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Oneshot was created by Future Cat LLC

My sincerest apologies if you were expecting the Undertale chapter.

"Do you want to spar?"

"What?"

Alex was in the middle of shoveling food into his mouth when I made my sudden request.

"Why this all of a sudden?" he asked.

"Well I just want to test out my new gear and powers," I responded. "Don't you want to do the same?" Alex sighed as he went to put his plate in the sink,

"Fine, where do we fight?" He asked, "Backyard seems spacious enough," I answered, "Then let's get this over with."

Play song: IT'S TIME TO FIGHT CRIME by Nightmargin

Welp this was it, both me and Alex stood a good distance away from each other while Niko sat at a judge's table on the side, acting as both the judge and medic.

"Are there any rules?" Alex inquired.

"No," I responded, "Just try your best to either knock out your opponent or make them yield and don't hold back, I doubt any of us would die from this anyway."

"If you say so," Alex said as both him and I took up our own clumsy and inexperienced stances.

"Begin!" Niko shouted from their table as I pulled out my pistol and took aim, intent on ending this fight as soon as possible. However, Alex proved to be quicker as before I could pull the trigger, a shard of ice slammed and shattered on my vest knocking the air of me and throwing my aim off.

When I finally managed regain my bearings, I saw that Alex was closing the distance with an ice sword raised high and ready to strike. Using my other hand, I quickly unsheathed my katana and used it to block his swing, before opening fire with my pistol. Most of the rubber bullets missed but one managed to hit his shoulder pauldron, cracking it and stunning him. Seeing that he was now vulnerable, I moved in closer to strike with my katana only to have it batted aside by his own sword.

Seeing this I brought my pistol to bear again, but he grabbed it before I could fire and preformed a palm strike on my chest, pushing me away. I stumbled but regained my footing before lining up a shot and pulling the trigger.

Click

What?

I inspected my pistol and saw that it was jammed full of ice and snow.

'Dammit! Alex must have done this when he grabbed ahold of it!'

"You should give up," Alex taunted smugly.

"I just got this, asshole!" I shouted back, as I hurled my now useless pistol at him, smacking him in the mask. While he was still disorientated, I slashed at him wildly, chipping away at his armor. I was doing some pretty decent damage to him, even managing to slice off one of the horns from his mask, that was until he grabbed onto the blade of my katana.

The blade sliced into his gauntlet, but he managed to get a firm grip on it so I couldn't pull my katana away. Soon enough ice traveled up the blade and I was forced to let go lest I was frozen too.

The moment I let go, I felt the freezing cold of Alex's blade press against my throat.

'Well shit, guess I lost' I thought to myself as I began to raise my arms in surrender.

'Not yet.'

'Who the fuc-'

'I will explain later for now let me handle this'

I suddenly felt my nano suit disperse into smoke, before becoming solid and slamming into Alex at full force, sending him back several feet.

Play song: A God's Machine by Nightmargin

Floating in front of me was a dark figure, looking like an artist's best attempt to draw the human body while extremely intoxicated. The figure before me had a ghostly appearance, with a face that looked like melted wax, it also looked very muscular. It gave off an uncanny feeling with it's arms ending in clawed skeletal hands, giving the impression that it was incomplete. The leftover nanobots floated around the figure, looking like black smoke that emanated from it. (Since I'm shit at explaining things, the Walrider from the game Outlast is what it looks like.)

Being a very sane and logical person, that was definitely grounded in reality. The first thought that ran through my head was, 'Is that a motherfucking STANDO?' Before remembering that, no, I do not recall having been hit by any golden antique arrows. And last time I checked I didn't have a star shaped birthmark.

Turning my attention back to the fight, I saw Alex slowly backing up in fear of this new entity and attempting to slice at it with his sword. His attempts at harming this entity did fuck all, as it just phased through his sword strikes not receiving any damage at all.

Checking to see how our judge was faring, I saw that Niko seemed to have taken a sudden interest in everything but the fight. A little confused at why they were doing so, I called out to them.

"Hey! You're the judge, pay attention to the fight!

"I will only judge the fight when all contestants are wearing pants."

What the hell are- oh.

Looking down I saw that the only things I was wearing were my bullet proof vest and my boxers. Look I wasn't expecting my nanobots to suddenly dip mid-fight, ok?

"Alright fair enough," I agreed before throwing on some shorts that I spawned in. Turning my attention back to the fight again, I saw that Alex was getting more frantic and panicked with his attacks, which still did no damage to the entity. Eventually it seemed to have had enough of Alex's shit as it cocked it's arm back, seemingly turning it more solid, before launching a smoky fist directly at Alex's face.

The devastating impact resulted in Alex getting knocked flat on his ass, with his head spinning, ears ringing and mask now sporting a small crater.

Alex's vision eventually returned, and instead of seeing stars, he saw a rifle barrel directly in front of his face.

"Yield," I demanded.

Seeing no other way out of his predicament coupled with the fact that he was extremely tired, Alex slowly raised his hands in surrender before sighing.

"Fine, I yield."

Letting out a sigh of relief I extended a hand out to Alex which he graciously accepted before I pulled him to his feet. While I listened to Niko declare me as the winner of the spar, I stumbled a bit as felt the nanobots return and sap some of my energy to recharge.

'That was my first fight, what an interesting experience.'

"Glad to hear you enjoyed that I guess." I said to the nanobots only to be met with confused looks from both Niko and Alex.

"Who are you talking to?" Niko questioned me as I sweatdropped.

'Oh shit was that out loud?'

'Yes'

'Well then, there's no use in trying to hide you since Alex already saw you, and besides, it'd be more efficient if you explained yourself in front of all of us.'

'Very well then.'

I snapped out of my little mental conversation to answer Niko's question.

"I'm having a conversation with the voice in my head." Both Alex and Niko looked quite concerned for my sanity at that. "Look I'm not crazy, ok?" I said trying to defend myself.

"Only crazy people say that" Alex countered.

"Well, I for one am rather certain that it isn't just some figment of my psyche."

"And how do you know that?"

"Because this is the voice in my head." I said as my nanobots dispersed once again before reforming as the ghostly figure next to me. Alex instantly tensed up seeing the entity that gave him an ass whoopin, while Niko looked a bit fearful at their ghostly appearance.

Play song: Outlast OST Main Menu by Samuel Laflamme

"Greetings it is nice to finally you all." Niko relaxed seeing that the entity didn't seem to have hostile intentions, while Alex was still nervous, curiosity got the better of him and he asked it a question.

"Are you a Stand?" The entity looked quite befuddled at that before answering Alex.

"I am not a piece of furniture."

Alex looked a bit embarrassed as I laughed at his question, though I have to admit I was quite disappointed when I found out the entity wasn't my personal psychic punch ghost.

"Well, what are you then?" Niko questioned them.

"I am the void."

…what?

"Could you uh… please elaborate?" I requested.

"Yes," It nodded. "Do you know how your powers work?"

"Uh, no not really, all I know is that I can create things," I admitted. "I would love an explanation as to how though."

"You draw power from the void for your creations," the void explained.

"So you act as a power source?" I questioned them, before growing a little concerned. "I'm not hurting you or anything by creating things, right?"

"There is no harm done to me in the process, the void is infinite after all." I was a bit relieved to hear that, before I asked it some more questions.

"So, uh… you mind explaining to me how and why you're controlling my nanobots?" I was a bit desperate to know why a primordial being was hijacking my nano suit.

"As for how, you cross through the void when teleporting and I have the ability to possess inorganic objects. So, while you were crossing through your portals on your way to the bakery, I sent a piece of my consciousness into your nanobots."

Nodding, I thought about what he said, "Is this why the suit's responses to my commands have been so delayed? I thought it was just a processing error."

"Perhaps, I am still getting used to controlling these… 'nano machines', they are quite interesting if not complicated," the 'void' stared at the hands they formed in wonder. At least I assumed it was wonder, it's kind of hard to discern someone's emotions when all you have to work with was a face resembling melted wax, and two eyeholes that were becoming increasingly terrifying the more I stared into them.

Ending the scariest staring contest of my life by breaking eye contact, I moved to ask some more questions in this impromptu interview with a primordial being.

"How exactly are you speaking English right now? I assume that being the void wouldn't require you to know languages, and I don't think you hired any English tutors."

The void looked as sheepish as the nanobots allowed them to, before answering my question. "I… entered your mind, to obtain the knowledge of the language."

'Well, that would explain the prodding feeling I was having earlier today. Also, what the hell void?! That's a pretty fucking massive invasion of privacy, rooting around in my head like that.'

'I am sorry, I did not have any comprehension or understanding of morals and manners, before l obtained that knowledge from your brain as well.'

"…are you reading my thoughts?" I asked aloud.

"…no?"

"Glad to see you putting those manners you learned to good use," I commented sarcastically. "You're also a terrible liar."

"It was my first time telling a lie," The void defended sheepishly.

"Whatever, now why exactly did you decide to hitch a ride onto my nanobots?"

"I was simply no longer content with how I spent my days, I didn't want to just be the space between worlds anymore. l wanted to live life, I wanted to explore, I wanted to experience emotions, I wanted something new."

Having said what they needed to say, the void floated there expectingly if not a little nervously. It was quite a sight, seeing the literal void fearing rejection.

I took a moment to ponder my decision before replying,

"Alright then, welcome aboard."

"Wait what?" Alex asked me incredulously.

The void stared at me in slight shock.

"Your goals and ambitions are pure, and you've proven to be pretty helpful granting me these powers." I explained, "I suppose I owe you at least this."

The void looked positively jubilant at the news… well as jubilant as the nanobots allowed them to look.

"I thank you for granting me this opportunity."

"No problem."

We were just staring at each other now.

"So, um…" Niko deciding to be the hero, broke the silence. "What do we do now?"

"Well, I guess V here should try out food first."

"V?" the void asked.

"It's a nickname that I just came up with." I answered, "I don't really feel like walking around referring to you as void."

"V…" the void repeated, "I like it."

"Glad you do," I said with a smile before coming forth with a suggestion, "Hey, after eating, I think we should get V to try out some video games."

"Any you had in mind?" Alex asked as we all began to move inside.

"…" I thought about it for a moment before finally remembering the existence of one of the greatest games of all time.

"You guys wanna play Minecraft?"

Play song: Sweden by C418

And so the unlikely friends began an adventure in a new world. A world of creation, imagination and most noticeably, blocks.

Alex had declared that 'Peace was gay.' So in an effort to validate his own sexuality, declared war on everyone.

Niko, wisely decided to avoid the conflict. They declared their territory neutral ground where no conflict was allowed and ran a healer's shop, providing services to all sides. This ensured that no one would dare to lay a finger on Niko or their property, lest they lose their healing privileges and incur the wrath of everybody else on the server.

V was no scrub and decided to get good. And oh boy did he get good. He started of being worse than me and I played video games like a fucking ape. But, he slowly got better and better, through a combination of both trail and error coupled with just experiencing the game.

However, his progress skyrocketed when he discovered the dreaded YouTube tutorials. Suddenly he was just… better at… everything. He could run faster, build faster, hell, I was still trying to find enough iron for a chestplate, when the game announced that he had already made it to the Nether. Let's not forget the terrifying amount of progress he's also made in PvP. His threat level on the battlefield went from a toddler who was learning how to walk, to THE DEVOURER OF SOULS, all within half an hour. I swear, if he keeps this shit up, technoblade is going to start sleeping with a nightlight.

My situation on the other hand… was a little anticlimactic. My house, which I had spent hours of time and effort building, had been destroyed by the war, rendering me homeless. But instead of vowing revenge on the one responsible or blowing everything up, I made the incredibly mature decision of smashing my table into splinters and then ranting about how Fallout: New Vegas was a much better game before rage quitting. Y'know, like a mature person.

As I sat in the corner sulking, I looked at the chaos unfolding across the server. 'We could really use some order around here,' I thought to myself before chuckling, 'Too bad that would require an army.'

'…An army huh?' A manic grin spread across my face, 'It's certainly not my worst idea.'

Author notes:

Would you get it over with?

Maybe lesser authors post cringe without apologizing to their audience, but I ain't a fink, dig?

I once again apologize, not just for posting this cringe, but also for the very late update. Additional apologies if you were expecting the Undertale chapter. It's been put on the backburner for now as I'm facing severe writer's block for the chapter. That coupled with lack of motivation, schoolwork, gaming and general laziness, means I haven't made that much progress on it these past months. Don't worry, I'll continue to work on it once I find the proper motivation. I once again thank you, the reader, for reading this shit.