Drifter revolver: Abyssal Beginning
This a light rewrite of the 2 original deleted chapters.
It was a nice Sunday evening. Sans looks at his pocket watch and notices the time. “Crap, I’m late for work.” He grabs his lab coat and shortcuts the lab. Sans appears at the upper level of the lab and walks to his office. "Hopefully, no one notices." He bumps into someone while he's checking his watch. "Sorry." He looks at the person only to see his sister-in-law, Alphys. "Oh, Alphys. I didn't see you." Alphys looks at Sans as she collects the scattered files. "Sans, you are on time, barely on time." Sans scratches his cheek. "Yeah, I know. I was working on a project that involves the human souls we have." Alphys raises a brow. "Oh, you were doing something behind your father's back." Sans chuckles. "Yeah, he would be upset. But this project would be beneficial for us." He goes into his office and gestures for Alphys to follow him.
Alphys follows Sans to see what he wants to show her. "What is it, Sans." Sans takes some blueprints out of his safe and puts them on his desk. "Let me show you the blueprints. Also, can you close the door, Alphys?" Alphys closes the door behind her and walks to Sans's desk to see his blueprints. "Interesting, you came up with these ideas by yourself?" Sans looks at Alphys and nods. "Yes. I came up with an idea to harness the human souls' magic to allow monsters to use it without the need to absorb the soul itself." Impressed by Sans's idea, Alphys pats his back. "That's a great idea, Sans. Your father will be impressed." Sans chuckles and rubs the back of his head. "I hope so." Alphys sees Sans's expression. "Say, how about you help me with my project?" Sans looks at Alphys. "Your robotic project?" Alphys nods. "Yeah, I could need a hand with the new models." Sans smiles. "I would love to help you." Alphys smiles. "That settles it." She leaves Sans's office and goes to her workspace with Sans by her side.
Outside of Revolvertale, a cloaked man and a woman look at the AU. The woman holds the AU in her palms and looks at the man. "What do you want to do, master?" The man touches the AU's code and creates a copy of it "I want you to hide the original AU. And extract the sans and the human souls of the copy to change his code and make him absorb the souls." The Guardian nods and hides the original revolvertale AU. "As you wish, master." The man watches the Guardian extracts Sans and the 7 human souls from the copy after installing a virus into the copy and watches it disappear. "Start altering his code and infuse the souls into his soul." The Guardian nods as she starts altering the unconscious Sans's code and infusing the human souls into his soul.
After some time, Sans wakes up in a white void with a headache. "Ah, my head." He sees 8 clouded figures around him. "What the…?" When his vision cleared, Sans can see who’s around him. "Lady Chara." He stands up quickly. "Forgive my rudeness" Chara smiles as she recognizes the person's voice in front of her. "It's alright, Sans. It's nice to hear a familiar voice." Sans looks at Chara with confusion written on his face. "What do you mean by hearing a familiar voice? And where are we?" The Guardian approaches Sans and looks at him. “You are in my domain, the void. You and the 7 human souls were rescued by me. When your world was destroyed by a virus.” She watches the colors wash from Sans’s face. “It pains me to say that you were the only survivors.” Not believing what he heard, Sans’s legs gave in, and falls to the ground. “Everyone is gone…” The guardian leaves Sans with Chara and the other human souls to comfort and explain everything to him.
A few months pass as the guardian watches Sans get comfortable with the change in his body and walks to him. “I see you are handling your new body well, Sans.” Sans stops his training and looks at the guardian. “Yeah, it’s kinda surreal. But Sans died the day his Au was destroyed.” The guardian raises a brow. “Then what do you want me to call you?” Sans smiles. “You can call me, Redrix.” Liking the sound of the name, the guardian nods. “Alright then, Redrix. I will leave you to your training and if you want to leave my domain, you can teleport to different AUs.” Redrix gives a thumbs up to the guardian and watches her leave. Chara appears beside Redrix. “You are planning to leave?” Redrix nods. “Yeah, staying here isn’t ideal.” He looks at her. “Are you and the other six okay with accompanying me?” Chara puts Redrix’s back but her hand goes through him. “Oops. And to answer your question, yes. Since we are bound to your soul.” Redrix smiles. “Hopefully, whatever alternate reality we visit isn’t hostile.” Chara shrugs and disappears. “Who knows.” Hearing Chara’s voice in his head, Redrix takes a deep breath as his flame covers him and teleports to another Au. The cloaked man and the guardian watch the moment Redrix disappeared with a smile on their faces.
Several days later, in some AU. Redrix looks around before his right eye turns red and checks the menu. “Weird. I can’t access the menu.” Chara appears beside Redrix. “It seems this AU is one of the ones without a code.” Redrix sighs and checks his current belongings. “Well, I have my 2 6-shot revolvers that I bought from one of the AUs I visited, where I had a contest with someone, and my bowie knife.” He checks the ammo of his revolvers. “I know what I did wasn’t necessary but I warned her. So, it’s not our problem now.” Chara crosses her arms and raises a brow. “Really?” Redrix looks at Chara. “What? You can ask Grace. She witnessed the whole thing.” Chara sighs and rubs her temple. "Okay, I see your point. Anyway, we need to explore the place to know where we are since there are people who want to kill everything." Redrix nods. "At least we met some people who didn't want to harm us." Chara looks at Redrix. "Like who??" Redrix scratches his cheek and walks around. "Ummm... I don't know..." Chara rolls her eyes and follows Redrix. "See. You don't know who's friend or foe. You need to watch your back." She disappears when Redrix reaches a cliffside.
Redrix surveys the land below. “Hmm… Evelyn, can you help me with making a spyglass?” A female purple ghost appears beside Redrix. “Of course, I will.” Redrix’s right eye glows purple and a spyglass with the same color manifests in his hand. “Thanks, Evelyn.” Evelyn smiles at Redrix. “You’re welcome, Redrix.” Redrix looks at the land below through the spyglass. “Hmm, interesting. There is a pond and a cabin down there.” He notices a house appear near the pond. “What the hell?” Evelyn tilts her head. “What’s wrong, Redrix?” Redrix hands the spyglass to Evelyn. “Look at the house near the pond.” Evelyn looks at the house. “I don’t see anything unusual with it other than its design is different compared to the cabin.” Redrix looks at Evelyn. “Because it just appeared. I think its residents are like us, without an AU to return to.” Evelyn makes the spyglass disappear and looks at Redrix. “Let’s check it out.” Redrix looks over the cliff. “I’m planning to do so.” He takes a few steps back before running and leaping off the cliff then landing on top of his blaster and heading to the unknown house.
Meanwhile, in the house, a robot looks at a short skeleton standing in front of the front door. “Be careful out there, Abyss. We don’t know what’s out there.” Abyss looks at the robot. “I will be careful, Mettaton. Hopefully, nothing would happen while I'm away.” Mettaton watches Abyss walk out of the house. “I hope so.” A humanoid female lizard in a dress and a lab coat walks into the living room. “Did Abyss go out?” Mettaton looks at the lizard lady. “He just left, Alphys. Did you need something?” Alphys sighs and walks to the sofa to rest on it. “The teleporter is on a cooldown before another jump.” Mettaton rests beside Alphys and summons his guitar to do some string adjustments. “Good. The faster the machine cools down, the faster we get out of here.” After the string adjustment, he plays some of Alphys’s favorite tunes to help her relax.
Sitting near the pond, Abyss opens his multiverse book and browses the pages alphabetically. He stops at the people who start with the letter R. “Hmm.” He sees a page of a human sans and reads his name. “Redrix. He’s new.” He reads what's written about this Redrix person in the book. “He seems like any other sans, ability-wise. I wonder how he became a human despite the book mentioning he is a sans and his real name is RevolverTale Sans.” He looks at the end of the page and sees the text. “A copy? What does it mean by that?” He flips to another page to see if there is any info about him. “There’s nothing more about him.” He closes the book and sighs. “I guess that will be one of the multiverse’s mysteries.” He stands and heads to the house when he sees something coming his way. "What is that?" A figure on a blaster approaches Abyss and hops off the blaster. "Hello, there." Abyss looks at the person in front of him. "Hi. Who are you?" The person tips his hat. "I'm Redrix. May I ask what's your name, little man?" Abyss gets a bit irritated after being called a little man. "The name is Abyss. And don't call me little." Redrix sees Abyss. "Oh, apologies. I didn't mean to offend you, Abyss." Abyss recognizes Redrix from his book. "What are you doing here, Redrix?" Redrix shrugs. "I guess the same as you and your folks. I don't know what this AU is about, as I can't access my menu to see where I am." Abyss raises a metaphorical brow. "What do you mean by that?" Redrix rests his hands on his belt. "This AU seems to be codeless. Just like the ones I went through." He pats his blaster. "Though, we need to go inside the cabin in case someone is watching." Abyss doesn't feel sure about the situation at hand and takes a deep breath. "That’s true. We don’t know what or who’s out there." Redrix nods and walks to the cabin. "Hopefully, the door will be unlocked." He checks the front door of the cabin and it’s open. “Good, it’s open.” He goes inside with Abyss behind him.
Once inside, Abyss sits on a chair. “So, how did you come here?” Redrix sits on a chair opposite to Abyss. “I came here by chance since my AU teleporting ability is new to me.” Abyss rubs his chin. “Hmm, you said you couldn’t access your menu. How do you do that?” Redrix takes his bowie knife and carves a piece of wood with it. “With the help of my AU’s Chara. It seems that some AUs have a game code while others don't have it." Abyss looks through his book to the page with Redrix's profile and compares it with Redrix. "I have been in some of them before coming here." Redrix stretches and yawns “I will need to rest for a bit before my next jump. You should go back to your folks, Abyss.” He holsters his knife and puts the carved wood to the side. “They might be waiting for you before they teleport with the house.” Abyss gets off the chair. “I will look around before I go back.” Redrix covers his face with his hat and sinks into the chair. “Do whatever you want.” Abyss leaves the cabin to let Redrix nap and explores the area around the house and cabin.
Alphys comes out of the lab after checking the teleporter and goes to the living room. "Mettaton, the teleporter will be ready in a few hours." Mettaton looks at Alphys. "Good. We just need Abyss to come back." Alphys sits next to Mettaton. "Do you think there are others in this place?" Mettaton shrugs. "I don't know. Let's keep our guard up just in case something happens." He puts his guitar near the sofa. "You should rest, Alphys. You have been stressed and it's taking a toll on you." Alphys looks at her shaking hands and clenches them. "Yeah, I think I will take a short nap until the machine is ready." Mettaton pats Alphys shoulder. "I will wake you up when that happens." He watches Alphys go to her room and grab his guitar before going to his room.
After a couple of hours, Redrix walks out of the cabin and stretches as he sees his blaster playing with Abyss. "It's been a while since my girl had fun." Evelyn appears next to Redrix. "She seems happy." Redrix nods after cracking his neck. "At least she is enjoying herself." He whistles and his blaster comes to him. "Having fun, girl?" The blaster barks as Redrix scratches her. Redrix pats his blaster and rubs her jaws. "We will need to go soon" Evelyn pats Redrix's blaster. "She looks a bit different." Redrix makes his blaster disappear and looks at Evelyn. "I noticed that as well. But it doesn't matter right now." He looks at Abyss as his friends call him. "It seems his friends are ready to leave." He walks to Abyss and offers his hand to him. "Your folks are waiting for you. It was nice meeting you, Abyss." Abyss looks at Redrix and shakes his hand. "It was nice meeting you as well, Redrix. I will have to leave." Redrix lets go of Abyss's hand and watches him go to his friends. "I hope we meet again." He teleports to another AU the moment Abyss's house disappeared.
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