The End's Destroyer

29: The Outcomes

* More new backstories!!

* World building is one of my fave things to do in stories I'm sorry if this is boring dyebdidnf

* Get ready, this is quite long

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X-tale

"So in the end, you couldn't help Frisk, they have given up their determination..." Cross softly asked as he was cuddling the curled up ghost of X. He can only see X's ghost since he's in the Anti-VOID, but he can't see X outside of it. Especially since he doesn't have X's SOUL.

"I want to leave, Cross..." X quietly muttered. "I want to attach to you... Like- Like the memories you showed me..." X couldn't help but act and feel like a child. Because even if he may be a grown up. He's still in a child body. Might end up as an eternal child at this point. And since he's a ghost anyways, he won't grow...

And for some reason, he's fine with that. Especially if it's gonna be with Cross.

God dammit, he really had thought of Cross as a brother now. How dare he go soft for Cross.

"You know that if I do that, Frisk's body will be lost forever, right?" Cross whispered softly and X nods. "I don't care about that Frisk anymore... He's not my brother. Just an experiment Gaster likes to use." X scowled. "He's no longer my brother anymore." X added quietly and Cross hummed. "Alright... If you can, try and sneak out and find me. If you're unsuccessful, we can always do it in timeline ten... After all, that's the last timeline." Cross softly asked. "Mhh... I'll make sure I find you in Timeline 9." X huffed. "Gonna be a big ol' frigg you to Gaster since it's on an odd number too." X and Cross laughed softly at that. "Definitely a big fuck you to his face." "You swore!" "Get used to it X. That's how I actually am." Cross grinned and X's eyes sparkled a bit before laughing softly.

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Cross then saw them approaching. He has seen them get taken away by Alphys, so he was surprised that X has managed to lead Frisk to him. Admittedly, he feels a bit bad killing this Frisk, but remembering how this Frisk was selfishly trying to make the world perfect and end up becoming like Gaster, the remorse left quick.

"Oh, heya kid!" Cross chirped before growing a bit worried. "Ah... Sorry if I don't have any extra drinks for you bud. Hold on, I'll whip some up for ya." Cross spoke, getting up and then going to the back of his house, pulling his SOUL out. He sees that it's slowly depleting now. He had purposefully harmed himself so that he would start dusting. After all, he can't merge his and X's Determination SOUL if his SOUL is full.

Cross then waited with a hand in his pocket, then the other watching the dust flaking off of his hands. Hearing footsteps, he then turned around. He was sure that X is worried about the dusting, but he will understand soon enough. "W-Wait- Are you okay...?" The Frisk suddenly asked and Cross chuckled softly. "Yeah, don't worry... Sorry about this kid." Cross then suddenly pinged Frisk's SOUL, seeing the red and purple split SOUL and surprising him. "But trust me... This would make Gaster very angry and weak." Cross smiled while the Frisk opened his eyes, which were wide in surprise and a bit of fear. Cross then summoned his own SOUL, which was halfway dusted now. He then merged their SOULs. As soon as the Overwrite ability was gone, the world began to fall apart, mumbles of surprise and yells of fear ringing out. Cross then gently laid the kid to the ground since without a SOUL. He's pretty much dead. Cross then glanced around and saw X appear. "Hey X... Sorry for surprising you." Cross smiled gently. "You- You freakin ahole!" X yelled. Tackling Cross into a hug, who hugged back. "Sorry." Cross chuckled softly. "I probably forgot to tell you that my SOUL would have to be halfway gone for the merge to be successful." Cross smiled gently, looking down at the body and then teleporting away, into the crowd so no one would suspect it was him who had killed Frisk. Soon enough, he saw Alphys rush towards Frisk and then pick him up, rushing the boy back to Gaster. "Kinda wanna see what would happen..." X muttered, Cross discretely nods and then teleported after Alphys in silence, making sure to keep distance and stay hidden.