All the monsters of the Underground gathered, having heard that the barrier was finally down. Some weren't entirely certain they believed, despite their own power being part of what had made it happen. However, Woona's actions throughout the land had given everyone hope, and this new hope was one they were more than happy to seize hold of with all their strength.
Seeing the path clear, the twilight of the barrier no longer present, many were eager to surge forward, but Asgore held them back with a wave of his hand, ensuring that this exodus was organized and controlled. After all, another people awaited them in the outside world, and they all needed to put their best foot - or foot equivalent, for those who didn't have feet - forward as they made their way out. With stately march, they made their way through the small cavern, marveling at the sight of the crystal tree that stood at the very edge of the space once contained by the barrier, as an eternal guardian of the Underground.
The vast majority of the monsters went with their leaders, not wanting to be held back at all. Eventually, only three figures were left beneath the boughs of the tree. Woona turned to glance up at Chara. "Aren'tcha gonna come?" she asked worriedly, grabbing his hand and trying to tug him along.
Chara shook his head softly. "No, Woona," Chara replied softly. "The world up there at the other end of the cave...it's a world without humans. With all the evil humans wrought in their world...I don't want to contaminate that with my presence. Better this world build itself free of the example of my knowledge and memories."
"B...but..." Woona whimpered softly.
"I'll still be right here," Chara explained calmly, leaning against the tree. "I'm not the only thing to have crawled its way out of the void, after all. There are things worse than me down there still...and without the barrier, there's nothing to prevent them from escaping to the surface." He stared back into the darkness. "Nothing except me. I've stared into the Abyss...I won't let it swallow up those I care for again."
Woona whined deep in her throat. "But...but you'll be all alone..."
"I'm used to being alone," Chara countered. "And I know you'll all be stopping by to visit at every opportunity, so I'll hardly have a chance to get lonely."
"Besides," Red added as she stepped up, a box held in her arms, "he won't be alone. I've stood guard over the edge of the Void for my entire career in the Guard. I'm not about to abandon my post." She held out the box to Chara. "You'll need to be properly armed, though."
Curious, Chara reached into the box and withdrew the Worn Dagger, which in his hand extended a mystical aura in the shape of a full size sword. He lowered his eyes and chuckled as he slipped the weapon into his inventory, a skill he'd long developed before he died. "I guess I do, at that. Only fitting, I suppose...that makes me the last King of the Humans, doesn't it?"
"If that's what you want, Your Majesty," Red offered playfully.
Chara rolled his eyes, then turned to Woona. "Tell our folks I'm okay, alright?" he asked softly. "I...I wouldn't do well back on the surface again, not yet. And..." He sighed sadly. "Keep an eye on Asriel for me, okay?"
Woona smiled happily, a tinge of a blush on her cheeks. "Okay," she offered happily. "I'll take care of the cutie!" With that she bounced away.
Chara, for his part, groaned. Apparently, his own deep affection and regard for his brother had imprinted itself in Woona's mind and soul from long sharing a body...in an unexpected way. After a bit of thought, though, he couldn't help but chuckle. Asriel, good luck with this...
Woona quickly caught up with the others, who had reached the edge of the cave and climbed their way to the top of a cliff, staring upward at the sun rising from behind a distant tall mountain. All were silent as they marveled at the beauty of the sunrise. Woona couldn't help but giggle as she saw their expressions. "Big sis did good today!" she offered happily.
"Big Sis?" everyone except Sans asked, stunned.
"Yup!" Woona replied happily. "She makes the sun go up and down. When I'm bigger, it'll be my job to do the same with the moon!"
"Magic controlling the heavens?" Toriel gasped out, stunned. "Goodness, there's so much I'll have to relearn about the surface now."
"I g-g-guess that explains why your soul is so strong," Alphys stammered out. "The amount of magic it'd take to move a celestial body...I s-shudder to even comprehend..."
"Well, we're not going to make a good impression just hanging out here!" Undyne proclaimed. "Let's go!" Laughing madly, she charged towards the mountain.
"Undyne, wait!" Asgore called out worriedly, racing after her.
"I WILL GET THERE FIRST!" Papyrus proclaimed, taking to his heels. "NYEHEHEHEHEHE!"
"this is going to be interesting," Sans chuckled as he calmly walked off in seemingly the wrong direction.
Woona and Asriel giggled together as the other monsters followed. Toriel smiled down at them. "Let's go, my children," she offered softly, holding out her hands. As they took them, she glanced around. "Where is Chara?"
"He feels he has a job to do," Woona and Asriel said at the same time.
Woona turned away from the cave to glance at Asriel in shock. "How did you-?"
Asriel chuckled. "I know him better than anyone, Woona," he explained softly. "I know how he thinks."
Toriel chuckled softly. "Well, I won't begrudge him the responsibilities he chooses for himself. After all, it seems it's now Woona's job to be ambassador between monsters and ponies."
Giggling happily, Woona walked with her Mommy and brother, to meet up with her sister at long last.
So Chara and Red basically just became the guardians to the gates of Tartarus.
I'm not crying, you're crying!
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Great chapter, can't wait to see how Celestia reacts
Few aware that the Crystal tree also marked the final graves for the last sages of mankind, brutally defeated without ever offering friendship or even attempting to befriend them, unlike literally every other creature encountered in the Underground, even Flowey, before ushering in their deaths to break the barrier once and for all, if at a price in blood.
There. I feel better adding that.
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I'm not forgetting about them.
Seems Chara still has a bit of hatred for humans, and is also generalizing everything based on his own rather limited experience. I hardly expect he learned of everything humans had done in the world, and to say they were evil-and thus so is he-is...I don't want to quite say "small minded", but definitely prejudiced, albeit at his own species. Granted, there is apparently good reason to stay to guard the void, but I think it's his own fears keeping him down there more than any genuine thought that he'd contaminate the surface just by being human.
Definitely feels like we're nearing the end here, although you could keep going for a while or into a sequel, and I'm sure shenanigans is to be found with the monsters adjusting to life on the surface, and I figure at least one chapter is going to have Luna and Celestia tearful reunion.
Wow, I guess the king is not the only one with a . . . Sun.
Hey, Woona! Careful! You don' want to ... Moon anyone.
Those are the only puns I can think of. . . Over to you BlueYoshi.
7456263 Why do I have a feeling that by doing this, Chara and Red are gonna somehow start something similar to the 'Night's watch' in game of thrones...
Yay, everyone (except for Red and Chara) is on the surface now! Can't wait to see how they'll react to them meeting with Celestia and the other ponies.
7456302 it was Knifewhile it lasted.
You know, I wonder how this will affect the MLP storyline.
I guess you could say that Chara and Red going to... Overwatch the gate to the underground.
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7456368 it's just began
7456369 What has begun? Are you talking about your falling at making puns? If so, then yeah, I already know. Your puns already killed everyone else after all. Except Spike that is.
7456377 I have already killed multiple chapters. Just look at the comment sections for past chapters.
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Easy there... You'll make it through these puns... Just stay DETERMINED!
Still one more soul to save...
let's go find Gaster.
7456423 Yes, lets. Mush.
7456384 No, the chapters were and still are untouched. It's the commenters that you have killed. Wha... Oh. Right... Except Spike . (Why is he bugging me about being mentioned)
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That's for the sequel.
There are too many damned tsunderes in this game, I swear...
I guess you have a point. No one should ever have to be lectured by Kankri; too much cancer *rimshot*.
Anyways, see ya.
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Guess the monsters decided to make like a tree and leaf.
If I didn't know any better, I'd say that Tories is quite... moved by what Woona will eventually do.
Whoa there Undyne and Papyrus, no need to make a mountain out of a molehill now.
Seems Woona is gonna have quite a impression on Asriel.
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Papyrus: "I'm not crying...I just have something in my eyes."
7456449 Great puns as usual. Hey, do you think you could prepare a special set of pun for the final chapter? Not based on the chapter but on the whole story entirely. What do you think? Oh, plus, BlueYoshi could look for the best raging Papyrus pic to upload in response. What do you think?
7456336 Same question to you, What do you think? You can ever look up a image of the regretti spaghetti for the final chapter being the final one.
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Welp, this story has been a fun ride. I know it's not quite over yet, but I, sadly, sense that one is coming.
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Please note, I know very little in regards to programs and how they're made.
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Undertale OST Premonition
Meanwhile, in a room sealed away through magic unfathomable, a small white dog yawned and scratched an ear with its hind leg and sat up, blinking. In one corner of the room sat a computer that had been left running whilst its owner napped upon the floor, and in the opposing corner, a furry outline that had been perfectly shed as one solid piece by its owner barely stood up under its own weight. Rising from its more-than-worn rug the dog trotted to the computer and hopped up on its seat, glancing over the coding before it from the top to the bottom. The coding was not as it had recalled it being before it had lain down to sleep, but had not changed over-much so as to be non-functional. Still...
The small white dog tilted its head to one side and scrolled the mouse-wheel up to the mid-section of the script-code. Puzzled, he highlighted what seemed to be censored words and symbols and deleted them. moving his paws to the rest of the keyboard, he typed in the dialog and code that he recalled had once been there before and then saved what he'd done and waited. After only a few seconds, the screen seemed to flicker with static and the dialog and coding he'd repaired had been censored out again.
Whining lowly and with ears drooping he corrected it again, and saved it again, beginning to suspect that some other power had hacked his World-Builder somehow. Again, as he suspected, the screen flickered. This time it continued to flicker and for half a second a face formed in the static.
Undertale OST - ?
Growling, the small white dog closed the program, freezing the progression of time in the world outside the room he was in. Opening an earlier duplicate copy of the same World-Program, he skimmed through his progress in the various files until coming upon the area that had been censored out in the main file. This one wasn't censored at all, which was at first reassuring, but then as he examined it closer he discovered that there were lines of code in place that should not have been. Tilting his head again, the small white dog set to correcting them, and saved the corrected file.
Dark, Darker, Yet Darker
This time as the screen flickered it filled with static, and then went completely black save for four small pixels in the center of the screen that seemed to infect other pixels as more time went on. They shaped into an upright figure, changing color as the 'infection' spread across the screen until it formed a smirking face that quickly expanded into a predatory grin. The screen cracked in four places, and the small white dog leaped from the chair seconds before the glass shattered outward from the monitor in hundreds of fragments. Spinning in place on his nap-rug to face the apparition that seemed to ooze out from the monitor. The small white dog watched, growling fiercely (though less than intimidating due to his size) as a character he'd brushed to the side after completing the majority of his project finished leaving the confines of the computer and brushed non-existent dust from his suit. Looking down at his creator, Dr. Wing Ding Gaster was no longer grinning, though he did still smile coldly.
"Did you think that you could make a being like me, give me the sort of abilities you did, and then that you could just shrug your shoulders and sweep me under the rug? That the void could eternally contain one such as me?"
"Gruff!" The small white dog replied. "Gruff wuff, woof!"
"Yes, I suppose you might believe that. But something that you seem to have forgotten is that an Idea is much harder to destroy than a being of flesh and blood. Or Dust and Magic, in my case."
"Woof."
"Oh, that particular mistake wasn't your doing, nor was it mine. All I had to do was offer The Void a Possibility of mine escape, and wait for someone that possesses similar skills from Elsewhere in Creation to yours to latch onto it. It took time. It took well over two linear years since I came up with that idea, in fact, but here we stand today, speaking of it in person. Now that I have not only returned to the world of my birth, but have access to your little building room I am free to rewrite the world as I see fit. Once I have of course," Gaster gathered his void-warped magic and prepared to attack. "destroyed you."
The small white dog began to laugh in canine fashion. Gaster raised a non-existent eyebrow in confusion. (Stop the music)
"Aroo-ooff! Wuff warf Roaf!" Gaster hesitated, his smile fading.
"Well...that's true, yes...but what makes you think that same being would after having let me out in the first place?"
The small white dog smiled and rolled its eyes.
*The Dog summons up a dialog box to translate his barks and woofs.
"Because at the end of the day, we're all someone else's story, and how many people reading yours and mine don't want the good guys to win?"
*The small white dog looks at YOU.
FIGHT
Dog boss fight song
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I'm too lazy to write Gaster's dialog out in wing-dings, if this site would even allow for that, So, if any of you enjoyed this one (I felt it was kinda weak, personally, though it was still fun to do) who do YOU want to see win? And do you want a fight scene to go with it? Or would you prefer that I stop doing this in the comments section, Tatsurou? Given that he's mentioned earlier in the fic and that its implied that he CAN get free I'm assuming you have plans for him.
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I definitely enjoyed this altscript, though my own plans for Gaster are...different.
I didn't read it but I saw the title and did this for only a little bit of semblance iunno.
7456481 Hmm... would be interesting but finding puns that fit for the entire story can be quite challenging to do since the backgrounds are quite diverse. We'll see how it goes I guess.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
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Having read that and mentally pictured it, I'm sincerely hoping that makes it into the fic.
I have but one rather unexpected question...
Where did Woona fall from to get into the underground?
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The peak of Mt. Ebott...or, as the ponies call it, Canterlot Mountain.
Hahahaha, wow... man what a story this has turned out to be... one heck of a ride I enjoyed start to finish.
There's more obviously, and I can't wait to finish this up!
So good job Tat... good job.
It seems to me like there's only gonna be one or two more chapters, unless you're writing a "now on the surface" arc of the story, so may I just say that this has been a hell of a ride, and I'm glad to have gotten on.
Hang on to your britches, people. This ship's about to dock, and I can't wait to see the fanfare!
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Excuse me. I need to go throttle the other skeleton. Everything I say sounds like a freakin' pun...
OoooooOOOoooOOOoohhh! The tension is so tight a drunkard with a french fry could cut it!
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Still don't get it.
Am I the only one who saw the similarities between Chara and Knight Artorias from Dark Souls? Cause It would be epic if someone could make fan art of Chara with The Abyss Walker's armor on with his sword.
And Red can wear some Abyss Watcher armor. :D
7456456 Yes, of course, the eyes that don't exist.
7456490 Did you see my last question though?
7456606 I'm ... rooting for you.
7456490 Apology for the sudden change in topic but I actually ship Woona and Asriel. In fact, I'd say...
GOat get 'em, filly!
I know you're a princess but don't let him GOat.
What is LOVE? Oh no, don't hurt me! Don't hurt me! Oh no!
All you need is love. love. Leave LOVE outta this.7457614 If you've got any budding ideas, let me know.
7457707 I believe everyone here agrees that ship is monstrously cute.
7457724 None, sorry, but maybe you could use the title itself to think up some ideas.
No Pun this time. But I do have a joke.
How do you make 7 even?
7456436 Lets meet Celestia
7457727 I dunno, how do you make seven even?
7457848 You take away the s.
7457853 Ahh, bravo my good fellow. Funny I didn't see that word play as I wrote it out even
And so the end is within sight. Let moon rejoin the sun once more, with a colorful rainbow of new friends along for the ride.
Its a lot easier to ship Woona with Asriel than Nefarious and Twilight, were they not foster siblings.
cant wait for the happy reunion and i did have another set of questions but the comments answered them nicely so another good chapter and once its finished it will be another amazing story you have written