The Gaster Effect

by The Angel of Blank Wings

Gaster has found a way to make his presence known to the world. as he fabricated his own "timeline" he found a way to isolate determination for himself, but Unlike Alphys, he had a more unique sample. a cracked human soul. now, noticing the anomalies occurring in the timelines, he has decided to now attempt to root out the problem. what will W. D. Gaster uncover?

3. Chapter 3: processing

Chapter 3: Pretense and Apprehension

Before the incident, In the True Lab

It was a very early morning when Gaster walked through the halls of the rather dimly lit laboratory, taking a sip of his coffee as he walked. As the door to his main office slid open, he walked through and the lights flicked on, slightly dazing him and forcing him to readjust his sight. As he regained his bearings after only a moment, he sat at his small desk and turned on his computer, input the password, and located the research results that Alphys was supposed to have sent him. He finally found the file after noticing that it was poorly labeled 103, when it was supposed to be 013. the report was written as follows

Preliminary test result, report number 103

The creature that was discovered in fragments was completely re shaped and re aligned to account for degredation. The material of the creature is similar to that of bone, but it is uknown what the exact material forming this creature is until further tests can be performed. The basic shape of the creature is similar to that of a human child's skeleton. However, major alterations had to be made to the base structure of each joint to allow proper alignment. As of yet, no vital signs are present, but it does appear that life was present at some point. Fragments of it's remaining soul have been retrieved and we are now placing them in a reallignment chamber for reconstruction.

End of report.

Gaster looked at the report and sighed. His colleage Alphys was doing too much in too little time. Attempting to reconstruct a soul with the Core still at it's base stages would cause an explosion. However, cloning the soul was a better alternative, and would use less energy. He might as well clone the body as well. It could be useful.

unknown time, Gaster's lab

Gaster could feel himself rematerialize in his new home. Or at least, what he considered to be home. The feeling of death didn't seem to bother him as much as the reason behind it. He was struck during a timeline reset. It was a phenomenon that only he seemed to be aware of, with time, as well as existence, stopping and starting continually with certain events being different each time. He had to find this out before his manufactured timeline was affected by this. Fiddling with the controls for the Degaster, he saw the place where the child now was. This seemed to be a totally differen't timeline, and child, altogether however. The child, and the people he met, were all smiling and laughing. He pondered if he should disrupt the merriment to investigate, as his presence even in life provoked fear into the hearts of monsters he had met. Nevertheless, he had to resolve this conundrum, and the only path to take was to the next timeline. Setting a timer on the Degaster, he pulled the lever and made his way into the chamber, closing it behind him. He didn't know what information he had. He had only small fragments of what he thought was a puzzle. Could it be simple? Could it even be related to his own death? His inner conflicts could not be put to rest until this riddle he found was solved.

Frisk and Papyrus were playing in the snow as the child was rawring like a monster, attempting in vain to be ferocious. He was promptly picked up by Papyrus as he dashed through the snow in an attempt to capture him, and the child was lifted up on the spine of the large skeleton. The skeleton was not aware he had picked up the child, and looked skeptical at the scene around him.

"uh, bro? I don't think you caught him." a smaller skeleton in a hoodie, named Sans, was following the human and larger skeleton. He was laughing at the entire sight.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN SANS!? WHERE IS THE HUMAN? I CAN'T SEE HIM."

the child was smiling as he was on Papyrus's back.

"it looks like he's tryin to throw you a bone."

"THIS IS NOT FUNNY SANS. WHERE IS FRISK?" the skeleton looked genuinely concerned for his human friend. Suddenly, another rawr was heard and Papyrus was once again being playfully attacked by the human with hugs.

"hey Sans, look at me. I'm riding a Papyrus!" the child smiled and laughed at his joke.

"careful kid. The readers might get guilt struck or somethin with those bein your first words and all."

"but they aren't my first words. I've been talking this whole time."

"the readers don't know that."

"READERS!? SOMEONE IS READING A BOOK. AM I IN IT SANS?"

"alright alright guys. Lets stop the wall breakin and get to the root of the problem." Sans put his hands in his pockets as Frisk looked at a flower, smiling.

"what the hell do you think you're looking at?" Flowey looked at Frisk with complete irritation. He was tempted to smack the child, if he wasn't stuck in a flower pot.

"cmon mister son shine, take it easy. You need to brighten up and have some fun."

"yeah Flowey. Smile alittle." Frisk giggled as Flowey's face turned more angry. It wasn't very long before the fun was all disrupted by a crash in the distance.

"SANS! WHAT ON EARTH WAS THAT!?" Papyrus had his hands to his mouth as he looked in the direction of the crash.

"i dunno Pap. Me and Frisk will check it out. Cmon kid."

Frisk followed the chubby skeleton with Flowey in his pot balanced on top of his head. What the three of them saw was hardly even describable by the child.