AN: Hi guys! From popular demand, aka, my own, I've decided to do the fic where Grapes home is! … Kinda… Eh you'll see.
In a classroom there was an empty seat, with students wondering how its usual seater was going to arrive today… In a kind of anti-climactic turn of events, a boy with a lightning scar, wearing a red scarf around his neck, ran through the doorway, a slice of toast in his mouth, which… Made no sense as it was the final class of the day and toast was a breakfast food.
Few minutes later
The boy, known as Harry Potter, or Grape as a name he'd recently chosen due to his eyes being the colour of grapes and not emeralds, unlike his AU counterparts, relaxed in his seat, munching on his toast happily.
"Harry you let everyone down." A girl with bushy hair said annoyed at him.
"No I didn't Mi, they let themselves up." He argued, the words muffled by the slice of burnt bread that sat in his mouth.
"Where did you even get the toast?" She asked curiously.
"Howdy." He said with a shrug.
"… Harry?"
He groaned as he remembered. "Right, you're not used to the terms, different lifestyles…" He muttered. "I got it from a place you will never visit, ever." He said as he ate it.
"Alright…" She sighed, knowing that arguing never ended well. The last time she'd argued he had summoned Cthulhu and invited the cosmic being to play poker with him and the entire school… So she didn't want to know what he'd do next… And this was only halfway into their first year! Who knew what he could do later on…
"Good girl!" He grinned as he drank from a bottle of ketchup.
"Why do you drink that?"
"Met someone that did, tried it and liked it." He explained with a shrug. "It's really good actually." He noted.
"Right…" Hermione sighed, regretting the fact that she had asked.
Grape, as he loved to be called, looked at his phone, which somehow worked around magic, and his eyes widened in fear. "Oh god! Gotta go! Sorry!" He shouted to the teacher, before vanishing in a silent pop, the only sign that he was ever there being the crumbs, and his bag.
Play the night away…
Grape appeared in a dark room quickly. "Sorry I'm late boss!" He said panicking.
"It's fine… Now… I hear that there's been a couple incidents lately, mostly due to you using your ability as a way to take shortcuts, and while there's nothing wrong with that…" A girl said from inside a big box.
"The council's mad at me?" He asked with a sigh.
"A little bit." A new voice said from behind him. He turned around to see another Harry Potter wearing spandex and a visor that looked like it was from a space cop movie. "Harry Potter number 983, or Warp, at your service." He said. "I'm your new partner." He explained with a shrug.
"Partner?" Grape asked confused.
"The council… They wanted to wipe your AU and reset the rest…" The girl explained. "Luckily the director stopped them, instead opting to assign an agent to be your partner, ensuring you don't knock an AU off of its intended course, AU's of AU's are fine however, mess with them as much as you please, a simple interaction with an AU character is also fine, permitted you don't aid them too much. Howdy is an exception to this, as is this AU and your own." She added.
"Right…" Grape nodded, clearly not happy but understanding why. "Well I need to get back home, it's almost time for dinner!" He said before vanishing, returning to his AU, and leaving the girl and Warp behind.
"Warp… Please keep an eye on him, and report to me first, and then the council." The girl requested.
"You know I can't say no to you Pet." Warp grinned before vanishing in a flash of bright light.
Grape's AU.
Harry Potter walked into the great hall casually, sitting down next to Hermione and wearing his now normal scarf.
Harry Potter walked into the great hall casually, sitting down next to Hermione and wearing a spandex suit and a weird visor.
Hermione looked at the two Harry's, before looking at Grape. "You're the real one." She declared.
"You're no fun!" Grape complained childishly, "How did you know?" He asked her.
"Eyes, your doppelganger's eyes are emerald, your eyes look like grapes." She explained. "Even if you switched outfits I would know."
"Huh, smart, and cute! I'm jealous Grape." Warp said looking at Hermione with a grin. "If it wouldn't get me fired and wiped I'd totally steal her and replace my one with her." He added.
"What are you talking about?" Hermione asked confused.
"Oh! I'm Harry Potter, but just call me Warp, I'm a version of Harry. Just like Grape there, there is an original but…"
"He's a whiny idiot." Grape finished Warp's sentence.
"Basically."
"Wait… You're saying… That there's multiple dimensions?"
"We prefer the term, AU's, actually." Warp interrupted. "But yeah."
"And… They all have names?"
"Yep, the well-known ones that aren't original dimensions are… Howdy, Play the night away, Five nights as Potters, Stitches and Mirrors… There's quite a lot actually." Warp shrugged, eating dinner as Grape did the same.
"What about you?" Hermione asked curiously. "You're about the same age as us, shouldn't you be in your dimension?"
Warp froze and winced. "Well… I can't…" He muttered.
"Wait you mean…" Grape trailed off horrified.
"I'm what you would call a standalone. Basically it means either I was made without an AU, or in my case…" He trailed off, unable to say it.
"His world was destroyed somehow…" Grape finished, pale in the face.
"Not just once, my world was crossed with Undertale, and I can sense RESETs… One week, repeating for years… My body is the same age as you… But since I remember them… I'm about 900…" He sighed. "Eventually, Chara got bored, and found me, we came to an agreement, Frisk couldn't take any more resets, so they would erase the world one more time, I would take both of their SOULs, Chara's so full of LOVE it didn't class as human, and Frisk's so weak it didn't have the strength to class as either… After that the dimension fell apart, the SOUL's in it back to life and sent to the afterlife… I visit them sometimes, so it's not all bad…" Warp explained, in near tears at the end of it.
"Wow, you suck!" Grape said as he drank apple juice, because pumpkins suck!
"Harry! Be nice!" Hermione scolded him.
"No… He's right. But at least Chara and Frisk can help, Chara's lost a lot of LOVE over time… And Frisk is back to LV 1, instead of LV -101020… So they help out a lot, I can spare quickly now, and if I have to, control how much damage I do." He explained. "So yeah… I can't go home, because it's gone, and the afterlife has strict visiting rules, AUless beings like me, Chara and Frisk can stay as long as we like, but since we hold multiple SOULs… It's hard, we fade in and out if we aren't all focused."
