Undertale: The Machine
Chapter 9
Real Memories of a Fake World

I've fallen down, yet again.
This is not the first time.
No, I've felt this. Not just the pain of unconsciousness…
But the dismal abyss that is death.
Frisk… can you hear me?
It's your best friend…
Your partner…
We can't let him get away with this…
… Wait…
You do not remember…
…Yet.
This journey, at its end you will be forced to make a choice…
To kill… or to be killed…
A choice to be made no matter how hard you fight…
Neither matters much… he holds our fate in his hands…
Frisk… your heart may be hurting…
Trust me, I know…
But you have to keep going.
I will pull you back if things get tough…
I always have, and always will.
Despite everything, this is a job only you can do…
Now…
Wake up.


Frisk gasps, waking up in a small patch of soggy yellow flowers. He coughs up a small bit of water and looks around. He's at the dump. What was that dream? Well… it wasn't that much like a dream. More like a dark void where he heard a voice. It was simultaneously soothing, and disturbing… they knew Frisk? The concept of forgetting old friends usually makes Frisk sad, but this one… this one he's certain he never knew. Then why did they speak like they knew him? Whatever the case, the possibility exists that it was just a dream, and nothing more. Frisk stands up and pats their wet clothes down before walking forward.

The dump seems especially clogged, so much trash that the waterfall downward is completely backed up. I guess ten years of little use will do that. Frisk tries really… really hard to not think about what he heard a few moments ago.

He "is" the murderer. But why can't he remember? What's the game here, why would he do this ten years ago to come back as a child again, and remember nothing? WHAT'S THE POINT?

"WHAT'S THE POINT?!" Frisk yells, punching a small stack of garbage so hard that it explodes from the base and it goes flying in every portion of the room.

Frisk looks terrified at what they just did. He's… capable of this kind of damage? Frisk's eyes flicker like a static sheet, and their every thought turns to nothing. It's so impossible, but it makes so much sense. Someone with this much power wouldn't have any trouble destroying all of Monsterkind.

But he didn't. Whimsun was alive, right? And there's a queen, and a town, and royal guards. He obviously didn't kill everyone, so what's the point? Frisk begins to get a headache and a heartache again and begins to just move forward anyway. He remembers Whimsun… he hopes they're okay. They probably made it back to Snowdin by now, back to a town of monsters. It's better this way.

Frisk makes it to a small collection of houses, but they're all abandoned. One of which seems overrun with snails. A small cavern with trinkets is also abandoned, spider webs present. Frisk merely continues down the sodden halls, noticing that the prophesies are also scribbled out here, as if someone took a hot blade to it. Frisk closes his eyes and navigates dark rooms by muscle memory that they don't understand. Though they don't have a single solid memory, he knows that he's been here before.

Before long, he arrives at a large bridge. He crosses it with no problem, but parts of it seem to fill him with more nostalgia than usual. Passing it, he arrives at a large cave system with hot air blowing through it.

Alphys told me humans were Determined, now I know what she meant! But Monsters are Determined too!

Frisk shakes his head and moves on. Hands in his pockets, he makes this lonesome trip without a single shred of Determination left. He simply moves along the one path to the one ending he has lost faith in… why even try? Before long he arrives at yet another bridge, but this one blasts him with hot air. Below him is a deep gorge filled with magma. He moves forward, but another memory fills his head-

This one is far more vivid than the others…


"D-Damn it, human…! Kill me or let me go... ngah... what are you doing?" Undyne, the hero of monsters asks, the human ahead of her holding her by the throat. The human says absolutely nothing, their face blank, then picking up a sharp rock from nearby and stabbing it into Undyne's one remaining eye!

"AHHHHHHH!" She screams in agony, at that point the human kicks her in the chest as she falls into the chasm of lava, disappearing from sight behind the mirages of the intense heat of the lava.

"With this… Frisk shall know true suffering." The human says out loud to no one in particular. In a state of lucid memory, Frisk can remember that it's them, it's FRISK that said and did those things!

"Are you watching?" The memory of Frisk says to himself as he remembers, this entire event filling Frisk's chest with absolute terror!

"Good. Never forget what you did. They won't."


"NO!" Frisk gasps and falls to his knees! He looks around, noticing a familiar cliff before scrambling over to it. He looks down with air quickly leaving his lungs.

That's the cliff he kicked Undyne down… ten years ago… but why? Why did he do that-

And why did he talk to himself?! None of this makes sense!


Rotation 9

I did it. He did it. I'm not sure how I, he, we did it, but they did. Gaster 8 sent notes of what a save point looks like, we can't see it directly, but the energy readings show a four pointed star. This must be what a save point is. Frisk apparently only visits it twice for the whole year, the day after the Barrier falls, and the day he resets the world.

I can memorize all of these notes in a few days, then do further research on that "save point". Along with these notes left by Alphys on the nature of Determination, I may be able to find a way to alter one, if not both of those things. Our world is fake, that's how I managed to invent the concept of magical electricity, and the Core. If our world is fake, and but data, then surely it can be edited? Is that not what Determination is? A force that alters the nature of the world from the inside?

I know where the save point is, I know when to access it, and I know when Frisk and Toriel will be out of that house, thanks to Gaster 8's notes. I'm going to crack this code this time.