DarkFoxKit: This was a story that I became inspired to write from a dream I had. The dream had me as Frisk trying to survive in this type of scenario, it was so cool that I decided to make a story based off of it. The first chapter I tried my best to give exposition without it seeming like exposition. I like to give thanks to Donfyre for beta reading this, and today is his birthday. I feel it's a special day enough for me to post this story, so happy birthday Donfyre! :D Anyways, I'll let you guys get on with reading. Please leave a review on what you think of it.

The RESET Warfare

Chapter 1: The Resistance

It's a beautiful night outside, the stars were shining, the moon gave us a nice light, the wind was a nice cool breeze. I was walking along with Papyrus, as well as my little yellow monster kid friend Spike.

There were a few more monsters and humans walking behind us. To the average onlooker, we were just coming back from a hike or a group activity together. Yes, things were looking nice, the monsters and humans were getting along. Our bags were full of food, making it look like we're going on a nice big party tonight, right? Heh… if only…

My watch began to beep loudly. Mine wasn't the only one, Papyrus and the other monsters and humans looked at their watch. All of our faces paled as a computer voice spoke.

"WARNING! ONE MINUTE TIL RESET. WARNING! GET TO THE SHELTER NOW."

We have 60 precious seconds to make it back to base. None of us hesitated as we made a beeline towards the shelter, it was our only sanctuary for what was about to happen. Papyrus ran to the back, trying to make sure everyone would get back to the shelter safely. I looked around, making sure Spike was with me. I was worried he would trip and get left behind. It would happen a lot, giving us some pretty close shaves.

We ran down the streets, trying to stay together and keep going. I saw Spike tripping, and grabbed his tail to help him stay on his feet, we couldn't afford anyone tripping now.

"30 SECONDS TILL RESET."

We had to pick up the pace. The shelter was just up ahead, we have to make it in those doors!

"WE ARE ALMOST THERE! KEEP GOING! DON'T LOOK BACK!" I heard Papyrus yelling in the back.

"20 SECONDS TILL RESET."

We're getting closer, but the clock was ticking down too fast, I'm not sure if we're going to make it…!

I saw someone next to me tripped and fell, I looked back and held out my arm to help them stand up, but their body glowed blue for a brief moment and they got back to their feet. I smiled, knowing Papyrus was keeping a watchful eye on everyone, making sure nobody got left behind.

"10… 9… 8…"

"It's the final countdown! I-I don't think we're going to make it!" Spike yelled in fear.

"7… 6…"

"Yes we will! We're almost there!" I yelled back.

"5… 4… 3…"

I heard someone yell, "JUMP FOR IT!"

"2…"

All of us sprang for the door. I had a feeling Papyrus was helping with his blue magic.

"1…"

I held down my head and curled up as soon as I hit the floor inside the shelter. Shutting my eyes tightly, hoping and praying that everyone, including Papyrus, made it inside.

"0…"

There was a bright flash of light. Anyone who was still outside would no longer be with us… I didn't dare open my eyes or move, and I'm sure everyone else who were with me felt the same. The brightness soon began to fade and passed… I finally found the courage to open my eyes again.

It was still dark outside, but the morning sun was already starting to rise. I looked around, glad to see Spike was there with me. The other monsters and humans that came with us were all accounted for. I smiled in relief when I saw Papyrus was among us, good, he made it in.

Papyrus looked up around. "IT'S OKAY EVERYONE. THE RESET HAD PASSED AND THE DAY HAS STARTED OVER. NOBODY WAS LOST THIS TIME. WE HAD SURVIVED ANOTHER LOOP AND BROUGHT HOME ENOUGH FOOD TO FEED THE REST OF OUR FRIENDS AND ALLIES!" The skeleton monster announced proudly.

I sighed in relief. I thought we were going to lose someone for a minute there.

"Yo... that was too close… I thought we were going to be goners for sure…" Spike said in relief.

I nodded in agreement to that.

"OH SANS! IS IT TIME FOR THE MORNING ANNOUNCEMENT ALREADY? WE HAVEN'T DELIVERED THE FOOD TO TORIEL YET-"

"Papyrus…" Sans, a shorter and chubbier skeleton monster, said in a tired tone. "You cut it in a little too close there."

"Y-YEAH… SORRY BROTHER, BUT WE HAD TO GO A LITTLE BIT FURTHER THAN USUAL TO FIND THE FOOD… WE DIDN'T THINK WE'D RUN OUT OF TIME SO QUICKLY," Papyrus said.

"Never go further and pick more than what you need. If you were just a half a second later, you could've been caught up in the RESET, and then you wouldn't be Papyrus anymore," Sans said sternly. "Don't you how many friends we've lost to this accursed human child's RESETs?"

"Y-YES… MORE THAN I'D LIKE TO KNOW…"

"Listen Paps…" Sans' voice soften up. "I love you, and I care about you. I don't think I'd be able to handle it if you were gone… just try not to go too far this time, okay? Gathering food to feed everyone is important, but we don't need to be losing anyone either."

"O-OF COURSE! THE GREAT PAPYRUS WOULD MAKE SURE NOBODY GETS TAKEN AWAY! NYEH HEH HEH HEH!"

I took the bag's sash off me and placed it on the pile of food bags. Sans and Papyrus uses their blue magic to levitate them and take it all to Toriel. She'll be handling the food and distributing them to everyone.

"For a second there, I was worried the Leader would chew Papyrus' head off," Spike said to me.

"Sans just really cares for Papyrus, and it would really hurt if we lost anyone else, we're barely getting by as it is…" I said.

"Yeah, I know, but shoot… I still find it hard to believe that one human child would give us so much trouble, you know? RESET, RESET, RESET, we've been living the same day over and over again. When is tomorrow ever going to get here?" Spike complained.

I looked down and sighed, "I guess whenever she finally decides to let the day pass…"

"And when would that be? It's always been at midnight she would RESET. We finally become free of the Underground, only to be trapped again by a looping day…" Spike frowned. "I can't believe she even got Undyne… she would've been an awesome help… And even Asgore…"

"I know… we lost a lot to that human child's RESET, but I'm sure Alphys will find a way to counter that RESET and extract all that DETERMINATION away… somehow…" I said, trying to reassure both Spike and myself.

"I hope so… I miss my sister…" Spike said sadly.

"I know… but fighting against a time anomaly is like trying to hold on to water with your bare hands… or your feet in your case," I sighed. "But I'm sure we'll find a way. The RESETs may have corrupted and brainwashed our friends, but Alphys is working on a way to reverse that as we speak. And as long as we have this shelter, made with anti-time magic and metal, we'll be safe from those RESETs."

"I guess so… but it's kind of funny… we haven't gotten any older because of the loops, yet we can still get hungry and run out of food," Spike said.

"I guess the time anomaly could choose what to set back and what to keep going. I don't know," I said.

Spike and I stood up and walked to the cafeteria where Toriel will be distributing our share of food. We eat every new loop morning to make sure we have enough energy to go out again.

"Yo… do you think that after everything… that if we managed to finally win, that humans and monsters would still be together and live in harmony like we're doing now?" Spike asked me. "I mean we only banded together because we had no choice, but what would happen once the war is over?"

"Well I like to believe that humans and monsters can co-exist together in peace, because we've worked together for a long time now for a common cause. But let's think about that after we actually win," I said.

"Right… But I wonder… do you think maybe we could beat that nasty human if we had Alphys inject someone with more DETERMINATION? If someone else had a higher DETERMINATION than that human's, then their ability to RESET would be taken away, right?" Spike suggested.

I shook my head as we sat down on a rugged table. "It's not that simple, Spike, otherwise she would've done that on the first few loops."

"Why not? I mean sure monsters would melt, but maybe another human could-"

"No," I shook my head, "Alphys had to extract DETERMINATION from somewhere, she can't just get it out of thin air. And the DETERMINATION samples she had before were from humans who had already died… but if she tried to extract some from someone's who's alive, it could leave terrible side effects, like when a monster melted. It's risky, and even if she did inject someone, even a human, with that much DETERMINATION to surpass the time anomaly's, it could have some nasty repercussions. Natural DETERMINATION is one thing, but being forced fed more than you could chew usually results in violent vomiting."

"O-oh, I see… how does anyone have that much natural DETERMINATION then?" Spike asked.

"Who knows, Spike, who knows…" I looked down.

Toriel came by, giving us a warm smile as she put down two bowls of food in front of us.

"Here you go, children, be sure to eat up," Toriel said.

"The portions are smaller than before…" Spike noted.

Toriel sighed and said, "Yeah… sadly the food you brought back weren't nearly as much as last time, so we had to make the portions smaller."

"We couldn't find enough food nearby anymore, we had to go out further," I explained. "We almost got caught up in the RESET because of it."

"O-oh dear… this is very troubling…" Toriel frowned.

"Something must be done, or we'll starve and be forced to move closer to her," I said with some venom.

"That's exactly what she wants." Spike frowned.

"Let's try not to worry about that, okay? You two better eat up now, Sans will start the morning announcement soon, after that you better get some sleep. When was the last time you even slept?" Toriel asked, though the question was directed at me rather than Spike.

"I don't know… maybe five or six loops ago… night never lasts very long…" I said.

Toriel gave a sigh, "I know you're trying hard to help, child, but you still have your limits. Your mind still needs to rest."

"Maybe I will after the announcements," I said, stifling a yawn.

"Okay then, be sure that you do," Toriel said firmly, as if she was my mother.

As soon as she walked away, I gave a sigh.

"I still don't know why she likes to see me as her child," I groaned.

"Hey, I think it's an honor the former queen would like to take you in as one of her own," Spike said.

"But I don't deserve it… and there's too much to be done to be babied right now," I said as I began chewing on my food.

Because Spike didn't have any arms, he had to eat with his face. Admittedly it was quite amusing to watch. I wonder if Sans had any plans… he knew more about time anomalies than any of us, surely he and Alphys could come up with some way to counter the RESETs. They did build this shelter after all.

After we finished eating, we left our table and walked to the center of the shelter. That was where Sans would make his announcements and set the group into teams on what to do for this loop.

"Yo, about that talk with DETERMINATION…" Spike said as we sat down on the cold floor together. "Didn't you used to have that, Frisk?"

I gave him a small, sad smile and said, "I'm a human being… naturally I do have some of… that stuff. But it doesn't matter if I do or not, none of our DETERMINATION could surpass Chara's."

Spike frowned a bit, but nodded. "Yeah, otherwise this war wouldn't be happening right now."

Humans and monsters sat with each other and mingled a bit while waiting for our leader Sans to come up and make his announcements. It was kind of funny when I think back to how everyone used to be during the early loops. Humans and monsters would split up into their own species and sit away from each other… and now look. I guess you don't work together for months or years and not to start getting along.

The chatter soon quiet down when Sans came up in front of us.

"Allies, fellow resistance and freedom fighters, or whatever you like calling yourselves, here we go again with another loop. We came close to losing Papyrus and a group of food gatherers, but thankfully they made it in just before the RESET. However, it's troubling that our food gathering group would have to travel further away just to get enough amount to feed everyone. Chara is making sure we'd have to keep going further away from our shelter here. The soldiers has been raiding the village outside our shelter every new loop to make sure we wouldn't have such easy access to food. Now as you know, Chara always RESETs at midnight. Nobody knows why she always does at that point in time, but at least it gives us a warning prior. Thanks to the alarm watches Alphys made, it warns us about a minute, a full 60 seconds, before the RESET comes."

"But a minute isn't nearly enough time to get back when we have to go further away," Someone spoke up.

Sans nodded, "That is true, a minute isn't a lot of time. Sadly it's the best we can do since it's hard to detect RESETs coming at all. We can't bring the fight to Chara, nor can we kill her, either option would just result in a RESET and the last thing we need is to get caught up in that. If you get caught by the RESET, your mind belongs to Chara, forever."

"We know all that, but isn't there any way we could stop it?" A young human boy asked.

"Dr. Alphys is still working on a way to do so, but we don't have enough data or technology to resist the RESETs. Extracting the DETERMINATION from Chara is too dangerous, because it takes too much time to extract that much DETERMINATION, time that we can't ever afford," Sans sighed tiredly.

"So basically nothing's changed from the last 764 RESETs. That is most unfortunate," I heard a Final Froggit say.

"'Fraid not. Until we can get some better results, we'll have to stick with what we're doing," Sans answered. "I'll begin the assignments for the teams now…"

It's hard to believe Sans used to be the laidback, bad-pun-loving guy that he was two years worth of RESETs ago. Now he can't afford to be like that as the leader of the resistance. I felt sorry for him, he never wanted to take such a responsibility. I waited while Sans assigned a team role for each group.

"... And Spike, you'll be with the gadget finders this time. See if you can find anymore data or technology we can use," Sans said.

I frowned when I realized he never called on me.

"That is all, everyone else will stay in the shelter today. Dismissed," Sans finished.

When Sans began to walk away, I ran up to him, "W-wait, Sans…"

"Hmm? What do you want, kiddo?" He asked me tiredly.

"Sans… what about me? You didn't put me in a group," I pointed out.

"Of course I didn't, Frisk. Toriel requested me that I made you stay behind for this loop. You need a break, Frisk, you've been overworking yourself. Heh, look at me, I'm the pot calling the kettle black," Sans chuckled humorlessly.

"But Sans, you and I both know we have every reason to be overworking ourselves," I said lowly. "You're the leader here, and I… I'm… responsible for this whole mess."

Sans gave a small shrug and said, "Can't argue with that, kid… but you'd be of no use if you're tired. Get some sleep, Frisk. I can give you an assignment next loop."

I frowned and looked at him.

"That's an order, Frisk."

"Alright, alright, I'll go take a nap or something," I grumbled.

I walked to my room, which was just an empty space. For a bed, all I had was a thin blanket and a small pillow. I laid on the cold floor and covered myself up with the thin blanket. We had some beds and futons, but I didn't want any of them, I let the others use them. I deserve the floor after all.

I laid my head on the pillow and closed my eyes. Thinking about what Spike… what everyone's been asking… when will it be over? When can we finally see a new day? How long do we have to live in fear of RESETs? Is there any way to beat Chara? Heh… I wish I had the answers to all those questions, but I myself have been asking them too. Oh well… I guess I'll have to work twice as hard in the next loop…