Hello, and welcome to Dueltale: Reloaded! This story is a rehash of my first tale on , and, as opposed to starting during the second season, this tale will begin with the first! Also, the characters will get a proper introduction, and I'm not going to make three villains who all lose before the climax, like I did in the original. Get ready.

Also, I'm warning you; the first chapter is mostly a memoir of the events of Undertale; with, of course, a changed ending to account for Asriel and Chara's continued existence. The next episode may feature a card game, so stay tuned!

IMPORTANT: I do not own any of the characters in this story. All rights belong to Toby Fox, Kazuki Takahashi, 4Kids Entertainment, etc.

Chapter One

Reminiscence...

The half-human girl stood at the gates of the schoolyard, ready to end her last day of formal schooling since roughly a thousand years. She studied the room astutely, realizing how much the world had changed since she had first died.

Chara Dreemur couldn't believe her eyes. She had thought, up to that point, that humanity was a blight on the planet she wanted no part of. She'd even poisoned herself, and, at the last minute, managed to give her own soul to her best friend and adoptive brother, the fuzzy Boss Monster known as Prince Asriel. She had come VERY close to wiping out her own home village with Asriel's power.

Fortunately, Asriel was not a very agressive kind of person. He held the pair back from attacking the humans, even though they were horrified. They'd seen him holding Chara's body, and assumed the worst. From there, memories only got worse. Pitchforks were stabbed into Asriel's fur. Knives and swords cut at him. And every twinge of pain Asriel felt, Chara felt too.

To put it simply, neither Dreemur returned home alive that day.

Their father, King Asgore, assumed that Chara's words of aggressive humanity must be true. He swore that any human that fell down into the Underground would die. Their mother, Queen Toriel, had a very different view of the situation, believing that fallen humans should be protected, lest they face the same fate as Chara and Asriel had. Eventually, the two parted ways.

A thousand years later, Toriel felt that she had failed. Through that time, six different children had fallen into the Underground, and all six had decided to leave her care, with hopes of escaping the Ebbot Underground. And all six met with an untimely end when they had reached Asgore. The Monster King collected the souls of these children and stored them for later use, knowing that he could use the power of seven to destroy the barrier that trapped monsterkind beneath the surface. And he hired three individuals to aid him in his task: The frshly-promoted Royal Scientist, Dr. Alphys, whose research on the human soul could be considered a triumph of hers. The captain of the kingdom's Royal Guard, Undyne, who believed that humans weren't to be trusted. The blindly loyal Papyrus, who would follow orders to capture any humans who passed his way, despite not knowing why.

These three individuals, as well as Papyrus' brother Sans, and Dr. Alphys' legendary machine of entertainment, Mettaton, essentially became the whole government for the Underground. Meanwhile, Sans began having conversations, and more importantly, joke-offs, with a voice from behind a locked door- Toriel's. Apart from that, the Underground had become a sad place, with no clear means of escape.

But then again, there was HOPE. A prophecy was written, within those many years, that stated that an angel who had seen the light would return to the Underground and free the monsters. And, piece by piece, things started to fall together...

It began during one of Alphys' experiments with souls. She managed to extract a substance she referred to as "Determination" from one of the said souls, and realized that this energy helped human souls persist beyond death. She realized that, if monsters could use this rare substance, she could save the dying. She injected roughly a hundred or so dying monsters with Determination, as well as a flower that had blossomed in Asgore's garden; the same garden where Asriel had drawn his last breath.

Things started to go wrong when the flower disappeared. While Alphys was questioning this, the bodies of the injected monsters began to melt together into frightening, eternally-suffering amalgamates. Caught up in her shock and horror, Alphys locked the monstrosities in her lab, and moved her equipment into her home, which she referred to as her new lab. But she wasn't the only being that had left.

The flower from her lab, later to be called Flowey, had also left. Flowey had taken on Asriel's consciousness, but, lacking a soul, couldn't feel any caring emotions. With the power of Determination on his side, he could also make a save mark in time, and return to it later, essentially reversing time itself. But what he did with this new power, nobody would have liked.

He started by using the power to help the trapped monsters, but, lacking the power to love, he found this to be no fun at all. So, in return, he tried the other extreme- being as mean, nasty, and spiteful as possible. This brought him more pleasure- and also, hate. Monsters would make sure that they kept a weed-whacker nearby to kill him. So he started to kill them off. He eventually developed a very loathesome motto: kill, or BE killed.

Around this time, a seventh human fell into the Underground; a young, careful girl named Frisk. Even stranger, Frisk seemed to know her own way around the underground, as if she had been down there so many times before. Chara's very essence seemed to follow her, too- Flowey, on many occasions, mistook her for his best friend.

Near the end of her journey, Frisk had faced off against Flowey one final time, and the flower absorbed the souls of every monster in the underground, as well as the six human souls that Asgore had gathered. These souls gave him enough essence to return to a monster-like form, but with far more strength than that of your average monster. However, they also gave the newly-reborn Asriel something that he had lacked since his rebirth.

The power to love.

With this force, Asriel was brought to his knees, and used the power of the souls of the underground to destroy the barrier. Just before he faded back to his floral state, though, Frisk saved him by giving up a piece of her soul energy; a painful process, but it was worth it. Her new shortage of Determination removed her powers to SAVE and LOAD, but it didn't matter. She and Asriel were both okay.

One day, Asriel found the remaining souls that his father had collected. Amongst them, though, was a strange, reddish object in a soul shape, staying strong but lacking the Determination to pull itself together. Asriel, knowing what must be done, raced to Alphys' lab, grabbed a shot of the red essence, and brought it back to the weakened soul. The being he created wasn't entirely human; in fact, he was pretty sure he'd made a demon. But it didn't matter.

He had his friend back. He didn't know how, but he had his best, most trusted friend back.

Looking back upon those days, Chara hadn't expected that a low-down, dirty human had saved monsterkind- and, consequently, pulled her from the jaws of death. But now, looking at her adoptive brother- and, as per Toriel's wishes, her new adoptive sister, the now-supernatural girl realized that, just perhaps, humanity had light in it after all. That had been eight years ago. The trio had aged quite well since then. They were fifteen years each- or, in Asriel and Chara's case, technically much older- but they were still the same sort of people they had been.

However, they had all changed quite a bit. Asriel was far more energetic, and when he set his mind to something, his sisters couldn't stop him. Frisk had become a bit more of a fighter, but she wasn't a killer. She had learned how to defend herself. Chara now hated humanity far less than when she first fell- but, to be honest, it was justified. Humanity sucks, she realized, and not being a part of it may very well be the thing that kept her alive.

And here they were- their last day of high school. The day had been tough, but it was over. The class had ended, but their classmates hadn't left yet. Two of them had pushed their decks together after many of their classes, and kept playing a card game called Duel Monsters. Chara had tried to get into it once, but hadn't quite succeeded.

"Joey!" the younger student called. "Earth to Joey! Hey, are you in there? It's your turn!"

The taller student- Joey, it seemed- was looking over his hand. "Gimme a sec, Yugi," he said in a thick Brooklyn accent. Joey stared at his cards, trying to choose the right one.

Suddenly, a tall brunette grabbed Joey. "Aww," he said. "Isn't he cute when he's thinking?"

"Hey, Tristan," Joey said, annoyed. "Yugi here is teachin' me how to play Duel Monsters."

"Drooling Monsters?"

"Duel Monsters, ya nimrod!" Joey told Tristan before shoving him away. Tristan eventually fell into the crowd with a loud "Sheesh!" before settling down.

"They've been at it for hours," Tea Gardener said. She was a middle-height brunette girl wearing a standard girl's uniform- something Chara frankly never understood. The bow tie was a bit much. And to top it off, Tea was on several of the school's planning commitees.

"Joey's starting to get the hang of it," Tea told them, "but Yugi's like an expert!"

"Really?" Asriel asked. "Hey, maybe Yugi could teach me to play sometime!"

Meanwhile, Joey picked a card from his hand. "Okay, Yugi," he announced. "It's time to duel!" He pulled a card from his hand and laid it on the playmat. The monster on it looked like a man with a metallic rod. The text on the top of the card said: "Kagemusha of the Blue Flame."

"See," Tea began, "each monster has an attack number and a defense number. First player to eliminate their opponent's Life Points wins the duel!"

"Umm..." Frisk asked, "...could you explain that again?"

"Pretty good move," Joey announced confidently, "huh, Yugi?"

"Yep!" Yugi said. "Pretty good move... but not good enough!" Yugi proceeded to place a card on his side of the playmat- "Blackland Fire Dragon."

"WHAT?" exclaimed Joey. "Thanks a lot. A card that powerful totally wipes me out!"

"Whoa," Tristan chuckled, "you STINK at this game, Joey!"

"Nah, you did fine, Joey," Yugi said to console his friend. "I just have better cards; see, my grandpa owns a game shop, and I get all of my best cards from him!"

"Your own game shop?" At that, Joey stood up. "What are we waiting for?"

"Yeah!" Asriel added. "Let's get moving already!"

"Well, okay!" Yugi said. "Hey, maybe I can get my grandpa to show us this super rare card he's got!"

The three Dreemurs, along with their newfound friends, left the classroom. But little did they know that Yugi's last sentence had triggered a response from the school's resident rich brat: Seto Kaiba.

Rare card? thought Kaiba to himself. Could they have found the card that I've been searching for...?

Thanks for reading the start of a new adventure with a bouncy Asriel, a kind Frisk, a passive-aggressive Chara, and lots of card games! Make sure t-

Joey: EY! Why don'tcha let someone else take the outro for once?"

Fine.

Joey: Anyway, review to let us know how you think dis is gonna go, and follow so you don't miss the next adventure! Now, I gotta go; Yug's taking me and the others to the game shop, remember?

Yes, I know. Thanks anyways, Joey! But yeah... Follow, and review... I would be happy with a favorite, but I'm not gonna ask.