Heeeeellllllllooooooooo my little camembears! I have finally released my new fanfiction! As you can see, it was for UNDERTALE! I had so much fun writing this first chapter, and it was my longest chapter ever! I am so proud of it! I hope that you will enjoy reading it! I am also going to be releasing a q and a for the characters in this story, but to do so, I need you guys-yes you!- to review any questions you have! I will answer as many as I can without giving away spoilers to future parts of the story! Welp! I have been talking for to long! On a final note, both Miraculous Americans? and The Next World will be updated next week. Those are my other two fanfictions that you should most definitely go check out! Please don't steal my ideas or my characters! Enjoy this first chapter of.. WHEN BOTTLES BREAK AND SHATTER!
Disclaimer: I, sadly, do not own any part of undertale. The fantastic Toby Fox does.
FRISK POV
I walk with Papyrus down the many aisles of the grocery store we are in. It had become a habit of ours to walk to this specific store every Sunday and buy that week's food supply. The cart was already partly filled. Most of it was pasta and tomato sauce, but there were other necessities in the mix such as fruit, vegetables {Toriel made sure of that}, and water. Sometimes some of the others would tag along. Most of the time it was Undyne or Alphys, and Asgore or Toriel would come every so often, but never at the same time. Papyrus and I walk walk over to the checkout lanes and start putting our items on the conveyor belt.
" HELLO BURGERPANTS! I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, WISH TO PURCHASE YOUR MERCHANDISE YET AGAIN!" Papyrus greets. Burgerpants simply said hello, as usual, and checked out all of the items. Before Papyrus could out any of the now full bags in the cart, I jumped into it myself. I smiled up at him as his hand stopped mid air.
" FRISK!" I laugh as Papyrus pulls me out of the cart and back onto the floor. He laughs along with me as we put the shopping bags in the cart and step into the parking lot. We load the bags into Papyrus's bright red convertible, then get into it ourselves.
" I SHALL MAKE MY VERY SPECIAL, ONCE IN A YEAR, ESPECIALLY SPECIAL PASTA DISH WHEN WE GET HOME! THE LAST TIME I MADE IT WAS BACK WHEN MONSTERS WERE STILL STUCK UNDERGROUND!" Papyrus says as we zoom across the road. I notice that his face falls a little bit after saying it.
" Do you miss the underground?" I ask him.
" I SUPPOSE I DO AT TIMES. AS AMAZING AS THE SURFACE IS, THE UNDERGROUND WAS WHERE I WAS BORN AND RAISED," Papyrus tells me, taking a turn onto our neighborhoods street.
" Maybe we can go visit your house sometime! We can get everyone together and visit everyone's old houses!" I tell him.
" THAT WOULD BE FUN! LETS DROP OFF ALL OF THIS FOOD AT MY HOUSE, PICK UP SANS FROM THE COUCH, AND GATHER EVERYONE ELSE SO WE CAN HAVE A SUPER DUPER FUN DAY RELIVING GOOD MEMORIES OF THE UNDERGROUND!" Papyrus exclaims. We rush to Papyrus's and Sans's house and put all of the food in its proper place. As Papyrus puts the spaghetti in the high shelves, I walk over to Sans's room and slowly open the door. As I suspected, Sans was fast asleep on his bed. He had grown taller by about due being out on the surface. He was now the size of a person in college like he was supposed to be. Many monsters had gone through growth spurts after reaching the surface due to not being trapped under the mountain. It had taken a little while to get used to it, but I had come to turns with him being normal sized pretty fast. Papyrus had stayed the same height, and maybe had even grown slightly taller once he had reached the surface. Nothing very dramatic like Sans.
" At least the room is clean," I mutter to myself as I make my way to Sans's bed. I look around and notice an air horn in Sans's joke box. Giggling to myself, I grab the air horn and a roll of duct tape. I bend down to his chair and tape the air horn onto the chair where if someone sat on it, it would blast at full volume. I push the chair next to Sans's bed and prepare myself.
" WAKEY WAKEY!" I yell, jumping on the chair at the same time.
" Wha-GAAAAHHHH!" Sans yells as the air horn blasts in his face. As he jumps up and summons two of his gasterblasters, I roll off the chair, hysterically laughing so much that there were tears in my eyes. Sans calmed down and looked at me rolling around on the floor. Papyrus ran into the room to figure out what had caused the loud noise. The gasterblasters disappeared and Sans used his blue magic to raise me up into the air.
" Heh. Nice one kid. It seemed like you had a blast." Papyrus yelled at Sans and walked out of the room as soon as the pun left Sans mouth. I giggled again. Sans put me down on his shoulders and walked out into the living room.
" Geez kid. There are other ways you can wake me up. Please never do that again."
" Okay," I reply. We meet Papyrus in the living room. Papyrus was looking through two letters he had picked up from the mail. The smile on his face was bigger the pacific ocean.
" SANS! WE GOT ACCEPTED!" Papyrus yelled, shoving the letters at us.
" Accepted? Wait, do you mean accepted into MEU?" Sans grabbed the letters and read them over. Sure enough, the letters told both Sans and Papyrus that they had been accepted into Mount Ebbot University. It was one of the first colleges to allowed monsters into its facilities.
" Woah! And I thought I was going to have a bone to pick with them!"
" STOP WITH THE PUNS! WE CAN TELL THE OTHERS WHEN WE SEE THEM TODAY!"
" Where are you going Pap?" Sans asks.
" WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A TRIP BACK TO THE UNDERGROUND TO VISIT ALL OUR OLD HOMES!" Papyrus says.
" We?"
" YES! ALPHYS AND UNDYNE ARE COMING WITH US! METTATON IS ALSO COMING, BUT TORIEL AND ASGORE ARE UNABLE TO COME," Papyrus finishes. Sans shrugs and walks out the door with Papyrus, both of them smiling brighter than the sun. We get into the car, and I jump into the back. Papyrus drives and Sans takes the passenger seat. We drive down many streets until we finally stop in front of Undyne and Alphys's house. I jump out of the car and run up to the door. Mew Mew Kissy Cutie can be heard from inside of the house. I knock until Undyne opens the door.
" Heya punk. How's it going?" Alphys walks up behind her and waves.
" Hello Frisk!"
" Come on! Let's go!" I grabbed their hands and pulled them towards the car. Undyne just manages to lock the door before she is pulled to far away from it. I jump back into the car and scoot over so that Undyne and Alphys can squeeze in.
" Mettaton says that he will meet us at the entrance to the underground," Alphys tells us as we zoom of towards the entrance. We chatter as we drive and Alphys reveals that she brought us lunch. As we pull up to the entrance, we see Mettaton standing on the side of the road. He has a humongous sun hat on and a light pink jacket tied around his waist. Papyrus parks the car, so I jump out yet again and run over to Mettaton.
" FRISK! PLEASE STOP JUMPING OUT OF THE CAR!" Papyrus yells at me once he himself gets out. I laugh and give Mettaton a hug.
" Hello Darling!" he says, picking me up and twirling around as I giggle. The rest of the group comes over and we start down the trail to the underground. Mettaton talks of his latest fashion line and Papyrus talks of his special spaghetti. Undyne and Sans swing me between them as we pass through Asgore's old kingdom. Mettaton decides against looking at his old hotel, saying that " The old place brings back too many memories! I couldn't bear to be that nostalgic". After awhile, we finally make it to Alphys's old lab.
" Want to go in Alphys?" Undyne asks. Alphys shakes her head.
" There isn't anything in there to see," she says. We continue on until we reach the waterfall. We walk over to Undyne's house… to see that it is still on fire.
"How is it still on fire?!" Undyne says. I walk up to the house and look inside.
" Ooooh! That clears things up!" I point to a figure inside of the house. Heats Flamesman was in the house cleaning things up.
" He must have started to live in the house once you moved out!"
" Well, ok I guess," Undyne mumbles. Having nothing else to do in the area other than look at an empty Temmie village and Nabstablooks old house, we continue on. We finally reach Snowdin after an hour or so. The snow had piled up even higher now that there was nobody to shovel it away. We manage to trudge our way over to the skelebro's old house. We all sit down and take a deep breath.
" WOWIE! SNOWDIN HASN'T REALLY CHANGED!" Papyrus says. We start passing out the sandwiches that Alphys has brought with her. I bit into mine and looked around. It was a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich with crust cut off. One of my favorites. We start talking, and Sans and Papyrus reveal that they had been accepted into MEU.
" Really? So did I!" Undyne tells us. Alphys had already gotten a job as a scientist at a top notch lab due to her being the royal scientist, and Mettaton was too busy being an even bigger star on the surface to get an education. We continue talking until a loud thump and a familiar growl of frustration sounds from outside.
" What?" I move towards the window and look out to see Flowey struggling to carry a piece of the old soul containers that use to hold the other fallen children's souls.
" Why does this thing have to weigh so much!" Flowey growls again. I feel the rest of my group swarm around me to see what was happening.
" Ugg! That weed again?" Undyne grunts. I feel Sans tense up. I slip away from the group and quietly make my way back outside the house. I walk over behind Flowey.
" Hi Flowey!" I say. Startled, Flowey drops the piece and whips around.
" Wha-FRISK? What are you doing down here?" He asks. The others walk out behind me. I can feel Sans yet again tense up near me.
" We are just visiting. We are not here to cause trouble. How are you?"
" Good I guess. I could be a lot better if I could actually GET SOME HELP WITH THIS PIECE!" Flowey seems to be yelling into the nearby forest.
" Yeah, yeah. I know. I'm coming As-" The person speaking came out of the forest carrying many more pieces of the soul containers. I recognized them immediately.
" C-Chara?" Chara looked at me and dropped the pieces.
" What are you doing here?" As far as I could tell, the only person who would recognize Chara was me… and Sans. At this point Sans's eye was turning a subtle blue color.
" WHY HELLO OTHER HUMAN! I SEE YOU HAVE MET FRISK BEFORE! I AM THE GREAT PAPYRUS! THESE ARE MY FRIENDS UNDYNE, ALPHYS, METTATON, AND MY BROTHER SANS!" Papyrus exclaims.
" Nice to meet you?" Chara was being nice? No insults? No threats? I was beyond confused. There was also no knife in sight.
" Hello Chara," I say, attempting to keep the atmosphere comfortable.
" Hello Frisk." I move to help Flowey pick up the piece when out of nowhere my vision cuts out. My head starts to throb a little bit.
" GAH!" I fall forward into the snow, not being able to see what as in front of me.
" Kid!" Sans helps me stand back up. My vision comes back as fast as it disappeared, the headache leaving as well.
" Are you ok Frisk?" Undyne asks, helping Sans hold me up.
" Yeah. I just, blacked out for a moment."
" Do you need to sit down?" Alphys asks.
" I think I will be alright." Flowey looks up at me in concern. I smile and help him pick up the piece.
" Well. We, uh, have to go. Bye," Flowey says. Chara walks up to him and helps him as they walk towards Grillbys. Sans stops them before they get too far.
" How about you tell us why you need those pieces first?"
" Sans?" I notice that his eye is fully blue now and is blazing a little bit.
" That is none of your business," Chara says, and attempts to sidestep him. He teleports back into their way.
" Move it you smiley trash bag!" Chara yet again attempts to continue forth, but Sans won't let her.
" Sans! Just let them leave. They-They can't do any damage with some broken parts," I tell him. He looks at me, then teleports out of their way. Chara gives him one last glare, before continuing on her and Flowey's path. After they go 40-50 feet away, I turn to Sans.
" What was that all about?" I ask him, keeping my voice calm.
" They are bad people. They can't be trusted," Sans replies, looking after them still.
" They were not trying to hurt us."
" Yet."
" Yet?"
" Who knows what they could have done with those pieces."
" Exactly. We don't know. You can't just assume that they are going to build some kind of weapon!" My voice was beginning to waver from its calm tone.
" They are bad people so they do bad things Frisk."
" Have you thought to think of why they are the way they are?"
" They are murderers. There is no good reason to become a murderer." Sans voice was also becoming a little bit dangerous sounding.
" You shouldn't have provoked them like that!"
" I didn't provoke them."
" Yes you did!"
" So what!"
" So what? They could have decided to- GAHHH!" My vision cut out again, bringing a huge migraine with it. I dropped down into the snow.
" Frisk!" I felt myself being picked up by something and pressed against it. I heard voices coming from all around me.
" Frisk!" Someone was calling my name. They called it a few more times, and my migraine started melting away.
" What?"
" Oh Darling!" Mettaton held me closer to him to protect me from the cold. My vision was still gone. Why am I blind...again? The last time I was blind was when I was five! That's when, when I, how did I gain my sight again? I felt my eyes open and close, but I still could not see anything.
" Frisk? Are you ok kid?" Sans says.
" I can't see."
" What?"
" I can't see anything. I am blind." Again. I choose to leave the fact that I had been blind before out.
" What happened? What caused this?" Alphys worries.
" I don't know." Slowly, colors started fading back into the world around me. Blurs eventually became recognizable figures. I could see Sans and Alphys to my left and Undyne and Papyrus right behind them. I put my hands up to my head and pushed against it slightly.
" Frisk, I need to know what is happening to help you," Alphys says. She is in full scientist mode. Any traces of the shy, nerdy lizard had disappeared completely.
" A giant migraine came, and I lost my vision. My vision is mostly back, but my head still hurts a little bit. It's bearable though." Alphys presses her hand against my forehead, then uses a flashlight the group managed to conjure up to look in my eyes.
" I don't know what happened to be honest. I guess that you should just take things slowly. I think we should start to head back anyway," Alphys tells me. I nod and lean back into Mettaton. Undyne looks at her phone and yelps.
" It's already 7! We will never be able to get back to the surface before midnight!" She yells.
" Chill Undyne. Just let Toriel that we lost track of time and are staying down here for the night. It will be like camping," Sans tells her. Undyne nods and texts Mom.
" I told her."
" When she answers just let minnow," Sans replies, earning a groan from Papyrus and an eye roll from Undyne. I giggle at the pun, which makes Sans smile a bit more. We go back into Papyrus and Sans's old house, Mettaton still carrying me. He sits me down on the couch when we are all situated inside.
" Now don't move from that spot beauty. We can't have you becoming even more sick, can we?" Mettaton says. I nod. The rest of the groups starts figuring out sleeping arrangements.
" WHO WANTS TO SLEEP WHERE?" Papyrus asks.
" I call dibs for girls in Papyrus's room!" Undone yells. She grabs Alphys and I, runs up the stairs, runs into Papyrus's room, and finishes by slamming the door closed and locking it. Undyne drops Alphys and I on the bed, where we spend the next minute laughing. We hear pounding coming from the stairs, then pounding on the door.
" UNDYNE! THAT WAS VERY RUDE! PLEASE UNLOCK THE DOOR AND LET US IN SO WE CAN PROPERLY DISCUSS THIS! FAIRLY AS WELL!" Papyrus yells.
" Nope!" Undyne yells back.
" ALPHYS! PLEASE UNLOCK THE DOOR! AT LEAST YOU WILL BE KIND! RIGHT?"
" Sorry Papyrus! When Undyne says no, it is a no!" Alphys giggles.
" FRISK?" I walk over to the nearby desk and start scavenging for a piece of paper and a pencil. Papyrus starts speaking again.
" SANS! HELP US… SANS? SANS GET UP HERE!"
" I'm ok just laying down here bro."
" SANS! IT IS UNHEALTHY TO SLEEP ON THE COUCH! COME HELPS US GET BACK MY BED!"
" Well, I would be lying if I said I didn't want to sleep in a bed."
" SANS!" Papyrus could be heard pounding down the stairs.
" Please let me in Darlings! Sans room is… uninhabitable!" Mettaton whispers through the door. I stop writing to look at Undyne and Alphys. I nod, and Alphys agrees. Undyne opens the door to let Mettaton in, and quickly closes it after him.
" Thank you so much darling!" Mettaton says, sitting down next to Alphys. Papyrus comes back up, obviously carrying Sans from the sound of it. A loud thump sounded from outside.
" NYEH? METTATON? WHERE ARE YOU? HAVE YOU MANAGED TO GET THEM TO OPEN THE DOOR FOR US?"
" Sorry darling!" Was all that Mettaton said. I finished writing on the paper and showed it to Mettaton.
" What is this my beauty? Oh my! What a wonderful idea!"
" What'cha got there punk? A ransom note? Fuhuhuhu! Let me add just one more thing," Undyne says. Alphys comes over and helps add on a few more things. By the time we finish it, the note looked like this:
PAPYRUS AND SANS
FOR ENTRANCE INTO THIS ROOM
YOU MUST BRING THE FOLLOWING THINGS:
A DRAWING OF ALL OF US
WATER FROM THE WATERFALL
The list of things continued until the bottom of the page, just getting crazier and more ridiculous the farther down we wrote. The bottom of the page looked like this:
A HAIR FROM A UNICORN
A TEMMIE TREE
SEVERAL ORANGES FROM THE GARDEN OF MANGOS
And the last three were the worst:
A SKELETON HAIR
DARKNESS FROM THE LIGHT BULB
AND 1 SCALE FROM A FISH OF QUINOA
While we were all laughing, I slide the note under the door. Papyrus picked up the paper and started reading throughout the list.
" HMM, WHERE AM I TO GET RHINOCEROS TEARS FROM? ALSO, WHERE IS THE MAGICAL PARK OF SCHOOL BUS? SANS! WAKE UP! WE MUST RETRIEVE THE ITEMS ON THIS LIST!"
" Nah. I'm just gonna lay here."
" SANS!"
" Heh."
" SANS! DON'T MAKE ME PICK YOU UP!" Laughing I slowly open the door. Papyrus was too busy attempting to pick up Sans to notice the door opening. Sans looked up at the now open door lazily, then teleported onto the bed. Papyrus stood shocked for three seconds, before quickly trotting into the room, almost knocking me over. Papyrus picks me up and put me and puts me on his shoulders, while I giggle.
"UNDYNE! THAT WAS VERY RUDE OF YOU!" Papyrus scolds, all the while still smiling. I put my hands on top of Papyrus's head and out my head on top of them.
" Looks like someone is tired, right punk?" Undyne chuckles.
" I'm with you kid," Sans mumbles, falling asleep on the bed.
" WELL, UNDYNE DID ALREADY CALL DIBS ON THIS ROOM, SO I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, WILL SACRIFICE MY ROOM TO THE GIRLS AND SLEEP IN SANS'S ROOM." Papyrus clearly did not want to, but being his kind and generous cinnamon bun self, allowed us to sleep in the room. Mettaton was also going to sleep in Sans's room, since that was the only room with a still working power outlet for him to charge in. We had to clean and sanitize an area for both Papyrus and Mettaton to sleep in. Since we couldn't really get Sans into his room, we just brought him down stairs and put him on the couch. I made a little bed for myself on the floor at the bottom of the couch. Saying goodnight to everyone, I skipped down the stairs and buried myself into my blankets and pillow. Sans was still snoring his bones away, so I fell asleep quickly. Memories of the past two years swarmed around in my head as a faded into sleep. Two years had past since I freed the monsters from the underground. Two years since the RESET button had been destroyed. Sans helped me destroy it once and for all, but sometimes I still could feel it's haunting presence, even though I knew that it was no longer there. Pushing those bad memories away, I thought of the good ones. Undyne and Alphys buying their first house together. Moving in with Mom in our little house. Papyrus's first bite of freshly made human spaghetti. Sans…, well, it was Sans. Allowing these memories to flood my brain, I fell asleep, ignoring the loud snoring coming from Sans.
A loud shout from outside woke me up. I jumped out of bed and looked out the window. The yell had startled Sans as well, so he was right behind me as I made my way out the door. A figure had fallen in the snow and was now picking up the pieces of a machine they had dropped. From the yell and the form of the figure, I could guess that it was a girl, about high school age. She was wearing a long cloak that was decorated like a galaxy. She picked up the rest of the pieces of whatever it was that she has dropped and looked up at us. She seemed startled.
" Oh! I am sorry for disturbing you! I didn't realize any monsters still lived in that house!" She apologizes. Her voice strikes a memory in the back of my head, but before I think about it too much, Sans pulls me behind him.
" Why are you down in the underground this late at night?" He growls. Sans is in my line of view of the girl, so I can't see her reaction to the venomous words.
" Geez. No need to get your bones in a bunch. I am just visiting some friends who still live down here."
" Then why do you need the soul containers?" I freeze as soon as Sans says that. That meant that she was visiting and helping Flowey and Chara with whatever it was that they were doing. I tried to look at the girl again, but Sans again pushed me behind him again.
" Nunya."
" What's Nunya?"
" Nunya business. That's what," she replied. Her voice was a little bit darker now. Undyne, Alphys, Papyrus, and Mettaton came rushing out of the house.
" Sans! What happened! We heard a yell and…" Undyne stopped once she saw the girl. Seeing as Sans was distracted, I peeked from behind the arm that was in my way. The girl had a light tan skin and long brown hair that was pulled up into a ponytail. Her cloak was covering most of her body, but a red sweater with the initials M.E.U. on the front. Mount Ebbot University. She was a college student, so what was she doing here? She looked at the group of monsters that had just come piling out of the house. While I had been looking at the girl, Sans had explained what had happened to the rest of the group, even though there wasn't much to say. Undyne stepped forward, and I fell back. Another migraine and vision blotch came out of nowhere and attacked me. This one was longer than the others, so my vision came back after about a minute. Papyrus was holding me up, while the rest of the group surrounded me.
" Is she ok?" The girl asked. " Is there anyway that I can help?"
" Unless you can some how help from over there, I don't think you can," Sans growled. I heard some sort of rustling, and then three pink orbs spawned in front of me. Papyrus and Alphys jumped, while Undyne jumped up and walked towards the girl.
" Ok. As my duty as Captain of the royal guard, I am taking you in! That was some weird trick you played and I ain't gonna let you play any more! Plus, you are trespassing onto monster territory!" Undyne snarled.
" Woah! Chill! I told you! I am just visiting some friends!" The girl told us.
" Yeah right! You are helping those two demon children with some kind of trap or weapon! Since when is there pink souls?" Sans yelled. It was known that humans could sometimes use magic, but never had there been a color that even started to resemble pink. Only the seven main colors. Undyne stepped forward again, initiating battle mode with the girl. Her stats showed that her name was Tracy, and that she was at LV 1 and had twenty HP. So she hasn't killed anyone. Undyne was a fighter, so she immediately turned the girl's soul green and threw a spear at her.
" Give up or face me!" Tracy used the spear to deflect every single spear that was sent her way. She tried to negotiate with Undyne.
" Listen, I don't want trouble! Who are you even talking about? I haven't been in contact with any demon children!" She yelled. Undyne just sent for spears her way, throwing in a couple of yellow ones as well. Tracy dodged every single one again. A few times I couldn't even understand how she dodged them. My migraine had disappeared, so I finally realized why I had felt a constant feeling of deja vú while watching the fight. Memories that I had long since forgotten came rushing back. I tried to stand up, but Papyrus held me down.
" Let me stand Papyrus!"
" I AM SORRY FRISK, BUT IT IS TO DANGEROUS FOR YOU TO BE UNPROTECTED WHILE THIS POSSIBLY DANGEROUS HUMAN IS HERE. WE CAN'T LOSE OUR AMBASSADOR!" Tracy, while still blocking all of the spears, had heard the entire statement. Her eyes widened, obviously making the connection as well.
" F-Frisk? Ambassador?" She looked at me again. Undyne seeing as Tracy was distracted, threw two more yellow spears. Tracy caught sight of them to late, and was hit by both. 10 health was knocked off of Tracy's health bar. She looked up at a smirking Undyne. She stood up straight, and smirked right back. Undyne was caught off guard by this sudden boost of confidence. Tracy looked at me, then quickly looked back at Undyne, still smirking.
" Tier 1, 2, 3, or 4? What do you think?" Tracy says. Everyone but me was confused.
" 3!" I yell out, still struggling to get out of Papyrus's grasp. Tracy nods.
" 3 it is!" The others were confused as to why I had told her to choose number three.
" Uh, shouldn't you be s-starting from the f-first tier?" Alphys stuttered.
" I am always up to the challenge!" Undyne roars, readying her spear. Tracy shrugs.
" She said three didn't she? So three it is!" Raising her hand, the battle changes. Undyne is now the player, and Tracy is now in the boss monster area. Undyne tries to push and punch the options back to Tracy's side, but nothing happens. Undyne gapes.
" How did you do that!? Change it back!"
" Are you ready or not? I don't have all night. I have homework I have to get done and my friends to visit," Tracy replies lazily. Seeing as she had never seen this side of the battle before, Undyne explores the options she has, going from right to left. The MERCY button only has one option, spare, and it is currently gray. Undyne presses ITEMS to see what she has. A spear is in their along with an anime movie disk. She moves on to the ACT section. There are four options: ASK FOR EXPLANTATION, THROW A SNOWBALL, FLIRT, and CHECK. I laughed in my mind a bit after seeing the flirt option. Undyne clicks the FIGHT button, being her normal battle ready self. She manages to get the bar relatively close to the middle, but Tracy easily dodges it.
" Well then! Let's get started!" Swiping her arm to the left, a large cloud of pink smoke pops up. When the smoke clears, there are five more versions of Tracy in front of us. Papyrus let go of me, so I hopped up and tried to run, but Sans quickly grabbed me and pulled me behind him. His eyes were completely black, except for his blue eye blazing in its socket. Tracy laughs at Undyne's confusion.
" What? You expect me not to have a couple tricks up my sleeve? You really should have just let me pass through" Her eyes shoot over to me for a split second again. Undyne presses the FIGHT button. She manages to hit two of the Tracys, but neither of them were the original. Tracy laughs again.
" Unless you give in to the fantasy, reality will just keep getting in your way," Tracy says. All 4 remaining Tracys lift up their arms and summon pink orbs. They were similar to the ones before, but were larger by about 3 inches. They split apart into small pink triangles and rain down on Undyne. Some of them hit Undyne, but 5 out of the 9 that hit her didn't deal damage, and the triangles that did hit her only did 1 damage. I noticed that Tracy's name was yellow, meaning that Undyne could easily spare her.
" Undyne! You can end the fight by sparing her!" I yell.
" Fhuhuhuhuhu! I will never back down from a fight!" Undyne yells back. She lunges forward with the spear, but the 2 Tracys she hits just poof away. The triangles that had been laying on the ground flew up into the air, the formed into several pink puddles on the ground. Undyne tried to step onto one, but her foot started sinking down into it.
" Quicksand?!" Undyne yelled.
" Yup. Don't worry, I have not run out of cards yet!" Three pink cards floated behind the two remaining Tracys and started flipping forwards and backwards, but too fast to see what was on the backs of them. Three cards were on top of the three flipping cards, still pink, that showed the three tactics she had already used. Undyne studied the cards for a moment, before starting her attack again. I had to get to the spare button before someone got really hurt. Undyne lunged forward swiping at one of the Tracys. It poofed away, showing the real Tracy standing next to it.
" Hmm. Looks like you are ready for tier 2! Ready?" Tracy says, studying her remaining three cards, which had floated down for the time being.
" Bring it on punk!" Tracy shrugged and let two of the cards float back up to their places. She looked at the last card for a moment, then let it join the top three cards that had already revealed what they had. This card showed a single triangle. To say the least, we were all confused. Four squares appeared on the floor in front of Undyne.
" How about a bit of a memory game?" Tracy asks. One square flips over to show that it has a black dot on it. The square flips back over, and Tracy mixes them up.
" To move on to the next tier, you have to choose the right square three times," Tracy explains. The first round is easy enough, so Undyne steps on the square that has the black dot. As soon as she steps on it, spikes shoot up from the three other squares. The card hadn't shown a triangle, it had shown the pink spikes that were about to turn Undyne into a fish-kabob. Alphys squeaked. Undyne took her turn, and managed to hit Tracy as she tried to dodge. 5 damage came off of Tracy's health. That left Tracy with 15 remaining health, since her health had gone back to full when Undyne and Tracy switched roles.
Two more pink squares appeared, again showing the square with the black dot. Undyne managed to find the square with the black dot, with some help from us. Four more rounds went by before Undyne was able to finally step on the dot the third time. The spikes only dealt 3 damage, but Undyne was hit four times. It barely left a dent in her health bar, since she still had the health of a boss monster. Tracy brought her two cards down again. Looking them over she looked back up at Undyne.
" Ready for tier 1?"
" If it is as easy as the past two then I am more than ready!" Undyne tells Tracy. I suck in a breath. Tracy flips over one of the cards. It showed three bars of multiple sizes surrounded by little triangles. The card was still a little bit confusing, but I understood what was about to happen. Noticing how distracted Sans was, I realized that this turn was going to be the easiest round for me to press the spare button. Before Tracy made it to tier 4. Since it was Undyne's turn to attack, she threw her spear. The bar had landed directly in the middle, so the hit took off 5 more health off of Tracy. Tracy's response was a shrug. Raising a hand, and pushing the remaining card to the side, she started her turn. Three pillars rose up above the ground, and three orbs were on top of them. They started shooting down triangles at break neck speed. Undyne was able to use the pillars the jump out of the way of the triangles. By the time the attack was over, Undyne had lost twenty more health, and the pillars had boot marks from where Undyne had jumped off of them. Undyne attacked Tracy, but Tracy managed to only lose two health instead of five. Another round of the raining triangles started. Sans loosened his grip on me by a bit in his shock, so I ripped my arm out of his grasp. He tried to make a grab for me, but I just barely managed to evade his hand.
Before he could use his blue magic, I jumped into the battle area. I ran right through the middle of the bullets, losing no health. I jumped onto one of the pillars, and used that to propel me towards the card Tracy had pushed towards the side. Grabbing it, Tracy stopped the attack to look at me run back to Undyne with the card. Seeing that the attack had ended, I slammed the SPARE button with my hand. The battle menu disappeared, and Undyne's health bar went back to full. The card was still in my hand, but it had turned into a normal ace of spades. How fitting for tier 4. Papyrus ran over and picked me up, checking for any damage.
" Papyrus! I am fine!" I giggle as he pokes me in the stomach.
" FRISK! NEVER DO THAT AGAIN!" Papyrus yells, pulling me into a hug.
" Yeah punk! I had that under control! How did you even know that grabbing the card would stop her attack?" Undyne questions as Papyrus puts me down.
" I just kinda guessed," I tell them. Meanwhile, Tracy just stood out where she had been standing. I walk forward until I am just five feet away from her. She smiles down at me. I look back to see Sans walking towards me, but I motion for him to stop.
" She won't hurt us," I tell the group.
" What are you talking about Frisk? She just attacked Undyne after pulling some freakish magic tricks? What do you mean she won't hurt us?" Sans says. I smile.
" She didn't deal any damage."
" Yes she did! She took of a whole lot of Undyne's health off!" Sans yells. I smile even more. Tracy speaks up.
" No I didn't. And before you try and say "Yes you did!" let me remind you that I know more about my powers than you do," Tracy says. She summons up one of her spheres. I jump up and touch it. Nothing happens. She splits it into all of the little triangles, and I touch them again. No damage. Papyrus's jaw dropped.
" It's illusions. My soul is one of THOUGHT. There are the seven main colors, but then there are some sub colors that don't really show up much. I was lucky enough to gain the soul characteristic of THOUGHT. So, I am pretty good at illusions. So basically, I tricked all your minds to think that damage was being dealt. Quite simple if yah ask me," Tracy finishes.
" F-Frisk? How d-do you already k-know all of t-this?" Alphys stutters. I think if I smiled any larger, my face would have exploded. I decide to try something. Pointing to my hair, I point to Tracy's hair. Then, I point at my skin, then point at Tracy's skin. I continue doing this, and throw in pointing at our eyes as well. Papyrus is the only one that the connection clicks for at first.
" OH MY GOODNESS! FRISK! HOW COME YOU DIDN'T TELL US BEFORE! I AM SO SORRY HUMAN TRACY!" Papyrus exclaims. He rushes up to Tracy and starts shaking her hand furiously. " I AM THE GREAT PAPYRUS! FRISK'S GOOD FRIEND!"
" Ok. I am really confused!" Undyne says. It clicks for Alphys soon after.
" O-Oh! I get it!" Alphys tells us. She gives a shy wave to Tracy, which Tracy returns.
" Ok! Someone better explain what is going on!" Undyne yells. I laugh and explain.
" Undyne, this is Tracy. My.."
" TRACY IS FRISK'S SISTER!" Papyrus interrupts. Undyne's jaw drops, and Sans eye blazes a little less for a moment. Mettaton goes wide eyed, but quickly recovers.
" Oh my! I am so sorry darling! Why didn't you say so!" Mettaton chirps. Tracy lets out a little laugh.
" I don't mind a little battle every so often. Plus Undyne was a great opponent. Usually my tricks don't work because all my opponents already know my tactics. Undyne is also great at fighting," Tracy finishes.
" Well, thanks," Undyne replies. Sans's eye blazes a bit more, then cuts out completely. I can tell that he doesn't trust Tracy. Tracy looks at a small watch on her wrist.
" Oh geez. They are going to be real mad that I'm late," Tracy mutters. I start to say something, but another fit comes on. I manage to stay standing, but it is hard work. Papyrus picks me up and cradles me, while Alphys comes over to look me over again.
" What happened?" Tracy asks.
" WE DON'T KNOW. FRISK HAS BEEN GETTING WEIRD MIGRAINES AND HER VISION HAS BEEN DISAPPEARING LATELY. IS THIS SOMETHING THAT RUNS IN THE FAMILY?" Papyrus tells her.
" Hmm. Not a clue. I don't really know much about our origins. Our parents never really talked about ancestors. Can I come closer or is he gonna kill me?" Tracy replies. I hear a grunt.
" SANS! STOP GLARING! THAT IS RUDE! TRACY MIGHT BE ABLE TO HELP FRISK IF IT IS SOMETHING THAT RUNS IN THEIR FAMILY!" Papyrus scolds. I hear Tracy walk up to me. Her hand goes flat on my head.
" Woah. No wonder you've been feeling bad. You have a fever higher then Mount Everest. How long has it been since you started having these things?" Tracy asks. Papyrus answers for me.
" WHAT IS A FEVER?" I feel a bony hand replace Tracy's. " I CAN'T FEEL ANYTHING ODD ABOUT FRISK'S HEAD."
" F-Frisk has been h-having them s-since yesterday," Alphys explains. Papyrus starts prodding my head. It starts making my migraine even worse, so I weakly try to push his hand away.
" I wouldn't poke Frisk. I don't suppose you have any medicine on you? No? Well, I think there might be a couple of things at my friends place…"
" Don't think we are letting you take Frisk anywhere," Sans growls. My vision starts coming back. Sans's eye starts glowing a little bit. Or at least, I think it is Sans's eye.
" Wouldn't think of it. Frisk needs to lay down and relax. Jumping around just makes these things worse. I can probably be back with the medicine in twenty minutes at the minimum, but it is all that I can do at the moment. The medicine Frisk needs is on the surface, and that could take hours," Tracy explains. I nod as my migraine slowly drips away like runoff from a storm. It is slow at first, but then slowly more and more of the migraine goes away. I motion to Papyrus that I can stand, but he doesn't let me.
" SORRY FRISK. YOU SHOULD NOT BE VERY ACTIVE IF YOU ARE SICK! WE CAN WAIT IN THE HOUSE UNTIL TRACY COMES BACK WITH THE MEDICINE THAT SHE DOES HAVE."
" I'll come with. Just to make sure you don't try anything funny," Undyne says. Tracy shrugs.
" We will be back soon. Keep Frisk hydrated and warm. Don't let her go anywhere unattended. She has… well uh...just keep an eye on her." Tracy and Undyne start running off towards the entrance of Snowdin. I made myself more comfortable in Papyrus's grasp, then stopped moving. Those of us who remained walked into the house. Sans stopped at the door.
" BROTHER? ARE YOU NOT COMING IN?"
" I am just going to wait for them out here," Sans replies with a wink. I give him a pout.
" Don't worry kid. I won't do anything stupid." Sans closes the door behind him as he steps out of the door. Papyrus sets me down on the couch once we are all inside. Walking to the kitchen, he came back with a glass of water. I take it from him as he passes it to me, then we all make ourselves comfortable in the living room. I take a few sips of the water.
" H-how are you f-feeling Frisk?" Alphys stutters. I shrug.
" Fine. I don't feel bad at all."
" Darling, why did you never tell us that you had a sister? Come to think of it, you never even told us anything about your life before you fell," Mettaton remarked. The three of them looked at me.
" Well, I couldn't really remember anything related to my life before the fall. Plus, I never really had time or needed to think about it," I answer. The others nod in response. We start a small conversation while we wait for Undyne and Tracy to return.
**SANS POV**
"Don't worry kid. I won't do anything stupid," I tell Frisk. I close the door behind Papyrus as he leads Mettaton and Alphys into the house. Once I make sure the door is closed completely, I teleport to the entrance of Snowdin. Judging from the lack of footprints, I conclude that Undyne and Tracy had not passed through yet. Using the overgrowth of the nearby woods as cover, I hide myself and wait for them to come up the path. It only takes about two minutes before the pounding of two sets of feet comes from the trail. I see Tracy come around the bend first, then Undyne right behind her. Neither of them are talking, both to busy running at breakneck speeds to get to, what appeared to be, the ruins. My suspicions were confirmed when Tracy stopped in front of the door. She started pushing against it with all her might. Undyne helped her move the heavy door, so it only took about a minute to get the door open. As soon as they passed through the door, I slipped inside as well. It was my first time in the ruins, so I took caution and stuck to the shadows. I followed Undyne and Tracy through a few hallways, and stopped behind a corner as they bounded up some stairs. I slowly walked up the stairs, and stopped just before I reached the top. Crouching down, I waited to hear what was going on. There was a lot of huffing.
" Geez. I never realized just how much running you had to do," Tracy wheezed. I heard a chuckle from Undyne.
" Fhuhuhuhu! That was merely a warm up jog!" I heard a door squeak open.
" Huh? Oh! Hi Flowey!" Tracy exclaimed.
" What is she doing here?" Flowey growled back. I heard the door squeak as it was moved again.
" She is just helping me pick up some medicine for Frisk, why?" There was a brief silence. Then I heard some footsteps.
" Awake I see. How are you Chara?" Tracy asked.
" Ok, I guess. You are late and have a stranger in the house." Chara's footsteps came closer to where Tracy and Undyne were standing.
" Sorry. I got stopped along the way. Undyne is helping me pick up medicine for Frisk. Where did you put the stuff I brought you last time I was here?" I heard footsteps heading in the opposite direction of the stairs. Towards the left from where I was standing. I heard them enter a room, but they were too far away from my hiding spot for me to hear what was going on. Moving farther up the stairs, I looked down the hallway to the left. There were two doors. One of them was closed completely, but the other was open and voices from the people inside were spilling out. I could only catch pieces of their conversation. Something about chocolate going missing or something like that.
Moving up the stairs, I made my way into the living room. There was a big chair near an old fireplace. There was a big table inside that wa skittered with discarded drawings and letters. After making sure that nobody was coming out of the room, I picked one up. It showed Chara and another being running around in the grass with the sun tucked into the corner of the page. The other being looked a lot like Toriel and Asgore, accept it was much tinier and had a green and yellow striped shirt on, much like Chara's own sweater. I thought for a moment,then came to the conclusion that it was the long since deceased prince, Asriel. Why are they drawing Asriel in all of these pictures? Every single drawing had either Chara, Asriel, or both. Shrugging and putting it off till later to think about, I made my way into the kitchen. It looked like it hadn't been touched in awhile. The trash can was filled with what looked to be chocolate wrappers and empty boxes of crackers. Where are the soul container pieces? My thought process was disrupted by a person clearing their throat behind me. I jumped and spun around. Undyne was standing there with her arms crossed. None of the others were in sight.
" What are you doing here Sans?"
" Just came to see where you were going," I reply back. Undyne gives me a look.
" Yeah right. Don't worry. I have everything under control. Tracy is in the bedroom scolding, Chara was it, on eating all of the chocolate she brought. It was the funniest thing I have seen ever since Papyrus bought enough spaghetti to feed the entire neighborhood for a month!" Undyne chuckled. I notice a movement from behind her. Chara pokes her head in from behind Undyne.
" What are you doing here?" Chara sneers. Flowey and Tracy come in behind him.
" Do you mind?" Flowey growls. Tracy looks at Flowey, but he is too busy staring at me to notice.
" I… didn't know you were coming?" Tracy tries.
" What are you doing here you smiley trash bag?" Chara sneers again.
" Just came to see where Tracy was getting the meds from. That's all." Tracy looked at me from over Undyne's shoulder. At a nudge from Chara, she looked down at her and furrowed her brows. Chara nods, and Tracy looks back up at me.
" You could have just asked where we were going instead of following us all the way here. How did you even get here so fast? I didn't here you follow us at all," Tracy asks.
" I have a couple shortcuts around the underground that make moving around easier," I reply. I notice how she is watching my every move.
" Alright. Whatever you say. Do you think you can use you 'shortcuts' to get this medicine to Frisk? That fever needs to go down asap." Seems at least somewhat genuine. I shrug.
" Sure." She hands over a small white bottle with a piece of paper attached to it over to me. I look at the label. It reads:
EXTRA STRENGTH PAIN RELIEVER
TABLETS
100 TABLETS
DRUG INFORMATION ON BACK OF CONTAINER
Flipping the bottle onto the back, I read some of the information. It told you how much to take every four hours or so depending on how old you were. I took at last look at Undyne and Tracy, then teleported back to the house. Opening up the door, I notice that both Papyrus and Alphys were asleep, while Mettaton was nowhere to be seen. Frisk was sitting on the couch reading a book, and looked up when I came in. She put a finger on her lips, motioning for me to be quiet. I nodded and handed her the medicine. She looked it over, then grabbed a nearby glass of water and took two of the tablets. Her face scrunched up at the taste of them.
" Not good?" I ask, sitting down next to her. She shakes her head. I chuckle a bit and ask for the bottle back. She hands over the bottle and I look inside of it. There are tons of little white tablets in the bottle. None of them seemed to be tampered with or magically modified. I screwed the cap back onto the bottle and put it on the table. Frisk nudged my shoulder and started signing to me.
" Where did you go?"
" Just wanted to see where they were going. I've never seen the ruins before and decided to check them out," I sign back. Frisk gives me a look.
" What were you actually doing there?" I hesitate, but decide to answer anyway.
" Fine. You caught me. I was making sure your sister didn't try anything. No offense, but I don't trust her." A knock come from the door, then Undyne comes through. Tracy is nowhere to be seen. Before Undyne says anything, Frisk puts a finger up to her lips and quietly shushes Undyne, pointing at the sleeping skeleton and lizard on the floor. Undyne nods her head and points upstairs. Frisk slowly starts standing up, but quickly realized that she was trapped by the sleeping monsters around her. Using my blue magic, I raised her up and put her on my shoulders. Frisk giggled a little bit, then quieted down as we walked up the stairs. Locking the door to Papyrus's room as we walk in, I set Frisk down on the bed. She yawns, then looks up at Undyne. Undyne chooses to lean against the wall, while I sit next to Frisk on the bed.
" Flowey and Chara are in the ruins?" Frisk asks Undyne.
" Yeah. In this house that is there. I'm pretty sure it's Toriel's old house," Undyne explains.
" Did you see the pieces of the souls containers?" I ask. " I didn't see them when I got in."
" Yeah. They were in the big room piled up on a desk. It looked like Tracy was putting them together again."
" Only Tracy?" Frisk asks, confused.
" Yeah. When Chara tried to pick up a piece, Tracy told her to put it down. Tracy seemed a little bit angry that Chara even picked it up. There was also a map of the underground on the wall with a lot of little tacks everywhere. They didn't seem to be in any specific order."
" You also said something about chocolate?" Frisk starts giggling, and then once she look at our confused faces she starts howling with laughter.
" What's so funny?" I ask.
" Chara loves chocolate. It's funny because, at least to me, it is not that surprising," Frisks giggles. I look at Undyne, who then explains the encounter.
" Tracy brings them packages of food and other items, and I guess in the last package she brought she had put chocolate inside. Chara had eaten all of it within the week, and from what I can tell it was a lot of chocolate," Undyne explains. Frisk laughs again at the story of the missing chocolate.
" Do you know what she was planning to do with the soul containers?" I ask.
" Nope. I tried asking, but she just said that she was interested in how they worked and wanted to try and fix them," Undyne says. What are you planning Tracy. I notice Frisk yawn again, then her eyes droop a little bit lower.
" I think you need some sleep. All of us," I add, looking at Undyne. Frisk nods and climbs into the bed, pulling the covers up with her. I tuck the blanket around Frisk as Undyne brings Alphys and Papyrus into the room. We manage to fixate all three figure on the bed, then I go downstairs to sleep while Undyne sleeps on the floor in Papyrus's room. Falling asleep is hard at first due to the many ought ideas, and even conspiracy floating around my head. Eventually, I push those thoughts down and earn some well deserved sleep.
***TRACY'S POV***
I peek into Chara and Flowey's room to make sure that they are sleeping. Chara was sleeping in bed, while Flowey was sleeping on the bedside table in a pot. Quietly closing the door again, I make my way to the kitchen. I pull out some chocolate I had in my bag and put it in Chara's chocolate stash. It started off as secret, but was eventually found by Flowey, who told me where it was. It was amusing to watch Chara chase him around the house though. Sure did get my daily exercise then. Making my way out of the kitchen, I sat down on the couch and pulled out my backpack. I take out my binder and textbook for High School Algebra.
" This is the second to last week before you head off to college. Just finish this and you are done," I tell myself, opening the textbook and starting on my homework. My rage towards my evil math teacher was just about the only motivation I had. Assigning this much homework had to be illegal somewhere. Finishing the math homework within 45 minutes, then doing English for another 55, I finally had time to myself. Grumbling about one of the math problems, I put my homework away and put my backpack off to the side. Quietly, I make my way into the bigger room where the pieces of the machine were. I sit down and start putting them back together. After only two minutes of doing this it becomes clear that I couldn't sit in one place. Standing up with a frustrated growl, I make my way out of the house, making sure to secure my cloak in place. Snowdin seems like a pretty bad place to go right now. That skeleton, Sans, really doesn't trust me. He would probably kill me right on the spot. He is really protective of… FRISK! I didn't fix the… oh gosh. Plus she was getting sick! I didn't...oh no. I realized that I was freaking out, so I decided to run to take my mind off of things. Rushing outside of the front door, I ran past the giant oak tree in the yard. Running even more, I passed the first puzzle, then the next. Eventually I reached the spike puzzle, so I stopped for a breath. Ok Tracy. Calm down. You can still renew the charm. Tomorrow. My sensible side tried reasoning with me, but soon all the things that could go wrong started swarming into my head. What if another migraine comes? What if she gets so hurt that it will be too late? What if you are already too late? I let out a silent scream of frustration. Ok. You forgot to charm the pills, but at least you can try again. Right? I looked across the spikes, then slowly started levitating. For someone who has the trait of THOUGHT you sure don't have good control over your own thoughts. Reaching the other side, I carefully put myself down. I decided to run again, so I used all of my available energy to propel myself through the rest of the puzzles.
Eventually I reached an archway with the royal symbol carved into them. I've never seen this place before. I continued on, reaching a dark room with a single patch of dirt in the middle. Moonlight streaked down from a single gap in the ceiling. Moving forward, I reached a room with a bed of buttercups in the middle of it. The moonlight only reached this part of the room, and made the buttercups seem to be almost glowing with a blue aura. I stepped closer to the flowers, then sat down in them. I let out a sigh as the calming atmosphere of the flowers came over me.
Having nothing better to do, I called out my soul to check on it. HP 20/20 LV 1 TRACY. The glyphs shine in my mind as I look over the soul. Using my own characteristic, I dug deeper and dug out the stats that only I could find. ENERGY 30/50 MENTALITY WORRIED. Hmm. Better start storing more if I want to have enough energy to create the charm tomorrow. I see something flicker in the corner of my eye, but I don't draw attention to the fact that I saw whoever it was. I start twirling my soul around and wait for the right moment. Out of nowhere, with a snap of fingers, I start a fight with person in the shadows when he stepped to close to my soul. A dark and blobby form showed up in front of me. He had a skeletal face with two cracks in it, and two floating hands with holes in them. I look at his stats. W. D. GASTER HP 56/56 LV 10 ENERGY 99/100 MENTALITY CURIOUS. Gaster looked surprised at the sudden fight mode, but none the less was interested in what I was doing. I am not giving you what you want. Gaster started poking around with his choices, looking up at me every so often. My soul was still in front of me, and I realized that I should have hidden away, given the fact that Gaster could attack at any moment. I summoned the soul back into my chest, the hot pink glow fading away with it. Gaster took notice of this change and almost seemed disappointed that his investigation was cut short. Another five minutes dragged on without anyone making a move or noise. Then another five minutes passed, followed by another. Oí. This is wasting so much time I don't have. I stood straight up, which Gaster followed suit, and extended my hand. Gaster was startled by the sudden appearance of the SHAKE HAND option. Eyeing my hand for a moment, he decided to click on the button.
His left hand floated over to my own and cautiously, yet firmly shook my hand. His hand stayed in mine for a second more, then keeps back to his side. I put hand back down to my side, then started talking.
" Hello Mr. Gaster. How are you?" I speak, using a almost whispery voice. For some reason the situation seemed to call for a softer voice than usual.
" Greetings Tracy. I am doing quite well. You, on the other hand, seem to be doing quite the opposite." As he spoke, his hand formed into symbols that went along with his words. His voice was that of someone who was very knowledgeable and very observant. A shiver went down my spine when he took notice of my worried mood.
" Quite a bit to think about nowadays," I say, shoving my hands in my big sweatshirt pocket. You can attack now. Looking more closely at Gaster, I decide not to attack and see where this leads. Gaster seems to notice that I am not attacking.
" You are not going to attack?"
" Nah. No point really." Time runs out for me to attack, so Gaster gains control of his buttons again. He starts poking around with the buttons, then presses one. The ASK QUESTION button it turned out to be.
" How did you gain control of your soul? Pink souls are not only rare, but extremely hard to gain control over. That process alone can take years, and given your age…" Gaster stopped and looked at me expectantly. I shrugged, hands still in my pocket.
" I had help." Help? I wouldn't really call what they did 'helping'. I push the memories away as they start bubbling up. Focus on the battle. Gaster seemed to notice my brief distraction. After my time to attack runs out, Gaster does some fiddling with his buttons. I patiently wait for him to choose a button. Must not be the best ACT options. I think of adding an option, but before I can Gaster presses a button. The ASK QUESTION button again.
" Who helped you? You seem to have bad memories of them."
" That is none of your business," I tell him, my voice growing slightly darker. I shift from one leg to another, then back again. We waited again. Finally, Gaster was able to use his buttons again. Without drawing attention to it, I made the SPARE option available. Gaster took notice of the change almost immediately. His hand hovered over the option for a second, then pressed it. The room returned to its normal look and the buttons disappeared. We were free to talk as we pleased. Gaster spoke first.
" I have come to ask you something."
" Other than what you had asked before?" I ask, my voice slowly coming back to its normal carefree level.
" Yes. I have taken note of your…project," Gaster says.
" Project?"
" Yes. The one referring back to the soul containers." My head snaps up when he mentions the soul containers.
" How do you… how do you know about what I am doing." I step back slightly.
" I have been watching you, Tracy. I am here to help. You probably do not know this, but I was the former Royal Scientist. Before Dr. Alphys. I was the one to make the core. Unfortunately, during an experiment I was doing to check the full power of the core, I slipped and fell into the main reactor. I had thought that I was going to perish, but instead I was scattered across the whole of space and time. I have finally managed to gain a physical form, but as you can see it is not fully functional. This is due to my soul still being scattered."
" I would like to help you with your project, and in return I would like you to help me gain my soul back. If it will reassure you, you may check my remaining soul pieces." Two pieces of a soul move out from where I would guess his chest is. One piece, not much larger than a quarter, was orange with small flecks of yellow present. The other piece was the size of a post-it note. It had small traces of orange in the corner, and long streaks of bright blue on it. 3 traits. Even if the yellow is small, it is still there. I glance up at him quickly, then look at his soul again. Sighing, I give into the temptation and my own curiosity and check his stats again. Everything is the same for his normal stats, but his hidden stats showed that his energy had went down by one, while his MENTALITY was now that of AMUSEMENT. Clearly from me actually checking his stats. His soul is in similar condition to Flowey and Chara's, but at least he has these two pieces left. We would have to find another soul container though...With one last sigh, I look back up at Gaster.
" Deal." I extend my hand out, which he gladly shakes.
" Follow me. You can stay with Flowey and Chara. I'm sure they wouldn't mind that much. Plus they should probably have adult supervision during the week when I am not here," I tell him, motioning for him to follow me through the ruins. As we walk back to the house, neither of us speak. When we finally reach the house, I am greeted by two extremely angry children.
" Where were you?" Chara hissed.
" Just taking a run. Oh, this is Gaster." I motion towards the man next to me.
" He has the same disability as you two." Both children gaze up at him. Gaster smiles, then shows the remains of his soul. Chara continues staring, while Flowey lets out a small squeak.
" Wait a minute, you were the Royal Scientist! Before Alphys! I remember you coming in to talk to Mom and Dad!" Flowey snapped into silence when he realized what he just let loose. Chara glared at him, while Gaster and I just stood there. What is he talking about?
" I see what has happened," Gaster says after 3 minutes of silence.
" What are you talking about Flowey?" Flowey shifts around uncomfortably, then finally spills the beans.
" I am kinda, the prince?" Flowey looks up at me. Chara groans and fills me in on the rest. It takes a minute for me to process the information.
" So you are Prince Asriel?" The prince in question nods.
" Why didn't you tell me?"
" Chara made me promise not to!" Flowey exclaims, shoving a leaf in Chara's direction. The two get into a fighting session and I rush to end it.
" Woah! Stop you two! I am not mad!" The two children look up at me.
" I understand that is something you just didn't want to share. I get that. I won't tell anyone. I promise." They look up at me, then nod. I smile down at them for reassurance.
" How about you show Gaster to the big room? He is going to be staying here with you guys. He is helping with the project," I tell them. They nod, then rush the scientist over to his new room to be settled. Smiling a little bit to myself, I sit down in the big chair in the living room, letting out a big puff of air as I sit. Gaster can help find an answer to this problem. Which is a relief. He seems trustworthy as well. Just have to keep an eye out for him. The events of the day finally come crashing down on my body, exhaustion pressing down on my eyes. Doing one last check on my soul, I look at my energy levels. ENERGY 10/50. Cutting off most of my magic use except for a few chosen exceptions, I slowly drift into a deep sleep. Frisk, tomorrow I will fix the charm. Just wait until tomorrow. Don't disappear again.
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