After Woona and Chara had finished enjoying their song and dance number, they continued north along the path to the Core. As the surroundings changed from Hotland's red stone to a dark grey and purple paved road, they came across a large building of blue stone with sliding glass doors on the front. Above the doors was a large sign that read 'MTT'. "What's this?" Woona asked curiously.
It's the MTT hotel, Chara explained. It's run by Mettaton, and everything here is MTT brand.
"Huh," Woona murmured in reply. Lowering her eyes, she caught sight of the figure to the left of the doors. "Uncle Sans!" she called out happily, rushing up to him.
"hey, woona," he greeted with a smile, stepping back in surprise as Woona leapt into his arms for a hug. "talk about an enthusiastic greeting," he chuckled, stroking her mane. "i heard you're going to the core. how about grabbing some dinner with me first?"
"I'd love to!" Woona exclaimed happily, climbing up onto his head. "Where to?"
"this way. i know a shortcut." Turning, he carried Woona into the alleyway on the East side of the building. Since Woona knew how the shortcuts worked, having learned to use them, Sans carried her straight through.
At the other end of the shortcut, Sans and Woona were both sitting at a table, the dim lighting and dark blue wallpaper and carpeting of the surrounding restaurant giving a muted, enclosed feeling to the setting, to the point that it wasn't until she heard someone attempting to do a comedy routine some distance away that she was certain that they were actually out of the shortcut. She found herself in a high chair so she could see over the table...and Chara's astral self had a third chair.
"things seem to be really changing for you, woona," Sans commented dryly. "you can feel it, can't you? things are starting to build up to a real climax."
"...yeah," Woona replied softly. "Something...something big is gonna happen when we get past the Core...when we reach Daddy..."
"Your decision once we get there is going to decide the fate of Monsters and Ponies alike," Chara murmured softly. "Are...are you sure you're up to it?"
"I have to be," Woona answered. "...no one else can make the decision for me."
"you could just go back," Sans pointed out. "you have the shortcuts, and you've been inside the ruins. you don't have to complete the journey to go back home. i'm sure your mom is worried about you...and it's not like time's a serious issue. you've brought back hope to monsters...not with a promise of freedom, but just by being you. if you're not ready to face the end...you can go back to your mom until you're ready." He shrugged sadly. "everyone still around is in it for the long haul. anyone who was going to fall from hopelessness did before you got here...and everyone you've befriended can hang on until you're ready. you don't have to push yourself, woona."
Woona considered Sans' words, realizing he was right. Once she reached King Asgore and worked out how to get him and Toriel back together, she didn't need to break the barrier right away. She could wait. "...how come I couldn't open the Ruins door from the outside?" she asked curiously.
"it's part of the nature of the barrier," Sans replied. "it creates a pocket space containing the whole underground. the entire place is twisted just out of normal reality. but to create something like that...you need to make something that anchors to normal reality, to keep the pocket space from falling into the void. that's what the ruins are. it's why everything in there is...different from the rest of the underground. more like the surface. and the door is the same way...an inverse of the barrier. and the only way to pass back through it is to have the energies equivalent to a monster and a human."
"It's how Mom went back in," Chara explained. "She was carrying my body...and my soulless essence had rebonded to it after Asriel..." His voice trailed off, apparently not wanting to say more.
"so the door is locked from the inside, and can only be unlocked from the outside by the amount of energy needed to pass through the barrier," Sans explained.
"Does...does that mean I don't have the energy to walk through the barrier?" Woona asked worriedly. "I couldn't open the door..."
"The Ruins door is a bit more specific than the barrier," Chara explained. "For the barrier, you just need a certain amount of power. But in order to shape the anchor properly, the Ruins door specifically needs a mix of Monster and Human soul energies."
"Oh..." Woona stared down at the table for a time in thought. "Uncle Sans...how come you've always been so nice to me?"
"i talked to your mom through the door sometimes," Sans replied. "you already knew that. but...when you first showed up, she was...terrified what might happen to you out in the rest of the underground. i promised her i'd look after you, make sure you stayed safe." He chuckled softly. "never expected you to claim my heart, the way you have so many others. never expected you...to make me care again." He lifted his eyes towards the ceiling. "i've had so many dreams, so many nightmares, of what the eighth child would be like, about what they'd do to the underground, or for the underground...but always, they were dreams. ...heh, even if they were other timelines, i don't think we're a part of them, or they're really a part of us. just...what could have been, but never was. and then they all stopped. day in, day out...week in, week out...century in, century out...no dreams, no nightmares, no future...i stopped caring. i just...let things happen, and nothing changed." He looked back down at Woona. "but you changed that, woona. things are different now, different than they ever could have been." He pointed at Chara. "and the proof of that is sitting right there. so promise me something woona."
Woona smiled happily. "Anything, Uncle Sans."
"no matter what you decide to do, no matter what happens in the core and beyond..." Stepping up from the table, Sans walked around so he could stroke Woona's mane. "promise me...you won't die."
Woona smiled widely. "Promise!" she proclaimed, filled with DETERMINATION to keep her word.
Holy fudge, THIS TURNED OUT WAY BETTER THAN I THOUGHT!!!
STAY D E T E R M I N E D Woona, and dont die!
Why do I get the feeling that's going to become an issue very soon?
Liking it but this chapter feels a bit shorter than the others.
I'd say it's about time we get to the ... CORE of the problem.
If any of you readers think this is the end ... Stop dreaming.
Wow, food ... Bone apatite.
Not many puns to make that Sans hasn't already made.
*tosses a ketchup bottle at Sans* Here! You'll need this!
It's coming... The pose off~!
Your damn right you better not die lass or I'll........
I'll.... I'll start crying
Another well done chapter, good job man, hehe.
This turned out pretty damn well, I wonder... what will happen next?
Keep it up.
7184694 that is the best animation ever created from undertale.
Man for a second I thought sans was gonna freak woona out with the "You'd be dead where you stand" quote. Thank goodness I was wrong.
Also the core has the best theme EVER!!!!!
Yeah, except a couple things.
Muffet was planning on raising money to afford a heated limo to pass them through, as traveling under the door exposes them to the elements. If such is the case, how would the spiders be able to enter and exit the door (not to mention carry out a coordinated bake sale) if it's apparently "the inverse" of the barrier? If they can't, that would imply spiders die without any chance of survival once they leave the Ruins.
Even if it was, the appearance of the Ruins has no relevance on its status as an anchor. When the monsters were first banished in the Underground, they made their first residence and called it Home. Afterwards, they traveled outward and settled mostly in New Home, the last residence they made. However, due to the lack of interest, "Home" became known as the Ruins. Unless you're suggesting that Gaster's an interior decorator as well as a phantom of some sort, I'm not buying it.
Also, the Pyrope monster still has yet to make an appearance, and Heats Flamesman hasn't had a reprisal.
Other than that, I thought this was a decent chapter. It painted things for Sans in an interesting light, and it was cool to see. I can only hope I can say the same for the future. See you later.
I tell you what, when He said, 'You'd be dead where you stand,' even though I hadn't FUCKING KILLED ANYBODY NOT EVEN ONCE, it truly scared me. I was curious what you'd do when we cam to this point. Guess I got my answer.
7184822 if asgore kills Luna, sans will make sure he will have a bad time.
um...no ones gonna question the 8th child thing? no? alright then.
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A heated limo can heat the area around the door so the spiders can come out from under it and into the limo. There's no rule that you can't go around the door, just not open it.
Also, there's a mail slot, which is how postcards and the like go back and forth. That, and the door can be opened from the inside by anyone, and while it's held open, passage either way is viable. It's just opening it from the outside that doesn't work.
Asgore sighed in sorrow at yet more innocent blood splashed upon his clothing. The un-moving body of the young equine child lay before him, the memory of her having called him 'father' as well as what he could have sworn was an outline of his adopted child standing over her, weeping, tore at him like the others' demise had, just as it had when the others died by his hands, his will. But as he stared, the outline faded and vanished. Perhaps it had merely been a product of his guilty conscience?
"At least....at least" He took a shuddering breath to steady himself. "at least this will never need happen again after today." Tears fell from his eyes as he grasped Woona's odd soul in hand and carried it over to the waiting six human souls, which were trying in vain to break free from their holding containers. They knew what was coming, and even in death, fought the inevitable, final demise of Absorption. Asgore looked to them with regret, but steeled himself. Was this not, after all, what needed to be done? If I falter now, my people will surely be trapped down here for the rest of eternity.
Reaching down with his empty hand, Asgore reached for the last empty Soul Canister and opened it- only to watch it shatter to hundreds of pieces as if it were mere glass. Looking over his shoulder, the king's moist eyes blinked in confusion at the sight of a lone, short skeleton wearing a blue jacket, shorts and slippers with one outstretched arm aimed at the destroyed canister. He knew this skeleton by reputation through the captain of his guard, though not in person. This was Sans, younger sibling of Papyrus, whom Undyne was currently training.
From what she'd told Asgore, Sans was generally lazy, loved telling jokes, and had what were probably the lowest combat stats in the entire underground. But as a shiver ran down his spine Asgore noticed something, and recalled an old memory from during the old war: one of Sans' eyes was brightly glowing. Ordinary skeleton monsters' eyes didn't glow. A Revenant? I thought they all died in the war! No, only one of his eyes are glowing. So a half-breed, then? Sensing Asgore was distracted, Woona's soul slipped out of Asgore's grip, and seemed to vanish into the air as she Reloaded to the last place she'd slept. The current timeline however, continued onward, and would until she awoke.
click me! I'm necessary!
Despite his grinning face, the narrowed eye ridges spoke quite clearly that Sans wasn't happy.
"Normally, your majesty I'd be polite and give a bow to ya'. But for some reason..." He tilted his head and looked at Woona's corpse lying in a still-expanding pool of blood. "I'm just not feeling it today." Sans closed his eyes, lowered his arm and stuck his skeletal hands in his pockets and started walking nonchalantly towards Asgore. "It's a shame this all happened, really; it's a such a beautiful day outside." Asgore swallowed and fought the urge to take a step back with every step forward Sans took. "Birds are singing, flowers are blooming...on days like this, ruthless bastards like you..." Sans stopped and opened his eyes again, then jerked his left arm from its pocket. Sans' entire body was engulfed in blue magic, and with three small pops of light, three draconic skulls appeared.
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"Should be burning in HELL!!"
You should be your.
WOONA GAINED + 1 IMMORTALITY(DETERMINATION)
7184852 I'm guessing this is a timeline where Frisk did indeed show up, but didn't finish his journey to Asriel and instead lived out the rest of his life in the Underground.
7184880 Huh, so theoretically, a person can traverse through the doorway in any manner EXCEPT by opening the door from the Snowdin Forest side when the requirements aren't met? I guess that makes sense in an Undertale sort of way (especially considering that the doorway is described as "locked").
7184850 Asgore won't fucking kill Mun! First, this is an AU. One where Chara isn't a psychopath, and humans kinda got replaced with Da Pones. Second, this is a TATSUROU fic. Even when the original story kills them, Tat Dues Ex Machina's them back to life (or away from death, as the case sometimes is). Third, the WHOLE GORRAMMED INTERNET would crash down upon his head. We (as a fandom) love Mun. Aside from the ever-lovable Ditzana, Mun is the favorite. I like to think Tat is a nervous college guy who is easily affected by the things people say or think about him.
Good enough reasons?
7184852 Well, the description said they waited for an 8th person to come into the Underground, but nobody came... but somepony did. I think the reference is supposed to illustrate that, in one timeline or another, the events of the original Undertale happened, which is kind of cool in a way. Even if Frisk doesn't make an appearance, at least we, the audience, know that he still fell in an Underground and did stuff. Hopefully, it was Pacifist stuff.
7184905 I have been defeated by the iron wall alone, not to mention the reasons you have stated. I submit.
The only thing I don't like about this...is that this crossover is probably almost over.......
B U T T H I S U N I V E R S E W I L L N E V E R E N D ! ! ! !
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I respectfully disagree.
Sans vs Flowey
and the others that come after in the series.
7184918 Hail to the king, Baby.
7184952 So where is the prince? Did you kill him off?
7184961 Eh. Details. I'm the damn king.
7184852 Chara was the first child, then 6 more came and had their souls collected... Frisk is the 8th child.
7184944 I respect your disagreement. That is a really great animation as well.
7184776 Viva la Waterfall Theme!
7185007 waterfall is so peaceful I usually listen to it when I can't fall asleep.
No, sans is pouring his heart out here. Not gonna pun.
At least he didn't do the whole "You'd be dead where you stand" thing. That wouldn't have ended well.
7184884
...bravo. That is an amazing alt-script for this. Bravo.
7184904
Precisely.
7184892
Actually, this is a timeline where Frisk saw the circle around the hole, then turned around and left. Sans dreams and nightmares are of all the possible timelines where he fell down instead.
7184884 Heh, looks like someone's been watching Culture Shock.
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7184892
if thats so...
why are they still in the underground? you only need 7 souls to break the barrier.
7185156 6 souls have been used, one was used up by Asriel and the other is in another
castletimeline.7185102 I think asgore would go bloody mental from guilt
7184852 Chara was the first, then another six children came and were harvested of their souls, and Frisk was SUPPOSED to be the 8th child... but Woona took their place.
7185113
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Nope. Never heard of it. Aside from the literal definition.
7185310 Ah, it's a brief segment Gaijin Goomba does on the Game Theorist channel. Basically, he relates characters from games to culture from around the world. Sans just so happens to align perfectly with revenants.
7185317
Oh nvm then. I DO know the video you're talking about. I just forgot the title. *Shrugs* Yep, inspiration came from that. Before that video, all I knew of 'Revenants' was that they were tough as frick to kill in Skyrim, and they'd literally chase you halfway across the map if you couldn't run or swim fast enough to get out of their sight range.
7184905 ...
(I could give a reason as to why Asgore killing Moona would be plausible [not forever, obviously], but that would be skirting along the edge of subjective and objective. Instead, enjoy something I KNOW is true.)
Eh, he's tougher than that. I mean, he might ask people what they want to happen in polls, and he uses alt!scripts he thinks are good, but once he comes up with a general premise and outlines it... not a thing in the world will change it, even if he got kidnapped by three fans of Misery.
Another very enjoyable chapter. Great job.
Thank god I really didn't want to see sans scare woona
So Woona veered Sans off the path of nihilism.
And that promise he asked of her... I dunno, but that was a pretty strong sentiment, especially considering the whole conversation.
Yet still so sweet!
7185156 They don't have Chara's soul. It was absorbed by Asriel, and disappeared forever when Asriel died. And they couldn't collect it from Asriel, because monster souls don't linger after death, even if they've absorbed a human soul.
7184884
*After reading script*
*gasp* EEEEEEEEHHHHHHHH~~~ *gaaasp* Ehhhhhhh~~~ *Gasp* ehhhhhh~~~ *hic* eh.....
WHYYYY-ha-haaaaiiii~
EHhe....eheheheheh........
Why are you making me chose~~~.... B-between Gorey and Saaaannnnss.....
Eheh.....eheh eheh.....whyyyy~~~
*sniff* on yea...and that, and that Wonna thing....that's important too, I guess....
I'm glad he didn't say "You'd be dead where you stood." The line was a brutal truth...
I AM VERY HAPPY! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!