I'll Stay
Authors Note: Well hello there, again, buckaroos and readers alike. This is another chapter post, and I hope to continue to upload at least a little regularly. I am not sure, but I am considering making my next story update to a story that has been going on for a long time. However, there is no guarantee to that either. I would just like to wish all of you a good read and I hope to continue to impress with this story.
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Sandra made a notable amount of food for her friends, Dust and Error helping her clean the dishes all the while. It was nice having someone to help her with the dishes, even though she hardly even used any in the first place.
That, however, mainly consisted of cookware. She had a lot of paper plates up in the cabinet, as well as a few sets of plastic silverware that she had taken from school. She was not from Asia, so using chopsticks was a bit of a no-go for her.
After dinner was dished out, Error helped take food to the others while Dust cleaned up a small mess that was made on the counter a little while ago. Everyone thanks Classic, Error and Dust for helping make the food, before digging in and starting to eat.
Nightmare finishes her plate first, and sets it off to the side. Horror followed shortly thereafter. Stacking the plates together, they wait for everyone to get more of their food eaten before Sandra even bothered with any explanations.
“Well, we might as well get the explanation game going, shouldn’t we? It has been a while since we talked because of me being transported here some time ago. I still fail to understand how it even happened in the first place. Whereas that is true, I have learned not to question it. Especially with the society that had taken me in from the experience.” Sandra sighed.
“Yeah. You disappeared out of the blue, no one can get to your Classic AU Universe. Not even Ink can, and he is supposedly supposed to be able to go anywhere he really wants to.” Nightmare mentioned loosely to the other, leaning her back against the plush support of the couch that most of them sat on. “Classic, we were all worried about you… we thought we would never see you again. There is a good chance we might not even have met you today if it weren’t for the accident with Horror.”
Sandra looks over to Horror, who shrugs her arms as a response to the blatant accusation. She just gives off a cheesy grin, before leaning back in her own area on the large seat.
“That still does not explain several things that have been bothering me, though.” Killer speaks up, looking up at the rest of them before guiding her blackened eyes over to meet Sandra’s own. “Why are we unable to even get to Undertale? That universe was never closed off, Ink didn’t have the option to cut connections to it, because of it being the original universe.”
“My world is gone. I remember it vividly, really. I remember it so vividly and I was not even there. I was not there to help, or even try to stop it. My world essentially fell apart and crumbled. Monsters of all kinds falling into the unforgiving abyss of darkness and death.” Sandra mumbled. Her facial expression was something to tell heads or tails from.
Nightmare gave out a nervous laugh, before looking to the side, knowing that Sandra was in notable distress made her upset. She wanted to lighten the mood, but the darkened aura-holding girl had no idea who to do so. “That was a bit… cryptic of you…” She noted, at a loss for what to say.
“I guess it was… heh.” Sandra gets up, putting the rest of her food on the counter in the kitchen. She returned right after, holding a case of soda in her grasp. “Anybody want one?”
Horror and Killer were the first to raise their hands, waving them in excitement for the carbon beverage. Sandra chuckled, handing both of them a Pepsi. As soon as they had gotten their drinks, she held out the 12-pack in front of the others. All of them just took one, seeing as it was being offered.
“Anyways, I guess I should tell you about the world here, that way we don’t continue sticking out like a bunch of sore thumbs.” The girl mentioned to her many look-alikes. “When I first came here, I was already in this house, had an ‘identification’ of sorts (as half contemplated as it was from whatever source it had come from.).”
“Well, that definitely makes it sound like you were not haphazardly just thrown into this universe out of the blue. The way you ended up here was purposeful.” Error mumbled, before she went to pull her legs close to her chest from where she sat on the couch. “As to why who, or whatever did that has yet to be figured out, right?”
“Yes, that is basically right.” Sandra admitted to Error, before she let out a large, somewhat shaky sigh. “I don’t know how long I have been gone in your guys’ universe. That does not change the fact that I have been here for four years, at least. How long have I been missing from the reality that you used to be a part of?”
“About the same amount of time, actually, which is kind of surprising.” Nightmare groans out, standing from the couch with her drink. “At least it has not been the same amount of time where we are from. We all know how much time can speed up, or slow down when we go into a universe that we were not supposed to be in.”
Error cringed at that though. She was the most familiar with quantum physics, and loop travelling. Time travel and other various ways to glitch out of her own reality when she was a lone-dweller in her ever-so-common anti-void abode. The only other person who knew so much about time travel was Quantum! Sans. TimeKid, for more familiar people.
Error thought back to TimeKid and chuckled a little bit. TimeKid was one of the few child Sanses by default that wasn’t a ship child of theirs. The Alternate Versions of TimeKid were also interesting. Error also remembered having the biggest quarrel with that child for as long as she could remember. Especially before her pacification pact.
“Back onto how this world works here, these people have things called ‘quirks’. Quirks are a superpower that these people are born with. 1 in every 5 kids is born without a quirk. As far as I have heard.” Sandra mentioned to them, getting them back on track.
“1 in every 5? Knowing human nature, or any nature really, there is a good chance those kids born without these ‘quirk’ things get bullied a lot.” Cross sighed, before pulling her scarf closer to her face. She finally brought herself to also undo the braid that Yaoyorozu had put her hair into earlier.
“That would be a logical assumption. I tried to act as if I had no ‘quirk’ there for a while, soon after I even got to this place. I was registered as a junior-high school student already. Which meant me avoiding classes got a warning sent through an email I didn’t even know I had.” The original version of them just sighed in bitter amusement. “The people at the school TRIED to bully me. They never really did get too far on that.”
Nightmare had a darker aura surround her, making Killer and Dust move off to the side a little bit. Killer just walks over Horror and sits down in her lap. “Hold me. Nightmare is getting ready to initiate some carnage.”
“Ya wuss.” Horror laughed, before giving Killer a noogie. It was light, whereas not to hurt her, but Killer puffed up her face and blushed a bit in general embarrassment.
Sandra could not help but laugh at her friend's antics. “Either way… this is really important.” she said louder than she had been speaking before. “Especially since I ALMOST had to learn that the hard way, here.”
Everyone turns their heads to look at her, giving her their full attention.
“You CAN NOT kill anyone here. I trust you guys, I know you are not likely to gravitate toward outright genocide here. We need to avoid getting into as much trouble as possible. With you guys going to the entrance exam tomorrow, I think that it would be best for you to know that the second you kill anyone, meaning villain, or innocent; you can be put in jail. I also heard they can take away your hero license. Maybe even kick you from the school.”
Dust raised her hand, in an attempt to get her original version's attention without having to make herself get too loud in the process.
“Yes, Dust?”
“I am just curious, but… have you not WANTED to find the way home?” Dust seemed a little saddened and worried. She didn’t even want to make direct eye contact with Sandra. Dust usually didn’t care if others had a low-hanging opinion of her. She hardly even cared about ANYTHING. Yet, this was something that had been irking her, hiding in the back of her mind for a while now.
“Yes, of course I have tried to go home, Dust. I tried so hard, so many times to find a way to get there. I looked at books at the city library on technology. I tried to see if I could sense any portals. I tried to slightly glitch my teleportation, in hopes that could send me back.” Sandra hesitated. “Nothing I did was ever good enough to get home.”
“It seems you had no means of communication here, either. We just really missed you. The others did too.” Dust mentioned the others as a second-hand thought. Thinking on how Blue, Red, and Fresh always asked them if they had heard from him at all. Geno too, occasionally.
“I see. I just hope we can find another way to solidly open a portal. That way you guys can go home-”
“What do you mean by… ‘you guys’?” Horror asked with a rising concern. She sat forward on the couch, Killer leaning forward with the bigger girl's body. Nearly falling forward, before Horror caught her by the back of the jacket to keep her from moving TOO far.
Everyone was suddenly on edge. Everyone looks over to Sandra expectantly, some of them definitely uneased. Nightmare had a firmly knit brow, Error’s eyes had darkened in color and the white ‘eRRoR’ messages flashed in the corner of them for a few seconds. Dust looked away, seemingly already defeated. Horror and killer just looked at classic in an incredulous manner, and Cross stares in a calm-ish basis of moderate shock.
Great, She really stuck her foot into this one. Sandra took a deep breath and looked away from her group of old friends.
“Guys, I am not going back if we do find a way to get you out of here.”
//To be Continued.//