UnderTale : Virtual-X
Arc 1 : Virtual Transcendance.
Chapter 1 : Last Stand
« Yellow »'s P.O.V
Never has it felt so great to see the dust of a monster float around, in the air. I took a moment to look at it fly off, smiling and sighing in relief. This time, he truly gave me some trouble. Everytime… They all get stronger.
The pain in my arms, the stab wound in my leg, the bruises overall…
...Thinking about it, everything is a burning mess, at the moment… glad that's over.
I let myself fall to my knees, panting loudly, staring at the red scarf and blue jacket he left behind in his decay. Guess that even in death, they're reunited. And people keep saying everything's wrong in murder.
Hey, at least, they're together in hell, right ?
- « Exactly ! You learn very fast. »
I startled at the voice, gasping lightly, before the hand of another human I knew well, too well, went over mine, with which I hold the weapon that caused the monsters' demise. The blade carrying the weight of my sins.
« See, now, you're making one hell of a scene. »
- « Stop reading my mind, Chara ! This is getting annoying as can be, dammit ! » I always had in horror the fact that they could always know what was going on inside my head. It's been quite a lot of 'runs', as they call it, and I still can't get used to it.
- « Oh wow, what a mood killer. » They sat in front of me, smiling. « Come on, now, you're not going to play the hotheaded fool when you're in such a state ? » They almost looked worried. Hah, like they could ever be-
« Woah, okay, thanks. Just trying to show support like you asked. » God dammit.
- « Right, right, forgive me, I'm just kind of DYING, at the moment, if you could not notice... » Indeed, my vision was starting to get blurry. I may have won, the bleeding was still much of a problem, at the moment.
- « Urh… Come on, now, don't be such a drama queen, you're not dying yet. » And there they go and point to my 'Health Bar'. I always thought it was ridiculous, all that 'Battle System', 'Health Bars', 'EXP' and whatever, we're not in a god damn video game. Else I would not be so worried about dying since there would be Save points. BUT, apparently, as Chara said, I don't have enough 'Determination' and bla bla bla, sounds like bad excuses if you want my word on the subject.
Anyhow, all this to say, I am not 'dead' yet since I have 11 'HP' left. Great.
« Dude. Heal yourself, if you really can't move. »
My head jerks up to them, snarling in anger and pain.
- « Well, if you are soooo smart ! How do I. Fricking. Do that !? »
They sighed, and looked at me with the kind of look that would directly tell you how much of a moron you are. That kind of look I despise overall.
- « With your Healing Items, maybe ? You still have about two leftover Cinnamon Bunnies, put them to god damn use, and stop being such a spoiled brat with me. After all... » They grinned like they would be used to, letting out a couple giggles of the 'evillll' kind. So intimidating I wanted to vomit of disgust.
« We're partners, are we ? »
- « You're a power boost who's slowly turning into a living parasite... » I slowly reached for the Buns, stocked in my jeans' pockets. The gelatin slightly melted from all the heat I produced through the fights. Their sticky fabric against my hand and clothes repugnate me and make me wanting to throw them away. But you have to cope with what you have, don't you ?
You've eaten the two Melted Cinnamon Bunnies !
You regained 19x2 = 38 HP !
I looked over to my so called Health Bar, showing the following numbers :
LV 14 HP 49/72
- « Huh. As expected, works llike a charm even for these wounds. » Indeed, the cuts I had on my cheek and shoulder slowly resorbated, and the stab wound Sans and his well placed bone left me is slowly coterising. Good. We can move on.
- « If there IS one thing the monsters did well, it's this. »
- « Yep. Guess a bunch o' murderers can do some stuff well. »
- « And hopefully, we won't need their filthy merch's aid again. » I already am disgusted enough by the taste of cinnamon (Seriously, who's the dumbass who thought a pastry made with cinnamon, that bitter and acid fruit, could taste well?!), but the fact it was made from these beings who slaughtered hundreds of thousands of humans during the Great War ? I just… wish I could spit these Buns out.
Even though… I've been asking myself a lot of questions about that. They killed so much humans, yet did not kill me nor came close to it at ALL, except just now, while I am just a child ? Doesn't make a lot of sense.
Even though, I don't have any proofs. So I have to trust Chara, for now, on what she said.
- « You done questioning me ? » I roll my eyes, and stiffened a bit seeing Chara's menacing glare.
- « Huff… let's move, if you so kindly insist… » I stood up, and turned to Chara. « Come on. If you remain out, you'll drain our Determination out. And I don't want to know what will happen to us in that case. »
They shivered from the thought, before standing up as well, and nodding. « Yeah. Let's not lose time, and get done with this Timeline. Hopefully, you'll reach the next LOVE with what's left. »
I closed my eyes, readying myself before entering the King's Room. I held back a shiver as Chara disappeared, unknowing of how she can do that. The simple fact she knew more about my SOUL, about how she can use its determination, it terrifies me, deep inside.
To loosen the double pressure, I slapped my cheeks a bit, and took a deep breath, wiping off the blood on my face. My sleeves are already damped with it, kind of a creepy sight, I'll admit. But I suppose I've gotten used to it.
« Thanks to who ? »
I surprised myself to smile from these words, having the memory of them trying to comfort me when I fell. It's true I'm being harsh on them… they helped me out quite a bit.
- « Right… Right… Thanks to you... »
- « Damn right it is ! You thankless ingrate ! » I heard frantic laughs in my head, making me smile further.
- « Yeah yeah. Let's just get moving already. » And so we did, both slowly focusing on what's ahead. A King's demise.
We could hear our own footsteps coursing through the dark, inside alleyways. It's weird. No matter how much we've done this, it's always quite a strange moment. Everytime, it's such a strong pressure. To face the King of a murderous race always gave me quite the scare. But no matter.
We never let him the time to strike back.
And the same shall happen.
He rambled about golden flowers he had to water. As always.
He turned around inquiring who was there, and recoiled at my sight. As always.
I stepped closer, blade unsheathed. As always.
He wanted to settle this over some tea. As always.
And in the end…
I struck him down, without any second thoughts, and again…
As. Always.
His eyes widened. His agony was short. Painless. The slash, coursing his whole, massive body, made it quick. Such a big number shown in red. It's almost making me euphoric, everytime I create such a large damage count.
It always reminds me of how much I'm above them. How I rule this reality. How I rule them all.
Fear not, fallen humans. Your death will be avenged.
Men, women, and children who died to these filthy beasts…
Your black-winged angel has appeared.
Chara's P.O.V
Well. It's about time we moved on to a new Timeline. As always, the options, making us the guardians of time, popped up in front of me, as I was lying restful in my… very generous host.
I slowly descended my hand to the RESET button, smiling as I thought of how thrilling the next run shall be. Everytime, the monsters kept growing stronger, and so did we.
The feeling of adrenaline coursing through our veins face to danger, the strength we keep gaining when we cross a new gap… Just now, with this masterpiece of an execution, we reached a new cap of strength. The 15th LOVE.
Someday, we shall reach the absolute. We shall rule over Monsters, and Humanity all the same. These worthless, mindless beasts of destruction should all burn in Hell, should all repent for their sins. They all should pay for the suffering they have caused. For their cruelty that shows no limit.
Just you wait a little more, Zen.
Very soon…
We will make True Justice rain upon this wretched world.
RESET
« Sir, the simulation is encountering some issues. It seems the 15th LOVE gap was too much of a power boost for the system to follow. And at this rate, the next LOVE Ups will ruin the simulation, and we will lose him. »
- « Very well then. Shut down the simulation, and place him back into SOULstasis. We shall make some patchwork meanwhile, and get him back in there once we can make sure he can reach the highest power a human can possibly get. »
- « Very well… We never tried shutting the system down, though, and their Determination seems to keep growing. What if… What if they could sustain it by themselves ? »
- « Don't be such a fool. No one can possess such Determination. »
- « If you say so… The simulation has shut down successfully. Retrieving Team, the stage is yours. »
- « Now… let's see, how could we possibly manage to get a stronger energy inco- ! »
- « Sir, we have an emergency case ! »
- « What now… Look, if this is because there's another power outage in the Sim Room and you can't see shit, we TOLD YOU that it would be fixed the 12th, and that you HAVE to have your damned FLASHLI- »
- « Sir, he's gone ! »
« W-What ?! What do you mean 'GONE' ?! »
- « H-he's vanished ! He's gone, just gone ! »
Welp, here's chapter 1 as promised ! I uh… hoped you liked it !
Seeing that the first Intro has attracted quite a lot of readers in one day, and that I got my first review (THANK YOU LOTS ! w), it doubled my motivation to make that new part ! I hope you'll find it as much of a treat as it was for me, and with that, a couple informations for you !
There is dialogue in italics. It is pretty much Chara talking under her Ghost form, in our mysterious Genocidal, blinded by his foul justice child.
Second piece of intel is about what I called « Arc ». Yes, this'll be a very long series. And I surely hope to get to the end of it !
I will upload a new Chapter tomorrow, as usual ! No spoils for it yet, no previews, let's keep you all in deep mystery after all that x3.
Again, thank you for reading ! And see you tomorrow !