RedamancyTale (DustTale Frans and MultiShips)

Chapter 21

There's a small child. She called him 'grandpa'. Her smile was so similar to his wife's expression. Such an adoring look.

Gaster gasped deeply and held his head. The motion of his attack subsided. His knees gave out, making him collapse kneeling onto the floor.

Frisk felt the wind behind her stop. The horrible noise had stopped. She felt confused to why he stopped his attack.

Sans watched as it all went down. Frisk...was safe? He ran forward and embraced her.

"Don't do that! Please, don't ever do that..." He repeated. There were tears of relief falling from his eyes.

"I'm sorry." Frisk's voice cracked as she held onto him. She started to cry too. "I just didn't want you hurt. I want to protect you too."

"I know." He patted her back. "You have helped me...so much already. Sacrificing yourself would do nothing for me if I had to live without you."

He looked past her shoulder to see that Gaster was still on his knees. It looked like he was crying. Before Frisk could respond to what Sans said, he spoke up again. "Thank you... For not hurting her."

"I... Almost killed my grandchild..." Gaster looked shocked. "I...saw her. That's why I couldn't hurt her."

Frisk noticed Sans gave her a look, but she shook her head in confusion. Gaster wasn't making any sense again.

"How did you see her?" Sans questioned. "That doesn't make sense."

"All I wanted was my wife, your mother back." Gaster avoided the question. "Years. I kept trying for years you can't even comprehend my age now. The methods I had tried, had failed."

He looked at his hands that glitched at some points. "Simply existing through so much time, my memories can see into others's. I can... Sometimes see visions. A side effect of traveling through space and time."

He stood up. "Gaster."

There he goes, saying his own name again. "My first solution, he had stolen from me. My breakthrough to merging universes together. Yet, it is incomplete. The machine. It's dangerous. The imbalance isn't good." He looked towards Frisk. "I discovered Frisk's DETERMINATION. Had she RESET, my vision shown me it didn't make the universes separate. I was pulled back into here. Slowly. Sacrificing her and taking her power would have turned back time. Back to before your mother's death. But yet... I can't do this anymore. Perhaps, I may or may not cease to exist if I go back. I want to live to see my grandchild."

All of that information was a lot to take in. "You keep talking about yourself...Do you mean you from another universe? And what is the machine?" Sans had a lot of questions popping into his head.

"Yes. The machine was a source I had gathered from multiple entails in other universes. It was initially supposed to gather information about your mother from other worlds and times. But my other self took it from me." Gaster sighed. "He's obsessed with DETERMINATION. Testing it. I do not know what else he was planning. I only concocted the idea with your woman as sacrifice due to theories."

He held his head. "Our future may be erased. I saw it... but until I seen that grandchild.. I saw there was hope. We'll live a long life before Gaster's plan set motion."

Frisk looked a bit confused. Scared. It definitely was a lot to take in.

Sans still kept an arm around Frisk as he thought for a moment. He always found it hard to forgive those who wronged him. Mainly, those who wronged Frisk. But now...He could see two sides to it.