Undertale: Aleph Null

Totality

The drive was thankfully a short one, the soldier racing to the village. We arrive, stopping about thirty feet from the nearest house.

I get out of the vehicle, walking to the other side before I notice that the armored van wasn't moving. I looked back to the soldier, sitting silently in the driver's seat. He's waiting for me to kill him. He turns to me after a few more seconds, confused.

"Leave," I said simply, watching as he relaxed greatly, and quickly puts the van in reverse, flips it around, and drives away back to where he came from. It would be a waist to kill him when I have more important matters to attend to.

It was a relatively small village, and exactly as I remembered. There were a bundle of the same style house lined up in two rows. And more down the lines, the houses bent outwards, rounding back in to finish off in a circle, the middle where a certain flower patch layd. Though even seeing it from the side, I could see that the place was entirely empty.

Not a sound apart from the wind being carried down the mountain, blowing through the empty plane beyond the other side of the village. I walked up to the pathway, seeing a lone figure among the hectic looking streets indicating some kind of panic. It was Daniel, who saw me at the same time and starting to walk up, hands in his jacket pockets, wide open for an attack. "Hey. You look confused."

"What happened here?" He didn't seem like he wanted to fight.

He took his hands out of his pockets, turning around at the village. "Sans called in an evacuation of the village. Last minute, too," he began, turning back to me. "Did you have anything to do with that?"

"He would have evacuated the village in preparation of me coming here, if that's what you mean." He didn't really know how to respond, scrunching his face in thought. "Or do you mean something else?"

His face relaxed more as he stopped walking, about ten feet away. "I don't know, man. He's been acting... different, today. Even through his stoic mask, he seemed royally pissed, so obviously I assumed you had to be the cause."

"So what? Where is Sans?"

"Oh, Sans is on his way, I came about a minute from where he said we should be here to see what you knew."

"And you thought this was a good idea?"

He smiled at that, giving me an egotistical look. "I mean you haven't killed me yet. And even if you tried, I have no doubt that I could at least last a minute. And with the fight being two against one, killing you might be a little easier than one of us going solo."

Killing? "Sans' plan is to kill me? I doubt he'd be so moronic."

Daniel raised his hands defensively, "Hey, I might not have liked how Sans ran things before, but he seems to know what he's talking about," then paused, giving it a second thought before shrugging. "Or maybe you've just pissed him off to the point of reckless abandon. If it wouldn't guarantee my death doing it with you, I might choose to see what I can do fighting to the death."

Is that it? Does he just want to test himself?

"Hey, speak of the devil," Daniel said, breaking my concentration. I looked at him as he was focused on an approaching Sans, glancing back at me for a second sarcastically, "Well, the lesser of the two, I suppose."

Sans was still about twenty feet away, walking up beside Daniel, eyes more or less focused on me, even while talking to his pawn. "you're early."

"Eh, I wanted to see what she knew."

"heh. i guess i shouldn't be surprised." I thought he was talking to Daniel, but with the look of confusion on his face as well, I guess Sans was just talking to himself. He looked down, taking a breath before looking up, only his left eye open, flashing as rapidly as ever. "you ready, kid?"