DoubleFell

An AU of the Fanfiction DoubleTale by XWolf26 on

Blood red petals and blinding light.

That's what I woke up to that morning. Not my alarm, not my parents, just the light burning my eyes from the top of that hole.

… Why was I in a hole?

My body burned with the pain that can only come from falling how ever many feet it was from that hole to this bed of red flowers.

Come to think of it, this was more of a deep cave than a hole.

And it looked oddly familiar, but something was off.

I forced myself to sit up, looking around. I felt something in my pocket, and reached in, pulling out a pen.

"Huh… where did that come from?" I asked myself. "And why, of all the questions I should have, is that my first one?" I added, looking around this cavern.

As I stood, I noticed the headphone chord running from my ears, where the earbuds were draped over, not actually in my ears to allow hearing.

"Unhuh… Well, this is a strange fever dream." I stumbled my way to the exit, and looked back once more at the bed of flowers I'd landed on.

It almost looked like someone else had landed there earlier than me.

"Heh… it's funny..." I said to myself, walking through the door into another room, where another hole in the cave ceiling shone down to a single spot on the floor, where it looked as if a flower had been plucked from the ground.

Or went back into it.

"This place looks almost like…" Panic was beginning to rise in my voice as the similarities were beginning to register.

"Heheh..." I laughed nervously, feeling cold sweat forming on my skin. "Yep, definitely a weird dream! Heheh..."

I couldn't remember a lot, and was really trying to as I stepped through that room, glancing down into the empty flower hole.

No demonic flower to be found.

I stepped through yet another door, and as I was stared down by the looming ruins, I gulped.

But somewhere, deep down, I felt something strange…

Determination?

From me?

Definitely strange…

But something was definitely off.

I had been trying fairly hard to beat down the panic rising in me. So what if I was in some sort of video game? I mean, all questions aside, this was obviously just a dream.

No matter how much Undertale breaks the fourth wall, it could never…

I found myself staring at a glowing gold star, shifting as it awaited my touch.

I slowly reached for it, and as I touched it, as screen popped up.

*The shadow of the ruins looms above, filling you with DETERMINATION. All HP restored.

"This… this dream really pays attention to detail, huh…?" I gulped as I heard the familiar saving sound.

"Okay… Okay, stop panicking. If you are, somehow, in Undertale, then I'm sure you'll be fine. I mean, the characters are nice, Frisk should be dealing with the real problems, and who knows, maybe I can just sit with good ol' goat mom until we all get to the surface?"

As I tried to convince myself things were going to be fine, I went through the ruins, memory of the game serving quite well.

I reached the dummy, but something was still not right. It seemed different, like it was not a dummy but a living being. It looked confused. I waved as I walked by.

As I got to the next save, I noticed the Froggit there looked different.

*Playfully crinkling through the leaves fills you with DETERMINATION. HP restored.

More cautiously, I made it to the spider bake sale, but I had no money. Even if I did, the spiders looked very unfriendly.

Something was not right here. This was not the Undertale I remembered, yet it was.

Then, it hit me.

This was an AU.

But which AU was it?