Total meltdown in ten minutes
"Dr. gaster!" A voice called out over a blaring alarm.
"NONONO! What if I do this...?" A tall, skeleton male groaned, clacking away at controls. He dressed in a lab coat over his black over coat. His whole hands dashing about.
"Dr. gaster!" The voice repeated.
"What is it, Dr. Sans!" Gaster replied in annoyance, still working diligently on his CORE, the alarm continuing to blare as Sans and his younger brother Papyrus also in the lab, Papyrus as a security guard and Sans as a fellow doctor.
"The CORE is too unstable! You need to leave!" Sans said, the lab empty save for the three of them, the rest of the staff having made themselves scarce hours ago.
"No! I can fix it! I just need more time!" Gaster replied still working hard.
Total meltdown in five minutes.
Uuh, I dunno about you, but the computer says otherwise," The big-boned skeleton said.
"Get Papyrus out of here! I can handle it myself!" Gaster ordered. "If I can't stop the explosion, then I might as well contain it! That way the Underground lives! Even if I don't!"
Sans sighed before turning to his brother.
"Pap! get outta here! I'm going to help the good doctor!" Sans ordered.
"But Sans!" Papyrus said with a hint of disparity.
"Just go!" Sans ordered angrily, his brother obeying with a nod before rushing down the hall.
"You should've gone with him," Gaster said coldly.
"And leave ya to die like mom? No way in hell." Sans said, working alongside his father to stop the CORE meltdown, the alarm ringing as loudly as ever.
"Look, Sans, about that-" His thought was cut off. The alarms were drowned out by a loud, earth-shaking BOOM!
Energy shot out from the CORE, cutting holes in the palms of Gaster's hands and shrapnel scratching his skull. Sans was also affected by the energy. For a brief moment, a dark blue and yellow eye appearing in his left socket before he was kicked into the back wall, disappearing from the room the instant he did.
Gaster himself got a much worse fate.
The effect was instant, he felt his body destroyed, melting away, but his spirit lived on. His SOUL lived on.
Yet, in an instant, he saw the outcome of this world, he saw a human child fall down a deep hole. One that wasn't the child of the king and queen.
And in that instant, he knew its name.
☞︎❒︎♓︎⬧︎🙵
He then saw death. Great amounts of death before him, he even saw his youngest die.
🏱︎♋︎◻︎⍓︎❒︎◆︎⬧︎!
He was then taken to a hall of judgement, with the human child armed with a knife, battling it out with his son, Sans. And the odd eye appearing as he attacked the child, summoning up odd-skull like constructs different from his sharpened bones.
☝︎♋︎⬧︎⧫︎♏︎❒︎ ♌︎●︎♋︎⬧︎⧫︎♏︎❒︎
But then he saw it, the human getting in a lucky hit.
🖲︎🖲︎🖲︎🖲︎🖲︎🖲︎🖲︎
Sans hunched onto the ground, bleeding profusely from his chest.
"heh...... that's it.....guess I'll be going now....I'm heading for grillby's...papyrus, you want.....any....thing?"
He then saw his son turn to dust, and a new word appeared in his mind.
☝︎♏︎■︎□︎♍︎♓︎♎︎♏︎
The world shifted, showing him something different, something new.
❄︎♓︎❍︎♏︎●︎♓︎■︎♏︎
The child, F❒︎♓︎s🙵, landed once more, but rather than death, he saw life. Friendships and happiness, even the prince, ✌︎⬧︎❒︎♓︎♏︎●︎, who became the Absolute ☝︎□︎♎︎ of ☟︎⍓︎◻︎♏︎❒︎♎︎♏︎♋︎⧫︎♒︎, was spared, and the barrier, using 💧︎□︎◆︎●︎⬧︎ combined with DETER♓︎■︎♋︎⧫︎♓︎□︎■︎, the barrier was broken.
🏱︎♋︎♍︎♓︎♐︎♓︎⬧︎⧫︎
The world shifted again, showing him different paths where only certain monsters died, and certain monsters lived. As well as millions of variations of that path.
☠︎♏︎◆︎⧫︎❒︎♋︎●︎
This would continue, over and over and over again, with each Path playing out in front of him billions of times. And all hec could do was watch, never sleeping, never looking away. Never even blinking.
Gaster knew what the word for this was, even before it came into his mind.
☟︎♏︎●︎●︎
This was his ☟︎♏︎●︎●︎, but he didn't know why he was being put through this.
Then the world shifted again, showing him not the Under♑︎❒︎□︎◆︎■︎♎︎, nor the ⚐︎❖︎♏︎❒︎world, rather, it showed him other worlds.
It showed warriors in gold falling to warriors in black. He saw a team of misfits and former villains fighting against a great threat, and humans and equines fighting in a great war! He saw hooded figures of pastel skin hues fighting figures brandishing crystal crosses. He saw a woman with green skin and wings fighting a knight with a golden sword that radiated with energy.
👌︎●︎□︎□︎♎︎●︎♓︎■︎♏︎⬧︎
Then, he moved on. He saw strange men and women, some buff, some skinny. They all fought with these spirits that stood by them. A pink-haired man was even sent to die infinitely by one of these spirit users.
He saw battles against a dark lord with a gold ring, ending with it being thrown into a lake of fire.
He saw great heroes battling great foes, such as 👎︎♋︎❒︎🙵⬧︎♏︎♓︎♎︎, 💣︎♋︎♑︎■︎♏︎⧫︎□︎, and even 💣︎♏︎◻︎♒︎♓︎⬧︎⧫︎□︎◻︎♒︎♏︎●︎♏︎⬧︎, and 💧︎♋︎⧫︎♋︎■︎, as well as various others.
He continued to see. He continued to learn. To experience. Infinity swirled past him. He would do this for millennia. A thousand long millennia. Seeing everything that has happened. That are happening now. And that will happen.
Destiny is a funny thing. It almost never stays the same for long.
He then also saw something, new. Something, unexpected. In far off of the darkness of the void, he saw a light. A bright, blinding light.
It didn't quite pierce the omnipresent blackness of the ✞︎□︎♓︎♎︎, but it did irritate him. Moreso than he thought. Curious, he....moved towards the light...somehow. But as he got closer, he heard a voice.
"Spike! Spike! Do you see what we did?! We opened a portal to an entirely undiscovered dimension!" A female voice called from the light excitedly.
Gaster chuckled to himself, she seemed to be a scholar of sorts. A scientist, even! He moved even closer to the light, and saw a crack.
He put his hand towards it, and saw that it seemed to pull him closer, parts of him whipping through as an inky black smoke.
He pulled it back, and saw that it was intact. Balling it, and feeling determined, he stepped through the light.
He opened his eyes, and saw that he was in some sort of lab. Behind him was a crystal mirror framed in a purple horseshoe, and around him were numerous books and scrolls.
Before him was the most interesting thing. A purple horse with wings and a horn, and a star-like mark upon her flank. He assumed it was a female, because the dull sound of an "uhh........." coming from her agape mouth was feminine.
"Hello miss," Gaster greeted before blinking. His voice, it sounded...off. Like someone trying to speak in English and Wing Dings at the same time. How odd.
"Uhhhh.....hi?" She said weakly, examine the skeleton in shock. "Who are you? And what were you doing...in there?"
"My name is W. D. Gaster, and I was ejected into that ✞︎□︎♓︎♎︎ in a lab accident." Gaster said honestly and with a shrug. "But that's ancient history, now.....what is your name, miss?"
"Uh....Twilight Sparkle. A pleasure to meet you....Dr. Gaster," She said unsurely, but relaxing her pose. "What....are you? You don't look like a human."
Gaster sighed. So there are humans in this new world.
Wonder if the ruler here is as child-murdery as Asgore....... Gaster mused to himself. "I am a skeleton from a place called the Underground. But I assume that doesn't exist in this dimension we're in currently."
Twilight Sparkle blinked.
"Huh" Was all she said in reply.