"Frisk talking."
Frisk thinking.
"Chara talking."
Chara thinking.
"sans talking."
Normal.
Words in all caps are in-game terms.
Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece or Undertale. They belong to Eiichiro Oda and Toby Fox, respectively.
1: the Final Reset
Why are we even doing this, Chara?! What's the point?!
Chara wanted to ignore the pacifist's voice, but try as she might, it was inescapable; a constant pull at her subconscious. She felt her sins crawling on her back, making her stop in her actions abruptly.
"huh? what's wrong kid? you wanna give up yet?" the comedian said to her, his permanently grinning face showing a hint of confusion. Chara ignored it, drawing a blank on everything. Why was she doing this? She had forgotten. Everything was jumbled in her mind, the words Frisk had spoken stirring up an unwanted emotion within her.
Please Chara! Please stop this...I don't want to have to kill them anymore...
Asriel was-no, Frisk. Frisk was crying, sobbing, wailing within their shared mind. It was Chara's fault; she'd made someone who she cared about cry again. It finally struck Chara how many times she had made Frisk RESET, what a toll it must have had on the sweet girl's mind. They'd been doing this for centuries; it didn't matter how many times Chara won. She would always RESET because she couldn't handle the consequences of losing to peace. Chara would force her LV corrupted soul into Frisk's body and make the girl commit heinous acts of genocide, over and over.
Sans just stared as Frisk, possessed by the genocidal child, stood utterly motionless, having an inner crisis. He was confused. Why had that dirty brother killer just stopped like that? Then, without warning, the child fell to her knees, tears streaming from her red eyes.
Frisk...Frisk, I-I'm so sorry…
"Hey c-comedian...You can kill me if you want. This next turn is the one I kill you, right? Just kill us...I can RESET and everything will just go back to normal. No more resets, no more us...We-we can't do this anymore…" Chara whimpered. Sans stiffened, panic running through his spine as he realised what the girl was planning.
"you can't seriously mean to-" he cut himself off as horror creeped into his voice, "kid, you realize what that is gonna do, right?"
She nodded, and he couldn't help the desperate fear that began to overtake him. It was hard to reconcile this fear within himself; the child was a murderer. She had killed everyone: the residents of Snowdin, Toriel, Papyrus. But she was still Frisk, the little girl that laughed at his bad jokes and let Papyrus feel accomplished. The child who set free monsterkind in so many timelines. The one who had set him up with Toriel in the first place. He knew her; he knew her dreams, goals, favourite foods, everything about her. She had been his daughter in most of the Pacifist timelines. Frisk had always been the cause of his happy endings, while at the same time being the main reason for his worst nightmares.
"Do it, Sans! Kill us!" Chara screamed, her voice turning into a sob. Of course she knew what doing this would do. They'd RESET for the last time, and Chara wouldn't start a new game. They'd erase themselves from this world and forge a timeline where neither child had ever existed.
"kid... is that you, or is it something else in there?" Sans said slowly, glaring at the blue and pink clad girl, who he now doubted to be the pacifist he had once known. Chara smiled, a sad, pitiful sight and shook her head.
"You finally caught on, comedian." she said with a trace of sarcasm, though it was forced, "Greetings. I'm Chara, the first human, the 'dirty brother killer' as you call me. I'm the one that's caused all this to happen. I stole Frisk's soul and made her kill everyone for my amusement. I'm the reason she has to be erased with me…I'm the bad guy. So, don't hate Frisk. She did nothing wrong."
The comedian glowered at the being before him. So that was it; this hadn't been Frisk's doing and oh God, all those times he'd killed her…
"let me talk to her, Chara. Now," he said, spitting her name out of his mouth like it was a disease.
Chara, can you let me say goodbye?
Yeah, go ahead Frisk. I'll be waiting for you.
Chara's red eyes closed and when they opened, ever so slightly, they were a soft brown. They were eyes the short skeleton recognized and made something within him crack. The man made deliberate steps toward hers, his slipper-clad feet shuffling across the tile floor, scooping her up in his arms and tears falling down his skull as the girl hugged him.
"i'm sorry sweetheart. just remember, your dad loves you…"
"I know. I love you too, dad."
And just like that, Sans stabbed the little girl through her actual heart, not her soul. This way, there could be no way for her to ever be apart of an Undertale timeline again. No sooner had this happened did the big-boned skeleton wake up at his sentry station, the world dissolving around him. Sans sat there in the ice and cold of the Snowdin sentry station, half hoping for a little girl in a blue-pink stripped sweater and old rain boots to walk through the woods, from the Ruins.
That would never happen again. Instead, a different human would come fifty years later and save them, but that is a story for a different time.
-:-
They were floating in a void, not as a merged being but as two separate entities. Chara cracked a watery grin as she crossed her legs, hunching forward slightly.
"So this is it, huh? The Final RESET," she paused, trying to formulate the words in her mind, but everything was a rushed, jumbled mess of emotions she hadn't been able to feel in centuries. They all swirled and threatened to drown her with their intensity. Frisk just gave a small, tentative, and slightly fearful smile and Chara's innards started to squirm in guilt in an almost painful way.
"I'm...God, I'm so sorry Frisk.! I never wanted any of this, but I didn't know what else to do, and I was scared and alone, and our plan- it was supposed to work, should've worked- but I just had to go too far and-and-and I..." Chara was crying again as words tumbled from her mouth and Frisk moved to her through the void, and embraced her.
"It's okay Chara. I get it. You were always so lonely. That's why you jumped into the mountain, right? Because no one from your village cared about you? And even when you came to the Underground, you only had Mom and Dad and Fl...Asriel." Frisk barely managed to correct herself at the end. The sobbing girl nodded in response, not trusting her voice enough to form words. As the LV filled girl sobbed, some of the darkness around her dissipated, and she muttered indistinguishable apologies between her sobs.
Chara knew what she had been doing was wrong, and most the of the timelines she didn't want to do it, but the killing and rush she would feel each time she gain LV was so much better than the hate and self-loathing that would've consumed her otherwise. She couldn't be alone again, being there but nobody being able to hear her, see her, or sense her. Watching as timeline after timeline went by, Frisk making friends like Chara never could, receiving love from her parents. It was painful for Chara, being surrounded by so much love and receiving none of it.
"Y-you know, Chara, we're technically siblings," Frisk said, somewhat jarringly.
"What?" Chara felt a bit dumb as the word left her, but her brain was inadequately prepared to come up with anything better to say.
"You, Asriel, and me. We're all siblings. We were both adopted by Toriel, so we're sisters."
"How do you do that?" the green-clad girl said quietly, and she almost hoped she wouldn't be heard.
"Do what?" Frisk asked in a confused voice sweeter than sugar.
"Forgive people so easily," the red eyed girl said, in a tone that was almost angry, "You SPARE and MERCY everyone, even me. How do you do it? I'm a horrible person! I made you kill all of your friends, Mom, Dad, everyone. And you still say we're sisters? How can you stand me?! Why don't you hate me?!"
Frisk started crying. Chara's automatic thought was, Oh f*ck, and she instantly started to blubber out apologies, scared that she had just yelled at the only friend she had.
"Chara, I'll never hate you. I could never hate anyone. I almost was you… Why do you think I went to the mountain? None of my family could've cared less if I died. I know what it's like, Chara."
Silence reigned as Chara let Frisk's words set in. Frisk...was like her? But how? Frisk was nothing like herself. Chara knew she was a monster, even though her LOVE was starting to evaporate in the void. But, nonetheless, Frisk held her, consoling her as if everything Chara had done was just a bad dream.
"Chara, we're going to be stuck here for awhile, right?"
"Yeah. I'm sorry, but it was the only way I could think of to save everyone from me."
"Chara, your LV is going away. It's possible for you to change. You don't have to be alone; you don't have to hate. I promise, as your sister, I'll never leave you alone. You just have to promise me you won't leave me alone either. Okay?"
Chara scoffed, but she could see her "sister's" determined face. So she nodded, feeling more of the darkness leave, like a poisonous gas was clearing from her lungs.
"Okay, Frisk. Let's be sisters and promise to look out for each other," she said, and while her voice was mocking, she meant what she said.
As the promise was spoken, the last traces of LV disappeared from Chara, freeing her of the hate and pain and misery and allowing her, for the first time in years, to feel loved. Loved by Frisk, her self-proclaimed sister. It was then she promised herself that she wouldn't let the pacifistic girl be alone like she had been.
Because no one deserved to feel like that.
A/N: Hey people! Here's the rewrite I was talking about earlier this month! This Story is basically the original PirateTale, but more in-depth and well-written. I've grown as a writer since I first posted the story, and I felt like it wouldn't be fair to you guys to leave it as it was. Also, as you guys probably know already, my updates are sporadic at best and non-existent at worst. Just a heads up to you, this story will most definitely not be updated regularly, because hot damn, it's hard to rewrite things! Welp, I'm done. Time to be a normal person. As always, feel free to review!
~Lizard-senpai