Doki Doki Literature Club a Phantom Threat

Chapter 7: Aftermath of the Holder's Attack

After Yuri and Monika are finished with the tea and gathering snacks, they bring everything over back to the living room and hand everyone a cup of tea, all while placing a tray of chocolate chip cookies on the table. Sonic hops off of Natsuki's lap and approaches the cookies, he turns to Monika with a curious look almost as if he were asking if its okay to take one. Monika smiles and nods, "take as many as you want" Sonic smiles and grabs a handful of cookies and returns to Natsuki, as he shares some of the cookies and munches on one of them quietly.

"Hey! Monika," She turns to Nathan who had called her, "you told me that you couldn't tamper with the files of the game anymore, right?" Monika nods, answering Nathan's question. "Then I guess the Phantom Ruby must've token away that privilege from you, and granted it to Jack's character file, right?" Monika nods in agreement, "but there isn't a single character file in the game that goes under the name Jack, do you know anything about that?" Nathan asks her.

"Oh, that's simple," Monika chimed, "the reason for that is because Jack's character information is stored under Natsuki's file..." Her eyes go wide at her own statement, "OH MY GOD! Natsuki! You and your father share the same file," she says, her voice getting excited. "Yeah, so?" Natsuki says not understanding what Monika is getting at. "Natsuki! If Nathan is right, that only Jack's file can edit the game, then that only means you can too, since everything about his character is stored in your file," Monika says her eyes giving off a hopeful gleam.

Monika then shifts her gaze to Nathan, for him to give an answer to her theory. "Yeah! Hey, that could work Monika, if we could get her to the place where you go to tamper the files we might be able to stop Jack for good." Monika smiles then quickly fades, as a realization dawns upon her, "but... that grid place we just escaped from... that's the place where I would go to tamper with the files." Nathan's enthusiasm then also starts to fade as he thinks about their situation, "Dang, and it's too dangerous to go back... especially when he almost just took my body," he shuttered at the thought of him being in the same pain as Jack was when Sonic forced the Ruby into his chest.

"H-hey, that reminds me," Nathan turns to Yuri, "Why did Jack use the Phantom Ruby on Shay to bring you here?" "Oh, I'm not sure but I guess it's because I see this world entirely through the eyes of him," Nathan explains pointing at Shay. "He's almost like a link from this world to mine," Nathan shrugs thinking of that as his answer.

At that moment Sonic had finished his cookies, and got up again to get some more. As he made his way to the plate he slipped on a cookie that he had dropped during his last visit and fell face first on the living room carpet, everyone giggled while Sonic got up with his eyes half closed to show a sign of annoyance. After a bit Nathan noticed that the hedgehog had dropped a familiar green colored object that had rolled on to his feet.

"Hey what's this?" Nathan said as he kneeled down to lift the green object, "Wait a minute! Isn't this a... CHAOS EMERALD?!" Nathan's eyes go wide as he turns to Sonic, "Hey you wouldn't happen to have the other ones, would you?" he says as he hands the emerald back. Sonic nods as he goes over to the table to place seven brightly colored gems. Everyone admires the emeralds, "uwhaaaaah! They're so pretty," Sayori says with a bright smile, she turns her head to Nathan who seems to be taken aback by the gemstone's presence, "Hey, hey, what are these chaos emeralds? They're super pretty."

Nathan regains his composure before he begins, "Those are the seven chaos emeralds, they are extremely rare gemstones that contain amazing power that comes from one's heart, but..." he pauses as he turns to Sonic. "I thought these were taken away from you before you went through the portal?" Nathan asks the hedgehog. Sonic begins to pantomime to explain what happened.

After a while Nathan is able to form an idea of what Sonic is trying to say, "So you mean the emeralds tried to spread out after the portal opened," Nathan said as he turned to Sonic, "but the portal proved too strong for the emeralds, and sucked them in with you anyway?" Sonic nods in agreement to this explanation.