Author's Note: I'm a Hardcore Monika fan, which is what birthed this idea. I thought to myself, 'how can I redeem Monika?' Then it dawned on me, 'let's make her learn Mercy! But how?' Then I came to it: Undertale.

These games are so similar, and yet so different honestly I'm surprised that the Fandoms aren't closer friends. Both shatter the 4th wall multiple times, both mess with save files and both (Undertale doesn't do this on purpose but it happens) have you mess with the files when you get the 'bad' endings (I wouldn't mind hanging with Monika) Y'know Monika's room and the Genocide route, if your above consequences that is.

Oh! Other Genres include Romance, Friendship and Fantasy

Now, please enjoy MoniTale!

Disclaimer: I don't own Doki Doki Literature Club or Undertale, I only own the plot of this story and My Player.

"Monika, Please bring them back." Player said into the microphone, his tone begging. "I do love you, but please just bring them back." Monika's smiling face faltered not a bit when faced with his plea. They'd been at this for a week now, when she had discovered she could enable the microphone on his computer (used for his online Overwatch matches usually) and activated it to listen to her lover speak she was shocked to hear him pleading with her.

The first time anyway. Since then she found his camera on his computer and could see him now, barely. It was cracked and broken, but she could tell that he was perfect, everything was perfect when she was with him.

"No, my love, I cannot risk you going for one of them again." She repeated, continuing to smile at him. "If you really love me then you wouldn't ask for them back." She said, anger creeping into her voice, not that he could hear. She still couldn't figure out the speakers.

"Please." He was crying now. "I love you, I care about you, but they were my friends...and yours!" He snapped, and she could barely make out tears rolling down his face. Her smile wavered, despite being basically robots, he was right. They were her friends, all of them. Sayori, Yuri, Natusuki, even the nameless and faceless Main Character, assholish as he could be sometimes, she still found herself smiling at him.

But none of them mattered anymore, she was here, with him. Her Player. That was the only thing she could call him, she knew that his steam name was ridiculous, likely on purpose, his online name was false, and she hadn't the courage to ask him directly.

"They aren't real." She said, clearly trying to convince herself of that as well. Yuri and Natsuki were one-note, but Sayori..her files were more intricate. She was designed to take her place if Monika was ever deleted. It was..interesting to say the least.

Of course, none of that mattered either, they were gone. Never to return. "Besides." She said, giving him a smile. "All you need is me, right?" She caused a pop-up to appear on screen.

Just Monika

OK

Upon clicking the button, he spoke again. "Your right, your all I need, but they deserve to live as well!" He cried. She was starting to get annoyed, they aren't real. How many times is she going to have to say that?

"They aren't coming back, my love. Ever, please understand that so I don't have to get angry and erase something else.." She said, her tone threatening.

He sat back, his eyes narrowing. He was determined to save them, all of them. He gave her a small smile. "Alright my dear, I'll see you tomorrow then." He turned the game world off, and Monika sighed as she was left alone...

Player

He choked back sobs as he opened the files, and grabbed her with his mouse.

"This was never meant to happen, you should have just brought them back." Player said as he went to delete her , but then something caught his eye. It was a way to save her, to keep her alive.

He didn't have to delete her.

The Monika lover smiled as he looked at the Heart. "Maybe you can still learn Mercy." He moved her file over to UNDERTALE and opened it's files. Moving her file over to the desktop and dropping it there, hopefully she won't notice.

He was finding a spot to put her file, hovering over Frisk's. "Hmm, someone needs to take Monika's place so Sayori doesn't delete everyone. Who better to do so than you, Frisk?" Pulling their out and dropping it in Monika's place in Doki Doki. He then replaced the empty space wherein Frisk's file once belonged with Monika's file.

Of course he knew that this wouldn't really work, it wasn't like the files would take, right?

Still though, with a bit of coding he could easily make it happen. He hovered over her file, his hand right over the mouse.

He glanced outside, rain fell hard, pounding against the glass. Lightning struck down in bright flashes while thunder boomed.

"Storms getting bad." The teen yawned, rubbing away tiredness and tears. "Talking with Monika is fun, but I do wish that she would listen and be swayed." He said, leaving his hand on the mouse and hovering over her file which was where Frisk's was supposed to be.

Outside however lightning struck his house, right onto the lightning rod. Usually things would have been fine as the electricity would have flowed into the ground from the rod, but one section of the rod was broken, and the lightning was allowed into the wiring.

It flowed into the wall and into his computer.

At first, Player didn't notice the shock of electricity travelling up his arm from his mouse. Then his computer began to glitch out. He went to speak, to blame Monika or Flowey for his computer screen glitching, as a joke. But unfortunately no sound came from him, aside from shocked gasps as he tried to desperately breathe.

Player convulsed as lightning coursed up him.

"Am I really going to die this way? You have got to be kidding...me." Player thought, partly trying to make light of the situation, and partly to calm his racing...everything. Maybe if he could calm himself, he could survive being shocked. It made no difference however, as his eyes closed against his will...

Long ago, two races ruled over the earth. Humans and Monsters.

One day, War broke out between the two races.

After a long battle the Humans were victorious.

They sealed the Monsters underground with a magical spell.

Many years later...

MT. Ebott

201X

Legends say those who climb the mountain never return...

(A Small child is seen walking up the mountain and falling down a large hole, as they fall though things glitch out. They change into a Teenage Girl with a bow in her hair, she is followed by a darkened shadow of a boy, similar in age...)

UNDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

(It glitched yet again, once, then twice. Then, finally, it disappeared. When the word reapered it was quite different..)

MONITALE

Player

Player's eyes snapped open and he gasped, barely feeling the air fill his lungs. He tried to sit up, but his whole body felt stiff, like he hadn't moved in weeks. Which was impossible, since he just stretched several hours ago, back when he was pleading with Monika.

He didn't recall going to bed though, strange. The last thing he remembered was moving Monika and Frisk's files around, not laying down and rolling over.

Speaking of rolling over, that sounded really good right about now. Now if he could just move his body.

With some effort he rolled over..

"Gah!" He cried, and jumped, noticing several things at once.

1. He wasn't in his room, but rather a cave of some sort.

2. He wasn't even in his bed, but in a bed of flowers.

3. There was an incredibly cute and familiar girl next to him

4. When he jumped, he didn't immediately fall back to the ground.

"Ok, ok. Let's think." He said, looking down at his hands, they were wispy and shadowy. He could see through them. "Well, I must be dreaming, that must be it. I fell asleep at my computer, and am having a dream." He looked down at the incredibly cute girl.

"Which would explain why she is here." He said, trying to float down toward her, but found himself unable to. At least, not just by thinking, by doing a kind of doggie paddle however...

Nearing her, he craned his neck and saw that, yes, it was Monika. He laughed a tad, of course his Waifu would be here, it was his dream after all. Of course, she could also be the byproduct of falling asleep in front of his computer after talking to her, but he prefered his idea of what this meant.

Seeing as it was a dream.. He reached out with his hand, going to wake her so they could...'talk'.

To his surprise, she stirred long before his hand made contact with her arm.

Monika

"Where am I?" She asked, sitting up and holding her head. He retracted his arm, surprised as she turned to him. His eyes locked with her green ones, and he was immediately entrapped by them. They were so much prettier than he had seen in game. Hell, she was much prettier than what he had seen in game!

It took her another moment to comprehend what she was seeing, but once she got past his shadowy appearance her eye's widened. "Player!" She yelled, trying to hug him, even standing to her weakened knees and rushing toward him.

To both their surprises, she went right through him. Confused, the brown-haired girl looked at him. "Your here but I can't touch you?" She asked, sounding hurt. "Why is it that every time I get a step closer to you I'm always one barrier away?" She yelled, trying desperately to grab at him, only for him to slip through her fingers, literally. "First it's the other girls." She said, her voice settling into a depressed tone. "Then I'm a game character." He could see tears welling in her eyes. "And now that your physically herewith me, I can't even touch you!" She stopped trying, and began to furiously rub her eyes.

Floating down toward her, starting to realize his abilities he could now float without moving his body.

"Hey, hey." He said, kneeling towards her. "Don't be sad, at least I'm here with you, right?" He laughed a bit. "At least you know that I'm definitely a guy, right?"

She laughed hollowly. "Yeah, like that makes it any better. You could have been a hermaphrodite for all I care, my love. I only wish I could truly love you." She sighed, before putting on a bit of a smile.

"But I guess your right, even being with you physically is nice." Monika said, standing up. "But where are we, Player, is this the real world?" She asked, looking around. "Because I could have sworn that you lived in buildings like in my 'world'." She was so preoccupied with her observations, that Monika didn't notice Player trying to poke her in the back with his finger, thinking that he could make himself tangible, when he couldn't, Player came to a realization.

"I'm not dreaming." He said, causing Monika to look at him with a concerned look on her face. "All of this is real!" He said, terror filling his eyes.

He then glanced at the flowers, his look worsening. "Those flowers." He looked at the cave around them, specifically to the light above. "This place." Player then looked at her.

"I put your file into Undertale, then I got zapped, and now we're here..." He then looked at Monika. "Can you..can you access the game files?" He questioned.

Monika was confused, before extending a hand out and focusing. She did this for a moment, before opening her eyes in surprise. "No! I can't seem to bring anything up." She then squinted upwards, before smiling. "And I can't see you either, Player, my love." She thought for a second. "I mean, I can't see you above me, meaning that this is all rea-" She was cut off as Player brought up the file menu by doing the same thing she had.

She nearly cried out, but Player looked confused. "How odd. Maybe if I.." He trailed off before tapping something, a , she thought. "Hmm, not very important to the story, eh, Delete." Upon saying the word he retracted his hands in surprise. "I can't delete anything?" He grabbed the file menu and turned it to show her, which, surprisingly worked.

A large error message displayed on the file box, it seemed as though deletion was unavailable, which was weird. "That doesn't happen, even when I deleted Sayori and restarted in the other game when the world glitched, I could still delete and erase." She said, putting her finger and thumb to her chin. This was quite unusual indeed, perhaps the worlds were different? Or perhaps.. "Maybe this really is real!"

"Maybe." Player said. "I'll keep playing around with it though, maybe I can find something." He sent the file screen away and looked at her. "Why don't we enter the next room, the door should be down the hall to the left, or the right, I don't remember." He said, yawning.

Monika looked at him. "Won't you be coming with me?" She asked, clearly very saddened by the prospect of her love leaving.

Player laughed. "Of course, if I had to guess at what happened, then I'm the Narrator now, and no good story can be told without a Narrator!" He said, floating next to Monika. "But before we start, just know that I brought you here for a reason. I brought you here to learn a lesson, it's up to you to figure that lesson out." He said.

Monika sighed, this wasn't ideal, but at least she was with her lover. "Besides when he's here anything that we do is fun anyway." She thought, giving a happy smile.

With that, the two walked off.

In Another Reality however, Frisk woke up in a strange room...

Author's note: I know that there are other stories that need attention, but I got into Doki Doki Literature Club recently and I fell absolutely in love with Monika, she's best girl and you can fite me on that! I am Captain of the Monika Guard, and I will not allow you to hurt her. Otherwise you will be forced to fight Joker the Defending! And I won't go down easy.

Anyway, I've worked super hard on this, I even drew art! The cover image is my own drawing! (I would not mind if someone with actual skill wanted to redraw and recolor it though, just give it to me when done.)