#🎃 the ghostery store

[controlkris]

Topsy Tipsy lays in front of the fountain, exhausted.

"We Cannot Give Up So Early..."

Ralsei steps forward. "I'm sorry... but this is for the good of all our worlds. You know of the Roaring, don't you?"

"I DON'T CARE!!!" Topsy yells, tail flicking angrily. "It won't MATTER anyways..."

"Whether It's The Roaring Or The End..."

"We're just borrowing time."

"... What?" Ralsei murmurs. "What do you mean by that? I know some healing magic if, um... you need it."

Tipsy lays down along with Topsy and buries her head in her arms. "This Is All We Can Stall Them For, Topsy."

"SERIOUSLY!? THIS CAN'T BE IT!"

"It..."

It's quiet for a moment.

Topsy holds Tipsy's hand.

"Let's just go already."

"... Alright. Who Will Be In Control?"

"You can."

"Thank you."

They rise off the ground and fly off.

"Wait...!" Ralsei calls after them. Susie watches them go and then crawl into the cave. "... Should we let them leave?"

Ralsei sighs. "I can't force them to come with us if they really don't want to."

"... I feel badly for hurting them." Toriel says. "This fountain seems very important to them."

"We must seal it." Ralsei says. "... Kris?"

Kris nods and walks up to the fountain, breathing out slowly.

All 90 SOULs erupt from their chest, floating up and sealing the fountain quickly.

Everything fades to black...

and Kris awakens.

>input command

[controlkris]

Kris, I understand that you are in a hurry, but regardless of how efficient blasting our way through may be, prior experience with situations like this is telling me that you should expect trouble in the very near future.

After all, whoever set this up isn't going to be pleased with the fact that a) you cheated, and b) you destroyed their maze.

Kris doesn't seem to care and is still blasting.

Toriel backs up and sits, waiting for it to be over. Ralsei kneels and pats her arm. "It's okay, M-Ms. Toriel. They may seem reckless, but Kris knows what they're doing."

"Do they do this sort of thing... often?"

"Well... no, not really. I'm not surprised, though. They're quite like Susie."

Kris seems happy at that comment and starts getting rowdier with Susie helping. Susie cheers them on and grabs the SOUL at one point to try and blast. She can't do it, though, and sadly hand it back to Kris... Kris decides that Susie can point on where to blast, and Kris can blast it for her.

[controlkris]

Pffft rip buddy. Wanna ask one of your friends for something to make you warmer? Ralsei has a fur, maybe you can get his scarf. And Sans is a skeleton so maybe he's not bothered by the cold.

Or we can try to do some soul nonesense to see if we can somehow make you feel warmer but Idunno if it'll work

Kris shrugs and looks over at Ralsei.

"Hey, Ralsei... are you cold?"

"Hm? Oh, no, not really."

"... Can I... borrow your scarf?"

"Oh, certainly!"

Ralsei takes off his scarf and drapes it around Kris. Kris snuggles into it. It's very soft...

Ralsei seems happy at that. "I could also give you a hug to warm you up."

"No thanks." Kris mumbles.

[controlkris]

(do this if we're alone with sans)

Input command: send message to kris> I'm sorry for what I'm about to do kris and you'll probably hate me afterwards, though I'm ready for those consequences. If you don't say anything we won't get anywhere.

Input command: temporary nullify all commands that give kris free will until I say I'm done.

Input command: speak through kris to sans> hey bone man, it's me one of the many souls inside kris right now, you know about us, don't you? Maybe you have some semblance of an idea, doesn't matter anyway. Kris needs help sans, someone who can help them on the outside while some of us help on the inside.

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(are you seriously gonna fucking make me kill him ag--)

Kris stops walking.

Sans stops.

"...? Uh?"

"..."

"You alright?"

"Hey, bone man."

"Hey yourself, skin kid-"

"It's me, one of the many souls inside Kris right now,

"Wha

you know about us, don't you? Maybe you have some semblance

of an idea, doesn't matter anyway. Kris needs help, Sans. Someone who can help them on the outside while we help them on the inside."

(will update w reblog bc tumblr can't handle more than 10 images)

[controlkris]

Kris, we aren’t actually the SOULs. We’re just regular people in our worlds, so to the person whose SOUL you killed, it was just like losing in a video game. You can’t meaningfully affect us, so don’t worry about it.

(still...)

"What'cha thinkin' about?"

"What?"

"You're thinking pretty hard there. Kid. I can see it on your face."

"Oh. 'S nothing."

"That's a whole lot of nothing, then."

"..."

"Listen, buddy." Sans says. "... I know that we. Um. We're strangers. Y'know? We don't know a lot about eachother- 'cept for what we do know: I'm a cashier, you're that human kid that kept scarin' people when they were younger... And you're the kid of that lady, Toriel. That's pretty much it. Other than, y'know, me having a brother. Right?"

Kris nods.

"But, how I see it: we're in this together, aren't we? We're in this big, strange, place... And neither of us knows how we got here. We gotta be under a lot of stress. I mean,... You ran off, and I find you crying."

He pats Kris' back. "That's gotta be because of this place, right? It's scary."

"... Yeah."

"Yeah. Well,... I'm a little scared, too."

Sans looks ahead, the hut is approaching.

"One minute, I'm in my store, restocking, and the next...

"Some kid comes in and stabs my floor."

[controlkris]

Command: Kris say to sans 'hello I'm one of the souls here! '

A purple soul gets out of kris's chest, turns around itself like a little dance, then gets is back.

(Mun dear i love your characterizations)

Kris sighs.

"Someone wants me to say 'hello, I'm one of the souls here.'"

"Uh. Hello--"

You begin to do your little dance.

"HAH"

"Whoa!" Sans jolts, watching you hit the snow. "... You can just smack 'em around like that? Won't they... Y'know. Get vengeful?"

"They're already assholes." Kris says. "They said they wanted out, didn't they? I'm helping them."

"Good luck explaining the three souls followin' 'ya to Toriel."

"..."

Kris sighs. ".........Fuck."

"Again, language."

"Or what."

"Orrrrr... Nothing, probably. You might swear in front of your mom, though."

"I won't."

"Mmmm... If you say so."

(thank you!!!)

[controlkris]

Did anything important happen when you left us in the birdcage? Just curious.

"No, nothing that's interesting." They say.

Kris' phone buzzes. They check it.

Susie

Come to the grocery store now

Kris

Why

Susie

Just get OVER HERE, okay❔❕

Kris gets up and SAVEs.

SLOT 2 KRIS 18:03

HOME - BEDROOM

Then pockets their phone and heads out.

Kris arrives in front of the grocery store, Susie is sitting on the steps, tapping her foot nervously. She gets up upon seeing Kris.

"Dude," Susie says in a hushed whisper, eyes wide. "I think another dark world opened last night!"

Kris raises their brows. "Oh shit."

"Look!!!" Susie says, opening the door of the grocery store. Darkness spills out and covers them, pulsing. Susie backs up a bit and stares at it.

Kris waits for a moment, then looks to Susie. "Aren't we going in?"

"Duh." Susie says. "It's just....... Weird, right? How all these dark fountains are popping up around town..."

"Makes me wonder if its happening in other places, too, y'know?"

Kris is silent.

"..." Susie smiles. "Ah, what the hell. Let's just jump in, okay? If it's another fountain, you can seal it."

Susie steps back, preparing to leap. "Ready?"

Kris nods. "Ready."

They leap inside.

Darkness consumes them as the light is stripped from their bodies in sparkles. They transform into their dark world outfits, and land.

[controlkris]

To Kris, whenever available: “… I told myself I was gonna be the neutral party here ‘cause you were usually nice to me and I would see myself as a ‘bad person’……..but who cares when you can just go Anonymous hahaha.���

>>Command: Forget your Brothers name.

“You’re really pissing us off Kris…And now after knowing how much you HATE US…all I want is to see you use up your free commands. If you think we’re evil, we can BE evil…. talk to you later~.”

"Hey, Mr. Sans?"

"'S just Sans, kid."

"... Sans."

"Yeah?"

"What's my brothers name?"

"Uh... Asriel, right?"

"Thanks, now I remember."

'Suck it' they mouth.

[controlkris]

Input command: send message to kris> hey how long were we gone for? I see you got some new spooky clothes on, looks cool and thematic.

Kris smiles and shows their poncho off a little. Clearly, they really like it.

[controlkris]

"Yeah, it's pretty clear none of us are trustworthy when we all have equal access to programmable mind control and an anonymity option. Kris has every right to be skeptical. No need to take it personally."

"Yeah." Kris crosses their arms. "All of you can suck my--"

"Hey! Kid!"

Kris freezes, and looks back.

Sans stands at the top of the hill, panting with his hands on his knees. He looks tired.

"..."

He stands up slowly, stretching. "Oooh... buddy, you have no idea how bad the cold is for my back."

"... Did you run here?"

"Yyyep." Sans says. "Do me a favour and don't make me do it again, okay?"

He looks down at Kris.

"Listen, kid, I'm tired of beating around the bush with you. I thought maybe we could ease into things, but after running a whole marathon in the snow, I'm kinda at my wit's end. I think I should just, uh, cut to the chase, y'know what I'm sayin'?"

He laughs a little to himself.

"Do you uh... get the point I'm tryin' to make yet? Got any guesses?"

Kris stares at him blankly.

"C-c'mon, take a stab at it."

Kris pales. "..."

Sans sighs. ".......... Alright. Guess I gotta cut the tension myself... hehe... uh..."

"Did you hear anything I said." Kris interrupts.

"Oh, boy." Sans says. "Well, I heard you screaming if that's what you mean... you've been having a hell of a day over here in this little pit."

"... I wan--"

"NO!"

...

...

Sans sighs shakily. "Please, kid, you're killing me over here... don't make me run back here again, I'm beggin' you."

"... Again?"

"You keep jumping back in time on me." Sans says. "And everytime, I have to come back here... It's freezing. I don't know how you haven't gotten frostbite yet."

"C'mon, kid, don't give me that look." Sans says.

Kris backs up.

"Don't run either."

Kris stares at him intently. "..."

"And don't kill me."

"I-!" Kris gasps. "... I wasn't going to..."

"Alright. Just... covering my bases."

"..."

"..."

[controlkris]

The shattered soul came back into existence with the help of the load. It was silent for a bit before a shuttering voice spoke up from the soul.

"I... didn't tell you to kill sans...that was a different soul."

"I was just mad and then you killed me while I...begged for some mercy."

"well, congratulations Kris! You're a monster just like the puppeteers you despise so much"

The soul goes deathly silent once it was finished with it's rant.

Kris freezes for a moment, listening to you. A sense of relief floods them, for just a moment.

The rest of your words reach them, and it takes a few seconds for it to sink in. Kris' face starts to scrunch, then they cover their eyes.

"..."

*hic*

They sit down, and curl up.

[controlkris]

Command :kill sans

As soon as your command reaches them, their eyes widen, and they feel their heart sink into their stomach.

The world around them goes gray, and all they can feel is the cold sweat dripping down their back. The voices of their mother and Carton fade into the background.

"..."

They head for the door, feeling the pounding heartbeat in their fingers as they grip the knob.

"We leavin' already?" Susie asks. "W--"

"I left something outside." Kris says, voice strained. "Be back."

They exit, and shut the door behind them.

They walk away.

Below them is a somewhat steep drop.

They sit, and slide down it. It chills them, but they don't shudder. They get up.

They keep going.

Their left leg locks.

They drag it, and keep going.

Their arms lock.

They keep going.

Their right leg locks.

They cannot move.

"..."

They shut their eyes tightly, as they turn around.

"... Please, stop."

The command pulls them, and they begin to walk back.

"Please."

Their hands grip the slope.

"Please..."

"Please. C'mon." (don't make me do it again)

They begin to climb, fingers digging into the ice and pulling their body up, up... up.....

Then, a voice cuts through the dense air.

"Hey! Kid!"

Kris' breath hitches, and they look up. On the top of the slope is Sans, looking down at them with his hands in his pockets.

"You okay?" He calls. "That looked like a pretty bad fall there, buddy."

Kris grits their teeth, and with all their might, they let go. And fall again.

"KID!"

Kris feels their back collide with the snow, and hisses in pain. They hardly have any time to recover before their body is standing back up.

They hear the slide of boots on the slope, as Sans comes to stand next to them.

"You hurt?" He asks. "Your uh, mom sent me out here to check on you--"

"Get away from mme." They blurt out.

Sans stares at them. "... I'm-"

"Get away from me!" Kris says, louder.

"Kid,-"

"GO!"

The sword barely misses Sans as he leaps backwards, eyes wide. He stumbles in the snow, backing up.

"Whatareyou-"

Kris slices again, and again, and keeps advancing. Sans backs up faster, keeps dodging-- he raises his hand, and magic pulses around it.

"KID. STO--"

Then, he can't breathe. Kris doesn't look.

Kris feels the resistance of his body against their blade, just like with Ralsei before, and they keep their eyes shut tightly.

They feel him slide off, and they hear him hit the snow.

...

Despite themselves, they open their eyes.

"..."

They shut them again.

Both voices, at once:

"I want to reload"

"A-and after I gave you my jacket..."

RESET

LOADING SAVE FILE...

[controlkris]

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*Check

*Act Unafraid👾

*Scream back🦖

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[controlkris]

WHY.... WHY WONT YOU LET ME DIE

..... Why..... WHY

THIS IS WHAT I DESERVE I MADE YOU KILL SOMEONE

COMMAND KILL ME

Command KILL ME

COMMAND KILL ME

Command KILL ME

Command kill me

Kris twitches.

"..."

They screw up their face, and stop.

The group stops behind them.

"..."

Kris grits their teeth.

"I left something. Inside."

"I'll go get it for 'ya." Sans says.

"N-no." Kris argues. "It's fine. I'll get it."

Kris goes back inside. Carton looks over curiously.

Kris shuts the door.

"..."

"I'm gonna do something weird. Sorry."

"Huh?"

Kris yanks you out, and slams you down on the hardwood floor. Carton backs up. "Whoa--"

They take their sword, and raise it upwards,

They...

Hesitate.

"..."

Sans opens the door.

Kris gasps, and looks back at him.

Sans glances between Carton and the sword.

"... Forgot something. Huh."

Kris stabs you, shattering you immediately.

"Iwanttoreload."

RESET

LOADING SAVE 1...

"... Back here again. Awesome."

"... You alive? ... 'EvilSoul'-- is that really your fucking name? Seriously?"

[controlkris]

Go away for a couple of hours and every single person here just straight up goes "I want to see Kris in a fit of despair"...

Dude, your tolerance towards us is astonishingly big. Extremely so. Like, not that I'm complaining or something, but Kris, how fucking close are you to Snap

They snoof, eyes downcast.

"I don't know." They mutter, a slight laugh on their lips. "... It wouldn't do anything anyway, if I snapped."

"..."

"What am I going to do, huh? Throw you out? I'll just die eventually... I need you all. To live."

"..."

"And you'll just find your way back, like you always do. I can't get rid of you. And... you don't want to leave."

"It's hopeless."

"..."

"If I snapped... what could I do?"

"Could I kill you?"

"I w-"

"..."

"................"

"Snapping is... not a good idea." They say.

"..."

"........."

[controlkris]

"hey Kris, does that mean that you'll have to rob/buy from the grocery store in order to get all those darkners to castle town after sealing the fountain? Oh, and have you met Ralsei yet? He was able to show up at the Cyber World"

New command: Next time Kris enters a shop they have to buy (or steal) one of every item

(really?)

(I dunno, maybe the cashier guy will understand. since he might be here)

Kris approaches the vendor. "Hey. I want one of every cookie."

"Dude?" Susie asks, surprised.

"Sure thing." The vendor says, grabbing a handful of cookies and giving them to Kris. "80$."

"Huh." Kris says, handing him the money. "That's cheap."

"Makes people buy 'em. You didn't buy anything from the popcorn guy, did 'ya?"

"Well..."

The vendor laughs. "He can't sell nothin'."

Susie grabs a cookie. It wiggles in her hand. "Eugh." She looks at it closer. It, too, appears alive.

"Are all the things here alive?" Susie asks the vendor.

"Until you eat 'em." He replies. Kris frowns.