Reckoning Tale-An Undertale Fanfiction Novel

Chapter 82: The Child Alphys Watches

ORIGINAL DIMENSION

Gaster screamed as he found himself on dried dirt. He pounded on it as he rolled over on it, grabbing his skull. Memories of all types invaded his mind, but he couldn’t keep anything real straight. He tried to. He wanted to. But so many years upon years invaded his mind. He stumbled around the area, looking for something.

There was no life, but there was technology in front of him. And that he knew. He moved toward one of the machines, looking it over. Gaster. Gaster. Gaster. I am Gaster. I am Gaster. He turned on the basic looking machine to see what happened.

A light invaded his eye sockets. He blinked and looked away. When he looked back, his vision had turned blue. That’s right. I created this. His copied memories seemed to fade as he touched the device. It helped skeletons improve their eyesight. Sans. He was one of the first ones to test it. Very old. Very, very old. It had been left outside to be taken or sold one day. One of his first inventions.

He moved around. The whole world, it looked like something demolished every living thing. However, anything that wasn’t alive seemed marred but relatively okay. He continued to head forward, and into a large house. Their house. My house? No, our house. He lived with Sans and Papyrus. He opened the door, but heard it fall off its hinges. The whole place would likely fall if he messed around too much. Yet, he saw pictures up ahead.

A small look. Just a small look. He went in. Pictures protected by magic. Ancient magic. One of the hardest to find, protection magic like that. Gaster touched the picture.

A woman stood next to Papyrus. Must be Amanda. Sans was up front, along with three children. One of them, he recognized the eyes of. Maritime Sans. The youngest of all of them. Gaster stood on the other side of the woman. It seemed like a happy picture.

A happier time. His eyes looked around. Most of the house couldn’t hold up to the damage he caused. “King or not, I simply should not have used it without further testing! Never again will I make that mistake.” Gaster noticed a small pod on the floor. “I remember that too.” He touched it fondly. “Theoretically, it was supposed to create a duplicate. Oh, the irony. I just wanted a copy of myself to help with my own inventions.” He shook his skull. “Wasn’t successful, but, ah! Oh, it was the first time I saw a parallel world!” He remembered that. The absolutely amazing other versions of them. So different. So invigorating. “Oh, Bessy and Messy!”

Then, he remembered how he knew about the results.

A simple cat, Bessy. He wanted to try his invention himself and Sans was like ‘try a little cat monster first.’ Even back then, Papyrus and Sans stopped him from doing something stupid. Bessy was a simple monster, and could speak a little to them. More of a household pet though.

She returned, as two separate cats! They each were not copies though. Bessy was black with white spots, and Messy was white with black spots. In fact, one of them tried to scratch Cora, Papyrus’ wife when it came back. And Bessy, well, she just wasn't as playful, with Messy being much more playful. It was almost like switching qualities between two monsters. They were the same, yet different. “Oh those two. I was never able to make them whole again.”

Ah, yes, he remembered that. Bessy and Messy. Shortly after that, he made another machine. Now not carrying about the duplicate, he was more interested in the parallel worlds. It still was far from perfect though, turning the recipient into a simple animal in order to get through the journey. As he looked at the pod though, he wondered what it was doing down there though. It should have been packed far away, more as memorabilia. It was a failed invention. So why was it . . . “Oh. Oh no.”