//------------------------------// // Prologue Part 2- Paradox // Story: A Traveling Dreemurr Teams Up with the Fastest Man Alive // by jjb0420 //------------------------------// I see a flash of golden light, and see an alicorn Twilight and Celestia appear. “You’ll pay for trying to assassinate Celestia Asriel. I thought we were friends! Whelp, looks like you guys were monsters after all, Celestia was right to kill you all!”, Twilight shouts in my shock, trying to blast me as I dodge. “This is impossible....................This can’t be how it ends for us!”, I think before summoning a Chaos Buster, “You should’ve gotten all the information from the book Twilight!”. I fire the buster in rapid shots, but they keep dodging through their alicorn flight. I try to strike them down with lightning when I feel a sharp pain in my back. I turn to see Luna had snuck up behind me and stabbed me in the back with a silver knife. “This..........This can’t be how it ends.............how monsters finally meet their end..................betrayed by those we considered friends...................I can feel it.................My body...................It feels like it’s splitting apart. Like any instant, i’ll scatter into a million pieces..............Twilight?.................But...............Deep, DEEP in my SOUL. There’s this burning feeling I can’t describe!”, I shout, grabbing my chest as I start to crack and shatter, and standing up, “a burning feeling that won’t let me die!”. Wind picks up around me as I reach out, “Why did you betray us Celestia?...................were we a threat to your rule, or were we simply another threat in the long run, the long lie?!”, I shout in their shock, “we never told you about the Genocide run, did we?.............well, when Chara tried to kill Monster Kid............Undyne took the blow...........”. “What are you babbling about!?......”, she shouts before Twilight puts up a hoof, recognizing the story. “Her SOUL was going to shatter like all the others before her................but she felt it, the one thing that makes her unique to other monsters, the only Monster besides my family to have it.....................Determination!”, I shout, my pieces starting to reform, “If you get past me, and get the Elements of Harmony from behind your throne............it won’t just stop with us, will it?..............Twilight!................you’ll destroy anything that isn’t Equestrian................changelings, Mobians, humans, Pokemon................you’ll destroy them all won’t you!?!?!”. My body starts to reform completely as I walk towards them, “Everyone’s HOPES, everyone’s DREAMS, vanquished in an instant...........But I WON’T let you do that. Right now, everyone in the world................I can feel their hearts beating as one. And we all have ONE goal. To defeat YOU!!!!!!!!!....................Alicorn, no whatever you are now, with all that LV.................For the sake of the WHOLE world...................I, ASRIEL DREEMURR, WILL STRIKE YOU DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!”. The dust around me condenses into pure Determination as my SOULs appear, absorbing it in a flash of light. Out of that light, I appear as the Angel of Death, but different, my wings, eyes and SOUL filled with black HATE. Luna tries to blast me, but I dodge it and grab her in a heartbeat, “YOUR GONNA HAVE TO TRY A LITTLE HARDER THAN THAT!”, I shout before throwing her into the other two..............................”TWILIGHT!!!!!!”. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I open my eyes to a black void, and I slowly, yet shakily get up as I hear a voice, an eerie song in the background. “Ahh.........if it isn’t little Asriel Dreemurr............or at least a version of him. I turn around to see what looks like Gaster, staring me down. “Wh-Where are you from?”, I ask. “All I will say is i’m from a world that you left after Betty killed my son! I’ll never get revenge on him.............so you will be the next best thing!”, he shouts before summoning his hands in my shock. He blasts me dead on in the face, when I open my eyes to the door to Snowdin, Chara and Mom staring each other down. “Chara, don’t you dare take another step.”, mom says in my shock. “Heh, you realize i’m gonna kill you now, SLICE!, right?”, Chara asks right before slashing Mom down, me screaming in shock. I wake up in silent shock, when I see that I fell asleep on the couch along with Kuro. I slowly get up, contemplating things, ‘why do I keep dreaming about..............that incident?’. My eyes start to water as I think, ‘are we really that much of a threat...............that we were killed in cold blood?’. I curl up into a ball on the couch as I hear footsteps. I slowly climb the couch to see Barry coming downstairs. “H-Hey Barry.”, I greet him sheepishly. “I see that you’re up.”, he says as he walks into the dining room, “where’s the Author and the others?”. “They said last night that they would leave to get something called a ‘McGriddle’ for breakfast, could you explain?”. “It’s just a breakfast choice at a popular fast food chain................that being said, you never explained your world.”, he says as he sits down. “Sigh......i’m simply from an AU where Frisk couldn’t stand leaving me behind, so she RESET about five times, until we were pulled into another world.”, I explain when we hear the door open. “best not tell Barry about that, he’ll think we’re girly and stuff.”, I hear a deep voice say. I turn around to see Sans, Gaster and Obsidian coming in to my excitement.............is that My Melody? “When did you get here, and how is My Melo with us?”, I ask. “Sans and I are time aberrations, complicated points or mistakes in time caused by changing reality or timelines. When that portal pulled us here, we were trapped in the Void..............that is, until Ink Sans helped us out. Created a portal to this world along with My Melody.”, Gaster explains, picking up the small bunny. Barry looks at the two skeletons with interest, which they notice. “forgive our manners. i’m sans, as in comic sans.”, the skeleton explains, holding out a hand. “Barry Allen.”, he responds, shaking it, surprisingly no whoopie cushion. “Ah, so we’re in that tree. I’ll have to ask the Author some questions. I am Dr. W.D. Gaster, former Royal Scientist, and adoptive father to Sans.”, the taller skeleton says, creating a top hat out of black shadow and tipping it to him, “ah yes, I remember the Author mentioning this after giving me the speedster samples. You’re the Flash of this timeline, Barry Allen.”. He walks up to me as they sit down, “speaking of the watch, where is it?”. “I gave it to Sunset Shimmer so no one would get suspicious.”, I explain, the man nodding in acknowledgment. “For now the pony can keep it. Speaking of them, where is the Author and his Editor?”. “Sunsets still upstairs I checked. As for those two, they went with Rin and Yukio to get breakfast.”, Barry explains as the door opens up, the four carrying bags, “we can eat at S.T.A.R. Labs, I have to introduce you to everyone.”. We nod and Sans snaps his fingers, creating a portal in Barry’s shock to a white room. “heh. looks like the variables and coordinates for equestria are the same as here. i can teleport us anywhere............so long as I have the juice. portal creation is one of the most difficult forms of spacial magic.”. Sunset Shimmer walks down in pajamas as we stare at the skeleton, “did you guys get breakfast?”. “We’re eating at this S.T.A.R. Labs place.”, I explain, the girl nodding as we walk through. “Welcome to what Eobard called his Time Vault. He housed an A.I. called Gideon, his suit and a Tachyon prototype in here, along with knowledge of the future.”, Barry explains as we step out. We walk down a long hallway until we reach a large room with several screens, a mannequin with the suit, and two rooms on the left and right. Yukio places the bag down on a table as I sit down, only for the chair to change into a small sofa under me. I jump up in shock as I look behind me. “First a chair changes last night, now a metal one changes into a full-on sofa? What’s going on?”, I ask. “could be some new power, or this world making your control go wonky.”, Sans suggests when we hear a beep on the screens. The Author walks up to them, and opens up his book, “called it, you two are up. Motorcyclist on Franklin just stole several thousand dollars worth of jewels from a store.”. I snap on my black cloak, then we speed out a few minutes before everyone came in, them stopping in shock. “Right...........never got the chance to introduce ourselves save Joe and Wally.”. Meanwhile........ The breezes in Equestria are much lighter than Earth. I can feel it zooming by my face as we catch up to the guy. He tries to shoot me, but I just catch the bullets in magic as Barry runs around, and removes the screws on the wheels, stopping him in his tracks as I put on handcuffs. “You are not gonna get too far on that thing anymore, are you? I will be taking these back to the jewelry store you stole them from.”, he says confidently, taking the bag. “But, you can keep these if you’d like.”, I say angrily, dropping every bullet from his clip at the street as the cops show up, “good luck with that.”. We run back and look at each other as I take off my hood, smiling. “What kind of idiot still thinks I can’t outrun bullets?!”, he says to me as I laugh. “That guy should be the criminal poster boy for what not to do against speedsters.”, I say in response as we walk in, and I see that three new people along with Joe and Wally had arrived and have everyone cornered. “Hey!”, I shout, everyone looking at us, “Sigh, Author what happened while we were gone!?”. “Cisco and Iris thought we were metas and tried to knock us out.”, he explains, pulling out his book and writing, “at least Joe and Wally kept Cisco and Caitlin from blasting us, things could’ve gotten messy.”. “What do you mean?”, Barry asks. “You’ll find out eventually. Anyway, I have a breakfast to eat, we never got to eat before that memo went off. Speaking of which, how’d your first proper team-up go?”, he explains as he pulls out a wrapped sandwich from the bag. “It went pretty good. Hey, toss one over here!”, I ask as I change back while everyone looks skeptical, and he tosses one to me. I slowly unwrap it to reveal a sausage patty with pancake bun, and I take a small bite. “Basically, picture his mindscape as raining Mcgriddles.”, the Author explains as my eyes widen, “hehehehe, knew he would like it, we both like sweet stuff like cinnamon!”. I keep eating it as Barry turns to everyone, “So what are we gonna call him?”. “You mean like a nickname? “Yeah. Cisco does it for all of them, he’s like the master of it. Can’t just call him Suspect on a Motorcycle, Right? What do you think?”. " I don’t know.”, Cisco responds. “I’ll take this one. Uh, The Crook. Lame? A Five-Finger...”, he lists as people save us get uncomfortable. “How about Thief? He robs stuff. Let’s just call him Thief. Gotta get to the gym. Excuse me.”, Cisco says as he leaves. The Author facepalms, “I had hoped that you wouldn’t say that, but..............”. “What, what happened?”, I ask. “Don’t ask.”, he says as Barry walks out along with Iris, “Caitlin, for info on most of us, look up Undertale.”. The other girl nods before walking up to me and taking a piece of fur. “Ow!”. She leaves as we all sit down, “so..........heh, how will we get back?”, I ask sheepishly. “You can probably open up a breach with help, but we’re not leaving just yet...................thing is, that kind of damage to reality can’t easily be fixed. There will be breaches into this world, and we’ll fix them, last thing we need is things getting messy.”, he explains as his book beeps red, opening it and looking shocked, “Imp Midna, get Barry back here if I send you the signal. Everyone else, looks like we’re up!”. He stands up and snaps, opening a portal to a street as we disguise ourselves, Gaster, Sans and I putting up hoods, while Sunset puts on a jacket, and everyone but Blue Scout hops through. We emerge to a path near a staircase into a large building. “Looks like I got the portal just right. Now, where is she?”, the Author asks himself, looking around. “Where are we?”, I ask. “We’re at CCPD. An alarm I set up went off near here, and we need to stop, incapacitate, or pacify whatever came through.”, he explains when we hear screams, we turn and see people running away from something. We run towards the people to see a laser nearly hit a person. We turn towards the lasers origin, and see a robot-like being, with a blue body and an animalistic head. “what in the world is that!?”, Sans shouts as we all dodge another blast. “Blue limbs and body, anthropomorphic chipmunk head.........it can’t be.”, the Author says in disbelief as he puts up a shield, “I either forgot to tell the whole story, or she’s from another world!”. “You are not making any sense. Who is she?”, asks Gaster, putting up shields to give people cover. “That.........is Sally Acorn...........or more accurately, what became of her after she was roboticized.”, he states to our confusion. “you’re still not makin any sense kid!!”, Sans shouts as he tries to curve an incoming missile away from people. “She’s from Sonic’s world okay?! Eggman stole and perfected a process that turns living people into robot slaves!”, he shouts, running towards her in our shock, “she shouldn’t be like this, their world was rebooted after an accident with Chaos Control. No one remembered except Sonic and Eggman until Nicole brought them back with a bug in her system!”. He teleports between blasts as he pulls out a blue book, shocking her with lightning. “Systems.................decreasing. Battery Capacity at 83%.”, she says in our shock before trying to hit the Author, but he dodges, pulling out a book and a phone. “I hoped I would never have to use this.............but better now than never, and at least for a good purpose. Mephiles, Mephiles, Mephiles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”, he shouts as he opens the book. We all think it did nothing, but the book surrounds itself in a dark purple and black hue, and explodes with purple light, sending out bolts of energy towards the street. They all land near the robot, forming blue, red and yellow creatures and grabbing her. “Dark Gaia Creatures...............never thought i’d see the day that I would be happy to see those!”, he shouts, jumping onto her as the creatures hold her down. “What are you...........?”, I ask before he plugs the phone into her neck. “She’s so strong cause she has a Power Ring inside her system. Normally they give roboticized Mobians free will, but Egghead put in several firewalls and power equalizers..........”, he explains, right when she goes limp, her eyes going blank, “BOOM, all of which I just shut off!”. The creatures slowly fade away as the Author puts her over his shoulder, “the energy and software I used must’ve shut down her neural cortex. Once we get out of sight I’ll remove the hardware keeping her obedient.”. I walk up to him and help him carry her, when we’re grabbed by a blur and taken into a building, next to a woman in glasses. “No.”, she says as her papers get scattered, then spots us, “who are you?”. “Sorry Felicity, should’ve called. I was just so shocked.”, Barry explains as I walk towards her, taking off the cloak and changing back in her shock. “H-Howdy! Do you.........know who I am?”, I ask sheepishly. “Oh, my god. I saw a couple videos, and I never thought I would see this in a million years.”, she says as she straightens the desk, “but h-how is this possible?”. “long story short, were from another multiverse where our game is reality.”, Sans explains as he takes off his hood. “I created their timeline to give EVERY single person a happy ending, including Chara. Unfortunately, that took a lot of work, I had to combine several AUs into a singular timeline.”, the Author explains as he puts Sally down in a chair. “If this is awkward you don’t have to answer. But could I feel your fur please, you’re so cute.”, she says to me. “Uh....sure?”, I respond, giving her a paw. She gently grabs it and shakes it as another reason, “it feels like a bed sheet, made of fur as soft as silk.”. “As interesting as this is to see, I want to get to business. Barry, why did you bring us to Star City?”, the Author asks. Then the speedster quickfires Felicity with what went down. “Okay, let me get this straight. You ran back in time. Stopped Reverse-Flash from killing your mom and then lived in an alternate reality where both your parents were alive?”. “Yeah.”, Barry responds. “And then you restored the timeline, came back to the moment you left, and noticed that things were different?”. “Exactly.”, he responds in shock. “And I know exactly what changed. Let’s see..........”, the Author says, conjuring up a small notebook and opening it, “first, Iris and Joe won’t talk, cause Joe didn’t tell her about her mother being in town. Cisco’s brother Dante died in a car crash via drunk driver..................and he’s mad at you because you apparently wouldn’t bring Dante back via time travel.”. “He’s mad at me because of that?!”, he asks. “Also you and Iris never kissed, and one Julian Albert works with you in Forensics.”, the Author finishes, closing the book, “I might have missed something...........”. He walks towards the computers along with Barry and I. “What, you think it affected us too?”, asks Felicity. “Barry will have to check, never watched Arrow...............I forgot to mention your world is individual TV Shows, didn’t I?”, he says, the two looking shocked, “I’ll explain later. Please check man.”. Barry skeptically sits down near one and scrolls through the screen quickly with his speed, ending on a picture of a man with a young boy. “Wait. Who’s that young boy with Dig?”, he asks. “No way. He didn’t have a kid before?”. “No, he had a kid. He has........he has a kid. Yeah, it was baby Sara.”, he responds with fear. “Baby John.”, she responds, everyone looking shocked. “Oh man now I remember. Aside from spoilers, we also just ERASEd baby Sara from the timeline.”, the Author says, sitting down near Sally, “I would say to tell the team, but you’ll eventually do that. Anyway, you can fix this man.”. “Why, because I’m the Flash?”, he says getting up, Felicity putting her hands on his arms. “No. Because you are Barry Allen. And sweet, loving, kind Barry Allen that everybody likes, the Barry Allen who’s just like pudding, can fix this.”, she says kindly, “now go and fix this. Central City needs Team Flash.”. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ”Come on, the Void Equalizer should work!”, I hear the Doctor shout. “At least we have a power source now, the gems from Asriel’s closet pack a charge!”, I hear DJ shout back, as I start to see a console. I realize that I’m dreaming. I try to concentrate, and I conjure up a note near the console. “Huh?”, the Doctor says as he sees it and picks it up, “’dear Doctor, I can currently see you two via a dream, so I sent this note, YAY! Anyway, tell everyone we’re okay. The portal took us to another world, and we’ll try to open a gateway so you guys can come through. Until then, use the gems, they’re the Chaos Emeralds from Sonic’s world. Plug them straight into the heart and the TARDIS should have enough juice to slip through the breach. Take Frisk, Chara, Alphys, Peridot, Sonic, Undyne, DJ, Mom...............................and Dad’s dust to us. I just hope the Author let’s you in. From, Asriel. P.S., we got visitors from two worlds, tell Sonic we found a ‘Sally Acorn?’’”, he reads, looking at the pony. “At least we know they’re alive.”, DJ states. “And he wrote Space-Time coordinates on the back somehow. Someone must be observing his dream and snuck them in.”, he guesses. I turn and see Gaster staring me down. I wake up in the lab next to Kuro and Sans during the night, and slowly get up without waking them up. I sit down, then spot the Author near me, sat down near Sally as he closes her eyelids. “Uuhmm..............why?”, I ask, the man looking towards me in surprise. “I haven’t looked at my book in a while, didn’t know you were awake. Look..........”, he explains, rolling towards me, “I’m sorry. When I showed you that future through the door, I sealed that possible future in stone.....................I won’t let it happen. Anyway, how do you feel?”. “I guess.............I feel okay? Sigh, it’s just....................I miss everyone, and I want to bring Dad back.”, I explain as I look at the robot, “what were you doing?”. “I was removing those modifications................once I jumpstart her neural cortex, we can talk to her.”, he explains, getting up and walking towards her, “could you help me move her to the Time Vault, I don’t want the others to wake up.”. “Sure.”, I respond, getting up and grabbing one arm and picking her up. We walk out down the hallway until we reach the white room. We enter, and we place her down. “Now so we’re not interrupted......”, he says before closing the door, “now then, I removed the energy equalizers, and erased the firewalls from her data banks. All to do now is hope that I didn’t fry her drives and we can simply power her up!”. He pulls out his blue book, and sends a lightning bolt at her. “Come on............”, he says with hope when we hear noises. “Systems...........restarting. All drives functioning. Hardware missing.................adapting to new configuration.”, we hear a robotic voice say as she slowly stirs. “What.............happened............where............am I?”, she asks in a female voice as we smile, her eyelids slowly opening. “Good to see that I succeeded. Welcome back Sally.”, the Author says in as she shows confusion. “Who..............are you? How do you...........know my name?”, she asks, trying to stand up, “why do I feel..........so heavy?”. The Author contemplates this, “Hmm.............it must be your subconscious mind. It’s not used to your new weight, so it’s transmitting it into your receptors.”. He walks up to her, right when as her eyes adjust, seeing him and me, and backing up. “H-Howdy.............my name is Asriel.”, I say in her confusion, offering a paw when we hear rumbling, then a strange wheezing, groaning sound. “I know that sound anywhere!”, the Author shouts before running over and opening the door. “How about.............I help you out?”, I ask awkwardly. She nods slowly, “Sure?”. I put an arm over my shoulder, and we walk outside. We walk towards the main room and see a blue box, with people coming out. “What is that?”, I ask when I see Mom emerge with a jar, “MOM!”. She turns around as I run up and hug her as Peridot emerges along with DJ and the Doctor. “It’s good to see you Azzy.”, she says, tearing up. “It’s nice to see that your okay mom. After...........that incident, I worried about everyone.”, I explain when we hear a beeping from the Author. He pulls out the book and opens it up, dropping it in shock from what he sees, “no...............no no no no no!”. He punches the wall, cracking it as Caitlin and Barry come in, “Imp Midna!”. The pegasus teleports near him, “What is it man?”. “The damage to reality was worse than I predicted...........it destroyed the time-lock and my firewall.”, he explains in her shock, and our confusion. “You mean..............”. “Yep. They’re both here, right now. Get the tooth and the badge, we’re gonna need their help with this.”, he says as he pulls out a black book, and she flies out. “What’s going on?”, I ask. “You were all wrong............not all Equestria’s have it easy, or are pure good. One day in my dimension I found a world..............it wasn’t right, It was like Errortale, or Cross Sans’ world. So I time-locked it. It couldn’t move forward, it was locked in a single moment in time...........two months worth. Unfortunately.........”, he explains in our shock as Blue Scout comes back in, “the damage to the Omniverse done by everyone, including me...........destroyed that time-lock, along with the ‘firewall’ I set up in this world!”. “But who’s coming? When are they coming?”, I ask. “They’re already here kid.”, he says as we feel the ground shake, “you, Sans, Barry, Undyne, Blue and I will go stop their chaos. Everyone else, you’ll get everyone to safety and keep this contained.”. He snaps his gloved fingers, opening a red portal to a damaged street as I conjure up a cloak. “Before we go...........I must warn you. What we’re facing isn’t simply a being who wants to prevent peace, or simple beasts. She will do whatever it takes, to get what she sees as ‘harmony’..................Barry, only you would understand this, she’s basically a ‘harmonic Hitler’.”, he explains, the speedster looking angry. “If someone, anyone, from your world became That, then they have to be stopped.”, he responds, everyone nodding and hopping through. “May our SOULs be strong and true.”, he says before we both go through, the portal closing behind us as people run by us, “now where are they? Even portals have limits so which version did I time-lock?”. “What do you?......”, I ask before he’s blasted back by a rainbow bolt. He recovers quickly, “so it’s that one! Good thing Blue grabbed the tokens!”. I try to ask him a question, but we hear a familiar voice, one that sends chills down my back. “So, more apes that think they can stop me.”, the voice says. “Do I summon them?”, Blue Scout asks, dodging another blast. “Not yet, I’ll use the book!”, he shouts as we see..................Twilight!? He pulls out that book, “Balance, balance, balance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”, he shouts, mist-like bolts swarming out and slowly collecting and forming into a silver metal alloy. They eventually form into humanoid, canine and mechanical constructs. “What do you know, Forerunners!”, he shouts before looking at the Twilight, “Last chance before a fight, Twilight Sparkle. Surrender, and let us explain the flaws in your plan.......................or die, to gods and an army of metal.”. He holds out a gloved hand, but she just looks angry. “You think I’m afraid of you? I’ve done everything until now knowing what had to be done. If You think you’re the first to try and sway me from this path, your wrong. I will have Harmony, even if everyone in my way has to die!”, she shouts before trying to blast Sans, the skeleton teleporting out of range. “That there Twilight, that was your last chance before any pain. BLUE, THE TOKENS NOW, I’LL CALL IN THAT FAVOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”, he shouts, pulling out a blue crystal as Blue throws the tokens on the ground, creating two portals as the metal constructs start shooting. The Author breaks the crystal in his hands before pulling out two black hilts, another portal opening to a triangle, a man in a jacket, and what looks like Discord coming out. “Wait...................Your Jason, right?”, I ask, the man looking at me. “Yep that’s me. Now, who needs to be stopped?”, he asks before being blasted in the face. “I know that magic anywhere...........impossible.”, the Discord says before putting up a shield. “Oh it’s her Loki, looks like she’s stronger than we all thought. She’s.....................DETERMINED, to see her plan through!”, the Author shouts in my shock before pressing red buttons on his hilts, igniting black blades and running in. I look at the triangle, “and who are you?”. He quickly blasts Twilight away with a blue flame before looking at me, “well well well, never expected to see you so soon kid. Names Bill CIPHER!”, he shouts before blasting a pink blob away from Undyne. “Great, Kumu’s here, so Béte Noire’s not far behind. Twilight Shadeshift!!!!!!!!!!!!”, Blue shouts before being surrounded in black shadow, emerging as that blue and black being. Barry sees this as he runs and gets people to safety behind the shield, “what the hell?”. “Please, language. Anyway, that’s something she apparently can do!”, I shout as I attack Kumu. “But.......that’s Midna from Legend of Zelda!”, he shouts. “I gave her Midnas powers when I chose her as an Editor!”, the Author explains as he spins with his blades, attacking a dodging Twilight. “And man they can be cool, Twilight Wolf!!!!!!!!!!”, Blue shouts, condensing the shadows around her into a black wolf, which she hops into as itshakes Kumu around in its jaws. “Everyone has a weakness ‘Author’, even you!”, we hear Betty shout when I hear the Author gasp in pain. We all turn towards him and see that Kumu had gotten free, and Betty had stabbed him through the chest! He falls to his knees, “you have no idea.............what you just did.”, he says, and we see Bill and the Discord preparing for something. “What, kill you?”, Betty asks as he he suddenly stands up in our shock. “You don’t simply kill the creator, and think you’ll win!!!!! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”, he screams before a black shadow-like swarm and purple flames burst out of him, condensing into a black, shadowy storm of dark energy. It starts tearing through the buildings around us, grabbing the three in its power and throwing them all over the place. “what.............is that power?!?”, Sans shouts as the storm throws the three on the ground, the energy shifting into a large, wolf-like beast with a hinged tail, throwing them around and slashing them with its claws. “AND I WANTED TO SPAR WITH THE GUY!!!!!!!!!!”, Undyne shouts as the three are thrown to the ground, unconscious. “Okay, let’s stop this before it gets too messy Loki, don’t want him to change the rating!”, Bill says, the draconequus nodding, then snapping his talons and conjuring up a blue rope of energy. The two toss the beast into the air, then trap it in the binds. “Calm down man, don’t want to kill anyone unless no other choice, right?”, the Discord lookalike says, the creature lashing out like a cat in yarn, until it slowly starts to calm down. “Thats right kid, nice and easy. It’ll take a while for your physical form to regenerate, so just shapeshift into a copy of someone. Okay?”, Bill says as the shadow becomes docile, nodding slowly, “okay, we’ll put you down.”. They slowly float back down, releasing the binds as the shadow changes again, forming a completely black Lucario, surrounded in red energy. “Um............are you.......okay?”, I ask, the Lucario copy opening its eyes to red, slitted eyes, and looking straight at me. “Hmm. lets just get these two in the pipeline, the energy levels are similar to metahuman powers.”, he says, holding out a paw and creating black cages around the two. Sans skeptically snaps his fingers and creates a shortcut back, Caitlin, Iris and Cisco standing there. “Care to explain what the hell’s going on?!”, Cisco shouts. “Please man, language!”, I exclaim, taking off the cloak. “Groan! Just tell us where the Pipeline is, I have two villains who’ll wake up any second!”, the Author shouts, growling. “Whoa whoa, calm down. May I ask who this is?”, Iris asks, putting up her hands defensively. “apparently the author has more power than he lets on. béte noire here stabbed him, causing all that raw power to burst out and knock them both out.”, Sans explains, pointing to the cages, “and man they aren’t a humerus bunch.”. “Oh my god Sans!”, I exclaim, bursting into laughter, “its been a while since you’ve used a pun!”. “You know what, I’ll just escort these myself, since I want to get this over with.”, the growling Lucario says, walking out as everyone else comes in. “I’ll go talk to him. Sans, you and Mom try to explain things to them.”, I explain, walking out. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I walk around until I spot a small corridor, leading to a door. I turn and walk in and see him, talking with the Twilight. “You know, I compare your twisted vision of your worlds’ ‘flaws’, to Chara’s.............thinking the world isn’t right, and everything wrong has to die!”, he shouts telepathically, growling. “Well at least I know something needs to be done. And I’m not going to give up so easily!”, she shouts before trying to conjure up magic, but it fizzles out, “what............what did you do!?”. “These cages are designed to contain and dampen energy. Normally its metahuman abilities, but your magic is so corrupted and amplified, it’s considered as artificial!”, he explains, growling, “you’re not getting out Twilight. Only way I would release you is if you released the elements, and I revived your ‘friends’, which you tortured to get their elements From.”. He places a paw on a touchpad, closing the door as I quickly close the one in here, and he turns around, walking back in shock. “Sigh, look, I know that I shouldn’t be this mad.”, he explains, sitting down on the stairs, “that power I wanted to keep secret.”. “What was that anyway? You just................burst out like a parasite. And why are you so mad?”, I ask as I sit down near him. “This.............is my energy, my.........consciousness, my true form in this world. What you saw was my shell of a physical form being broken................all that negative and dark energy, just released at one time.............it’s like you when your mad. Wild, uncontrollable unless calmed down, erratic, dangerous.....................powerful.”, he explains, looking at his paws. “So.............your so aggressive because it’s negative energy?”, I ask him, he nods. “Sigh. You know, I can do anything.................I just choose not to sometimes. Like with your father, I wanted to bring his dust here and resurrect him. But I want to keep things from going badly.”, he explains as he folds his furry arms. “Sigh.............I have to tell them about that future, don’t I?”, I ask. “Hm. That’s entirely your choice man. Sometimes..............you do things you regret. But it’s never too late to do the right thing, you know?”, he says as he unsteadily gets up, looking at me with a toothy smile, “Heh. Could you do me a favor, and help me to the room? All that was adrenaline.”. “Heh.........sure man.”, I respond, putting an arm around me and opening the door, and walk towards the main room. We eventually reach it and sit down, seeing everyone had left save Gaster, Mom, Sans, the Doctor, and Peridot. “So mom............how are things going back home?”, I ask awkwardly. “So far they’re going okay dear. Problem is, things are getting uneasy since you publicly announced that Celestia killed your father. Monsters are getting suspicious of ponies, ponies are fearful of what we can do, everything is getting risky.”, she explains. “Good to see that you’re okay, Toriel.”, the Author greets her, “although I must ask, where’s Frisk and Chara?”. “They’re still in the TARDIS. While you were gone, some new people showed up, so they came with us.”, she explains, getting up, “you can come with me if you want, they’ll be happy to see you. Not to mention I need to give the others the all clear.”. I nod and grab the Authors paw, pulling him with me to the blue box. We enter with mom and see a large room as the Doctor follows us. “Whoa..........it’s bigger on the inside!”, I say, the Author chuckling. “Interesting that Asriel of all Monsters says that.”. “Especially since his mother said the opposite when we showed her.”, the Doctor says behind us. We walk down a corridor, no one noticing save the Author that Sally snuck behind us, following the Doctor until we reach a small, three room bedroom. “You can come out dears. I have your brother with me!”, mom shouts. I see the two heads of my sisters pop out a corner, then run at me. “Oh it’s so good to see you Azzy!”, Frisk exclaims as they hug me. “It’s great to see you too sis.”, I respond as I spot someone in the background, “who’s that?”. “Oh right.”, Chara realizes, turning around, “it’s okay, it’s just our brother.”. The person comes out and slowly walks towards me, and I see what they look like. It’s a Frisk, wearing shorts and her sweater, but she has fur, long white ears in her hair, and paws like mine. “H-Hi. Your Asriel, right?”, she asks nervously, me still being shocked. “The Overtale AU, where Frisk and Chara are Goat Monsters, and everyone else is humans.”, the Author explains, closing his eyes, “hmm........I sense the presence of two other creatures. Digital, yet living.”. He walks towards a bed with his eyes closed and pulls off the covers, revealing two cat-like creatures, one orange and one white with gloves. “Gatomon, and Meicoomon..........interesting.”, he says the two looking at him. “Why aren’t you just speaking?”, the white one asks. “I am not a Digimon Gatomon, I’m a Pokémon. They can’t speak english with a few exceptions, one of which......”, he explains, tapping his head, “is telepathy. This type, a Lucario, can communicate telepathically using Aura, the life force of all things.”. He looks towards the door, “I know your there Sally, just come out.”. We all turn and see that, he’s right. The robotic Mobian pops out unsteadily. “How did you know I was here?”, she asks. “One, you might be robotic, but, strangely, it seems that........”, he explains before waving his left paw, and we’re all shocked to see a blue silhouette of a heart near her chest, “you somehow have a SOUL, thats neither human nor Monster, that I can somehow sense through Aura. Second, I’m the Author, I create the story.”. “So she’s like Béte Noire, neither Monster nor human, yet still having a SOUL?”, I ask. He turns to me, “all sentient creatures have a culmination of their being. Sora’s world has hearts, you guys and the ponies have SOULs, even Digimon have Digi-Core’s, the soul and mind of their being. Without it, Digimon are basically programmable robots.”, he explains, sitting down, “but its still fascinating that a roboticized Mobian has a SOUL, considering they’re not organic.”. He lightly chuckles when he quickly looks up, an ear twitching. “What is it?”, the Doctor asks. “It’s.......................its nothing.”, he says, standing up, “anyway, I want to talk to you, DJ, Alphys, Gaster and Peridot. Asriel, why don’t you and your siblings help Sally find our resident Mobians? Don’t worry, I’ll be right back after I’ve talked.”. “Sure.”, I respond, the Lucario smiling a bit then flying out in a cloud of black energy, the Doctor and the other two running after him. We walk out and walk down the corridor, following Mom until we stop at a blue door. Mom opens it to a small room, I spot the two on a couch, and I hear sounds from a game. “Hey Sonic, we’re with Asriel, and looks like he has someone with him who knows you.”, Frisk explains. I hear them pause their game, then get up. I look around the corner and see that they’re walking towards us. “Hey kid, what’s?......”, Sonic asks before spotting Sally, looking shocked. “H-Hi?”, she says the two looking shocked, ecstatic, and suspicious. “H-How is this possible?”, Tails asks when we hear a gust of wind behind us. “I assume that they know her?”, we hear the Author ask. We all turn and see him along with the five. “You have some explaining to do, young Dreemurr. The Author here told us about what you saw after letting it slip.”, Gaster says in my shock. “Anyway, you two. Remember the Power Rings?”, the Author asks the Mobians, the three nodding, “hmm. Well, she has one in her system, supercharging her machinery.”. “Then why didn’t she have free will until now?”, Tails asks, looking at the Robian............what the? “Eggman included several power equalizers to neutralize that ‘pesky’ feature, of which I disabled and removed.”, the Author explains, doing difficult air-quotes with his paws, “man, I miss my shell already, and that takes days to regenerate.”. “A-Anyway, why didn’t you guys just teleport back?”, Alphys asks. “One, Barry will need our help. Two, the damage to reality still stands. Only once we bring back Asgore and repair any rogue breaches, will this madness stop.”, the Author explains, an ear twitching in irritation, “Hmmph. Let’s go out, I need to introduce the Displaced I called anyway.”. “What was that Twilight anyway...............how did they end up like that?”, I ask as we walk towards the main room. “Like I said, not all the Equestrias are good, or protected. She’s from a dark fanfic, known as Pages of Harmony................I still wish I ERASEd it when I had the chance, her friends and race deserve MERCY.”, he explains as we exit, sitting down in sorrow and anger. He looks up at us, “It was after her Sombra returned. They won the day, yes............but not before Sombra showed her their future, and how ‘pointless’ it was..............it...........it drove her to the brink, and she did something that she’d regret.”. That’s when the Discord lookalike appears in the air, “she absorbed the elements, at the cost of her friends.”. “You only got half the story Loki. In order to absorb the elements, she tortured, and hypnotized her friends into doing the exact opposite of their elements...................they’re still in there, you know.”, the Author explains, everyone jumping back to this information, “Inside her mind is the...........echoes, the spirits of her friends, incapable of going to the afterlife.”. “What I don’t get is how the crazy alicorn survived my magic.”, the Draconequus states. “Somehow she’s become so powerful, so DETERMINED in her goals, she’s become capable of creating Determination, literally refusing her own death.”, the Author explains, “and it wasn’t just them..............first she killed Sweetie Belle and Spike because they were ‘in the way’, then............after she absorbed the elements...............she discovered this specific gene for harmony, and decided to pull a terrible Hitler, killing anyone without the gene.”, he explains in everyone’s shock, some people recognizing ‘in the way’. “We can’t just leave her in there.”, I say, Sans getting up. “sigh.........look. i never gave chara the same curtesy, but..................if she accepts it, i’ll let you save her, together. if you, the kid, and the demon cover me, i’ll give my judgement.”, Sans says, snapping. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We’ve teleported ourselves and the Twilight into the Judgement Hall, and then she wakes up in shock. “GASP! Where am I?!”, she shouts, spotting us. “so.............you finally made it, woke up. the end of your old journey is at hand. in a few moments, you will meet the king. together...............You will determine the future of this world. That’s then. Now. You will be judged. You will be judged for your every action. You will be judged for every EXP you’ve earned. What’s EXP? It’s an acronym. It stands for “execution points.””, Sans says, changing fonts in her shock, “that’s right, Sombra lied. It’s something different. A way of quantifying the pain you have inflicted on others. When you kill someone, your EXP increases. When you have enough EXP, your LOVE increases. LOVE, too, is an acronym. It stands for “Level of Violence.” A way of measuring someone’s capacity to hurt. The more you kill, the easier it becomes to distance yourself. The more you distance yourself, the less you will hurt. The more easily you can bring yourself to hurt others.”. He looks up as the pony looks shocked at this info, “heh. Now Twilight, do you understand? It’s time to begin your judgment. Look inside yourself. Have you really done the right thing? And, considering what you’ve done...........What will you do now? Take a moment to think about this....................”, he says, the pony contemplating things, “............truthfully, it doesn’t really matter what you think. all that’s important is that you were honest with yourself. what happens now..............we leave up to you.”. She shakes her head and takes a step, “...........................so, i’ve got a question for ya. do you think even the worst person can change...? that everyone can be a good person, if they just try?”. She takes another step. “heh heh heh heh...........all right. well, here’s a better question. do you wanna have a bad time? cause if you take another step forward............you are REALLY not going to like what happens next.”, he says with empty sockets, the alicorn taking another step, “welp. sorry, old lady. this is why i never make promises.”. The three of us step out. “its a beautiful day outside. birds are singing, flowers are bloomin. on days like these, girls like you................should be Burning in HELL!!!!!!”, he screams before summoning Gaster Blasters, trying to blast the pony as she dodges. The fight takes several minutes as I start to have flashes of fighting Sans. ‘why am I seeing this?’, I think when I start to hear a certain voice. “Your seeing my.........sorry, OUR, fights with him during our many RESETs.”, I hear a high pitched voice say. “F---Flowey!?”, I ask in Sans and Chara’s confusion. “Oh this is just rich! You really thought because you have a SOUL.........wait, seven SOULs that I stopped existing!?”, I hear him shout, in my head as we keep dodging and attacking, “the ‘Author’ over there was blocking me out ever since the Poison Joke incident, and man I’m glad I get some input!”. I look at Sans, “any guesses?”. “hell if i know. all i know is...........seeing what comes next............i can’t afford not to care anymore...........I’ve been holding back a bit.”, he says before landing as we take a breath, looking at the alicorn, “ugh............that being said..........you, uh, really like blasting us around with that horn, huh?”. He looks down, “.............listen. i know you didn’t answer me before, but.............somewhere in there. i can feel it. there’s a glimmer of a good person inside you. the memory of someone who once wanted to do the right thing. someone who did whatever it took to protect her friends. someone who, in another time, might have even been..............a friend? c’mon, buddy. do you remember them? rainbow dash.........rarity...............fluttershy..............sweetie belle.............pinkie.............applejack...............spike?”, he says, and to our surprise we see her eyes flash different colors, she looks disappointed and remorseful, “please, if you’re listening..........let’s forget all of this, ok? just discharge your horn and...........well, my job will be a lot easier.”. That’s when she starts crying, discharging her horn. “you’re sparing me? finally. buddy. pal. i know how hard it must be.........to make that choice. to go back on everything you’ve worked up to. i want you to know.............i won’t let it go to waste. .............c’mere, pal.”, Sans says as he opens up his arms, the pony running up to him and hugging him. “I’m sorry..................I’m so sorry!”, she shouts as I look at her, remorseful. “Someone had some second thoughts.”, I hear Flowey say. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We walk in when everyone else comes back. “There you guys are, where did you go?”, I ask curiously. “I teleported your family and the digimon to the West house, apparently Barry tried to set up a dinner to try and fix things.”, Gaster explains when Barry suddenly zooms in. “Probably didn’t work, they still don’t know about Flashpoint.”, I hear Flowey say, and I look around. “Speaking of which, I thought I told to back off Flowey.”, the Author explains growling, mom looking at me in confusion. “What does he mean Asriel?”, she asks worriedly as everyone else comes in. “apparently, the kid is somehow hearing the weed in his head. started while we were giving twilight here a bad time.”, Sans explains, pointing towards the alicorn behind him. “Speaking of which, why the hell did she want to pull a hitler!?”, Barry asks angrily, the other humans showing shock in our confusion. “Hmmph. Look Barry, what would you do if you knew the future.............or at least a possible one?”, the Author asks as I start to shift uncomfortably. “Please sir..........Barry. I really regret my actions................I was just so afraid. Then I just couldn’t think clearly, it was like I just stopped feeling remorse, I just focused on what I thought was right.”, the Twilight explains. The Author shows acknowledgment along with Blue, “Hmmph. must’ve been the LV running through you after the deaths of your Mane Six, as well as the princesses.”. “so i was right, even ponies can gain LV.”, Sans guesses. “I’m starting to think anything can get LV, just requires sentience.”, the Author explains as Cisco puts an image on a screen. “Wait........is that..!”, I try to say before the Author covers my snootle with a paw. “We finally get rid of Zoom, and now there’s another evil speedster?”, Cisco asks, “who is this guy now?”. “We know who he is.”, the Author says, uncovering my muzzle, “those husks you’ve been finding, all over town? Yeah those are an alternate form of meta human creation, them being ‘reborn’. And this guy is one.”. “I finally got the results back from the test I ran on the husk that Barry gave me this morning.”, Caitlin explains, showing complex data, “And it’s weird, because there’s no traces of dark matter, but there are traces of the Speed Force.”. “Thats him. And his name is..........”, the Author explains before pausing. “Edward Clariss.”, Barry says. “Okay, you are all answering questions right now, how the hell do you know each other, and how do you know this!?!”, Joe asks, as I cover my ears to no effect. “Language, please!”, mom shouts, everyone starting to argue. “Want me to speak, or just chill out!?”, Flowey shouts in my mind. ‘Be quiet Flowey, I’ll let you speak in a second.................wait...........why do I feel this small weight in my chest?’, I think before feeling weight. “What do you...........wait........your right, I can feel it too...............it feels terrible to me, like I can feel..........something............like guilt.”, he says as Barry and Iris walk out. “Enough!!”, the Author shouts, sending a blue sphere into the air, “all this fighting will get us nowhere, especially since we have a speedster to catch!”. Right after he says that Barry zooms back in. “You’re finally ready to tell them?”, the Author asks. “Yes...........and Asriel.”, he says, me looking at him, “Gaster told me about what you saw.............Explains the nightmare you had two nights ago...............you need to tell them.”. I look blankly at Mom, my siblings, the skeleton and the speedster in shock. “Just begin man, we need to deal with Clariss.”. “Sigh.......Okay, um...................after Zoom killed my dad, after we defeated him, um.............I wasn’t in a great space, and I felt like the only way I could fix that was to run back in time and save my mom.”, he says, everyone showing shock as he shows a diagram. “you created an entire new timeline. no wonder you’re somewhat cool with us, Asriel ended up with you.”, Sans guesses, the speedster nodding. “We call it Flashpoint.”. “But you decided to leave it. Why?”, Joe asks. “That life started to spin out of control. This guy, Clariss, he was a Speedster there, too. He was known as the Rival. He caused a lot of problems, and Asriel was losing control of that foresight ability of his. So, um.............I decided to run back in time again and let things happen as they were supposed to, in hopes of.............resetting the timeline, but.........”, Barry explains. “But time doesn’t simply repair itself like that, not unless it runs the right course at least once. Since that moment has been changed so many times, even the smallest change will change things in the present, and future. Picture space-time as a cup. When you change it, it cracks and breaks.”, the Author explains, conjuring up a teacup, then surprisingly vibrating a piece off, “you can try to fix it, set things right. But no matter how hard you try........”, he explains, fitting the piece back in, albeit with cracks and difficulty, “its never going to be exactly how it was.”. “Um, I created another timeline. Uh, it’s the one we’re living in now. It’s not as different as the last one. Not in large ways, but in some ways, in smaller ways, and, uh, meaningful ways for all of you or anybody that’s close to me. And I can’t ever really put it back together.”, Barry explains, drawing a third line on the diagram. “But that still doesn’t explain why your here.”, Wally points out, looking at us. “Doctor, if you could help me out?”, the Author asks, the Doctor nodding and walking with him towards a glass pane, “at the exact same time Barry changed the timeline, we were fighting Béte Noire, that pink human that stabbed me, and an alternate version of Chara. They created multiple breaches in our world around the time that Celestia killed Asgore Dreemurr, Asriel’s father. Those three powerful space-time events............”. He gestures to the Doctor, and they pull out devices and create three cracks in the glass, and it quickly splinters. “Caused the entire fabric of reality to be greatly damaged. Since our universes were the ground zeros, it damaged the worlds around it, cracked the walls around those trees, this entire section of the orchard Splintered.”, he explains as it worsens. “And that’s how Asriel and the others got pulled here. Its how people are coming in, how we came through in the TARDIS. They’re bleeding through the faultlines, Asriel came through breaches, and we came in through doors created by the damage.”, the Doctor explains. “For now the damage is being contained by our magical and transdimensional energy, but if we don’t repair the damage as people come in...............”, the Author explains before tapping the glass, completely shattering it in our shock, “don’t worry, i’m not gonna let that happen, not to mention the Traveler is hardwired to fix those with his items of power.”. “So you decided it was okay to change things when someone in your family dies, but when it’s someone in my family.............”, Cisco says to Barry before leaving, Barry following. He turns to me, “Asriel....................................Barry’s right. We need to tell them.”. I look at him, shocked, “please..........................”. “Everyone deserves to know man.”, he says, opening the TARDIS and teleporting them out, “as Harry once said, ‘everyone loses people they care about, what matters is what you do now, and when they’re gone’.”. I look down and snap my paw, creating a chair and breaking the jar mom holds, dad’s dust churning until he comes back to life in confusion before spotting me, “when we went to Danny’s world, they were defending the Crystal Empire from their King Sombra................we went looking for the Crystal Heart, a...........relic, that protects the empire with all the crystal ponies’ love and light..................one of the defenses Sombra placed was a door that leads to your worst fear, but the Author used it to show the future.”. I look up and start crying, “Celestia betrays us.........................she lies, and tells everyone I try to assassinate her, and they kill us all........................in cold blood. I end up being the very last one, and Luna backstabs me.”, I explain as everyone looks shocked, even Undyne, “I end up somehow generating Determination..............and try to kill them and Twilight, just like you did Undyne.”. I start to full on sob as mom and dad hug me in everyone’s shock. “So when you had that nightmare, you saw that future again?”, I hear Kuro ask. The Author nods, “its why I promised to help him, no matter what. It’s why you and him bond so well..................it’s what he saw from those visions in Flashpoint.”. Sans looks at me as I keep crying, “this is why you attacked diamond tiara, isn’t it?”, he asks, I slowly nod and he sighs, “after all we went through, all the, RESETs................there’s still someone who can’t see past our appearance, our abilities..............and see our passion.”. “I can’t believe it...............Celestia looked so willing to help us.”, Frisk says. “I guess even ponies can be bad.”, Undyne says sadly. “In the end...............she goes even worse than me, doesn’t she?”, Chara asks as mom and dad come out of the hug. I slowly nod, “in that vision I always guess that if she gets past me...................she would destroy anything not Equestrian............humans, mobians, changelings................Pokémon.”, I say in the Authors surprising anger. “So this is why I sensed such immense sorrow when we came back.”, Gaster guesses. “And it explains why you broke down crying after Spike snapped you out of the trance.”, the Doctor estimates. “Even after we promised to protect them, she still kills you guys, and plans to kill the rest of us.”, Sonic contemplates. “And I thought Chrysalis in my world was evil................your Celestia kills you all after gaining your trust.”, DJ says. “I.........I..........I can’t......believe this.......”, Alphys stutters, hugging Undyne. “L-Look............I don’t completely know how you feel, but..........keeping things bottled up..............it just hurts more.”, the other Frisk says in my sadness, slowly walking up and hugging me. “It’s so evil.................yet so smart. You Monsters become weaker under three circumstances, if you trust, or don’t want to hurt someone, they want to hurt you completely, or they have LV.”, Peridot explains, moving data on her touchpad. That’s when the Discord lookalike teleports in along with Jason and Bill, “still can’t believe another category of Celestia exists.”, he says. (Song end) “Right..............may I introduce Jason, Displaced wielder of the Omnitrix and Frost Giant hybrid, Loki, a Displaced Discord copy wielding the Elements of Disharmony, and Bill Cipher of Gravity Falls.”, the Author introduces the three in turn. “Fascinating that I’m the sole creator of an Omnitrix that isn’t alien origin.”, Gaster says, the human looking at him. “You created an Omnitrix?”. “He created it at my request. Unlike yours, it contains samples from throughout the Omniverse, even some incarnations of the Traveler such as Lightmare, and other secrets.”, the Author explains, “speaking of which, where’s Sunset Shimmer, Asriel gave it to her back in Flashpoint.”. “She’s in the TARDIS, I’ll go get her along with the two Digimon.”, Sonic explains, speeding off, and coming back with the three a few seconds later. “Okay, what is it?”, she asks. “Look, since I didn’t get all the samples, and Asriels gonna need it, I need to take the watch off, okay? Don’t worry I’ll enchant something to work the same.”, the Author explains. She slowly nods and gives him her wrist, “omnitrix, release coupling, creator override code MLP/NM.union.”, he says as the watch beeps. “Disabling coupling sir.”, J.A.R.V.I.S says as it unsnaps, Sunset changing back. He creates a necklace which she puts on as he approaches me, “here man.”. He puts it on top of my wrist, and I reattach it and it beeps, “good afternoon sir.”. Barry walks in, “Cisco won’t listen to me, best I got was the info on Clariss’ husk. Doesn’t give enough though.”, he explains. “You and the Author go get more and catch him, i’ll go talk to Cisco...................along with Gatomon.”, I say in the Digimons confusion. “Why me?”. “Let’s just say.............we both know what it’s like to lose people.”, I say in her shock, then she nods and follows me. We eventually find him in a small room full of machinery, “you want to try to get me back in there too, don’t you?”. “All we want to do is explain things.”, I say as he turns to me. “I get it okay? Sigh. I’ve been trying this whole time to get him to do this one thing for me, but he kept saying, ‘No, Cisco. I can’t, Cisco. I would never do that, Cisco’.”, he explains. “Sigh.........look.”, I say as I sit down near him, “you wanted to bring your brother back, I get that too. Everyone loses the ones they care about, until now I was mad because dad was dead. Barry went back cause Zoom broke what he had just moved past, the loss of a parent...................Look at me, please.”. He looks at me, “something I didn’t tell everyone was that when I died.....................it wasn’t just Determination that kept me going. I was so angry, so betrayed.................that I generated Hate, the black trait.............forming a dark version, of the Angel of death.”. He looks at me in slight shock, “why are you trusting me with this?”, he asks. “Your not the only one to do rash things out of anger and sorrow. I’m trusting you two not to tell them because............only one person has created Hate before..............an alternate version of Chara.”, I explain. “Heh. You know, I played your game once. You stood out to me along with your family because...................your the reason it happens. You and your sister caused Asgore’s declaration, you became Flowey, Chara’s the reason the Genocide Route exists.”, he explains as he looks up in thought, “I had hoped that, if by some miracle I met you, I could tell you..............wished you had a better life, rather than that. And here you are..................telling us that that dude gave you a new life, a destiny............family.”. Gatomon looks at us, “we’re lucky, we had good friends and family.....................you and your brother didn’t get along, did you?”, she asks, Cisco nodding, “Asriel was right by me losing someone too. We were fighting a bad digimon named Myotismon, and he was about to kill me and my partner Kari............but my friend Wizardmon took the hit.....................and payed the ultimate price. You see, us Digimon don’t necessarily die, we can simply reform as Digi-Eggs, but on Earth...................it’s permanent.”. “Hmm. Looks like you had a good friend, one that protected you.”, Cisco points out, the cat nodding. “As the Author pointed out, everyone loses people they care about..............what matters is what you do now, and when they’re gone.”, I say when Iris runs in. “We could use some help here, Joe found out about Twilight.”, she says, everyone nodding and running over. We stop at the room to see the Author blocking shots from Joe! “Hey, what is going on in here!?”, I shout. “Barry and I got the info we needed from Julian, and I came here when Sans let it slip about Twilight!”, the Author shouts to me, looking at the man, “I told you, we’ve already judged her for her actions, now put the pistol away, we don’t need this right now!”. Joe slowly lowers the gun, and we all sit down. “Good. Now, I didn’t come here simply to tell you this. Barry’s gonna need Asriels help, as well as mine and someone else. But in order to keep things secret, I’m gonna teach Asriel here a few tricks!”, he says, smirking. “What do you mean?”, I ask as I calm down. “First off.............J.A.R.V.I.S, unlock the Omega list, Creator command code Delta.Chaos/Gaia:Infinity.”, he says, the watch beeping multiple times. “Godspeed, Xenomorph, Alduin, White Lantern, Khajiit, Heartless, Nobody, Predator, Ultron, Tailed Beasts, and digi-fusion unlocked sir.”, the A.I says in our confusion. “Now then, I know who’s gonna team up with Clariss. So, we need to get the jump on them, give something they won’t suspect. So instead of running in blind, you and I will Shadowstep.”, he explains in my confusion. “What’s that?”. “You and I will create breaches for Gaster and the other person, then we’ll use the shadows............”, he says, pointing at a dark patch, “and travel from here, to the location.”. Everyone looks at him, interested. “We can do that?”, I ask. “I’ll quickly show you. First you approach a dark enough shadow.”, he explains, touching the patch near the door, “then you picture where you want to go. Very, VERY clearly I might add. Then you use your magic and feel yourself become it.”. He closes his eyes then enters the shadow, disappearing then emerging near Mom. “Next is lightning throws. Basically a much more powerful version of you electrokinesis magic. You run at a fast enough speed, you siphon the lightning you create as you run.........”, he says before running in a circle, then launching a bolt of energy at a chair, “and Throw, a bolt at your target.”. He sighs, “this trick is a last resort, if they give you no choice.”, he says before lifting a paw and vibrating it. Cisco stands up, “no way. You want to teach him That!?”. “This is a part of it. If you vibrate at the natural frequency of a certain object, you can literally............”, he explains, putting his paw onto a table, the paw passing through, “phase right through anything. But be warned, if you use this on a living thing it’ll shred the organ, most likely killing them.”. He looks down, “Cisco..............once we leave talk with the others. I hoped I wouldn’t have to use this but...........”, he says before pulling out a black device. “Asriel, point this at me, then say ‘reload’ after.”, he says before handing it to me. I skeptically point it at him, then he turns into a black bolt, entering the device. “Reload.”, I say, and another bolt flies out, forming into a cloaked man. “There we go. That is a Fusion Loader. I had a theory that Pokéballs are similar to it, but couldn’t really test it without a Pokémon. That device regenerated my form, stored inside, then released me.”, he explains, pulling out a yellow book, “let’s do this.”. He snaps, creating a portal for Gaster, who grabs Meicoomon before hopping through! “Hey, what’s the big idea!?”, shouts Gatomon. “If you don’t know yet, then you must be early in the timeline.”, the Author says before stepping towards a shadow, “he’s hiding out at the same mill as we fought him in Flashpoint.”. I nod, then we enter the shadow, and I can see nothing but darkness until we pop out at the mill, seeing Barry getting whooped by the Rival. “Now then, Alchemy, I know your in here, show yourself!”, the Author shouts before blocking a bolt of energy. “So..................the Author arrives...........with his pawn.”, I hear a voice say, and turn to see a man I nod a cloak, with a hood and mask. “You would know all about pawns Alchemy.”, he says before speeding towards the man, me going for Clariss. “Hello Clariss, remember me!?”, I exclaim, the speedster looking at me before getting knocked into a wall. “You! You’re gonna pay for killing me........no, erasing me!”, he shouts before running at me. We share a few punches when he nearly gets the jump on me, and he’s blasted away by vibration. I turn and see Cisco, wearing goggles and gauntlets. “Stay away from my friends.”, he says before blasting him to me, I punch him back, and we do it again when Gaster blasts him down. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ We’ve went back to S.T.A.R Labs. “Thanks for giving us support.”, I say. “Sorry it took so long.”, he says “You were just in time.”, Barry says. The Author turns to the others, “don’t bother trying to look for Alchemy, you won’t find him or followers in the databases.”. “Well even then, he’s the person who gave back Clariss his speed.”, Barry explains. “He’s kinda like a doctor, that way, don’t you think? Come on, don’t pretend like “Doctor Alchemy” doesn’t have a nice ring to it.”, Cisco says, the Author and Sans nodding. “eh, it’s something of note at least.”, Sans states, everyone but the Author, Mom and I face palming. “Nice one man.”, the Author compliments, giving the skeleton a high-five. “Okay, well, that explains why he didn’t have any traces of dark matter in his cells. He didn’t get his powers from the particle accelerator, he got them from Alchemy.”, Caitlin spots. “What was that?”, Cisco remarks. “Doctor Alchemy.”. “Hehe. How could he do that?”, Joe asks. “I don’t know, but we need to figure it out. There’s gonna be more.”, the Author points out. Alchemy..........Doctor Alchemy said that he is preparing this world.”, Barry explains. “Preparing the world?”, Iris asks. “Mm-hmm.”. “For what, the second coming or something?”, Cisco asks. “Basically, everyone that had powers in Flashpoint is gonna get them back.”, the Author explains. “Well, we already found four other husks, which means there’s at least that many running around Central City right now.”, Joe points out. “We need to find him before he changes more people’s lives.”, I say. “Speaking of changing lives, we all talked about it, Barry, and we don’t want to know what our lives were like in Flashpoint.”, Iris explains. “You sure?”. To quote the wise words of Harry, “What’s the point, Allen?”.”, Cisco explains. “Well for now you’re on your own, we gotta go.”, the Author says. “Why leaving so soon?”, Barry asks. “We’ll come back soon, and we’ll be leaving a gateway in case we need help, but Ungula needs us..............especially with that future looming over all our heads. Anyway, if say things here get out of hand, or you need help, call us.”, the Author explains. He snaps his fingers and gives Caitlin a stone disk before pulling her in for a hug, and whispers something, “I know about your cryokinesis, I could teach you to control it.”. After she gets over her shock she nods and takes it, walking towards the others. “Anyway................it was nice meeting you Flash.”, I say, shaking Barry’s hand. “Nice to meet you too Asriel. And like he said, you need help, just send us a message and we’ll use the ring.”, he says. “Don’t worry about Breaches, or trouble, we’ll fix them. I’ll make sure of it. Bye!”, I say before we enter the TARDIS. “How does their world work out anyway?”, I ask. “All I’ll say is that they’re going to meet a new speedster soon. Let’s get back to Equestria.”, the Author says before pulling a lever, turning on the engines. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Several hours later............ Clariss is inside a cell when he hears a voice. “You failed. You failed, Clariss.”, the voice says. “I’m sorry. Please........let me try again.”, Clariss says before being grabbed, “No!”. _______________________________________________________________________________________ To Be Continued...........