Brother Tale Chapter 10

Three Brothers Underground.

Gaster felt himself floating aimlessly through the darkness. Not knowing where he was or where he'll end up next. He remained in darkness until a bright light appeared. He felt himself being pulled toward it. At first he couldn't make out what it was but as he floated closer it started to take shape. A doorway, wide open with a blinding amount of light streaming through. Gaster shielded his face from the light as he floated through the doorway.

On the other side a vast field of dandelions stretched before him. A breeze blew through ruffling the golden and white flowers picking up seeds as it went. Up above stretched a vast light blue sky. When Gaster turned to look behind him the door was gone. He saw only another vast expanse of the field. Then Gaster noticed his cloths had changed as well.

He wore a long, black cape which covered most of his arms. Under the cape was a suit of the same color. The most chilling part of the wardrobe change was when he looked at his hands he saw that they where now nothing but bones. The palms of his hands had round holes that looked like someone or something can cut them out. He jumped when he heard a voice.

"Heh. Haven't seen this place in a long time."

Gaster turned around again to see that a shorter skeleton had suddenly appeared behind him and seemed to be lost in thoughts staring off into the distance. He wore all white except for a red scarf wrapped around his neck that was now billowing in the wind. Gaster felt some concern for the monster when he noticed the red slash across their chest but they didn't seem to be in any pain.

The skeleton seemed to return to reality when he noticed Gaster staring at them.

"So you're the Gaster of this timeline right?"

Gaster didn't know about any other timeline but nodded anyway. The skeleton smiled.

"Right! Well the name's…"

He paused for a moment thinking carefully before saying.

"Geno."

He said with a smile. Something about Geno reminded Gaster of someone but he couldn't put his finger on it. Geno continued

"I've seen quite a few Gasters get to this point but you're the closest any of them have come to being like mine."

Gaster for the first time spoke once again noticing that his voice sounded rough and metallic here.

"Other Gasters?"

Geno shrugged.

"Places like this pop up from time to time. I go in and give advice to the Gaster who appears there to at least keep my timeline from happening again"

"What happens in your timeline?"

The skeleton's white pupils suddenly went out. Like someone had just turned them off. It gave his constant smile a somber expression. He remained silent for a second before talking again.

"Lets just say I ended up here because there was no point on continuing with my life."

Gaster decided it w'as best to leave it at that. Geno's eyes lit up again and he turned the subject back on Gaster's advise.

"All I can tell you is that some time in the future the Queen and King will have a son and to make sure you get the best ending you must make sure that he becomes the kind of monster he's supposed to be."

"What kind of monster is he supposed to be?"

Geno laughed and said.

"A friend to all. One that would give up everything to protect the ones he loves."

"How do I do that?"

Geno sighed and shook his head.

"Sorry if I told you anymore then it might cause irreparable damage to the timeline."

He waved. Gaster noticed the field around him seemed to break apart into fragments. The pieces blowing away as fragments of light.

"Looks like time is already up. Someone really wants you back."

Geno started to walk away from Gaster. Gaster started to panic. Whoever they where they could wait. He needed to know more. Like what the threat was or what to do if he failed. Gaster started to run after the skeleton.

"WAIT!"

He shouted as the darkness seemed to grow nearer and nearer until. Gaster stepped off of the regular field and into the darkness again. Everything seemed to fade again. When his senses returned to him, he was laying down this time. He opened his eyes and looked up at a grey ceiling above him. Turning his head he looked over to the right of him and he saw a green curtain.

The more he looked around. The more he could tell this place was some sort of hospital. He tried to remember how he got here the only thing he could think of was... Gaster sat up quickly but soon regretted it when he felt the head rush that came with it. He fell back onto the hospital bed and tried to refocus himself. The last thing he remembered was Sobra attacking his brothers. He needed to see what happened to them. Maybe they where in the hospital as well.

Gaster slid his legs off of the side of the hospital bed and tried to stand up. He stayed up a bit but his legs gave out and he clattered to the ground. Gaster groaned and he heard movement past the green curtains. Suddenly the curtain was drawn back and it was Doggo who looked sleepily at Gaster. Suddenly Doggo's eyes widened and he ran over to Gaster and pulled him into a hug.

"I thought you where dead."

Doggo said pulling Gaster closer. Gaster groaned and Doggo quickly put Gaster down on the hospital bed. Doggo looked at Gaster excitedly.

"I can't believe you're still alive! Gerson said there was no way you could still be alive with your body in that condition but we found out that your SOUL was still there and that meant-"

Gaster interrupted Doggo saying.

"What happened to my body!?"

Doggo stopped and looked up and down Gaster.

"Didn't you notice?"

Gaster shook his head. Doggo grabbed Gaster's arm and held it in front of his face. Gaster got his first good look at his hand. Something felt off but he didn't think it would be this. His arm was completely bone. no skin, muscle, even the nerves where gone. He tested out each finger and saw that they worked correctly but... Gaster started to hyperventilate. He checked the rest of his body and sure enough. He was now a skeleton.

"Don't panic. Gerson said that you'll be fine."

Doggo said trying to sooth Gaster but it wasn't helping.

"WHAT ABOUT THIS IS FINE!?"

Gaster couldn't help shouting his initial shock turning into a full out panic. What happened to him and why is he still alive? Gaster was pretty sure humans can't survive without organs. Doggo continued to try and calm his friend down.

"Gerson said that something happened to the DETERMINATION in your body and now your SOUL has become similar to that of a monster's SOUL."

Gaster tried to stand up again but when he fell this time Doggo caught him. Gaster tried to thrash around and get out of Doggo's grasp.

"Where are you going!?"

Doggo said clutching Gaster.

"I NEED TO TALK TO GERSON!"

Gaster needed to know more about what happened. He would do anything to figure out why he became like this or where his brothers are now.

Doggo sighed and held Gaster's side and started to walk away from the hospital bed. Gaster stopped resisting and started to try and keep up with the dog monster. His bare feet making an unusual clacking sound when he walked across the hard floor.

They came to a room were Gaster saw two skeletons sleeping soundly in two more hospital beds. Gerson was holding a strange device scanning the skeleton bodies. After he was done he turned around and noticed the two boys standing there. Gerson smiled warmly at Gaster.

"Wow. You're already up and about."

Gaster didn't share the turtle's jolliness. Gaster stared at the two skeletons suddenly feeling weak.

"Are those my…"

"Yes and no it's more complicated than that. I was able to grab thier SOULs but once a human dies. Their SOUL rarely returns to their body. So I made a substitute set for their SOULs to return to. The only problem is that now the three of you are essentially monsters but that's not so bad... Right?"

Gaster just looked at his brothers. He knew what that meant. Now none of his siblings would leave but somehow he felt better. He was going to live down here anyway. Just now he wouldn't have to kill a monster to allow Papyrus to leave. There was one thing he needed to know.

"How did you know where I was?"

Gerson looked over to Doggo and Doggo sighed and explained.

"I didn't trust Sobra so I followed you all the way to the judgment hall but when I got there it was already too late. Both Papyrus and Sans were dead and you were engulfed in some sort of purple flame."

Doggo seemed lost in the memory.

"When I held you in my arms I didn't know what to do. That's when Gerson and the other guards came, he helped me take the three of you to the Lab. When we got to the Lab your body was falling apart and turning to dust."

Gaster shuddered thinking of the possibly horrific scene.

"Then Gerson used a special device and found that in both your SOUL and your brother's SOULs all of their DETERMINATION was almost gone. It had been replaced by magic taken from the surrounding area."

Gaster tried to wrap his head around it. Doggo set Gaster down in a chair then the Dog seemed to remember something.

"I forgot! Toriel asked me to contact her as soon as you got up."

Doggo pulled out a phone and started to dial a number. Gerson left the room leaving his monitoring tool behind. For the next couple of hours Gaster remained in the room watching his brothers. Gaster would check his brother's SOULs every so often with the monitoring tool. It was the only way to know if they were still alive. Gerson and Doggo came and left and even Toriel and Asgore visited. Asgore was tall and muscular for his age and had a golden crown and bright blond fur on the top of his head.

Gaster eventually found out where they where. The three brothers had been brought to the lowest floors of the old Science lab. According to Gerson he only assisted the old doctor and had no want to take her place. Then when Asgore heard about Gaster's experience with human science the king offered Gaster a job as the new Royal scientist. Gaster agreed as he really didn't have anything better to do.

If he was going to live down here now he might as well do something to help others. For now he wanted to protect his brothers. A full 5 days after Gaster woke himslef. Sans's eyes flickered to life.

Gaster never felt happier but for some reason he felt no DETERMINATION.