Chapter 5
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Mark Fishbach wouldn't class himself as a naturally worrying person, but if anyone asked him right now if he was ok his brain's first thought would be no.
Jack was missing... or at least away.
Two videos still went up at 5 and 8 every day, but Jack wasn't in the comment section, facebook, tumblr and even twitter. Also he had not been answering his phone, whether it be a text or a call, Mark usually wouldn't be too concerned, but it had been three days. He wasn't the only one who had noticed though, the community had been a little angsty at Jack's lack of presence online. A select few even thought he had become douchey and and wasn't reaching out or answering people on purpose, however they were all haters and people who enjoyed spreading rumours. Mark didn't believe them at all, but he was the one getting all the questions about where Jack was from his concerned fans. But two videos were still going up so Jack was okay... right? Mark hoped he was... anyway...
"Hello everybody my name is Markiplier and welcome back to-"
-v-
"Wha... what do ya mean?"
"you know exactly what i mean, start talking. explain how you got here and why you know everything"
Jack sighed, guess he should of really expected this, oh well, time to see how well Sans would take it. He didn't want to tell Sans any of this but he wasn't being left with much of a choice. Sans knew he was hiding something, and it would only be a matter of time before the smart skeleton found out what. And then Jack would have to live with the guilt of lying... which sucked. Plus... its hard to lie to your favourite character.
"Umm, okay, this may sound kinda strange... but I dont think I am from this world."
Not giving Sans a chance to ask the obvious question Jack hurried on
"In my world, there's a game called Undertale. Its about a human called Frisk who falls down into a place called the Underground, the place where monsters wer' sealed a long time ago. It was made by a guy named Toby Fox and released in 2015. The game has tree big endings and a couple of smaller ones that can be found by replaying the game. The tree runs of the game are, the neutral run, the pacifist run, and the genocide run. Depending on which one ya do you'll ge' a differen' endin'. The true pacifist endin' can only be achieved by not gaining any EXP and doing a couple of small tings in tha game. Undertale is hugely popular and loads and loads of people hav' played it. I was jus' about ta play it again when ah got all dizzy and blacked out or somet'ing, next thing ah know, I'm wakin' up here. Ya see, that's why I'm tryin ta find the Annoying Dog, its Toby Fox's self insert, my thought process is that if ah find it then ah may be able to get some answers as to why I'm here."
After his long (long) explanation Jack nervously waited for Sans' reaction. The short skeleton was currently just staring at the ground in front of Jack's shoes.
"so" he finally said "our whole exsistance is nothing more than a game? huh, wasn't expecting that... though, can't really say that i'm surprised either. it makes sense, why Frisk hardly ever spoke, the saves and resets, how the timelines jumped all over the place, why it didnt matter how much i tried, Frisk would just keep coming back... sometimes never even remembering me or anyone else here."
Jack's jaw mentally dropped, he hadn't expected Sans to be this... calm.
"which did you do?"
"What?"
"which run of the game did you do?"
Uh oh
"Uh, well first ah did the pacifist run and got the true pacifist endin' after the neutral endin'. However due to really popular demand from my subscribers I recorded meself playing the true Genocide run."
"so you killed everything"
It was not a question but a statement
"W-w-well yeah! But at the end of the day it is-was a game! The point of practically every single game involves killing things or people, HALO, COD, Read Dead Redemption, Skyrim, The Witcher series, Fallout, GTA, Until Dawn, heck! Even in fucking Mario you have to jump on Goomba's heads, and Mario's an age 3 and above!"
There was silence for a moment
"welp, i guess if my whole existence is a game then i suppose i was right to give up, nothing will ever change."
Oh. Hell. No. Jack was not about to just stand there and let his favourite character do this.
"Now you listen here Sans!" he almost shouted.
Surprised, Sans looked at him
"I cannot in good conscience just stand by and let you give up on life like this! Think about it! If I'm here then your world or universe must be real, at least in some sense, otherwise this-" he flailed his arms wildly at their surroundings "- would all be impossible! Ah wouldn't be here, and ah certainly wouldn't be able to interact. So you had better not just assume yer life is meaningless!"
Jack didn't know at what point he had grabbed Sans' shoulders (and bent down a little).
"If you want something then you work for it! You're here! I can feel you! I can hear you! Heck I can fuckin' smell you! Yer not just a character in a game! And I would rather fuck! Wade! than let you say you or anyone else here doesn't mean anything!"
Jack released his hold on Sans' shoulder once he realised they were placed there and took a step backwards. Sans simply stood there and stared at the irishman unmoving, then he looked down and his shoulders shook. It took a second for Jack to realise that he wasn't crying, but chuckling!
"heh heh heh heh heh heh, i'll give you this Jack, you're quite determined... and kinda persuasive.
Sans then sighed and rubbed his hand over his face.
"well, if i am a video game character then i may as well spend this... run, helping you get home. after all, you don't really belong here."
Jack felt touched by the lazy skeleton's desire to help and gave a quick nod.
"T-thank you so much Sans, I can't tell you how much that means ta me." Pulling himself together he shook his head slightly and got back to... business?
"Alright then. First I need to find that dog."
-v-
Jack took a small breath and flexed his hand. Said hand was holding me handle of the drawer that should contain the white self insert. He pulled it open
Bones
He closed it, then pulled it open again
*Bark bark!*
"Get it!"
CRASH!
BANG! THUNK!
"OW!"
BANG
"Undyne that was my foot!"
SMASH! BOOM!
*Woof woof!*
SMASH
"DAMMIT!"
"The hell is that dog?" asked Undyne amazed.
She was on the bottom of a pile of bodies caused by everybody falling over. On top of her lay a dazed Papyrus and and on top of him lay an incredibly amused yet annoyed Jack.
Sans was standing off to the side. He then walked forwards and flopped (rather gracefully) onto the top of the pile of bodies.
"Ah! Sans! Get off!"
"nah, think i'll stay here, its kinda compfy, besides this whole lying down thing is kind of... apPILEing"
Despite his annoyance Jack snorted and Papyrus groaned.
"Okay, I've had enough, everybody up!" Undyne suddenly stood up not at all bothered by the weight, and pushed them all off of her. However, the way that they were all positioned Jack somehow ended up on the Royal Guard Captain's shoulders.
"Woah! I feel really tall..."
"Course ya do punk! You don't get to be Captain of the Royal Guard if you're a weakling!"
Jack grinned and looked down at her
"Can't be captain of the Royal Guard without bein' totally awesome!"
"Heck yeah! Hey Pap, where'd you find this guy? He's pretty cool"
With a small lean on Undyne's part, Jack found himself deposited on the carpet and simply lay looking at the ceiling for a second.
"well now what?"
Jack sat up and faced Sans
"The next point where I can remember it appearing is when its a bomb on Mettaton's show."
Papyrus grabbed his cheek bones and gasped whereas Sans groaned.
"WOWIE! METATTON! ARE WE GOING TO SEE HIM NEXT?"
"We?" Asked Jack confused
"WELL OF COURSE! YOU DONT THINK WE WOULD LEAVE YOU ALONE WOULD WE?"
Huh... but they always left Frisk alone...
"-ESPECIALLY WITH YOUR ILLNESS! WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE GREAT PAPYRUS LET YOU FALL INTO LAVA?"
Oh, that explained the concern. Jack suddenly once again found himself concerned by the kindness shown to him and was reminded about how he had... killed... Papyrus...
The thought of it got him tearing up and he looked away from everyone as he wiped his eyes.
"OH NO! ARE YOU CRYING HUMAN? DID I SAY SOMETHING WRONG?"
Jack shook his head
"No Papyrus, I'm jus'... happy. And Bosses do not cry!"
"BOSSES?"
"Yeah! Thats what I am! A boss!"
Sad moment over, Jack dramatically pulled his fist to his chest to emphasise his point.
"well, if we're gonna set out for Hotlands then we had better get some sleep" said Sans, looking thrilled by the fact he would get to sleep.
"Never! Sleep is for the weak!" yelled Jack as he leapt to his feet.
"Exactly!" shouted Undyne equally loud. She then spun around and pointed at Jack.
"If you're not planning on sleeping, fight me!"
"Wha-why?"
"Not a fight to the death, a spar! I wanna test your strength!"
"Uhh... sure?"
"Awesome!"
And just like that the world darkened around Jack and 4 button things appeared before him, followed closely by his SOUL.
"What the?" said Undyne as she stared at the practically dancing rainbow heart.
"Ive never seen a SOUL that powerful before!"
On the sidelines, Sans' eye sockets widened.
"Finally! A challenge!"
And with that Undyne swung her spear and gave Jack a shield, his SOUL turning a bright septic green. Gripping the shield in his hands Jack grinned and held it in front of him
"Lets do this!"
-v-
Jack fell backwards panting heavily, Undyne also looked a little bit worn as well. His HP was at 9/30 and his hair was practically everywhere.
"You're actually pretty good punk!" said Undyne as the darker world dissapeared revealing her house once more. Feeling slightly sassy Jack grinned and replied
"You doubted?"
Undyne grinned back and sat down kind of next to him but not uncomfortably close. The shield had dissapeared and his SOUL had retreated safely back inside his chest. Looking around Jack noticed they had been fighting for a while. Papyrus was asleep at the table, Sam was still asleep on the piano and Sans was sprawled on the floor in a corner.
"When Sans and Papyrus first brought you here, I'll admit, I wanted to kill you, or at least take you to Asgore" Undyne suddenly said.
"Yeah... ah know"
"But you're actually alright... what are you even doing here? What are you trying to accomplish?"
"I want to go home"
"To the surface?"
"Yeah, kind of"
"So why do you need the dog?"
"Its... complicated"
Settling for his vague answer, Undyne stood up and was about to say something when she realised that Jack had fallen asleep on her floor. She looked at him for a second before heading off to her room, a small grin on her face.
A couple of seconds later Sans' eyes opened and he took a quick look around before teleporting to Hotlands. He had someone he needed to talk to...
-v-
Jack! Jack can you hear me!?
Y-yes! Yes I can hear ya! Clearly this time!
Thank God. This conversation should have happened much much earlier than this, however I had to try and synch our brain frequencies, which is not an easy task at all.
Wha?
Don't worry about it. Are you safe?
Yeah... I guess. Do you know why I am here?
Yes. But I am afraid I cannot tell you...
What!? But that's bullshit! Why am I here? Who are ye?!
Calm down, calm down, you may call me... Firefly.
Sounds stupid... and cool.
Yes. Its just a codename but it will do. Listen, have you been told about Omega Souls?
No... but ah heard ye mention it through all the static las' time. What is it?
...
Hello?
Hm? Oh! I'm sorry, but it appears I need not explain this to you.
Why?
Because the short skeleton is "researching" it right this very second. He will tell you in my place. However, I will tell you why you are here. You are here to save them.
What? What are ye talkin about? Save who?!
Them, monsterkind.
Like lead them ta the surface?
No. Save them in a different sense. Save Alphys from her guilt, save Undyne from her stubborness, save Sans from his depression... save Flowey from himself.
B-but how am I supposed ta do tha!
By being you. You have made millions of people laugh around the world, so make them laugh as well.
But why me! Why not Mark or Felix or any other Youtuber!?
Felix is preoccupied, Mark lives with other guys so its a bit awkward, and every other youtuber is not you.
What on earth is tha supposed ta mean?!
They are not strong enough! Only you have the strength needed to get through this. And to be successful.
So... it was ye who put me here?
Yes. And I will send you back home when you are done, or you lose all hope and quit.
I wont quit. But what about the community? What about my videos?
I am uploading them from your 'reserve' folder. As well as posting more animations and montages to space the videos out a bit more. However, I ran into an, unexpected problem... well, maybe not unexpected, but definitely unplanned. Some of the community are beggining to realise you are not as active, so I will give you your phone to continue being among your fanbase. Draw strength from them.
Really?! Wow I really appreciate that. But what about internet and charging it?
Seriously? I am an eternal being and you think that this measly problem will stop me?
Ah... guess not.
Listen Jack, this is incredibly important. We cannot talk for much longer...
Why? I have so many questions about all o' this!
I'm afraid they will have to wait. During these talks you retreat into your subconcious, this, coupled with the brainwaves I have to use to keep the connetion secure, leave your mind open to invaders.
Invaders?
Chara
Oh god... fuck!
I know. But now I think it is time for you to wake up, if something arises I will call you to talk to you again.
Ya mean make me pass out...
...yeeeeeeeeees.
Ugh, fine. But I promise I will help the monsters... and not just because I want to go home, I mean that. I'll try my best.
As cheesy as this may sound... That is all I could ever ask of you
FINISHED! AT LONG LAST!
A little talky but we got to meet Firefly! Who are they? IT SHALL NEVER BE KNOWN!
Well... until a future chapter where I explain them...
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