Okay so this is my last chapter until next year, so I hope you guys enjoy this and happy New Years.

Everyone was in awe after the Phantom Ruby had forcefully warped Jack out of Null Space. "W-What just happened?" Sayori asked out loud as she glanced around the grid room frantically to make sure Jack was truly gone. "I'm not sure, his arm cracked like those pillars back at the Power Plant," Nathan said as he crossed his arms to think, "What do you mean?" Yuri asked. "Well, in the Power Plant Jack had set up pillars made out of the Phantom Ruby's energy in order to drain power from the Plant," Nathan explained to the group, "and I found out that the Chaos Emeralds seemed to repel the energy of the Phantom Ruby by overflowing the tower with the Emerald's energy, and after a while the entire tower began cracking which led to it exploding." Yuri placed her finger on her chin, "So based off that Jack must've been going through the same thing," she said with a serious tone, "the Emerald must've overfed the Ruby with energy, and since Jack's body is filled with the Ruby's energy it must've started cracking his own body in an attempt to release some of the Emerald's energy and save the Ruby, he must've noticed that the Emerald was the one behind this which is why he threw the Emerald in order to avoid his own death, and the Ruby must've forcefully pulled him out of here in order to save itself from anymore internal damage."

Everyone stared at Yuri in awe, no one had ever heard her talk so confidently for so long before. Yuri noticed everyone staring at her and quickly got flustered, "A-Ah I-I'm S-Sorry I didn't m-mean to r-ramble," she said while turning away embarrassed. "N-No, you're right Yuri, that's exactly what happened," Nathan said trying to make her feel better. "Besides, your explanation was better than anything I could come up with," he said giving her a smile, Yuri smiled shyly at Nathan's compliment, "T-Thank you Nathan…" she said quietly.

"That being said though," Nathan said as he turned to the group, "now's our chance to go and tamper with the files, who knows we could be able to stop this mess," Nathan explained to the group. "I thought you said that you and Monika lost your privileges to tamper with the files?" Sayori asked him. Monika nodded to Sayori's question as she began to elaborate "Yes me and Nathan can't change the files, but anyone who shares the same file directory to Jack should be able to tamper the files," she turned to Natsuki as she said this, "and all of the information about Jack is stored within Natsuki's file, meaning that Natsuki should have the ability to tamper with the files too."

"But Monika," Natsuki said as Shay helped her up, "I don't know the first thing of how to tamper with the game's files." Monika smiled as she raised her index finger in her usual manner, "Don't worry about that, me and Nathan will guide you through it," Nathan nodded in agreement. "O-Okay, I'll try to see what I can do," Natsuki said as she stood up.

Monika walked the group over to the center of the grid room while they waited for Sayori and Sonic to pick up the dropped Emerald, "Okay Natsuki, so what you want to do is extend your arm like this," Monika said as she extended her arm, Natsuki followed through and mimicked her, "Now, what you want to do next is say, Retrieve Character files." Natsuki complied and said the command, a window then appeared in front of her displaying the character files. "OH?! It actually worked!" Nathan said in awe, "this is great! Hey, do you think we might be able to remove the Phantom Ruby from here?" Monika shrugged but was just as eager as Nathan at the sight of the window. Nathan then pointed at the window screen telling Natsuki to click on it, "That should take us to the root of the game, and if I remember correctly the Phantom Ruby was added on the root inside of a file called item," Nathan said as Natsuki brought up the root of the game.

Natsuki then tapped on the item folder like Nathan had asked for and was shown a single file, "There it is the Phantom Ruby file," Monika said calmly, "try deleting it Natsuki." Monika told Natsuki the steps on how to erase the file, she then began clicking on the file and attempted to delete it. A message was returned giving the prompt 'file can't be removed!' Nathan shook his head, "figures, it did the same thing when I tried to delete it from my world."

"I wonder…" Nathan began thinking deeply, "say Monika, is there any way to open the file?" he said as he turned to her. "Yeah, though I don't really understand most of the programming language," Monika replied, she then proceeded to instruct Natsuki on how to open the Phantom Ruby file. A new window opened up displaying various coding commands.

The group inspected the code for a while until Shay spoke up, "I… don't understand this, do you guys do?" Shay said as he scratched his head. Sayori, Yuri, and Natsuki shook their head while Sonic simply looked at the screen in wonder. "What about you Monika?" Shay asked the president, who stared at the code. She didn't want to admit that she didn't understand the code, but her facial expression showed everyone that she too was just as lost as them.

"It says here that the file seems to be accessing information from Natsuki's file, more specifically assets from her file," everyone turned to Nathan, "huh? You understand this mumbo jumbo?" Natsuki asked with an impressed tone. "Kind of but not all of it, the truth is I've taken a couple of programming classes, and some of the commands do look familiar," Nathan explained to the group. "So what assets are being used?" Yuri asked curiously, "Eh? Oh right, so according to this its accessing two sets of information, one by the name of Jack and the other under the name Libitina," Nathan says while studying the code. Yuri seems to slightly flinch at the mention of Libitina. "What's wrong Yuri? You just fidgeted slightly," Sayori asks causing Yuri to get flustered. "Ah- N-No it's nothing, just my imagination that's it," Yuri quickly says trying to not get much attention.

Meanwhile Nathan hadn't been paying much attention to Yuri's behavior, but was instead analyzing the code to find a way to remove the connections to the Phantom file. "Say Natsuki, go back to the character files and open your file," he asks, which Natsuki complies and does as she's told. Upon opening the file Monika perks up in surprise, "You notice something?" Nathan asks her while scanning the code, "Yeah! The scroll bar is much smaller than what it used to be, looks like there was more code added to her file." Natsuki scrolls slowly through the code giving Monika and Nathan time to make sure that everything is fine. After a few minutes of scanning they reach the end of Natsuki's code and start entering her father's code, "That's weird, Natsuki's code is just fine… but all of the new code seems to be directed only to Jack," Monika said as Natsuki scrolled down to check the new code, but her expression quickly goes to one of confusion, "H-Hold on, that's not code… it's writing?" Nathan nods in agreement "Yeah, it looks like some kind of diary?" he says equally confused as Monika. Nathan begins to read the story that was written in the file out loud for all to hear.

HISTORY:

Monday, Month: XXXX, Year: XXXX

Character: Jack

I woke up in the morning as per usual, hungover and with a large headache. I don't remember what I did exactly yesterday, nor do I honestly care to be honest. Before I opened the door to leave my room I hear someone running out of the house in a hurry and slamming the door. It was that damn kid; must she always slam the door in the morning? The slam of the door caused my head to hurt even more, I felt a glare grow on me as I took a mental note to make her pay for this later. After a while of recollecting myself I figured that I ought to go. Considering that I never left food in the house I got changed and left to a bar that I would always go to on my days off. Even though I was hungover, that didn't stop me from going out to drink more.

I spent the whole day in the bar, and before I knew it, it was already late, I decided to call it a day and pay the bartender for my drinks. All of this was the same routine for the past 18 years, or at least that's how I remember it. That was the last time I ever felt any joy, the last time I ever bothered to care for anyone. I had been happily married back then, me and my wife were the happiest of couples. I used to smile everyday with my angel, I was happy, and that was all I wanted. We were married for 2 years when we decided to have a child, she was hesitant, but I pushed her onto going through with it. That was when everything started going downhill, while my wife labored our child she had suffered from various nightmares she would constantly feel herself drifting in an empty space, surrounded by screams of pain and agony. At first, we didn't think much of it, but it got worse, the nightmares progressed night after night. It got so bad to the point that she wouldn't sleep at times, she was starting to slowly loose it. She wasn't the sweet angel I married anymore, there were points where she would go missing from the house, I would go out to look for her, but I wouldn't find her, it wasn't usually until I got back home that I would find her at the porch staring into the night sky, speaking gibberish. I was afraid… I felt like I wanted to go insane with how much I worried for her, but that only made me shiver at the thought at what she was going through at the time. It all continued to build up until the day the baby was born, there had been a passing storm that night, I accompanied her to the hospital since she was going into labor. I stayed the night with her while she slept after the baby had been born, she called her Natsuki. After watching over her at night I dozed off and was awakened by a creaking door. When I came to my senses I panicked, my angel was missing, I saw the door was left open and I rushed out calling for her. A loud crash of thunder filled the building as I continued to search for my beloved. I looked in every possible hallway, asked every doctor for her whereabouts, I was losing it, but that's when I found her, she was outside. I rushed out without a second thought after her she simply stood there giving me an eerie smile, she never spoke no matter how much I insisted for her to come back to her room. It was at that point when I heard her laugh, but it wasn't the sweet laugh of an angel that I remembered, the person that was standing before me was someone who had lost their sanity, she laughed hysterically as the storm got louder, the winds got stronger, and whatever sight I had of her was lost when she ran off. I tried chasing after her, but I felt my body move against my will, something pulled me back to the hospital, and forced me to go back to sleep that night.

No one ever saw my sweet angel again…

I… I was furious, I told the police to continue the investigation, but after a month they deemed the case unsolvable. At one point I was taken in for questioning, they suspected me of being the one responsible for it all, I've never felt so insulted in my life. From that day forth friends and family would simply glance in my direction giving me a look of disgust, I was pushed away. To be judged so quickly, to be seen as a monster, I began losing control of my emotions and that's where it began, that's when I started drinking, and I would arrive home to find the kid, the one who made this life of mine a living hell. I despised her… no it so much, I hated it. As it grew up under my house, I never was the one in charge of taking care of it, my wife's mother had stepped up to take care of it during its first 2 years. That was until she passed away mysteriously, I felt lonely, she was the only one that truly ever saw me as an innocent outcast. After her passing I had no one to turn to so I simply tried to take care of the kid on my own but to no avail. I thought I could care for it but all I could see in it was a parasite that sapped the once cheerful life of its mother and pushed her to the brink of insanity. It was when it reached the age of 5 when I began raising my hand against it, I felt that if I put the beast under the same pain and suffering that I felt then maybe I could finally be at peace, but it was never enough. At one point it began picking up a hobby, it began reading books that my wife had used to read, I was furious, it was like I was being taunted at every turn with this monster, I was constantly reminded of the failure of a husband I was, to be there for my wife. It was strange, there were times that even I felt scared of myself, but I knew that this had to be done.

Now we move on to today, I left the bar as miserable as ever, I had to go back home to that thing that would constantly remind me of my angel of a wife. That's when I noticed a faint glow coming from the forest on my way back. I decided to go check it out, saying that it would buy me sometime away from the demon that tormented me. Upon inspection I found a purple ruby deep within the forest, it glowed a beautiful royal purple color while giving a hypnotic hum. The sound made me feel at peace, it cleared my mind like never before, that was before I had the idea to touch it. I felt my headache get worse as I started to feel sick, I eventually passed out with the Ruby clutched in my hand.

I had a dream at that point, I heard someone speaking to me, could it be? I heard the voice of my angel that I thought had been long gone, it was her. I heard her voice along with various loud screams filled with pain and suffering entering my thoughts. Even so, I focused on the voice of my love that I had heard, it began taking form as a woman I had never seen before. I knew it was to good to be true, to see my sweetheart once again. That's when it spoke again in her voice, "Jack, I need you, sweetie? Can you hear me?" I began to hear the sounds of the Ruby again entering my mind while being blinded by a tint of red hue, my head started spinning. I looked back at the woman, I smiled as I called to her, "Yes, I remember you sweetie… you're my sweet angel," the figure smiled. Then I saw her extend her hand to me asking, "Did you miss me darling?" I nodded as I tried fighting the tears, "I've missed you so much sweetie."

It was at that point that she started 'explaining' what had occurred to her, she mentioned something about us being part of a 'fake' reality, that we were all part of a game. That we were just pawns in the eyes of our creators. She told me that her file had been scattered by our creators who didn't want us to live a happy life, but instead of removing her instantly the creators decided to torment our life slowly. While I didn't understand much of what she meant, she did make one thing clear, that she wanted revenge just as much as I did. I took the opportunity instantly as I told her to trust me with any tasks required, she mentioned the Ruby I had found, that it went with the name Phantom Ruby. She informed me of its history, and how it came from another fabricated reality, yet the abilities that it contained would be enough for us to reach our goal. With it I could posses immense power, capable of changing this 'game' along with the power to bring her back, and to take us to the outside world. I simply nodded as she instructed me with my task. Find the bridge that connects this fabrication to the 'real' world and use the Ruby, it will bring a 'real' human so I could use it to enter the real world. From then on forth I woke up, and the voice of my angel continued to speak from deep within my mind, from then on forth I listened, and did as I was told by my angel. She made one thing clear to me, keep the demon, 'real' human body, and the bridge to the real world safe. I complied but asked why the creature that he despised for so long, she simply said that it contained important information to create a physical body for her so that she too could join me on my conquest against the world and our creators.

After Nathan had finished reading the story everyone was left in silence not to sure of what to make of it. "Say… guys are you okay?" Nathan asked trying to bring them back to their senses. Natsuki is first to respond, "Y-Yeah, I'm okay," she said, "I was just surprised to see that my mother sees me the same way as my father." Shay saw the pink hair girl's gaze turn to one filled with grief and decided to comfort her, "Hey c'mon Nats, I'm sure this probably isn't real anyway," he said turning to Nathan for reassurance. "Shay is right, well I think at least, some things just don't add up, like how it mentioned that Jack didn't recognize this woman at first until the Ruby affected him," he said as he started thinking deeply. "You don't think that's the Ruby's doing is it?" Monika asked curiously, "Because this makes it sound like the Ruby has its own entity within it if we say that this woman isn't really Natsuki's mother." Nathan nods in agreement, "Well when Sonic here was transported into this world the Ruby itself took hold of the Chaos Emeralds to get away from him, and then here we saw it do the same thing by pulling Jack out of Null Space, whatever is inside that Ruby can't be Natsuki's mother but is instead more than likely some kind of entity that could be tampering with Jack's memories." Shay turns to Natsuki, "See Nats there's no way that can be your real mother, whatever that was must be using Jack for its own selfish gain, and don't worry we'll always be there for you, so don't ever think for a second that you aren't loved," he her with a serious look. "You're right," Natsuki said calmly as she turns to Nathan, "You said that the Phantom file was attached to another asset, right? Libitina was it?" Nathan nods, "So theoretically Libitina should be the name of my mother, but my mom's name isn't Libitina its Maki," everyone looks at Natsuki in confusion. "Wait really? How do you know this I thought you were too young to know her?" Sayori questioned.

"Well, the truth is I was once visited by my grandfather, or my mother's father, my father never knew about this, but my grandfather gave me a box of used manga that belonged to my mother," she explained to the group. "The manga collection box was under the name Maki, and the books that were given me was the Parfait Girls Volumes," she said silently. Shay's eyes widened, "Is that why you hold that manga so close to you?" he says while Monika adds, "And that's why you wanted to keep it safe in the club from your dad?" Yuri also begins to add, "Is that why you were so angry when it was moved without your permission?" Sayori also begins to stammer in, "That's why you were so worried about your volume when Shay borrowed one of them?" Natsuki nodded, "Yes, I've always held the manga close to me since I always looked up to my mother even though I never actually knew her."

"Wait, so what is Libitina?" Monika begins pondering deeply, Natsuki begins to scroll more down through her character file and finds assets for something called Project Libitina. Nathan analysis the line of code and sees something interesting, "Hey look," he says pointing at a line of code, "It says that its creating some sort of image file within the game's folders." Nathan reads the directory and instructs Natsuki on how to find it, they eventually find the image within the game's file and it has the name 'Project Libitina.'

Upon clicking the file, the image is projected, displaying an extremely pale woman with white hair, and complete white eyes lacking pupils. "Ah?! Could that be the woman that's impersonating as Maki?" Sayori asked feeling creeped out by the woman's stare. Shay turns to look at Sayori, but notices that Yuri was completely pale and starts shaking, "Hey Yuri are you okay? You don't look to good," Yuri turns to Shay slowly and begins turning, "A-Ah t-that w-woman, i-its Libitina," Monika looks at Yuri confused, "How do you know Yuri?"

Yuri takes a bit to calm down as she begins to explain, "W-Well the thing is that woman is exactly like a person known as Libitina in my book," Nathan perks up at Yuri's statement, "The Portrait of Markov?" Nathan asks her. Yuri nods, "Well I'll have to explain the book, pretty much it's a religious camp that was turned into a human experiment prison, and people there are experimented on to turning them into killing machines that lust for blood," she explains seriously, "the reason for this behavior is because their trying to unlock a third all seeing eye on the people there." Sonic gives a confused look with a shrug, "I think he's trying to ask what this has to do with the woman Libitina?" Nathan says translating for Sonic. "Well the thing is Libitina is a goddess that is worshipped in this camp, she is described as being a pale woman, with white hair, and completely white eyes." Sayori gives Yuri a stern look, "Why didn't you tell us this before? When we found out the name Libitina a while ago?" Yuri flinches at Sayori's comment. "A-Ah?! W-Well I-I just thought that it sounded too crazy of a coincidence just based off the name, but when I saw the picture I was sure that this was somehow connected."

Yuri recollects herself, "Also another thing is that there was a real goddess in the roman times called Libitina, apparently she was the goddess of death." Monika felt still a bit lost with all of this, "I don't understand, why is this connected to Yuri's book," Nathan perked up as he began to explain, "Well the team that made this game actually seemed to have teased having their next game based of the Portrait of Markov by having files about it in the game, I guess that's why the Ruby must be using it." Nathan began realizing something, "Hold on the Ruby, if the Ruby is using the asset Libitina… could that mean it's trying to take the form of the goddess of death Libitina by making a body of it for the Ruby to possess?" Shay shrugs, "I guess, I mean that's the most we can dawn on with the amount of information we have," Nathan nods in agreement.

"Well I guess that's all we can do with this," Monika says after a while trying to tamper with the files, "Doesn't seem we can erase the Phantom file or any ties it has." She sighs in frustration. "Actually… I want to test something," Nathan says before anyone decides to leave, "What is it?" Monika asks curiously. "Well, I just want to ask, how did you access information from my computer during our first run, you know my real name?" Monika remembered, during the third act, "Y-Yeah, I did that, but I could only access the name, I tried getting more information, but it was all protected behind a user password." Nathan seems to be getting excited as he says, "Hey then can you help me access files from a different game," Monika nods, "Okay I can try," she says instructing Natsuki.

As soon as they exit the game files to access a different game a window shows up asking for the user password, Monika gets a disappointed look acting as if she just failed a simple task, Nathan notices and comforts her "Hey don't worry, because I think that password may be the one I appointed to my computer." Monika raises her head starting to get a bit excited wondering what Nathan could be up to. Nathan then told Natsuki what password to type in, after clicking enter the window disappeared and a new one appeared saying access to user computer has been granted. "ALRIGHT!" Nathan shouted with excitement, he then started guiding Natsuki to access his steam folders containing his games. "Okay now what you want to do is click on that folder called Sonic Forces," Natsuki does so and begins to ask, "Are you planning to bring another Sonic?" She asks, but Nathan shakes his head. "No! I was going to, but it took this Sonic a long time to get loaded into this game, but objects seem to enter far faster than characters."

Nathan then guides Natsuki to a folder having 6 different files, "Boy am I glad I extracted these files out of the game, okay Natsuki so highlight all of them and copy them," Natsuki nods and does so. "Okay now go back to the Doki Doki Literature Club game, and paste those files onto the item file," while Natsuki does so Monika asks, "So what are those files anyway?" Nathan turns and says, "Weapons," Monika nods as she says, "Oh oka- WAIT WHAT?! WEAPONS?! ARE YOU CRAZY!?" she shouts glaring at Nathan, meanwhile Natsuki had clicked paste inside of the item folder, and a black box appeared saying:

os,add item/void,chr

os,add item/lightning,chr

os,add item/cube,chr

os,add item/asteroid,chr

os,add item/drill,chr

os,add item/hover,chr

…

items added successfully

NOW SPAWNING ITEMS:

Alrighty that's it for this chapter, hope you've enjoyed reading this, I sure have enjoyed writing this. To be honest this story started off as a joke idea for me, but over time I decided to see it through and just started writing, I'm glad to see that people are actually enjoying this, and I hope you have a Happy New Year.