what happened to chapter 7 n 9
Before the End: A Finis Work
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There is no chapter 7 or 9.
hitthepin wrote:
What about her?
You just made an inkling of a joke, so I thought I’d bring it up and write it down to remember it. What better than ink?
Chapter 14: The Principal
The one in charge. The man upstairs. The symbol of order. The first character.
The Principal had picked up a lot of different names, all of which were basically true to some extent. For the longest time, he was the most powerful being in existence.
Empires rose and fell. Extremely powerful beings and beings claiming to be extremely powerful clashed all across the universes. Importance and relevance changed hands rapidly, transferring back and forth between different people and places. And through it all, the Principal observed.
He remembered his beginning, which was a rare quality indeed. He vaguely recalled his time when he had barely been fleshed out, when he couldn’t even open his mouth and speak, when he was barely anything more than the carbon copy of another character.
He had a beginning. And everything with a beginning has an end. That was the one certainty.
OOO
The Principal just shook his head. The Mayor and the Devil may have been polar opposites morally, but they were completely identical in terms of stubbornness. He was not a front-line fighter. Why did they not understand that?
“Hey. Principal.”
The Parkour Master walked up to him, craning his neck slightly to look him in the eye.
“Yes, PK?”
“I have a question.”
“Ask away.”
“Why didn’t the Goose kill me? It’s a killing machine. How am I still alive? I should be dead. Twice.”
The Principal sighed. “I don’t know the whole story, but I can try to tell you what I know.”
“Please.”
“Basically, you are a being of equivalent power to the Goose.”
The Parkour Master scoffed. “Yes, that’s how it managed to curb-stomp me twice in a row.”
“Believe it or not, that’s the truth of it. And when a being is that powerful, it’s very, very difficult to kill them. A body can be beaten, destroyed, utterly ripped apart, but that does not necessarily mean that the soul within has been killed.”
“Really.”
“Really. And I dare say that every being in the entire multiverse with that unlimited potential has been gathered here today.”
The two of them looked around the room. Music Man was petting Natalie on the head affectionately, while the Mad Hatter laughed his head off at a joke the Jester was making. The King and Stalin were comparing their hammers with one another, while Cookie was actually smiling as she danced about with the Octoling Shopkeeper. Francis Scott Key solemnly cleaned his gun, and Corrupted Sans and Flowey stared at one another with something that almost looked like mutual respect.
The fourteen of them. So few, yet so many. So many stories told and untold, and it was all about to come to an end. Right here, right now.
“That’s also why the Goose couldn’t kill any of your companions during your second encounter with it,” the Principal went on. “You are all beings of equivalent power. Of course, that means that you could only hurt the Goose just as much as it could hurt you. None of you - none of us have the potential to kill that thing.”
“So… was the main reason for this entire campaign pointless?”
“No, my boy.” The Principal shook his head. “You stand for something. That’s more than most can say. You fought and bled for the moral good that you stood for. Would you call that ‘pointless’?”
“I guess not.”
The centuries-old man and the Principal stood there in silence for a little more.
“But now we’re going up against something that can kill the Goose. All bets are off,” the Principal intoned solemnly.
“We have won every fight - well, nearly every fight before this. We can do this.” There was not a trace of doubt in the Parkour Master’s voice.
The Mayor and the Devil opened a dark portal. It was time to go.
The two shared one last look, both of them filled with determination. They would make this final battle go their way. They had to.
OOO
The battle was not going their way.
The King of the Ladder’s armor had been entirely shattered by one dark minion or another. He was now just a man - a large, strong, imposing man, but still. Just a man.
The Principal teleported over, not even caring that Asriel was getting sliced by Finis.
“Sir King, you have to get out of here.”
“No! I will not let all the world’s kingdoms be destroyed!” The King surged forward towards Finis, only being halted by a flicker of Core Energy from the Principal.
A moment of thought, and a bright, shining portal came into existence. Seeing this, the Doctor began to summon the Infinity Stones. A diversion.
“I made it so that this portal leads to the very distant future,” the Principal explained. “You need to go through it.”
“But if we lose here, then there is no point going into the future!” the King cried out in anguish.
“Sir King.” The Principal looked directly into the man’s eyes. “This battle has already been lost. One of us needs to survive.”
“Then you go! I will hold Finis off so you can escape,” the King retorted, putting his life on the line without a second thought. “Or at the very least, the Parkour Master. He’s just a kid!”
“He’s not a kid,” the Principal intoned. “I can’t explain. It has to be you. For all of existence to function correctly. Just… trust me.”
Finis threw its sword at the Doctor. It tore straight through the rainbow beam of light before piercing him directly through his chest. The man fell to the ground, mortally wounded and about to die.
The King took a step into the portal before turning back and looking at the Principal one last time.
“For KOTL.”
“For KOTL,” the Principal reaffirmed.
Finally, the King stepped through, and the portal closed just in time for Finis to turn and look.
“Principal.”
Time paused. The Parkour Master froze in place, an angry expression on his face as he battled unmoving foes. Every particle across pan-existence stood still.
“Do you take me for a fool? I am aware of what you’ve done. Sending KOTL forward in time, eh?” Finis’ words slammed against the Principal’s consciousness.
“Can you stop me?” the Principal challenged.
“I can go back in time.”
“The time for you to go back in time has already passed. The timeline is fixed. You can’t change it.”
Finis seemed to take a breath in, the cloak rising and falling.
“Not a bad trick, I admit. Not a bad saving throw.”
Time unfroze. Everything began to move again.
“I actually have a modicum of respect for you. Therefore, I’ll put some effort into dispatching you.”
In an instant, Finis was there, throwing a punch made of dark energy quite similar to the Fins. The Principal brought all the strength and hope and power of the multiverse together into his fists and made a shield.
It turned out that the battle had essentially destroyed the multiverse itself at this point. Finis punched through the shield with ease, continuing on to connect with the Principal.
In the tiny fraction of a second before he lost all consciousness, the Principal reflected that perhaps not all hope was lost. Everything with a beginning has an end, but each end has the ability to open into another beginning.
And that's a wrap.
how far in the future did he send kotl
I dunno. I just had to figure out a way to cover up my plot hole.
However long it takes to revive it
so probably next summer lol
1 year into the future
Sounds about right
-Deaf Person
Did they say that?
They probably did
Guess what, guys! I've got ANOTHER prequel planned!
OH BOY
THERE'S ALWAYS ANOTHER PREQUEL
AND THIS TIME HITLER'S IN IT
Maybe I should change the main selling point to something better.
What about her?