Chapter 58:

Dusty Determined

The Void. The word felt foreign but it still rang in my ears. This was the unknown. Almost like hell.

"Why?" Was all I could ask.

He could have chosen to answer any number of whys. Why me? Why here? Why not choose to be good?

"I never quite got it right."

It was then that I felt a tug on my chest. At first I thought it was Chara but then I noticed it was my soul. My bright shiny red soul was being pulled out of my chest into plain view. I noticed there was no sign of Chara's soul, which gave me a hair of relief. Too bad that that problem was not my issue now.

"A monster soul can survive past death if it is given determination from that of a human soul. Unfortunately, no monster has ever volunteered to test my theory and I had to find my own test subjects. First I gave too little, then too much. I believed you could see into the void if you mixed the remains of a monster with the DNA of humans. And here's where I proved my hypothesis."

I glanced around, looking for where Gaster spoke from.

"I also found that you could harness the void to leap through time and space if you injected determination into a monster, the result also tore the fabric of dimensions and universes, so I ended that experiment with Sans."

I thought about Sans' shortcuts. Gaster gave him that ability, but to what cost? I tried to focus on the tears around me. How many of these tears were because of him? I tried to think of what the tears could cause. If this spanned between Universes, could we be causing trouble for other places?

"What do you plan on doing?" I spoke, my voice losing volume.

A chuckle vibrated in my ear.

"I want to put your determination to use, and leave this place."