The Third Child: Redemption

Their feet crunched through the snow as they ran, ran from their mysterious pursuer. "Have to.. Keep going…. Can't let them….catch me...huff.." they thought. They were too caught up in their thoughts to notice the branch looming in front of them. Whack! Their head struck the branch. They collapsed.

Gaster walked up the path to Ammy's house, noticing the SAVE point Ammy put there. "Clever," he thought. He walked up to the door and knocked. He heard a yell from out back. "Come in the back!" And thus he did. Opening the back gate, he walked into a beautiful garden. In the center stood a giant cherry blossom tree. Surrounding the tree was a moat-style koi pond bordered with rocks. Ammy stood on the other side, caring to some plants. He noticed wolfsbane, chamomile, the golden flowers, and an assortment of bonsai. She had cleverly trimmed each bonsai in the shape of wingding symbols. Gaster, being Gaster, got the subtle pun. Viewed side-by-side, the trees spelled the message "bonsai garden". He always chuckled at this. "So, what are you doing, Ammy?"

"Oh, I was just planting some oregano. What's up?"

"I noticed a strange force in the rifts. Could that be a result of Chara falling in?"

"Hmm. Well, I can go in, if you want.."

"Oh, you don't need to! I was just speculating."

"Well, I'll check it out. Thanks for telling me."

Gaster excused himself and walked back home to the palace. He noticed Asgore was playing chess with Flowey. And Flowey actually seemed to be enjoying it. He walked in the main door, heading straight up the right-center staircase to the third floor. He then went to the first room on the left. "Sans, are you in here?"

"Yeah, dad. Come in."

"What are you doing?"

"I was sleeping."

"Really? Sigh. Sans, Ammy's UFC fight is tonight. You want to come?"

"Sure. It's the championship bout."

Later…..

"In this corner, 130 pounds, 15 wins, 0 losses, fighting out of Lumeo, Canada, Amaterasu "Crimson Fang" Sakurai!" Bruce Buffer announced. Ammy was wearing a cami and athletic shorts. She smiled. "And in this corner, 135 pounds, 19 wins, 5 losses, Holder of the Bantamweight Championship Belt, fighting out of Kansas City, Kansas, Kaylin "Drill Sergeant" Jones!" Kaylin smiled for the audience. "Begin!"

Kaylin took the first shot, but Ammy ducked the punch and round-kicked Kaylin in the liver. Kaylin recoiled, then countered with a nasty punch to the cheek. It connected. Kaylin kept punching, until Ammy countered with a left hook to the face, then a left elbow to the stomach. Ammy stepped back. Kaylin did the same. They both circled, until Kaylin punched to the head. Ammy swiftly sidestepped the strike,left-elbowing twice straight to the gut, then a right hook to the face. Kaylin went down, and Ammy kept punching, until the ref stopped it. "The winner, by TKO, Amaterasu Sakurai!" "Aaaand the crowd goes wild," Ammy thought.

Later….

Ammy walked in her house, walking along the outside corridors until she came upon a set of doors patterned with Japanese symbols. To the right of the door hung a sign with more Japanese symbols etched unto it. She opened the doors and walked in. A crossroads was there. She continued to go forward until she stopped at a room filled with books. She searched the third shelf and stopped at one book. She pulled it out and looked at the photos. "Father…" she thought. A single tear ran down her cheek.

"Sans, can I visit Ammy's house?" Frisk signed.

Sans replied, "Ok. But I'm going with you, because I actually was going to."

Frisk replied, "Okay!"

And thus they went. Gaster heard them leaving, but he looked forward once again, picked up the cup, took a drink, set it down, and went back to work.

"Ammy? You in here?" Sans shouted, knocking on the door.

No response. They waited at the door for a few minutes before knocking again. Still no response. They decide to open the door. Sans sees that the brush door is open, and decides to walk through, opening the side doors one-by-one. Still, Ammy isn't in there. They walk forward, finding Ammy in the record room. They saw her standing there holding the old book. Ammy closed the book and put it back on the shelf. She turned slowly, startled by Sans and Frisk standing there. She stepped back, into the shelf. The shelf fell on her. She fell with a startled yelp. She eased it back up, careful not to damage any of the books. "Sans, Frisk, why did you do that?"

"What? We just came to visit." Sans said.

"Well, next time don't stand there silently."

"We were waiting for you to finish."

Later, after they fixed the shelf and Frisk and Sans went home…

Writer's Note: This scene was inspired by the Mann v. Machine Trailer for Team Fortress 2.

Sans lay on his bed asleep. Gaster sat at his computer, still typing. Toriel put ingredients together to make a pie. Frisk played with their toys. Papyrus read a book. Ammy watered plants. Flowey and Asgore played another game of chess. Mettaton posed dramatically. A quiet breeze flowed through Lumeo. Gaster glanced at the clock. 8:23. He hit command-s on the keyboard and closed his document. He scooted out of his chair and stood up. He then walked out of his room and walked outside. He went to Sans's room. Sans opened his eyes and got out of bed. They walked to Toriel's room. She glanced at the clock, and lit a pleasant fire under the baking pie. They walked down and met with Asgore and Flowey. Asgore and Flowey both joined them without a word. They went to Mettaton's. He walked down and joined them. Undyne and Alphys both walked down the street. Everyone gathered. They all walked to Ammy's. But Ammy was already there. Everyone went to the secret spring. They prepared to have their little secret meeting. But then the springwater turned red. Chara rose out of the water. She had reverted to her normal form. "Surprise! Not dead."

Everyone gasped. Except Ammy. She just looked unimpressed. But then a reset button appeared. Chara pressed it. Nothing happened. She pressed it again and again. But every time, nothing happened. "What!? HOW!? What did you do!?"

"Heh heh. Because I changed the storyline, you can't reset." Ammy said.

"Grrrr...Well, I'll just have to settle for killing you!"

"Yeah...no." Ammy simply pulled out the paintbrush.

"You think a measly paintbrush can stop me?"

"Yeah, actually, I do." Ammy killed Chara with one stroke of the brush.

"Ammy, how did you do that?" Sans asked.

"This paintbrush is none other than the Celestial Brush."

"Woah.." Alphys said, her eyes gleaming.

The next morning…

Gaster and Sans were at the gym, practicing their magic. Papyrus was there too. Undyne was doing laps in the pool. Alphys was at the lab working on Mettaton, who had requested an upgrade to his battery life. Ammy was helping Frisk do their homework, and Toriel was out shopping. Nicecream guy and Burgerpants were walking down the sidewalk, talking. Mettaton had left his robotic body and was spending time with Napstablook.

Flowey was playing Solitaire. He drew 3 and put the 9 of spades on the 10 of hearts, then put the Queen of Clubs on the King of Hearts. From there he drew and put the Ace of Hearts up. Then he put the 2 of spades on the Ace of Spades. He played some more, and eventually he won.

Now to Gaster and Sans..

They weaved back and forth, practicing fighting. The unique walls of the private training room absorbed all attacks. Sans summoned a Gaster Blaster and shot it where Gaster was going. Gaster summoned a Gaster Blaster to block the attack. That Gaster Blaster then fired. Sans blocked it with a spinning bone. Gaster summoned his extra hands. The yellow hand fired. Sans shot bones, then took a bone and tried to strike the yellow hand, but the green hand reached out and shielded the yellow hand. Sans put a BLUE effect on Gaster's soul, keeping him grounded. The light-blue hand summoned blue bones. Sans stopped. The bones went through. The orange hand cast white dots to either side of Sans. He teleported before the hand set them to orange. The now-orange dots exploded. More appeared where Sans teleported to, and he grabbed one. Sans teleported to the orange hand and tossed the dot up in the air. The orange one set the dots to orange, and thus the hand was destroyed. Gaster looked irritated. The green hand cast a GREEN barrier around Sans. But Sans stretched out the barrier with bones and thus destroyed the GREEN effect. Gaster said, "Sans, you've destroyed two of my extra hands. We should stop for today."

"Yeah, you're right. Let's go check on Undyne and Papyrus."

And thus they did. Undyne and Papyrus were bench-pressing when Sans and Gaster walked up. "C'mon, Papyrus! You can't stop at 26! I know you can get to 30!" Undyne said.

"Hey, Undyne. You've been training Paps well, I see." Sans said nonchalantly.

"Yep! I made him do 100 squats, 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, and now he's doing 30 bench-presses with two 10-lb. Weights! Heheheheheheh!"

Papyrus finally finished doing 30 bench-presses. He laid down the bar gently, then rose and got off the bench. "I'm finished! Nyeh heh heh!"

And thus they all went home.

Notes: +The gym was made with the purpose of use by both humans and monsters.

+The rep Undyne made Papyrus do was called Undyne's Champion's Workout Jr. Once someone does that rep for a week, they move onto Undyne's Champion's Workout for a week(which is double the everything). Then, they do Undyne's Champion's Workout Supreme, which is double that. So, the Supreme Workout is four times the Jr. Workout!

+The Sans and Gaster fight is based off of Camila Cuevlas video, Yet Darker.

+Celestial Brush is from Okami

+Many references are hidden throughout all the chapters. This chapter was comprised of Camila Cuevlas' art, Okami, TFS DBZA, Obscure Undertale Ships, TF2, UFC, and the super-easy art of 3-sentence prologues.

+The first paragraph is the prologue. The rest is all Chapter 1.