> Determination With Bones > by arandomboi12 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prologue > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was a beautiful day outside. And what I mean by beautiful, I mean by it, it nearly fucking blindied me when I opened my eyes, jesus christ. I have been working my ass off, doing night shift, and had to do a crap-ton of writing. On top of that, I wanted to get an extra day off to draw for a day. But my boss being a dick, said ‘No, because you are taking too much time off!”, It pisses me off everytime! I shook the thoughts out of my head, now was not the time to be pissy as today. Today, I was planning to try to buy myself a cosplay for the comicon next week.  Getting out of bed  and heading over to my desk, I took a seat and opened up my laptop, waking it up from its sleep mode. I started browsing through websites trying to find what I need. I wanted to cosplay as sans and was having issues finding it. After some searches later, I finally found one, however, the website I was checking out that had the hoodie on  It was nearly five hundred bones! (pun not intended)  My reaction to such an idiotic price was that of a kid screaming like his fucking leg was being cut off.  “Damn, and  undertalecosplay.net was my best bet…” I said in an annoyed tone of voice. Sadly for me, I had to search for the next best thing: Ebay. Searching around, I eventually found a beautiful hoody that looked identical to classic Sans’s look, the guy that was selling it had the price ranging up to four hundred and ninety five bucks! Dude probably trying to scam people or something. “God almighty. Welp, time to check ye olde- wait, the FUNK?” I exclaimed in surprise when my touch phone started going crazy with notification pings. Reaching into my pant’s pocket, I pulled out my phone to check what was causing it. What I saw made me do a double take! I had received over two hundred emails all in fucking WING DINGS. “The hell?” I whispered at the tall list of emails that had me scrolling down the list. Suddenly, the wingdings flickered for a moment, changing its font to be all in english. “Dear Marcus, it has come to my attention that you have been seeking certain things of interest. More likely I think I might have just the thing for you.” it read. My face began to shift between shock and anger. How the heck did this strange guy find my email? And while were on that note, how did the wingdings suddenly to english? Getting overly excited but skeptical of the claim, I began typing out my reply. “Ok dude, how the fresh hell did you find my email and also what do you mean ‘certain things of interest?’ explain.” I texted back. The moment I clicked send, I suddenly got a new notification back in lightning speed. “A friend told me you like undertale. I think his name was dave. That's what I mean. I’ll meet you outside your apartment complex five fix Farnile east to be exact,  I'll meet you there at nine thirty at the nearest parking lot. I hope to see you there.” It read. I facepalmed. Damnit dave. So there I was. Going down to the parking lot to meet some guy I don't know because of my friend dave. By all means, he’s a good guy to hang out with but he’s kinda stupid.  Now, the message was a little veg about the nearest parking lot as there is a good number of them. I had to drive around checking each out, making me regret giving into my excitement when I answered that email. I managed to find him through when he was standing outside a red van holding a sign with my full name, seeing that sent an eerie feeling crawling down my back.  Open up my door and keeping my guard up until I got closer to him. There inside the van, were undertale related items, not only that, but figurines, cosplays, the works! What really tickled my funny bone was right there being worn by a skeleton manikin wearing San’s hoodie; a perfect replicate too, holy crap.  “Hello there, child.” he spoke with a calm yet creepy grin. “Uhh… I'm not a kid. I’m seventeen.” I said while looking  around. I then got the guts to ask him a question despite the ever growing feeling of being watched. “How much does this cost?” I asked, giving him a stare. “Questions just questions.” The funk? Questions? What does he mean by that? “Oookay… well, can I have the sans jacket?” I asked as he gave me a stare of which sent chills down my spine as if my past sins were coming back to haunt me. “Answer my question correctly and you may get the jacket. Who was Sans talking to at the ruins door?” he asked me as I gave a sigh. “He was talking to Toriel behind the door. Telling bad puns and genuinely talking to her. One day though, he heard Toriel crying behind the door. She asked him to protect any human that comes through the door. He hated making promises but he promised her anyway.” I explained, providing more than just an answer. This not only earned me a nod, but he also handed me the jacket.  Putting it on, I noticed it was surprisingly snug and it fit my size. “Just who is this guy anyhow?” I mentally asked myself as I placed my hands into the jacket’s pockets as it suddenly got chilly. I looked off to the side as I noticed a crystalized heart necklace that reminded me of the soul of determination. The man gives me a look of seriousness. “Another question young one, what does it do?” Seriously what is up with this guy? I started to sweat. “Ok, it is used for saving and reloading. It can also let the user come back from death from which he/she saved at. Determination is naturally possessed by humans. Should a monster acquire a high concentration of determination, its body will melt, usually into an amalgamate.” he gives me a satisfied nod before proceeding to give me the necklace ‘The feeling of the necklace in your hands fills you with DETERMINATION.’ a voice said in my head. “THE FUCK WAS THAT?!?” I whispered out loud as I heard the voice. I then started to become uneasy. “I need to buy what I can and get out of here.” I mentally thought to myself as I pointed to the Omega!Chara figurine of which he gives me another look. “What happens when both souls fuse/absorb each other?” He asked me. Dammit I gotta hurry up! “Both souls lose their unique traits. As with Omega!Chara absorbs frisk’s soul frisk couldnt reset.” I said in which he nods and gives me the figurine. I then point out the overwrite button, now he creeped me out when he got daringly close into my face. I was too scared to move. “What is the overwrite button? And what does it do?” Off topic but his breath smelled horrible! It smelt like Asgore’s basement. Get it? Because he had coffins in there… whatever you’re no fun. “OVERWRITE is a very powerful tool, designed from a modification of the power of resetting. It works with a tap of its button; it'll allow any user to change the reality of a timeline, as well as any thoughts, actions, memories, and roles. for example, changing how someone will die, like what happened when it forced Underswap!Papyrus to stab himself and Underswap!Chara. However, it's power is abusive, and too much of it will eventually break down the timeline, or the AU itself if one has a full overwrite soul.” I explained in detail. He gave me the button. BON VOYAGE! I can finally leave! I turned around and walked off… at least I tried as i was being swallowed by a freaking puddle of god knows what! I tried to move, but I sunk further into the black abyss. > A bad time. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I woke up in a building, or what seemed like a castle. I got up just to see something glinting in my eyes, only to realize it was my reflection on a nearby broken glass. I still looked the same from when i was back on earth but my right eye was now blue, I didn't have my necklace anymore. But what really caught my eye was a FUCKING SAVE POINT. I went over to it and held hand above it. It felt… warm and for some strange reason it made me feel calm. “Finding yourself in a strange situation with no intel of what's going on, fills you with DETERMINATION. Hp fully restored. SAVED. “Kay, that was weird… I wonder where I am. Am I in a dunge-” I was interrupted by a cackle while I was pondering just where I am and how’d I even get here. Curiosity getting the best of me, I started to follow where the voice was coming from. Walking through a number of halls of corridors. I found myself within my sight that made me think I just smoked weed. Inside there was two people, er...creatures that seemed to be from an equine vicinity. One was trying to get some stones off of the ground, while a dark blue one cackles with some armor that is a little bit too… revealing… trying not to get an anime nosebleed, I walked up to them cautiously… but that failed as the dark blue one noticed me. I tensed up until my right eye started to feel funny. “Uhhh… heya.” I said as I looked around at the display in the room. “Y-you’ve been busy huh?” I said while I chuckled nervously while looking around. The dark blue one broke the silence. “State thy Business! Or art thou foolish enough to stop eternal night?!” She screamed at me while she took a challenging step forward. I backed up until I was flat against the wall just as half of my vision was coated in a blue hue. “S-s-stay back lady! I shouted as I closed my eyes. Then I heard it, the familiar sound of a certain skull being summoned. Loud collective gasps filled the room, causing me to open my eyes. I found that a gaster blaster was in front of me. The dark blue horse jumped back in surprise and shot something of what I assumed magic at the skull. The gaster blaster steadfast and protected me from the blast as I stood upright.  I… felt a burning feeling that I couldn't describe. I was… confident! I looked down and noticed my hand was spread out. So out of curiosity, I tried closing it command the blaster. It worked as the Blaster shot out a magical blue beam at her. Her eyes go wide with shock she wasn’t prepared for it. So I tried to summon another one by envisioning one behind her. I heard the same sound from before. (Cue Music.) “Argh! What is thee meaning of this?!?” She screamed out. Grinning with confidence, I hopped onto the gaster blaster that protected me before. “What? Don't like my gaster blasters? They seem to like you alot!” I said to her as I made the gaster blast her from behind. She flew into the air dodging my attack and blasted magic to my way. I mentally commanded the blaster to move out of the way, seeing how fast it moved made my grin even bigger. She gasped at my sudden movement and so did other six equines. “A cheater are we? Let's fix that shall we?” I said. Out of curiosity of what other things I could do now, I reached out then snapped my fingers, causing a blue heart to appear outside of the mare’s chest. With a flick of my arm downward,  she came plummeting into the ground. Everytime I used an attack I remembered Sans using, would unbelievably come true at my command, it was kind of invigorating!  “You’re blue. No more flying for you.” I said before I flung my arm to the side, causing her to be slammed into the wall. I then pulled my hand up, making bones come out of the ground. She was quick as she jumped in the air to avoid the bony trap. She then came running toward me. She pulled a huge scythe out of nowhere and quickly swung it at me. I went and  moved to the side to dodge it, finding myself suddenly moving faster than usual. “What? You think I'm just gonna stand there and take it??” I asked before raising my hand upward. In one swift movement, a whole bunch of bones came out of the ground through tiny blue portals in a row moving toward the direction where mare was standing. She took that as a warning and started running as they started to pierce the ground behind her. She was panting heavily and so was I, even my whole face was covered in sweat. Noticing my tired state, she took this opportunity to shoot a magic blast at me, I leapt to the side, almost barely avoiding the attack. Welp, time to end this. “What is this magic?!?” A purple mare asked to which I took my time to yell the answer to her. “I have no idea! Bone magic perhaps?!” I said before flinging my arm in frantic motions, causing the mare to go slamming and flying around the room. I fling her to the ground one last time and keeping her firmly on the ground, I started to feel fatigue strain on my body. With a mental command, I summoned gasters all around her in full circle. The mare stared at me with a mixture of fear and anger. “You made your mistakes, Simply feeding your mania. But now hell awaits WHEN I STOP MEGALOVANIA!” I said before clenching my fist together, causing the first blaster to releases it blue beam. Suddenly, she surprised me when she vanished and appeared behind me in a flash of magic. “Huh? Oh shit!” I yelped as she swung her weapon at me, she was suddenly starting to fight more serious.  At that moment, my rational thoughts came clashing together in my head, making me realize what I was actually doing. “Holy fuck this was insane! I just got here and now I was in a fucking fight with an anthropomorphic unicorn!” I mentally exclaimed as I quickly hopped onto a gaster blaster in panic just to get away from the mad mare. “Dammit! I'm starting to get tired…” I mentally thought as I looked behind me as she teleported again. Quickly trying to think ahead, I quickly made bones pop up behind me, causing her to gasp in surprise as the bones stabbed into her leg. Yelling in pain and frustration, she charged at me with rage flaring in her eyes. Close my eyes and trying to concentrate through the haze, I opened up a single eye as the world around me glowed in a bright blue hue. Desiring to end this now and try to survive this hell, I started to frantically slam her around, forcing her to hit the stone walls again and again. I could feel my movements beginning to get sluggish with each slam as my face was now fully soaked with sweat. Soon, my aggressive attack slowed down to a halt, pinning her on the ground one last time.  I felt so tired, like I had stayed up all night. “Heh, kind of strange...” I whispered as sleep started to take me, yet for some reason I was still aware of the mare’s presence, like I was half conscious. Slowly, I felt my gravity’s hold loosen and I think she did took when I saw her moving to strike, however I was able to dodge, although a bit sloppy, but I managed. “Heh, didja really think you would be able to- UGH!” I was interrupted by a sharp pain in my chest and shoulder, she somehow managed to hit me, “Oh… Just let me tell you something before I die, bringing eternal night will kill everything.  Just don't say I didn't warn you…” I said with a wide grin as as darkness started to move in all around me. My body suddenly felt weak, causing me to go falling sideways onto the ground,. She laughed triumphantly as I heard a gasp from the Megalomaniac. Soon, I was in a world of black. “...Is this really it… Dying after realizing I’m in another world?” I asked myself in fear. Regret started back to me, regretting replying to that email, regretting meeting that creepy man, regretting even buy any of it. Slowly coming out of my chest, was a floating baby blue heart, “No, that’s my soul?”  I asked in a weak voice. Suddenly, the heart split in two, forcing me to close my eyes as if expecting true death.. “But it refused..” “...W-what?” I asked in confusion just as the world around me started to brighten to the point of blinding me, ironically the same way I woke up this morning. HP Fully Restored. “What happened?” I thought to myself as I had to contemplate the events that just happened. I was confused, curious, and most of all afraid. Was it all a dream that was influenced by some drug that guy made or something? Or was it all real and I just gave a bad time to an anthropomorphic unicorn and got fucked up in the process? Nevertheless, I heard voices but they were muffled and incomprehensible. The fuck? The hell are those voices. And why is one getting closer and… Then I was shaken violently. Ok, this shit ends now! “The hell? What happened-” I was interrupted by a blue equine looking at me dead in my eyes and what mean by dead I mean she was inches close to my face. “Take me out to eat first lady, jeez!”  I mentally thought in annoyance. “We want answers! Right now!” A rainbowed haired cyan pegasis said to me. How did I know? She loomed above me with her wings spread out in an aggressive manner.  “Shit she means business! God damnit, why me?” I thought to myself as I look her dead in her eye. “Alright, let’s make her flustered!”  “Look lady, I denied every girls attempt to get into my bone-zone.” I said with a smile. She didn’t know what I meant until I wiggled my eyebrows up and down. She then looked away blushing. “Priceless…” I thought to myself as I chuckled. But then I noticed something: My coat was gone. I looked around to see my coat stitched and my shirt fixed right up.  “Whoever did this, I’ll do manual labor for them for a solid year.” I thought to myself as she directed her attention back to her… by slapping me! “HEY! I still want answers! Are you gonna spit them out or am I gonna make you- WOAH!” she was interrupted when I levitated her off of me. I looked to my right as I heard another voice spoke up. “Hmm… who could that be- ” My eyes went wide as I saw the girl from before. She had a horn on her forehead, her skin-er... fur was violet and she had purple hair with a pink streak in it. She also had glasses on. I looked at her with a grin on my face. “Sorry for my friends behavior, I’m Twilight Sparkle. What’s your name? Also, how could you use magic? I don't see a horn on your head.” She said to me. Dear lord… she’s adorable. I gave her a grin. “Names Marcus. And for your question, I think I used SOUL magic. I don't know how I Used it.” I explained. I wasn’t telling the truth, but at the same time, I was. “SOUL magic? What's that?” She asked me in confusion. Oh boy time for a surprise! “I’ll give you an example. Here we go.” I said before the whole room started to flicker like when you encounter a monster in undertale. She was surprised by this, but what surprised her even more was when she saw her very own SOUL. “Soul of Perseverance? Neat. I have a feeling this will be interesting... Very.”