"Hello? Who is this?" asked a voice on the other end that made me confused. It sounded familiar, but I couldn't quite place it. But what I can tell you is that it was female.
"Hi, this is a random person calling you about your daughter, Monster Kid? I wanted to let you know something important," I said, her sounding confused after.
"Um... is there something going on? It better not be involving humans."
"No, no. It's more along the line of... she has a sister now," I said, the mother being even more confused.
"A sister for MK? She doesn't have one... not anymore."
"But that's the power of a soul of Knowledge. The impossible becomes possible."
"That's impo-... wait... Knowledge soul? Explain."
"I'll actually have Monster Kid explain, here," I said as I handed the phone to her ear hole, her then picking it up with telekinesis, which made me smile.
"Hi, mom!" she said. "Yeah, I'm okay. No, the human's not controlling me. She touched me on the cheek and, all of a sudden, my sister was reborn! You know, the one that's my twin? Her name is Zephyr now," she said. She then nodded and handed the phone to Zephyr, which made me wonder what she'd say.
"Um... h-hi mommy... I'm the one that was born alongside Monster Kid... you recall, right? We were twins, and you had to send my magic into her, lest we be babies without parents?" And after saying that, I saw tears form from her eyes. "I've been waiting to hear your voice for many years... it sounds so nice... I don't blame you for doing so, it's a choice I wouldn't wish on anyone to make... huh? Oh, sure, here you go," Zephyr said as she handed the phone back to me as we reached the marsh, not encountering any monsters on the way aside from seeing that Aaron was flexing in a reflection of himself in a mirror, to the point he didn't see us.
"Hello?" I smiled back into the phone.
"Are you being honest, mister human? You resurrected our daughter, Goner Kid?... And gave her a better name?" she asked, me smiling at her.
"I did. And MK's new name is Saura."
"Not until we take it to Asgore's attention, but we're grateful to you for giving them perfect names... and for bringing our family back together... if you ever need us to do anything for you, do not hesitate to ask," she smiled. And it was then that we reached the boardwalk... where I gawked at how a flurry of pellets appeared and slammed into the planks of wood, me then gawking as I saw... Flowey. And hew as in Undyne's position.
"Uh, sure, I'll call you back," I said as I then hung up and Flowey smirked at me.
"Howdy! You look like you're having a little pow-wow! But this game's starting to bore me, so how about we play another one?" Flowey smirked as he showed he had something on his person. It was a pair of ballet shoes. "I've got an item that used to belong to the owner of the Blue soul! You want it, that much I've figured out already. Let's play a game. Get to the grass patch without getting killed, and I'll give them to you! If you die, though? You give me your soul!" he said, me smirking at him as I placed a save... but had it placed into the water so he wouldn't notice.
"Okay then. Let's play. Just you and me, no one else," I said, him nodding at that as I then rushed down the path, Flowey following me the whole time as he tried to send a bunch of vines and pellets at me, but I saw them a mile away, due to my compass of Determination acting off the charts, since it allowed me to see his attacks coming. And once I reached the grass, I then saw that Flowey was there and he then grabbed me with two vines, me frowning as it resulted in something happening. Since the vines were a green attack, though not meant for healing, they did something... bizarre. What did they do?
"Oh... Oh god... Oh GOD! I... I can fee-" Flowey was about to say before then gasping at how he then released the vines from my legs. "I... uh... h-here, take the slippers, s-see if I care! Heheheee... eh..." and after that, he then retreated, just in time for the others to catch up and for the shoes to be right by my feet.
"Hey, what was that about? Why was he chasing you, but not us?" Courage asked in confusion, me then speaking after, no longer feeling Flowey nearby.
"Um... I think I know why," I frowned. "When he touched me with a green attack, involving his vines... he started to feel emotions again, even if brief." And when I said that, Chara gasped.
"He did?! I-Is that a good thing?" she asked.
"I sure hope so, Charlotte. I sure hope so," I said, her frowning at me.
"How did you know my full name?" she asked me.
"Just a random guess," I admitted honestly. I then had us get out of the green grass with Mary holding onto the ballet shoes until we were back out in the open. "Okay, now time for me to touch the shoes," I said as I then poked the dancing slippers... and as with the others before, I got a vision. The last moments of the soul of Integrity.
What I saw with the owner of the blue soul? It was quite scary. She was trying to escape via the Dark Ruins, tricked by an annoyed Decibat, mainly because he wasn't a fan of her constantly playing music on her cell phone. And when she did? When she was in Snowdin, all the monsters immediately recognized her as human and started to try and hurt the poor girl... who, I must point out, WASN'T A KID! Yeah, the owner of the blue soul, her being named Antoinette, was actually barely 19 years old! And she was actually quite short for her age, about 4 foot 7, but also having... a massive chest for a woman that small. At least DD for a girl of 4 foot 7. She must've really had problems with her back when she danced!
"P-Please, stop hurting me! I just want to dance!" she said with annoyance as she then proceeded to try and defend herself against the Royal Guard, via doing a giant flip kick... and when she did so, she gasped and felt... extreme fear. Just one kick to the monster, it looking to be a relative of Undyne... and he was reduced to ash! And when that happened, she screamed out of absolute terror and ran. She ran and ran and ran, from Snowdin, through the desert, even making it through the Steamworks and all the way to Asgore! But when she got to Asgore, he looked at her with a look of disdain.
"M-Mister?... I... I'm so sorry..." she said in defeat, but Asgore sighed.
"No, miss. I'm the one who should be sorry," he said as he produced his trident.
"I... I just want to dance... please... I didn't want to hurt anyone... just... please... I beg of you, my lord, just spare me..." Antoinette begged. Asgore frowned and, with a twinkling tear dropping from his eyes, he slashed his trident across her head, slaying her instantly. He then took the soul and placed it in the capsule.
"Another human collected... it never gets any easier... but it is strange that it was an adult rather than a child..." Asgore frowned as the vision finally ended.
Much like the other visions prior, after seeing the entirety of the vision, I then saw that Antoinette was right in front of us, her spawning on the ground with her shoes being placed on her feet, her tutu of pink around her waist, and a dancer's dress for the top... one that hugged her breasts a bit tight. As for her hair style, she was in dual pigtails, had multiple freckles, and she had a small scar on her nose.
"What?... W-Where am I?" she asked before looking around and seeing that there were other humans, as well as other monsters, the duo being children. "I... I'm still in the Underground?... H-How long have I been out of it?" she asked, me then going to her and helping her off the ground, her smiling at me.
"You've been asleep for quite a long time, miss Antoinette. Ever since the year 1230X," I smirked, her nodding at that.
"I... I see... what year is it now?" she asked.
"It's uh... 2024X. And... I apparently come from 2024 AD?" I smiled, her gasping at that.
"Y-You're kidding! You've been alive for this long at such a young age?!"
"No, no, more like he was brought here from that long ago by someone else," Mary said with a shy smile. "Introductions, I'm Mary... this is my descendent, named Courage... Saura, Zephyr, Martlet, Ceroba, and Scarlet," she said with a smile.
"I still think this is quite a bit much for an adventure... I wish we had a normally adventure," Martlet smirked.
"I agree, quite a lot... anything else you have to share? I only like honesty," Antoinette asked, me nodding.
"Yes. Before I was sent into this tiny body of a 13-year-old, I was actually 21 years old and a full-grown adult," I said, her smiling at that.
"That seems to be the least surprising thing uttered from your mouth thus far, if I'll be honest myself."
"Well, you have a soul of Integrity. Being honest is kind of the whole point," Chara smiled at her... and that made her look around in confusion.
"Huh?... Strange... I heard a voice, but none of your mouths moved?"
"It's because I'm just a spirit right now. A conscious mind with no soul. My name is Charlotte, but call me Princess for our journey, please?" Chara smirked, even if only I could see her.
"Okay, I can accept that... shall we head on now, my knight in shining armor?" Antoinette asked, her then leaning down slightly to give me a kiss on the forehead.
"Ehehe... I'm feeling a bit bashful, honestly," I smiled, her nodding.
"I can tell, since your head is about the same level to my breasts... and I see you've got a snake in your pants," she said, me looking down and gulping at how my member had risen when being next to her.
"Eep..."
"Aw, he's turning red, that's adorable!" Ceroba giggled, me then going forward again and seeing... the door for Gaster wasn't there. But there was a door there... only problem? It looked like a door that made me... very concerned.
"Uh... this door looks new. I don't think I've seen this one before," Chara admitted. And there was a good reason why it was new. It looked not to be from Undertale... but from Deltarune. The door in question? It led to a certain secret bossfight against the number 1 salesman of 1997.
"Should we... should we see what's inside?" Antoinette asked.
"If we're doing this, we need to plan it ahead. I think I might know what's going to meet us in there, but we need some people who are sturdy and have a means of attack from afar. Anyone of us know how to use long-range attacks?" I asked, Chara raising her hands as well as Martlet. Everyone else? Nada. "Martlet, Charlotte, and I will go in there, then. Everyone else? Go to the east and stick around with Sans. He'll be your best protection in case of a certain yellow weed," I said, them nodding, except Antoinette.
"Yellow weed? Why would that be dangerous?" she asked.
"I'll explain it to you when we do this," Ceroba said, me nodding as our trio then went into the door and, when we did, it was the very dismally dark rooms of the ruinous servers that would lead us to the best boss in Deltarune. We moved through the cramped corridors for a bit before we then saw... a button on the ground.
"For [FREEDOM] hit the [Big Red Button] to be a [BIG SHOT]!" the button said, Chara frowning at it.
"How could this not be a trap?" she asked.
"Unfortunately, we need to hit it... three, two, one... boop," I frowned as I hit the switch... and afterwards? I saw two bright lights appear from ahead of us in the darkness. One was pink, the other was yellow.
"SO! YOU WANT TO BE A [BIG SHOT] DO YOU?!" he asked before then pointing his big blaster gun at us. Spamton without a doubt.
"No, we're just wondering what the heck is going on, honestly," I admitted.
"YOU DON'T WANT TO BE A [BIG SHOT]? WELL, AIN'T THAT [MY PRECIOUS!] HERE WE GO! WATCH ME [FLY] MAMA!" he shouted, each word in brackets sounding like a random internet lingo from my timeline. And after that, he then charged the gun and shot a bunch of Pipis at us, which I shot at with Justice shots, even charging it for a big shot for the bigger Pipis shots. "HUMAN! DID YOU JUST DO A [BIG SHOT]?! THAT'S GOT TO BE [CHEATERS]!"
"No, no, it's not cheaters, I just want to free you from your strings. So let's dance," I said, Chara getting into a battle stance alongside Martlet, us then entering a Deltarune battle, which I will admit, I wasn't too well-versed in. But I proceeded to use an Act option without needing to use TP, that being to cut a single string, which I did so, seeing that Spamton had at least 35 total.
"DON'T YOU WANT TO SEE [HEAVEN]?! STAND STILL!" he shouted as we then had to shoot a bunch of his heads, which we got rid of all of them without them touching us or our souls. And after this, we then got enough TP from dodging some of the heads to attack a bunch of strings, doing 5 of them dirty. And after this, we kept dodging and shooting until, eventually, only one string remained, which Spamton looked at in shock.
"THE. STRINGS. THERE'S... ONLY [ONE] LEFT? ARE YOU TRYING TO FREE ME FROM MY [STRINGS, TO HOLD ME DOWN]?" he asked, the latter being from... the Pinocchio remake from 2022. Of course.
"Yes, we have been. And we can free you if you wish," I smiled, Spamton then getting super giddy.
"I HAVE FOUND FRIENDS! I CAN FINALLY ASCEND TO [HEAVEN]! HERE I GO! WATCH ME [FLY] TO HEAVEN, MOMMA!" he shouted out loud before the final string snapped on its own... and we gawked at how Spamton fell down on the ground with no motion whatsoever.
"Oh no, oh no, oh no! I-Is he okay?!" Martlet asked as we approached the fallen salesman and I felt for a pulse. He had one, which was lucky... but then something weird happened, as if this detour wasn't weird enough. After I touched him, Spamton regained his strings... but I saw that they were... connected to my soul?
"I... I can never be freed of my strings, can I?" he asked, me smiling at him.
"It would seem so... but now, it seems your strings are connected to my soul, mister. But I'll be more lenient with you than whoever was pulling them prior," I said as I saw that I could lengthen them as well as harden them to the point they couldn't break. "So long as you promise me that you won't hurt anyone, no matter what they do to you, I can make it so that you can be as free as you want to be, even if you're still tied to my soul. Okiedokie?" I asked, him then gaining a smile on his puppet face.
"I... I thank you, weird human," he said, me smiling at him.
"Good. Now let's go back. This place gives me the creeps," Chara said, us then returning back to the area with the door, us seeing we were back in Waterfall in the same room as before, with the others in our group at the right and me seeing that... Antoinette fell for the telescope gag. She had a big splotch of red on her left eye.
"Go ahead and yuck it up," she said, me smirking at her as the others simply did the same.
"No, we're not that cruel," Martlet smirked as they then noticed that Spamton was with us.
"Uh... who's the puppet guy? He looks like he belongs in a Mega Girl game," Saura said, me being confused at that.
"Don't you mean Mega MAN?" I asked.
"No, Mega Girl. It's my favorite game ever! I got it for Christmas from my parents. Some silly humans dumped a bunch of junk down into the Underground, but they also dumped video games and working game systems. And Mega Girl for the Enterstation is one of my favs!" she smirked.
"Oh yeah... I still have to remember that this world is way ahead of my own timeline," I smiled.
"So Megaman is a series from your time, huh? So Mega Girl is basically a female version from this timeline?" Chara asked, me nodding. "A bit weird, but I can live with it."
"So, should I assist in getting us through this place?... I feel a lot more... civil and calm when connected to your strings... not glitchy at all," Spamton asked, me smiling at him.
"It'd be appreciated, but you don't have to if you don't want to. You're allowed to do whatever you want, just so long as you don't hurt anyone. I just wish to know your name," I smiled at him.
"I'm Spamton G Spamton. And I wish to be able to be a salesman! But this world is far different than my own... maybe I can set up shop somewhere?" he asked.
"Well, it's your choice." And he then simply flew off, me lengthening the strings as he moved forward, which the others looked at in surprise.
"So... what exactly happened behind that door for that guy to be in there?" Courage asked.
"I think he comes from another dimension altogether, since, when he's connected to me via the strings, I can see that he comes from a world where he's the embodiment of a spam email from the internet, hence the name Spamton. He also was very glitchy when he spoke, but now that he's tied to my soul, he isn't anymore," I smiled.
"Odd, but cool!" Ceroba smiled.
"heya, ya want to take a break? we can talk over some nice cream from nearby," Sans said, me smiling at him.
"Sure, if you're offering," I smiled, him smirking at that.
"this way, no shortcuts required," he smiled as we then went to the room with the nice cream guy and Sans actually spent his own money so that each of us in the group could have some Nice Cream! The only one who didn't was Antoinette. Why?
"Oh, sorry, I'm lactose intolerant. I can't eat anything dairy-related," she said shyly.
"Oof, sorry to hear that, dudette," the vendor smiled at her.
"It's okay, I can just get something to eat later."
"Actually, there's a guy that lives by Undyne's house. He sells sea tea and crab apples," Ceroba said with a smirk.
"By the way, I feel I never met you before, miss... who are you?" she asked.
"Um... I'm Ceroba... during that day when you were in Snowdin, you injured my husband, Chujin," she said.
"Oh... I-I'm sorry... I-I was just trying to survive... I just wanted to dance, even if I were to be trapped here forever, I live to entertain. But when those monsters attacked me... I tried to kick one of them with a dancer kick... and it killed them instantly. I felt sick to my stomach and just ran the whole way to the king... he didn't even care about my pleas. He sliced my head o-..." she said before then looking at her hands after stopping her sentence. "Wait... if he killed me, then he obviously has my soul! S-So... why do I have a soul, my body, and my thoughts back?"
"It's because mister Scarlet's got a soul of Knowledge. It can even revive monsters, as seen by me," Zephyr smiled.
"heh, yeah... by the way, i didn't expect you to also have ties to... that place..." Sans said to me, which made me look at him in confusion. "ah, whatever. it's not my place to talk about it... just be sure to be careful about random doors that look out of place. one wrong move, you might never come out."
"Understood, I'll be more careful from here on out, sir," I said to him after finishing my ice cream, it being orange dreamsicle flavor. We then moved forward again, us needing to get past a couple monsters such as Aaron, who had long-since stopped gawking at his reflection and was now speaking to me. But I knew what he was afraid of.
"Hey, you want to meet my ghost friend, mister seahorse?" I asked, him looking at me in surprise.
"U-Um... ghost friend? Y-You're kidding, right? There's no such thing as ghosts..." he said... and Chara proceeded to brush her arms against his biceps, which he then screamed like a girl before then trying to save face. "U-Uh... d-don't tell anyone, please?"
"Just leave us to our own devices and we'll leave you to do whatever," Courage smirked, him nodding as we then moved past him, and for Woshua to smirk at me.
"That was funny... you look filthy, though. You want cleaned up?" Woshua asked, me looking at myself and frowning. I guess I did need some freshening up, especially after dealing with Spamton's fight.
"Sure, just don't mess with the strings," I smiled, him nodding, though he did look confused as he then hit me with some green attacks.
"Those strings look very... unique. May I ask if you have a uh... a Darkner with you?"
And when he said that, I gawked. "Darkner?"
"Yeah, I heard about them from Sans the other day. A type of monster that exists in the world of Darkness, from another reality... it's said that this very same reality is where the angel from the Deltarune would come from. The angel was said to have a... a uh..." Woshua said before sending my soul out of my body. "A... knowledge... soul... oh god..." Woshua said, me raising my hands up slowly as Woshua then timidly stepped back.
"Easy, little guy. I'm not a bad guy, never once laid a hand on anyone thus far... I just want the monsters to be freed peacefully, no war with the humans required," I said, that seeming to soothe the turtle tub.
"You promise?" he asked.
"If he wanted to kill you, he probably would've done so before you even noticed him, right?" Antoinette asked, which Woshua gulped at. I then simply walked past him, but not before giving him something to prove that I was not bad.
"Um... 10 G?"
"Wish I could give you more, but I need to save some up for when I meet with a guy called Gerson. My short adult friend is hungry, and she can't eat Nice Cream," I explained, Woshua looking at me in even more confusion. Regardless, we then trekked forward once more. Though I did have to wonder... how did Woshua know about Darkners? How was I able to access the world of Deltarune?... Was I from another reality or not?! If I got contact with Gaster again in the future, I'd need to ask him myself.