Kumon's Story (Season 2)

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Kumon's Story (Season 1)

## Season 2 - Once Anew.

Part 2 of the story of Kumon the hollowed skeleton from the Undertale AU called “Story!tale.”

## S2 Episode 1: The Truth

As Kumon watches the two figures walk outside what was his house. He sees one that seems the shorter one, and he wields a long, shiny sword. The other one on the other hand seems out of place, he wore a fancy tuxedo and was significantly taller than the swordsman. He also drank what seemed to be hot tea. Kumon, confused at his new look, and the new people that inhabit what used to be his home, he suddenly got a rush of dread, at least as much as he could feel. Kumon looked around, darkness. Even the light from the town quickly turned to darkness. He tried to climb through the opening into the town, it was like a invisible wall. He banged and banged on the wall. No response, to the rest of the new world, he seemed to not exist, at all. As he tried to find something in the darkness, he seemed to find something called, darkness. Kumon could only stare into the world he once called home, he banged on the invisible wall a few times, nothing. He screamed to see if he was even alive, to himself he was alive like any other being, it just seemed as if he didn’t exist. As Kumon kept trying to escape the darkness, he got a sense of calm. All that happened due to the sudden shock of calm, he began to uncontrollably cry, he sat down by the opening, he cried and shook knowing the fact, the harsh, true fact that he did not exist. He began to scream cuss words towards The Lavender Demon. All he could think about was that it was The Lavender Demon fault that he was there, sitting in a world where he does not exist, a world where he is forced to watch burn and rebirth, over and over again. Kumon couldn’t stand it, multiple times he has tried to end his own, empty life, but failed. He physically couldn’t die, during one attempt that he knew COULDN’T fail he remembered something in a book once, that if a being is soulless, they finally obtain the curse of immortality, at the cost of their emotions and sometimes existence. As Kumon remembered that fact, more tears burst out of his eyesockets. He looked back outside the opening, he sees the shorter, sword wielding one battling or what looks to be sparring with a human. Kumon dumbfounded that a human was down there, he scooted backwards and curiosity pulled the tears back in. Kumon stared out and watched the human spar with the swordsman. Kumon grew more and more curious, due to the human growing more and more aggressive and the swordsman growing more confident that he will win. With a flash, Kumon watched as the human slash the swordsman in the throat, and fall to the ground in absolute agony. The human stood there with a inhuman grin, as it slashed him a few more times for “safety measures”. Kumon, disgusted by the human’s ill behaviors he unknowingly, (again) bumps his head on the opening. This time instead of a hopless sense he began to (helplessly) attempt to bash the invisible wall open. But to no avail he just watched as the hopeless swordsman bleed out to his helpless demise, alone. A white flash goes across the opening and it cuts to a well furnished corridor, it’s walls are a shiny, dark bronze with fascinating patterns of the history of monsters carved into them, and the floor with a basic, yet true, checker pattern laid across the floor. A shadowy figure stood, Kumon could make out that it was the tall one, the guy that lived with the now slaughtered swordsman. The human then walks into the corridor with a inhuman and chilling grin. The human then says with a cold, horse, yet high-pitched childish voice, “Marcher…” The tall being lifts up it’s head and spits directly on the human’s face, angering it as it replies with “You won’t be able to do that when I place your liver where your brain is, and your heart inside your lungs…” The Marcher let out a deep, intimidating laugh. The Marcher then chucked an Rock at the human’s nose at a high rate of speed as he takes a sip out of his hot tea. The human angered that he isn’t taking them seriously. Slashes but only breaks his mug that held his hot tea. The Marcher than snaps at the human “Well I guess your ready then huh?” And punches the human across the corridor. The Marcher then says rather calmly “Listen i've seen a lot worse then this...” as he rapidly beats the human down. The human the tries to slash The Marcher, but like an advanced acrobat, he backflips back onto his feet and sends a few slightly blue bones towards the human, most of them pierce into the human as the (what looks like one) human makes a high-pitched demonic scream as it falls to the ground. The Marcher gives a shady smile as he makes a laugh and replies with “And you were the one that said my organs would be rearranged, well take a good look at yourself.” The human makes a foul remark “Are you sure you don’t know how death feels?” and takes a quick swipe at The Marcher, it hits, but unlike what Kumon was expecting. The Marcher was still standing there and gave a booming laugh “I can stand more than one damage from that rusty blade.” The human then attempts to hit The Marcher, but right before the blade hit, bones then knock the human backwards as The Marcher says with a jokey grin “Sorry kid, my turn.” Then he leaps towards the human and yells “Watch Out Knuckle Head!” as he knocks the human backwards into a pile of bones, the human noticeably in pain lets out a scream from hell and lunges towards The Marcher, and The Marcher with his long arms, knocks the blade out of the human’s hand unscathed. The Marcher then sends the human across the room just by pointing his arm forward, “telekinesis, just like mine…” Kumon remarks. The Marcher then begins to give some cocky lines as he gains awareness he has the upper hand, like “Is that all you got?” or “Your rather sluggish...” as he dodges one of the human’s attacks, but then, the human gets their blade back and begins to tire The Marcher out at a disturbingly fast rate, and then suddenly, blow after blow, The Marcher drops helplessly. He gives a sigh of defeat as he turns to dust, and his SOUL, shatters… Then the human summons a button and says “Let’s do this again.” and then once again the opening goes bright and then cuts to the human in a patch of maple trees in an abandoned ruins. Then and only then Kumon understood what was going on after seeing the same deaths, dialogue, and story go on over and over again. He knew what was going on, the human did the same thing over and over again. He watched the same families grieve and the same fear in the faces of those who had to evacuate the world they once called home. The only change he noticed was in The Marcher, which to him always has been suspicious. As Kumon continued on watching the endless loop of dread and despair go on over and over, even to the point to where he began to cite the dialogue of monsters right when they would say it, and in a disturbingly great impression of them too. Suddenly a thought appeared inside of Kumon’s empty skull, Kumon then turned around and began to aimlessly walk, he did not know where to to, he just began to walk. Not knowing where he would end up. Kumon then fell through the ground, and ended up in what he once called home, “M-M-Maple T-Town….” Kumon said in a shaky voice. Kumon couldn’t believe his eyes, he was really back home. Kneeling in the place he once called home, Maple Town, the real one too, not the sick creation from the world he tried to escape from. But when he got to his feet, standing in front of him was… The human, behind them was the dead swordsman. Kumon knowing what to do readies himself to attack. The human then gleefully says “Oh, another plaything.” as they swoop towards Kumon and Kumon swiftfully blocks with a bone wall and remarks, “Says the player.” Then he sends them flying with telekinesis. The human then stands back up and angrily lunges towards him. Kumon dodges and stabs the human with a bone and kicks them backwards. The human then screams, “Why act so strong, I AM THE ONE IN CONTROL!” The human, noticeably enraged gets faster in speed and attack speed. Kumon manages to dodge the attacks, and then quickly launches a half-dozen bones at the human. Then launches four blasters at the human. The human, clearly in agony says with an irritated remark “Who the hell are you anyways?! I never seen you before!” Kumon then replies blankly with one simple word, “Karma.” Then sends a bone into their head, killing them. Kumon then looks forward into the town he once called home. He still couldn’t feel anything, other than the cold wind blowing through the air as it sweeps up his scarf. Kumon runs to the swordsman, his blood was dry, and his body was cold. He was dead, yet, Kumon couldn’t feel anything. Kumon looked over towards the main part of Maple Town and walks into it. Nobody was there, as expected. Kumon then turns around and walks towards the entrance to Goldfall.

## S2 Episode 2: Turned Tables

As Kumon entered Goldfall it looked like it always has, maybe with a bit more gold stuck to the sides, but that’s about it. While wandering around in the area it seemed empty, which was unusual, especially considering the amount of people usually mining for gold here. As Kumon walked past one the mines, he heard from the speakers, “Warning there is a murderous human nearby, stay calm, quiet, and evacuate to Steamlands immediately.” Then it went silent, that answers his question. Then he heard from behind “Shouldn’t you be running away too?” He turns around and sees the human, with a smug, yet demonic grin. “It doesn’t matter that if I never seen you, either way your dust will be on my blade.” Kumon then full blow punches the human in the face, knocking them backwards. Kumon then smiles and says “Are you sure you can even catch up?” The human then lunges towards Kumon, and then, he disappears? The human then gets tapped on the back of the shoulder, they turn around and get sucker punched by Kumon as he says “Gotcha!” As the human falls over, Kumon then smiles and says “You claim to be in control right?” The human then slowly and painfully stares up at him. “I guess so, well here is some news.” He pulls them up by the shirt and says “You will suffer for what you’ve done.” Then he launches bones into their limbs so they cannot move, and quietly says “And no one will save you, you will be left here until you die a slow, agonizing death.” The human then screams for help, but nobody came. Kumon then laughs at the fact that now that they are helpless they act weak. It was funny to him, yet disgusted him. He kicked the human in the face a few times and left them for their painful demise. As Kumon continues on within the empty mines of Goldfall he gets a eerie sense that something is off, he doesn’t think it is just the human that made these people evacuate, but he can only hope it was, considering that if there was another threat, he wouldn’t be prepared. He continued on and on within the mesmerizing cave full of liquid and solid gold. He found a abandoned hotdog stand that he knew he used to work at, it gave him a childish, and nostalgic sense. He walked over and made a few hotdogs, lavender style. (Cooked with ketchup on top, and then put ketchup on after cooking.) As he made a few hotdogs (lavender style) for the road, he continued on in the empty gold mine. He saw what looked to be shining star, he came towards it. Then the human’s voice fearfully says “Y-You can see t-t-them too..?” Kumon then turns around to see the human, (still alive somehow.) and asks “Is this how you come back?” The human’s face went white. Kumon then gives an empty grin. He grabs the star, and shatters it completely. The human give out a horrified gasp. Kumon then lunges towards the human at an inhuman speed and next thing he knew, he had their beating SOUL in his hands. Kumon then stares at the human’s husk and says in a menacing voice “Kutabare.” and sucks the DETERMINATION from their SOUL into his body, like a vampire. The human starts to glitch and they eventually cease to exist, and Kumon gets a strange feeling. A feeling of power, a feeling of superiority, “So, this is… DETERMINATION.” He continues on within Goldfall knowing he has to find the truth of what happened. And as he knew it, he went into the tunnel that was carved into the Great Mountain of Tears. As he walked through it, he realized he was in Steamlands. As he walked into the warm land it was quiet, including the machinery was quiet, Kumon expected it, after all they didn’t know the human’s ability to revive with DETERMINATION. And they do not know that the human has been eradicated. Kumon walked through the empty, comfortably warm land. As Kumon walks past the first evacuation site, nobody was there, the doors were shut and sealed tight. Kumon decides to continue on, knowing how he looks right now, he doesn’t look very, approachable. Kumon then passes the second evacuation site and sees a tall figure, he looks a bit closer, it was the tall figure with the hat, it was The Marcher. He begins to walk up to him and he replies with “Hey, it’s dangerous, you should probably come in here… Unless, you wanna die like some emo.” Kumon then tirely stares at him and says “The human’s SOUL is gone, they cannot come back. Call off the evacuation, it is safe.” The Marcher, confused asks “I never seen ya ‘round here, do I know you?” Kumon then replies with “No, you don’t.” The Marcher then jokingly asks “Then how am I supposed to trust ya?” Kumon then pulls out their clearly drained SOUL. Then throws it off the ground, causing it to shatter. The Marcher in absolute shock, just stares at the SOUL which is now in pieces. Kumon then asks “Like I said, they are gone.” The Marcher then says “And how can I trust that? I’ve killed them more than you that’s for sure, and they kept comin’” The Marcher then begins to walk backwards from Kumon and says “If you get any closer, you are going to suffer, slowly and painfully.” Kumon then says, “Would it be lie to say I am the embodiment of suffering myself?” as Kumon says that, The Marcher launches several bones towards pressure points at Kumon, Kumon dodges lazily. The Marcher then yells “If you managed to kill that human, that only means your more than a threat than they were. And I cannot simply allow you to pass.” As Kumon heard that he stops time and walks behind The Marcher and says, “Or I could be more helpful than the human.” The Marcher slightly gasps and quietly says “Can’t take chances now can I?” The Marcher then sips his tea and says “I won’t let you through, unless I can trust you, you can be a threat to us all” The Marcher gives a shaky sigh and says “I can hold the human off, but not completely rewrite the world itself with the death of one being.” Kumon understood his fear, he couldn’t feel any emotions, but he knows his fear. Kumon then says “Why would I want to destroy everything someone has, after I lost everything I had myself…” The Marcher gave him a confused look. Kumon gives out a laugh and says “It’s a long story…” The Marcher laughs and calmly says “Alright, I’ll notify the king.” The Marcher proceeds to pull a phone out of his pocket and dials a number, as Kumon looks around the area, he hears the machinery start to continue on like it should normally. As Kumon looks around he gets startled by The Marcher asking for his name, Kumon turns to him and simply says “Kumon, Kumon Lavender, why did you ask?” The Marcher then just says the king wanted his name. Kumon shrugs it off and continues looking around. Then he hears metal doors slam. He swiftly turns around to see the evacuation areas opened up and monster began to walk out. Kumon swifty walks over to an empty area. He sits down and looks over at the machinery as it goes on and on. Kumon then stand back up seeing that there is people in his given area. Kumon then goes towards the lab. As he walks into it he sees The Marcher walk up to him. He asks how he defeated the human, Kumon said “I just fought ‘em.” Then Kumon got a feeling (not emotion) and he told The Marcher what was going on and how the human can predict him. The Marcher simply replies with “Oh...Darn” The Marcher walked away. Kumon then walked into the lab it seemed as if nobody was there, as Kumon walked through the lab he walked past this sealed off door and he got a sense of nostalgia and HATE. He almost punched the door right there and then. He managed to keep himself from doing that. He tries to open the door but it seems it can only be opened by a keycard. Kumon out of sheer curiosity wanders around the lab and searches for a keycard that could open the door. He finds a few, but they don’t work. Then he finds a dark purple keycard with the name on it “Akuma Lavender” his brother, Kumon gets a sense of HATE yet a brotherly bond. Kumon then walks over to the door and strangely the keycard works…

## S2 Episode 3: Tsurai kako

As Kumon enters the door, it shuts right behind him. Kumon gets a feeling of curiosity and DETERMINATION as he walks down the dusty stairs, it looked to be a bigger, and older lab down there. As Kumon walked into one of the rooms he notices several syringes with different liquids inside of them, he sees an entry on one of the screens in the room, the entry reads: “Entry #1: This is Akuma Lavender, Royal scientist, subject: experimenting with SOUL power and DETERMINATION…” He reads the next entry as it reads: “Subjects seem to be in stable condition, but weary, they are currently asleep… Subject #3 seems to be melting due to injection of DETERMINATION. Subject #2 keeps asking me for water, even though I keep declining. They are injected with a small dose of each SOUL trait. Subject #1 is currently asleep. They have been injected with HATE.” As Kumon read this one he got a deep, cold shiver down his spine, he turns his head around to see if he is being watched. He notices there is something caked in dark green moss right next to Entry #1 Kumon carefully tears off all the moss and reads, “Entry #2, Subject #3 is now unable to be considered living, it has become complete liquid, and Subject #2 is currently screaming in agony, Subject #1 is still asleep, I am intrigued to observe this.” Kumon could only feel colder and colder as he read this. He could no longer feel his feet. He finishes reading the entry and tries to find a third entry, he searches for a few minutes, nothing, he decides to leave the room. He walks around the empty laboratory and find a room with the lights on, yet flickering. He walks into the room nervously and sees another entry. The entry reads, “Entry #3, Subject #2’s organs exploded, Subject #3 is currently being drained down the sink. Subject #1 is still asleep, but has a pulse, I am intrigued to see this through.” As Kumon reads, his opinion on his brother began to change from, a nice smart person, to a disgusting, sadistic monster. As Kumon began to walk towards the next entry and begins to read “Entry #4 Subject #1 finally awoken, and is currently in containment due to it’s psychotic, rabid behavior, yet shows signs of intelligence greater than ours.” At this point Kumon is disgusted to even call this person his brother. Out of a blind rage he punches the entry, breaking the screen. Kumon then walks into a room with a disgusting smell, as he walks in he hears loud screaming and as he turns his head towards it he sees a what seems to be a monster with multiple large holes inside of him, but currently not bleeding. It begins to crawl towards him screaming what seems to be “The pain! The pain! It hurts!” Kumon believes they are Subject #2, living in agony, only alive due to SOUL power. Kumon grabs a syringe and retrains him and uses the syringe to take out the SOUL power, as Subject #2 dies, they thank Kumon as they turn to dust. Kumon then continues on into a different room and find another entry, “Entry #5 I turned on the SOUL burning gas, Subject #1 is turning to dust, I believe I should go to the king and tell him my results.” Then the entry ends, Kumon then begins to leave the lab and walks out. As Kumon enters the comfortably warm, smaller lab he gives a sigh of disappointment and relief. Kumon then walks out of the lab. As Kumon walks out into the more populated half of Steamlands he pulls out the keycard with his brother’s name on it. He then gets a sick feeling, but also a feeling of addiction of looking at it, his vision began to darken before he knew it he seemed to have blacked out…

In the small, quiet town of Maple Town lived three skeletons, one was a bright, loveable teacher, another was the agonized master of dark magic, the last one was the devilishly brilliant royal scientist. Each with their own respective names, Akarui, Kumon, and Akuma. Let us begin with the 2nd oldest one, named Akuma, he was the royal scientist and made over 30+ astronomical scientific discoveries, he was the first royal scientist to test with SOULs and DETERMINATION. The more success and recognition he obtained, the more he wondered, he kept wondering what would happen if he could surpass the power of more than seven SOULs, would he surpass that of a god? Or would he reach heaven yet still maintaining mortality. As his hunger for power grew, it turned into starvation, then it turned purely into greed. As Akarui seen this, she wanted to stop his growing madness, she asked him to calm down, she asked and pleaded do not take another innocent child’s SOUL. He simply told her, “It is the simple action of living organisms, they all have curiosity, and they all want to be apex…” She gave him a disturbed yet angry look, he continued, “It’s nature for monsters and humans to long for power, and if sacrifices are necessary to achieve what I need, then so be it, after all… They were destined for death, it’s only FATE.” Akarui now filled with despair and anger said, “I guess I have no choice but to stop you…” Akuma simply laughed as he stared into her SOUL with a shadowy grin, “Do you really think you can defeat me? A soon to be GOD?” Akarui knew he was not her brother anymore she materialized two bones into he hands, and began swinging at him violently, yet at the same time crying, knowing her younger brother is a lost cause. Akuma only laughed and then materialized a bone into his hand snapped it, he shoved one into her chest, and the last one into her head. As Kumon walked up the stairs he saw his sister dead on the ground, and his brother laughing maniacally, Akuma looked over at Kumon and said, “What..? She opposed me, and you out of all people I know know that you shouldn’t oppose a god.” Kumon in a nervous and surprised look said, “Y-You killed y-your older sister, a-a-are you c-crazy?!” Akuma laughed and simply said, “She opposed a GOD.” Kumon could only look at his brother in anger he mumbled quietly, “Get out.” Akuma asked in a disturbingly calm manner “What do you say younger brother?” Kumon’s eye sockets went black and he yelled “GET OUT!” Strangely Akuma left with no issue, and before he left the house he told Kumon in a calm manner, “Remember, I am the oldest brother now…” Kumon then slams the door in his face, Akuma left and six days have passed, Kumon began hearing fighting going on outside, as Kumon looked outside and saw Akuma murdering and has murdered several monsters, and then pulls out seven different colored SOULs out of his bag, he then fuses all the monsters SOULs into one, bright white SOUL, then puts them into his bag, then he begins to walk towards the barrier. Kumon follows him and sees as the SOULs circle his hand as he clutches onto the white one, he turns to Kumon and says as the SOULs as they spin faster and faster around his hand, “Yes Kumon! Gaze upon your GOD!” Kumon could see insanity in his eyes, the ground began to split apart and rise, this created several small islands, as they began to float he laughed, then said in a disturbingly happy tone, “Witness the power of a GOD Kumon!!!” Kumon then materialized two bones into his hands, he then begins to dash towards Akuma, Kumon began to regret his actions of kicking him out, he knew he should have killed him on the spot. Akuma then begins to launch bones towards Kumon and giant blasters began shooting towards Kumon, but Kumon knew for the sake of monsters, and humanity as well, he must defeat Akuma before that attack using the SOULs charges up. As Kumon got closer, the more he knew it was too late, and when Kumon was at throwing distance Akuma then shouted, “Behold the power of a god! SOUL CANNON!!!” And Kumon’s vision only grew brighter and brighter, he heard loud crashing as the barrier broke, but then something else happened and he heard Akuma scream, distorted..? Then he began to fall, and he fell into a gray meadow, asleep. As he wakes up he sees multiple visions flash before him, the SOUL cannon, a glitchy humanoid, and Lorx’s guitar.

## S2 Episode 4: Faint Distractions

Kumon woke up in confusion, yet now knew what was really going on, he knew The Lavender Demon’s identity, (also disgusted that Akuma would kill a dog and laugh about it.) He knew he had to defeat The Lavender Demon, who he now knows is his brother Akuma. But he does know he must find allies knowing he cannot defeat him on his own. As Kumon stands up in front of the vacant lab, a calm, steamy unnatural breeze flows past him, picking up his ragged scarf as it flows by. Kumon tried to find people that would help him, they just walked away or said they weren’t interested, but as he walked across a large land bridge he heard a loud “Halt!” Kumon then turns around and sees three guards and… The Marcher. Before Kumon could speak one of the guards said “We have been getting reports of you breaking the law.” The Marcher gave him a childish look of victory. Then one of the guards said in a deep, serious tone, “You are coming with us.” As Kumon heard that he replied in a simple manner “Oh-ho, I am not going anywhere, at least… without a fight.” The guards then began to prepare for battle and so did the Marcher. They stood staring at each other for a few moments before one of the guards charged right at Kumon, along with the rest of the guards right after. The Marcher then teleported behind Kumon, with the intention of kicking him towards the guards instead Kumon yelled “Fore!” and hit the Marcher so hard he went flying across the landbridge, then he snapped the bone in half. He throws one bone towards the guard and luckily it directly hits the guard in the chest, killing him instantly, the other bone gets deflected and gets whacked in the face with the guard’s staff. As Kumon gets sent backwards he stands up and becomes face-face with the Marcher as the Marcher tries to beat him with his bone staff. Kumon makes his own replica of it and they have a sword battle (except bones). After multiple strikes Kumon’s scarf gets grabbed by one of the guards, then out of nowhere Kumon yells “Do NOT touch THAT!” And sends a bone into one of his eyes and then begins to brutally stab him with multiple bones, that guard dies of blood loss eventually. Then Kumon gets clubbed in back of the head by the Marcher’s staff, then Kumon swiftfully turns around and bashes the Marcher in the kneecaps, disabling him temporarily. Then he summons three blasters and basically disintegrates the last guard. After that Kumon calmed down and looked towards the Marcher, now with a nervous look on his face. Kumon then as he stares into the Marcher’s SOUL, he said, i will let you hit me, I will give you one minute to land as many blows as you can on me. The Marcher then stood up and looked towards Kumon, Kumon stood there menacingly, and then the Marcher began rapidly hitting Kumon. Kumon barley budges each punch. Kumon then launches The Marcher back with telekinisis, and tells him “I find no point in fighting me out of fear, after all, if you couldn’t beat the human… You CAN’T beat me.” The Marcher gave Kumon an enraged look as he snapped his bone in half and began swinging at Kumon, then Kumon began to do the same thing. They began hitting (or blocking) each others attacks until both of them got tired out. Kumon sat down and The Marcher sat with him. “That was a good… Fight.” The Marcher said, clearly exhausted. “You too…” Kumon said exhausted as much as The Marcher was. The guards were already dust, Kumon then uses a bone to sweep the dust into the pit of steam, never to be found again. Kumon then looks towards The Marcher and asks, “Do you believe in alternate universes?” The Marcher looks at him and chillingly calmly he says “I do, and I know they exist.” Kumon then asks “Can you help me with something..?” The Marcher then asks “I guess so, what is it?” Kumon then says “A tall monstrous being capable of having the multiverse by the balls.” After Kumon says that The Marcher pulls out a canteen and loudly sips his tea, then he simply says “If it stops these anomalies like the human from killing my brother and all my friends, then I will help.” Kumon then silently nods and stands back up. The Marcher begins to follow him, then Kumon asks while walking to the unknown, “Have you heard of a tool that could perhaps kill…” Kumon hated saying the word “god” simply because it reminded him of his brother “...A god..?” The Marcher’s face went white. Then The Marcher said “I heard of this sacred tool called the SOUL crucifix..” Kumon looked at him strange. “It was a crucifix that was made to eradicate beings that posed a threat to the multiverse. Sadly, it got shattered after the first use when trying to stop one of the gods named Error from destroying our universe, it worked but only banished him, i guess he found no use of coming back, but afterwards the crucifix shattered into four pieces, none of them were found, and they were lost to the dark pit of time.” Kumon, now with multiple questions asks “Do you know where to start to look for them?” The Marcher pulls out his canteen and once again sips his tea loudly, puts it back then says “I believe it is somewhere around here in Steamlands actually, but I don’t know, it’s just rumors ya know.” Kumon then says “Well we have to look for it either way!” The Marcher chuckles and says “Well, I mean why not we go to my place and rest?” Kumon gives him a dead stare and says “If we waste time, he will have more time to get ready and destroy us all.” The Marcher just chuckles and says “What and then will we finally die?” Kumon gives him a stare then says “Really?” The Marcher then agrees that they should look for the parts of the SOUL crucifix, and to find more teammates. And so begins the journey to defeat The Lavender Demon.

## S2 Episode 5: One Last Shock.

As Kumon and The Marcher walk in Steamlands aimlessly trying to cook up a plan to put an end to The Lavender Demon, they soon realize the fact that they need more teammates knowing they definitely won’t be able to defeat The Lavender Demon just by themselves. They begin looking, but knowing that nobody in their current universe could not defeat them, but Kumon and The Marcher knew there were more universes out there, alternate ones, called AUs and they know they need to find a way to reach more AUs to find more allies and perhaps a way to get to The Lavender Demon and defeat him. Kumon and The Marcher sat there and pondered. They tried to think of ideas on how to find more allies, outside, outside of the universe they were currently. Kumon and the Marcher kept telling each other time wasting and astronomically impossible ideas and or scenarios. While talking about one they went looking for something to eat, so Kumon checked his pockets for something he could eat, realizing that the cookies he had, well, they went to Mello. Instead he found the strange ball contraption that strange figure behind the tree gave him, and the egg, which Kumon threw into the pit of steam. Kumon and The Marcher carefully observed the small palm-sized contraption as they held it The Marcher asked “What is that gizmo?” Kumon answers in a cautious tone “I don’t know.” As he says that the contraption’s upper half suddenly rises off the bottom half, revealing a color changing crystal, then the crystal starts emitting a strange deep, somewhat of a growling sound. As Kumon and The Marcher start moving around the sound gets higher-pitched when they moved more forward and slightly to the left, but when they went backwards and slightly right the sound got deeper. Kumon and the Marcher began to get curious and they begin to move in the direction of the high-pitched growling sound. As they continued the sound grew so high-pitched they could no longer hear it, which would be bad, due to the fact that they don’t know if they were in the right area that this contraption was clearly trying to lead them to. After a while the sound grew lower-pitched. Kumon and The Marcher figured that they passed it, so they began to backtrack slowly, but instead they looked around and then suddenly the contraption began to shake violently and it got heavier. The Marcher began digging and found what seemed to be the left side of the SOUL crucifix. Kumon surprised about the situation accidentally drops the contraption and the crystal then floats out of it and then, like lighting zaps itself onto the end of the crucifix and the contraption then glows dark and falls apart. The Marcher then says in a sudden realization, “We need to get another one of those contraptions to find the other pieces…” Then Kumon asks, “But how..?” Then Kumon hears a loud yell, then Kumon turns around to see the king with a large group of royal guards and the king yells in a booming voice, “Charge!!!” And the guards began to charge at The Marcher and Kumon. Kumon then stops time and shoves a bone into each one of the guard’s heads, then as time resumes he quickly ponders about if his time stop endurace increased. Then the king in the utter most shock as seeing in a flash all of his guards been impaled, nervously the king says as he walks back, “I-I am sorry for the i-inconvinience, but I can offer you uh, uh, a-an apple!” Kumon stares at the apple and next thing the king knew, his chest was impaled by a bone and he turns to dust. The Marcher then says, “What the heck man?!” Kumons looks over at him and The Marcher continues with “You killed the king man, everyone is gonna try and kill you!” Kumon then summons a button as a ball of DETERMINATION appears and he says “Then this world will reset, with an exception, this world deserves to know who has been torturing them all this time.” The Marcher says, “Alright, go for it.” and the world resets. As Kumon wakes up in Steamlands were he originally was, he looks over to where The Marcher was, he was not there. So were all the other monsters Kumon then tries to look for The Marcher, not knowing where he was going, next thing he knew, he was in Maple Town. He then sees The Marcher along with an army of monsters. They looked as if they were about to attack somebody, then right as he realized they were attacking the human Kumon sees The Marcher and he says in a joking tone “Kumon! You’re just in time for the show! Ready?” The rest of the monsters nod and then they destroy the human, once and for all. (So they thought.) Then after the monsters continue on with their daily activities, The Marcher tells Kumon he found another one of those contraptions in the lab. Kumon then checks his pockets for the SOUL crucifix part, it was there, which made Kumon and The Marcher think there is another part in this universe. Kumon disagrees, due to the simple fact that this universe would need an impossible amount of power of hold two parts. Kumon said that they would need to find a way to different AUs so they could find the rest of the pieces of the SOUL crucifix, so they can put an end to The Lavender Demon once and for all. Kumon told The Marcher that they would need to find a way to cause a tear in the space and time continuum so that they could travel to different AUs. The Marcher and Kumon continued to tell each other ideas on how to cause a tear in the space-time continuum, but alas, each idea failed. At this point Kumon and The Marcher were getting bored, so they were just throwing bones into the abyss of steamlands then suddenly Kumon made a weirdly gray and slightly transparent bone and then when then bone came into contact with the steam time suddenly stopped, and when Kumon accidentally threw another bone when it hit the time stop bone, time resumed, but this time a loud rip sound was heard and Kumon and The Marcher witnessed a rip in the space-time continuum. Kumon and The Marcher looked at each other then at the tear, it was about ten feet away from the ground, The Marcher asked, “It worked, but how are we gonna get over there?” Kumon then summoned a blaster and hopped on it and said, “Use what we got of course!” And Kumon flew right in the tear. The Marcher not far behind doing the same thing. Kumon and The Marcher entered a strangely bright place, with paintbuckets floating around. The Marcher said, “Dang looks like we have a art fanatic here.” Kumon, facinated by the amount of paper mentions “A-Are these all the AUs?!” Then a welcomingly familiar voice replied with “Yes! They are the AUs!” Kumon darts his head towards the sound and sees a similar looking skeleton as it walks forward Kumon then asks “Oh hello, who are you?” The skeleton as it walks out in a strange outfit, says “Ink, my name is Ink.” Kumon then sticks his hand out for a handshake, then as they shake hands, a loud fart sound was heard Kumon then laughs and says, “Looks like both of us tried the whoopie cushion in the hand trick.” Then Ink says, “It never gets old.” They both chuckle and then Ink then says “Anyways what are you doing here all the way in the Doodle Sphere?” Kumon then says in a serious tone, “We are here because we are trying to find the pieces of the SOUL crucifix, and we needed to find a way to different AUs where they are suspected to be.” Ink gives Kumon a worried stare and says “Oh, THAT thing,” Then he changes his expression to a more normal expression as he says, “Well you found the right place!” Kumon then smiles and asks in a interigational tone “How can I get into the AUs?” Ink then says, “Oh, you mean the universes themselves?” Kumon then says, “Yeah that is what we are trying to get into.” Ink then says “Sorry, but here you can only monitor the AUs.” Then suddenly an idea pops into Kumons head, then he asks The Marcher, “Do you still have the contraption?” The Marcher after sipping from his hot tea pulls out the contraption and says, “Yup.” Kumon then takes it from his hands and then as they wander around and then they figure out the AU they must enter is one labeled on the bucket, “Outertale” Kumon then asks Ink how they can enter it. Ink says, “Oh, let me help with that.” And then Ink pulls out a giant broom and then swipes ink right under The Marcher and Kumon and they fall through as if the ink removed the floor, but then they fall (Slowly due to lack of gravity) onto an island nearby a cliff and all that surrounds them is stars. The Marcher sips from his hot tea as they fall down and Kumon just falls. When they manage fall to the ground they look over at the stars, Kumon then says “I never seen stars before, and, they seem… Calming.” The Marcher then chuckles and says “Oh I was familiar with stars.” Kumon then looks over at him in a confused way and asks, “How are you familiar with these? You been underground all this time.” The Marcher chuckles again and simply says, “I had my ways.” Then Kumon gets a hold of himself and pulls out the contraption and turns it on. The contraption begins to emit a extremely low-pitched sound Kumon then walks around and then it begins to very slightly gets more high-pitched. Kumon and The Marcher walked for a while as the sound barley grew in pitch. Then the sound jumped to a extremely high-pitch and then they began to dig. Then suddenly they find what seems to be the bottom part of the SOUL crucifix. Then once again the crystal inside the contraption floats out of the contraption and zaps itself into the bottom part of the piece and the contraption breaks. Kumon then pulls out both pieces of the SOUL crucifix and then holds them near each other and then, like magic they zap together. Kumon and The Marcher then come to the disturbing realization that they will need to find more contraptions without knowing where to even look. The Marcher and Kumon sit in defeat knowing that it would take them an eternity just to find maybe the next piece at least. Then as they were talking they hear distant footsteps behind them, they see another skeleton, but a tall one, one wearing blue and yellow attire, sporting a cape with blue on the exterior and yellow in the interior and it simply looks at them and says “Oh, hello! Are you two looking for humans too?” The Marcher says “No we are not, but we are indeed trying to look for something.” The tall skeleton then, noticeably excited says “Well not to worry, I the GREAT papyrus will help you find whatever you are looking for!” The Marcher then begins to explain to him what they are looking for, but as Kumon sees the skeleton that calls himself papyrus his eyesocets go blank as he reminds him exactly what Akuma looked like. Then The Marcher shakes Kumon and tells him “Hey! Papyrus knows where the next contraption is! Lets go!” Kumon then stumbles up and cynically follows them. Then the skeleton has them follow them into a cave and then glowing in it’s prime glory is the contraption, Papyrus begins to explain that while he was searching for humans he saw a glowing artifact in there and didn’t think much of it. The Marcher and Kumon blankly thank Papyrus for the help and then they see another skeleton walk in, a shorter skeleton, again, similar to Kumon and says “Hey papyrus, a meteor shower is happening outside, c’mon.” Papyrus then exclaims in wondrous joy “A meteor shower! Come on you two you have to see this!” Kumon and The Marcher walk outside the cave and watch this wondrous meteor shower occur, Kumon, mesmerized by the meteor shower accidentally falls off the little island as The Marcher sees this he gasps but then sees, like in a movie, Kumon floats back up due to lack of gravity. “Woah” Kumon exclaims as he gets himself back onto the island. Then knowing they cannot waste time they do the same little trick. But before they could Outer sans asks if they need help with anything, Kumon then says there is a threat to the multiverse at hand, Outer offers his help and they accept and Outer joins the party. Then Kumon launches a time-stopping bone and throws a bone at it, once again causing a rip in the universe and then they jump in back into the Doodle sphere. As they entered the Doodle Sphere they tried to look for Ink and then suddenly they hear him yell “Hello!” from above the look up and see Ink floating above them and what seems to be doodling. He then lands down onto the ground and asks “Did you get the piece?” Kumon then nods, Ink then replies “Great, and while you guys were gone I actually found one of those contraptions myself, here take it.” Kumon then takes the contraption and then tries to open it, and it leads to a AU labeled “Dusttale.” Outer’s eyes go dark and he says that the sans there “Isn’t the friendliest guy around.” And then they proceed to enter Dusttale.

## S2 Episode 6: Nightmarish Encounters

As they enter the paint bucket they seem to be in what is called “Snowdin” as they walk through the eerily quiet wind blows and it seems to be empty and silent, as Kumon opens the contraption it leads straight forward and when they see it, it is in the hands of a hooded skeleton, with an axe-wielding one standing to his right, and a knife-wielding one to his left, which seems to be crying a black, goopy liquid. The hooded one which seems to be holding the other side part looks towards them which they can see his glowing blue eye and red iris and they hear him say, “Lookin’ for this?” The Marcher laughs and walks over to the knife-wielding one and says “Hey, Killer it’s been a while pa-” And the one named Killer dashes towards him at great speed, and The Marcher dodges and says in a joking tone “Still on those terms huh?” The hooded one laughs and says “Indeed we are, we were given orders from boss to stop you freaks from going further with your little plan” Kumon and Outer proceed to ready for battle and so does the hooded one along with the axe-wielding one. The hooded one introduces himself as Dust and the axe-wielding one as Horror and he simply says “We are simply feared by the name known as The Murder Time Trio!” The hooded one places the SOUL crucifix part in an interior pocket of his jacket and they prepare for battle The knife wielding one dashes towards Outer and attempts to slash him and asks “Just like old times eh?” Outer then floats and laughs and then stars begin to fall down and many more smaller stars begin to launch everywhere, multiple hitting Killer forcing him to retreat back to his previous position. The axe-wielding one then launches towards The Marcher and begins swinging his axe while screaming maniacally as The Marcher kept dodging and then out of nowhere Dust launches bones at The Marcher, he jokingly says “Double teaming buddy?” And summons a blaster as it blasts at Dust launching him back. Then Horror screams and smashes the ground with his axe, and spikes begin to pierce out of the ground, The Marcher swiftly dodges the attack and launches bones at Horror which most of them Horror blocked due to him maniacally swinging his axe, then he wonders where Dust is and sees Kumon dealing with him. And looks over to see Outer fighting Killer The Marcher silently thinks to himself that they may think this is a fair fight, but with their skill, it is not a fair fight at all, yet, The Marcher couldn’t help but wonder why the battle seems so, easy… Did he get better, or are they trying to lure them into their trap? As he thinks of that he hears Horror let out a monstrous roar as he swings his axe down as an attempt to cut him in half, The Marcher tiredly dodges and then spikes, again, begin to come out of the ground once more, then suddenly stars begin to fall down right onto Horror, due to what looks to be burning, Horror screams in pain and moves back to his previous position. Then The Marcher then goes to help Kumon with Dust, but then in a flash bone pierce Dust from all directions and he falls helplessly to the ground then suddenly black tentacles pull all three noticeably defeated bodies into the dark forest and then they see a bright blue eye and then in their horror, pulls the SOUL crucifix part and it hangs around what where their neck would be like it was connected like a necklace then from the abyss known as the forest a deep, cunning, yet slightly calming voice comes from the trees “Did you think it would be THAT easy? And i’m the one here thinking my subordinates would be a challenge for you… Pitiful pieces of garbage, they will need to be disposed of, AFTER YOU!” Then suddenly like rain, pitch-black bones start blasting at them at hellish speeds. Kumon, Outer, and The Marcher try to get through and then out of nowhere a tentacle comes out of the ground and smacks all three into their portal back into the Doodle sphere, then before Ink can help them the dark figure that seems to have four tentacles on it’s back summons a puddle under them, causing them to fall into a dark void and the figure seems to disappear. After the sudden shock from the events the stand up and they seem to be in a pitch-black void. As they get up and they see the figure, they could only tell by the constant movement of the what seems to be goop that the figure seems to be made of, it looks to be a skeleton like Outer and Kumon except with a jacket and has four large tentacle like appendages on it’s back and connected to it’s golden necklace is, the part of the SOUL crucifix! Kumon out of sheer impulse darts towards the figure but then suddenly out of the ground emerges four goopy papyrus (or former Akuma) looking figures. And they begin to violently attack Kumon, Kumon in reaction, attempts to block and counter the goop skeleton’s attacks and then out of nowhere bones are seemingly pierced where their skulls are, the skeletons let out a phantom-like scream and melt away. Then the dark shorter skeleton says “For your information my name is Nightmare but it will probably be the last name you ever hear.” Kumon then out of sheer impulse dashes towards Nightmare and attempts to stab him but instead Nightmare smacks him away with one of his large tentacles. As Kumon hits the ground he sees The Marcher and Outer dash towards Nightmare in an attempt to defeat him instead they too get whacked backwards into Kumon with his tentacles, Nightmare lets out a booming laugh and then puddles appear next to him and gaster blaster looking snakes comes slithering out of the ground and they begin to surround them like a snake does to it’s prey. Kumon and The Marcher begin to slightly panic, then stars fall down and slice the snakes into different pieces, then sighed in relief as the snakes melted away, Nightmare in anger begins to violently send bones upon bones towards the group and he gets a hold of The Marcher and starts bashing him off the ground. Then Outer sucker punches Nightmare in the gut sending him backwards. Then Nightmare says in response “I didn’t come unprepared you know…” Then suddenly Killer appears to be being strangled by one of his tentacles and then two farmiliar figures stand up, it is the bodies of Dust and Horror except, they look to have fractured skulls, in their right eye the black goop seems to be endlessly dripping out and in their left is a nearly identical eye to Nightmare’s blue eye. Horror seems to have multiple small gaster blaster snakes peeking out of the crack in his skull and Dust seems to have one tentacle like Nightmare. Nightmare replies in a deep tone, “My subordinates were unskilled, so I decided to give them a small ‘upgrade’.” Right after Nightmare says that the two seemingly corrupted skeletons dash towards the group at a disturbing speed as they begin doing the same attacks they did during their battle except stronger and more devastating. Then Outer manages to decapitate (what is left of) Horror, killing him instantly, but instead of turning to dust, they melt into a dark puddle of goop and Nightmare begins to get frustrated, and begins to fight them whereas Dust is aggressively attacking The Marcher and Kumon and Nightmare tries to attack Outer. As the group continues to fight Dust is eventually defeated and like Horror, melts into goop, but as this is occurring he utters in a bone-chilling, yet calming voice, “P-Papyrus… I-I-I’ll see you so-soo-soon…” And he melts away. Nightmare noticeably enraged, begins squeezing Killer harder and the whole group begins to battle Nightmare. As they begin to do so, Nightmare says in a deep, cocky tone, “How about we make this fair, shall we?” And Nightmare creates a whole army of goopy Papyruses, and then makes a high, mighty, throne out of goop and watches as the fight will grow, waiting for the team’s imminent defeat.

## S2 Episode 7: Hatred Spreads.

As the army of papyruses start charging towards the group, suddenly, an ink puddle appears out of nowhere and Ink jumps out of it and yells towards Nighmare “What do you think you’re doing Nightmare?!” Nightmare chuckles and says “I am going to do what I said I would do, none of you believed me, and here I am, the only feelings the AUs will feel will be negativity! And I will become king!” Ink who now has a disturbed expression on his face, says “As the defender of AUs I cannot let you do that!” Nightmare once again chuckles, except now more menacingly. Then out of nowhere a giant appendage (Nightmare’s tentacle) knocks them back into the puddle, sending them back into the Doodle Sphere, and sadly it did not end there, suddenly Nightmare’s army came out of the puddle, but instead of going for them they start going into the paint buckets and right when they were about to intervene Nightmare jumps out and launches them into a portal, one that seemed out of place, and now they where each in black cages, each seemingly made of goop, that somehow maintains being a solid, yet looking liquid. (Outer’s perspective) As Outer looks out his individual cage he sees it is hanging by a goopy chain, as the cage swings it seems to be a giant black void outside the cage. Outer looks out his cage, and there seems to be many other cages similar to the one Outer currently is inside of. Then suddenly Outer sees another skeleton inside of one of the cages, but it doesn’t look like Kumon, they are wearing what seems to be a royal guard costume, mostly with the colors of blue and gray. Outer calls out to them and he hears a sad, sob-like “Mweh, heh, heh…” Then the skeleton looks up and he sees blue eyes, and their eyes widen and he hears the skeleton call out, “Hello?! Is there anybody there?!” Outer then calls out, “Yeah, I’m here.” Then the skeleton calls out a familiar name, “Papyrus, are you there?!” Outer then calls out, “No, I, I am not Papyrus.” The skeleton then asks, “Then… Who are you, you better not be those mean tall, goopy skeletons that look like my brother! C-Cause if you try making me do that stuff agai-” Outer then says louder, “Okay, okay, calm down, I am not them either, my name is Sans, but you can call me Outer.” The skeleton then gets a confused look on his face and says in a investigative tone, “M-My name is Sans too.” Then he looks down and continues, “B-B-But you can call me Swap!” Outer then smiles, and says, “Swap, huh, that’s a nice name…” Swap then thanks Outer and then suddenly a familiar voice comes further away, “Outer? Outer is that you?” Outer knew that voice, but he couldn’t figure out who exactly the voice belonged to. Then it called out, “It’s me, The Marcher.” Outer, relieved yells over, “Yes! Yes, it's me Outer.” Then from behind him he hears Kumon say in a tired voice, “Outer? Outer! You woke me up!” Outer then says, “Oops, sorry Kumon, I didn’t you you were sleeping in a cage behind me.” Kumon then replies calmly, but weary, “It’s fine, we gotta get \*yawn\* out of here anyways…” Swap then asks “Can you help me out of here too..?” The Marcher said, “Well, maybe we shouldn’t ya kno-” Outer interrupts with, “Sure thing, but we need allies for something and we believe you could help.” Swap’s inner blue eye goes into a star shape while he exclaims “I will gladly help!” Kumon then exclaims, “Alright!, but now, \*yawn\* we gotta get out of here.” The Marcher noticeably irritated about the situation already, reluctantly agrees. Outer then says, “And now, how do we get out these cages?!” Kumon tries to stick his arm through one of the bars and his arm barely fits. Then The Marcher comes up with an idea, “Hey, what if I used my bone or blaster?” The Marcher materilizes a bone into his hand and whacks one of the bars, to his success it leaves an opening, only for about 3.68… seconds. The Marcher then tries his blaster, it leaves a bigger hole, but again, only stays for only for about 3.68… Seconds. The Marcher looks over to Kumon and says, “Hey, The bars break but only for a few seconds.” Kumon gives The Marcher a devilish smirk and says, “Time, eh?” Next thing The Marcher knew is that Kumon was now in his cage and said, “Just the thing for me.” Then Kumon stops time breaks open the bars and grabs The Marcher and gets both of them into Outer’s cage and Kumon does the same thing, and does it with Swap too, it goes so fast that Outer falls off when they all get teleported onto one cage, right when Swap goes to save him, Outer floats back up like gravity didn’t exist and he said, “Don’t worry pal, I’m good where I am.” Then Swap and Outer ask how they are going to get out, The Marcher and Kumon smirk at each other and once again Kumon launches a time-stop bone at a cage, time stops and he launches a bone at the time stop bone, and a rip appears, once time regain, The Marcher says “Alright get on your blasters!” Then Swap says “I can’t do that!” Outer then summons a blaster and puts Swap on it, The Marcher then sighs in disappointment and they go into the rift, they enter the Doodle Sphere which is now, destroyed, it’s now golden world is now dark, and sad with color, the paintbuckets are now replaced with goop and Ink is cleaning the goop with his broom. Swap yells, “Ink!!!” As he runs over to Ink and hugs him, Ink smiles and hugs Swap back, Ink then asks “Where were you?” Swap said, “I was in a cage for a while, and then these guys saved me!” Ink smiles and then gives a concerned expression and says, “Most of the tall goopy skeletons went into your world Swap…” Swap’s eyes went small and he said ina nervous voice, “Is everyone okay?” Ink said, “I been busy trying to clean the Doodle Sphere and get new buckets for transportation.” Kumon then without thinking jumps into the Underswap goop portal thing. As the group follows they see a now clearly vandalized Underswap. And there seems to be an army of the goopy skeletons and they begin to charge at the group Swap then summons a giant wall of bones blocking their way and yells, “You cannot pass!” Then Outer plays offense and stars begin falling outside the bone wall. All the group could hear is the pieces of the stars slicing the goopy papyruses apart, Kumon teleports on top of the bone wall and finishes off the final few that are just barely alive (At least from what they thought.). And they travel deeper into the snowy, abandoned, forest. The entire forest seemed to lack all the people it usually had and trees were knocked over and there was dust everywhere at one point, Outer suspected there was a fight. As they continued they entered a heavily forested area and an orange flash seemed to zoom past the group and seemingly simultaneously The Marcher grabbed his chest and let out a pained gasp for air as he nearly hit the ground. Swap cries out “M-Marcher are you okay?!” The Marcher slightly struggles to get up and he yells at Swap “God, will you just shut up with your blueberry pancake-sized mouth!” Swap then covers his mouth in surprise and begins to cry. Outer then walks out and sees Swap crying and Marcher trying to shut Swap up. Outer then asks in a stern tone and blacked out eye sockets, “Swap, why are you crying..?” Then Swap gets The marcher off of him but before he could speak Kumon comes out of the woods and yells over “Come on guys! We gotta continue on! This isn’t some stopping point ya know!” The rest of the group continues on, Swap not even batting an eye at The Marcher, The Marcher grumbling words under his breath, and Outer attempting to comfort Swap with cheap puns (probably only making him angrier, but he appreciates the effort.) and Kumon looking for more enemies. As they find their way into an opening and find themselves in an area full of loads of goopy papyruses, all different builds and sizes, two of them being goliaths wearing goopy armor with basic designs on them and they are sporting spiked helmets and they let out a monstrous roar as they lift their greatswords, then the other goopy papyruses look towards the group and they try to backtrack, but instead more goopy papyruses come in right behind them, they become surrounded, trapped. As the papyruses close in The Marcher yells over to Outer and Kumon, “Use your blasters!” They all summon a circle on blasters that would shoot outwards when the blasters shot the enemies a bit of the papyruses were vaporized within a second, afterwards most of the remaining papyruses have giant holes in them and are currently struggling to live (and as of writing this some just crumble), as for the giant ones, they are unscathed and currently doing some fruity pose, which is menacing in some sort of way they chuckle loudly as a third one, more menacing one walks out from the cave behind them and all three of them pose, then the one on the left begins to speak in a booming voice, “As orders from lord Nightmare, we cannot let you any further.” Outer laughs and asks while trying not to laugh, “Hey wanna know what ya shouldn’t do to a plane?” The middle one asks “What do you mean.”, Outer begins to bust out laughing and says, “Shine light at it…” The giant skeletons simultaneously yell ‘Oh shi-” as Outer pulls out a giant flashlight out of nowhere and shines it at them crumbling them. Kumon then asks, “Why did they crumble in the light and not from our blasters?” Outer says, “It’s a dark underground product called vampire oil, it makes you extremely tanky against most attacks, except with tiny text at the bottom, it says “Light will make you crumble like blocks.” The group nods and they continue into the cave and see a goop puddle, as they fall into the puddle, they are in a dark area and they see a familiar throne with a familiar being on it, and that being is Nightmare...

## S2 Episode 8: Light Against Dark

(This chapter is the shortest because it is an entire intro and fight scene, and the title would not fit for what comes after the fight.)

As the team sees Nightmare drinking from a wine glass which holds an indescribable substance, he lets out a booming laugh and yells over to the team, “So it seems you’ve already arrived, well I have a little welcome gift to all of you, especially you, Swap.” Then out of darkness, goopy papyruses pull over a body of a brutally murdered skeleton. Swap begins to run towards the skeleton and cries out “Papyrus!” Outer had to grab him by his scarf and pull him back to them, and Outer tried to comfort him. Nightmare then just laughs as he feeds off of the negative atmosphere. The Marcher then yells over at Nightmare, “You sick bastard! I don’t care about Swap at all, but you just don’t do that under ANY circumstance, whoopee cushions are one thing, but showing somebody their dead brother is just wrong!” Nightmare laughs and asks, “Okay, then what will Mr. Hero do about it? Burn me with one of those doggy ass blasters of yours? I have blasters that work as snakes!” Outer then steps forward and then a loud crashing sound can be heard as giant stars begin to crash onto the ground piercing the goopy papyruses killing most of them, Nightmare chuckles and exclaims, “So let the battle begin!” Nightmare then jumps out of his throne as it crumbles to the ground then snaps his fingers, two bulky goopy papyruses similar to the ones they saw in Snowdin step forward and they pull out giant battle axes from behind them as they grip them with the most hatred a being can hold. (if that is even possible as seen by Nightmare’s existence.) Nightmare simply points at them and the goliath skeletons charge at the team, with one swing all their heads could come off clean. Kumon then stops time and shoves multiple bones in multiple spots that would cause fatal injuries and agonizing pain, as time resumes the goliaths seem to fall to the ground suprised, and they seem to be crumbling at a extremely slow rate, they stand back up and charge at them once more and this time Outer uses the flashlight joke on them, and like the others they crumble to pieces. As Nightmare gives a surprised expression The Marcher jokingly says “Maybe Vampire Oil isn’t the solution to immortality.” The rest of the team laughs but Nightmare was not, he lunges towards the team and nearly cuts off Outer’s arm and lets out a murderous scream. Then suddenly a tentacle rips into Kumon’s insides, and Nightmare laughs as he shoves a syringe into his skull and Kumon tumbles to the ground and he begins spinning his tentacles in a circle formation, causing them to act as a razor blade. The team successfully escapes, The Marcher with only a few scrapes, Swap almost unscathed, Outer… Outer lost his arm and falls down, barely out of Nightmare’s range. Nightmare stops the razor attack and goopy papyruses begin crawling out of the ground. The team was individually dealing with their own amount of papyruses and Outer was being targeted by Nightmare. Outer tried attacking with everything he could, then suddenly, Nightmare let out a booming agonized yell as a giant hole appeared in his chest. From behind Nightmare could only hear laughing as Kumon floated back up back to his feet like magic. A glow a red flashed into Kumon’s chest and there was a hole in Kumon’s hoodie, except there was nothing but darkness inside, and there was a glowing, twitching red ball was inside of that cavity, Nightmare asks in a slightly concerned, yet excited tone, “And I thought you were dead.” Kumon could only laugh as he dashes over to Nightmare and choke-slams him to the ground and Kumon asks Nightmare in a calm, cold voice, “Nightmare, do you have a SOUL?” Nightmare then yells, “Why should I tell you, you freak?” as Nightmare says that Kumon throws him off the ground and laughs, as the red ball inside his chest then takes the form of a thorn and as it launches towards Nightmare at a horrifying speed Nightmare tried to dodge, instead due to the speed the thorn gets stuck inside of his forehead and Nightmare get a rish of fatigue and dread. Nightmare falls over as the life energy inside of him gets depleted from him. The papyruses fall to the ground as they crumble, The Marcher puts a foot on top of Nightmare’s head and he asks, “Nightmare, you have no use for the SOUL crucifix part, why do you want to keep it from us?” Nightmare exclaims, “I am not going to tell you! I am superior that all of you! Do you believe you punks are in control?” The Marcher says, “I could ask the same question.” If Nightmare had the energy he would’ve ripped The Marcher apart by now, but alas he was growing weak. Nightmare then says, “It was ordered by MY boss… The Lavender Demon, he has already gathered subordinates to stop you from your plan, are you happy now ya freak? Now get this piece of garbage out of my head!” The Marcher laughs and replies blankly with “No.” Nightmare with the energy he had left uses a tentacle to rip out the thorn and used another to fling The Marcher off of him. The Thorn returns to Kumon, and then, the crack on Kumon’s head heals completely, his other pupil comes back, and the mark on his head grows more into a complex image. Kumon laughs and rubs his head in delight, the high was fantastic. Then he looks towards Nightmare and says, “Ya know, murdering workers is not a way to keep ‘em, here is an example.” And out of nowhere Nightmare feels multiple stabs as Killer begins vigorously stabbing Nightmare, as Nightmare falls to the ground his tentacles launch him back up as they begin choking Killer and Nightmare asks Killer in a cocky tone, “I’m guessing you want to end up like Dust and Horror, after all, they are the perfect subordinates. Killer as he struggles to get out tries to yell at Nightmare, “Y-Y-You B-Bas-Bastarrrd….” Nightmare chuckles as he strangles Killer more, but he does not laugh when a second later the thorn pierces where his SOUL would be. Nightmare immediately lets go of Killer as he gasps for breath. Kumon from behind rips the necklace off of Nightmare’s neck and takes the SOUL crucifix part and says, “I believe that is ours.” And as he says that the thorn immediately returns as Nightmare drops to the ground dead, and he melts away, only to be forgotten. Kumon picks up the SOUL crucifix part and connects it with the rest of them, and now only one part remains…

Season 2 End.