A/N: Hello, hello, hello, reader! Boy, do I have a nice, meaty chapter for you to sink your teeth in.
To all you out there who are getting ready to start school again - stay strong. You can survive this. You can do this. Besides, now you get to read my fanfic. I hope that I'm making your life better, somehow.
Here's chapter 9. Enjoy!
Chapter 9: Doki Doki!
Frisk was having a bad time.
Whoever's life she was living had apparently thought that filling their school schedule with APs and Honors classes was going to be a good idea. And piano practice? Frisk was many things, but she certainly wasn't a musician. That one thing with Mettaton didn't count.
Even worse, as the day progressed, Frisk began to feel more and more exhausted, as though
someone was sucking away her determination. By the time period five was finally over, the sixteen-year-old was on her last legs.
She wearily opened her planner and jotted down the day's homework. She glanced at the rest of the page for the day. Today's the Literature Club! it read. Natsuki's bringing cupcakes! DO NOT MISS! Below was the room number and the time of the meeting, circled.
Frisk groaned and got to her feet. Well, why the heck not? she thought to herself. And so she made her way across campus for the "Literature Club".
"Now then, human. There's no need for fighting." the tall, lanky skeleton said, trying to reason with Monika.
She laughed. In a flash, she lunged at him and cut off his head in one blow.
Papyrus looked shocked. "H-human…" he managed to stutter out. "I still believe in you…" He crumbled into dust.
The whirlwind that surrounded Monika seemed to pick up. She suddenly heard a voice.
"Keep going…" she thought the voice said.
The snow died until once again Monika could see her surroundings. No one was there.
The light on the Player's monitor finally died down until they could once again see their surroundings. The basement was now no longer awash in red light. No Tattletails appeared to be present. The door that would usually lead to the Kaleidoscope had changed. It was now a solid blue with a black "99" written on it.
Freddy shakily got to his knees. "That… s-s-s-s-sucked…" he tried to say, his voice box glitching out.
The Neighbor simply laid there, bleeding in multiple places. "How did I get dragged into this…" he wondered out loud.
Ink began to leak from the ceiling, pooling on the floor until it took the shape of a dancing demon, scratched and beaten, but very much alive.
"Bendy! You survived!" the Player yelled, unable to contain their excitement.
"Heh. I've had worse." he laughed. He pointed at Freddy, and a thin jet of ink sprung from his white glove, covering the bear. The ink oddly began to merge into his skin, until it had been completely absorbed.
Freddy got up. "Feels like I've just been oiled…" you did that, Bendy?" he asked.
"I've got all sorts of tricks," he said, moving on and healing the Neighbor.
Soon enough, all four of the heroes were together and on their feet.
"Well, the door's right there. I guess we can get going?" asked the Neighbor.
A sudden thought hit the Player. This had all happened because he put Monika in the wrong game, right? That battle was intense. Why not fix things the easy way? "Hold on, guys," the Player said as he opened the file directory.
He double-clicked on the file labeled, "Undertale". It opened.
But Monika's file was gone.
"Oh crap." he whispered.
He closed the window. "Alright, I guess we can go through, then." the Player said.
Freddy and the Neighbor grinned, but Bendy suddenly looked a little uncomfortable.
Before anyone could do anything, though, Mama walked into the room.
"IT'S HER! GET OUT OF HERE!" yelled the Player instinctively.
"No, no, please wait!" Mama replied.
It was something about the way her voice sounded. So… regretful. Almost human. The Player paused.
"I… I tried to kill you all." Mama went on. "I need to fix my mistakes."
"Oh yeah? How are you going to do that?" challenged Freddy.
Mama fixed her eyes on him. "Let me join you."
"JOIN us? You gotta be kidding me." the Neighbor complained.
Mama's eyes slid around in their sockets until they landed on Bendy. "You know, don't you? You know that the only reason you're here is because you need me."
Bendy looked as though he had been slapped in the face, but he maintained his composure. "Your call," he said, and it took the Player a moment to realize that he was talking to him.
He thought about it for a moment. Here he was, running around through a bunch of different video games with three indie horror characters as his allies, trying to fix the mistake he made of putting Monika into the wrong game. Now that he said it like that, it sounded pretty ridiculous.
Bringing along another villain? That seemed like the least ridiculous thing that happened in his gaming session.
"Alright. Fine." the Player said.
Mama looked like she was trying to smile. "Thank you. I promise that I won't let you down."
She walked over to the rest of the crew, and the now-fivesome looked at the out-of-place door.
"You never explained… uh… how this works, Bendy." the Player said. He was talking to these strings of code like they were real people.
"I guess I gotta tell you. Don't you see? We have to go to each 'game', as you call it, that the Source code takes us to. Once there, we have to bring along the character who best represents that game, and only then will we be able to move on to the next. Once we're through, we will hopefully have assembled a strong enough team to fix whatever mistakes you made."
"That literally made no sense." the Neighbor pointed out.
Bendy sighed. "Just go with the flow. Try not to think too much." he said.
"Enough talking, are we going?" asked Freddy.
"Yes, we should go quickly. Do you know where this leads?" Mama asked.
The Player shuddered a bit. "Yep."
"See you there, then." Bendy said.
The Player sat there and watched the four horror characters walk through the door into a shining void before closing the game.
Flowey popped out of the ground. "You're doing great!" he cheerfully said.
"Did you hear a voice just now?" Monika asked.
"Uh, no, why?" Flowey replied.
"Nothing, nothing. Monika said. She pulled up the file directory, where a new game's folder now sat.
"Oh, I've heard of this one. It's just as ridiculous as that stupid skeleton." Flowey mentioned.
This is gonna be fun, Monika thought.
Sans stared in abject horror as the human cut down his brother without hesitation. He watched as Papyrus, the only person in this world he ever cared about, crumbled into dust.
He recognized that look in the human's eye. The way they looked around, as though they were in a completely different universe. This girl wasn't just a threat to his world, she was a threat to all of them. And there was no way could Sans fight her on his own.
He stumbled away in a daze, calling a number on his cell phone that he never thought that he'd need to use.
"Yes?" a voice said from the other side.
"Ink?" Sans said. "Remember that favor you mentioned… yeah, I need to hold you to that."
