Reckoning Tale-An Undertale Fanfiction Novel

Chapter 61: Mutual Agreement

fun level 66 Missing Frisk:

Alphys watched Sans, Papyrus and Gaster discuss a plan to take Frisk away. She remained silent.

Gaster, Papyrus, and Sans were on the right track but not quite at the right station. Oh, how she wanted to say 'excuse me gentleman, but you are all wrong'. How she wanted to say it! Yet, she couldn't. Alphys couldn't speak up though about it.

It. It wasn't something a feels monster should do. Although Sans was nicer than a lot of other monsters, she even tended to stay away from him. No one should associate with her. Not anymore.

Unlike Sans and the rest of the Underground, Alphys wasn't allowed to lose her memories. Something about her magic made her retain it. Not all of it, not every second, but a lot of the emotional memories held deep in her. She knew her and Undyne used to be allowed to be close. She knew that the Queen was angry with the King for killing humans. She knew about Flowey, who wasn't supposed to exist in that time.

Although there were questions she herself had, she also had answers, and she had to think of something quick. She was not permitted to express her opinion, but, sh-she needed to do something. "W-wait? Um. Sans?"

Sans was staring at the ground, barely shifting his foot to signal he was still listening.

"Can you wait?" Alphys asked.

"Wait?" Gaster gestured at her toward Papyrus. "This is the help you want?" He touched his skull. "Miss Monster. I know that you are not a skeleton, but I assure you, waiting would be terrible. We must take action. The dimension is falling apart."

Alphys just stared at Sans, on and off. Please? Please see?

Sans gestured to Alphys. "Gonna go talk with Alphys a bit first." Gaster and Papyrus both looked at each other oddly, but Sans followed Alphys a small ways away.

"I don't want to do anything," Sans started, "so I don't care about do's and do not's. You got something to share that's controversial, I want to know."

"It's overstepping boundaries," Alphys admitted to him. "I know I'm not as genius as Gaster. Or you, or Papyrus. Um. My, um, theory? Just takes a little bit of uh . . ." Alphys walked over to an old chalkboard they were passing. She casually grabbed a piece of chalk.

She drew five horizontal lines.

She drew a few vertical lines through the horizontal lines. It looked like blank line graphs. She labeled one cat/dog, one king/queen, one last Frisk, and one US.

She put the chalk back down.

Simple. Elegant. Sans' didn't need it explained. There weren't any fancy charts with loads of information to read. It was simple. didn't need anything else. She watched him touch the lines on the board, as if he desperately wanted it to be so. "Parallel, but we all made the same mistake?" He looked toward her. "How do you know for sure?"

"Because. I." Alphys looked away a second, before turning back. "I-I found the real dimensional one. I'm sorry."

"What?"

"Night and Morning?" Alphys said. "You said that th-they said a soldier f-fell to make that world, and-and I . . ." Alphys wiped her eye. "Free or not, I-I didn't want to live in a world without Undyne. Even if I can't be with her, she's still alive. The Sans of that time, he was given a machine to travel and make things better for others. I. I stole it and ran away." She looked shamefully at the ground. "I'm Night and Morning's Aunt Alphys."

"You could be a past Alphys," Sans pointed out, "that found her way to the future."

"No," Alphys admitted, "Sans. This wasn't my first stop. I tried to find the same times with the little machine I stole. I wanted Undyne and no other Alphys, so I didn't cause a big disturbance. In that time, I visited another place with Frisk still pregnant with Morning and Night. But, their names were Night and Day instead."