Reckoning Tale-An Undertale Fanfiction Novel

Chapter 51: He'll Do It

fun level 74 Original MC Sans and Frisk

"You mean, it's all going to blow up?"

No, no, Sans thought as he saw Asriel come from his hiding corner. He wanted to make absolutely sure nothing messed this up. He was his ace in the hole. "I don't . . . I don't know."

"Doesn't matter," Parallel Sans said. "Whatever's whatever."

"Sans?" Papyrus questioned again. "Do we believe or not?"

"So there's a time difference?" Asriel said. "In yours, Parallel Smiley Idiot, there's a time difference?"

Parallel Sans chuckled. "Been awhile since I heard that. No, not me."

"So the dogs, was it the dogs?" Asriel went toward the dogs. "There was a time difference for you?" Pappy nodded his head. "I was monster again?" He nodded his head. "Frisk remembered, triggering Sans to remember later?" Pappy nodded his head again as Krisp E. meowed. "I protected the Underground?"

Each pet looked toward each other.

"Uh, huh?" Pappy seemed confused.

"I put a protection on the Underground." Asriel pulled his hands up and then slowly downward. "It's protected."

"Kay. That's different," Pappy admitted.

"And I wished for the barrier to be opened," Asriel added. "I needed to try. It didn't but I asked for quite a few things, and it can't protect and open at the same time."

"You wished for the barrier to open?" Parallel Sans looked toward Pappy. "Holy crap, that's different. That's a hell of a wish, Prince Asriel."

"Yeah. That's." Pappy began to scratch his ear. "That's some funkiness."

"But wish granting. Dealt with that enough," Parallel Sans said. "Can't be. All the wishes aren't on a delay, they are all granted at the same time."

"Well then?" Papyrus looked toward Gaster. "You said the barrier couldn't be manipulated. Like it was solid rock?"

"Nothing in, nothing out," Gaster agreed.

"Maybe that could save us."

Sans looked toward Frisk. So much was going on again. When was he going to be able to sit down and just enjoy life again? "You thinking something there, Frisk?"

"The timeline machine, it always showed you what happened in different timelines." Frisk rubbed her stomach gently. "Can we cross our fingers and hope this is another good one?"

"We could do better than that!" Gaster cheered. "That's brilliant. The timelines around here, they are similar, but different. We need to look at the machine again, and see what is bubbling up. If we keep going, then maybe the answer will be there."

"Well," Parallel Sans said. "If you don't kill off more than half of mankind in your timeline, you'd have a lot better chance at succeeding."

"Hey," Sans warned him. "I didn't even say I believe you yet."

"Ya kiddin?" Parallel Sans whined as he gestured to the dog and cat. "Even they corroborate the story, Buddy."

"Yeah? Too much stuff happened for me to instantly believe anything." Was there a good chance? More than fair. Even Gaster, Frisk, and Asriel were beginning to think of ways to stop it. Parallel Sans purposely said his Frisk couldn't hold his kids again. Nothing to gain. But. He was going to be a hard ass about it anyway. Instincts or not.

But he refused to risk anything else. He had his kids. He had his Frisk. He had his memories. Apparently at some point the barrier would open. Life was coming back to what he wanted, and he wasn't going to believe any shining story. Yet.