Reborn As A Dust Sans [Undertale Multiverse]

Ch30 - Chatting

Ashe's POV

You happened to look at your own check when the others did, smiling at the little tidbit that mentioned death could not separate you from your brother. Briefly, you were reminded of your death, your wish to not be alone - it seemed that wish had been granted. Not only did you have Spooky, but now you had Nightmare and the gang as well.

You had barely even noticed the strange HP stats both you and your brother had, but it certainly caught your attention when the others pointed it out to you.

"How do yer have 700/500HP!?" Dust exclaimed, baffled.

"And how the fuck does Spooky have negative!?" Killer then added (earning him a scolding for his language and a whack upside the skull by Spooky, who was apparently corporeal enough to do that).

You stifled a snicker at Spooky's antics before answering. 'Oh, uhm... I don't know? I haven't really checked my stats before now...'

"NYEH! ASHE HAS AN EXTRA 200 HP BECAUSE THEY GET TO HAVE MINE!" he exclaimed. You weren't sure how he knew that. "MINE WENT INTO THE NEGATIVE WHEN I DIED."

"But even ignorin' th' extra two hundred, how is yer HP so high? "

'What do you mean?'

"Most o' th' Sans Types only 'ave 1HP," Dust clarified.

"Yup. Everyone here has around 500HP because we exceeded the max LV once we left our universe. Like, Dust Bunny has 38LV, and I'm on 41LV, so our HP went up a lot due to that," Killer explained. "Its super surprising that you'd have HP like ours, though I guess it'll probably help against Sparkles and Splotchy."

You were pretty sure Sparkles and Splotchy were meant to refer to Dream and Ink. Maybe you'd call them that when you saw them next.

"IF IT HELPS, ASHE'S HP WENT REALLY HIGH ALL OF A SUDDEN AFTER THE COMA!"

"The what!?" Both Dust and Killer exclaimed. Horror contributed with a much quieter "...Coma?" at the same time.

"Why is everybody yelling in here?" Cross let out in a grumble, clearly having been drawn by the commotion. His posture was sort of stiff and formal.

"Spooky just casually revealed that Ashe was in a literal coma!"

"Uh... Who's Spooky?" the soldier inquired slowly,

"Ya gotta catch up, Criss-Cross," Killer retorted teasingly, making a vague gesture in the direction your brother was floating at. Cross' orbs narrowed when he saw the spirit.

'Spooky is my brother. He's a spirit and can occasionally possess people,' you explained, deciding to take mercy on the tired-looking soldier instead of leaving him in the dark.

"ONLY OTHER MES, I THINK," Papyrus added. "I MAY HAVE ALSO TRIED TO POSSESS A CHICKEN... IT DID NOT WORK."

Cross seemed a little more hesitant at that knowledge. "Just.. don't try to possess any of us," the soldier requested uncomfortbaly.

Spooky pouted at that. "I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW, ONLY GOOD THINGS HAPPEN WHEN I POSSESS PEOPLE!" he declared confidently.

Several chuckles emanate from the room. Cross, on the other hand, did not seem so impressed. "Why does 'Spooky' look so... er..."

"NYEH HEH HEH! I SEE YOU RECOGNISE MY AMAZING LOOKS!" Spooky exclaimed, clearly misinterpreting. "THE AMAZING ASHE DESERVES NOTHING BUT THE GREATEST, AND THE GREATEST IS MEEEE!"

You snorted at that. 'Calm down, Spooky,' you managed to sign between giggles. He was squishing your face in his dark gloved hands, unbothered by your attempts to swat him away.

"Back to the coma thing, what happened?" Killer redirected.

'Spooky says I was asleep for nine days after a bunch of rocks fell and damaged my skull. I don't really remember anything from before then,' you confessed. 'I'm okay now though. Big Bro Horror gave me lots of food. Also Outer gave me a healing candy that one time I passed out in his AU.'

"Okay, you have got to tell us how that happened!" killer exclaimed, creeping closer to you on the couch.

'Well... Not long after I woke up back home, the Stars showed up and attacked me because they thought I was Dust. Spooky managed to get us someplace else. Speaking of, uhm, if you see Outer, please let him know I said thankyou, and that the injured skeleton he helped was me, not Dust. He didn't understand when I tried to sign that.'

"Sounds like... you have had... quite the... adventure," Horror let out.

"Might 'ave ta get yer a new outfit if everyone keeps thinkin' yer me," Dust then added on thoughtfully.

"Maybe something... a little warmer... since it gets... pretty cold here?"

Cross tilted his head. "It doesn't get cold–"

"Oh, shush, Crisscross Applesauce, we all know you're weird and don't feel temperature," Killer snorted rudely. The soldier just rolled his eyes at that. At least all of the banter was friendly.

With Killer distracted, you decided to lean in closer to him. Now was the perfect chance!

"Whatcha doin?" he questioned, seemingly having caught on to your mischievousness, but only gave a sly grin, seemingly letting you do whatever you wanted to.

A black tendril pulled you away before you could enact your plan. No! You almost had a chance to lick him! How rude!

"As I said before, you are NOT to go licking Killer's goop," he scolded, holding you upside down. You were pretty sure it was meant to be a punishment, but you were having fun being lifted in the air. What had drawn him out here, anyway? He wasn't with you all a few minutes ago...

Killer snickered, only to be dramatically lifted upside down by a different tendril of Nightmare's It clearly wouldn't have hurt, though the skeleton did let out a dramatic "Ow!" despite that.

"Your bad habits are rubbing off on the hellspawn you adopted," Nightmare said to Killer with a sigh, using his free hand to rub his temple as though he had a headache from your shenanigans.

Hellspawn? You sort of liked that nickname.

"But they were already like that!" Killer tried to argue, to which the guardian rolled his eyes.

Well, if you couldn't lick Killer, you were just going to take a chunk out of the tentacle holding you. Like before, it tasted like burnt apples.

"For Nim's sake, you two are going to be the death of me," he sighed out immediately.

Looking up with a grin, you realised Killer had done the exact same thing as you, causing both of you to burst into a fit of giggles.