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Now then, after way too long,
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"Don't know who you're talkin' about." F Cter answered with ease, hands in his pockets.
The boy sighed, shaking his head.
"So be it." He held his left arm out to the side, fire exploding out across the ground behind him.
"... Hey, kid." F Cter looked over his shoulder at Frisk.
"You ever look at yourself in the mirror and ask why your life is a story that's gone on too long?" F Cter asked, suddenly holding up one hand as a green wall appeared in front of him, blocking a wave of fire.
"Because I feel that way pretty often and wanna know if it's not weird."
"On another note, you're really screwin' up my grass." F Cter looked back to the other child without letting Frisk answer. "Not cool."
"And also, how do you know Predator is called Predator?" Frisk asked, looking around F Cter. "She came up with that name on the spot."
"What?" He asked, confused. "No, she's used that name for awhile. But, then again, knowing her, she probably just did that for some sort of gag." He frowned, looking to the side.
"That does kinda sound like something she'd do..." Asriel said, stroking his imaginary beard.
"Get these two out of here." F Cter said, stepping forward. "I'll handle this guy."
Frisk and Asriel began pulling the two unconscious monsters from the room, and Monster Kid looked to F Cter with worry.
"Yo, if that guy messed up these two so easily, do you really think you should fight him alone?"
"..." F Cter looked back at Monster Kid before smiling lightly.
"Eh, I'll be fine." He said, looking back to the unknown human.
"You guys'd just get in my way."
"Now go on, go." F Cter shooed them away. "Let the adult handle this one."
Chara and Monster Kid looked to one another before deciding to walk back into the next room, watching from the doorway with everyone besides River Person, who still sat in the corner, humming to them self.
"Now then." F Cter yawned, stretching. "What's your name, anyway? Never seen you around. You just some low key nutcase or what?"
"Because I've had enough of low key nutcases."
Chara looked down at those words.
"I guess you could call me Gatherer. Or, The Gatherer, or something like that." He shrugged, hands in his jacket pockets.
"Man, nobody seems willing to give a real name these days. It's like we just can't trust anyone." F Cter closed his eyes, lifting one hand and snapping.
"But I guess my life has become proof of that."
Gatherer jumped back, pens shooting out from under him before he felt himself stop, looking down to see he was on an orange arrow pointing forward at the pens sticking out at him.
He threw one hand forward as he shot at the pens, fire exploding from his sleeve and melting the pens down before he reached them, sending him flying right at F Cter.
His soul flipped to blue just before he reached F Cter, who threw one hand up, sending him flying into the air.
F Cter stood in place as a portal opened under him, and he casually fell through, dropping from one below Gatherer and slamming both feet into his back, sending him exploding into the earth.
"And here I almost considered being worried." F Cter said as he landed in front of Gatherer.
F Cter suddenly jumped back, a vortex of flames shooting up around Gatherer as he stood, grinning.
F Cter stood there, hands in his pockets as he slouched slightly, waiting for another attack.
The Gatherer threw one hand forward, fire swirling at F Cter at lightning speed as he brought up one hand, a wall of green appearing in its way.
F Cter's eyes widened, Gatherer shooting up through the fire vortex and slamming one fist into the green wall, shattering it.
F Cter stepped to the side, Gatherer landing and skidding, spinning around to face him and throwing one hand forward, flames shooting from his palm in a beam, a wall of ink appearing in front of F Cter and blocking the flames.
"You're gonna have to put a little more effort in." F Cter said, the ink wall disappearing as the flames stopped.
"I'm just warming up." Gatherer smirked, red flames burning from his left eye. F Cter's eyes narrowed at that sight.
Just who is this kid?
"I think he might've been right about us just getting in his way." Frisk said as they watched.
"That kid definitely picked the wrong Cter to challenge." Chara said, remembering how well F Cter matched up against Character.
"What do you think River Pers-" Asriel stopped as he looked over his shoulder, realizing River Person was gone, seeing a dotted outline of them where they once were for a moment.
"When did they..?"
"So where are we heading exactly?" I glanced over at Predator, who seemed to be looking at a large unfolded piece of paper, rotating it and narrowing her eyes.
"Uh..." She looked confused at the map.
"... Are you being serious right now?"
"Timelines are complex!"
We both looked ahead at the sound of a portal opening.
"Tra la la~ Look who I found." River Person said, stepping through the portal.
"River Person?" I asked in confusion.
"You find yourself stuck in a maze, tra la la~ May I suggest cutting through the corn field?" River Person asked, offering us a hand.
"Uh... Alright, I guess." I said after Predator and I glanced at one another.
F Cter jumped back, throwing one hand forward as a wall of green appeared in front of him, blocking the tidal wave of flames before he landed outside, skidding back on his feet before Gatherer shot through the flames, pulling back one fire coated leg.
F Cter blocked with his fore arm, gritting his teeth as the fire burnt through his sleeve before he wrapped his arm around the leg, red fire beginning to come off of him as his left eye burned red.
"Game over kid!" He said, muscles straining as he pulled back his free fist, throwing it forward at Gatherer.
F Cter suddenly shifted his punch, smashing his fist through a slash of red energy, looking into the direction it came from with narrowed eyes.
His frown deepened, fire burning up from both eyes for a moment.
"Have you met my friend, Hacker?" Gatherer grinned as he was dropped.
Left side of their face encased in black, holding a glowing red knife.
"I found them in Glitchtale." Gatherer jumped back to the side of this hate consumed Chara, both of them grinning.
"..." F Cter sighed, pulling out his flask and unscrewing the cap, drinking from it.
"You must really wanna find this Predator person, huh?" He said, closing his eyes as he put away the flask.
F Cter suddenly moved to the side, a giant blade slamming into the ground where he once was.
Cross Sans' eyes shifted to look at him as his knife stuck into the ground where F Cter once was, F Cter snapping and making pens shoot from the ground they were above.
They jumped back, avoiding the pens and landing next to the other assailants.
"Hoo boy, this is gonna be irritating." F Cter said, hands in his pockets as he watched all three of them shoot at him at lightning speed.
He threw up a wall of ink, blocking a wave of fire before the ink wall was slashed down, Cross landing and skidding to a stop next to him, slashing at him with his giant blade and forcing him to jump into the air.
F Cter held out one hand, a green wall appearing and blocking several red slashes before ink wings shot from his back, rocketing him further into the air and above a beam of flames, which raced after him.
he spiraled down around it, Gatherer jumping back just as he slammed feet first into the ground where he once was.
F Cter spun around, firing a golden beam to match the golden beam GT Chara fired from their knife at him, the beams colliding and exploding before Cross slashed at him from behind, making him back flip over him.
F Cter landed on his feet, flapping back through the air as he threw one hand forward, Beat Blasters appearing behind him and firing rapidly at Cross, who ran to the side, the blasts exploding just behind him.
F Cter looked up, a dark blue blade of energy slicing down towards him.
He threw up one arm, a wall of keys appearing and blocking the slash, shards of plastic flying through the air.
He jumped back, a ball of fire hitting the ground where he once was and exploding into a pillar of flames, making him throw up both arms in defense.
Cross appeared at his side, pulling back his blade and swinging at his side as he looked over, everything moving in slow motion as his eyes widened.
A metallic clang rang through the air, Chara gritting their teeth as they blocked the attack.
Cross jumped back, holding his blade out to the side.
"You looked like you could use some help." Chara smirked, looking to F Cter out of the corner of their eye.
"Nah, I had it under control." F Cter waved a hand dismissively. "But uh... Thanks."
Gatherer thrust one arm forward, a vortex of flames shooting from his sleeve at the two before a wall of flames got in its path, stopping it and turning it into a swirling mass of fire, which quickly dispersed.
Gatherer's eyes narrowed as they glared over at Asriel, who smirked in success as Gatherer prepared another attack before suddenly jumping back, Frisk slashing through the air next to them with their gardening knife.
Gatherer threw up one arm, wall after wall of flame shooting up at Frisk as they back flipped out of range, Gather suddenly one arm out to the side and blocking a vortex of petals with a wall of fire.
Frisk skidded to a stop, getting ready to attack again when they heard the air whistle, looking up to see a red slash flying down at them.
F Cter shot in from the side, smashing one foot into the slash and shattering it, landing and skidding.
"You help Asriel with Gatherer. I'll deal with them." F Cter said, Frisk nodding before ink wings shot from his back, and he was launching at GT Chara.
Three purple slashes rocketed towards him as he flew, an orange arrow appearing below the slashes and sending them launching off into the distance as one of F Cter's wings spiraled up around his fist, forming a point as he reached GT Chara.
They ducked under the punch, stabbing at F Cter from below as he held a hand out in front of himself, a green wall appearing and blocking the stab.
GT Chara disappeared in a glitch, reappearing behind F Cter and slashing at his back, only for him to glow purple, the knife stopping against his skin as he persevered the attack.
He spun around, swinging at GT Chara with the back of his fist, only for them to disappear and reappear on the ground, pointing their knife at him before a light blue tentacle of energy shot from it, wrapping around F Cter's arm.
They grinned, pulling their blade back and yanking him back down at them.
F Cter spun in air, slamming feet first into the ground where they were as they jumped back away from him, blue energy releasing him.
F Cter thrust one arm forward, paper planes appearing behind him and launching at GT Chara, who stood ready, grinning.
Gatherer blocked a blast of fire with his own wall of flames, side stepping a slash and kicking out at Frisk, who jumped back as fire shot from his pant leg at them.
Gatherer appeared behind them, pulling back one fist as flames coated it, Frisk looking over their shoulder at him in surprise.
A vine grabbed Gatherer by the throat, pulling him back down towards the ground.
More and more vines wrapped around him, locking him in place.
"Got him!" Asriel said, Gatherer's head the only thing visible.
"Alright, good! Keep him there!" Frisk said. "I'll go help-"
The vines exploded out in flames, making Frisk and Asriel cover their faces from the heat of the blast.
"Did you honestly think that would work?" Gatherer asked with an amused chuckle as Asriel and Frisk gulped.
Chara and Cross collided again and again, sparks shooting through the air as they slashed at one another.
Cross jumped back, throwing one hand forward as Gaster Blasters appeared behind him, firing down at Chara.
Chara ran forward, dodging around blast after blast before jumping into the air, slashing down at him, only for the slash to be blocked by their over sized blade.
Chara grit their teeth, glaring down at Cross before jumping back. holding their knife out to the side.
Cross brought one hand into the air, bones shooting from the ground at Chara, who jumped, aiming down at Cross with a once empty Gun and firing rapidly, Cross jumping back again and again, red blasts exploding into the ground where he once was.
Chara landed, gun switching to a frying pan as they raced through the smoke at Cross, who couldn't see through the smoke.
Cross' eyes widened as Chara shot from the smoke, slamming the frying pan into the side of his face and sending him exploding back across the ground.
Cross dug his blade into the ground, forcing himself to a stop as he stood slowly, staring blankly at Chara, who stood ready.
GT Chara slashed to the side, leaving a green wall of energy and blocking the blast from a Beat Blaster, looking down to find an orange arrow before being thrown to the side, exploding through a green wall and rolling to a stop.
Their soul switched to blue, and they were thrown high into the air, Beat Blasters appearing all around them.
They disappeared just before the blasts fired, appearing behind F Cter, who dropped through a portal that appeared below him, their knife slashing right over his head as he fell out of a portal ten feet behind them, landing and throwing one hand forward, ink spears firing rapidly at them from behind him.
They slashed several times, red slashes firing out and exploding into the pens, sending dust flying through the air.
F Cter jumped forward, shooting through the smoke.
GT Chara slashed forward, sending a purple slash flying at F Cter, who glowed purple before the slash exploded into him.
F Cter now had a slash running down the left side of his forehead, over his eye, and down his cheek as he shot from the smoke.
*You persevered the attack.
*... Kind of.
He pulled back one glowing red fist, punching at GT Chara, who disappeared, firing a golden beam from their knife when they appeared above F Cter.
F Cter spun around, holding his arms up in an X and feeling the blast slam into him, sending him exploding into the earth.
Gt Chara grinned, pulling up one arm as a ball of black energy formed on the tip of their blade, growing larger and larger.
"That's bad..." F Cter said, wincing as he sat up.
"Welcome to my special he-"
GT Chara's eyes widened, looking over to see a scythe blade slash through the arm holding up the ball of death.
Predator winked one eye shut, sticking her tongue out at GT Chara as they shot by, landing and skidding to a stop as their own attack fell down on them, their eyes widening.
Predator quickly rose both arms into the air, a tube of ice forming around GT Chara and their attack as it fell on them.
"Little help?" Predator glanced over her shoulder at F Cter, who nodded, keys and ink forming around the ice tube, the explosion going off inside of it.
"Ha! Got 'em." Predator smirked, the tube disappearing to review a circle of destroyed ground.
"When exactly did you show up?" F Cter arched a brow at her.
"Same time as them." Predator pointed with her thumb.
Cross deflected slash after slash, jumping back and throwing one hand forward, sending blasts firing from Gaster Blasters behind him at Chara, who ran to the side, blasts destroying the ground behind them.
They fired rapidly at Cross with their gun, Cross bringing up a wall of bones and blocking the blasts, throwing his hand forward and sending the wall shooting at them.
They jumped, landing on top of the wall and jumping off of it, rolling as they landed before rocketing off at Cross again, pulling back their knife.
Cross moved his head to the side, dodging a stab as Chara jumped, slashing at him with their ballet shoes as he jumped back away from the slash.
They landed, firing several more bullets as he slashed each one away with his blade, Chara jumping into the air and stabbing down at him.
Cross blocked, throwing Chara back through the air.
They landed, skidding before stopping back first against something.
They looked over their shoulder, gulpi8ng as they saw a Gaster Blaster about to fire from point blank.
Eyes instinctively closing, all they heard was the sound of a blast.
"..." They opened one eye, surprised to see the Gaster Blaster disappearing across the room at the end of a line crater, a Beat Blaster right next to where it had been, steam coming off the end of it.
"My timing's hella good, huh?" I smirked, and they frowned.
"Cter, what is this mess you've got us all dragged into?"
"Why do you immediately assume it was me?"
"Call it a hunch." They frowned, eyes narrowing.
"I may have... Had something to do with it..." I rubbed the back of my neck, glancing to the side.
"But I'm like eighty percent sure this is all Predator's deal."
"Yeah, I could piece that together considering the fire guy over there's first question was 'Where's Predator'. But how do you know that?" Chara arched a brow.
"Heya paleo!" Predator said suddenly, putting an arm around me. "How goes dealin' with your guy?"
"Pretty well." I pointed over to Cross, who was encased in ink. "He didn't realize it was coming up from below him until it was too late."
"Noice." She said, nodding.
"... So you two are friends now?" Chara asked, confused.
"Yep."
"After she assaulted all of us and you?"
"He's got a pretty weird sense in friends, huh?" Predator shrugged.
"I kinda got forced into this friendship." I frowned.
All three of us looked over to an explosion of flames.
"Oop, party's starting!" Predator jumped over to the smoke.
"I think she might be more you than you." Chara said, watching Predator jump off into the smoke.
"Yeah, she's like me before the depression sunk in."
"What?" Chara looked over at me.
"What?" I responded quickly.
"What did you just say?"
"I didn't say anything."
"You clearly said something."
"Look, we could sit here and talk about bottled things and things that may or may not have been said all day, but we've got things to do."
"... Ugh..." They pinched the bridge of their nose in irritation.
"Tra la la~ I think we've cornered the wolf eating our cattle." River Person said, and I couldn't help but give them a weird look before looking back to Gatherer, who backed up slowly, eyes narrowed as we slowly closed in.
"You think this is the end? Idiots, this is only the beginning. You picked the wrong person to make an enemy." He smirked.
"What are you gonna do Gatherer?" Predator smirked.
"You're not getting away. We're making sure of that." I said.
"Well, Predator and Hacker," a portal opened on the ground behind Gatherer, none of us noticing.
"I am going to leave." He fell backwards, and my eyes widened.
"Nope!" I reached out, ink shooting from my sleeve and just barely missing him, the portal closing immediately after he fell through.
"Damn it!" I said angrily, stomping.
"Great. Now we have that to deal with." Chara frowned, crossing their arms.
"Yep." F Cter drank from his flask, sighing. "And my back yard is fooked."
"Glad to see you're looking at the big picture here." Chara glared over at F Cter, who laughed lightly.
Frisk and Chara almost jumped at the sound of L's Theme Metal Remix, and I pulled out my phone, arching a brow at it.
"Sorry, just my phone." I said, looking back to them for a moment. "Why's C calling me..?" I muttered to myself.
"Ay yo." I answered.
"Cter, put my on speaker. You're all gonna wanna hear this."
"Uh..? Oooohkay?" I said, pressing the speaker button.
"Alright, there's another human, and they're gonna be a huge problem."
"Uh, were you watching a timeline that's delayed an hour? Because we just dealt with that guy."
"No, Gatherer isn't the human I'm talking about."
"... F#ck me!" I groaned in irritation. "I've gotta deal with more extra humans? How deep does this go? First Predator then Gatherer now what?"
"Oh, you won't have to worry about Gatherer much longer. his timeline's already gone."
"... What." Predator said, eyes becoming little black dots.
"IN the time he was gone, this human erased that timeline."
"... What."
"Gatherer is returning to his death now."
"Well that was a whole lotta build up for nothing." F Cter glanced to the side.
"Tra la la~ If only one could rewrite time, we wouldn't have this seemingly inconsistent plot. Tra la la~"
"Okay wait, so you're telling me that in an hour's time span, this guy showed up, cleared out a timeline, erased it, and is now going to can the guy who took out Grillby without alerting anyone?" F Cter asked, stepping closer to the phone.
"Yes."
"Well who the f#ck is this guy?"
"What the..?" Gatherer looked around in confusion, seeing nothing but static.
"Sorry, I think I erased your file. Whoops."
Gatherer grit his teeth, glaring at the grinning figure standing across from him.
"Who are you? what are you doing in my timeline?"
"Too bad, you had a pretty swood pad set up." He looked around.
"But hey, now it matches the sound in my head all the time!" He grinned. "Yeah, I think it's an improvement." he nodded quickly. "You're welcome."
Gatherer roared in anger, throwing one hand forward and sending a wave of fire exploding from his palm, racing through the air at this unknown human.
His grin tore across his face, from ear to ear before he shot forward right through the fire, icy winds blowing the fire to the sides before he grabbed Gatherer by the throat, lifting him up into the air as he grabbed their wrist, gasping desperately for breath.
"So, I've got a question for you." The corners of his mouth seemed to be splitting from how hard he was grinning, eyes wide and blood shot.
"Ack!" Gatherer cried out, feeling the stranger's grip tighten.
"What happens when that controlled evil runs into that crazy evil alone in a dark ally?"
Gatherer's face began to turn blue, and his struggling grew more violent.
"Who... Are... You..?" Gatherer struggled to ask, eyes popping out of his head.
"Me?" He grinned, pulling back one glowing red hand and sending it rocketing forward, tearing right through Gatherer's chest and holding Gatherer's soul in hand as his hand came out from his back, Gatherer's eyes widened and pupils shrinking in agony.
"I'm the Anarchist."
It seemed that some sort of energy was being sucked from Gatherer's soul as his eyes rolled back into his head, life fading from him.
"Wow, that was disappointing." Anarchy crushed the soul in his hand, throwing Gatherer's corpse off of his arm.
"Alright, lets see what we got this time." Anarchy reached out, fire blasting from his palm and disintegrating Gatherer's corpse.
"Swizzle sticks!" He grinned, looking at his palm as fire burned in it.
"Now... I wonder what weakened him so much?" Anarchy stroked his imaginary beard, a grin creeping across his face once more.
"... Anarchy?" Frisk asked.
"Yes, the Anarchist." C Frisk explained.
"That's bad." Predator said, eyes wide in fear.
"So this guy just destroys timeline after timeline like some kind of Error? Why? What's his goal?" Chara asked.
"He doesn't have one. He just destroys timelines for the fun of it. He has some kind of indescribable love for destruction."
"... Well that's not good." I said, looking down with semi-wide eyes.
"And now he's looking for your timeline."
"Wha- why?!" I asked, irritated.
"Because he wants to fight what weakened Gatherer.
"Son of a- How do I keep getting pulled into this bullsh!t?!" I threw my hands into the air, and Frisk caught my phone as it fell from the air.
"This is serious. If he gets to your timeline it will be the end of it."
"Isn't there anyone else you have who can deal with this? Since apparently you're like... The universal po po or something?"
"I'm not the universal po po. I've met that guy. He threw up ink all over my floor... Anyway, I just warn you when there are problems coming your way. If you don't want me to do that anymore then so be it. Oh, and also, Predator, you owe me two hundred dollars for property damage."
"Lol." Predator grinned, looking to the side. She hadn't said the letters, she'd actually said what they formed.
"I suggest you get to Anarchy before he gets to you or your timeline. Trust me when I say you'll want to be the one to get the drop on him, not the other way around."
"Okay, so any idea what he... Does exactly? Like, what kind of magic he uses?"
"I... I don't know."
"Don't you know everything?" I asked with mild irritation.
"Apparently not since I got the drop on 'em." Predator muttered.
"There's something that just... Interferes whenever I'm about to watch him fight. It's like he knows... Please, be careful."
"Well that's not worrying." I muttered quickly and sarcastically. "Yeah, we'll get right on that."
"Good luck."
*Click...
Frisk tossed me my phone, which I caught, placing it in my pocket.
"Alright, how are we gonna do this?" I asked, looking back to everyone.
"Well, one of us should probably go back to our Universe and alert everyone to what's happening, and someone should stay here to tell us if he gets here first." Asriel suggested.
"Well, something tells me this fight wont be very... Spare-y, so I'll go back to our timeline and tell everyone to be on watch." Frisk said.
"Tra la la~ And I'm not much for travel." River Person said, despite being the mode of traveling through the underground. "So I guess I'll keep watch over your subjects, Cedar Tree."
"Alright, thanks." F Cter looked over at River Person. "Contact me the moment anything happens. Don't take any chances."
"Hey, wait, shouldn't we get the adult versions of us to help?" Frisk suggested, and Chara, F Cter and I all seemed to flinch.
"Yeah! I wanna meet the future version of me!" Monster Kid said, looking with stars in his eyes to F Cter. "Is he as cool as you?"
"... Very cool." F Cter smiled, despite looking sick.
He pulled out his flask, seeming to chug whatever heavy alcohol that was in it, the gulping sound lasting for about thirty seconds.
The children watched with semi wide eyes as he emptied the flask, which seemed to have more in it than one would believe from the size of it.
"Woo, okay." F Cter shook his head, eyes semi wide as he screwed the cap back on, putting it away. "Lets deal with this crap."
"So... Our adult selves..?" Asriel asked as F Cter opened two portals.
"Frisk, Monster Kid, through that one. Other ones, through that one." F Cter pointed to the portals.
"But-"
Chara pushed Asriel through the portal before he could continue his question, hair covering their eyes.
Monster Kid looked somewhat worried from the expression of F Cter's face, glancing over his shoulder at him once before hopping through the portal.
Chara and Cter stepped through their portal, and Frisk went to step through their portal, stopping before they did.
"... Cter."
F Cter looked over at them.
"Kid, you should really get outta here-"
"Cter, don't lie to me on this."
F Cter flinched.
"Everyone's... Everyone's gone here, aren't they?"
F Cter's hands shook.
An uncomfortable silence.
"... C-c'mon Frisk, don't be ridiculous." F Cter tried to laugh, but it was closer to sobbing.
"I-I would... I would never let something happen to you guys. I would never fail you, I'd never... N-never let you down like that... I... I..."
"I wouldn't give up I wouldn't quit I wouldn't let you die I wouldn't I wouldn't I wouldn't..." F Cter shook his head, fire burning brightly from both eyes as he placed a hand over the left side of his face, gripping it tightly.
He closed his eyes as Frisk watched with worry, the fire disappearing.
"You've always been pretty good at seeing through me on this kind of stuff." F Cter smiled sadly. "I almost forgot; you haven't been around in a long time..." F Cter shook his head.
"I just... I just needed to clear my head, go away for a little while... I never thought others were suffering too... I never thought that they might..." Cter's eyes narrowed as he frowned, looking to the side.
"I've always been a f#ck up, haven't I?" F Cter laughed bitterly.
Frisk frowned, expression full of worry.
"I let you down, I let Monster Kid down, I let Sans and Papyrus down, I let all my family and friends down. And then... The one person who neded me the most and I... I..." F Cter's teeth grit as he looked at his hands, which clenched into his fists, F Cter seeing the blood they were drenched in.
"... Alright kid, you've gotten enough out of me. I've got sh!t to do, I don't have time for a mental break down." F Cter put his mask back on.
F Cter lightly pushed Frisk towards their portal.
Frisk frowned, walking slowly towards the portal.
"Oh, and, Frisk."
He didn't call them kid this time.
"If you uh... If you ever get like... Really sick, tell someone to get me, alright? We've got pretty advanced medicine in the future. You're more important to our family's structure than you think, heh..." F Cter scratched the back of his head.
"..." Frisk smiled lightly. "Alright Cter, no problem."
Frisk hopped through their portal, and I popped my head through the portal I'd gone through.
"Ay yo, old man, you comin' or what?" I asked, smirking lightly before seeing what he was doing.
One of my ink capsules, but full of... Ash?
"Uh... You alright?" I asked, and he laughed, shaking his head and putting away the ash capsule.
"Pricklet always knew how to get in my head, even when they're dead." He said, placing his hands in his pockets and walking past me into the portal before I followed after him, the portal closing.
River Person looked back over to the unconscious GT Chara and the wrapped up Cross, walking over to them and picking both of them up, a portal opening before he tossed them both in it, patting dust off of his hands as he walked away from the portal, which closed.
Foot steps echoed through the darkness of the void, bare feet hitting the darkness below as he continued through the darkness, the fire in his left eye illuminating the darkness.
The darkness seemed to shift behind him as he grinned, hunched slightly with his hands in his pockets.
His skin almost seemed to crawl as he sauntered, knowing exactly where he was going.
He was going for his fix. He was going to cure his boredom for the time being.
He was going to do...
"What I do best..."
Glitchtale and Glitchtale Chara are owned and were made by by Camila Cuevas, Cross Sans was made by Jakei95.
Now I know what you might be thinking.
"Wolf, why the f#ck would you introduce Gatherer as if he was going to be the main antagonist, if only to kill him off a chapter later for some new nutcase?"
Well, I'm gonna be straight with you. The reason I haven't updated in two weeks is because I've had a lot of trouble with doing Gatherer's ark. I just couldn't figure out exactly how I was going to do it.
Honestly, I probably should've just ended this story after Character. But since I've already started this ark, and can't go back in time to change it and make this seem a little less... Hair brained, this is what we've got.
Sorry about that. Truly.
So, after this, there'll probably be like one or two chapters that are just after math. Fluffy, fluffy after math. And then a chapter or two epilogue that I've had in my head since before the Character ark.
And then, well...
Hey, there's DoubleShift, DoubleFell, and DoubleEcho, isn't there? And Spencer the Gamer's still working on that game, which you guys should totally check out on Game Jolt to see the progress he's made and what not.
And there's a handful of fanart (Which I would love to see more of) and whatnot...
And I mean, I started typing another story called DeathTaLe, an Undertale Death Note cross over, so...
But as for Doubletale? Well, let's be honest. This story's gone on long enough.
And with over 700 reviews, it's gone hella further than I ever thought it would.
I mean, I've gotten fanart and fanstories and a fan game out of what I once thought would just be a silly side project to have fun with. I never thought I'd come to love this story as much as I do, but when making a character that's basically started just like me and slowly became much better, well... It was hard not to root for him.
So yeah, this ark'll probably be a little shorter than most arks, but I think you guys'll like it. I don't think it'll top the Error and Chara ark or anything like that, because nothing in this story will ever top that ark.
So... One last ride, alright?
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XWolf26, out