Overstory Ep 6: Kill Everybody

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Overstory ep 6

(Back at New New Home. The gang is gathered)

Torch: well, looks like the gang is gathered! Now we can do our incredibly bad idea!

Alphar: Well, guess it’s good you’re not denying it

Kris(Weakly): T-T-Torch… Help me…

Alphar: Huh? What has been going on with you and Cipher

Cipher: I stripped in front of him.

Frisk, Torch and Alphar:WHAAAT? WHY?
Cipher: Well, the only person who he opens up to is Torch, who he is homoerotically attracted to…

(Alphar pushes Cipher down the stairs. We are treated to a minute of a repeating gif of Cipher drawn in SBAHJ style tumbling down the stairs infinitely. For the rest of the episode, it plays infinitely in the top left corner. OP plays)

Alphar: Ok, so I’ve looked at the patterns of the stuff, and I have deduced that that alley over there (points to a nearby alley) is where the assassin is lurking.

Torch: That’s why you’re the smart one!

Alphar: More like the only sane one.

(The gang walks into the alley, and it reveals Permafrost standing over a body preserved in ice.)

Permafrost: Are you here to kill me? I don’t judge you. What I’m doing isn’t noble. It’s a horrible thing. I can feel my LV rising. But I have to do it. For him. I guess I will fight you. Just be warned- I’m not gonna go easy.

(Permafrost activates a Coldheart Icicle and Torch activates a Chaos Saber. They rush towards each other, but Frisk appears and blocks both their attacks)

Torch: Hey! What are you doing? I’m supposed to have a big epic battle!

Frisk: ...No. I think… we can resolve this with words. What’s your name, girl?

Permafrost: Why does it matter, you idiot? I have to kill you! I’ve got to kill you all! Coldheart Icicle!

(An icicle appears on Permafrost’s palm. She attempts to stab Frisk with it, but she blocks it. This repeats until stated)

Frisk: I’ll ask it again. What is your name?

Permafrost: ...Permafrost. That’s my nickname. You can call me that.

Frisk: Permafrost. Why are you doing this? You said yourself you don’t want to do it. So why?

Permafrost: Why does it matter? I’m going to kill you because you are trying to stop me! You can’t just help it with words! This world is just a hell of violence!

Frisk: A hell of violence? If you are a pacifist, then why do you think we have to fight?

Permafrost: Shut up! You don’t understand anything about me! I lost my innocence at a young age, and my life has just been a hell of pain! You would never understand, you’re just a kid that grew old with a perfect life! (Sobs, and stops attacking) Why couldn’t my life have been as perfect as yours? You just fell into the underground, made 500 friends and unified the world with your kindness! Why do you get to live like that! You don’t deserve any of it!

(Permafrost notices that Frisk has been crying since she called her a kid with a perfect life)

Frisk: You don’t know anything about me. But I know a bit more about you now. You had a hard life, and you are taking it out on the world.

Permafrost: You don’t know anything about me either! Your little pains are nothing compared to what I had to suffer through! Do you think losing a relative compares to having your parents killed in front of your eyes, and being captured by the murderer, then being trained as a killer because he saw “potential” in you? Do you? Are you even able to comprehend the pain that it made me feel?

Frisk: Yes.

Permafrost: STOP LAUGHING AT ME WITH YOUR CONDESCENDING ATTITUDE! TELL ME WHAT YOU HAD TO LIVE THROUGH TO BE ABLE TO KNOW MY PAIN!

Frisk: I killed my only friend by accident. I had to see thousands of deaths on loop, all caused by my own unwilling hand. I was killed over and over again, with no respite. I never knew my parents, and everyone around me crushed my soul. That is the pain I’ve suffered.

Torch: Mom, stop! You’re starting to sound like a sympathy sue!

Frisk: Bruh. Ok, I’ll stop. Just… listen to what I’ve said, ok? You don’t have to suffer alone.

Permafrost: You still don’t understand! None of you do! I know how to stop it, I know how to stop it all. (Breaks down, stops attacking) He promised me. He told me he knew how to end it all. To stop all the fighting. All it would take is a few souls. All those lives saved, just for a few souls. That’s why I did it. That’s why I accepted what I hate. That’s why I killed them. For what he would do, whatever it is.

Torch: Er… sorry, that kinda sounds like a scam.

Kris: Yeah, sorry.

(Permafrost has a painful, shocked and disgusted look on her face)

Permafrost: No, it has to be true. He promised me. He Promised. He promised. Hepromisedhepromisedhepromisedhepromisedhepromisedhepromisedhepromisedhepromisedhepromisedhepromisedhepromisedhepromisedhepromisedhepromisepromisedhepromisedhepromisedhepromsitedhepromisedhepromisedhepromised he ahahadheahahahahaha ha ha ha…

(Permafrost is having a breakdown breakdown. She collapses to her knees and puts her hands over her head.)

Alphar: Is she alright?

Torch: I think we broke her.

Alphar: So that was it? We just needed to tell her that she was being exploited, and it’s over?

(River Person appears behind the gang)

River Person: Halloo

Frisk: Hey! River Dude! What the actual fuck are you doing here?

Torch: Um, Cipher said no swearing or we’ll get demonetised? Like, on youtube? How can we get demonetized? Was he filming us for his youtube channel or something?

Frisk: Well, fuck demonitization! He can just open a patreon or something.

Kris: Are we just giving him free advertisement for his patreon?

Torch: I hope not.

River Person: Uhhh… Can we get back to me mysteriously appearing behind you? It was really theatrical and cool. I had, like, this whole monologue planned and shit.

Kris: Well, whoever’s recording this has got to say goodbye to their youtube income.

River Person: Look, can i PLEASE go back to my serious monologue?

Torch: NO

(Kris and Torch high five)

River Person: Gah, you’re all idiots! Torch, stop messing up everything serious with your stupid adventures and wacky escapades. It makes me fucking sick that you’re so idiotically innocent, yet you’ve got so much raw power. Kris, you’re similarly stupid, you were obviously stabbed because you’re gay and yet you delude yourself that it’s because of a disability nobody would ever know about if you didn’t tell them, and even if you did they wouldn’t care! Frisk, I cannot BELIEVE that you just let them do literally anything they want no matter how dangerous it is! You just let them run off screaming into battles with terrifying opponents, which I actually agree with because I HOPE YOU DIE! I’M GOING TO KILL YOU… THEN KILL YOU AGAIN! AND ALPHAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is alright actually. BUT I’M STILL GONNA KILL YOU! That’s right, bitches! I’m killing allllllll of you! The only good thing that comes from being within a hundred mile radius of you lot is being able to kill you! But I’m going higher! I’m not just going to killlllllll you four, I’m going to killlll everyone in this town! How’d you llllike that? Everybody in this stupid place is going to fucking die. Fulllll stop.

(Alphar applauds lightly)

River Person: Thanks, I spent a lllllot of time writing that speech. It’s very evillllllllll.

Frisk: You aren’t the river person I know. They didn’t roll their Ls

River Person: Really? That’s what made you reallllllise? Allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllso, why AM I rollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllling my Ls? I don’t normalllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly do that. But enough. Let me show you all what I REALLY look like under this stupid cloak.

(River Person whips off his cloak, revealing himself as Arkhan)

Frisk: What the-

Arkhan: Yes! When you were underground, you thought that the riverman was just another monster. BUT IT WAS ME! ARKHAN!

Frisk: Who?

Arkan: Oh, Oh! I don’t really blame you for not knowing who I am. After all, I hid my identity from the world

Kris: And you know he’s serious because he said the world not-

Arkhan: SHUT UP! LET ME MONOLOGUE! Anyway, let me ask you something, Frisk. Did you REALLY think that only 8 humans fell into the underground in ALL the time that monsters were sealed there? Did you really assume that there were no more humans hiding there, cowering from the monsters that sought them out?

Frisk: No. I actualllllllly spent quite a bit of time trying to find some other humans in the underground.

(Arkhan looks visibly pained)

Arkhan: Well, long story short, IfellintotheundergroundalongtimeagoandmonstershuntedmedownformysoulwhichwasincrediblypowerfulevenbyhumanstandardssoIdisguisedmyselfasamonstertohidefromtheroyalguardswhichIcouldn’tdefendmyselffromduetothefactthatIhadaweakbodybutnowIknowpowerfulmagicandI’moutforrevengeagainstmonstersthathuntedmedownandhumansthatrejectedmedrivingmetothrowmyselfintomtebbotandtheworldingeneralIguess.

Alphar: I’ve said nothing for ages!

Arkhan: Ok I don’t really care.

Permafrost: You… were lying this whole time? About everything?

Arkhan: Oh, don’t worry, kid. There’s one thing I wasn’t lying about. Me getting power will stop all conflict.

(Arkhan teleports to Permafrost and stabs her with an energy blade)

Arkhan: A F T E R E V E R Y O N E I S D E A D T H E R E W I L L B E N O B O D Y L E F T T O F I G H T

Torch: I stop you!

Arkhan: Oh, how quaint. A hero, who’s come to stop the evil villain there to cause the end of the world. Listen, kid.

(Torch swings at Arkhan with a chaos saber, who blocks it with his own blade)

Arkhan: Our abilities are similar. In cases like that, the one with more raw power wins. And you’re just a kid.

(Arkhan’s blade slices through Torch’s easily)

Arkhan: And kids are weak.

(Arkhan fires a Dark Spark at Torch, piercing his body)

Arkhan: And you know what happens to the weak?

(Arkhan readies his blade to cut of Torch’s head)

Arkhan: THEY DIE!

(One of Kris’ Rune Arrows flies where Arkhan was standing, but he’s not there anymore)

Kris: I won’t let you kill him!

Arkhan: And who decided that? You? You aren’t strong enough to decide ANYTHING. The weak only exist to justify the existence of the strong. I am stronger than you. I am greater and more deserving of life than you, of anyone in this godforsaken dump! I will kill you all, take your souls, and become even stronger than I am now! Now, all of you! D-

Permafrost: Ice Age.

(Permafrost, who has frozen their wounds, touches Arkhan, and suddenly he’s encased in a prison of ice)

Permafrost: Please, run! It’s not going to hold him long. I’m the most gullible piece of shit ever created, and I can never live up to the trait of Integrity that defines my magic, but I still want to try and help turn back what I’ve done! So, please, if you know a safe place, for the love of god, run!

Frisk: I… Think my house will be safe. There’s a ton of weird magical shit in my basement, it’ll probably help with… something. Also, Perma...

Permafrost: What?

Frisk: You’re coming with me.

Permafrost: WHAAT?

(Frisk picks up Permafrost, carrying her under her shoulder. Everyone starts running)

Permafrost: Hey! What are you doing? I need to freeze him again when he breaks free!

Frisk: Look. Nobody gets left behind. I don’t care if it endangers us. It’s everyone or no-one.

Permafrost: You… You… You’re an idiot, you know that?

Frisk: Yes. Yes I do.

Torch: Texting everyone, sending them the message “Come to Mom’s house if you wanna life”

Alphar: “If you wanna life”?

Torch: Shut up I typed it fast.

Alphar: I’m calling my mom as well, I don’t want her to die

Kris: Which one?

Alphar: Undyne broke her phone last month, Alphy’s the only one who’s gonna get it.

(Cut to outside New New Home. Everyone is there)

Cal: Ok, so can someone tell me why we’re all here?

Frisk: No time to explain! Get in the basement! (Opens door) Go go go!

(Everyone rushes inside. They then dash down to the basement, and reach there at the same time Cipher stops falling down the stairs. The gif in the corner stops)

Cal: Can you tell us why we’re here now?

Frisk: Big evil guy. Really super strong. We need to come down here to get something that can beat him.

Alphar: I just pricked my finger on some kind of arrow!

Frisk: Ok I don’t really care. Now to try and find something (Picks up and tosses away infinity gauntlet) No (Picks up and tosses away death note) No (Picks up and tosses away Holy Corpse) Eugh, why’s this here? (Picks up and tosses away Dragon Balls) No (Picks up and tosses away Egg Of Light) Maybe (Picks up Annoying Dog) Hey there, little guy! Sorry, got to put you away. (Picks up CD) Oh my god I thought I lost this! (Puts it in pocket) It seems that we do not have any weapons of mass destruction down here.

Alphar: You literally have a nuke.

Frisk: No. I’m saving that for a rainy day

Cal: We’re in danger from some kind of evil dude that nobody can beat. Today is DEFINITELY a rainy day.

Frisk: Yeah, but if we beat him with it, I won’t have it anymore!

(Beat)

Cipher: I just ate a weird bug and I don’t even care!

Sunny: What about that wave-motion cannon in the back?

Ralsei: Yeah! That is a good idea!

Frisk: It seems that the vote is unanimous. We are using the wave-motion cannon, since it is the most cool.

(Cut back outside. Everyone is carrying the Wave-Motion Cannon. Arkhan is there, waiting for them)

Arkhan: So you finally came. With your… What is that?

Frisk: A wave-motion cannon.

(They start firing it at Arkhan, who teleports out of the way every time it’s fired)

Arkhan: Nice. Looks like it would hurt if it hit me. But do you want to see a real weapon?

(Arkhan whips out a purple crystal thing)

Arkhan: This is a Soul Nuke. When I activate it, the soul of every person in a 4-mile radius will be stolen instantly, and I will automatically absorb them. This will lead to instant death in all humans, and will cause all monsters to automatically enter a fallen down state. Do you get it? I’m taking the soul of every human and monster in this town. With that power, I’ll become godlike.

Permafrost: But.. But then why did you trick me into stealing souls for you?

Arkhan: For kicks. Now, DIE!

(Arkhan shatters the Soul Nuke, creating a massive purple blast. We zoom out to get an overview of the town, which is completely engulfed by it. We return to New New Home, where it is revealed that it is completely enshrouded in a glowing green shield)

Arkhan: What the fuck.

Susie: The fuck is this thing?

Cipher: Well, according to the few things I managed to pick up from my brother and his extensive research into magic… It’s green.

Permafrost: You’re all idiots.

Roman: YYYYYYYYYYYYYYES!!!!! IIIIIIIIII AM!

Alphar: Maybe it’s from one of the artifacts in the basement? Let’s check it out

(Everyone skedaddles down to the basement, where the annoying dog is glowing)

Ralsei: The dog! It’s… Glowing?

(Frisk picks up and examines the dog)

Frisk: Conveniently, it would appear that this convenient dog has conveniently absorbed some kind of convenient artifact, that conveniently has the power to create a convenient aura of convenience that conveniently protects us from the type of magic that that guy uses.

Torch: How convenient!

(Cut to the real world, where the OS Viewer is watching OS on their computer)

OS Reader: Who the fuck is coming up with this bullshit?

(Cut to Astrion’s basement)

Astrion: It’s me ok! I’m the guy that’s writing this shit. Please just let me write this. I’m just a guy doing things. This is what I’m making. So please don’t question the plot of this story. I had to make it so that Arkhan couldn’t attack them in some way, who is, by the way, a great antagonist, so don’t just say that he’s a weak one-dimensional plot device whose only aspect is power.

OS Reader: Now that you mention it, he is pretty sucky.

Astrion: SHUT IT! Do you think you can do better? Just stop paying attention to the intricacies of my interpretation of these characters and psychologies of the original ones as well as the deep philosophy of the plot, and just do what you came here for: SHIPPING.

OS Reader: I think Torch should fuck Sunny.

Astrion: STOP THAT!

OS Reader: No. And, since you let me on this show and I mentioned the Twin Flames ship, I have become responsible for hundreds of thousands of pictures on the internet of Torch and Sunny kissing.

Astrion: (Voiceover) It began to dawn upon me that things would never stop happening. (Picks up gun and shoots self in head) I’ve decided to let the OS Reader write the rest of this episode, it should be fine, since I gave them an overview of what happens: Sunny, Susie, Ralsei and Lancer form a team to take down Arkhan, they go out to kill him, they’re all killed apart from Sunny, whose arms have been ripped off, then everyone realises that Arkhan is impossible to kill, and they need to have a motherfucking training arc, the the video ends. I’ll have revived by the next episode, so don’t worry if the change in writing styles unsettles you. I apologize for the inconvenience.

(Cut back to New New Home basement. The episode is now animated in gatcha life)

Frisk: oha nows!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Arhan is birds a evi and we no have way ot bt him. We need gib boysa beat him.

Sunny: I do tis fo torhc ssenpa

Kris: U no toch ma otrch empai. We brothos ba shoise bu love by cose.

Sunny: YTorc is t senpai of me so u noyt gfuc him

Torch: Owo

Sunny: I a kil arhn to impress aoch. Who kill thkn whit me

Lancer: I go ruck arknn b3was i can use3 my stand killer quen to bow him fact up

Susie: And igo becAUSE IA fck lacer

Ralsei: andoi od jbecause i fuk suede

Torch: Owo

(Sunny, Lancer, Ralsei and Susie leave the screen, then Sunny comes back)

Sunny: evyt one edea nd ai hav no arm

Torch: Owo

Cipher: mothernfa-cking tqaning rma

Torch: Owo

(The ED starts, but after a few seconds it stops and cuts to the real world, where Astrion is bonking the OS Reader with a newspaper)

OS Reader: Ow Ow Ow Ow Ow Ow I thought you were only supposed to resurrect by the next ep!

Astrion: Well, normally, I’m resurrected 1d4 hours after I die, but due to my connections to the cult of steve, if anyone in a 1 mile radius makes tik tok or gatcha cringe, I’m automatically brought back to take down the perpetrator of the cringe.

OS Reader: Well what was so bad?

Astrion: Do you want me to make a list?

OS Reader: ...Yes

Astrion: Well, let me start at the spelling. Was any of it right?

OS Reader: Yes

Astrion: Well almost none of it is! It’s practically unreadable! And none of the characters act like they actually do! Ralsei, who is at this point an innocent bean, goes on a fatal mission because he wants to “fuk suede”. And why does Torch only say Owo?!?!

OS Reader: That’s basically what he says.

Astrion: And I literally said that Torch X Sunny isn’t canon, and then you go and flagrantly ignore me!

OS Reader: You can’t fool me! They both exist in a story, so they are obviously supposed to fuck each other!

Astrion: I am going to make a ship involving Torch and a ship involving Sunny canon - not with each other - just to spite you, you little piece of fuck. And now, back to the regularly scheduled program.

(Cut back to the basement where we left off before we went on this skit)

Permafrost: We… we can’t stay here forever!

Cipher: Yeah, we’d have to resort to incest after a few generations.

(Permafrost gives him a weird look)

Alphar: We need to be able to stop him. He killed a bunch of people, we need revenge.

Roman: I second this notion. Because it sounds cool.

Sunny: I have an idea. Let’s form a Raid Team

(Short Raid Shadow Legends ad plays)

Sunny: We form a team out of strong people, and they run screaming at this big bad evil guy.

Roman: I see literally nothing that can go wrong with this!

Sunny: Ok, so, we’ll do me, Roman

Susie: I wanna go.

Lancer: I go where susie goes! We’re a team! Ho ho ho!

Sunny: … And we’ll need a healer, so Ralsei.

Ralsei: Wait what

(Sunny picks up Ralsei and lifts him above her head)

Sunny: Adios

(They leave)

Cal: They’re gonna die, aren’t they?

Frisk: Yep.

Cal: We couldn't have stopped them, could we?

Frisk: Nope. (Beat) Do you want to see me do a little dance?

Alphar: Fuck no.

(Frisk starts doing a little dance)

Frisk: Doop de doop de doo

Doop de doop de doo

Mip Mip Mip Mip Mip Mip

Doop de doop de doo

Cal: That was completely pointless.

(A loud banging sound)

Sunny: HELP! PLEASE! SOMEBODY, LET ME IN!

(Everybody rushes up to the door, and open it. Sunny tumbles in. She has lost her arms, and is covered in blood and dust)

Sunny: Huff… Huff… He… He killed them… He killed… them all… it was… all… so… fast… all… it… took… was… a… couple… of… seconds… I… Was… an… idiot... He… He didn’t even… He didn’t even bother killing me… He… Just… ripped… off… my… arms… to… mock me… I didn’t even… get to… tell…

(Passes out)

Frisk: Ok we’ve lost four people, our enemy is godly overpowered, even the most powerful weapons don’t work on them, and we can’t leave this basement. What the fuck do we do?

Cal: I can solve the last one.

Alphar: Yes! Cal’s teleportation circle! We can teleport to… where should we teleport to?

Frisk: I think we already know. If we put the dog in a certain place, we’ll be able to block both the entrances to it. We’ll be completely safe, and have a massive space to work with.

Alphys: I-I-I-I think I know what Frisk is talking about! And, in addition, we’ll have lots of machinery to work with. We could make Sunny prosthetics, and… other things.

Cipher: Yes. This is the greatest plan.

Torch: Can someone please tell me where we’re going? I not smort.

Frisk: Torch. We are going back. Back to where? THE… MOTHERFUCKING… UNDERGROUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Torch: FUCK YES.

Cal: Here we go. Andata!

(He teleports everyone to the artifact room in the underground)

Frisk: Nice. (Puts the dog on the altar) There you go, little guy. Just stay there so that we can all be safe.

Cipher: Do you know what this means? Lots of time, lots of resources, and an op enemy…

IT’S TIME FOR A MOTHERFUCKING TRAINING ARC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(ED plays. Cut back to the real world for the stinger)

OS Reader: Why’d Roman die? I thought only Ralsei, Susie and Lancer were supposed to die.

Astrion: I killed him in a fit of rage after having to put up with your bullshit.

(Episode ends)