Undertale: Aleph Null

A Plan Coming Together

I wake up, not knowing how much time had passed. I hear mumbling from inside the Judgement Hall, I sit there trying to see if I could make out any of the words, but I'm too far away. I give up on that and start walking towards everybody.

I walk in, waiting for fear and screams, but nothing, like they were all waiting for me, but there was barely any fear in their eyes. Toriel, Papyrus, Undyne, Muffet, Mettaton, Asgore, and Sans were all in front, looking at me with a sort of confidence. I took a step toward them, but Sans put up a wall of bones like a cage, and it hit me before I tried to walk through: My LOVE is back to the lowest point, same for my strength, and going through those bones would leave me in no condition to battle if I survived it at all.

"is everybody ready?" It was Sans, and everyone nodded. Ready for what? He couldn't have planned for this, could he? He looked at me, and down at the ground before holding out his arms and absorbing everybody I could see... then he put down his wall of bones as he looked back up at me. "you looked surprised... guess my plan worked then, huh?"

"Are you crazy, what do you plan to accomplish by killing everybody!?" He looked genuinely confused for a second while thinking of a response.

"they aren't dead, kid, they're here, and i can let them go at any time. didn't you notice a difference in feeling when you absorbed the rest of the monsters to break the barrier while protecting your own SOUL, or were you too busy on your mission to notice? i can sense all of the monsters i absorbed, and we've become somewhat of a combination of consciousness, obviously i am the one that has the most control since i absorbed them, but it's a cooperative effort in the grand scheme; i can feel their thoughts, i let them in, to be a part of me while you took full control and pushed them down until their power was of use to you." He wasn't looking at me anymore, he was looking down again, almost seeming to be staring at his SOUL still inside his body.

"So what do you plan on accomplishing Sans, do you really think I would just give up on this because you're stronger now, I will break you down and end you once and for all!" I didn't even realize I was yelling until I finished, and he looked at me again, studying my facial expression.

"i've only seen that face on one other person, the face of a grudge, a need to exert dominance to another: me. A look that Flowey always had. No matter what happened, no matter how many times he got his revenge and killed me, it was never enough, he always looked at me as a rival, but i guess when you kill someone over 100,000 times it sinks in... but you're different. i've only killed you 23 times, on your first run back, and never again until this run after the ruins, and my traps this run too, totaling at 27. one for each bone in a hand. but it seems to have had the same effect. Flowey was always trying to prove he was better and was the best..." he paused, as if trying to remember what happened.

"one run where i was following him, he didn't do what he normally did when he came across this kid on a small bridge in waterfall, he hesitated, as if thinking, then saved and went over to him, he killed him, as he always did, but then he loaded his save and killed him again, it was weird, something he did to people who've killed him before, but this kid never noticed him unless he spoke to the kid directly, i thought he was just blowing off some steam, but as time went on he didn't slow down, and had a certain agenda i wasn't getting... and it wasn't until about the millionth time, where i started to forget the kid's name, i knew what it started with, but i couldn't pinpoint what his actual name was, and Flowey knew it too, he stopped, thinking, then went on and killed him again, faster than before, all with a smile.

"he was breaking his connection with the world, and he knew it. he was proving that he couldn't be stopped, and he kept killing him over and over... you've seen him and a few of Flowey's other victims a few times on your runs a long time ago before you just started running through it all, tried to kill him, but you couldn't. he didn't have any physical form left, the only reason he exists at all. when Flowey broke the kid's connection the world itself, he wasn't all that satisfied with allowing him to be there at all, but he left him be, as well as the rest of the underground until Frisk came and took over the power to save, the damage was done, and could not be undone, and the kid was stuck there, with no one that remembers him or even knew he existed, trapped on that platform until the end of time-"

"What is your point, Sans! Why are you telling me all this useless garbage?" He didn't hesitate to answer my question, like he knew I was going to ask it eventually and was ready with the response immediately.

"i'm answering your question, telling you what we are going to accomplish. this is the end kid, where you die, as many times as it takes to snap the connection you have on the world, you have the ability to load, and we will use that to our advantage, we could kill you right here as many times as it takes, or i could teleport you inch by inch across the underground and the surface, scattering your being across miles. you will never be able to bother anybody ever again. i know hundreds of humans who'll help us from one of Frisk's runs that would love to help us get into society after i explain everything. you'll be there, but with no physicality to move or feel, no brain to think, and no SOUL to break, you will just exist with no hope of reaching out to anyone, you will be forced to endure your miserable and worthless existence with no one that remembers you except us, and it will be a very vague, foul memory of who you once were."

I was shaking, if that's true, then my Determination won't help me, it'll be my downfall. I look around me for anything that could help, and back to where Sans was, but he's gone, and all I hear is his voice from right behind me.

"run."