No Escape
Once back in the lab, Alphys immediately started the required maintenance to plug Mettaton in to recharge his power core. Once she'd done that, she began to make herself a cup of tea. "It's going to be a while before Mettaton is fully recharged," she told Woona. "An hour or more, depending on how much he strained his systems. Thankfully, magic electricity works much like monster food, and will repair damage as he recharges." She paused, looking down at her tea. "I-If you want, you could go ahead and head back to the Core...I-I'm sure you want to meet up with King Asgore..."
"Not yet," Chara replied. "He called...he saw me on stage...I think we all need to wait a bit before that meeting..."
Alphys' eyes went wide. "Chara...I just heard you. Without any tech."
"W...what?" Chara gasped out, shocked.
"I felt my magic resonate," Woona pointed out. "Maybe we're becoming more attuned?"
"T-that's possible," Alphys explained. "While there haven't been any studies about souls sharing a body, the soul is the source of magic. While someone drawing a soul into themselves would increase magic, I...suppose the essence of the person whose soul it was might enter the other person as well...and that could resonate back and forth, making both souls more attuned with each other, meaning that the longer someone held another soul inside them, the more it would amplify their magic."
"And that's why Chara's becoming more real the longer he's inside me?" Woona asked eagerly.
"Quite possibly," Alphys replied, rushing to her computer and typing away as she quickly wrote down notes on the subject. "But if that's the case, then...hmm..." She began to mutter under her breath as she typed, too quiet for either Woona or Chara to hear.
Realizing he could now speak for himself to others, Chara decided he had something that needed to be brought up, needed to be answered. "Alphys," he began, "there's something I need to ask you about. It's...about the other fallen children."
Alphys paused. "W...what makes you think I know anything about that?" she asked carefully.
"Gaster told me you'd know," Chara explained.
"I have no idea who you're talking about," Alphys replied firmly, her eyes on the screen.
"Yes you do," Chara countered, somewhat confused. "The previous Royal Scientist, made the 'Legendary Artifact', Sans and Papyrus' 'father', somehow fell into the Vo-"
Alphys' hands slammed down onto the table hard, the sound of the thump echoing through the room, claws coming out of her fingertips gouging the wood. "I said I have no idea who you're talking about!" she snapped out, her voice more intense than anything either Chara or Woona had ever heard from her, practically a shout.
Woona staggered back in surprise. She looked up at Alphys, wanting to complain about her anger...but then she saw her eyes, wide with abject, mind-erasing terror. "A...Alphys?" she asked worriedly.
"We must not remember..." Alphys whispered. "If we do not remember...he cannot come back...he must never return..." She sunk back into her chair, clutching herself tight and shivering in fear. "The world cannot handle his return..." Reaching over, she grabbed a vial from the counter and quickly downed it. She fell slack against her chair as the vial tumbled to the ground. When she sat back up, she seemed more normal, but a bit confused. "I'm sorry, what were we talking about?"
Confused, Woona examined the bottle, translating the runes etched into the glass.
5-minute Retcon
Making an effort to be silent, Chara murmured to Woona, Gaster's more serious than I thought, if Alphys erased her memories of the past five minutes rather than risk remembering him...beware the man who speaks in hands indeed... He shook himself off, deciding to approach the subject from a different direction. "You were going to tell us why Asgore killed my brothers and sisters...the other Fallen Children."
Alphys looked down and away. "Oh...that..." Turning to her computer, she called up a few files. "How much do you know about the difference between monsters and humans when it comes to food?" she asked.
"Monster food is made of magic," Woona replied. "Human food is made of nutrients. That's why I don't get any bigger, no matter how much monster food I eat. Mama explained that to me before I left the Ruins."
Alphys nodded. "That's right. The only exception is Queen Toriel's cooking. Somehow, she's able to generate nutrients in her food as part of her cooking methods. King Asgore's been...desperately trying to reproduce it ever since the first child left the Ruins to go to him...but as far as we're able to determine, it has something to do with the ingredients she gets in the Ruins. She brought a great deal of them when she left the Ruins to come to New Home the first time...but there weren't any left when she carried Chara's body back in..."
"Why?" Woona asked, confused. "Why work so hard for nutrients?"
Chara, however, understood. "Malnutrition."
"Yes," Alphys replied. "Monster food is enough to replenish vital energy and heal injuries for humans...but it doesn't provide the nutrients humans need to sustain their physical matter. After about a week outside the Ruins, the human children slowly began to starve to death. The first child...King Asgore watched them waste away right before his eyes, desperate to find some way to save them...but nothing worked. In the end...the only Mercy he could give them...was to take away the pain..."
"So once a human leaves the Ruins, their only way to survive is to take Asgore's soul to cross the barrier," Chara deduced. "Because it takes the power of a human and Monster soul to cross it, and only a Boss Monster's soul sticks around after death, and is thus the only Monster Soul a human can collect."
Alphys nodded in agreement. "And so...King Asgore re-instituted the policy of all humans who leave the Ruins are to be killed. His logic was that...if a human had to fight their way to him...then they'd be more willing to fight them. And when each child reached him, he...took away their power to grant him Mercy...so he could give them the only Mercy he could. He makes the FIGHTs with him Kill or be Killed...to spare them death by starvation."
Chara fell silent, turning it over in his mind. The pain that his Father had gone through, for the sake of those he cared for so deeply...no wonder, when he'd overheard Undyne's phone conversation with Asgore, the King sounded on the verge of grief stricken madness. He began to wonder...if Asgore could be saved.
As he wondered, however, he felt a stirring of rage, dark and vile, and so surprising because it wasn't his own. Woona's mane and tail began to wave in a non-existent breeze as her Magic began to surge, her fury coaxing her power to orders of magnitude beyond what it had ever reached. She wasn't even tapping the Soulstone, but her power was surging as she became filled with more and more DETERMINATION.
And then he heard her thoughts.
The Barrier...I will destroy it!
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Dark Woona Moon?
The nightmare inside her shall rise, breaking their prison and leading them to freedom.
I got 2 words for this chapter:
Holy and shit.
Wow, for everyone else who is reading this story ... Barrier with me (Bear with me)
I'm somewhat surprised that what Alphys drank was not a form of ... Forget-Me-Not chocolate minus the Not.
Only puns I can think of. I know, they are both really bad, but the feeling I get from this chapter is making it hard for me to make any better ones.
Damn! I still need to play undertale...
The Nightmare is coming...
Another enjoyable chapter. Well done.
It's nightmare woon
So, if Toriel's cooking has nutrients, why didn't Woona grow while with Toriel?
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Same thing, it's just enough to sustain her physical mass, but not help it grow. She's an alicorn so its not necessary for her to consume nutrients, and she can just regenerate energy by eating the magic monster food. But in terms of growing, she needs the amount of nutrients that would normally allow someone to grow. Basically malnutrition without all the drawbacks of hunger, pain, and death, she just doesn't get enough to grow.
Whew, what a story this is... glorious, hahaha, nicely done man, nicely done!
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7232957 Well, Woona isn't exactly human, is she?
7233033 Entirely besides the point.
I could go on about how Flowey may be jealous of Chara for 'getting a soul' and other possible explanations.
It's not needed.
She has the ACTUAL Chara with her. It wouldn't have to be a case of mistaken identity like it is in the game.
7232875 Well, it's not easy when this chapter is a bit less.......funny. But I can give it a go?
Seems Chara can project their voice?
Shame Alphys had to drink her problem away......
Seems Woona's anger is set souly on the barrier........
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Other Sans, help us.
to quiet for either
1. Too.
No, no punning here.
You always make the most interesting changes to the story, making almost everyone more sympathetic.
*slowly steps back from Woona* I'm going to take cover now.... *hides behind a counter*
Oh dear. Please don't give in to the dark thoughts, Woona. You're on a Pacifist Run, or a Pacifist-ish Woona Run.
And if she does give in, Chara will have to do something about it. Woona helped Chara become nice. I think it may be Chara's turn to do so.
Ah, sounds like Alphys used the Retcon from Torchwood, albeit in a smaller dosage. She must really not want to remember Gaster.
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I have a feeling the next chapter will be an emotional chapter as well. Woona and Chara will stumble upon New Home, and if Woona decides to explore the place, Chara will explain about the various things that he did when he was alive.
And after exploring the area, she'll encounter Sans in the Last Corridor, where she will be judged.
Why is it assumed that Gaster is evil?
7233060 Don't worry I got you covered:
7233293 There are multiple theories surrounding this. Ever wondered why the Riverperson says, "Beware the man who speaks in hands?" This could mean that Gaster has been a terrible person.
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In this case, it's not an assumption...nor is it 'evil', per say. Do you recall Gaster explaining that his creating the Soulstone caused his mind and heart to be split into two distinct beings, where he was the brain and body left behind?
Think what other franchise has used "If we remember, they will come back", and what else was 'the body left behind when the heart is banished' was...since as long as he is in the Void, Gaster doesn't really exist at all.
Might help if you mentally stick an 'X' somewhere in Gaster's name.
I can't find an image of little Woona with big Luna's ethereal mane, but I really want to see that.
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Stick an X in Gaster's name... did you just make a KH reference?
Um, I don't mean to be rude or nitpicky but i think i found a hole in this moral conundrum you have put up to explain Asgore's actions
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But it could also just mean that they're afraid of his power. Because he is obviously powerful.
He's also something that is hard to understand. And people are afraid of that which they do not understand.
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I don't understand..?
and so little moony begins to channel a small part of the nightmare
Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
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Yes. I'm implying that when the Royal Scientist crafted the Soulstone, he was split into an as yet unidentified Heartless and the Nobody known as Gaster.
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Then please, go ahead and point it out. Don't just state "I found a hole", elaborate.
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See what Fire Flyer said.
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That doesn't answer my question. It only tells me it's linked with Kingdom Hearts
You're reply to him though. So, you're saying that he's a Nobody, but there's another version of him that's a Heartless?
That would mean you're saying he's evil, though.
Imo I don't see Gaster as evil. I see him more as an overseer, like sans. Gaster oversees Time + Space while sans is his agent, in a way.
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Not evil. Emotionless. And at least partially consumed with an obsession to become whole again.
Also, the reason I said it wasn't an assumption is because this interpretation is specific to the Undertale AU created in this story.
such a big cliffhangar
Asgore... Y'know, I always looked at it as Toriel losing the kids. I never thought about how Asgore felt about them.
7233412 Well if Asgore found this out on his own this meaning that the fallen children are starving to death without Toriels cooking, if he didn't figure it out on his own he has alphys to do so, why wouldn't he try to find her? or put out his guard to find her if she didn't want to talk to him (btw in this cannon i don't know why she would leave him if he hadn't killed any one off the bat) any way, even if he couldn't find her which would be very unlikely since the underground isn't that big, Sans is technically his subordinate or sentry part time. so he would know that if the whole underground was on watch for the queen that left for some reason and he started talking through the ruins door to some lady that seems to have just showed up to the ruins than wouldn't he connect the dots and tell her the situation thus avoiding the child mercy killing because Toriel would do anything for the children that have fallen.
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His initial declaration of war on humans - and death to any human in the Underground - came just after Chara and Asriel's death. He didn't discover the starvation issue until after the next child fell down and came into his care after leaving the Ruins...and he already knew at that point that Toriel was in the Ruins, where no monster from outside could reach her, even with news. And it wasn't until after Alphys became the Royal Scientist - about three children later - that Flowey became an element, and even then he wanted things to be Kill or Be Killed.
The reason the only option was either the child dies or the child kills Asgore and leaves the Underground was because the only other option, Toriel, was already beyond reach in the Ruins and known to be there.
7233497 but sans can tell her the situation no? ... maybe not Sans specifically but Toriel can be told the situation she ins't unreachable, to say she is unreachable means the true pacifist ending can't happen, she also has a phone if nothing else
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The 'starvation' situation isn't well known. The only ones who know are Asgore, the Captains - past and present - of the Royal Guard, and the Royal Scientists, past and present.
So the monsters who know about the starvation issue are:
Asgore
Gerson
Undyne
Gaster
Alphys
Of those, the only ones with Toriel's phone number are Asgore and Gerson. Gerson's seen too much of the bad side of humanity - since he was in the original war with humanity - to care enough to get involved, and Toriel automatically refuses Asgore's calls ever since she left him. As such, no one who knows about the issue is able to give Toriel the information, leading to the present situation.
7233288 If that's the case, it's probably gonna be awhile before you see me punning again.
7233309 It's not so much that I can't pun but that the situation in the chapter doesn't warrant puns. It'd be in bad taste considering their situation.
723354 could he get Undyne, Gerson, Alphys, or even Mettaton to wait by the ruins door for the next human to leave there and get them to go in and explain intead of killing the children?
There's no harmony the nightmare is on your tail.
7233555 It's going to be awhile for BlueYoshi will see you punning in this story, but you make puns in other stories as well you know. Don't deny it.
Aww, what a DETERMINED little nightmare....
Go kick his ass.
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Assuming that's supposed to be replying to me...
Before Woona arrived (or in terms of the original game, Frisk), Asgore was the only one of the monsters outside the Ruins who wasn't 100% dedicated to the war on humanity. Collecting the human souls to break the barrier was literally the hope that kept them alive. Gerson stayed out of it period. Undyne saw the starvation issue as justification to hunt the humans without mercy (once they were out of the Ruins, they were dead humans walking anyway, in her eyes). Alphys never came out of her lab post what happened in the True Lab (which was a result of research into finding other ways of breaking the barrier, her contribution to trying to find another solution). Mettaton doesn't respect the King or humanity beyond as an audience.
In essence, of those in the know, no one can do anything to fix the situation, leaving it in the Catch 22...especially since Asgore can't risk the knowledge spreading for fear of crushing what hope remains for his people...or causing them to become even more fanatical about hunting down humans (creating something similar to the Underfell AU).
What I don't get about the starvation thing: the game in real time AND in game time only takes 6 hours. This is hinted at at the inn in Snowdin, so how would a kid starve in the span of 6 hours? Sure, they could've stayed in the Ruins longer, but they would have had nutrition there, so that wouldn't effect them negatively. But if you stayed much longer outside, you'd be mobbed to death by the populace wanting to destroy the barrier that finally got the info a human was in town.
Therefore, starvation wouldn't be close to a threat compared to other things.
Oh, come on. Why can't Asgore just be making a tough decision, and deciding that the needs of his subjects outweigh the needs of seven humans?
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The first human who arrived after Chara - when there were no souls collected - went Pacifist/Neutral, and made peace with Asgore and the other monsters, to the point no one was attacking. Since their choices after befriending Asgore were kill him and leave or stay as the King's ward, they chose to stay. That's when the starvation aspect kicked in, when they stayed for more than a week. So Asgore now knows that's the case for any human that leaves the Ruins.
7233664 Ah.