Hail to the King

Weirdmaggedon Day 1

The rift spread out above the town, the sky had taken on a sickly hue from the otherworldly light. The townsfolk started to come together feeling safer in numbers.

Roger suddenly grabbed Asriel by the wrist and threw him into his car.

"I want you to hide in here. If this thing turns sour stay low and keep quiet, if the car isn't safe then run out of town as fast you can!"

Frisk looked towards the rift. "But…"

"Don't argue with us!" said Jessica.

Asriel sighed feeling he should do something. Frisk suddenly entered the car.

"What are you doing here? Where's your family?"

"My dad is heading to the firehouse in case the fire department is needed and mom is heading to the nursing home to check on grandpa. I told them that I was going to check if you guys were ok, but mostly I've been looking for Dipper."

"You don't think this has something to do with his and Ford's big mission, do you?" asked Asriel.

Frisk shook his head. "Whatever it is, it's probably been a long time coming, but yeah if anybody can tell us what this is about it'd be them."

Suddenly a giant triangular shadow fell over the town. High above Gravity Falls Bill Cipher hovered as a giant black three-dimensional pyramid separated into three sections each with a pair of arms holding up a blue flame. As the townsfolk looked on in amazement and horror the renegade from a dimension of pure chaos spoke for all to hear.

"ALRIGHT LISTEN UP YOU ONE LIFESPAN, THREE DIMENSONAL, FIVE SENSED SKIN PUPPETS!" As he descended Bill transformed into his original form. "For one trillion years, I've been trapped in my own decaying dimension, waiting for a new universe to call my own. Name's Bill but you can call me your new lord and master for all eternity!" Bill then used an eye beam to melt the statue of Nathaniel Northwest to the horror of the townsfolk.

Bill the motioned to the rift in the sky. "And now I like to introduce the gang of interdimensional criminals and nightmares I call my friends!" Several nightmarish creatures began coming out of the rift one by one. "Eight Ball! Cryptos! The Being Whose Name Must Never Be Said…ah what the heck? It's Xanthar! Then of course there's Teeth, Keyhole, Hectorgon, Amorphous Shape, Pryronica, Paci-fire and these guys! This is our town now boys!" The evil monsters from another world laughed at their newfound freedom.

Mayor Cutebiker came to the front of the crowd. "Now see here! You, unholy triangle fella, as mayor I strongly urge you to get…get on out of here!"

"Yeah things, with one eye are weird!" said Lazy Susan.

"We don't like Out of Towners!" added Grenda.

Manly Dan Corduroy ripped a mailbox in half. "We punch what we don't understand!"

I would just like to say as a rich capitalist I welcome your tyrannical rule," Preston Northwest said with Priscilla hanging on his arm. "Maybe you can make me one of your uh, horsemen of the apocalypse?"

"Dad!" Pacifica said with her fists clenched.

"Not now sweetie, the grownups are talking."

"Wow that's a great offer," said Bill. "How about instead I rearrange the function of every hole in your face?"

With a snap of Bill's fingers Preston's visage became a twisted portrait of horror. As the townsfolk began fleeing in terror Bill began shooting beams from his finger laughing all the while.

One beam hit Durland turning him into a stone statue that fell right into Sherriff Blubs arms. "Durland! My precious Deputy Durland!" the sheriff cried as a giant eyeball with bat wings used a red beam to carry the statue away.

Another of Bill's beams hit a tree that was right next to Roger and Jessica. The trunk sprouted an eye and then used two of its branches like arms to pick the Shepards up before uprooting itself.

"Run Asriel!" Jessica yelled as the tree began to carry them away. "RUN!"

Not all that long ago he would have done as they said, he'd have run away crying trying to avoid getting hurt. But he wasn't the same boy he was at the start of the summer. He was done with running away from bullies.

"Stop it!" Asriel left the car and marched right up to Bill. "I don't care if you're now some all-powerful master of reality! Toying with my Mom, Dad, the townsfolk, anyone! It's wrong! No one has the right to this, no matter how powerful they are!" Even as he said the words he knew it was probably crazy for him to even think of trying this.

Bill turned but looked more interested than angry. "If it isn't The Little Prince himself. Maybe we can finally close out that deal I started with your real mother. You know the one where I saved you and got to keep any nosy humans out of the Underground."

"Why even keep humans out of the Underground?! What did you have to gain from it?!"

"Listen kid, every scheme I hatched, every deal I made, every setback and plan was all in preparation for this day! If somebody got to nosing around both Fae's history and this town's they'd have put two and two together, delaying my grand entrance by centuries. But the big part of that deal was having Goat Mama agree to get you out of the immediate picture!"

"Me, what about…? ARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!" Asriel began clutching his head and collapsing on his knees. In his mind the giant black box became unchained flooding him with imagery.

"Asriel!" Frisk ran out of the car to his friend's side.

"Oh, Stripe Boy's here too?" Bill said. "This is going to be good."

"You ok?" asked Frisk.

Asriel had tears in the corners of his eyes. "I saw them, the visions Chara mentioned, the ones that were locked in my mind. I could reset time as much as I wanted, I could get power in so many ways. But I couldn't care about anyone. Kill or be killed, that was all I cared about. I hurt everyone in the Underground so much. Frisk, every time I tried to end everything you were there, you stopped me in different ways and different times…"

Frisk turned Asriel to look straight into his eyes. "None of that matters! You and I are friends here and now!"

"Don't be so dismissive Stripe Boy," Bill interrupted. "Those visions were just some of the juicer bits of things you and the Little Prince did in other dimensions and other timelines. Thing is I put a lot of work into this dimension and I wasn't willing to let you or Princey here reset time and mess it all up. The big moment setting everything else in motion was him dying and losing his soul, so I prevented that to keep things moving forward till it came to our big entrance. Now neither of you have the power to reset time on me but that doesn't mean you can't still have fun Princey. You have serious potential so I can pick up where your prevented death left off and erase your soul, I'll even let you keep your current body instead of that dopey flower you would have gotten.

"Think about it, nothing to hold you back! No pain, no morals, not even the physical laws of the universe! You can join my team here and be immortal, able to rampage across galaxies to your non-existent heart's content! Do anything, take anything, all for low, low price of an eternity of loyalty!"

"Not to mention the dental plan is amazing!" cackled Teeth.

Frisk growled at the invaders. "Don't listen to them! You and the Fae may be called monsters but that doesn't make you or any of them the bad guys! All those other times you didn't have a choice to give up your soul but here you do. Please don't just throw it away."

"My soul…" Asriel said shuddering. "Without it I wouldn't feel pain or loneliness… but I couldn't feel friendship or love either. Frisk I wouldn't be able to care about you, Dipper, Mabel, Candy, Grenda, or either of my families. That's why…

Asriel stood and turned his gaze straight on Bill, his tears replaced a gaze like fire. "That's why my soul is the most important thing in the world to me! That's why I'd never want to lose it ever again and especially never give it up to you Bill! You may have saved my soul once, but that doesn't mean it's now or ever will be yours!"

"Nice speech," Bill scoffed. "But if you're going to reject my offer then ask yourself, how are you going to stop me?"

Asriel closed his eyes. "Chara, I can't believe I'm doing this but I need to you do your thing on me! You wanted someone wicked to punish? Well he's pretty much as bad as come!"

"Oh noes. The goat boy is unleashing the little girl in his head on me. We're all doomed," Bill said sarcastically with his gang laughing.

Nothing happened. "Chara, I've never been this desperate before! Just take me! Rip him apart, just save our friends, our family! That power you keep saying we have, you have a chance to use it for good!"

However what Asriel heard in his mind was unexpected. "He's too strong. Even if we had seven human souls he'd have more power and has had eons to master it. Matter, Energy, Space, Time, he can shape them all! We can't win, we can't win…"

Asriel opened his eyes in surprise. "Chara, are you afraid?"

"HAHHAHAHA!" Bill said as he rose higher into the air. "Congratulations Princey! Your little 'I'm not giving up on my dead best friend' shtick turned a perfectly good psychopath into a blubbering coward! So, who are you going to get to stop me now?!"

"Well, uh…" Frisk said apprehensively. "Somebody…"

"Hey Henchmaniacs! Keep an eye out for somebody, he's going to kick our butts!" The Henchmaniacs laughed at Bill's joke. "But now that weird is the new normal…"

Bill spread a red glow around Asriel's pendant then pulled it into his hand.

"No!" Asriel yelled as the glamour faded.

"You won't be needing this anymore!" Bill's hand became molten hot as he laughed maniacally. The heart shaped charm then melted out between Bill's fingers. Soon the only thing left of Asriel's precious keepsake was a small, black, shapeless lump of hardened metal on the street.

Asriel and Frisk began to step back as Bill's minions began to approach them.

"Got a plan B?" Frisk asked.

"Just this." Asriel formed a fireball and hurled it just short of the extra dimensional invaders. A large pillar of flame erupted for a few seconds. When the flames died out the boys were nowhere to be seen.

"So much for Determination," Bill said. "It's time we do a little redecorating. I could really use a castle some kind!"

Bill raised his arms and a giant pyramid erupted from the ground and began floating in the air.

"And how about some bubbles of pure madness!"

Large multi colored bubbles started floating through the air. One passed through Farmer Sprott who screamed afterward.

"This party never stops! Time is dead and meaning has no meaning! Existence is upside down and I reign supreme! Welcome one and all to Weirdmageddon!"

Weirdmageddon day 2

Under the Gravity Falls Museum of History in what was once the Society of the Blind Eye's Hall of the Forgotten, Pacifica Northwest was burning a few of the scrolls the secret society had left behind to stay warm. Her normal cutting edge of fashion attire had to be replaced with a makeshift dress made of rags.

Suddenly a pipe clanged three times. Pacifica breathed a sigh of relief. The signal that they were coming back safe, one more knock would have meant she had to run from whoever would have been following them.

Pacifica moved the plank of wood barring the double doors leading out to the rest of the museum. Shortly afterward Candy, Grenda, Frisk and Asriel came into the hall. They all had makeshift clothing made of rags thanks to some hamster sized moths that tore their usual clothes like a school of piranha. Candy was also wearing and old style pilots cap, Grenda a pair of googles over her forehead, Frisk wore football shoulder pads over his shirt and Asriel had a bandana covering his mouth.

As soon as the doors were closed and barred again. Pacifica ran up to the other four. "Did you find them?! Mom and Dad?"

Asriel lowered the bandana to around his neck. "No. We didn't find any of our families."

"The closest we got was seeing Tate McGucket and Soos' girlfriend Melody," said Frisk. "Bill's eye bats got them both before we could even call out to them. Seems like Bill's been grabbing everyone those bats can find and I don't think I want to know why."

"But we managed to get some food and weapons!" said Grenda.

"What about makeup?" said Pacifica. "I still have some eyeshadow but I'm all out of nail polish!"

"Remind me what you ever saw in her?" Candy asked Asriel.

"In any case Candy and I raided the sporting goods store," continued Grenda. "The rifles were already taken but we managed to get a hold of a hunting knife, a hockey stick and a couple of croquet mallets."

"There were too many eye bats around the grocery store," said Asriel. "So, Frisk and I went to the abandoned Dusk 2 Dawn and got what was left of the better-preserved food."

"The ghosts haunting the place we're actually helpful once they realized we weren't teenagers," said Frisk. "But you can tell how bad things are when the ghosts haunting a place are talking about passing on because 'the neighborhood has gone bad'."

"Forget that," said Grenda. "You said food, what have you got?"

"Well we managed to get three kinds of jerky, a dozen cream filled snack cakes, fifteen bottles we filled with water we got from melting ice there and twenty packs of something called Smile Dip."

Candy and Grenda recoiled. "Keep that away from us!" said Candy. "Mabel said she had some that stuff, it is evil!"

"Ok last resort then. Still if we ration the rest we won't have to go out for food again for a few days. We should be able to breathe easy for a while if none of the creep shows up there find this place."

"It's after that I'm worried about," said Pacifica. "We could be living like this for long time. But now I'm starving, let's dig in."

"Ok, by the way Pacifica," Asriel said. "Thanks for not freaking out at what I really am."

"Honestly, you aren't even the freakiest thing I've seen since lunch. Even if lunch was yesterday."

"Looks abandoned," they suddenly heard a muffled voice say. "Still keep an eye out for humans."

Candy whispered to the rest of the children. "Battle stations!"

Frisk took the hunting knife, Grenda grabbed the hockey sticks and Candy and Pacifca each got a mallet as they all went into hiding places set up near the door. Asriel steeled himself to cast a quick spell.

The plank barring the door broke apart as the door swung open and an inhuman figure stepped in.

"RAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!"

The five launched their surprise attack on the intruder only for a spear to knock away any weapons they were holding. Just as Asriel formed a fireball he felt himself knocked to the floor. A second later he felt a boot on his chest and a spear tip at his throat.

"Wait, Prince Asriel!?" The attacker moved her boot off as the spear vanished. "Thank goodness you're alive!"

As Asriel got up he look at the creature, a blue fish woman wearing a tattered black tank top, blue jeans, and an eyepatch. "Undyne?! What are you doing here!? How did you escape the Underground!?"

"Well it wasn't alone," Undyne made a motion and Papyrus, and Alphys came into the room followed by Napstablook and Stella. Alphys' lab coat was torn into something more closely resembling a vest exposing a green blouse and skirt underneath, she was also carrying what looked like a pile of machinery on her back. Papyrus was now missing a shoulder guard and a boot from his 'battle body' and Napstablook seemed to look more tattered than usual. Stella seemed to have it the worse, her fancy clothes were now replaced with a dress and skirt made of old rags, probably ran into the same piranha moths they did.

"You know these guys?" asked Pacifica as Papyrus and Alphys closed the door and barred it with few lead pipes.

"They're the people from the underground I've told you about. But I haven't broken the barrier yet, what happened?"

Undyne looked both angry and embarrassed. "I think you already know what happened."

The children looked at each other with certainty and answered at the same time. "Weirdmaggedon."

Undyne nodded. "We all thought our prayers had been answered, that we were finally free. But our dream turned into a nightmare. In the end, I could only keep the five of us safe."

"Six," said Alphys while dropping the metal. She sat then down and began fiddling with a robotic torso. "Once I get Mettaton working again that is."

"Are you sure Hapstablook is still alive in there?" asked Napstablook.

"I promise, your cousin's just unconscious until I can get power restored to his body."

"But what about Mom and Dad?" asked Asriel. "And the rest of the Fae?

Stella, who had kept to herself all this time broke out in tears. "Mom! Dad! Why?! The surface wasn't supposed to be like this!"

Papyrus knelt and began to stroke his bony hand through her hair. Tears began to form in his eye sockets. "I know Lady Stella. Sans, he's…"

Asriel felt like a rock had just fell into the bottom of his stomach. "Did Bill do something to everyone?"

"Undyne," Papyrus said. "I think you should tell him."

Undyne sighed as she sat down by the fire. "We were supposed to get back using a machine called Exodus, it was never used but when the barrier came down someone had to make sure it was safe. The king sent Sans and Papyrus to the surface first to scout things out, then we all followed unaware of what was waiting for us."

Weirdmaggedon Day 1

The rest of the Fae had now come to the surface. In the distance, they saw the town of Gravity Falls for the first time and the gigantic hole in the sky. Soon the Fearamid erupted from the earth.

"I don't understand," said Antionette as she cradled the still unconscious Stella in her arms. "Is that tear in the sky somehow responsible for what happened to the barrier and to Stella?"

"Oh no," said Alphys. "The readings I got, the collapse of the barrier, the earlier gravitational anomalies, I think I know what that thing is. It's a dimensional rift, Dr. Gaster was researching them when he disappeared. He thought one might break the barrier, looks like he was right. Still if that is a rift it means we're in even bigger trouble than before."

"What are you talking about?" asked Undyne. "Why didn't you try to make one of our own to break the barrier? You seem more confident about it than you ever were about Exodus."

"Let me show you," Alphys cut a piece of her lab coat off with her claw. "Ok now imagine this is the 'fabric' that makes up our universe. By tearing a hole in this fabric to another dimension energy can flow from one to the other," Alphys tore a hole in cloth. "That way the rift would work in the same why as Exodus would have done, the barrier would draw in more energy from another dimension overloading it. The problem is that the rift would keep feeding energy into our dimension, like a pressurized container trying to reach equilibrium with an external environment when it is opened. The more energy and matter pass through the rift the bigger it gets until…" Alphys widened the hole until the cloth was in two pieces. "…the whole fabric unravels."

Maximillian approached the royal scientist. "Are you saying we escaped the end of our world only to show up in time for the end of THE WORLD!?"

"Unless we can find some way to seal that thing up."

"No," Toriel fell to her knees. "Stella's condition, the rift, this is Bill's doing. That means I helped cause this…"

Asgore knelt and held Toriel's hands. "I still don't get it Toriel. What does Uncle Bill have to do with anything?"

Toriel still seemed to be in her own world. "I had a feeling that the change in the barrier was part of some larger plan he had, but this? Bill's ambitions were far greater than I imagined."

"Bill?" asked Sans. "Don't tell me you two mean Bill Cipher!"

"I am such a hypocrite. I was ready to leave you over forcing our people to war, but if I hadn't made that deal we'd never have become that desperate."

"Your majesties," asked Sans. "Toriel. Please, I can't tell you how I already know about him, but how did you and the king learn about Cipher?"

"Uh, I'm confused," said Papyrus. "I mean more so than usual. Who is this Bill guy?"

Asgore turned to the Fae. "When Toriel and I were children we cast a spell that let us contact a triangular spirit that called itself Bill Cipher. He was our friend, we even considered him our uncle, but our parents had forbidden us from ever speaking to him again."

"No, he's no one's friend," said Toriel. "When Asriel was dying, I thought there was nothing anyone could do. Then Bill appeared to me again, he said that Asriel would have come back and become this twisted horror but that he could save him and keep any of that from ever happening."

"You made a deal with Cipher?!" said Sans. "Please, for the sake of all Fae tell me you didn't make a deal with Cipher!"

"I couldn't bear the thought of our baby becoming worse than what the humans thought we were so I took his offer. That was when the barrier changed, that was when humans were locked out of the Underground… and that was when it started taking power from the magicite. When Stella spoke after the barrier broke, she was just a mouthpiece for Bill."

"You mean you're the reason Stella's like this?!" snarled Antionette. "Our precious daughter may never wake up again because of your foolishness!"

"If it was Stella dying what would you have done?!" Toriel yelled back with tears in her eyes. But after Antionette was stunned silent the queen sighed in defeat. "But you're right. I…"

"I don't blame you," said Sans. "You were just kids at first and I found out the previous generation of nobles were quietly trying to erase all knowledge of his existence. As for the second-time Cipher is a master manipulator, he knows just how to get people to do what he wants. He played on your fears and the love you had for the Prince. Don't be ashamed, there were those he tricked by promising far less."

"It doesn't matter anymore. All of me and Asgore's fighting, of our hopes and dreams. It's all been for nothing…"

Asgore lifted Toriel to her feet. "Tori, come."

"What are you going to do to me?"

"WE are going to do what we should have done long ago. About Chara, Asriel, the barrier, Exodus and Bill. Talk."

"They went off to talk alone for what seemed like hours. While we all worried and prayed, we'd hear them now and then. First there was a lot yelling, then a lot crying, then for while silence. Finally, they came back."

The Fae noticed two things different about their rulers when they returned. First Asgore had a sad but resolute look on his face as he carried his trident, second was not only had Toriel had the same expression but her clothing had changed to armor like her husband's and she carried a staff for the empowering of spells.

"My people," Asgore said. "There is much we must say and not a lot of time to say it. First, I wish to apologize to you. When you needed a true leader, the best I could think to do was proceed down a path everyone wanted in the heat of anger and in a halfhearted cowardly way to ease a conscience that I now realize I had no chance of fooling. I had failed you as a king. Ultimately, I was responsible for the hardships we had to endure for so very long. I no longer deserve to wear this crown or lead you."

"The fault is not entirely on his shoulders," Toriel said. "It was my duty as both queen and wife to support and advise your king, but when you needed me to fulfil those duties I failed as well. At first I so consumed by my own pain that I didn't consider how the loss of Asriel hurt everyone, not even his father. Later when I finally realized how I had been manipulated I hidden the knowledge that could have helped you because I was afraid of what you all would think of me. I don't deserve to be your queen either."

"Toriel and I will perform one last duty as your king and queen. We will go and try to force Bill Cipher to undo the damage he has done. It is not likely either of us will survive but it is our responsibility, not as your rulers but as the ones who had allowed him to do so in the first place. Undyne, Alyphs, we are counting on you two lead them. I am sorry Maxi but right now you need experience more than titles and bloodlines."

"We wish you all the best in whatever the future will bring to you."

Asgore and Toriel gave one final look to the Fae and then to each other as they turned to leave.

"Now hold on there, Fluffybuns!" came a wizened voice from the crowd. An elderly looking turtle man stepped forward. "I haven't fought alongside you back in the war against the humans just so you'd get you and the missus killed!"

Asgore turned to the old man as Toriel watched. "Gerson, you fought alongside Asgore the First. My great-great…"

"Don't argue with an old man, Fluffybuns!" Gerson interrupted. "The point is this is too important for ya to go it alone just cause ya both feel sorry fer yerselves! Ya got bamboozled, happens to all of us sooner or later, especially young'uns."

"He's right!" said Undyne. "This is Bill's fault, not yours! And if we want to come with you two and kick his equilateral backside, then that's just what we're going to do!"

"That rift is getting bigger by the minute," said Alphys. "If Bill is sustaining it then our only hope to save our world is to send him back through it!"

"The whole point of being a leader is so that none of us NEEDS to go it alone," said Sans. "There's strength in numbers and you have an army of friends at your side. I have a feeling you're going to need all of them."

"Yeah and think of the humans too!" said Papyrus. "I mean if we beat this guy they'll see we're not bad at all and then they'll be our friends!"

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend," Maximillian said. "We can avoid war with the surface by winning a single battle, quite the elegant solution."

"Then Stella might go back to normal!" said Antionette. "That's more than enough reason for me to fight!"

"A battle to save humankind and the Fae from the tyranny of a mad god?" said Mettaton. "Sounds like just the spectacular premiere I've been hoping to make on the surface!"

"Yeah I'm with you too!"

"Time to seize our future!"

"We're with you right to the end!"

"You two have done so much for us it's the least we can do!"

"That creep is going down!"

"Like, we're so ready to rumble!"

"Like, we're so ready to rumble!"

"Down with Cipher!"

"Long live King Asgore! Long Live Queen Toriel!"

The sudden outpouring from their subjects had moved the two monarchs to tears. "We…we can't thank you enough," said Asgore. "I know not all of you are fit to fight this battle, particularly the children and sickly. I ask that you stay out of the way so those who can fight can do so with clear heads. Sans, Papyrus, Gerson, I ask that you stay with those who won't be fighting and protect them in case something happens.

The three gave an affirmative nod.

"The rest of you will be magically fitted with whatever weapons or armor you need, then we march towards Cipher's stronghold." Asgore then turned to Toriel. "Are you still willing to fight by my side Tori?"

Toriel took Asgore's hand. "Whatever happens Asgo…no, Gorey."

Soon enough the Fae had gathered underneath the Fearamid. With the army at the ready and the most vulnerable secured nearby Asgore yelled up to the floating fortress. "We call upon the one who has conquered this realm to answer our challenge! Let him come forth lest he show himself a coward!"

After the proclamation, the Fearamid opened. Many of Bill's minions jumped to the ground as Bill himself followed and floated right in front of the royal couple stretching his arms out. "Gorey and Tori, it's been way too long! Don't be embarrassed, come on and give your Uncle Bill a hug!"

The expressions on Asgore and Toriel's faces showed not affection but disgust. "Don't 'Uncle Bill' us Cipher," said Asgore firmly. "We're not the same gullible children you tricked all those years ago, we know what you are now."

"And we know how low you'd sink to get what you want," said Toriel. "Your reasons for pretending to befriend us and saving our son were for nothing but your own selfish gain. I may have been ashamed of what I allowed you to do, but no longer. Reverse everything you did to the humans and this world. Then take your minions and go back to whatever nightmare you came from and never return. Or else we'll make you."

Bill put his hands on the spot on his body closest to hips. "I'd say you and what army but I see you've already brought one. But seriously do any of you think you stand a chance against me or my freaks?"

"I see now that we could never stand a chance against the humans," said Asgore. "Our magical bodies are too vulnerable to those with physical form who would wish us ill intent, but you are a being of pure energy. It may still cost us our lives but the Fae will stand together against you and you'll find that our bodies of magic against energy provide an even playing field."

"Even playing field? HAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, that is rich! You think you outsmarted me? I've been playing the Fae and those dimwit humans like a cheap harmonica for millennia. That dark secret you so desperately wanted them not to find out? I gave it to a wizard who wanted to know the greatest threat to mankind! Of course, I wasn't going to tell him it was me."

"The shame the Wundur family has had to endure for generations, you were RESPONSIBLE?!" Maximillian yelled. Th duke transformed, his eyes catlike with blue pupils and black sclera, black markings on top of and below his eyes and his hands more claw like.

"Then there was convincing your old allies to turn against you. I gave them the humans' barrier spell for some magic rocks that Wizard needed to build me a portal. The only problem was the portal itself ended up being a failure."

"You HEARTLESS…!" Antionette had transformed as well.

"But the best part was little Prince Asriel. I told Tori that I was going to do just one small thing for myself, just to stick to the rules. But if the Queen and I hadn't made our little deal, Stripe Boy would have gotten him to soften up and break the barrier for you! The real reason I made the deal was to keep them from messing up with my plans. I actually got Goat Mama here to let me do what I wanted, in exchange for me doing something else I wanted!"

"CIPHER!" Asgore roared while he transformed. "I'LL TEAR YOU APART!"

Toriel put a hand in front of him. "No, you won't…" She then opened her eyes undergoing the transformation as well. "NOT WITHOUT ME!" She redirected her attention to Bill. "Now I know why our parents tried to hide everything instead of warning us. You don't deserve to be remembered."

In a strange mix of rage and affection Asgore took Toriel's clawed hand in his own. "Yes, my love, we'll destroy him together. Everyone else stand aside. We appreciate the help, but we must try it ourselves first."

There were no objections from the army.

"You want us rough them up for ya boss?" asked Cryptos.

"No thanks. Taking over this town has been way too easy," said Bill. "So, I'll take the two of them myself. I'll even give you guys a few free punches, I could use the workout."

"That is going to be your last mistake Cipher," Toriel growled. "You played with my heart, turned me and my husband against each other and took away our baby! I will never forgive you!"

"Then give it your best shot! Everyone's watching, throw everything you have and don't hold back!"

"Rrrragh!"

Asgore and Toriel conjured flames that merged together into a massive fireball and sent it towards Bill who seemed to be consumed as the conflagration roared skyward.

But once the flames died down Bill was there unscathed. "Fire, yawn. Is that all you two can do?"

Asgore raised his trident. "How about this?!"

Toriel lifted her staff up. "And I have other tricks up my sleeve as well!" Pointing the staff at Bill a sudden cold gale blew towards him causing ice crystals to form, in moments the chaos demon was incased in a giant block of ice.

Asgore swung his trident at the Billsicle at rapid speed cutting the frozen fiend into several pieces.

"Wow that look liked it hurt," Bill said from behind them. "The air."

Looking back at the shattered block there was no trace of Cipher.

"Enough!" said Maximillian materializing a rapier. He began charging it with electricity. "I don't care if you two don't want the help. He's insulted the Wundur family and the Fae one time too many!"

Antionette raised her hands and vast number of giant crystals erupted from the ground and began to float around her. "This is for our Stella!"

Toriel raised her staff to the sky and formed several fireballs and balls of cold air around her. "You forced the two great noble families of the Fae to give ourselves over to our rage, I hope you're happy!"

Asgore formed a second trident that he began dual wielding with the original, both tridents glowed black and white. "This is for all the lies, all the suffering, all the heartache you ever caused! Our son, our people, the humans, the magical creatures and anyone else you have hurt! NOW YOU'LL SEE WHY THEY CALL US MONSTERS!"

Toriel and Antionette sent everything they had floating around them at Bill while Asgore and Maximillian charged him attacking with unnatural strength and speed.

Far off Alphys, Papyrus and Sans watched as the rest of the Fae cheered.

"Blammo!" said Papyrus. "I didn't think they were that strong!"

"Ugh," Stella said as she stirred from in Alphys' arms.

"Stella you're awake?" Alphys said. "What happened to you?"

Stella blinked a few times. "Bill, he tricked me, held my mind captive. Could only escape once he was distracted."

"Don't worry, we're on the surface now but it will soon be alright between us and the humans. Your parents and the king and queen are fighting Bill Cipher right now, once they beat him the surface will be safe for everyone."

Stella however gained a look of absolute horror. "NO! TELL THEM TO RUN! GET AWAY FROM HIM!"

"But they're winning now!" said Papyrus. "I don't see how anything can survive that!"

"No, something is off," said Sans. "I could feel how much energy they've all been expending. The Boss Fae are putting everything they have into this one barrage, normally this would be a recipe for disaster but the transformation they've undergone changes things. This 'hyper form' as Gaster preferred to call it is entered when a Boss Fae surrenders themselves to a particularly strong emotion, usually anger, and thus produce enough magical power to use their abilities far beyond the normal limit. It's been considered disgraceful for ages to give in to such anger, but it is also possible for feelings like hope and love to trigger the hyper form. However, the stigma against this form made attempts to reach it by other means just as unseemly. Still right now their hyper forms seem to give the Boss Fae an almost insurmountable advantage.

"Though on the other hand, Cipher has hardly used any power at all, not even with how he's been defending himself. It's not like he doesn't have the power either, I've never felt such a reserve of energy before but he's hardly used any of it. Something's not right, it's like he's been toying with them the entire time!"

"Even if he's magically powerful, I don't see how he'd be that confident against all of us," said Alphys. "It's not like he has a physical body like the humans."

"That's just it!" said Stella. "He does! He's had one ever since he came to this world!"

"If that's the case," said Sans. "Then I have to check…" Sans suddenly looked terrified. "No, it can't be! The Level of Violence of Cipher and his minions…their LV's are off the scale! If he wanted to it'd be child's play to wipe us all out in an instant!"

"We have to hide! We got to go back to the Underground!"

"It doesn't matter! At this point the Underground is no safer than the surface, we have to retreat and find some other way to stop them!"

The four Boss Fae had each unleashed their strongest blow on Bill. His pyramid form had seemingly broken apart into individual bricks and bits of rubble that lifelessly fell to the ground ending with a single cap stone with a top hat that burned away.

"Goodbye forever, 'Uncle Bill'," Toriel said with a snarl. Asgore came up to her laying his hand on her shoulder.

Suddenly Bill's laughter came seemingly from everywhere. "HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

The cap stone of the pyramid floated into the sky along with all his bricks, the broken ones repairing themselves. The cap stone's eye opened as a hat materialized on top. "Guess what? IT'S MY TURN NOW!"

The bricks flew at the Boss Fae at lightning speed piercing them like bullets.

"RAAAAGGGGH!"

The four collapsed to the ground grievously wounded, their weapons and armor now destroyed or severly damaged. The Fae had gasped in terror at the fate of the nobles.

"Mom, Dad no!" Stella cried.

"Even now he's toying with us!" said Sans. "That's got to be the only reason they're still alive!"

"Now what to do with you?" Bill said as he levitated Asgore and Toriel up to eye level while the rest of his body reunited with him. "I kinda wish I didn't have to destroy you, you guys were a lot of fun before those wet blankets found me out. So, what say we start over?"

With a snap of Bill's fingers and a flash of light, the royals' armor fell to the ground seemingly empty. After a second or two movement came and two Boss Fae children popped out of the armor that was several sizes too large for them.

"What?" said the young boy Fae with blonde hair on his head. "How did…!?"

"This, this can't be…!" exclaimed the young girl Fae trying to cover up her chest.

Bill stared to laugh. "Looks like you two ARE still the same gullible children you were all those years ago, or at least you are now!"

Bill's minions laughed as he grabbed Asgore and Toriel up out of the oversized armor.

"There…there are still more of us than them!" said Undyne. "We all have to rush him at once, it's our only chance! Charge!"

The army of the Fae rushed at Bill at full speed.

"No…" Maximillian said crawling towards the army. "You have to escape…get Stella and yourselves as far away from him as you can…"

"It's your only… chance," said Antionette. "He's… too powerful."

"We still have a lot partying left to do," said Bill. "So why don't we wrap this up?"

Bill's eye glowed an intense white and began gathering energy into itself.

Mettaton suddenly stopped, grabbed Undyne and began carrying her away. "What are you doing?!"

"This is one show where I don't think we should catch the finale of! We have to get out of here!"

Bill then fired an intense beam at the army from his eye. The blinding light had caught them all except Mettaton and Undyne who were just at the edge of the blast. The two were propelled forward but the blast tore Mettaton limb from limb and completely shattered Undyne's armor.

When the light faded the wasteland that it drowned out had but been covered in dust. Undyne picked up Mettaton's pieces and slowly began heading to the rest of the survivors.

"NOOOOO!" Stella cried. "Mom! Dad!"

"They're gone," said Papyrus stunned. "All of them."

"This, this can't be happening!" Alphys said. "This has got to be some kind of nightmare!"

In Bill's hand Asgore and Toriel's now childlike bodies slumped in defeat. They began to cry like they really were children. "No," said Toriel. "We, we failed. We brought the Fae to ruin."

"Ah, don't be so sad guys." Bill said as if the genocide he had just committed was nothing. "If you like them that much I'll bring them all back." Bill produced a bottle out of nowhere. "Just have to use a little Resurrex and they'll be good as new."

Bill poured out a liquid that covered the battlefield. After a few seconds the dust absorbed it all and reformed back into the Fae that were annihilated only moments before.

"I'm alive?" asked Maximillian. "How is this possible?"

"They're… ok?" Stella asked as someone threw her a lifeline.

Sans however growled. "I smell a rat!"

A scream came from the army. Suddenly Antionette had started to melt as her armor bleached white. Soon her condition was happening to every Fae that had just been restored. On the ground of the wasteland melting parts of the Fae began to merge together.

Undyne limped up to rest of the group and turned to Alphys. "W-what's happening to them?"

"I think they're amalgamating," Alphys said fearfully. "Gaster's experiments with Determination on small amounts of Fae dust shown that it could restore them but they then lost cohesion and would merge with any cells that were also in the same state. He concluded that the same would happen to any Fae that was brought back with injected Determination. But he never mentioned the possibility of an amalgamate on this scale, they're becoming some sort of… super amalgamate!"

"What did you do to them?!" cried Asgore.

Bill held the bottle up to his eye. "Huh, I didn't read the warning label. 'Resurrex is made from a combination of Determination extracted from petrified humans and the chaotic energies of the Nightmare Realm. Side effects may include headache, nausea, upset stomach, melting, merging with others into a hideous beast, loss of sense of self, general insanity and dry mouth. Consult a physician before use, keep out of reach of children."

Where once an army stood was now a giant white shapeless amoeba like creature, at times it seemed like an eye, a limb, a mouth or a head would shape itself before submerging again. "WHAT IS ME?!" it cried out in a voice that sounded like a distorted combination of many voices.

"You're not quite complete my new henchmanic," Bill told the amalgamate. He then pointed at the remaining Fae. "But you will be once you absorb those guys, probably. So, what are you waiting for? Dinner is served!" He then turned to the prisoners he was holding. "As for you two we're still having our 'take over the world party', you're on the guest list and attendance is mandatory!" Bill and his minions flew back into the Fearamid carrying the children who were once king and queen just as the dark castle closed.

The super amalgamate sped over to the survivors faster than something that size should reasonably move. "There's no way we're going to outrun that thing!" said Undyne.

Sans stepped right in the amalgamate's path. "Sans what are you doing?!" yelled Papyrus.

"The best thing I can do, nothing."

"SANS!"

The Amalgamate was almost on top of them when Sans' left eye suddenly shined blue. The super amalgamate froze in its tracks.

"What's going on?" asked Stella.

"The best magical attack I have," said Sans. "If I do nothing it can do nothing."

Papyrus teared up. "But that means you'll be trapped here forever!"

Sans started to laugh. "No brother, you just made me realize this attack has two very glaring weaknesses. First, I must sleep eventually and when I do the hold will weaken just enough for it to get me with a struggle. But more importantly I can only use this on one target at a time, eventually one of those other creatures out there will decide to attack me. That will either get me or more likely I'll try to dodge out of reflex breaking the spell. Either way, it's checkmate."

"But Sans!"

"That's why you should all get out of here now! I'll hold on to our friends here while I can. The queen's friend, the human named Stanford, the one who saved Undyne and Alphys back when you two were kids. He's our best bet to fix all of this, he's the only person on the surface who can find a way to defeat Cipher! Get to him before it's too late! Go now!"

Undyne nodded. "We'll never forget this. You heard him people, let's move!"

As they ran off a couple of eye bats started flying to Sans' direction. "Huh, knew he'd figure out what I was doing, just didn't expect it to be so fast. Sorry I wasn't able to buy you guys more time."

The bats sent a beam to turn Sans to stone, when he reflexively dodged the super amalgamate fell over him like a tidal wave.

Weirdmaggedon day 2

Undyne added another scroll to the fire. "After that we'd been mostly running from the super amalgamate and the rest of these nightmare creatures. But that thing is a lot faster and sneakier than it looks, it absorbed what was left of us until it was just the six you see here. It can make itself bigger and smaller to get in anywhere and it can do anything the people it absorbed can do. One touch. That's all it takes, then you start to become a part of it. It can't be hurt it so we've just been trying to find a place to hide while looking for Stanford."

"We even tried retreating back into the Underground," said Papyrus. "But those eye bats sealed up all the entrances."

"And the rift keeps expanding," said Alphys. "It will swallow up this valley in a couple of weeks, in three months the continent and in a year, it will rip the world in half. This galaxy will probably be gone in a thousand years and after that the universe."

"So, we just hide until the that hole eats everything?!" asked Pacifica.

"No, we have to do something!" said Candy.

"I vote for punching!" said Grenda slamming her fist into her palm.

"Hang on," said Alphys. "I think I got Mettaton working!"

The reassembled robot's eyes lit up. "In the event of a firestorm the salad bar can used as a floatation device." Alphys banged Mettaton on the head, his eyes returned to normal. Mettaton looked around. "I take it we lost."

"Pretty much."

"Hapstablook!" Napstablook said glomping the robot. "For a while there I thought we lost you."

Mettaton returned the hug. "I thought I lost me too cousin."

"Now that we're back together we must do as Sans said," said Undyne. "We got to find Stanford."

"We haven't seen him," said Asriel. "And not just him, his brother Stanley, Dipper, Mabel, Wendy, or Soos. We haven't seen any of the since this began."

"You guys must have some idea," said Napstablook. "Any place where they could be hiding."

"That's it!" said Frisk. "The Mystery Shack! Ford's lab, Dipper's journal, if there are any answers they'd be there."

"Then that's where we got to go," said Alphys.

"What's the point?!" Stella said. Tears were streaming down her face. "Even if we can get to this shack Bill could crush us with a thought! Not that we can do that, sooner or later the super amalgamate is going to absorb us and it's all my fault! Bill tricked me and now our people are suffering a fate worse than death because of it! It's hopeless…"

"Stella, we can't give up hope," said Papyrus. "Our people survived in the Underground for generations because we all hoped to see the surface someday."

"Well, we've seen it. The surface was supposed to be a paradise, but instead it feels like we're in Hell!"

"Hey!" said Pacifica. "That's our home you're talking about!"

"Stella," said Asriel as he moved to sit down next to her. "I've spent a good part of my life only knowing the surface, this town in particular. Granted it's a little odd but once you give it a chance it's a great place to live." Asriel then sighed. "But you're right, after what Bill's done to the place I can't imagine Hell being much worse."

"And it isn't just you who's been made a fool of," said Frisk. "Bill's been at this for a really long time. The King and Queen, Gideon, Dipper and many others had been tricked by him for ages, not to mention the countless people who weren't even aware of him all this time. Bill's made all of us card carrying members of Club Chump, even so there's still hope."

"You need to hold on to that hope," said Undyne. "Especially for the rest of us since you're now the Queen Betrothed."

"What do you mean Queen Betrothed?" asked Candy.

"Their parents had finalized the arrangements the day before all this happened. Asriel and Stella are to be married once they come of age and since we have no way of knowing if the King and Queen are alive or not I have to perform another duty they trusted me with, just in case we found the prince and the worst should happen to them. What I must do now, I do with both pride and sorrow.

Undyne stood Asriel up but then knelt before him as did the rest of the Fae. She took out a small circlet from her bag. Asriel recognized it as the same on he wore during his brief time in the underground. "By the laws set forth by our ancestors and by the authority invested in me by your father I name you King Asriel Dreemur, Ruler of the Fae."

Undyne placed the circlet on Asriel's head as the rest looked on in awe.

"M-me, King?" Asriel stuttered. "But I'm not ready!"

"I know, your Mother and Father we're supposed to teach you, guide you into the role. You we're supposed to have been grown and married, maybe with a child of your own before you took the throne. But a lot of things didn't turn out how any of us planned."

"The truth is we need a leader," said Alphys. "Someone who knows the surface and can get us to Stanford before it's too late. You've lived up here for five years and we're all putting our trust in you."

Asriel took a deep breath. "Ok, first we should probably go ahead and eat. You guys must be a hungry as we are."

"Yeah," Papayrus said holding up a triangular box made of sandalwood and leather with the name "Soos" engraved on it. "I only had this one slice of greasy pizza I managed to find in this box."

"Huh, isn't that the box Soos made for his slice of infinite pizza?" asked Grenda. "The one that regenerates when he and only he takes a bite out it?"

Papyrus opened the now empty box. "He's not going to be mad at me, is he?"

"Soos is probably one of the most easygoing guys you'd ever meet," said Frisk.

Papyrus sighed. "That's a relief."

"You better enjoy it," said Pacifica. "This food was supposed to last the five of us a few days, now that you're here it might not even get us through one."

"My cousin and I don't need to eat," said Mettaton.

"It's ok," said Candy. "You're a pleasant surprise, like that vanilla ice cream in the pipes."

"What ice cream?" asked Frisk. Candy pointed at the pneumatic pipes that fed into the Hall of the Forgotten.

Looking up they did see a white substance flowing through the clear tubes. "I don't think that's ice cream," said Grenda.

Undyne materialized her spear again. "It found us! We got to get out here NOW! Get that door open and above all DON'T LET IT TOUCH YOU!"

As the group started to move back towards the door Candy and Grenda tried to remove the pipes barring it closed. Asriel looked at the other Fae. "That's the super amalgamate?! But if our friends are still in there maybe we can reason with them!"

"Not an option I'm afraid," said Alphys. The Amalgamate was starting to exit the piping and reform itself. "I don't know what else Bill did to them but it's like they've lost all sense of personality. All that's left is a desire to absorb every Fae it can find."

"It even absorbed Jerry!" said Papyrus. "And NOBODY likes Jerry!"

"Well at least we're safe if it only wants Fae," said Pacifica. "I mean it's not going to absorb humans, right?"

"I wouldn't take that chance," said Frisk.

As the Amalgamate began to coalesce a voice began to come from it. "Friends…"

"Mom?" Stella asked as she recognized the voice. "Is that you? Are you still in there?"

The Amalgamate formed Antionette's head which protruded out from a body that seemed to solidify into a six-legged cross between a lizard and a dog. "Come friends, we can all be together again…"

Then Maximillian's head was formed on a second neck next to that of his wife. "We miss all of you. Let us be one, let us be whole…"

"No!" said Stella. "They have to be in there somewhere! There's got to be some way to reach them!"

"Maybe if we had time," Undyne said while trying to keep the Amalgamate at bay with her spear. "But right now, we got to stay alive first!"

"Let us be one, let us be whole…"

"How's that door coming?!" asked Mettaton.

"The pipes are stuck!" said Candy. "We'll keep trying!"

"Let us be one, let us be whole…"

King Asriel looked at what was increasingly looking like the end of a very short reign. "Try faster please."

Let us be one, let us be whole…"

Our last message decoded to "It's the end of the world as we know it and I don't feel fine".

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