Delta Memory - Deltarune AU

Chapter 30 - The Hard Truth

I was starting to shake looking through the monitors even finding some schematics of vessels bodies looking like me or Kris, I looked in the containment cells to see Darkners I never seen before, in sleeping state.

Player-"Who are you? A demon? A divinity? What are you doing, all those... It is true? Kris was true? Their gibberish? They weren't insane.. how... but! Explain! How? There is a light world and a dark world! how it is possible?"

WD Gaster-"This whole thing is an experiment I started with what I learnt from the Abyss and the void, I come from a technologically advanced world in which I created a power plant to allow all monsters to survive, I helped human cities to rise. The entire world we are in currently is an illusion."

Gerson-"No, there is no way, I have memories, we all have, we have feelings! We have different goals!"

Anima-"Our dark world are all so different, there is no way this is true. And the Angel, the dark Apostles, the Councillors, the shadow crystals?"

WD Gaster-"All a simulation. But to make it lively, of course I created good and evil forces fighting against each other, the goal? Saving everyone by fusing the two worlds or ending this world with the roaring. Everyone? Just strings and lines of codes, variables."

I tilt my head intrigued.

Player-"Then, who are alive? I am... not conscious too? And Kris? They knows everything, they can't be... just.. a code or part of it?"

WD Gaster-"There are three persons which are real and alive. Me, you, the Player and Kris. But as you guess, you, the Player controlling the Vessel, Kris is in same case, they are controlled by someone."

Player-"Oh. It is not really a demon, right?"

WD Gaster-"This show how the entities I created to fill this simulation are limited to understand it. They think it is a possession, a demon, because it makes sense to them, maybe Darkners live in ignorance that they aren't real and in a simulation. In fact, Kris, is a player like you. But the second one."

Player-"Another one? Why?"

WD Gaster-"To study perfectly, this very very interesting experiment, I needed two players, one that will act for the forces of good, you and the Angel; and them, Kris, for forces of evil. I need to study the interactions you both have with the simulation I created."

Anima, Fluffy and the two guide darkners  looked at each others scared.

Anima-"We aren't real? We don't exist? Why do we exist?"

WD Gaster-"You are just instances, entities with the goal to help progress the plot, and help the main heroes progress further. But in fact, all of your group of 9 persons, the only purpose, is to help that person achieving what they want."

Gaster points at me smiling with piercing eyes.

WD Gaster-"You are just meant to help Vessel. The Player to accomplish their version of the prophecy."

Fluffy-"I'm not a real demon? But my powers? The shadow crystal? This dark world?"

WD Gaster-"All like I designed them. I even coded the fact it requires the cemetery to appear. I designed personally all your designs and appearances. Aren't you, Fluffy, my, my creation, looking interesting? A little cuddle toy shaped like a cat?"

Fluffy-"It is.. no... it means, we are just, your creations, you can end all of this anytime?"

WD Gaster-"I can yes stop it all now. But I wouldn't. I need to get all the data and result I can and so, the simulation will not end by myself. I set it to end with the roaring or the fusion of worlds."

Gerson-"So we just have to continue... until... what Angel was planning to fuse world and then we all disappear? It is horrifying. Then. I think. We should stop. To continue living."

Gaster walk near Gerson and smiles.

WD Gaster-"You just react as intended. Truly, Truly fascinating. Just like the original Gerson."

Player-"What do you mean? Even the light world is fake? The monsters? Susie..."

WD Gaster-"All just entities made from the memories of that second player that possess Kris. All those monsters, the lightners, they come from that memory of another world. The appearance of the Light World is even based on a good event that happened in that Universe. All those monsters are based on that other world, and the job they perform is related to their personality and dreams in that other universe, this other world."

Anima-"Can you tell more of that other world, please?"

WD Gaster-"It happens on the same planet, the surface is occupied by humans as monsters are trapped underground, but thanks to an human helping the monsters, the magical spell who was trapping monsters underground is broken allowing monsters to join the surface and live peacefully with humans. Truly, truly interesting right? Doesn't it remind you Hometown? Human culture adapted as Monsters live in cities?"

Player-"What? There is a place, just similar to the light world? But in another universe?"

WD Gaster-"Yes and this world we are in, is artificial. The light world is a perfect copy of the original world, but it is just my experiment, my simulation. Fascinating? And if you want to escape, Vessel, or should I say Player, just finish the main quest. Fuse the light and dark world and I will bring you back it that true universe if you want. But, I shall let you some time? We will meet again, at the end of all of this, and I will ask you to choose. For now, continue the adventure with your friends, and close all the dark worlds. Now go, I will edit the parameters to make the Pawn weaker. In fact I can teleport all your group at the fountain, Kris is surely free and wait for you outside, it is better to bypass with a teleport."

Angel-"It would be appreciated, can you please just heal Dess and our wounds before we continue?"

Gaster type on his console before Dess and the rest of the group get completely healed.

WD Gaster-"Alright, we will meet again, speak of my existence to nobody, it will compromises the results and data of the experiment."

Gerson-"May I just ask, then, who was the first Darkner created? By your experiment, your simulation?"

WD Gaster-"The Dark mage, Ralsei. Ralsei is the first one. He is based after the strongest memory of the other player. Their best friend. A little goat. Asriel."

Player-"I want to know who that second player is, give me a name!"

WD Gaster-"Chara. This is their name. Chara. And in the other universe, their best friend was a goat called Asriel... in fact... they were.. both child to Toriel and Asgore. The first human that fell in the Underground and met monsters."

Angel-"You know a lot about that other universe?"

WD Gaster-"In that other universe I created a power plant for the underground, here, I created the fabric of the light and dark world, I am a dimensional being in some sort. I know a lot of stories about the different universes.

Gaster take the Player away with him and then speak softly and explain calmly. It seems he need to ask an important request to me.