sure pressing him down. He slowly turned and
looked right at everyone, his white pinprick eyes looking at each and every
one.
"Your mother wasn't even carrying you at the time when Gaster Sans was born,
Sans. Before you were born, I.....I was always the Royal Scientist. Even in the
times we were living in. I was always working on science. I even worked with
humans. Alchemists, philosophers, astrologists. Even human mages." Gaster spoke
softly.
"Anyway, at the time, there was......an unsettled relationship with some
humans. Few didn't trust us or like us as always. Humans would cause all
kinds.of trouble for monsters but we always tried to ignore it. And with more
and more relationships forming between humans and monsters, I did think it
was......risky for some humans to begin relationships with monsters.
"I wanted to make sure it really was safe because a few humans did end up
carrying children with monsters. Therefore, I began my research on if it was
safe for monsters and humans to reproduce." Gaster said sadly. He looked so
tired right now. A young woman was chosen to be my subject. Not by her will.
And the humans.....they wanted her to.....for me to be the one to impregnate
her. I did try and refuse in the beginning."
A soft gasp had escaped from Frisk, Calli and Ashlee as they all covered their
mouths as they looked horrified at what he was saying. Papyrus, too, if anyone
looked. He was covering his large teeth and jaw with his own horror.
Sans and all of the other skeletons just stared with hard looks.
Gaster sighed heavily. "I did not want to procreate with a human, Sans. I was
happily mated with your mother. There were many fights on the whole ordeal
between myself and the human scientists. We argued and argued over it and then
they threatened to kill the woman and say they would find one more appeasing to
me." He growled at the memories while everyone else just stared at him with
shock. "To imagine that they would go that far to get me to change my
mind......it still makes me sick, Sans. They would kill their own for the sake
of discovery."
"So.....you didn't have a choice either?" Ashlee was the one to ask as she
shared a look with Sans.
"No, Ashlee. I did have a choice. It was either I go with that girl or another
or another or another or they would die the many times I refused. So to save
that girl's life, I went with it. She was frightened the entire time and I
hated myself for it." Gaster said regretfully.
"Jesus." Gar was the one to speak up now running a hand through his shabby
hair. "That's not much of a choice though."
Gaster shook his head with a sigh. "No, it wasn't but it was all I had. That
girl, her name was Helena. And she died in childbirth when it was time for
Gaster Sans to enter this world as the first True Soul ever created." He told
them sadly. "She was frightened the entire time of her pregnancy with my
bastard child."
"And supposibly so did G." Sans said sighing as he ran a hand over his skull.
Gaster sighed now touching the bridge between his eyes as he looked more
regretful. "No, he didn't. I lied about that too." He said in grief.
And everyone stiffened with looks of surprise on their face.
"What?" Sans growled his eye sockets now narrowed.
Gaster looked more regretful as he slouched miserably. "Gaster Sans did not die
in child birth like I said he did. He lived and he.....um....I raised him up
until you were born. Your mother did know of him after I brought him home from
my lab. She did not know he.....he was directly from my own magical essense.
She believed he was grown in a test tube like told her he was." He explained
sadly.
Everyone just stared at him in hushed shock. All of them stared at him with
wide eyes.
"Wh-what happened, Gaster? How come I don't remember him?" Sans asked now
shakily.
Gaster just shook his head as he looked at him with regret. "You've never met
him, Sans. He was five when you were finally born. And by that time, I had him
sent away." He told him.
Sand stiffened as he just stared at him with wide eye sockets. "Why?! Didn't
you think I would like to know I had an older brother?!" He demanded.
"No. I didn't want you to know, Sans. I didn't want you to know him because to
me, he wasn't your brother. He was a science experiment. He was just a subject
to me at the time." Gaster said regretfully. "Yes, I regret how I treated him
now. But in the past......he was nothing to me. And for it......he hates me, he
hates you and everyone else that I created." He said motioning to all of the
other skeletons in the room.
Sans growled now glaring at him as his eye began to glow. "Where did you send
him?!" He growled.
Gaster sighed but sat up straighter. "I sent him to another village. The
caravan that your mother was guiding........when she died right after Papyrus
was born.......I had him hidden for two years in the village we lived in. But
when you began exploring when you started walking.....I had G removed from
town. Your mother was never happy with that decision that G was to be sent
away. But I wanted him away from you to hide what I had done. Then the Mages
who were against our monsters attacked the caravan that were escorting G away,
they killed Bonessa and then took him. I had thought he had died, Sans. I
really thought he had died in that raid with all of the Royal Guard."
Sans growled as he glared at Gaster, his fists clenching and uncle ching over
and over again. "And because of you, he's taking it out on us?! Because of how
you treated him?!" He snapped.
"No. It's not just that. It's because I took his True Soul away!" Gaster said,
his breathing now harsh from emotions he felt.
"You took his soul?" Stretch asked skeptically. "Is that why he is
emotionless......"
"No." Gaster interrupted seriously. "I took his girlfriend away."
Dead silence and surprised stares.
You could almost hear a pin drop from how quiet it was now as everyone just
stared at him with wide eyes. No one said a word.
"Wha-what?" Frisk asked stunned as she rocked baby Chara, who was dead asleep,
which was a good thing because she would have been spitting mad if all of the
monsters were swearing in front of her child if she were awake.
Gaster slumped again in grief as he covered his masked face and let out a
shuddering sigh. "There are eight dimensions I created by accident through my
science experiments. Undertale is the original. Underfell, Underswap, Inktale,
Horrortale, Underfresh, Outertale and Echotale." He said guiltly. "Heaven, his
True Soul, is from Echotale, where he has been all of these years because the
Human Mages sent him there without my knowledge. The ones who betrayed the
monsterkind."
"What the fuck?!" Edge growled bewildered and he was huffed at by Blue.
"Echotale was created first before all of the others. I didn't know about it
until I went to the Void. When I was banished for attacking my own son." Gaster
said motioning to Sans, who stared at him. "I created it while here in
Undertale by accident. When I was meddling with space and time magic in the
Core. It was the first time split I made while doing my experiments here."
"And.....this doesn't add up!! I thought G said he needed seven True Souls!
Where'd the eighth come from?!" Edge growled.
"Unless......." Ashlee was saying.
Sans stiffened as he realized what Ashlee was about to say and he looked right
at Gaster. "What did you do to her?! This......Heaven?!" He demanded and that
had everyone go quiet again.
Sighing once again, Gaster lowered his eyes this time as if ashamed. When I
discovered Echotale, I found G there. With her. I found out she was a True Soul
and I did the same thing I tried to do Ashlee, Sans. I took her soul and tried
to use it to bring your mother back to life. Thing is, what did I did to
Heaven, it shattered into seven pieces and disappeared. Her vessel of a body,
however, I hid from G." He told them all.
There was a silence from everyone as they just stared at him in disgust, horror
and disbelief.
"And......why does he need our True Souls?" It was Papyrus who spoke but very
quietly this time as he held a still rather distraught Calli.
"Isn't it obvious?" Stretch spoke gravely and when everyone looked at him. "G
wants our True Souls to put his back together. Isn't that right, Dad?" He added
coldly.
Slowly, Gaster nodded as he looked down sadly. "Seven True Souls to make one.
Seven True Souls to make the world's collide. The seven gates of Hell. Because
that was what the Underground was to all of us. To all seven dimensions that
was created. A prison for monsters. It took seven Mages to lock us up, in each
dimension. And it will take seven to bring back Heaven."
"You're a son of a bitch." Sans said coolly as he glared at Gaster. "What you
did......to G, to all of us......you're a son of a bitch."
Again, Gaster slowly nodded as he kept his eyes adverted. "Yes. I know I am.
Because of my selfish deeds, I did hurt a lot of people. My own family. And I
regret that now. I wish amend that." He said softly.
"Problem is, G might not accept any apologies that you make." Calli said now
frowning. "You treated him like shit. Like a science experiment. And then when
you found him again, you went and took his girlfriend away and pretty much
killed her."
Gaster nodded once more as he sat up straight. "Yes. He will never forgive me.
And I do not blame him. I would give him my life if not for you all being in
danger. I cannot let him hurt any of you any more. You've all already indured
enough. I'm afraid......I'll....have to kill him to end his suffering." He said
gravely as he lowered his head and closed his eyes.
"Or.....em.....uh.....you.....you could just find.....Heaven's.....uh....soul
pieces and put her.....back together....." a timid voice spoke up.
And all eyes snapped wide open and looked straight at Blooky in surprise.
They all had almost forgotten he was even there. He had been so quiet. Just in
the back, staying quiet and listening carefully.
"WHAT?!" Boss growled.
Blooky cringed as he was the center of attention now and he dipped lower, a
pale blue blush on his transparent bed sheet face.
"Wait......what, Blooky? What do you mean?" Ashlee asked now scooting forward
to study him in alatm.
Blooky shrugged in his own way as he looked timidly back at them.
"well........when....um...when....monsters die......we become dust. And out
souls shatter, yes?" He asked in his low voice.
Everyone glanced at one another before looking at him skeptically but nodded.
"Yes." Several monsters chimed in and Gaster stiffened, his face brightening.
"and when humans die......their souls remain intact....yes?" Blooky went on.
"Yes. That is true, Blooky. I see.....I see where you are going with this!"
Gaster said with dawning.
"I'm fucking glad someone does. What the fuck is the point?!" Edge growled,
only to get his soul slapped by Boss for making Blooky cringe and look like he
was going to go quiet.
"He means that there is a possibility that Heaven's soul might have shattered
but it did not dust like a monster's would!" Gaster said now excitedly and he
stood up quickly, now pacing around the large living room in thought.
"WAIT, WHAT?!" Papyrus asked with bugged eye sockets.
Gaster nodded now excitedly as he took it all in. "Yes, yes! When Heaven's soul
shattered, it did not Dust like a monster's soul would have! It simply broke
apart and vanished! Maybe even......" he was saying.
Ashlee gasped softly now sharing a wide eyed look with Sans. "The pieces! There
were seven pieces! Seven other Alternate dimensions! What if each piece
vanished into each of the dimensions that G is invading?! Maybe that's why he
is really attacking our dimensions!"
"So, wait! What?!" Edge growled in bewilderment. "Ya saying that he is
attacking us because he might be looking for the pieces?!"
Ashlee nodded as she glanced at him and then at Gaster, who was definitely
brightening at the idea. "Yes! He isn't attacking to destroying monsters for
the Luminosity! He is attacking and enslaving them, right?! He wants them out
of the way so they can't bother him from looking for the pieces of her soul!"
She said now brightly.
"Huh." Sans remarked now rubbing his jaw in thought. "That....does sound kind
of legit. Because if monsters saw him snooping around things he shouldn't be,
they'd get suspicious."
"OR TRY AND KILL HIM!!" Boss growled.
"Or try and watch him carefully because of his snooping." Stretch added with a
shrug. "But if he is looking for her soul pieces, why use our True Souls? Why
take Hope and Ashlee and Charity and everyone else?"
The mood grew grave again as it hit them.
"Because he still wants to destroy the other dimensions in revenge of what I
did to him. What I did to Heaven." Gaster said regretful again.
"So it's simple." Gar spoke up before grimacing. "Well....not simple. But it
means we just gotta find the soul pieces and put Heaven back together for him.
If he has her back, maybe he will lay off of us. We'd give him a reason to stop
coming after us and hurting us."
Gaster shook his head as he looked at Gar before sighing. "It will not be that
easy. G is still very bitter to what I have done. He does want to hurt all of
us." He said softly.
"Yeah, but if you find her soul pieces and put her back together, and give her
back.....maybe it will be enough." Calli said frowning.
"That's asking alot but it's all we have right now." Sans said with a sigh
before looking around at everyone. He did notice that everyone was looking
pretty tired. It had been a long day and even one of the worse nights ever.
At least Chara could find a way to just sleep.
"We all need rest. We need to figure this out." Sans added as he stood up. He
did pause to look at Gaster. "Where did you put this Heaven's body? If her soul
truly is only shattered.....maybe she is just 'fallen down'. If we can do this,
find her soul pieces and put them back together for G and fix all of this, we
need to know where her body is. And make sure she isn't actually dead."
"She's not. I promise. I checked before I sealed it away. And I do have her in
a preservation chamber." Gaster said with a deep breath. "We can find her body
in the chamber at the Core. This......Core. I'll take you to it as soon as
everyone rests."
Sans nodded as he looked firmly at Gaster. "You've got to fix this, Gaster. You
have to. We can't keep living like this. With all of the lies, the deceit. You
have to make this right." He said growling lowly.
Again Gaster nodded. "I will. I promise, Sans. I will make this right. One way
or another." He told him.
"Then, I'll take first watch tonight. We will need to make sure someone is on
guard at all times. With the Luminosity hunting for us, we can't afford being
caught off guard." Sans said as he moved towards the end of the room.
However, he was suddenly grabbed and yanked back and he looked up at Boss, who
was growling down at him as he picked him up by his blue hood.
"NO, YOU WILL NOT!! YOU ARE EXHAUSTED BY THE ANTI MAGIC DARTS!! AND FUCKING
YOUR GIRLFRIEND!! YOU WILL REST!! I WILL TAKE FIRST WATCH!!"
Both Ashlee and Sans blushed brightly while everyone else just laughed at their
embarrassment. Boss sure was crude and had no tact. He was harshly blunt but
even Sans couldn't deny that he really was exhausted. He was exhausted from it
all.
"I'll stay up with him." Gar said now moving forward. "When I'm not working on
my art and with Mettaton, I sleep most of the time. I still have plenty of
energy for guard duty."
Everyone nodded as they went to settle in random places to just sleep.
Calli and Frisk went to find blankets and pillows for everyone, though there
wasn't much for all of them. But it was something.
Once everyone was settled, lying down and some already drifting off to sleep
with Boss and Gar wandering around, looking out windows to keep an eye outside.
Sans laid down with Ashlee nestled beside him, tight in his arms. He just
stared at her. He knew very well that G would be coming for her next. She was
the last one, right?
"I'll see you soon, you son of a bitch. If you touch her, you're in for a bad
time." Sans growled in a voice so low that he almost didn't even hear himself.
Sans drifted off next to Ashlee but as he fell asleep, he could have sworn he
heard a voice whisper.
"See you soon then, brother."
***** Six *****
Good news was, there was no problems through the night. Everyone got enough
rest so they were in top shape when they woke up. No invasions. No attacks. No
nothing.
Bad news was.......
Chara was missing!
"How the fuck do we lose a toddler when there are suppose to be guards on
watch?!" Frisk was mad and panicking. No one blamed her but the fact that she
did have some choice words coming out of her mouth did everyone by surprise.
"I'm sorry, mom! It's my fault! I went to put her on the bed in the other room
where it was more comfortable than the floor!" Ashlee cried now on the verge of
panic. She had moved Chara while Frisk had been helping cook breakfast. Her
little sister left to lie on a blanket on the floor.
But when it was time to wake her up for breakfast, Ashlee gone back to get her
and Chara was gone.
Now everyone was searching the house for the little girl. Ashlee was being held
by Sans, crying because her sister was missing. He tried comforting her but she
was almost hysterical right now.
Sighing with tears rolling down her face, Frisk went over to Ashlee and hugged
her. "It's not your fault, Ashy. Chara shouldn't have......how did she just
disappear?! Without anyone seeing her?!" She asked in panic.
"She must have slipped out of the room. She can walk. She probably didn't get
far. She's too small to get far. We will find her, Frisk." Sans said reassuring
before looking up as many of the others wandered in. "Any luck?"
Calli and Papyrus shook their heads. "We looked in Toriel ' s room. She wasn't
there." She said worriedly.
"I JUST LOOKED IN THE KITCHEN WITH BOSS!! SHE'S NOT THERE!!" Blue spoke as he
came in, looking worried and Boss looked irritated.
"Hey! Down stairs!" They heard Stretch called from the hall and quite a few of
them rushed over to the hall and then breathed in relief when they saw the tall
skeleton carrying the missing toddler with Gar and Blooky right behind them.
Frisk sighed in relief and rushed over to take her. "Thank you, Stretch!" She
breathed as she took her one year old into her arms before blinking when she
saw what was in the girl's hands. "Where did she get crayons?"
Stretch shrugged lazily. "Dunno. But she was chewing on 'em when I found her
right by the big door that's down stairs. She must have slid down the stairs to
get down there. And don't worry about those crayons. I think they're candy."
Everyone blinked as they looked at the crayons in Chara's hands and Frisk even
pried them out of her hands, which made her start to fuss. She even sniffed at
one before licking an end that wasn't slobbered.
"Huh?! They are candy! Monster candy crayons?! Now that is odd!" Frisk said
bewildered before looking up at Gaster as he stared at the candy in surprise.
"Gaster?"
Slowly, the black and white monster took the candy from her, studying it with
bright eyes before he looked at Stretch. "She was alone?" He asked in such a
way that everyone blinked at him.
"Uh......yeah......" Stretch was saying as he frowned. "Why?"
Gaster slowly shook his head before making an amused sound before he looked
around the hallway and even at the stairs. "She was not alone. There is only
one monster I know that knows how to make candy that you can color with." He
said in amusement, his eyes now darting back and forth. "Ink, where are you? I
know you're there. You're the only one I know that makes these for Graf."
Everyone just stared but Stretch and Blue stiffened, now looking around
frantically as if they knew that name.
There was a low giggle before a flash of rainbow caught their eyes. Everyone
spun around, only to blink in surprise to see yet another Sans just sitting on
the railing around the stairs.
Blue gasped as he pointed.
"Whoa! What the fu......!" Edge yelped backing into Boss, who didn't seem to
mind as his younger brother crashed into him.
"LANGUAGE!!" It was Frisk who snapped and when Edge growled, giving her a look,
she jabbed a finger right at his face, making him stiffen again. "Do not swear
in front of my child, Edge! I am not above bending you over on my knee and
spanking you!"
Edge cringed, a sweat breaking out on his brow. He wanted to snap back but the
look Frisk gave him.....ye-ah, he wasn't going to.
And when Boss growled and started to say something, he got the same look from
Frisk and he was lost for words.
"EH........! NEVERMIND!" Boss said, his own sweat breaking on his brow.
Frisk nodded sharply before looking at the new arrival with everyone else.
"Who are you?" Sans was the one to ask.
The little skeleton, who was just a tad bit shorter than Sans smiled before
hopping off the banister and offered a paint stained gloved hand to him.
"Hello, Sans! I'm Ink Sans, from Inktale!" He said brightly.
Sans hesistated before taking his hand, only to flinch when he felt something
on his hand. He pulled it back quickly to see bright blue paint.
"Whoops! Gotta be careful! Sometimes weirdos like to put shaving creme or paint
in their hands to greet people just to prank them and make them laugh!" Ink
said now laughing hysterical.
There was a pause before Sans just doubled over and laughed and with him,
several others. No one could help it. But everyone just laughed. And it felt
good, even with a silly moment like this one.
"Okay! That got me!" Sans said as he just laughed before straightening up.
"That was pretty good."
Ink just smiled before getting into his pocket for a rag and held it out to the
other skeleton, who took it and wiped his hand clean. He turned to Gaster,
smiling and waved. "Hey, Doc! So looks like Stretch and Blue found ya then!" He
said before looking at the two.
"So it is you. You're the same guy that helped us two years ago." Stretch said
and he saw the curious looks he got from the others. "This guy showed up two
years ago with Error. He helped us against G. Helped Hope."
Ink smiled and nodded as he looked up at him. "You must miss her, don't you?"
He said sadly and strangely regretful.
Blue looked like he was going to start crying any moment but Stretch nodded, a
forlorn look on his face.
"Yeah. We do. And when we find out where G has......" the tall skeleton was
saying.
Ink sighed but smiled faintly. "G never had Hope, Stretch." And everyone
stiffened, now looking surprised. "And G has only four True Souls. Not five. He
still needs Hope, Ashlee and Charity to bring Heaven back."
"What?!" Edge blurted out now shoving himself forward to face the smaller
skeleton.
Gaster even looked stunned. "Ink, what have you done?" He asked surprised.
Ink looked around everyone then at Stretch, who was stalk still in alarm. "Hope
has been with me in Inktale this entire time. You want to get mad, go ahead.
But it was to keep her safe from G. Yes, Error knew where she was. And yes, I
convinced her to go to Inktale. As for Charity," he looked at Edge. "She was
with G. She was taken from Underfell. But a year ago, Error broke into where G
was keeping the True Souls. He was trying to get Charlie, our True Soul and he
escaped with Charity. She's safe in Inktale, the only dimension that G can't
get into because of me."
Everyone was staring at him in shock. But Stretch.....he started to growl,
looking slightly irritated.
But it was Blue who reacted first.
He zoomed forward and hugged a surprised Ink, surprising not only him but
everyone else.
Shaking, Blue hugged Ink tightly, Blue tears streaming down his face. "TH-THANK
YOU!!" His words kept others from saying anything. "PAPPY AND I HAVE BEEN
LOOKING EVERYWHERE FOR HOPE!! AND SHE HAS BEEN SAFE ALL THIS TIME, RIGHT?!
SHE'S OKAY, RIGHT?!"
Ink blinked a few times before softening and returning the embrace. "Yeah.
She's safe. She misses you both terribly. But she is safe." He said softly
before looking up at Stretch as he stepped closer. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you
or tell Error to tell you but G was watching you at the time. Why do you think
he never attacked you again afterwards? He was waiting for you to find Hope. So
he could snatching her away."
Stretch sighed heavily before he too smiled faintly and offered his hand to the
little skeleton. "Thank you for telling us now. And taking care of Hope. I've
been worried." He said softly.
Blue pulled away from Ink so he could shake his brother's hand. Once that was
done, Ink grew serious and he frowned at Stretch.
"You also didn't tell them the truth about Error, Stretch. And they need to be
warned." Ink said again.
Once again, everyone stiffened as they sensed the tension growing again.
Stretch just sighed and rubbed his skull. "I was getting up to that point, Ink.
I was gonna tell them today before we headed to the Core to find Heaven." He
said wearily.
"What are you talking about?" Sans asked stiffly.
Ink, Stretch and Blue looked around at everyone else before Ink sighed and
placed his hands on his waist as he turned to Gaster. "Error......um.....G
corrupted Error's coding a year ago. Edge and Boss never met Error because he
was talking only to Stretch. But.....during another raid to try and get
Charlie, Error miscalculated G. And he was ambushed by him. Stretch was with
him. Why do you think Stretch knows how to open the Void like he does? Error
taught him how to."
"Oh, no." Gaster said gravely. "Please, don't tell me....."
"Yeah, Doc. You don't have just G to worry about. You have to worry about Error
too. Error is in G's control. And you know what that means." Ink said sadly.
"What does that mean?" Ashlee asked worriedly as she shared a glance with Sans.
Ink looked around at everyone. "It means you can't face Error. His power.....he
has these cables he uses. If he gets his cables on your soul, he will have you
under his control. You'll be under G's control. And he can make you do whatever
he wants. Even kill each other." He said gravely.
That sent a dreadful feeling through everyone. They didn't like the sound of
that at all.
"All of us?" Gar asked worriedly.
Ink nodded. "That's why I showed myself to you now. And I'm going to take you
all to Inktale. Where it's safe and you can plan without worrying if you're
going to be attacked any second." He told them. "I came to get you all."
"What about our family here?" Calli asked now clutching onto Papyrus. "My
father and my sister?!"
Shaking his head, Ink sighed. "As long as they are in the custody of the
Luminosity, we can't do anything for them right now. Not until we can get Error
back to our side. And you were right." He said looking at Gaster. "G is after
Heaven and her soul pieces. He already got to the one here. So he does have it.
He already has Heaven's body too. You need to beat him to the other soul pieces
in the other dimensions. The others.......Sans and Papyrus' in the other
dimensions already know you might be coming. I gave them a heads up before
coming here. They're going to help you."
"Even Nightmare?" Gaster asked grimacing.
Ink nodded. "All of them. Because you guys.....you're their best bet of getting
their True Souls back. And that is through Heaven. It's the only way to get G
to break ties with the Luminosity." He said firmly. "G probably knows it but he
is using the Luminosity just like they are using him. I know they will try and
stab him in the back once he gets the soul pieces together. There is someone
else running the show but I don't know who it is yet. G needs to realize that
we have to work together to stop the Luminosity. He needs to turn his back on
them before they hurt him. And before he hurts us worse than he already has."
"SO WE WANT G ON OUR SIDE?! WHY?! HE'S TRYING TO KILL US?! HE HATES US AND
WE'RE NOT EXACTLY FOND OF HIM EITHER!" Boss growled.
"Look, he is family whether you knew about him. Gaster is who created all of
us. We're all connected through the Doc." Ink said warily as he looked around
at all of the skeleyons. "We don't have to get along. Look at you, Boss. You
and Edge. Your brothers but you don't always get along. You probably don't even
like each other all the time. But you're family. So you put up with each
other."
There was a pause as everyone considered that. And they saw his point.
"You're right." Sans said now perking up. "We are. Gaster is all of our dad. So
that.....that does make us all family. G too. And he's hurting because of what
was done to him."
"AND FAMILY STICKS TOGETHER AND HELPS EACH OTHER!! EVEN IF WE DON'T LIKE WHAT
WHAT EACH OTHER DOES!!" Blue perked up grinning.
There was a sigh from several others but they saw the point that was being
made.
"So, we're gonna really do this. Together then." Stretch said now stuffing his
hands into his pockets.
"Yeah. Let's fix this together." Sans said now grinning his traditional grin.
And everyone nodded. "It's gonna be one he.........uh...heck of a fight with G.
But if we can make this right, everything will go back to normal for us."
Ashlee smiled as she took his hand and looked at the others. "He's right. We
have to do this. Help G find his Heaven and we get back our lives."
Slowly, everyone nodded and all eyes went to Ink.
"So what's first?" Gar asked as he stood with everyone.
"First, I can take you to Inktale where we can make a plan. And so that Stretch
and Edge can see Hope and Charity. They're waiting for me to return with you."
Ink said now heading to the front door. "Come with me now. I can open the
doorway into Inktale outside. It's a big door so we have to get out of the
house, unless you don't mind tearing up the house."
"Yea-ah, this is Tori's house so let's not do that. She'd kill us if we ruined
her house." Sans said as he took Ashlee's hand and started to follow with
everyone else following after.
Pulling the door open, Ink laughed only a little. "I know what you mean. Once,
my little Papyrus, who I call Graf, spray painted our Toriel ' s kitchen walls.
He had to run for his life cause she was not happy." He told them.
"Graf? Spray paint?" Gar asked sounding very interested.
Ink nodded as he stepped out, still looking at everyone as he stepped outside
the house. "Yeah. Graf, for Graffiti. That's his way of art. Everyone in our
dimension is an artist. We all like certain ways of art......." He told
everyone.
And then he looked forward.
And then he was grabbed by the front of his shirt, making him yelp before he
was flung through the air.
Everyone froze when they saw HIM now blocking their way, but his eyes were only
on the little skeleton that was flung and crashing to the ground before a
purple haze blocked the door and even the basement stair case so they couldn't
try and turn to run.
Everyone shouted in alarm.
Ink crashed into the ground with a cry of alarm, rolling a little bit before he
scampered up with wide eye sockets as he looked right at the tall skeleton in
black now growling at him as he began to approach.
"What the......?!" Edge had yelped right with everyone else.
Stretch swore as he tensed up as he looked at who was now approaching Ink.
"Fuck! It's G!" He exclaimed now trying to rush forward, only to bounce off the
purple hazy wall.
G was approaching Ink as he scampered across thegrass, now looking terrified as
he tried to back away. But he raised his hand and caught the little skeleton by
his magic, slamming him down to the ground and making it very hard for him to
escape.
"There you are. I've been waiting for you, Ink." G growled as he went to stand
over Ink.
Ink struggled hard against G's magic but couldn't find his will to move. "G-G!
Let me go!" He cried out shaking as he tried to fight free.
G just growled at him before flicking his wrist and lifting him in the air.
"You have something that belongs to me, Ink! Several things, actually! I want
them back!" He snarled as he shoved him back and hard against the big black
tree in the yard.
"G! Stop!" Gaster yelled as he shoved past everyone else to stand before the
barrier that was in the door.
G halted, not turning around just yet. He seemed to be taken by surprise by
hearing that voice. But then he growled and turned around to glare at him.
"Gaster. So Ink did find you. And look, everyone is here." He spoke, his voice
dead of emotion as they all looked at him with wide eyes.
"G! I am sorry I did those things to you! I am sorry for what I did to Heaven!
I will fix this for you but you cannot hurt Ink! Hurting him will not solve
things!" Gaster said frantically.
There came a dead chuckle as G turned to glare at the frozen skeleton. "No, but
it sure will make me feel better. This little shit has been getting in my way
for a long time. He has always the biggest trouble out of all of the Sans that
you created. I'm not going to hurt him." He growled before leaning forward to
stick his face right into Ink's, who was now trembling as he tried to struggle,
to fight. "I'm going to rip him apart, take the key he holds to Inktale and
then I'm going to Dust him."
"Hey!" Sans now growled, stepping forward as he shoved past everyone else. "Ya
got some big BONES for hurting someone who can't fight back!"
G turned his glare onto him next but smirked coldly. "Says the original who is
going to lose their True Soul next." He said coldly.
Growls broke out and immediately, several side stepped to surround Ashlee,
magic whirling to life as everyone glared at him. Ashlee was one glaring as she
raised her fists with fire magic now sparking to life around her.
Sans just glared, his body tensed but then he relaxed. "Let him go, or ya gonna
have a bad time, pal. You see, we need him. He is going to help us find your
girlfriend and bring her back together for you. We are doing ya a favor." He
said coolly.
G just scoffed but shook his head as he placed a fist on his waist. "None of
you will be touching Heaven or her soul pieces, Sans. I can see now that Gaster
finally told you the truth. And if you had told me that before all of this, I
would have maybe considered letting all of you live as my pets. But you see,
Sans. Buddy. Pal." He said sarcastically. "It's too late for that. I want all
of you dead. Dust. Destroyed. There can only be one Sans. One dimension. And
that is going to be Echotale. And me."
There was just an unsettling moment as everyone glared at him. They knew where
he was coming from. They could just feel what he was saying.
"You're going to destroy all of the dimensions?" Calli was the one to ask.
G nodded simply. "Too many time lines that Gaster created. Too many copies.
There shouldn't be so many time lines and dimensions. It's not the natural
order. He messed with that. He should have never created so many look alike
worlds. But he did. And now, I'm going to annihilate all of them. Even the
original world. Only the Echo will remain." He told them.
"So it won't matter if we put Heaven back together for you. You already have
your mind made up. Ya just gonna destroy all of us." Stretch growled softly.
"No, I will not. I will just sit back with Heaven at my side, the Luminosity
behind me, watching as all of you tear each other apart. I will watch you all
destroy one another and humans and then I will pick up the pieces after you're
all done. First things first, I still need to get into the one dimension I have
yet to touch." G said now turning to look right at Ink, who was shaking badly
now.
"Did ya forget one thing though, G?" Stretch interjected again, making him look
impatiently back at him.
"And what was that?" G asked irritably.
Stretch just grinned as his eyes flashed bright orange, before raising his left
hand. "You're just one Sans. We are are many." He said before lashing his hand
forward and he was not the only one.
Sans, Edge, Papyrus, Boss, Blue......Gaster had all realized what Stretch was
indicating. They all agreed. They all knew that they couldn't let G hurt Ink
because he was the only one that could lead them to safety, a place where they
could plan something without worrying about being attacked.
So as one, they lashed out with their magic at the barrier G had created and
blasted it, the door frame and the wall, making an explosion that rocked the
cavern chamber Toriel ' s house was in. It destroyed the door frame and they
knew Toriel was going to be mad but right at the moment, they couldn't worry
about it.
Once the barrier shattered, everyone filed out.
"Now, let Ink go so he can take me to my girlfriend." Stretch growled as he
stepped out onto the grass with the other skeletons and even Ashlee and Blooky,
who did look timid about being there.
G just narrowed his eye sockets at them before turning to face the group of
monsters. "Well then. I guess we do have a fight on our hands." He said before
growing serious as he raised his purple magic hand, his own magic starting to
rumble the very ground. "You cannot beat me."
"Yeah, we'll see about that, mother fucker!" Edge growled as his eyes flashed
red. "I want my bae back and that guy says he has her!"
"Ed-Edge......." Ink groaned now slumping miserably a such as he could.
"G.......didn't know that."
Awkward pause.
G began snarling as he turned a furious look right into Ink. "So, you're the
one who stole Preservance from me! I had thought it had been Fresh who did
that!" He growled.
"Whoops." Edge blurted out sheepishly, not realizing he probably condemning Ink
to a world of pain by the looks of G's face.
Ink just chuckled weakly as he cringed. "Well, technically speaking, it was
Error. We just.....uh.....had help from Fresh......." he said weakly as he
cringed.
"I'm going to kill you slowly. And it is going to hurt." G growled now turning
away from him.
Only to get a fist slammed right into his face, sending him reeling as he
stumbled.
Everyone else just froze in surprise as they saw someone appear out of nowhere
with flames surrounding their fists and feet, fiery long red hair flaring
around their face as they just snarled and freed Ink from the magic holding
him.
"TOUCH HIM AGAIN, GASTER SANS, AND I WILL FUCKING END YOU!!" A furious voice of
woman shouted, making Edge and Boss choke in shock.
Charity stood there, right beside Ink as he had collapsed on the ground,
wincing as he had landed wrong. She had fire just swirling up and down her arms
and legs as she just glared at G as he righted himself.
"Ch-Charity!" Edge choked in shock.
***** Seven *****
Chapter Notes
     Song Best Used:
     We Will Rock You- remix dubstep (Mad Maestro tribute)
"Ch-Charity!" Edge yelped, his red eyes now very bright as soon as he saw her.
It had been so long now since he last saw her and damn, he had admit, she
looked fucking good!
Wearing dark brown leather pants with a fiery red halter top, Charity looked
pretty lean. More than she used to. She definitely have been training herself
to be more physical fit than she used to be. Her fiery red hair was in a messy
braid with a few smaller braids hanging loose around her face. She looked wild
and she did have some black metal plated gloves on her hands that were glowing
with red fire.
G stood up, holding his jaw and snarling as he looked right at the fiery
fighter with rage. "Charity." He growled as he turned to face her. "Looks like
you came back to me then. Good girl."
Edge snarled now moving forward, his fists clenched but Boss caught him and
shook his head as he watched very carefully.
Charity just narrowed her eyes as she shifted herself into a fighting stance.
"I didn't come for you, Gaster Sans! I came back for Ink and my skeleton! You
touch them, I will kick your ass! Again!" She snapped as the fire grew around
her with her temper.
"You forget who your master is, Charity!" G growled definitely amused.
Charity scoffed loudly. "My master is me, G! No one owns me! And if you take
one step forward, you're going to get blown over, asshole!" She snapped before
offering a hand out to Ink, her eyes never leaving G.
Ink huffed but took her hand to let her pull him up. "Charity, I told you not
to come. You know it's risky if he gets you again." He said slightly irritated.
"Heh! Ink, when do I ever listen to you?" Charity asked sending him a smirk.
"Never." Ink said giving a chuckle before looking around. "Did Hope come too?"
And he was fully aware that Stretch perked up right with Blue.
Charity shook her head as she turned her fierce look back onto G, who was
stepping forward. "No, she actually listened to you this time. She is still at
home with Opaline and Graf." She said before dipping her head down. "Well,
since you don't want to listen, G, I'm going to kick your ass. Ink, get that
door open."
And with that, she was off.
But in such a way that had everyone gaping in alarm when she moved like a blur.
A fiery blur that just raced at G, who snapped to attention.
Like a fire out of control, Charity was moving fast, leaving a trail of flames
behind her as she sailed right G, spinning when he threw bones at her, dodging
in outrageous speed. She was a whirlwind as she jumped bones and flipped to
avoid being hit.
"Holy shit, that girl is fast!" Stretch yelped as he watched Charity flip
around before lunging at G with fiery fists of fury.
"LANGUAGE!!" Blue said though quite distracted as he watched Charity move.
G was definitely struggling with the fiery girl's agility. He moved to dodge
and barely was able to as he threw bones at her. He did have to leap away from
her as she threw a fiery fist at him, letting her swiveling. He even lashed out
his purple hand, grabbing G at her and throwing her off balance.
That didn't throw her off that much as she sank her feet in the ground, letting
them dig into ground as she steadied herself again.
Charity did, have to back flip several times as bones burst through the ground,
chasing G after her. She flipped several times before leaping through the air,
kicking at his skull as he came at her again.
In the mean while, Ink looked at the gaping group and almost had to laugh to
see how enthralled Edge looked as he watched Charity move. The expression on
his face was hilarious.
But instead he turned slightly away and swiped the air, opening the door he
knew that would take them right to Inktale.
"Hey! Everyone! Come on! Everyone through the door!"
Everyone looked over at him then at the fight before hurrying over to him.
Though, Edge was hesitating as he just stood there with Boss. He didn't want to
leave, not without Charity.
"It's okay, Edge! She will follow you right through! She is just keeping him
distracted until we get through!" Ink reassured him.
Edge was not reassured as he just watched as Charity flipping through the air,
lashing out at G. He wanted nothing more than to just go help her. He only
growled when Ink touched his shoulder and he sent him a look.
"It's okay. Charity is good. She is really good. She has been training herself
non stop since she came to Inktale. She is a very strong willed True Soul,
Edge." Ink told him as he looked over at the fight. "Believe me, this is not
the first time she has fought G. She can hold out on her own. No, she can't
beat him but she sure can keep him back from taking her soul. Just go through.
She will be through in a few seconds right after."
Edge growled slightly before looking back at Charity as she lashed out a fiery
fist and connected with G's side this time, making him stagger and snarl at
her.
Charity seemed to have noticed Edge staring, however and she sent him a look.
"Hey! Edge! Get your boney ass through that door or do I have to kick it
through?!" She snapped before dodging as G sent bones at her again. She flipped
through the air, moving closer to where Ink and Edge stood with Boss by the
portal into Inktale.
"Heh. She's still the same." Edge chuckled darkly in amusement.
And as soon as she was close enough, Charity landed right next to the skeletons
and turned to shove Edge right through the door after the others.
At this time, G was coming at them, growling, his purple bones flying at them.
He was going anything he could to stop the from taking Charity.
Boss almost reacted.
But it was Ink who moved faster.
The little skeleton grabbed at something on his back, under his brown cape and
surprised the black, twisted version of Papyrus by showing him that it was a
giant paint brush.
Swinging over his back and skull, the bristles of the brush flaring rainbow
colors, Ink swiped the brush a few times towards G, forming a rainbow colored
wall right in between them.
A barrier that G snarled at and slammed a fist against but it held.
Ink just gave G a cocky looking smile and a salute before he turned with Boss
and ran through the door way after Edge and Charity.
The door closed immediately as soon as they were through and everyone was met
by blackness.
"Whoa! Where the hell are we?!" Gar was the one to ask as they all stood in the
black chamber.
Ink smiled as he took to the front, motioning all around them. "It's okay. This
is just the entrance of the Underground of Inktale. Like all of the other
dimensions, it starts off in a black chamber in the Ruins." He said as he
started walking with everyone.
However, everyone had to stop when they heard Charity yelp and everyone turned
with a jerk, only to smile when they saw that she had been yanked right into
Edge's arms, who held her tightly and was kissing her rather hard.
There was a few blushes as some looked away but mostly smirks as they saw the
two be reunited.
Then with a growl, Edge yanked away, growling right into Charity's face. "Don't
you ever fucking do that to me again, Pet! Do you know how worried I was about
you when G fucking took you?!" He snarled angrily, making few wince.
Frisk huffed now trying to cover Chara's ears, who was more enthralled with the
candy crayons that Ink gave her before than listening to what was going on.
Charity, however, smirked at Edge as she kept her hands on his broad chest.
"Oh, yeah, Edge? Like I asked to be taken from you, you dick!" She said just as
loud and boisterous as he was.
Edge growled at her but pointed at her face. "You're very lucky I'm in a good
mood right now, Pet!" He snapped.
"Oh, what are you going to do, you edgey bastard?! Spank me?!" Charity snapped
back, though grinning devilishly at him.
Edge grinned his sharp grin back at her as he did grab a fist full of her butt,
making several grimace and quickly look away. "Oh, believe me, Pet. I'm very
tempted......" he was saying.
"Okay, I'm going to stop you both right there and right now." It was Sans who
blurted out with a dead look. "You are in the presence of others and a kid. So
save it for later."
Charity immediately flushed red but shoved Edge away from her to look at the
many blushing faces that were trying to keep their eyes adverted. She even
jabbed a finger right into Edge's eye socket when he tried to grab for her
again and growled at him. "Hey, Edge! Knock it off! Boss, make him stop!" She
snapped.
Boss snorted sarcastically but folded his arms as he sent Edge a scowl, who
immediately looked cowed as he finally kept his hands in his black leather
jacket ' s pockets. "YOU CAN DEAL WITH THIS LATER, BROTHER!! FOR NOW, IN THE
PRESENCE OF OTHERS, KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF!! I KNOW IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME
SINCE WE'VE SEEN CHARITY BUT KEEP IT DOWN!!" He growled.
Charity laughed sharply as she gave Edge an amused look, her eyes flicking down
at his black shorts. "Yea-ah, Boss. Since when has Edge ever kept it
down......" she was saying and there were a few chokes of embarrassment from
others.
"Again, I'm going to stop you there." Sans spoke up now slapping his skull and
shaking it.
Laughing, Charity looked straight at Ashlee, who was snickering and just
enjoying the misery of others for once. She grinned as she moved over, catching
her attention.
"So, you're Determination!" Charity said now sticking her hand out towards the
other girl. "I'm Charity, supposibly Preservance."
Ashlee now blinked in surprise but then shook her hand. "I'm Ashlee
and......what?" She asked frowning confused.
"We haven't gotten to that part yet, Charity." Ink said amused but took to
leading everyone through the black chamber again.
Charity shrugged but turned to walk, though with an irritated Edge very close
behind. He didn't seem to want to be two feet away from her now he had her back
in his sights. She paid no mind as she started walking with Ashlee and Sans by
her.
"Eh, whatever, Ink. So, what Ink hasn't probably told you yet, is that G needs
True Souls, right?"
"Um....yeah, he did say that." Ashlee said frowning.
Charity shrugged as she folded her arms as Ink lead them all to a doorway on
the other side of the chamber and even opened it to show the usual look of the
Ruins. "Okay, so I found this out while in G's captivity. He needs seven True
Souls to bring back Heaven, yes?" She asked.
Ashlee nodded frowning and everyone was listening carefully at this point.
"Okay." She said still confused.
"Each and every soul has a certain soul quality that makes their whole beings
up. There are seven colors that are usually found in human souls. Red,
Determination. Orange is Bravery. Yellow is Justice. Green is Kindness. Light
Blue or Aqua is Patience. Dark blue is Integrity. And purple is Preservance.
Those are the colors that make up each soul. It's the primary quality of a
soul. Mine is purple, Preservance. So me being a True Soul, even though my soul
color is orange, Im Preservance." Charity explained.
Ashlee saw Sans nod as he listened and she glanced at him, frowning. "Okay
but......wouldn't you be Bravery then if your soul was orange? And
mine....well, it was colorless. So how would that make me Determination?" She
asked confused.
It was Sans who shook his head as he looked at her. "That's just the outer
protection of your soul, Ashy. Your soul looked colorless to yourself when you
saw it. But deep within, your inner soul is red. I've seen it." He told her.
"The way a soul looks is just the outer appearence. The inner core is who you
are."
"Okay." Ashlee said still a little confused but understanding more.
"Think of it this way, everything you've been through, everything. Toby.
Flowey. Gaster. What did you feel the most when you faced off with them?" Sans
tried again.
For a moment, Ashlee frowned as she took it in. But then it dawned on her.
"I......felt Determined to stop them." She said now understanding.
Sans smiled and nodded. "Yep. That's your primary quality. And your soul isn't
colorless. Remember how you saw your soul and saw a diamond? How there were
other colors flashing? It's because you have all of the qualities of the soul.
But Determination is your strongest." He told her.
Ashlee smiled at him and then took his hand, giving it a squeeze. "Well, I
guess that makes sense. I was determined to save you, Sans." She told him.
Smiling back at her, Sans gave her hand a light squeeze back before they both
looked back at the smiling Charity.
"So you're Preservance. What about the others? The other True Souls?" Ashlee
asked.
This time it was Ink who spoke up as he lead everyone through the Ruins. "Hope
is Kindness for sure." He said looking over his shoulder at her, smiling and
even sharing a glance with Stretch, who nodded. "Charlie, my True Soul was
Aqua. He was Patience. He had to be when dealing with Error. As for Heaven,
G's, she is pink."
Everyone blinked at him now looking at him in surprise. Gaster just nodded.
"Wait......eight. there are eight True souls. Heaven.....what is pink?" It was
Frisk who asked now bright eyed.
"Love. That's a quality that not many realizes that exists alone. Everyone has
that color but because it doesn't stand out as other colors do, they don't know
it's a quality on its own." Ink said softly smiling. "Heaven is pure Love and
that's why we need to give her back to G."
"Pure love.......because Heaven was taken away from G, he doesn't feel it."
Ashlee said now understanding.
Ink nodded as he glanced over at the now regretful looking Gaster. "Yeah. He
lost his Love. It's why he doesn't feel anything. His love was taken away and
we need to give it back." He stated as they finally came to the end of the
Ruins.
A small house in a grassy area with a blossoming tree stood in a clearing.
Surrounded by a garden of flowers everywhere.
And everyone but Ink, Charity and Gaster froze with gasps of awe.
The entire area was so colorful and beautiful. Colors everywhere they looked.
Sure, their worlds, but Underfell ' s had beautiful flowers in the court yard
of Toriel or Asgore ' s home but not like this.
The whole garden was gorgeous with flowers of all sorts and colors. Trees lined
the stone walls with cherry blossoms of all colors with bushes lining a stone
path walk lead up to the most colorful and beautiful cottage they all had ever
seen.
Someone sure had a green thumb because of all of the exotic plants that was in
the garden. From tropical looking plants to wild flowers. Vines hung from some
trees as honeysuckle flowers hung from wooden posts. Any flower that anyone
could think of was there in the garden.
It was like a garden art piece.
The cottage was golden yellow with pink shutters on the stained glass windows.
The roof top was a gentle brown tiled.
And in the garden was a Toriel look alike wearing a beautiful lavender dress
and a crown of pink flowers on her head with golden horns by her snowy white
drooping ears.
"Hey, Toriel!" Ink greeted her and she looked at them with cherry colored eyes
that sparkled.
"Oh, Ink! You're back! Hello, Charity! And you've brought friends! Oh, and they
look like you!" Toriel said before wandering over and wiping her paws on an
pink apron she wore. She had dirt all over them but she did her best to clean
them off. "Welcome to Inktale, everyone! Oh, Doctor Gaster! You're back!"
Everyone gaped at her but Gaster bowed his head as he stepped forward, offering
his hand to her. "Queen Toriel." He greeted her and when she gave him her paw,
he kissed it then backed away.
"I thought.....they didn't know about the other dimensions." Gar asked
frowning.
Ink smiled at him. "Our world does know about the other dimensions because I
finally told them when I brought Hope here. Everyone here knows now about all
of you." He told them.
Toriel of Inktale just smiled as she nodded. "When Ink told everyone about the
other dimensions, we didn't believe him at first. And then he and Error brought
a guest here to prove it." She said shrugging.
"Was it Hope?" Stretch asked sounding pretty anxious.
Ink and Toriel looked at him smiling but shook their heads. "No, it was Fresh,
from Underfresh. He's another Sans and quite a character. I think you'd like
him. He's back in Underfresh as usual." He said before looking slyly at Toriel.
"Speaking of which, Toriel. Where is she?"
Stretch and Blue perked up again, knowing he had to be talking about Hope.
Toriel smiled before turning around just as her cottage door opened. "Right
there. Bringing us hot honey buns." She said brightly.
Stretch whipped around with everyone else and there she was.
Hope.
Hope was wearing an amber colored sundress, her now shoulder cut hair pulled
back into a small pony tail behind her head. She was carrying a basket of
steaming bread that did smell quite wonderful from where she was.
But when she looked up, her eyes met Stretch ' s and she brightened with a
small gasp.
"Hope!" Stretch breathed before he was suddenly gone in an orange flash,
scooping her up into his arms.
"Stretch!" Hope laughed as she almost dropped the basket but wrapped her arms
around him as he hugged her tightly.
"HO-HOPE!" Blue cried out and was now running for her and his brother.
Gasping, Hope pulled away from Stretch just in time to catch the small skeleton
in her arms and hug him just as tightly as he was hugging her. "Oh, Blue! I
missed you too! I'm so glad you're both here!" She said kissing him right on
the skull then she looked up at everyone else. "Oh! They're here!" She said now
setting Blue down and waving at everyone and then holding up the hot buns.
"Hello, everyone! I'm Hope!"
"Hi! I'm Ashlee!" Ashlee said now dragging Sans over. "So I'm guessing you're a
True Soul too?"
Hope smiled brightly and nodded. "Yep! My dad is Grillby from Underswap!" She
said brightly.
Sans choked but laughed. "Grillbz is your dad?! Wow, talking about HOT damn!"
He laughed.
"SANS!! NO PUNS!!" Papyrus scowled loudly but everyone but Boss and Blue
laughed either way.
Ink smiled as he wandered over now with the rest of the group. "So we have a
lot to talk about. And a lot of planning. How about we go inside Toriel ' s and
talk. And you can get to know each other." He said.
Toriel moved past everyone. "I'll get started on the banana creme pie then. And
dinner. Who would like to help me?" She asked.
Immediately, Charity, Papyrus, Calli and Blue stepped forward, all raising
their hands as they were quick to follow her.
"So, short version." Sans said looking at Ink. "How much trouble do you think
we will get into from here on out?"
"A lot of it, I'm afraid. Because the next dimension we might be going to, to
get the second soul piece is going to be Horrortale. And just a heads up," Ink
said seriously. "Don't let Ashlee out of your sight. Especially around
Nightmare. He has a biting habit. And I do mean, he eats humans. So be
careful." He warned.
Sans did not like the sound of that but made a mental note that he would listen
very carefully.
***** Eight *****
As it so happened, like almost all of the Toriels' in every dimension, this
Toriel knew how to cook up some delicious food. And with her helpers, she made
quite the meal for everyone.
So everyone was sitting around her large table, eating while they were trying
to come up with the plans of how they were going to get Heaven's soul pieces.
"Okay, so this is what you all know so far. G does run the Luminosity of Gaia,
a group of Mages who do want to enslave or destroy all of monsterkind. His goal
is to bring his lost love, Heaven, who is the True Soul of Love and is from
Echotale back to life." Ink began as he looked around at everyone.
Slowly, everyone nodded, though a few had to smile to see that Hope was leaning
up against Stretch, who refused to let her go either way and Charity kept
slapping at Edge when his hand disappeared under the the table, obviously in
her lap.
"Seven True Souls G needs. He has four? Which ones does he have?" Gaster said
though he did pause to look at the three True Souls so far in the room.
"Charlie of Inktale is Patience." Ink spoke up now firmly and everyone was now
hanging onto his words. "Sam of Horrortale is Bravery. In a world like that,
she has to be."
"Sam?" Gar asked frowning.
Ink nodded. "Her name is Samara. She called herself Sam because yes, she was
named after the horror movie, The Ring's horror figure. From what I know
aboutnher, she hated her name. Horrortale is a dark world. A very, very dark
dimension. Everything is as twisted as Underfell.....but in a more bloodied
way. The monsters there......they really are monsters from scary stories. So
under no circumstances, for if any of the humans comes with us, are they to be
let out of our sight. You have to be on your guard at all times. The monsters
eat humans and some of them do have a habit of eating other monsters, so be
aware."
That sent a shudder through everyone. They really did not like the sound of
Horrortale but even Gaster had grimaced when Sans gave him a skeptical look.
"And you made that dimension?"
"Not on purpose, Sans. I think when I splintered Horrortale, it was at the time
when I was in a very dark place. I was very angry when Bonessa was killed. As
you well already know. I think when that world was splintered into being, it
took my malice and hate with it." Gaster tried to come up with an excuse.
"Okay, so Sam is Bravery. Orange." Ashlee interrupted, though she knew they
should hear more of Horrortale since they would be going there. She just didn't
think she was ready to get the shot scared out of her. "What about the other
two?"
Ink smiled, knowingly but leaned back in his chair. "Underfresh. You might like
that one very much. It's just as colorful as Inktale but also
very.....energetic and loud and such. Underfresh is a musical and dancing world
as well as brilliant bright colored. Fresh Sans, there, who we just call Fresh,
is quite a character. Think of.....your Sans, Mettaton and Blooky all in one
bag of bones."
There were groans but Blooky perked up some.
"he........is just like me?"
Ink smiled warmly at the timid ghost monster and nodded. "He loves music and he
loves to dance. He's really good at it. It's kind of a partying world. Life is
a party to Underfresh and they like to enjoy their lives through music and
dancing and games and all." He said shrugging.
"Does he have a TV show just like Mets?" Ashlee asked now very interested,
despite some looks she got.
But Ink laughed and nodded. "Yeah, he actually does. Anyway, we are getting off
subject. His True Soul was Alicia, whom Fresh calls Alice. She is the True Soul
of Integrity. Dark blue. I never got to meet her before she was taken but Fresh
said she is a complete doll and very honest. Can be bluntly honest but still."
He told them.
"And the last one, Justice in Outertale.....hmm." Gaster said now smiling as he
looked right at Sans. "Actually, Sans, I think you will really enjoy Outertale.
Their dimension is pretty......OUT OF THIS WORLD." he said slyly.
Sans stiffened and yet looked very bright eyed as he sat up very much
straighter. "Space?!" He asked brightly.
Ink laughed with a few others but nodded. "Yeah. Outertale is pretty
futuristic. The humans there always believed monsters were aliens. And it was
kind of true. The monsters didn't live in the Underground. They were barred in
space away from Earth and they wanted so much to go to see that world. Outer
Sans, who we call Outer or Star.....his True Soul is Justice. And this her
name. Her name is Justice. She is the yellow soul." He told them.
"So.....an artsy world, a horrifying world, a Sci-fi world, a twisted world, a
singing and dancing world, and a lazy and happy world is where we will be
going. Sounds like fun." Gar said chuckling.
Ink sighed as he looked around at everyone and even Gaster looked forlorn as if
he knew what was about to be said.
"Don't forget about Echotale, Gar. We have to go there too. It's not easy to
get there either. G keeps it locked up." The little painter said.
Everyone sobered as they just looked at him. They had a feeling G they weren't
going to like this one.
"What is Echotale?" Frisk was the one to ask.
"An apocalyptic slavery world. Almost all humans are either dead or twisted
versions of their selves." Ink said gravely and everyone stared at him. "It's a
very empty world. From what I know, there was a magical disease that wiped out
most of the humans there. Those that survive became.....pretty dark. They
enslaved their own kind. Made females.....um.....exotic companions for the
men......Heaven was.....um....she was a sex slave before G rescued her when the
monsters broke out of their Underground prison. Its......a gray world so be
prepared."
That had everyone hushed as they just took it in.
"So Echotale........it's......the darkest?" Ashlee asked.
Ink slowly nodded. "Pretty much. Most of then inhabitants of that world are
male now. They do have a war going on between humans and monsters.
But......um....it doesn't really help that most monsters there.....they do the
same thing that humans do to females. They collect any females they can find
and sell them off as slaves to the highest bidder. Again, we will have to watch
Ashlee, Hope and Charity and any female that is with us in that world very
carefully. Because if one of them goes missing, it is going to be very
difficult to get them back." He told them gravely.
"So why are we going there?" Edge grumbled darkly. "We need seven pieces,
right? One was in Undertale and one in each of the other ones. So why do we
have have to go to Echotale?"
Ink shook his head looking grim. "Because that's where Error is. G has him
there. And I am not going to abandon my brother. He needs our help to put him
back where he belongs. Before G makes him come after us. Problem is, the only
way we get there is through Heaven. Somehow we need to get the piece back from
G or convince him that we want to help him so he will give it to us. We do not
want to have Error coming after us."
"IS HE REALLY THAT BAD?" Papyrus was the one to ask.
Ink nodded. "I don't want to say it but I have to. Error.....other the first
Sans," he motioned to the one he spoke of. "He's the strongest in magic. I know
we are all strong and all in our magic but Sans is the strongest. And so is
Error. The only difference between them is Sans knows how to hold back his true
power. Error doesn't. He is malicious but he is also really broken by what was
done to him." He said firmly.
"What was done to Error?" Sans asked seriously now looking at Gaster.
Gaster sighed as he slumped. "I did a lot of experiments on both Error and Ink.
This world......it has a lot of twins here. Ink and Error are twins. Created at
the same time, as I did with their Papyrus'. I wanted to test that because they
were twins. See if they could feel what the other felt. They had.....some of
kind of bond. Most of the time, they could tell what each other were thinking.
They could speak to each other through their twin bond." He explained.
And Ink nodded in agreement.
"Well.....I chose Error out of the two to do the more.....painful experiments
to see if Ink knew what was being done to his twin. At first, Ink did know what
was happening to Error. And it was painful for them both. But then Error
started blocking the bond. So Ink wouldn't feel it. I used to hurt Error very
badly. Just to break through that bond to hurt Ink." Gaster went on
regretfully. "Error did everything he could to keep Ink from hirting. And it
snapped his bond with Ink. Ink could not feel him ever again after I broke
every single bone in Error's body."
Now everyone was glaring at Gaster. They did not like to hear that at all.
"Wow. Gaster. Just wow. You really are a bast......." Edge was growling but cut
off when Frisk gave him a warning look.
"Yes, Edge. I do know that." Gaster said with a sigh. "And I regret hurting him
like that. I cannot come up with enough excuses for my actions. I did it for
science and my own selfish reasons. I want to fix it. I'm just not sure how to
yet. Either way, I broke Paperjam badly."
"Paperjam?" Ashlee asked frowning.
Gaster nodded. "That was Error's name before I broke him. Paperjam and Ink." He
said glancing at the latter. "He was.....just like Ink. Cheerful, friendly,
loving and caring. His form of art was origami. Paper art. He loved folding
paper. But after i hurt him, he became Error."
There was only silence for a moment before Sans blew out air. "So what about
the Luminosity? What should we expect from them? They're Mages, right? What
kind of magic do they have?"
"All kinds of magic. Just like yours, it differs on the person who welds it."
Hope spoke up and she got very curious looks. She shared a small smile with
Stretch. "There is something you probably should know about me. I'm....I was
apart of the Luminosity."
Now everyone was staring.
"Wait.....what?!" Edge growled.
Hope made a weak smile but nodded. "My mother, Opaline, who is here in Inktale,
is from a long line of Mages. I am a True Soul but I am also a Mage. Ever since
I was just a kid, I could do magic. I can manipulate the elements; air, fire,
water and earth." She told them.
"So......you were apart of the Luminosity?" Ashlee asked frowning.
Hope nodded as she ducked her head a little bit. "Not by choice. The Luminosity
didn't....start in Underswap. I think it started in Echotale. But....most of
the Mages are from Underswap and they just kept on collecting their army from
each of the other world's to end all magic." She told them. "I.....was an
orphan from what I knew as I grew up. They told me my mother died in child
birth with me, and I never knew who my father was until I went to the
Underground. Where......they sent me to be a sacrifuce. I was to either die
looking for Gaster ' s research or succeed for the Luminosity. "
"When was this?" Gaster asked frowning as he sat up straighter.
Hope shrugged. "It's been a couple of years. But Underswap was the first world
G invaded. Because that was where you left more notes than any other world. G
wanted the research that you left. So he would know everything you've done.
Everything you've created." She told him. "Then he started moving onto the
other dimensions once he had that research. Either way, I was sent in as a lie.
A distraction to the monsters."
"And?" Calli was the one to ask.
Hope shook her head, making quite the look as she shrugged. "I was sent to hurt
them. Make them.....like me or kill me. I did. But......I wasn't suppose to
like them back. I totally fell in love with the monster. And I found out who my
dad was. I couldn't......hurt them like I was suppose to do." She explained.
Ashlee, Frisk, Calli and Charity all smiled as they got the idea, especially
with Hope leaning into Stretch ' s side as he rest his skull on her head. "So
you changed your mind about hurting them. You wanted to protect them." The
first spoke.
Hope looked at Ashlee and nodded. "I just.....I just could hurt them. They were
my friends. They showed me love, and friendship. I was....taught to fear
monsters. To hate them. I can't hurt them and I won't let anyone hurt my
monsters. Or anyone else's." She said.
"Ugh! This is sappy!" Edge groaned in disgust.
Charity smiled bitterly at him. "Oh, would you like to hear my story then?" She
asked rather roughly.
Edge shot up straight but quickly shook his head rapidly and even made a sign
to her to shut up.
"Heh, this should be good. What dirt do you have on the big guy there?" Stretch
asked grinning and he was glared at by said skeleton.
"Oh, my story is a little hardcore. Let's just say this. This jerk here
promised to save me from being eaten by a cannibalistic Toriel and instead made
me his damn sex slave." Charity said glaring but smirking at Edge.
Everyone stared.
"You're right. We don't want to hear it." Sans said now uncomfortable. "If it's
anything like what Gaster did to our world when he was after Ashlee's soul, I
think I get the idea."
"What changed?" Ashlee pried on and a few groaned.
Charity just smiled now more softer at Edge, who was blushing bright red and
trying to sink into his chair. "I saved his ass from the Dogs from being
screwed into the ground." Blank stares and she shrugged. "Underfell is a hard
world to live in. It's kill or be killed there. Fuck or be fucked. I saved him,
got his respect. Made him dance at Grillby's." There were snorts of laughter
while Edge blushed bright red and was growling. "But in the end.....guess you
could say it was Stockholm Syndrome or something. But I saw a side of Edge and
Boss that no one in Fell does. They're actually very sweet guys."
Both Edge and Boss blushed, growling at her.
"So......who's your monster parent?" Calli asked.
That sobered up the Fells as they looked dark at the idea.
"Asgore. And he's an asshole in our world." Charity said a little coldly.
"Let's just say.....he isn't above fucking his own daughter to create stronger
monsters."
Stares and uncomfortable silence.
"Okay, I don't want to hear that story any more." Ashlee said uneasily before
looking at Hope again. "So....Grillby is your dad? So no Fuku?"
It was Hope's turn to look uncomfortable but she smiled faintly.
"No, there is a Fuku in Swap. Grillby.....um....he was married before he met my
mother. He....um...met Opaline and fell in love with her." Hope said shrugging.
"Oh........damn." Sans said shifting uneasily.
Hope nodded and shrugged at the same time. "He's a good person....he just made
some mistakes along the way. But none he regrets. He loves both Fuku and
myself. It took Fuku a long time to forgive him but they're close again." She
said shrugging.
"Speaking of which," Stretch now said looking grumpy. "Did Grillbz know where
you were? I mean, he went back to not talking again after you were gone.
But...he didn't seem surprised."
Hope shared a glance with Ink as she looked regretful but she nodded. "Yes. And
don't be mad at him, Stretch. He was there when I left with Ink. Flowey knew
too. He was there when we met Ink for for the first time." She said safly.
Stretch huffed but nodded. "I'm not mad. I was at first but I came to terms
with it eventually. I knew Grillby knew something but I get it now why he
didn't say anything." He told her. "I'm just glad you're okay. Blue and I were
both worried about ya."
"Well, if we are done here, we should start making plans with what we are going
to do." Ink said now serious again. "Obviously it would be smarter not to let
everyone go to the other dimensions. It's too risky to take everyone. Someone
could get hurt. The least people to go, probably the better. But we will need
strong people."
"Obviously I will have to go. I can make containers to hold the soul pieces and
keep them safe." Gaster said wearily.
Ink nodded before looking at everyone else. "I also think the True Souls and
humans should stay." He said and that exploded on him. From Charity, of course.
"Oh, hell no, Ink! You are not pulling that one on me again!" Charity burst out
as she glared at him. "I'm going!"
Ink sighed exasperated as he looked over at her and Ashlee when she looked like
she was going to argue with it too. "G and the Luminosity is after you three,
Charity! We can't risk you getting caught by him. And that's risking it by
letting you go." He said in a dramatic way.
Charity folded her arms and glared. "I can handle myself and you know it, Ink.
Hope is pretty strong too and you know she can handle herself!" She growled.
"Pet! You're not going......!" Edge was growling.
But Charity whipped around and pointed at him. "You try and stop me, boney
ass!" She snapped and was growled at by him. She literately in his face now,
growling right back.
"I can chain ya like before, Pet! You look great in chains!" Edge growled.
"Jokes on you, Edge! I can break chains now! I've had a lot of practice from G
now! I just heat them up with my fire and snap!" Charity snarled.
"The True Souls are going and that's final." Sans spoke up and everyone went
dead quiet as they looked at him in surprise. He just shook his skull, looking
dead serious. "Ashlee stays with me at all times. I'm sure it will be the same
with Hope and Stretch. Knowing Ashy, she is strong enough to fight. I've seen
her fight and if she can kick Gaster ' s ass, she can kick G's. I'll go but
she's coming with me."
Stretch nodded in agreement. "I ain't letting Hope outta my sight again. I just
got her back. She's staying with me." He said firmly.
Ink sighed but shook his head as he looked wearily at everyone. "It could be
too dangerous to take them though. One slip up with G, he could have them.
It'll be safer her for them." He told them.
"Yeah, but for how long, Ink?" Sans asked firmly. "Error is from this world.
Who's to say he can't get here again?"
"It have his access blocked...." Ink was saying now uneasily.
Sans shrugged and shook his skull. "Yeah? But how long is that going to stop
him from getting here, Ink? He's stronger than you, right? How long is it going
to take him before he breaks through whatever you have blocking him? From what
I've already heard, he hasn't come knocking yet is because G hasn't thought of
that yet. Error can come here. Your block or not. And if G gets that idea inn
his skull, we can't stop him from coming. No matter how hard you try to keep
him out. The True Souls are strong, Ink. They can help us. We, the Sans and
Papyrus' goes, the True Souls goes. And Blooky and Gar go. Frisk, Chara and
Calli can stay here."
"huh?.........me?" Blooky asked surprised.
Sans looked at Blooky and nodded. "You're a ghost, Blooks. Yeah, I know you
don't like to fight. But there might be some places we can't teleporting into.
You can go right through walls. And you're stronger than you and everyone
thinks. You just don't believe it but I know, buddy. You're a lot stronger than
most thinks." He said smiling at him.
Blooky blinked a few times before he began to blush. "oh......but i don't to be
a bother.......oh, no......" he said in some abashed embarrassment at the
praise he had gotten.
Sans just smiled and so did Papyrus.
"YOU WON'T BE, BLOOKY!! WE ALL BELIEVE IN YOU!! YOU SHALL BE ONE OF THE BEST OF
OUR TEAM!!" Papyrus said brightly.
Blooky blushed furiously and looked like he was going to sink in the ground.
"well.......if you insist......i just don't know how well i can do to help. but
if i can help......i'd like to try."
"That's all that we ask for, Blooky." Sans said smiling.
"And why does Gar need to go?" Calli asked now frowning seriously.
Sans looked at her but grinned. "Because he already figured out how to use his
magic. You still need to figure out yours." He said grinning.
Blank stares from everyone but Gar, who was grinning sheepishly.
"What?" Calli asked blankly.
Sans just grinned at her. "You're a Mage, Calli. Why do you think Armati wanted
ya in the first place after getting involved with Paps, here?" He asked.
This time it was Papyrus whose jaw unhinged as he gaped at his own brother.
Calli was also staring in shock.
"What?!" She asked shocked.
Ashlee laughed and shrugged. "We kind of figured it out together, Sans and me,
Calli. Sure, you've never showed any potential in magic but that's because you
weren't trying. We found out while digging through some things. The De'Angelo
family......your family.....they have ancient ties to one of the Mages from the
middle ages that locked up the monsters into the Underground. Capelli D'angelo
was one of your ancestors. He was one of the seven Mages that locked the
monsters up." She explained. "And capelli d'angelo is......"
"Angel hair pasta......." Calli said in complete shock begore looking right at
her brother with a gaping mouth. "Wait! Magic?! Gar, you have magic?! What
magic?!"
Gar laughed sheepishly before he raised a hand in the air and waved it at his
side. A pair of hot red wolves formed right beside him with red and blue eyes,
both growling but they did not move from his side, both just sitting down.
"Yeah, little sis. I actually helped Sans and Ashlee figure it out when I found
these guys one morning sleeping beside my bed. I was having nightmares of what
happened that night with the Armati. And these guys were there. Protecting me.
It's why the Armati wanted us in the first place." Gar said before scratching
one of his wolf's head. "They were trying to recruit us, not kill us. It's the
real reason James was with you. He was sent by Giovanni Armati to keep an eye
on you. To see when your own magic would manifest. Things just.....got a little
crazy in the mean time."
Calli gasped softly as she remembered something. "That Mage! That Monster
Hunter! The one who helped James! He said that the Armati Elder wanted me alive
and unharmed!" She said in realization.
Sans nodded as he leaned back. "Yep. It's cause you're a Mage, Calli. You and
your family. Don't rightly know if Gem has magic though but I'm guessing she
does. We don't know what your magic is yet but with some work, we can figure it
out." He said.
And it was Hope who nodded now smiling. "It's probably already manifested and
you just didn't see it. It happens. What is the one quality that you do that
you don't realize what you're doing that effects people?" She asked smiling.
"She's got a mean look when she's pissed off. It's mean enough to make some
freeze up while she is yelling at you." Sans said chuckling and earned a dark
look from Calli. "Eh......"
"Exactly." Hope said now smiling.
And everyone looked at her in surprise but she just smiled at Calki, who was
stating at her in her stunned stupor.
"Your look. Your eyes. You own a restaurant, right?" Hope asked.
"Ye-ah." Calli said frowning.
"And when you're staring someone down, giving them a lecture, they freeze up or
immediately jump right into what you told them to do, right?" Hope tried again.
"Ye-yes." Calli said now surprised before she heard a few murmurs. She frowned
and looked around before freezing when she saw an eye literately starting to
form right beside her. "What the fu.........?!"
The eye flashed and a laser light shot out right from the iris, scoring the
wall away from everyone.
"Wow. Laser eyes. Cool." Gar snorted as he doubled over and laughed and even
the wolves began barking and laughing.
Calli just stared at the eye hovering by her shoulder and then looked to her
other side to see another one starting to form at her other shoulder.
"What.....the....hell?" She muttered in shock.
"It's kind of like what Gaster does with his mystic hands." Ink said glancing
at the said. "Your eyes are your power, Calli. It's how you get people to do
what you want them to do. Not just by telling them to do something. Like work
faster. It's kind of like......uh, persuasion. You glare at someone, they sure
move faster to do what you wanted them to do. These are kind of like Blasters.
You can use them to defend or attack."
Calli blinked a few times, still stunned before looking at her mystic.....eyes?
"Okay. And I never realized they were here because......?" She was asking.
Sans shrugging. "You weren't looking at them. And neither was anyone else. So
you didn't see them." He said simply.
"Uh.....okay. I'm still unsure about going to the other dimensions though. It
would be cool to see other world's but I'm just figuring this out now." Calli
said grimacing.
"That's okay. You can stay here and defend the base while we're out looking for
the soul pieces." Sans said shrugging and everyone nodded in agreement.
"Okay. So all of the Sans' and Papyrus' goes, the ghost and the True Souls and
the guy with the wolves goes. Now how the fuck do we get there?" Edge growled
folding his arms.
"LANGUAGE!" Blue grumbled and was growled at but a look from Frisk made the
edgey skeleton back off.
Ink just shrugged. "I'll open the gate ways so we can get there. But for now, I
can take you to the Inn in Paper'D. That way, everyone can get some rest. And
in the morning, we can get going." He said.
"Paper'D?" Ashlee asked curiously.
Ink nodded with a grin. "Think Snowdin only not with snow but paper. Everyone
loves paper art there. There's a lot of drawing in that town. I can show you
all around if you want. But we might not have time." He then looked sly.
"Besides, I'm sure a lot of you would like some rest. Or....something. The town
might be called Paper'D, but the Inn......they have sound proof rooms."
A wide grin formed on Edge's face before he was shoving his chair back and
grabbing Charity's wrist, yanking her up with a yelp. "What the fuck are we
waiting for then! I wanna sleep!" He growled now dragging her across the room
towards the door.
There were snorts and laughs or eye rolls from the others. They all knew that
sleep was the furthest from his mind.
But silently, some of the couples there couldn't help but agree at the idea.
***** Nine *****
The morning after, the whole group met outside the Inn, some looking still
tired from......some late night romps they had, though satisfied. Some looking
highly energetic....coughBluecough.
And some looked rather wary about what they were going to step their selves
into once they left Inktale.
That was San who was wary about what they were going to get their selves into.
San and Ashlee, and Boss and also Gaster. They all knew that they had quite an
unusal journey ahead of them. Blooky was a little wary too but mostly nervous,
as always.
Still, it was time to go and take that first step.
"All right. Today we begin. We can leave the soul piece that is here in Inktale
where it is. We can get that one last." Ink said as he stepped forward. "We are
going to Horrortale first. Nightmare will be there to greet us at the end of
their Ruins but.....like I said, stay on your guard around him. Don't let him
get close to you. He will bite you if you do. He has an insatiable appetite and
he does love the taste of blood."
"Question." Gar said grimacing. "If he eats humans, why does he want his True
Soul back and why are we accepting his help? And why are we helping him get his
back if he....wants to eat her?"
Ink chuckled kind of uneasily. "Uh......good question. But.....I think it's
more along the lines he doesn't want to eat Sam any more. He is.....um.....just
like Edge, in a way. He tried to eat her in the beginning." He said rubbing the
back of his skull.
Edge snorted as he folded his arms. "In other words, he fell in love with her
instead." He said amused in a dark way bit did share a soft glance with
Charity, who rolled her eyes but smiled either way.
Ink shrugged. "Yeah.....kind of like that. From what I know, Sam bit him right
back when he tried eating her. He apparently liked it a little too much." He
said sort of blushing.
Everyone had to laugh at that as they got the idea, though Blue was blushing.
"Ah, so she is that kind of girl, huh?" Edge said snorting.
"Ye-ah......from what I've heard. Nightmare has no tact when it comes to
admitting it." Ink said grimacing before shaking his head. "Okay, getting off
of that. So here is what we will do. We will go into Horrortale, meet up with
Nightmare, get the soul piece and move on. And promise to get Sam back for
him."
"What, ya not gonna invite him into our dimension raiding club?" Stretch asked
chuckling.
Ink gave him a look, raising his brow. "Do you really want a guy who likes
human flesh to be around Hope, Stretch? I'll admit it, Nightmare is really
strong when fighting enemies but he is brutal to everyone around him." He said
skeptically.
"Good point." Stretch said grimacing as he wrapped his arm around Hope.
"All right, if we are done here, let's get moving. The sooner we get going, the
sooner we can save our friends. In all of our worlds." Sans said kind of
grimly. He was definitely taking this all serious.
Ink nodded as he turned from them and raised a hand. He took a deep breath and
swept his hand down. A rip began to form right in the air, splitting open a
portal into blackness.
The Void.
Ink huffed before glancing back at everyone and then he started forward with
everyone following after him into the blackness.
The Void was as it always was. It was cold and empty. Just black everywhere you
looked. It was weightless and everyone felt it as soon as they stepped through.
It was new to a few of the group.
But there was something different.
There were cracks glowing in the dark. Like.....breaks in black glass.
"What the......?" Ashlee was the first to say when she saw the cracks. "What
are thoses?"
"The dimensions." Ink said as he glanced back at her before heading straight
for one in the far back. One that was hell is red and gave an unsettling aura.
"The dimensions are getting closer to one another because G is starting to pull
them together. You're starting to see them because of close they are."
San sucked in air as he looked around and like he did, everyone was seeing more
cracks forming. Very, very slowly but they were starting to form. "Hey......I
thought there was only eight alternate dimensions." He said frowning seriously.
Ink glanced back at him and then Gaster who inhaled sharply. "Yeah, Sans. You
see it, don't you?" He asked.
"See what?" Gar asked frowning.
Gaster breathed harshly as he took in the more forming cracks. "The Void, it's
breaking. More dimensions are forming." He said sharply.
Everyone looked at him sharply and in surprise.
"WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!" Boss growled.
Ink looked over at him next. "The Void's power is growing dimmer. The
dimensions are growing closer. Which means, the closer they get, the more
unstable the Void gets. It's breaking. Splintering more and more cracks in the
Void. Worlds are forming. Meaning.....more Sans and more Papyrus. More worlds.
More life." He told them.
"More.....life....." Calli said breathing awe. "How is that a bad thing then?
If more lives are forming, how is that bad?"
Gaster sighed as he looked at her. "Not necessarily bad, Calli. But.....think
of it this way. The more worlds that are created, the closer they get to one
another......they are crushing together. As one." He said sighing.
Everyone else stared in dread.
"Meaning.....they will all be crushed together. One hell of a world is going to
become one and everyone will be confused as hell at all of the doubles. Scared
even. Monsters will be lashing out at other monsters wearing their face. A lot
of people will die." Sans said grimly.
"How the hell are we suppose to stop that from happening?!" Edge growled
bewildered.
"By stopping G. He's a lot stronger than you all think." Ink said gravely.
"He's the one doing it. He has Gaster's power after all."
Everyone looked at Gaster, who smiled sadly.
"You.....can do that?" Ashlee asked bewildered.
Gaster shrugged. "In a way. I did tell you that the Void is my element. I can
manipulate it. Shape it. It's how I created it in the first place." He said
shrugging again.
Blink.
Blink.
Blink.
"You created the Void?" Calli asked in shock.
Gaster nodded. "By using magic and the Core's power so many years ago. When
monsters dusted, they became nothing. I was only trying to find a place to put
their souls so that one day they may return in another life. Thus the Void
became. In the worlds I created before, my power waned. It seems that power has
grown unstable in the time I stopped controlling it." He said sadly.
"So.....why can G control it?" Gar asked.
"Because is my son. My first son. My clone." Gaster said frowning deeply and
regretfully. "His power once was mine. When I created him, I meant to make just
like me. I gave him my power, or a piece of it. He's grown stronger since I
last knew. My power is becoming his. And he is using it to draw the worlds
together. As one. We have to stop him or everyone will die. Only Echotale will
survive. Because he wants it to."
Ashlee and San shared a glance, knowing they were both not liking the sound of
this. This was touch to know. This was touch power. No one should have that
kind of power.
"Let's get this over with. Where is Horrortale?" San asked as he looked at Ink.
Ink nodded and turned towards the hell is red Crack in front of them. He lead
the way towards it and everyone followed. "Just be prepared for what you will
see in this dimension. Don't trust anything you see here. Don't trust what
anyone says." He said grimly as he looked back at the group. "Not even
Nightmare. I can tell you if you can trust what he says or not."
"How would you know?" Calling asked frowning.
It was Gaster who answered.
"He's an artist." The tall black lithe monster spoke up. "Most artists can read
people and monsters very well. Their expressions, their emotions. It's what
makes a perfect artist. They look for any perfections and imperfections. Plus
Ink has a touch of empathy. He knows how to read emotions. He can tell when
someone is lying to him or hiding something."
Ink nodded smiling faintly. "It's how I was designed. Gaster made me that way.
Error too." He said before looking forward again. "All right, everyone. Let's
go. But be ready and don't let your guard down. You're about to get the scare
of your lives."
And with that last said, Ink lead everyone through the crack, into Horrortale.
Like all of the other dimensions, they came to a black chamber of a cave. And
sort of like Underfell, there was a unsettling feeling of dread in the air.
Something was not right when they stepped into the world. Everyone could feel
it.
An aura of terror fell over everyone as they stepped through the crack. It
didn't matter who was tough and fearless in the group. They all felt uneasy, as
if there was already a blade at their necks.
It was cold in this dimension.
"Geez, do you feel that?" Gar said as he shivered, looking around the black
chamber. "It feels like I've just walked into a haunted attraction. I've got
goosebumps on my arms already."
Everyone nodded as they looked over theirselves. While some didn't even have
skin like the humans and the True Souls did, they felt it all right. Something
was very wrong about this place.
One wrong move, they felt like they would die in an instant.
"This is Horrortale. Where nightmares are a reality." Ink said before leading
everyone towards a black door in the black chamber.
The door was almost too hard to see. The only reason anyone saw it was because
of the red light shining under it, making it glow.
"Okay, for starters, we are going through the Ruins. We will probably see some
monsters. Froggits and Whimsuns. Don't let them touch you. Like I said before,
they bite." Ink warned everyone.
Everyone nodded as they waited for him to take the lead. But when he didn't
move to open the door, they looked at him and saw him grimacing. He did look
pretty nervous about touching that door. His bones even seemed whiter than
usual.
"You're scared, aren't you?" Charity asked with a snort as she saw him flinch
when she spoke.
"Just a little bit." Ink admitted sheepishly.
Rolling her eyes, Charity went forward, yanking her arm free when Edge grabbed
at her. "Oh, please! There is nothing to be afraid of in this god damned place!
Ooh, it's a Horrortale! Whoop-dee-doo! It is not that scary......." She
remarked sarcastically before grabbing the door and yanking it open.
Only to free when a blast of cold air hit her and she saw the blood all over
the cavern walls. The terror hit full blown when she saw just how much blood
coated the cavern walls.
"Holy shit." Charity now said shakily and in shock.
"Yep." Ink said said with a sigh before he started forward.
Wide eyed and empty sockets took in the very looks of this place with alarm as
everyone moved forward, all now huddled closer to one another as they began
trekking down a bloody walled corridor.
"What the fu......?!" Edge was saying in full blown alarm as he took in all of
the blood that ran down the walls like rivets of water in a cave.
"LANGUAGE!!" Blue was saying though half heartedly as he looked around in his
own alarm. He was now clutching onto Hope's side as he walked beside her and
Stretch.
"What the heck? Where is all this blood coming from?" Ashlee asked in shock as
she saw drops of the red stuff coming down. She was just thankful it was
dripping down on her or the others but off to the side.
"It's Horrortale." Ink said with a sigh as he looked atound. "The monsters here
call these Ruins the Bloody Ruins, for obvious reasons. There is a constant
blood flow here. I don't know where the blood is coming from and I don't want
to know. But there is always blood here. I think......the Underground, here, is
kind of like a heart here. A living, breathing nightmare. Anything you can
think of that terrifies you will materialize right before your eyes. The worst
room in the Underground.....um..well, hopefully we don't have to go through it
but like the Wishing Room in all of our worlds, it is actually the Dreading
Room, here. It brings your nightmares to life. Whispers your fears and
materializes them into reality."
"Yea-ah, lets, uh, avoid that part of the Underground, here." Sans said
grimacing as he shared a glance with everyone else.
Going through the Ruins was pretty gruesome. There was blood everywhere and it
seemed to just keep coming like a neverending drip. And they did eventually see
the monsters of this world.
The first thing they saw was a Froggit.
It was a monstrous thing, indeed.
A large twisted looking frog with warts all over it that seem to burst whenever
it moved, spilling acid. They knew it had to acid because it sizzle when the
green goop hit the ground. It even had monstrous teeth in its head, like a
mouth of a piranha.
The very second it saw the group, it growled and snarled and even went after
them. But a good smack in the face with Boss' blackened bone sent it scampering
away, whimpering in pain from being hit so hard.
No one really dared to scold the tall, black wearing skeleton because he was
just protecting them.
They did see Whimsuns in the Ruins and those creeped out the humans rather
badly. Unlike their own Whimsuns, who were timid and easily intimidated, these
ones were not. They were in a swarm. They were small, yes. But small did not
mean not dangerous.
The very moment the small black and red glowing Whimsuns saw them, they buzzed
hungrily and sped towards them. They were like huge mosquitoes, buzzing around
them and they did bite the humans, drawing blood from them.
Again, it was Boss and Edge who scared them off after summoning Gaster
Blasters, threatening to blast them if they didn't beat it.
That was enough to sent the Whimsuns scurrying away.
The bites weren't bad but they did itch like hell to the humans. They weren't
diseased or anything, according to Ink as he passed the humans some monster
candy to deal with their bites. They were just irritating.
"Yea-ah, I couldn't really tell, Ink." Charity grumbled as she scratched at a
bite on her arm.
Ink smiled sheepishly before he turned to keep leading the way through the
Ruins. He had warned them so there was nothing else to say about the matter.
Finally, they came to a house at the end of the Ruins. And by God did all of
them feel uneasy as they looked at the very thing.
It was pretty dark in this area of the Ruins, and the copper smell of blood was
behind them now. Like a dark clearing with a black house at the end. Everything
about this house was just black. And while there was a big black dead tree in
the yard, there was also tombstones.
"Um......is anyone getting the Woman in Black feel from this house?" Gar asked
grimacing as he looked at the dark house.
"No. I'm getting the Sleepy Hollow feel of it." Ashlee said shuddering.
"Heh, well if see Daniel Radcliff around or Johnny Depp, we will know which one
it is." San remarked though kind of weakly as he looked at the house.
"WHO?" Blue asked weakly looking at them.
"Ah, just a bunch of actors from Undertale. Pretty good actors and really
popular but I still say Daniel Radcliff should have stuck to humor more than
scary movies." Sans answered.
"I don't know Sans." Calli spoke up glancing at him. "Harry Potter got kind of
creepy in some parts."
Sans shrugged while everyone else who wasn't from Undertale just frowned in
confusion. They had no idea what they were even talking about but they weren't
going to ask.
"So who's house? Toriel's or Asgore's?" Stretch asked looking at Ink.
Ink looked rather grim as he lead the way towards the house but shook his skull
at him. "Neither's. It's Nightmare 's house. And Zombie's." He said as he
walked.
"Who?" Ashlee asked frowning.
Ink glanced back at her, serious. "Papyrus. They call him Zombie here. You'll
get the idea once you see him." He said gravely.
"SOMEHOW, I DO NOT THINK I WILL LIKE MY ME VERSION OF THIS WORLD." Papyrus said
rattling his bones nervously.
"What's he....uh....like? This.......Zombie?" San asked frowning already
getting the idea he would like either one the San or Papyrus of Horrortale.
Ink shrugged half heartedly. "Well.....um.....while he does look like your
Papyrus, he's more......torn up. He's a wreck, honestly. And he is mindless. He
can't talk. Nightmare speaks for him if he has anything to say. He....is kind
of like a Zombie. And he does think like one so be really careful around him
with the humans." He said firmly. "And despite his appearence, don't be fooled.
He is smarter than an actual zombie. All of his traps.....they're pretty
lethal. He traps to kill and eat. And don't insult him. Don't make fun of him.
Edge." He added forefully looking at the named.
"What?" Edge asked innocently. "What's he gonna do, kill me?"
"No. Nightmare will. If you make Zombie cry, which is really easy to do because
he is really sensitive, Nightmare will kill you. Like all of the other Sans',
and even Stretch, Nightmare is really, really protective of his brother. Zombie
is almost always with him." Ink warned them.
"Okay. Don't say anything to or about this Papyrus. Got it." Edge said
grimacing.
"Oh, if he offers you something to eat, just take a bite. No matter how much it
disgusts you. Cause it hurts his feelings if you don't." Ink said grimacing.
"Just spit it back out when neither Zombie or Nightmare is looking."
"Do I even want to know what he cooks?" Calling asked already dreading the
answer.
"Um.....well.....he does cook it. But he is named Zombie." Ink said weakly.
Wide eyes and stares.
"Fuck no. I ain't eating no fucking brains." Edge growled in pure disgust.
"You might not have a choice." Ink said grimacing. "If you insult them...."
"Don't give a fuck!" Edge growled. "We ain't eating brains! If Nightmare 's got
a problem with that, he can suck my bones!"
"He probably will." Ink said deadpanned before he looked forward again and lead
the way towards the house.
Ashlee shuddered next to Sans, making him glance at her. She gave him a nervous
smiled. "This is kind of crazy, huh?" She asked him.
Sans nodded in agreement as he walked next to her. "Yeah, pretty crazy. The
sooner we get the soul piece, though, the sooner we get out of here. Hopefully
with no problems." He said looking forward again.
Ashlee nodded as she looked forward, only smiling when she felt his cool hand
take hers. She knew he was only trying to comfort her with the fear she was
feeling. Though.....his hand was pretty cold. Not that she blamed him.
This wasn't exactly the warmest place at all.
"Hey, Ink." Sans called over now moving just a little faster so he could go
talk to the other skeleton. "So you said this was Nightmare ' place, right? So
why does he live out......."
Ashlee froze as she looked right at Sans, seeing his hands stuffed into his
pockets. He was even walking past her, moving ahead.
But......
If she wasn't holding his hand.....whose hand was she......?
Looking down at her hand, she did see her hand linked with a skeletal hand.
But......it was blood stained, unlike Sans'. And the tips were sharper than she
ever seen, almost like claws.
Turning her head, Ashlee looked to see who she was holding hands with, only to
come face to face with Sans.
Only......Sans looked very haggard.
His eye sockets were black as hell but there was crazy, hellish red pin pricks
with yellow rings around them. His skull was cracked very badly and he did have
a gaping hole on the left side. His traditional blue jacket was ripped and
blood stained and he wore no shirt under it, showing only his ribs and bones.
He did wear shorts but they were ripped and blood stained too.
And that mouth of his, his grin was wide with sharp teeth that were also blood
stained.
This was not Sans.
Sans wouldn't look like that or be holding the bloody axe that was coming right
at her head to chop it off.
Ashlee screamed, now yanking away only to have a hard time when that grip on
her hand tightened painfully, the axe still coming down at her.
***** Ten *****
Chapter Summary
     Pure terrifying.........
The very second that Ashlee screamed, San was whipping around with everyone
else, eye sockets wide and hand glowing. He didn't know why she screamed until
a second after he grabbed her with his magic and yanked her over to him.
The bloodied axe that had been swinging at her hit the ground where she had
been.
Either way, San yanked her towards him and had her in his arms while glaring at
the new threat, though he did freeze in surprise when he saw this Sans. He was
only too glad when everyone around him and Ashlee quickly stepped around them
in protection, eye sockets glowing, bones up. Magic roaring and poor Blooky
whimpering as he hid behind everyone else.
But all the other.....Sans did was cackle as he bent over and held his kind of
big gut as if he had heard the funniest joke.
"Nightmare!" Ink snapped now pushing past everyone and glared at the twisted
version of Sans. "What are you doing?! Why did you attack Ashlee?!"
The Sans.......Nightmare just snorted and cackled as he stood up straight,
grinning his sharp grin at the painter. "Oh, it was a joke, Inksy." He spoke
with a kind of gargle voice as if he had something stuck in his non-existent
throat. "Wasn't gonna hurt her." His wide grin widened furthermore. "Much. I
was just gonna take a little skin off the top."
"Who the fuck.....?!" Sans was growling as he held a shaking Ashlee tight to
his chest.
Ink huffed but continued to glare at him, his gloved hands on his hip bones and
he tapped his foot impatiently. "Don't do that again, Nightmare." He growled.
Wiping a bloody tear from his eye socket, Nightmare just grinned and leaned on
his axe for support. "Oh, what are you going to do, Paint-ton? Get it? Painter
and skeleton......" he growled back out in dark humor.
"Nightmare."
Nightmare flicked his red and yellow eyes over to Faster as he stepped through
the group and he snorted, still grinning maliciously. "Well, if it isn't dear,
old Dad." He cackled. He was definitely insane. "Came back for a visit,
did'ja?"
Gaster huffed but shook his head. "Nightmare, you know why we are here. Please
do not harm our humans." He said warily.
Nightmare huffed, rolling his red eyes before pouting. "Aw, come on. Ya got
plenty to spare. Five humans. Fifty fingers to spare. I just wanted a little
bit of lunch. Or rather snack." He said and even spared a twisted wink at
Ashlee who cringed into Sans, who snarled angrily.
"Nightmare! Knock it off!" Ink said irritated.
Again, the eye lights rolled and Nightmare straightened himself out. "Oh, fi-i-
i-i-ine!" He drawled out before starting forward. It was then the whole group
noticed, he walked with nasty limp. He was not completely whole.
Now that everyone got a good look at him, they did see that he was one ragged
looking skeleton. And one of his legs, his right leg seemed rather favored. The
femur had a nasty crack down it. It was a miracle he wasn't falling apart.
Nonetheless, everyone backed away, keeping their distance from this twisted
skeleton. They noticed him actually using the axe as a cane as he walked.
"So ya finally decided to come pay me a visit. About time really." Nightmare
sneered as he limped right to Ink. "And ya didn't even bring me a snack. Sure
you won't miss one of those humans? I'm kind of hungry,ya know? 'Course, I'm
always hungry."
"Nightmare, stop it. You're scaring them." Ink grumbled giving him a look.
Nightmare just sneered at him. "Good. This is Horrortale, after all. They
should be scared." He chuckled darkly before heading towards the house. "Well,
if ya ain't gonna let me have a bite to eat, at least let me eat something."
"We don't have time for this,Nightmare." Ink said with a sigh.
"Do you really want me to change my mind about one of your humans, Ink? Because
I'm hungry 'cause i skipped brunch and their fingers are looking mighty tasty
right now." Nightmare growled right back, giving the colorful skeleton a look.
Ink groaned but then motioned to everyone else to follow after the creepy
skeleton. They didn't move for a second but then followed warily as they headed
towards the house.
However, as they walked, Ink looked over his shoulder at everyone. "Stay on
your guard. Something's wrong with Nightmare." He said very quietly.
Everyone blinked at him and Edge. "He eats humans, of course something is wrong
with him." He grumbled.
Ink slowly shook his head. "It's not just that. There's something there I can't
see. I can't see his emotions." He said quietly.
Everyone just frowned but Gaster stiffened. "He's blocking you?" He asked
uneasily.
Nodding, Ink looked back at Nightmare as he lead the way up the stairs of his
house. "Yeah. He is. He is hiding something. Usually no one can block me. No
one but Error can do that. Not even G can block me, not that he has much
emotions to do it with." He said quietly. "Stay on your guard. Don't get too
comfortable around him."
"I think that'll be kind of easy with what he just pulled with Ashlee. He ever
does that again, I'm gonna kick his boney ass." Sans growled, his arm still
around the quaking girl.
"Sans, I do believe you but I wish you luck anyway. As far as I know Nightmare,
he is really tough." Ink warned. "So be careful."
"What happened to his leg? Why is he limping?" Calli asked frowning.
Gaster sighed as he rubbed his mask. "I'm afraid that was my doing. He is
forever crippled because I broke his leg when he was still very young. It only
healed wrong." He said regretfully.
He received a look from everyone.
"Asshole." Edge grumbled.
"Yes, I'm afraid I was and am. I trying to fix that though." Gaster said
sighing.
Nightmare was at his door, waiting for them impatiently. "Ya coming in or what?
I ain't got all day to wait for your slow asses." He growled.
Everyone frowned at his impatience but followed him up the stairs, where he
simply kicked the door open and strode right in. "Zombz! I'm home!" He bellowed
out, cackling as he lead everyone into the dark, kind of dank house.
Everyone walked in, grimacing at the state of the house. It wasn't necessarily
in a terrible state but it did give off the vibe that it was a dark, haunted
house. It was lit up only by candles and it was only a little dusty. It was in
great shape and it did show signs of renovation. There were just cobwebs in
some places.
But it wasn't the house that made everyone freeze in shock. It wasn't the state
or the creepiness that made them freeze up.
It was the lumbering tall skeleton that came bounding towards them with a
screech.
The girls flinched as they hid behind their respective skele-lovers or friends
as they saw the most raggedy Papyrus coming at them, growling and snarling like
a wild animal.
But.....to their relief, it was Nightmare he swept up into his badly cracked
arms and hugged tightly to himself, nuzzling him.
This Papyrus was indeed a sorry sight to look at. He was freakishly tall, like
the other ones but he badly cracked and his white armor stained with red and he
looked like was going to fall apart at the joints if someone hit him. He had
jagged sharp teeth, some missing in spots. It also looked like he was doing a
lot to keep standing up. He looked as if he would fall over any second.
"Hey, Zombz. Glad to see ya too, buddy." Nightmare said rubbing his younger
brother's skull. "And, look. We got guests." He motioned to the skeleton, who
looked at them with with his red eyes.
What was more terrifying than the way he was looking at the humans was the
bloody butcher's knife in his hand.
The Papyrus dubbed Zombie suddenly grinned and started forward as he dropped
Nightmare, raising the blade as his one good eye zeroed in on the humans. It
was no doubt what his intentions were and that sent everyone scattering,
tensing up.
The only one who didn't move was Charity and that had Edge choking as she faced
down Zombie as he went at her with the knife.
Glaring, Charity placed her hands on her waist and stomped hard right back at
Zombie, who flinched and backed. "Put that fucking knife down! Now!" She
snapped and just like that the tall, zombified skeleton dropped the knife.
"Get, ya better watch yerself......" Nightmare was growling.
Charity swiveled around and shoved her face right into the shorter monster's
own face, making him jerk back in alarm. "Do you want your fucking human back
or not?!" She snapped at him, surprising him. "If you want us to help you get
her back, you will not threaten us, you will not try and eat us and you will
tell your brother the same thing!! Got that?!"
Nightmare backed away, his bright red eyes twitching a little bit but he slowly
nodded. "O-okay. Breathe, human. I get ya." He muttered before looking at
Zombie, who was whimpering and hiding behind him. "Zoms, no eating these
humans, all right, buddy?"
Zombie growled softly but also whimpered as he nodded his skull.
Charity nodded sharply and backed away from both nightmarish skeletons. "Good!
Now! Let's sit down and talk about what our plans are!" She snapped now moving
over to the dusty table in the living room.
Everyone else just stared startled.
But Nightmare smirked and looked right at Edge. "I like her." He simply said.
"Can't have her." Edge growled at him.
"Heh, don't fucking want her. If she isn't scared of what she should be, I
don't want her." Nightmare snapped right back but limped over to the table with
everyone else following after. "All right. So what do ya all know so far?"
Ink sighed but shook his head. "We know G is after the soul pieces belonging to
his True Soul, Heaven. Each piece is each world that was created. We have to
find them first before he does. We are hoping that if we get to Heaven first,
we can convince G to turn against the Luminosity and let Error free to help
us."
Nightmare raised his bone brows at him but did look skeptical. "Really, Ink?"
He asked blankly.
"What?" Ink asked confused.
Nightmare rolled his eye lights at him and shook his skull. "Did you ever think
that Error might actually be helping G on his own?" He growled.
Ink frowned but shook his own skull at him. "He wouldn't do that, Nightmare. He
wants Charlie......"
"Yeah, but he hates you!" Nightmare snapped and it went dead quiet as everyone
stared awkwardly at the two. The nightmare skeleton just huffed as he glared at
the colorful one. "Yeah, he wants your True Soul back but you?! You want to
help the guy who has tried to kill you since it was him who was destroyed,
Ink!"
"What are you talking about?" Ashlee asked frowning.
Ink grimaced but lowered his head as he looked away. "Eh.....Error and I have
our disagreements. Even before Charlie ever entered the picture." He said in a
low voice.
"Tch! Please spare them, Ink!" Nightmare growled irritated. "Error hates you
and you know it! He's always tried to kill you! He blames you for what fucker
over there did to him!" He even motioned to Gaster. He looked over at everyone
else. "Look! Error is a lost cause! He always has been! Ever since he became
Error, he's been obsessed with just destroying everything that Gaster did! He
wanted to destroy all of the world's just like G does! He was always looking
for a way into the other worlds, trying to erase them! But Ink was the one who
always stopped him!"
Everyone looked at Ink, who dipped his skull down, looking miserable.
"Seriously?!" Edge was the one to ask.
Ink sighed as he looked up finally and nodded. "Yeah. Actually that is true."
He said sadly.
"And we wanted to help him?" Gar asked skeptically.
"Look, he's.....not all of the way there. He is just confused. Angry. He was
lashing out because of how much pain he was in." Ink said sighing heavily.
Ashlee frowned as she looked between all of them before eyeing Nightmare and
frowned even deeper. She saw something about him. There was
something....hanging down behind him and she shifted in her chair to see
better.
"Wait a minute.......Error never said anything about that. Sure he was kind of
fu......." Stretch was saying with a frowning but a huff from Blue made him
choose his words differently. "Messed up. But he never told me that's what he
wanted. He wanted to help."
"Did he tell you everything?" Nightmare asked sarcastically.
"Eh......" Stretch was saying back.
"He didn't even fucking tell you about Hope when he had a chance, boney ass!"
Nightmare snapped. "He didn't tell you where she was! Like he was going to tell
ya he was going to stab you in the back in the end once he had his True Soul
back!"
Ashlee frowned and stiffened as she saw a glowing blue string hanging directly
from behind Nightmare.
"Wait a minute. How would you even know about Hope......?" Stretch asked now
suspicious and everyone frowned as they looked at Nightmare.
Nightmare growled now getting to his feet and slamming his fists on the table,
making everyone tense up. "Oh, you dumbasses! He's been here before! He did
tell me, you fucking morons......!" He snarled at them.
"Why is there a glowing string on your back?" Ashlee suddenly blurted out now
looking serious.
Once again everyone stiffened in surprise as they looked at her and then at
Nightmare, who looked like he was a deer caught in headlights.
They all looked.
And sure enough......they saw it.
Nightmare suddenly grinned sheepishly as he shrugged. "Whoops." He said.
"That's Error's string!" Ink yelped now scampering backwards, knocking his own
chair back as he went. "He's under Error's control!"
"Cat's out of the bag then." Nightmare said wickedly before he held up his
hands and several glowing red bone axes formed all around him before he lashed
out with them to attack.
***** Eleven *****
Chapter Notes
     Song Used:
     Megahorrorvania-unknown (Horrortale mix)
Nightmare sent the glowing bone axes flying at everyone, who scattered quickly
all around the room with shouts of alarm and anger.
Immediately magic was up and blocking what axes that close to them and the
humans scattered to be behind their boney companions as they blocked the axes
from flying at them.
It just did help that broken but sharp bones went flying at them as well as
even Zombie began attacking them. He even went at them with a fresh butcher's
knife flashing at them. The knife came pretty close to clipping Gar as he leapt
back to hide behind Boss as he raised his blackened bone sword to block the
knife.
"Fuck!" Edge snarled as an axe clipped his leather jacket tearing it. "Imma
gonna kill you! This is my favorite jacket!"
"We got to get out of here!" Ink shouted as he sent his paint brush swiping and
forming a rainbow shield to keep blocking the axes from hitting them.
"We can take this little, gimpy asshole..... !" Edge was snarling.
Wind burst all around them, knocking flying axes away from them as they just
kept coming. Hope had her elements now at work as she retreated backwards with
Stretch and Blue sticking very close to her. "No we can't, Edge! He's right!
Error is controlling Nightmare! It means his powers are being amplified! He's
going to be stronger than us! And it's more and likely, Error might be coming!
And you can't let him get his strings on you! He will take control of you and
no amount of fighting against it can stop him from using you on us! We have to
run!"
Sans flung up bones to meet axes as Ashlee watched his back, sending fire
flaring at axes as they came closer. He did see the point. There were so many
axes now flying around the house, cutting at them, trying to reach them.
It was already hard enough to see one coming when there five more coming.
"We run! Now!" Sans shouted before lifting a hand up and summoning up one of
his Gaster Blasters, blowing a hole right out of the wall of the house.
"My house!" Snarled Nightmare as his eyes flared red and he even summoned up
his own Blasters, bull skulls with demonic six eyes flaring as it opened its
mouth. "Sansy! I'll be having your human for a snack!"
And the Gaster Blaster fired.
There shouts as everyone ducked and scattered to avoid getting hit by hellish
red and hot energy. It singed the hairs right on the humans as they ducked
away. The blast, itself, caused half of the house to collapse.
"Run! Now!" Gaster was the one to shout and immediately everyone was running
for the holes of the house.
They were not going to stay to see what happened when Error showed up, if he
ever did.
"We have to find the soul piece and leave this world before we run into any
more monsters of this world! If Nightmare is being controlled, surely they are
too!" Ink yelled as they booked it right out of the house into a dark errie
looking forest with black skeletal trees all around them.
It looked vaguely like the Winter Woods of Undertale and Underswap but this
forest.......the black trees with fiery red eyes peering at them....it sent
chills right down to the bones of every skeleton and human, while Blooky just
looked whiter than usual, which was difficult enough to say when he was a white
ghost monster.
"Where the hell are we?!" Edge yelled as he ran with everyone into the dark
forest, running down a run down path.
"This is the Haunted Forest of Horrortale! Don't go near the trees!" Ink yelled
as he lead them in a complete straight line down the path. "They are very much
alive and carnivorous! They will grab you and suck you right into the ground to
be eaten!"
That sent a shiver through everyone as they all ran, coming to a somewhat
familiar but very rickety bridge. They did not stop as they just ran, hearing
distant shouting of rage far behind them.
They were pretty sure that Nightmare and Zombie were chasing after them.
"Where do you think the soul piece might be?!" Sans shouted to Ink as he ran
beside Ashlee.
Ink glanced back at him but shook his head as they all just ran. "The Core,
maybe! It's where the soul pieces usually are! We have to make our way to the
Core! But that does leave a lot of space in between us and it!"
"And probably a lot of monsters looking for us!" Gaster added his impute. "If
Error is really in control of this world, that will be definitely be a problem
for us! And who knows if there are Luminosity members here too!"
"So, in other words, be very careful here! Got it!" Gar said as they ran over
the bridge to a familiar sight of a town.
It was there, the whole group skidded to a halt and dashed into bushes and
trees that didn't seem to be alive like the ones behind them. They had only
halted because of just how many monsters that were out and about here in the
town.
The town, itself, was a terrifying.
Run down buildings like haunted houses lined the main road. A big black
cauldron like fountain sat in the middle of town that was crackling with
boiling magic and spilling blood from spickets.
The only building in the town that wasn't ran down was a Gothic like building
with live gargoyles looking around from the tops, watching the activities of
the town.
The monsters, so similar, to the ones from the other worlds, we're just mulling
around, growling at each other.
But it was two monsters in the entire town that made the group uneasy the most.
The two standing outside the Gothic version of Grillbys.
Obviously Grillby, himself, who unlike all of the Grillbys of the other worlds,
was black and purple flames. He stood out in a black suit, almost like a shadow
in the darkness with piercing red coal eyes, looking right at the fish monster
before him.
Undyne.
The Horrortale Undyne was unlike the group had ever seen. She was very much
like them. She looked about the same with deep indigo blue skin and red ear
fins and hair.
But unlike the other Undynes, she had a lot more sharp teeth revealed. She had
sharp, piranha like teeth that even seemed to grow right through her lips. Her
eyes yellow and red as they glared at Grillby. She honestly looked more like a
zombified Undyne than ever. With some torn skin hanging, she was a ragged but
terrifying Undyne. She wore black sharp armor not unlike the Fell Undyne.
But she also held a black trident unlike the spear she usually had.
It was not unlike the trident that Asgore usually had in the other worlds.
"Nightmare has sent word that the group of outsiders has escaped from him."
Grillby spoke and his very voice made the said group of outsiders shiver. His
voice was sinister and shadow like. "They will more than likely pass through
Umbra Town."
The outsiders of this world blinked and glanced at the town sign they saw not
far away from them and saw it did say Umbra Town.
"Bah! When they come here, we will be ready for them!" Undyne spoke, her voice
scratchy like an hag's voice. Or a witch from horror stories. "Trust Nightmare
to mess things up! Or maybe it was that fucking idiot brother's faul.........!"
"Tread carefully of how you speak, Undyne." Grillby growled out at her and she
literally flinched as if she had been struck. "That is Sans' brother and my
colleague's brother you are talking of. Papyrus is harmless but he is no idiot.
And if you speak ill of him, even I cannot stop Sans from ripping you apart."
Undyne growled but looked away with a slight pout on her face. "Tch! I don't
know why everyone is so scared of that bone bag! Sure he's stronger than any
monster here and he's mean, but one hit, he's dust!" She grumbled.
"And if you try and hit him, I will end you." Grillby growled now slowly
shoving his face into her's, and she cringed.
"Fine! I'll leave the bag of bones alone. For now! I'll get my wolves on the
outsider's trail!" Undyne growled again as she folded her arms and pouted.
"With my wolves on them, they'll never escape!"
"Just remember. Do not kill nor have your wolves kill the True Souls, Undyne.
It was the deal, after all. Our freedom for their True Souls." Grillby growled
before turning with a swift turn and went into his club.
Undyne made a face at his back before whipping around and whistling shrilly,
that had a few monsters flinch at, even the ones hiding.
There were howls and barks as several huge, burly wolves came bounding over to
her. They were big, black and dark colored with glowing red eyes and armed from
fangs to claws and with all sorts of weapons.
But none the less, they were pretty scary to look at.
"We have outsiders in our Underground!" Undyne hissed at them as they stood
around her. "Find them and rip them apart. There are humans with them. Do not
kill them! Otherwise we invoke Nightmare's and Grillby's wrath. But the
skeletons with them.....they are yours to chew up!! She added.
The wolves growled and grinned at one another before they all threw their heads
back and howled as one.
"Tonight! We feast on bones and dust!" One particular large black wolf howled
before he lead the charge through the town, now starting the search.
"Aw.....shit." Edge said uneasily as he shared a wide eyed look with everyone.
"Fuck this." Sans blurted out as he grabbed Ashlee and tugged her close before
grabbing Papyrus, who grabbed Calli. "Teleport to Waterfall!"
Everyone nodded and began grabbing at the humans and those who couldn't port
before there were series of flashes of colors as they all teleported at once,
further and deeper in to this horrifying Underground.
And they teleported right into very stinky, swampy mud, earning yelps and and
shouts of disgust.
"What the......?! EW! What the hell is that smell?!" Gar yelped now covering
his mouth and nose, gagging at the rotten, bloody smell that seemed to coat
their very sense.
"Oh, yeah. Forgot to tell you. It isn't Waterfall here. It's BloodSwamp here."
Ink said regretfully as he covered his nasal.
"Ugh! I think I'm going to be sick! It smells like rotting flesh!" Charity
gagged as she plugged her nose and leaned against Edge, who was grimacing as he
covered his own nasal.
"I think I get the idea why it's called BloodSwamp." Ashlee gagged herself as
she looked at the red mud they were all standing in. She grimaced, right with
everyone as they began trudging through it, heading to a pathway not far from
them.
"Well, I think at least the smell could cover up our tracks, I beleive. If I
remember right, the Wolf Guard of this Underground hates coming here because of
the smell." Gaster said as he grimaced at the very bloody, muddy ground.
The whole group stepped over to the path and out of the mud before glancing at
one another.
"Everyone here? Is everyone okay.......?!" Ink was saying.
He and everyone else froze when they noticed that not everyone was there with
them.
"Um........" Stretch said uneasily as he glanced around with everyone else.
"Where's Blooky?"
"Aw.....shit. He didn't Teleport with us." Gar said now horrified.
"Oh.....boy. That's what I was afraid of happening. Blooky can't Teleport with
us." Sans said uneasily as he glanced around. "We have to find him. We can't
leave Blooky behind."
Everyone groaned before turning to look back with growing unease towards town.
 
Poor Blooky, himself, was whiter than ever as he looked around with wide circle
like eyes and growing tears as he looked for everyone.
"hell-hello......? sans......papyrus........ashlee......? where did everyone
go?" The poor little ghost monster whispered fearfully.
"Well, well, well. Look what we have here?" Came a seductively smooth but also
sinister voice as a shadow fell over him.
Blooky flinched and turned around with a shaky form to look right at the black
and purple, black dressed form of Grillby. He cringed and whimper as he sank
down a little, almost becoming a draping bed sheet pooling on the ground as he
looked terrified up at the black Fire Elemental, who grinned a sharp fanged
grin down at him.
"......he-help........" Blooky whimpered as tears began streaming.
Grillby just chuckled as he folded his arms and shifted his weight. "A little
ghost monster......lost in my Underground. How delicious." Was all he had to
say.
***** Twelve *****
Chapter Notes
     Blood'n Bones-Bonetrousle (Horrortale version)
"We can't go back! It'll mean endangering the humans!" Edge snarled as he
argued with the entire group.
"We're not leaving Blooky behind! He's lost and probably scared right now!"
Ashlee shouted at the skeleton in black before her.
"He's a fucking ghost! It's not like they can kill him or eat him! He will be
fine!" Edge snarled back.
Sans stepped up to face his Fell version, glaring at him. "We are not leaving
Blooky behind." He said seriously. "Blooky is a meek and timid monster in our
world and while he can't be hurt physically, he can emotionally. If we leave
him behind, he will think we've abandoned him. It's taken us a long time to get
him to come out of his shy shell. I will not let everything we've done for him
fall apart."
"Sans, the thing is, Edge is right. If we go back, that's endangering our True
Souls." Ink said regretfully as he gave his original copy an apologetic look.
"But we can't leave Blooky." Gar spoke up, clearly worried about the ghost.
"He's our friend. He's terrified like us, probably even more. He's so insecure,
he doesn't even believe in himself. He's always scared and sad and it's taken a
lot to get him to come out of that."
"Blooky cannot be harmed. He should be fine as long as he comes looking for us.
But we're running out of time." Gaster said calmly.
Sans turned a glare onto his father, shaking his skull. "We are not leaving
him." He said firmly.
"Well, I sure as hell won't be going to look for him! He's dead weight anyhow!"
Edge growled as ignore the jabbing Charity was doing now into his side.
"Uh.....Edge." she said but was ignored.
"Well we aren't leaving him!" Sans snapped right back.
"UH, GUYS!" Blue now spoke up, his blue starred eyes growing wider as he even
pointed to behind them, having noticed what Charity had.
"THE GHOST WILL BE FINE!! WE MUST PRESS ON!!" Boss had to add his piece,
agreeing with Edge and even Ink and Gaster.
Hope tugged on Stretch's hoodie, her own eyes wide when she had looked at what
Blue and Charity had. He looked away from the arguing down at her then followed
her finger as she pointed.
He stiffened in his own alarm before his orange magic flared to life.
"Guys, shut up!" Stretch barked now pushing Hope to behind him and even Blue.
Everyone jumped at looked at him before turning sharply to see what he was now
glaring at and they all froze to see the lithe black and purple form of Grillby
as he stood there with black and purple flames hovering over his hand.
"Holy.....shit......" Gar said fearfully as he and Calli both hid behind
Papyrus who was now rattling his bones in unease as everyone turned to face the
Horrortale monster.
"Hmph." Grillby hummed as he slowly approached them, his mouth splitting into a
sharp smile. "Keep shouting like that," he spike in his sinister voice as he
approached them. "And you'll attract undesirable attention."
"Grillby......." Sans said now holding onto Ashlee tightly as his eye flared
blue. He was tense like everyone else.
Grillby just smiled nasty at him before stepping to the side to reveal a crying
but obviously unharmed Blooky. "I think you left behind someone when you
teleported out of town." He spoke with a slight hiss before moving on right
past them, pausing on the path to look back at the tense group. He merely
chuckled as they looked Blooky over with concern as he jouned them. But seeing
how he seemed okay, they looked back at him. "Come. I'll take you to the Dead
Kingdom. I know a shortcut."
Everyone blinked in surprise as they glanced at one another before looking at
Grillby's already retreating form. Immediately they hurried after him.
"Hey!" Sans called after Grillby, hurrying to catch up with everyone. "Why are
you helping us?! Aren't you suppose to be......?"
Grillby just kept looking forward as he lead them down the dark, damp and
stinky path, the flames in his hands illuminating the way. "Attacking you?
Stopping you from escaping? Killing you?" He asked in his sinister way. "Yes, I
suppose I am suppose to. But I choose my own my path."
"But aren't you......?" Stretch was asking.
"Under control of Error?" Grillby interrupted again now glancing at him in a
creepy way. "No, I am not. He has tried to control me. But I am Hellfire. I
burn strings." He stated darkly before looking at the group with eerie red coal
eyes. "He controls me only through the threat of my sons."
Everyone frowned in confusion as they stared at him but Gaster stiffened as it
dawned on him.
"Your......sons......?" Sans asked frowning.
"He's talking about Sans and Papyrus of this world." Gaster said in realization
and everyone looked surprused.
"You might be their father,Gaster." Grillby growled stopping to face the other
lithe form down with an almost terrifying aura around him and he even started
to glow eerily. "But I raised them as you left them. You abandoned them to die,
just like all of them." He even motioned to all of the skeletons, who
stiffened. "I am their daddy."
"Because.......Gaster left us." Ink said in dawning, his eyes growing brighter.
""And it was Grillby who picked us up."
Ashlee looked right at Sans and Papyrus, who did look surprised but slowly they
nodded in agreement.
"Grillby......of our world.....he took us in too." Sans said in realization.
Gaster, however, looked devastated as he saw all of the skeletons as they
nodded in realization. He sighed having and lowered his head, looking literally
tired. "You're right, Grillby. I abandoned all of my sons. And it was Grillby,
all of them who picked up the pieces." He looked back at the fiery monster.
"Thank you.....for taking care of them."
Grillby just nodded sharply. "Someone had to." He then turned sharply away and
started walking again. "The most important part now, however, is that you're
here now......trying to make things right for your sons. And I think that is
enough for forgiveness."
Everyone followed after the Elemental, still tense but more relaxed around him.
"So.....why are you helping us? Why aren't helping Nightmare get us?" Ashlee
asked curiously eyeing Grillby carefully.
Grillby didn't look at her as he kept walking through swampy pathways, leading
them past monsters hiding in the shadows. The outsiders tensed to see them but
the monsters merely glanced at them,then at Grillby and then looked away in
disinterest.
"And why aren't.....they attacking us?" Calli added uneasily.
"They do not attack you because you are with me." Grillby spoke not even
sparing the monsters a glance. "They fear me but also respect me. They know
what I am capable of. But they will not cross me, either."
"Wh-why?" Papyrus asked in a small voice which was unusal for him.
"I am the monster who helped Nightmare kill our King and Queen." Grillby spoke
bluntly and received startled looks. "Asgore and Tories were fierce with their
rule in this Underground. They even terrified the monsters. They were cruel and
brutal in our world. And while that is the way we run things here, it just did
not help that they were the same with their own kingdom. They were cruel and
brutal with their own monsters. Fear is everything we are made of. But there is
a level of fear that crosses the line. And they crossed that line. So
therefore, myself and my sons, Undyne and her wolves lead war against the king
and queen and we dusted them and their tyrant son, Asriel, who was a brat all
on his own."
Grillby paused to look back at them as they approached a cavern system.
"Sam........she also helped us. She was who convinced us to make a stand, even
when we tried to kill her in the beginning. She is our Savior and our Queen
now. And she is gone because of Error and Gaster Sans." He said firmly. "I help
you because you will help us get our Queen back. And you will free my friends
from enslavement made by Error, who is enslaved, himself. But not by G."
Everyone e frowned as they stared at him.
"Who.....who has him enslaved?" Gar asked uneasily. "If it wasn't G then
who......?"
"The True master of the Luminosity." Grillby spoke now looking back at Gaster,
who was frowning. "And before you ask, yes. I do know who it is."
Again, everyone was tense.
"Who.......who is it?" Ashlee asked feeling uneased.
Grillby merely gave a sinister crooked smile as he eyed her before looking back
at Gaster. "Gaster should know. You killed her sister, after all."
Snap.
Gaster froze; everyone froze.
"WHAAAAAT?!" Edge yelped.
"What is Heaven........without Hell?" Grillby asked seriously. He then turned
and lead the group deeper into the cavern, while everyone glanced uneasily at
Gaster, who did look shocked to the core. "Her name....is Hella. She is
Heaven's half sister. Born of the same mother but of a different father. I know
of her because I have glimpsed her before. She came here only once but never
again."
"Who.....what....why....?" Gar choked as he followed everyone. "What the hell?"
"It's just one thing after another." Sighed Sans wearily. "All right. Who is
Hella?"
"Heaven's sister." Gaster said softly. "She's not a True Soul. Her parents were
both human but Mages of Echotale. As far as I knew about Hella, she was a Mage
but one who....who was very dangerous. No one of Echotale trusted her. Not even
G did. He refused to trust her. Especially with Heaven."
"Why?" Ashlee asked feeling a touch of dread. "What is she capable of?"
Gaster shook his head as he looked at her. "Hella hated Heaven. It's very much
like Ink and Error. She.....she hated Heaven because G loved her. I know that
Hella once desired G but he never gave her the time of day. She.. ...was a dark
soul. Her soul was black for Hate. No one knew why she was the way she was but
she had a good life with her parents. She just......liked hurting people and
monsters."
Everyone frowned as they listened to him.
"What is she capable of?" Hope asked, repeating Ashlee's question.
Grim, Gaster looked at her. "She is capable of control over others, much like
Error is. She has mind control in some way. She can also control shadows and
darkness. She was like.....a shadow puppeteer. She could control people and
monsters through their shadows. Because of that, and she was hurting people,
murdering people, she was condemned to a prison of light. She is a very dark
person. It is possible she may be controlling G then. Controlling everything if
she really has escaped her prison."
"So this Hella is the true leader of the Luminosity?" Calling asked frowning.
Gaster merely shrugged. "It is......possible she is. But I know for a fact that
she does not have Heaven's best interest. It is...possible she might be trying
to destroy her." He said with growing dread.
"And G knows that, doesn't he?" Stretch asked frowning. "Is that another reason
why he is trying to get to her soul? Because of Hella?"
"And before she could get the soul pieces, herself?" San asked.
Gaster nodded. "That has to be it. G wants his love back. But also to protect
her from the one who is using him to get to her to destroy her. So in turn, he
using her for her powers. That might be what is truly going on." He stated.
"In deed." Grillby said ad he lead them through the swamps until they reached
the end of the swampy area, approaching what felt like bitter cold. "I cannot
lead you on from here. You must go on your own now."
Everyone looked forward and saw a devastating place. It was so dark here. There
was hardly any light at all. But by the looks of it.....it was a graveyard sort
of place. Everything was dead in this part of the underground. Trees,
plants......possibly even monsters by the layers of dust that sat everywhere.
"This is the Dead Kingdom. Be ware as you go in this place. There are more than
just dust in this place. There are also ghosts much like yours." Grillby told
them. "But the ghosts here........they are not like yours. They can possess you
so be watching your own group very carefully. They will seek the life you
hold."
"And.....why are you not coming with us?" Edge asked suspiciously.
"The dead does not fear me. And while I am powerful in magic, even they could
extinguish my flames." Grillby told them seriously. "I suggest that you
remember why you are doing this. Why you are on this journey to free and save
the dimensions. Because if a dead monster possesses you.......there is no
stopping it. And be careful. The dead does not fear him but he does not fear
them either. Nightmare will probably come here to stop you from getting the
soul piece." He warned begone turning swiftly and leaving them.
"Well......cheerful guy." Gar said grimacing.
"At least he helped us." Sans said before looking at Blooky. "Never did ask
before, but you okay, Blooks?"
Blooky nodded. "i was scared when i saw him. but he told me he wasn't going to
hurt me. not that he could really. he said to follow him because he was coming
for you." He told them.
"Sorry, we left you, Blooky. I swear it won't happen again." Ashlee told him.
"it's okay, ashlee. i know you didn't do it on purpose. and I wouldn't blame
you if you........" Blooky was saying.
"Ah-ah! Blooky, what did we tell you before?" Ashlee asked smiling gently but
also in disapproval.
Blooky blinked before he began to blush a light pink. "that i'm not a problem.
and to stop putting myself down like that. thanks for reminding me." He said
softly.
Ashlee smiled, right with everyone else but Boss and Edge,who groaned in
disgust until Charity slammed her elbows into their sides, making them grunt in
pain. "That's right, Blooks. You're our friend and just as special as we are.
We were going to come back for you. I promise. We wouldn't have left you." She
told him.
Sans smiled and nodded as he took Ashlee's hand before giving her a tug. "All
right. Enough dilly dallying around. We have to get moving." He said before he
and everyone looked forward again.
None of them wanted to move at first. This place was eerie as hell. But with a
resigned sigh, they began walking through a rocky, torn pathway. They needed to
get the soul piece and get out quickly.
The whole place......what was Hotland in other worlds, this was nothing like
that place. It was cold here. It was quiet. Way too quiet. It was eerie as ever
as all of them walked across just darkness. They could see down the cliffs but
darkness and fog.
It sent chills through everyone as they looked around in this place. Fog and
darkness. That was all they could see.
"PAPPY. I DON'T LIKE THIS PLACE." Blue whimpered as he now clung onto Stretch's
pants as he looked around.
Stretch looked down at his little brother and shook his head, his hand clinging
to Hope's. "I don't either, Blue. But this is the way we have to go. It's the
way to the Core." He told him gently.
Ashlee was even clinging to Sans, her hand tight in his. "This is like a
graveyard. I feel like there is only death here. Does anyone else feel like
we're being watched though?" She asked uneasily.
Everyone else nodded as they glanced at her and then around. They all felt as
if they were being watched. They could feel eyes on them.
"Hey, if this is where Hotland is suppose to be, does that mean Alphys is
here?" Calli asked as she held onto Papyrus' arm.
Gaster shook his head as he looked around. "This is where the main labs are but
Grillby did say this was a dead place. It is possible that Alphys might be
dead, just like the rest of this place is." He said grimly.
"wh.....what about.....mettaton?" Blooky asked and cringed only a little as
everyone glanced at him. "he is a ghost.....in a robot body.......where is
he......?"
"I don't know, Blooky. I don't know about this place. My time here......that
was a long time ago. This place wasn't always like this. It was Hotland when I
was here." Gaster said shaking his head. "After I left.....I don't know what
happened to cause all of this death. But I do remember the King and Queen.
Asgore and Toriel of this Underground were not nice monsters at all. They never
even welcomed me. In fact, it was just the opposite. They tried to have me
killed. It was Alphys of this world that hid me in her labs so I could do my
research."
"What was Alphys like here?" Ashlee asked curiously.
Gaster shrugged. "Not too much unlike all of the other ones. Other than
Underfell's Alphys. She was a very intelligent creature but also so very unsure
of herself. Always terrified of everything around here. And in a place like
this, who could really blame her? She....almost didn't even save me from killed
in this place. It took a long time, even after she rescued me, to gain her
trust."
"Hm. Kind of like the Alphys we all know." Sans said and everyone nodded in
agreement, though Blue shook his heaf.
"NOT LIKE OURS! OUR ALPHYS WAS NEVER AFRAID OF ANYTHING!!"
"Oh, that's right." Gaster said with a chuckle. "Your scientist was Undyne, not
Alphys. I have forgotten that. She always did have that unruly temper though.
And I do mean Undyne. She was very shy and timid but once you set off her
temper....."
"You run for your life." Sans, Papyrus, Stretch and Blue all chimed in at the
same time and it couldn't be helped but everyone had to laugh. Even Boss and
Edge.
"I DO HAVE TO ADMIT THAT OUR ALPHYS WAS A PIECE OF WORK, HERSELF!! AND SHE WAS
NOT AFRAID OF ANYTHING!! IT WAS THE OTHER WAY AROUND!! EVERYONE WAS AFRAID OF
HER!!" Boss growled shaking his head.
"Alphys? You were afraid of Alphys?" Stretch asked now grinning and was snarled
at.
"I WAS NOT AFRAID OF HER!!" Boss snarled.
Edge made an impatient sound as he shook his head. "Yeah, ya were, Boss. And so
was I." He was snarled at by his taller brother but he ignored it. "To bluntly
put it, Alphys is a complete psycho bitch in our world. The only monster that
wasn't afraid of her was Asgore. She was mean as hell, she would and could get
her slimy hands on someone and tear them apart for the sake of science, and she
liked it."
Charity nodded in agreement. "Not to mention, she was hurting Mettaton pretty
badly." She said tossing her long red hair back.
"how.......bad......?" Blooky asked in concern.
Charity gave him a sympathetic look though it was probably more for her world's
Mettaton more than him. "Well let's just say I've seen his room. He had some
pretty.....nasty looking chains hanging around in them. I'm pretty sure Alphys
used him for sex a lot. And he really was scared of her." She said shrugging.
Many of them grimaced or winced at the sound of that.
"Ok, we are definitely not going there."
"Hey, look. It's Alphys' lab. Isn't it?" Hope said now pointing forward and
everyone looked forward to see the large familiar building of the labs right
ahead.
 
It was just as dreary and dark as everything else in this place. No lights
on........except one.
There was a flickering light in one of the windows and that made everyone
freeze up in surprise.
"Someone is home!" Ashlee said before looking around at everyone else. "Think
we should? Maybe see if it is Alphys or Mettaton?"
"Maybe not." Sans said cautiously. "We can't be for sure of who it is. If it is
Alphys, she's safer in there than coming out here. Plus we don't know how she
is." He paused glancing at Gaster, who frowned slightly. "I know you said she
is like ours but that was a long time ago......"
"No, I agree with you, Sans." Gaster said sharing his look but rubbed at his
mask. "But.....I think I need to go in there."
"What?!" Blurted everyone looking at him in surprise.
Gaster shook his head again. "Some of my research might still be in there. And
I think there are blueprints to the Core. I hid Heaven's soul pieces in the
core and I cannot recall where. I think I need those blueprints before we go
on. The Blueprints is to all of the Cores of the Underground I've been to. I
left them here, in Horrortale because I was chasing after Bonessa's soul. I did
not have time to grab my research." He stated.
Sans sighed in aggravation before sharing a glance with everyone, nodding as he
started trudging towards the building. "In and out. That's it. We ain't staying
to poke around, Gaster. Just get your stuff and we leave. Nightmare could be
here any minute." He remarked dryly.
"I promise. In and out. That is all." Gaster said before taking the lead
towards the building.
"Why do I get the feeling we're going to regret this?" Ink asked uneasily but
walked with everyone towards the labs.
"So far, we've been regretting everything we've done. So I highly doubt this
will be an exception." Stretch said with a sigh but kept walking on.
The group went straight to the building with Gaster leading them. They were
definitely uneasy about this one. They sure did not want to go in that
building. But if Gaster was right, they needed his research.
Gaster went straight to the door and palmer what looked like an electric hand
lock. He wasn't even sure if it would.......
And it slid open.
"Hm. I still have access. That's interesting." He said chuckling but no one
shared his light humor. He sighed and walked in.
The labs were dark.
Couldn't even see anything as everyone filed in, looking around the cold, dark
building. They couldn't even see the walls, really.
"Man, something feels wrong with this place." Gar said now rubbing his arms as
he cringed into himself.
No one disagreed.
Something did feel wrong with this.......
There came a sound that made everyone freeze. It sounded like an electrical,
static laugh, if they had to describe it.
"......weLCo-coME.......t-t-TO......heLL........!" Came a broken, staticy voice
from the datkness.
Ink choked now cringing with terrified eyes as he whipped out his paint brush.
"Oh no!" He choked as he looked around with terror. "It's him!"
It was too late.
No one saw the flashes of blue strings came flying out of the darkness and
everyone shouted in alarm as they all found their selves trapped in a Web of
blue glowing strings.
"SHIT!!" Several shouted as they began to struggle and fight against the
strings now trapping them.
"Nonononononononono!" Ink yelped as he fought hard to break free in the strings
that wrapped around them. His head jerked up when he heard footsteps
approaching.
Everyone looked over into the darkness to see three shadowy forms stepping
forward.
Nightmare. Zombie.
And Error.
A wide, yellow grin split in the darkness as the black skeleton stepped closer
so everyone could see him better. He looked terrifying all on his own as he
looked right at everyone with strings attached to his black, yellow and red
fingers.
".......Hell-LLO-O-O-ooo......weLco-co-COMe......t--T-to-o-o-o.. ..tHe......pa-
pa-PAR-t-t-t-TY.......en-en-EN-joy-e-e-e-e...yOur-r-r-RRrr-rr.....st-st-ST-a-a-
a-aY-Y-Y........"
***** Thirteen *****
Chapter Notes
     Song Used-
     Megalovania Howwl DubstepComplextro Remix
"W-we-LL, we-Eell, weEELL-Lll. l-l-L-oo-OO-K-kkkk wh-WH-wh-AT-tttt I-I-I cau-
CAU-CauGH-ugHt-t-t-t." Error spoke, his voice glitch in out terribly. "YO-O-O-
O-OO-u-u-uuu fELl.....ri-ri-RI-gh-gh-GHT-t-t iNto-o-o m-m-my tr-tr-TR-a-a-a-
AAA-p-p-p-POP!"
Everyone struggled hard to get out of the strings but no one could find it to
be able to get out of them. No matter how hard they tried to move. Not the
skeletons. Not the True Souls. Not the Humans. Not even Gaster.
"Error, please!" Ink tried as he looked desperately at his twin. "Please, let
us go!"
Error growled as he turned a glare right onto the colorful skeleton before
twitching a single finger that sent Ink crashing hard again the ground with a
cry of pain. He did it over and over and over again, sending Ink just crashing.
"In-In-In-n-N-K-k-k-Kkkkkk......I-I-I-I am-m-m-m.....so-so gl-gl-GL-a-a-a-ad-d-
d-d yOU-ou-ou ar-RRRRR-re.....hErE! I-I-I-I mi-mi-miss-ISS-is-s-s cau-AUS-Ss-
ssing-ing yOU-ou.....pA-pa-Ain......" Error growled.
"Stop it, Error! You're hurting him!" Hope cried desperately.
Error snarled in her direction as he turned his attention onto her. "G-g-g-Goo-
OO-D-d-d! H-h-h-He-e-e-ee de-se-ERV-V-ves-s-s-s it-TTttt!" He snarled before
gathering himself and straightening. "Do-do-do-OOO-N-n-n-n't.... mA-a-a-Aaaa-
aT-tttt-er.....a-AlL o-o-O-f-f-f-f....a-AR-r-r-re go-go-GoOnn-na-na d-d-Di-i-i-
ie-e-e sOOn an-AN-any-y-y wa-AY........" he was saying.
Erro, stop this! We are trying to help you!" Gaster suddenly snapped out firmly
as even he struggled in the strings.
Error merely growled as he looked at the black lithe monster, his glitch like
eyesockets flaring. "i......Do-OOn't nEEEEd.... yOUr......heLP-LP-p-p-P!
I......wANt.....mY.....Ch-ch-ChARl-li-lie......bACk-k-K! An-an-Nd-d-d-
D......INK......ded..... !" He snarled.
Ink flinched at that and did look saddened but the others glared at the black
skeleton as they struggled but found their movement becoming lesser and lesser.
"And we want our worlds back, Error! Now let us go and we can knock out both of
them! Your True Soul and our worlds!" Sans growled as he sent the black
skeleton a look.
Error just snorted as he turned away, his red and blue flashing eyes landing on
Ashlee before he grinned nastily. He even glanced over at Sans, in such a
way.".....tHeY......sA-a-Aaa-yyy yOU-ou aR-re....tHe...St-stRo-ng-g-gest-st-st,
SA-A-ANS-S-S.......bUT-t-t.....jUs-st-st HoW-ow st-st-ST-ron-ng aR-re yOU-
ou......"
Sans stiffened as he glared at Error, his eye lights flicking to the now white
Ashlee. "Don't fucking touch her!" He snarled.
Error just grinned as he turned and flicked a finger at Ashlee, who squawked
loudly as one of the strings wrapped around her diamond like soul and she was
suddenly facing Sans, her hands raised unwillingly summoning fire.
"Nonononono......" Ashlee whimpered as her eyes widened as she realized what
Error was about to make her do.
"Error! Stop!" Ink yelled out as even he and the others realized it.
Error just grinned nasty as he flicked his fingers again and Ashlee's fire grew
bigger. "......th-TH-th-is-IS......sh-sHo-ou-OUld.....bE-e-E en-ENou-oug-
Ough......."
Sans looked right at Ashlee, obviously terrified but also angry and everyone
else was snarling or yelling for Error to stop. "It's okay, Ashy. Not your
fault." He whispered to her before squeezing his eye sockets shut as the fire
started flaring to be thrown.
Suddenly there was a gargle growl and a whoosh and Ashlee yelped as she threw
her hands upward to send her fire elsewhere as she just dropped from the air
where she had been captive. She hit the ground on her knees while she heard
everyone shout in surprise.
Whipping her head up, she saw Sans was okay but surprised before she looked up
to see the ragged legs of Zombie as he stood over her now, his meat cleaver
raised as he faced Error, who blinked in his own surprise.
Growling and shaking his skull, Zombie just bared his sharp fangs at the black
skeleton.
Error growled back, glaring at the tall, ragged skeleton. "ho-
OW......dId.....YoU-ou......cUT-t-t.....mY-y-y......sTr-rIng-Ngs........!?" He
snarled before lashing out with his strings at Zombie, who snarled back and
dodged to the side grabbing Ashlee as he went so that they would miss her too.
Ashlee yelped as she was pulled hard to the side but staggered to her feet, her
wrist gripped tightly by the ragged Papyrus.
Growling, Error looked over at Nightmare, who did look startled. "KI-i-i-
IlL.......HiM.........!"
Nightmare had stiffened, his red eyes widened as he was forced to face his
brother. "No!" He growled as he found himself shaking hard to fight back. His
bones rattled as he tried fighting as Error controlled him to face Zombie, who
whimpered as he looked back at him.
"Zombie! Get away from me!" Nightmare snarled between his sharp teeth as he was
being controlled to summon axes all around him.
Zombie quivered as he clutched Ashlee's wrist tightly before shoving her away
as Nightmare sent the axes flying at him. He didn't even move as the axes
struck him.
"NO!" Nightmare cried out, his eye sockets wide as his axes sliced right
through Zombie, sending his ragged form flying backwards, breaking into pieces,
dusting instantly and leaving only his skull.
Everyone just watched in horror as Zombie looked right up at Nightmare, who now
had bloody tears filling his eye sockets as he looked back at his baby brother
with horror.
Ashlee had landed hard on her side from being shoved but she even looked at the
dusting Horrortale monster.
"S......S......Sa.......Sans..........." Zombie gargle out as his skull dusted
and collapsed.
Nightmare was hyperventilating now ashe rattled, staring at Zombie's dust with
bloody tears now streaming down his cheekbones.
"HE-hEh.........fo-OO-Ool........" Error snickered before blinking in surprise
and looking at Nightmare as he began to shake violently. He growled as he
narrowed his eye sockets at him. "Y-yo-OU........cAn-T-t-t........"
A feral snarl erupted from Nightmare as he snapped his head up and he spun
around, summoning an axe in hand and sliced through the strings.
"IMMA GONNA FUCKING KILL YOU!!" Nightmare snarled as dozens of axes surrounded
him and everyone just looked on with surprise, even Error.
Error just snarled back as he faced Nightmare, his blue strings now flaring out
as he readied himself for a fight. "yOU.......Ca-Aan-AnNt.......Be-
BEat......me-E-E!" He snarled.
"FUCKING WATCH ME!" Nightmare snarled before he lashed out his hand and his
axes went flying at Error, who glitched ported out of the way, now dodging as
axes flew at him.
Nightmare snarled as he began thrashing out his hands in the air, sending axes
after axes to every part where Error kept popping up at. He snarled angrily as
his axes came close to hitting Error but missed. "HOLD STILL, MOTH'A! FUCKA!"
He roared as axes came even close to clipping the captured monsters and humans,
yet slicing their strings and letting them topple to the ground with yelps as
they hit the ground.
Sans was immediately up and hurrying over to Ashlee, gathering her into his
arms and lifting her up. "Ash! Ya okay?!" He asked her as he hugged her close
to him.
Ashlee just nodded but stared at where Nightmare was fighting with Error. She
couldn't believe what she had seen. "Sans......he broke Error's
strings......how did he.....?" She was asking.
Sans frowned but looked over with everyone else to see Nightmare now
teleporting after Error, swinging his axes in both hands and just missing. "I
don't know......"
"It must have the emotional strain he felt when Error had him kill Zombie."
Gaster said as he looked at the fight. "If I remember right......extreme
emotions can do that. Nightmare loved Zombie. He would do anything for him. And
to have him ripped away like that........"
"It's painful." Sans agreed as he glanced at him then at Papyrus, who glanced
back.
"What I want to know is how did Zombie break Error's strings?" Ink asked in
wonder. And everyone looked at him in surprise. He shook his head at their
looks. "He didn't even hesitate when he went to defend Sans and Ashlee. He
wasn't being controlled. So how did he break the strings on his own?"
"Well, who gives a fuck?!" Edge growled. "We're free so let's get moving while
they're trying to kill each other!"
"We really should take the opportunity." Gaster said now starting to move.
Some of the others moved to join him but Ashlee refused to move,even when San
started to. He did give her hand a light tug with his own but she dug her feet
in, shaking her head.
It seemed to be the same with Stretch when it came to Hope because even she was
refusing to move.
"Wh-what about Nightmare?" Ashlee asked as she looked back at the fight, which
was turning pretty serious over there because both skeletons broke out Gaster
Blasters.
"Fuck that guy! He's a fucking prick! And he tried to kill us!" Edge growled as
he stomped past her with Charity in toll.
"He was under Error's control!" Ashlee argued before looking right at Sans who
was frowning at her. "Sans, Zombie stopped me......Error from hurting
you.......and he died. He knew he was going to die. He didn't even try and stop
his brother from hurting him, knowing it wasn't him. And you know how it feels
to lose Papyrus." She told him firmly.
Sans just blinked at her for a second but his face softened and he slowly
nodded his skull.
"We don't have fucking time to help the fucker! We gotta......!" Edge was
barking.
Sans suddenly whirled around and threw up his hand towards the fight, startling
everyone else but Ashlee and Papyrus, who just smiled and shook his skull as he
looked at him.
Nonetheless, white bones rattled and shook as they erupted from the ground in a
long line as they rushed at the fight and crossed in front of each other to
split in between Nightmare and Error, who both jerked in surprise as they let
apart from attacking each other.
Both looked over as Sans stepped forward, his hands glowing at his sides as he
just lift up his skull.
"Hey, Error, wanna have a bad time?" Sans said deeply as he looked right back
at the black skeleton. "Cause if ya don't leave, and if you attack us again,
you're gonna to."
Error growled as he turned slightly to face Sans. "YoU.....CaN'T... . BE-
eaT......Me-E-E......" he growled as his blue strings flashed and wriggled
around him.
"I dunno if I can or not, Error. But I'm willing to bet," Sans paused as he
tilted his skull, his left eye flaring blue and green and yellow as his own
Gaster Blasters flared to life around him and Ashlee. "Ya can't beat all of us
at the same time."
The others around him blinked in surprise before it was Ink who smiled
mischievously before he snapped forward, his paint brush flashing into his
hands as he moved to stand right next to Sans.
Blue suddenly grinned as he even rushed forward to stand next to them as
Stretch looked at him in surprise before, he too, grinned devilishly and
stepped forward, his hand raised in orange with Hope smiling mischievously.
Even Papyrus and Calli both stepped forward, smirking as they joined to face
Error.
Charity smirked and cracked her knuckles and stepped into a stance, her fire
springing around her arms. She glanced back at Edge and Boss, scowling at them
and cleared her throat to get their attention. "You really let me going to
fight without you backing me up?" She asked sarcastically.
Edge scowled but a grin formed on his face as he rolled his eyes before
stepping up to beside her. "Fuck no, Pet. Ya mine and I can't let ya make me
look bad." He said before looking to Boss as he stepped up to his girl's other
side, black bone sword in hand.
Even Gaster smiled as he shook his head as he looked expectantly at Error. His
pin prink eyes flickered to Nightmare. "We are on your side, Nightmare. Fight
with us." He told him.
Nightmare scoffed but then stiffened when someone else stepped up right beside
Gaster, surprisingly good all that he was even there.
"Boy," Grillby hissed as as he folded his long arms, his purple and black
flames crackling. "Get your bony ass over here and stand with your brothers.
Now. And we will talk about Zombie after we've defeated this glitch."
Nightmare just blinked in surprise at Grill by before he flashed a bloody red
and teleported to stand right beside the fire element, growling over at Error,
who was growling ferociously at the whole group.
"Error, make your decision now. Leave or face all of us." San said firmly as he
raised his glowing hand. He was not going to play around with this at all.
"yOu.....wILl......aLl sUFfer......fOr.....tHIs-s!" Error snarled before he
seemed to glitch right out of view and the staticky blackness went right with
him as he teleported away.
There was a collections of sighs as everyone breathed in relief as everyone
slowly relaxed. They were just glad that he left without any more fights. To
even feel his strings the first time.....it hadn't been pleasant for anyone to
feel. It had hurt with his strings around their souls.
But before anyone could say anything, everyone went dead quiet when they saw
Nightmare breakaway in a fast limp over to the pile of dust.
No one said a word as they just watched him drop down heavily beside the dust
and dig his claw like bony fingers in the ground beside the pile, bloody red
tears falling from his black, empty eye sockets.
"Zo-Zombie......." he choked out with a growl. "I'm sorry......I'm so
sorry......."
Hearts fell when they heard how broken this nightmarish monster sounded as he
choked on sobs. They knew how it felt to lose someone. They knew his pain.
"I'm gonna fucking kill him." Nightmare growled as he dug his fingers deeper
into the ground. "I swear it.....! I will kill Error for this, Zombs!"
"Nightmare........" Gaster spoke softly as he stepped towards him but stopped
when Nightmare whipped around with a snarl, his left glowing vicious red and
his sharp teeth grinding tightly.
"You ain't gonna leave me behind!" Nightmare snarled as he glared at Gaster.
"Ya gonna after Error, I'm going too!"
"Tch! Fuck that!" It was Edge who grunted, shaking his skull. "Ya ain't
coming........!"
Suddenly Nightmare was up in Edge's face, who never even flinched as they both
glared at one another. "Ya gonna try and fucking stop me from going with you,
Edge?!" The nightmare monster snarled, bloody axes now flickering around him.
Edge growled back, blackened and red bones now appearing around him.
"Knock it off!" Sans snapped now stepping forward in between the two and
forcefully separating the two from starting a fight. He looked right at
Nightmare who glared back. "You want to come, you swear you won't touch......"
"I won't fucking touch a single skin cell of your humans!" Nightmare
interrupted with a snarl as his axes vanished. "There's only one I wanna kill
and he's a black, glitched out skeleton!"
"Nightmare......." Ink said uneasily.
Nightmare whipped around and snarled at him next, making him flinch. "He made
me kill Zombie, Ink! Your brother killed mine! And I'll be damned that he gets
away with that! And before you say he isn't in control of himself, that's
fucking bullshit! He is in control of himself! You can't manipulate him, Ink!
He's a Puppet Master as it is! Hella promised him he can have Charlie and your
skull if he does what she wants him to do and that's control G!"
Everyone stared at him in surprise.
"How do you know.......?" San started to ask for the sake of Ink, since he
looked pretty upset about this.
Nightmare whipped his glare over to him and he shrugged. "Because Outer told
me. He was there. He came here with Fresh to warn me. Knowing you fuckers would
come here first before going to their realms." He growled.
"Outer?" Ashlee asked confused.
"Space Sans. The one I kind of told you about." Ink said sounding pained as he
looked right at Nightmare. "Outer heard.....heard that?"
Nightmare growled but nodded as he looked dead serious as ever. "Yeah. He saw
it happen. At least what he said. He said he saw the whole thing. He was after
his True Soul and Fresh was trying to help him. They saw Hella give the offer
to Error. He took control of G, who sure as hell was pissed at being back
stabbed like that." He told them.
Gaster sighed as he rubbed his mask, shaking his head. "We should make haste to
finding the soul pieces of Heaven then. I think at this point, Heaven might be
the only one who can help us with this entire thing." He said before freezing
when Nightmare scoffed loudly. "What?"
Chuckling darkly, Nightmare shook his head. "You're too late, deadbeat dad. The
soul piece ain't here." And he chuckled darkly when everyone else looked
horrified. "Why do you think this entire fucking world is under Error's
control, idiots?! Heaven's soul pieces keeps Hella from taking complete control
of each world! Once it's removed, she can take over!"
"He is correct." Grillby spoke up now looking around at the entire group.
"Wait...you knew?" Stretch asked seriously as he looked at the Fire Element.
Grillby nodded but dipped his head. "Forgive me for the small deception but I
really needed you to free Nightmare from Error's control. As for myself, I was
keeping watch, holding back the other monsters in this place from making way to
you. I knew the truth of the True Soul piece of Heaven being missing. But I
couldn't tell you. Because it's not just missing." He told them.
"THEN WHAT IS IT?" Boss growled clearly not happy about any of this.
"Theyre not in the worlds you believe them to be." Grillby said darkly and
everyone froze.
"Wh-what?" Gar was the one to ask.
Grillby nodded. "It's not the soul pieces that G has been after. It's your True
Souls. He's looking for them. Not for Heaven. Hella already has her body. The
last piece of Heaven's soul is in your world, Ink." He looked right at the
painted skeleton, who stiffened. "But G cannot get there. Nor can Error because
you locked the doorway. If they get your key, they will get the last piece."
"Why is.....why are they after our True Souls then?" San asked stiffly.
There was only a long silence before it was Ink who turned to face the group.
"He's......it's just a rumor, really. A story that went around. But it's kind
of believed that.......your True Souls......" he paused grimacing.
Gaster stiffened. "Do they truly believe that legend then? Hella, G,
Error........ ?" He asked in disbelief.
Everyone stared at him next.
"What?" Stretch asked uncertainly.
"They believe that the soul pieces of Heaven is the outer cores of our True
Souls." It was Hope who spoke up and everyone looked at her in surprise.
"Huh?" Ashlee asked in surprise.
Hope shrugged and nodded as she wrapped her arms around herself. "The
Luminosity and Hella.....and G....they believe that Heaven's soul pieces not
only broke into pieces but.....they are us. The True Souls. The story goes that
even if Heaven broke......she didn't truly disappear. Her soul.......the pieces
took on their own lives." She stated.
San and the rest of his so called brothers looked right at Ashlee, Hope and
Charity.
"Wait...what?! Ashlee......?! She is a part of Heaven? That's just....... if
that's true.....then we already have the pieces." San said uncertainly before
he frowned at Ink. "What True Soul do you have then? Who is a True Soul that is
in Inktale, Ink?!"
Ink grimaced as he sank a little. He didn't quite answer but stuttered out,
"Well.....you see......?"
"Chara." Ashlee said breathlessly and everyone stared at her in surprise and
even growing alarm. "My little sister. She's a True Soul, isn't she?"
"Wait, what?! Chara?! A True Soul?! That's impossible!" Gar said before
grimacing and looking around at evwryone. "Isn't it?"
Gaster frowned but rubbed his chin. "It is.....possible. We never did test her
soul due to her age. It is frankly dangerous to pull out a child's soul so
young. She would have to be two years old to do that. But she is....well, she
is half human like you are, Ashlee. As it is, there is no possible way to know
if you really apart of Heaven's soul. It's only theory. The only way we could
possibly know is to have Heaven's body and all of her soul pieces."
"Plus, it's Chara. How could she be apart of Heaven? She was always
human......" San was saying but stopped himself as he stiffened. "But then
again....it could explain her powers in her life before."
"Wait, what? What do you mean?" Calli asked frowning.
Ashlee, Sans, Papyrus and Gaster shared a liok. That had been a chapter of
their lives they hadn't told Calli or Gar about. Nor any others that weren't
apart of their lives in the Underground.
They hadn't told anyone that Chara had been quite the villain before her new
life. Before leaving the Undergroynd, they all had been in an agreement. The
monsters, Ashlee and Frisk......they would keep Chara a secret.
"Well, it doesn't really fucking matter, does it?! We're wasting valuable time
by standing around here and chatting away!" Edge snapped. "The more we fuck
around, the more dickhead, G and the Luminosity gets more control of our
worlds!"
"Sadlt, you are correct." Sighed Gaster. "We should continue on."
"So.....what are we suppose to do then? Are we still looking for the True Soul
pieces or do we have them?" Gar asked.
Everyone paused.
"Let's at least check the Core, here. If Heaven's True Soul pieces aren't
there, then maybe Ashlee, Charity and Hope are apart of her." Sans said before
looking at Nightmare. "Can you take us there?"
Nightmare scowled at him but shrugged. "Depends on you, Sansy. Ya gonna let me
fucking go with you?! I won't touch your precious humans! I just want fucking
Error's skull!" He growled.
Sans just frowned before nodding as he glanced at Ink, who slouched a little.
"Sorry, Ink. But if Error really is doing this on his own, we don't have a
choice but take him out." He told him.
Ink sighed lowering his head but nodded. "I know. But if there is a way to get
him to change, would you let him?" He asked a little hopeful.
Nightmare scoffed but Sans flicked a finger towards him and sent his hood
flying over his face and shutting him up. "If he's willing to change then yes.
If he would help us, then yes. I will give him that." He then turned towards
the nightmarish skeleton. He even dug into his pocket to pull out a bottle of
ketchup which he turned towards Hope. "Can you wash this out, Hope?"
Everyone blinked at him.
"Huh? Ye-yeah. But why?" Hope asked slowly taking it and even Stretch frowned
at the bottle.
Ashlee understood when she saw Sans glance over at the pile of dust. She smiled
warmly as she stepped forward. "An urn. For Zombie. Sans means to give
Nightmare something so he can carry Zombie around with him." She said smiling
as she took Sans' hand.
Nightmare froze as he looked right at Sans then over at Zombie's dust.
Hope blinked a few times before she slowly smiled warmly before pushing the
bottle back to Sans. "Um....no. I've got something better." She said as she dug
into her shirt and pulled out a necklace.
A pendent with a flame inside it.
Stretch made a surprise noise before stepping forward and placing his hand on
Hope's to stop her from taking it off. "Hope, that's your dad's flame magic.
You really want to give that to him?" He asked in concern and a few blinked in
surprise.
Hope just smiled at him as she lightly tugged her hand free and opened the top
of the pendent for the flame to rise out of it. "My father's magic is always
with me, Stretch. I know this is meant to protect me but......I think he'd
understand of why I'm giving this to Nightmare. He won't mind." She said as she
took the flame out of the air and absorbed it.
Without another word, she went over to the dust, ignoring a slight growl from
the nightmarish skeleton and scooped up some dust into the vile before capping
it and holding it out to Nightmare.
"Here. Now you can keep Zombie with you. I am so sorry he died. I hope perhaps
he can come back when you have your True Soul again. She can reset your
timeline, right?" Hope asked.
Nightmare didn't take it for a moment but stared at her before he slowly took
the necklace. "Yeah. She can." He grunted quietly before sighing and offering a
smile that was not malicious in his nature at all. "Thanks."
Hope smiled back at him before going back over to Stretch, who was smiling
lovingly at her as he wrapped his arms around her.
"Well, I can definitely tell which quality she is." Grillby did have to say but
he was smiling. "It's a quality that will get you killed, girl. Kindness in a
dark Era of time is pretty dangerous to show."
Stretch growled as he gave the dark fire element a look but Hope smiled as she
gripped his arm. "I don't know about that, Grillby. Kindness can do a lot more
in a dark time than one thinks. If people were kinder to one another, the world
can change. Even dark ones like yourself or The Fells." She said grinning at
him.
Grillby grinned right back, shaking his head. "You are a foolish child but I
think I like you. I do hope you are right." He then turned to Nightmare as he
was slipping on the necklace and tucking it safely under his dirty, blood
stained shirt. "I'm only going to tell you this once, boy. Protect that one as
if she was Sam. In fact, protect them all. No quick bites on your journey."
"No fucking problem, dad." Nightmare growled before turning towards the group.
"So, we gonna go or what?"
It couldn't be helped that everyone had to smile or shake their heads.
"Welcome to the group then, Nightmare." Sans said as he took Ashlee's hand.
"Take us to the Core first. Then we'll move on for the next world."
Nightmare nodded as he turned and began limping the way. "Follow me then,
fuckers. But you're gonna be disappointed when we get there." He growled but
lead the way nonetheless.
***** Fourteen *****
Chapter Notes
     Song Used:
     Dark Rider-Audiomachine
     FRESH TALE AUMEGALOVANIA
Nightmare had been right.
They were disappointed.
Arriving at the Core, everyone expected it to be noisy and hot as the other
ones usually were. Loud banging of machinations running and making it so hard
to even talk to another. They expected the machine to be running.
But it was completely dead.
"Why isn't the Core running here?" Sans asked curiously as he and the others
looked around the darkened facility. "Where's the power and electricity?"
Nightmare huffed and Gaster grimaced. "What fucking power, Sansy? There ain't
no power without the soul piece." The nightmarish skeleton growled.
"But......well....if that's true then that means that our True Souls aren't
apart of Heaven then." Stretch said with a frown. "Because our Core always
worked without Hope around."
Nightmare squarely looked at him with a skeptic look. "Did your Core start to
fail when she left your universe?" He asked sarcastically and he received a
grimace and a nod from the orange clad skeleton. "Yeah, that's what I thought.
Either way, we're wasting time by coming here. But c'mon. The Core Power room
is just ahead." He told them as he led the way.
And true enough, they entered a large room with a devious looking machine in
the center of it. Power cords were strung from the celing and hanging off of
the machine. It was very dark in this room and quite sinister like.
The machine itself looked like a demonic bull head with large horn like pipes
sticking out from the sides and the face of the machine did look like a
monster. It was terrifying to look at.
But it was dark.
Like there was no life in it at all.
"See what did I tell ya? We wasted time by coming here." Nightmare said
irritably while everyone stared at the machine.
Gaster moved close to the machine, looking it over with his pin prick eyes
before he heaved a sigh and nodded in agreement. "It's true. He's right. There
is nothing here. It's already gone." He stated.
"So what now?" Gar asked.
Sighing, Sans shook his skull. "We move on to the next world and hope we get to
the soul piece first. It's the only thing we can do. Don't know what it will do
if we don't have all of the pieces but......"
"I've got one idea. How about you all just die?"
Everyone stiffened before turning sharply around when they felt the magical
pressure just grow stiffer as they all realized they were not alone in the Core
anymore. The whole group spun around to see who just spoke and Nightmare choked
when his eyes fell on a woman standing right next to G and in front of what was
no doubt a mob of Mages.
No one had realized that G had arrived with the group of Mages.
Nor with......
"Sa-Sam?!" Nightmare gasped as he turned to face his True Soul.
The True Soul that belonged to this world was a young woman; almost the same
age as Ashlee. She was a header shorter than her though. She was a petite thing
like Hope. Small, a little under average but no doubt fast on her feet. She
stood at probaby 5'3" with longer legs than her body. Her hair was obsidian
black, falling down to her lower back but tight in a braid. Her skin, pale as
milk as if she did not see enough sunlight.
She was hauntingly beautiful, almost like a darker version of Snow White.
She wore black that made her white skin glow against the fabric. Black leather,
torn pants, black tank top, black leather jacket with spikes sticking from the
shoulders.
But her eyes was haunted the whole group.
Before this, her eyes had been amber colored, Nightmare knew. But right now,
they were as black as her clothes.
She did not look herself. She actually looked like she was ready to do battle
with them, a weapon in hand.....
Was that an actual chainsaw?!
"G!" It was San who growled as he and everyone else looked at the tall, thin
Gaster, San and Papyrus look alike.
"What did you do to Sam,you son of a bitch?!" Nightmare snarled.
"Sam is now under our Master's control. She now fights for us. She will be the
one to kill you, Nightmare." And you have fallen for our trap once again, you
foolish bags of bones." G sneered as he stood amongst the group of Mages, all
glaring and ready with magic in hand. "And this time......you're not escaping
from us!"
"Wanna bet?" It had been Nightmare who growled this time as he reached up
behind him and touched the wall that trapped everyone there. He drew one of his
sharp claws down, and ripped open a portal, startling a few that stood with him
and with G. He looked right at Sam as she glared hatefully at him. "Don't
worry, Sam. I'm gonna get ya back in order soon enough. And then you're gonna
reset and bring Zombie back to life too."
"No! Stop them!" G snarled angrily, his hand now snapping up with deep purple
magic swirling.
At this time, Nightmare was already shoving himself back, colliding with one
after another, knocking them all off their feet like dominos. And he was not
alone in the act.
Both Edge and Boss were shoving everyone through the portal, who all yelped as
they tumbled backwards right into darkness.
There was suction like feeling as everyone felt their selves falling into the
void of time and space and even a sensation of free falling. They all yelled in
surprise as they found their selves just surrounded by darkness.
"Where are we going now?!" Ashlee yelped as she clutched on Sans' hand, who
refused to let her go.
Before anyone else could answer, something opened up in the darkness and
everyone else yelped as everyone toppled right out of the vortex of time and
space and fell onto what felt like a hardwood floor. Everyone was piled right
on top of one another.
"OWWIE!" Both Papyrus and Blue yelped as they were being squished by Gaster,
Edge and Gar.
"Ugh! Get the fuck off me!" Edge snarled at Ink, who puffed his cheeks out at
him as he wriggled with everyone else to getting up to their feet.
"Where are we?" Calli was the one to ask as she and Hope helped each other to
stand.
"Why the hell are you here?!" Nightmare suddenly said sounding surprised and
everyone looked at the quite soured looking Grillby.
"You pushed everyone through the portal, including myself, boy! So don't get
huffy with me!" Grillby snarled right back at his adopted son, his purple and
black flames crackling threateningly.
Sans helped Ashlee to her feet, his eye lights taking in the darkness that
surrounded them all. He was definitely on his guard. "Where did you send us,
Nightmare? And how did you know how to open up the Void?"
Nightmare huffed as he stood up unsteadily before looking around. "Puh-lease,
Sans! I'm not fucking stupid! I know how to figure out the portals just like
Ink! And I don't know which one I opened up into! For all I know we could be in
Mobtale for all I know!"
Everyone blinked at him in surprise.
"Mobtale?" Stretch asked uncertainly.
Nightmare huffed as he gave them all a blank but also somehow annoyed look.
"There are a lot more world's than you think, thin bones. More than even Ink
knows!"
Said skeleton even choked in surprise.
"So......which one is this one?" Gar asked uncertainly as he stood to a very
nervous Blooky.
"I. Don't. Fucking. Know!" Nightmare snapped only to get his skull slapped by
Grillby. "Ow! Grillby!"
"Shut up, Nightmare!" The purple and black Flame Element snapped.
Everyone looked around the darkness, all huddling close to one another. It was
just so dark and they couldn't see anything. The ground they were on they could
barely see looked like hardwood flooring.
But other than that......
"Welcome.......to.....my......world......." a deep, rumbling voice suddenly
spoke up, almost echoing all around them.
"AGH!" Papyrus and Blue yelped as they jumped and clung to each other now while
Hope latched onto Stretch and Ashlee to Sans, who now gripped her tightly to
his side, his left eye socket now lighting up blue with magic.
"Who's there?!" It was Gaster who called out, now standing with Grillby and
Boss around the whole terrified group, magic activated.
"I.....am......all that I......am.....I am the one.....who shall greet
you......" the voice spoke in a spooky way that just sent chills right through
everyone else.
"Hey......I know that voice......" Ink suddenly said as he stiffened in
surprise and his blue and star like eye lit up as did a smile.
"Awww, shit. So do I." Nightmare said now in disgust. "Hi, Fresh." He said
grumpily.
Suddenly, lights came blaring on, blinding everyone and making them all shout
and scream surprise as they covered their eyes with their arms. They blinked
owlishly as they took in the surroundings and stiffened to see their selves on
a stage.
An audience now erupted with applause and cheers, startling all of them as
drums began to pound as a live band struck up a chord.
"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! BOYS AND GIRLS! OUR INTERESTING GUESTS HAVE FINALLY
ARRIVED AND NOW.....FOR YOUR HOST......LET'S GIVE IT UP FOR THE MOST SANS-
ATIONAL, DANCING CHAMPION OF OVER DECADES, THE ONE AND ONLY........FRESH SANS!"
A booming announcer's voice erupted around everyone before a spot shot over
behind the whole group, making them spin around to see a stair well behind
them.
Where HE stood with his back to them.
And music began blasting from somewhere. Speakers probably hidden in bright
neon colored curtains.
The whole group realized they were on some kind of talk show stage. Except
there was no desk or anything. Just a dance floor on the stage, a group of
squishy neon green couches off to the side and the stairs where HE stood at the
top.
The skeleton was just as tall as Sans. He even looked like Sans from behind.
But......unlike Sans, he wore the brightest, mixed colored outfit that everyone
had ever seen.
His colorful deep blue jacket had neon pink sleeves and a lighter blue hood
hanging down behind his back. By the looks of it, the pockets of the jacket
were neon green. He also wore the brightest orange basketball shorts with
yellow lines down the sides. His shoes were bright red skater shoes witho
rainbow colored laces and he also wore bright pink socks on his skeleton feet.
On his skull was a technicolored hat (think Back to the Future II Marty hat)
and it was on backwards.
While his back was to the group, they could see that this Sans wore a vibrant
purple t-shirt under his jacket and it did look like he was wearing sunglasses
on his face.
As the music began playing, he began tapping his right foot to the beat and
swaying his hips as he began dancing.
And then he turned around to the rising hyping beat of music to show that he
was wearing sunglasses and thereally were letters on the eye lens.
In bright yellow and green, it said YO LO.
The Sans of this world, also known as Fresh had the biggest grin that everyone
had ever seen as he shot his fingers into a gun point aimed at the group of
staring monsters and humans before he began bobbing and dancing down the stairs
until he paused to grab what looked like a skateboard that had been leaning
against the railing of the stairs.
Jumping up into the air and landing on the skateboard, Fresh scaled down the
railing before flipping into the air that just had his audience go wild as he
came down right on his hands, doing a hand stand before he flipped up onto his
feet.
Ignoring the group of newcomers for a moment, Fresh just danced across the
stage, which had his audience just cheering and clapping as what looked like
piano keys appeared right on the floor and he began dancing on it, making music
with his dancing.
This one was definitely full of energy that no one ever seen before. Not even
Blue seemed have as much energy as this Sans did.
"This......is Fresh?" Sans asked taken back completely off guard as he leaned
towards a now laughing Ink.
"Yep. That's Fresh. We're in Freshtale." Ink said kind of laughing more at the
disgusted looks on The Fells and The Nightmares faces as they gave Fresh and
his audience the most distained looks as he danced on the floor piano.
Suddenly, turning and now running and sliding along the piano keys, Fresh now
approached the group as he popped up to his feet before them, still bobbing to
the beat.
"Yo, yo, yo! What is up, my Homie Bros! Welcome to Freshtale! I'm Sans, but ya
can call me Fresh!" Fresh said, his voice somewhat deep but highly energetic as
he kept bobbing. He even turned and gave a peace sign with his hand to Gaster,
who was chuckling in amusement. "What up, Daddy-O? Came back, eh?!"
"Hello, Fresh." Gaster said with a chuckle. "If you don't mind, can we take a
break from your obvious show?" He motioned to the audience.
"Eh, sure-o! Right after we have a dance off! Who's first?" Fresh asked still
dancing as he looked at the startled group.
"Wha-?!" Edge yelped as he glared at the colorful skeleton. "We don't have time
for this!"
Fresh just grinned even ad his audience boo'd at Edge. "Always time for a
party, my skelebro! And I ain't ending the show, until we have a go! So who's
dancing with me?"
Everyone grimaced but Stretch smiled rather wickedly as he glanced down at
Hope, who smiled slyly back. "Show 'em what you got, Honey." He told her.
Grinning back, Hope stepped forward and cheers erupted loudly as Fresh grinned
a's he moonwalked backwards across his dance floor. He saw the challenge she
had in her eyes as she now walked forward in an almost model's walk, removing
her hoodie to show the green halter top she wore with her blue jeans.
"Well, looks like we got a challenger! All right, sist'a from another mist'a!
Show me what you got!" Fresh said now folding his arms and bobbing his skull as
he stood back to observe.
Hope just placed her hand on her hip as she began bobbing her own head to the
music before she snapped right to it, now dancing to everyone''s surprise. She
began dancing energetically around the stage, making the crowd go wild as she
moved gracefully. She spun around, making dance moves one after another. Almost
like a gangster style type of dance.
It couldn't be helped that a few of the group smiled as they watched her dance
and even grin as she flipped in the air head over feet until she landed with a
pose.
"Yeah! Now that's what I'm talking about! Nice moves, sister!" Fresh cheered
before snapping his fingers.
Suddenly, someone else came out on the dance floor and it surprised all to see
the tall, bony Papyrus look alike.
This one was just as tall as all of the other Papyrus' but like Fresh, he was
dressed rather colorfully. He wore a red t-shirt under a neon green tank top
that read COOL BONES in lightning yellow words. He wore also electric blue
shorts with yellow stripes down the sides and red sneakers. He also had a
technicolored backwards cap that had a bones criss crossed on the front.
And right behind him came Undyne, which shocked several of the newcomers of
what she was dressed in.
Blue skinned with long red hair like all of the other Undynes, she wore bright
purple and green short shorts, showing off her muscular legs and a belly orange
and yellow shirt with bright yellow sleeves. She also wore above knee socks
that were purple and pink and over her yellow eyes, she had sunglasses that had
letters over the lens.
LMAO was what was on them.
"This is my bro, Papyrus! Call 'em Disco! And of of course Captain of the Dance
Squad, Undyne! And they're gonna help me show ya what we got!" Fresh said
before he snapped in a stance.
Right with him, Disco and Undyne snapped into the same pose as Fresh before
they all began dancing in sync with each other. They moved as one, in such a
way that it was almost rehearsed.
In truth, it was amazing how the three danced.
And if that wasn't enough, a bright orange cat monester came back flipping onto
the stage to join them in a more break dancing style. It honestly looked like
the cat monster, Burgerpants but dressed in gangster like red clothes. Baggy
shorts, shirt and a neon yellow and orange cap.
"Oh, yeah. And this is Dancingpants!" Fresh said as they all snapped into a
pose. "Top that, sister!"
"That's cheating!" Hope laughed as she shook her head.
"then let's even the odds." Surprisingly Blooky spoke up as he hovered forward
with Gar as they moved to stand with her. And right behind them, Calli also
stepped forward, smirking as everyone else watched with amusement; though Edge,
Boss and Nightmare still looked disgusted.
Grinning at them, Hope nodded before she snapped forward again and they began
dancing in sync. It surprised some to see Blooky dancing. He had never shown
any talent before but now he did.
For a bed sheet ghost, he was good with moving around in sync with the three
humans.
The audience was going wild with applause and cheers. And it just went wilder
when Ashlee rushed forwward, pulling Sans with her as they began dancing.
It seemed the dancing was contagious because Papyrus, Blue and Stretch joined
in with the dancing sync.
Soon, everyone on the stage but the Fells and the Nightmare monsters were
dancing. Even Gaster. Charity was even dancing, much to Edge's annoyance bUT
when she gave him a challenging smirk, he rolled his eyes, smiled a shark like
grin and then went to join her.
It was like a dance party for all of them. They were actually enjoying their
selves for such a time.
Soon, all of them were dancing in sync with Fresh at the lead and the crowd
just went wild for it. They were all laughing and cheering and just dancing on
the stage.
Finally, with the beat of the music, Fresh spun around in a pose and held up
his hand towards Gaster as the music stopped.
In his hand was a broken crystal.
Everyone now looked surprised as soon as they saw the glowing rainbow like
crystal that had more of a pink sheen to it.
"I believe you are here for this!" Fresh said grinning.
"Is that......?" Sans was asking now relaxing to a more comfortable posture.
"Heaven's broken soul piece. Yes. This is a soul piece." Gaster said as he
carefully took the piece from Fresh and held it gently to himself. He sighed in
relief. "We finally have a piece. Thank you, Fresh."
"No problem. Now that my show is over, come my flat. Outer's here with his soul
piece and we can all talk about what's gonna happen next." The colorful dancing
skeleton told them as he relaxed himself.
Everyone agreed.
***** Fifteen *****
Chapter Summary
     Where things goes terribly wrong........
Chapter Notes
     Song Best Used:
     Gaster''s Theme Intense Symphonic Metal Cover
See the end of the chapter for more notes
Fresh took the entire group back to his house, which was a snowy place like
Snowdin but it was full of ice sculptures and colorful painted snow sculptures.
There was music in this place, loud, booming Christmasy music playing and
monsters were singing and dancing.
But not just monsters.
There were humans here.
Several humans in this Underground who sang and danced with other monsters.
They all seemed to get along and just have a good time.
Fresh''s house was a colorful work of art, itself. Neon colors painted all over
and even flashing lights. There was even a large lava lamp outside the house
for decoration. It strange to see but it seemed to be Fresh''s style of decor
so no one said anything.
Going inside the house, the group saw that the house was similar to all of the
other skeletons' houses, just brightly colored with fluffy carpets and again
lava lamps of many different sizes here and there.
Fresh apparently liked lava lamps.
Sitting on a bright green and yellow leather couch, there was once again
another Sans waiting for them.
This one did a lot like Sans but he wore blue and yellow winter jacket wit
fluffy silver white lining and slippers but they were yellow with blue stars.
His bones....we're almost silver colored, though. Silver white with a shine to
them.
He smiled when everyone entered and waved a skeletal hand.
"Hello!" He said, his voice slightly.....echoed. As if he was speaking through
a radio.
Gaster smiled at him as he stepped into the room and the Sans brightened a
little bit as he stood up. Or rather, hovered up.
Everyone blinked in surprise.
They couldnt see him using his magic but....he was flying. Hovering.
"Oh, hello, Doctor Gaster!" The Sans said, his voice echoing and it did
surprise everyone but.....his mouth hadn't even moved.
"Hello, Outer. It's good to see you again." Gaster said before looking at the
confused looks on everyone else's faces. "This is Outer Sans from Outertale,
everyone. And before you ask, no. He's not talking. This Sans.....he can't
exactly talk. He has never able to speak."
"How.....is he.....talking then?" Gar asked confused.
Outer just grinned before turning his skull to show some kind of device
attached to the back of his head. It had some kind wire sticking out of a plate
of metal. "I've never been able to speak. So, I'm a mute. My vocal system
didn't develop well when I was created. But Doctor Gaster helped me with that.
He made this device so I can speak my mind." He spoke.
"And that's why you kind of sound more like a radio." Sans said looking very
interested.
Outer smiled at him and hovered over to him, holding out his hand. "Hello,
Sans! It's so good to meet you finally!" He said brightly.
"And.....you can fly." Sans said amazed as he shook Outer''s hand.
Outer giggled and nodded. "Well I am from Outertale. My gravity level is highly
different from everyone else's. So....I can kind of fly." He then turned to
Gaster now digging into his jacket before pulling out a pink broken crystal. "I
believe you're looking for this."
Gaster sighed in relief before taking the crystal from him. "Yes. Thank you,
Outer. Now we have two pieces." He said as he took out the other soul piece and
stuck them together.
Surprising to everyone else,the crystals glowed before merging together,
becoming one.
"Nope. Three." Outer said as he once again produced another pink crystal,
surprising everyone.
Gaster brightened as he immediately took the crystal. "How....how did
you....?!" He asked sounding excited.
"Ye-ah.....here's the thing, Daddy G." Fresh said now serious and that did seem
off about him. "We didn't steal this from Hella and G." He then pointed towards
the balcony above them. "He did."
Gaster and everyone frowned before looking up and stiffened to see yet another
Sans standing there, leaning casually against the railing.
This one.....this one dressed in a blue and silver stripped suit, a grey blue
gangster like hat leaning lazily to the side of his skull and he was chewing on
a tooth pick. He looked.....like a mobster.
"Who are you?" Ashlee asked surprised and she even saw the confused but
surprised look on Ink's face. She knew that he didn't know this one.
Taking the toothpick from his big teeth, the Sans tilted his head slightly.
"Mobster Sans, from Mobtale, little Dame." He even spoke with a slight accent
as if he was from the 40's era. "Call me Mob."
"You're not a Sans I created." Gaster said frowning bewildered.
Mob shook his head as he just placed the toothpick back in his teeth. "No. I'm
not. Mobtale is a branch dimension. Created by a crack in the Void. So I don'
got a True Soul for ya. Not yet anyway. If my relationship with my gal, Frisk,"
he paused glancing over his shoulder just as someone stepped out from one of
the rooms from up there.
Frisk.
But not a Frisk anyone was familiar with.
This Frisk.....she was about Ashlee's age but with curly hair that was cut into
a short Bob at her ears. She wore a newsie type outfit. Blue trousers cut a
little short at her calves, long checkered socks revealing from under them with
pointed brown shoes. Her top grey white and stained a little bit and a brown
vest.
She looked like a newsies kid, honestly.
"If Frisk and I get serious in our relationship, might change." Mob said as he
hung his arm around her shoulders as she joined him.
"Heya, everyone." Frisk of Mobtale said waving and smiling. "I know you all
might know a Frisk from your world so just call me Kid." She told them.
"Kid?" Sans asked skeptically.
Kid shrugged as she motioned to Mob. "He does. It's kind of my nickname anyway.
Cuz I look like a kid even though I'm in my 20's." She then looked at the
skeleton beside her. "She's awake, Mob." She told him.
Everyone else frowned.
Mob just nodded as he dropped his arm. "See if she wants to come down to see
the Doc. He might want to take a look at her." He said to her and Kid nodded as
she headed back into the room.
The mobster skeleton turned and made his way to the stairs, coming down.
"Who....is up there?" Gar asked frowning as he and everyone else eyed the now
closed door Kid disappeared behind.
"Heaven is." Mob stated bluntly as he came down the stairs.
Everything stopped with a sudden jolt as everyone looked at him in alarm.
Gaster gaped at him with wide empty sockets. "What?" He asked in a whispered
gasp.
Mob stepped off the stairs, his hands shoved in his pockets as he approached
the group. "Where I am from, I'm a Gang Leader. Kid is one of my gang members
and my sweetie heart. Fell in love with her when I met her. But I also run a
mob. So I ain't gonna lie. I'm a thief and can be a liar. But trust me when I
say this.....I ain't lying about this. When things started turning sour in
Mobtale......G.....he came snooping around in my town. He was curious about
what my world was. It's how I found out about the other dimensions. He had no
business there in Mobtale. But he meddled a little bit in my affairs. He
kidnapped Kid because he thought she could be a True Soul. I followed 'em back
out of Mobtale to get her back.
"And he didn't know I was there, in Echo. But I found out a lot about what's
going on." Mob explained as he tilted his hat back. "I stole Kid back and we
also stole that pretty crystal, ya got there." He pointed at the soul piece.
"And we stole her." He thumbed at the balcony.
Everyone looked up with shock. Minus Fresh and Outer.
But there.....with Kid......was the mostly sickly girl anyone had ever seen.
She was beautiful, even while looking so ill. She had long silver blonde hair
that spilled down her back. She wore shredded clothes though. She wore a ripped
up sweater that showed off her shoulders and had holes in the stomach area,
showing creamy white skin under. She wore short short jeans shorts but black
shredded leggings under them.
But most of all, she was almost very pale and it was so obvious that she was
very ill. She was very thin and very ill. She could barely walk on her own,
being braced by Kid.
But nonetheless, Gaster looked stunned to even see her.
"Heaven........." the lithe black monster said softly.
Weak pink colored eyes drifted to him and there was a touch of fear in them as
the girl now clutched onto Kid, who did stagger a little when her ward stopped
moving. She was so terrified.
".......yo-you......." a weak voice came from the girl.
Gaster immediately stepped back, even if he wasn't even close to her, his hands
raised. "Heaven......I'm sorry.....I am so.....so very sorry for what I've done
to you." He said ever so softly.
No one spoke as they just stared in complete shock of what was happening right
now.
"Wait.....Heaven?! That's Heaven?! I thought you said she was dead, Gaster?!"
Sans said now looking between the girl and his creator. Everyone was.
Everyone was confused of what was happening They couldn't believe this at all..
"I thought she was dead. Or at least in a coma. It makes me wonder what really
happened. Or how she is even alive without her soul." Gaster said never looking
from the terrified girl. He then looked at Mob. "How did you find her?"
Mob shrugged lazily. "Like I said, went looking for Kid. Found her. She was
chained up in a dungeon. She was out of it then too. Like she barely woke up
from a deep sleep. The way she was treated in that place......Kid wasn't
leaving her. So we took her. We were chased so they know we have her. We
escaped through a portal that they made. Startled a black skeleton look alike
when we went racing through." He told him.
Error.
They knew he was talking about Error.
Gaster looked at Heaven again frowning. "Heaven, I know you're scared of me.
But I promise, I will never hurt you again. I need to know what happened to
you. Please......does G know you're awake?" He asked softly.
Heaven trembled as she clutched onto Kid but shook her head. "I.......haven't
seen him......since before you.....what you did. I.....don't know where he
is......" she said trembling, her soft voice very weak.
"It's more than likely G doesn't know she is awake. He'd never let her out of
his sight if he did." Sans said frowning.
"How do you know that?" Gar was the one to ask.
"Because if it was one of us, we'd never let our's out of our sight." Stretch
spike up as he wrapped his arms around Hope, drawing her very close to him.
Both San and Edge nodded in agreement as they glanced at their loves.
Smiling faintly back at Sans, Ashlee gave his hand a small squeeze before she
looked up at Heaven. She could see how terrified the girl was and with the past
she had with Gaster, she couldn't blame her. Even she had a bad past with the
lithe black monster.
But.....
At least she knew he was trying to change.
Heaven.....ms he didn't know.
"Heaven......." Ashlee found herself speaking and eyes did trail to her as she
stepped forward. "It's going to be okay. Gaster won't hurt you. He's different
from how he used to be. He's not like that any more. And even if he was," she
motioned to the other skeletons. "None of these guys would let him hurt you. I
promise. I wouldn't let him. But we really need to talk to you." She said
softly.
Heaven peered curiously at her before slowly nodding. She looked more
comfortable with talking to Ashlee more than she had with Gaster. "Fri-
Frisk......" she whispered weakly.
Kid nodded as she smiled at her and helped her walk towards the stairs. She had
walk very slowly because Heaven was not stable at all. She struggled badly to
even move her feet.
Getting down the stairs, however, was quite a chore.
It was about half way down did Heaven mis step and almost took a tumble down,
dragging Kid with her.
But the first one to move to catch both of them was Mob.
He was suddenly there, steadying both of the girls before carefully and gently
sweeping Heaven up into his arms, bridal style and he carried her down the rest
of the stairs.
Gently, he set the weakened girl down on the couch where she sank down, looking
very tired.
It was awkwardly quiet for a good long moment. No one knew how to even ask what
was on their minds. But all stared at Heaven.
The girl didn't seem to notice at first, looking like she was going to fall
asleep instead but then she opened her eyes and looked right at Gaster. Her
hand raised as she looked serious, even for her weaken state.
"If......if you're serious.....Wingdings......give me my soul back......" she
said firmly, if not weakly. "I know you have it. Give me my soul and I will
believe you."
Gaster had stiffened, looking hesitant for a moment before he sighed and pulled
the soul shards backnout, which glowed a dull pink before shooting from his
holey hands and shot over to Heaven.
Taking the broken soul into her hands, Heaven gently pressed the crystals to
her chest and the soul was reunited inside, gasping as it sank back in to where
it belonged.
She was shaking as she bent over her own legs but with what little strength she
had, she sat up and looked at Gaster, her pink cherry eyes gazing at him
sternly.
"Hella woke me up." She did sound just a tad stronger. "It was Hella. I woke up
to her.......G doesn't know I'm awake......if he did......he'd already be
killing her for what she did......." she said weakly but definitely stringer
than before.
"What did she do?" Gaster asked seriously but did keep his distance for her
comfort.
Heaven shook her head. "She.....I don't know. All I know is, when I woke
up.....I felt empty. I felt so weak. I shouldn't have even been awake....not
without my soul.....but I felt them. I could feel my soul starting to come
together again......you had one half.....G has the other.....I need G to give
me the rest of my soul......Gaster...." she told him.
"So it comes down to it." Sans said frowning as he shared a glance with
everyone else. "Guess we will have that show down with G."
"He won't hurt you if I ask him not to......" Heaven said as she looked at him
but then smiled. "You're Sans......" she paused looking right at Papyrus. "And
Papyrus. G told me about you....."
Both skelebros stif feed but looked at Gaster, who smiled gently at them and
nodded.
"G did know about you, even before I pushed him away into Echotale. He has seen
you before. You were just baby bones at the time when I banished him." He told
them.
Heaven looked straight at him, frowning. Her eyes tight as was the frown on her
face and he stiffened as he looked right back at her.
"You......Wingdings.....you are an asshole." She said rather darkly.
There were a few chokes as some of the group tried not to laugh.
Gaster sighed but chuckled before he finally stepped forward, much to the fear
Heaven squeaked with and pressed into the couch as he approached her. He,
instead, surprised her as he swept down to one knee and he tugged out his
upside down, white soul, holding it out to her.
Everyone looked startled at what he was even doing.
Even Heaven looked startled.
Gaster, however, bowed his head low and held up his soul. "I forfeit my life to
you, Heaven. You can either spare me or kill me. And I will not stop you. I
will not fight back. No one will." He told her firmly.
For the longest moment, everyone stared, bewildered but also worried for
different reasons. They knew they needed Gaster alive. He was the one who
started all of this and he needed to fix it.
But he was offering justice to Heaven for what he had done to her.
Heaven sat there for a good moment before she breathed softly and then gently
pushed Gaster's soul back towards him. "No. You know I would never do that,
Wingdings. I am not like that." She said softly.
Gaster just remained where he was but then he lift his head and his eyes were
dark as he glared at her. "You're not Heaven." He suddenly said darkly.
Everyone froze in alarm.
Even Heaven.
"Wha-what.......?" She said now taken back.
Gaster suddenly softly too up and his soul snapped back into his chest as he
now loomed above her, making her cower. He looked so dark now and it frightened
everyone. It was a look that all of them were familiar with and it just
terrified them.
"You're not Heaven." He repeated darkly. "You're Hella."
There was a very unsettling pause before Heaven slowly smirked, her eyes
growing dark as she slowly stood up and her hair darkened until it was midnight
black.
Everyone stepped back in alarm as she changed right before their eyes.
While she looked the same, other than her hair and eyes were black now, she now
wore a skin tight black leather outfit. Dark rings under her dark eyes and her
lips were painted black.
There was just a sinister aura surrounding her and it sent chills through
everyone, monsters and humans and everyone was stepping back in alarm.
"How did you know?" The dark woman now asked, her voice just as dark as she
was.
Gaster just glared, his black form starting to ruffle as he raised his arms.
"Give me some credit, Hella. I know the feel of Heaven's hands. She is soft and
gentle. Her everything is gentle. Your touch is not. The very second you
touched my soul, I knew it wasn't Heaven. Give me that soul piece back." He
growled, his pin prick eyes blaring white as he faced off with her.
Hella laughed and it was a broken sound, haunting and terrifying. "Oh,
Wingdings Gaster. You gave it to me. You're not getting it back. As for
you......." she grinned and it was a wicked look as she raised claw like hands.
"It's time to die."
"Ga-Gaster........" Ashlee said fearfully as she and everyone else felt a
threat in the air.
Gaster dipped his head, never looking away from there dark woman in front of
him. "Stay out of this fight, all of you. You especially Sans. She is very
dangerous and one hit will destroy you." He said firmly.
"Gaster........" Sans spoke and he did sound very worried.
"Fresh........" Gaster said instead, his head tilted towards the now startled
colorful skeleton. "I'm sorry about your house."
"Wha-?! What about my house......?!" Fresh was asking now uneasily.
Suddenly, both Gaster and Hella moved as one, both lashing out their hands and
there was an explosing from around them, sending everyone flying backwards.
For a good moment, there was bleery darkness for everyone. They were all
rattled as they felt numb. No one knew what just had happened.
All they knew was that as they opened their eyes, there was a dull ringing in
their ears. Their vision was blurry. And there was a sound of a fight.
Ashlee groaned as she lift herself up and blinked back the dizziness she felt.
She sat down, raising a shaking hand to her head before she looked around.
The house......Fresh's house was a mess.
Destroyed from the explosion of magic.
All around her, she saw everyone else just laying there in rubble. All of the
skeletons, and her human friends...Kid....even Blooky was on the ground. They
were just barely coming to like her.
Blinking blearily, Ashlee looked up and froze.
High above heads, Gaster was fighting Hella, who seemed to have sprouted black
bat like wings from her back. And both of them were locked in a deadly battle
of powerful magic.
Strings of inky black were lashing out of Gaster''s very being as he dodged
black masses of magic flying at him. He lashed out at the woman, who dodged
easily and with a laugh so sinister.
There was no doubt that Gaster was giving his all. His black strings and his
white mystic hands were all around him, blasting one after the other at Hella
and she dodged so easily, as if this was a game of tag.
She was enjoying this fight.
He was not.
"You will never beat me, Gaster!" Hella laughed as she lashed out with magic.
Gaster dodged a black mass of magic, sweat upon his mask as he glared at the
demon who wore a pretty face. He was not as strong as he used to be but he
still could put up a good fight.
He had to.
Because if he lost......not only his life was forfeit but so was all of his
sons'.
And the True Souls.
Ashlee. Hope. Charity.
If he lost......Sans would lose Ashlee.
He knew if he lost this fight, Hella would turn her attack onto his sons. All
of them. She would kill them to get to the three True Souls.
He couldn't allow that to happen.
Dodging more black magic, Gaster blasted his own attacks through his hands back
at Hella, one having clipped her left wing and made her shriek in pain and
rage.
No longer looking amused, Hella glared at him with black eyes as she touched
her scorched wing with her black claws. "You are starting to piss me off,
Wingdings!" She snarled as she lashed out with her other hand.
A blade of black was thrown at the lithe monster, who spun dodged away from the
blade. He turned with a jerk to face her again, his mystic hands lashing out
with blasts.
Problem was......she was right in front of his face, her nose nearly touching
his mask, and a wicked grin on her black lips.
"You lose." Hella whispered darkly before she lashed out and sank her claws
right into the middle of Gaster's chest, earning a loud grunt.
"No!" Ashlee screamed from below as she quickly stood up, looking up in horror.
Sans jerked from sitting up and turned sharply to look around before his eye
lights up. He inhaled sharply to see what was happening to his creator.
"No.......!" He breathed before getting up shakily to his feet. He was not the
only one.
He saw all of his fellow skeletons getting up, looking on with horror.
"....nergh.......!" Gaster gasped as he felt Hella sink her claws into him
before he skeletons tagger ed back as skeletonstaggeredhe ripped out his white
soul. His hands now on his chest from the pain. "N-no.....please, Hella......."
Hella just held up his upside down heart in her black claws and crushed it
right before his very eyes.
Gaster gasped sharply in pain, his very being freezing up, flashing white
before he began to flake away.
Turning into dust.
"NO!" Sans and his fellow skeletons cried in horror and pain.
Dusting before their eyes, Gaster looked down at all of his sons, his black
form turning into ashes. "Sa-Sans.......Pap-Papyrus.......ru-run.....all of yo-
you......run......." he gasped before all that was left was his mask, which
fell from the air.
It was like slow motion.
Everyone watched in horror as Gaster's mask fell to the ground and shattered on
impact, which turned to dust immediately.
Gaster was gone.
From above, Hella laughed as she wiped her hands free of monster dust as she
looked down at all of the horrified skeletons, the ghost and the humans.
"N-n-no........Gaster........Da-Dad......" Sans murmured painfully as he just
looked at the dust on the ground now being blown away by some breeze.
Hella laughed wickedly as she fell from the air and landed gracefully before
the entire group. "Now.....it's your turn." She said darkly as she raised her
hands.
"Don't you fucking dare touch them!" Charity suddenly snarled as she raced
forward and stood in between her and the skeletons. Her fire flaring up around
her arms and feet with rage.
"Cha-Charity no!" Edge yelled now stepping forward.
Hella just grinned wickedly before she lashed out her hands and black masses
lashed out at her, Ashlee and Hope.
"No!" Sans, Edge and Stretch cried out as they started forward.
There was a pulse of a sonic sound and the skeletons were suddenly blown off
their feet by the energic magic from Hella.
The black masses of magic caught the three True Souls, wrapping around them
before the girls could even move. Ashlee screamed as she reached for Sans as
she was caught before her widened green eyes turned black and she went still.
As did Charity and Hope.
None of them.....seemed in control of their selves any more.
They just went still like marionettes on strings.
"No! Let them go!" Sans snarled, his eyes glowing blue and yellow as his magic
flared up all around him.
Hella just laughed as she looked right at him, her hands raised and yhe three
True Souls suddenly walked in between her and the group of skeletons. They
blocked them.
"Foolish skeletons! You think you can fight me?! You idiots! You lost when I
killed Gaster!"
"You fucking bitch! Let my Pet go!" Edge snarled as he summoned blackened bones
around him.
Hella just smiled in mock sympathy as she touched her chin thoughtfully. "You
really want to fight me, bone boy? Guess what? You attack me, you attack them.
They are now completely under my control. My True souls. The outer cores of
Heaven's soul." She said darkly as she flicked a finger.
And all three girls snapped into a fighting stance, looking feral as ever as
they faced the skeletons.
"Hella, please! Stop this!" Ink cried as he got to his feet, his hand now
gripping his paint brush tight in his hands.
Again, Hella laughed viciously as she looked at him before she clicked her
fingers and there was a snap.
Suddenly the ground opened up right beneath all of the skeletons' feet and they
all yelped as they felt their selves falling into blackness.
Into the Void.
"Enjoy your never ending prison, boys. And don't think you can get out of the
Void this time. I now hold Gaster's power in my hands. And you will never
escape the Void. Not even you, Ink." Hella said darkly before the darkness
closed up.
All of the skeletons fell into the Void.
Leaving Gar, Blooky, Grillby and Kid alone to face the she demon alone.
"Now for you four." Hella said as she flicked her claws and her black mass of
magic struck out at the remaining four, making them stiffen.
Before they could even move, their control over their selves was taken from
them, just like the three True Souls.
Their eyes melting to black as they lost control.
"Now it's time to have a little fun. Worlds to destroy. Slaves to imprison. And
one little baby to take from her mother." Hella said smirking as she turned to
face the now standing there black skeleton. "Go get my last True Soul. And take
Mages with you."
"...oUr......de-DeaL?" Error growled as he glared at her.
"Get me my last True soul and you can have Charlie back." Hella said darkly.
Error just glowered at her before he glitch ported out of view.
Hella just smirked darkly as she dipped her head before looking at the three
True Souls. She frowned when she saw a single tear fall from Ashlee's eye
though. "Fight all you want, Determination. You'll never break free of my
control." She hissed before she turned and opened a portal.
She began to walk and her new slaves followed.
Far from where that fight had happened, standing on a cliff, having watched the
entire thing, G frowned, his eyes narrowing as he just watched Hella leave the
now broken world of Underfresh.
He just sighed, shaking his head before turning away, opening his own portal to
leave the darkening world.
Chapter End Notes
     Author's Note:
     Hey, readers. I'm sorry for the long hiatus. So after searching for
     any copied works of my own, I am happy to say that no one else has
     stolen my works.
     Now I will be frank, if someone wants to use my ideas, please ask
     first. I don't usually mind someone doing that but you've got to ask
     first. And if you're going to make changes to my works, let me know
     before doing it.
     Now I know I am not the best writer. I make mistakes a lot. Though
     it's mostly due to autocorrect and this bloody touch screen that I'm
     using. I will admit, my grammar does kind of suck.
     But I try.
     Now I'm back to updating my stories, I do have to ask for forgiveness
     if this chapter kind of sucks. I'm suffering from a nasty cold that
     won't go away and I am kind of drugged up on medicine. Plus when I am
     writing I kind of let my imagination take over without truly thinking
     about it. I just let go. So if there's some things in this that don't
     make sense, let me know and I will try and clear it up.
     As for the chapter, itself, I hope you at least enjoyed some of it.
     And again, I am kind of drugged up on medicine so forgive me.
     See ya in the next chapter, which will be up soon.
***** Sixteen *****
Chapter Summary
     Betrayal........
Chapter Notes
     Song Best Used:
     Megalovania Epic Orchestral Cover
The kingdom that was Echotale was indeed a very dark place.
It always had been.
A dark apocalyptic world. Everything was grey there. Even the upper world of
the Underground was dark and grey.
The world of Echotale was almost barren with mostly dead vegetation. Yellow
grass everywhere, a grey sky that was always covered with grey clouds.
It was such a quiet place with barely any sounds at all. Barely birds sang
their sad songs. Barely animals lived to make their sounds. Barely any people
travelled the world any more.
No electronics ran.
No cars honking.
No people talking or walking the world.
Just......echoes of silence.
The cities mostly gone, skeletons of buildings and debris of what was left from
the disease that took most of the population.
The only city that had life was an almost empty place as it was.
There was life there, mostly humans, some monsters but mostly......everyone
quiet. As of the entire city was afraid to make noise. Those who were out on
the streets walked in silence, no one saying anything to other passerbyers.
In truth......they were afraid.
People and monsters.
It was because of the Luminosity members wandering the streets.
No one dared to cross the Magee for anything or any reason.
It was here that he returned to his world, his holey hands stuck into his
pockets as he walked. He received looks but ignored them as he trained his
purple eyes onto the giant building ahead of him.
People and monsters and Mages knew not to cross G either.
So he wasn't worried.
Hands shoved into his pockets, G made his way down the stone cobbled streets,
heading to the castle,where the Mistress was awaiting for him to return. He was
quietly seething and for a good reason.
Gaster was suppose to be his to kill.
Not Hella's.
They had had a deal, after all.
But she had taken that kill from him. He had watched her rip out Gaster''s soul
and crush it in her hand. And then he watched her banish his so called brothers
into the Void, where he knew they would never escape.
The Void was failing.
The portals crumbling.
All of the Sans' and Papyrus' would never escape from the Void. Not with it so
unstable now. Not even Ink would be able to open the portals now. Not to
mention, with it crumbling like it was, those who were inside the
Void.....well.....they wouldn't be around for much longer once the Void
shattered. They would be lost and there was no getting them back.
All because he, himself, G had dismantled it using the power he inherited from
Gaster.
There was one thing, though, that had G troubled.
He didn't know why it bothered him so much. He didn't even have his emotions
because of what was done to him and Heaven. But he found that what happened in
Underfresh bothered him.
The haunting look on his so called brothers' faces when Gaster was taken from
them. And when their True Souls were taken.
He knew that look that San had worn.
Because one time, a long time ago, he wore the very same look when Heaven had
been taken from him. He knew what San felt when his True Soul was taken. What
Edge and Stretch felt.
And that bothered him a lot more than he would have liked.
G frowned as he passed the arch way into Hella''s castle. He didn't want to
admit it to anyone but the pain he saw on Sans' face just egged at him. And he
found himself not liking it at all.
"My knight has returned."
G blinked lazily and looked forward to see Hella sitting upon her throne,
surrounded by her unwilling subjects. He just frowned at the True Souls who
were captured within their own minds.
All seven of them.
Eyes trailing from Ashlee Dremurr to Charity Case to Hope and then to the other
four. The one beside Hope was Sam, the True Soul from Horrortale. A dark
version of Snow White, she truly was.
Next to her was Alice,the True Soul of Underfresh. A lovely but big girl she
was. Above average with a slightly plump frame. She was at least 5' 7". Round
waist but not terribly round. She had brown curly hair cut short to below her
shoulders, that she had in sun kissed highlights in the brown. Her eyes brown
and she did have a slightly darker skin complexion than the others. She wore
black like all of the others did. Black and dark blue sweater unlike the others
and kind of skin tight yoga pants that did show her curves.
Though her size was a little big, she had a lean frame. She was a dancer after
all.
Beside her was Justice, the True Soul of Outertale.
Justice was the tallest of all of the True Souls. She stood at 5'10", with long
golden blonde hair that also had one star shine silver streak running from her
right temple to the tips. Her eyes starry blue with a hint of gold in the
irises.
And the last.....was a young boy.
Charlie of Inktale.
He was at least 12 years old, with dark tanned skinned and dark brown hair that
curled at the top, making an almost cowlick. His cherry chocoate brown eyes
were magnified a little bit by the thick rimmed glasses he wore.
Charlie.
Out of all of the True Souls, other than Ashlee in a way, G sympathized him the
most. It was mostly because of his age.
He was too young for this shit. Too young to be a mindless slave to a bitch
like Hella.
"My Knight. What news do you bring me?" Hella asked in a dark coo.
G gave Hella quite a dark look as he approached lazily before he reached into
his jacket and pulled out a pack of smokes. He was still a little sour that he
had lost his first pack of charmed Black Cloves and he knew that Stretch of
Underswap had them. But making a new one was no trouble for him.
"I'm not your fucking Knight." G growled as he took a puff of his now lit smoke
before blowing out the gaseous vapors.
Hella just smiled wicked as she touched a glowing blue string that was attached
to her throne. At the other end, wrapped in the strings was a pale purple
upside down crystalline heart. "Error's string says different, Gaster Sans. So
be careful of how you speak to your Queen. Otherwise, I might have to hurt you
again." She warned darkly as she touched a sharp tipped finger to the heart.
G stiffened, a sweat breaking upon his skull but he bowed his head in
submission immediately. He did have to admit it though. He was no more free
than the True Souls were. He wasn't worried about being hurt. He had been more
hurt when Gaster took Heaven from him and tore her soul apart.
But the fact that Hella held him prisoner, as well as Heaven's body, whom she
took from him when he stole it from Undertale, he was not free.
And he had to stay alive to save her.
Somehow.
Not that Hella ever threatened to kill him, really. She desired him, always had
even before all of this shit happened. She wanted to possess him. Everything of
him.
But he hated her.
And she knew that.
Didn't mean she didn't take him whenever she wanted though. Not since Error
took his soul into his control and gave her the string to control G. He was a
fucking dog on a leash.
And the first night that she had his string that controlled him, she definitely
used the control over him.
G had been extremely pissed off as he laid on that bed as she took him. He
would have fought back, somehow. But the control over him was strong.
Not to mention, Hella did threaten to destroy Heaven's body. And a broken soul
without a body......it never ended well.
So he let her control him for Heaven's sake. He let her fuck him when she
wanted.
But one thing was for sure.
As soon as he had Heaven's complete soul back, and her body, he was going to go
all out on Hella. He would utterly destroy her if he was given the chance.
"Why so upset, my Knight?" Hella asked instead as she smiled coyly at him.
G glowered at her as he took another puff of smoke before blowing it out again
in her direction. "You know fully why I'm fucking upset, Hella. You killed
Gaster. You knew I wanted to crush his fucking soul in my hands. And yet you
killed him." He growled sourly.
Hella rolled her eyes as she leaned her pretty head against her fist. "You were
doing a poor job of doing it, G. Not only did you fail to kill Wingdings
Gaster, you failed to kill Ink, and you failed to get the True Souls. Now I
know you're stronger than that, G. You're smarter than that. But because of
your failures, I had to step in and do it for you. I grew impatient with your
failures and so I did it." Her voice was growing very hard and G knew she was
getting angry with his attitude towards her. "And I got rid of all of the Sans
and Papyrus' who could put a dent in my plans. Something you should have done!"
She snapped, her voice like a whip in the chamber room.
G just glowered at her. "Speaking of which, when are you going to get rid of
Error?" He asked instead.
Hella scoffed as she sat up straighter and finger ed the string. "I'm not. He's
the only one that can control you, G. I can't, obvious. So I'm keeping him."
She said dryly.
"So whats going to happen when he finds out that you're not giving him back his
True Soul, Hella? He's going to be pissed at you. Then what?" G asked her just
as dryly.
Hella huffed impatiently as she threw her hands up in the air, letting go of
the string. "What do you expect me to do, G?! I can't control you and I can't
control him! But he can control you! And I need him to! You refuse continually
to accept that I am better Heaven! I am stronger! I am more lethal! You want
her but not me! You were heartless and cold before you even met her, G! I know
because do you not remember?! I was your first lover before that soft hearted,
pacifist bitch entered your life! You had everyone afraid of you in Echotale!
And she RUINED YOU!! So until you surrender your heart and soul to me, I will
keep doing what I want to do until you give yourself to me!! As for Error, if
he gets in my way, I will erase his existence! I will destroy him! But until
then, you are mine!" She snarled now very angry.
G was quiet for a long moment before he sighed and slowly smiled at her, almost
softly and it made her frown. He just shook his head before walking forward
again.
He made up his mind.
It was time to just stop this.
"You know what?" G asked as he approached her and she stiffened now grabbing
the string. He just held up his hands as he approached. "You win, Hella."
Hella looked startled as she looked at him in the eyes. "Wha-?" She was asking.
G just smirked as he placed his hands down on the throne's arms and slowly
leaned towards her. "I said.....you win. I can see I'm not going to get Heaven
back. She's gone. And maybe....maybe it's time for me to move on." He whispered
husky before he leaned forward and pressed his mouth against hers.
Hella gasped into his kiss and he dove in, his purple tongue now diving into
her mouth and he grabbed her by the back of her head, kissing her furiously.
She moaned suddenly, her eyes fluttering as she pressed hard back into him.
G fought with her mouth with his, now pulling at her body to bring it hard
against his own and she stiffened as she felt a bulge in between his thighs.
His other hand now grasping at her crotch and she gasped, her head snapping
back as he began rubbing at her.
"I'm going to stop fighting you, Hella. I'm yours. Get rid of Error and then I
am yours. I swear." He whispered husky as he began attacking her neck with
kisses and licking at her skin.
Hella gave a shuddering sigh as she leaned into his touch. "Why.....should I
believe you......?" She moaned as he kissed her.
G just grinned as his hand trailed up and touched the valley of her breasts,
now starting to massage the mounds that made her quake. He just knew where to
touch her to make her melt like putty. Because of all the times she made him
fuck her.
"I swear, Hella. Get rid of Error and I will be yours completely." G said as he
dipped his hand down her pants and began rubbing her clit.
Hella gave a shuddering breath as she leaned her thighs into his touch, now
begging for his touch. "O-okay..... I will.......get rid of him." She moaned as
she began rubbing at his pants at the hard bulge he had. "But what.....what
about he-Heaven?" She breathed in between moans as he dipped fingers into her.
"You.....how do I know you.....ugh....want me.....?"
"Because.......I'm fucking lying to you." He whispered before his eyes flashed
purple as he reached into her chest with his magic, grabbing the soul piece he
knew that belonged to his Heaven and yanked it out as he shoved at Hella hard.
Hella gasped and shrieked in alarm as she was shoved back and her black eyes
flashed with shock and rage. "What?!" She snarled.
Jumping back as far as he could, G held up the soul piece in his holey hand and
glared at her. "You're so fucking easy, Hella!" He snapped with a wicked grin.
Hella snarled as she stood up, rage filling her entire being. "You!" She
snarled before she reached to her side to grab the string that held his soul.
Only to find the soul gone.
Gasping, Hella looked at G with wide eyes of shock and rage.
And G held up his soul with a smirk, much to Hella's rage. "Your bitch, Error
isn't here right now, whore. And you're fucking done controlling me!" He
growled before he slammed his soul into his chest. His eyes did snap wide open
as he felt pain as he reabsorbed his soul into him. It hurt to have his soul
back.
Years of not having it just came flooding over him and G choked as he felt the
pain and devastation of loss came flooding over him. Rage, pain, sorrow made
his eye sockets flood with purple tears but he swallowed the agonizing cry back
down before turning a look onto Hella who looked pissed.
"Gaster Sans! You bastard!" Hella screamed in rage before she raised her hands
and the Seven True Souls snapped to attention, now glaring at the tall lithe
skeleton. "Give me that True Soul now! Or I will end you!"
".....hEh........" came a staticy laugh as Error glitched ported right next to
G, who sharply looked at him.
Even Hella looked startled as he appeared.
Error just grinned as he held that body over his shoulder before looking at G,
who smirked back at him. "sEe! I-i-I toLD ya-ya-YA." He said to G.
G just nodded as he reached out for Heaven's body that laid across Error's
shoulders. "And I told you she wouldn't give you Charlie back. It's a good
thing we made that plan then." He said as he took his lover from the black
skeleton.
"What?! What the hell is?!" Hella screamed in rage.
"You see, Hella. You want to know what your problem is. You are so focused on
controlling me, becoming Queen Bitch of all worlds, that you didn't realize
what your mistakes were." G said smirking as he cradled Heaven close to his
chest. "You put two brothers together, thinking we hated each other because of
our hate for Gaster. And by doing so, we talked about what the problems truly
were."
".....yOu-oU." Error growled as he dipped his head. "yOu......wERe......tHe pr-
pr-ProBlEm........yOu......aR-R-re tHE Ma-Ma-mAge of-f-f-F Ha-a-aAtE."
G nodded as he dipped his own head down. "It was never Gaster. It was you. You
from Echotale. The fact that you can reach into oher worlds like you can. You
caused it all. Hate. Fear. By your dark powers of hate. It was your poisonous
touch that caused wars to break out between humans and monsters. Echotale was
created while Gaster was still in Undertale, when he started experimenting on
the Core. It became an Echo of the original. Therefore, you were born. And the
moment you were born.....after I was created from a woman being raped in the
Core.....you were created. It's said that no one is born evil. But that's not
true. You were always evil. I don't know how, but you were incarnated evil.
You've always hated. And in a way, all hate came from you. Isn't that true?"
Hella glared at him with rage. She didn't even know what to say.
"The thing was, Gaster always held the feeling that something was wrong
somewhere. That's he made a plan that if something happened to him, he made a
kill switch that if ever one of his experiments wentry wrong, it could be
stopped." G said smirking before he dug into his pocket and pulled out a black
bound book. "How I know, it's all in here."
"Is that......?!" Hella was asking in alarm.
"Gaster's journal. His notes. He always had this. He gave it to me when he
escaped Undertale with Sans and his group." G said smirking. "He dropped it
when he left for Inktale, knowing I would find it."
"tHe.....oN-oNly wa-Ay-Ay to beat Ha-A-A-ate iS-s-S-s....L-lOVe-ve-vE.......an-
Nd aLl o-o-o-Of u-u-u-u-uS......SANS'." Error said smirking his yellow grin.
"That's why you wanted to get rid of Sans and the others." G said smirking
before he frowned, looking nasty. "Because we have the power to stop you from
destroying True Love. We are strong enough together to stop HATE. Horrific
Apocalyptic Terrifying Elimination of the worlds."
"You......!" Hella snarled. "You.....!"
"You want to know what the biggest joke is, Hella?" G added viciously. "I
actually talked to Gaster before you killed him. Error and I did. We confronted
him when everyone was resting in Inktale. He knew you would kill him, even when
I wanted to. And I actually listened to him. He said if you killed him, he
would return to the Void. Where Sans and Papyrus is. Where the true power of
the Core is. We actually made a plan together."
"thOUgh......wE-e-e aLRea-d-d-dy-y-y-Y ma-Ade a-a-a-a pLa-A-a-an t-t-To-oo yOu-
ou ba-Ack-k-k sTa-a-aBBing-ing u-u-Us." Error said grinning.
G nodded as he smirked. "You back stab us, Hella, we back stab you." He said
coldly.
Hella glared hateful before she just screamed in rage. "KILL THEM!!" She
shrieked, no longer caring for G. It became clear that she was never going to
have him. "KILL THEM ALL AND DESTROY HEAVEN!!"
The True Souls all rushed forward, gathering magic to attack. Even Mages came
running.
G sharply looked at Error. "Open the Void!" He said now clutching Heaven
tighter.
"A-aRe....yoOu s-Ur-re,.....G-G? W-w-wWe-e-e wIll-ill b-b-be-E tr-tr-TrapPed t-
t-too-oo?!" Error growled looking skeptically at his taller counter part.
G nodded sharply. "My hands are full here, Error! And we need the others to
stop Hella! All of them! You better be prepared for an attack though! Because
they are not going to be happy to see us!" He yelled as he stepped back as
their opponents came at them.
Error threw his hand out behind them and ripped open a portal into the Void.
"N-n-No-o-o sHit!" He growled before he turned and ran through the portal with
G right behind him.
"NO! STOP THEM!!" Hella snarled as even she started forward to attack.
But both G and Error dove through the portal, which closed behind them, sealing
them into an endless prison of blackness, where other skeletons were trapped.
Hella just screamed in rage as they escaped.
***** Seventeen *****
Chapter Summary
     A really long letter from Gaster.......
Chapter Notes
     Song Best Used:
     Gaster''s Finale (amella remix)
The very moment that they fell into the Void was the moment they all knew they
were screwed.
All skeletons fell into inky black darkness and fell onto a heap of broken
black ground. They all yelped and cried out as they collapsed before scampering
to get back up to their feet.
"No!" Sans yelled as he quickly ran for the closing portal back to Underfresh.
But it closed before he could reach it and he fell to the ground.
"Nononononono!" Stretch yelled as he stood up and tried to concentrate on
teleporting out. But he yelped as he felt only sparks of pain rush through him
and he staggered back down to his knees.
"Fucking hell!" Edge yelled as he even tried to teleporting out.
But his magic failed just like Stretch's.
"NO!" Ink cried trying to teleport. His magic failed.
Nightmare screamed, his skull thrown back as he clutched onto his skull, bloody
tears of frustration filling his eye sockets.
Swearing escaped Mob as even he tried to activate his magic but it failed.
"SANS!" Papyrus cried as he hurried over to his older brother, who laid
trembling on the ground. He hurried over and gathered his brother up, now
clutching on to him. He tried to speak but his words failed him as soon as he
saw that look on Sans' face.
Utter devastation and despair.
San had only wore that look on his face before and Papyrus remembered it all
too well.
When Gaster killed Ashlee back in the Underground, before they were freed years
ago. Before they had been changed into such wicked monsters to lure her out
when Gaster had RESET to bring Ashlee back to life.
Sans was shaking violently as he stared at nothing but darkness. His eye
sockets wide with pain and loss. He didn't know what to do now. He felt his
magic draining while in the Void. He couldn't even feel his teleportation. He
was searching for any way out of the Void but he knew once they were in, it was
awfully hard to get back out.
It was why Gaster had been trapped for so long.
There was no way out.
"No, we got to get out of here! We have to get out!" Even Fresh was freaking
out as he looked frantically around for a way out.
"WE WILL FIND A WAY! STOP PANICKING!" Boss snarled as he even looked around
frantically for a way.
"there is no way." Came the haunted voice of Ink as he sank down to his knees,
rainbow tears now spilling down his cheekbones. He looked so wrong, so lost.
"THERE HAS TO BE A WAY OUT! HOPE! WE HAVE TO KEEP TRYING!! I KNOW WE CAN FIND A
WAY IF WE JUST TRY......!" Blue was crying as he began running around,
searching frantically.
"THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY OUT, YOU FUCKING RETARD!" Nightmare suddenly snarled
in rage as he sent Blueberry the most nasty look.
Stretch growled angrily as he shot the Horrortale monster a look when Blue
flinched and whimpered as he looked at Nightmare with hurt. "Don't talk to him
like that......?!" He was snarling as he was already making his way too his
whimpering and now crying brother.
"IT'S THE FUCKING TRUTH, STRETCH!" Nightmare snarled as he turned the nastiest
look. "YOUR BROTHER IS A FUCKING MORON IF HE THINKS WE CAN GET OUT OF THIS!"
"There has to be......!" It was Outer who spoke as he hovered helplessly.
"THERE'S NOT!! TAKE A LOOK AROUND, YOU FUCKING MUTE! DO YOU SEE A DOORWAY OUT
OF THE VOID?!" Nightmare snapped viciously.
Outer flinched and looked hurt, himself.
"Nightmare, there has to be a way! We just got to find it!" Fresh even tried
arguing as he was looking around.
"No, he's fucking right!" Edge growled, his voice now strained in pain and
anger as he was looking around. "The Void was never easy to get out of! Gaster
spent hundreds of years trapped in here! If he couldn't find a way out, there
is no way we could!"
"You can't give up! We have to get out! Our True Souls! They need us! We just
have to....." Stretch was saying as he now held his crying younger brother.
"STOP IT! STOP TRYING TO GIVE US HOPE WHEN THERE IS NONE!" Boss snarled angrily
aND he ended up facing off with his counter part.
"STOP IT!!"
Everyone flinched when they heard Papyrus, of all skeletons snap out at them
and everyone looked at him with alarm.
Papyrus was holding a violently shaking and quite comatose Sans close to his
chest. He had orange tears flowing down from his eye sockets as he just held
Sans. The pain.....the devastation on his face haunted all of them.
"JUST STOP! WE SHOULD NOT BE FIGHTING WITH EACH OTHER! RIGHT NOW NONE OF US
NEEDS THIS!! WE JUST NEED TO FIGURE THIS OUT!!" Papyrus said sharply as he
clutched onto his older brother. "NOW THERE MIGHT BE A WAY OUT AND THERE NOT
BE! BUT WE JUST HAVE TO LOOK!! AND DO IT WITHOUT FIGHTING!!"
"WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TELLING US......!!" Boss was growling
viciously.
Suddenly Papyrus was in Boss' face, startling everyone by the serious but also
vicious look on the extremely friendly skeleton's face. He was still clutching
Sans to his chest, who made no acknowledgment that he knew they were fighting.
"I SAID LOOK FOR A WAY OUT! INSTEAD OF JUST GIVING UP, LOOK FOR SOMETHING!!"
Papyrus growled.
Boss was so taken aback, as was everyone but no one said a word as they stared
at Papyrus in alarm. None of them knew that he could get like that. He was so
friendly that they weren't expecting it.
But here he was.
And it made everyone feel uneasy to see that look on Papyrus' face. It was a
look that spoke of something bad happening if the fighting didn't stop.
And no one dared to argue with him at that point.
So they looked.
For hours on end, the skeletons looked for anything. Any sign of escape from
the Void.
They looked and looked.
And slowly, one by one, each skeleton fell to their knees in defeat. Each one
had yelled and screamed in frustration and anger. And soon, all were silently
staring off.
There was no real way of telling how long they had been trapped. It felt like
hours.....days as they had searched desperately.
Looking for a way out.
But there was no way. Not any of the cracks into dimensions were shown, not
like before. It was just endless black and all they could see was each other.
San had not said a word since they ended up the Void, just stared at nothing,
trembling while being held by Papyrus. He never said anything even as his
brother tried to coax him to speak. It was like he wasn't even home in his own
body any more.
Soon it was just silent, other than whimpering cries from some of the others.
Not even the meanest of skeletons escaped from crying. Even Boss had tears of
frustration and anger and sorrow spilling.
"Sans......please......say something." Papyrus said as he rocked his brother,
tears spIlling down his cheeks as he just hugged and rocked Sans.
Sans said nothing as he just stared off. He just trembled, blue tears staining
his cheeks.
"Wh-what are we gonna do?" It was Blue who whimpered, his normally loud and
boisterous voice so quiet that it scared Stretch.
"I....don't know, Blue. We've looked everywhere now. There is no way out."
Stretch said, holding his own brother and rocking him.
"There's nothing."
Finally, everyone looked up when Sans finally spoke and they all were
surprised. He had been so quiet for so long that they hadn't realized he was
there.
"There has to be something." Outer was the one to say.
Sliwly, Sans shook his head as he just stared off. "Gas-Gaster was stuck here
for hundreds of years, hundreds of RESETS. It would take too long for us to
figure something out. By that time....all of our friends would be dead.
Ashy......" he choked as fresh tears began to spill and he trembled violently.
He shook hard before curling into his, tugging himself away from Papyrus' arms,
who let go but hovered close.
"What, so you just going to give up? That's fucking stupid, Sans! Even for
you!" It was Edge who snarled. "The great fucking Sans is giving up!"
Sans just sobbed as he held himself, shaking. "Shut up, Edge." He whimpered.
"No, I'm not going to shut up! Since we've been here, you haven't done a single
fucking thing to help us get out of here! You've just been fucking sitting
there, staring off! You're fucking useless, Sans!" Edge snarled now getting to
his feet and glaring at the blue clad skeleton.
"Shut up." Sans growled but still sobbed.
"If your fucking bitch meant anything to you, you'd be doing anything to get
the fucking out of here and get her back! So maybe she doesn't mean shit
to......!" Edge was snarling as red tears spilled down his cheeks.
Suddenly, Sans was up and in Edge''s face. He was literally in his face,
throwing that fist right into the bulldogish face belonging to Edge.
Everyone else cried out in surprise when they watched Sans punch the shit out
of Edge and they were on their feet, looking on with alarm.
Sans was snarling and spitting mad as he thrashed out at Edge, who dodged to
being hit again. "YOU DON'T FUCKING KNOW ANYTHING!! SO SHUT UP!" He snarled.
Edge snarled right back as he dodged another fist before lashing out and
catching Sans' fist coming at him. He held fast, even as Sans jerked to be
free. He just held on when the other thrashed to be let go.
"I DON'T FUCKING KNOW ANYTHING?! I DON'T KNOW?! SANS, LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING
ABOUT ME!! I LIVED IN FUCKING SHIT IN MY WORLD! GASTER ABANDONED ALL OF US! BUT
HE LEFT ME AND MY BABY BONES BROTHER TO FEND FOR OUR SELVES IN A WORLD FULL OF
HATE AND ANGER!! HE LEFT US TO DIE!! IN A WORLD FULL OF KILL OR BE KILLED!!
FUCK OR BE FUCKED!! I WAS FUCKED SO MANY TIMES, WILLINGLY AND UNWILLINGLY TO
KEEP MY PAPYRUS ALIVE AND FED!! AND EVEN MORE SO BOSS STARTED FIGHTING BACK! HE
EVEN FUCKED ME TO KEEP ME ALIVE BECAUSE ASGORE WANTED ME DEAD!! IT DIDN'T
CHANGE UNTIL I CAUGHT CHARITY AND MADE HER MY GOD DAMNED SLAVE!! SHE NEVER
STOPPED FIGHTING ME THOUGH!! SHE KEPT FIGHTING!! AND SO DID YOUR TRUE SOUL!! SO
ARE YOU REALLY GOING TO JUST SIT THERE AND ACT LIKE A FUCKING SELF PITY PARTY
OR ARE YOU GOING TO HELP US FIND A WAY OUT?!" Edge just roared into Sans' face.
Silence.
There was just silence as all stared at the two facing off each other.
Sans glared but slowly, he began crumbling, blue tears spilling in a flood as
he began shaking again. He weakly started to fall back to his knees.
But Edge swept him up and yanked him into an embrace. He held the other so
tight as he even trembled and both clutched onto one another, both sinking to
their knees.
"......it was never bad in my world. Sure, me and Blue were abandoned us but we
were happy no matter what. Trapped in the Underground but happy....." Stretch
spoke weakly.
"Yeah.....in my world....every monster tried to eat me and Zombs." Nightmare
murmured. "It was Grillby who saved our lack of asses from becoming chew toys
to the wolves."
"In mine.....I lived on the streets for a long time with my bro." Mob spoke up
for the first time since they really been in the Void. "It was Grillbz who took
us in but it was Asgore who hired us into his mob until we were bigger. Pretty
bad but not the worst."
"I.....I can't really say how bad it was in Outertale. It wasn't bad at all
really." Outer said weakly.
"Wasnt bad for me and Disco either." Fresh spoke up, trembling. "We were child
actors from the start, even when Gaster left us.......we've kind of had it easy
in my world."
Sans clutched onto Edge and Edge clutched onto Sans, both holding each other
and just sobbing. "We have to get out of here......" the blue wearing skeleton
choked. "I've got to get to Ashlee. I've got to."
"I know." Edge said as he used a sleeve to wipe at his eye sockets. "We all do.
We've all got to get to our true Souls."
Slowly, they pulled away from each other, wiping at their eye sockets and
looking around at all of the others. Sans looked right at Ink, who was quietly
watching everyone.
"I-Ink......."
Ink just shook his head numbly, rainbow colored tears still spilling as he
slumped. "I'm sorry, Sans. I can't. The Void is failing. It's breaking apart. I
wish there was a way to open up a portal to anywhere but with it
falling.....there is no way out." He said sorrowfully. "What makes it worst is
because the Void is failing.....everything is being destroyed. If we're still
in here when the Void shatters.....we will be destroyed."
Everyone stared at him now in alarm.
"You mean......?!" Stretch was asking.
Ink just nodded as he looked around, now wrapping his arms around himself. "The
Void falls, we are gone. Lost to forever darkness. And there is no way out. Not
unless we can fix the Void." He said, his voice cracking a little in a high
pitch.
Sans was standing up now, wiping at his face with his sleeve. "How do we fix
the Void then?" He asked hurriedly.
Ink looked weak and pain but he shook his head. "I....I don't know, Sans! You
would think I would know but I don't! I don't know!" He said now cracking as a
fresh set of tears began to spill.
Sans was immediately over ther,e, wrapping his arms around Ink and so Papyrus.
"We will find a way. We've got to." He said now hugging the despaired colorful
skeleton.
"I don't know how." Ink whimpered weakly.
"I do."
Every single skeleton jumped at the sound of a new voice and they all spun
around in alarm, before they all just gaped in complete shock at who now stood
there in the darkness.
G.
And Error.
"YOU?!" Edge snarled now balling up his fists and he wasn't the only one.
Nightmare and Boss were snarling as they whipped out their weapons. Stretch was
blocking a terrified Blue now, who clutched onto him with terror.
Every one of the skeletons stood together, all glaring at the two new arrivals.
They were surprised to see that G was carrying someone......Heaven. They saw
Heaven in his arms, curled lifeless against him. And it did surprise them.
"What are you doing here?!" San growled as he glared hateful at G and Error.
G stared blankly at them before he slowly lowered himself to one knee to gently
set Heaven down on the black ground. He then stood up and slowly moved around
her, waving a hand to summon a purple shield around her.
If there was going to be a fight, he didn't want her getting hit.
"We came for you lot." G said as he dug into his jacket pocket and pulled out a
pack of smokes, taking one out. He lit it and then pulled out a book. The black
leather bound book.
Then he tossed it to Sans, who jumped but caught it with a scramble.
"First page." G merely said as he stuffed his hands into his pockets and just
puffed on the smoke.
Sans frowned as he held the book with confusion. He shared a lost look with the
others and even his own brother before he opened the book and peered at it. He
only stiffened when he saw that it Gaster''s journal.
And there was and written letter within it.
'To my sons, all Sans' and Papyrus',
If you are reading this, then it means I am dead and gone and Gaster Sans has
joined you.
I have done so many things wrong to all of you. I have done so many unspeakable
and unforgiving things to each of you for the sake of science and it is my
deepest regret.
I have treated all of you like objects and mistakes and it was so wrong of me.
I should have never said or done the things I did. I should have been the
father I was to you. I should have taken each and every one of you in my arms,
hugging and kissing you. Loving all of you as a father should do with his
children.
All of you.
From Gaster Sans to Blueberry Sans. Sans, Papyrus, Boss, Edge, Outer, Fresh,
Ink, Error, Stretch, Blueberry, Nightmare, Zombie, all of you.
All of you are my sons and I treated each and everyone of you like trash and I
deeply, sorrowfully regret it all. There is no words I can say to make it up to
you all. All I can say is I am so sorry.'
There were blotches on the paper, as if tears had fallen while this had been
written.
And Sans.....he felt the pain and sorrow that this letter was written with.
'All of you.....I am so sorry! I am so sorry about Heaven and Ashlee and every
one I have hurt in my selfish deed of science and thirst of revenge for the
loss of your mother, Bonessa.
I should have never done any of the things I did and I am so, so sorry. There
is nothing I can do that can erase what I've done.
Except one thing.
I can give you the hope you need to beat the unspeakable Hate.
As you all know, when I started experimenting on the Core of each world I have
created, I did things that I shouldn't have done. But I also did something
else.
I didn't know what was going to happen when I created the Core in Undertale but
I knew something was going to happen. I just had a feeling that something like
this would happen.
When I created Gaster Sans from raping a young girl, in the Core of Undertale,
another was born at the same time.
In Echotale.
Hella of Echotale.
I didn't know she was born and I believe in some way she is connected to my
deeds that created your oldest brother, Gaster Sans.
But she was born true Evil.
Hella is pure evil and it's hard to explain what she is. There is no words that
can describe her. All I know was when she was born, she also had the power to
reach into other dimensions and touch someone with Hate. And I believe she did
in Undertale from Echo.
She is poison to everything she touches.
I cannot explain why or how but she is able to touch someone''s soul and poison
them with Hate. She is Hate in a physical form.
And I believe she is the true cause of the wars that broke out in each and
every Tale. Every world.
I don't even think she realized what she was until G ended up in Echotale. She
just hated everything and everyone. She just wanted to destroy. And I believe
she went mad when Heaven was created, who in counter is Love.
Before I get off topic with something else, I do have to explain something.
I felt Hate''s presence when I created Gaster Sans and I knew something would
go wrong. I didn't know what but I knew something like this would happen.
It was why.....I created Sans and Papyrus after Gaster Sans."
Blinking, Sans glanced up at Papyrus who was standing over his shoulder,
reading along with him. They both blinked at each other in surprise before
looking back at the book.
'Sans and Papyrus were born of my own soul and of my True Love, Bonessa. I knew
that one day, no matter what, they would grow big and strong enough to counter
Hate.
After Bonessa''s demise, however, I did grow mad from my own rage of her
Dusting. I experimented on Sans and Papyrus, my own sons and I did so many
unforgivable things to them.
For it.....it is my fault that Sans is weak in a physical sense. It was my
fault that he is down to 1 HP. Because I was trying to make Papyrus stronger by
transferring Sans' own power into Papyrus. And instead, that took Sans' HP
away, dropping it down to one.
One hit could kill Sans and it worries me that if he would be killed, it was
all over.
Sans must never die.
The one thing, however, I did not calculate was his true strength.
Sans may be physically weak but he is truly a powerful monster I have made. His
powers of manipulating time and gravity has grown so strong that it made me
curious of what he really could do. His power of jumping through the Void in
short bursts was interesting.
He could rip a hole into the Void and take what is called a 'short cut'.
When I left Undertale to search Bonessa and I discovered the other dimensions,
I tried replicating Sans' power in others.
Therefore, I created all of you.
Sans and Papyrus of Alternate Universes. Each can replicate what Sans could do.
Except one. Papyrus of Underswap has the same power as the Sans'.
While each of them, Sans' and Stretch shared their powers, all Papyrus' and
Blueberry shares their powers.
All Sans' and Stretch are powerful with magic.
And all Papyrus' and Blueberry are powerful in physicality. They counteract
with each other and with each and every pair, they can hold their own and even
over come. They are all a pair of one.
With each pair of brothers, back to back, side by side, Sans and Papyrus can
fight and win any encounter as long as they do it together.
Sans with his powers and Papyrus with his extended, powerful HP. Protecting one
another to any battle.'
It seemed like Gaster had gotten lost with explaining his experiments than
actually talking to all of the skeleton sons he had.
'I'm getting off subject.'
Convenient.
'What I am trying to explain is while I did so many things wrong, there is only
one thing I did right and that is make each pair so strong with one another.
Together, all of them are powerful. And together, with all of them, all pairs
of brothers, they can defeat HATE.
That does mean, all of you together, my dear sons. ALL of you together.'
"Is he out of his fucking mind?!" Edge suddenly burst out and everyone glanced
at him, though he was glaring at G and Error. "He's basically saying we have to
band together with you two!"
"TCH! NO WAY!" Nightmare snarled, glaring at Error, who glared back.
"Shut up! Let me finish reading this!" Sans snapped before turning back to the
book, frowning and reading.
'I know that will be difficult because of the things that were done between
you. What you've done to each other. But I must stress that out of all of you,
it was Error who suffered the most.'
Everyone looked right at the black skeleton, who looked somber for once.
'It was Error, who used to be Paperjam, that I broke the most until he snapped
and became Error. I even violated his very soul trying to break Ink. And he
took it all to protect Ink.
But unlike Error, it was Gaster Sans who suffered the worst neglect from me.
Because as soon as I found out that I created Sans, I threw him away like trash
that he was not. He had never had love from me. Never been held like I have
done before with all of you.
He has always been alone while I made you each a brother.
He has none.
He never had one ounce of happiness since he was created because I wouldn't
give it to him.
And to make it worst, I took the happiness that he finally found in an Echo of
emptiness. I took his LOVE, Heaven from him when I discovered her to be LOVE
and the first True Soul I discovered when I should have realized that it was
Gaster Sans who was the first True Soul.
What I did to G, it can be undone.'
That made everyone freeze up as Sans read that.
'In the Void, where you are probably trapped if I calculated right, there is a
machine hidden in the darkness and only you, each one of you can fix it.
But G knows where it is.
Because he broke it.
He broke the machine that can do a TRUE RESET.
This machine will fix the Void and bring Heaven back to life. G didn't know
that it could do that, otherwise he would have never broke it and none of this
would have happened.
I made this machine in my own imprisonment of the Void, from the power of each
Core I created.
But to fix it, there is a piece of information that each of you hold, my sons.
You each must work on the machine and fix something.
But to cause the TRUE RESET, you must escape the Void and return to your own
dimensions and turn on your Cores.
But to do that, you have to break the tie between your True Souls and Hella.
You must free them from her control. And once the True Souls are free, the
Cores will connect and give you final fight to Hella without her power to
control, you can defeat HATE but with love.
You must fix this machine and place LOVE inside of it to bring her to life.
Because Heaven is the only one who can break Hella's control over your True
Souls. But it will require your love for them as well. Through her, you will
free Ashlee, Hope, Charity, Justice, Charlie, Sam, and Alice.
And together, the True Souls will defeat HATE through my sons.
Every one of them.
You need each other, my dear boys. I realize that now and I hope with every
piece of my soul that you can look past what I did to you and fight together.
My sons.
My boys.
Together you are stronger than HATE.
Error,
Ink is not at fault for what was done to you. He tried so hard to shelter you
from what I did to you. He tried so hard to take some of the pain I caused.
Ink loves you so much.
Please, forgive him and be his brother again.
Because you need each other. You complete each other as one. Please, if not for
me, which is really bad to event say, do it for one another. Because I know
that deep inside of you, tangled in strings, you still love Ink.'
Ink and Error looked right another, one hard the other hopeful.
But slowly, Error softened and he offered the smallest of smiles, nodding. And
Ink brightened before he was a blur of rainbow as he lunged at the black
skeleton, wrapping his arms around his brother.
Who in return, embraced back as the deep blue tear stains began to glow as he
trembled as he hugged Ink back.
"......i'M s-SorR-ry-ry......." Error suddenly choked as he buried his skull
into Ink's neck, his whole body shaking.
Ink just shook his head as he clutched tightly onto Error. "Don't, Error. It's
not your fault. Gaster's right. It wasn't your fault." He choked out.
A few smiles broke out as the felt the genuine feels of apologies from those
two.
'Gaster Sans,' Sans went on and all looked at him as he read.
'What I did to you, I am so sorry. I can only make it up to you by giving
Heaven back. But you can't do this on your own. You know how truly powerful
Hella and the Luminosity is.
You cannot do this alone.
You are not alone anymore.
If I know Sans and Papyrus, they will take you in and give you what I could
not. You just need to give them a chance.
Sans,
Please. I know Papyrus will give him a chance but please, take in G. He is your
brother. He has been alone for so long. You need to teach him how to love
again. Because Heaven is the only one who ever showed him love.
And I took her from him.
You know what that feels like, Sans.
I did it to Ashlee.
I did to you.
And I am so sorry.
I love all of you, my sons. I just regret never showing you how much I truly
loved you. I am so sorry for what I've done. And I hope in time you will
forgive me for the pain and devastation I've caused.
I love you with all my soul, my sons.
Goodbye.
Your loving father,
W.D. GASTER'
Now it was just silent.
No one spoke for a long time as Sans slowly and softly closed the book and just
held it, staring at his father's name on the book before he looked up at G, who
had his eye lights drawn down to the ground.
It was almost comical to see G looking so sheepish, now kicking at what might
have pebbles on the ground, hands in his pockets. He looked like a kid who was
standing before angry parents, trying to look brave and grown up or
disinterested but was failing.
But no one was laughing or smiling.
Gaster Sans was fucking terrified and it showed in his purple eye lights.
It was now up to them.
Mercy or Kill.
Sans stared at G for a long moment before he simply let go of the journal and
let it drop with an echoing thud, making all flinch. Even G flinched.
But Sans paid no mind as he stepped over the book and walked over to the tall
lithe skeleon who did stiffen but did not look up at him.
It just made it hard that Sans was shorter than G and he walked straight in
front of G, right into his train of vision. And they locked eye lights, now
staring at one another.
"So?" G asked finally as he shrugged his shoulders. "Mercy or kill. I won't
fight back, Sans. I'm tired of all of it. I'm tired of fucking fighting. All I
ask is if you decide to kill me, please just....." he tore his eyes away from
Sans and he looked behind him at Heaven's deathly white form, purple tears now
filling his eye sockets. "Just....save her. You'd like her. She's as sweet as
Ashlee is. She is feisty like Charity. She loves like Hope. She has a sense of
justice like Justice. She is highly intelligent like Charlie. She is bluntly
honest like Alice. And she loves to dance and sing."
G's voice was cracking.
"I don't care what you do to me. I really don't. Just don't hurt her." G said
now looking back at Sans, who remained blank.
Dead silence.
Sans just stared right into G's eye lights, his face hard and blank. He
remained like that for a good while. And G shuffled his feet a little bit.
"Want to know what the biggest problem is?" Sans finally spoke after a long
time. His eye lights flicked past G to Heaven. "If it were Ashlee......I would
have done the same thing."
His eyes turned back to G, who did seem seem surprised by his words.
And then Sans held out a hand. "We help you, you help us. Like brothers we are
suppose to be. No more back stabbing. No more lying. No more fighting each
other. We help you get Heaven back, you help us get our True Souls back. And we
fucking kill Hate." He growled.
G blinked for a good moment before he slowly smiled and he reached out with his
hand, clasping Sans as he said, "Deal......."
PFFFFFFFT!!!!
The sound of a Whoopi cushion suddenly broke the silence and even cut G off,
who stiffened with wide eye sockets and everyone else froze with their own
shock.
A wide grin spread out on Sans' face as he tugged his hand free and held it up
to show G the Whoopi cushion in his hand. "The old Whoopi cushion in the hand
trick.......it's...." he was saying.
But G cut him off by bending over and just laughing so hard loud as he wrapped
his arms around his middle. He just broke down and laughed.
He was quickly followed by everyone else. Not one skeleton was spared by
laughter. They all just bent over or fell to the ground, laughing so hard that
it just echoed all around them.
"It's.....always.....HAH.....funny!" G managed to choke out between loud
laughs.
Sans grinned at him now shoving his hands into his own pockets and he stepped
back. "Now how about we get to work? Where's the machine Gaster was talking
about?" He asked chuckling.
G smirked as he contained himself and stood up, pointing to behind him. "Right
behind you." He said smugly.
And everyone, still giggling and snorting with laughter turned around as the
darkness split and revealed the machine.
***** Eighteen *****
Chapter Notes
     Song Best Used:
     Megalovania Orchestral Remix (feat. Voyage au Centre La De Toile)
The machine was massive, if they had to be honest.
And it looked very much like the DT machines that could be found in all of the
other dimensions. It was like a giant demonic bullhead; a giant Gaster Blaster
skull. Only it was ten times bigger than the other ones were. It was the size
of a one story house.
It was a mess, however.
Wires torn out, pipes crushed and glass were broken. Someone, G had ripped this
machine apart.
Still, it alarmed every skeleton looking at it. It was a monster of a machine.
"Whoa.....what the fuck?!" Edge yelped as he looked up at it with wide eye
sockets. "How the hell did we miss this?!"
G stepped forward as he looked at the machine grimly. "You couldn't see it
because it was being shielded by me. I was hiding it. Just in case someone
found it and tried fixing it. This.....machine is what connects life. It
connects the worlds together too. It's what makes the portals and the pathways.
And I'm guessing it brings back life too. It might even be the reason why
monsters can be reborn in worlds." He told them.
"And we're suppose to fix this with what?! I don't think you've noticed, G, but
none of us has tools!" Edge grumbled.
G smirked at him before he looked at Error, who grinned back as he reached into
his jacket and pulled out a box, setting it down.
Everyone blinked at him in surprise but San snorted as he eyed the box. "A
Dimensional box?" He asked in amusement.
Error nodded as he opened the box and began pulling out tool boxes and even
monster food. "....yEp........" was all he said.
Sans looked right at G, frowning. "How long have you been working with each
other? You two seem pretty comfortable around each other. And how long have you
planned this? What happened to the True Souls? Ashlee?" He asked.
G looked back at him before nodding to Error. "We've been working together
since Hella caught him. We had a chat after she tried to control him. And when
she found out she couldn't because he's a puppet master too, she had him take
control of me, promising him if he kept me under her control, he could have
Charlie back. Which I knew was bullshit. Because once she has a new toy, she
don't like others playing with them. I warned him that she wouldn't give
Charlie back. He was skeptic at first and even he warned me that she would
never let me go. But I already knew that. So we made a plan that if Hella ever
tried to backstab him, we would leave her. And we would take Heaven''s body
from her."
"Just him?" Stretch asked skeptically.
G glanced at him but nodded. "He was in control of me. There's no fighting when
he's controlling you. You can try but it sure is damn hard." He stated.
"Bullshit! I fuck in broke free!" Nightmare snapped irritably.
G just smirked over at him. "Did you? Did you really? Or did he let you go? Or
did he let Zombie go?" He asked smugly.
Nightmare went dead quiet, the surprise clear on his face.
".....I-i....le-e-e-Et.....hiM g-G-go-O-o..." Error said as he pulled things
out from the box and set the supplies to the side.
Nightmare looked right at hom, bewildered before he growled and then pulled out
the gold necklace he had hidden under his shirt. Hope''s vial with Zombie''s
dust. "Why did you kill him if you let him go?" He growled.
Error paused in grabbing something else out before he simply pointed at G.
"I told him to." G said grimly. "Because of the machine." He then turned to
Nightmare, his eye lights went to the vial of monster dust. "Because if we fix
this thing, there is a good chance we need a test subject to make sure it
actually works."
Nightmare growled, his red eyes flashing dangerously. "You....killed
Zombie......for a fucking test?!" He snarled.
"Think of it that way if you want, Nightmare. But also think of this." G
warned. "If the machine works, you get Zombie back. Either way, if we test the
machine on Zombie''s dust or not, if we manage to do the True RESET, you still
get him back. Because once we achieve the RESET, everything goes back to it
once was. That is if what Gaster said was true. I figured either way, you'd
want him back sooner rather than later. Because he is your other half. And
you're stronger with him." He said seriously before he turned back to Error and
went over to grab some tools.
That had Nightmare shutting up rather fast as he took it all in. He saw G''s
point.
"What if it doesnt work and Zombie is gone for good?" San asked as he
approached G and got his own tools to work with.
G didn't look at him as he picked up a wrench. "It'll work. Gaster was no
idiot, other than the fact he treated all of us like shit. He thinks it's going
to work, bringing life back to Heaven. If it can do that to her, it can do that
to Zombie." He told him.
Sans slowly nodded as he found himself agreeing. He saw the point that G was
making.
"So what's the story with her?"
G stiffened and turned to see Stretch standing over Heaven's body. And he
growled a warning to the orange hoodied skeleton, who stepped back, holding up
his hands.
Relaxing again, G sighed as he looked longingly at Heaven and then turned back
towards the machine. "Hm......." he sighed again before grabbing something on
the machine to reaatach. "I met her in a brothal. Hella's family owned her.
Even though she was Hella's father's daughter. He never treated her like his
kid. Kind of...like us with Gaster." He said grimly.
That had every skeleton go quiet as they watched him start to work.
"A brothal? So she was a......" Edge asked with a hint of disgust.
G sent him a look of warning, knowing fully well he was about to call her a
whore. "She was a sex slave, Edge. It wasn't her choice." He growled lowly.
"But, yeah. She was forced to service men and male monsters who bought her
time. She was doing it since she was twelve. Her father forced her to."
That created a lot of hisses and growls from all skeletons.
"WHILE THAT IS NORMAL FOR OUR WORLD, IT IS STILL DISGUSTING TO HEAR THAT!!"
Boss growled as he snatched up a screwdriver and moved over to help with the
machine.
"Did you ever......?" Fresh asked as he joined in to fix the machine with Outer
hovering right beside him.
G shook his head immediately. "I bought her time but I never did touch her
until she was willing. I hate fucking shit like that. Which is why I admit, I'm
not fond of you, Edge. Sorry." He said dismissive.
Edge shook waved at him, not caring.
"So you bought her time but never touched her. So what did you do?" Sans asked
curiously as he began to work.
G just smirked as if he found that funny. "I just talked to her, I did harass
her in the beginning. She might very been a slave but she was fun to harrass.
She spat fire every time I picked on her. But I think she was having fun
fighting with me. Verbally, of course. I wouldn't hit females. I might be low
into killing but I never hurt women." He said with a chuckle. "After the fifth
time I bought her time, I stole her from the brothal. I took her from her
family, who were never family to her and took her back to our Underground to
hide.
"She was scared of what I was going to do to her and did try and run away
several times. But I wouldn't hurt her. What I actually wanted from her was
companionship and not the sexual kind. It's kind of lonely in Echo tale when
you're always by yourself. And she was fun to be around. I think she realized
that later on when I saved her from raiders." G explained. "A group of men who
hunted females to sell in the slave market. They found her and tried to take
her from me. They attacked us. And that was their last mistake."
"And?" Stretch asked, lifting Blue up on his shoulders so they both could fix
the machine together.
"And then I saved her. Lost my right arm in that fight. Took us a while to get
it back because some white rat took it." G growled at the very thought.
"White rat?" Sans asked in amusement as he glanced at him. "A dog?"
"A Temmi named Timmy." G grumbled, definitely disgruntled but had to chuckle.
"Shes got a friend she made friends with. A weird Temmi whose not quite like
the others. He talks somewhat normal than other Temmi does. I think he actually
used to be our Prince Asriel of Echotale. You all have Flowey, we have Timmy."
That got a brow raised from all of the other skeletons.
"Asriel became a Temmi in your world?" Nightmare asked making a face. "Why the
hell would he want to be a Temmi?! Those things are fucking annoying!"
"Why would your Asriel want to be a fucking flower?" G shot back but in
amusement. "Who knows why? Maybe Alphys of Echo put Asriel in a Temmi instead.
I never confirmed it with Timmy. Either way, Heaven and I had Timmy in our
group. And he was fiercely protective over her. Have a few bite marks to prove
it. And later on, we.....fell in love. I instigated a relationship with her,
mostly teasing her even though I did want her badly. But I made a promise to
her that I would never do anything to her without her consent. Thing was, when
I teased her, she returned it. And it goes on from there. We became physical
with each other. And that's that."
"So what happened with Hella? Whas the story with her and how did you lose
Heaven?" Mob asked as he even began working on the machine.
G grew grim from there, his eyes hardening. "Hella.....she hated everything as
it was. Always had. Her parents, monsters, life. The only thing she didn't hate
was me." He explained with a hard tone. "We....we were kind of lovers before
Heaven came into my life."
The other skeletons stared at him with wide eyes.
"You and Hella?" Stretch asked.
G nodded. "It was mostly us fooling around with each other. She offered me her
body and I took it. She wanted....she just wanted to try and feel Love and
thought I could give it to her. But I just didn't like her. I knew she was bad.
She was just.....Hate." he stated just as grim as before.
"You were trying to see if you couldn't felt love. Both of you trying to figure
it out." Sans said uncertaintly.
G nodded slowly as he shared a glance with the other. "Yeah. I think so.
Problem was, it wasn't love with her. She tried, I tried. But none of us could
feel it. I think at some point, she became obsessed with me. She thought it was
love but I didn't. I knew it wasn't. In some way, I do pity her for not being
able to feel love. But it all went crashing down when she tried to kill Heaven.
She found Gaster and used him to try and get rid of Heaven. Problem was, it
worked. But it sure as hell made me angry."
"And? That's why you wanted to kill Gaster?" Ink asked curiously. He never
actually knew the story behind G and Heaven. Just some pieces.
"That and more. Gaster hurt Heaven bad. He tore her soul a part, trying to find
a solution of bringing Bonessa back to life. And I felt everything he did to
her." G said though he was very reluctant to say that.
Nonetheless, everyone was staring at him in surprise.
"You felt......?" Mob was asking.
And Sans hissed in realization. "You felt it? You're already bonded to her!" He
said in alarm.
G looked away, looking right at Heaven, sadly. "Yes. She's my soul mate. And
we're bonded by souls. So, yeah. She was my wife." He said grimly.
Dead silent as all stared at him.
No one could say anything to that.
They couldn't find it to say anything.
But then it was Papyrus who went over and touched G's arm, gently, making him
look sharply at him. But he said not a word as he tugged the other tall
skeleton to him into a startled embrace.
"We will fix this machine, Gaster Sans. And you have your Heaven back. I swear
it." Papyrus said softly as he hugged G.
Slowly, G returned the embrace, the relief coming over his face. He looked
touched by what Papyrus was promising and it did bring tears to his eyes.
"Th.....thanks." G said genuinely touched by Papyrus ' gentle nature.
Everyone slowly smiled and even boss, Edge and Nightmare had to smile. They all
swore it.
G would have Heaven back.
To have a soul mate ripped away from a monster.....to have the other half of a
soul ripped apart like that....it was no wonder G was the way he was. His very
soul had been ripped apart when he lost Heaven. And to be able to live while
she did not.....that had to be the most excruciating thing ever felt.
"So it's possible for a monster to share his soul with a human." Sans said
highly interested.
G gave him a smile as he went back to work on the machine. "Yeah, it is, Sans.
Why? You thinking that when this is all over, if we win, you gonna ask Ashlee
to become your other half?" He asked knowingly.
A light blue dusted Sans' cheeks but he smiled as he went to work on what he
was fixing. "Yes." He merely whispered and everyone heard it.
And they all smiled.
It was impossible to tell of how much time passed in the Void as they worked on
the machine. They worked for hours on end that it felt like days since they
started. They worked hard, fixing what was broken.
The machine was such a mess that it would take a good while to clean up and
fix.
But nonetheless, they worked hard and long on it. And it was slowly coming back
together.
In the mean time, they all talked and learned more about each other. And Error
did tell them that the last order he was given had been to fetch Chara from
Inktale.
Sans gave him the dirtiest look when he admitted that. And so did Stretch, Ink
and Papyrus.
But Error told them that he did not follow that order. He, instead, did take
them but to another dimension that Hella or her Luminousity had yet to take
over. Nor could they. They tried but the beings in that dimension was....pretty
extreme even for G and even he admitted that the beings there were very
difficult to beat.
It was due to the fact that they were very intimidating.
"It's called BeastTale." G told the curious skeletons. "It's a side alternate
dimension like Mobtale is. Created by a crack in the Void. There.....everything
is a Beast. Beast Sans there......well, he looks like a Gaster Blaster. A nasty
looking skeleton dragon who is quite fierce for a Sans. No offense." He added
to Sans.
But Sans paid no mind. He was actually very curious about this world and other
worlds that seemed to be existing without their knowledge.
"What's he like?" Sans asked.
"Who, Beast?" G asked with a chuckle. "Not unlike you. Highly protective of
those he cares about. He has the head of a Gaster Blaster. A whip like tail
like a Dragon's. And he breathes blue fire. He doesn't like other monsters
getting on in his territory but those who are in need of help like your Frisk,
Calli and Chara.....yeah, no one is getting past him. Not me or even Error. Not
even Hella could get past him if she tried."
"And don't we want him with us then?" Mob asked raising a brow.
G shook his head. "Nope. We don't. Because one, he is not about to leave his
world for anything unless he really has to. And two, he's protecting Frisk,
Chara and Calli now. He isn't one for dropping his guard at all. It'll take a
lot for him to drop his guard. And Hella isn't stupid when it comes to messing
with him. She already knows he is one monster you don't fuck with. I about got
my boney ass dusted because of him. If it wasn't for the fact that I have a
high HP, I would have been dead." He stated.
Everyone was looking curious now. They hadn't really thought about it but they
had figured he was like most of the Sans'. That he had 1 HP.
They never did check his STATS.
"What is your HP, anyway?" Stretch asked, frowning.
G just grinned at them as he stopped working and held out his arms as if
presenting himself to them. "Go ahead. You're curious now. Check my STATS." He
said smugly and even Error, who did know his STATS grumbled enviously.
The skeletons all shuffled anxiously before they checked him.
And choked at what they found.
Gaster Sans
HP 666666*
AT 66666
DF. 66666
EXP -6666
"What........the........fuck?!" Edge yelped in shock and alarm. "How in the
fuck are you so high in STATS?!"
G just smirked as he dropped his arms and went back to working on the machine.
"I match Gaster's STATS. His is the same. To be completely honest, in a way, I
am his clone. So technically, in a way, I'm just another Gaster. But also a
Sans and Papyrus. I'm all three. So my STATS kind of double." He explained.
Everyone just stared flabbergasted at him but also a little envious.
"How did you not just kill us when you did try?" Stretch asked stunned.
"Maybe because deep down, I never wanted to kill you. I just didn't want to
admit it. Not even to myself." G answered shrugging.
And everyone went back to work on the machine.
After what seemed like a week of working tirelessly, though everyone did take
breaks after long hours of working, the machine seemed to be fixed.
All skeletons stood around in front of it, staring up at it.
"So.....uh.....do you think we did it?" Outer asked uncertaintly.
G shrugged before turning towards Nightmare. "One way to find out. But it's up
to you, Nightmare." He said shoving his hands into his pockets.
Nightmare was hesitant as he pulled out the necklace, looking at it long and
hard. He was definitely uneasy about this. This was all he had left of Zombie.
He would argue the point of just putting Heaven in and letting her be the test
subject so he wouldn't have to lose Zombie.
But he already knew what that outcome would be.
He would lose that fight.
Because if it didn't work, they couldn't bring Heaven back or risk her body
getting destroyed. Even if by accident.
Zombie......
And he made a painful choke at the thought. Zombie was just Dust now.
A hand slowly covered Nightmare's and the vial, making him jump and he turned a
growl onto who was doing it, only to see it was Sans who did it. And at first,
he thought that the blue wearing skeleton would take Zombie from him.
But it was the opposite.
Sans was pushing the necklace back towards him.
"We don't have to use Zombie's dust, Nightmare. We can just try and use
Heaven......" Sans was saying, ignoring the worried growl from G.
But Nightmare shook his head and snapped off the necklace, handing it to him.
"We can't risk it, Sans. Even I know that. If something goes wrong, we can't
risk her body. Z-Zom-Zombie is just dust now." And his voice did crack with
emotion. "He's already gone. So let's do it. Because if this works......I'll
have Zombie back. But if it doesn't......well, it won't matter. So just do it."
Sans took the necklace carefully and gently pressed it to his chest, giving
Nightmare a sympathic look before he sighed and turned to G, who held out his
hand. "Promise, G."
G frowned, looking curious.
"Promise you're not lying to us. That you're not just doing this to get Heaven.
Promise you're not going to abandon us once you have her back." Sans said
firmly now relieving the necklace yet.
G was quiet for a long moment before he sighed. "I'm not going to lie, Sans.
Yes. I am just doing this to get her back." And everyone stiffened but he shook
his head. "But I won't abandon you. I'm not fucking Gaster."
"You swear your soul on it?" Sans asked still firm.
G slowly nodded. "I swear it on my soul that I will not abandon you once I have
Heaven back. I know I swore to Hella that if she got rid of Error, I would be
hers. But that was reverse psychology. I told her I swore. Because I do say
fuck a lot. And I didn't swear it on my soul. But I swear, I am not leaving you
behind." He then nodded to Heaven's body. "She wouldn't let me anyway. Knowing
her, she'd kick my ass if I pulled that shit. She doesn't like it when someone
does that."
That brought a smile to Sans' face and he gave him the vial of dust.
G turned and went to the machine, to the now open doorway and placed the vial
inside. He closed it, glancing back at the other anxious skeletons. "Now let's
hope this works." He murmured before he began pushing buttons.
The machine began to rumble with life.
The machine rumbled and shook and lights flashed on it, making all of the
skeletons step back with unease. Even G looked uneasy as it shook quite
violently. They just hoped it didn't blow up in their faces.
And it suddenly made a loud pop and everyone flinched.
It died.
For a long moment, no one moved or said anything. They just stared at the mouth
of the machine, bewildered.
"Did it......?" Edge was starting to say.
G huffed irritably as he stepped forward and grabbed the door to the machine to
swing open. "I don't think it did. Something went wrong. I thought it would do
more than that." He grumbled and he gave Nightmare a sympathic look when he
whimpered in pain. "Sorry, Nightmare. We will figure this out and try again."
He said now tugging on the door.
It jammed.
G flinched when the door didn't open and he turned back to the machine,
frowning. He tugged again but it didn't move. "Aw, shit. It's jammed. Anyone
got a screwdriver? Maybe I can.......?" He was saying tugging and pulling.
Suddenly, the machine flared to life again, roaring with sound that sent G
scampering with swear words sproutin out of his mouth as he quickly moved back.
The machine was moving again.
And this time, the eyes of the machine flared up with brightly white light.
They just flared up as if someone turned on LED hot lamps within the giant
skull.
Or.......as if it were alive.
Because those eyes,the machine's eyes turned down and looked right at the
skeletons, who were all gaping with wide eye sockets. Every. Single. One. Of.
Them.
"HM?! WHAT IS THIS?! SKELETONS?! QUITE IDENTICAL SKELETONS!! YOU MUST BE ALL OF
THE SANS' AND PAPYRUS' THAT MY MASTER BORE FROM HIS OWN SOUL!! WELL, EXCEPT FOR
ONE OF YOU!! I BELIEVE YOU CAME FROM A DREAM I HADE IN MY SLUMBER!!" The
machine spoke in a loud rumbling voice that echoed across the Void.
Blink. Blink. Blink. Blink.
"Uh.......G-G.......is......is that ma-machine......alive?" Sans asked his
voice shaky.
G stared wide eye socketed. "It would appear so, Sans." He murmured in complete
shock.
"HM? I SENSE AN EMPTY SOUL INSIDE MYSELF!! DID YOU PLACE HIM THERE?!" The
machine asked looking down as if looking at its own mouth. "I SUPPOSE YOU DID!!
WELL THEN!! THERE IS ONLY ONE REASON WHY HE WOULD BE THERE!! SO LET'S GET TO
IT!!"
And it began to glow and rumble loudly.
The whole machine shook and rumbled that even made the ground shake under the
skeleton's feet. They all yelped as they found their selves staggering. They
even had to catch their selves on one another to keep from falling over.
The machine continued to rumble and shake before it suddenly stopped and a ding
like an oven timer went off.
"THERE!! MUCH BETTER!! HE IS DONE!!" The machine rumbled before opening it's
mouth and a long glowing heavenly yellow tongue slid out, dropping........
A very startled Zombie right on the black, sightless ground.
"ZOMBIE!!" Nightmare yelped in shock but sudden joy, his red eyes widening but
filling with sudden tears.
Zombie, who was quite confused, turned sharply at the sound of Nightmare''s
voice before lighting up and staggering to his feet. He didn't even have to
take one step before Nightmare was on him, colliding with him that sent both of
them back to the ground.
But both wrapped their arms around each other and hugged each other tightly,
both now sobbing.
"Oh, my god! Zombs! You're alive! You're back! It worked! Oh, I'm so sorry! I
didn't mean to kill you! I'm so sorry!" Nightmare sobbed as he held his much
taller brother.
Gargling and growling, Zombie just shook his ragged and cracked head as he held
Nightmare. He must of said something because Nightmare grinned waterly.
"Yeah, I know it wasn't my fault. But still, I'm so sorry!"
"I can't believe this! It worked!" Ink said brightly before he looked at G, who
was already pickinG Heaven up and moving over to the machine.
"Please......her next......" G said as he cradled her close to him.
The machine turned it's eyes onto him before opening up its mouth. "OKAY!!
PLACE HER INSIDE.......!!" It was saing.
"WHOA! WHOA! WHOA! HOLD UP!! Sans suddenly shouted, now quickly blocking G from
approaching the machine. "Am I the only who sees something weird here?! This
machine is alive! What the hell is going on here?!" He exclaimed.
"Believe me, Sans. You are not the only one." Fresh said quite weirded out. And
Outer nodded in agreement as did Stretch.
Sans turned back to the machine, not putting down his guard. "Who are you and
how the hell are you alive?!" He demanded to know.
The machine just seemed to smile before shifting a little. "MY NAME IS DREAM.
DREAM SANS. AND WHILE THIS IS NOT WHAT I ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE OUTSIDE THE VOID, I
KIND OF TAKE ON THIS FORM HERE!!" The machine spoke.
"Huh?!" Edge asked stupidly still stunned way what was happening.
"AH, I SEE THIS IS JUST CONFUSING YOU!! ALRIGHTY THEN!! HERE IS WHAT I LOOK
OUTSIDE OF THE VOID!!" The machine said before there was a flash of gold and a
small skeleton appeared right in front of all of them.
And by small, he was much smaller than all of them.
At least two feet high, wearing a turquoise tunic and pants with golden yellow
trimming. A golden cape hung down from behind his shoulders. He wore yellow
boots on his feet with turquoise straps and on his skull, a golden band. His
eye lights were a golden yellow. And in his yellow gloved hands was a golden
scepter with a sky blue star crystal.
"Hello! I'm Dream Sans. Created by W.D. Gaster, here in the Void!
I.....uh.....kind of am the Guardian of the Void. And this machine is.....kind
of me. It helps me create and stablize the pathways between the dimensions!
Thanks for waking me up!" He said with a smooth, but kind of tiny voice, unlike
his mechanical form.
"WHA-?!" Several of the stunned skeletons squeaked in total astonishment.
***** Nineteen *****
Chapter Notes
     Song Used:
     Dreamlovania (Dreamtale Dream Sans' theme)
All of them were crowded around the tiny Sans staring at him in complete
bewilderment. He just kept a smile on his face as he looked up at them, turning
his head to look at each and every one of them.
"Why the hell is he so small?!" Edge blurted out.
"I DON'T KNOW, WHY ARE YOU FAT?!" Boss growled at his own brother.
"I'm not fat!! And you damn well know that, Boss!" Edge snarled back only to
cringe back a bit when Boss growled at him.
Sans bent down into a crouch to more level eyed with this two foot Sans. "I
don't understand. You. Are that thing?" He asked motioning to the machine.
Dream nodded innocently. "Yup! At least here in the Void! Gaster built that
machine and I came out of it! He was surprised too, so I'm not offended by your
reactions!" He said in quite squeaky voice.
"And you can bring Heaven back to life?" G asked skeptically.
Dream looked up at him and then nodded. "Sure! As I always say, if you can
dream it, you can achieve it! It's a dream come true for you, right?! So you
can achieve it!" He said brightly.
"I LIKE HIM!! PAPPY! CAN WE KEEP HIM?!" Blue asked excitedly.
Stretch snorted in amusement and patted Blue on the skull. "Sure. He's as cute
as you, Blue." He stated and that was exactly a lie.
"He's not cute! He's puny!" Edge growled, eyeing the little skeleton, who
blinked innocently up at him. And Edge''s face lit up bright red as he began to
sweat as he looked away.
"Are you fucking kidding me, Edge?! I might be more bad ass than you but I even
have to say it! This fucking thing is adorable!" Nightmare with disgust but
even he had a slight blush on his face but then he softened as he bent down to
one knee. "Hey, you brought back Zombie for me. So thanks."
Dream just smiled brightly at him as he folded his hands behind his back and
rocked on his feet, adding more to his already cuteness. "You're welcome,
Nightmare! Now then, you must have a lot of questions! But first, we need to
help Love! She's been asleep for a very long time now! And she's ready to wake
up!" He said turning to G. He then motioned to the machine. "Place her inside
my machine, Gaster Sans. And we will wake her up."
G nodded, looking quite anxious as he immediately hurried towards the
machine''s wide open mouth and gently set Heaven down. He gave her a look of
longing as he gently brushed her long silvery blonde hair out of her deathly
white face.
"G, I got to warn you though." Dream said as he moved past the bigger
skeletons, easily walking right through their legs because of his size.
G looked at him with worry. "What?" He asked uneasily.
Dream smiled sadly up at him. "She's not going to remember you right away. So
don't crowd her, even if it's to hold her. She will panic when she sees us. I
highly doubt she will even remember who she is." He told him softly.
G looked as if he had been slapped. "What?" He whispered.
"Gaster Sans, she's been gone for too long. This is going to work but it more
and likely she will be suffering from amnesia. So don't touch her when she
wakes up. Let her remember slowly. But I promise, she will remember you
eventually. You just got to give her time." Dream warned softly.
G was shaking a little bit at the thought that Heaven wasn't going to remember
him. Not at first. And he wanted desperately to hold her as soon as she was
awake.
But......if it caused more harm than good, he knew he'd better keep his hands
to himself until she remembered him.
Sighing, G closed the doors and stepped back. "Okay. Then let's do this." He
said and there was pain his voice but also anxiety.
Everyone moved back as well. They all knew if she saw them too, she'd panic.
And while some of them lived off of fear, this wouldn't be the proper place to
freak her out. And it would be a bad idea to scare her.
Taking a deep breath, Dream closed his eye sockets and began glow a brilliant
golden yellow, his hands raising the staff he carried.
The machine began to rumble and shake like before. The eyes glowing brilliantly
as it shook before stopping immediately.
"Oh!" Dream now said surprised before he turned back towards G. "We got a
problem. Where is her soul?" He asked sheepishly.
G blinked in surprise and Error cracked open with static laughter. "Oh!" The
tall skeleton stated before getting into his inner jacket and pulling out two
halves of a broken pink crystalline heart. "Ye-ah......right here." He said
sounding sheepish, himself.
There were a few groans of exasperation.
Dream just giggled as he reached out for the pieces, pausing when G stiffened.
"It's okay, G. Remeber, I just want to help her. I'm not going to hurt her." He
told him.
Shaking, G passed Heaven's broken soul to him, looking longingly at it as the
tiny skeleton took it.
Dream turned from him and approached his machine, opening the doors to place
the broken soul right on Heaven's chest before closing the doors again and
stepping back.
Once again, the machine rumbled with life, shaking and roaring as it shook the
entire ground around everyone. It was like before with Zombie. The ground shook
so hard and so did the Void. It seemed to echo all around them and all everyone
could do was stagger to keep their footing.
And then they heard a scream that made them all flinch. G was on his guard,
looking terrified and anxious. But he watched Dream as he just concentrated on
what he was doing.
If Dream panicked, then something went wrong.
But he wasn't panicking. He was just concentrating very hard at what he was
doing, his face serious with determination and there was a little bit of a
golden sweat on his skull as he stretched out his arms with the staff.
And suddenly, the machine went quiet; Dream slumping a little now panting.
He almost fell over onto his face but Blue was suddenly there, catching him and
now looking at him with concern.
"ARE YOU OKAY?!"
Dream just nodded to Blue, smiling. "Yeah, I'm okay. That just took a lot out
of me. That one was hard to do. Heaven has been gone so long that it took all I
had." He said before he looked at G, who was staring hard at the machine.
"She.....she is awake, G. But she is freaking out. I need her to calm down
before I let her out."
"Open it." G ordered firmly.
Dream just frowned at him before pulling away from Blue to face him. "Not. Yet.
G, you've got to trust me. I know you're worried about her......"
"I said open it!" G snapped as he turned a glare onto the small skeleton.
"If she comes out, freaking out, G, she will not only hurt herself but us."
Dream said firmly as he had a stare down with G now. "She is a powerful True
Soul. And you've seen what the others are capable of. Imagine what she is."
"Knock knock."
Everyone stiffened and they all turned to see Sans at the door of the machine,
knocking on it.
"Sans, what are you......?" G was asking stiffly.
But Sans waved a hand at him to shut him up. He ignored him as he knocked
again, verbally saying it too.
"Knock knock."
There was a pause before a small, obviously terrified voice called out, "Wh-
who's there?"
Sans smiled now as he leaned close to the door. He could hear movement inside
and there was crying. There was fear in there.
"Yellow."
There was an almost startled pause.
"Wh-wha-what?" The muffled voice asked.
Sans chuckled as he leaned against the door. "You're suppose to say Yellow who.
It's a joke." He called through.
"O-oh. Um.....Yellow who?"
"Nope. My name's not Who. It's Sans. But hello to you too." Sans said grinning.
Pause.
And then a weak giggle seemed to come through the door, making the blue
skeleton's grin widen.
Then he knocked again.
"Knock knock."
"Who's there?"
"Howard."
Pause.
"Howard who?"
Sans grinned at her uncertainy. "I'm doing very well! How about you?" He said
brightly.
Another pause and then a louder giggle.
"Knock knock?" Sans said once again.
Another giggle and a shuffle as if she had shifted inside the machine, sounding
close to the door now. "Who's there?" She asked and she sounded ready for this
one.
"Banana."
"Banana who?"
"Knock knock?"
A startled pause.
"Um.......who's there?"
"Banana."
There was definitely a pause. "Uh......Banana who?"
"Knock knock?"
"Who's.....there?" She sounded very uncertain now.
"Orange."
"...........Orange who?"
"Orange you glad I didn't say Banana this time?" Sans asked and he grinned when
he heard her now laughing inside. "Knock knock?"
There was a laugh but also impatient scoff inside. "Who's there?"
"Imma."
"Imma who?"
"Imma betting you're ready to come out now. Ya good? Because we don't want to
scare you, Heaven. But I need you stay calm, okay?" Sans asked now softly. "We
won't hurt you."
There was a pause and then a shaky sigh.
"Oh....o-okay." She did sound scared.
Sans gripped the door bit didn't open it just yet. "I'm going to warn you. We
might look scary. But I promise, we won't hurt you." He reminded her again.
"Um.....okay." she said through the door. "Ca-can I please come out now?
I'm.....I'm kind of scared of these dark. And it's really dark in here." She
did sound quite frightened.
Sans nodded before slowly opening the door to reveal Heaven's pale, frightened
face. Her wide, teary periwinkle pink eyes looked back at him and she drew back
in fright when she saw him but he held up a hand as if to calm her.
"It's okay. I'm Sans. Sans the skeleton. I won't touch you. I'm just going to
open the door so you can see all of me and my brothers. We are all skeletons.
But we're all friendly and wacky." Sans told her softly.
Heaven was quite scared and it showed. But she frowned as she looked Sans over
with amazement. It was like she had never seen him before, which in truth, she
hadn't.
But.....something did seem familiar about him.
"Want to come out and meet the others? There is one who really wants to meet
you." Sans said as he stepped back.
Heaven looked past him, stiffening to see all of the skeletons that stood
around, waiting for her. Her eyes, however, stopped on G. And she froze, eyes
widening.
G looked back, somewhat pained but happy to see her. He didn't move though
because she didn't remember him.......
"G-G?" Heaven whispered in shock.
G froze, his own eyes widening.
Did she.....?!
"Gaster Sa-Sans......!" Heaven said, her whole being brightening and she held
out her arms for him.
G brightened, his own eye sockets filling with tears of joy before he swept
forward. He swept past everyone and Sans who stepped back for him and gathered
her up in an embrace.
"Oh! I guess she does remember him!" Dream said brightly smiling big.
Stretch scoffed as he looked down at him. "Heh, right. You knew she would
remember him, didn't you?" He asked smugly.
Dream grinned up at him and held up his fingers in an inch. "Just a little bit.
It was more like a guess, really. But just in case she didn't, we couldn't risk
it." He said before smiling to look at the pair of shaking True Souls as they
held onto each other tightly.
"He-Heaven........God, I thought I lost you forever." G said shakily as he held
her tight to himself.
Heaven was sobbing as she fisted his jacket, trying so hard to just stay as
close to him as she could. "G......." she whispered before they both pulled
away and kissed.
Everyone looked away respectively.
After a good little while, Heaven finally calmed down and allowed G to pull her
from the machine. She was having a very hard time walking so he had to carry
her. It was due to her not using her legs for a while that she couldn't walk.
She was still very weak and everyone saw that.
They all sat down and G introduced his brothers to her. He even explained
everything to Heaven, not leaving one thing out.
And she listened without a single word.
She listened to what everyone had to say as they all recapped their stories and
how they got here.
It felt like hours of story telling and even let her eating monster food to get
her strength back up. All stories were told of how they lived and escaped the
Underground of their worlds and even how they got up to this point.
Finally, everyone looked at Dream.
"So.....what exactly.....are you? You're like us, right?" San asked as he sat
beside Papyrus.
Dream shrugged. "More or less. I was unintentionally created by Gaster. He
wasn't exactly expecting me. But I think it was more like.....dreaming of me.
He was very lonely here, other than travelling to the other dimensions. So I
guess I'm kind of a dream made into reality. Therefore, Dream Sans. I was
created to help stabilize the pathways. And even the Void because it wasn't the
most stable thing to exist.
I'm kind of like Ink too. I also create other worlds by dreaming of them. All
of the worldss created by the cracks in the Void, their mine. The longer I was
asleep, the more unstable the Void became. It's because of you waking up, I can
fix it. I'm awake now." Dream explained.
"And you can get us out of here?" Edge asked eyeing him.
Dream nodded. "Yeah. In fact, you can leave at any time now. Ive already fixed
the pathways. You can leave." He told them.
San held up a hand when some shifted to do just that. "Hold up. Before anyone
goes anywhere, we need a plan." He stated and firmly. "We can't forget what we
need to do. Hella is still out there and who knows what she ha's done. Who
knows how long we have been here, trapped?"
"A month." Dream said and everyone looked at him in surprise. "You've been here
for a month. Time here in the Void is different than the outside. Time has
passed quickly. It doesn't work the same as the outside. But you're right.
Things.....are pretty shady out there. When you go back to your dimensions,
you're not going to like what you see. In any of them."
"You can see what's happening?" G asked as he kept an arm around Heaven.
Dream nodded as he looked off in the blackness. "Yeah. And so can Ink and
Error. It's ugly out there. Real ugly. In all of the worlds, the Luminosity has
taken over. Hella is controlling all Governments now and monsters are slaves. A
lot of them has been Dusted. Most of your Asgores and Toriels are under her
control. Except for one." He looked right at Edge and Boss and Nightmare and
Zombie. "Your Asgores. They're not under her control. They're doing of his own
accord."
Both Boss and Edge stiffened with horror.
"Wh-what?! But Asgore is dead! Boss killed him in our world!" Edge exclaimed in
alarm.
"Yeah! Us too!" Nightmare said just as alarmed.
Dream shook his head as he did look grave. "It looks like Hella had your True
Souls reset your worlds. They're back. And so is that guy that hurt Hope. And
so is Ashlee's old stepdad." He said now looking at Sans who stiffened.
"To-Tobias?! He's back?!" The original Sans asked in anger and fear.
"He's not to touch her. I can see that. Hella won't let him touch her toys. But
it don't mean he's not going to try. He dreams pretty loud about it." Dream
said grimacing.
Sans growled, his eyes flashing a little bit of yellow and blue. "If he touches
her, I'm going to rip him apart! He's done enough to her!"
Papyrus reached out and touched his shoulder. "WE WILL STOP HIM BEFORE HE
TRIES, DEAR BROTHER! I PROMISE!! AND THE GREAT PAPYRUS ALWAYS KEEPS HIS
PROMISES!!" He said with a slight growl.
Dream suddenly hissed and his eyes widened. "Oh, no." He whispered and everyone
looked at him stiffly.
"What, Dream? Whats wrong?" G asked now straightening and even Heaven stiffened
with concern.
Dream now looked pained. "Hella.....she just took over one of my worlds." He
looked at Sans. "BeastTale. She used the True Souls to take down BeastTale." He
said painfully.
Sans stiffened in horror. "Chara.......and Frisk." He shared a pained look with
Papyrus. "And Calli......"
Dream nodded. "She has them. And she intends to take Chara and mold her back
into the Chara you once knew." He stated.
"Shit!" Sans exclaimed now standing up. "We've got to go now! We cannot let her
do that to Chara! Chara cannot reform back into what she was before!"
"Okay, what? Who is Chara? I thought she was just a little kid?" Stretch asked
now standing up.
"SHE IS NOW. BUT BEFORE, SHE WAS A DEMON OF SORTS. SHE WAS VERY BAD. SHE WAS
ALWAYS IN CHARGE OF THE GENOCIDE TIME LINES IN UNDERTALE. I NEVER REMEMBER
THOSE TIMELINES BUT SANS REMEMBERS THEM!!" Papyrus said worriedly.
There were a few blank stares but Dream looked sadly at the two originals.
"Horrortale and Underfell are genocidal worlds as it is but Undertale is the
only dimension that actually had genocide runs. They don't even know what
you're talking about, Sans. Besides G." The tiny skeleton said softly before
looking at the others. "Basicalky, Sans and Papyrus died over and over again
when Chara possessed Frisk or convinced her curiosity to kill the monsters over
and over again. Sans remembered every time he died or watched Papyrus be killed
in so many different ways because of Chara."
The other skeletons looked horrified while the rougher ones grimaced.
"WHOA! REALLY?!" Blue asked now with sympathy.
It was Heaven who finally broke away from G, much to his protest and approached
Sans with a very sad look. She looked heartbroken for both of the two.
"You died over and over again? Because of a game this Chara was playing?" She
asked softly.
Sans nodded. "Wasn't really Frisk''s fault. I mean there were a couple of times
where she did it all on her own and it did make me uneasy of her for a long
time. But after multiple times of genocide and then passive timelines, it took
her a long time to gain my trust again. And a lot of passive timelines. By that
time, I knew it was Chara''s doing. And Flowey''s because he was trying to
bring Chara back to life in some way. They were siblings before all of it
started. It wasn't until at least twenty years, maybe more than that did Ashlee
come into the picture. He and Frisk.....they convinced Chara to be reborn. To
be given a second chance. I don't trust Chara but I trust my Ash. She believes
her sister could change. And now that Hella has her......I can't let her hurt
Chara. I can't let her change her back. Because that will hurt Ashlee." He
explained.
Everyone looked grave as they listened to hI'm explain about Chara and they all
agreed.
Heaven looked firm now, her entire frightened aura vanishing and she turned
towards G, who softened as son as he saw that look.
"I want to help." She simply said.
G just smiled and nodded. "I figured you would." He said before looking at
Sans. "We will help you."
"The problem is, Heaven, you're not strong enough." Dream said regretfully.
"You need all of your soul back and you're still missing your outer core to
face Hella. And to get that, you need the True Souls. Hella has Chara. And to
get her back, you need to be strong enough."
"So.....the True Souls first then. All right. Who's first?" Fresh was the one
to ask.
Sudeenly, a string of voices rang out.
"Charity!"
"Hope!"
"Sam!"
"Charlie!"
"Alice should be first!"
"Justice!"
"Ashlee......."
And everyone went quiet as they looked at one another before they all scowled.
"No, my True Soul!" All Sans' but the original Sans yelled. And that started an
argument up between all skeletons.
Rolling his eyes, Dream tapped his staff hard on the ground that it made a
loud, thunder booming cracking all around them. Everyone jumped and looked at
him with alarm.
It at least shut them all up.
"I'm going to pick a dimension at random and you're going there. It doesn't
matter who is first as long as you get your True Souls back and the outer soul
piece or Heaven." The tiny skeleton said dryly. "She is the only one who can
actually put up a good fight and most likely win a fight with Hella, guys. And
you can't do this with fighting each other. You need to work together."
It felt rather odd being scolded by a skeleton too much smaller than them but
everyone felt sheepish and they saw his point.
"Sorry." Everyone murmured.
"So...wait.....you're not coming with us?" Sans asked frowning at him.
Dream looked at him and shook his head. "No. I'm sorry. But I have to stay in
the Void and maintain it. If I leave, it could start falling apart again and
it's still in repairs right anyway. Until I'm sure it's fixed, I can't leave.
But don't worry. I'll be watching. If you need help, I'll do what I can to
help. Besides, there's something I got to do." He told him.
"And....what's that?" Stretch asked a little suspicious but not entirely
untrusting. He actually found himself trust Dream pretty well. Almost as if he
trusted Blueberry.
Dream just smiled, shaking his head. "Don't worry about it. It has nothing to
do with you. I just need to do something. It's not anything you should be
worried about. And you'll know soon enough, anyway." He told them.
It was definitely mysterious the way he said it but the skeletons felt as if
they could trust Dream entirely.
"Also, help G protect Heaven. If anything happens to her, it's all over. And
she's not at her strongest yet. She needs her entire soul back." Dream added
before turning to the girl in question. "And I know you're scared, Heaven. But
you can trust them. They will protect you. They're the best at doing that.
Really, they are." He told her.
Heaven glanced around at all of the skeletons but nodded with a small smile. "I
know. If they're anything like G, I know. And I will protect them." She said
softly.
Dream just smiled and nodded. "I know you will. And you will save the other
True Souls." He then stepped back and held up his hand and his staff, which
began glow.
There was a cracked and a portal opened up ahead of the group.
"Which one is it?" San asked as he eyed the portal.
Dream shrugged. "I told you. I'm picking one at random. I'm not even looking at
the I'm picking. Once you go through, be careful. The Luminousity has taken
taken over and monsters are slaves. People too really. Hella is in complete
control. And she's using the True Souls to do that. You'll probably end up
fighting them." He told them. "All you got to do is make them remember who you
are and break the tie between them and Hella. Good luck, guys. I'll be
watching."
The whole group of skeletons nodded, looking determined.
With San and G leading the way, they walkyd through the portal, feeling the
usual vacuum pull as they all went through and came out into a very dark world.
It surprised all of them what they saw.
The world they came out of.....it was like Echotale. Dark, desolate and
completely wrong. They seemed to be on Mount Ebbott, over looking a vast valley
of dead or dying forest.
And.....things didn't look good at all.
In fact....they looked completely wrong.
There were error signs on some of the seeming to be glitched out trees and it
made the two who belonged to this world step forward, looking pained and
horrified.
"I guess......I guess Charlie is first." Ink said painfully when he saw just
how wrong Inktale looked now.
***** Author's Notice *****
Hey, Readers.
I apologize for my long hiatus but I had to take a break from writing for a
little bit and that included all of my stories. I had to recollect myself and
put my mind back to pieces due things that have been happening.
I will be returning to finishing this story and am currently writing the new
chapter now.
Thanks for being patient with me, if I still have readers due to my long time
of being away.
The new update will come soon.
Again I apologize and I hope to seek forgiveness for being away. I just had to
put myself back together as well as my writing.
Hope to hear from my readers soon. And we will see you soon once I have the new
chapter up.
Best Wishs,
Kegs
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