FragmenTale

«Gaster, the monster who once worked as a scientist in a laboratory, the one who invented many useful and used by other residents of the dungeon everyday things, the one who tried to save the prince and princess from death, the one who was forever forgotten.»

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— «Sans, please tell Mr. Gramre that we will have a meeting after 1 p.m.» — said the tall monster, dressed in a dark long-sleeved turtleneck, black pants and shoes of the same color. He sat on a chair with a long white medical gown hanging from the back. It was Doctor Gaster, his white pupils watching as the Doctor himself called Sans in his thoughts, a «short» skeleton, which, having made a turn on the chair, turned to the scientist. — «Yes, of course, in which office he works now?» — asked Sans, at the same time getting up from his seat. The skeleton was dressed in black pants, the length of which was 20 centimeters below the knees, a white sweater jacket, and on his feet were blue sneakers. He usually did not wear a medical gown, wearing it only when necessary, for example, when working with chemicals and other burdens. — «If I'm not mistaken, then in the ninth, thank you.» — after this phrase, the little skeleton left the office at number 13, going out into the corridor and leaving Gaster alone with himself.

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About half an hour passed when Sans, almost knocking down the door, flew into the office to Gaster, who at that moment was collecting some kind of mechanism at the table. — «DAD! URGENT! -» — the skeleton stopped, trying to catch its breath. — «I asked you not to call me that at work, what happened? Someone spilled acid again or something like that?» – Asked the scientist, already accustomed to the quirks and negligence of his employees and colleagues, turning on a chair towards the exit from the office. – «That's not the, HUH, point! The prince and princess are gone!» – Sans leaned his left hand on the door frame, putting his other hand on his right knee, bending a little, still trying to restore breathing. — «🕈☟✌❄✏✍ ☟□⬥ ♍□◆●♎ ⧫♒♏⍓ ♒♋❖♏ ♎♓⬧♋◻◻♏♋❒♏♎✍ 🕈♏❒♏■🕯⧫ ⧫♒♏ ❒□⍓♋● ♑◆♋❒♎⬧ ♋■♎ ⧫♒♏ &♓■♑ ♋■♎ ✈◆♏♏■ ⧫♒♏❍⬧♏●❖♏⬧ ●□□&♓■♑ ♐□❒ ⧫♒♏❍ ♓■ ⧫♒♏♓❒ ♐♋❖□❒♓⧫♏ ◻●♋♍♏⬧✍» — the scientist stagnated, rising sharply from his place. – «Doc, calm down a little, you speak that language again... I certainly understood what you said, but still.» – Sans took a couple of steps towards Gaster. — «⚐♒📪 ⍓♏⬧📬📬📬 Excuse me. Now, wait a minute.» – switching to a language that everyone understands back, the scientist approached the microphone, which stood on the nightstand near the left wall, if you look from the side of the entrance. Above the bedside table, on the wall, hung a device, something like a small speaker. Gaster pressed the red button that was connected to this very speaker. When you press the red button, the channel through which the signal was transmitted was combined, that is, every scientist could speak on it, because a similar device was installed in each office. – #Comrades colleagues, unscheduled meeting in two minutes in the main hall, I repeat, unscheduled meeting in two minutes in the main hall. It's an emergency, so come soon.# – said Gaster into the microphone, after which he turned off the device. – «Hurry up.» – said the scientist Sans and together they headed to the main hall. – «Yeah, in short, after I completed your assignment, I teleported-» – the skeleton began his story while they were walking, but was interrupted. – (SANS!) After all, we discussed this, that no use of magic until-» – Gaster began to wail. – «Until we figure out how it works and works, yes, yes. But if I didn't, I wouldn't have known about Asriel and Chara missing.» – Sans continued, trying to justify his actions. –«... Fine, you can assume that you won this time, but don't think that the next one will come out so well.» – Gaster sighed wearily, but did not utter his words with anger, because he still worried about his son, albeit G√αa|êd @√|¡f¡č¡@LLу́. Sans smiled triumphantly at the words of his parent and continued to speak. – «So there. I teleported, closer to the royal castle, I had an appointment with Asriel today, he wanted to listen to my stories. I came to the place where buttercups grow, but there was no one there, then I went to the King with the Queen. They told me that the prince and princess should be beaten just in that clearing of flowers. We searched the whole castle but found no one. After that, the King ordered the guards to search the entire dungeon, at that time I fled back here, I had no strength for another transfer.» – «Clearly, then, the search has not advanced...» – both monsters have already approached the entrance to the main hall. Opening the door, Sans let Gaster pass and went behind him into a spacious room, with a large table in the middle and many chairs around him. Usually, a team of scientists arranged a brainstorming session or rest here, but when various kinds of emergency situations arose, this place was used according to its originally planned purpose. Most of the scientists were already sitting at the table, and the rest who had not yet come were already running with all their feet. As everyone gathered, Gaster retold Sans's story. Some of the scientists were horrified, some were thinking about where the members of the royal family could disappear. The discussion did not last long, someone rang the bell at the front door to the laboratory. (Then the monsters did not have create cameras, phones, respectively, too) – «Sans, be kind, meet the guest.» – Gaster said to the skeleton, to which the monster nodded and, leaving the hall, returned with the royal guard. – «Hello, gentlemen scientists. I have an order for you from our King, as well as a message.» – the guard said in a stern tone, approaching the chief scientist in the laboratory – Gaster. – «By order of our King - Asgore Dreemurr, you, the scientists of this laboratory, will need to examine the bodies of the prince and princess, analyze their condition and help them with recovery. In the message, it is said about the upcoming war with people, our king advises everyone, including you, to prepare. This decision was made due to the fact that the bodies of the prince and princess were found on the surface, near the exit from the dungeon, in a deplorable state. The prince, before losing consciousness, managed to tell us that people did this to him. On this, I will leave you, I ask you to forgive me. The bodies of the prince and princess will soon be delivered to you, please help them.» – after these words, the guard left the hall, heading towards the exit from the laboratory. Scientists are not shocked, they rather precipitated from the information they just heard. Gaster and Sans also stood in a stupor for a couple of minutes, but as soon as the scientist's brain processed the information, he took a couple of steps to the table and began to speak. – «Colleagues, there is no point in panicking, from this we will only lose the time we need. Right now, the best option would be to prepare for the whole thing ahead of us, to restore the prince and princess. We need to prepare equipment, check it before work, prepare tools and papers to record the condition of our patients.» – Gaster's speech reassured some scientists, who, in turn, changed their thoughts about panic, about the upcoming difficulties and how to overcome these difficulties. Gaster gave instructions to everyone so that each of the group prepared something, while Sans was entrusted with checking some equipment and providing papers to fix the data. Everyone left the main hall, doing what was entrusted. Sans went into the thirteenth office for some papers, at that moment he did not leave the idea that due to panic, other scientists missed, who were more worried about the problem of the present. "The Coming War with the People." But, since at the moment this really was not the main problem, the skeleton decided to remind others of this a little later, not wanting to aggravate the situation even more.