Helooooo Internet?
I believe I have either gotten an 8 year old fan who can't type properly yet, or a guest troll. Either way, I don't mean offense to you or anyone, but I won't do situations that I can't make sense of.
For example: Miguel: 4 and 7 can now does 10 react? (Yes I copied and pasted this)
I'm sure you mean well but because I can't understand it I won't do it.
Anyway, onto the story!
"aaand... almost done" Sans teased the uncomfortable and worn out Alphys and Josho. We leave off from last chapter, after tracking down Alphys, who holds blueprints that could track that mysterious dark figure, the trio have finally created a machine capable of detecting anomalies in timelines.
"Are we finished? I've literally been holding this cord in place for 10 minutes" Josho complained, he wasn't exaggerating either, he had literally been holding a cord for 10 minutes.
"A-almost, I... just... gotta..." Alphys adjusted a bolt, causing a monitor attached to the machine to light up, various lines of boot sequences scrolling across it, "There! Finished!"
The trio stood back, marveling at the huge hunk of cords and duct tape they just made. The machine started up properly, various windows popping up, showing graphs, city maps, code and one episode of Attack on Titan.
"alphys? pretty sure the anime wasn't in the plans..."
"Heh heh... I w-was bored... sorry" Alphys muttered, closing the episode,
"So, do you know how to work this thing Sans?"
"how should i know? you guys built it"
"It's o-ok, I can use it" Josho and Sans stood behind Alphys, who began to type miscellaneous requests into the computer,
"W-were there any more d-details you guys picked u-up?"
"Like what? Besides that he mostly wore black, was super-edgy and spoke like he knew of something that could make for a huge plot twist?" Josho not-so-discreetly asked,
"Well... T-that rules out a lot, yes, but w-what else?"
"i mean, he did use a portal, does that help?" Sans suggested,
"A-actually... That h-helps a lot! Only a small a-amount of AU's are able to create p-portals!" Alphys exclaimed, quickly typing in another algorithm into the machine, this action brought up several widows.
"Now l-let's see... The o-only AU's able to summon portals a-are... certain Original Characters... Ink-tale, Core Frisk and ERRORtale, that reduces it to... Still an infinite amount"
"Wait... Does that make me an AU?" Josho asked, a spike of curiosity and fear rising in his voice,
"Well, y-yes it does, b-but that doesn't mean y-your b-bad or anything! At least, not your version of you"
"Oh thank god, for a second I thought I'd have to be taken out by an ERRORtale character..."
Something clicked in Sans's mind, the ERRORtale AU consisted of corrupt characters, caused by Frisk messing with the timelines too much. This made the corrupted characters see all timelines and Alternate Universes, and want to either destroy, or fix, those timelines...
"kid! alphys! i think i got it!"
"W-why? What's wrong Sans?"
"i think this thing we are tracking is an ERRORtale character!"
"O-oh my goodness..."
"Sans buddy! I think your right! But that still leads us nowhere, firstly, who is it, and secondly, where can we find it?"
"W-well finding it is easy, a-all we have to do is scan f-for any recent or currently occurring a-anomalies, but to identify it w-will be a l-little harder..." Alphys hypothesized, turning back to the machine. Sans and Josho turned away, sharing thoughts,
"well, we know that there are 3 main ERRORtale characters, me, paps and undyne... but that other one didn't act like any of the others..." Sans shared,
"Wait..." Josho checked his phone, "I may have a theory, just a week ago, I had a friend who was almost killed by an ERRORtale character... Maybe they are related somehow?"
"maybe, but why do you say that?"
"I have reason to believe that the character is an ERROR version of me"
5 must switch clothing with 1 - From Guest
"Huh, this'll be short..." Josho muttered, putting his phone away. The group was surrounding an embarrassed Sans and Asgore, Sans was wearing a comically huge chest plate, cape and crown, while Asgore was wearing extremely tight shorts, a white shirt that barely covered his chest and a blue hoodie. Both were very uncomfortable.
"you look kinda cool in that asgore" Sans complimented the embarrassed Asgore,
"Yes, I guess your right" Asgore replied, squirming to try to stretch it out.
"Psst, Toriel, this is your chance" Frisk whispered to an intensely staring Toriel,
"Yeah, doesn't he look hot in that hoodie?" Josho egged on,
"Y-yeah! Remember the old d-days?" Alphys added on, making Toriel blush slightly, before she shook it off.
Act - Convince
"Maybe you should consider it mom, he is a great person at heart, he only did what he did because he had to, in the best interest of the kingdom."
"What he did was uncalled for, it was mass murder" Toriel spoke up at last,
"What h-he did was to free monster kind, isn't t-that what we were striving for t-the whole time?" Alphys supported,
"And besides, he still loves you dearly, even you admire his determination, am I right?" Josho added on. The trio intensely waited for Toriels response, she was intensely thinking, ignoring the goofing around of Sans and Asgore.
"... ... ..."
"Please mom, give him another chance",
"Oh alright, why not? We are free from the underground, I believe we can start anew" Toriel walked up behind Asgore an tapped him on the back, "Gorey?"
"Hmm? Oh, Toriel, you haven't called me that since..." Asgore was halted by Toriel pecking him on the cheek, an intense blush flooded across his face, Asgore wasn't expecting anything of this caliber.
"Yuss..! Tori gorey is a go! I repeat! Tori Gorey is a go!" Josho yelled, pulling the entire household into the ship,
"Y-yeah! Finally! I secretly knew they'd m-make up!" Alphys yelled along with Josho,
"CONGRATULATIONS KING AND QUEEN DREEMUUR!"
"heh, good job tori" the skelebros added,
"Oh yes! I can imagine it now! The wedding of your dreams, coming right up!" Mettaton cheered,
"We can have a joint wedding! Isn't that right Alphys!?"
"Y-yeah! Why not?"
As the crowd pretty much exploded, the two apathetic beings of the house sat in the opposite room, dreading the cheers of joy.
"*sigh* Did you hear that Chara? Mom and Dad are getting back together" 'Asriel' sighed to the still sucking Chara,
"I don't really care, just as long as I can get this stupid grape out of my mouth..."
"Eh, who cares if you spit it out a little early?"
Chara spat the grape out onto the floor, which surprisingly hasn't changed at all since chapter 13.
"So, what can we do?" Asriel asked, pacing around the room, "It's not fun when those two are so 'lovey dovey' to each other, I HATE it!" Asriel again exclaimed, being a soulless flower (that can now shapeshift) meant he only cared for something that wasn't boring.
"It is really that bad? I really do not mind the two together, as long as they don't disrupt me"
"Oh sweet, sweet Chara, don't tell me you're going soft" Asriel taunted, pronouncing 'soft' in the hardest way possible,
"Soft? Whose the one going soft? You put on the clothes of Asriel to try to please me, you know he is dead" Chara retorted, striking Flowey in an unexpected spot,
"Do you think I do this to please you? I just do this cuz it's more comfortable..." 'Asriel' bluffed,
"Oh, is that true? That isn't the information Sans gave me"
"Wha... grr, that smiley trashbag's gonna..."
"You cannot hide it, you really do care about me, don't you?"
"..."
Chara stood up, and gave the form of Asriel an awkward hug,
"That's nice, it's nice to have someone who cares about me..."
"...Yeah... I try"
"Well, I appreciate it"
3 and 7 are amalgamates for the next 2 turns - From gbluebookworm (why separate, when they can be ONE? Btw situations that go on for longer than 1 turn will be shortened to 1, do you really want Chara sucking a grape again?)
"AARRGH! PAPYRUS! Your hand is in the sauce again!"
"SORRY UNDYNE! IT'S A LITTLE HARD TO COORDINATE MYSELF"
The voices of Papyrus and Undyne radiated from the kitchen, annoying Josho and Sans, the only other beings in the house at the time.
"Hey! Can you guys quiet down? I'm trying to watch a show!" Don't tell Alphys, but Josho and Sans started re-bingeing Rick and Morty. Normally when everyone leaves the house the two best buds can watch more 'mature' cartoons and Anime.
"I WISH!" Undyne yelled again, extreme frustration in here voice.
"should i go check on 'em?" Sans offered,
"Yeah... sure... whatever" The inanimate human answered, not wanting to be peeled away from the tv at this moment.
Sans slowly stood up and wandered towards the kitchen,
"heya paps, 'dyne, could you... oh my god... kiddo! get in here!" Sans yelled at Josho, who suddenly got up and sprinted into the kitchen, where he found a horrifying sight...
Papyrus and Undyne were fused together, there torsos spouting out of a pile of goop which resembled a pile of bones and fish. Sans was panicking, making sure his brother was ok, while Josho simply stared in utter shock.
"kid, call alphys! this is an emergency!"
"Wha... Oh, OH! Ok, sure" Josho pulled out his phone, finding Alphys' number and calling it...
"H-hello? This is Alphys"
"Oh thank glob your here, listen, Papyrus and Undyne have..."
"...f-fused?"
"Yeah, how did you know?"
"Well. I-I-I may have been... Well... E-experimenting with how much physical DETERMINATION a monster could handle, I-I didn't want to use Papyrus but he s-seemed so enthusiastic to help m-me... I knew it would turn out bad, I-I should've stopped w-where I was, t-t-this is my fault I..."
"Woah, woah... Calm yourself Alphys, we can fix this... Remember when Chara un-fused herself from Frisk's SOUL?"
"Y-yeah?"
"Well, she used a machine in the underground, couldn't we use that one?"
"Yes, but they w-were human, I don't think it would... would... it can't work on monsters"
"Couldn't you, I dunno, modify it or something?"
"I c-could, but even then... We would need a h-human catalyst, someone that can keep the monsters body's stable during the separation, b-but there's a high chance that t-the human could... have there SOUL... used up in the process... It's too dangerous"
Josho pulled away the phone from his ear and looked at his friends, Sans was desperately trying to stay calm, while Papyrus and Undyne tried to reassure him that they were fine. At first, he didn't want to die, he had a more-than-average life on the surface, he had a well paying job, a house, food on the table... and friends, friends he should take care of, and do anything for. Isn't that what true friendship is?
Josho put the phone back to his ear, "Meet me at the true lab Alphys, I'm saving my friends".
Aaand, end cliffhanger here, sorry about that, I have a huge plot arc in mind that can no longer be fit into the cracks. PS, it does involve the newly discovered ERROR character, hmm, I wonder who?
Anyway, the cliffhanging author OUT!