There are few things we understand in our world (or worlds depending on your side of the multiverse.) but there are individuals who know more than others, and I had the unfortunate chance to encounter one of these individuals. You may know who I'm talking about, The Merchant, an entity no one truly understands. I made the mistake of meeting him by chance, I was convening minding my own business, when i approached his stall. Now before you ask no, i wasn't looking for him or even know what was happening, but i did know of him. I've read enough fan fics to know the legend of him. I wasn't dressed up or even really there to enjoy the event. I went with a friend because she needed a ride. I looked away from my phone which was playing a video of glitchtale, an alternate universe of undertale. When I looked at his table I saw a set of replicas of gasters summoned hands, each one with a different color in the middle of them representing the emotion they held.

“Wow! What are the odds I see these here and now? How much for the whole set?” i asked leaning in to inspect them closely,

“For a fan of gaster? I'll sell the whole set at 230.” didn't sound too bad to me so i had no reason to say no. still wondering if that was wise of me or not. After handing him the cash I suddenly felt off. Like when you are so hot your body naturally sweats so much it makes your clothes stick to you. Something like a wet kleenex that feeling got only worse when I picked up the hand replica that held the purple color in its center. I took one look at him and saw his smirk, and just like that the world went black. Not just dark. Darker than normal dark.

(3500 years later)

Darkness, it became my home, my day and night. I knew only darkness for so long. For anyone who's heard of this kind of Scenario knows what's happened, for those of you who don’t, allow me to sum it up. I was turned into GOD DAMN GASTER. Not just any old gaster look alike either, I had memories. HIS memories, i guess my memories now. My mind held so much knowledge all of a sudden, it's hard to think straight. MY SONS Sans and papyrus. My career as a scientist. My fall. My MADNESS. It was all here, every painstaking detail. I thought id go insane all over again! I tried everything I could think of, I got use to my powers again, my memories showed this gaster injected himself with DETERMINATION and it had a few side effects.

The creation of two new colors. Black had its own hand, OH you may not even know this but each color was a human soul. Each color had its own power and use. Gaster was known in some areas as a master of magic but also the master of soul manipulation. Meaning he could use each soul or color to empower his abilities. There were seven originally. ORANGE was Bravery, with it I could summon floating hands to beat up or pumble my enemies to dust. Next was BLUE Integrity. With it I could see through any lie and also compel others to tell the truth. Next was YELLOW which was justice, funny enough it actually affected me, it gave me an overly Aggressive mood swing to seek justice for anything I considered morally wrong, as for its power I can use it to fire small bolts of energy that when hit feels like you're getting shot with a gun! YELLOW secretly OP? After justice was kindness or GREEN, with GREEN I could heal any wound or infection. It also gave me the knowledge on how to cook! I could before but it's like comparing toast to a five course meal. Next was CYAN or patience. With patience I could fire long energy whips to slash or restrain my target. Next was PURPLE which stood for perseverance. Stangly it gave me a kinda damage resistance. I could ignore most attacks and with it I could also shoot out large and deadly spikes to impale my target. Then of course the most famous of them all RED or DETERMINATION! In the game and a bunch of fan based lore RED was shared between two different humans Frisk the main protagonist, and Chara the (Main) antagonist when Chara was failing in her mission to end all of existence with just DETERMINATION she created BLACK which stood for HATE with RED i had the power to RESET and SAVE points in my own history basically my own load and save file system. It also allowed me to defy death! If I was killed by any normal means I would reset to my last save. But it's only a one time use deal every 10 days it also can be used to fire a laser of red energy from either my hands or Gaster Blasters and with BLACK I could send out waves of energy that would cut through anything like a knife. What surprised me is that BLACK was a power only Chara could use, so to see I had BLACK was a bit of a scare but the next one…. It terrifies me.

There are plenty of alternate universes especially with undertale as a whole. But I don't know any that had this. A deep nightmarish PURPLE AND BLACK. Hand and Gaster Blaster floated in front of me. The color shined with a darker light that promised death and forbidden knowledge of the void of existence. This power was the power of DARKNESS

(i do not own this art please support creator)
Hands | Glitchtale Wiki | Fandom

After learning about my powers and abilities it was back to staving off the madness,I explored my memories of other universes, I contemplated my Gaster's dark history, I struggled with my own inner demons involving my old life. I did everything I could think of, even started doing random math questions, and I hate math. I don't know how long this went on for. But it didn't last.

“The equation of Pie is 3.14159265-” Suddenly I was interrupted from my musings with the sound of crying. Not just any crying, it was the sound of a newborn baby crying.

“Congratulations your highness, it's a pair of healthy Fillies!” I was confused, did I finally crack? Did I lose the last of my mind thinking of PIE?! The sounds didn't go away or drown out, I heard two clear different voices of babies crying.

“Oh dear... They're beautiful. They take after their mother.” That voice was the first one I could distinct as male, sounded affectite, probably the father.

“They are perfect. A healthy set of lunges on both of them!” that one sounded prideful, also male, probably a family member.

“Both are alicorns… I had hoped they wouldn’t be, but I still love them so. I will ensure you both live happy lives… little lulu and little tia” that was definitely the mother… Wait, alicorns? Tia and Lulu? Are those their names? Why did I have a feeling of nostalgia? Do I know them?

The family who I could see continued to talk about the girls, it seemed that tia was older by a few minutes, but they weren't twins? The doctors and nurses said they were healthy enough to stay with the mother whose name was queen Faust. From what I gathered she's also an alicorn while the father named Solar was a unicorn. Shrugged at my mind's insanity and just quietly listened, eventually everyone left her to get some rest with the fillies, when it sounded like all three were asleep i continued my thinking till something truly shocking happened, i heard a giggle. It wasn't like before where it sounded from all around me. It was right beside me. I turned to look and saw this little dark blue filly with hands and feet wearing a blanket around her little body, i wasn't sure why but my memories of sans and papyrus as a baby came to mind and my fatherly instinct kicked in, i picked Lulu up and started to rock her back and forth humming while i did so. It was a slow melody.

As the song came to an end and Lulu was sleeping soundly in my skeletal arms i heard a yawn, most likely faust waking up. “Hmm morning Tia, good mo-” she suddenly stopped was something happening? Why not say good morning to Lulu? “Lulu? Lulu where are you?!” wait… she was… I looked down at Lulu again and could help but smirk

“So you are here? In my reality?” I asked her, almost expecting an answer. I heard a panicked gasp

“WHOS THERE?! WHERES MY DAUGHTER?!” she panicked and I could tell she was doing all she could from waking Tia but kept her alarmed tone of voice.

“Be at ease Queen, i am no threat, as for little Lulu, she is here with me, i have not harmed her and have no intentions to, she found her own way to me. I am simply enjoying her presence here.” I told her to try to calm her and to ensure I was no threat to her daughter. Lulu yawned and opened her bright eyes to me “Ah she is awake again. A curious one she sure is. Exploring the depth like this at her age with no fear? She is a brave one Queen.”

I heard a slow sigh as if she was calming herself. She took a minute to collect herself before continuing “M-May i have her back in my arms please.” I thought about it, I never truly tried to escape. There was just no point in the past. But now… I focused on her voice and with the help of Lulu’s soul I slowly opened a rift in the dark void like a gaping maw of a dark god.

(Queen Faust POV)

I truly didn't know what to think of this moment, not even twenty four hours after her birth Luna somehow disappeared from my arms and found her way to this.... THING?! Stepping out of this dark hole that formed in the hospital wall, like on the other side of said was was the end of all existence. A dark void so dark I would have lost all sense of life looking too far in! As for the creature it was tall! Easily 7 feet tall! His face was flat and looked skeletal like he was an actual skeleton but if he was I didn't know what creature he came from. He wore black dress pants and a black trench coat with a white undershirt with a collar that reached to his lower jawline. In his arms was a giggling Luna smiling as if she wasn't being held by a monster but instead a friend. I notice both his hands had holes in them that covered the entire palm i don't know if that was a injury or if it was natural for him

“As you can see she is safe and unharmed.” Without my need to insist he hands Luna to me and takes several steps back putting his hands behind his back i got a good look at him, his posture suggested pride but in what I don't know he was clearly a male. And had a proud but small smile on his face, his eye sockets had a white dot acting as a eyes

“Thank you… who are you sir?” he chuckles as he turns to sit by my bedside sitting in the chair my husband had been in

“My name is Gaster. The man who speaks in hands.” he waves his hand and a dark purple aura comes from his open palm closing the hole in the dark void revealing an undamaged wall as if the hole was never there.

“W-Well sir Gaster i am Queen Faust of Equestria and these are my newborn daughter's Celestia and Luna.” I said slowly nodding to the fillies respectively, his smile was small but it spoke of a kindness I've only seen in the elements.

He gave a small bow putting his hand over where his heart would be i'd assume. “A pleasure to be in the presence of Royalty again, but please just Gaster, I'm far too old and forgotten to be called sir ever again.” I was about to ask what he meant when we heard a scream from the hall. Suddenly the door was broken down and in came my worst fear, how had the griffins heard of this! They were never good at gathering intel on us. One with a knife charged at me with a look of murder in his eyes! Griffins were never on great terms with us ponies but after the most recent revolt that saw my friend and his family killed the new king declared war on my ponies. I was clutching both my daughters when a light blue colored energy wrapped around the griffin before throwing him back out into the hall. I turned to see gaster with a hand floating next to his head, it was identical to his own hands but clearly not one of them. He slowly stood up and walked after the griffin out into the hall

(Out in the hall Griffin Assassin POV)

What in the name of the gods did that alicorn have with her?! This thing just threw one of my men out of the room so fast he broke his neck at an odd angle against the wall. My two remaining subordinates and I watched as this thing walked casually out of the room glaring at us. It’s Blank look and intense stair sending shivers down my back

“Come.” its voice was strange. It had an echo to it but there was something else. Like the meaning behind the words. As if in a separate language. One of the others rushed it with a screech of defiance

“DIE FREAK THE ALICORNS DIE TODAY!” no sooner had he said that a purple spike shot down from the ceiling and impaled his wings at the joint on his back. His screams sent even more dreadful feelings into my gut. We can't fight this thing!

“Is this it?” with a gesture of its hand the purple spike disappeared only for a yellow palmless hand to appear in front of his chest. “Pathetic.” Suddenly the hand rapidly fired what looked like yellow spell bolts into his chest riddling him with holes. After a mere two seconds of this he fell to the ground dead. The creature walked up and looked down as if inspecting the corpse for life. No sooner had he confirmed the kill he slowly turned his head to face us, we could see his left eye flickering from white to red as suddenly several red hands filled the air around him

“Those who would harm those children…. Shall parish.” he said with that same echo dulled tone and language, for a split second I thought I saw text above his head written in some form of sign luggage.

Author's Note

HELLO EVERYONE!
I'm taking a creak at it again it seems. this will be my third attempt at writing a story in my free time this CH was extremely short compared to my other works in the past. but if its received well i might release more and add to the Ch to make them Dumby thicc

Please give me what ever advice or criticism you'd like hope you all enjoyed this see you all soon!