DISCLAIMER: This story contains heavy spoilers for Undertale and GlitchtalePart 2: www.deviantart.com/chaotictemp… - - - - -Reset...William woke up slowly. He did not want to get out of bed as he was very comfortable. But his hunger was getting the best of him and...RESETWilliam woke up very slowly. Rising from his bed, he realized that he had been drooling and part of his arm was wet. He sighed and began to...RESETRESETWilliam woke up and snapped to life. A bit odd as it felt like he had already done this. Suffice it to say, he was having a very nasty case of Deja vu...RESETRESETRESETWilliam woke up screaming and...RESETRESETRESETRESETSecond verse same as the first. William woke up screaming at the top of his lungs and flailing about in his bed. In the midst of his fit, a small person ran into his room and attempted to get a hold of him and calm him."WILLIAM! WILLIAM, IT'S ME KYU! CALM DOWN, I'M HERE FOR YOU!" Kyu said as he tried his hardest to hug William tightly to make him stop. Holding on for dear life, William eventually began to settle. He began gasping for air and got himself into a more comfortable position. Kyu let go as soon as he did this.William grabbed Kyu by the shoulders and stared him dead in the eye. "Kyu...is this real?""Yes, it is William... What in blue blazes happened? You woke up everyone in the house with your screaming" Kyu responded as he shook himself from William's grip."I think...I think someone or something is messing with the timeline. The Deja Vu I just had was...something...I don't...It was...You know what I mean. It was...DAMN IT, I cannot put it into words." William let out a growl in frustration. "I think someone is reseting the timeline! And I just got caught in it."Kyu was a bit confused. "You think the timeline is reseting? While I will admit that I have been feeling some Deja vu as of late, I don't think it is the timeline reseting over and over again. You said it yourself in the past that the timeline is not that unstable."William responded with a few studders before he was able to put words together. "I think someone is tampering with the timeline Kyu. And I just felt several resets...I guess...""Alright, look: Let's not worry about this right now since you just woke up. I'll write down what you said. But in the mean time, let's head downstairs and tell everyone that you are okay...for the most part" Kyu said as he got off of the bed. It was safe to say that he was very skeptical of William's claims. He was also worried that William was still unstable, so the small alien guided him downstairs.Kyu and William were greeted by their roommates who were very worried. Samantha went to William and looked him over and asked him questions like "How many fingers am I holding up?" and "What color are the walls?" Buster Ash walked up to William and checked his temperature with the back of his hand to make sure he was not sick. And finally Randalph Scarfe (A dark magic inclined goatman of Limbo) waved a blob of dark plasma in front of William of to which flowed into him and began to calm his frayed nerves. William was about to explain what had happened, but Kyu gave him a nudge indicating not to mention the timeline stuff. He obliged and said that he had several night terrors accompanied by deja vu and a dream within a dream."Well jeez William, what eldritch entity did you piss off?" Buster asked as he brushed his hand on his pajamas."Ahem, I don't think he's pissed off anyone given the company he keeps on the other-side. Perhaps this is his foresight?" Randalph rebuttaled."Well sure, but what would he be foreseeing that would cause him to act up that violently?""Hmm...now that you mention it, I think we may have just opened up a can of worms...hmmm" Randalph responded as he stroked his furry chin.Buster was not following. "What? Are you implying that there is something brewing? A Natural disaster? The end of the world?"Randalph stood there hm'ing for a moment and then turned to Buster. "I cannot say for sure at the moment. I will admit that the dark magic stream has been acting up as of late, but I don't think that is cause for alarm as it is always acting up. Samantha, what say you? Anything happening to the normal magic stream?"Samantha was in the middle of giving William a comforting hug. She let go and turned to Randalph and Buster. "Now that you mention it, there was some oddly colored spikes in the stream. I've been seeing a lot of red as of late amongst the typical colors you'd see. But the other day I thought I saw...well...pink. I wasn't sure, so I assumed it was just a combination of two other colors like red and white."Randalph went back to stroking his chin. "Interesting. Interesting indeed. Now that you mention it, I could have sworn that I saw streaks of pink or magenta in the dark magic stream. I don't think I've really seen pink energy before. It's something I will certainly have to look into. Whether or not this has anything to do with William's violent fit has yet to be seen though.""Heh, maybe the darkners are finally getting around to invading" William said as he grabbed a sparkling water from the fridge and began drinking. Everyone chuckled in response to this.After that, the morning was fairly normal. Kyu had retreated to his room to study William's fit while Randalph was looking through his collection of books to see if he could discern anything of relevance. Buster was busy typing on his computer while Samantha had gone out to the store to pick up some things. William meanwhile was sitting there on the couch, zoning out. Something was messing with the timeline and he had caught some of the brunt of it. But what or who would do that? Why would it do that? Tampering with the timeline on the physical side of reality was not something that was very welcome on the other side of reality. Whatever did it either had no idea what they were doing or they were tampering on purpose. William had a feeling it was the former, but the latter was also very possible. Just as he was about to doze off, someone had tapped his shoulder and startled him."Hey sleepy head, I got you something" Samantha said as she handed William a drink.The drink was a big bottle of chocolate milk. "Thanks Sam, I appreciate it...this didn't cost you too much, did it?" William cautiously asked as he began to open it and drink."For you, no. I figured you could use something sweet." Samantha took a seat on the other end of the couch and began sorting through her items."Well thank goodness you got it for me then. I have this god awful taste in my mouth" he said as he began chugging some of the milk.Samantha looked over and noticed pink residue on William's hands. "Err William, what did you eat while I was away?""Oh boy...well I was sitting here when some blob-thing lunged at me. I grabbed it and noticed it was a bit out of place. It was also malevolent...so I ate it figuring it was rogue Soul matter. It was actually kind of nasty and I coughed it back up. If I had to describe how terror tasted, that would have been it" William explained as he drank more of the milk while rubbing the residue off his hands. But then something odd began to happen. What had been rubbed off had began collecting into a sphere on the couch. Samantha jumped and William got up with her. After downing the last of his drink, he walked towards it. What had formed was now a floating ball with a simple face. It started out pink, but then it turned a very dark shade of magenta with two glowing, pink eyes. It looked straight at William.William slowly approached the ball. "What the... he-hey there...Little guy?" The ball tilted itself in response."Will, don't touch it. I'm going to go get Randalph" Samantha said as she left the room.William returned his attention to the ball. "Aku...no...Umuka?" The ball let out an excited chirp in response to this. He had to admit to himself: It was kind of cute.Samantha had returned with Randalph who was wearing a special pair of goggles. "Alright Randalph, there it is. Will said that thing tastes like terror.""It's name is Umuka" William cut in.Randalph slowly turned to William. "You named it already? William, you just discovered it and you don't even know what it is...""Ignoring the fact that sounds like Meduka Meguca..." Samantha added in."BECOME MEGUCA!" Umuka exclaimed.Samantha let out several incomprehensible, frustrated noises in response to Umuka's outburst. "Excuse me, but how does it know that?""DO NOT THROW SOULS!" Buster shouted from the other room. This was swiftly met by a "NOT HELPING" from Samantha."Alright, from what I can discern, this thing is a Soul construct spawned from someone's Soul. What my goggles can tell me is that it is a lesser entity, probably intended to assist whomever created it. Or that is what I should be saying. In reality this seems to be Soul residue given new life from William eating it. We are essentially witnessing a newborn entity" Randalph said as he backed off from Umuka. "William, how did you come up with that name out of curiosity?""Well, umm...It just came naturally I guess." Umuka had hovered over to William's shoulder and stayed there.Randalph took off his goggles and clapped. Umuka recoiled a bit. "Well regardless of what this thing is called, we need to figure out where it came from. It's color and the taste will help me get started, but I will need some time. Give me a day and I shall be able to get us pointed in the right direction." Randalph plucked a small piece of Umuka from it. Umuka then promptly hissed at him, but he was already heading off to his study."Well this is a fine kettle of fish we've gotten ourselves into" Samantha said as she turned to face Umuka who was blowing her the raspberry. She blew one back at it."You don't think parts of Umuka that may have broke off will infect me or something like that, do you?"Samantha got out a cotton swab and swabbed up some of the left over residue. "I don't know. Let's hope it doesn't." She then left for her room.William and Umuka then went about their own business. William was unsure of what to do. He basically had a new familiar of sorts on his hands. Umuka did not say much, but it was a very active thing. It was easy to tell what it was thinking just by its actions and gestures.William decided it was best to show Umuka the ropes consisting of who he was, what he liked to do, and how things worked around the house. Meanwhile, Kyu had been pondering on what William had gone through that morning. The more he thought about it, the more unsettled he grew. "William does not just do something like that" was nagging Kyu's mind all day and it was driving him nuts. He ran through multiple ideas and scenarios, but none of them could sate his anxiety. Given the fact that William was a fallen angel only made things worse. This had all sorts of implications that Kyu did not want to tread. Eventually he had enough thinking. It was time to take a break. Kyu unburried himself from his study and moved for the window. But what he saw gave him the chills.Kyu raced down to the bottom floor and to the back door. But then he stopped dead in his tracks and hid under the window. Sticking his ribbon-like, head feelers up just enough so they could be barely noticed, he began scanning the area. They were going wild over what he was sensing. William was playing with a familiar he had never seen before. But he sensed things he did not want to sense. Fear. Or was that just anxiety over something foreign to him? It was very hard to tell and the moving around was not helping. He was on the verge of jumping up and telling William to stop for a second, but then something went amiss. Kyu had lost track of the familiar. His feelers began wildly scanning the area for it to the point where he was legitimately blowing his cover. Well whatever it was was gone now. Kyu began to organize his thoughts. The familiar in question had William's essence and someone elses'. But this other essence had felt as though it was an interloper or something similar. Just as Kyu was about to reach a conclusion, something screeched at him causing him to jump and run across the house.William grabbed Umuka and gave it a light shake. "Umuka, you silly goose. You're lucky he didn't spit webbing at you."Kyu, after he regained his composure, walked back over to the door. "You named it? WILLIAM! NOW YOU'RE GOING TO GROW ATTACHED TO IT!""Well yes. Don't worry Kyu, it's not hostile. At worst he's a prankster."Kyu had a skeptical look on his face. "How do you know it's a boy?""Well I mean...I sort of ate a pink blob of Fear and regurgitated it. And then it came to life. So I guess that makes it a boy." Umuka chirped in response to this."Huh, indeed. Well do you know where it came from?" Kyu asked."Well...no, I don't. But I think it was in my room during my fit."Kyu groaned. "Well I did some pondering and...I don't like what I came up with. Come with me." He then took William and Umuka to his room and sat them down. Umuka began flying all around the room looking at Kyu's belongings much to his chagrin. Kyu opened with a sigh as he sat down in his office chair. "I have a bad feeling we are in for rough times ahead of us. I think it's easy to say that what you experienced was not Deja vu, but an actual timeline abnormality..."Kyu went through his many ideas and scenarios that he had come up with to William with William following along and putting in any input where he could. Umuka was getting fairly bored and ended up going to sleep on Kyu's blankets. Kyu had surmised that William was indeed experiencing several timeline resets despite his intial rejection of the notion. He then speculated the possibility that whomever was responsible for the resets was most likely unaware of time travel laws imposed by the other-side, therefore this group or individual would end up doing what they wanted regardless of the rules. As for William getting caught up in this, intially Kyu had thought it was because William was an entropic fallen angel aware of the flow of time. But Umuka had given him idea. He figured that maybe Umuka was from the future or one of the reset timelines and his presence in William's room gave William the link to this series of resets. But this was all conjecture until Kyu could get more data that he did not have. Kyu had been getting stressed through out the whole conversation, so William gave him a hug and told him not to worry. Even Umuka came over and nudged his head.Randalph took longer than a day unfortunately. Samantha was also held up in her room doing her own research. Randalph ended up not taking any showers, so his black and hot pink fur was becoming dirty and matted. Samantha was also starting to stink due to body odor and all of the herbs and plants she was experimenting with. They were having staggered success in their experiments and research. Just when they thought they had made a breakthrough, new questions arose and this is what had kept them in their rooms for so long. Meanwhile, William, Kyu, and Buster were getting to know Umuka even further. Umuka was quite the lively ball of Fear. As the days wore on, something would come to light for the group that would help point them in the right direction."I had a feeling monster-kind was living under that rock. Although that begs the question if there are other underground monster cities" William said as a news broadcast played out on the TV."It is very likely William. Monsters lived all over the world in ancient times" Randalph answered stroking his chin."OOOOH, I want to go there and meet them so baddly" Samantha cut in while bouncing up and down. "I bet they have so many stories to tell.""Don't get your hopes up too high Samantha. Remember that these are most likely the descendants of the monsters from old times. And Randalph look, their leader appears to be a goatman!" Buster added in.Randalph nodded to Buster. "It's good to see that not all Goatmen are bound to the dangers of Limbo."A thought then occured to Samantha. "Hey, how do you think they would react to someone like Kyu?""Well given that I've know for Kyu for years, I'd say the reaction depends on if they are familiar with alien lifeforms or not. Kyu knows how to deal with new people. Monsters that may not have had any exposure to alien life is a crapshoot honestly." William was a bit stumped on that one truth be told.While they were watching the broadcast, something was going on outside. A swirling mass of chaos was in the backyard that had caught Umuka's attention. He went outside to investigate seemingly unnoticed barring Kyu who was curious, but thought nothing of it. Umuka looked at the chaos cloud for several seconds before something popped out of it with a crazed laugh. It was a diminutive jester who began to dance around and sing of nonsensical statements. Umuka was perplexed to say the least. What was this strange thing doing here? He was about to go get William when the group had already approached the two. Noticing this, the jester stopped and turned to William and bowed."Ah, the fallen one has begun moving forward. Moving forward!""Who are you and...how...no...why are you here?" William knew it would be better to ask why instead of how according to his gut."The Fallen one seeks answers. The Fear begets the questions. And thus the future is uncertain. As for who I am, You may address me as J as my name is not important to the Fallen Angel at this point in time."William had a rough idea of what this person was getting at, but he still needed answers. "What do you mean by "the future is uncertain?"""The Future withholds chaos. True chaos. The anomaly has already begun her advances and seeks to have it all. The hand of the hero moves forward, but it shall falter and pass on the sword."An anomaly? Possibly related to Umuka maybe? William had to know more. "Is there anything else you can tell me?""You want to know everything? Where is the fun in that? No fun, no fun! But what I can tell you is this, so listen good: In time, depart for the city in the shadow of the great prison. You will find the answers you seek. But will you have the resolve to move forward? The carnival of chaos awaits you!"Unbeknowst to William, Kyu was furiously writing this stuff down. William gave Umuka a pat and turned back to J. "Well J, it looks like I have no choice if I want to know what Umuka here is." William sighed. "I really did not want this incarnation to be interfered with, but from what you are possibly describing it doesn't sound good...""What is this? The Entropic one is faltering? Then a gift I present to you! A glorious gift! A vote of confidence! Take my pocket watch and call upon me if you should ever need my help. It would be an honor to assist one as chaotic as yourself."William took the pocket watch he was handed. "How do I use it though?""Do not worry, do not fret. The answer will reveal itself to you when you most need it. Now I must be off! This world only has so much chaos to go around. The freedom shall be lived and the flow of time moves forward, onward and onward to infinity! BYE-BYE!" And with that, the jester disappeared into a cloud of smoke that went into the sky and vanished."Kyu, please tell me you got all of that..." Randalph said with a worried look on his face."Don't worry, I am going to go type up a transcript of what just happened for everyone right now." And with that Kyu took off for his room to get typing. Everybody else just stood there dumbfounded over what had just happened.The pocket watch was an interesting thing indeed. At one angle it was gold, at another it was blue, and at another it was silver. Merely holding it made one feel as if though they were holding the universe in their hands. And another interesting aspect was that it almost felt like it was smiling despite how impossible that seemed. Opening it up revealed a picture of space that seemed to move as shooting stars could be seen flying by. Randalph had tried to take it apart, but there were no points to open it up at and it was seemingly indestructible. Whenever he tried to analyze it, it would promptly laugh at him. Randalph was not too pleased with this. Gleaming what he could from it, he quickly gave it back to William. Whatever it was, it did not want to reveal its secrets. Or at least it was not going to reveal them to him. A disappointment, but he would live knowing the fact that William would make it work eventually.That night at around dinner time, Samantha went up to William and Umuka. "So, are you two going to go to Mt. Ebott?"William ate some of his food and turned to Samantha. "It would appear that I have to if I want to know what this is all about. This is making me so nervous Sam... I've had this anxiety lump in my stomach ever since that J person left.""Well do you want us to come with you? No one said you had to go there alone.""I don't know. I don't want you guys to get into any possible trouble. I have my Volcanic-bane sword if the need should arise."Samantha knew she had to step in further at this point. "Okay, that's it. We are coming with you. We're going to need to explain to people that that sword is made of brimmstone and ash so people don't freak out when a walking volcano eruption walks by.""I mean...but the scabbard keeps the smell inside and stops it from stinking up the place and..."Samamntha cut him off. "NO BUTTS, they are for the toilet. We are coming with you. Plus I want to meet the monsters that came out from under the mountain."William gave in at that point. "Fine... but what if the monsters are against humans or something crazy like that?""Then I guess I'll just have to deal with it then..." Samamntha admitted as she ate her food."Well I mean, they probably aren't. But it's always better to be safe than sorry. You know what I mean?"Suffice it to say, this trip to Mt. Ebott was not going to happen over night. Plans had to be made, budgets had to be figured out, and it was clear that someone would have to stay behind just in case to hold down the fort. Kyu volunteered for this as he had a bad feeling and felt safe staying at the house. Intially the plan was this: William, Umuka, Samantha, Buster, and Randalph would take a road trip to Mt. Ebott and stay in a hotel once they got there. They would then begin to investigate the area to see what they could discern. The anomaly J had described was a bit unsettling though and lead to implications that foretold an unfortunate outcome. Would they have to fight something? The hope was that this could be resolved peacefully and quietly. At this point all they could do was wish for the best and keep their hopes up. For now, they each slept with the prospects of the future on their minds. What would await them at Mt. Ebott?