Summary: Guess who are they going to visit now!? Also, If you haven't played OFF you should, that's a great game, the puzzles are annoying to me but the story line it follows is impressive and up to so much interpretation! 900+ Hits? 40+ Kudos? Holy hell never thought this fic would be so well received! Thank you everyone!
Chapter 21: Visit Time
Underground, 1 year 7 months after the release of monsters and magic back in the world.
After a good night's sleep I feel a lot better, my fever went down pretty well and I could sleep without any issues.
"Ok young man how do you feel."
"Awesome!"
"Perfect, so how about we go to your family, I believe that by now they have turned every single rock there is in the city looking for you"
"He he yeah, Mom would totally do that. She must be worried sick and I need a bath"
"Oh yes, you smell like a Merm, little one"
"Hey!" I punch him in the thigh playfully.
I can´t stop laughing, he is making that dying pose where they go stiff while standing, grab a flower and fall down to the ground. It´s like those old black and white cartoons I saw once.
It´s so funny to see him doing silly things for me.
**"UGH…" Someone is grumpy.
**"´m not!" Yes you are.
**"Grrr…" Since yesterday´s conversation Chara has been hiding from the gentleman scientist and giving him the cold shoulder.
*sigh*
"What´s the matter young man"
"It´s Chara, she is mad at you for bad mouthing Asgore, she loves him a lot you know"
Flowey is chatting with Eye Bone in the kitchen right now so the coast is clear.
Wilson hums a little "Well I´m sorry but things need to be said, bad communication or the lack of it is, in my opinion, is the way all wars start."
I don't want to think about war, in school they showed us this tape from the first or Second World War… err… First and Second all-human Wars, it was awful and some children cried until break time.
"I guess you are right. Just, could you, I don´t know, be gentle with what you tell her about him"
"Do you want me to sugar coat things for her?" He tilts his head while asking.
"No, but maybe… discuss this things directly with him?"
"Deal, darling."
I smile gratefully for his sincere understanding; he gives me a patient smile back.
"Well how about we resurface?"
That sounds about right, it´s been almost a day since we left… but…
We should visit him at least… It´s been more than a month since I came down to the underground to visit him and Flowey because this or that so I really should.
"Remember I told you about Dr. Gaster… The one scattered through time and space? can we go and visit him?" I ask fidgeting where I stand.
"Of course child, to… Waterfall right?"
We reach Waterfall after 'moving' he says moving as changing a piece of chess from one place to the other, he says that he learnt that trick after going through the fifth challenge… I ask him what happened after the world of Darkness but he doesn´t answer… His promise was to be truthful with what he tells me but not telling information is off the hook I guess and is not considered as lying. We left Flowey with Eye Bone, they seem very friendly with each other, as friendly as a souless sentient flower and an eye stuck into a bone can be, Chester was sleeping near them. My soul mate doesn´t want to come out just yet.
"Here we are"
We arrive to the room where Sans´ sentry post in Waterfall should be, his post is nowhere in sight and that proves Chara´s theory that Sans teleported the same Snowdin post over the whole underground…
Chara was completely sure about this but I wasn´t. How was he able to teleport a little house like structure with him in his shortcuts when he only teleported us and small things before?
Oh well.
"Ok…? I don´t see the door young man"
I offer my hand and he takes it.
I close my eyes and ask him to do the same.
One step, one more, then another.
"Ok open them."
"Wow…" For once Wilson´s voice sounded surprised.
"Yep! Awesome right? It took me several tries to reach this room after the barrier broke but then I finally did it." I say proudly puffing my chest Papyrus like. It REALLY was a pain to enter this room… I have to concentrate really hard on what it felt like to be there to reach it, otherwise I never stepped through whatever it´s here.
"Good job Frisk!" He rubs my hair and now it is more of a mess than it was but I don´t mind at all.
"I´m not sure if we can get in there though… the both of us I mean"
"We can"
"Infinite knowledge?"
"Do you need to ask?" He says smugly smile and playfully tone.
"No I really don´t"
Child and man enter the grey door into a white room, everything is the same as it was last I came here but how can something change when time doesn´t flows?
"Dr. Gaster?!" It´s weird because even though this looks like a little room there is no echo of my voice when there should be and that's weird. Dr. Gaster explained to me a long time ago that he creates this room just to not to wander in the infinity of the void.
I stare into the void, it stares back.
"Welcome Frisk and welcome to you too King of Shadows" Gaster appears from thin ether.
I charge into his goopy body and hug him tight, he hugs me back.
More like he wraps me in his goopy body.
"Hi, Dr. Gaster!"
"Hi to you too dear child" Answers the goopy monster.
"Delighted to finally make your acquaintance Dr. Wingdin Gaster, and please call me Wilson. Frisk told me a lot about you in his first visit to the void" The gentleman offers his hand and Gaster takes it with one holey one.
"Welcome to the void determined ones. And yes, this little boy here told me all about you and the world you were sent to, and you may call me Gaster as well." He says while shaking the man´s hand.
"Oh, you saw my soul when Toriel pushed me into a battle, Gaster? Were you watching?"
"Yes, being scattered through time and space has its perks… not that being stuck in the void makes it better."
"Tell me about being stuck somewhere…"
I decide to let the adults chat, it´s the first time they meet, and I think that they need to get to know each other.
There are a couple of things I have brought Dr. Gaster in my multiple visits. I brought things like, books, blank paper (all of them scribbled on now), pencils, some spider donut wrap from when I tried to max his HP and bring him back, it did not work of course but the goopy scientist was grateful for the gift and to our surprise he could eat it without problem. Weirdly enough electronics don´t work here, we tried to use my phone… The screen turns white, a tablet has the same issue and finally a laptop doesn´t even turns on.
He says that he doesn´t mind… that it´s been like 30 monster years since the accident that led him to fall into the CORE but I know better… He misses them, he misses Sans, Papyrus the Royal ex couple, even Grillby! And it's so unfair that no one remembers about him anymore when he brought light to the underground, pun not intended.
But now that Wilson is here he will help!
**"Why do you trust him so much" The spirit speaks in a neutral tone but by the way her eyes are blazing she needs answers. Now.
Ok… I´ll give. Remember when I told you that he knows about dying over and over and over again?
**"…Yes"
Well…
*Sigh*
I was watching when he got killed once and since then he always tells me to close my eyes and cover my ears if things go bad.
The first time, he got eaten by hounds… then werepigs... the grue… tallbirds… merm… tentacles… shadow creatures…
The most awful of them all was when he died of hypo.. hypo.. hypodermia, hypodarminia… something like that, the thing is that he died slowly in the land of eternal winter…
**"Wow… Enough, enough! Calm down breathe with me pal…" I do so and calm down.
**"Ok I know for a fact that you are not making this up… Your soul is in pain, enough to not be just your imagination…" She looks guiltily at me.
No, it´s ok. I should have told you all of this sooner rather than keeping it hidden for so long… I didn´t tell you because, a part of me wanted it to be just my imagination… just a vivid nightmare, that… that there was not a gentleman scientist with a kind smile that was suffering so much, dying so many times…
In the end I guess that he understands… he understands the pain in the soul when you die, I didn´t have to hide my power over the timeline with him. I am safe with him, more than with Sans I guess… I confessed what really happened in the underground. And that´s why I trust him.
"Frisk are you ok darling?"
I recover from my mental conversation to see that Wilson and Dr. Gaster are watching me with concern. I notice there are tear tracks in my face and wipe them off as quickly as I can.
"Yes I´m fine, I was just… remembering stuff."
"Frisk, you know that you don´t have to hide anything from us right?" He slides from where I left them to talk and gives me a pat in the head.
"Yes I know… But I think the both of you know a lot of what has been happening in both of the worlds together and with me, so why would you want me to tell you…"
They look at each other with a weird expression.
"Yes that is indeed true, the part of knowing all what happens that is" Gaster says.
"But there is something very important that is being left out" Added Wilson.
"We are unable to 'know' or 'watch' what you are feeling, young one. And or the memories attached to such feelings elude us" the goopy man says
"My feelings and memories?"
"Feelings, intentions, what hurts you, what makes you happy… All what comes from within the soul or mind in general" the gentleman says. "Only when such intentions are materialized in ACTions they can be "known" or "seen"."
"Oh… but why?"
I have to ask, Wilson being an all knowing man and Dr. Gaster who can BE everywhere and SEE everything should be able to detect something as emotions right?
"Well you see, in my case to 'know' something it has to happen or exist. Feelings don´t exist outside of your mind and soul."
"And for me to "watch" something it has to be somewhere in any point in time. I´m only witness of the ACTs derived from people´s emotions…"
"Feelings are the most powerful force in the entire universe Frisk, they can change, they can grow but they never fade away. You can´t possibly break a strong feeling even with all the power put together."
"In addition, no one is able to know what feelings a person harnesses for another at least not at a hundred percent…"
That´s amazing…
"So if I love someone, they won´t know if I don´t tell him? Not even with my actions?"
…
Oh no… they are smiling evilly at me.
"Aww Frisk. I´m sure that Papyrus knows very well how you feel towards him! My little brother is a very bright monster!"
"Yes Frisk you have already asked him on a date so maybe when you grow up he will definitely - Pfft Oh lords of science your pouty face will be the death of me I swear!"
I don´t know what they are talking about!
My soul mate is laughing her guts out… Her ghostly guts out.
"I´m so sorry Frisk for making fun of you"
"Me too child, we shouldn't have our laughs at your expense."
I feel my angry tears trying to spill from my eyes but I won't let them!
Because I´m older now and this won't affect me!
"Come here darling"
Wilson takes me from my armpits and lifts me up for a bear hug
**"C´mon pal don´t cry they were just teasing you!"
Grrrrr!
Ok Frisk calm down!
**"Here we go again…"
"I´m fine now you can put me down" I say while brushing away stray tears.
"Are you sure little one?"
I nod decisively and give him a smile, I know they didn´t want to upset me, just to have a little fun and that's ok.
Wilson turns around to face the goopy monster after setting me down in the 'floor'.
"I'm utterly sorry for cutting this short but as you might know I 'kidnapped' Frisk and now I want some 'ransom' for him"
**"He is not serious"
Uhmm…
"Oh but of course, don't let me keep you and have a happy kidnapping!"
"Hey!"
And now the laughs of the adults…
Why does it has to be at my expense!
"We are going, thank you for having us Gaster, we will meet again." Wilson looked determined and his eyes shone with the promise of science.
"Likewise" Gaster's goopy form nods.
**WHOOSH**
And we are gone in a whirlpool of darkness to Mom's house.
Notes: I know it´s forbidden knowledge what Wilson has, but infinite knowledge sounds more appealing. At least to trade my soul for. Remember that chapter in The Amazing World of Gumball where the universe erase things that are not interesting? How the world 'folds' itself to eliminate that one thing with her (a big black character with no outstanding characteristics) house… well I think that´s exactly what happens with that room in Waterfall, Frisk, after trial and error, was able to 'unfold' the space enough for him to pass trough and get to the 'space' Gaster lives in... IS in… Yes, Gaster is Sans and Papyrus onii-chan. Because the fandom now always label him as creator/father of them and I can't stand having just one theory of him! The 'mystery man' could be grandfather serif for all we know! And the drawing in sans lab could be ANOTHER different monster (not his father, mystery man or grandpa serif!)! Who knows….
Notes: *Throws thing at fandoms expecting it wont be lost in the void* Update Monday´s or Sunday´s