//------------------------------// // Interlude - Dark, Darker, Yet Darker... // Story: Lost Dreamer // by Arceaion //------------------------------// 972 years BNM Luna slowly trotted up to a black chained door in the dream realm and hesitated. The door lead to the dream of a certain child and was kept closed by massive chains that were secured by a massive padlocked. Luna's magic slowly picked up the lock and a key appeared in it, she hesitated for a single moment more before opening the doors and entering the dreams of Chara. As the world came together Luna saw Chara standing before a shallow pool of liquid and gazing at it. The pool bubbled and froth as she watched, it seemed almost alive. "This is a bad idea." Chara said as she turned to a tall skeleton. The Skeleton wore a pair of dress shoes, light gray pants, a black turtle neck covered by a white lab coat. Two cracks covered his face and he calmly turned to Chara and nodded. "Do not worry Chara, all the proper procedures have been taken." He said calmly. Chara shook her head. "Gaster I know that as scientists we are to expect a certain level of danger with our work, comes with the territory but there is a big difference in creating a machine to view the Alternate Timelines and a portal to those Timelines." Chara said adamantly. We're messing with technology that we haven't perfected and even worse I haven't even tested!" Chara exclaimed as he followed the Doctor as he checked connections. "Ya know, I agree with the kid." A short and 'big boned' skeleton said as he reproached the two He wore a shirt with the word PUN on it under a lab coat, a pair of black shorts and on his feet was a pair of pink fuzzy slippers. "I mean, come on doc, if the Kid is concerned then we probably should listen." Gaster groaned and face-palmed. "Sans not you too." He said in an exasperated tone. "Hey I'm just saying." Sans said as he raised his hands up in surrender. "Chara made this and she hasn't even run tests yet, she's concerned that something will go wrong and since she made the stuff I'm inclined to agree with her." Gaster sighed. "It's not like we're going through ourselves." Gaster said ans he turned to the two other scientists. "As you said we don't even know if this will work and as such I intend to run several experiments before we do anything else. I understand your concerns however if this can help us get free," Gaster turned to the pool and knelt down to examine it. "then we have no choice." "Dr. Gaster, the calibrations are completed." A cat Monster said as he approached them. "Very good Dr. Scratch, please activate the device." Gaster said. Scratch nodded and walked over to the controls where a snake monster and a reptile with no arms stood. Suddenly the door opened and a Monster with red skin and large eyes entered. "Dr. Gaster the team is ready." He said. Gaster nodded. "Activate the machine." He said and the Cat Monster flipped a switch. The Machine sparked and several energy beams activated, firing into the pool with a blinding light the liquid began to slowly part. Gaster, Chara and Sans stepped forward to look in and see a portal that lead to an odd room of light. Gaster examined the portal for a moment before nodding. "Shut it down." He yelled over the noise however nothing happened. "Shut the device down!" He yelled again only this time Scratch turned to him in panic. "We can't, something is wrong with the device, it won't respond!" Scratch exclaimed in panic before the controls exploded throwing him back. "Scratch!" The snake monster explained as she slithered over to the cat. "Are you ok?" She asked concerned. Scratch groaned. "I'm fine Esha. He said as he rose slowly. Suddenly the pool exploded outward and reality warping around the liquid. Chara and Gaster and the other scientists were covered in a tide of the liquid and they screamed as their forms began to warp and change. Luna watched in terror as the liquid consumed everything. however what drew her attention was Chara who screamed as color was leached from her and she became a monotone coloring of gray, black goo dripped from her eyes which were black voids with only a red dot showing for here iris. Suddenly the skeleton that was called Gaster turned and looked at her, Luna screamed in fear as the creature launched forward and consumed her. "☜︎■︎⧫︎❒︎⍓︎ ■︎◆︎❍︎♌︎♏︎❒︎🖳︎ 📂︎🖮︎ ♎︎♋︎❒︎🙵📪︎ ♎︎♋︎❒︎🙵♏︎❒︎📪︎ ⍓︎♏︎⧫︎ ♎︎♋︎❒︎🙵♏︎❒︎📪︎ ⧫︎♒︎♏︎ ♎︎♋︎❒︎🙵■︎♏︎⬧︎⬧︎ 🙵♏︎♏︎◻︎⬧︎ ♑︎❒︎□︎⬥︎♓︎■︎♑︎📬︎ ❄︎♒︎♏︎ ⬧︎♒︎♋︎♎︎□︎⬥︎⬧︎ ♍︎◆︎⧫︎⧫︎♓︎■︎♑︎ ♎︎♏︎♏︎◻︎♏︎❒︎📪︎ ◻︎♒︎□︎⧫︎□︎■︎ ❒︎♏︎♋︎♎︎♓︎■︎♑︎⬧︎ ■︎♏︎♑︎♋︎⧫︎♓︎❖︎♏︎📬︎ ❄︎♒︎♓︎⬧︎ ■︎♏︎⌧︎⧫︎ ♏︎⌧︎◻︎♏︎❒︎♓︎❍︎♏︎■︎⧫︎ ⬧︎♏︎♏︎❍︎⬧︎ ❖︎♏︎❒︎⍓︎📪︎ ❖︎♏︎❒︎⍓︎📪︎ ♓︎■︎⧫︎♏︎❒︎♏︎⬧︎⧫︎♓︎■︎♑︎📬︎📬︎📬︎ ⬥︎♒︎♋︎⧫︎ ♎︎□︎ ⍓︎□︎◆︎ ⧫︎⬥︎□︎ ⧫︎♒︎♓︎■︎🙵✍︎" Luna screamed awake launching upright in terror as she looked around to find nothing but her bedroom. Slowly she took several breaths as she tried to calm down. As she finally calmed down she thought on what this Gaster had said, while she couldn't understand him exactly she did recognize the language as the same one that Chara often spoke in. It was at that moment that several things clicked together as she pieced together who Gaster was, the mysterious Dr. G was Gaster! Then something else clicked, that experiment was what Chara had mentioned, an experiment to create a portal to something called a 'Timeline'. It had gone wrong and he had been sucked in to that rift along with everyone else. Luna quickly walked exited her bedroom and turned to a guard. "Wake my sister, something has happened and she must know. Chara groaned as she slowly rose off the floor and looked around, she sat in Sans's secret lab again and she groaned as she got off the floor and stretched, popping her back to get the kinks out before walking over to the machine and picking up the tools laying around it. Once she finished cleaning up she pulled of her lab coat and teleported to her room in the castle. This had been Charas routine for a year now, during the day she would study magic, and research anything that may lead her to Gasters old lab while at night she would teleport off to work on Sans's machine. Chara yawned as she put on San's blue jacket and papyrus's scarf before walking over and poking her brother. "Azzy, s'time to wake up." She said. Asriel groaned and waved is hand as if to shoo her away. Chara sighed before poking him again. only to get the same reaction. "Come on Azzy." Chara sighed as her eyes glowed blue and she yanked him up in her magic. "Hey!" Asriel cried in surprise before Chara began to spin him around. "OK, I'm up, I'M UP!" He exclaimed. Chara smirked and dropped him on the bed. "Good." She said as he climbed out of the bed and stretched. "I saw you leave last night." Asriel said as he went over to his closet and pulled on his sweater. Chara froze before turning to her brother. "So?" She asked concerned. Asriel sighed. "Chara... I know your going somewhere at night, I'm worried about you." "Azzy I'm fine." Chara said with a forced smile. Asriel walked over to Chara and embraced their sibling. "I may not as smart as you but I'm not stupid either." He said. "Your HP's dropping." "It's rude to check others without their permission." Chara said. Asriel hugged her tighter. "It's Gaster isn't it? Sans was working on a device to bring him back and now your working on it too aren't you?" Asriel asked. Chara said nothing only hugged her brother closer. Chara Dreemurr The First Fallen Child LV1 HP 15/20 SAVE RETURN ERASE R[]sE[]