My Anomaly (An Error Sans X Reader)

Chapter 21 In Between

"Will it work?" The queen's voice was heavy. Breaking the hum of generators as she stood in the dark room. The only light source was from the machine before them, powered by the cores natural heat and lava.

"Of course it will." The man beside her said. He adjusted his lab coat, folding the collar down to be flatter, then lifted his hands to use all that he had to configure the machine.
"It has to."

His words were muttered under his breath. The queen, standing beside her advisor, rested a hand on his shoulder. A graceful smile on her lips. Gentle and kind despite the difficult situation.

"I trust you."

Those words still remained lingered in the back of his mind as gaster was escorted back to the underground by sans, papyrus, and chara. His footsteps were light due to the fact that it was your body he was walking in. Gravel turned to snow. Snow turned to stone. Stone turned to concrete. And concert turned to marble slabbed floors.

The underground had been abandoned. Left to rot away in loneliness. His home. The labs lights flickered to life. Though the bulbs seemed old and unused in a whole resulting in a constant flickering of lights. Now it was a matter of muscle memory. Tracing steps of the past back to where they led in the present, gaster stood before a large computer. His eyes, or rather your eyes, flickered across the black screen.

"Hasn't been used in a while." Papyrus muttered between puffs of smoke. His length body leaned against the wall, eyes shifting between gaster in your body to his brother and chara.
"Gonna be a little difficult to use."

Papyrus was somber. More so than he normally was. Sans was quite, standing in front of chara who held his hand with a pensive look in their red eyes.

"No bother." Gaster said in your voice. The (E/C) of your eyes shifted from their natural color to purple. Fingers danced across the keyboard booting the computer to life.

The machine booted up. At first normally. The queen stepped back at the sparks that began to flare.

"Gaster shut it down." Her words were firm. A command rather than a request.

"I can't." Gaster spoke firmly. A grin on his face as the machine sparked and flames a bit. With a blast that resulted in the two covering their faces with their arms the rift was open.
"It's working!"

Finally! A way to escape. The rift was growing. Though it wasn't a rift through the barrier. It was something more.

"Gaster!" The queen shouted, Toriel shoved him to the side in the vein attempt to shut down the machine.

"No!" Gaster shouted. Sparks and flames engulfed the workshop.
"No not yet!"

It was a struggle. A fight to keep the machine off or on.

"My work!" Gaster bellowed over the loud noises that enveloped the space.
"Not yet!"

A door slid open for the group. An old elevator that seemed barely used. Not even undyne used it when she resided here for her research for the queen. With practiced steps gaster led the group down. Down farther below than anyone had ventured.

Chara and sans held their hands together tighter. Papyrus seemed on edge. Though sans didn't remember this place papyrus did. After all, how do you forget the place you grew up in?

Gaster stepped out. Hurried paced steps as he followed the darkened winding halls that seemed impossible to navigate with out his help. Punching in numbers on a keypad a door slid open.