Chapter 10
Suspicion
I wake up, half awake I see that Zipler's standing in front of me.
'Wake up Ziplet." Zipler says, I rub my eyes and sit up. I look out the window to see the sun is not even out. I decide to lay back on my pillow and close my eyes. That's when a round, small object enter both my ears, I don't mind them until a song starts playing loudly, I don't mind it after a bit until suddenly it says this.
"WAKE ME UP!" It says, my eardrums feel bruised after that, and it continues! I quickly take out the earbuds and throw them to the ground, I can barely hear it now, my ears are throbbing from that. I look at Zipler, who's laughing.
"Why must you torture me like this?" I ask, Zipler chuckles a bit. That's when I see a person climbing through the window, He's hair is a dirty blond, he has a black hoodie and black jeans. If this kid had unnatural black hair I would consider him emo. He has this bag of leafy green...stuff..I don't know what it is.
"Hey Zipler, I got the weed!" He says as he holds up the bag, Zipler looks over to this stranger.
"Good! Go wrap them up as I try to convince Ziplet to come with us." Zipler replies, wait WHAT?! He's too young for that, I think the stranger is too, I look over at the stranger. He's gone, what the fuck?
"I'm not going with you to smoke weed, we're both too young!" I state, Zipler chuckles.
"It's not actual weed, it's paradox bits. They turn it into a physical, smokable form and we're supposed to smoke it. If we don't Chronic Cancer would break out and kill us all." Zipler says, what? Ok, I guess that makes it a bit better.
"It's not that Chronic Cancer that gives you more cancer either, it's literally time cancer. It eats away at your time energy until you don't exist, it's pretty scary." Zipler adds, I'm fucking scared now. Their Chronic Cancer sounds worse than our chronic cancer, holy shit.
"What do you need me for?" I ask curiously.
"To watch over us, TPA law says we need a sober person to watch over us, most of the rest of the TPA was either already smoking the stuff or on missions." Zipler states, I'm now left with a choice, I can either go with them or just stay here and sleep. After a bit of thinking I know my answer.
"Nah, I'm too tired to watch over you guys." I reply, I put in a yawn to drive the point across, Zipler shrugs.
"Okay, I guess I can understand, I'll go see if Lifetale me wants to." He says with an understanding tone, he then walks o a free space on the wall and draws an imaginary line, blah blah blah he walks through the portal and the portal disappears. I didn't find it necessary to repeat the same description of the same thing for the hundredth time, also I want to fucking sleep. I lay down on my sleeping bag and try to get comfy again….I can't go back to sleep, shit. I just lay there, wide awake, staring at the back of Space Ziplet's head who's to my left, I ponder on what to do now.
I could go down and check on the machine, of course I don't understand more than half the stuff, I don't think any amount of studying Junior High science could prepare me for the TIME machine, I could always ask Dad to teach me how it worked. I might as well check on the machine, I quickly get up (at least as fast as someone woken up at probably midnight could get up) and teleport to the basement. I stumble a bit after the teleportation, feeling like I might throw up, I now know a rule for teleportation, don't teleport before you're fully awake, or else you would feel like me right now, sick to your stomach. I look around to see Dad, still down here working on the TIME, why is he still up?
"Dad!" I yell out, he turns his head towards me. He glares a bit at me as he walks towards me.
"What are you doing up at this time? It's fucking midnight." Dad asks sternly.
"I could ask you the same thing." I reply, Dad continues his glare.
"I'm not the one that's growing." He states, still continuing his glare.
"I'm not the one who hasn't slept for months!" I state, worried. Dad's eye sockets start to droop a bit, he then shakes his head and mumbles something, he then glares again at me.
"I'm fine." Dad says, his eye sockets start to droop, they finally close as his body goes limp and falls forward.
"Shit." I whisper to myself, I manage to catch him, luckily my weak little body could handle carrying some bones. He then starts to snore, where should I put him? I could put him on the couch in the living room, that would work. I quickly teleport to the couch, I stumble a bit, I'm not used to teleporting more than me.
I gently set him on the couch, what's up with him? It's unhealthy to just randomly pass out, ah well. He's probably just been doing all nighters on some project, he'll be fine in the morning. Speaking of which, I need to get some sleep. I teleport back up to my room and plop down onto my sleeping bag, I close my eyes and fall asleep.
¨Wake up idiot." A familiar voice says, my eyelids open up as I look around groggily. In front of me is Prisoner Me.
¨What do you want?¨ I ask groggily, he smirks.
¨Papyrus is cooking up spaghetti for lunch.¨ He answers, wait, what does he mean lunch? Isn't it morning.
¨But it´s morning.¨ I grumble, Prisoner Me chuckles.
¨No, itś the afternoon, you slept till 12.¨ He states, oh fucking hell. I slept in, I can be doing that. I stand up groggily. Prisoner Me then teleports away, probably downstairs.
I´m not gonna teleport, teleportation after just waking up doesn't feel so good after teleportation (as I've learned last night). So I rub my eyes as I stumble downstairs, I see Dad still sleeping on the couch, good thing he's still sleeping. Not sleeping for months as he said would've killed any human. Anyways, I make my way to the kitchen to check on Papyrus, once I get there I see that he's stirring spaghetti.
"Good morning Papyrus." I say, Papyrus looks away from his spaghetti.
"GOOD MORNING!" He replies, I then walk over to the fridge and swing the fridge door open, looking for a morning drink. I find bottle of water, this drink called "Sipsi" and…..root beer. I fill up with glee, I can't believe it, I loved this stuff before I throw myself into a big gaping hole at the top of Mt. Ebott. I grasp the can and take it out of the fridge, I slam the fridge door closed and put my thumb under that tab thing they've got on those soda cans, and I throw my thumb up, the tab pushes against the top metal of the can and makes a hole as a light brown fizz escapes the can.
I then take a sip of the root beer, savoring the taste as I walk out of the kitchen. That's when I hear a yelling outside, as if there's this huge mob screaming, so I quietly move to a window that faces the front of the house and look through it, there IS a huge mob outside. Their holding up signs like "Leave or face the consequences" and "Monsters hurt society" and some other random bullshit. I take another sip of my root beer as I keep scanning the outside, I see that Sans and Riku have made a bone wall to keep them away, they're sweating badly. People are trying to hack their way through with anything, I find someone bashing a bone with another person, holy shit these people are crazy.
"What in the hell's going on out there?" A voice behind me asks, I look behind me and see that it's Norville.
"Some kind of protest that's turning into a riot." I answer, I honestly do not know how to react to this mob. If we threaten them it could just make things worse. It also doesn't look like Sans and Riku are gonna be able to hold up that bone wall, I take another sip of my root beer as I continue thinking about our options.
"Can we scare them off?" Norville asks, that actually sounds like a good idea.
"We could, but how?" I reply and then ask, that's when I hear light footsteps running down the staircase.
"What are they doing?!" A voice asks in shock, I look to the stairs to see Phoenix standing on the last step to the main floor (which we are on if you did not somehow know).
"A riot Phoenix, an ugly one." Norville answers as I turn my head back to the window. "Anyways, we could scare them off with some awesome looking magic." Norville states, I sip my root beer.
"We could, but I don't think all of us have some cool looking attack that would scare off a crazy mob." I reply, I take another sip of my root beer as a see the chaos start to evolve a bit more, they're starting to reach through the gaps in the bone wall.
"BEHIND YOU ZIP!" I hear Phoenix scream out, I turn around and see a shield spinning towards me, I don't know how to react. I'm shocked, when a gold shield gets really close a faded gold wall appears in front of me, the shield freezes in it for a second and then launches back to where it came from. This is when a man catches it, he stumbles back a bit. This guy is fucking huge, he's like two Norville's, he's got a gold jacket on with blue shorts.
I see Merriweather get up, his eyes changed back to how they were when he was attacked by Sans. The gold wall in front of me disappears, the guy that about murdered me chuckles.
"You always DID ruin the fun Merriweather." The guy says, I'm still in shock as I look to Norville. He's looks really scared, his sword is out and he looks like he's ready to fight.
"So you know my name? That's interesting. What are you, someone from the future? Or maybe…" Dad stops talking, I look back at him and see that he looks like he's just realized something. "You're an AU, I realize that color of clothing, Outertale?"
"Finally! You're smart enough to realize what's going on, at least you were smart enough to realize most of it. Name's Petele, conductor of carnage and the one responsible for the end of your days." The strange man says with an evil grin on his face. He then throws his shield at Dad, it spins in the air as it flies toward Dad, I teleport to the stairs so it doesn't hit me as Dad rolls out of the way.
The shield quickly flies back before it hits the window, this is when Dad summons some kind of bone spear in his right hand and charges at Petele, Dad thrusts his spear towards Petele, Petele simply steps out of the way, grabs Dad's skull, and tosses him into the wall, Dad's skull slams into the wall and he falls down. I drop my soda can and teleport to Petele, I see that Norv had the same idea and charges to Petele sword first. I fire three finger gun blasts at Petele, he slides out of the way of the first two and blocks the third one with his shield, Norville after he gets about two feet away from Petele he swings his sword in a rage like fashion at him, Petele simply ducks.
Petele then gets up and kicks Norville in the gut with his right foot, Norville flies back a bit but manages to get his footing. I swipe my right hand over my right eye, a ball of energy starts to grow in front of it, this is when Petele notices it. He dodges it before bashing me in the head with his shield, I fly back and slam against the railing of the stairs, breaking and splintering the wood. I fall to the ground, I feel a warm liquid trickle down from the back of my head.
I stumble back up, breathing heavily. This is when Norville draws some kind of artwork in the air as Dad starts to get up.
"This is no time to draw!" Father yells out, this is when Norv gets done with the artwork it turns a shade of blue as ice spikes fly out of it towards Petele. He smiles and blocks them all with his shield, they bounce off it and shatter mid air. The seal disappears as dad runs up in front of him, some kind of big skeletal snake with bone armor bursts out of the ground, it's pupil's brown. It then opens it's mouth as Dad opens his right hand, a brown ball of energy gathers up in front of the skeletal beast's open mouth.
Six brown energy beams burst out out of the energy ball and curve around Petele, meeting back behind Petele, he's trapped. Dad then opens his hand all the way and closes it, all the beams gather up into one, hitting Petele directly in the chest. He flies back into a wall, slamming into it. He then smiles.
"Finally, a timeline that puts up a fight." He says as he gets up, this is when the walls of my eyesight turn a faded purple. I fire five finger gun blasts at him, three of them him him while the other two he rolls out of the way of. Norville then runs at him and starts swinging his sword at Petele wildly, as if he's in a blind rage. Petele simply steps out of the way of them and then kicks Norville in the side of the skull, he stumbles back.
"What's going on?" I hear a voice ask in shock from up the stairs, I look up at the direction of the voice and see Skiee there, I look back at Petele. He's also noticed Skiee, he smiles, shit.
"Oh good! I can take out one problem before it develops." He says, he then throws his shield at Skiee, Skiee summons two swords and holds it in front of her to block it. This is when Ceartas runs up in front of Skiee with a big red scythe in her hand, she then stops a bit in front of Skiee as her scythe turns green. She thrusts the end of the scythe towards the shield that's about to hit them, that's when a gigantic green heart appears in front of the scythe, the shield comes in contact with it it stops, still rotating, the heart shield starts to crack a bit.
The shield flies back to Petele, he catche sit, he growls in frustration.
"Great, you again." He growls angrily, Ceartas glares at him.
"I will NOT let you escape this time." She says, her scythe goes back to a red as the green heart disappears, she then runs to the railing and jumps over towards Petele with her scythe raised high in the air as she falls, when she gets close she swings her scythe down towards him, Petele jumps away from the land zone as Ceartas lands, her scythe sinks into the ground, she struggles to pull it out. She manages to pull it out as Petele runs up to her and goes to kick her in the head. She gets up and slides out of the way, she then swings her scythe at him. He manages to block with his shield, his free hand lurches towards her stomach for some palm strike, a blue energy is around the hand as it strikes. It launches Ceartas back, slamming her against a wall, Skiee then teleports behind Petele, before she can strike Petele turns around and kicks her in the stomach, she stumbles back a bit.
Skiee starts slicing and slashing at Petele, Petele dodges and blocks every single one. I decide to jump in and start firing finger gun blasts at Petele, he somehow manages to dodge and block Skiee and I's attacks. He then smacks Skiee across the head with his shield and goes to palm strike me with his free hand, blue lightning follows it, it manages to hit me in the chest and I'm sent flying into a wall. I slide down from the wall, the faded purple walls flickering a bit. I crawl my way up, my legs shaking. I see Petele completely dominating now, kicking back and palm striking anyone that goes to strike him.
Finally it gets to the point where everyone's almost destroyed, Petele's breathing heavily and sweating bad. He smiles.
"I can finally finish you guys off." He says, that's when someone teleports behind him. This guy has long hair, it's spiky at the end of it, the spikes are colored white, he holds a big red greatsword in his hand.
"Not so fast bitch." The person says before he punches Petele, Petele falls down, showing the person behind him. It's Zipler.