hadriel_logs | Endgame Log: The Ice Planet

Who: The characters accompanying [Name] to the ice planet
What: The closed event log for the virus upload
Where: On the ice planet, at the Null communications array
When: June 15th
Warnings: None

It's time. There's a plan that needs to be put into motion, and you're the ones who volunteered to do it. You know going in that it's going to be dangerous - but there's no other choice. This is the end, and it's you or the Null.

Upon arrival, you have a little time to prepare. The Null don't know you're there at first, and once they do there's a delay of a few hours before they're in position to fight back. Now's the time to set up defenses or anything else that might help you stay alive. You have to know the fight will be hard, because they know their lives are on the line, too.

Then, the Null attack. With everything they have, they try to stop you, try to beat past your defenses to get to [Name] and stop it from uploading the killswitch. Fear helps out, and the sky goes dark, but it won't last forever. When Fear flees, that particular defense is gone... along with any chance of getting out of there. Here's where those without courage might break, because it certainly looks like it could be a last stand. It doesn't help that Hope can't reach you here either, that any deaths will not be resurrected during the battle.

But it does end. With very little warning, [Name] completes its task. It goes dark, and as it does, the other Null see their end coming. They cannot stop it, they cannot escape. They crumple to the ground, all consciousness and animation gone from them.

And then you're alone on the ice planet. Tend your wounds, mourn your dead, and hope that someone will come for you before the cold does.

► This log covers June 15th
► Please tag headers of threads with content warnings where they apply
► As this log takes place away from Hope's influence, any deaths will not be resurrected until people and gods are able to travel to the ice planet again. Have fun!

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[Fight (?) the null.]

[Out of everything Napstablook's every done in their entire life, this is probably the biggest mistake they've ever made. They're in a fleshy human body that they barely understand, and now there's robots coming to kill them all.

But all Napstablook knows is that this is where Alphys and Mettaton are. And for that reason, here they are.

Napstablook is trying to back away from a Null that has singled out Napstablook. A weak target. Napstablook looks around in a panic, almost too terrified to move. But they reach for a decent-sized rock.]

if... if you don't turn back... i really don't want to do this so please...!

[Tears are streaming down their face, but the Null closes in on them. Napstablook hurls the rock.

It misses.

Oh no....]

[Aftermath]

[After the battle, somehow Napstablook is alive. Their body is covered in cuts and clothing is torn. There's blood soaking their shirt, and they've got their arms wrapped around themselves as they try to comfort themselves.

As far as talking goes, after all Napstablook has seen...

Really not feeling up to it right now. Sorry.]

[The Null doesn't even get the opportunity to attack Napstablook before an extremely aggressive, immeasurably protective robot pounces upon it and literally attempts to rip out its central processor. The look on his face is indescribable, but not inherently aggressive--well.

There's definite anger here. He's feeling violent enough for it to show. But beyond that is an underlying fear that he might not get here soon enough next time and what if he miscalculates and it shoots Blooky?! That of course being an issue he doesn't have to worry about long. The element of surprise has granted him victory here, and the Null collapses, its processor crushed between Mettaton's palms.

His eyes flick to his cousin momentarily, the manic expression not quite gone yet. It's not at them. Never at them. But he can't let his guard down, they're human now.]

[Napstablook's human heart leaps into their throat, and for a few chest-pounding moments, they watch helplessly as their cousin rips apart the Null. They're afraid for their cousin, they're afraid over this whole situation.]

met - mettaton...

[Their voice comes out weakly.]

thank you... for saving me...

[Mettaton forces himself to relax, to drop his shoulders and let go of the hunk of metal in his hands. He was protecting...not FIGHTing to kill. Protecting...

Sometimes it's hard to cajole the feeling back into himself after he does this. The more you battle, the less it begins to hurt.

It's all in a number.

But he remembers because Blooky is there. They ground him.]

[Finally, he looks up at them. He smiles.]

I'll always save you, sweetheart. That's what family's for. Just keep close to Alphys or myself. We'll help you. You don't have to push yourself.

[Napstablook feels their chest tightened. They don't want to admit their scared - they've just... never seen their cousin that way before. But they see Mettaton relax, and they try to relax too.

They don't feel relaxed at all.]

can we...
go somewhere safer...?

Well, there's nowhere safer than with me, clearly! But all the same...you have a point.

[There's fighting all around them. The Null are desperate to stop what they're doing, after all. But Mettaton glances about, trying to visually map a decent path through the battle. After a few moments, he holds a hand out to Napstablook.]

Come with me?

[It's a question; he's not forcing them. His personality, while still slightly prevalent, flags in the face of his newly learned habits. One of which is that he has no business demanding anything of anyone.]

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