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The cycle continues.

Kris had been through this situation way too many times.

Once they opened the doors that separated the ruined outside world from the bunker, The Fun Gang (Consisting of Ralsei, Susie, Lancer, Noelle, and finally themself) would comment on the condition of the broken Earth, walk North towards the now ruined Church, and come face-to-face (If it even had a face) with the Angel's Heaven.

In which it would proceed to annihilate the group.

One.

By.

One.

Over and over again.

Kris couldn't remember how many times they left the bunker to face the Apocalypse. They lost count around either the 50th or 60th time. They were stuck in a cycle.

A cycle that couldn't be broken.

Over and over again.

They lost count of how many times they said goodbye to their parents. To their own brother. To everyone in the bunker. All of the previous reloads had bunched up together into a mess that sometimes, they'd forget to even say goodbye at all.

Over and over again.

They knew how everything would turn out. The Angel's Heaven would send multiple beams of pure energy at all of them, destroying each and every one of them. There wasn't even a way to dodge them either. All they could do was die to the beams.

Over.

And.

Over.

Again.

The cycle was starting to break Kris's Power. They didn't know how long they had been in the cycle. It could have been days.

Weeks.

Months.

Hell, Years could have passed by. The cycle would always start over at the save point in the bunker.

They leave.

They die.

Over and over again. Nothing could be done about it. Only they knew what would happen.

And so did The Knight.

The Knight, otherwise now known to them as Dr. Wing Ding Gaster, had been watching the cycle from the Void. The only area untouched by the Angel's Heaven and the Reloads of Kris.

As, you know, the Void was something of a supernatural phenomenon. Not many could enter it through typical means. But enough of that, back to the story at hand. Gaster felt bad about the situation the Fun Gang were put into. A situation he accidentally created through his interactions with the Dark World. He didn't mean to have caused Jevil to go insane, or to corrupt the Spade King, or create any of the other Dark Fountains. But by the time he realized it, he was unable to return. If he were to return and attempt to fix the situation himself, he would have been attacked. Which was why he, along with an entity he encountered in the Void, created a Vessel for the entity to repair his mistakes, set things right. But then the only other entity besides the two, a human spirit named "Chara" destroyed the Vessel, telling them they couldn't choose who they were in the world. A bunch of events occurred, the Replacement Vessel (Kris) ripped the entity out of their body, some more events occurred, the entity left Kris's soul to go to another universe, allowing Kris full control of their soul again, and now here they were. Fighting a neverending battle.

A neverending, losing battle.

Over and over again.

Sometimes, you have to accept that you f*cked up.

And Gaster did. But he wasn't just going to let them suffer for however much longer Kris had left in their reloads.

He decided to give them a way out. However, it would be permanent for them. The moment he did it, the world the gang once knew would be gone forever. Destroyed for good.

But at least it wouldn't be over and over again.

Kris looked at a photograph of them and their family, back when they and Asriel were young, back when mom and dad were still together. They missed those days, and wished that they could at least go back to it. If they were able to defeat the Angel's Heaven. Only if.

"KRIS!" The shout of the Prince Goat from the Dark World shook them out of their wishing dream. "COME ON, WE MUST STOP THE ANGEL'S HEAVEN!"

If only it were that easy, Rals. Kris thought to themselves as they placed the photo back behind their chestplate. Kris knew what would happen. It had happened before, it will happen again.

Over and over, they will all die. Over and over again.

The group walked forwards, towards the destroyed Church. Kris knew that this was as far as they would come, as the next thing to occur would be the damned Angel's Heaven appearing and destroying them all. They were starting to lose what little emotions they had built up from the past week. Their happiness with Susie and Lancer. Their rebuilding friendship with Noelle.

The only thing that was keeping them from completely losing it was what they had with Ralsei. They didn't understand what it was, but it felt like something they didn't want to lose a hold of.

The Fun Gang finally reached the church, and Kris prepared for the events they knew to come next.

3.

2.

1.

Whoooosh

The Angel's Heaven exploding into existence, destroying the church completely. Kris knew what would happen next. They would enter a FIGHT against the pillar of light. The pillar of light would send powerful beams at them. They die.

Rinse and re-

"Hey guys?" Susie interrupted Kris's thoughts. "Yeah?" Kris spoke, looking at Susie. This was new, something they never encountered before.

"What's this black stuff doing here?" Susie replied, causing everyone to look down. At Susie's feet was a puddle of goop.

They recognized it as the goop that was on The Knight, who explained that it was residue of the Void.

Which meant it wasn't good.

Suddenly, the Void Goop spread outwards, latching onto the feet of the gang. Kris cursed The Knight, why were they getting involved all of a sudden?

Then they started sinking into the goop. Now this was just making Kris even more pissed. Are you just trying to make me die a different way, you bastard? Kris thought as they were now up to their chest in the goop.

The goop began to latch itself onto the arms and faces of the group. Noelle was desperately holding on to Lancer as they were the first to be consumed by the Void Goop. Kris grabbed hold of Ralsei's hand as they were the next to be consumed by the Void. And then finally Susie.

The Void had swallowed them whole.

And the cycle was broken in their world.

Thump

Kris opens their eyes to a dark cavern, the only source of light coming from a hole at the top.

They felt themselves being on a bed of flowers, and quite rejuvenated as well.

How long had they been in the Void? Kris asked themself. They remember during their conversation with The Knight that the Void doesn't have a sense of time flowing through.

Kris picked themselves off of the bed and looked around, becoming frightened. Frightened by the fact that their friend were gone. They knew that their friends wouldn't just up and leave like this, which meant either they had been separated by the Void...

Or they were the only survivor.

They definitely didn't want to be the latter, as that would kill them inside. Losing their friends like that for real. They didn't realize that they had been moving around when they heard another THUMP!

They looked to the source of that thump, finding to their surprise a human child in a blue and magenta jumpsuit had landed where they once laid. Had they stayed there, the injuries to the both of them would have been horrible.

A bit funny to the eye, the child's jumpsuit looked like the cape that was draped over Kris's right shoulder.

And guessing from the fact that Kris fell a short distance due to the Void while the child had to have fallen from the source of the light, the child was most definitely D-E-A-D dead.

That was, until the child let out a loud gasp of air, frightening Kris of the fact that a simple child survived such a fall from such a large height. Kris watched as the kid painfully picked themselves off of their own back and attempted to stand up, failing due to the lack of balance caused by the fall.

"Hey, hey, hey," Kris said as they scrambled towards the kid. "Let me help you out!" Kris proceeded to pick them up and placed them on their back.

The weight of the kid adding a few pounds on their back, Kris proceeded towards the only exit to the room they were in. They stopped to notice the symbol at the top of the door.

The Deltarune. Not the first time they've seen it. Might not be the last. They proceeded forward into the next room...

To come face to face with a flower.

"Howdy! I'm Flowey. Flowey the Flower!"

A talking flower.