And after a long wait! I am back! I mean to upload this a few days ago, but my stupid, stupid laptop has been bugging out! *sigh* I really need a new one. Ever since I dropped it a few months ago it's been acting insane ever since! But I think everything is working today...I think. I don't know, I did try uploading this chapter earlier today but it wouldn't go through for some odd reason. Don't know if it was the actual site or my internet connection or just my broken computer in general, but hopefully this will work finally! If you are reading this, then obviously it did, but I'm just typing this right now while praying it works finally.
Anyways, for those you care, my hiatus is hopefully going to end during the summer. I can't promise anything once my school starts back up again, but since I am free everything should be good. Meaning hopefully this will be updated on a more regular basis. If any of you are readers from when I first started uploading stories, meaning when my very first fnaf story was still ongoing, you should know that I did in fact update that rather quickly, in fact I would sometimes put up 2-3 chapters in the same day. Hopefully I will have enough energy to do that again with this story. No complete promises, but I will definitely try.
So now I will move on to commenting on the reviews! Some of these I have already commented on, but that was in that fake out update when I tried to explain why I was on the hiatus. That fake chapter should be deleted though by now, which is why I'm simply copy and pasting them on here. But I did add some more since more people reviewed since then. So basically if you sent a review keep reading this author's note. If not, skip ahead if you want to the actual story.
Review Comments:
Alboe: "I appreciate how you're keeping with the feel of the actual game, but it seems like it's gonna get in your way pretty fast. Not that I don't love it, of course! - It's so interesting to see how people get around the fact that they're writing things based off of games, and your method is one that I haven't seen yet! If you decide to keep it, I wish you the best of luck!"
Aw, thank you. I won't lie, yes the fact that I am keeping in touch with the game as best as I could is getting in my way. I have a few chapter in a very rough draft version right now, but whenever it comes to the actual game mechanics of Undertale I have to do some planning with how it's going to work. But it's still a fun little challenge.
Login27: (I did skip one comment of yours, but only because I couldn't think of a good enough reply) "kasai you ok? you haven't updated in awhile can you write a small chapter? please some of us have been waiting for a while"
Well hopefully you have seen what I put up on my profile. That should answer all your questions. By the way, thank you for sticking with my stories for so long. I greatly appreciate it. :)
Guest: "No I want more chapters!"
Ask and you shall receive! ...eventually...*laughs nervously*
OfLifeDeathAndAllBetween: "Is Naptsablook going to learn the GHOSTLY truth? XD"
Yes, yes he will! And your comment made my day! Ha!
Darkmegatron13: "Damn nick, you savage."
You bet he is! Nick is the most savage in this story!
17nicholasc: "ok, I have only read the first chapter and I am already almost 100 percent certain that this is undertale-realated. Ok"
Well yes. Hopefully you are okay with that. But it is under the fnaf and Undertale crossover, so I don't know what else you were expecting.
Anon: "MOR PLZ! I'm really enjoying the story so far :)"
Aw, thank you. And don't worry. More will come. All I ask is please be a bit patient with me.
Bradely: "This was pretty good! i cant wait to read the next chapter"
Aw thanks! I hope this chapter meets your expectations.
brady: "*claps* i love this story marry me writer" "MARRY ME WRITER I LOVE THESE STORIES"
Aw, I'm glad you like the stories so much. Sorry though, I'm already a taken woman. ;) But really, thank you so much.
And thank you EVERYONE who has reviewed or has not reviewed. Just taking the time to read my story is enough for me. It makes me really happy. ^_^ So that was all the reviews. If I missed anyone, sorry. Just review again if you really wanted me to respond for some reason.
So with that said, I will stop rambling and let you all read. I hope you enjoy!
Nick looked up at the hovering monster in front of him. He smiled softly in hopes of calming down the nervous and shy looking creature. "Uh…we don't have to fight you know…Napstablook was it? I didn't mean to engage this."
The ghost just shyly looked down, muttering something under his breath, it was too soft for Nick to fully make out.
When the floating red heart didn't vanish, the child just sighed and decided to start off this 'fight' by checking Napstablook carefully. He wasn't very happy with the sadden look crossing the ghost's features. "Aw, come on, Mr. Ghosty. Is there any way for me to lift your spirits?" Nick asked, laughing at his own little joke. When Napstablook didn't respond, Nick pouted. "This monster doesn't seem to have a sense of humor…"
Finally Napstablook seemed to lock eyes with Nick as he decided to respond to him. "Oh, I'm REAL funny." He softly spoke, before suddenly large squiggly tears poured out from his eyes and shot out at Nick's soul.
Nick yelped in shock as he did his best to dodge each attack. "Oh gosh! Since when is crying a way to attack!?" The boy hissed in pain as some of the acid like tears managed to hit him, lowering his health dramatically. "Ouch!"
The tears stopped, leaving behind the faint odor of ectoplasm to permeate the vicinity. Nick had to scrunch up his nose at the smell. "Do I make this weird smell back at the pizzeria?" he softly questioned, before looking upon his options.
His gaze slightly landed on the FIGHT option, but he quickly ignored it.
"No, I won't do that to him. I will never hurt another person ever again." With a determined look, Nick once again decided to ACT instead. Once he made his choice, he gave a bright smile to the monster ghost. "Hey Napstablook! You are awesome! You are sure great at this fight! I bet you will even win!" he cheered, finishing off with a patient smile.
"Heh…" Napstablook softly muttered.
Nick's smile never left as he waited for the ghost to give his next attack.
…
….
…..
Nothing was happening.
"Really not feeling up to it right now. Sorry…" Napstablook whispered to the boy. "You can have your turn I guess…I mean if that's okay with you…"
Nick chuckled softly at the monster's behavior. He was reminding him greatly of his dear animatronic friend, Puppet. Both were just as shy, yet both seemed to have this kindness in their souls, or hardware in Puppet's case, that made them both want to look out for others. Nick couldn't help but instantly warm up to this monster and want to befriend him. So when he notice Napstablook was looking just a little bit better, his patient smile upgraded into a bright beam of joy.
When the options for his turn popped up again, Nick didn't hesitate to ACT once again, this time he decided to speak a joke to the ghost. "Hey Napstablook? Why are ghosts bad at telling lies?"
"Uh…why?"
"Because you can see right through them!"
It was a joke Nick heard Bonnie tell one day to Freddy, Chica, and Foxy. The response from the three wasn't the best, yet Bonnie didn't seem to care as he laughed his head off at his own bad joke. Nick also seemed to find it funny as he began to laugh along with the purple rabbit, much to Bonnie's joy. Nick ended up telling the same joke to all the others and they all had similar reactions as Freddy and the others. Seem only Bonnie truly understood the humor in a good bad joke. Nick could only hope Napstablook could as well.
"Heh, heh…" the monster softly chuckled.
"Hah! I knew that was funny!" Nick beamed with pride, not even noticing when some of Napstablook's tears once again began to rain down before launching in his directions. "Ah!" With a quick swing of his hand, his SOUL ran to the side, successfully dodging a hit, but ended up running into even more of Napstablook's tears. He let out a soft cry of pain again, pouting slightly at the attack finally finished.
He was about glare just slightly at the ghost to show some of his annoyance when he noticed a smile gracing the ghost's features. It seems cheering has improved Napstablook's mood again, and Nick was very happy about that, so he quickly dropped his slight anger at the attack.
Nick once again went to cheer on Napstablook, but this time it seems he the monster wanted to speak up.
"I…uh…want to show you something…if that's okay…"
"Yeah! Go ahead!"
"Let me try…" Once again his tears poured out, but instead of heading into Nick's direction, they floated up and piled together on top of the ghost's head. They plopped into one another until a watery top hat formed. "I call it 'dapperblook'. Do you like it…?" He asked, eagerly awaiting Nick's response.
"Yeah! It's awesome! I wish I could do something like that!"
"Oh…" Suddenly Nick's Soul disappeared again and the fight seemed to draw to an end. Napstablook shyly looked at the child, a smile faintly etched on his face. "I usually come to the RUINS because there's nobody around…but today I met somebody nice…"
Nick giggled softly at the compliment.
"…oh, I'm rambling again…I'll get out of your way…"
Suddenly Napstablook vanished in thin air, leaving the pathway completely clear.
"Oh?" Nick looked around for the ghost, but didn't see him anywhere. "Aw, I hope I see him again soon." The child remembered how sometimes, back at the pizzeria, he would simply make himself invisible to anyone around him while still technically being in the same room. It was a trick he liked to use on the other ghost child, Shawn, whenever he annoyed the other boy too much. With that thought crossing his mind, he wondered if Napstablook could do the same. Hoping he could, Nick took in a deep breath before shouting out, "Bye Napstablook. I hope to see you again soon!" just in case the ghost could in fact hear him still.
Happy with that, Nick walked forward, ready to continue his journey. However instantly Nick noticed two options he could go. He hesitated only slightly before picking a path. The first thing he noticed in this new room was that it was a dead end, however there was a large sign in the center, and placed carefully against the walls were two different spider webs. One was slightly smaller, yet was still rather large compared to the webs the child would find in the pizzeria when it was at it's worse moments. The second web was much, much larger. It was big enough for Nick to lay on and still have room to stretch and move around. It only made the boy that much more nervous on the spider that made that web.
Hesitantly, he approached the sign, reading it quickly. "Spider Bake Sale. All proceeds go to real spiders."
"A…spider…bake sale? Well that's new…" Nick spoke softly, thinking back to all the bake sales he could remember at the school he attended before he died. Normally Nick couldn't care less for the events, but there was one benefit, all the cakes and cookies his mother would buy. That was enough for the child to eagerly approach the spider webs, despite the very good chance in running into one of the creepy crawlies themselves.
Approaching the smaller web, Nick happened to noticed some of the silk strands were used to spell out a price for one of the pastries. "7G?" Nick read.
He remembered how in each 'fight' some of the monsters would drop or simply hand out small gold coins for him. The child always hesitated before taking the gold, thinking he was doing wrong in stealing the coins, but some of the Froggits he passed by managed to tell him that it was alright because he won the coins.
"Well, I guess I have a use for these after all." He looked over his coins, noticing he had just enough to pay for whatever he was buying, as he dropped down exactly 7G.
Almost instantly some spiders crawled down and gave Nick a donut. He flinched at the sight of the eight legged creatures before quickly snatching the donut. "Uh…thank you…"
The spiders looked at him, almost studying him, before giggling softly and leaving.
Once they were gone, Nick looked over the donut in his hand. It didn't look too bad actually. He was very tempted to eat it right away, but he decided to save it for later. Chica and Chicky always did say it was important to save food in case of emergencies. And being lost from your family in a place you didn't know certainly seemed like an emergency to Nick.
He looked around for something to hold his donut in, finding nothing. He was just about to give up when one spider dropped down a box.
"Free of charge, dearie…" the spider giggled before disappearing.
"Uh…thanks?"
Nick placed his donut inside before approaching the next web. He saw the price '18G' etched on the web, and he frowned. He didn't have enough yet. "I'll be back, hopefully…" he decided before turning around and continuing on his journey again.
He went the other way, and he once again saw more Froggits in this new room. Three to be exact, and they were all lined up down the hallway.
He approached the first one, ready to listen to the string of ribbits and croaks.
"Ribbit, ribbit. (Sigh…My friend never listens to me.)" he croaked out. "(Whenever I talk, they skip through my words by pressing [X].)"
"Pressing [X]?" Nick questioned, completely confused.
"(That's right….)" Froggit confirmed, despite not understanding Nick, "(Pressing [X]….)"
Nick tilted his head in confusion at the odd thing to be upset about as well as the long pauses this Froggit was doing.
"(…..)" The monster seemed to grow very upset. "(Oh, not you too!)"
"Huh?" Nick looked around for this [X] button he was apparently pressing, but not seeing anything. "Okay then…I'm just…gonna go…" he decided, leaving the odd frog monster alone. "Sorry I guess…?"
He then approached the next Froggit.
"Ribbit, ribbit. (I heard using 'F4' can make you have a 'full screen.')"
"Full screen? F4?" This Froggit was speaking weird stuff too.
"(But what does 'F4' stand for? Four frogs?)"
Well at least this Froggit seems confused at some of this talk as well…Nick thought.
"(I have only seen a maximum of three frogs in this room…This is troubling, to say the least.)"
Maybe there is another frog hiding here then…" the child wondered, looking around.
"Ribbit. (Huh?)"
"Oh never mind…" Nick sighed, waving goodbye and approaching the supposed last frog of the room. "Hopefully he will make sense…"
"Ribbit, ribbit. (I have heard you are quite merciful for a human. Surely you know by now a monster wears a yellow name when you can spare it.)"
"Yellow name?" More weird stuff that didn't make sense to the child. I swear, these frogs are talking like I'm in a video game…Nick thought, slightly annoyed.
"(What do you think of that?)" the last Froggit asked.
"Uh..it's very helpful?"
"(It is rather helpful. Remember, sparing is just saying you won't fight. Maybe one day, you'll have to do it even if their name isn't yellow.)"
"Huh? Okay…" Nick thought over the monster's words. So maybe in real world talk, when a monster is willing to except my mercy, they 'wear a yellow name' and when they don't that's when they name is…let's just say white…So that means…"Hey wait a minute!" Nick eyed the Froggit. "You understood my answer, didn't you!? I thought you Froggits couldn't understand me!?"
"….Ribbit, ribbit. (What was that human? I can't seem to understand you.) Ribbit."
"…You little…" Sighing, Nick decided to ignore the monster and move on. "Whatever…"
He was about to walk off when his phone began to ring again. He quickly answered it, knowing it was Toriel on the other line.
"Hello?" the goat woman questioned. "I just realized that it has been a while since I cleaned up. I was not expecting to have company so soon. There are probably a lot of things lying about here and there. You can pick them up, but do not carry more than you need. Someday you might see something you really like. You will want to leave room in your pockets for that."
"Got it." He quickly answered as Toriel hung up. He observed the spider donut, safely hidden away in his little box. "Room in my pockets, huh? I wonder…?" He carefully moved the box to his front pocket in his pants and too his surprise it fit perfectly. There even seemed to be room for more. "How is that physically possible!?" he couldn't help but ask. "Maybe I really am stuck in a game…"
Deciding there was more urgent matters to deal with than how a rather large box was able to fit in a small pocket, with room to spare, Nick determinedly walked forward, ready for whatever else would come his way.
Frisk sighed tiredly as they sat on the stage of the pizzeria, eyes closed tightly in concentration. "Come on, come on…"
The animatronics and ghosts were all gathered around the child, waiting for…something to happen.
Spring sighed irritably. "Kid, you've been at this for like, an hour already. Is something gonna happen yet?"
"Spring, quiet!" Fredbear scowled.
"Why am I the bad guy all of a sudden!? Nick is missing and you are expecting an insane little kid who believes humans were in some war with monsters years ago and that they can magically take us to Nick by sitting in the same spot muttering to themselves over and over again! Look, I'm an asshole, but at least I can say the truth! This kid can't help us and we should just send them home and continue looking for Nick!"
"I'm telling you, your friend is in the underground! I just have to accsess my 'SAVE FILE' and everything will be okay!"
"Save file!?" Spring demanded. "Oh come on, people! You still want to trust a kid who is treating this situation like a goddamn video game! Wake up! This is the real world!"
"A real world with ghost and conscious animatronic robots with a mind of their own…" Mike muttered.
"What was that, Schmidt!?"
The night guard glared darkly at the yellow rabbit. "I'm saying that stranger things have happened for us! Look around us Spring Bonnie! We aren't exactly normal ourselves! I know you don't have much experience outside this place, but it ain't exactly normal for ghost to walk around and robots to behave just as human as real people!"
"Mike is right." Freddy said. "If we can be this odd, then maybe there are others out there who have just as odd a way of life."
"But we ain't that odd!" Spring screamed, his Brooklyn accent sounding rougher than normal.
"To you we aren't!" Freddy defended. "But I bet anything that if we let in someone from the outside see us, they would find us the biggest freaks of nature in the world. What is normal for us isn't normal for others, Spring. I hate the fact I have to tell this to my older brother! You are supposed to be mature and think things through-"
"I do!"
"-But you aren't!" Freddy sighed, looking over at Frisk. "Look, I know this may be a bit strange for us, but Frisk truly believes they can help us, and that is enough for me."
"…" Spring glared darkly at his younger brother, before huffing to himself loudly. "I still think this is stupid!"
"Fine, think this is stupid. But we are running out of options. Anything can be helpful at this moment, except your rotten attitude."
"Tch…"
Freddy sighed tiredly, approaching Frisk. "Ignore him. He gets like this a lot."
"It's okay. He may act tough and mean, but he is just secretly worried for his friend. I know someone like that." Frisk giggled softly.
"Hey…Frisk?" Bonnie spoke up, stepping over while carefully avoiding Spring's heated gaze that suddenly turned on him. "I don't know much about this…'save file' thing, but is there anything we can do to help you…find it I guess?"
The human could only sigh. "I don't think so. The Save File is a bit hard to describe. Those with a large amount of determination can access them and use them whenever they wish. Normally I never have any trouble with it, in fact this is the first time I ever had trouble. So that could only mean one thing at the moment."
"And that is?" the purple rabbit questioned.
"Nick's determination is stronger than my own at the moment."
"This determination…" Toy Freddy, or just Fred, spoke up. "You talk about it like it is different than the determination anyone can feel."
"Well…yes and no. Technically anyone, even monsters can feel determination, but when it comes to the Underground, determination can end up acting as something a bit more. The stronger a person's determination is, the more you can accomplish with it. Such as accessing the save file."
"So only those with high determination can access the save file?" Fred asked.
"Basically."
"And others can…let's say override others save files to the point the first person can't access it anymore. Am I getting the picture?"
"Yep."
"So really the only way you can get to your save file is if you become more 'determined' than Nick."
"Right on the nose." Frisk answered.
"So the answer is simple!" Fred announced. "We have to make you even more determined somehow. Then you can reached your save file and we can get Nick back!" the younger bear grinned at figuring it all out.
"Just one last question," Bon-Bon asked, locking his large green eyes on Frisk. "What will happen when you get to your save file?"
"Oh, simple. I will basically go back in time to the last time I saved, or reset, and everything should go back to how it was when it happened. Nick will most likely be back in the pizzeria and I will be in the Underground. Simple."
"…"
Everyone stared at Frisk for what felt like hours, even though seconds only passed by.
"…go…back in time?" Freddy asked, hesitantly.
"Yep!" Frisk responded, as if it were the simplest thing ever.
"…"
Suddenly Spring snapped again. "CRAZY! I KNEW IT! COMPLETELY INSANE! NO ONE EVER LISTENS TO ME!"
Frisk tilted their head. "What'd I say?"
*sigh* Spring, you have to stop acting like an asshole all the freaking time! It gets old very fast buddy.
Spring: Did you freaking hear that kid!?
Me: Yes I did, but you didn't have to snap like that.
Spring: Whatever...
Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed the chapter. I don't know when I will update this again, but hopefully it will be by say...two weeks at the least. I want to finally update a few more things before I update this. And I am very close to updating those others things, but still give me at least 2 weeks. If more than 2 weeks pass you all are free to question where the heck the chapter is. But until the 2 weeks is up, give me a little time, okay?
But I will say there is a slim chance I will change my mind and update this tomorrow actually. So if I do, then it will be chapter 7 that will be sent out in 2 weeks. If I don't send out chapter 6 tomorrow, then that chapter will be the one sent out in 2 weeks. It all depends on how I feel tomorrow.
So that's all I can really think about to say. So until next time! Bye and don't forget to review!