HoliPlays AU Arc 1: Noelle and Rudy play Deltarune

by Axquirix

Summary:

Following the adventure in the Cyber World, Noelle goes to visit her dad in hospital and finds that Dragon Blazers III looks a lot different now...

Notes:

• Inspired by The Delta Warriors Play UNDERTALE by u/GrandSalamancer

Chapter 1: Chapter 1 Part 1

Chapter 2: Chapter 1 Part 2

Summary:

Noelle and Rudy discover that they're playing as Kris, prompting concerns as to the invasion of privacy, creeping doubts about the nature of their reality, and questions as to why no one in the school has chairs.

Chapter 3: Chapter 1 part 3

Summary:

In which Noelle and Rudy witness several social distancing violations!

Chapter 4: Chapter 1 Part 4

Summary:

God Damnit Kris Where The Hell Are We?
In which Rudy gets excited for adventure and Noelle starts questioning her memories more intensely!

Chapter 5: Chapter 1 Part 5

Summary:

In which Lancer is fought, dummies are hugged, and the Great Door opens...

...and then several other things happen because I decided that wasn't enough content for an upload.

Chapter 6: Chapter 1 Part 6

Summary:

In which Ralsei is cute, Susie rejoins the party, Lancer becomes ever so slightly more scary, and Noelle clarifies to what extent she loves the kind of woman that will actually just kill her.

Chapter 7: Chapter 1 Part 7

Summary:

In which the entirety of the Great Board section happens wow that was fast.

Chapter 8: Chapter 1 Part 8

Summary:

In which the Holidays discover the first piece of something a lot of readers have been looking forward to.

Chapter 9: Chapter 1 part 9

Summary:

In which the Holidays successfully avoid getting their asses thrashed!

Chapter 10: Chapter 1 Part 10

Summary:

The Holidays have a very in-depth discussion and everything's a bit heavy.

Chapter 11: Chapter 1 Part 11

Summary:

In this episode, the Holidays teach Susie to be a little nicer, discuss pronouns, build a key and find a funny murder man.

Chapter 12: Chapter 1 Part 12

Summary:

In this episode, the Holidays fight a curious clown character, steal his drip, and then Noelle has another mini existential crisis.

Chapter 13: Chapter 1 Part 13

Summary:

In this episode, the Holidays don't fight Rouxls Kaard, don't fight K. Round, and then attempt to not fight the King.

Chapter 14: Chapter 1 Part 14

Summary:

In this episode, King is not unfought!

Chapter 15: Chapter 1 Part 15

Summary:

Long Goodbyes

Chapter 16: Chapter 1 Part 16

Summary:

Noelle and Rudy walk around a bunch of places they already know about.

Chapter 17: Chapter 1 Part 17

Summary:

In this installment, we continue what started last time.

Trying out just linking the one big long image this time, let me know if you have any problems with it.

Chapter 18: Chapter 1 Part 18

Summary:

Hometown Part 3

Also go read Kris Simulator! https://archiveofourown.org/works/35234242/chapters/87801907

Chapter 19: Chapter 1 Finale & Interlude

Summary:

In this chapter, we go full fanfiction mode and start just directly making up the story. But like, only the bits about how and why they even have a copy of the game, so, justified?

Chapter 20: Chapter 2 Part 1

Summary:

Here we go again!

Chapter 21: Chapter 2 Part 2

Summary:

Temporary link to the Reddit page, will format properly tomorrow! Ran out of time before needing to head to work sorry.

Chapter uploaded properly!

This time, exploring castle town!

Chapter 22: Chapter 2 Part 3

Summary:

This time, a little more in town and then on to the library for a perfectly normal study session!

Chapter 23: Chapter 2 Part 4

Summary:

In which Noelle gets blocked by a paywall while trying to research her group project's subject more!

Chapter 24: Chapter 2 part 5

Summary:

This time, Kris and Susie pick out some lo-fi beats to study and relax to!

Chapter 25: Chapter 2 part 6

Summary:

This time, Kris and Berdly have a dispute about valid sources!

Chapter 26: Chapter 2 part 7

Summary:

This time, Noelle helps Kris locate a peer reviewed source to support their theory!

Chapter 27: Chapter 2 Part 8

Summary:

This issue, Noelle has a little bit of a breakdown as she realises she doesn't know enough about the subject to start asking questions!

Chapter 28: Chapter 2 part 9

Summary:

This issue, Kris and Noelle stop for a refreshment break while berdly toots his own horn!

Chapter 29: Chapter 2 Part 10

Summary:

This issue, Kris helps Noelle clean the gunk out of her mouse so that the roller ball turns properly! Berdly complains that the library can't afford optical mice! What year is this set in anyway!?

Chapter 30: Chapter 2 Part 11

Summary:

This issue, Kris and Noelle have a perfectly civil argument with Berdly about how much overlap the two groups' projects should have!

Chapter 31: Chapter 2 part 12

Summary:

Noelle gets her library account details stolen and doesn't have any printer credit left!

Chapter 32: Chapter 2 Part 13

Summary:

This issue, Noelle and Kris reviews school projects that they've done in the past for inspiration!

Notes:

Chapter 33: Chapter 2 Part 14

Summary:

Sorry for the delay, had Covid-19 last week and it made writing an absolute mare.

This issue, the whole study buddy group get startled when mice fall out of the computer lab ceiling!

Chapter 34: Chapter 2 Part 15

Summary:

This issue, everyone goes into personal study isolation rooms! Those are a normal thing that can be found in normal libraries!

Notes:

Another stealth shout out to Petah-Petah's Kris Performs Surgery at the end, which is good and you should read. Also by skipping the calendar I missed a chance to plug another AU I've been working on with a friend named Surrika Tunnah, Alter Heaven, where Asriel and Kris are swapped among other differences; the first chapter was just posted a few hours ago if you'd like to check that out too!

Chapter 35: Chapter 2 Part 16

Summary:

I was very tired when I uploaded this to Reddit.

In this issue, Berdly confesses to Kris and Susie that Noelle writes all his references and bibliographies for him! The scandal!

Chapter 36: Chapter 2 Part 17

Summary:

This issue, Susie accepts Berdly for who he is! Berdly doesn't know how to process that emotionally, and Noelle's too busy to tell him!

Chapter 37: Chapter 2 Part 18

Summary:

This issue, Noelle buys several viruses for the library computers at an amazing price of only all of her mom's credit card details! Then everyone leaves for a tea break because they've been working so hard.

Chapter 38: Chapter 2 Part 19

Summary:

This issue, Kris gets stuck between one of the computer desks and the wall somehow! The Noelle gets distracted by an online jewellery store!

Chapter 39: Chapter 2 part 20

Summary:

This issue, Noelle hammers through a lot of the project work and then passes out from fatigue!

Chapter 40: Chapter 2 Part 21

Summary:

This issue, Noelle gets walayed by yet more scammers!

Chapter 41: Chapter 2 Part 22

Summary:

This issue, the gang get stuck in a traffic jam of some sort!

Chapter 42: Chapter 2 Part 23

Summary:

This issue, the gang are still stuck in a traffic jam! Come on Undyne, clear the roads already! Wait what do you mean there's a bank robbery? Okay I guess that'd more important.

Next time, maybe Rudy wins his battle, or maybe he falls at the last hurdle! But that has nothing to do with Kris & Co's study session, so we probably won't find out.

Chapter 43: Chapter 2 Part 24

Summary:

This issue, the traffic jam clears, the project group get back to the librarby, and everyone consoles Kris. Except Berdly, who PCs Kris instead, because he thinks it's superior to consoles.

Chapter 44: Chapter 2 Part 25

Summary:

This issue, some stuff happens I'm really sorry I've got like 20 minutes before I have to go to work funny synopsis comes later.

<

Chapter 45: Chapter 2 Part 26

Summary:

This issue, the study gang get distracted by a really cool dog that destroys all the library computer, and then Noelle has a big cry about all the work that they lost.

Which isn't really that much, because they'd barely started with all the other distractions they've had. She's lost worse.

Chapter 46: Chapter 2 Part 27

Summary:

Sorry for the huge wait! Moved house and had a lot of college work to catch up on in the last month -_-

This issue, Berdly comes up with a plan to continue the project by getting Susie to leave the room! Bit rude.

Chapter 47: Chapter 2 Part 28

Summary:

This issue, Everyone shares some sweet high fives while looking as local housing prices online! I'm sure that has something to do with their school project!

Chapter 48: Chapter 2 Part 29

Summary:

This issue, the annoying blue one gets stoned! The cute one has a little mental breakdown into delusions of godhood! The tough one succeeds at soft tactics by being tough in interestingly unique ways! Kris persists, hopefully doing the school project.

Chapter 49: Chapter 2 Part 30

Summary:

This issue, we don't actually get to the Ferris Wheel! Oops! I'd forgotten how long the actual room scene is.

Chapter 50: Chapter 2 Part 31

Summary:

This issue, Noelle TURNED HERSELF INTO A NINTENDO! SHE'S A NINTEN-DOE! NOELLETENDO SWIIIITCH!

And then her and Susie have a big heart-to-heart about all the project work they're totally doing.

Chapter 51: Chapter 2 Part 32

Summary:

This issue, Noelle chokes the chicken. Hah hah, sex jokes.

Chapter 52: Chapter 2 Part 33

Summary:

This issue, the gang get electrocuted by the faulty library computer equipment and decide to instead go do the project on Noelle's laptop, only to find terrible secrets in her browser history (she has been playing Cookie Clicker nonstop since it came out).

Notes:

Only a little over ONE month this time! Progress! We reached a save point! I never have to fight Rouxls again! I've had to do that every time Steam or my PC want to update and it's been a real drag on writing this whole series!

Happy Pride!

Chapter 53: Chapter 2 Part 34

Summary:

Just beat three months delay. Things have been rough. Some coursework has been done, some friends have needed consoling, some people who were married no longer are. World keeps spinning.

This issue, Noelle's laptop wigs out and starts demanding passwords for every sort of file.

Nest issue, her firewall needs dissabling.

Chapter 54: Chapter 2 Part 35

Summary:

This issue, Noelle unlocks Twitter. It was always a bluebird and it will always be a bluebird.

Chapter 55: Chapter 2 Part 36

Summary:

Consistent uploads again! probably gonna have to miss next week, I have a dissertation presentation on the Friday that I've gotta prep for.

This issue, the gang sit around chatting and Berdly makes a move! Directly towards the door, for a drink. No drinking in the computer lab.

Chapter 56: Chapter 2 Part 37

Summary:

The triumphant return! Sorry for the extended delay, I got my dissertation done and immediately went into exam season, then immediately after that hard to start looking for a house >_< Also I upgraded my PC and lost my Deltarune save data, so had to go back and recreate the HoliPlays save file from all the way back in Chapter 1! The good news is that I got my degree!

This issue, the gang help unwrap Noelle from being tangled in Christmas lights. In August, yeah. Silly doe.

Next issue, Susie and Kris reveal that they brought a rock'em sock'em robots set to the study session, leading to further delay.