//------------------------------// // Dreemurr Additions Part 1- Changing Winds // Story: A Traveling Dreemurr Teams Up with the Fastest Man Alive // by jjb0420 //------------------------------// The TARDIS motors ran as we talked. Earlier we discovered that the others slept onboard so they were coming. “So how will this work? Do I just hide until that moment?” I asked. “wingdings and I talked after you left and he revealed something to me. you know how you normally can’t stay in one form for more than 15 minutes, right?” Sans asked. “Yeah, otherwise the DNA takes over.” “well............there is a way to manually shut that off with the dial, or with energy. discord?” The draconequus floated down. “We all know how you can be with helping out, so we’re locking you into a form with those Safeguards deactivated.” “That way you can unknowingly observe, but not interfere. Meanwhile, Barry, Sans and I will keep things safe, and make sure you stay out of trouble. Discord and Loki will get all the credentials in order, and everyone else will stay inside the TARDIS,” the Doctor explained. “But who will I become?” I asked when Loki touched my forehead. “Sleep.” The moment he said that, I slipped into unconsciousness. They explained later that Sans approached me, turned the dial on the watch, and changed me into a small white, anthropomorphic wolf, wearing a jewel necklace, a green shirt, brown shorts, and rope around a tail. “Are you sure you need to do this?” Barry asked. “We’re taking every precaution we can so he stays safe, time stays on track, and no one here dies. Now here’s how things are going down.” I woke up in a black void. “Where am I?” I asked myself as I slowly got up. I spot a note. “What’s this?” I picked it up and read when I feel dizzy, unknowing that my eyes are becoming spirals and I drop it my mind becoming blank and open. “You are Ayo Kub, wolf pup. You are shy, kind, and willing to do the right thing. You can’t remember anything save these words in your head. Let them become you. You are alone, the only one of your kind. You have the instincts of the howling wolf. Bark.” “Bark!” “You remember nothing save these words. Feel them become who you are, overwrite anything before. Scratch your ear.” I scratched my ear with my back paw. “Let the instincts become rooted deep inside you, nothing can prevent them. Feel everything before fade away. You watch and yearn for friends, but are too afraid to approach. You let them approach you. Your tail wags without your consent. You keep the necklace on you always, and hate when people touch it. If they try taking it, you growl and threaten with your claws. You love running on all fours, especially through the forests. You love the wind on your fur. When it’s hot you pant with your tongue out. Chase your tail.” I ran around, chasing my tail in a circle. “You love doing this when it waves in your view. It is instinctive to chase it. You can’t remember where you’re from, only that you’re the last. Deep inside you have something dangerous, an unknown animalistic secret, that only fire and flowers under the shining moon can tell. Your necklace also has a secret, that only fear can tell. Sleep, and forget these words. Keep them forever inside you, as they make you you.” I fell asleep, forgetting everything as I vanish. I woke up in a bed of flowers. “Ah, looks like those winged ponies are making it sunny today,” I spoke to myself as I scratch my ear with a back paw. I looked down and grabbed the necklace, my good luck charm. “Glad you’re still safe. Let’s go for a run!” I got up and started running, getting on all fours as I bounced around in the forest, happy and free. I didn’t see the hooded skeleton and Human behind me as I ran. “Still wish there was another way besides giving him a whole new life, a new mindset. He’s literally a different person,” the human said. “he would’ve ended up interfering. he wants to protect everyone. now then, let’s get started, twi’ was just taken under celestia's wing,” the skeleton said before teleporting the two. Five Decades Later..................... I’m running through the trees when I see three fillies backing up from timberwolves. “Growl!” I hop in between them and snarl at the wolf wannabes. “What the?” One filly with a bow says. “BARK!” The wolves start backing off and running away. I turn around and look at the fillies, “are you three okay?” I approach them but they back up. I smile. “it’s okay, I don’t bite!” I sit down on the ground. The one with the bow approaches me, “w-who are you?” “Names Ayo Kub. I live in these woods,” I respond as I scratch my left ear with my back-paw. “Whatcha three cute fillies doin in tha forest?” “We were trying to see the different wildlife, watch them to try and get our cutie marks,” a white one explains when they group up. “CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS, FAUNA WATCHERS, YAY!” I wince and start whining on the ground, clutching my ears. They all look at me. “What’s wrong?” “Wolves have great hearing Whine! so that shout really hurt. Please Whine! don’t do that again.” “Sorry. What’s a wolf?” a orange one asks. “It’s what I am. Problem is.............I’m the last one.” “What happened ta them?” “I don’t know. I can’t........remember. I just woke up one day, couldn’t remember almost anything," I explain as I start panting. “Why are you panting?” “Canines like me get very hot with our fur, so we pant to cool off,” I explain as I scratch and pant. “What are your names?” “I’m Apple Bloom. This is Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo.” I nod. “Pleasure meeting you three. Do you know your way out, or need my help?” “We’d rather not run into more Timberwolves, so could you help us?” Sweetie Belle asks me. “Sure, need to memorize the land again anyway.” I get up and start to walk, the three following me. We eventually reach the end of the forest. “Here we are, end of the woods.” “Thanks a bunch Ayo Kub,” Scootaloo thanks me. They walk away when they notice I’m not following. “You aren’t coming?” “I don’t know why, but I just don’t like the sun. That’s why I live here, plenty of cover during the day.” “That’s not very fun...............I know!” Sweetie Belle says sadly before running off. “Wonder what she’s doin?” Apple Bloom remarks as we see her return with a black umbrella. “This way you can stay out of the sun!” She hands it to me. I look at it awkwardly, and spot a small pusher. I push it out and the umbrella goes out. I put it over my head, and it actually works. “Heh, thanks.” “How bout we go to Twi’s? she’ll be curious bout him,” says Apple Bloom. “I’m okay with following ya. Let’s go.” A few of the ponies spot me and talk to themselves, some of them quite rude like “why do those fillies have that creature with them?” We eventually reached a tree. We entered to find an empty room full of bookcases. “I thought she said she would be here this afternoon,” Sweetie Belle questions as I put down the umbrella and start sniffing. “Well I can certainly smell her. Sniff Sniff! all these books have some sort of lingering scent...........energized or something. Sniff! like they were struck by lightning,” I say as I walk around sniffing. “How do you know this?”, asks Scootaloo. “My nose is incredibly strong, I can track anything. Sniff Sniff Sniff! I don’t just smell her, I smell Six ponies. Sniff! one winged pony, Sniff! two regular ones, Sniff Sniff! two horned ones, Sniff Sniff Sniff Sniff!!!!”, I get perplexed, “that’s weird.”. “What?”. “Sometimes I get confused by new scents. This one wasn’t any of those. And it links to something similar. Sniff! Wings, and a horn.”. “An alicorn! Only the princesses are alicorns!”, Sweetie Belle shouts. “Well this ‘alicorn’, her scent is mixed by energy to something similar. Are there any other creatures that have both horns and wings?”. “Hmm......................only changelings. They’re these bug ponies that feed on love and can turn into anypony.”, Scootaloo explains, “do you know when they left?”. “Sniff! about three hours ago. We should get going, I can follow the trail.”. We run to the door when it slams shut on its own. We turn around to see a person in a blue coat. “’sup?”, he says casually. “Who are you?”. “i am sans, as in ‘Comic Sans’, sans the skeleton.”. “..........well ‘sans’. Why did ya stop us from leaving?”. “’cause in about...........10 minutes, a friend of mine, and rainbow dash is gonna get an innocent person free.”, he says as he checks a watch, “it’ll probably be sooner for us since I’m speeding things up in here. i’d say we have 4 minutes to talk Ayo Kub.”. He places a note on the table. I look confused, “how do ya know my name?”. “i know a lot about you. In four minutes, head to your forest home, they’ll be hidin’ there. only you and scootaloo.”, he says as he approaches me, “still think the necklace is a nice touch.”. He grabs it and I growl, “let go. Now.”. He let’s go of it, “cool your jets..............looks like you have a minute. you get one question.”. “Why do we need to head over there?”. “rainbow, my friend, and the person they saved will be there. once there, my friend will explain things. we wanted you to stay out of this, but looks like we did too good a job with your mind. we’ll be seein’ each other again Ayo Kub.”, he says in my confusion before vanishing in blue energy. I rush to the door and open it to the night sky, and the moon. “Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, please go home, and don’t tell anyone about us until you see me.”, I ask as I get onto all fours. “But who was that?”, asks Sweetie Belle, tilting her head. “I don’t know. I wish I knew, so I’ll cooperate. I want answers and time to think. Scootaloo, hop on.”. She skeptically gets on my back. “Hold on tight, I can go very fast.”. She grips onto me, “you can call me Scoots if you want.”. “Sure. Let’s get going!”, I shout as I start running towards the forest. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ “Whoa! You weren’t kidding about being fast!”, she shouts as we reach the tree line. I hop through, not knowing what she’s saying as I feel happy, the wind on my fur and free as an animal. I run through the grass and flowers, dodge trees, and hop between branches before reaching a small cave, concealed by vines. I stop in a patch of grass and pant with my tongue out as she hops off, mind completely blank. She looks at me, “Ayo Kub?”. I can barely hear her voice, “are you okay?”. I eventually drift out of the trance and stare at her, “Scoots. Did you say something?”. “You mean you didn’t hear me?”. “Hear what?”. “I asked if you were okay.”, she says nervously. “You did?”, I ask, she nods. I look down, “....................my mind was just blank. I’ll explain once we’re inside.”. I get up on my hind paws and walk in with the filly. I push away the vines carefully and walk to a small crack in the wall. “What is this place?”. I remove a sheet from atop a mound to reveal a jar of fireflies, “this is where I live.”. I lead her to a small seating room with a table with my left paw. “This is where you live?”, she asks as she sits down on a small chair. “Yep, as long as I can remember. I found this cave and concealed it with plant life. Been expanding ever since.”, I explain as I sit down on my legs on a sofa, “welcome to my home Scoots.”. She looks around in awe, “how did you get all this?”. “I had a lot of free time, so I taught myself to use the forest. These seats are made from wood from trees and covered with mirror pool moss, the table is too, and I use fireflies from a zebra to light the place.”, I explain as I scratch myself, “don’t worry about bugs, the moss stays alive for centuries, and is poisonous to insects.”. “Why do you scratch yourself so much?”. “Just instinct. It feels soooooo good to scratch, especially like this and on the ears, so I just relent to my primal habits when I talk.”. She rubs her throat, “do you have any water?”. “Oh, sure. Don’t want to be rude.”. I hop out and run over to a small pool with cabinets as she watches me collect water into a cup, and walk back. “Don’t worry, it’s from a fresh stream. Comes from a river near an old castle.”, I reassure her as I give it to her, and sit back down. “Do you mean the Castle of the Two Sisters?”, she asks as she takes a sip. “What’s that?”. “How do you not know about it? The princesses lived there a thousand years ago.”. “Yeah..............I don’t really leave the forest, so I don’t know much save from the zebra.”, I explain as I scratch under my ear with my back claws. “Oh, you mean Zecora.”, she says as she looks at her cup, places it down, and looks at me, “you’ve really never left the forest?”. “..........I climb the mountain, and enter caves for things.................but yeah. I’ve never left.”, I answer as I look around, “heh, guess that’s why I let my instincts tell me from right to wrong...............and why I act so primal-like around people.”. “How long have you’ve been here?”. I look down in embarrassment, “50 years. I’ve been here ever since I woke up one day as a wee pup.”. “Well..........why did you blank out when we got here?”. “Just the running. When I run like that, on all fours, I feel so happy. The wind on my fur, hopping between branches, feeling the grass, flowers, and dirt on my paws.................I just feel so free. I just enter this mindset where I feel nothing but those sensations, dodge obstacles......................my mind just runs away. I can’t really describe it.”. I yawn, my maw opening, “I guess I’m tired. We probably had a head start. Let me show you to the beds.”. We both get up and walk to another part of the cave. We walk through three vine coverings to reveal four beds, low on the ground with animal skin blankets. “Where did you get the animal skins?”. “Zecora gave me some in return for mirror pool water.”, I explain as she lays down. I hop on and twirl into a ball, “night.”. “Good night.”. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ “Are you sure it’s safe here?! We’re in the Everfree Forest for crying out loud!”, I hear a female say to someone as I dazily wake up. “The person who made this has respect from the timberwolves. They don’t come here, and he doesn’t go to their den. Besides, its better than where Jason was.”, a male says as I slowly open my eyes and my ear twitches. “How did you know I was there?”, a third asks as I get up and Scootaloo opens her eyes. I look to her and put a digit up to my snout and sneak near the cover. “Who’s there?”, I ask nervously. “Where’d that come from?!”, the female shouts. “Answer my question. Who are you?”. “Name’s Rainbow Dash.”, she says. “Okay Rainbow, we’ll come out. But let’s keep it down, I’d rather the animals don’t attract to the cave.”. I motion to Scootaloo to come near me, and she walks to me as I pull back the curtains, staying inside. I see a blue winged pony, a black, bug like pony with a horn and wings, and a bipedal creature in a suit. They turn and spot us. Then the Blue pony tackles me. “What are you doing in there, timberwolf? And what’s this around your neck?!”, she shouts at me before grabbing at my necklace. “Growwwwwl!”. “Rainbow, please let go, he clearly gets mad when people touch it.”, the bug says. “Growl! And look at me. Do I look like a timberwolf?”, I say as I push her off with my back paws, “and please, Don’t touch this, I treasure it.”. “Well, who are you?”, she asks. “Names Ayo Kub. I take it one of these two is Jason?”. “I am. How’d you know?”, the bug responds. “I heard you talk, it’s what woke me and Scoots up. And who’s this with you two?”. “Ah, hello. I’m the Doctor.”. “Doctor Who?”. “Everyone asks that. Now, let’s get to know each other, shall we?”. “Right. What foods do you eat? I can guess the ponies.”, I say as I run over to a cabinet. “Jason feeds on love, and I’m an omnivore.”, the Doctor explains. “Ah. Wait a minute............bug like features, feeds on love, wings and a horn..................your those changelings the fillies told me about!”. Rainbow and Jason go into a defensive stance when the Doctor steps between us, “wait wait wait wait wait, hold up. Ayo Kub. Man that’s an interesting name. Now, let’s just..........settle down. No need to fight, the ponies outside the forest want to fight anyway, let’s not fight each other.”. We slowly back down, “good. Now, Ayo Kub, could you help me collect things, you know the woods.”. “Sure thing..........is it okay If I call you Doc?”, I ask as my ear twitches. “Well, if you like. Just don’t use it too much.”. We walk out and head over to a nearby lake. “I started using this lake after discovering how good meat camps out here, so we can get everything we need here.”, I explain. I turn to the male who was looking at me, “doc, what’s up?”. He realizes he was staring, “oh, it’s nothing...................what was it like living on your own?”. We sit down, “to be honest, a bit lonely. Zecora only came here 25 years ago, so I didn’t really have anyone. I just.....................let my instincts govern me from right from wrong. I took the role of alpha so the Timberwolves would back off, I let what I like become instinctual.........................I just devolved. Zecora found me in that cave, chewing on a carcass and playing with a ball a winged pony dropped one day. I’m still adjusting, and sometimes I relapse....................basically, I’m a friend who sometimes turns into a puppy that can kill you.”. “What do you do when you can think straight? I saw the furniture.”, he asks as he puts a hand on my shoulder. “I provide for myself. After the zebra rehabilitated me, I self taught myself how to use the woods to my advantage. Heh, still working on a play pen for when I relapse, and more beds.”, I explain as I start scratching my ear with my back paw, “by the way...................do you know a ‘sans’?”. He looks at the lake, “We’re friends by acquaintanceship. You see, we know how Jason and Rainbow’s story will play out, so we want to make things easier.”. “How do you know me?”. “We’re the reason you woke up in that field of flowers. If I tell you more, your heart would break.”, he answers before getting up. “Please.............One more thing. Who am I?”. “You really don’t know?”, he asks as he gathers wheat. I shake my head, “Sigh.................its complicated. Just know you have secrets deep inside of you, that only certain things can tell. Keep your mind in check, Jason will need your help. Now, let’s get some wood and meat.”. “Sure thing Doc.”, I say before walking near the edge of the lake and facing him, “you might want to stand back.”. He stands back right when I lunge paws first into the lake. A few seconds later I hop out, landing on all fours with a bunch of fish hanging by my teeth. I drop it all and shake vigorously all the water off in his surprise. “Several salmon, and two bass for me............not bad for someone who’s instinctively afraid of water.”, I say as I pant, my tongue hanging out and a exhilarated look in my eyes. “You okay? You look a little.............”. “Feral?”, I ask, the man nodding. I turn to the lake and see the crazed, exhilarated look in my eyes as my teeth show. I take a deep breath and compose myself. I slowly stand back up. “Before we head back, give me a sec. Could ya gather some vine? It has to be strong enough to hold under about the weight of your hand.”. “Sure thing.”. He walks off as I kneel near the fish and lay them out. I bring out my sharp claws and tear slits into each fish, and pull the inedible organs out, then toss them far into the lake as the Doctor comes back. “Let me guess, inedible organs?”, he guesses as he hands me the vine. “The carnivorous fishes can have em. After several runs, I need a lot of food, so givin the guts makes them big, which in turn attracts fauna. On a good day I can catch a cockatrice or two, or even snakes.”. I tie up the fish and we walk back. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We arrive at the cave and head in with the haul. Scoots spots us, “hey Rainbow, they’re back!”. “Finally, I haven’t eaten since yesterday!”, the blue pony shouts as we lay everything down. “Salmon and bass for the Doc and I, wheat and other flora for you gals. Now Doctor, you picky on raw fish?”. “Just cook it.”. I nod and walk near a small opening leading outside, and place wood out, “fun fact, the nectar from bees can be flammable if enough friction is applied.”. I grab a jar and pour a little nectar onto the wood, then grab a stick, “so whatcha three doin so far from the town?”. “Rainbow’s friends and Celestia were torturing Jason over here. Clearly thought he was a painless insect.”, the Doctor explains as I rub the stick into the pile, creating friction and smoke. I blow gently as the nectar catches fire, “Scoots, help me fuel this. Just put two or three small pieces in and make sure it can breath.”. I walk over to the fish as the filly fuels it, “why did ya think we would fight you two? I only fight as a last resort.”. “Changelings aren’t known as allies. Where’ve ya been?!”, Rainbow asks in disbelief. “Apparently here, isolated from everyone save a zebra.”, the Doctor explains as I grab a small stand and put two salmon on. “You mean Zecora. So, he’s been here, living off this unnatural forest, with nopony else? I find that hard to believe.”. I lay the stand over the fire, “this cave didn’t appear overnight, winged pony. I devolved until that zebra saved me, so give her some respect.”. “Oh I respect her. I just can’t believe a talking wolf lived here, in this weird forest, for who knows how long and nopony knowing.”. “Doc, hand me those wooden plates and the bass.”, I ask, the male nodding and walking over to the stream, “no one knew lass ‘cause I was too shy ta give myself away. Besides, what would’ve been your reaction to a talkin, bipedal wolf with long unkept hair, shorts and a green tee shirt?”. The pony ponders this, “good point. But how did you survive this long?”. The Doctor hands me the items as the salmon finishes up, “by livin off the land. Lemon?”. He shakes his head, “okay.”. I lay the salmon onto a plate and hand it to him, then place my bass down. I turn, “before we continue I want to lay down some rules. One, keep it down, don’t need any critters coming here. Two, anything that happens in these woods has to run by me. Three, if I..................act weird, leave me alone.”. I put my bass onto the plate as everyone sits down. I sit down with my plate, “so Doctor, care to explain things?”. “Jason here is wanted by the princess for false charges.”, he says as I put a piece of fish in my mouth, then spit it out. “Ugh. Sorry. Still, what do you mean? Creatures that feed on love? That doesn’t sound too bad.”. “Well the changelings didn’t give a ‘good first impression’. Their queen replaced a princess, mind controlled her husband, and attacked Canterlot all during that princesses wedding.”, Rainbow explains. “But not all of them are bad Rainbow, there lies the problem. Some........a few, mind you..........broke off from the hive about 20 years ago, one I know personally. But, as usual, you ponies fear the unknown or what isn’t like you, so you reject it and BAM! They attack, and you become racist to the rest after they’re defeated!”, the Doctor yells at her. “Well it’s biting us in the wings now. I care for him, and I’m not going to let anyone hurt him.”. “and that’s what we want to happen skittles.”, we hear a voice say. We turn to the entrance to see someone familiar, “’sup?”. “Ah, there you are Sans. How are things going with the others?”. “not good doctor. alphys accidentally released..............something. was studying him and her tail hit the release lever.”. I tilt my head, “who ya talkin about?”. “you wouldn’t get it. ‘sides, we have bigger issues. word of advice though, if you see something black and white out of the corner of your eye, tell the doctor immediately so he can signal me.”, he says as he turns to the ponies, “when was the last time canterlot was attacked?”. “During Cadence’s wedding.”. The skeleton facepalms, “that explains so much. we need to get word out for the alicorn to fortify that castle, and fast. any ideas?”. “Slow down a bit. What’s goin on? And how do you know each other?”, I ask. “That connects to how we know about you. If we told you, you might break.”, the Doctor explains. “I’m a wolf that scratches himself while talking, hates when a necklace is touched, and is still adjusting from almost 50 years of no help. Try me.”. “Sigh............all I’ll say is this. We know you’re curious, and you’ll do the right thing. Otherwise you wouldn’t have listened to Sans, or let ponies into your life. That necklace of yours is very special, and will only reveal its secrets at the right moment. Now please, can we get to work?”. I look at them all as they look at me for a response. “Give me time to think. I can tell your keeping something from me, so it’s my decision whether I help.”, I say as I walk off into a small corridor. I pull off a firefly jar and lay against the wall. ‘So, what do I do? I want to help Jason and the girls, but those two creatures are clearly hiding something.’, I think as I look into the hole in the ceiling. The moon has appeared above me as I look around the room. I spot a small bouquet of roses near fireflies then I feel a ‘presence’. Can’t really describe it. “You want answers................I could get them. You just have.............to let me out.”. I shake my head, “I know how you work now. Last time I let you out was how Zecora found me. I’m not letting you kill anyone I care for.”. “All this..................for a few ponies..............you know you want to...............you’re hungry.........”. My stomach growls uncontrollably. I put a paw on my belly as my mind gets fuzzy, “stop this now, I don’t eat them.”. “All these years............and you still deny it. You devolved into me.................and that zebra locked me up. Feel the hunger.............you need to eat...................you need to feed..........juicy meat.................fresh, juicy meat!”. My mouth opens and starts to salivate. “You want it...........don’t you?”. I nod as my eyes turn red. “Then release me..............and take it!”. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ “After all this time and you still like ketchup?”, the Doctor asks. “well it’s better than fish fingers and custard. not to mention your new obsession with butter.”, Sans states as everyone starts to hear growling, “now why is he growling?”. They turn to see something in the shadows, dripping from the mouth with saliva. “Okay. What’s happening over there?”, asks Rainbow. “somethin is very hungry.”, Sans explains as it steps out of the shadows bit by bit. It’s a large black wolf with solid red eyes, sharp claws and teeth, and unkept fur. “Everyone back up.”, the Doctor orders as the wolf gets closer and he pulls out a device. He points it and it beeps, “something isn’t natural about that wolf.”. It suddenly spasms, and the black fur recedes into him to reveal the kid. “It’s getting worse...................I don’t want to go!”, I shout. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ “what just happened?”. “This is what you meant by ‘relapse’!”, the Doctor shouts before turning to Sans, “Barry was right thinking this was a bad idea. And this is permanent!”. “don’t look at me, you were completely onboard with it.”. “That was before he became a bigger threat, to himself too. When I took him to Barry’s dimension I promised myself that he wouldn’t come to harm, and you made me break my promise!”, he shouts as I start to hear faint music. “Guys.”. “well at least i’m not the one who’s obsessed with his bowtie!”. “GUYS.”. “I told you to stop that, bowties are cool!”. “Guys!”, I shout, everyone looking at me, “first off, I said no shouting. Two, anyone else hear music?”. Everyone peaks up and listens. “I don’t hear anything.”, the Doctor says. “I do.”, says Rainbow. “Lets head out and see what it is.”. We all run outside(Rainbow and Jason flying) and reach the forest line and spot a purple unicorn and a fish like female in the square. “Who’s that fish?”. “Undyne.................but how is she here?!”, Sans shouts as we watch the two. “I TOLD YOU, I WILL LEAVE ONCE YOU TELL ME WHERE THE DOCTOR IS!”, the fish named Undyne shouts. “No! You don’t expect me to believe you won’t hurt anyone after kidnapping............”. “For the last time, I didn’t kidnap Apple Bloom! She discovered me and we were talking in the barn. It’s not my fault you ponies think the worst of us Monsters!”. The Doctor facepalms, “I believe Undyne was sent here by Toriel to find the kid, and who brought him here?”. “you did. and no wonder twi thinks the worst, you humans did the same thing, and our twilight did the same.”. “Who’s Toriel?”, I ask as I watch. “The mother.................of a friend.”. “Look, I promised my friend I would see if the kid is safe, and my best chance is the Doctor. So will you help me, Or will you stand in the way?”, she asks when she’s blasted square in the chest. “No!”, I shout as I run up to her. “kid, back off........”. “NO!”, I yell as all the ponies see me in shock, “I see my mistake...........I have been too afraid of what could happen.”. I turn to the unicorn, “but no more. You don’t want to trust what is different, fine. But that doesn’t mean everything that isn’t like you is bad!”. “Sigh. the kid’s right.”, Sans says as he walks out. “Sans, Back off!”. “i’m not leaving you to dry.”, he says as he turns, “i have seen all possibilities, twilight sparkle. tell me this, what is your military like?”. She looks like she’s thinking, “why do you want to know, planning something!?”. Sans puts his hands up shrugging, “and there we go. You see, i judge people by their decisions and actions over time, not in one event. i can tell by your character and words you see things in black and white. ya need to step out of that bubble soon twi’. otherwise.................welp, you might just lose some allies.”. “What are you talking about, our military is great!”. “like i said, don’t judge people by one event. the royal guard might have done well against the creatures of the night, and has a good captain, but..................well, you’ll see soon.”. We turn to leave. Unbeknownst to us, she starts to look frustrated and charges her horn, “lets see how you much you will mock my brother when you’re dead!”. We turn right when she blasts us, but Undyne jumps in the way.............but it hits me. We both collapse to the ground, clutching our chests when I hear a kids voice. “Undyne.......You’re.......You’re hurt.........”. “Hurt? It’s nothing. Next time, listen when I tell you to leave, okay?”, she says absently. “Undyne.......I........”. (picture this as her voice for the lines as well as the music) “I’ll take care of this! Sans, Get out of here!”, she shouts as Sans runs off, “............heh...........’It’s nothing’...........”. She keeps breathing as the wound gets worse, “No...........s-somehow, with just one hit.............I’m already...........Already..........”. Her body starts cracking, “D..........damn it............Toriel...........Frisk............Lightmare...............Papyrus..........Alphys...........ASGORE........Just like that, I............I’ve failed you.”. She grabs her eyepatch and chest, “No..............No! My body..............It feels like it’s splitting apart. Like any instant................I’ll scatter into a million pieces.”. “But............Deep, deep in my soul, There’s a burning feeling I once couldn’t describe. A burning feeling that WON’T........will NEVER let me die..............DETERMINATION!!!!!”, she shouts when wind builds around her, and she peels off the eyepatch. “This isn’t just about monsters anymore, is it? If you keep going on this path, you’ll.........You’ll destroy them all, won’t you!?”. “Monsters................Changelings................Humans.............Everyone.................Everyone’s hopes. Everyone’s dreams. Vanquished in an instant!”. “But I WON’T let you do that. Twilight! Right now, everyone in the world..............everyone in mine, all my friends..................I can feel their hearts beating as one. And we all have ONE goal. To defeat YOU! Twilight. No, WHOEVER you are. For the sake of the whole, world...............I, UNDYNE, WILL STRIKE. YOU. DOWN!!!!!!!DOWN!!!!!!!DOWN!!!!!!!”. Her entire body is surrounded in a dome of golden light in everyone’s shock as the broken pieces reassemble.........but different. Her armor forms spikes, a chain-gown and a heart symbol, while her gauntlets become spiked and form smaller hearts, and her bad eye starts spewing out energy, as her teeth sharpen and the red heart starts glowing. The unicorn snaps out of her shock and tries to blast Undyne again, but the fish runs up to her in the blink of an eye and cracks her horn, then she throws the unicorn far into a fruit stand. She jumps over and walks towards her, then summons a blue and green, pulsating spear and twirls it, then holds it behind her back in her left hand. “You’re gonna have to try a little harder than THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”, she shouts. As Twilight starts running and Undyne chases her, I’m clutching my chest. ‘Is this..............really how I die? Killed................by who, in another time, might’ve even been a friend?’, I think as I lift up my hand and see it start to crack. ‘I................I’m like her?’. “You’re not going down yet kid!”, a squeaky voice says. ‘Wh-Who are you!?’. “You don’t remember me? I’m Flowey. Flowey the Flower.”. I look around and see a transparent flower and back up, ‘what are you!?’. It looks confused, “you really don’t remember me?”. I shake my head. It looks angry, “Smiley Trashbag, what did you do!?”. ‘Look, I don’t understand this at all.’. He looks at the ground and sighs, “the comedian must’ve done something. I can’t do anything about it, but I can make it in your favor!”. He waves a leaf across my necklace, causing it to glow, “I have just enchanted that jewel of yours. If exposed to the tear of someone completely alone, and afraid, when all hope is lost............something magical will happen. Don’t ask me what I mean, it is very precise. It will only happen under those conditions.”. ‘How do you know me? And what are you talking about?’. “You’ll see. Afterwards, do me a solid and get the comedian to fess up.”, he says as he fades and Undyne comes up with an unconscious Twilight. “You have some explaining to do Sans.”. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ “So let me get this straight. The Doctor took him here after getting a message, and you disappeared ‘cause they wanted your help?”, she asks. We’ve gone back into the cave along with Undyne. The Doctor suggested tying up Twilight until she calmed down, so I blindfolded and tied her up with vines. “thats that basic gist undyne. i’m curious how you got here though.”. “Simple, the Author created a portal to his location, sent me straight here.”. “Here’s what I don’t get. DJ included files on your species in the TARDIS, and it said you can’t handle, let alone create Determination. So how are you still standing?”, the Doctor asks. “i can explain that. you see, there are actually two monsters that can naturally create determination, boss monsters and the fish here. you see.............before we left wingdings severely cut himself while helping rarity with her sowing machine...............and he bled. ‘Course, he was naturally curious about why he was bleeding. so, he made a theory. normally we can’t bleed ‘cause we lack a lot of physical matter, hence why we can’t handle determination, not without melting. But, after living with ponies and eating their food, we’ve gained some physical form, we’ve grown some backbone if you will. making us able to support and withstand blood.”, Sans explains, everyone groaning at the pun, and I spot him look at me strangely for a split second, “anyways, he also theorized that if we were talking ‘bout undyne.....................that she’d be able to support and withstand something else, as well...............course, it was just a theory since she wasn’t dyin anytime soon.”. “And now we know.”, the Doctor states as he looks at the fish, “eventually your body will heal, and the Determination will dispel. Until then, you’ll be stronger, faster, and able to withstand most damage.”. “now then, onto business. kid, will you help us?”. “Sigh...........look. I want to help, really, I do. But I can tell you two are hidin something. How can I work with someone I can’t trust?”, I state. “You don’t have to trust us. Just................work with us. You saw how Twilight acted to Undyne and Sans, do you want Jason to suffer that?”, the Doctor asks. I look around the room, ‘I know their keeping secrets. But if Ponies are that distrusting..............it’s good enough for me.’. “Okay. I’ll help. But when this is over, you are explaining everything. And I don’t care that it might break me, I can’t stand secrets between friends.”. “your choice kid. now, let’s see if we’ll can wake up our guest.”. I walk up and get near her ear, then...... “Bark!”. “AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!”, she screams, then starts looking around, “where am I!?”. “Hello, Twilight Sparkle. I’m the Doctor.”. “Doctor what!?”. “Well, if you like. We would like to discuss some things with you.”. “and don’t bother trying to use your magic, undyne badly damaged your horn.”. “You! I was right, you!.......”. “we don’t want to take over. all we want is to protect you ponies. you are the ones who, as usual, think the worst of monsters and retaliate.”. “Still not happy that you thought I would kidnap a filly. I mean seriously, I’m a Monster, but I’m not a ‘monster’!”, shouts Undyne. “Well what did you expect me to believe? You were found there with her after she was missing for hours.”. “For the last time, she found me in the barn as she was putting the hay away. We were just talking.”. “now that that’s taken care of, twilight. when was the last time you saw the princess?”. “When we were interrogating the changeling, why?”. That’s when we hear a loud bang. “that. that’s why. you see, that’s what happens when your attacked, and your military sucks. your ‘allies’ see how weak you military power is, and try to take over!”. “But who’s trying to take over?”, I ask. “The griffins. They saw how weak Equestria’s defenses were during the wedding, and are trying to take us while we’re down. Picking them off like a shark.”, the Doctor explains. “Oh no............Shining Armor!”. “Don’t worry, we’ll make sure Canterlot stays safe.”, the Doctor explains as he turns to us, “what we’re about to do is not out of hatred, or cruelty, but because there is, no other way. Jason, how many grenades do you have?”. “About 3 dozen.”. “Who’s Jason?”, asks Twilight. “Someone you falsely accused.”, I respond. “I already found out that the Changelings innocent. I went around town and discovered there were no previous records of his personas and that Scootaloo is an orphan.”. “Wait, Scoot’s is an orphan!?”, shouts Undyne as she stands up, “no wonder I never saw her with parents!”. “Oh my god you’re right.”, the Doctor responds. We hear a second bang, “we don’t have time. Twilight, if I let you go as long as you keep your distance, will you help us?”. “Why should I trust you, whoever you are?”. I extend my claws and slash through the vines covering her eyes, allowing her to see us. “Look around you. Do these look like people who want to take over?”. She looks around the cave, seeing everyone. Sans, just chilling in a chair, Undyne keeping an eye, Rainbow and Jason holding Scootaloo, and the Doctor standing with me. “I.......l......”. “no matter the hardships we face, we’ll strive to do the right thing.”. “I will protect everyone’s HOPES, everyone’s DREAMS, no matter what. I will protect my friends. I, Undyne, will protect everyone!”. “Never cruel nor cowardly. Never give up, never give in.”. “Will you help us Twilight?”, asks Rainbow. “Will you?”, asks Scootaloo. “No matter what you think of me Twilight, I will stand and protect Rainbow, you, Scootaloo, everyone.”, states Jason. I slice through her vines, “are you with us?”. I hold a paw out. She takes one final look at everyone, then approaches me and gives a hoof. I shake it and she rushes in for a hug. “I should never have judged you.”. For a split second I hear a faint voice, “I........don’t want to let go.”. she let’s go, “so, how can I help?”. Sans stands up, “here’s how things will go down.”. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sans created portals straight to Canterlot which was under great attack. We land about two to three minutes later. “remember, if you see celestia, make sure it’s on good terms.”, he says as his left eye lights up with a blue flame, “now then....................time to see if any griffins need a bad time.”. He snaps and these floating skeleton creatures appear out of thin air and blast several griffins out of the sky as Sans runs off at great speed. “I’ll follow him so he doesn’t get hurt.”, Rainbow says before flying off. “Doctor, you stay here with Scootaloo and make sure any ponies going for cover stay that way.”, Undyne orders. “Jason, Twilight, you’re with us.”, I explain. We split off and run off to a square where we spot a bunch of ponies crowded by some griffins with spears. “Those birds are gonna have to try a little harder than THAT!”, shouts Undyne. She runs down there in a flash and summons dozens of spears in the air, throwing them down on all of the griffins before they can react. We jump down and break some barricades so the ponies can get through when we spot a white alicorn blast away a griffon near a fire. She spots us, “just what manner of creature are you? And what are you doing with my student?”. “I am Ayo Kub, the last remaining wolf that resides within the Everfree.”, I say as I bow. “And I am Undyne the Undying. Former captain of King Asgore’s Royal Guard, and only Monster to possess and handle natural Determination.”, Undyne says as she spears a crawling griffin, then dismisses her spears. “I have never heard of a ‘King Asgore’.”. “I believe she’s not from around here princess, she talked of ‘her world’.”, Twilight explains. The alicorn spots Jason, “what are you doing here Changeling, don’t you have more ponies to kill?!”. Undyne runs up to her in the blink of an eye, “you should be very, Very careful of what you say princess. Jason here, as your student told you, made up those ponies, and he never once stole love. It was given freely by Rainbow Dash. And he didn’t foalnap anyone, Scootaloo knew he was a changeling and ran off with Ayo Kub here. Now, will we have issues, or are we allies?”. The alicorn looks around at us, “very well. Since we might not survive this without each other, we are allies. But i’m warning you, if you attack any of my ponies, I will find you.”. Undyne gives a toothy grin as she dusts off hers and Celestia’s armor, “Good. Now then, Where’s Shining Armor?”. “He is in another square evacuating civilians. These griffins hit hard, and hit fast.”. “Looks like I was right about your retarded military, you never saw it coming!”, says Jason. “Now we don’t need any fighting between each other, we have these griffins.”, I warn them, “princess, have you seen Rainbow?”. “Last time I saw her was as she cleared a path for me. Didn’t speak to me, just ran off for this skeleton.”. “Sans. Well you’re majesty, we’ll...........”. That’s when we’re swarmed by griffins. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ They all surround us with spears. But Undyne just puts on a smirk. “How can you be smirking at this?”, Celestia asks. “Heh! These griffins really need to try harder than THAT!”. She jumps up in a cloud of smoke and summons several spears, “Lets see how long you last against someone who CANT DIE!”. She throws them all down in a flash, the griffins barely dodging as more flood in. She keeps running around dodging, and throwing spears into them. Twilight and Jason help out by tossing them away as Celestia blasts them, and I run between targets as a distraction, slicing through them every so often with my claws. I slice one down as ten more come in, “they just keep coming............pant pant pant! and i’m getting tired!”. “Remember what the Doctor said, never give up, never GIVE IN!!”, Undyne shouts as she sends several spears off. They keep swarming in, and eventually Twilight and Jason get grabbed, then Celestia is knocked out. Undyne hops down to me and summons spears as they close in, “if you have any tricks, nows the time to use them!”. I look around as they approach and Celestia wakes up. I slump down into a corner as Undyne keeps them at bay. ‘Is this how it ends? I.................I don’t want to go.’, I think sadly. Undyne is knocked back as I start crying. What I don’t know is a single tear lands on my necklace and it starts glowing. “Don’t give up just yet kid, help is on the way!”, I hear Flowey say as I slowly stand up and notice a glowing light keeping the griffins at bay. ‘What........is this power?’, I think in pain before several white lights burst out of the jewel. One condenses into a robed, goat like creature with horns and black face markings, one creates a white Pegasus with a hat, a third Flowey, a fourth into a cloaked man, and a fifth into a mismatched creature. “It can’t be............it’s the kid.”, Undyne says in shock as they look at us. “Deep, deep, down. I believed. I could, bring, you back, to me!”, the goat sings as he summons twin blades and starts slicing. The mismatch blasts multiple away as everyone reaches us, and Flowey creates vines and knocks ones out of the sky as they fly in. “In this game, I found fun. Can, the, damage be, undone!”, the Pegasus sings, creating sound waves that knock all the griffins away from us. “Even, if I’m no longer Really, me! There’s, still a part that lives inside. My, heart that hopes to be. By your side until you reach, The, End!”. “No, matter what I am by then, I’ll always be your friend!”. “Don’t leave, Me behind. Won’t you, let, me win, this time!”, he shouts as he releases rainbow colored energy, blasting back all the griffins. “I don’t want, To, let go! But, I’ll be, okay. A-lone!!!”. All the griffins are blasted away from the city in a flash of light as they all fly down. He looks at me one last time before turning into pure light along with everyone except the man, and entering my chest as Sans, Scootaloo, the Doctor and Rainbow come, seconds before they disappear. They all approach me in my shock. “Who................who was that?”. Sans looks at me awkwardly, “the Doctor already......”. “He already told me it would break me. To be honest, I don’t care anymore!”, I yell, everyone backing off as I walk towards the skeleton, “ever since I found those fillies near the timberwolves, you’ve been piling secret after secret onto me! First you know me, then you say you ‘did something to my mind’, then the Doctor shows up and I get told if i get my answers I would break!”. I walk right up to him and unsheath my claws, “i’ve had to deal with hell for five decades straight, and just now I discover my jewel is enchanted with something incredible, then when I ask about it, you give me that stupid answer! You either tell me, or I Kill you and forbid the Everfree!”. Everyone looks wide eyed, “that’s right, I’m the alpha of every creature in that forest, so if I tell them you’re forbidden, you are gone!”. He closes his eyes, “i’m warnin’ ya kid. you think undyne is strong? If you keep going on this path............”, he says as he opens his eyes to no pupils, “you’re gonna have a bad time.”. I put a hand near his neck, “you’re not the only one who can be a threat Sans. I can guess that the more you want to hurt someone, the easier it is to do the deed.”. He sighs as he looks down, “you are correct. the more you wanna hurt someone, the easier it is to make them stop living...............”. He looks up in a flash and I see a flaming blue eye, “but it’s even more than that. there is also your EXP. what’s EXP? it’s an acronym. it stands for ‘execution points’. 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.”. I place a single claw on his chest, “you’re stalling!”. “Sigh.........fine. but I did warn you. that goat creature was asriel, asriel dreemurr, prince of monsters................”. He looks down in shame, “the real you.”. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ We’ve sat down in the main hall, in the throne room. I look down as everyone drinks their tea, “what did you mean by ‘the real you?’”. Everyone looks at me as Sans puts down his ketchup, “look kid. before I explain, you need to know a story. you ALL do. it’s time another world knew it.”. He stands up and walks around, “A long time ago, a human fell into the RUINS. Injured by its fall, the human called out for help. ASRIEL, the king’s son, heard the human’s call. He brought the human back to the castle. Over time, ASRIEL and the human became like siblings. The King and Queen treated the human child as their own. The underground was full of hope. Then..........One day...............The human became very ill. The sick human had only one request. To see the flowers from their village. But there was nothing we could do. The next day. The next day................The human died. ASRIEL, wracked with grief, absorbed the human’s SOUL. He transformed into a being with incredible power. With the human SOUL, ASRIEL crossed through the barrier. He carried the human’s body into the sunset. Back to the village of the humans. ASRIEL reached the center of the village. There, he found a bed of golden flowers. He carried the human onto it. Suddenly, screams rang out. The villagers saw ASRIEL holding the human’s body. They thought that HE had killed the child. The humans attacked him with everything they had. He was struck with blow after blow. ASRIEL had the power to destroy them all. But...........ASRIEL did not fight back. Clutching the human............ASRIEL smiled, and walked away. Wounded, ASRIEL stumbled home. He entered the castle and collapsed. His dust spread across the garden. The kingdom fell into despair. The king and queen had lost two children in one night. The humans had once again taken everything from us. The king decided it was time to end our suffering. Every human who fell down there had to die. With enough souls, we could have shattered the barrier forever.”. “Until we met Frisk.”, says Undyne, “She befriended every monster in the Underground...............even me, who thought all humans were bad. She even made my crush Alphys reveal something to everyone.”. “not only that. she didn’t hurt anyone. ‘course, that doesn’t mean she’s completely innocent, or naive. it just meant she kept a certain tenderness in her heart, her SOUL. no matter the hardships she faced, she strived to do the right thing. she refused to hurt anyone. even when she ran away.................she did it with a smile!”. “What’s a SOUL?”, asks Twilight. He walks up to me and waves his hand, causing a red glowing heart to appear in his palm as he walks around us. “this is a SOUL. like LV and EXP, it’s an acronym. it stands for ‘Symbol Of Undying Love’. basically, it is the culmination of your being.......it’s everything you were, are, and ever will be. without it, you would feel no emotions. no happiness, no compassion, no remorse.......no love. and don’t think you ponies are an exception to these things. all living things have a SOUL and all sentient beings can gain LV. they all have different strength is all. for example, monster SOULs can’t handle being outside our bodies, they shatter upon death. however, we are more adept at performing magic, undyne and the kid are proof of that. it’s also how the alicorn princesses have more energy to use, their SOULs are much stronger than a unicorns.”. He turns to me as he dispels the SOUL, “but enough of that. when we came here we decided the kid had to observe, never interfere.................so, we created a new persona through hypnosis. a new person if you will...................you.”. I look at him in shock, “me?”. “It’s why I was so mad at him. I promised myself I would keep Asriel safe..............and we just made things worse. He was already dealing with darkness in his SOUL, we just added a feral split personality!”, the Doctor explains when we see a flash of lightning. “I see that he finally knows.”, the man says as he looks at everyone, “my name is Barry Allen. The Flash.”. “And I finally agree with you Barry. This was a terrible idea.”. “Then why did you keep this from me!?”, I yell. “I thought that the shock would break you.”. “No, there’s more, I-I can tell. Tell me.”, I ask as the three look at me nervously, “tell me!!!”. “I’m sorry. I’m very, very sorry.............but it takes more than hypnosis to create a new person. Did you ever wonder why you felt so alone, why you thought you were that last? I believe you experienced what is called a fugue state..........where the mind just runs away. The kid, although knowing of the plan, forgot everything for a second before the hypnosis was performed. He........you, wanted to become someone else...........because you had lost so much. WILL, lose so much one day.................that he just took it willingly.”. I look around at them all in shock, “so..............that flower........”. “Is what you became after you turned to dust. You see, all human SOULs have something called Determination. The will to live on, to break the rules, to continue. When applied to monsters who have become dust, they are brought back as..........soulless husks, in the form of the object the dust was spread upon. You became a flower but................”. “My SOUL was gone.”. “Exactly. You couldn’t feel anything for your family so you adopted that name, and took up this terrible mantra. ‘In this world, its KILL, or be KILLED.’. those became your mindset after you discovered that you couldn’t feel.”. I look at Sans, “look.........I don’t completely understand, but I do understand enough.............you need the kid back, but I don’t want to go.................is there a way to separate us?”. “hmm...............I could split your consciousness off from his SOUL, but...............we would need an lingering SOUL.”. “What do you mean by ‘lingering’?”, asks Celestia. “He means from a recently deceased person. Your planets species have SOULs as strong as Humans, it would do the trick.”, the Doctor explains. “But I thought you said SOULs shatter after death.”, Twilight reminds. “monster SOULs can’t linger twi’, but yours and human ones can. it’s why humans feared us.............we have an ability they we would never use, not if we have another choice. ya see, if a monster absorbs a human SOUL, they gain incredible power.”. “There’s probably plenty of griffin SOULs in the streets, you could just take one.”, Rainbow suggests. “No.”, I say, everyone looking at me, “I know their already dead, but.........it just doesn’t feel right. Is there a way to create a new SOUL?”. “that actually might work. the kid had the power to create SOULs..................i believe they pictured a SOUL and concentrated all their energy into it.”. I skeptically hold out a hand and picture the red SOUL when I hear a faint voice. “Please..................let me............”. I feel a tug at my heart. Then in a flash of white light a red SOUL appears in my hands in everyone’s shock. “Good job.”, the Doctor compliments. “I didn’t do anything...........at least, I think I didn’t. I pictured the SOUL Sans showed us, then.............I heard this voice. It asked me to let it do something, then bam.”. Sans looks up at this, “even after we did that, the kids still helpin.”. “wha?”, asks Rainbow. “He means Asriel.”, I say as the SOUL enters my body and I lose my balance. I grab at a chair as people rush to me, but I put up a paw, “it’s okay..............this is what regeneration feels like, isn’t it?”. The Doctor looks at me, “how do you know about that?”. “I can feel it..........everything you are, fades away. Everything you are gone, like breath, on a mirror. Any moment now..........he’ll return.”. “Who’s returning?”, asks Scootaloo. “Asriel.”. “But you’re Asriel.”. “Yep. And I always will be.”, I respond as my hand starts to crack, “but times change, and so must I. Sans, you wanted him to observe, but not interfere, like the Time Lords. So, you tried to create a new person, I see that now. But..........you did something else. You created someone, who could protect his world on his own.”. I see a small human child running around, “Chara.”. “Who’s Chara?”, asks Celestia as she stands up. “The First Human. The human who fell. The person who started everything.”. I turn to everyone, “we all change, when you think about it. We’re all different people, all through our lives. And that’s good, you have to keep moving forward. As long as you remember all the people, that you used to be. I won’t forget one line of this. Not one day, I swear. I’ll always remember, when Asriel was me.”. I spot the faint image of him as he approaches me and smiles. “Nice to meet you properly..............just wish it was under better circumstances.”, he says as he frowns. “Don’t move.”. He blasts me with energy to everyone’s shock and I shatter and he emerges. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I look at them for a second as they gape at me. “Wait for it.”. The pieces condenses and reassembles into the wolf. I look at the princess, “howdy your highness!”. “You...........”. “Just because Ayo Kub couldn’t remember being me, doesn’t mean I can’t remember being him.”, I explain as I turn towards Sans, “care to explain why you planned that?!”. “What are you talking about?”, asks Undyne. “I gave that SOUL to him willingly. Sans planned for it to replace my broken one!”, I shout as everyone gasps and looks at the skeleton. “how.........”. “I could feel it taking the place of my corrupted SOUL, and not only it shattering, but also destroying him. Luckily, at the last second I was able to transfer all that SOUL energy, all that DETERMINATION into him!”, I shout as the wolf gets up and stares at Sans in shock. “You............you wanted to ERASE me!”. “i..........how did you know?”. “Let’s just say I’ve learned a few tricks overtime.”, I respond as I sigh, “Look. I want to trust you, but................you’ve been keeping secrets. You, the Author, and the princesses. You want me to work with you, never to interfere, only to watch? Fine. But i’m not creating another person, ever again. AND I will interfere if someone goes too far! Deal!?”. I light my hand in blue flames and extend it. “kid. you do realize any deals made with that flame..........are permanent. right?”. “Which is why I’m using em. Deal, or no deal?!”. He looks at it and back at me before sighing and walking up and shaking, “i just hope you understand this.”. “I somewhat do Sans. Just takes time to do it, and man did I have a lot of time.”, I explain as I shift back into a child. I turn to everyone, “howdy! I’m Asriel. It’s great to meet you properly...........and I find it weird that I’m meeting myself!”. Everyone lightly chuckles at that. I spot someone around a corner, “who’s there?”. They come out as they try different clothes on, “ah, hello. I see you finally got free.”. He shows a jacket, “do you think this is my color?”. “Who are you?”, asks the Doctor. “Funny coming from you.”, the man says as he puts on a black jacket with a pocket watch. He faces everyone, “hello. I’m the Architect.”. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ To Be Continued.............