Ballgrave route

Ballgrave is a fanmade Deltarune Chapter 2 route made by Cereally.

## History

On 27 September 2021 1-UP Pancake posted a Youtube video showing what happens if you take the normal path after freezing Berdly. The game crashed after Queen threw a blue ball at Noelle. On 28 September 2021 Jakekin uploaded a clip with that moment. Myotic Tesseract posted a comment under the video saying "the secret Ballgrave route". Pippins took a screenshot of that comment, after which it was turned into an AU by Cereally. It became a meme in Cereally's fanbase.

## The route

Nothing in the route matters until you reach the Cyber World, where you first meet Queen. You must recruit Werewire and Tasque before your next Queen encounter, also make sure to not buy any CD Bagels, as they are being sold by rebels against Queen. Upon reaching the Queen Punch-Out fight, make sure to repeatedly die, at the 3rd death Susie will simply just smash the cabinet and the game will continue as normal. Make sure to pick Bosom in the following cutscene after the fight, and then leave and re-enter to meet a Swatchling. The Swatchling will say that he's noticed how much you like Queen, and suggests going to Swatch with a job application. If you talk to him again, he will assume you’re not convinced and offer you all a Glass of Pure Battery Acid each as a nice souvenir, these will all be vital to the route, and you must make sure to not waste a single one of them. During the sweet cap’n cakes fight, you must dance until you unlock S/R Action. Make 2 of your party members dance, and the remaining one will have to throw an Acid Glass. The two who were dancing will be knocked down due to shock, and the one who is still up will desperately call off the fight. Their shop will now be inhabited by the previous Swatchling, who is now green from ecstaticity. He will give you a Royal Pin and lots of Dark Dollars for defeating the rebels. Upon reaching the Berdly fight, you must attack/bump normally until his cart starts smoking, which is when you throw the 2nd Acid Glass, which combines with his smoking cart to create a MEGA EXPLOSION. Upon contact with the MEGA EXPLOSION, Berdly falls down while screeching about ‘nerfs’ and ‘no items’. The cutscene continues as normal, though when you fall into the Trash PIt, Berdly is lying along with you (Ralsei suggests healing him, but Susie shuts that down very quickly). You must make sure you have the Royal Pin on after splitting up with them, Queen will greet you in the same alleyway as in the normal route, and starts thanking you for getting rid of Berdly. She almost walks away but then notices your Royal Pin and asks if you want to help her. Respond ‘Yes’, and this will be when Ballgrave really begins Queen’s normal attack involves her just slapping the enemy with her PlasticBall, which proves incredibly ineffective and deals only slightly more than Noelle’s normal attack. The real attack is BallThrow, which costs no TP and does 101 damage to all enemies. However, in order to use it you will need to collect a fast green ball while dodging enemy attacks. You also have Potass.Heal (heals all HP for 100TP) and Q-Action (pretty self-explanatory). You must kill every enemy with BallThrow, though Queen will make a few comments about it seeming ‘A Bit Cruel’. Upon reaching the Pink Addison, you must say ‘We’re something else’, and the Addison will ask if you want a FreezeRing, just like in Snowgrave. But Queen will get a bit angry because she attacks with a BALL, not a RING, and you get a chance to tell her to attack. Queen will reply and say that she can just move on, but you can push her and tell her that he deserves it. After some time, Queen will go ahead and BallThrow him. From now on, every puzzle will be solved by Queen using BallThrow to blow up everything and everyone, along with the normal Snowgrave changes, such as the NPCs being gone. Queen is even fine with attacking her own troops, because she ‘Didn’t Really Need Them…Lmao’ You come across Spamton in his dumpster, who offers Queen a ‘commemorative ring’. Queen gets mad again because she attacks with a BALL, not with a RING. But before she can BallThrow him, Spamton peeks out and notices that Queen is there, and speedily comments that she isn't the ‘[[hochi mama]] he was told she would be’. He quickly improvises and offers Queen a PipisBall, for the small price of letting him inside her mansion. Queen takes the ball instantly and destroys her previous PlasticBall. Berdly is still recovering from the MEGA EXPLOSION, so you just get to have a simple car trip to Queens Mansion, where Queen starts monologuing about how she's suddenly feeling more powerful, when you arrive at the carnival. Queen decides to test out her Pipisball on this simple ball game, when she finds some weird box person is hiding behind the pins. Queen scoffs at their uncool face and forces them into a fight, where she has a brand new ability, Ballgrave. You need to get 100TP in order to use it, which is quite hard because the box enemy just panics, waves around their arms, and summons feeble snowflakes. Upon using it, Queen throws the ball and it sits idly right in front of the box guy, when metal from all around the Cyber City flies over to the ball. Slowly as the trash piles up, box guy gets sucked inside and is trapped as more trash piles onto the sides. The Pipisball eventually pops out, and there’s a big circle of trash, containing boxy. Truly a ball grave. Queen seems a bit worried about what happened to them, but shrugs it off. She doesn’t feel like playing many more games as she’s a bit tired now, so they just drive back to the Queen’s Mansion. Tasque Manager greets them and shows you Susie and Ralsei trapped in a giant hamster cage. Susie is in hysterics about how Kris is now in a team with Queen, even though she literally was about to kill them just a few hours ago. She demands to know what the hell they were doing with her, and Queen explains how they ballthrew so many people in Cyber City, but Susie interrupts and exclaims that she was the ‘maniac with the balls’ that everyone was talking about. She’d apparently even warned Noelle about the ball maniac, and she put a box on her head and ran away. Queen laughs at that, and chastises old her for thinking Noelle was important enough to capture. Ralsei manages to get in a word about how Kris needs to seal the fountain, and Queen demands to walk with Kris to seal the fountain (much to Susie’s anger). Tasque Manager offers Queen a WoolBall for a journey, as she noticed Queen had been attacking with her balls again. Queen is repulsed by it and comments that with the Pipisball, she could literally murder her at any moment. Tasque Manager doesn’t comment on this, which is a trend with most of the other minions as you pass by this time, they just stand at the sides and smile. The only interaction you have is with Mauswheel, who is quickly Ballgraved in the overworld (the Swatchlings thank Queen but they sound a bit scared). Queen shows off her cool mech for a bit, as she worked really hard on it and it would be a waste not to, but then you go to directly seal the fountain. You are about to do so, when Spamton NEO falls from the sky, preventing you at the final moment. Queen doesn’t seem that scared, and starts criticizing his mech and commenting on how hers is much better. Queen eventually notices that Spamton isn’t listening and just jabbering to himself, so she prepares to Ballgrave. Spamton loudly exclaims ‘TRYING TO [[Utilize my eggs]] AGAINST [[number 1 rated salesman 1997]], HUH?’’. The Pipisball explodes in Queen’s hand, and she tries to pull out the WoolBall but Spamton shoots it, and catches it while it flies in the air, so Queen is left defenseless when she enters the fight. Her normal attack is even more useless without balls, so you need to use the new attacks, SwordThrow and KrisThrow. They both cost 50TP, SwordThrow does moderate damage, and KrisThrow does more damage but gives Kris slightly less defense for every time it’s used. Eventually, he enters his defensive phase, but you can use your final Glass of Pure Battery Acid and throw it at Spamton to make his suit explode and end the battle. Spamton, NEOless, is now on the ground trying to propose deals to try and make you not seal the fountain. But the WoolBall falls down from the sky, flaming, and Queen quickly throws it at Spamton to finish him off. You can now finally seal the fountain, but before you do so Queen gives you a disk in memory of the adventures you have. And she ends off with saying ‘It Was Really, A Hell Of A Study Session’ After sealing the fountain, Berdly wakes up abruptly with a migraine, and it takes a while of ranting for him to realize that Noelle hasn’t woken up yet. He pretends to shrug it off, but he does seem a bit nervous, he doesn’t stay for much longer though, as he now has a meeting to attend. The overworld mostly stays the same afterwards, with the only difference being Noelle not being in the hospital room with Rudy, along with some dialogue about Queen at the town hall. Upon entering Castle Town, Kris will ask why Queen isn’t here while Lancer and others are. Ralsei explains how she never got to explain to Queen how she could come to Castle Town, Susie redirects the conversation to how much better friends they are than Queen, and everything continues as normal. During the ending where Kris takes out their soul, though something is different, as they put the disk inside the TV diskplayer. And instead of the normal smile on the Static TV, its instead Queen, who releases a hearty laugh.