AlphaTale: Alterations story 1 "Deal's Off"

Alternate Version Type: Timeline

Time Period: Road to Destruction (Year 19, 4 Resets)

Alphatale ID #00109

“How about a deal, boy.” the Astral Mother said getting William’s attention. “I’ll let you, and everyone else here, have your happy ending. You get to live your lives without me. However, only if I get to have one subject to test on in exchange. One of my choosing.” the Astral Mother said with a stern tone, causing many of the others to shout out in rage and anger, but William knew better. Or so….he did in the original story. This time, things would go much differently..

After proposing the deal, William stood still for a moment, thinking things over. He was very perplexed by the offer, unsure what to do. Should he just give in? Did she have a back-up plan? Could he KILL his own mother for the sake of everyone else? After a lot of thought….he knew what he had to do.

William used his blue mastery to stop Astral from being able to speak, effectively removing her last means of defense by this point. He looked to Frisk, simply nodding, Frisk proceeding to take the Astral Mother’s head off with his DT katana.

“It’s over..” William proclaimed as he looked at all the others, them staring back in shock at how quickly it had ended.

“For a moment there I was afraid you were seriously gonna accept her deal” Jacob said, relieved.

“We came too far to let her get off scot free now.” William stated as he just began walking away, going straight past everyone without so much as a glance.

“Will..? Where are you going..?” Chara asked, concerned at the sudden mood shift

“Home.” He stated simply, not giving so much as a goodbye as he continued going.

Everyone was confused by the sudden change in attitude. He should be happy..right? He just finished off their biggest problem. Though a couple of them, namely Chara, were worried about Will, everyone decided to shrug it off for now and go celebrate.

The Next Day, 12:27 PM

“FUCK!”

William jumped, falling off his bed from the sudden yelling, walking to the room where the abrupt scream came from, angered by the unexpected awakening.

“The hell’s going on in here?! I’m trying to sleep dammit!” William said angrily. However Quenya, being the one who had yelled, didn’t realize the skeleton had even entered the room, seeming to be in panic.

“Oh god what are we gonna do, people are gonna freak out, what if people try to kill them?!” Quenya kept going on, Adam trying frantically to calm her down, his efforts in vain.

“Let's be real people are gonna be happy she’s gone. Just chill out!” William yelled, Quenya stopping immediately.

“Oh right. Forgot.” Quenya said, seemingly having been calmed in an instant.

“B-but- t-that’s not how that works-” Adam said, completely and utterly confused.

“Anyway we have things to do boys, come on!” Quenya ordered immediately before grabbing William and Adam by the shirt and forcefully pulling them out the door with no warning

“So what are we doing..?” Adam asked her as they kept following her

“We need to inform the people of what’s happened! Or..erm..if they haven't figured it out already.” she stated to the 2 as they kept going.

While they continued talking, William noticed something peculiar. Not many people were around. In fact..he hadn't seen a single person since they left. Maybe it was noth-

William suddenly found himself at a halt, Quenya having stopped.

“What’s with the sudden sto….oh…my….god.” William said, going from asking a question to staring in shock alongside the 2 seeing what seemed to be the entire monster race in uproar, and above them all on a higher level of ground stood none other than Muffet.

“Told you so!” Adam said, scared but also somewhat triumphant. Rather or not it was because his arachnid crush was the cause of it or that he was actually right at something, the world would never know.

“WILLIAM! WILLIAMMMMM!!!!” Someone yelled from among the crowd, sending shivers down the spines of all 3 of them. William tried looking over the crowd as much as he could, looking for whoever might have called out his name. As he was about to give up his search, suddenly—

—Chara came from the crowd, panting from all the yelling and trying to get past the angry citizens.

“Jeez, could you be just a bit calmer next time?! You scared the life out of me!” William said angrily, but also relieved to see another familiar face.

“Sorry..I was just worried something happened.” Chara stated apologetically.

Whilst Chara and William continued their conversation, Quenya and Adam continued to watch as the chaos continued. Quenya was just intrigued and also slightly worried about such uproar, but Adam was watching for entirely different reasons. The fact she could stand over so many people with such confidence despite the fact a good portion of them seemed to hate her was inspiring to him. “Maybe one day…” he thought to himself.

And then an explosion went off in the distance.

Everyone was caught off guard, even Muffet. They turned to see what had happened, though due to the crowd most couldn’t get the slightest idea what had caused the sudden boom.

Another went off, then another. They kept continuing as more people turned their attention.

William looked overhead, noticing it…it was just fireworks. “I really need to ease up a bit..” he thought to himself. After taking a moment to calm down, he just went back to his conversation with Chara.

Several hours pass. The trio along with Chara continued along as the crowd cleared. Seeing as Muffet already….”dealt” with the issue of addressing Astrals death to the public, they didn't need to deal with it themself. And so they continued on to visit Jacob, Ares, and Delios. They greeted each other..or more accurately Delios and Jacob did, seeing as Ares couldn't be bothered. After greetings and such were over with, it didn't take long for the topic to shift to the woman of the hour.

“I can’t believe it’s over..just like that, she’s gone.” Jacob said in some mix of a somber but also hopeful tone.

“About damn time.” Delios stated in a stern, much less sad tone.

“Yeah..no kidding. It was only a matter of time before catastrophe struck. I’m just glad Will denied the deal.” Jacob followed Delios up with.

“Mhm..good thing..” William said, seeming very down.

“You alright W-” Chara asked him.

“Erm…Chara..William walked out while you weren’t paying attention.” Adam said interrupting him and catching Chara off-guard.

Chara just had a confused look on his face before realizing William wasn’t there.

“Yeahhhh it’s kinda hard to talk to someone who isn’t here- Anyway I’m gonna go find him.” Chara said before getting up and walking out to find Will.

Back at home

Chara came through the door to Williams' room, extremely exhausted, meanwhile Will was just sitting on his bed.

“How.. huff are you…. huff so fast?!?” Chara asked, huffing. He seemed both incredibly tired and equally annoyed.

William didn’t respond, opting to instead continue his thoughts about the events that had gone down the previous day.

After a few moments, Chara caught their breath, moving on to the reason they booked it to his house in the first place.

“What’s wrong Will..? You’ve been acting off since yesterday.” Chara asked him, seeming rightfully concerned.

“..I just..feel like I made the wrong choice.” William responded with, finally breaking his silence.

“I don’t feel like I should’ve killed her..I know she was cruel and deserved it but for some reason..it just doesn’t feel right.” He followed his initial statement up with.

Chara went over to William and hugged him in an attempt to comfort him.

“It’s alright Will..you made the right choice.” He told Will, trying to reassure him.

“I..I know..it just doesn't feel right. Almost like it wasn't supposed to happen..” He responded with.

“It might be a bit rough for a while with the people being confused, but everything will be ok..don't worry.” Chara followed it up with, pulling William up onto his feet.

“Now come on, everyone’s waiting!”

“Alright. Let's go.” William said, his spirits now lifted a bit.

10 years later.

Years fly by like the wind. At first society was left in chaos due to such a sudden change, resulting in a lot more outrage and crime. After about 2 or 3 years things finally died down, and everyone could finally really settle in with the changes. Once everything was over their lives went on as normal. Another 2 years later William would propose to Chara, and they’d make everything official. Around the same time, Adam confessed his love for Muffet. Since they’d gotten to know each other a bit more, maybe she’d accept. And, well………..she rejected him. In fact, she was so disgusted by his attempt that she actively avoided him after, in her own words, “The incident”. That aside, most everyone else was happy. Ares grew distant from the others, Delios being the only real exception. As for Delios himself, he did a lot of fighting, also not having much to do with the others outside of holidays and some random events. Jacob went on for a while ok, however after a while the trauma of some of the things he went through began to catch up to him, causing him some depression, e̵̓̑͜v̴͖͚̄ȩ̶̯̈́n̶͙̊̍̕t̷͕͐u̴͇̤͈̓̌̋͜ä̸̟̫̯́ĺ̴͖̱̣͑̔͊l̵̡̂̔͝ý̸̢̩̳̰̌̾ ṛ̶̼̲̫̟͑̂͗̓̀̈͝ͅe̶̡̛̲̟̜͛̒̋̐̉̅̕ŝ̶͎̫͋͗̊ȕ̸̝̥̥͓̼̮͚̮̔͛̃͠͝ĺ̶͍͕t̶͈͉̲̥̭͗͑̕ĩ̶͖̹̻̗̘̲̮̳͊͛̚n̸͎͖̬͇͕̟͖̔̓̊̀͜g̷̯̞̹̟̜̐̾̓̚ ̷̱̤͉̗̹̄͗͌͛̀ī̸̟̪ņ̷̢̱̙̻̓̊͐̌͗͐͘- But after a while, he realized he should just move on from the past, and so he did. Frisk learned to tolerate William being around, though the two never quite got on good terms. Aside from that, his life went on well. And Aurora’s life went on mostly the same as ever. Everything was finally going well. Everyone was happy. It was perfect. After an entire 10 years, they decided to throw a party to celebrate the anniversary of Astrals fall.

“William, you ready yet?!” Chara yelled from outside his bedroom, annoyed he was taking so long to get ready.

The moment after Chara said that, he came out, wearing a suit. Chara, meanwhile, wore a nice dress.

“Do I need to dress this fancy? They’re gonna think we just got back from a wedding or something.” William asked in slight annoyance.

“Yes! We need to look good for this William, it’s a big day after all!” Chara answered, reciprocating said annoyance.

“Fiiiiiiiine! I’ll wear it, let's just get going already” Will reluctantly stated before beginning to walk out, them proceeding to leave.

A bit later, they arrived, comedically late. What a surprise.

“Gee what took so long Wi- Did..did you 2 just get back from a wedding or something?” Jacob asked both in confusion and and humor

“See, I told you Chara!” William said in triumph and anger.

“Ok maybe you had a point, but I still don’t regret it.” Chara responded with, just giving a smug grin.

“Hey Chara, what took forever- Did you 2 just go to a wedding or what?” Frisk said after happening to walk by

“Ok this is going to get annoying fast.” Chara stated, feeling far less happy than before

“ANYWAY MOVING ON!” William said before rushing off to do whatever would get him out of this conversation.

Meanwhile, Adam was over getting a drink in the main room of the place they’d rented out for this event and Delios was getting some food and catching up with Adam as it had been a while since they’d talked.

“So you’re telling me you’re the son of the former queen and the best you could do was land a job at a grocery store?!” Delios said in complete shock.

“Delios, I told you this 4 years ago.” Adam said, clearly a bit pissed.

“Yeah, and I’m still in shock!” Delios retorted back at him now completely distracted from what he was doing.

“I..I don’t get why though-” Adam stated in complete and total confusion.

Delios leaned on the table, then saying “Well I’d think you could do something better than that”

Ares, at a distant table said “Hey Delios maybe don’t lean the-” but before he could finish the table collapsed, getting just about any food and drink imaginable all over Delios and Adam.

“Damnit I just got this jacket!” Adam remarked, now even more mad. Today was not a good day for him.

William, having just seen them, came over both to see what the mess was about and just to get away from the others for a bit.

“Hey Will, did you just go to a we-”

“NOT NOW DELIOS!” William interrupted with, not wanting to hear it. He then continued with “What’s the big mess here anyway?”

Ares responded with “Delios leaned on the table and it collapsed under the weight.”

“He also keeps giving me trouble for working at retail” Adam continued with.

“Wait, you work in retail??” William questioned.

“I’m just gonna go get some stuff to clean up this mess.” Adam said before walking away.

A while passed by. Adam came back, and the 3 excluding Ares cleaned up the mess. Luckily they hadn’t set everything up yet and they were able to use one of the extra tables stored in the back, so the meal wasn’t completely ruined. The 4 set everything back up, though after a while they began noticing they hadn’t seen the others in a little while, and it was getting close to dinner time too.

“Now that I think of it..where has everyone else been..?” Adam asked, wondering what happened.

“They’ve probably just been doing other stuff. This place is way bigger than we needed anyway” Delios stated in response.

“Yeah, true, but it’s about time to eat anyway. I’m gonna go find em, be right back.” William said before going off to look.

“Chara! Frisk! Jacob! Where are you all?!” William yelled as he walked down a hall.

No response was given. Only the echoes of his voice. He kept walking through. All he heard was his footsteps and his repeated calls for them to try and find them.

The hallway felt endless. He began feeling nauseous, the area seeming a bit distorted. William began hearing a faint ringing, stumbling over a bit, catching himself on a nearby table.

“What’s going on..?!” He wondered as he tried pushing himself back up onto his feet. The moment he did, though, he fell down, barely being able to hold himself off the ground.

“Where..where are you guys..? H..help..me..” He mumbled, barely being able to get the words out.

He kept feeling his energy drain as he kept losing control over his own body and the area around him continued to look more distorted. He kept trying to call out, crawl forward, anything. All his movement was futile. He kept trying over and over until eventually, everything just went dark.

*“Alphatale was always destined for destruction, and you were bound to bring its demise.”*

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